The Ringer NFL Show - Power-Ranking the Best Buy-Low Players in Fantasy
Episode Date: September 22, 2021We cover the latest injury updates from around the league before getting into this week's Power Hour, where we power-rank the top buy-low fantasy football players after the first two weeks of the seas...on. We finish the show with some fantastic listener emails. Injury Updates (1:01) Power Hour (7:56) Listener Emails (41:58) Sign up and compete against us in the Bad QB League on FanDuel here. Email us at ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
My name is Danny Hyfitz.
I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlebeck.
This is Power Hour, where we will be ranking something every Wednesday during the season.
Today, we are ranking the best by-look candidates in the NFL after two weeks.
But first, we have some news to hit.
Jarvis Landry, Cleveland Brown's receiver was put on injured reserve.
D.K., if you have an IR spot, you can put him there.
If not, do you cut him or what?
No, I don't think I would cut him quite yet.
I mean, it's sounding like it's just going to be, he has a sprained end.
MCL, I believe, was what they figured out.
And so it's not going to be like a season-long thing.
He should come back.
And I think he's still going to continue to be like a top two option in his offense.
And so I wouldn't drop him if you don't have to because it could just be a three-week injury.
What do you think, Craig?
Yeah, hi, Fitz.
After what you told, after what you taught me about the ever-changing IR rules, that means he only has to really be out for three weeks now, right?
That's the minimum time he has to miss.
Yeah, I are looks a lot scarier next to his name than like has to miss three weeks.
Yeah, so don't worry about that.
I mean, like, Devante Smith sprained his MCL in the preseason and look at him now, he's doing fine.
So I wouldn't drop him either.
Having said that if you're in a hole and maybe you start off O and two or something and, I mean,
if he can't wait three weeks.
I don't know.
And you're trying, like, you know, it's not crazy to cut him.
I just probably wouldn't.
But it's not like there's no scenario where you would not cut him.
Correct.
I think that's fine.
Okay.
Ben Rathesberger has a peck injury.
This isn't going to help.
This can't help matters.
Well, you don't think this helps?
well, yeah.
He was hit 10 times on Sunday,
so maybe that's why.
Tomlin said we have all the answers in-house for,
I mean, Rathsbury's Beck.
They also have like four dudes
on defense of the grain injuries.
I don't know.
Craig, Steelers fan, Craig.
Yeah.
Does this, like, bother?
Like, is there a world
where, like, the Steelers' offense
gets better if Ben misses his time?
I still think no.
Yeah.
I understand that Ben is not who it used to be,
but no, Mason Rudolph fucking sucks.
And I'd rather have Dwayne Haskin
play, to be quite honest. Maybe they just take deep shots with them and just completely change the
offense. But no, I still want Ben out there. Ben sometimes is better hurt anyway, so I'm ready to
roll the dice. We're playing Cincinnati. Ben, Big Ben's natural state is just playing. It's like when
you're better at pool drunk than, or like, beer pong. Like your first couple games of beer pong
are tough because you're not drunk yet, but then as you get into it, it's like you don't think
about it. This is like Big Ben, when he's healthy, just isn't good. But if he's a little bit hurt,
so the preseason is over now. Ben is better on minute 50 of power hour than minute
trade playing exactly.
All right, Davis Mills,
Texan's rookie starting Thursday
football against Carolina.
We talked with the last episode.
Appointment viewing.
Defense.
Yeah.
Appointment.
This is the first,
you don't need to watch this game.
Actually,
I kind of want to watch.
I think it's hardly entertaining.
Bless his heart, Davis Mills.
Yeah.
Okay, 49ers signed running back
Jacques Patrick.
D.K., who is Jacques Patrick?
I've literally never heard of this guy.
Apparently he...
Oh, wow.
Ding, ding, ding.
This has got me because I'm like deep in Dynasty
brain. I've got like 33 team
rosters. Actually, I'm in a dynasty league that
has like 30 roster spots, 10
IR spots plus 10
taxi squad spots.
And I've never heard of Jacques Richard.
Jacques Patrick, sorry.
Jacques Richard.
What happened to Duke Johnson?
Dude, he's just doing the tour of a team for a reason.
He's like visiting all these different teams. So this guy,
Jacques Patrick, though. He apparently was
a, and I thought I
was cracking up there, he sneezed.
It was just really funny what you said.
Anyway, he apparently was an XFL star.
He played really well in the preseason for the Bengals,
and they signed him off the Bengals practice squad.
So he's like 236 pounds,
like runs like a tank,
six foot two.
I'm guessing he's probably not going to get many carries, if any.
However, it's the 49ers.
And in the Shanahan School of Motivation,
you never know who's going to play.
you just never know.
He might be like in really deep leagues.
He might be worth an ad, but not in like 10 team leagues.
I think the 49ers backfield is like inception.
And when you get to limbo, it's just going to be Jeff Wilson,
who's been on like IRP-UP this whole time.
We'll just be the leading rusher for the final month of the season.
And then if you want to get out of limbo,
it's when we're doing like playoff DFS.
And then Rahe Moester, it's just like the starting running back again in January.
He's back.
So here's a quick recap of the 49ers backfield to see where we are.
Right now, Elijah Mitchell is the presumed star.
He's coming back off of a sting.
or shoulder injury.
I'm not sure exactly
what they diagnosed him with,
but he should be okay.
He's day-to-day.
Trey Sermin, their third-round
rookie, has a concussion.
He's in the league protocol,
so I would guess he doesn't play this week,
but we'll see.
Trent Cannon, who they just picked up off
the Raiders,
or sorry, the Raiders waved him,
and they just picked him up.
And then Jacques Patrick,
who we know nothing about.
Michael Hasty has a high ankle sprain,
so he is not going to be playing
anytime soon.
Jeff Wilson is on the IR.
Did I miss anybody?
This is going to be, I mean, honestly, this could be a pretty big week for Eli Mitchell.
Yeah, I think that's the bottom line is it looks good for him as long as he can stay on the field and stay healthy.
Remember how earlier I was talking about on a previous episode about, you know, when these professional athletes get injured, how bad would that injury to a normal person like you and I?
Like you said Eli Mitchell has a stinger or kind of banged up his shoulder, but he's still probably going to play.
If I had this, if I suffered the exact same injury, Eli Mitchell suffered, would I be in like a slim for like a month?
You'd be in traction?
dude, I had, I woke up
You'd be having someone else record and edit this podcast for sure.
Yeah.
On the IR.
I woke up like with a sore shoulder the other day and I couldn't look up.
I like couldn't look up at all.
No,
the actual worst one was,
I reached into a travel bag.
I was on the road a few years ago and I just directly hit my razor and I just
sliced my index finger like horizontally four ways.
Like none of it was deep,
but typing was so painful.
And I literally thought for a moment,
if I should tell my editor this is too much.
And I was like, oh my God, I'm writing out an injury report.
Yeah, that's funny.
I was like, wow.
Danny Hyfitt's finger is questionable to report his story this week.
Do you ever think about this?
NFL players, you know, they're just world-class athletes, like, extremely fast, extremely strong.
But we can fucking type so fast, you guys.
Like, I can type 40 words a minute without thinking.
Like, think about that.
How cool is that?
I can say this now that I feel like I'm more established.
I kept this from everyone when I was an intern, but like I type it two fingers.
Are you a hunting pecker?
Oh my God.
I type it two fingers.
You're a professional stop writer.
I know.
I think I might be the only one who types this years.
I didn't tell anyone that for years.
You really do hunting peck still?
Is that what it's called?
There's a term for it.
Here's what I know.
When I was in second grade, I couldn't get past the level on type to learn.
And I was like, can I just advance?
Because I've been in for three weeks and all the other kids have advanced.
And they're like, no, you have to beat it.
I'm like, I can't.
Like, just get me, let me do anything else other than like H to I.
Because I'm really not beating this windshield wiper game.
You really need to do Mavis Beacon.
I'm not kidding.
No, I'm fine.
I can do it now.
It's like first straight.
I figured it out.
Huntington pack. It is hunting pack.
My muscles, it's like Dewan Blair without the ACLs.
Like, I figured it out.
Don't, don't question.
Anyway, all right, let's get to power hour.
If you've ever done a power hour before, you probably know what's up.
But basically every couple minutes, you're going to hear this noise.
And then we will move on.
We're not drinking anything.
yet, maybe, later.
It's too early in the season.
This is like dreaming at 9 a.m.
Like by week 15, we're just going to be just whiskey.
Three drinks deep.
I've been watching Peaky Blinders.
All that show does is make you want to just start drinking in the middle of the day.
Ripping six.
Honestly, most shows do.
Most prestige shows just make you want to like drink and smoke.
Madman?
Yeah, Madman.
Just like, oh, yeah, I'll just drink.
He's ready to pick up cigarettes immediately.
Watching Mad Ben makes me want to go to happy hour from 4 p.m. to midnight and then go to work really hung over.
Watching Mad Men makes me want to take a lunch at noon and drink four martinis and then go back.
A lot of shows have made me like, oh, I should smoke cigarettes.
But the only one that made me be like, I should like smoke cigarettes with matches is peekie bliders.
Like I want to light a match.
Oh, because it looks cool.
It's part of the whole process.
Yeah.
Anyway, cigarettes are bad.
Don't smoke cigarettes.
Okay.
Anyway, we're ranking the best shows that make you want to drink today.
No.
We're ranking by low candidates after week two.
This is like right in the soft spot of overreact.
We have enough data like, okay, what's real, what's not?
that like we can try to get an edge.
Some people are panicking.
You want to take advantage
of the people who are panicking.
Some of you yourself might be panicking.
I feel that.
So, DK is going to rank
his top 12 bilo candidates.
If you don't like this list,
you can yell at DK.
We'll yell at DK.
If we don't like the list,
DK, take us away.
Yeah.
Who's your number one bilo candidate
after two weeks?
So I think it has to be
Jonathan Taylor from the Colts,
even though he's looked good at time.
Certainly, he's not like a total dud,
but going into week three,
he is the RB26.
That is not what we thought he was going to be
when we drafted him 12th overall or
eighth overall. What did
you guys draft him in the first round or was he more of
the second rounder? Early, early second.
Yeah. All the Wentz, Quentin Nelson
stuff kind of like, it was like, oh. It does kind of scare you
off. Yeah.
So he's averaging 10.2 points
per game and half BPR, which is clearly not
what you're hoping for as an early round pick.
However, he's been incredibly
unlucky based on, you know, the
expected fantasy points that he
should have scored based on
his usage based on his volume, all that stuff.
He's lagging behind. So, bottom line, regression is coming in the positive.
He's going to regress towards a positive. He's gotten all these end zone looks, all these red zone
looks. He just hasn't converted. So I'm holding strong with Taylor. I think he's talented
enough guy. And they're going to use him, like, continue to use him correctly. He's getting
targets in the past game. The production's coming. If you want to know what regression
looks like in real life, it's the Colts first drive against the Rams, them getting to like
the two-yard line, running up the middle. Aaron Donald stuff. So it runs up the middle.
old stuff.
So it runs up the middle.
Stuff is like no yards,
three carries at the two,
and then fourth they get sacked.
And it's like,
that's exactly the kind of situation
where the cults are going to flip that
in the future.
Totally.
Yeah.
So I saw this from Mike Clay.
He has,
Jonathan Taylor has the highest expected rush
and receiving total in the NFL this year.
But he has yet to find the end zone.
So he's getting opportunities.
He's going to convert in the future.
He's just that good.
And I think the Colts offensive line
will continue to like get more healthy and all that.
Does it freak you out of Jacob,
but you said might start for the cults on and off
for the rest of the season.
Yeah, that's the only thing about this is,
it's just like, man,
I guess he's too good to where it doesn't matter
if the cults suck,
but that's my only fear is that this team
just kind of collapses.
Yeah, I mean, and that's fair.
There's going to be fewer opportunities
around the goal line probably going forward.
How long is when supposed to be out?
It's only going to be a few weeks, hopefully,
but he sprained both his ankles, so who knows.
How many, is it, maybe it's per week?
Per sprain.
We have to figure out how many weeks.
It's kind of like the bushels.
How many pounds per bushel?
It's like weeks per strain.
The injury that he suffered was pretty gross looking like he got rolled up on and rolled over and then his ankles were all wonky.
So it wasn't good.
I don't like to make fun of injuries, but I've sprained my ankles enough that I feel him.
I've also played NFL games and sprained.
Totally, totally.
All right.
Okay.
Who's your number two, by-low candidate?
All right.
Actually, by the way, I'm going to go by position.
So sticking with running back, Najee Harris and Steelers.
Okay.
It's a similar situation to Jonathan Taylor, honestly.
He's the RB21 through two weeks, which sucks because I think a lot of people took him in the early second.
maybe even in the first round.
I definitely, in one auction league,
spent a whole crap load of money on him
in this salary cap league.
And I think he's going to be really good continued.
And the bottom line is he's getting 97%
of the Steelers snaps at running back.
Like, he is the guy.
He is the three-down back.
There's no one really to, you know,
compete with in terms of the fantasy production
in this offense.
Of course, the question is,
how much production is going to come from this offense?
At the end of the day,
I think
the offensive line here is still going to struggle.
Ben Rosberg is still going to struggle,
but I think he's just going to start converting more.
I think it's going to be a regression thing, too.
It's like the volume is so good.
This is exactly what you're looking for.
He just hasn't converted all this volume into production quite yet,
but I think that's coming.
So maybe he doesn't have the upside of some of the other guys
in the first round, like a Derek Henry type player,
but I think just getting this amount of these amount of carries
and he's getting looks in the passing game,
all that production is going to come.
So I'm sticking with Najee Harris.
I think he's like better days are ahead.
I want to know what Craig thinks about the athletic article
that basically laid out that Rathisberger's not running back Canada's scheme
and Canada scheme works,
but they basically just ran it for the touchdown drive.
Yeah, the best drive of the Steelers offense against the Raiders
was the one driver Canada basically called every play
and all the other plays that's been Ben,
kind of going back to his old 2019 days
where he just like, you know, drops back,
no shot, no, no play action,
no under center, quick passes.
But yeah, so, D.K., I mean, I like this, obviously.
Naji is such like a good talent, but this is all dependent on the Steelers' offense.
This is like a rising boat's lifts all, rising tide lifts all boat situation where
if the Steelers can pick up everything, then I think Naji will follow suit.
But this is essentially who is wearing the pants in the relationship in Pittsburgh.
Right now it's Ben.
And if Matt Canada can eventually take over and be the guy who's running the show,
I think every player, Claypool, who's not.
not who's underperforming,
Juju, who's underperforming.
All of them will, you know,
regress back to the mean.
But to be honest,
I am not entirely sure if that will happen.
I actually think that since Ben's not running this game,
if Ben's not running this game,
I actually think that if he would miss time,
I actually think the offense would get better.
I actually am starting to wonder that.
All right, TK, who's your next bi-lo candidate?
Number three.
All right.
Very similar vein.
Sequin Barkley.
I've got to give credit to
High Fitz because he has started out
exceedingly slow, even slower maybe than
Hyfitz thought. He's the RB
47 through two games.
We've got people out here, and I've seen
this, and I'm not necessarily disagreeing
completely. He might not be as
this generational talent that I think
everyone thought he was coming into the NFL, but I still think
he's really, really good.
Because what I was going to say is people out here
are being like, oh, is he really that good? I think he's good.
I think he's really good. I haven't been
less happy to be right about something since
I told Craig in like April 2020, we wouldn't see each other for a long time.
Right.
Because of the pandemic.
Yeah.
Congrats.
Yeah, that was, it's been 18 months.
Congrats.
Good call.
The bottom line is like, Hyvitz, you were correct.
And this slow start was somewhat predictable because of the way that they treated him
during the off season, the slope, like bringing him back slowly, all that stuff.
But his snaps are increasing.
He's looking more explosive.
I think he's looking more comfortable.
His knee is slowly getting better.
Again, he's like a full year out now from his injury almost.
In week one, he got 48% of snaps, week two, 85% of snaps.
So I think going forward, you're going to continue to see them lean on him more heavily and more heavily.
And I just, I don't know, I just still have faith in him.
And I also, by the way, just think Daniel Jones looked really good in this last game.
And I think that could be maybe a catalyst to them having a slightly better offense going forward.
We'll see how that all works out.
But like, if Daniel Jones can play better, Seiko and Barclay is going to play better,
this whole offense is going to play better,
even if the offensive line is bad.
I completely agree.
Sequin is about 100% right now.
All right.
Because it's the Warren Buffett thing you keep saying.
It's like, in August, everyone was like bold,
and I was like, why?
And now everyone's freaking out.
It's like he'll get better.
There's risk for injury like a hamstring,
but like he's worth it.
I just wanted to hop in here to say that
Daniel Jones is getting designed runs
pretty much of the same clip as Jalen Hertz.
I love that.
Man, if they actually continue to do that,
Daniel Jones could finish as like a top eight quarterback.
I think he's number five right now.
He's number five right now.
Slow your roll.
Look, look, look.
I said this is a very clear caveat.
Daniel Jones and Justin Fields who finishes better this season.
Very clear caveat, I said,
if they continue to use him as a runner at this clip.
If we're talking about it,
I think other teams are going to start game planning for it.
The whole reason it works is because they don't good enough to game.
If we're talking about it.
I think what you said,
Heifitzel was perfect about like he's just not good enough as a runner
to scheme for it,
but he's just not shitty enough as a runner to actually use him.
right in that perfect zone.
All right, D.K., who's next?
All right.
This one's a little deeper.
Sordy Michelle for the Rams,
who is the clear backup
if Daryl Henderson is out there
and playing...
Is he a by-low?
Well, I don't know.
What else would you call?
So, he's a sleeper?
How is he a by-low if Daryl Henderson's hurt?
No, Anderson's, I think,
could be okay.
Is he?
Well, Henderson is day-to-day
or something like that with an injury.
However, my point,
basically,
Tony Michelle is that I don't trust Henderson to continue to stay healthy.
And this is sort of a, I guess this is sort of like a handcuff situation, but I think
getting him on your team now with the idea that he is going to eventually take over as the
three down back in this offense. We've seen this happen in the past with Henderson and
Acres last year where McVeigh really started out slow with Acres. He went through an injury,
blah, blah, blah, and then by the end of the year, he was just leading only on Acres.
I could see that happen. I'm not necessarily, I don't believe necessarily that Henderson
is an elite enough talent to like basically be the guy no matter what.
So first of,
I'm reading the LA Times right now.
Like Craig,
they speak to Sean McVey as well.
Rams coach Sean McVeigh said money rib injury suffered by Henderson
is involving like a cartilage issue and that the team will monitor Henderson this week
and determine his status on Friday.
And then basically McVeigh said if the pain subsides,
then we will be confident being able to use him.
Does that mean he starts and plays a similar amount of reps?
And it kind of did answer the question.
So basically, even if Henderson misses time this week,
I think this is the impetus for Sony Michelle to get a lot more work.
I agree with you, DK.
You miss the window to get Sony Michelle for nothing because he barely played in week one.
But I still in my gut, if you have like a bent spot to spare,
I still in my gut think Sony Michelle is like an amazing value for the second half of the season,
as he learns more of the playbook.
Here's an example.
If you have an extra receiver that you're probably just not going to play,
like try and see if a team in your league has Sony Michelle is willing to part
for a guy who's already produced,
like a receiver, like, I don't know,
a good example.
Sure.
Yeah, that's a great example.
Like, you have him,
and he's doing well,
but you're not going to play him.
Yeah,
kind of see that.
Right.
Pitch him over for Sony Michelle,
who has done Jack shit so far,
and maybe the team that has him right now
is just like, well,
I don't want to just sit on this guy
for the next whatever amount of weeks.
But I think once he gets installed as a starter,
it could happen as early as this week,
there's this chance that McVeigh just never goes back.
And this is a piece,
this is an offense that you want a piece of.
All right,
Who's your next by-low number five?
Yeah, this one is, I guess, the deepest cut of the running back group,
but it's Michael Carter for the Jets.
And we talked about the Jets running back situation on the last episode,
and basically it comes down to Ty Johnson and Michael Carter.
It feels like they're phasing Tevin Coleman out of the rotation so far.
And I think that there's a chance that Carter ends up just basically dominating reps,
being sort of the quote-unquote lead guy.
His snaps have increased.
So in week one, he only played 25% of the snaps.
week two, 45% of snaps.
By the way, everybody should go read
Jayne McFarland's utilization report at PFF
because it's really, really helpful.
This is where I'm getting some of these numbers from.
He saw his rush attempts to go from 21% in week one
to 37% in week two.
So he's slowly building his way up in this offense.
And also, they're not going to be playing the Patriots every week.
So I just think he has a chance to be more involved
in the passing game than Ty Johnson does,
and that could be valuable, certainly,
in half PPR and PPR.
If you're really desperate for a running back,
he could be a guy to go trade for now before he becomes the real starter in this team,
which it feels like it's trending towards.
Yeah, staying in the vein of rookie running backs, I think if I had to toss in one more,
I would toss in Giovante Williams, a guy who's been pretty mellow in the first two weeks of the season,
but he is in a true split with Melvin Gordon.
And aside from Melvin's like one 70-yard touchdown, like they've been the same player,
but I think people value Melvin a lot higher right now.
I still like Javante to like finish the season stronger than Melvin Gordon.
So if you can get him now while he's kind of just like irrelevant and boring, I would.
Also, sometimes this is where context, like, we just say like, oh, this guy's a buy a low.
Context is everything.
Don't be an asshole to deal with for fantasy, but you also want to know where the other people
are coming from.
Like, sometimes the guys who have Giovante Williams in your league, like went to Chapel Hill and loved them in college.
Sometimes they loved them as a sleeper.
Sometimes your friend has never heard of Giovante Williams and then just takes him and then doesn't know he is and he kind of sucks.
And if that's the case, that's like someone to target.
Like, the guys don't really realize they were sleepers is like always awesome.
Yeah.
All right, D.K., we go a wide receiver now?
Wait, we got four seconds.
left. Anything to add?
Thank you, Lauren, mid-episode.
Boom! You can see that coming.
All right. Okay, so my next
one, we're switching over to the receiver
position here. Stefan Diggs for the
bills. I don't know necessarily. Is this like you switching?
Is this like you switching beers?
How did you sandwich
So how did you go
Sequin, Sony, Michelle, Michael Carter,
Stefan Diggs? He's doing it by
position. So he's going like the first
half of the power hour. He's doing like
Stella. And now he's going to IPAs
for the final 30 minutes. I don't know if that's like a
banking, but like, sure.
Going with like imperial IPAs, here we go.
Yeah, the alcohol percentage just jumped right back up here with Stefan.
Loco.
For local.
Licker.
Licker.
Licker.
Licker.
Um, Stefan Diggs, I don't know if you can really count him as a bylaw because
everybody knows so much about him.
But if, if you have a, a manager in your league who's basically like pissed at how the
bills have done so far as like jaded, disillusion, disenchanted, whatever you want to say,
stuff on Diggs is the wide receiver 30 through two weeks and a half BBR, which is clearly
not what you drafted him to be.
drafted him to be the overall wide receiver one.
And so I think that is something
that you could potentially take advantage of here.
The good thing is,
his usage has been really strong.
Another great utilization report
that I read every week is Hayden Wink's fantasy usage model
from Underdog, the underblog at underdog.com.
And that is basically saying
that Diggs is fourth this year
in expected fantasy points
in half PBR at receiver.
It's just, it hasn't worked out for them.
And this is based on usage, targets,
like where he's targeted on the field,
red zone,
all that stuff.
That all goes into Hayden's fantasy usage model
and it's really,
really helpful.
The other thing that's very important
to remember here is that
the bills have played
two very good defenses thus far
and going forward,
well, I don't know if the dolphins
are really good defense,
but certainly they're a quality defense
that makes it hard on receivers
with good cornerbacks.
Going forward,
they're going to face
quite a few much easier defenses.
Washington this week,
Washington actually hasn't been very good against receivers so far this year.
They got Houston, Kansas City, Tennessee, another game against Miami, Jacksonville,
the Jets, and Indianapolis going forward.
So there's a real strong chance here.
I think that the bills are going to basically start being the bills that we expected going forward.
You filibuster the timer, but I will say I disagree.
Not that he'll get better, but I disagree that anyone will sell him for less than Stefan
Dix price.
There's no discount from the Stefan Diggs manager of this year, so yet.
Unless you have a really, really twitchy, nervous friend who gets anxious.
If they're jaded, if they're like, oh, if they listen to Hyfitz, then they're like, oh, Josh Allen, he's regressing back to sucking.
This is, I got to get out when I can.
That's actually real.
If they don't believe in Josh Allen, that's probably the best you could do.
That's fair.
All right.
So just to recap, we're halfway through here.
We've got Jonathan Taylor for the Colts is your number one.
Nage Harris for the Steelers is number two.
Seek-on's number three.
Sony-Michel is your number four by a low.
Michael Carter's number five.
Stefan Dix is number six.
D-K who's the number seven by low
for you after two weeks.
Robert Woods, Bobby Trees, the Rams.
This is a good one.
I think going into the season,
Bobby Trees and Cooper Cup
essentially were a coin flip for me,
whether I'm taking one of those guys first or not.
Cup right now.
Not only that, they've been a coin flip
their entire careers, essentially.
Yeah, this is the perfect example
of like everybody ranks them
right next to each other
because you don't know who's actually better.
Piki Widers, flip a coin on it.
Right now, through two weeks,
Cooper Cup, the wide receiver one.
Robert Woods, meanwhile,
the wide receiver 41.
There was this really weird situation where Robert Woods didn't play a ton of routes,
didn't play a ton of snaps and run all out of routes in week one.
But it went back to normal in week two, 97% routes, 29% targets.
So 29% target rate, that's elite.
26% targets per route run.
So he's getting targeted a ton.
The production is going to come for Robert Woods.
And if you don't, so first of all, if you think that cup is going to continue to get a 38% target rate,
don't buy Robert Woods.
But if you think it's going to level out, maybe even out a little bit,
bit between the two of them. I think there's a very good option, a very good opportunity here to
buy woods low because I think people are like, oh, cup is going to be the guy. So this is an
opportunity. Seth Galena at PFF made this joke that Cooper Cup and plays the same position as
Kyle Eushcheck, who's the fullback for the 49ers, but like kind of, because one of the reasons
Woods and Cup are so good is that they block so much. And like, realistically, it's hard to just know
who's going to get certain assignments each week. It's just, it's not like your usual, like,
oh, the ball can only go in place.
It's like they're being, like,
the Rams receivers are different in that they don't necessarily need the ball.
Like, they actually take pride in blocking a lot.
Yeah, I mean, they threw to them nine times and they rushed them twice,
and that's 11 opportunities.
Like, if you're getting that in the Rams offense,
like Robert Woods is probably going to end up being a top 20 wide receiver.
I like this one a lot.
Yeah, do too.
Yeah.
Look at that.
DK, 10 seconds left.
So the Rams offense looks pretty good, huh?
Or we could just use that 13 seconds to like the minute we just went over before.
but I guess it's too late.
Oh, well,
I'm excited.
Stafford looks good.
Okay.
All right, moving on.
Next number eight, D.K.
Who's your number eight,
Bilo?
Rondale Moore,
we talked about him on the way,
on last episode,
but I just think this is a preemptive
by low situation.
He's,
this is not even really Bilo
because he's the wide receiver 20.
Yeah,
because he just went off,
but you're basically saying what?
He's going to be so good
that even though he just went off,
he's still a by low?
Okay, so we're going to skip the part
where you pitched Rondale Moore
because like he's really good,
he's explosive, he's good,
I get that.
got to jump right to like, what are you offering someone who just picked him up on waivers
that is worth it? Like, how much would you offer for a no more? Make it easier. Where do you rank
him going forward rest of the season amongst wide receivers? Oh, that's a very good question.
I would rank him as a wide receiver too. So top 24. Wow. Like a top 20 or if you say top 24 receiver.
I think so. I think he's got a good chance. Holy. I think so here's a few reasons why.
Number one, he's looked incredible. He's like super explosive.
very dynamic and used in multiple ways.
I think they're going to make a concerted effort
to get him involved every week.
They run a lot of plays.
They're an explosive offense.
Have you seen Kyler Murray?
Have you seen Kyler Murray?
Yes.
You don't have to pitch me.
I'm just going to throw you at receivers.
Would you trade them for a rundown line?
Tyler Boyd.
Yes.
Jamar Chase.
Yeah, I think I prefer more going forward,
even though Chase is playing a full complement of routes.
I just trust this offense a little bit more.
Wow, I'm amazed by those.
Antonio Brown.
No.
Well, that's close.
Corey Davis.
This is where it starts to get very close.
I think I would go more, but this is definitely.
Wow.
I really believe in him.
How much did it hurt your opinion, I guess, or whatever, on the Jets offense watching Zach Wilson last week?
To me, it's like, this is going to be the roller coaster ride that we're on.
I actually would say Corey Davis is a by-low because that was kind of a...
He's a pretty good.
He's definitely a good by-low.
Bottom line, I'm very bold.
on Rondale Moore, even though, and it's important to
point this out, he's only playing about half of the snaps
for the Cardinals right now. However, I think
that's going to increase as we go along in the season. I think they're going to
realize they have to get this guy involved every single week. He's that
dynamic. He's that much of a field filter.
And especially in half PBR and PBR, I think he's going to
garner enough touches to have a very solid floor and he could
just go off. Now, I'm probably
there's probably an element of recency bias
happening right now and excitement about that. But I just want to say, I think he's a good by-low.
Is he your favorite player right now in the league?
This is a bi-medium at best, if not a buy-eye. So my buddy, Scott Barrett, made this confit.
He's like, basically, he's like, he said if Rondell Moore is if Secretariat was a Shetland
pony. I think, I will be honest. I will say this with love. When you say Rondheim as a top
24 receiver, I think that your dynasty brain seeping into real life. Yeah, that's fair. So right now,
I'm going to name a few guys that are top 24 receivers
We should just start the time or do four minutes on Rondell Moore again
Okay, I'll start it again
I'm gonna name a few guys who are right at it left on Rondell Moore
Should we just do a Rondell Moore section every pod for DK
We just give him five minutes
That's actually kind of a good idea
Do you want me to name off some wide receiver two from last year?
Sure
I don't know if the answer is yes but I feel like you're going to
This is your power hour. DK's drunk with power right
Robbie Anderson
Uh shit there's some really good names in here
actually. This could be a bad idea.
He's like, Marvin Jones,
Brandon Cooks.
Okay, I was probably being over-aggressive.
Let's be honest.
It's going to be a wide receiver three.
Can I just come back to Earth?
Can I come back to Earth?
Get off of the like dynasty brain thing
and the excitement over him playing
half the routes in this offense.
I'm going to amend it to a wide receiver three.
I'm glad we got there.
While we have a minute,
while we have a minute left on this four-minute,
Ron Dunmore Power Hour.
I have to tell you guys this.
I just got a text to my friend who says,
do you think me dropping Ryan Tannahill is fantasy panicking?
What a great subject.
We're actually going to talk about Ryan Tannahill later.
I can just do him right now if you want.
We're only giving him 47 seconds.
All right.
Real quick, Ryan Tannadill was the quarterback eight last year.
I am no longer convinced that Titans' offense is broken.
His numbers would have been a lot better last week
if he hadn't had a few drops against the Ciox.
and if Julio Jones would have got his heel down,
which he did get his heel down in the end of time.
Yeah. He was a touchdown.
AJ Brown dropped like five passes.
His own family told him you couldn't have caught COVID last week.
His number, oh, yeah, that's bad.
His numbers would have been a lot better if things had gone a little differently.
His play action rate was up again,
which it was at 31% last week,
which is exactly where you wanted because in week one,
it was at 12%, which is terrible.
Tim Hills Yards for attempts improved from 6.1 to 8.7.
Basically, the bottom line is he's looking more like the guy we saw last,
year, which is a top 10 quarterback.
And I saw this from JJ Zechereason, which is very important.
So far, one out of the Titans five touchdowns overall this season have been through the air.
That's not normal.
That's not going to continue.
It's going to regress the mean.
Last year, it was 1.33 past touchdowns to every rushing touchdown for this team.
It's very likely Tanna Hill is going to start throwing more touchdowns.
So the bottom line is, no.
Don't drop Tanna Hill.
Hold on to him.
See how it all goes.
he's even, in my opinion, a potential
by low. And by that, I mean, like,
don't give up much to get him. But
if you're looking to upgrade your quarterback
position, someone is ready to, like, let go
to inhale, I'd say it's worthwhile.
Okay, I have no idea what number we're on. I don't know
what minute we're on, but we're going to just keep going.
Devante Smith, number nine? Number nine,
by low? Yeah, yeah.
Well, this is 10 technically since we kind
of shoehorned Tannel in there.
But, DeMonte Smith, big weeks
are coming for him.
Here's the bottom line.
92% snap-re.
right through two weeks. This is again, this is from
Dwayne McFarland's utilization report,
very, very helpful article every week.
26% target rate, which is massive.
That's elite.
48% of the air yards for the
Eagles offense thus far. So he's getting targeted
a ton. He's getting targeted down the field
and he's playing every snap.
Bottom line. He's also great.
I feel like you're leaving out the point where he's really
really good at a football. He's an amazing, amazing route runner.
He had double digit points in PPR
in week one. Last week it was against
the 49ers. Just like a weird game.
And, you know, Jaylen Hertz was like hot and then cold, hot and then cold.
So I think bottom line, it's going to get a lot better for him.
He's going to start producing big numbers.
I think he's going to find the end zone.
And I saw this again.
For J.G. Zacharyason, there's nine receivers in the NFL right now that I've gotten 25 plus target share,
25 plus percent target share in both of the two weeks.
And Devante Smith is one of those nine.
So I don't disagree with you that Devante's good.
I disagree he's a by-low because he was good for, like,
The person who had him obviously knows to Devonthea Smith is.
He's hyped up.
Good in week one, bad in week two.
I would disagree.
I would disagree because I think people are quick to give up on rookies and be like,
they're playing the Cowboys and the Chiefs the next two weeks.
The guy clicks on his profile.
He sees they're playing the Cowboys and the Chiefs.
I feel like no one's trading Heisman Trophy-winning receiver ahead of those two games.
Agree to disagree.
Craig, Fantasy Corpard.
San Diego.
I feel like, I agree he's going to be good.
I just feel like no one's selling low on Devontee Smith.
I think I think I,
I think I side with Hyvitz here.
When I think of by low power rankings,
it's guys who had like two shit weeks.
And Devante had like 70 yards
in a touchdown in week one,
which I feel like that is enough
to make you trust him for the next five weeks.
Well, the rest of my list
is going to be unsatisfactory to you
because the guys don't meet the standards of that,
per se.
But I get what you're saying.
Here's what I would push back on.
We're now two weeks into the season.
Someone doesn't have a running back.
They need an RB2.
I think that they'd be willing to trade a guy like Devante Smith for like a second running back that he can actually start.
Okay.
How's that?
Sure.
All right.
Next up, start the clock.
Kyle Pitts.
And I have written down here Cardinals for some reason.
He's not on the Cardinals.
How is he a by-low?
Yeah.
Because it's a disappointing first two games for him.
It's definitely not.
He's like 70 yards last week.
He was like a tight end six.
If he's PPR, he had 12 points.
So we got our talons out for D.
now. We got knives out of this list.
Are we just going to skip him then?
Is he,
is he off the list? No, make your case,
D.K. Maybe this is like by
medium. I would say that
he hasn't lived up to expectations.
Is that incorrect?
I mean, considering this, because
again, if you're actually making a trade for someone,
the first question they have is, okay, well, who do I
play a tight end? They don't have a backup tight end.
So,
you have to send them your tight end. Who if you're doing this
part sucks? So they open waivers.
They look at the guys, and they're like,
Hmm, none of them had five catches for 73 yards.
Never mind.
Like, I just feel like no one wants to trade their good tight edge.
Here's a, here's a, you actually made me think of something interesting.
I saw someone talking about this on Twitter the other day.
Do one for one trades ever really make sense for anyone?
In other words, are you like trading pits for another tight end?
No.
They do in fantasy baseball because there's more positions and sometimes you do categories,
but I find it's so difficult to do that in football.
Yeah.
My point is, and this is exactly what I was getting at with Devante Smith.
It's like if you have two tight ends on your team,
maybe that guy is willing to give up one of them.
If you've got, like, say he drafted Hawkinson and Pitts,
you know what I mean?
And then he wants a running back.
So these are all very specific situations, of course,
but I would never actually say, like,
it's that likely you're going to be able to trade Kyle Pitts
for a different tight end.
Okay, who would you rather have Devonty Smith or Kyle Pitts?
I'd rather have Kyle Pitts.
I think that, I mean, Kyle Pitts is the overall tight end nine right now,
and I guess he was drafted as like the tight end.
six, so I suppose he's slightly underperforming,
but guys like Joanne Johnson are ahead of him and Gronk,
who probably will end up getting phased out.
Would you trade Gronk for Kyle Pitts?
Immediately.
You would take Pitts?
Yes.
Wouldn't that be buying low on pits?
Well, no, it's more selling high on Grom.
It's more selling high on Gromk than his bike.
It's absolutely buying low on pits because you're...
No, it's a buyer.
It's taking...
You're getting someone who two weeks ago when we drafted.
It's inverse.
You can't say you're selling high on one guy
and not buying low on the other.
That's not true at all.
Absolutely true.
I could trade Gronk for, I don't know,
like a guy who's Melvin Gordon right now.
That doesn't mean I'm buying low on Melvin Gordon.
By definition, think of it like a salary cap draft.
If Gronk went for $1 and Pitts went for $11,
and Gronk, if you did the draft today,
Pitts would go for 11 and Gromk would go for 11.
I feel like we should have had this conversation
before I made my list of 12 people here.
Let's talk about the next guy because you guys clearly don't believe me.
We're going to shred the list.
That's what you make lists on the internet for.
All right.
Let's see if this meets the definition of your guys' buying low situation.
Tyler Higby, he was the tight end 50 in week two.
Does this count?
Yeah, because like if he sucked in week two and the guy who hasn't doesn't know a ton about Tyler Higby, like, yeah.
If they're like in on him as a sleeper, yeah.
You're moving the gold trusts regardless.
No, no, no, no.
This makes more sense.
Kyle Pitts had 70 yards in week two
and he's the best tied in prospect ever.
I don't understand how that's a bylaw.
Tyler Higby at eight yards.
I completely agree.
That's a bylaw.
It's a by medium.
It's a by medium.
He's been disappointing,
but based on all of our expectations,
regardless, let's move on.
Can we just move on?
Higby is nerve-wracking, so give me your pitch.
Look, D.K., we asked you for 12 by-low.
You got to 10 before there was a bi-medium.
I don't think it's a problem.
All right, cool.
So...
I hate you, D.
Everyone listening has abandoned you.
because you said
Kyle Feisty
this week
Last time I ever make
a list for you assholes
people
I feel like people
might be willing
to like bail on
Tyler Higby
based on his history
in the NFL
because last year
you remember
I think it was week one
or week two
had like three touchdowns
and they didn't do
jack shit for the rest
of the year
and there could be
people that are worried
about this
happening again this year
however
completely different
situation
well not completely
different
but like significantly
significantly enough
different
situation that with Everett gone, Higbee maintains the number one and only tight-end role in
this offense. He's still playing like 85% plus snaps or whatever it is. He's running, he ran
routes on 84% of the past plays this last week. He only got one target. But those numbers,
those are only like elite numbers. That's like T.J. Hawkinson, like Darren Waller numbers,
like running 85% of routes. It's hard to find a tight end who's going to be playing and running
routes on that many snaps. A lot of Types are asked to just block a lot. You know what I mean?
And so Higby still has that elite utilization, the underlying numbers that you want to see.
He didn't get it done for whatever reason in this last week. However, I do think big weeks are ahead for
him. So I think he's a by-low situation. This is a better example. I'm coming around to the idea
that this is a better example than cow pits. Okay. What a tumultuous and belligerent power.
Well, first of all, I want to be clear that this is the difference difference.
between a podcast and writing a power ranking because D.K.
is out here upset that we were like, actually, your 11th pick should be like 18th.
And on the internet, it's like, you had Jonathan Taylor number one.
What a fucking idiot.
Like, it's not.
I think it's.
We waited 10.
I think my Kyle Pitts thing was like a vibes, a vibes check.
But I get what you're saying completely.
All right.
So just one more time.
Stop making faces at me.
The biolo list.
I'm going to, I have grog.
I have grog in my fantasy.
Like, I'm going to offer him to the guy who has Kyle Pitts.
and I'll tell you what he says.
Okay.
That's it.
That's my list.
The Baila list one more time.
Jonathan Taylor for the Colts.
Nagee Harris for the Steelers.
Sequin for the Giants.
Sony Michelle for the Rams.
Michael Carter for the Jets.
Defon Diggs for the Bills.
I also have a quibble with Michael Carter headed Diggs,
but also don't think Dix said Bailor for the Cardinals.
Devontes from the Eagles.
Should I say Rondell Moore like three more times?
Kyle Pitts, who we have XNAIDS from this list.
Tyler Higby from the Rams and then Tanna Hill for the Titans who we talked about.
Rondale Moore scored 20-something points last week.
So I guess whatever.
It's like the wires for fucking cares.
shut up.
I can make it my own list.
Leave me alone.
Yes, you can.
You are entitled to your truth.
There's a by-low.
It's totally okay.
By the way,
it just reminds me of like
actually doing trades,
actually doing trades in your league
where you get like one person
basically trying to talk
the other person into a trade.
It's like,
oh yeah,
they're definitely like a great by-low situation here,
blah, blah, blah.
Like, they're going to be so much better
going forward.
You've got to get in on this.
This is basically me telling you guys this.
And then you're just,
like you have different opinions.
I'm pouring honey in your ear.
Then mine.
First of all,
as you're doing trades,
we should mention this.
There's something called the IKEA effect,
which is that people who build their IKEA furniture
are irrationally more attached to it
than people who just get,
like it built by like someone else.
Is that a thing?
That's incredible.
And like the same reason,
it's like you overvalue,
like for all the talk of like you don't like value what you have.
You actually way overvalue your own stuff.
Same with your fantasy players.
Like way overvaluate players you got.
The IKEA effect.
is a very strong thing in fantasy.
I mean, it's hard for me to give up any of the players on, like,
dynasty leagues just because it's like, well, I drafted this guy for a reason.
He's going to be good in 2024.
Let's get to some emails.
We had an incredible week for emails.
Holy crap.
A lot of you know about corn.
I haven't read any of these, so I'm excited to hear them.
You know what we should do one week?
We should do a power ranking of emails.
That's a good idea.
Wow.
Craig.
Come with your best stuff.
Craig with it.
We're going to do that soon.
There we go.
Power ranking is mailbag.
Yeah.
We're going to do everything.
Showdown time.
Everything.
Power ranking of emails.
All right.
So we,
the last episode we did,
the showdown time,
the tie breaker,
I think for Cordarell Patterson.
You have a corn one?
So I said corn,
corn to Carl.
That was funny.
But anyway,
the point being,
we talked,
the trivia question was,
what is the price
of a bushel of corn
right now?
To which we plot,
spoiler alert,
we live on the coast
and didn't get that right.
Well,
I was incredible.
I was 20 cents away.
I said 4.
75. The answer was five bucks. Yeah, but we spent like half the time talking about how much a bushel is.
The point is, we had literally, there are literally dozens of you who emailed us about the price of corn.
So just shout out just for some particularly, especially emails, Daniel, David, Caleb Jacoby, Casey, Christian, Christian, there were two Christians. Charles Kyle, unbelievable.
But I have to read a few in particular. One, shout out to Daniel who said that in Nebraska, Kansas, Dakota is that part of the country.
Knowing the price of corn is like knowing the price of a gallon of gas.
which is in California about the same price.
Yeah.
Of a bushel.
The third person named Christian to email us about corn said, Christian, he said, I have been
trading agriculture since 2006, cattle, hogs, corn, beans, wheat, etc.
Agriculture trade value, call it?
Right.
A pill on the horn.
Christian says that a bushel is about nine gallons.
It is a volume measurement.
Interesting.
And then he also says that, quote unquote, corn prices are for field.
corn, many people email this, the corn price is for field corn. We eat sweet corn. Field corn is for feeding
cows and making ethanol and subsidized by the government. But Christian says, if we ate field
corn, one, it would suck, and it would break our teeth. So, with all of that said, I have to get
to the next email, which is not a perfect email, but in the pantheon of the most near perfect
emails we have ever gotten. Wow. Okay.
And Hifitz kept this email from us
So DK and I don't know
He told us not to read these, yeah
This is from Max
I am currently the prices
Received Statistician
for the USDA's
National Agricultural Statistics
Service
Shut the hell up
Apparently he listens to the podcast
I'm dubious
But actually I believe this one
Because he's first
Mariah carries
Agent Uncle or whatever that was
And now we got this guy
Gotta follow up on that
I immediately
looked him up on LinkedIn and he is real.
This is a real person.
I checked. Noted. He's
verified. Max writes, so the prices
received statistician for the USDA's National Agricultural
Statistic Service writes, the corn price
per bushel is defined as the price received by
farmers at the point of first sale.
He goes on to explain
how corn works and then he says,
I am attaching the most recent
agricultural prices report
for your reference
with a 70-page
PDF. Holy shit.
the history of corn prices and other relevant crops.
And I looked at the numbers.
And I have to say, Craig was dead on for the price of field corn.
But none of us knew we were talking about field corn.
The price of sweet corn, which we were all envisioning, is $26 a bushel, which is almost exactly what D.K. said.
Yes.
I thought it sounded cheap.
I thought that was an awful
That was an awful price for a good amount of
like corn that you could barbecue.
Are we talking about corn on the cob or is it off the cop?
Sweet corn's on the cob and they pick it by hand.
Got it.
Field corn is like the giant tract,
I don't know what they're called,
but the industrial things that pick them up,
you know, they're not like handpicked.
So I think Craig loses the shit on time.
This is like a stat whatever correction.
Yeah.
Like, no, no, no, no.
So why are we just deciding that it's one type of corn?
But not the other type of corn.
Because we didn't know the other kind of corn existed.
Max emailed us.
This is happening.
This is from the definitive source in America on this topic.
It's from the PDF.
I'm just saying, like, corn, you know, corn is corn.
Like, we didn't know we were talking about sweet corn or livestock corn.
I have 15 corn experts in our email account who are like, corn is not corn.
I sell corn and I would never eat that shitty corn.
Yeah.
Well, cows do.
So.
It's the food your food eats.
Okay.
So with all that said, you know, Mr. Deeds, when, like, he was,
walks in at the end and they're like, actually, deeds.
And it's like the whole dad's, I feel like that's me right.
Can I ask a question to you guys?
This is probably going to be one of the dumber things I've ever asked.
Wow.
And this is my favorite snack in the world.
Oh boy.
Where does popcorn fall in the kind of the corn ecosystem?
Yeah, that's a good question.
I was also, I know that there's like a famous tweet out there somewhere that's like,
why is corn, like the one food you put in the microwave and it explodes into like
something totally like metamorphosizes?
The actual answer is.
that inside corn kernels, I think, is enough water
that the water
basically, it's your basically steaming.
And it expands? Yeah. I mean,
that's pretty cool. But like,
is it, is that livestock corn
just put into the microwave? Like, what is popcorn?
Oh my God, are you saying it's field corn seeds?
It's popcorn. All the corn experts who emailed us, let us know
that we can just Google. We're going to get a day of new
emails. No, actually, wait, I'm just going to Google this.
What am I talking about? That's what Google's. Because it's in
the corn, it's a corn kernel, but like,
is it livestock? I'm Googling his pop.
Popcorn field corn.
Do they...
Is the corn fields that you drive by
when you see all these cornfields,
like if you're driving through Nebraska,
so is that not sweet corn?
Oh, I think popcorn is a different kind of corn.
Like, popcorn, like all six types of...
Six types of corn is a cereal grain
and originates from a wild grass.
We're going to have to email Max and get back to him.
It's just...
This is a whole universe of corn
that we were not aware of.
Wow. Okay, it's a lot to ponder here.
Okay, so just to be clear,
D.K. wins corn to Rale Patterson.
Yeah.
No.
That is insane.
100%.
It is a wash.
That's a fantasy court.
We're going to have to say this to arbitration, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fantasy arbitration.
That's where shit really goes down.
Okay.
Thank you, D.K.
Thank you, Craig.
Thank you to Max.
You are an American hero and a public servant
difference deserving of our honor.
Thank you, Lorne.
Thank you, Corn.
Thank you, corn.
Ah, get it with a K.
Yes, yes.
Corn Michael.
too.
Corn Michaels.
Did you not want to do the smash thing?
It's only really 51 minutes.
That, I kind of thought we talked
too much about corn to kind of keep talking
about nonsense. Did you want to do more?
It's like, let's do a pallet cleanser
to end the podcast here.
I always need actually to poplons after popcorn.
I hate popcorn if I don't have water.
Popcorn is legit, my favorite snack.
Me and Steph Curry.
We're pretty similar.
Okay, anyway.
We have one more email that I guess
if the people are still around, then God bless you.
We got an email from Ben on Super Smash.
Ben.
man.
He said,
here is my take
on NFL players
as Smash Brothers
characters.
Justin Herbert
is Captain Falcon.
That's funny.
Herbert's unbelievable arm
equals Captain Falcons
Falcon Punch.
Okay.
I like it.
Travis Kelsey's Donkey Kong.
No explanation needed.
Deante Johnson is Kirby
super like hard,
annoying,
like,
you know,
you never really,
is he there or not?
What's going on?
Okay.
Mike Williams is Jigglypuff.
Interesting.
Extremely boombush.
Extremely boon bust.
Jigglypuff has this move called rest sleep
where if you time it right,
you just annihilate your opponent
or you can fall asleep and you get smoked.
Kind of like that.
That's Mike Williams' career is Jigley Puffs.
What is he now, now that he's like a top of 10 receiver?
This is the explosion here happening right now.
He's Gannendorf, where he's like really big
and you're like, wow, somebody figured out actually how to use him.
He's incredible.
If somebody can actually master Gannadorf, you're screwed.
And then also he's got,
Ben has Mike Davis is Mr. Game and Watch.
Low-key sick, but not a character,
people trust unless you're hyphen's.
Also, like pretty annoying.
Just like, he's just like Mike Davis's first two weeks.
Mr. Game & Watch is one of the most frustrating guys to kind of deal with.
He's doing the little pancake thing.
Also, like Mike Davis, if you're going to forget a Smash Pose character, it's Mr.
Game & Watch.
Yeah.
I don't think I...
This sucks because I used to play melee all the time, but it was literally 20 years ago,
and I can't remember any.
I can't remember any of these characters I really want to.
I need to play Smash now.
DeK, can I give you bad news?
about the whole being a dad thing.
It's that sleep actually is really important for memory.
So, like, you're just, it's okay.
All your college memories will fade.
It's a real thing.
Like, it's such a cliche, but when you get older,
as you start getting older, it's like, man,
I don't remember stuff anymore.
I do remember in, I was in the college dorms at UW.
We lived in these things.
This is the University of Washington.
We lived in these things called Clusters.
So there's like eight people with a common room.
And in our common room, when everyone,
when anyone would yell, smash.
Like, you just have to come out of your room and play.
like a melee, whatever, and it was so much fun.
Clearly, I didn't meet a lot of girls.
My freshman year of college is kind of like the bottom line here.
But had a hell of a time playing melee, but I don't remember it at all.
I have never felt a sense of family as much as I have when I'm playing Super Smash Bros.
With my friends.
It's just the best game.
Craig, what percentage of our listeners do you think you could be in Super Smash?
96.
Whoa!
So that's how he snaps, Nadja Harris says.
You would lose his office as Najah Harris leaves the field.
There you go.
Yeah.
Okay.
maybe we'll have to work on something.
All right.
Thank you.
Yeah, I just did.
I already did the...
We already did it.
Just say bye.
All right.
Yeah, goodbye.
