The Ringer NFL Show - Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

Episode Date: October 17, 2023

SHOWDOWN TIME! Must-add players at each position ahead of NFL Week 7 (2:23). “You guys want to do some emails?” (41:46) Check out The Ringer’s Fantasy Football Rankings for positional rankings, waiver wire pickups, and much more! Fanduel.com/ringerffs is live! RB: Jordan Mason/Elijah Mitchell (49ers), Craig Reynolds (Lions), and Roschon Johnson (Bears) (2:55) WR: Curtis Samuel (Commanders), Rashee Rice (Chiefs), and Wan’Dale Robinson (Giants) (18:55) TE: Michael Mayer (Raiders), Luke Musgrave (Packers), and Jonnu Smith (Falcons) (26:57) QB: Sam Howell (Commanders) (33:46) D/ST: New York Giants, Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks, and Pittsburgh Steelers (38:32) Email us! [e-mail] The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out theringer.com/RG to find out more or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Social: Kiera Givens and Jack Sanders Producer: Kai Grady 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 Hyphitz, and I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Coralbeck. And we are going through a must-add players entering week seven. There are six teams on buying week seven. We got the Bengals, the Texans, the Jets, the Cowboys, the Titans, the Panthers are all on by. And then we also have so many players who are injured, or at least got injured last week. Christian McCaffrey is an oblique injury and a rib injury. It's Monday afternoon and we're recording this.

We don't know exactly what happened. We haven't gotten an update yet. But he left the 49-in-as-game depo. Samuel is his shoulder injury. or Justin Fields popped his thumb back in. I guess that didn't work. I don't know. On his throwing hand.

Not great. So shout out to Shepard Legend Tyson. Bejant, Badgent. We'll have to learn that now. Ryan Tannehill left the game on crutches for the Titans, D.K. Metcalf, Kyron Williams with the Rams.

That was his sprained ankle. And so does his backup, Ronnie Rivers, his above knee. There's so much going on. And between all these teams who run by and all these players who are hurt, and then all the players who,

even if the quarterbacks aren't in your lineup, they're downstream of the quarterbacks in your lineup. I feel like this is a really critical week four waivers. Is it not, Craig? Yeah, this is like, it feels like the fantasy football season has finally begun. You know? Usually there's like a week with the injury avalanche and then it's like,

all right, we're finally here. We had six weeks. It was okay for six weeks. And now six by weeks, a million injuries. This is where you separate the boys from the men. Truly disgusting lineups await. Anybody can steer the ship when the waters are calm.

Sure. Let's see you steer the ship. when Tyson Bage is the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Ugh. Yeah. All right. So everyone listening, if you haven't done this before, we're going to go through our must-ed players entering week seven. That's crazy. We're ready at week-seven.

Here's how it works. We're going to go position by position. We give our top guy at the position, but like waivers, only one of us gets them. We're going to break any ties with the trivia tiebreaker. It's not very complicated. You see how it goes. Email us or ringer fantasy football at gmail.com.

If you want to send us trivia, make sure it's like a number or something in numeric order. Keep it topical. you know anything we talk about the pod always a good topic also you can send other questions there other than just random trivia stories whatever we'll have low stakes succession later it's great stuff all right without further to DK also our rankings fantasyfutball.3.com

and DK does a whole waiver column there fantasy football dot 3.com yeah if you if you prefer to read then you can go ahead and read who prefers to read well if you also like to read how about that in addition to listening to this I break it down so yes running backs Should I go?

Yeah, with the massive asterisk that we don't know how long Christian McCaffrey's out. And as of this moment, let's say he's out for like a week maybe. Yes, probably. Yeah, let's say he's not playing next week. D.K. Yeah. So, Hyfitz did this, or threw this idea out, this template for the way to like visualize waivers. And it was the three T's.

Am I okay telling people this? The talent touches and time. Those are the three teams. I invented that. Now the trademarks ruined. That's the fourth T. Trademark. TTT.

Trademark. I don't know. This is a tough one, honestly, and there was like five or six guys I wanted to talk about. But I think Rochon Johnson, if he's still out there, is still my number one guy. Maybe this is like a wild take. But what do you guys think?

Correct. I didn't have him. I picked Jordan Mason slash Elijah Mitchell, whichever one you can get, we can talk about which one we'd prefer. But like, I don't want to get cute with this. Like, the Niners are basically the West Coast version of the dolphins,

the way they run the football. And if I can have any running back, that's getting even half the workload in San Francisco, I want that over Tyson Bay Jans running back. That's fair. The only reason, Craig, the only reason I didn't do that, which I had that as my number two option here.

The only reason I didn't do that is because I feel like CMC is only going to be out for a week. That's my assumption right now based on what we've heard so far. And like you're going to get Rocheon and Johnson as your potential, as like a flex option for three, four weeks, maybe even longer. So that was mainly why I put Johnson. But I agree. The upside is probably much better with Jordan Mason and or Elijah Mitchell.

So in this weird thing where, again, McCaffrey maybe he's out for like a week right now. If McCaffrey wasn't out, obviously, I don't think Mason would be added. If McAfrey's out a month, I think, D.K., you'd probably come over to the Jordan Mason side. I also will throw it out Jordan Mason for the 49ers. I also want to say, before we get into this, the backup situation in San Francisco is about as clear as mud. Like, number one, it's Kyle Shanahan, whom I hate. great coach. I don't want to have to

fucking deal with him. And I think right now, based on what we know, or what we're assuming Jordan Mason, since he played more snaps yesterday when Christian McCaffrey went out, he's been the backup,

generally speaking, this year because Elijah Mitchell has been banged up for almost the entire season. I mean, I guess we're assuming Jordan Mason is the backup and the guy that you want here,

but then Elijah Mitchell is also, you know, a part of this rotation, and he's now at least ostensibly healthy. So as we're doing the chefster just tweeted, that 49ers said coach Kyle Shannon said running back

Christian McCaffrey's undergoing an MRI on his oblique injury. And Debo Samuel and Trent Williams are considered day-to-day. So that clears things up, not really. That's super helpful. Yeah. How about Craig are you with showdown time for Jordan Mason? I think we hashed this out. Yeah.

Like, man. Okay. It is the Jordan Mason showdown time. DK, by the way, last week when I wasn't here, I could have used a little more pizzazz out of you in the showdown times. Pazazazazazazazaz. Dude, I thought I brought it. I thought I really brought it.

I don't know, man. That's disappointing. I couldn't hear you doing the arms in the air, and I needed to be able to hear that. Yeah, for people, since this is a auditory medium, is that the way it would? Anyway, it's not visual. I basically, every time Craig does the showdown time,

I do like the Arsenio Hall, like fist pump thing, get the energy up, get it going. It works. It's hard to do that at the same time while doing the actual showdown time. All right. Do you want to read the showdown? trivia question while you... I do. Okay, this is from Jeff.

Jeff. Jeff. We were quoting Lord of the Rings yesterday. We were doing PFF rankings, PFF ratings for like Legolas's archery skills. According to J.R.R. Tolkien's notes, how old is Gandalf in Lord of the Rings? I assume the fellowship.

Not in my wheelhouse. I've never seen these damn movies. And Hyphitz reads them every night before he goes to sleep. I've never read the book. How old is Gandalf? I don't even know who Gandalf is. Oh my God, Craig. He's the kid.

He's the child. He's the wizard. The old guy who falls off the building. That's, yeah, that's the building. Yeah. The tower. The tail of two towers. What's the movie called?

The two buildings. The two buildings. He falls off the building. I don't know why it's so funny to be. He called that tower. It is a building. They're all buildings. technically. The two buildings.

Building. I feel like the term building didn't come into play until really modern times. No one was calling those buildings back then. What a majestic building this is. It was only a verb back then. It wasn't a noun. Oh my God.

I also don't know like is this a mythical world where like you can live to be a thousand? I don't know. You know what I mean? I feel like this is giving you too much information. I mean, I don't know. But put two and two together, Craig. Trees talk. So like, you know, you got that.

I didn't know that. He's a fucking wizard. He's a wizard. How's that? Does that help? Yeah, I guess. So he's probably not like 74. No.

Erdogan is like 74. What? That's right. All right. Whatever. Let's just do the answer here. Craig. Okay.

Three, two. One, 200. 270. I feel like Craig is closer. 55,000. What? Is that right? There's no way that's.

What did you say? What I'd say? 200? 200? 200. 200? That seemed old. That seemed super old.

I thought he was a wizard and trees could talk. 200. Like real life people can live to like 120. I didn't see it a long time ago back then. I don't know. Yeah, 55,000. Wow, that's pretty crazy. So for context, this is the nerdiest thing to say.

I think the wizards are like somewhat similar to like gods in this. universe. So they're old as fuck. There's some version. What a win for me. 55,000. Well, here's the good news. I'll say this, though. I think back to the running back conversation.

And again, if you have to deal with all these running backs, actually in your lineup immediately, you might feel 55,000 years old by the end of the week. But I will say this. So, D.K., you're taking Rochon Johnson for the Bears, even though Tyson Bajun is going to be the quarterback. Craig's taking Jordan Mason, even though we have, don't trust Kyle Shannon and tattooed on our backs. And I agree with D.K.

for one week. There's not only the problem that Elijah Mitchell could just be the starter and they can be like, you know what? And Chalachanic would be like, you know what, Debo Samuel better than any of these guys.

So I'll say this. There's an argument that the number one guy this week should be Craig Reynolds, the running back for the Lions. He's been number two. And I think that you could totally take him over both those dudes.

So David Montgomery, the line started as a rib injury. And David, Dan Campbell, the Lions that coach said David Montgomery will be out a little bit due to the rib cartilage injury. Now here's the thing.

A little bit. it. The Lions have two more games until they're by, which means that they could keep David Montgomery out for a full month and he'd only miss two games. We don't know that, but you think about what D.K. said, the TTT. Talent? I don't know. Craig Reynolds, fine. 10 carries 15 yards. But did you see the block? We didn't talk about this in the Sunday show. You see the block that Greg Reynolds said? That was a great block down, like 20 yards down the field. He just like knocked a guy over like a bowling pin. Like a deer. Like you ever seen those videos of deer running through like just sprinting. Smash them.

sprung Amunraa St. Brown for the touchdown. So yeah, that was awesome. Is there a better play that you could make in front of a coach like Dan Campbell than that play? A hundred percent. That's the thing. 35 carries coming up. TTT,

talent, Craig Reynolds, pretty low. Touches, dude, Jemir Gibbs isn't healthy. And when he is healthy, they wouldn't give him the ball anyway. Craig Reynolds out of here blocking dudes. I feel like you've got two weeks of Craig Reynolds just being the starting running back for the lion. So part of me is like the Niners are the sexy team. But how many times do you get on the whack-a-mole with the Niners running backs?

we can't even get the backup running back right. So part of him is like, yeah, maybe Craig Reynolds is the guy. And then you don't have to deal with the bears being so bad with this, you know, Tyson Bajent praying Tyson Bajent checks down to Rochon. I don't know. Yeah. He'd be pretty happy with Craig Reynolds. What's nice, when you get a running back who's, if you get a guy who's not that talented,

but he's on a good team, at least what you're getting out of them is like, they're going to have possessions in the red zone. They will potentially have a lot of goal line opportunities, whether or not they're going to get the ball. Like, at least the team will be near the end zone. When you're playing, when you have like the bears of Tyson Bayesian, like there's a strong chance that it'll get past the 50. I think that's, yeah.

You guys are giving me instant regret for my pick. Honestly, God, part of me is think maybe Craig Reynolds is the move over Jordan Mason too. The argument for Jordan Mason, I think, might be like, again, it's so tough when we don't know the deal with McAfrey, but if they do, as Craig had begged them yesterday to load manage McCaffrey, that maybe Jordan Mason just kind of wins that role over Elijah Mitchell for the rest of the season. I think that's the interesting part to me. So what are we officially deciding on?

George Mason 1, Craig Reynolds, 2, Rochon 3? I might do Craig Reynolds. I think it depends what you need. Again, TTT. I think Craig Reynolds will extremely not be relevant two weeks from now. Like he'll have one game, probably two games. Then the lines go on by, and then he'll probably be third string again. So if you need someone for the next two weeks, I think of Craig Reynolds.

If you're interested in someone for the season, I would not take Craig Reynolds. But I think this week with all the injuries. So if you're interested in like a longer term option, Cream Hunt, I wanted to throw him out too. Yeah. A potential option. Basically, he played behind Ford a little bit this week, but it was much more of like an even split or closer to an even split than it had been in the last couple of games or the last couple weeks because he was sort of like getting up to speed, I think, with Cleveland. And now we're seeing what seems like might be sort of that 50-50-ish role that he had in previous seasons with the Browns.

And so I think he could be valuable. He's a good pass catcher. he's a beast down in the red zone. And so I don't know, to me, Cream Hunt is kind of sneaky in this whole group of guys that are like fill in replacements for injured guys. Like, Cream Hunt might just have a big role that you want. So he's another guy that I throw in there. Yeah, there's a lot of good running backs.

I think the discount version of the Kirkland brand of Karim Hunt is Zeke Elliott. Ramandre Stevenson's banged up, healthy Ramandre. I mean, didn't look good. Zeke looks fine with the Patriots. Again, the Patriots offense sucks. So I don't know if I'd really like enthusiastic. recommend it, but Zeke, if he's out there, he had like a 50-yard touchdown

called back and he, like, outran everybody. Did you see that? Yeah, he has juice. Like, Zeke has, I kind of think as much juice as Ramonji this season. I don't know if Ramonji's banged up or what, but I think Zeke is totally palatable. The other guy was wondering with it, too,

is Salvana Ahmed for the dolphins because... Ahmed. Apologies. Salvan Ahmed. So he had six carries, 23 yards, and a touchdown. He mohstered's the starter, obviously. He's a top three running back in fantasy. And then Devon A. Chan is on injured reserve for at least three more weeks.

Chris Brooks, who I liked as a dark horse undrafted free agent, he was carted off with an ankle injury. So it's probably goodbye to him for a little bit. Jeff Wilson, maybe we'll return from injured reserve, but we don't know exactly what's up with that. So as long as Ahmed's there, again, I mean, even in a limited role, I don't know if he's a desperation play, but he's still like a heartbeat away from like the best job

in all football right now in fantasy, which is Dolphins running back. So that's another guy like high upside. I don't know if I would want to play him this week, but you can. And then also just the ceiling's crazy if there's an injury. Yep. A couple of other guys to mention it here before we move along. Tadj Spears, again, still playing like 50-ish percent of the snaps. I feel like we mention him. Titans are on by.

He's still out there. This week. He's more of a stash for sure. Yes. Especially if the Titans sort of just like decide to like, you know, tank for the rest of the season and trade Tama Hill or whoever trade Derek Henry and kind of like move on to next year. That would be obviously a big windfall for Tad J. Spears. The other one to mention here is Karen Williams. was pretty banged up in the last game for the Rams.

Ronnie Rivers also hurt his knee. He has a PCL injury, and that will keep him out like four to six weeks or something like that. And so the Rams are really banged up at running back. And Hyphids, you made the joke. It's like they should trade for Cam Makers.

That would be a great time to have Cam Makers on the roster. But this could mean, this could mean Zach Evans, the rookie could kind of come in and take over here. We'll see. Again, this is like in other situations that's about it clear as mud, but in an offense where a coach,

like Sean McVeigh likes to give almost all the touches to one single guy. This is another potentially very valuable role for at least a week if Kyrn Williams

ends up missing time. And so Zach Evans, six-round rookie. I don't know. I liked him coming in. Obviously, he's got some deficiencies. I think he was the six-round pick.

Former TCU guy, former Ole Miss guy. But kind of explosive, versatile guy. I would love to see him play, but I don't know for sure if he's going to be the guy or not. Yeah,

they're playing the Steelers this week. They have, it's Zach Evans and Royce Freeman off the practice squad. That's it, pretty much for the Rams. It's brutal.

But I just think this means Cooper Cup's going to have like 240 yards against the Steelers. Probably, yeah. It's tough to guess what the Rams will do. I will say Cam Acres is just sitting here like George Costanza when he quit

because he couldn't use the executive bathroom. And then he was like, I regret any what he'd do. It went back to work and pretended that he had never quit. Cameraker just shows up in L.A. Yeah, just pretends. Hey, Sean, good morning.

Hey. Chef to tweets like, oh, this guy's been released. But like the paperwork hasn't been filed yet. And so other teams will be like, oh, we'll give you a conditional seven, three years from now. They're like, all right, we'll take that. What if it's like the trade never happened? He never went to Minnesota.

And he just was like, yeah, we tweeted it. But like, I'm just, yeah, hey, guys. We were on a break. Reservation for four for breakfast. Cup, Puka, Stafford, and Cam. There you go. Other guys I'll mention Latavis Murray for the bills, Damien Harris had the scary injury against the bill or against the Giants on Sunday night.

Latavis Murray is there to playing the Patriots. You could do worse if you're, again, down atrocious. The Cardinals, I will say officially, I won't touch. Could you do worse than that? I don't know. The Cardinals? Dude, Damian Williams? Is the Kante Ingram?

I mean, Amara Demarcato, like, Leatherman and Snaps barely got the ball. I don't want to touch the Cardinals. Let me know when James Carter's back. I want none of these people. This is like, this is what makes doing waivers so difficult in fantasy. It's like the Cardinals literally brought up this guy from the practice squad that they had just signed and he was like their guy instead of the two guys they've had on the roster for like the last six months. Why do they have, this is my question.

It's like so weird. I get what the Cardinals do it because the Cardinals aren't the front offices and actually trying to win the coaching staff and players are, but the teams. They quantum leap to running back in after doing it with the quarterback situation. But why do they have players that they won't play in a game? Like this is my question. Yeah, yeah. Like I get it for the Cardinals because they're thinking about the future and you're trying to like sift through sand to trying to find gems. the Browns having Dorian Thompson Rob, like the Bears, I get it with Tyson Bayesian, whatever.

The Browns were literally like the most all-in team trying to win the Super Bowl. Like they're spending as much money as anyone, having Dorian Thompson Robinson be their number two guy. And then they actually need him and they have to find someone else. I'm like, why was he your number two guy? I mean, the reality is, and the simple answer is they're developing these guys and they don't feel that they're ready for the big spot. So have him be your third quarterback. That's all. I don't know. Well, there's like, I'm sure there's a million like roster nuances to one.

why they would do that because they can get some guy on the practice squad. Now you can have veterans on the practice squad. And so it's just like from a roster building point of view, you can't snipe that guy off your roster if he's on your roster, but you can't snipe him off the practice squad. I'm sure there's just nuances like that that are playing into it. But it's also, it is kind of annoying. I don't know.

Have the players that as your backups, the guy she'll play. All right. You guys want to do some receivers? I mean, shall we? Yeah. Another tough one this week, I feel like receivers. There's a lot of options, but no clear standout to me. Yeah, I agree. Several guys, I'm leading with Josh Downs for the Colts.

What do you guys got? I went boring and like not sexy, not long term. Curtis Samuel, who just is straight up the wide receiver 32 on the season and is outscoring Terry McLaren and Jahan Dotson on the season. He just is good. He scores and has like four catches nearly every week. They use him a lot. He's got a 20% target share. They're playing the Giants. And I'm like, at what point are we going? going to accept the fact that they're using Curtis Samuel in the right way and that he's good

in this offense. Yeah, I'm not going to lie, I'm super torn. I feel like these are a bunch of options. I mean, I kind of want to go with Josh Downs, the cults. It feels really stupid, frankly, because the cults are playing the Browns and the Browns have allowed the fewest yards in 50 years. And so that feels dumb. However, I don't know. Josh Downs also feels like one of the best players here. I'm so torn. I feel like Larry David and Kerb. I kind of want him to go a different direction and just frankly take like Wando Robinson

for the Giants or Rishi Rice for the Chiefs aren't all these guys the same Wondale's interesting for sure They've been really There's a lot of them dude Michael Wilson on the Cardinals is like in this mix

Rashi Rice for the Chiefs My boy Rashid Shihid for the Saints Still making plays Every time he gets an opportunity He's like scoring a touchdown So we can do TTT They're all scratch off lottery tickets honestly because it's just TTT

Like if we're talking about talent Josh Downs for the Colts is talented Jameson Williams of the Lions is talented Rishi Rice of the Chiefs is talented. And then time, I think all those guys will actually only get better as the season goes on. But touches Wando Robinson, if you're in a full PPR league, I would actually, because,

I mean, he played 100% of snaps 11 personnel. I think the Giants are increasingly using him. And they look bad against the bills. But I mean, this week, Giants are playing Washington. I kind of think Wondell will be fine. I like that one. So again, it's like, I don't, it's odd. It's full PPR.

I would consider Wondale because he could get five catches for 50 yards. It's just the cheeky double digits. But dude, I might go James and Williams for the Lions. If we're talking about the full season and this week, I would just try to have my cake and eat it too. And be like, give me the guy who went right after Garrett Wilson and Chris Olavé. And just now, like, he looks like he's himself again. He caught that long touchdown.

I kind of want to roll the dice with him. Should we split this into two? We should do next week only if you're desperate and you just have guys on by and you're really deep at wide receiver. And then we should also do the long-term stash guy. Yeah, it's kind of like, in case I need them this week. But long-term, if it's just this week, I literally have to have someone play this week. I would actually do Wondale for the Giants.

although Curtis Samuel's right there. Actually, no, I'll give Curtis Samuel first and then Wondale because that's fair, Craig. Curtis Samu's been way better. All right. I like that. I'm going for a receiver to have this week, I think I'll go Wondale.

Over Curtis? One week of Wondale, and we're in. No, he's been coming on kind of strong over the last couple of weeks. He came off of an injury. This is the only thing I'm worried about, Hyphitz, and maybe back me up if you saw this. I feel like every time he catches the ball, he's like limping to the sideline.

And I'm like, he's got Deontay Johnson. He's got the Deonti Johnson. Every single time he touches the ball, I'm like, oh, God, is he hurt? Is he hurt? That's fair. I'm going to go Curtis Sim over Wondell, but he's recovering from the ACL. And then that's why the Giants said so many slot receivers over the off season, was they knew that he wouldn't be healthy the first couple weeks.

And now he's healthy and he looks great. He does look fantastic, though. So, okay, you guys are going to do the first Samuel one. Craig, take it away. Yeah. This is crazy because I feel like Curtis Samuel has been D.K.'s guy. I feel like he's been pounding the table about Curtis Samuel for his entire career.

I'm surprised as well. He's been like, I've been the Curtis Samuel Truther for no parent reason. I just kind of think he's good. This goes to the Hyfitts talent thing. I think he's a good player. And by the way,

they scheme him touches unlike somebody else on this fucking offense who can't get a goddamn target to save his life, John Dotson, which has been like one of my biggest misses in this entire fantasy season. So Curtis Samuel feels like he's 55,000 years old, but he's actually just 27,

which is crazy. He came into the league for young. It's like in his prime. Yeah, it's just 20s. All right. TK., do you want to get in the Curtis Samuel train? I mean, you literally... You want to indicate? Last shot.

Come on. All right, fuck it. I'm in. Let's do that. Yeah. Yeah. Bors are back in town. All right.

The showdown time appropriately is from Dan. Dan. Wait, how dare you? The gong hasn't played. It is the Curtis Samuel showdown time. There it is T.K. Hands up. Okay.

I love this from Dan. Of the 205 restaurants, that have appeared on Restaurant Impossible. How many have ended up closing? A.K., put this another way. What is Restaurant Impossible's success rate in saving restaurants? So are we answering in success rate then? Yeah, success rate.

How many of the 205, how many did Restaurant Impossible save? Like, what percentage did they save? The show's premise is, I forget the guy's name. He goes in and basically like consults on how to improve. whatever's going wrong with the restaurant, right? And tries to... Yeah, they're like, oh, you're putting ice in your marinerosauce

to cool it down, that that's dumb. Right. Like... Okay, and he, like, tries to find, like, inefficiencies and fix the restaurant, right? Yes. He, like, does a redesign. Okay.

This kind of feels like Shark Tank, where, in reality, most of the companies don't work out, but it's fun to watch. They're still run by idiots. I feel like they wouldn't send it to us if it was high or even normal. They're still run by idiots.

Like one weekend, probably isn't making a difference. I got a number. All right. Okay. 3, 2, 1, I'm 10%. 15. 14. Oh, all right.

What did you say, DK.? 15? I said 15. Wow. It's a famine. 40% success rate. There we go. 40?

40% success. That's crazy. Wow. That's still not very good. Irvine. Well, I mean, that's pretty good. I actually think it's pretty good.

This is brutal, man. I feel like a restaurant normally, like, only has a restaurant normally, like, only has, a 40% chance of succeeding. These restaurants were doing so poorly that their kids had to, like, nominate them to some, like, TV show to be like, please

help my parents. All right, so I guess I get Curtis Samuel, after all that. It'd be funny if I took Wondale right now. I want Wondale. Damn it. It's just like Tom Sawyer to him. And, God, if we're just doing this week alone, dude, I'm going to take Rishie Rice. They're playing the Chargers. I was going to say, I think Rishi Rice.

I would like to rescind the Wanda. I would take Rishie rice just because Wanda. as much as I love him does not have a 50-year touchdown at him. And Rishi Rice is like a very, very, very baby Brandon Ayuk to me. Dude, he's a 30% target rate. It's like top five of all wide receivers. He's just not on the field that much. But when he is, they throw it to him.

D.K., is that a fine comp? I do, when I, like, Rishi Rice being like discount, like the true Kirkland, Brandon Ayuk. Yeah, this is what we talked about. That's who I comp to in my draft guy. He's like stylistically, he's, I don't, I think Brandon Ayukes. is better, but like stylistically, like explosive, sort of raw, but run after the catch, you know, just like sort of rare body control and physical talent.

And like, I think he could get there. The problem is like he's just not playing very many snaps, which is sort of the issue with all of the chiefs receivers. But it feels like they're going in the right direction in terms of, you know, he's going to be the future guy. He's like the only one right now that's standing out in that. But you talk about TTT, talent is high. higher than most of these guys, probably everyone except James and Williams.

And the time is Rishi Rice will be as long as he's healthy all season. And then, so it just touches, they're going to are increasing. So I like that. So all right. And Josh Downs we like, but Browns, you're not playing Josh Downs first. The Browns is brutal. Okay. Also, Quentin Johnson, this is Monday.

We haven't seen the Chargers play yet. But Quentin Johnson maybe comes out does something. So obviously, watch Monday football. We'll see. Tight end. D.K. Who's your top tight end entering week seven? Michael Mayor.

Baby. of the Raiders. Yeah, I went with the same thing. Reckett Ralph, Michael Mayer. Reckett Ralph, that's good. I'm super torn. I'll go with him. I love Michael Mayer.

I'm super torn, though, between him and another guy. And I'll very happily take another dude if I don't get this right. But Craig, please. Is this a three-way showdown? Three-way showdown. It is the Michael Mayor showdown time.

He looks so good. He just looks like massive and fast. All these rookie tight ends are great. Michael Mayor, who went to the University of Notre Dame, not Notre Dame college. And I can't remember the last player, I guess, well, I guess is Devon A-chan who entered the NFL and started playing once they actually got playing time. I was like, yep, that's exactly what you looked like in college.

Like, Devon A, exactly what fast. Like, Michael Mayer, I'm like, yep, you're hard to tackle. That's what it looked like. Yeah. He basically, the difference in this week is he just, he basically was always on the field in 12, 21, and 22 personnel, which is like those, like those, like those, like those, like those big or heavier packages. But this week was the first week where he played a ton and 11 personnel, which is the three wide receiver one tight end.

He played 72% of those. All right. This is from Josh. Josh. How many gallons are in a buttload? A buttload is a technical term, actually. That's a technical term of measurement. First, I thought this was like some joke about intestines, and I was like, what?

And a butt used to be the term for, do you guys want to know? Sure, yeah. It's like a cart. Like, you know, like all those things of like a cart in medieval times, whatever, we're England going somewhere. They used to call that a butt, you know, like a caboose. So how many gallons are in a butt load? It's a technical term.

Interesting. Okay. All right. I think I have an idea. All right. Three, two, one. 55,000. $250,000.

I don't know. Just seems like the number of the day. Weren't these pulled by like wagons and horses? 55,000 gallons? I don't know. It just seems like the number of the day. I don't know. Actually, you know what?

Anytime somebody shits on someone's answer, that person ends up being right. So I'm sure Hyvins will be right. The answer is 100, by the way. It's just 126. Let's go. Wait, what did you say? 100.

I said 100. Oh, son of a gun. I'm having a killer day in trivia. TK. It's over three. Three straight third places on hyphids. Hey, I won one of them, Craig. You did.

Shout out to the person who's tracking our trivia throughout the season, the players as well. And I will show you about. I'm keeping track of our trivia points. Like, like, our score, our tally. I wish you told me that before I said 55,000 is a bit. I did it last year. You knew, you knew.

Okay, so Craig, you get Michael Mayer and again, Michael Mayer stylistically is so wonderful to watch when he has the ball. Playing the Bears, too. He's like kicking like a Bronco, yeah. D.K., who are you going to take next? There's actually a lot of good running backs and tight ends on waivers. I will say it's weird. There's a lot of people that need them,

but there are players this week. Yeah, this is tough because I absolutely refuse to do Johnny Smith. I'm just not going to do it. I do not want to have any part of that, even though technically he's been doing pretty well. I guess I'll do Luke Musgrave for the Packers. Yeah. So the Packers were on buy, I think the argument for Luke Musgrave is simple. The Packers have a buy and they're playing the Broncos next week.

So, I mean, that's pretty sweet. I mean, Luke Musgrave, you know, he had to, him and Dalton Concade both kind of had a concussion some time. But I like that. I will say that, dude, I'm going John Smith. Can I blow your guys' minds? So I'll be having two tight ends in the Falcons. What could go wrong? You know it's crazy?

So if you look at the last three weeks, here are the tight ends that lead the NFL and catches the last three weeks. Travis Kelsey's one, Evan Engram's number two, and then tied at three is T.J. Hawkinson and John Hussmith. And that if you're thinking that's a fluke, look at receiving yards. Last three weeks. Travis Kelsey's first. Mark Andrews is second in receiving yards.

John Hussmith is third. and then the guys behind him are Dallas Goddard, Sam Leporta, T.J. Hawkinson, Evan Engerman, Kyle Pitts, and Dalton Schultz, which is very interesting to me because you look at yards and that looks a lot like, more or less, the order you'd probably want going through the rest of the year. And then John O'Smith's just there. And I'm kind of fascinated by it. He's a top 10 tight end of the season, John O'Smith. I think it would be hilarious. And also, if you think about it, if you're just thinking if there's any sense of humor in this cruel universe, John Smith actually finishing where Kyle Pitts finished was supposed to be. drafted to finish will be incredible. John is another guy who's like just quietly 28 and not 33. Like I think a lot of people think he is. 28 years old. We need

a name for that. Those guys. They're not that they're running backs that it's like the anti-running back. It's the running back. It's the running backs are like, oh, Sten Echler's so old, like 28, but in a you're washed up way. These guys are like guys we gave up on. Echler's good and been good. But Johnu Smith and Curtis Samuel are these guys that were supposed to be good and never delivered.

Did you guys ever see the movie way back in the day, Flight of the Navigator? It was from the 80s. I'm sure all the older millennials like me or whatever I am are all like, hell yeah. Anyways, it was a story about a alien craft comes down to the earth and a kid gets on there and like goes off. And I'm totally messing up the plotline, I'm sure. But like he comes back and a bunch of time has gone by on Earth. And so it's like his family had thought he had been kidnapped or died or whatever.

And it's like he comes back 20 years later. I'm like, this is Johnny Smith after going to the Patriots. Like an interstellar where every hour on the planet is like seven years on the ship. Yes. And so like he comes back. He's the same age, but it's like 10 years or 15 years later or whatever. And the whole family's like, what the fuck? This is Johnny Smith after he went to the Patriots.

It's like we forgot. We thought he had, you know, disappeared. And we didn't know what the hell happened to him. But he's actually still good. And now he's with the coach that made him good in Tennessee. But I refuse. I also refuse to do this. I'm not doing it.

And I'm still no. TK's just blind hatred. I love that last year was Matt Collins, and now Matt Collins's on the Falcons, and now all your hated players and coaches are together. Also, other guys that are solid at tight end if you need him. Logan Thomas for Washington, playing the Giants. Trey McBride for the Cardinals?

I wouldn't take him yet. But I will say also, if you're feeling frisky and you're your nihilist, Taysome Hill for the Saints, who's just playing receiver. That was bizarre. I think it was because... He's every position.

He literally plays like running back, receiver tied-ended quarterback all in the same game. He has one game every year. He gets 40 points. And, you know, it's coming. You're feeling lucky? Thursday at football. Quarterback, we don't have to do trivia for him, but again, just Justin Fields,

thumb to dislocation. Trevor Lawrence, who didn't even leave the game, but got an MRI, Schefter had such a convoluted tweet that basically said, what? Trevor Lawrence has a knee screen. That it's, quote, not a significant thing, end quote, but basically the Jaggers are playing Thursday at football. So it's like, well, your franchise quarterback has something you're calling a knee sprain.

Do you want to play them on three days notice? So C.J. Bethard's the backup. So if you have Lawrence, that might, he might not play. And you know, that sucks. Jimmy Garoppel back injury for Vegas. And it's like, you know, he went to the hospital. They had a check if he had organ damage. So I don't know if he's going to freaking play.

And it's like a high end waiver option. If Ryan Tanna, Ryan Tanaill basically took himself out of the game because his ankle was so messed up, he couldn't push and throw. So I feel like these, it's not just quarterbacks that are hurt. It's like quarterbacks that are all on waivers that you'd probably go to. You know what I mean? So Jimmy and Tannhill. So I'm curious, D.K., the guys that I was looking at are Sam Howell at the Giants.

That feels like a luxury pick. He's who I had. I feel like it's not close that you want Howell for the rushing. But I feel like Howell's gone. And then if Sam Howells is gone, I'm like, dude, Desmond Ritter for the Falcons, he might get benched. Derek Carr for the Saints, Josh Dobbs, the Cardinals is not playing well. I don't, after Sam Howell, who would you want, DK?

It gets rough. I only had one player on my list. All right. Craig. Going after Sam out. Cool. Hell or Highwater. You're like the Browns.

You're like, we have one guy, and then after that, I have no plan. This is how NFL teams do. What's wrong with that? I mean, this is brutal. Depending on how deep you want to go. Like, Kenny Pickett, Deontay Johnson might be back for playing the Rams indoors. I think Dobbs solely for the rushing and just Seattle being weird and playing close games. and if that freaks you out,

then just take Derek Carr against the Jaguars. What about like Malik Willis? Like, oh, they're on bye. No, I've seen him play. Yeah, the Titans are off. But dude, Malik Willis, in theory. And here's my reason. I've seen him play.

I'm just saying, could he run for 70 yards and a touchdown? That's all I'm saying. I think he could run for 70 yards in the sense that he can scramble in the backfield indefinitely. But like the 70 yards, not as the crow flies, probably not. I can think about what Lombardi said,

that the best coach game of the 21st century was Mike Vrable almost beating the Chiefs with Malik Willis. Insane. We couldn't get first down so they just like almost won the game. All right.

All right, those are quarterbacks. Hyvitz, before you get to defense, can I ask a question? So next week, unfortunately, I'm going to tell everybody about my fantasy team. So if you want to tune out, go ahead. I have Dak Prescott and Trevor Lawrence.

Dak Prescott's on by. Trevor Lawrence might not play. It's a two QB league, so there's not a lot of guys available. But like Tyson, agent is available, right? Like, I could probably add Tyson Bayesian. Like, would you guys rather start like Javante Williams over Tyson Baygent?

Like, should I be starting like a running back who's projected to get like nine points or like Josh Palmer? Should I be starting those guys over Tyson Baygent or should I add Tyson Bayesian? No. I would take Bayesian. Also, dude, has Giovante had double-ditch of points this season? I was just wondering, like, is it, should I just pick a receiver who I think can get like 60 yards, maybe a deep touchdown?

Or should I start Tyson Bayesian who might literally get like negative points? Yeah. Craig, this is a problem I had like last week when fucking Mac Jones had negative points. I'm like, I should have literally just had the spot empty. The Superflex spot, it would have been better off having zero at that spot. I think this is actually a pretty good conundrum. I wouldn't say the automatic impulse is to start a really bad quarterback there.

I think I'd almost rather start a guy with a like a lower ceiling but a higher floor. You know what I mean? Like a position player, you're saying over the quarterback. I'm saying I don't think it's, I don't. Like with most quarterbacks, it's obvious. Like you're at a disadvantage if you're not starting a quarterback. But some of these guys, man. But at the same time, like early in the season,

I think we probably would have said the same thing about Josh Dobbs. It's like, oh, I'd rather start a position player than Josh Dobbs. And then Josh Dobbs has been. 25 points. Exactly. So it's very tough. I don't think it's as simple as just saying start the quarterback. But at the same time, I don't know.

Like you're not going to, you're very unlikely to get 20 plus points with a position player. Any backup quarterback who can run, the worst thing that happens, if you're saying they're as bad as you think, is you're down 20 points in the fourth quarter and they have two or three drives where their defense is letting them pick up those like third and fives on their ground and they probably can get 40 yards of rushing just garbage time. So I think the mobile quarterback is what you want. Is Bejit mobile? What's his deal? I think he's pretty athletic. I don't know about he's not mobile necessarily, but I think he can run around a little. Maybe I just contradict to myself.

I don't know. Okay. Anyway, defenses. I deleted my list, so I'm going to do it off the fly. The defenses I would never recommend. I think you've got to be out on the bears and out of the Cardinals and out of the Broncos, out on the charges against the Chiefs. So I feel like the teams are like, honestly, dude, the Giants against Washington,

I actually think the Giants have played well, as crazy as that sounds. Like, I think the Giants held their own, frankly. Even against, like, the Dolphins, I thought, I don't know, other teams have done worse. They're playing Washington, offensive line. I think the Giants D line's way better. Sam Howell actually has taken like a league leading sacks.

I think the Giants deal line could totally wreck up sacks against Sim Howell. I think the Colts against the Browns, if, well, ironically, I was going to say if PJ Walker plays because PJ Walker, I mean, dude,

he had some tough decisions. But at the same time, it's funny because Deshawn Watson's been so bad that I feel like, if Deshaun Watson plays, don't play the Colts D. And then, I don't know, Sean Watson could totally throw a pick six.

The other one I like, If they're around, the Cardinals have kind of dipped with Dobbs. I think the Seahawks Day, which they kind of suck. Dick, I don't know. No, that was what I had circled, actually. I think the Seox D is ascending at this point. Maybe that's a low bar because they were really terrible for a long time. The Seahawks defense is always a soup.

It's fall, right? It's soup season. It's like the day one, it's not, you know, there's still individual players. But by day two, day three, that soup, it's like it's a team. You know, the sum is greater than the park. It becomes a reduction. Yeah, there you go. I think there's something to that, though, truly, high fits,

because that's kind of how Pete Carroll does it. He sort of is a slow play kind of guy. He likes to be, they used to call him, they used to say no lose November for USC back in the day when he was with the Trojans because they like hadn't lost in November. I don't know how long it was like several years. And he likes to like, he's very cognizant of the idea of getting hot at the right time. Put it that way.

I just like just know something November and Pete Carroll's just regretting it for all these college students. Sure. Sure. That's like it was pretty different internally. They called that thing.

They used to call them Big Balls Pete back in the day. Probably more than no losing in November. But yes, overall, I would agree, I think the Seahawks might be a good play against Arizona.

It's going to recommend all our teams. Honestly, the Steelers too, because they're playing, what, And Stafford, no stranger to pick sixes in the middle of the season. And then people might have dropped the Steelers because they were on by. Yeah, I am worried that Cooper Cup is going to like set an NFL record against them this week.

You're so right, Craig. Set some unnamed record. No one talks about how bad the Steelers quarterbacks have been for seven or eight years. Yeah. They get shredded consistently. The number one, I got to find a stat on like how successful number one wide receivers are versus the Steelers, because I bet you they're bottom three in the league. Yeah, that totally tracks.

Okay, so it's crazy. No, it's not crazy to say. It's the Giants are playing Washington, Sam Howell, Steelers versus the Rams and the Rams. I don't think that's insane. And then, yeah, the Seahawks versus the car. What could go wrong? Yeah, what could go wrong is we recommend all of our favorite defenses for a team that kind of suck? Cool.

All right. You guys want to get to some emails? Yeah. All right. Emails for ringer fantasy football, gmail.com, emails, whatever. We were talking to the day, I don't remember how we got on this, but we were talking about low-stakes succession, local business family feuds, like businesses that split.

One, a lot of people you'll notice this, but shout out Robert. Robert. Who told us the story of, this is the one that most people said it, but the brothers Rudolph and Adi Dossler in Germany started the company GADA, like GEDA. And then they had a falling out and split up the company. And Adi named his company Adidas, aka Adidas. And then Ruda named his company Ruda, which then he renamed as Puma. And one, did you guys know that?

I did not know that. I didn't know that. I didn't know that like this. This is real? Oh, this is super true. Wow. And then actually, this is all, I fact checked his email. He included a link to LA Times article, which is fantastic that I'm going to summarize.

But basically, it's from 30 years ago. So they had this blood feud, the brothers, the companies hate each other, the brothers running ahead each other. In the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, there was such pettiness. Adidas was like the main sponsor. And they somehow convinced, I guess, Mexican authorities, the Puma shoes were being seized at customs entering the Olympics. Mexico City. Wow. So, and that was in the Olympics. In 1970, Mexico, or no, not Mexico, but summer, the World Cup in 1970, one of the first people to ever get a shoe deal was a shoe deal was Paley. But their brothers were like, you know what, we hate each other so much. And they've

bid, they've gotten such bidding wars. They're like, let's, no, gentlemen's agreement, no one signed Pelley. Because we're going to just bid each other up and it's going to be too expensive. Well, the Puma brother did it anyway. And then in the World Cup final, before the opening whistle, Pele reaches down and asks the ref right before the game begins for a second to tie his shoes. The cameras zoom in on his Puma shoes. Wow. The conspiracy theory is that Paley was paid to tie his shoes in the workbook final. Well, it's funny because it didn't really work.

Adidas is destroying Puma. Super didn't work. We don't know how advertised it works. Several years later. Okay. That was crazy. You also got an email from Ed? Ed.

Ed. There's a pizza place in my town. named Jerry's. It's in a strip mall. The business next door to Jerry's went out of business, and Jerry bought the space, made it a bar. Bar next to his pizza place, one night after closing,

Jerry's wife walks into the bar, finds Jerry having sex with a waitress. Oh, Jerry! Jerbear. Wife sues for divorce, gets the bar in the settlement. Jerry said sue me. Yeah.

She said, sure. I will. wife changes the bar's name to Nextdoor, puts in a pizza oven, and most people take her side, and she just starts selling pizza at the bar. And then everyone's, it's a loyalty test that she said, you never would see a woman eating pizza at Jerry's. And it became like a litmus test for the entire town. Wow, that's so cool. So she called it Next Door.

I feel like she had a couple other options. One, fuck Jerry, which is now a popular name. Yeah, she could have been first. Girl Next Door is, I feel like would have been great and like a subtle dig to the woman. that he slept with. That's good. You could have gotten pettier in the name. Girl next door is really good.

You know? That's like legendary shit, the girl next door. That's awesome, though. Must be weird, though. Like, they both go to work every day, like 20 feet apart. It's weird for him.

I think she did it on purpose. I think she thought that went through. I know. It's like every day, I feel like would be like a real, like, emotional battle. Like every day, there's not many normal days.

Like, you always have to like look and see your ex-hubes. husband next to you. It's like neighbors. You know, this is the, this is the plot to the hit show Ted Lassow. Oh, yeah. Did you watch the show Ted Lassow? I did.

I thought you were talking about Ted Lassow, the guy. And I was like, he left the country. But yes, that is, if you haven't seen Ted Lassow, I feel like people, the pitch, people don't either like, oh, it's about the coach. The start the prep. I'm just going to pitch everyone. The premise is that she gets the soccer team in a divorce from her billionaire husband and he bought the team that he left, kind of like a Dan Snyder.

He bought his child a team. And she's like, this team is the only thing he loves in the world. so who's the dumbest person I can find you're like oh look at this coach you went viral in American yeah yeah an American that's it is that is

you're right that is the pitch what city was Jerry's in what state was this in the pizza place do we know? Maybe we shouldn't I'm not gonna say that I'm not sure all right next one here

Jerry might be pissed got Chris speaking of pizza Chris Jerry made his own bed you know and in oh I don't think there was a bed he made his own bar

Jerry made his own tablecloth. All right. Next up here, we got David. Dave. In a Detroit suburb, there's a family-owned jewelry business called the Walkler Estate Collection. And they do jewelry and watches and rings,

and the business is like over 100 years old. And the guy running it now is named David Walkler. And he's like the fourth generation of the family. He's growing the business exponentially with social media. He's got a big follow with the business on Instagram and Facebook social media and stuff. And a few years ago, I guess David Wings of the family had a major business falling out with the cousins.

and so for whatever reason, I don't know, the Wackler cousins were kicked out of the company. One of the cousins is named David also. So seeking revenge, the Wackler cousins... So this emailer's name is David, the guy who owns the Wackler

or states David, and then the cousin is also David. Thank you for the clarification. Yes, that's exactly the case. There's three Davids. Not confusing at all. If we're telling a story, I'm changing the names next time, but okay. Seeking revenge.

the cousins that were kicked out of the business opened another jewelry store in the same mall, 200 feet from the original store. 200 feet. And they named the new jewelry store David Walkler and Sons. And so people come in the store

and are like, oh, I was just talking to you on Facebook. And they just, they don't correct the people that come in. This can't be illegal. Can't he see them? Why, his name's David Walkler. They have the same name. Oh. And he is sons.

Yeah, this is petty. I love these because these are essentially all just spite stores for those of you who watch to curb. Yeah. Like these are just all spite stores. It's amazing. This one I love because I think about it from the customer perspective of like it's kind of like a loose sale. It's like, yeah, I was like, think about telling someone this where you're like, you know, your mom is trying to sell a watch or something or buy a watch and they're like going back in for someone to Facebook. And just the odds of there's an entirely different David Walkler and sons 100 feet in front of the one you were trying to go to.

that's like I'm going to leave and start like a podcast called like the ringer fantasy football show and sons and see how it does you found like a different Craig Horrell back that was the show

it's me and two other Danny's doing doing bulking it's me and the two Davids from the story instead of Danny I switched to David's it's it's a surplus we also got email from Chris

Chris. It's not really family feud, but it's drama. Small town I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania. We had a few local pizza places burned down. The rumors were popping up that people were doing it for the insurance money. But it turns out one of the owners of a rival pizzeria was burning down his competition. And the cops found him in the parking lot of a rival pizzeria with a trunk full of Molotov cocktails. Holy shit.

The name of that pizza place? 800 degree pizza. Yeah. I was thinking about the Horatio K and CSMAM. He puts on the glasses. like, turns out this guy was after the dough. There it is. Ouch.

Talk about dixicle. He then started Blaze Pizza. There's a lot of good puns in there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This meatball is spicy. No, I was going to do. I'm going to mess it up.

Is it 800 degree the name of the place? There is an 800 degree pizza, right? It's a chain, yeah. Yeah, okay. One of it, LeBron is invested in one of them. I think LeBron's, the Blaze. Yeah, LeBron's The Blaze. Oh, dude, I would tell you guys that it was at the LeBron's was supposed to be his first event in Los Angeles.

No. For Blaze? So when he signed with the Lakers, he put on Instagram, he said, I'm going to be at this Blaze Pizza. He put on a story like the location of the Blaze. Oh, yeah. Was it the one off Fairfax near the Grove? Yes. And I, for the ringer, like a story, I was like the story of like LeBron like going to the Lakers. And I wanted to write the story of like LeBron's arrival in Los Angeles.

And I thought it would be like, interesting. That's where I first learned about there are Lakers fans and then there are Kobe fans who actually like Kobe more than the Lakers. And they hated that LeBron came, which was fascinated me. But there were like hundreds of people in mind, like four or five hundred people in mine. And it turned out that it was like a pre-scheduled social media tweet that LeBron had committed to for the company. And that LeBron then posted an Instagram of him in a donut in his swimming pool. And he never came. And then everyone in line was like, look, because they were promised free pizza.

and so now everyone's like waiting in like this 95 degree heat looking at their phone being like well I've been here for three hours do I go get the pizza or not so I think about the place pizza oh wow that's that's like a brutal screw up by the LeBron's team that's terrible oh my dude is was he in like was he in LA like in his pool in Brentwood like 30 minutes away he could have just like driven over that's what everyone was mad about they're like he's like 20 minutes from here

and there's like 400 people that are here and also he's the most fervent fans right like those are the biggest people, the most excited people. And he was like, yeah, I'm good. How many slices of blazed pizza do you think LeBron James has eaten in his life? Oh my God. Literally, probably just the two or three for the commercials he had to make. He spit him out immediately. Spit bucket. There's like this weird running bit on the CBS pregame show that J.J. Watts on that Bill, I guess Bill Cowers trying to get him to eat like muffins and donuts in the morning. And he won't do it? LeBron? No. No, J. J.J. Y. Y. Y. Y. Y. Y. Y.

I'm always fascinated with like celebrities and like brands they endorse or you know have ownership stake in and how much they actually use the product like I know they obviously never do for any of them I'm sure but yeah well there's your answer YouTube TV Jacklinks jerky I actually have a whole mess of Jacklings in my cabinet right now we have a lot of Jacklings well I don't have I used to but we ate it damn straight shout out Jacklinks shout out YouTube multi-view Yeah. I got an email from Sam. Sam.

Sammy. Do you guys remember? Dating and Craig were talking about the best things to do when you get mad at someone when they're driving poorly, like cutting you off or whatever. And Craig was, and Sam says a month ago, I accidentally cut a guy off. And instead of him flicking me off, he gave me a thumbs down. I'm so angry and demoralized. And I just had no idea how to react.

that's like that's how i imagine like mr rogers reacts to somebody on the road when he gets cut off so polite it's actually that's like worse than the thumbs down it's not sarcastic it's literally just like that was very earnest disapproval sam is so honest like there's so much more insulting than a middle finger because the middle finger oh yeah i'll give it right back and a thumbs down like oh man yeah middle figure you see someone to do that you're like fuck this guy if somebody gives you a thumbs down you're like oh i'm the asshole what do you do thumbs down back to them too You just wave sorry and then just feel bad for the last two days. I have to admit something.

When you guys, okay, let's say you're either going to like, you know, thank someone for letting you Elaine or apologize or whatever. If you're going to thank someone like, oh, like thanks for letting me in, do you do that in the rear view mirror and expect them to see through the window? Or do you like stick a hand out the window? Or do you do neither? I do it through the back window. I'm not sticking my hand out the window usually.

If they're right behind me, I will stick my hand out the window. But if it's like they're to the left or right of me, I would just do like a wave within the car. But you're expecting them to see through your back, because I got to tell you, I'm kind of like, I don't know. I mean, I drive a truck in the cab is small. It's hard to see through the back of the car. I understand what you're saying. High Fitz, expect expectation is different than like, hopefully he sees me wave. Yeah, I just feel like the expectation that they're like looking at you at that exact moment seems like kind of weird.

Yeah. That's all. I like to do it just in case this is like the biggest hot head on the planet. And he's like sitting next to an AK-47. I'm like, I'm just going to wave my hand. Are you talking, are you hyphids?

Are you talking about when you drive poorly or just when someone lets you in? Both. Because there's a difference. I feel like you got to go a little bit further out of your way to say sorry if you cut someone off or if you fuck up versus like if someone lets you in when you're just merging in traffic. It's like, Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's like thanks. I don't. very, like, yeah, that's not, or something. I'm very animated and proactive in, like, making sure people see my appreciation because obviously road rage is, like, such an issue now. So I'm always doing whatever I can. I have to find myself, what, road rage? Is it?

I think post-pandemic road rage is worse than it's ever been. That's true. People are wild. People have no fucking idea how to interact with human beings anymore. I find myself even talking to the other car. even though they can't hear me. Like, I will wave and say, thank you,

even though, like, my windows are up. Do you guys do that? Yeah. I mean, talk to myself in the car. I'm always like, thank you.

Or like, go ahead, even though they clearly can't hear me. But I'm always, I'm always, like, speaking out loud, even though my windows are up. Yeah,

hopefully. Sometimes. Well, I mean, you talk to your dog or your cat? That's the thing. Like, I talk to my cat all the time. Do you guys think we need,

like a, like a negative horn and a positive horn? I've always felt like we need, it's so true because it's, I need a, hey, like, I'm not in a super rush, but I just want to let you know the ladies green. It's not a big deal, though. It's kind of like, you notice it's downstream.

It's the same reason that exclamation points and emails are a thing, but we don't have that for car horns. It's like every car horn's just a period. I think it would alleviate like 15% of road rage incidents if horns were just more polite and you had a polite horn option. Like we need the exclamation point in the email. I don't know. It's like we have 800 ringtone options.

Like, I just want a couple horns. Do you ever do this thing where you? accidentally honk, and then you're like, fuck, they think I'm honking at me. I think they think I'm honking at them. I don't know if I've ever accidentally honked. Have you seen that video, though, of the bulldog who was like sitting in the person's car and he starts

humping the steering wheel, but then he's honking, so it's just him honking the car at the rate of him pumping the freaking car. That's incredible. That's the guy who owns the pizza place his dog, I think. Jerry. Yeah. We do need an ice horn out. Jerry.

We've got to get the Jerry's in next doors. We've got to go try them out. it closed. I left that part out because it was sad. God. Did they close? It was before COVID, yeah. Both did?

No, the guy's place still open, the wife's ghost. I thought it was depressing. Oh. Jesus, man. Damn. Now that sucks. We got to get restaurant impossible in there, open that thing back up.

40% of the time it's going to work out. And then she can cheat with that guy. Yeah. Robert Irvine. Yeah. You ever seen that guy's power bars, by the way? His power bars? I don't know.

He makes power bars. by the way. They're like three pounds per power bar. Yeah. Yeah, he is. They're like, each pound bar weighs three pounds. Three pounds?

It is like the most dense. Yes. It is like, I can't even tell you. It is like a stone. It's like a brick eating in that thing. Probably like 800 calories. Like a gold bar.

Oh my God. It's like if he were a protein bar. Okay, Craig. You know how owners look like their dogs? He looks like his power bar. Yeah. Does the power bar have glasses? It's just a really thick,

vaity power bar with glasses. Oh, Jesus. Sorry, that sounded sexual. I just meant ripped, you know, vatty.

Yeah. Not like a triumphant. Vascular. I like my protein bars to be vascular. You know, like snickers are vascular. Tight skin. I want my protein bar to look like my bicep.

That's what it feels to me. Oh, my God. All right, let's get out of here. Thank you, D.K. Thank you, Craig. Thank you, Kai, for producing this episode. Thank you, everyone who made it this far. Thank you for your email. Emails during your Fentanycy Football at gmail.com. Go to Fentasyfuttle.com for Dick's waiver column that'll be up and probably have more information on McCaffey than we did today. And also our rankings will be there starting Thursday for week seven. Thank you. Lord. Lord. You get the white stripes. Nice. Nice. I feel like the white stripes have like two or three huge songs that like everyone knows. But I don't know anything else about them.

I know it's what's his name, Jack White. And I know the White Stripes was him and his wife, right? They broke up, him and his girlfriend or something in the band. I think that was like part of their schick was you didn't know if they were together or if they were siblings, which that's kind of weird a little bit. Oh, really? Oh, I always assume they were a couple. This is me speaking of someone who doesn't really, I don't really know anything about this band. And I'm like, are they siblings?

Like Seven Nation Army they have and they have a couple other big ones. Ike thump, I remember was kind of. Ike thump is fantastic. Yeah, I find their music, I should listen to them more because I feel like I know only two songs and I like them both. I like his style of like the way that he does his guitar solos, it's like super high-pitched like sort of whiny wah-wah style. I like that. Yeah. You guys have better music knowledge to me.

Is it the beginning of that ripping off a song, it's not as blatant as the vanilla ice. But is that like in a rick? Because it's such a great opening. But I'm like, is that actually just a riff of something? It does sound familiar. It sounds like maybe something from... I would need to listen to it again. It's so good.

It's one of those like they didn't come up with that, did they? Sounds Led Zeple. Oh, yeah. It is really good. You know who it sounds like is who's the fucking guy that had his own TV show and now I can't remember his name. The old crazy British rocker with his family.

What's his name? Oh, Ozzy. Yes, Ozzy. It's got an Ozzy vibe. Remember how famous they were when we were growing up? Like, they were in Austin Powers. It was a huge deal. I feel like you guys talked to this in the rewatchables.

Yeah, he was, that was a massive, huge hit when I was like in high school or college. I can't remember. The only song I know for Mazi Osborne is crazy train. So the eating the bat was real. I thought that was fake a la the Marilyn Manson getting the rib removed. He doesn't eat it. Doesn't he just rip the head off?

Yes. Whatever it was, I kind of thought that was a legend and like had never happened. And then, oh my God. He just, yeah. I think he did. Maybe you already said that. when I was looking something different up, but

I don't think he knew it was a real bat. He thought it was a fake bat or something. Yeah, he said he thought a fan threw a rubber bat and then he chomped on it and it was real. And he said, as he claims he felt the bat twitch in his mouth as he, geez. Jesus Christ.

That is, oh, can you imagine one of our live shows? Someone just threw on a bat. He's like, I'm going to eat this. God. Wow.

Can you get rabies from me? Kai would never eat a bat. Can you imagine? We never did the Kai Fieri eating challenge. We got to get in that for the second half. Once this fan. Yeah, maybe we'll figure out something to do, maybe to close the season, maybe like back half of the year.

But you're right. We got to get Kai on here eating some food. Yeah, Kai Fierry is going to have to turn. Flavoros of Town. Ring your Fantasy Football at Gmail if you have a Kai challenge for Kai Fierry. I really enjoyed low-stakes succession. Like, I feel like that that's a great prompt. I want more of them.

It's almost kind of like the, like, the, The pizza one kind of reminded me, it's not really the same, but like, as the bear. Like, I feel like there's a lot of adaptation opportunities with low-stakes succession stories. Well, also, there was like a whole genre of, like, the next door thing. I thought that I liked the one that they was the same name. But, I mean, there was someone emailed the one in Dublin. There was a Chinese food place that the father and the son out and together. The son asked for a raise.

The father fired the son. And so the son bought the chaos next to the dad's place and opened his own spot, literally next door. there was one with a hot dog place I forget we're in Buffalo named Ted's and so they kicked the family out family and the other family they open one like a mile away named Theodores Oh nice

For Ted There's like a hundred in these Spite stores Latte Lerries I have a Lottet Larry's hat I don't live in the city you live in So I kind of went over my head Kirby enthusiasm is the television show He opens the Spite store

Oh yeah okay Yeah I couldn't watch From Moka Joe's I never could say curb It's too painful for me to watch. Did we ever figure out the combo of people who can't do cringe television with certain players you shouldn't take in fantasy based on whether you can handle that or not? Don't have Josh Dobbs if you can't watch The Office.

The weird thing is I watched The Office and I loved it. It is a little bit painful. The Scots top. Curb is more confrontational. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And then I couldn't watch VEP either. It's direct.

I was just like, this is too fucking real. Kirby, like, the office is like awkward and a little like sad. It's like secondhand embarrassment. You're not really embarrassed for Larry David. You're just uncomfortable. The first season's way more racist. And then they were like, yeah, we'll tone that down. Yeah.

I mean, for the office being considered a modern show, there's definitely some questionable things in the first few seasons. Did you watch the British version? No. I did not. The British version, like Ricky Jervais is, dude, it's hard to watch sometimes. I mean, he does such a good job with it. It's insane.

All right. I'm glad people made it an hour in it. We're like, The Office is a good show. All right. I should watch that. That's my quality content. You know what you guys should watch? It gets that you've never heard of.

Stay until minute 67. We'll talk about it. The Office is good. Spoiler, it is. Goodbye. Must be 21 plus and present in select states. Fandole is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star Casino LLC.

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