The Ringer NFL Show - Must-Adds and Playoff Prepping for Week 14

Episode Date: December 6, 2021

With playoffs one week away, we begin by recommending QB streamers and defensive stashes for the final four weeks of the fantasy season. Then we offer up our must-add running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends for Week 14 with our favorite format, Showdown Time. QB Streamers (02:00) DEF Streamers (05:00) RBs (12:00) WRs (31:00) TEs (40:00) Email us at [e-mail]. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So whether you're uptown, downtown, downtown, in the burbs, or a transplant. Make sure you follow New York, New York, and the full go on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Hyfitz. I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlebeck. Guys, it is crunch time. The playoffs. The playoffs are nice.

Brass tax. Brass tax. T-A-X. Week 13 is done pending Monday at football, recording this on Monday before Patriots bills. So if anything happens in that, that's why we probably didn't talk about it. So week 14's here.

Some leagues start their playoffs this week. Obviously, it's weird. Everything's weird this season with like the end. extra week and week 18. So most leagues, this is the last week of the regular season, and then playoffs begin 15, 16, 17, championship in 17, and then off 18.

So if you haven't made the clinch the playoffs yet, it basically is the playoffs now, because if you have to win to get into the playoffs, like, well, the playoffs already started. So it's crunch time. We're going to go through everything that matters for winning this week. We're also going to have a lot in case you

already want to start planning ahead for week. 15, 16, all this, stuff. Usually, we start with showdown time for running backs and receivers and tight heads. I think there's actually more important stuff right now to get to. So we're going to go a little out of order today. We're going to get to show the time in a little bit. But first, we're actually going to start with quarterbacks. D.K. Who is your number one quarterback streamer for this week? So for context, if you're in the playoffs or even if you're just trying to make the playoffs, like Indianapolis, Miami, New England, Philadelphia are all on buys. That means several of these guys

are like starters for your team probably this year. Maybe Tua, maybe Wentz, maybe it's definitely hurts. Like if you've had Hertz this whole year, you're probably in a good position and then Mac Jones, I don't think he's necessarily starting for a lot of teams, but you may need a quarterback streamer. And so again, for like the big one for me

is Taysam Hill for the Saints going up against the Jets. Obviously, Taysam's on team. Don't watch the tape. Just look at the box score later and revel in the amount of points he gets you. Especially considering he's dealing with mallet finger, but it sounds like he's going to play through it. But I do think 34% rostered

on Yahoo, he is the number one guy. Going up against the Jets defense that Gardner Mitchew just shredded. So, yeah, I think Taysam Hill is the big one there. Who else do you guys like? Well, I think we rearrange the show for Taysam Hill because it is so important. It's like, usually we start with running

backs. Here's a running back that you can play a quarterback. Right. Yeah. It's so ugly. I think, did yes, we give him the Tribeschi Award for the play him and don't watch him. Just don't watch him play. Thursday football was a absolute roller coaster to watch because, again, he ended the game of three straight turnovers. But it's just, I don't know why, but the offense works. And Sean Payton's committed to this.

I couldn't tell you why. No one really can explain it. But like, dude, more often than not, you look up and taste him at those 20 points and sometimes he's 30. And like, you just have to have him on your team if you can. The obvious caveat here is it's not 100% guaranteed he's going to play and or start. You know, maybe, maybe Sean Payton saw it enough and he's going to go back to Timian. still think he's worth picking up to see how it all goes. Adam, almost no matter who your quarterback is.

Yesterday, Craig had the right idea to put Patrick Brums on the burn book. I think Taysa Mill is probably better than Maham's going forward at this point. Like, I really do. God, dude. Yeah, I think, brutal. Don't say that. This week is weird because unlike weeks one through 13,

you want to spend most of your free agent money on running backs and wide receivers. That's probably not the case going throughout now for the rest of the season. You want to spend it on defenses, which we'll get to next and quarterbacks. And that's why it's got to be Taseom. I mean, he's a league winning type guy. He was last year. He could be this year. So if you don't have, first of Tason might have already been added.

If he hasn't already been added or if you don't have him and you do, but you do need a streamer because maybe Jalen Hertz is on by this week. I will throw out Jimmy Gropolo against the Bengals. I was going to say he's not sexy. As a player, he's a very sexy man. He is not that sexy as like a fantasy asset. And yet he just keeps putting up good numbers. He's probably available in your league. You know, the charges just shredded the Bengals.

I think that Jimmy is like probably the best you're going to do for. for a streamer this week, and you could do a lot worse. Yeah, I'll also toss out Taylor Heineke's at home versus Dallas. He's been pretty consistent, like 15 a game. Not bad. If you're playing matchups, Teddy Bridgewater versus Lions. Ugh. Craig, you're sick of them.

I hate Denver. Denver sucks. Your offense is just pathetic. They are. It's pathetic. It's awful. They're keeping the nest warm for Aaron Rogers. I can't think of a team with better skill players with a worse offense than Denver.

Right. Those are the Giants. Yeah. True. But they're pretty banged up. Denver's all healthy. Remember Kenny Goliday? Remember him?

Like Cortland Sutton, but better? Because I don't remember him. Anyway, okay. Those are the quarterbacks. Add taste of hell. I don't really care who your quarterback is because at the very least you should play keep away from someone else. Okay.

Let's get to defenses. Brass tax, baby. Yeah, man. And fantasy defenses win championships. This is a really important conversation. So we're going to linger here for a second. I'm going to bucket this into two things. There are defenses for this week,

which is going to be week 14. if you need a win and end scenario. And there are also defenses that if you don't need a defense for this week, for whatever reason you just are set at defense this week for whatever reason. But you want to start planning ahead for week 15. Yeah. We're going to start with the weak defenses for this week. There's number one, I think.

There's a 45% rostered team playing the Jets this week. Well, the good news is that there's like five options. You can start with that. The Saints are playing the Jets. Yep. That's an unbelievable option. I hadn't personally have had the Saints defense dash in a couple leagues just waiting for this.

So the Saints defense against the Jets, I don't think we have to explain, but like that's a good defense against the bad. You're right, though. There's a ton. There's like four good options. It's a great option. The Packers defense against the Bears. Yep.

Is a really good option. The Packers D is playing fantastic and Andy Dalton is not. And that's just a really good option and like a great chance that like a big turnover, big play. That's Sunday night too. Can I throw it out? Yes, except you said it in a way that. implied it was like garbage, but yes.

Oh, no, that's not even... Are you going to say a Seahawks? Throw out an example. The Seahawks, whose defense is terrible, generally, it's getting better. It's played better. They get Houston this week. For week 15, you're going to have to find a streamer.

So you probably want to have two defenses on your roster if you're going into the playoffs because they get the Rams. The Rams' offense is pretty good. However, week 16 and 17, this is the key. Week 16, they're playing in Chicago. It's either going to be just a few. Fields who we've seen, you know, struggle quite a bit. And then Andy Dalton, who threw four picks this week.

And then week 17, it's the Lions. Fantasy Championship weekend. So, Seahawksky, three out of four, it's Houston, Chicago, and Detroit. That is as good of a matchup lineup as you're going to get for any team in the NFL right now. I actually really recommend having two defenses when you get into the playoffs. I would cut a guy and add a second defense because it is important. If you could guarantee 10 to 15 points in that defensive slot each week, that is a huge. that is a huge boon to your team.

Let me recommend it. So if you want to add a team like the Saints this coming week, sure, the Seahawks, the Packers, for this week 14, week 15 and not. Hold on. We have more for week 14

because there's a lot of options that it's important. So again, other ones, the Broncos defense against the Lions this week. That is also a fantastic option. And like, I think those are the top three things. You have good defenses,

genuinely real-life good defenses against bad, offenses. Saints against the Jets, Packers against the Bears, Broncos against the Lions. As D.K. said, you can also target bad defenses against worst offenses like the Seahawks who also have a bad, good schedule going forward.

The other ones are going to throw up. The Titans are coming off a buy against the Jaguars and the Titans have a good defensive line. That is a good one. And then lastly, and this is this has the chance to be one of the most important wrecks we like ever make. If the Giants have to

start Jake Fromm against the Chargers. And none of these other options are out there. The Chargers defense is available in 75% of leagues. I believe on Yahoo and ESPN, I don't remember. But they're widely out there for the Chargers. And it's already a 10.5 point line and Jake Fromm might not even play. If Jake Fromm plays, that probably goes to 13 plus, really recommend a defense against the quarterback that would have been on the team for like less than two full weeks. So like there's a crazy amount of defensive options this week. Totally agree. And then I think my favorite, Miami, their defense, they're on a buy-in suit. So now we're going to go to week 15, like stashes. Yes, stashes. You need to look beyond this week. Miami's week 15, 16, and 17, which is round one, two, and three of the fantasy playoffs.

Miami plays the Jets. Then they play Tassum Hill or Simeon and the Saints, and then they play a crappy Titans team. That is a, and Miami's playing really well. They've won five straight. They're six and seven. They're probably going to be in the playoff hunt in these games, and their defense has been awesome as of late. I think they are a fantastic three-week stretch D for the playoffs.

They're one of those teams that can get turnovers, too. Like, if I'm looking at their numbers from the last few weeks, they've like three picks, five sacks, one pick, four sacks, three picks, five sacks. Their defense is back. Brian Flores, they had a turnover in like 12, 14-something straight games for Brian Flores. They did not have it for the first two months of the season. Their defense is back to where it was last year. The Dolphins defense is a turnover-creatic defense.

I completely agree with Craig that, like, there might not. not be another defense that has as good of a month-long potential as dolphins do. I'm going to throw out a couple other ones, though. These are all elite defenses that are probably rostered, but they have bad matchups this week and someone might drop them. So they're probably not available for you right now, but check if anyone drops them this week. The Cowboys, if someone has dropped the Cowboys and they are playing against the Giants in

week 15, that's pick six city. The Bills, the Bills defense, which is probably rostered everywhere, but the bills are playing the Buccaneers this week. So if the bills get dropped, you want the bills against the Panthers in week 15. And then if the Rams get dropped, because the Rams are playing the Cardinals this week, obviously you don't really want to play the Rams against the Cardinals.

But in week 15, the Rams play the Seahawks. UDK. will be the first to tell you suck. So that's keep an eye on the Rams, bills, Dallas, they get dropped. If not, the Dolphins is an excellent stash for down the stretch. The Eagles play the Giants, and I think week 16, not to mention bookended by Washington.

That's kind of intriguing. And if you want a real galaxy brain one, the Jaguars play Houston in week 15 and Jets at week 16. Not saying I'd do it. But if you're in a deeper league and you don't have any of these good options, you could do worse than facing the Texans and the Jets and back-to-back weeks for like really important. It's so weird that in fantasy, I pretty much pay no attention to defense until playoffs and then I really focus on it.

Look, if anyone's picked up the Patriots defense over the last two months, you know, like it's been incredible. I mean, it matters a lot. So anyway, I just want to recap this just to be clear because there's so many good ones. Week 14, Saints, Packers, Broncos, Chargers, all great options. Titans and even the Seahawks perfectly fine. You should be able to have a good fun defense for this week. And then if you want to stash, Cowboys, Bill, Rams, watch if they have to get dropped.

And if not, the dolphins can lead you to glory. Boom. Boom. There you go. All right. Without further ado, let's just get to. We're going to go to showdown time. We're all going to pick our top streaming options from each position for this week.

And this week, next week, a lot going on here. We're going to pick our top spots. And we're going to have trivia tiebreakers to decide who gets what. If you have showdown time, questions, email them to ringer fantasy football at Gmail.com. DK. Yo. Who is your number one running back pick from waivers this week?

It's a good question. There's several viable options here. I'm going with Dantrell-Hillard for the Titans. 40% roster on Yahoo. So he's right there on the borderline of what we typically talk about here. But to me, he is the more explosive back in this backfield.

Obviously, Dante Foreman is the other option here. And he's also, he's 41% on Yahoo. So like you could go either or or try and get one or the other of these guys. If you like you have like your waiver priorities. But I think Hilliard is more explosive, a little more athletic. And he's more likely to be a bigger part of the passing game, in my opinion. You do kind of have like the uncertainty of the backfield. And if Jeremy McNichols is due back, like that could like muddle things up a little bit more.

But regardless, I still like him, I think the most of this group. And this is a team that's shown in the past that just wants to run and run a lot. I really utilize these guys. It's going to get, I think, the volume you're looking for. So he would be the guy I'd feel most comfortable probably picking up off waivers, plugging into my lineup this week. What do you guys think? To be honest, so what's weird about this is, I think the last time I checked,

I thought Hilliard was 41% roster, but it was Deontay Foreman's at 41, Hilliards at 41, Matt Breedah's 41% rostered. Tevin Coleman, 41% rostered. So our like kind of, you know, general cutoff was 40%. That's kind of where we made our decisions. So I didn't know if any of those guys counted or not. And then... Well, they're a lot lower on ESPN.

Also, we texted you this morning saying that they were allowed, but you didn't see it. Well, I was like... It's fine. Just don't read his text. I can take his text from you too. Ghosted. I read the text, but I tried to make a second list of people who were actually widely available in which it was like...

Oh, you just had the 39% guys instead of the 40%? Yeah, I went for 39. Yeah, I mean, I agree. I think it was Formin or Hillier. To be honest, I didn't really know who. I think either would be fine. I mean, they each get a lot of work and they're playing the Jags.

Those would be my two if we can pick in this range. If not, I was leading towards like Rashad Penny or Amir Abdullah. Oh, I like Adula. Is he still out there? What's his roster?

I think Abdullah is like way more rostered like by a lot. And if Abdullah is out there, I think that he's easily number one because again, well, I think that actually is the theme of this week, right? So last week there was like this running back panzaa.

Because Dalvin Cook gets hurt and so you can pick up Alex Madison. What are you guys talking? Amir, you think Amir Abdullah is, high, he's 4% rostered. Well, I guess just because he's coming off of a buy. Yeah, he's coming off by. You're right. All right. Well, he's

up there. I like that one. Okay. Well, there's your answer. So, but last week you had McCaffrey go out. You had Dalvin Cook go out. We had Daryl Henderson ended up getting hurt. So it's so new shell filled in. DeAndre Swift got hurt. So Jamal Williams. Like, there were so many pickups. This week's a little weirder because

as D. D.K. said, the Titans guys went on by after they had both had big games. McCaffrey goes out, but like the Panthers go on by. So it's kind of weird that there's all these other options. To Craig's point, I think Amir Abdullah, if he's still out there in your league, and again, he's out there in a lot.

I think Chuba Hubbard's like the assumed guy that would take up. Amir Abdullah is probably getting a lot of the passing work. So if you're in a PBR league, I think Amir Abdullah is definitely the number one guy you would want. The only thing is, like, I don't trust Cam Newton one bit to check down or do anything. Just do anything positive on the offensive side.

So that scares me a little bit. And it's a really, we could just say it's a terrible week. It's a weird week. it's a very strange week because I think you have a lot, there's a lot of, there's more uncertainty than usual. Sometimes what we're doing here is we're like, well, these guys are going to get,

well, usually what happens when a good running back gets hurt is like, well, the pie gets split and you're only going to get 80% of the pie and then also we get to figure out how it's going to be divvied up. But sometimes you're like, well, they're going to get this much pie. We'll, like opportunity. We'll see what they do with it. This week's a lot more uncertain because we have Tennessee.

Like, what's the Dantrell Hillier, Deonte Foreman split, as D.K. just said with Jeremy McNeill is coming back. How much did the Panthers give? to Chuba Hubbard and Amir Abdula and then how much is that even worth if you get like the scraps of a non-Christian McCaffrey role? There's a lot of weird stuff.

Matt Brita, we're doing this on Monday. It's before the Bill's Patriots game. You know, he could have 130 yards or he could have seven. I don't know what he's going to do. Right. So with all that said, I think that this is the widest range

for like the top two or three I can remember. Having said that, I would Craig that Amir Abdula would be number one for me. Even though he couldn't ghost you, I just think that you want the guy who might inherit Christian McCaffrey. Jeffrey's passing workload at all. I think you have to roll with that dude.

And that, you're doing that, like, including all the 40% guys? Or no? Because I think if we're including everybody, I think I'm picking a Tennessee guy, one of the two Tennessee guys. So the Tennessee guys are really weird because they both had, the last time we saw him since the Patriots, they both had 100 plus rushing yards at a touchdown. That's not going to happen. They also both fumbled the ball in key moments.

Yeah. My only issue, I think Don Schall Hillier did look good. He also got like two-thirds of his points on like a draw at the end of half time. It's like a 70-yard touchdown. And this kind of fluky play, you take that out. He had like five points on 10 carries. That concerns me if Jeremy McNichols comes back and like, he's the most established guy there.

Dantra Lillard's been there three weeks. McNickle's been there a couple years, I think. So that concerns me. That's why I think I'd lean Foreman for the floor. Like if you just like, you know what, give me eight points and I just need someone to my flex who won't give me a goose egg or you're in that week where the goose eggs are like you have, like, D.K., you have to shotgun of some goose eggs you. I think Dante Foreman.

is more safe. I guess safer. That's why they invented the word. That's what suffixes are for. And then Dantra Hilliator, I think, is the higher upside. D.K., how many times have you had a shotgun this year?

Twice, I think. Three times. One time was because the Panthers defense scored zero, which is a good reason not to have defense in your league. Defense, get out of here, DK.

Defense is a fun. That's unfair for the defense. Wait, if the defense scores negative, is that also? You also have to shotgun? Good. I got, I had a shotgun with Mike Gisicki. he scored a big fat zero a couple weeks ago.

I feel like defensive scored zero like one out of every four games. I know. Yeah. I'm not a huge fan of it. So, but yeah, this is tough. Actually, as we're talking this out, like, the more and more I'm thinking I actually want Amir Abdullah more than the Titans guys. I think that, like, that's sort of convinced me the fact that we've had to discuss it and we have no consensus here.

I'm like, I almost rather just go Amir Abdullah. Because Chuba Hubbard rostered, he got picked up a bunch last week, I believe. He's rostered in 76% of leagues. So you're zinging while everyone else is zagging a little bit with Abdullah. But like he's been pretty good. He's looked explosive in my opinion. The other variable here that we don't know is the Panthers fired Joe Brady. We buried the lead a little bit here, which is bizarre, number one, because I think he came into the league.

Like everyone was like talking about he could be the next guy in the head coaching carousel. Now he's fired. But part of the reason that Matt Ruel stated is that they're not running the ball enough. So there could be more meat on the bone here than we even think in terms of like the amount of runs that they're going to have how much they get their running backs involved in the game and everything like that.

So is it too late for me to change my answer? Of course. But I do want to clarify that Abdullah still look really risky, like to just play this week. Sure, he's definitely risky. We were just spoiled. Alex Madison came in and got 21 fantasy points depending on how you play.

And then 100 plus yards touchdown. Sony Michelle comes in for Darry, Henderson just has 100 plus yards and a touchdown. Like, these guys are just, it's a lot harder for us to figure out who's going to play. It was pretty easy to see Son and Michelle and Alex Madison we get. Like, they basically played 95% of the snaps. They played just as much, if not more than the original starters did. That's not the case.

If Alexander Madison was the only running back on the Vikings, is he a first round pick next year? He has to be, right? Yeah, 100%. I feel like no one actually talks about him as a good running back. They're just like, oh, he's filling in for Delvin Cook really well. Is he like the top 10 running back in the league? or Cita's on the Vikings. I think it's the Vikings just funnel

all their offense through a handful of players. But he's literally 100% of Dalton Cook. I think that's more of an argument against paying running backs large extensions than it is for Alex. We consider Dalvin Cook one of the best running backs in the league and Madison literally parallels

his numbers every single week. It's like, well then, is he... Yeah, he's good. Also, I think the Vikings are one of the two or three teams that would even think about giving a backup that much. I don't know. I mean, look, I don't want to take anything away. Madison's really good.

Okay, so the obvious caveat here that if Alex Madison's available, I'm sure he's not. Sony Michelle, Tony Pollard, if any of those guys are out there, obviously pick those guys up. Mark Engroom. Chuba Hubbard, if he's, well, Camero's probably coming back, we'll see. But Chuba Hubbard, obviously, if he's out there, also get him.

So with that said, Amir Abdullah, we're all going to get him with the caveat that I think PPR is way more valuable. Like, way, way, way more valuable in PPR. And that he's more likely to ghost you than a lot of these top pickups we usually give. If this was standard non-PPR, I would go, Deonté Foreman. So we're going to go

Abdullah 1. You want to do showdown time and then come back to the rest of the bunch here? Because this is like a messy week. Yeah. Yeah. How did you guys do showdown time when I was gone? Did somebody yell it? You should go back and listen to the episode, Craig. You can't just tell me? I'm actually trying to remember. I think Haifitz yelled it. To Hyatt yell at? You'll have to go back and see, Craig.

Such a tease. Okay. So we're doing Amir? All right. Yeah, we're doing it. This is one of the worst ones I think we've ever done. This is the Amir Abdullah Showdown time. Oh my God, I love this question. Craig, I saved this for you. Okay.

There was a movie question. There were two movie questions. I used one. Last week, Craig, the one you missed was how many movies has Shaquille O'Neal starred in as himself? Whoa. I forgot it. But I saved another movie question for you. My guess is eight.

That sounds close. I can't remember what the answer was. That sounds like it would have beaten D.K. and I. The answer for the Shaq question, which is not for Abdelet, the answer for the Shap question was 10, which definitely would have won. Oh, dang. All right. For this week, though, for Amir Abdullah, it's from Tom.

Tom. Tom. Tom. How many minutes of screen time did the dinosaurs get in the original Jurassic Park movie? Oh, wow. I love that question. That's a great question. That's a fun question.

Just going over in my head, like he, I'm going back to the scene where they first see all the dinosaurs and he takes his sunglasses off. No, no, no. Nah, nah, no, no. Nice. So I feel like the answer is deceptive because so much at Jurassic Park is like they're around. Yes.

Like you think about like the scene in it when it's raining and they're waiting for the T-Rex cage. That scenes like 10 minutes. The T-Rex is probably in it for like 60 seconds. Does it count when they're just going like the smashing sound of his footprints or whatever? Yeah, and the goat's gone. It is really tough.

You're right. And also the dinosaurs are so shes. striking that you is, like, when you see them for three seconds, when you remember it, it kind of feels like a minute.

Burned into your memory. Yeah, yeah. They hold more weight in your mind, but I'm gonna say not that, I'm gonna say like, no, five minutes is more. Well,

there's that one scene, right, where they're hiding in the little room and the, the velociraptors are walking through, right, the kitchen. I'm gonna say 10 minutes.

I bet it's, I'm thinking now, and I'm like, so much of the movie actually is the buildup two of the dinosaurs. No, I think it's less.

I'm going to say, I'm going to say six minutes. Six, six is low. My first thought, since I'm not going to play, I'm not going to do the price is right thing. I already had this in my head. 36 minutes. And that was the under the assumption the movie is like about 120 minutes. I don't even know how long the movie is. It's probably around two hours.

Yeah. So I'm going 36. The answer Tom says, Tom, Tom, Tom. The answer is 15 minutes. There you go. That's surprising. that's like lower than I would have guessed obviously

because when they're on screen though it's such a big deal and also I was thinking about back then their their CGI capabilities weren't great so you need to work around that you don't want them on screen as much as possible because the longer they're on screen plus it's like time is money

true those 15 minutes cost a lot of money I mean it was a steel film they probably had tons of money but yeah you're right that's hilarious 15 minutes out of a two hour movie oh do you guys remember the movie the movie signs the N Night Shyamla movie the aliens are in that movie for like two minutes I think I saw scary movie three before I saw signs

Oh really? Did it ruin it for you? Yeah Science is good Okay, so wait, who won? Craig? I won. I won. I won Amir Abdullah. Okay, so you guys got to fight over the other running backs and this is pretty important, probably slightly more important than the dinosaurs and

Duraski part. Are we including the 40 percenters? Yeah, let's include the Titans guys, but we're going to go in order here. All right, I'm going to say, so I'm second, right? Deonti Foreman and Dantra Hilli are both there. I took Amir Abdullah, and we're assuming for this exercise that Chuba Hubbard and all the other good guy, like the Sony Michelle's are not available.

I'm going to take Foreman, and then I think that means what, D.K., you'll take Hilliard? You take Hilliard? Yeah, I think I'll take Hilliard. I think that there's a couple other guys worth mentioning here,

just for posterity. Yeah, let's say those guys are gone. I kind of want to make you to do this again, but those Titans guys are not there. Okay, well. Just start over. Craig, you go then. You know, Rashad Penny.

They're playing Houston, man. I don't know. I know. Maybe. Actually, this is a guy I was thinking about, too. Yeah. He looked pretty good, honestly. Pete Carroll said...

He did look good. Pete Carroll said Alex Collins might be back. And I guess if that's the case, maybe I wouldn't want Rashad Penny. But if Alex Collins is out, I might take Rashad Penny. Yeah, he's rostering 6%. Matt Brader, you guys would probably both pick,

but we're going to throw him out for this exercise too. Yeah, because we don't... Yeah. I mean, he hasn't played, yeah. So he's theoretically rostered in this exercise. Okay, so you would take Penny. Shok and Craig wants for Shod Penny. Okay, D.K.

Okay, so I guess it comes down to... Wait, we're shot Penny over Peterson, because obviously that's the big news. The big news of the week is the signing agent Peterson. D. officially washed, right? Even though you have a touch right? How many teams has he been on?

Like six or seven now, I believe? I think this is eight. What's the record for running backs who have received a carry on a team? More, I don't think he's even close. Is he not? Okay. Okay, so if, so in this scenario,

Mirab Dula, Dantre, sorry, Deontay Foreman and Hilliard are off the board and then also Rashad Penny's off the board. That doesn't leave me with a whole lot. It basically is coming down to like Adrian Peterson, who I don't really want. And then I think

Tevin Coleman is the other guy that's still like out there in a lot of leagues. He's right on the borderline also in terms of his roster ship 41%. There's like Carlos Hyde because James Robinson

got benched. He's also banged up. James Arvinson is. So I think it gets really, really, it's like you're in desperation mode if you want any of these guys. Like Tevin Coleman,

I guess would be my next one, but then he's playing New Orleans this week, which is not a good... Yeah, I would not. I don't want to plug him to my line up there. No.

I think if you need someone for this week and you're truly, truly, truly, truly desperate and you're in a deeper league, if D'Andre Swift does not play and you're really desperate, I mean, like, you don't, you wouldn't tell anyone that you're in the situation. The Lions, Godwin Iguabike is basically, he ran a lot of routes. He's like, if DeAndre Swift is out and Jamal Williams plays, the Lions this week are going against the Broncos and they won this week. So Jamal Williams ran out, well, he wasn't excellent, but like if the Lions lose, as they should do the Broncos and they pass more, I think God's, when he could be great could get like a pretty good amount of catches if you're really desperate. But honestly, I think that this week for me, like looking at my teams, I don't need to plug and play some enough waivers this week as much as I'm looking at playoff stashes for guys that might be relevant down the stretch. And I want to run through some of those because again, last week it's like Dalvin Cook is hurt.

McCaffrey's out for the season. Darrell Henderson's hurt, all these guys. This week was similar. It's like a weird cousin of it because Miles Sanders got hurt. Josh Jacobs got hurt, Joe Mixen got hurt, James Robinson's hurt, all of them got hurt, and that they're not actually expected to miss any time, but they're all banged up. So I think that now there's like this weird thing of like,

well, who would benefit if any of those injuries get worse? So for Josh Jacobs, I think there's Peyton Barber for the Raiders because Kenyon Drake broke his leg and then Jalen Richard is on the COVID list. So I think Peyton Barber is now like this, considering for a month, like this somewhat elite handcuff for the Raiders. There's Somaget P. Ryan back at Mixin, although, like, Joe Mixen hurt his ankle. P. Ryan got hurt. The third stringers hurt. So that's another backfield where they're kind of just down to two people in mixing and P. Ryan. And then again, as Craig said, like Carlos Hyde and the Jaguars for James Robinson is also on this list.

Throw Justin Jackson into the mix. Echler seemed to get hobbled a little bit down the stretch. Like he, I don't know if he ever was officially on the injury report or anything like that, but he was limping around towards the end of the game, which was leading some people to question why he was still in the game. at that point. Continually banged up. And he was talking, I think he said after the game, he's like, yeah,

my body is like, it's like feeling it this year because he's had way more, you know, usage this year than last year and everything. It's by far the most touches Eckler's ever had, and he said it was taking a toll on his body.

So like, if you have any of those players and you're nervous that any of them are banged up, you can preemptively add one of those guys or if one of your nemesies in your league has one of those guys and you maybe want to make your team

stronger down the stretch as they get weaker, like you can add one of those guys. Two others I'll throw out if you want to stash. Same vein. The Niners with Elijah Mitchell. They basically only healthy running back

the Niners have behind Elijah Mitchell is Jamichael Hastie. Everyone else is hurt, even including Debo, for at least one more week. I mean, if anything happened to Elijah Mitchell, I think Michael Hastie would be there. Again, we're getting deeper. And then the last one here is weird,

but Kenneth Gainwell for the Eagles. Had this huge week, but they're on buy. And then you come back and you're talking about four-man rotation between Miles Sanders, Howard, Gainwell, Boston, Scott. Not to mention that Jaylen, Hertz is vulturing anyway.

Like, the Eagles have so many capable running backs that I don't know if you can even play any them other than Miles Sanders when they get back. Yeah. So there's a lot weird stuff going on. But in a crazy way, I almost wonder if like the Boston Scots of the world are dropable because you could argue they all need to be rostered. But in some ways, it makes all them kind of useless. Right.

It's impossible to predict what it's going to be. With the buy coming up, I had them on my list, but it's like, yeah, that doesn't really make any sense because Boston Scots probably going to get better by the time. from two weeks from now and Miles Sanders has an extra week to kind of like get right because I think he re-agravated his ankle injury this week.

He already said he was going to play, but who knows? Yeah, he's going. So with that said, we're going with the assumption that Matt Braid and all those guys are gone, we like Amir Abdullah, especially in PPR.

Then we like Deonté Foreman, then Hilliard. I like Foreman more. I think D.K. likes Hilliard more. Honestly, I doubt both are available in your league so you can get one of them. Same. And at that point, if you need someone for this week,

go Peterson or Penny, but man, that's gross. Man, can you imagine if someone's starting Penny this week? This is the dream. At that point, I agree. Yeah, that's the worst life. At that point, I would be like, figure something else out. And if you really need a stash for running back for later,

I'd look at like Peyton Barber for the Raiders or like, depending how bad Simaji Puran's injuries, we don't know if he's able to play or Carlos Hyde, which is also just really sad to think about. Craig, did you watch Penny? Did you watch Penny this week? I did. Look good.

I mean, listen, he's not. I'm back in, maybe. He's not Alvin Camara, but he's good. Like he's an average, he's a replacement level running back. If he's healthy, he should be on a team playing. Yeah, yeah. He should be getting snaps. Yes, he should be getting some snaps.

There we go. It's a sickness, D.K. Craig has a sickness. I know. It's okay. All right. We both are biased. What can I say?

Also ugly. D.K., who's your number one receiver for this week? High Fitz, you're going to hate me for this one. But Russell Gage for the Falcons, 34%. I think he was a guy that High Fitz mentioned four weeks ago, and Craig had I pooped it. Well, he got Z. You know, Rashad Bateman.

You're talking about Rashad Bateman. I was talking about Russell. He got zero targets because Calvin really ghosted the team the day before the game. I'm just saying you talked about him and then he got zero targets. And we were like, eh. I talked about him after he got zero targets. Yes, right.

And now he's 130 yards. Would you just let me give you credit? Sorry, you're right. I was talking to Craig. I appreciate you, D.K. Craig was chirping me.

Anyway, since that time, since we laughed you off the stage, uh, he's done really, really well. He has turned into like the go-to guy, one of the go-to guys in this offense.

obviously 12 targets this week. 11 catches, 130 yards. I was perusing some Falcons fans' comments on the game. Let's just say it was an ugly 11 catches for 130 yards. I'm not thinking he's like the best player in the NFL. However, volume is volume, and we'll take what we can get. And I think he's a guy that you could definitely flex if you're looking for that type of thing going up against Carolina next week. He's now scored at 18.2 points and 22 points in his last two games.

and the targets have been really, really strong in all three. So, yeah, I mean, take out that zero from week for 10, which is what we were talking about. And he scored double digits in three of five, and then his other one was 9.9. So really four out of five weeks, he scored double digits. He's the number one receiver on the Falcons. He was my pick as well.

He's led the team in Target Cherry each of the last four weeks. There are a couple other guys, I think, that are close, but I'd probably go with Gage. I think there's a 1A1B this week. Russell Gage is my 1A. Do you want to do the showdown at times? and then talk about the 1B? Yeah.

Well, there wouldn't really be a Russell Gage showdown time because I would have added him like a month ago, but it's fine. Let it go, Hyphids. You got to live for the now. No, it's... You said volumes, volume for Russell Gage. I think I just got a sound bar for Black Friday, and it reminds me that volume is, in fact, not volume.

It's like, you know, I admit, Russell Gage is like the Taston Hill volume. It's like the, you know, it's coming out of like your old college TV speakers. Don't watch the game. It's not the best volume. Don't watch the game. Just look at the box score. Exactly. All right.

Okay. Russell Gage Showdown time, baby. It's time for the Russell Gage showdown time. That got deeper. That spooky there. Wow. What do we got?

I'm perused. There's just such an array of topics. This is from Kevin. How many landlocked countries are there in the world? Kevin. I'm so bad at this type of stuff. Kevin. How many landlocked countries are there in the world?

Do you know how many countries there are in the world? I believe it. It's 200-ish. Oh, I was going to say 190. Or is it two? Yeah, I thought it was a little higher. But regardless, it's in like the 200, 250 to 300 range, I think. It's not 300.

It's 200. Yeah, I'll look it up right now. I'll give you the real answer. Give us a foundation here. It's 195. So right between Craig and I. Okay. 195.

Oh, that whole, there's a lot of like Eastern Europe. There's just like a lot of little countries in there that are all landlocked. And then there's Eastern Europe. And then there's like Africa. also to our international issues, I'm just going to go out there and get ahead of this and say the United States officially recognized as 195. I certainly imagine some scenarios where that number can differ. Sure. True.

Let's say just, let's say 200. Round up for good measure. Okay. Let's just, let's just say it. Let's just get it out of the count of three. Does everybody come up with a number in your head? You can't change it. Honor system.

Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm going to say, oh, I'm so stupid. Okay. 45. Oh shit. I was saying mine was 47.

Oh. 47. I was going to say 20. Okay. Oh, there's got to be more than that. But you said 40 and 47? I said 45. Okay.

The answer is from Kevin. Kevin. Oh, my God. They're way more. Like 80? 44. Oh, let's go. Craig.

What did D.K. say? I said 47, so I was also close. Has anyone ever got something? So I was one off. Has anybody ever got something exactly right? I feel like we haven't done that in a very long time. Showdown time started because we all got the... Oh, I got the Austin, Texas thing officially right.

We didn't get it exactly right. We didn't get things right. We were off by like three miles or something. Percentage-wise, it was almost 100%. It was like we were like how far... It was like, where was Nick Folesbourne? And you guys took two cities that were... Or was it Detroit or Texas, what was it?

It was close enough. I think it was Detroit and L.A., and you guys took two cities that were so... so close, we had to figure out what part of Austin he was from. It was a perfect triangle. It was within single digit miles. It mattered within the boundaries of the city. And of course, you know where I was for that conversation? Where? I was in Austin, fucking Texas when we had that conversation. I love it. I'm an idiot, as always. Okay. D.K. If KG. Osborne, oh shit. I just ruined it. Shit, Craig, I assume you

are you one. I'm taking gauge. So, D.K. Are you taking it? You assume you're taking KJ Osborne. Yeah, so I'm taking KJ Osborne. Adam Thielen suffered a high ankle sprain on Sunday. It's going to set him back at least, I would say, a week, especially considering the Vikings have the Steelers on Thursday night football this week. It's looking like an uphill battle for him to get back. I would guess maybe potentially even multiple weeks missed for Thielen.

Probably. And so I think that makes Osborne a very good ad. In fact, I thought about putting him above gauge. But you were going to say him, though, right? I just slipped up because that's why I wanted. You were going to say him right. He was my clear number two here. Okay.

And I even thought about putting him out number one, just because number one, he's flashed throughout the season, like when he's gotten his opportunities. Obviously, this offense flows mostly through Thielen and Jefferson and Cook. Cook is now out. Obviously, Madison's very good.

But now it's going to flow through Jefferson, Madison, and I think Osborne and or another person that we'll get to later. Let's just say it now. Tyler Conklin. Probably all of our number one tight ends or at least up there. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. But yes, Tyler Conklin is the other guy.

I think that really benefits. from this feeling injury. So Osborne, four catches, 47 yards. A touchdown. To me, again, like, he's looked pretty solid when he's been playing, makes big plays for them. I trust this offense,

even though the Vikings, like, as a team, as an entity, are, like, I don't even know what to call them, like, the most infuriating team. Like, Viking fans all know what I'm talking about. Like, it's like almost, it's on the level of, like, the Seahawks where you get frustrated with this team.

They're like the opposite of when they say, like, good real life player, bad fantasy player. They're the opposite. They're a great fantasy team, but they're really not. too good in real life. Yes.

Regardless, but like, I think Cousins is going to pass a lot. I think Osmer's going to have opportunities. Volume is going to be there. So I feel very confident in plugging him into my flex spot if that's something that you need this week. They're really a perfect storm. The defense is shitty enough to where they, you know, they give up a lot of points. They're always losing.

They're always in shootouts. The offense runs a lot of plays. They have a lot of good players. They're always in close games. The Vikings are just fantasy gold every year, it feels like. I love it. So you guys, so Craig gets Russell Gage. TK gets KJ Osborne.

I have to pick through the scraps here. The easy answer would be to say Amon Ross, St. Brown for the Lions, who I think is a talented rookie called the game winning touchdown. I don't want to chase rookie receivers on the Lions

catching past as a jerk off. That's not the life I want to live. It's not the way I want to die. There's Nick Westbrook Akeen. I'm sorry, I got to get this right. Akeen. I'm not 100% sure, but I think Craig.

He's coming off by for the Titans. They activated Julio Jones off IR. We'll see if he actually plays. Regardless, is a number one and or number two receiver for the Titans. What about, we may have forgotten about him because he was on buy, but MVS is like 35%. Well, I was going to say, but MVS or Lazard. And Lazard was hurt, but now gets the buy.

And I, I'm kind of curious what you guys think about. Would you rather have Alan Lazard or MVS for the rest of the season? Because I think when he's healthy, Lizard is the guy. I would rather have MBS. I think just like the big play potential. I think neither of them are going to have like a ton of targets is the problem. And I'd rather take the guy who's getting the moon shots down the field. that he can turn into touchdown.

I don't know. If you're playing Waver Waiver Rillette, I want one of the Packer guys. MVS is probably perfect. Like, that's, it's a better moonshot than these other guys. And I will say, Ammano Sate Brown,

I think I'd still rather have Josh Reynolds, man. Even if you're going to pick from the scraps at the lines receivers, I'd take Josh Reynolds over Amon of St. Brown, honestly. But don't do any of that. Yeah,

I'm just like, man, I don't really do it. I want to, like, I want to be in Amon Ross, Brown's corner because he's an exciting rookie and you guys know me. But, yeah,

I like banking on the lion's offense. That's rough. Tight ends, is your number one tight end pick for this week? The aforementioned Tyler Conklin for the Vikings roster in 30% of leagues. He had nine targets, seven catches 56 yards in his past game.

And like I said, with dealing out, I think he's going to take on a bigger piece of this pie. It's probably going to be split evenly between Osborne and Conklin. And you could have like, you know, sealing games for one or the other.

It's hard to predict, obviously. But I think it's definitely worth going out and grabbing Conklin. He's a guy that I think you can stream at the tight-up position this week against the Steelers. And, you know, he's been on our radar all year. I'm guessing we've talked about him several times on this show already on the waiver

show, but he's kind of just hovering right around like that 30 to 40 percent roster ship area. So, again, all things that we said about the Vikings, like, they're good for fantasy. They pass efficiently and enough that it's worth, like, investing in this offense. And it's, like, you know, funneled into like a three or four man group here. so Tyler Conklin easily for me, number one. Yeah, same for everything you said. Feelings hurt.

Conklin's got nine targets. I agree it's Conklin, but I think there is a number two guy who's actually kind of close that we can get to. There's a 1B, and I'm sure we'll get to it. All right, showdown time for Tyler Conklin.

Yeah, it's a Tyler Conklin. Showdown time. DK.'s hands up. It's a really good question from Evan. Evan. Evan. Thank you, Evan. Evan.

There's a Kevin and an Evan. when you thought Kevin was Evan. Now Evans Evan's Evan. It's a very close name. There are 350 Division I College Basketball programs that could qualify for March Madness. 350?

350. How many plural versions of the team's mascot do not end in S? I've done this about the NBA so many times or maybe like the four major sports because it's like Miami Heat, Utah Jazz. Like the bison.

The major sports, that was like a very, I've never heard it for college mascot. So I have won already. Oh, yeah. Well, you're going to go through all 3.50 in your head? I know, but I don't mind counting them off for us right now. So there's Alabama Crimson Tide.

Sure. Yeah, but that's not plural. Are we getting really technical? Here's my question. Because he said the plural version doesn't have an S. Isn't that right? Yes. Crimson Tides, but no one would ever say the Crimson Tides are playing.

Like the Auburn Tigers are coming to town. I know. Here's the distinction. He said plural, but no S. So, for instance, like the bison. It's plural, multiple bison. It doesn't end in an S. Well, we don't have to get caught up on this because I think that there's going to be more than one.

But I will just say, I don't think anyone's ever going to say the crimson tides are coming. Essentially, he's just saying what mascots don't have an S at the end. So who else? Who are the other ones? I think that there's enough of a difference here. Like, if you're talking about the Stanford Cardinal, that's singular. That doesn't count in this case. Is that right?

I don't know. I'm asking, kind of. But that's my reading of the question. There's enough. I think D.K. is right, which makes the question less fun. I'm not going to lie from Evan. I'm not calling anyone out. But I think D.K. is probably correct.

But is that what the answer accounts for? Yeah, I think so. Okay. I think we're going to be way off regardless. And I'm just excited to find out some of these teams. DK is right. I'm going to say like six. Are you going to have a list?

Is there an answer here? Yeah, he's got a list. So you're saying six? There's 350 teams. Yeah, I'm going to say 20. 21. I was going to say like 13. The answer, he's got 28.

Boom. 28. All right. What do you Craig say? 21. There's a lot of weird-ass mascot names out there. I'm going through. I'm not going to be able to read all.

Oh, God, that. Oh, I feel like an idiot already. NC State Wolfpack. Oh, yeah. Notre Dame fighting Irish. That's Syracuse Orange. Okay, so I was incorrect. What about the Illinois?

I'm mad. D.K. screwed me up there. because like I The question screwed us up I think he said plural why did he use

the word plural Well I think it's as in like This team's coming here Plural like like like like the collective Like the Syracuse orange are coming I don't know why did he just say This mascot doesn't have an ass at the end of it Right

That would have been better The Illinois fighting a line nine He sent us this question for free On his own goddamn spare time Is the Sanford Cardinal one of them? Yeah I think so Well then that Goes against what

DK saying. D.K. Saying Stanford Cardinals should not be there. I'm saying I'm wrong. He's wrong. According to the results of this quiz,

even though... St. John's Red Storm. We got way too hung up on the question. In other words, I did. St. John's Red Storm is also on this list.

Because I would say the Wolfpack is singular. Fighting... Even though there's many waltes. Fighting Illini... It's a plural unit. Fighting Illini is on there. The fighting Irish.

That's a good one. Okay. It's a good question. Okay. So, Craig was correct. And I threw you all off the scent, so you're welcome, Craig. God damn it.

Really hot start or hot week for me. You get to Tyler Conklin, Craig, whatever. DK, I can't believe you actually get to be in second place and do all that. No, it's screw you. I'm going to make you fun. I'm taking, no, I'm just qualifying you. I get Ricky Seals Jones from Washington with Logan Thomas hurt his knee. It was an ACL tear.

It's not an ACL tear. I don't know. His knee's not going to play. I think he's going to miss time for sure. Yeah, I don't, yeah, whatever the hell happened to Logan Thomas's knee. First of all, it was a dirty, not dirty, the wool block. it sucks because he was on i r i came back he's so good he's a nice story it sucks um it's it's upsetting for him anyway he's gonna miss time ricky seals jones came in for logan

thomas earlier this year first four starts missed one snap like rick dick seals jones missed one snap in four games yeah dick jones rickie seals jones is like as good of a phillin as you could i mean not elite but he's a perfectly fine villain i'll take him second dick jones sounds like a 1970s producer in Hollywood. He's a madman character. It's like Dick Wolf, who did Law and Order. All right, D.K., I'm making it. You find something. You have to leading me astray.

I think this is fun. It's always fun to be the guy like in the trivia group that like steers the whole group astray. And so you like, you immediately have the answer. Then you're like, wait, what if? My friends, I was at, oh my God, I was at this hat, this trivia night. It was my first trivia night, my favorite bar in L.A. And we were all there. And we were like basically tied.

dead heat with this other team but we had a one point lead. So if we got the last question we win and it was one of those you get all the answers are zero. It was named the seven deadly sins. I'm Jewish and I got six of them by recounting the murders in the movie seven. Got six of them. My two friends who spent a combined 25 years in Catholic school could not get the seventh sin.

I've never been so angry at two people. That's hilarious. I could. What bar? We'll talk off. We'll talk offline. Shut up. Shout out of founders. Sloth? Is that one? My mistake, which I'll give myself a break as I'm Jewish, was I confused vanity and pride are like the same thing. So we forgot wrath, which was really ironic because then I unleashed a lot of wrath at them.

Okay. Anyway, Craig gets Tyler Conklin. I get Ricky Seals-Jones and D.K. leading me astray has to... With those two very good answers off the board here, I guess I'm going... And this is like, again, we've mentioned this guy probably like six or seven times on this segment alone, but like Evan Ingram for the Giants, still out there. Not exciting. I understand that.

The Giants offense is not fun. Nope. High Fitz hates it. Yep. What about Foster Moreau? Well, yeah, he could be another one. He didn't really do much. Like, obviously, he was like the chalk play this week because he, the last time that

Darren Waller was out, he had like six catches and a touchdown. Six target, six sketches and a touchdown, I believe. This week, I want to say he had one catch. so he's definitely like high variability and plus waller could be back this week it's kind of unclear what how how severe his injury is i i would literally never play evan ingram ever again in part because i've seen him play in part because the giants have to play jake fromm this week who's been there for five days like daniel jones has a next ray and mike lennon his concussion if jake fromm has to play i think the chargers defense is like the all-time fantasy defense to play

So I don't think... Is that the kid out of Georgia? Is Jake Fram going to Georgia? I think Foster Morrow would be the superior. If I... I will spend the rest of my life steering people away from trusting Evan Ingram if it's my life's work.

The counterpoint to all that is if it's Jake Fromm, he just needs to dump it off to his tight end over the middle. Evan Ingram right there. Boom. We met him six days ago. I hate all these options. If you're having to scrape the bottom of the barrel

for the third best tight end on waivers this week, like, good luck to you. Hi Fitz, it's funny you say that. You're like, oh, well, Fram met Evan Ingham six days ago. Did you hear that Gardner Minchew had never completed, had never thrown a pass to Dallas Goddard until the game? I did not. Not even in practice?

That's actually really funny. No, apparently had never thrown to Dallas Goddard. That's bizarre. Same, honestly. Let's throw a couple more here, not tight ends, colleges that don't end of NASCAR. The California State University of Long Beach is the beach. Wow, well, that's an incredible mascot. Wow.

Long Beach State is the beach? Who's the banana slugs? Santa Barbara. No, Santa Cruz. Elon is the Elon University Phoenix. We've got the College of William and Mary or the tribe. I didn't know that.

I don't think of them as Marshall. Marshall has the thundering herd. And then North Texas is the mean green. There's a lot of these. Is it Richmond, the spiders? Yes, they are. God, that's weird. Did you like that?

Roll spied. No, it's pathetic. No, eventually they got an ass. Would you guys say Roll Spide? That's really funny. It's funny. Why are they called that? Well, eventually they got an actual tarantula and they put it at half court.

And that was sick because the hype video they made was actually, because spiders aren't actually terrifying. Yeah, sure. And a lot, like, I forget the percentage, but certain people do have arachnophobia. And, like, I think one of the best players in our conference actually did because they used to put the actual spider at half court in its little terrarium and just let it sit there right by the ball rack. And there was a player who wouldn't go. Are you guys? I think it's pretty effective. My theory is people are either afraid of snakes or spiders and never both.

Do you agree with that, number one? And what are you, number two? I'm afraid of both. My brother's definitely scared of both. I mean, I don't like either of them. I mean, one's obviously a little bit more ferocious in person to encounter a fucking snake. My point is like, less that you're afraid because I'm afraid of both snakes and spiders, generally speaking. However, spiders fucking gross me out.

You can't get me near a spider. Snakes aren't that gross to me. I just am aware of the fact that they could kill me so I don't go near them. Does that make sense? Like, spiders are disgusting. I have a serious arachnophobia. I will say spiders kill worse bugs.

Like spiders kill mosquitoes and things that actually see. I don't mind spiders. I mean, listen, the California bug scene is so tame that my spiders are nothing like all the bugs are super chill, Duk. They just take edibles and just like... Well, they're just, like, tiny. Like, when you're talking, like, the South, like, the bugs in Florida,

even, like, the bugs in, like, fucking Arizona do not compare the bugs. All our Australians are just nodding, like, yeah, you guys don't know shit about bugs. Australians, like, you freaking Americans. Cornell is the big red. Dartmouth is the big green. What? Oh, big red. Harvard's the crimson.

I would like for you to go through and count the number of names that are plural with no ass. Note to self is the next time. I get asked this, half the answers are colors. Orange, green, red, crimson, anyway. D.K., what was the mascot of your college? The lutes? I went to PLU, Pacific Glythran. They were just the lutes.

Oh, yeah, yeah, the lutes. This is like when D.K. says a band at the end of the episode. The lutes. We all play lute. Got to fire them glutes. All right, whatever. The lutes, which is literally nothing. It's just a shortened version of Lutherans.

That's tough. Oh, that's so disappointing. Okay. That's all we got. Thank you, Craig. Thank you, Mike Wargon for producing this episode. Thank you to Kevin and Evan for sending in trivia questions. And thank you the letter S? Thank you to the dinosaurs.

Yeah. We miss you. Thank you, Steven Spielberg. Well, we don't, yeah, sure, we miss them. Yeah, okay. Do we? That'd be cool. I don't think it would.

Would you go to a- Super scary? Would you go to a real- preoccupied if you could. Would you go to a real Jurassic Park? No. I would need years of safety record. Absolutely not.

Have you seen the movies? In the words of Shea Serrano, I beg you to watch one single movie. We don't need a Jurassic Park. We don't need a real Jurassic Park. Now, let's do it. Let's genetically create these dinosaurs and go visit them.

They're like opening up a 2,000-year-old mummy and Shay is losing his mind. It's like watch one movie They're opening a tomb that's been That's been closed for 4,000 years What could go wrong? Just watch one movie That's all I ask

You know that's where the Sealks signed Adrian Peterson from Ha The funny thing is I'm older than Adrian Peterson Barely still make jokes That's really sad Thank you, Lorne Lord Thank you, Taj Mahal

Look it out Was that like a quick Egypt pharaohs pyramids pivot to like other old famous building reference? Yeah, sure. Yeah. Oh, you said Taj Mahal. Like, mm-hmm. Okay.

Yeah. All right. Goodbye.