The Ringer NFL Show - Waiver Wire Targets for Week 7

Episode Date: October 18, 2022

We run through the injuries from Week 7 and offer up our must-add players for Week 7 with our favorite format, Showdown Time. (02:36) - RB Targets (20:58) - WR Targets (29:19) - TE Targets (42:47) - QB and DEF Streamers Check out our Weekly Fantasy Football Rankings for positional rankings and more! Email us! [e-mail]. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's up, everybody. I'm Brian Barrett, former Boston Sports Radio Guy, and now host of the new Ringer show Off the Pike that'll cover your favorite Boston teams and stories. From Fenway to Foxborough to The Garden and Beyond, we're reacting to all the biggest games and moments with episodes at least three times a week featuring myself and some of your favorite guests at the Ringer and in the city. Plus, if the Celtics or the Pats make a surprise trade, if the Red Sox's going to run, or if any news breaks, we'll drop bonus instant reaction episode. two, so you're always up to date with the latest chatter. Get in on the action and follow off the bike with me, Brian Barrett, now on Spotify. Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Hydex. I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Quirleck. We are going through our must-add players after week six. Here's how it works. We're all going to go position by position. We pick our number one player you'd add.

If we all pick the same guy, we do a little trivia tiebreaker. Why are you laughing at me, D.K. Because Craig and I both turned down our mics, like, or our headphones immediately upon that intro. It's like, ah! It's been a while since it was just cringe. Yeah, sorry. Anyway. It's good. It's good.

It's kind of a very important week for all these ads because the last week's week's, was a soft opening. The biopocalypse is back? No, it's no. Bypocalypse was when there was like seven teams. But the teams on By this week are the Bills, the Rams, the Vikings, and the Eagles. So at quarterback, that's Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts on Buy, plus obviously,

Kirk Cousins and Staff, but who cares? I mean, I care. I have some teams with those players. Well, you have 25. moves. Some people might have those guys on rosters, is what I'm saying. There are literally dozens of us.

The receivers, though, is where this is nuts. Cooper Cup, Stefan Diggs, Justin Jefferson, literally the top the receivers in fantasy are on by. Not to mention A.J. Brown, who is also a top 10 player. And then obviously the second receivers

Gabe Davis, Adam Thiel, and Devonti Smith. That is the top three guys. If you include Marquis Brown for Arizona, who is potentially after the season, so foot injury, that's five of the top 10 wide receivers in fantasy will not be playing this week,

and seven of the top 16 fantasy receivers are not playing this week. So it's really important week for streaming both now and then for the future, and then also Dalvin Cook, Miles Sanders, Dallas got it. A lot of really good players around by. So we'll go through position by position. Start with running backs?

Yes. I think this week there's a lot of really good stash opportunities at running back, but if you actually need to plug and play a player from waivers to your flex, I would so much rather do a receiver this week than a running back.

We're recording us on Monday so we don't have a lot of information about certain situations. But I am not very titillated by the running backs available this week. Good word. So we can go through, we do like 40-ish percent

roster threshold, ESPN Yahoo. Guys above that, that if they're around, you should just grab, obviously, no shit, but like Kenneth Walker, Romagna, and then the Daryl Henderson's of the world if they're around for whatever.

Dion Jackson of the Colts. Well, he's, is he already shot up above 40? He's at 43 on Yahoo the last time I looked, and so that's close. Let's talk about him. I think we should put him in the pool, whether you pick or not,

pretend he's available. He's also only 32 on ESPN. So we'll include him. And then Eno Benjamin for the Cardens is a guy that I think would probably take, even though James Connor might come back. I would probably put him above. Yeah. Connor feels like that

that ankle injury is going to linger all year. Yeah. So where's Eno in terms of roster ship? He's too high. He's at 73 on. ESPN. But if he's around for whatever reason, definitely grab him, yes. So with that said, those guys putting to the side,

DK, after week six, who is your number one running back waiver that you would take? If you needed to plug and play someone for this week. Man, this is tough. So I'm going to go to Dion Jackson if he's in the player pool here. Obviously, this is, before we know the extent of his injury, he left last night's game, or yesterday's game,

with a quad injury. He tweeted, I'm all good. Yeah, okay. Don't know what that means. It's enough for me. Yeah. I mean, Players never lie about that kind of thing. So that's, I just trust him. Jake Dombins, him and Jesus have been working. Week one. I mean, obviously, last week on Sunday,

he had an incredible game. He actually scored, I think, more points than Jonathan Taylor has it all this season. He was the number one running back. Yeah, so. On the whole week? And just eye test these looked really good. He does.

So, you know. Seven catches for like 70 yards. And at one point, he had the most receiving catches and yards on the day. Yeah. Through halftime, I think of the one. Every year, there's always like a couple guys who just come in and just look like,

that guy just looks as good as Austin Echler. Right. And he's like a seventh round running back to his fourth in the depth chart. Well, I think in reality, what happened is that Colt's offensive line had their first good game of the year. And they also ran like a ton of plays. And so Matt Ryan looked good because the offense looked good and syncs.

So if Jonathan Taylor plays, I don't know if you would play Dion Jackson, although he's probably worth still having. I mean, here's the reason I think you put him at the top of your priority regardless of what's happening this week is, I mean, look what he did. this week. If Jonathan Taylor tweaks the injury, like ankle injuries can be kind of finicky.

You know, obviously, this is a offense that you want to have a piece of the backfield with if Jonathan Taylor goes down. And so if Jonathan Taylor misses more time, the Jonathan Taylor inactive was a little bit weird because he practiced on a limited basis, I believe, on Thursday and Friday, it felt like according to the beat that he was on track to play. But he was ruled out by Saturday. And so everyone was like, oh, okay, that's kind of strange. I feel like that's been happening a lot this year.

There's been a lot of guys trending towards playing. like Dalton Shultz every week is like off the injury report. He was a healthy scratch. Yeah. This was bizarre. Well, I don't know. He's such a healthy scratch if he's coming back. He doesn't come back.

He was a full practice. He was off. He took him off the injury report and then he didn't play. Oh yeah. So that is, that's actually like the definition of the healthy scratch. So yeah, I mean, he. That's shenanigans though.

I kind of don't buy that. You know, that's what I'm saying is there's a lot of shenanigans going on. I feel like it's always like, oh. You want to say shenanigans. I think that's probably a procedural. Tom Fulery. Yeah. Yeah, no, I probably was Tom Flore.

I bet that's a procedural move. I don't think you take the Dalton Schultz off. That's weird. Regardless, we're getting a little off topic. I think with Jonathan Taylor, they're not going to make him a healthy scratch. But with Dion Jackson, if Jonathan Taylor misses any more time, he's absolutely a smash play. And then, you know, of course, just having him as like insurance just in case Jonathan Taylor gets hurt again, reaggresses injury. You know, I think that's just an important thing to do.

So he would be the top of my list, even though there's a chance you might not get to play him this week because Johnson Taylor may be back. Well, not just Taylor. So first of all, I agree. I would have Dion Jackson number one if he's out there. But it's worth saying Jonathan Taylor is out, but also Naheem Hines had a concussion. We don't know when he would be able to return. Philip Lindsay is also like the fourth running back here.

If Dion Jackson's gone, do you at all feel this way about Philip Lindsay? Yeah, I mean, I think so. Philip Lindsay is another guy who passes the eye test every time I feel like. I don't get really why he's been bouncing around the NFL somewhere. He's a 1,000-yard rush. Right. It's weird.

Oh, that's just the thing you say if you like a guy. Yeah, but if you don't let your guy. He's always ran for 1,000 yards in his season. and that is enough for me to start him as my backup in week six. Week seven. High Fitz is feisty today. Am I? Yeah, he's gearing up.

You need to smoke a little weed before we record this. Chill, man. Yeah. I'll just get all paranoid. Somebody gave him the snickle fritz. Don't do the pot before the pot. Okay, so I'm taking Dion Jackson as well, D.K. Craig, you taking Dion Jackson? begrudgingly, to be clear, I don't like him doing this.

Yes, but I think Jonathan Taylor is going to play, so can I pick a backup? Yep, Tyler Algier. Okay. He's 37% roster in ESPN. He's the rookie for the Falcons. He's like splitting time with Caleb Huntley, but he's playing more snaps one, and he's also seeing more of the receiving work.

Damien Williams is still on IR. The Falcons are actually one of the, have throw the least of like any team in the last two decades. And I don't think that's changing anytime soon. So they run the ball like 30 times a game, and this guy's splitting carries with whoever his partner is in the backfield. And he's not really like blowing the doors off anything. But he's pretty much getting like 12 to 15 carries a game, which in an offense that knows how to run the football, I don't

mind. Here's my weird thing with Tyler Alger. I'm not sure he's even like the third Falcons running back I'd want, which is weird because the Falcons running game right now is so weird. Tyler Al Jir is basically getting all the work on like third and longs, but Caleb Huntley's getting the work on short down in distance. But then, right, Avery Williams, I think is like there is there a two minute guy. But then, so that's three running backs plus Arthur Smith just can't help himself, man. He just can't help himself.

Caleb Huntley had 15 carries in Algeria at 16, and like Algeria plays more than him. But if they're going to, if you're just kind of rolling, like you're treating it almost like a tight end, I pray to get a touchdown, I'd actually bet Caleb Huntley. But here's thing,

that's three running backs. And then Damien Williams might come back who seem like their lead rusher from I. We've been hearing that. He's still on the IR. We'll see. But then Cordial Paterson is coming on fire. So they have like five running backs

plus Marcus Mariotta who's like in this. And so the fact, Falcons are the strangest. Plus Arthur Smith. Yeah. Just doesn't want anyone to be happy. I just, I mean, his last three games, Algear, 84 rushing yards, 451. Like, he's a serviceable player right now.

I don't think Williams or Patterson play this week. So I think it's going to be him in Huntland. He's the surest bet to get like double digit carries. Yeah. Which is all you want. They run the hell out of the ball. So, yeah. All right.

Let's do a Dion Jackson. Showdown on time. Are we doing hands in the air? What are we doing? Oh, yeah, we're all in person now. Yes, Jess. Jesse's even doing it. Jesse's doing it.

It is the Dion Jackson Showdown time. Yeah. Gang is back together. Okay, the energy is up. We're in person, by the way. That's the, yeah, that's why we had to.

Yeah, we had to turn down the volume of it. We had a couple of minutes. I'm surprised you don't have these ready. I do. No, I do, but I lost it. That would be the definition of not being ready. Well, I was ready, and then I was unready. It's kind of like Kyle Fitz.

It's like, are you ready for school? Yeah, mom. She's like, where's your backpack? I don't know. Then you're not ready for school? Still not ready. Okay, this is a good one. Okay, here we go.

This is weird. We've never done this in person. This is from Caleb. Caleb. Caleb. Huntley? Yeah, exactly. So we were talking about men do dumb things a lot.

But then also, we were talking about, it's hard to go to, like, the bathroom. Like, you need your phone. Like, you almost don't want to go to the bathroom without your phone. What would you think about? Yeah. You can't be alone with my thoughts. That's what podcast exists.

That's why companies are spending so much money on podcasting because they know people don't want to sit with their thoughts. I can't believe you used that exact phrase. Okay, so the New York Times, I think like eight years ago, ran an article about letting your mind wander, and the New York Times cited this study from 2014 that was about adults who were, like men, who were given the choice of being alone with your thoughts

for 15 minutes, or taking... an electrical shock. It was like, if you take the shock, literally getting tortured or thinking? How severe is the shock? I don't have that information, but the question is, what percentage of men opted for the electrical shock

instead of being alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes? Oh, God. That's really funny. But could you get your phone back for a shock or will you be alone? My gut says 72% of men. I think it's like 85% of the shock. I'm going to go like 34.

67%? What is wrong with us? You can't just sit there and think for a few minutes. We are fucked up. You guys ever seen the tweet? There's somebody tweeted this. It was like, We're addicted.

The guy that sat down on the airplane next to me, just got into his chair and stared forward for like the four-hour flight. He's psychotic. There's nothing more terrifying than a person just sitting alone doing it up. Sitting there and staring forward for four hours. Also, isn't that like with Harry Potter, they go back and see Kid Baltimore, he's just staring. It's like, oh, it's terrifying.

But also, they have like, you know, other people, if you have like an addiction, they have treatment centers. Where's the treatment for like my phone addiction? I can't get in, I can't hit a button for an elevator and like just sit there and wait for the elevator. I have to pull the phone in my pocket. Is there anyone who can help me with this?

No, because it makes a bunch of money for a lot of companies. They don't want you to get help. Well, if someone wants to start a company to help me, like not pull out my phone when I wait for an elevator, that would be great. I would love someone to do that. Anyway, 67, does that mean Craig? You get the on Jackson?

Yeah, baby. Cool. You get the guy you didn't even want. and then don't pour cold water on my victory and then I guess I had the second choice dude I don't know man

this is awful I guess I could take like Caleb Paltley rolls I might just like you can take Kenyon drag for the Ravens which I also hate and don't actually even want him but if I have to play someone for this week I suppose I would take him to the Ravens

because Jake he's knee tight he didn't really play in the Giants getting that much he's knee tightened up And again, it's not a shock to us because his injury is so complicated last year that it's not surprising at all that he's having complications. But this is also we're backfield.

I don't love it, but Gus Hadd was my comeback soon. But if I had to have someone this week, I guess I would play Ken and Drake. Yeah, that's a good one. The other guy that was going to throw out, and I guess I'll go with here, well, there's so many guys that you could stash this week. The stashes, I think if you need to play someone this week,

honestly, we'd go to receivers. And if you had to add a running back, I would prefer to stash a running back. That isn't other than Dion Jackson. But I'm going to go, if you have to play someone. somebody next week, and this is kind of risky because he hasn't played yet tonight, but

Josh Kelly from the Chargers, if he's still out there, he's another guy to kind of add and just keep in mind. I have added him in a lot of leagues of stash, because I think that if he, if Austin Echler got hurt, and we're recorded this Monday so we don't know what happens, like he just said, but Josh Kelly would be like a top

15-ish, top 20 running back probably every week if Austin Eklick got hurt. And he's already he's already a little, he's got stand-alone value already because he's getting a good amount of carries, you know, Austin Echler has said, I think that we should pick him up. Like, this is the guy that they're kind of basically spelling Echler with and, you know, giving Echler a chance to like, you know, stay healthy and whatever.

Yeah, that's what we talked about. The only running back who likes fantasy football. Literally the only one. Everyone else hates it. Just hates us. And you know what? It's only the small running backs. It's Maurice Jones Drew and Echler, I think, because they come in and, I don't know. It's like, for some reason, the five, seven guys are the ones that like.

Is there any industry where the subject matter of who the media is covering doesn't hate that group of media people. Like NFL players don't like fantasy football, media writers, internet. Like, tech people don't like tech journalists. Like, who actually likes the media people? Does anyone like us? Media? Yeah.

No one likes the media. No one likes media. No one likes media. Yeah, I think that's the thing. I want to throw out a couple other guys to keep in mind of stashes. Gus Edwards for the Ravens? I thought you hated Gus Edwards. I don't hate, why would I hate Gus Edwards?

I don't know. He's fine. He's a good player. We were talking about this like 40 minutes ago, and you were like, I don't like how set this. No, that's absolutely not what I said. I said he's maybe not going to be ready. That's why he's a stash. I don't know if he's going to be playing this week. But once he comes back, I think he's probably going to have a relatively big role in the Ravens offense.

He's always been pretty good in that offense. I wouldn't start him in week seven, I think is the context. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I wouldn't start him coming back from the injury. Travis Homer for the Seahawks. When he comes off the I. Really? He's actually going to.

He's going to be. He's going to be third down back, not DJ Dallas. At least that's how the hierarchy was before. What's the actual value in that? I have three guys I would do ahead of him. He was playing like a lot of snaps before he got hurt. And that was with Penny and Kenneth Walker both playing too. I have a list of other stashes.

I think there's five I would take ahead of them, including John. Okay, go ahead and name. Well, I'm curious. No, no, this is. Hyvich doesn't know he's being insulting. Well, I want you to slot in Travis Homer as I go through these guys. Okay. Josh Kelly or Travis Lowe.

I already said Josh Kelly. Okay, yeah. Somaget P-Rine. Do Joe Mixon's top five in touch? No. Really? That's interesting to me. Because if Joe Mixon got hurt.

Stash-wise, you would rather have P. Ryan than Homer? Really? If Mixon goes down, it's P. Ryan's job. I mean, I guess they're pretty close. I think Homer would have a little bit of standalone values, my point. Because he's playing, like, third downs. Like, he has a pretty big role. But the point of his stash is, like, high ceiling.

Yeah. Would you rather do Travis Homer or Deonti Foreman for the Panthers? on the off chance that Christian, well, obviously, McCaffer, but if McAfrey were the trade deadlines, November 1st, Halloween, one of those, the November 2nd, if McAfrey, I don't think McAfric got traded, but if you got traded the next two weeks, would you want Deonté Foreman or Travis home? I mean, I have very little faith in what Deonté Foreman would do in this Panthers offense

if Kirsman McAfrey was gone. Like, this is, like, worse than the situation in Atlanta, where you're going to have, it would be Foreman, it would be Hubbard, they probably bring up this Blackshear guy. It would just, I think it would be a big rotation. I don't think he would have a lot of value. But, I mean, I guess I probably maybe put him before that. Speaking of bad running games,

Kyron Williams for the Rams, who was like this rookie. Yeah, he was on my list. He was definitely on my list. He had a high ankle sprain in week one on special teams, which I don't like guys on high ankle sprained after they get a high ankle sprain, but the Rams are down bad at running back. They also can't run.

Actually, I should have said him first. I think I would probably stash him first of all this group. Do you think the Rams are going to sign somebody at running back? I was looking at this group and they almost have to because they have Daryl Henderson, who again, McVeigh has repeatedly, like they're using, like, begrudgingly, Henderson at a huge rate this year,

but they don't want to. If freaking Ronnie Rivers, who again is like this madden-generated player that I don't believe is real. And then Malcolm Brown, who somehow is still on this team. He's like number 41. Trying to think of like,

the least explosive player in the NFL. Who could they go sign? Like some, like Miles Gaskin or something? Yeah, maybe. Well, he's a, I know, but, you know, some. The point is, though, the Rams lost their left. They were already the, like,

at bottom three hours. offensive line by performance, and then they lost their left tackle on our 10th offensive lineman of the year. But the other one I was going to have, so Kyron Williams is high upside, but how much really? But the other one is guys, James Cook, who Zach Moss, the bills running back was inactive, healthy scraps in this game. It's just Singletarian James Cook. I feel like I'd rather have James Cook. I would probably go Josh Kelly, Somaget P. Ryan James Cook, and then Foreman in that order. Josh Kelly, P. Ryan, Foreman, Cook? Yeah, that's not Kyron.

confusing when you hear it on a podcast. But Josh Kelly for Chargers to backup Eccler, Somagia P. Run at backup, Joe Mixon, uh, James Cook for the bills just because the bills are going on by. So you might not need to do it, but coming out of the buy,

I think Cook could have a much larger role. Foreman in case McAfee gets traded. Kiron Williams for the Rams. And then I would go to, Gus Edwards. Rashad White. He's still out there? Yeah,

Rashad White's out for sure. I think my favorites among that group are Gus Edwards, Josh Kelly and P. Ryan. And Dion Jackson obviously is in that group as well, because if Taylor comes back, He obviously coming back from ankle entry at any point, he exacerbates it. John Jackson showed him number one on a day.

So yeah, cool. Jalen Warren? You still interested? Yeah, I mean. There's just like 18 guys that are out there to like... It's just you're playing the lottery. Like, it's a scratch off and it's kind of fucked up. So this is why it's like...

If the guy gets hurt, I'll benefit it. I mean, should we talk about the Niners running back that chart? Considering Jeff Wilson just... Ty Davis Price, maybe? Got benched for fumbling and always gets hurt. I mean, there's Tevin Coleman and Ty Davis Price. Jordan Mason. Who is it?

Do me think it's Ty Davis-Price or do you think- Why do we call him Ty when his name's Ty when his name's Teryan, which is like the coolest name? It's just that, you know, sufficient. Shorter. Shorter.

Why do you go by Danny? Because my name is Terean. Daniel's boring. I mean, I can't argue with that. Anyway, so Shanahan, obviously has an allegiance to Taven Coleman throughout his time as a head coach. Is there anything you, like,

don't want to argue about? Argument fetch. You wanted to change my name. He's like an Australian. shepherd with just loads of energy. You've got to take them to the backyard and just start talking about stuff. The thing I've learned about having a puppy is like the way that you tire them out is they need to go sniff around, like their olfactory senses.

Like that's how they get tired because dogs can run forever. Is that right? Yeah. You do the tire out their nose more than their legs? They get more tired because that's like how they're intake. That's how they take in the world is by smell. So like when they're out sniffing around and whatever, you hide something. and I think they're called

snuffle pads. It's like a thing where you like put a little treat and you hide it in there and then they have to like sniff around and try and get it. What's my snuffle pad? I mean just arguing about

why we don't call Tyrion Davis price but that doesn't tire him out and it makes him stronger. That's like a dog running. We need to find something else. We need to like put him on a... He gets his second wing. You need to like walk on a treadmill uphill

as we record. Dude. A lot of receivers above the 40s percent. I would say Ronald Moore is a guy that if he's around, You can still grab it. He's just weirdly going to have a floor of like seven points, but also can break him.

I think he's actually kind of an exciting pickup for the second half. Like, especially with Marquis Brown is out for the year, probably. But they traded for Robbie Anderson, which is where, so Panthers, he had the whole tirade on the sideline, and then got traded to the Cardinals.

I think that was kind of the sign that Markees Brown was hurt, but it might be out for the year, which it seems he is. We can just dress him up top. Are you like, if Ron Delmore is there, you would want him. If Ron Elmore's gone,

Are you excited about Robbie Anderson? No. The Cardinals' offense is broken. It's a very weird offense. And Marquis has been great, but obviously DeAndre Hopkins will be back next week. And there's Rondale more now healthy. Plus Ertz. Plus Erds.

I don't want Robbie Anderson. I think, yeah, the focus of the offense is probably still going to be DeAnder Hopkins, Rondale, and Ertz. And then Robbie maybe fourth. Right. So I'm... AJ Green, man. I think is Robbie just basically going to go for AJ Green?

I think is Marquis Brown's. Well, the speed threat, deep threat. Patriot ground ain't no speed threat. I think I'm taking Wondell Robinson or I'm taking Corey Davis, who is the most boring wide receiver who's good. I didn't have either of those. I think I'm going to take Taekwon Thornton for the Patriots. That felt so flashing the panty to me.

He didn't eat three times. He was like fourth on their pecking order. I do think there's a chance that he continues to work his way up in the pecking order, though, because he looked really good. So can I blow you guys in mind? Yards per drop back on the season. Bills are first, Patriots are second. What?

The Patriots offense. Oh, we were making fun of it. Damn, I thought those are, I thought that was real. That was really disappointing for me personally. Wow. I don't know. It is shocking, considering the Patricia judge. Matt Patricia's offense.

Like, God damn it, this is actually working. No, yeah. Bailey Zappy and Matt Patricia are second in yards per dropback. I thought that was crazy. So it's one of those things I really don't want to acknowledge, but their offense has been good with Bailey Zappy and quarterback. So the key reason I'm taking Thorpe, again, obviously, to your point. So you had two touchdowns.

He had like almost 20 fantasy points this week, Tyquant, But I think he had five touches. Yeah. One touch to hear like 30 yards, one touchdown was like an end-around rush. Yeah, so it's totally volatile. I guess maybe I'm cheating the spirit of this of like if you could pick him up and play him this week. I'm not sure.

But I think that he's a great stash. Upshed in terms of if he starts playing more consistently. And again, Kendrick-Born heard his thing. Nelson Aguilar is out. But why would Aguilar take time away from Thornton as the season goes on? That doesn't make sense to me. And then Kendrabor got hurt his toe. But if Thornton gets in this lineup, this is the dude who we thought,

live broke the combine yard record. And before we found out that the timer was, the guy doing the timer was just doing it wrong. But regardless, this is a guy with like, what, 425, 427 speed? Yeah. He's probably one of the 10 fastest players in the NFL. Also, he looked, I mean, again, this is not everything, but he looked really good in the preseason.

It was a big disappointment when he broke, I believe he broke his collarbone. Yeah. And because he was trending towards being like a big part of this offense. I like this pick. I think it's closer to a stash for me than a next week play. It is. I'm cheating.

It is a stash. So is Wondale. Because I think Wondale is the same thing. They kind of worked him in. They started giving him more snaps. But he still only played, I think, like 40% of the snaps or something like that. Super similar. These are two rookies that were supposed to have a decently large role on an off,

an underwhelming receiving core that had an injury and are basically coming back and were not relevant on their teams still yet Sunday. The difference is the Giants' offense, I think, is still going to be somewhat limp. The Patriots offense is surprisingly alive. You're honestly right. Looking at the point totals, they put up over 24 points the last four weeks. Yeah, we just don't think of them that way. But that's kind of one's saying with Thornton.

So I think that he's more upset. Yeah. I had him on my list. I had him on my list. I had Thornton, Wondale, and Corey Davis. Also, wait, real quickly, in the email from Miles, shout up Miles with the Y,

that said, do you think Belichick drafting Taekwon Thornton was a pure Costanza play because he's the literal opposite of what the patch usually draft? And it worked. And it worked. I like it.

Okay. So I'll take Thornton. You're taking Wondale, who you're taking D. Yeah, I'll take Wendell. I guess if we're going to play somebody this week, Corey Davis for the Jets, he is apparently the apple of Zach,

Taylor's eye, Zach Taylor. Zach Wilson. He's the leading one receiver on the Jets, and it's not even that close. Last three weeks, he's led the Jets in snap rate. He's second in target rate, and he's tied for the team high with 70 routes. He's just, like, playing over all these other guys.

He's just hanging on. We're too excited about Garrett Wilson and Elijah Moore. Elijah Moore at this point is... You have to drop. There's no reason to keep him on the team. I'm sorry, especially because the whole reason Elijah Moore, remember that four-week stretch where Elijah Moore is literally a top two receiver?

That was because Zach Wilson was hurt. Right. Like, Zach Wilson being back, there's no reason to have Elijah Mourner. I'm firmly team dropping. Yeah. I mean, he literally had zero targets. Yeah, I think it's fine. But Corey, I agree.

Corey Davis is a really solid option. And I kind of can't believe none of us picked him. Craig had him on there. You don't know on your list? This next guy. John Dotson for Washington. Oh, I just, he hasn't practiced. He rostered?

Two weeks. He's not rostered enough? Wow. He recorded this Monday, so we don't know if he's going to play. So take this with a massive rate insult. But he obviously was really good when he was playing. However, Carson Wentz, fractured ring finger out for four to six weeks. Taylor Heineke, not Sim Halal, the rookie.

Taylor Heineke will be the guy coming in. To me, this is a bonus. This is a, this will help all the receivers on Washington, in my opinion. I was wondering if it would help Dotson, though, because I think Wenz was fine to chuck it up to Dotson, and Dodson was like baby D'Andre Hopkins go up and get it. And I don't know if Hineke is going to take the same risk. I don't know. Hineke feels to me like similar style, Yolo guy, like willing to push it down the field. all 17 games very close, and Terry McLaren had over 1,000 yards.

Yeah, I mean, to me, Heineke is the same style of quarterback. He's not as physically talented as wins in terms of like arm strength and stuff, but he'll throw it down the field. If Dodson does practice this week, and if he gets a full practice in by Friday, I would play Dodson over Thornton, but it's Monday, so it's hard to do it. I like this one, though. You should definitely pick him up. I agree.

Like, it's worth mentioning Dodson, but for the sake of this exercise, I don't know if you can pick a player who has literally yet to practice a single time in the last two weeks. It just feels like it's wishful thinking. But yeah, I mean, keep him in your mind, but for the sake of this exercise, it's kind of hard. For the one week exercise.

Yeah, for like this week's showdown time. Like, who would you pick if he's out? Big picture, I think that the replacement level at wide receiver this season is so, is much higher than it has been in past years because guys we haven't even mentioned yet. Alec Pierce for the Colts, who once again look good. He kind of had to touchdown at the last play to save his game,

but he's a rookie. The second round, who's playing way better. Devin DuVernay, who didn't have a great week, but is still, every week Rashad Bateman's out for the Ravens, is like the second option on that team. I don't think we mentioned Zay Jones for the Jaguars. There are a lot of, like, solid players. I'm happy to kind of mix a one-week guy in his stash.

Donovan People Jones has 50 yards in four of his six games this year. I'd rather take a guy playing. You're all just kind of gambling. They have a big catch anyway, for being honest. I'd rather take a guy that might do that more often. True. Harris Campbell played like 90% and 95 times. He started over fierce.

He's a lie to me. I actually hate him. Definitely more interested in Pierce over the rest of the season, but he's still playing way more than Pierce right now. Do you guys subscribe to playing the matchup game when you're like, all these receivers seem relatively close, right,

in terms of predictability? So do you ever just like, if you're debating between Wondale, Alec Pierce, and Corey Davis, do you just look at the team playing the worst defense? Look at the over under on the extremes. I think the over under in the middle ground is kind of,

but if one player is playing in a game that has a top five over under the week and one players in the bottom five, go with the one word more touchdowns will be scored. Just a good rule. them. So, no showdown. No. Sad.

Ooh. Wait, so sorry. Wait, where is Robbie Anderson on this list? What if he does have connection? I don't know. He's somewhere in the middle there. I agree. I don't really. I think I'd have Wondale, Alec Pierce, Corey Davis, and then maybe with Robbie Anderson. You have Markey's Brown and he is out for the season. Dotson over him,

Wondale over him, Tyquant Thornton over him. Corey Davis over Robbie Anderson? Yeah. The only thing about Corey Davis is like, I think You know exactly what he is. He's not going to get any better. I guess Robbie Anderson has the allure of the unknown. Yeah, exactly. He's the mystery box.

He is the, yeah. It could even be Cory Davis. Right. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Okay. Josh Reynolds? Did we say him?

No, we did not. Yeah, the lines were on by. We don't know what that goes up with those receivers. A lot of good receivers are out this way. And then it's important because so many receivers are on by. Okay. Tight ends. This is, this, I'm going to really focus here because I have Dallas Goddard.

Oh, yeah. Johnnett's on by, Earth Smith's on by, and Tyler Higby's on by. And also Knox in playing. So, T.K., who's your tight end after week six? This is close for me. And it comes down to two guys, but I'm going to go with Mike Gisicki for the Dolphins. So this week he had a 63% snap rate, which was a season 9, 100% route rate. So he ran the number one tight end of the week.

Yeah, he ran a route. That's true. He ran a route on all of his snaps, which is great. He ran a route on 76% of the team's offensive snaps, which is really, good compared to what he has been doing. And he had a 16% target right. So all these are season highs plus his six catches, 69 yards and two touchdowns, all season highs.

In the past, he has not been playing enough to be like a viable start. You cannot put him in the way he's, the way that they were utilizing him over the last like, whatever, five weeks. But I think you have to take the chance that maybe that they're just going to utilize him much more going down the stretch. Like they franchise tagged him for like $10 million and then they were playing him like 30% of the time.

So maybe this is a sign that they're going to start utilizing. more. And I think he's actually like a pretty good player. because he's not a tight end. He's a wide receiver. He's essentially, yeah, he's just like a big wide receiver and he's a good red zone target, you know, I don't know like what the deal is, why they're not utilizing it more.

They just have like multiple tight ends. They've been kind of like rotating these guys. But all the signs, all the utilization from this week was really strong. And so I think that you have to take the chance that he's going to continue. I mean, look at what he did last year. Like he was a really good playmaker for them last season.

Obviously a different coach staff, but he's a good player. He's got talent. He's big red zone guy. And with the, Clint Pickens at tight end this year, you just kind of have to bank on the idea that he could start being utilized as someone that you can start in fantasy.

So all the numbers from this week were solid in terms of his underlying usage, and hopefully that will continue. I guess that's like my best pitch for him. Obviously, he's going to be volatile, though. I hear everything you're saying, and you're probably logically correct, but there's a part of me that just kind of irrationally doesn't like him. Yeah, that's fair.

And part of me just, I think that there is, there's definitely a chance he just doesn't. He plays like 12 snaps the next week. No, I know. That's the risk. But there's no good answer, right? Because you're right. It's kind of like a weirdly overture of the Taston Hill argument of like,

well, no, everyone can burn you, so why not just take the guy actually capable of attacking? I mean, yeah, Giskeki has one catch or less in half his games this year. So I think for that reason, I think this is not like a sexy answer either. I'm going to go with Robert Donion from Packers, who. Oh, wow. That wasn't even my second choice, but that's so funny. Yeah. He had 10 catches this one.

week and Tanya played half a season last year and had 18 catches in like eight, eight games last year. So almost half is, more than half is total from last season. I don't know if that's going to continue, but this Packers offense is just playing really poorly and I just, I don't know. The only thing I worry about with Tanya, and I do like Tanya, I think he's, you know, a good sort of like dump off guy for Aaron Rogers, like they have that chemistry or whatever, but the Packers were trailing like this entire game, you know, and I think they want to be

more balanced in a perfect world and not pass a ton or whatever. Like they ran the ball 19 times. That's not ideal for what they want to do. This is kind of like, it's kind of like the kiddle conversation we were having last night. Like, I don't see this usage happening every week if they're

keeping games close. No. Randall Cobb got hurts so depending on that, it'll play more, but let's be real. All these guys fucking suck. We're talking about streaming tight ends. We're buffering. I think you're right. Tassim Hill, Mike Kosicki, guys with the actual ceiling. Tanya. I said, I mean, He's bad.

Tony is fine. The other guy I was going to throw out was Hunter Henry for the Patriots, who he had four catches, 61 yards in a touchdown. He played 97% of snaps, which is a team high, 22% target rate, which is team high, 80% routes per team dropback. So he was running routes on 80% of the team's offensive plays, which is what you want. And all this was with John O. Smith also playing, which is really encouraging. So, you know, in this offense with the injuries that they've had at receiver and things like that,

Hunter Henry has over the last few weeks been pretty solid. So if he's still out there, he's another guy that you can stream at the time All right, so Craig and I got to do the Robert Tonian Showdown Time. It is. The Robert Tonian. Thank you, D.K., even though you're not participating. Showdown time! I love that we put our hands in the air

even though we're not on video right now. It's cute. All right. Do you want to read it or do you want me to do it? I got one right. All right, cool. It's from Tyler. Tyler. Tyler. We were talking about the song Shots.

I think last week. So it's going to be how many times is it his shot said? Yes. How many times is the word Shots said? in the song, shot. Oh, wow.

Shot, all right, I'm gonna quick count. Shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot. I'm gonna say like 52. That's, I'm gonna win this. 53. Because he says it,

well, no, he says it 16 times in the chorus. Who has fun with this guy? Oh, I'm gonna win this. Oh, okay. Because he says it's 16 times in the thing. Shot, shot, shot, shot. He says it, that's eight. So 16, they have three choruses.

That's four. There's four choruses. There's four choruses? How maybe I'm wrong? Let's see. 77. Okay. You know what?

I should get points for, I should get some type of points for just straight up giving an answer first. I don't know what, but I should just get extra points for that. Just being like, I'm just going to think organically and be like, 53. I could do that better, I could do that.

54. Okay. Yeah. Congrats. I was going to say 64. Yeah, our price is red. That should be not be a thing. Okay, so you got...

I get Tanyaan, you get... Who did you get... Taking a second. You want Gisiki, Craig. You should have a third choice. Oh, boy. I'm gonna do... Actually, I'm curious, was Gisiki even your second choice?

No. Wow, this is not bad tight end is. We're usually somewhat on the same. I think it's still Evan Ingram. Yeah, yeah, he's another one. He, we may have said his name more than any other tight end so far this season on the tight end.

He's been on every one of these way. and people still refuse to pick him up. They're just not listening to us. Because he's not good. Well, he's getting added and dropped, I feel like. And he's, you know, he's mediocre every week. He's kind of delivering, but not enough for you to actually, like, consider him your new starting tight end. But he's like, look at his numbers.

He puts up like seven, eight points a game. Yeah. He had 9.9 in week five, nine this last week in half BBR. Yeah, he's just fine. Yeah. Also, and if you're in a deeper league, Daniel Bellinger for the Giants, he's just. Oh, yeah. Is he good or is he just there?

I think he's pretty good. We'll call him B. Craig, how could you say that about a San Diego state alone? No, I know, but I remember him in college, and he was, like, good, but like... He was fine. Yeah, I mean, he was good, but I don't, when I see him, I'm not like, that guy's the next Dallas Carter. He just looks like a... He just looks like a guy playing tight end, who's fine. As a Giants fan, I can tell you, I like him more than I ever liked Evan Angrim already. They're very different players.

They're the opposite. Yeah. And Evan Ingram was like, boom or bust, and like, he's either, like, jukeing somebody for some sick, 30-yard catch, or he's, like, dropping a ball that hit him in face. Yeah, Evan Angrim was a wide... Like, Mike, like, Mike, he Kisicki, Evan Ingram was like a large wide receiver who couldn't block, but he also couldn't really catch, which was just infuriating. Daniel Bellinger would just say you do here. Like, is he like a Friermouth? Yeah.

Oh, like a big white guy that we can't explain why it's open. Dalton Schultz? Yeah, big white guy, we can't explain why it's open. I think he's a little more athletic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe Friar Moosey. I don't know. Bellinger is weirdly productive for a rookie tight end that wasn't even highly charged.

He's led the team in receiving two games this year. That just doesn't happen for rookie tenens outside the top 100. True. So you know what, you're right. I'm sure he's not going to get worse. I mean, it's weird that Wondale Robinson and Daniel Bellinger are straight up going to be like the top two options for Daniel Jones down the stretch. That's just odd. And Cadarious. There's a couple other guys to mention here. Did you want to move on or should we add a few?

He's tight-in-night-n-to-want-to-want. So we talked about it. Dalton Schultz, healthy scratch on Monday night football, or Sunday night football. You know what's so fun, half of people asking us about Dalton Schultz or can I add him and half a little should I cut him? Right. And this is like, to me, this would be a speculative right here. Like maybe you add him, but it sounds like the team really likes Jake Ferguson,

who had a touchdown last week, or last night. And then Peyton Henderson also played quite a bit for them. So, like, that's kind of a mess. They just signed Schultz, like a big deal. You think you're good. No, he's on a, isn't he on the franchise tag? Oh, is he? Are you talking about adding those other tight ends or adding Schultz?

I would, no, add Ferguson just in case he's like basically just taking over from Schultz. Schultz has a knee injury that's been bugging him all. season. PCL. He had the PC, which is what happened to Zeke, where Zeke had the PCL after like a few weeks. You're right, DK. And Schultz is like the same,

he's playing through a PCL. 11 million. And like everything we heard about in the preseason is the team really likes this Ferguson guy. Wow. I do think Hendershot kind of like messes it up though, because they're like basically both playing, which is not ideal. It's also a better name.

That sounds like a gun in HALA. Hender shot. So let's say there's like a league out there where you have Dallas Goddard and it's his biweek this week. And checking the waiver where there are Dalton Schultz and Pat Friarmouth are both available. If it plays, I could speak English, how quickly I want that Friarmouth?

Oh, yeah, easily. I can't help imagine like the Dach Prescott-Dolton Schultz of last year, and I'm like, oh, if that is available. Yeah, but, dude, I don't know. Part of me, I didn't think about this a lot. Can I ask you a stupid question? If Dalton Schultz,

like, he's just not as, we talk about all the tight ends are athletic. Dalton Schultz is not as athletic as, like, Dallas Goddard. Right. If you have an, if he has this PCL injury, he's playing through it, is it okay that he doesn't rely on a,

athleticism to do his job. And if that comes back, or is it more like playing in the NFL, the margins to make it are so thin that if a non-that athletic person loses the athleticism, is he just not going to be able to play? I've gone back and forth on this.

I would lean to argue the former, right? Like, if Tyree Kill or injures his PCL, that is a bigger deal than if, you know, a receiver just sits in zones and catches little dump-offs, right? I don't know. I don't know. I don't, my gut is, to tell you the truth,

have no idea. And I think if you want to cut him, you can because it probably doesn't matter that much. But if you still have them at this point, if you've made it this far, you might as will see what happens when him and Dak comes back. But I don't think it's going to matter that much to tell you the truth. I think he's going to end up like a high-end streamer. He's going to be like Irv Smith by a cooler name. The other guy that is, this is a deep sleeper, but Kate Otten for the Buccaneers, who is the backup guy to Camer Brate, who he was out with a concussion two weeks ago came back and then her very serious. Yeah, like there was, I think I saw a report that his, uh, x-rays for a neck

break like came back negative. So he didn't break his neck, which is like the report, which is obviously really good, but like that is scary to me that that was on the table, obviously. Yeah, he got carted off. There's a chance here that break is out for a while. And obviously we know how Tom Brady likes to utilize tight ends when, you know, they have a good connection. So I don't know.

I think Otten is another guy. especially in just deeper leagues. Do we? Can you add Grunk? I was about to ask, do we think Gronk comes back this year? Let's see if you can even add it. I don't think so.

You could have been Steven. Someone made a great point this week that the Bucks, in addition to their interior offensive line collapsing, like they can't block. Their tight ends can't block. You know what's funny? He's like, why is Gronk available in Yahoo?

He's retired. Well, they keep because he might come back. But like, how do they decide who's on and they don't? No, they take a couple of years. Yeah, no. So every player who retired last year is still in Yahoo? Dude, I think they retired with Dany and Tomlinson from the thing. Yeah, so they'll make announcements.

I've seen this happen a couple times on Twitter. They're like, oh, by the way, these are the guys we're taking out of our, like. Who retired last year? Do we know anybody else? Well, like Frank Gore, I think he's still, you know, the real reason is because, I think, I assume,

is because if any of those players on retire, also retirements in football are so fluid, where it's not like, you know, baseball or basketball, it's like, you just kind of the league doesn't want you anymore. So if any guy got signed and they'd have to re-ad them to the system, who? Big Ben's not there.

It's because no one wants it. Is he not? No. Oh, on the sleeper platform, he's there. You can add him on sleeper. It's like, Yahoo's like, yeah, Grunk's probably going to come back. Yeah. But they know that we don't know.

All right. The Brian Winhorse. Yeah. Why would Grom be on the waivers list? I think it speaks to this week's waivers that we really deferred in opinions when usually we're actually always doing sure. One more, which again, this is a, we haven't seen Monday night football, but Greg Dolesh, for the Broncos is coming back.

Albert zero or Albert, oh no. Oh, that's better. I can't take credit for either of those. I've seen those. I think Dwayne McFarland has been doing those. D.K., can we halfway through the season, I like to do the power hour for just players DK hates? Because I think Arthur Smith is number one.

I think Albert O is number two. I don't hate Albert O. I feel like you do. You said you didn't hate MBS. Meanwhile, you hate MVS. Oh, you hate him too. You hate Valdives Gatling. I don't know.

I don't hate him. I just think it's hilarious that like he goes from, a huge hype guy in the preseason to literally playing zero snaps or like one snap. Dude, do you guys remember when my grandma came in the podcast and I said, why do you hate Pete Carroll? And she's like, I don't hate Pete Carroll. I just have a long memory.

That's, I think, D.K., with all of these players. I don't hate Alberto. I definitely do hate Arthur Smith, though. You're correct on that one. All right, let's go to quarterbacks. Count Arthur. Searing hatred. Yeah, you do.

Meanwhile, you know what you didn't mention? Falcons. They won. Beat the 49ers. I mean, they're good, but I still hate him. Winning record. Quarterbacks. Some people might have stream quarterbacks.

Kind of a weird week for it. I'm just going to throw out five names, and I want you guys to kind of blurt out an answer, and I don't know who you're going to be. This is like a Roarshack? Trevor Lawrence versus the Giants, Daniel Jones versus the Jaguars, Marcus Mario, he got like 24 points this week

against the Bengals, Teddy Bridgewater, against the Steelers if he ends up playing. Matt Ryan versus the freaking Titans. Like, who would you stream? I think I lean towards Daniel Jones for some reason. I would take Teddy Bridgewater. Oh, that's probably smarter.

That probably makes more logical sense. Why would I have any faith in day? He had 18 points in relief, Teddy Bridgewater did. Yeah, and although the Steelers, that weird Bucks game happened, the Steelers secondary is torn to shreds, and Tyree Kill and Jail and Warrie Kiel were going to light it on fire. The speed of Tyree Kill. I really just love when the fan cynicism comes out of you, too.

Right now, Highfitts is like right and high because the Giants are 5'1. I mean, I like Pickett. I don't trust our defense at all. Can't explain what happened last week. that's the most inexplicable game in the season. Actually, Colts beating the Chiefs, what was the score of that game? I think it was like a touchdown.

Yeah, that was bizarre. No, it was a field? Other than that. Was it the most inexplicable loss of the week? Remember when the Packers lost to the Jets when the Jets went one for 11 on third down? The Steelers beat the bucks. Dude, this is all nuts.

This is all crazy. The Jets had a winning record going into that game at least. The Steelers were the worst team in the league. It's pretty crazy. It's a weird week to stream. You could do Marioo if you want Jones for the rushing. I also have Trevor Williams. The Giants, a lot of Giants teams playing really well.

Yeah, Bridgewater versus Steelers. Just betting on, I'd rather bet on Tyree Kill and Waddle just break a touchdown than anything else. Also this sucks, but like Matt Ryan against the Titans? No, I feel like Matt Ryan's going to be the next. Like, so in the line of players that just absolutely disappointed, Hawkinson, who scored like 40 points and then had like one point. Taysam Hill had like, whatever, 44 touchdowns,

and then had like four points. You know what we knew. Matt Ryan is the next guy. gonna have like four points next week. We need a word for, you know, like, I mean, most of the time you go to add someone and it just sorted by last week's fantasy points. We need a word for the person where you look,

you're like, that's not, I'm not doing that. No, you got to go to what I always go to the last four weeks. You want to check last four weeks. But what's the word for the guy that's like at the top? Because you saw quarterback streamers. Matt Ryan's going to be at the top of the list, but you're just like, that's bait. That's, you know what else?

The meme like, ah, that's bad. Oh, you know, the Mad Max? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know whatever statistic I want on Yahoo or whatever platform? You know how like the Falcons are six and O against the spread this year? I want to know which players have exceeded or not their projection in fantasy. Oh, yeah. Like Daniel Bellinger is like five and one against his projection.

Against the spread, but for players, that's pretty good actually. Daniel Bellinger's projections every week are like 4.2 points. Right. He scores like 8 every week. Like I'd love to know who. And then he's going to have 4 projected next week too. Oh, I checked. He is like 4.5.

And I was like, he's going to beat that. When can we let him have 8 points? You want math to predict the Giants beating the ratings? I don't know. Love that. That would be nice. Okay. Defenses.

There are a lot of good defenses to stream. It's kind of like the opposite. Dude, I actually added, I had an extra spot on one of my teams. I added the Patriots defense a week in advance just because of the Bears and Justin Fields. I think this is like, I don't have words to describe how ruthless I think Bill Belichick's going to be versus Justin Field. Like this is going to be a blood bath. God. Isn't it on primetime too?

It is. Yeah, it is. Oh, my God. It's just, this is, I feel, I'm just like feeling sorry for the Bears right now. Belichick's streak against young quarterbacks is horrifying. Miami's getting Pittsburgh, speaking, the flip side of the Bridgewater is,

I mean, Kenny Pickett or Trubisky, whoever, just, I mean, that feels like a smash. It's a little weird because Brian Flores, it's like his defensive staff still for the Miami Dolphins and sports is on the Steelers. I don't know if that would help them, but overall, whoever plays quarterbacks and Steelers against Miami, I guess it's going to be Chubisky,

but I mean, Stravisky. Broncos versus the Jets. Broncos D is good, and again, the Jets won because of, like, defense and special teams for the most part. Again, one for 11 on third down against the Broncos. I think that's like a pretty great ad.

Raiders versus Houston, Raiders aren't up by, like Max Crosby versus the Texans. Kind of like that. And then if you have to do, on the Titans Colts. By the way, the Texans fired Jack Easterby.

Oh my God. That's right. The weirdest fucking storyline. in the NFL lately. Just why, how did he get that job? What strings did he pull for that? Well,

it's the most bizarre thing. I think I got a pull. He was a character coach and like a chaplain. He was literally a chaplain for the Patriots. So, well, he did the best part. Which I didn't even know was a thing.

He did. Right. Well, it's so, well, no. The darker side of it is, I think it was post Aaron Hernandez's arrest, the Patriots, like Bill Belcher was like, wow, we need some,

bring someone in. And they brought in this guy, Jack Easterby. And he was, again, just the team chaplain. And then there's an amazing story from Sports Illustrated by, it's Jenny Vrentas and Greg Bishop at SI.

And they did this thing where, among other things, he was referred to as Littlefinger, like in the Texans organization. But he literally did the Dwight Shrew on his resume, which is the most amazing. Assistant to the Arnold.

Where he changed his, let me get the exact thing. His resume was South Carolina's character coach, and he says, He went from appearing as the team chaplain, and he went from an assistant to the director of operations, to the assistant director of operations, to assistant director of football operations.

Oh, for crying out loud. Which is going from an assistant. Just shuffling words around. But that's a different, operations is like, how do they get the footballs and pads to the opposing team stadium? It could be like administrative work for all we know. Operations is like getting the equipment there. It's like booking airline flights.

Yeah. Director of Football Operations is like, that's John Elway's job. Like making sure the stadium has security. Yeah. Football Operations is running the football team. And they went from an assistant to the guy to running the team. Fake it until you make it. He's a schemer.

It's just, what's the timing of this? I think it's kind of funny that they just, oh, by the way, you're fired. They just found out. Yeah. Well, it's the buy week. That's probably like a, oh, I meant to tell you, you're fired. Lovie Smith just read that SIP piece. What?

I mean, we need to tell you for the last year. You're fired. We don't need you anymore. The comedy routine he did? Oh, God, yeah. Dude, some of those videos, that's Russell Wilson level cringe. It's like Michael Scott. It's Dwight's true level cringe.

Have you seen? No. Can we like pull this up? It's worth it. Can we just watch it on a computer? Well, yeah. You have to pull this up. Okay.

What do I, do you want to type in? What do I type in? Jack East to be stand-up. Jack Eustra be stand-up. It'll come up. Craig, I can just tell you. It's not good. It's bad.

I won't cry to watch this. No one's responding to anything either. It's like, what are you going to finish this? It's like, really basic. He's just like doing actions. People in California like to go surfing after football games. Yeah, it's like really stereotypical.

Hilarious. That guy ran a football team. I hope nothing but the best for him. Maybe he'll get a Netflix special next. Oh, God. Should we check? He's absolutely going to fall up, isn't he? Should we get him on the top?

He's going to get like some bigger, more powerful job. Do you think he'll get another job in like an NFL front office? No. No. But he's going to have more power somehow. Should we let him run our podcast? That's not more power. I don't think.

I don't know what our influence is. We get a lot of downloads. Yeah, we get, look at how many emails we get. Jackie's to be. If anyone knows him, please get him in touch with our. It's just like Michael Scott, when Michael Scott goes to the improv class and the only thing he knows is like the gun thing. That was like his stand-up routine.

Oh, that's so good. God. What is he's like, bust in? He's like, FBI. This is your only move. Okay. I declare this podcast over. Okay.

Thank you, D.K. Thank you, Craig. Thank you, Jesse for production help. Thank you, Lauren. Lauren. Thank you, Brian Adams. Who's that? Is that not a guy?

You tell me. I don't know. I'm like a really famous artist. What is he known for? I mean, I don't know the names of songs, once again. Is he a singer? He's a guitarist. He's a guitarist?

One of the best-selling music artists of all time. Yeah. So there's that. Okay. Oh, he did Summer of 69. Do you know why people are mad at us right now? Oh, yeah, absolutely furious. Brian Adams is like Brian Adams and like Bruce Springsteen.

And this is like you guys not recognizing if I said the boss. Is Brian Adams really that big? He's as big as Bruce Springsteen? I think so. In an offense, he asked you and you were like, is that not a guy? So I feel like he's not as big as Bruce Springsteen. I thought like, I had one of those moments where I was like, oh God, I said, like the president of the United States's name incorrectly. That was one of those moments where I literally was like, oh my God, did I get.

To be clear, we know Brian Adams. Is his name not Michael Jackson? Oh, God. No, I know. I guess I know his songs. He's a very generic name. I don't know. I think everyone, no matter your age,

there are like, probably, there's an artist where you know 10 of their songs and you don't necessarily know the name. Especially if he's like... People are so furious right now. People are going to be like... Driving off the road because they're so mad about this.

I know. I'm sorry, everybody. Yeah, he was born in like the Eisenhower administration. It's fine. You know the songs. That's the important part. Summer 69. Great song.

Now, D. D.K. did you get upset about that? You guys were trying to gaslight me in for like... What? I literally. I just said, I don't know who that is. I was being like vulnerable and on.

I was like, I don't know what that is. I literally, yeah, I was like, oh, I googled this guy. At what point? I mean, I've gaslit you before. You're trying to gaslight me into thinking Brian Adams isn't famous is like what I'm saying. He's been a world famous recording artist for like several decades. Yeah, he's got 15 studio albums. Canadians are coming after you, Craig.

Jesse just cut all of this. The Ben-Solak of music. This is unbelievable. This is like, well, remember when we do two? The Ben Zolika music. I literally didn't know Brian Adams. So, Solax. Remember we did the two Chusenalai for Solop with the Beatles guys?

And he got it, but only by like, Ringo. Ringo. Ringo. Oh, and he called him Ringo star. Ringo. Ringo. And we were like, Ringo. And Solick was like, why.

And we were like, well, I don't know, actually. How his name is said. Have you heard of Ringo star? I still don't know why it's not Ringo. It's just not how it's pronounced. I know. All right. Goodbye, everyone.