The Ringer NFL Show - Power-Ranking the Players to Trade for Right Now

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

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Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy football show. My name is Danny Heifitz. I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Whirlbeck. Glad my vocal cords should show up for that one. Today it is power hour. We are power ranking something on every Wednesday. And this week we are power ranking more people that you should trade for. The default trade deadline on Yahoo is actually this Saturday.

I think it's November 19th. I don't know what you're, you should check what your trade deadline is in your league. But if you're on Yahoo and your commissioner didn't edit that, then it's probably this Saturday. So we wanted to give more players we think you should trade for. And, yeah, check your settings. Like, it's important to know when your trade deadline is. Because I feel like sometimes you got to play like, like there's some foreplay or some footsie kind of if you want to get a trade done. Sometimes people got to think about it.

You know, you got to set the seeds in like a week early sometimes. Yeah, you got to do the dance. You know, wine and dine. Yeah, you can't, yeah, you got to do like, it's kind of like, you know, three dates before you can expect something. And now it's like, you got to have three different text conversations before you can sometimes like actually get a trade through. D.K. wouldn't know because he never gets trades done. DK. hates trades.

I hate trading. Dickie just hates managing 20. So if you have 25 different leagues, do you have 200? Like, do you have like 300 different people you play fantasy football with? No, there's definitely some overlap, I'd say. Still though, probably hundreds. Yeah. No wonder you don't like having to trade and figure out who's on what team.

I definitely, I have a few leagues. I have a few leagues where I like don't actually know everyone in the league. So that's kind of weird sometimes. Well, I think once again, that will inform this exercise because sometimes when we do trade candidates, I like to get people that I'm very confident you can acquire if you want to. And D.K.'s like, here are good players. So we'll see if we have that same dichotomy again. But we'll start it off. We're going to do this power our style.

So if you don't know, after two minutes, you'll hear this sound. That's Tom Tom, Tom, Club. Great song. So every two minutes, we'll move on in theory. Or we'll just disrespect Tom Tom. So with that said, let's do it. Ten more trade candidates. Hi, if it's ranked these today.

Yeah, so I ranked these. So everyone said, I mean, Craig actually showed up this thing. Well, you guys just were like, do you want to do it? That's kind of, yeah. I asked if you'd want to do it. And then you said yes, so I was like, sweet. Craig actually showed up this time instead of texting us half an hour before. It was like, guys, I can't make it.

Listen. This is a guilt chair power. Once a year, Bill gets to pluck me from a fan. once a year. Yeah, it's like the purge. Okay, so with that all it said, 10 more trade candidates, Dekees, I'm starting with one of yours.

Oh. I was intrigued by this. Start the clock. Kyler Murray, Cardinals quarterback. You had him as a trade candidate. Yes, I also wanted to point out, this is a little bit of a Castanza trade target because, frankly,

like, logic would probably say don't do this. But I just kind of am going with, I'm going against, like, logic. I'm going against maybe like my better, you know, instincts on this one. He has struggled, typically in the second half of seasons. I don't know if Cliff is really that good of a coach, to be honest. So that's part of this whole deal.

But I'm kind of just excited to see what this offense looks like and what Tyler can do when Deandre Hopkins, Marquis Brown, and Ron Dale Moore are all in the field at the same time, which I don't believe we've ever seen. It's just going to be kind of fun. Also, maybe he's just going to finally buck this second half slump thing. I think the last couple of years has always been injury related. And so anyway, I think there's probably some people out there that are a little bit frustrated with Kyler.

He's not necessarily doing terribly, but he's not doing great. Maybe you could, you know, convince someone to give him up, whatever. I just kind of think he's going to have a good second half of season against all odds. I agree that this is a Costanza, but you're just saying the second half stuff's usually injury-related. He just missed this week with the hamstring injury. You're saying like that is why people would get rid of him? Like, it's not very convincing. Right.

Well, this is a constanza. That's what I'm saying. It is a constancy. a little bit. I agree. And Zach Hertz is out for this season. Every other thing about Kyler, it would say, don't do this. However, Georgia Hopkins, Markees Brown, Rondo, more

all on the field at the same time. James Conner's back. He's healthy. When Markis Brown's coming back, did they throw out week 13 for Markees Brown? I think he'll be back. I saw like week 11 or 12. I think he's really close. I think he's really close. If it by week 13, I guarantee you he comes back week 14.

My only qualm with this is that their week 14, 50s. and 16 schedule, which is the last game of the regular fantasy season and the first two games in the fantasy playoffs, they play the Patriots, then at Denver, then home against the bucks. Yeah, I think, but the problem, here's the deal. They're always going to have trailing scripts. I think they've been trailing for literally more than any other team in the NFL this year, or like more, like, the percentage of the time that they're trailing in games is like highest of any team.

Yeah, he's kind of a fantasy custodian. Yeah, you kept bringing up all those weird first quarter stats that didn't matter, I remember with the Cardinals? I'd love to see, I'm sure we can look this up, I'd love to see how much Kyler runs in the fourth quarter. I feel like he has more rushing yards in the fourth quarter than he does in the first three quarters combined every game. Yeah, basically to round it all out, the reason I want to do this is because there are no

other, like, quote unquote, running quarterbacks that have like elite ceilings that I think people are going to let go at this point. You know what I mean? Like, I talked about Lamar last week, so I'm not going to talk about him again. He'd be the other guy on this list. Well, if Lamar, well, Lamar is on by. everything with Lamar's on ice, would you rather trade for Lamar or Kyler? I would rather trade for Lamar, but I didn't want to repeat the same guy.

Well, you'd have to give up less to get Kyler. How much more would you give up to give up Lamar? I know this is a very hard question. I don't know. That's a very personal question. How much more, D.K., would you give up seven more? Eight, maybe? Exactly seven.

Nine. Costanza. All right. Speaking to George Costanza, next one here, George Kittal. Tight end for the Niners. I also debated having Kittle. Craig had him prominently. Craig, why George Kittle, Bailow, candidate?

George Kittle just, he's coming off a buy and then the worst game of the season for him. He had two points. And on the season, he's the tied end 17, but per game he's the tied in 8. But sometimes a lot of people just kind of look at the overall stats and go, oh man, George Kittle, tied in 17. He hasn't done a lot for you. He was hurt to start the season. But even though Kittle hasn't really been as explosive, I just feel like the Niners are

kind of getting right. They're starting to play better. And all the underlying Kittle numbers are still good. Like, he's actually seeing more targets. per game than he did last year when he had 900 yards. He's actually seeing more red zone looks, more end zone looks. Like I said, nineers are getting healthier. Schedules competitive, not incredibly hard to end the season.

And, I mean, he's the second best tight end in the league. And I think you get him right now for a slight discount. Here's my problem. I had George Kittle too. And what I kept coming back to, I don't know how to trade for tight ends, like good ones. Like, it's kind of like how Travis Kelsey always feels impossible to trade for because you're like, well, what do I give you? for Travis Kelsey.

And then you talk about it with the guy for like 10 seconds. And they're like, yep, nope, we can't figure anything out. Kittle is problem because everyone who has George Kittle, even if they know that Kittle hasn't been playing well, they just look up and they're like, okay, well, he had a bad game. Then he had the three good games. And they're like, but then if I trade with Kittle, then I'm just you if I don't have George Kittle anymore. You know what I mean?

It's like once you feel like you're out of like the muck of not streaming the tight ends, no one wants to go back. You know what I mean? I'm going to say, can we stop, let's stop psychoanalyzing people making trades again. People make weird trades. It's a thing. Also, like, if some guy spent $35 on George Kittle in an auction and the rest of his team is injured and depleted, maybe he will get rid of him for a Pat Friermouth and, you know,

Miles Sanders or something like that, you know, like. That seems like a, so would you do that? That's a lot. I'm just hyvids. I don't know. My point is that I think George Kettle is going to have a stronger end of his season than he has played. I think the tight end thing is an important discussion because Zach Earth is out for the season. Gerald Everett, I think, is going to be out for a few weeks.

There's a real need now. If people have two tight ends, they have a good position in like the trade negotiations. So maybe they can get a lot. I don't know. Maybe this is just. Yeah, like the guy who had Kittle had to add a second tight end to start the season for three weeks. Maybe he's had that guy on his bench. Maybe it is a Gerald Everett type.

And now he's like, you know what? I'd rather get rid of Kittle here and get two players who could fill the rest of my roster. And I can put back in a Gerald Ever, and I can put back in a David and Joku or something like that. I think that's a good point. I think Gerald Ever right. I don't know. He seems banged up too.

But regardless, I think that you're right, that whoever is Kittal probably is a second tight end. But while we're on tight end, the next one here, Dalton Schultz for the Cowboys, D.K., you had Schultz as a bylaw, too. I think you're right about big picture. A lot of people need tight ends. And also Dallas Got it. We even mentioned Dallas Goddard also got hurt on Monday Night Football. And so there are a lot, like, tight ends in flux.

And if you have an extra tight end, people are probably like, see, you could trade them away for something. God, yeah. I forgot about Goddard, too. Goddard, Gauter, and Gerald Everett, like three of the probably top 10 or whatever they are now. Yeah, so Schultz, obviously he dealt with injury throughout much of the season, but he's come on really strong again. Dak is back and Dak loves passing to Dalton Schultz. It's like his favorite guy outside of C.D. Lamb. Since returning to the lineup, Dalton Schultz has a 21% target rate.

That's really strong for a tight end. It's fifth best among all tight ends in that stretch. He runs routes on 88% of the times he's out there. So he's not like blocking a lot. 20 targets in the last three games. And he's the tight end four since he came back. Again, this is three weeks, three games for him. Dak loves Schultz.

That's the thing. It's like he's like his security blanket over the middle. So I think he's a guy that's going to get stronger as the season goes on. He's always going to be, I think he's always going to give you like a floor because Dak just loves targeting him, dumping off to him or whatever over the middle of field. So when he's out side of the pocket, he'll always look. for him too. So that's another, I just think he, you know, has a chance to finish really, really strongly. That's why he had to rank so high prior to the year.

Rest of the season, George Kittle or Dalton Schultz, who do you think does better? Man, that's a good question. I think Kettle has a higher ceiling just because he's so much more dynamic. But Schultz, to me, is probably week in and week out more likely to get like it's like five, six, seven targets. I don't trust the four-d-year-s offense at all. I kind of do. Too many miles. Too many miles to feeding that offense. I think the fact that you even had to think about it makes Schultz the more attractive trade target.

Now, realistically, like, it's much easier to kind of reverse engineer and look at your standings right now or just look at everyone's roster and be like, who has two tight ends and see if one of them are Kittler or Schultz, then just find the team of Dalton Schultz. And if they have one time, it's pretty hard to pry the one tight end. You're like, hey, I'll give you Kyle Pitts. And they're like, no, I don't want Kyle Pitts. However, I think Schultz is probably just going to be cheaper because the name, like, no one thinks of Schultz and Kittles is even close.

Although Schultz violates, Schultz on this list. violates Hyvitz's rule of he just had his best game of the season. That's true. Which I do subscribe to. It's hard to trade somebody who just had the best game of their season. It's like impossible. No, it's not. It's not.

Here's why. Because a lot of people like trading high on guys. Maybe they don't believe that they're going to have a strong season down the stretch or whatever. Like they're going to trade high, you know, take their profits or whatever because you just had a big week. Like you guys keep psychoanalyzing all these trade like theoreticals. Just try.

See what happens. we keep saying that, but I feel like that it's not like shit I made up. It's like all the time. I try to trade for someone. And they're just like, no, he's playing really well. I want to keep him. It's also personal experience.

Every time I have a player who's playing really well, Mike Williams last year, I got offers for Mike Williams last year when he was going crazy. I didn't trade him, even though I knew prob most likely he was going to fall off a cliff. But it's hard.

I think it depends on the player. It depends on how much that person believes in that said player. Like, there's a lot of times, I'll be honest, where, A player, I'm waiting for a player to have a big game, specifically so I can trade him. But here's my question.

How many trades of the trades you make in a given year? What percentage of them are in Dynasty versus a redraft league? I make more redraft trades. Really? Dynasty is forever, man. It's hard to make trades in Dynasty. Redraft is like whatever. Like we might, you know, like who knows what's going to happen next week.

I'm like stunned. I feel like you don't even, wow. So that's why you guys psychoanalyze trading so much. It's like, I don't know. my experience is different than yours, I guess. Wow. Different strokes for different folks. God, there's millions and millions of trades in fantasy every day, guys.

Just embrace the fact that some of them are weird. Like, more airplanes in the air at a given time are trades being made at a given moment. The trades are safer, I'll tell you that. All right. Oh, God, Craig. We have more low-sakes- That's a joke based on yesterday's episode, Monday's episode. planes are safe i'm not a crazy person i know flights are safe next one here dk uf t higgins as a

trade candidate as a trade candidate for trade for him so he's been a little bit quiet of late seven point seven 11 point eight 12 point four nine point five and half ppr over the last four weeks that's not like bad necessarily but it's definitely not good that's not why we're so excited about him coming to the year maybe people are a little bit nervous about this bengal's offense in general especially without jemar chasin there um but i think that the idea behind the second exercise is to trade for players that could absolutely go scorched earth. We've seen T. Higgins go scorched earth in the past, especially last year down the stretch. He had like multiple 30 plus point games. I'm chasing the ceiling that you could potentially get with T. Higgins

regardless of whether Chase plays or not. Like, Jemar Chase might be back soon. It doesn't sound like he's going to be back anytime soon. So he's, so I think Higgins is going to be the number one target in this offense, at least for the next few weeks. Plus, when Chase gets back, like, that's almost sometimes good for Higgins, just because then he could be like, the defense isn't really tilting in this direction. So in either case, I like what T. Higgins can bring. I like the ceiling. Bengals have the fourth easiest schedule

to opposing receivers down the stretch according to Fantasy Pros. So, you know, he's got the good connection with his quarterback. He's got a relatively light schedule. He's the number one guy in this offense until Chase gets back and he still has a lot of ceiling,

even if Chase does return. I like this one a lot. He hasn't really done a lot. Higgins has always been the guy who... It's weird with him. I feel like there are so much... So many expectations around Higgins, like the narrative around him has kind of culminated to this like,

well, you know, he's just as good as Chase like when he's on the field. There's always those stats of like, if you really look at on a 16-game pace, Higgins and Chase are actually much more similar than you think. And yet this year he hasn't really kind of done it yet. So I like this as a bet for the second half of the season. Yeah, I have to say when you watch the games, considering how much time he's had with Chase out, it hasn't looked that way. Now, maybe he's really talented.

The Bengals and Zach Taylor is a terrible coach or whatever. But, like, that Bengals Brown's game was seared in my mind because, like, Jemar Chase just being out and you kind of had the opportunity. And Teagans was like borderline invisible. And then the end of the game, he got like a touchdown. But it was honestly a total garbage time touchdown. Like the game was basically over. This makes a lot of sense to me, but it's been weird to see Higgins, like,

not really step into the opportunity, kind of at all. But I like this for fantasy purposes. Yeah. Next one here, speaking of regression, Michael Pittman for the Colts, who we loved before the season a lot and has been, I mean, abominable. It's basically had two double-digit games this year.

Appalling. Yeah, he's kind of my biggest miss. I was so into him. In week one, he had like 120 yards and a touchdown, and I felt great, then he got hurt, and then I kind of all went downhill after that other than one other big game. But, man, Matt Ryan, Jeff Saturday.

I'd like to nominate the phrase, any given Saturday, by the way, is the Colts new mantra? I think that would be hilarious. Why did I? How have I not heard that one yet? I don't know. But this is simple, right? Matt Ryan's back.

I think Matt Ryan is going to be the quarterback for the rest of the season. And the numbers when Matt Ryan's on the field versus Sam Ellinger is, they're very different. Pittman averages 75 yards a game with Ryan compared to 37 with Ellinger. He averages three more targets a game. And they just throw way more. I mean, Matt Ryan throws the ball 40 times a game. It's fifth in the league. Sam Ellinger doesn't even get close to that.

And Pittman's been mediocre. or the last, you know, the last four weeks, two of them have been with Ellinger. They've been bad. And then the first game back with Ryan, he had 50 yards, seven catches. It's fine. But like, he's been disappointing for every game,

but really two this entire season. And I could see the Colts just getting back to their ways throwing the ball 45 times a game. And Pittman kind of coming out on top is the number one again. I love this one. This is a great by-low. Because you know the talent is there

and then with the quarterback coming back. The vibes are great with the interim head coach now. You always, I don't know, do you always, I feel like we always see teams rally around the interim coach after somebody gets fired. I'm guessing that's probably incorrect. Bill was joking about that,

that like interim coaches must be like 50 and O in the first game. Yeah. The vibes seemed like infinitely better than they were before this. But yeah, the coach, the quarterback thing is the biggest one. Like obviously, you know,

with Matt Ryan back in there, they're going to pass way, way more. So this is huge for Pittman. And the playoffs, fantasy playoffs, Vikings, Chargers, Giants. Not bad. I think this is a really good one shout out Michael Pittman

Acquirable He's good Also acquireable We had two Steelers here I'm just going to put him back to back I will say I'm running this one back Didn't we do this last week? Yes

I did and I'm just doing Deontay Johnson again Because I had a few last week I had Chris Godwin I had James Connor Deontay Johnson among them And basically the pitch in all of them was the same they have the jobs They're getting the chances

They haven't scored touchdowns Connor and Godwin both scored touchdowns last week I am running this back Deonti Johnson is going, he has to score touchdown soon. He's like the 40-year-old Virgin sequel. He has 80 targets and he hasn't scored yet. That's like impossible.

It is impossible to get 80 targets in his season and not score. He's going to have to score. Like right now he's like Josh Reynolds, Josh Palmer, Corey Davis, Darius Slayton. Like that's basically points per game who Deonti Johnson is if you cover up the names. But considering how much it gets the ball, I feel like he's going to, if he gets four touchdowns the rest of the season, he's a perfectly fine flex and you can get him for free. You also had George Pickens, though, and I feel like...

Yeah, it's almost for the exact opposite reason why I have Pickens and you have Deontay. Yours is very statistically focused, target focused. I just think Deontay Johnson has such... All of his targets to me are empty calorie targets. They're like five-yard outs with his back facing the end zone. And Pickens, to me, is the guy... It's more of a gut call here. He's the most talented player on the team.

Claypool's gone. They wanted to get him involved more. He got a goal-line touchdown last week on the ground. but he's just been open a ton Pickett's been missing him. I'm betting on Pickett and Pickens being better in the second half of the season with a way easier schedule and

I just think Pickens is running the type of routes that can lead to better fantasy performances. I mean, he practically has more fantasy points than Deontay Johnson on the season and he has like half the targets. Let's just lump these together and do twice the time. So I agree. I think that the rest of the season I actually think George Pickens would be better than Deontay.

The reason I like Deontay is I'm the opposite of deke. I'm sorry. I like to cycle analyze with the trades. I think it's important. I think that anyone who has Deante Johnson is sick of him. Like, I think Deonti Johnson is,

after Kyle Pitts, I don't know if there's any player that's in lineups every week that people actually secretly wish they could cut. And I think that Deontay Johnson you could get for like nothing. Like I think if you have Alex Madison or you could flip him

to the Dalvin Cook guy for Deonti Johnson. I swear to God, I think a really good handcuff. I'm serious. I don't know about that. Deonté Johnson and half PPR has not had double digits since September. Like I don't think the person has Deontay Johnson. The point I'm making is it's worth checking.

I'm not saying give up a lot. I'm saying that I think whoever has Deontay, if they have like other receivers are sick of Deonti Johnson. But I agree that I would offer more for Pickens. I just think Deontes is like cheaper. Yeah, you're probably right that he's a little bit cheaper at this point, which kind of sounds crazy when you think about it, considering Pickens is like a rookie and really has been up and down.

me, he had zero points two games ago. Oh, I remember. Three targets at zero points of the game. But, you know, Matt Harmon, who works for Yahoo, does this thing called reception, perception, which is just like a lot of great numbers on wide receivers.

He made a diagram last week, checking out on all the rookie wide receivers. And the diagram shows each route that a receiver can run, and it's either in green, or a yellow or red to show how successful they are. George Pickens, nine of the 10 routes are,

green. And the other one's yellow. He's incredible. He's just fantastic. He's genuinely, Pickett did honestly a bad job against the Saints. Pickens was open a ton and he either overthrew him or just didn't even look his way. So the Pickens bet is more of a of a picket bet that he's going. God, it's so hard to go between those two names. Yes. Yeah. We're going to have to do it for so long. Well, maybe not that long. Yeah, that's going to say. Or maybe like three more months. But I think Deonte, I agree with you that, like, the higher floor there is like, Deante's probably just going to get like nine, ten targets a game. And I'm sure a touchdown's coming.

DK., what do you think? Are you sick of my psychoanalyzing? Who would you rather have, D.K., rest of the season? I would rather trade for George Pickens. But I would, to be clear, I would too. I just think. I don't think, I don't, here's hyphins. It's not that I don't like your psychoanalizing.

I just think you can't paint with broad strokes like that. Like every, there's so many trades, just throw out trade offers. like see what happens. Like you're talking yourself out of offering trades already. No, no, no, no. To be clear, I'm not saying like don't ask. What I'm saying is you should always ask. I think that this is just realistically.

Well, you're saying, basically your argument has always been like, oh, no one's going to trade that guy. So how do you know? I'm not saying don't like offer for. I think that if you actually want to try to make a trade, the best strategy is to actually text people in the league and see who texts back. And like the most important thing is like a willing person. Like that's more important than like even the one your lineup makes sense or your rosters makes sense. And a person that actually is also interested enough in making a trade is more important

than any of that stuff basically. And if you can find someone who's roster makes sense with yours, that's the best thing. Within that, I just think that it is also good. Like I think that it's hard to make trades. I think that 80% of the trades that you actually end up throwing out there that makes sense, they just don't work out. It's hard to make trades in fantasy football. Like it's not like fantasy baseball where like people need like nine different

positions and it's helpful it's like people need four things and you're trying to align like you know if you have one you need this but they need that so I think the easiest people to acquire are the guys that make people like yell at their television like when you're on Sunday and you're mad at your own players those are the people that are actually easy to get and they're like you know what fuck it yeah I'll just sure and I think that those are the people that are easy to get obviously but sometimes those are the players people get mad at because they're not very good or because they're not going to continue they're not going to do well like sometimes some of these are like trade for a really good player and, you know, trade high.

Like, it's not always bad to trade high for a guy. To overpay. Buy high, I should say. Yeah. The next one you got here is Jeff Wilson for the dolphins. Yeah, this was interesting. Buy high. Buy high.

Obviously, he's already coming in and taking over the job. My reasoning on this is, like, the dolphins are telling us that he's the guy already. And Moster has been hurt, I want to say, like, every year that he's played, he's managed to stay healthy throughout this season so far. But since he was traded to the Dolphins, Wilson is the RB3 overall in PPR. Obviously, again, this is going to be kind of hard to go out and just grab this guy. He's not going to come cheap. But I think you trade high for a guy because, number one, this is a good offense.

Number two, the way that they run their scheme gives the running backs, like big wide lanes to run through because the defenses are so concerned about Waddle and Hill downfield. Create space. And I don't know what number I'm on, number three or four. they clearly are favoring him in terms of like they want him to be the foundation back. He's out carried Mostert 26 to 17 and two games. He has almost double the yards. He has eight targets to six for Moster.

56% snap rate. He's getting most of the goal line work or the majority of the goal line work. And by the way, the dolphins have the sixth easiest remaining schedule according to Fantasy pros for running backs, including games against Houston, the chargers, and the Packers, who have been all, have all been bad against the run.

So this is a perfect example, I think, of trading high for a guy, even though, like, obviously he's coming off a couple of big games, because I just think it's going to continue, and you're going to continue to get that value. Or you're going to continue to get that production, I should say. So he's the RB3, you said, but I'm assuming people probably, we're not actually thinking he's going to finish the season as the RB3 in the games he's playing, but do you view him as like a top 10, top 12 guy?

Yeah, top 12, I want to play the name game, but to your point, D.K., the more I think about this and turn this over in my mind, I almost wish I'd just put this number one. I love this because I think that, like, because just our preconceived notions, no one thinks of Jeff Wilson's a top ten back. But like,

would you rather have Jeff Wilson or Aaron Jones the rest of disease? I'm going to disrespect Tom, Dom. This is important. That's close. I probably still would stick with Aaron Jones. I don't think it's close. I think it's Jeff. Like, like in terms of what, like three months from now,

when we look back, I think it's Jeff Wilson from this point forward. I mean, they're both in time. shares. Obviously, A.G. Dillon doesn't get quite much. But I think that it's overlapping. I think you're right because it's overlapping things that people can't get through their skull just because it hasn't been repeated enough. The dolphins are top three offense in the NFL. And Jeff Wilson is the lead running back for the top three offense. I think the space that they create with their passing game, too, is so good for the running backs.

And he's like, he's been really good. He's a good running back. Would you rather have Jeff Wilson or Miles Sanders for the rest of the season? I think I would go with Wilson. I think so, too. Would you rather have Jeff Wilson or, or, uh, Josh Jacobs for this season. Jacobs. I'm not going to disrespect Jacobs anymore than we already have. What were you going to say? Jeff Wilson or Joe Mixon.

Mixon. Mixon's getting incredible volume. Well, can we switch to wide receiver? Because I think if you're going to overpay for Jeff Wilson or make like a real offer, you're probably going to be giving up not a running back. Yeah. Would you give up somebody like Amari Cooper? Yeah.

Mike Evans? Yeah. Terry McLaren. Probably not. I think I would give up a big name. Like, I would give up, I think that Jeff Wilson will be better than Alvin Camara the rest of the way. And I think that you could offer Alvin Camara for like Jeff Wilson and pick up a receiver in the net. Yeah, especially if James Winston. There's rumors now James Winston's going to be the starter.

Is that right? There's James rumors? Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right, D.K., flipping, yeah, getting away from Alvin Camer just in case the saints keep losing, go back to James. And Camer will be useless again because no checkdowns. And then you can pick up Jeff Wilson. and then like, I think it's totally fair to ask for like Gabe Davis.

You probably do better than that even. I didn't know James was percolating him. That gets me excited. Yeah, there was. Tyler Lockett and Jeff Wilson for like Alvin Camara. Seems reasonable. I think that. I think you could maybe pull that off just because the names are so powerful.

Alvin Camarra is still very powerful. I don't think you could give away Jeff Wilson and Tyler Lockett for Alvin Camara. I don't know. Well, Camer, who knows? Point being, I think you said, ask. And it's like, I think people don't really get yet that I think Jeff Wilson's the top, easily top 12th. Maybe, maybe actually ends up being top six rest of the way. All right, next one here.

I got Trailing Berks. Wow. Receiver for the Titans. Spicy. And again, it's about cost. You guys know, like, when you have bananas sitting on your counter and they go like, they get close to like overwrite. And you're like, banana bread season. You're like, you're going to put them in your freezer.

Yeah, I'm going to make banana bread. you're not going to make the fucking banana bread I do they're just going to sit in your freezer oh do you make banana bread before oh I make it a couple times a year you do bullshit yeah I love banana bread peeling back the layers of the onion that is Craig I had no fucking idea you bake

yeah sometimes I really like to cook what well I'm glad because now you can go with this I'll send me some banana bread I will is that not like a player coming out of your injured reserve spot. Like, Trailing Berks gets dinged up, little bruised, and you're like, oh, I'll just put him on ice. Let's put him in the injured reserve. But then he comes off the injured reserve. And you're like, now he's, he's not on the iron anymore. He's on your bench and you actually have to deal with him. Like, it wasn't just like, like, like, like, and you're like, oh,

he's in your fridge again. You're like, and you're like, yeah, two months ago when I put this in the freezer, this seemed like a great idea. I think I might just throw these bananas away. And I feel like that's how a lot of people with Traylin Burks. I'm just saying, But you know what I mean? Like, I think some people have had, like, Traylon Burks comes off IR this week. He has three catches for 24 yards. I think you should check in with whoever has him

because half the people would be like, oh man, he's got so much upside and he's like such a great athlete and yards after the catch, blah, blah, blah. I think other people are going to look. I kind of don't need these banana. I'm not going to make banana bread with this Traylin Berks guy.

Like, I'm never going to play him. I'm not going to put this guy in my lineup. The Titans don't throw. And so I think people who had him and I are probably thinking maybe like cutting Traylin Berks. And so I think you could get him for like maybe close. to nothing and you check because some people don't want to actually make the banana.

I do like, we talked about this earlier. Like the second half of the year, especially if you're like middling to low in the rankings or in the standings or whatever in your league, like making big bets and betting on guys that are going to really break out in the second half of years is a good way to kind of like go for it because like you can't just keep doing what you're doing. Your team is not very good, probably. I do like the idea of kind of betting on rookie receivers having a huge second half. Like, there's the, you know, studies, studies are statistics show that, like, receivers have,

rookie receivers especially are way more productive in the second half of the year just for a number of different reasons. But so, like, obviously deciding and figuring out who it's going to be is not always easy. But just remember, I'm on Ross St. Brown last year, like came out of relative obscurity and absolutely went bananas. Sorry to continue with that metaphor. That was subconscious. I like this one a lot. Yeah. I think and I

what I like about it is I know that we have some big names in this like just like trading for Kyler or George Kittal or T. Higgins. I like this because I actually think you could probably get Traylenbergs for like Greg Dulcich. Oh yeah. Just super super, super-appoirable. So anyway, all right, next one here. I also have Cortland Sutton for the Broncos,

speaking which, this is, man, speaking of people that like just make people yell at their television, Broncos' offense has been putrid. Coralton Sutton has been putrid. I'm kind of just betting that there's just been some weird vibes going on. Like it's between Russell Wilson being out and like I don't think the Broncos offense can be as bad as it has been the first half. Maybe that's, maybe that's dumb since the one thing we've learned this year has been it can always get worse. That does seem to be a theme.

But Jerry Judy's hurt. And I just feel like they're going to have to force the Baltimore of Cortland Sutton. And I feel like it couldn't. I don't know. I bet you guys, but you look, I don't think anyone is playing Cortland Sutton anymore. And the people who are really mad about it. And I think that it's the perfect kind of guy to kind of gamble and fill out the rest of your flex.

And again, another person, you probably don't have to give up very much. But, like, the amount of times they're giving in the ball versus the actual production, like, the difference in expected fantasy points or not, is just like a very obvious person to me of like he's going to continue to play better. But the people who have him, in my experience, are losing faith. Because I've had three friends asked me whether they should cut him. How much do you guys think that fantasy players put into the little blurbs

that Yahoo writes about players? Like, how much do you think that affects the way? the way they think. I think it's like the literal like 10 commandments of fantasy football is whatever the fuck that blurb says. You know what's so funny you say that? I don't think I've brought this up, but one of the reasons, D.K., that I do the psychoanalysis is

if I click on a player blurb and the player blurb is beaming, I kind of assume I won't get any kind of discount on that guy. Well, that's what I, that was my point is I do think that with Jerry Judy Hurt and Sutton coming off his best game in the last five weeks, I think

you know, the end of the blurb reads, you can, Sutton can be treated as a mid-water stever two next weekend against the Raiders. I do think now, a lot of people are going to be like, oh, like Judy's hurt. They're playing the Raiders, like Sutton's back. He had his best game in the last five weeks. I've never thought about blurb arbitrage, but then you go to ESPN and ESPN's blurb ends with. However, with only one touchdown and one 100-yard effort, Sutton's season has been a disappointment to this point.

Yeah, it matters, man. And I'm like, dude, it matters so much. If the blurb is good. Yeah, so that's my only fear is that a lot of people, you know, Sutton's just came off 11 targets. It might be hard, but I do like it in general. They're schedule for the rest of the year isn't that hard.

DK. doesn't have thoughts on the blurb arbitrage? No, I think you guys are onto something. Oh, well, we 100% are, because how many... It's like the stock market kind of. It drives things up, yeah. People don't have time to research and read stuff. They're not following beat writers on Twitter. All they have is this little Yahoo blurb

and whoever this nameless person is opining on a player, it influences every decision you make. Incredible and out of power. You know what it's like, it's really, it's like, it's kind of like some people are just influenced by the last opinion that they hear. I guess to some degree, everybody is.

And that's really it. Like the first and the last thing you do when someone asks you about a trade is probably click on that blurb. Yeah. And that really is the first impression and the last impression if you want to do a trade. So it's like the idea of like trading away Justin Fields,

you know? It's like, well, the blurb says the second year star has thrown multiple touchdowns at three state contest. Can't go against the blurb. You know, I'm going to trade the... So anyway, I think that this, there's something here. Just figuring out like... Blurb bias.

Yeah, blurb bias. The power of the blurb. Power of the blurb. All right, I'm going to give you guys a bonus one speaking of which. I think Tom Brady's a buy low because everyone I know is out on Tom Brady. Let's go. I have no stats. I have no...

I just have gut feel in my eyeballs. The Bucks offense looked better than it's been. I feel like they're going to come out of the buy. Why did they have to do this against the Seahawks? I know. I feel like three weeks from now, we're going to tell them how the Bucks are clearly the best team in the NFC. And like, you know, or at least like the Bucks and the Eagles are like the two NFC teams.

And we're going to be like, can't believe we ever doubted Tom Brady. And he's not going to have the upside of rushing wise of like, you know, Tom Brady's not rushing for 160 yards in a season the way like Fields has in one game. Right. But I do think that they're just going to start passing better and he'll just merely be a top 10 quarterback again the rest of the way. And I, again, I guess this is a theme of a lot of my guys, but I just think he's extraordinarily acquireable.

people who have Tom Brady probably have two quarterbacks and they probably have another quarterback that they like better. He's been borderline like dropable for most of the years. That's the thing. I don't know about that. In single QB leagues, absolutely. He's been like 17 points a game. Well, yeah, that's like borderline.

You can get that. No one's going to drop him because he's Tom Brady. But if his name were Taylor Heineckee, I think some people would have dropped Tom Brady. My point being, I think if you want to acquire, if you don't have one of the, eight quarterbacks that are like good and you're stuck with one of the four quarterbacks that are bad. I think you could roll the dice on Brady and check in with whoever has him

because I think they might be totally willing to give them up. He's the, he's been averaging 15 points a game over the last month, Craig. He's the QB 20 in the last four weeks. Oh, so how is Craig out on this? Andy is averaging more points than him, Jacoby Bresset? He's been droppable, I would say. All you've done is complain about Brady for like eight weeks, Craig.

And now you're like, oh, you know what the problem is is I have two quarterbacks in that league, and the other one's Justin Herbert. So from that perspective, Tom Brady is Patrick Pahombs this season compared to Justin Herbert. But I guess, Hyvitz, let me ask you, if you want to bet on Brady for the rest of the season,

which again, I do like, his receivers are healthy, things seem to be jelling. There are kind of a lot of good quarterbacks still. Like, would you rather, in a single quarterback league, you're not starting Brady over Mahomes, Josh Allen, Jalen Hertz, Joe Burrow,

Lamar Jackson, Justin Fields, Tua. So that's seven. That is the eight. And I'm even, I'll even put Gino in that category. That's the eight. That's the eight I'm talking about. You're not putting Kyler in there?

Oh, Kyle. Okay, yeah, fine. So that's nine. Yeah, but realistically, realistically, nine teams don't have those guys. In the leagues I have at least, one of those teams doubles up

on that guy with Tua, or one of those guys doubles up with one of those guys in Justin Fields. So like there's seven, if you're in a 12-team league, seven teams generally have those nine people, give or take. Four teams,

someone starting Jared. Gough or Daniel Jones or Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, Trevor Lawrence. And it's like, if you're one of those teams, I say go get Brady because someone probably has Brady and a guy or will give up Brady and like we'll see no difference between Brady and Trevor Lawrence or Daniel Jones. And I'm like, kind of take a gamble. You're completely right though.

I'm not saying swap any of those eight guys for him or if, you know what I mean? What I'm saying is if you are stuck with the Jared Gough streaming life, go get Brady's probably really cheap and they might not even, they might even prefer golf straight up to Brady. Yeah, I guess you'd have to, like, let's say you have, you're trying to trade for Brady and your court and quarterback is Kirk cousins. Exactly. You'd probably give up, you'd have to swap, you'd have to give him Kirk and then what, like a Gabe Dave? No, I don't think you have to give up that much. I mean, I think that some people straight up might even prefer Kirk to Brady, like honestly.

Oh, yeah, easily. That's kind of my point, is that especially with quarterbacks, like D.K. We're just saying everyone's values differently, especially with quarterbacks, man. But if you're just offering straight up, if you go, hey, I'll give you Kirk for Brady. I feel like that person is going... What about in your league right now? If I offered you in that two quarterback league,

where you have Brady or Herbert and I offered you Kirk Cousins, who would you take? No, I would not do that. D.K. is surprised by that. I'm kind of him, too. No, I mean, it's Tom Brady we're talking about here to end the season. Kirk Cousins is...

I'm not betting on Kirk Cousins. I'm just not doing it. I think you'd have to sweeten the offer. I think that's my point. All right. I wouldn't throw in Gabe Day, but that's my point. Just check.

You'd have to throw in something. You'd have to do like a... The flip side is Tom Brady's gone. He's dead. Like, we're done with him being good. And I'm like, are we... Do we live in that world yet? I don't know.

I'm not ready for it. Yeah. Maybe like, you have to toss in like darn El Mooney or something. I don't know. Chase Claypool. Claypool. Yeah, there we go.

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I'm very proud of that one. Wow. Let's celebrate with some emails! Let's do it. All right. If you missed our last couple shows, there's been just a really incredible running plot of basically Craig made one joke one time about how many farts have ever been farted anyway. I just want to confirm it to guys.

We have successfully gotten this assigned for Mr. Widelik's advanced math class has officially been assigned how many farts have ever been farted in human history as their extra credit project. We're going to get a follow up on this? Yeah, they have till the end of the week. And that is their extra credit assignment has been assigned by listening to that part of the podcast. We'll have an update on that.

And we'll finally have, I think we've accomplished our dream, which was to inspire the youth. Nice. Maybe this will get somebody into Harvard. Who knows? Does any of these kids cite this in their college essays? Wow. That would be incredible. All right.

Other stuff, we talked a lot about like low stakes conspiracy theories. Not like high stakes. I love these. Those are wrong and damaging on the internet. Low stakes. Craig mentioned recycling. Whoa. Have I gone down the recycling?

Resinated with a lot of you folks for some reason. Shout out Joey. This is wild. The symbol on the bottom of plastic is not actually a recycling logo. It's a quote, resin identification code that plastic manufacturers invented specifically to look like a recycling logo as a PR stunt. Only types one and two, so basically milk jugs and two. are actually recyclable and it's still mostly trashed anyway.

This is true. I looked this up. Dude, shout out to all these people. Eric sent me, there's the John Oliver video. This is wild. But the little,

like, if you buy like anything in a plastic container from a supermarket, depending on your state, that's not recyclable. Those little, you know, the little plastic thing. But it has that little triangle with the arrows that make you think it's a recyclable.

It looks like it's recyclable. This sounds like this is a bad start maybe. This looks like conspiracy theory. This is actually true. This makes me very cynical about the world. Yes. This is what did it. That tip of scale?

That's the one. No, I can make it more. The straw that broke the camel's back, Craig. Eric with the case says to take the recycling. The non-recyclable straw that broke the camel's back. That's, God damn it. That's good. So not only does the majority of, does a majority of recycling get treated as regular

trash. But recycling as a concept has kind of been pushed by large corporations mostly responsible for like climate environmental issues. And they're basically pushing the facade of recycling onto us so that it seems like a collective problem for us. And so it's not really their fault. Yeah, this happens a lot. Classic. It's kind of like in the pandemic. Derek Thompson's talked about this, but in the pandemic where everybody just put like hand sanitizer in their stores. And it's like, that's not like how you're going to get COVID. But it's like, It just makes you, okay, cool. Like, I got this because I did my hands.

Yeah, it makes you feel better. It's like, now they don't have to. I'm telling you, I didn't need any of this information because I've seen it. I've done seen it with my two eyes, the garbage men combining the recyclables with the non-recyclables. Every week. I'm so glad you said that. We also got an email from James. James.

He says, my name is James. I am a recycling truck driver. Oh, no. As someone who picks up recycling cans all day, I can assure you that recycling is. real. I take the recycling from your house to our facility, as Deke says, very rich man, because he wishes that James would just come and really, James should pay you for the privilege of taking your recycling by according to DK. But I take the recycling from your house to our facility where it is sorted and processed and then take it to companies to recycle it into new paper, glass, plastic, aluminum products.

It is so efficient now that you can theoretically drink from the same Coke can in 60 days. That being said, I do agree that it is mainly a PR stunt to make people think they are doing something to save the planet and alleviate their guilt for consuming so much shit. And if you look at the carbon footprint, it takes to recycle, especially considering how much stuff we sent to China for the landfills, you may as well just throw stuff away. When you see garbage trucks taking the recycling,

chances are they are sorting the material, either in the trucks or at the facility with people or AI robots like we do. I also can't believe he just ended the email with, yeah, AI robots, they circle the recycling. Yeah, that's disconcerted. for this whole other reason, but yeah. So anyway, this, I, this, I, wow, this has been eye opening. So, but, but, but most of the things that we think are recyclable do not get recycled because

of that resident identification code. And to be clear, we've had fun with the conspiracy theory stuff. There's a great John Oliver episode on this and it's on the YouTube, it's just like the, it's like the, it's like the, they literally have a segment in the supermarket and they're bait, you know that, uh, all the salad, like the pre-washed salad stuff like spinach or spring mix or whatever. Like those plastic, you know what I'm talking about. I don't know the word, but you can see it.

Like the plastic containers, they have like the head of, I don't know what his job is. His job is in charge of this for the state of Oregon. And obviously, Oregon, you'd think would be at the forefront of this. And he's just like, yeah, that's not recyclable. Like that logo doesn't mean when you think it like we can't, in the state of Oregon, this is not recyclable. And then the reporter woman picks up one of those, you can see it. Like something they'll put like the fruit in, like the plastic cup that just has the top. And it's just completely clear.

And he's like, no, that's not recyclable. in Oregon. And it's like, this. We're all doing this. We're washing out these jars and, like, put them in. It's like, no, they can't even take it. I'm going to keep doing it, though. Luckily, the robots are separating them for us, so we don't have to worry. It's just, I'm radicalizing stuff. Anyway, a couple other low-stakes conspiracy theories. We got one from Muktar. My theory is that mattress firm is actually for laundering money.

because nobody buys mattresses that matches for them, and yet they're everywhere, and they always have very expensive real estate. This is a good take. Yeah, the mattress store empire has always felt odd to me. It feels like it's like an Italian mob running all those. Well, there are, I won't say anything, but everyone has a business in your town that you're kind of like, that's not.

Do you think they just stuff some money in the mattresses, literally? Literally under the mattress. Like, in an alternate universe, Tony Soprano didn't run the bottom Bing. He ran a mattress store. How many mattresses have you bought in your lifetime? Two. One.

Or two, yeah. Like, you wear all these men? Once a decade, maybe. I guess my parents bought me one when I was a kid, and then I bought one as an adult. Man, he's on to something. Muktar, I like this one. That's good. Nick, I will not sleep with my phone next to me.

I don't know what the radiation is up to, but I keep it in my pocket all day, so I don't know what good that's doing it. I thought that was pretty funny. Well, just don't add another half a day or whatever. I think this is very sound logic. Wes says, I'm convinced that blimps cannot land. I've only seen one attempted landing, and that was the Hindenburg, which didn't go well. I think all the blimps launched to stay up in the air.

I've only seen one attempted landing. Wes, have you YouTube that? Because I'm sure. Well, I will say, I was driving, I don't even know where I was going. I was somewhere back when I lived in L.A., and I was driving somewhere in like Bumfo, California. and I looked to my left on the highway and it just saw the good year blimp being inflated. I almost

drove off the road. I couldn't believe it. Dude, this is such a good. This is one of my favorite ones of all time. I believe we just launch blips and leave them up there indefinitely. One of my favorite trivia as we've ever done for Showdown time was the fact that there's only like nine blimps in the world. Yeah. I know. Well, yeah, once you think about it, you're like,

who make Pirates of the Caribbean when he looks at the sword? It's like, who makes all these? Yeah, as of today, 25 blimps in existence. That's it. That's unreal to me. It's just unreal. Double, wow. You see them all the time, I feel like. It's just the same blinks. We're just seeing the same blitz.

It's because they're always in the air. What job is that, by the way, to fly that? It's because they never land. You think the blimp party, they never land. They have to refuel it in midair. Is there like a preeminent blimp pilot in the world? I'd love to get him on. Yeah, no, I bet that that's probably really hard.

We could probably. Yeah, what did they got up to? It's nothing autopilot. The blimp guy? Has he ever done? a podcast? I don't know. Do you think we could get the blimp guy? Maybe. How hard could it be? Blimps. World. What does he do between the five days between college football games, the NFL? Oh, the humanity. You got a good year. Okay. Claire emails us and says, guerrillas no more than they are letting on. They're smarter than us. They've shaped their society in such

way the humans give them housing food and entertainment while they lays about. And she's from Australia. So she says that gorillas do bug her all. And they purposely don't mate in the wild so they remain quote endangered. So they continue their free loader existence. My God. That last part. They're purposely endangered because they like being like,

they like taking it easy. She also says, meanwhile, as I write this email to you, my husband is also writing an email to you with his own theory about something. Something to do with the Vikings. I don't know.

He elaborated, but I just glazed over while he was talking. Well, I've got to hear the Vikings one now too. Oh, his theory was that it was, his theory is basically that all of the NFL football media is in a bubble about the Vikings and we're all telling ourselves they're not good,

but they are good. But what was funny was in his own email, he kept being like, look, Kirk is good. Do I want him back as the quarterback next year? I don't know. Probably not. But he kept explaining like, are the Kirk, are the Vikings real? I'm not sure. They might suck.

And I'm like, he couldn't even commit. It's hard for me to reconcile the fact that there's an Australian Vikings fan. Oh, also, well, the funny part of the email was that he's like, he was explaining watching the end of the Vikings' Bills game as a Vikings fan because it's hard. because it's Australia, it's on it, like, seven in the morning or whatever. And his son is, like, going to school. And his son's trying to talk to him about something very important. He's, like, really nervous about, like, some test.

And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're there, son. And then he looks up, and Josh Allen is, like, fumbling at the goal line and they're scoring a touchdown. And the son's like, is it going to be okay, dad? He's like, hold on. So, Dan said nobody will convince me that highly pressurized, flammable gas inside of a tiny little tank maintained by the Home Depot employees making $9 an hour is safe. I mean, I can relate to this one.

Yeah. Just like little propane tanks. I don't trust anything. I don't trust anyone with anything. I never thought of the explosive liquid gas being maintained by just people just doing their best. Going back to the flying, this is why I don't like flying. I don't trust anyone to do anything, right? So, yes, this is a good take, Dan.

You tell me they're checking every nook and cranny that plane every time it takes off. They're checking every bolt. and nut. My only thing with the, I'm not sure, fear of flying is real, and I'm sure many people listening are free to flying. And I am going to respect that

while also saying, I bet like half of you text while you're driving. Yeah, I actually don't do that. I try not to. All right, good. That's good. I'm just saying. I don't like flying either.

Craig, I'm with you. I don't like flying. I mean, listen, I fly all the time. I understand it. Do I love it? No, you feel so helpless. You're literally in a metal tube, 30,000 feet in the air going hundreds of miles per hour.

And if anything happens, what can you do? See, this is my superpower. I can literally sleep from takeoff till we live. I have multiple flights in my life. I have slept 30 seconds after the wheel left the ground. And I have woken up by the plane. I think the most hardcore people, when you're flying and you look around,

because I'm a nervous flyer and I look around and people are already sleeping before you take off. And they sleep through the take off. I'm like, you're a fucking badass. I want to be next to you in the trenches like you're the most badass person you can sleep through the fucking takeoff

I would pay double my flight ticket to do that every single single I once in college I once had to do the I was in the middle seat for a drive from like I was in the middle seat for a drive from like Washington DC to like Florida

I fell asleep in the middle seat of like a Ford Focus in southern Virginia and I woke up and we were in northern Georgia yeah I just that is truly a super power you're right just like a really hard sleeper on traveling for some reason. It is not surprising whatsoever.

I don't know why. I'm so jealous of that. I'm always on or I'm off. Yeah, no, it's nice. I try not to take it for granted. It's great. Okay, you guys want to get hardcore for a moment? Sure.

All right. So on the last, this is going to be really weird for anybody to listen to the previous episode. But I don't remember why. Also, if you're with kids, then, um, I'll fix that. So I don't know why. But ostrich penises came up.

on the last episode. I don't even remember that. Well, we were talking about birds that... How many birds have penises? The percentages of birds that have penises, which is only 3% of all birds have penises. Because they have like the cloaca, the cloaca.

The cloaca. And the ostrich is one of the birds that does, in fact, have a penis. Right. And then you were like, what's that look like? You two Googled it. I stayed... It's not what you think.

It's kind of like a bent arm. Like an elbow. Anyway, we got an email from someone that I will leave. nameless because they didn't ask to be named those. I am leaving their name out for them, which I've never done before. I'm embarrassed for them. I want to be mad at you guys for talking ostrich penises and causing this mishap I found myself in, but reality is I can only blame myself. Tuesday morning, I would decide to listen to my favorite podcast and get breakfast

burritos at McDonald's, so I ordered curbside. And I was totally opposed to Googling the ostrich penis until Haifitz mentioned how many people would refuse to Google the ostrich penis. So, So I decided then to Google it. And then the worst possible thing happens, I'm parked curbside and a nice middle-aged McDonald's lady brings me my food as I have an ostrich penis on my phone screen. And she definitely sees it. And I just look at her with the Jim Halpert awkward face. Oh my God.

He writes, I hate you and I hate myself. I didn't try to explain it. I just said thanks. You can't explain it. Yeah. You can't try. I rolled up my window. she'll never forget that moment

you should have told her to like and subscribe check out fantasy football show she wants in on the inside joke love those stars love those stars uh it's a podcast uh I swear long story

is you know only 3% of birds have penises never mind what would you say if you're in this situation and you had to get out of it like if your life dependent on making that not awkward what would you say I study birds I'm a bird scientist

I'm a No it's like a Charlie Kelly and it's always study I'm a bird lawyer This is my ostrich I have at home And he's at the doctor He's having problems We're related

Yeah It's my son It's very weird looking I'd just say that I'm not gonna Google it It's the worst kind of bird penis You could Google No

Not a good Monday night activity, but we partook. All right. And lastly, most importantly, a lot of people had thoughts on Bluetooth. D.K. had his rant about Bluetooth. I don't know how long it was in the pod a few minutes. Yeah. I'll let you know that after the podcast ended, we then talked about deep Bluetooth for like another 20 minutes, as we had other things to do. Cutting room floor. It didn't make to the pod,

thankfully. We got an email from Shady, and yes, the name was Shady. Shady. Shady. Shady says there's two categories for people. in Bluetooth. There are people who like Bluetooth and there are people who have had their device accidentally connect to another device while watching Poole. And DK is clearly in the second category. The classic scenario. That would be truly horrifying. Amazing though. I think the worst is like the genre of people who like had connected their phone to their parents' cars, Bluetooth, and your parents would come home and it would connect to your parents' car while it was in the driveway. Diabolical. Unbelievable. Bluetooth knows what's up.

know it. Oh, man. Also, I want to point this out for everyone. I don't think I explain myself clearly enough. I'd like that there is a technology that you can use to connect wirelessly. Wireless technology is great. That's not something I'm complaining about. Okay. I don't like having wired headphones. You were complaining about the everyday functionality of said wireless headphones. I'm mad. I'm upset because there's not, they haven't improved the product for like a decade. Like, can we just stop connecting to other random shit? Like, ask me if you want to connect to something. That's all I ask.

So I defended Bluetooth yesterday, and then today I had my AirPods just couldn't connect. He really did. He texted us this morning. It wouldn't connect. I was like, this is what I get for defending Bluetooth. It just crapped out of me. I don't know. So I get, I think Bluetooth has a technology, wireless communication, wireless connection is great.

Like, I'm not arguing against that. I just wish it didn't suck so much. Like, can we improve on the product? everything else around us. Every other technology on Earth has improved in the last 10 years except Bluetooth. That's all I'm saying. Turn the Bluetooth off when you're watching naughty videos. But what is Bluetooth though?

Like what is it? I don't know. A short range wireless technology standard. What does that mean? At what point is all of this magic? At what point can you not explain any of this that it's just this is wizard? Every day I move closer to thinking we live in a simulation. All right.

Well, I'm glad in that simulation you still Google ostrich bonuses. Let's get out of here. Thank you, D.K., thank you, Craig. Thank you, everybody emailed us. Emails at ringer fantasy football at gmail.com. Thank you to that person who told us about that McDonald's. That's great.

Excursion. Thank you to everyone for the recycling or not. I don't know. Do whatever you want. Thank you, Lorne. Lorne. Thank you, Tray Songs. Okay.

I'm not see that coming. I'm not going to lie. Craig's reaction was also how I felt. I came across that say a song. Have you guys heard that one? Yeah. Say a ah, ah,

ah, yeah. I came across that the other day, and I was like, holy shit, I haven't thought about this for 12 years. At this point,

had a moment. When I hear the name, Tray songs, I just think about the Drake line when he's like, my girl told me I'd never be Tray Songs, boy, was she wrong?

And I'm not even saying it's a great line. It's just that literally just plays. It's like a trailer for the name. It's like, yeah, you're trace songs. I'm like, boy, was she wrong.

I just think every time I hear it. You guys know the key to good banana bread is a little bit of creaky yogurt. Oh, like, really? Yeah, it adds moisture. Is that like how Anthony Bourdain puts a little sour cream in that?

I messed that wording up. But Anthony Borda's recipe is like putting a little dollop of sour cream in the eggs. Yeah, yeah. It's the same. same with like sour cream and Greek yogurt does a lot for moisture like a little bit of sour cream in your guacamole or a little bit of Greek yogurt in your guacamole. Same with banana. A lot of like a lot of pastries and doughs and stuff like that. A little bit of sour cream or Greek yogurt goes a long way. How do you like your banana bread? Do you like how moist do you like it in the middle? Like do you like it like it? I like it dense is like lead. Like I want it densest material. That's why I'm liking this. I'm into this. I don't like it dry. I prefer it to be moist. I don't want it to be crumbly. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Craig, I want to try some of your banana bread.

How many bananas do you put in a banana bread? They're like four. How have you not mentioned that you bake banana bread before? We've known each other for years. I didn't know that was worthy of pointing out. It's funny to picture with an apron, and I can't even explain why. My fiancé's mother got me a grateful dead apron two years ago, and I adore it. It's a cool. It's a cool apron. I hope I have it forever.

Aprons are the best. That's a take of mine. Prints are great. We do not use aprons enough. No, aprons are sick. They are so useful. You feel like Batman with the tool belt. You can put anything in your pockets. All I did growing up was wipe my hands on my shirt and pants.

My parents used to stick it on me. Stop wiping your hands on your clothes after you eat. The apron is unbelievable. I've almost been so trained not to touch my body when I'm cooking that I have to, I had to like relearn that I didn't have, that that was no longer a problem when wearing an apron. It's unbelievable. I'm like dunk in my hair. hands and sauces and flowers and I'm just wiping it all in the apron it's great do you wash it

also the person with an apron is in charge totally like if someone with an apron on asks you for something you just have to do it yeah they have all power in the kitchen like can you get me this like thing from the kitchen get me this tong sacrifice your firstborn it's like absolutely i made unreal blueberry lemon muffins in the pandemic blueberry lemon yeah they're really good where'd you get the recipe bon appetit when you google recipes is it like third websites and you're like, I don't, I'd never heard of these websites before. Yeah. I don't want to read a goddamn blog about a recipe.

Just give me the ingredients. Yeah. Why does everyone put like how your great grandmother, like, love this? It's got to be something to do with like searchability. Yeah. It's also the longer the article, the longer, the more retention you are you have on the page. You should sell more ads. It's like stuff like that.

I'm just surprised that isn't counterbalanced by like, I googled this in the supermarket. And I just need to know if I need chives. Give me the goddamn. Damn ingredients. Yeah. So lemon blueberry muffins? Yeah, they were super good. Bon Appetit. I usually just go after the reputable, like, food magazines and food websites for recipes. I'm not just going to, like, some random ladies blog who lives in the Midwest.

I got to try harder to cook. I have, like, probably five or six really good cookbooks, and I make the same three goddamn things every day. Like, I love cooking. Yeah, I need to get more into it. It's just like a lot of time, though, sometimes. I cook more than I bake. I'm not like a crazy big baker. I do it occasionally.

But I love cooking. It's like a little project at the end of the day. I look forward to it. It's one of the very few things left in life that's tangible that you can do with your hands if you just have a normal job. You know, most of us sit in our computers all day. So I actually look forward. It's like working out the same way.

Like you can physically lift a weight up and down and I can physically, you know, mix ingredients together in a bowl. It's like one of the last few things you can actually do and make with your hands. It's like in San Francisco how all these people like, all these like tech people got into like pottery has come back. because people just wanted something to do with their, that you can't use your phone for two hours. Touch grass.

Yeah, touch grass. Touch grass. Touch grass. This is a, the human urge to actually do something with your hands, do something tangible. That's why I like getting back into golf is like really like at the core of it.

It's just like everyone, you know, it's just like my dad, you know, my dad taught me to play golf, but it's also just, you know how many times I asked myself which way the wind is blowing? It's great.

It's so nice to be like, which, real, how hard is this wind, really? Other than sitting in a movie theater, there's nothing comes close to an activity where you do not look at your phone than golf. Golf is truly four to five hours

I don't look at my phone. I mean, what else is there in life where you can do that? Chaos. I feel like at the point where if you just don't bring your phone somewhere, like it's kind of like almost like it like it's like reckless. You're like, oh my God. I know you're like living on the edge.

I just went to the Superboy's to bring my phone. All right, that's all we got. Goodbye everyone.