The Ringer NFL Show - Must-Adds for Week 17
Episode Date: December 27, 2021With championship week upon us, we run through the injuries from Week 16 and offer up our must-add players for Week 17 with our favorite format, Showdown Time. We finish by holding Fantasy Court. RBs... (02:00) WRs (15:00) TEs (27:00) QB Streamers (35:00) DEF Streamers (37:00) Fantasy Court (43:00) Email us at ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producer: Craig Horlbeck and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hey everybody, this is Warren Sharp, NFL analyst over at Sharp Football Analysis.
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My name is Dana Heifitz.
I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlebeck.
We are coming to you on Monday afternoon.
Monday, if football is not happened yet,
otherwise week 16 is done.
Hopefully you're in your fantasy football championship.
If not,
maybe you are crushing your third place dominant quest
with all the Cincinnati Bengals.
Fifth place.
Ghosted you last week, helped you this week.
Maybe you're just competing to not lose the toilet bowl.
I know in my leagues,
people have to do a beer mile.
If you lose,
hopefully my brother has to do that.
But whatever you do,
need, we're going to get you all your waivers for week 17.
Hopefully that's the last week for your fantasy championship.
Are you guys ready?
I'm ready. I'm ready. I am very likely pending a disaster on the Monday night football game
in the ringer championship.
Who are you playing?
It's a toss-up between Riley and I forget who he's playing, but that game's really close.
Oh, interesting. Probably something with a Danny Kelly name.
It just goes to show you that drafting doesn't matter because I didn't realize we were in a
super flex league until like the third round.
prep is overrated.
That's what we always say here.
That's our whole philosophy.
That's where we have four,
five guests a week.
We're going to do showdown time.
We're going to go position by position.
We're going to give our favorite pick for that position just for this week,
because like this week is the rest of the season.
That's it.
So there you go.
Nice, easy, peasy right there.
We're going to start at running back.
D.K.
Yo.
Who is the number one running back you'd pick up on waivers?
To win a fantasy football championship or just to avoid coming in last place?
It came down to a couple of different guys for me,
but I'm going with Dari, a Gumba Waleigh for the Jaguars.
Unfortunately, James Robinson tore his Achilles tendon on Sunday,
which is not only bad for the Jags in the short term,
but it potentially affects his season next year, too.
Unless he's Cam Acres, which I guess it just doesn't really matter.
I guess you can just come back.
The Cam Acres thing is kind of crazy.
He's already back on the active roster.
Now, granted, the Acres thing was partially due to just getting him in a crude season,
so he can get closer his pension.
He's like physically able to like run and play a little bit.
Like there's been videos of him cutting and changing direction.
He looks really good.
So maybe there's been advances in the way that they do the surgeries.
I don't know.
But regardless for now,
it's looking like Dari and Gumbawale is going to be the lead guy there.
He had 17 carries 57 yards in a touchdown last week.
Carlos Hyde is on the injured reserve, I believe.
And so that just basically opens things up for him to kind of like dominate that backfield.
And so he would be the guy that I,
choose to throw into the flex this week.
There's a couple options here, but I think I'd feel the most confident, especially considering
who are they playing next week?
They're playing New England.
That's actually kind of tough.
Which is super concerning.
Well, New England has actually kind of not been great against running backs,
against rushing yards specifically in the last few weeks.
But I went with Dari too.
It's, again, it's not great picking a jag going up against a Patriot in championship week.
But the other options didn't really excite me nearly as much.
I mean, Dari got 19 touches.
And other than, there's just a lot of unknowns, right?
Like, we can talk about them.
There's unknowns with the chiefs and Clyde.
There's unknowns with Philly and Miles Sanders and Jordan Howard.
Yeah.
The only not, I guess, Rex Burk had, but, you know, David Johnson's maybe coming back.
So Dore seems like the safest bet to actually get 15 touches.
It's pretty much the only reason why I picked him.
Yeah. That's exactly what I was going to say.
That's well said.
I think the other ones, there's just too many question marks.
I'll go Dari to begrudgingly because as Chris,
said, we're recording this Monday afternoon.
We don't know a ton right now
about Miles Sanders' hand because he
heard it in some fashion. We'll see if he actually
misses this week. And we don't
know a ton about Clyde right now. The x-ray
on his Clyde's collarbone is negative.
We'll see about the MRI.
I'll begrudgingly say Daray, even
though I actually almost like my other
person more, which kind of defeats the whole purpose
of this exercise.
All right. Do you want to do a showdown time then?
Let's do the weakest showdown time
I've ever done. I already regret taking
Dorei. It's just kind of a bleak
Showdown time. Should I just do it? Should I change my mind?
Also, this is the hardest name I've ever had to say for Showdown Time.
I'm reasonably confident it's Daree Ogunba Walee.
Okay. It's the Dari Agumboalee Showdown Time.
Craig, did you know that we put in your voice for the show last week?
You don't even listen. Yeah, we cut your voice out and we let you say Showdown Time.
Yeah, I love that, actually.
Thanks, Mike for doing that.
Shuts out Mike.
I was a little busy last week, Hyphids.
Didn't catch week 15 waivers.
Are you spending time with your family over the holidays?
Deke and I were out here, like, helping people.
Yeah, you're real Christmas heroes for you two.
Exactly.
All right.
How are people going to know to Benchamon and St. Brown if it weren't for our help?
You know the Santa's in like the New York corners who like stand and jingle their bell and get like people to donate money?
That's you too.
You guys are really doing the work.
The Fantasy Salvation Army.
Okay.
This is, this question's from Mark.
Mark.
So I'm sure you three know how
Scorogami works,
but for the listeners who don't,
an NFL game is a scoreagami.
If the final score is the first,
is the unique score in NFL history,
as in never in NFL history,
has there been a score
with that final score ever before,
the home team getting a score
and the road team getting the other score.
So his question is,
there has never been
a four to three final score in NFL history.
That makes sense.
What is the next?
lowest winning score against the team that lost with three points.
So, for example, four to three has never happened.
Seven to three obviously has happened.
What's the lowest score against a losing team that had three points
that's never happened in NFL history?
What's the lowest score against the losing team had three points?
So what is the next-
The losing team at three.
Okay.
So this has to be above four.
It has to be more than four.
But it's the lowest that's ever happened.
Yeah.
Or you're saying it's never.
happened. Never happened.
So it's, okay, it's the lowest score that's never happened above four.
Yes.
In retrospect, this was a very complicated question. So the question is, has five to three ever
happened? Now that I think about it, that's probably, so it's five or six. That's it.
No, six to three is happening a million times. So it's five. I feel like he wouldn't have emailed
us if it was five. Five's probably happened. Uh, my first thought was like, if it's five, I almost
want to wipe this question out, Mark. No offense.
I'm going to say
Yeah, let's assume five
It would be a weird question
If five was
I'm gonna say 11
Yeah
I bet 11 to 3 has never happened
Now 11's easy though
It's like touchdown 2 point
Which is a touchdown
I'm gonna go with
I don't know
You know there's a lot of like 16 definitely has happened
18 I think has happened
I don't know
I'll say
12
No
I'll say 19
I'll say 19 to 3
So you say 19 to 3's never happened.
I'm say 11 to 3's never happened.
Dika, what about you?
I mean, I'm just going to, this is like the Jeopardy stupid answers thing.
I'm going with 5 to 3.
Okay.
Wow.
All right.
None of us were even remotely close.
The answer is 50.
Oh.
50 to 3?
Every single score has happened.
That's crazy.
Five to 49.
You know what?
Mark deserves an apology from us.
Yeah.
Literally, we were like, has five happened.
And the answer was 5-0-50.
That's pretty incredible.
Okay.
That's a good question.
question mark. So Craig actually wins Dario Gimboale.
Nice. Which is good because I kind of didn't want him.
Okay. Well, D.K.
So you get Dario Gung Mawale. I'm going to get who I really wanted.
Go ahead. Yeah. I wanted Jordan Howard for the Eagles.
Yeah. He also got banged up. He left with a stinger.
He had a stinger. And here's the thing.
No one knows what that means.
This is, no, no. Stinger.
Not even scientists. Not even scientists.
Something hurt real bad. He left.
Something you had hurt. You know, it's just like that casual, you know,
shooting down your back. Totally normal thing that everyone gets.
It's also like, do it. Why don't they call broken bones like a breaker?
or a sprainer.
It's like a stinger.
This one stings.
Fracture.
Ooh, it's stings.
Like a baseball at the end of the bat.
Oh, nothing worse.
Ouch.
Miles Sanders hurt his hand.
If he doesn't play,
Jordan Howard and the Eagles against Washington,
that Washington D imploded.
That was awful.
It was pretty bad.
Yeah.
But regardless,
Jordan Howard,
when Sanders has been out,
has been really good.
Even if Sanders plays,
if his hands hurt,
I feel Jordan Howard's going to rotate in.
He was clearly the guy
that was rotating in it out with the eagle.
like the most.
And then if Howard's hurt, Boston Scott
is also like a perfectly serviceable option.
If Sanders is out, Howard and Boston Scott
will both be good.
If Sanders plays, I think Sanders and Jordan Howard
will also be pretty good.
And then look, if Sanders and Howard are both out,
obviously Boston Scott can again well,
but like mostly speaking,
I think Jordan Howard will be a perfectly
serviceable flex option for this team
and also will get like a pretty good amount of goal line work.
I agree. I think if,
I think if Miles Sanders is out,
maybe Jordan Howard and Boston Scott
jumped to the number one option for me.
I think it's pretty,
I felt like it's pretty probable that Sanders is out of you.
He reportedly broke his hand.
And this is for a guy that's...
The high fits rule, you know.
Well, it didn't look bad. He just disappeared.
He got a breaker on his hand.
I just really think Jordan Howard is like the definition
of like the boring guy that you flex
and somehow win your fantasy football championship.
Yeah.
And if Howard and Miles are out,
Boston Scott's definitely the number one waiver.
option. So I actually would take him
over Dari because Dari at the end of the day, or do you
really want the Jaguars running back? Even if he gets like
most of their touches against the Patriots. It's just
not going to be a touchdown. That's what you need too.
It's such a recipe for disaster.
But Howard is just, I mean, he's
been so good when the Eagles have played.
I've played him. I just think Howard's like this very
unsexy, clear, obvious number one
pick this week. All right, D.K., who's your
pick?
So you guys picked
Jordan Howard officially. Did you
I'm taking Jordan Howard? Yes.
And honestly, I actually think is...
Honestly, the only reason I didn't take Howard
is because we don't know as of Monday afternoon
whether Sanders is playing,
but in reality,
I actually think Howard's number one over Dari this week.
So if I was setting my waiver priorities here,
I would do...
I'd probably do...
Actually, yeah, I'm almost like starting to change my mind,
too, with the Ogunba Walee thing.
But I'll go, Agumbo Wale, Howard,
and then I would go Boston Scott.
I would just say because I think
if Sanders is out,
they're still going to be rotating Howard and Scott together.
This is one of the best run teams in the NFL, like in terms of their offensive line for the things that they can do with Jalen Hurts going up against Washington next week.
So I would choose Boston Scott, I think, as my option here.
And he's, you know, roster ship right around where Howard is, 15 and 16 for those two percent.
So and then from there, if I had to do something else, I would do Rex Burkhead for Houston, who, again, there's question marks as to whether David Johnson is going to come back next week.
but Burkhead has been like the lead guy there.
His carries in the last six games,
22, 16, 11, 8, 12, 18.
So, like, he's getting good volume.
Obviously, this offense isn't necessarily
something to write home about,
but Davis Mills has been playing better.
They've been, like, surprisingly competent
over the last month or so.
Yeah.
My only concern with Rex Burkett is, like,
he's been getting a lot of touches
for a couple months now,
done nothing with them.
Last week, this week, he's the RB3 against the Jets,
like crushes it.
This is against the Chargers.
Or sorry, right. What am I talking about?
Which is also a very bad run team.
But yeah, sorry. It's one of the worst run-D teams.
I guess my question is like, is Rex Burkhead going to do that?
Now they're playing in San Francisco, which is quite a bit more difficult.
This is why he'd be down the list for me.
Like, obviously, he's number four on this list for me.
However, I still think if you're desperate for a flex, if you have situations where COVID is, you know,
potentially taking out some of your big name players for this week, he could be an option.
I think you can bank on at least like a six or seven point floor.
Like it's not going to get you a zero kind of deal.
And then obviously we saw it last week.
Like he has it in him to go off.
He had 28 points.
So that would probably be like the order that I put these in.
And then like you could throw in a couple other guys.
Derek Gore for Kansas City.
If Clyde-Rood-Larer misses another game, like he'll get some run.
He had 12 carries this past week.
Craig Reynolds is still getting a good amount of volume at 11 carries this week for Detroit.
Jamal Williams, I think, kind of came back and took over the leadback role, but Reynolds was in there.
He got a little bit of work in the passing game.
He had four targets, three catches, 22 yards.
You would add Craig's?
I actually think Craig Reynolds is kind of dropable.
Okay.
So why?
Didn't Jamal Williams get like 17 carries this week?
I mean, we're talking like, this is like my sixth or seventh option here.
I'm just saying these are some players that you could potentially add.
I guess here's my other question.
He had 15 touches.
That's good.
guess it depends if D'Angre Swift comes back
because there's a chance to get Swift comes back this week.
Yeah.
My,
in the Craig Reynolds bucket,
so basically we're saying Jordan Howard,
probably number one or Dare,
Jordan Howard Daree Boston Scott or like that top tier.
And then as you said,
Rex Burke had in that probably the tier below.
Derek Gore for the chiefs.
First of all,
obviously Dorell Williams is probably head of all these guys if Clyde doesn't play.
We're not counting him for this because he's mostly rostered.
But Dorel Williams,
if he's available for whatever reason for the Chiefs and Clyde misses this game,
Dorele Williams is easily number one.
But even then,
Derek Gore for the Chiefs could get enough work
and has looked pretty good, even though we all thought he was the son
of Frank Gore for a while for the Chiefs.
The other guy I want to throw out there for you guys.
Wait, can I guess?
Yes.
Kashan Vaughn?
Yes.
Kishon.
Kishon.
Shon Vaughn, who stole a 50-yard run
from Ronald Jones this week
for the Bucks.
The Bucks are playing the Jets.
The Jets Rundee is awful.
It's so bad that I actually think it's totally
possible that Ronald Jones in Kishon Vaughn
could both be worth playing.
Ronald Jones is like a must play against the Jets.
I actually think it's such a must play that Kishon Vaughn
just in like the lesser half of a timeshare
could also totally steal a touchdown and be flexible.
And I'd almost rather him than some of these other options.
Certainly something to consider.
Yeah, he had, he didn't do anything in the passing game,
which is, you know, not crazy surprising.
But yeah, I think like he's another good sort of desperation flex option guy,
especially going against Jets.
That's real desperation.
Really, if you know, 14 team league,
it depends on what happens
with COVID this week.
And then also, honestly,
Devante Booker for the Giants
who's just better than Sequin,
which is really sad to say.
But like, I'm sad again.
But now we're in real desperation time.
In reality, we're talking about Dare,
Jordan Howard and Boston Scott are the guys you want.
I actually think Derek Warren Burk had are right there.
That's like the top five.
And then everyone else is like dart throws.
Are you guys one of your receivers?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
I think we all have the same person.
Does everyone have Isaiah McKenzie for the bills
is their number one?
Yeah, indeed.
Okay, so this isn't complicated.
Gabe Davis last week had two touchdowns and 85 yards and we're like, pick up Gabe Davis,
Gabe Davis got COVID, Cole Beasley got COVID.
They're not vaccinated.
They missed this week.
Isaiah McKenzie has like 100 plus yards and two touchdowns.
He's incredible.
And Cole and Gabe Dave being unvaccinated means they are unlikely to play this week or even if they do,
they'll miss a lot of practice.
Like Isaiah McKenzie is the number two receiver for the Buffalo Bills.
He's obviously the number one guy.
One of the past happiest teams in the NFL.
Plus, by the way, they face.
the Falcons this week.
So that's a good match up.
This showdown time is like,
this whole episode is like the Joey Pants
Award.
We're like,
I mean,
we got Dari,
Agumbo Wallet
and now Isaiah McKenzie.
Like this is as random as it's gotten.
Yeah.
I like McKenzie,
though.
He's fast.
He's got some juice.
I have been saving this question
until Craig comes back.
Yeah.
Okay, hold on.
I got to do it.
All right.
I'm excited for this.
We're really getting down to the wire
here on showdown time.
So we don't have many left.
So people really got to sink.
Soke these in.
All right.
It is the Isaiah McKenzie showdown time.
People, someone made a comment that I laugh at every single time Craig does it.
It's because he gets really into it and he like shakes his arms and stuff.
It's just makes me happy.
I'm like a wacky, inflatable armed tube man.
You are you. That's how you dance.
All right.
Hyvetitis.
This is from Evan.
Evan.
Evan.
Evan.
In honor of, thank you, Lorne.
Lauren.
On December 11th, Billy Elish hosted S&L and was the musical guest.
How many times has that happened?
How many times has someone pulled off double duty on SNL?
Oh, there's been a decent amount.
You know, people like, I think Bieber's done it.
Like Adele has done it.
Miley Cyrus has probably done it.
But it's like going back in the day, I don't know.
It's like, did like Bruce Springsteen do it?
I have no idea.
I feel like this question is.
is that like slanted towards Craig.
Like this is a little bit of a biased question.
I'm actually going to give a really boring answer.
I'm going to say, how many years of snow has there been?
50?
No, like 46.
46.
I'm literally going to say it happens once a season.
So I'm going to say 46.
That's a good guess.
I'm going to do a little less than that because I don't think it was happening a lot in the beginning.
I don't think they thought of it until later.
So I'm going to go with like 22.
Do you guys remember when we were supposed to guess how many, what was it?
How many episodes are been or something like that?
How many guests or how many staff members have been on the actual show?
And I guess like several thousand above what the answer was.
Yeah, I didn't remember that one.
I'm going to just go really high again.
And I'm going to say 100.
There's no way.
Twice a season?
Okay.
The answer is 42.
Look at me.
Is that what you guess exactly?
No, I guess 46.
Oh, 46.
I just guess one of the season.
Wow.
Nicely done.
Cool.
All right.
I get Isaiah McKenzie.
And you guys have to fight for scraps.
So I'm second.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What did you guess?
Definitely.
I said 22 and DK said 100.
Yeah.
All right.
Not great at math,
but I think that Craig wins second.
I think I'm going to go with Alan Lazard.
Oh.
Okay.
If MVS is out,
I'm operating under the assumption
that MVS is going to be out still with COVID.
I'm going to go to Lazard.
They're playing the Vikings.
And Lazard is like the surefire
number two option in Green Bay.
He ran a route on 94% of passes last week.
Caught Rogers his record breaking touchdown.
I mean, Lazard, just like a good, solid option,
fantasy championship week.
Like, I don't want to screw around.
I think Lazard's a safe bet for five, six, seven targets.
And you have maybe the MVP thrown to him.
So I'm going to go with Lazard.
I like that one.
How do you feel, what if MVS comes back in place?
Then no.
Then I would pivot to another person,
which I can give you, which is a hot take.
Give us the hot take.
It's Cadarius, Tony.
I had him on my list
I like it
He's on my list too
But I don't know if I can trust him
In my fantasy championship
It's hard with Mike Glennon
But they're playing the Bears
He had nine targets on 28 routes
Tony
Tony's really fucking good
Tony especially in PBR
Yeah
Yes
I not that Mike Glennon is literally
He's the opposite of Aaron Rogers
But that's why I have Luzard first
Go with the quarterback
What about Josh Palmer
For the Chargers
Yeah I just have no idea
If Mike Williams or Guyton
Are going to be back
So, Mike Williams is unvaccinated.
Yeah, he's not going to play this.
So Mike Williams is probably missing this game.
Probably.
It's 10 days, right?
He's like the minimum.
It's 10 days.
So he theoretically could, but yeah, you don't know.
No, I don't think he can because he actually came back.
He was an late, a late ad to the list, right?
I thought he was midweek last week, no?
I read that he's out next week, too, but I didn't verify that.
So he's not playing.
Oh, all right.
Well, then.
So Josh Palmer, I think, is another, like, good option for next week.
they are playing Denver, which is not great.
It's not a great matchup.
However, Palmer kind of filled in nicely, you know, with Williams guy now.
He had five catches, 43 yards and a touchdown.
He's a good route runner.
And I think Herbert trusts him.
He's got good hands.
It's just all those things combined.
I think he's just like a solid, like, he'll, he's not a ceiling guy.
He's not going to explode for a bunch of points.
But he gives you a solid floor.
The other guy that I think I actually would have a little higher than him is KJ.
Osborne for the vice.
Vikings.
Adam Thieland reagravated his high ankle sprain in this last game, and I would imagine he's
not going to make it back in time for this next game.
He went back in the game, though.
Did he?
Oh, yeah, he did.
It was weird.
It looked really bad, and he went back in.
I think he was struggling with it all game.
I don't know if you guys watched.
He was, like, cussing on the sidelines every other series because he was so mad.
You never know if it's like adrenaline or whatever, you know, shots they get him before.
Like, you don't really know how bad it is to, like, you know, some of those things wear off.
I had Josh Palmer though right after Cadarious Tony D.K.
I do like Josh Palmer and the random charger guys
who always seem to pay off now.
So here's the thing.
So Lazzard, I think, is a really good pick if MvS is out.
Palmer, I like a lot because Mike Williams is not going to play.
I just am a little concerned still about having a rookie,
even though I do like Palmer a lot.
Tony is like the opposite of like he's going to get a lot of targets.
But this, again, as D.K. always says,
the Giants don't score touchdowns.
Yeah.
They just don't.
I mean, they basically, they're like,
like for the last five games,
they basically don't have a touchdown.
I'm not really counting the garbage one they had against this week
when they were down 30 points.
I mean,
the other one I want to throw out here
is Rashad Bateman for the Ravens,
who always plays well when Sammy Watkins is not playing.
And Rashad Bateman now is kind of back to being a starter.
Again,
there's a theme here,
Palmer,
Tony,
Bateman.
These are all rookies who have odd roles,
and it's really hard to trust them,
especially when their quarterbacks
are in weird situations like with the Giants
and quarterbacks in weird situations,
like whatever the hell is going with the Ravens.
If Lamar comes back,
and Sammy Watkins
doesn't really play.
I think Rashad Bateman
is actually in a crazy way
that the most trustworthy
of these guys,
if Thielen doesn't play
KG Osborne's in that bucket too for me.
I didn't realize that Thielen
had come back in, man.
That's crazy because he looked like
he was just pissed.
He was like swearing.
They took away his helmet
for a little while there.
I would just be worried about him
like, yeah,
I think it's probably more like an adrenaline thing
like you go back in
and then like the next day
you're like,
Probably shouldn't have done that.
Yeah, it's like the size of a balloon the next morning.
Yeah.
So with all of these, I feel like, you know, wait until late Tuesday night to make these claims,
read everything about all these guys, and then make your decision.
But just prioritizing your head who you think would be the, you know,
these are essentially all based on, other than I guess, KJ. Ozmen,
these are kind of all based on COVID.
Well, that's the other thing.
Realistically, like, we're all, like, if we, these are all interchangeable, right?
at the end of the day,
it's about targets and volume
and opportunity
and like the randomness
of whether they get a touch
them or not.
There's no Thursday
football this week.
There's no Saturday football
this week.
All these games are on Sunday.
Every NFL games on Sunday this week.
I think waivers should be pushed
during these COVID times
to like Friday.
Well, regardless though,
that's kind of the point.
Like, again,
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send them push notes,
all tweets, push notifications, between Wednesday morning and Sunday, you can just hit the ad button
and get any player, like, like, you know, if Keenan Allen, you know, well, I guess he's already
been on the list, but whatever, like, like, randomly, you can just get some number three guy,
like a Josh Palmer and they're just number one for this week. Like, you can just get that guy,
like, it's worth keeping monitoring all these things because Rashad Bateman, Tony, Osborne,
all these guys are kind of similar. Do you guys want to get, do you guys want to do a consensus,
this ranking of the really questionable tier here,
just like give people something to work off of here?
Yeah, I think the point is that Isaiah McKenzie's his own tier, though.
Well, yeah, Isaiah McKenzie is the clear, like,
I would plug him into my lineup immediately
because we know that Davis and Beasley are going to be out again next week,
and it's a good matchup for him,
and he did really, really well in an offense with Josh out,
like all the stuff matches up.
I'm comfortable starting McKenzie from there.
And after that, they're all COVID-dependent.
So it's like, if we assume that the guys who might be coming back from COVID,
will not make it back.
Like the MVS and the Mike Williams,
how do we want to make the rest of these rankings?
We want to do Alan Lazard and Palmer as the next two?
KJ.
I think Lazard.
I think Lazard is a good one here
because I do believe MVS is probably going to miss
this next game here.
Again, you're with Roger.
Like, it's a good quarterback situation.
Accuracies there.
He's been a good matchup.
Yeah.
If you're in full PPR,
I understand playing Kedaras, Tony.
because my fear is the bear's defense
just wipes the giants off the floor.
But he probably will get a lot of screens.
And again, he did have eight targets, as Craig said,
and really less than half the snaps
because he was coming back from his quad injury.
If he goes from...
Other than Isaiah McKenzie, sorry to cut you off,
Tony might actually get the most targets
out of anybody on this list.
That's the thing.
And in full PPR, I don't think he dares Tony
is going to have 120 yards
and two Dutch tons in this game.
Like, it's not like Isaiah McKenzie upside.
I do think it's totally possibly
he has like nine catches, though.
for like 60 yards.
That's like 12 points.
Totally. I agree.
So in full PPR, I actually can see a World War Tony.
But again, you're going to be rooting for Mike Leonard or Jake Fromm on your fantasy championship
weekend.
Do you want to do that to yourself?
So we got McKenzie Tier 1.
We've got Lazard Tony Tier 2.
And then I'd probably say like Osborne Palmer from there.
Who else do we got?
No, I want to know right now I wouldn't take Lizard 2.
Because I want to know if MVS comes back.
If MVS comes back, you're playing whack-a-mole with those two.
And I don't want to play whack-a-mole.
I want to take the guy who has less competition, quite frankly.
I think the main takeaway here is, like, McKenzie is the guy.
It is.
But again, the lesson we can learn there is what happened.
Emmanuel Sanders left the bills lineup.
Gabe Davis stepped in.
Gabe Davis had a big game.
Gabe Davis left.
Isaiah McKenzie stepped in, and he's doing great.
Like, it's not always that simple where a receiver just steps in a role and you want that.
I do think Lazard and MVS pull from each other stuff.
I just want of Lazar,
Josh Palmer, Tony Bateman,
I want the guy
who's other guy isn't there.
If Thielen isn't there in Minnesota,
I want Osborne.
If Sammy Watkins isn't there in Baltimore,
I want Bateman,
Tony's Tony.
If Mike Williams and Jalen Guyton,
I don't know that Jalen Giton's deal.
If Jalen Gaiton is also not in L.A.,
I want Josh Palmer.
And honestly, I'm willing to wait out the week
and see what happens.
All right, cool.
Okay.
Tight end.
This is rough out here on the tight end.
Who's your number one, D.K.?
So you guys can veto this if you want because Gerald Everett had 42% roster ship and that's like just a little bit above where we go typically.
But I would say he would be out there on a lot of waiver wires.
He'd be my number one choice if we're going to allow that.
No, he's my number one too.
I didn't know.
I didn't add him in because he was too high.
I was a fraction of that in ESPN.
I adhere to the 40% rule.
Yeah.
Well, no, he's a fraction of that on ESPN.
I know.
Which I'll admit is definitely less active than Yahoo.
I think that's true.
Yeah.
If either of the leagues has somebody over 40,
I don't go with them.
Either of the platforms.
Okay.
Well, if Everett is out there,
if Everett's out there,
I think he's been developing into one of Wilson's favorite targets
for a number of reasons.
But, you know, he's the type of guy that I think you're going to get like four or five
looks a game for this guy.
He's good after the catch.
They used him in the red zone.
I mean, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to a tight end right now,
but I think he's a pretty good.
option right now to plug it in flex.
I think you're right.
Like, if you just ignore that game where it was like the worst game of his career, we had like
the two or three turnovers at the goal line.
He just gets a lot of goal line looks.
Russ looks better.
Like, Russ just looks to him at the goal line.
He just is a good player and is kind of what you said he would be before the season.
It just took like two months, three months.
But he's great.
I misspoke.
I said flex.
I would start him as a tight end streamer if you need it.
I probably wouldn't flexing.
He's a good prayer.
If he's there in your waiver wire, I would go with Heverin as well.
So that's perfectly fine.
Okay, so we'll do a Showdown time
and then we get to these other Tedin streamers.
And Craig, you can get to who you got there.
You want to see these other Titan streamers first
so that we can just get this taste out of our mouths?
Sure.
So my next one was Cole Commet again.
Yeah.
We should give an award for who's been mentioned
the most on Showdown Time,
which means that the guy's never actually getting picked up,
but we keep recommending them.
People are not listening to us.
Someone called the tight end streaming should be called buffering.
Right.
And like that's cool commit for show that just doesn't load.
It's, we've mentioned him,
honestly probably like 60% of these episodes.
But once again,
Commet,
Fields,
I think will be back.
He's been fine.
Five targets a game,
whatever.
And then after that,
Mo Ali Cox is somebody who's like,
I guess,
a bear now.
I also had Moley Cox
as my number two
actually over Cole Commet
because unlike Commet,
I think Moly Cox,
it's within his range of outcomes
to get two touchdowns.
My fear,
the reason I like commit more
as against the Giants is like,
I just know that
the bears are going to throw the ball,
like 20 to 30 times.
The Colts, like, I don't know.
Carson Wins could throw them about 12 times.
No, here's why.
Here's why.
Jack Doyle is hurt for the cults.
My guy, Jack Doyle,
one of the three not athletic tight ends in the end.
But he's a great blocker.
If Jack Doyle misses this game,
Frank Reich loves tight ends.
Frank Reich loves tight ends.
Like Dallas Goddard.
I'm sorry, Dallas Goddardt.
Zach Hertz was the number one receiver,
really, for the Eagles when Frank Wright
was the coordinator for the Eagles,
like he just loves tight ends.
If Jack Doyle is out and Moley Cox,
when Doyle went out of the game on Christmas Day,
yeah, it's Christmas Day.
Mawley Cox ran a route on like three out of every four passes for the, for the Colts.
That's really high.
If Jack Doyle misses this game, I actually think Moly Cox, I would prefer over everyone except
Gerald Everett because I do think that you have to be aggressive.
And like Moali Cox is more likely than Col Komet to give you a straight goose egg.
But Moly Cox really can catch two touchdowns for 40 yards.
Like he's, he's a basketball player for VCU.
VCU didn't even have a football team.
he's just a basketball player
and he's actually the basketball player
tight end that everyone thinks in theory works
but he's like to go up and get it jump ball guy
I just
he's the kind of guy I'd rather be aggressive
if every tight end is like a touchdown dart throw
I want to throw my darts to Molycox in the end zone
yeah I mean it's just risk reward
I mean I do agree you're like oh he runs around
and three out of four passes well that might be 12 routes
in the entire game if
if you know
Went to throw 16 passes which is like
pretty standard for the Colts these past few weeks.
So it's really like, do you want seven points, then get commit?
Maybe you get 18.
You could start Molly Cox, but you could also get zero.
I'm just looking at commit his targets over the last like two months, essentially,
like five, nine, five, seven, eleven.
There was one really bad game against Baltimore.
We had two and then eight, six, six, five.
Yeah.
Like he's getting targeted quite a bit in this offense.
And obviously, he's reliable.
He's playing Cheerios.
And they're playing the Giants.
The Giants suck.
Yeah.
And also there's going to be the whole
Justin Fields takes it personally
because the Giants trade out of the pick, blah, blah, blah,
but like, giants are bad.
That's the point.
So, I mean, Komett is, it's solid.
All those are solid.
Kemet, Mollett, Mollett, Mollett Coxthrell.
You want a real sleeper?
Yeah.
You're going to say Shaughnessy?
No, I was going to say Brevin Jordan for the Texans.
Whoa.
He's come on strong over the last month, you guys.
I'm just pulling about.
How many names do you?
Not as a theoretical sleeper.
As someone that you actually would play
in your lineup for the fantasy championship
on the line, how far down the list
is Brevin Jordan?
I would have him behind Kmet, for sure.
I think I would rather
play Jordan than Moe Alley Cox personally.
Wow.
I'm trying to pull up his numbers here.
For the record, I only think you should play Molly Cox
if Jack Dewe and misses this game.
Yeah, he had knee and ankle injuries.
I feel like, I don't know, he have no idea.
But, I mean, Moley Cox, let's not,
and he had two catches.
But you're right, hyphids.
He does have that kind of red zone allure to him
much more than another guy.
Okay.
So you're going.
It's the showdown time.
All right.
It's the Gerald Everett.
D.K., get ready.
Showdown time, Seattle, baby.
God.
You can't get me excited about Seattle anymore.
Do you guys realize they lost to the Bears yesterday?
I wonder which team has had the most showdown time players.
It's like Seattle has Rashad Penny.
We've done.
Alex Collins, Gerald Everett.
Decent amount.
It's probably the Bears, honestly.
Well, no, it's funny.
I don't know.
We can look that up.
Yeah.
I feel like it's the Cardinals.
I feel like we've done Christian Kirk.
Kirk, Rondale, G.
The Seahawks beat the Bears.
That really messed up the Giants drafts.
No, the Bears being the Seahawks.
Yeah, sorry.
The Bears beating the Seahawks really messed up
the Giants having the Bears pick thing.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry about that.
Which is annoying.
I wish my team would have done better for you.
Okay.
This is from Jake.
Jake.
Jake.
Jake.
How many college football teams are there at all levels?
so D1, D2, D3, N-A-I-A, N-C-J, like J-C-J, like J-C-O, like all the levels of college football, subdivision, everything.
Oh, that's a great question.
I feel like I've read this before.
It is an honest.
I've actually never thought about it before.
I'll just try not to think about it too much.
I think I...
Wait, wait.
I feel like I read this before.
Let's all say at the same time.
How many Juko teams are there?
I have no idea.
All right.
I have a loose guess.
I have a ballpark number in my head.
I have, I'm going to say 800.
I was going to say 600.
I'm saying 300.
300 is low.
Aren't there?
How much are there in the FBS?
Aren't there almost 200 in the FBS or no?
I mean, D1's 130.
D1 is 130?
Isn't it?
Because D1 for basketball is like 3.30, but I think FCS is, sorry, the FBS is
130.
All right.
The answer is 893.
Oh.
So, okay, that includes like, yeah, definitely.
it was low on that one.
There's 129 in Division 1 FBS.
Yeah.
Okay.
893.
I get, who did I want?
Gerald Everett.
Okay.
I will take a Colquemette at two.
D.K.
now actually has to pick
between Moe Alley Cox and Brevin Jordan.
So Brevin Jordan targets four, seven, four, three, three, and he's scored two touchdowns.
Would you rather him?
He's very good.
He's very athletic.
Just because the Bengals are passing so much as getting on it?
The Bengals aren't.
passing that much. They had a good game.
They 500. Yeah, okay.
I'm dead serious, though. Like, look at the week
before that. Would you have said this last week?
The Bengals threw it 22 times
a week before that, 34 the week before that. Like, this
is just a hot week because Baltimore is a shitty secondary.
They're playing the Chiefs. I don't know.
I'm letting a ride on Brevin-Jordan here. I feel like Usoma
versus Dan Sorensen isn't great.
True. So who are you taking?
I'm taking Brevin Jordan. Wow.
Who are you Zoma?
Risk doesn't matter. It's all dark throws.
He's looked pretty good, man.
look pretty good.
All right.
Let's get to honestly
the most important part.
Streaming quarterbacks
and defenses.
The quarterbacks
we can get a breeze through
because I don't think you're really,
I think the short answer is
probably are not streaming a quarterback this week.
If you've made it this far,
roll with who you got.
Having said that if you need to,
for whatever reason,
COVID or you really got there
with a shitty guy.
Jimmy G.
versus Houston.
Yep.
It's not sexy.
That's PFS number one
QB matchup of the week.
And the number two one is Fields.
Yes.
Fields versus the Giants.
I think that that's like a really high,
high upside one because obviously
Fields is volatile.
tile, but man, the Giants are bad.
I do think that is real, like that he'll try
to, like, revenge. Like, just like, Burrow took this
Ravens thing personally.
Yeah. The only reason I like, I would take Jimmy over
Fields is I just, Jimmy,
once again, when you're in the fantasy championship,
you want stability, and Jimmy will probably get
you 15 points. Fields, there's the risk that, like, he gets
you four, and you can't have that. Exactly. It's just
Jimmy is probably not going to ghost you.
Fields could. Yeah. So those are the two.
But mostly, honestly, you're probably not
streaming anyone. You probably have someone.
About Tassum versus Carolina.
Yeah, he's like 40-something percent rostered and he's COVID, yeah.
Taysom is COVID.
I mean, is Taysen vaccinated?
Good question.
Do not know.
I don't believe, I don't know if Tatea's vaccinated.
I'll put it that way.
And he tested positive four days ago, so that would be right on the mark.
So that the very least, probably not practicing a ton for Taysam Hill this week.
So that's like a really tough.
I would have put it this way.
I wouldn't plan like Tason Hill's playing.
but certainly don't cut him if you have them.
Which leads me to recommend perhaps Carolina
facing Ian Book in New Orleans
next week.
We're recording this on Monday before Saints Dolphins,
but I kind of think it doesn't matter
which Saints quarterback plays, honestly.
Panthers D is solid.
And either way, Tazin Mill's not going to practice all week,
or it's Ian Book.
I like Carolina versus New Orleans.
They're 22% rostered.
I mean, Chicago against the Giants, man, against Glennon.
I think that's number one.
Yeah.
I think Barry.
But the point is,
the point is,
honestly,
Panthers or Saints,
Bears or Giants is the same principle.
I want,
unless you can literally
get Patriots versus Jaguars,
and you know,
you're in one of the 10% of leagues
where someone's cut them
because they played the bills this week.
Unless you get Patriots Jaguars,
I want a good defense
against one of the three worst quarterbacks
in the NFL.
Like,
I want one of those backup guys
who's going to make a freaking,
like multiple mistakes.
A freaking.
Jake Fromm and Glennon are going to make multiple mistakes against the Bears.
Ian Book or a Tassam Hill, like Taysam Hill got picked by the Cowboys in three consecutive drives.
Tassum Hill is a turnover machine.
Ian Book, we haven't seen him play yet.
I got, he's probably going to be pretty, you know.
That's going to be fun to watch.
It's going to be interesting.
Whatever you want, if you can get your hands on the Bears defense against the Giants' quarterbacks,
the Panthers defense against the Saints quarterbacks, that to me is like a winning recipe.
And honestly, those two are very widely available.
The Giants, the Bears defense is rostered in like one at a six.
leagues. Panthers are like two out of six leagues
or really, I guess two out of three. But
if you can't get one of those, you could do
like the Browns against the Steelers because Ben is
like awful.
That's what I was insane as well.
You should be able to get one of those three.
You should be able to get. And I would go in order.
The Bears against the Giants, Panthers against the Saints,
and then the Browns against the Steelers.
One of those should be available.
Yep. I actually might put the Browns
over the Panthers.
Just because Ben's awful and Miles Garrett.
I don't know.
They're all very.
very solid options.
Yeah, they really are actually, and they're all under 40%.
And I want to apologize, well, not in advance.
In retrospect, for last week when we were like, the two ones we wanted were
Chargers against the Texans and Eagles against the Giants.
And the Eagles crushed it against the Giants and the Chargers did not.
The Church had negative points because Davis Mills was solid.
And I think that's the lesson that was Davis Mills isn't that bad.
Like Davis Mills actually isn't making mistakes.
But that's the point.
You want quarterbacks to make mistakes.
DK., every day, every episode I'm going to ask you,
would you now swap Davis Mills for Zach Wilson?
I'm going to ask you every episode until you say yes
Would you do it at this point in their careers?
Like if I was the Jets?
Yes, for free, just quick swap.
Oh my God.
So full disclosure, I was never like the highest on Zach Wilson.
I still probably would stick with Wilson.
Okay.
We'll come back next week.
There should be a law that you can't actually swap it in the rookie year.
Yeah, maybe.
I'll keep asking.
Okay, wait.
So before we leave here, we're not that far end.
Well, there's a pretty good fantasy court we got this.
You guys want to do that?
Let's do it.
So it's where, you know,
we don't do power hour anymore.
And we've been all these holidays,
getting rid of the shark tanks.
We haven't a lot of time.
Wait, before, Fanisgra,
I also have a quick email,
so I want someone to read.
Oh, okay.
Someone emailed in saying,
Clay.
Clay.
Clay mentioned a few weeks back,
we were talking about how,
if you could clone, like,
want a player and fill a team
with 22 of that player,
who would you pick?
And we're like,
in real life or fantasy?
Well, in real,
no, like a real NFL game.
If you could have a team
only fielded by 22 clones
that player, who would you pick? And we all agreed
it was Debo.
Clay here says that we really disrespected
Derek Henry. Yeah, that's fair.
More importantly, that's an
argument's conversation. More importantly, he
pointed out that last week, or
this week, time is diluted to me.
We were talking about how we like,
or I said, I liked how Naja Harris
where, Naji Harris, wears 22,
and then couldn't think of another running back who
where's 22. And he's like, do you even watch
football, bro? Because Derek Henry
wears 22. I am so bad with
numbers. I cannot place numbers on players' jerseys. I don't know why. I have trouble with
quarterbacks. If you said like what numbers like Derek Carr, I don't think I could tell you. I don't
know. Four? Is he four? I don't even know. I don't even know. I'm the same way. I don't really
pay attention to that, to be honest. I mean, other than like the people like the Brady's, but I can't,
I have no idea. Like, I don't know what number, you know, I don't know. Sam Darrow. The numbers
took a step back for me this year with all the players changing numbers. Yeah. Chase
Evans wearing two. I know that.
DJ Moore where's number two.
He didn't used to, right?
That's the extent.
That's the extent of my number.
Anyway, I apologize to Clay.
I apologize to Derek Henry.
I should know your number.
Derek Henry is a good answer too
because he could play like defensive end.
They could rush the passer.
He's a good answer.
Not play quarter,
playing like corner.
Wasn't he a quarterback in high school,
Derek Henry, or didn't he like play a little bit of quarterback or no?
I think he just took the snap and ran forward on every play and average nine yards.
Also, did we actually come to the agreement that Devo Sabo was the answer?
I think I was gone for that.
I don't really agree with that, I feel like.
Who would you pick?
I don't know.
Not D-G-D-Bow, probably.
Who would you rather have to beat 22 D-Bos?
I mean, I'd have to think about it, but I don't think I would choose D-Vos.
I think I would pick somebody who had a bit of an arm
so they could maybe throw a pass or two.
So not Taysome Hill.
Correct.
Ha, so what I do there.
Okay, let's go Fantasy Court.
You know what?
I think I'd pick just like Justin Fields.
I feel like he could do everything.
He's enormous.
What?
I'd just pick a massive...
I'd pick like...
Lamar or Dak Prescott.
I just pick like some big ass quarterback
who's like fast can throw, could probably catch.
Can you imagine a team of 11 Lamars?
Like Cam Newton in his prime?
I mean, I'd do that.
I was actually thinking...
Camus is way close to the Lamar.
22 Camas would rock 22 Lamar Jackson's.
Yeah, Lamar's too small. Power running.
Okay, all right, fantasy court...
I don't know if 22 Lamars could tackle one Cam Newton.
He could run away from him.
Okay.
All right. Fantasy court.
This is from Ryan.
Ryan.
He says,
Your Honors, I'm a faithful listener to your podcast and loves the Fantasy Court segment.
We have a critical semifinals issue that cuts at what the spirit of fantasy means to us all.
Oh, wow.
We have a league member, Eber.
Eber. Eber. I'm going to call him Eber.
Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert.
Who did not move Chase Edmonds out of his IR slot on Saturday when the Cardinals played the Colts.
Due to the way the ESPN fantasy app works, which is unlike any other platform I've used, his entire roster became locked the moment the game started.
No ads, drops, or lineup changes could be made.
The owner also had Echler, no defense yet,
and a slew of other COVID players
that needed to be cut and moved
out of his lineup Sunday morning.
Eber brought this to our attention
Sunday morning before the game started
and designated Justin Jackson
and a defense he'd like to fill in his lineup.
Unfortunately for him,
his team was playing our commissioner
in the semifinals,
and the commissioner was at the Bill's Pats game
at Gillette Stadium.
So he was rendered useless until the next day.
So this mess was tabled until Monday,
and Justin Jackson, of course,
went on to be the deciding factor here
if the points count,
if the Justin Jackson points count,
Eber would have won, if not,
the commissioner would have won.
The commissioner essentially said,
it's your job to set your lineup.
How do we handle this?
So the ESPN fantasy app
locked his entire lineup after.
I've seen this happen before.
I didn't know that.
I saw this happen before.
So here's what happens.
He continues to say,
he says,
no one really knew that our entire lineup
would lock with an IRA player plays.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
Here's what happens sometimes.
It's incredibly annoying.
it's exactly what we said.
If a guy's activated,
and again, this is an important note.
Guys get activated off I.R.
Like an hour and a half before game time.
And mind you, this was Christmas, Christmas Eve.
No, the game was on Christmas itself.
So if this guy wasn't looking at his phone or whatever
from between three and four,
no, the game was at eight,
between like 7 and 8.30 on Christmas Eve,
which was the only window to really activate him, for sure,
or that this would happen.
if he's still on your IR but no longer the Cardinals have designated him,
it's like they're punishing you.
Saying that you should have to drop somebody because you're rostering an extra player.
Which makes sense like during the week.
Like when you have an IR person, they're activated and you're like, hey, you have to deal with this.
That makes sense.
But if the game is played, they're punishing and you can't do anything.
So do you understand?
Did I explain that?
Sorry, that was terrible.
You did?
No, I get it.
So the point is that the game was played and he was active so now you can't do anything.
but I think this is important to settle.
This isn't like a known rule.
This isn't a choice.
The league,
this isn't like a league rule.
This is a technicality of the ESPN system.
Which kind of doesn't make sense.
And with that said,
I actually think this is a clear case.
That's not how it should be.
I think the manager handled this perfectly
and said, hey, this is what I want to do.
This isn't really fair.
This is what I would do.
Before the game, he was on top of it.
Yeah.
put his lineup decisions in,
I think that he should win the matchup.
Yeah,
Eber goes on to say,
he says that he caught the issue
before the Sunday games,
and this should be resolved
via a commissioner lineup adjustment.
And the commissioner says,
everyone has the responsibility
to set their own lineups.
I would argue every commissioner
has a responsibility to be there
for his counterparts
on Sunday mornings.
But yes.
This is the spirit of Christmas itself.
It's like the commissioner,
this is selflessness.
This is what being a commissioner is all about.
It's stepping outside yourself,
and you're like,
this is how it would be and no, the guy should win.
Like, he should put it this way.
He shouldn't lose because ESPN didn't let him set his lineup.
Because, like, Chase Edmonds was activated on Christmas.
That's ridiculous.
I get they could make the argument.
I'm sure the group chat could be like, well, he was lazy, you know, like, oh, he waited
until Sunday morning or Saturday night to, like, figure out what he wanted to do.
But that's kind of beside the point here.
This is the technicality.
It sucks for the commish, but I think you got to change this championship matchup.
Iber's in the championship.
It does suck.
But, like, again, the general point is, if you.
are like, I want to make a rot.
Like, this is the fundamental problem with this,
with what he's been dead.
If the idea is,
you should be able to change your lineup,
or sorry,
you didn't set your lineup.
He's trying to change his lineup.
He's trying to move this guy off injured reserve.
But, like, he can't because the game was played,
but why he should be able to move you from IR to your bench,
you know what I mean?
Like, it doesn't make sense.
Yeah, it's an ESPN fault.
It is.
Also, like, I agree with that.
So I think there alone,
we have our agreement like this is a pretty clear-cut case.
But also I think the COVID thing is also a extenuating circumstance here that is unique to this year.
It's unique to last year and this year, basically.
And it's not something that's forever going to be a part of our lives.
I've said this multiple times during fantasy courts.
The spirit of fantasy during the time of COVID is that we should try and get people to have optimized lineups,
even if it's not always like a perfect situation where they're setting their life.
lineups right away. Like obviously in the past, I've said, you know, I have my, in the league I
commission, I have players, people say, if this game gets canceled, these are my backup options based
you know, blah, blah, blah. Like basically, we're getting backup options. We're trying to do the best we can
with like a crazy ass situation where multiple guys are going on COVID every single day,
going on the COVID list. Like the spirit of, I think, fantasy this year should be to accommodate
players who are on top of it and just trying to figure out how to get a lineup.
based on all these COVID things.
And this was also related to like COVID,
not just the IRA situation locking his entire lineup.
Like he had Echler,
a couple other COVID players that needed to be moved
or cut out of his lineup on Sunday morning.
Like at the end of the day,
commissions should,
I think should accommodate players
based on the fact that this COVID thing is just chaotic.
And, you know,
ultimately it just goes against the spirit of like why we're doing this right now, you know?
And this is even beyond that.
Like this isn't a matter of.
It's Christmas, commission.
It's Christmas.
But this is beyond COVID.
I mean, this is literally like a faulty platform technicality.
I want to make sure that Ibra gets in the championship here.
This is emails from Ryan.
Ryan, let us know what happens here,
because we're going to be upset if the commission is in the finals.
I think a new rule we need for fantasy courts,
how would you explain this to someone who likes football
but doesn't play fantasy football and be like,
oh, you had Justin Jackson, why do you have Justin Jackson?
and why didn't you make the finals?
Well, I couldn't put him in my lineup
because I couldn't change it
because my guy on IR was activated
but I didn't move in my bench
so all of my players were locked
and I wasn't able to adjust my lineup.
And the guy goes,
well, that doesn't make sense.
You're like, yeah, it was a glitch,
so I lost.
Well, it's not a glitch.
It's like the ESPN's weird locking rule.
You're like, well, ESPN platform
doesn't let you move guy.
You're like, well, that's silly.
Yeah.
You should be able to play who you want to play.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Okay.
Good luck, Iber.
Fantasycore, case dismissed.
Bring in the dance of lobstas.
Bring in the dancing lobsters.
I wonder if TK'll ever get that joke.
Okay.
No.
Dog bark.
It was a loud corgi telling me to end this podcast.
Okay.
Loud corgi.
Loud corgi.
Wow.
Okay.
Thank you, D.K.
Thank you, Craig.
Good luck to Eber, Eber, whatever.
I hope you get there.
Thank you, Justice.
Thank you, Mike Wargon for producing this episode.
Yep.
Thank you, Lorne.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Billy Elish.
Oh.
Love that guy.
Love that.
Great band.
Hallback.
D.K.
We're going to play a trivia game right now.
One final showdown time.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Name a single Billy Elyless song.
I can't.
Is there a song called I can't?
Oh, yeah, I'm sure I would recognize.
I don't, look, I'm going to be totally honest.
Like, I don't know the names of songs of some of my favorite bands.
Like, I just don't know the names of songs.
I actually am the same way.
There are definitely songs I can sing most of the words, too, that I couldn't.
How popular an artist can we give D.K.
Where he can't name a song from me.
Can you name a Taylor Swift song?
Yes, I'm sure I could.
Well, do it.
Now I'm trying to think.
You couldn't name a Drake song.
You can't name Taylor Swift.
I think that's the...
Bad Blood.
Is that the name of the song?
Yeah, that's...
Okay.
Good job.
There we did it.
There you go.
It took me a minute.
Took me too long, probably.
That's also, that's a funny one to pick.
Like, I don't even...
I don't know.
Someone hasn't been listening to every single album with Nathan Hubbard and...
In case you guys...
realized I have like absolutely terrible recall when it comes to like bands, songs, the names of albums,
the names of artists, anything.
I have terrible recall.
I feel like I have a pretty good memory with like random other stuff, but music I'm just
awful.
I don't know why.
It's hard out there.
No comment.
Probably because you have a child.
Yeah.
Can you remember his name?
I can't remember his name.
But do you know any of his song?
Sometimes I can't remember his first.
The corgi's like end the show, damn it.
All right.
The corgi is like, why didn't you?
You say red.
Anyway, okay.
Goodbye, everyone.
