Atlanta creator explains NFL wild card rules

Really excited about this week's In The Nest guest. She is famous for her sports for the girlies kind of TikToks. I'm sure you guys have seen them out there. I know I love watching them when I'm looking for someone to pick up on the waiver wire real quick and I need just a quick take. Or if you are someone in Atlanta here trying to watch The Dream coming up and you're like, I haven't really been following all season, what's a good way to recap it? Simone Scott is your girl, and she joins us In The Nest here. I know that you have so many followers across Instagram, TikTok, and everything, but where'd you get the idea to kind of start this community and how did it kind of come together? The whole idea started off was I played fantasy football with a bunch of my girlfriends. We had a league for years and we started it because we didn't understand what was happening. And we heard everyone talking about fantasy football. So we figured we would get together and learn like hands-on experience. And it's kind of grown from there. I saw a lot of people, a lot of women, especially picking up on fantasy football over the last few years. So I figured, Hey, like me and my girls we went through some growing pains those first few seasons maybe I can help them out and there was really an open lane right there so I started my TikTok because I thought hey I personally I like to learn from other women because we just kind of get each other more so I wanted to make a page for the girls where we talk about all the sports things that you would talk about on a guy's page but it's just a little calmer and nicer background because it's not dumbing anything down it's just simplifying it in a way that we really like um i feel like a lot of sports pages they're not technically for men but they are masculine or kind of male oriented so i just kind of wanted to go the opposite direction there and it's been a lot of fun we cover all the sports all of the major storylines my biggest goal is that i want sports to be approachable because if you maybe see something on tv and you don't understand why everyone's talking about it hopefully I can give you some information so you can join the conversation yeah absolutely so what makes a a topic or a sports story for you kind of click in this tiktok realm versus like I know you kind of have a sports journalism or broadcast background what makes it click in that sense versus what you used to kind of do is it is there a difference there there is a difference I like to think of myself as a supplement to the traditional broadcast or journalism i was i did come up in the journalism realm i went to UNC Chapel Hill study journalism worked for Fox Sports and their football and basketball recruiting and covered some of the Big Ten but i like with TikTok it is a little more relaxed um when i the biggest thing or in the way how i figure out what stories to cover is that honestly my mom asked me what's going on here i don't get that or my brother's fiance my brother's fiance I guess is now a wife she didn't grow up with sports I did my dad played professional basketball so we talked about the dream team at the dinner table but she was watching my brother who played basketball at his game so she's like why is he sitting down over there why why is he not shooting that so I get a lot of my inspiration from them just any kind of question you might have I hope that I can kind of give you an answer how is this uh new role and new voice for you kind of helped you connect with maybe a different audience that you hadn't been connecting with previously it's been really exciting my favorite thing is when people come up to me and they're like you know i was at work and everyone was talking about the Falcons Bears game and i usually just don't care but now i'm like oh did you see that interception you see how we almost came back and they just feel embraced by it and i i love that i feel like again you have your traditional broadcast and we all kind of watch things on two screens we have our tvs and then we have our phone in our hand and so i like to be your phone screen and anything that they might not be able to cover on the broadcast i can kind of just give you a little little help little nudge something else you might like to know not what you possibly need to know as a creator who breaks down so many nfl storylines is there something that you've noticed that uh your fans or just commenters in general will like zero in on or like really really hot and heavy on is there something you're like oh i didn't realize that was gonna kind of have that reaction that people are really interested in it's funny last season towards the end i started really focusing on playoff pictures not so much the teams but how they're doing what's a wild card how do they determine who plays who what do the falcons need to do to be able to make the playoffs and people really enjoyed that a lot more than i expected i thought it's just a cool little little asterisk to put there but people like oh no tell me like the 49ers if we can we win this week and so I that's been a really fun thing but you never know what's going to take off which is I think something that's really cool about TikTok specifically it's like playing the lottery like I'll spend hours doing research on a video and I'll put it out there and my mom's the only one that watches it and then I do this one about hey the three-way tie between the falcons and the panthers and the bucks last year this is how that all works and then it takes off so I think that's just one of the really cool things about social media and TikTok yeah yeah that's for sure and you know what we're looking like it's going to be the same kind of thing here in the NFC South this year I mean talk about the the I guess your take on kind of the state of the Falcons and the trajectory of where they're at right now the Falcons, it's it's hard, we're inconsistent, that's the thing, like you get your hopes up really easy and we had that stretch a couple of weeks ago where it was good and it was really good and i feel like that loss to the Ravens, that that one we could have won and i think that might have that that one hurt, it was right there and then last week versus the Bears, we were down too early and we had a valiant effort to come back but it was just too much and so i feel like we could just like stay ahead, get like over that hump, it will be good, it's gonna be tough because we have one heck of a schedule coming up especially in November we have, I mean there are three undefeated teams left and we're going to play all of them so that we we need to kind of find our footing but it also does kind of seem like we do elevate our play against better opponents so that's that's promising, um I think the shining star here is that the NFC South is such it's such a question mark, you never know who's going to win like no one's out of it, that's the story at the end of the day, there's always hope and so we always have our path to the playoffs, we just have to get there and i'm sure our viewers will notice you say the word, we talk about the Falcons because you are a native Atlantan, um i want to ask you about you know your perspective on Atlanta as a sports city right, i feel like since i've moved here, i've been here eight years now and i feel like it is such a slept on city in general but also as a sports city i know it's been a kind of bad week for atlanta sports or georgia sports teams this past week specifically but I just feel like it's such a great sports town do you feel that way too I do I feel like if we win more in any of our major sports that will really help but what I love about Atlanta and Atlanta sports is that the sports teams kind of encompass the city like you just they feel Atlanta they feel ATL they feel just cool southern hospitality and I think that's what makes it so special and that's what makes atlanta sports so unique is that it is quintessential atlanta and i like obviously the dream thank goodness for them because we have something we can look forward to we're obviously still hoping on the falcons the hawks have a really nice looking roster and i'm excited to see what they do this season i think they have a very high potential so that'll be exciting but i just i love i love atlanta i love how the city loves their sports teams too and we have we do get a lot of transplants but they seem to adapt to our culture too yeah yeah that's a good point and you mentioned the dream i wanted to ask you about that because i know that's something that you talk a lot about on your channels as well um with the dream obviously you know the series uh where it's at right now but also just big picture how have you seen on your pages specifically to the interest in not just the dream but the wnba just skyrocketing over the last year or two whatever it might be it's been huge and it's so exciting to watch i got to go to the wnba all-star game this past year in chicago and just talking to some of the players and even some of the former players they're like we never thought it would get to this level and they're just so happy that people are embracing it and really understanding like this is not just like fun basketball to watch they are fundamentally sound and it's sometimes sometimes better than the men honestly but um especially the dream like i went to their first playoff game this year and the crowd was electric everyone is just so excited for them and the way they're playing it makes it easy to be excited and I mean getting that game against the Valkyries on the game two that was amazing we were so close game one but I like having that advantage now that they're coming back home and hopefully they can just bring it back I think the city would just love that yes I've been so proud and happy to see the support that Atlanta has really been giving the dream a crazy sports week coming up here with falcons niners obviously the dream in the wnba finals hawks opening up their season which you mentioned as well thanks for talking about it with us here on rise of tonight simone catch her on tiktok instagram all the social media to break it down for the girls thanks for joining me thanks so much for having me