The Ringer NFL Show - Week 1 Matchups, Must-Starts, and Must-Benches

Episode Date: September 9, 2022

We preview the Week 1 fantasy slate with categories including The Hot Tub Club (a.k.a. the players with injury concerns), Sunday Scaries, the Family Guy Mystery Box, Silver Linings Playbook, the George Costanza, “Too Much, Do Less,” and we introduce The Danny Amendoza Line. Check out our Week 1 Fantasy Football Rankings for this week's positional rankings and more! Email us! [e-mail]. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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First episode drops. August 29th. The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Ivits. I am joined by Danny Kelly of Craig Coralbeck. Football is here, week one is here. We made it. Yeah.

If you are wondering who to start, who to sit, it's week one. Also, we made rankings for you. Fantasyf Football. Dot the ringway.com. We have in-season rankings, standard. This is big. This is big, you guys. PPR, half-PPR.

We have super flex rankings for you. Whatever you want. We got it every week of this season. We'll have rankings for you so you know, start sit. You don't have to just hope that we answer a mailbag, whatever, you know, start sit. It's like we got all your questions answered. Listen, you have more reasons now to blame us. If your team sucks this year, it is officially on us.

There you go. And also you can... Don't say that out loud. Yeah, I know, yeah. You could have left that out. It's unspoken. The default is super flex, but you can tap the little buttons. So there's like the QB, the running back, the receiver, the tight end positions.

You can click running back and you get all the running back. You can combine multiple. So if you click running back wide receiver, you get those. If you want to click all free running back receiver tight end, you'll get just flex rankings. You can get the positional. whatever's going to help you use it however you want, scoring settings, etc. But fantasy football.3.com.

Every week we'll have those. So thank you in advance to everyone for using those. And again, Craig's right. If we're wrong, just yell at us. It's fine. Blame me. For today. We're recording this episode Thursday afternoon,

so we didn't see Thursday night football. But we're going to preview the weekend with some categories because we're trying to capture the vibes heading in this Sunday. What are we feeling? You know? We're going to start Hot Tub Club. I don't know if it's more than usual or it's just a season.

It feels a lot of more injured players than I remember for like week one. There's a lot of weird stuff going on. DK, we're designating yours this season as our fake-ass doctor. Yeah. And I want you to kind of take us through Hot Tub Club and all these injury situations

and a week one with your fake-ass medical degree. I am channeling doctor literal. I don't know what his real name is on the show, but if you've seen arrest of development, there's a doctor who is absolutely just atrocious at telling the family of patients what exactly is going on. I don't know if you remember,

but one of the scenes, he comes out and he's like, yeah, it looks like they're dead. It looks like he's dead. How is he, doctor? It looks like he's dead. Oh, my God. Oh, little guy. The tears aren't coming. The tears just aren't coming.

Just to be clear, it looks like he's dead or he is dead. It just looks like he's dead. He's got like blue paint on him or something. But he's going to be fine. What is wrong with you? This is what I'm going to do. my, it looks like he's dead category. Basically, these are the injured players that I do not feel comfortable starting in any formats.

You guys can disagree with me about these. To be clear, even if they do end up playing, you're like, I still don't want it. Yeah, it looks like they're dead. So here it is. I'm going to start out. J.K. Daven's. The vibes around J.K. Dobbins to me are just not good. Like, I just can't get behind starting him.

I think I'd just rather go with it, like, just any other option, basically. I'm not going to risk it this week. even if he does end up playing. Because, number one, he came back, he's coming back from like a really tough ACL injury. If you remember the injury, he got his knee bent backwards. It did not look good. The Ravens, I don't think have any need to rush him back.

And crucially, importantly, maybe this is like him, maybe this is a red herring. Who knows? Lamar Jackson said on Wednesday, that it would be good to have J.K. Dobbins back in a few weeks. That to me feels like the truth. He accidentally kind of let it slip that Dobbins is not like close. He's not ready for this week. Well, so credit to where credits do,

J.K. Dobbins is the reason we're calling this, you the fake-ass doctor because people said, like, a month ago he wouldn't play week one. And J.K. Dobbins was like, fake-ass doctors don't know anything. I'll be ready for week one. I like this tactic of asking other players about the medical status of their teammates.

Yeah, see if they'll slip up. They're not ready to lie. I'm a terrible liar. You guys could do this to me. I'd be like, oh, God, I don't know. I just like, you ask leading questions. Like, Lamar, you think JK's back by week four? that's a good idea actually um so anyways i'm out on daubbins he might end up playing obviously keep if

you have to play him monitor the situation into sunday but right now it's not looking good number two on the list all lazart of the packers undisclosed injury apparently he got stepped on in practice he was a did not participate in practice on wednesday and thursday i was already a little bit skeptical about the whole lizard thing in the first place i just feel like this offense the the Packers offense is going to be really hit or miss at the receiver position. There's going to be one guy that goes off every week and it's going to change every week and be very frustrating. I'm just out on Lazard this week in particular because it doesn't look like he's going to play.

He has not practiced the last two days. And I don't know why they would, you know, have him come in and play after not practicing in week one. Like, this doesn't make sense to me. So that's another guy I'm just out on this week. Yeah, he's not practicing. It doesn't look good. You already don't know what's going on in Green Bay.

That makes sense. Second category. he's going to be all right this is Dr. Literal explaining to the family that that Buster lost his left hand Buster got his hand bit off by a seal How's my son?

He's going to be all right Oh my God Finally some good news There's no other way to take that That's a great attitude I gotta tell you if I was getting this news I don't know that I'd take it this well But you said he was all right

Yes he's lost his left hand so he's going to be all right. He's going to be all right. These are players that are injured that we do not, we just don't know. We're going into the weekend. We're clueless about this. We do not exactly know what's going on with these guys.

It's players to monitor. These are like the Sunday morning. You got to get up. If you're on the West Coast, you got to get up before 10. You got to check your lineup and see what the report says. It could be all right or they can be all right. I'll go through these really quickly.

Obviously, these are players you want to pay attention to over the weekend. Chris Godwin of the Buccaneers. He was a full participant practice on Wednesday. He was not seen at practice on Thursday. I don't know what the hell that means. He is eight months out from an ACL injury. Generally speaking, you want to be at least nine months out.

Well, he said today that he's a game time decision. Like, he basically said, we'll figure it out on Sunday. I don't know. This all feels like gamesmanship. I don't know. But here's the key point for Godwin is they're playing Sunday night football. And Chris Godwin is out here saying, we'll see on Sunday. But like, because they're going to be warming up

later, I just wouldn't play them because you can't have a Sunday night football player screw you and not end up playing. Unless you have like Russell Gage or something, not much you can do. Yeah, I'm with you. Next up, Zach Earths of the Cardinals. He hasn't really been practicing for the last few weeks with a calf injury. He was limited on Wednesday. This is another one where you're just going to have to monitor it to game time.

I'm generally not super excited about starting Zach Hertz if I have to. I would stream another tight end this week. I would, if you, if you were in the horrible situation, having to drop someone a week when I would add Gerald Everett from the Chargers because he's probably going to be available and that's your best bet. Here's where we get into the even more confusing guys. Michael Thomas has a hamstring. Michael Thomas. This guy. Hopefully he has two hamstrings. This fucking guy. What's got like, okay, he's missed the last two years with an ankle injury. Now he's, uh, I guess, questionable heading into this week with a hamstring injury. He did end up

practicing. I didn't see the designation what, like how much he practiced on Thursday. But to me, this is up in the air. I don't know. Like, are they going to rush him back after everything that's happened over the last two years. We'll see. I'm not super optimistic, but it's still up in there. George Kittle came down with a groin injury over the week,

I believe early this week. It doesn't look like things are good for him. I saw a report from Aaron Wilson that said he is probably going to miss this week. I think it's one thing to monitor as we go into the weekend because George Kittle is an insane person who has played through pretty serious injuries before. He comes back. He's just a

really tough guy. So annoying. This is so annoying if you drafted my George Kittle to avoid. Oh, it's awful. Time is the flat circle. We're just back with Michael Thomas and George Kettle. The whole reason you take George Kittle is like, oh, thank God. Now I don't have to worry about picking up tight ends. Boom, three days after your draft.

Now you're just scrolling through it. It's a groin injury. I don't know if I mentioned that. Gron injuries to me are like one of the worst injuries because you could just re-injure this thing. There's no amount of time that goes by that like all of a sudden your groin is better. Like you could re-injure this at any moment. He's like up.

He's like McCaffrey level for frustration. in terms of elite players at their position in fantasy football. All right, Drake London for the Falcons, who had one catch in the preseason, immediately hurt his knee, has not practiced or been really that active sense. He was limited on Wednesday and Thursday. I think I saw from Arthur Smith that they're going to have to wait until the end of the week to see how he's doing. To me, it's becoming more and more perilous that he's going to play.

Like, I'm less and less confident that he's going to play this week based on how it's gone. But I did see a video that they posted from video. from practice where he looked pretty good. Like he did not look like he was limping at all. So maybe this is just... Is that your fake-ass-doctor? This is me, yeah, this is me like putting on my fake-ass overcoat and stethoscope and saying he looked pretty good.

And you didn't hold up a video with today's newspaper of him running in practice to know. I know, seriously. So I don't know. This is another guy to monitor and check back on the weekend. Deonti Johnson of the Steelers. Oh, God. Another guy who's in the category of this fucking guy. Every week it's something with this guy.

He has a shoulder injury that he suffered in the last preseason game. On Wednesday, he was talking about how he's just trying to get through practice. See how he can't really do that much with his arm. He makes it sound not great, frankly. So that to me is worrisome. But as we've seen in the past, he has a season-end, what looks like a season-ending injury just about every game and then comes back and play.

So I don't know. Keep an eye on it. Sunday morning. Again, these are all the guys you're going to have to watch for Sunday morning. Deonti Johnson is the poster child for Hafeits' rule of if it looks bad, he's fine, but if it looks not bad at all, it's probably a horrific injury. That is Deonti Johnson. He goes down like a sack of potatoes every time he catches a slant. And I'm like, oh, there went his ACL. And then he's like back a quarter later. The shoulder injury didn't look that bad.

No, it didn't. Keep that in mind. All right. And then third category, we've removed the hook and there's been no damage. These are the injured players that we're pretty sure are playing. I'm going to run through these really quickly because I'm pretty sure all these guys are playing. Christian McCaffrey, apparently he had got kicked in the shin or something. Yeah, play him. He's fine. He's fine. Cadaristone.

Off the injury report. Great news. Love to see that. Jalen Waddle, full participant on Thursday. Looks like he's going to play. Same with Chase Edmonds, who had a groin injury. They both were full on Thursday. Wheels up for the Dolphins.

Jacobi Myers for the Patriots. He was limited, I believe, on Thursday, but it doesn't really sound that serious. I think he's going to play. Russell Gage, the Buccaneer's same deal. Miles Sanders was a full. participant looks like he's going to play in an hour oh i haven't seen an update lately but he said he expects to play in week one on monday night so those are the guys that we're not too worried about beautiful all right that's hot tub club thank you fake ass dr md danny kelly we lost him we lost him

just uh got away from us i'm sorry can we go in if you want not a lot to see maybe not for you but for us he got away from us. Can we at least go see him? I guess. There's not much to see. Fucking doctor. I love when Lucille like attacks him.

This fucking guy again. It's incredible. All right. We're going to go through a bunch of categories here. Again, what are we feeling for Sunday? First off, the most Sunday feeling. It's the Sunday Scaries. And everyone knows Sunday Scaries, but also there's a subsect of the Sunday Scaries.

That's the fantasy Sunday Scaries. We were just like, I don't know. Yeah, because the draft, drafting your fantasy team is like a Friday night. You got no worries. You're not even thinking about Monday. And then week one starts creeping up and all these guys that you drafted that you think are going to have great seasons, you start to think, oh, God, David Montgomery? Shit gets real.

Shit gets real. So, first Sunday scary, D.K. So, obviously, I've been back and forth. I'm a foot-flopper on the whole Juju Smith-Schuster thing. You are a foot-flopper. But Patrick Mahomes said something on Wednesday that made me worry, frankly. He said, and he was asked, what's the biggest difference between this year's offense versus last year's offense?

He says, quote, the biggest thing I think there's going to be a different player every single game that has a big game. It's not going to be just necessarily Tyreek and Travis every single week where it's like that with one other, where it's like one other, one of the, God damn it. Is that, is that the quote that, is that the quote? Is that, God, damn it? I can't read. you want me to finish it here

every single guy or every single game is going to be something different so I'm sorry to all you fantasy football guys you know who doesn't believe that this guy oh well I'll go a step further I don't care because I like that's fine that he said that

because what he's saying is yeah there's not going to be a Tyree kill on this team and I'm like yeah we know you know what I mean like Tyree Kill when he was a top 15 pick in fantasy every year. This is just coach speak. He's just saying that like everyone, all the receivers are good and I'm going to spread the ball around. It'd be weird if he was like, yeah, Juju's our guy. But you can price in both. That's why I'm not afraid of this. Like Tyree Kills going 15th.

He had to be really good to justify that. Juju Smith is going like, you probably got him like 70th overall. Like Mahomes's words are priced into what you paid for Juja. Yeah, but you still have to plug him into your lineup. Are you still willing to do that after he said that? No one that worries me about this whole thing. is that there's been no third option in this offense, like period, over the last few years. Like, it's been completely unreliable. You know, you just have to guess right essentially in any given week. Who's going to go off?

Like, what if that's just now the case with the second option in the passing game? Like, every week it's something new. Totally possible, but I'm like, that's the dart throw. That's why you're trying to get jujus your fourth receiver and you're hoping you win the freaking lottery. Like, look. This is the real world. He's going into your lineup.

Here's why I'm not afraid. I'm the opposite. think the Chiefs are going to destroy the Cardinals. Like Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are unkillable, like Alexander the Great, uncillable in September. Some stats. Patrick Mahomes is 11 and 2 in September.

In September, Patrick Mahomes has 41 touchdowns in three interceptions. I will say that again. 41 touchdowns in three picks. Basically, Patrick Mahomes is like 13 games in September. And if that was like a season, it would be one of the best seasons in NFL history. And it's not just a Mahomes thing. It's Andy Reid.

since Andy Reid started coaching the Chiefs, they have the most wins in September and the most points. Like Andy, like, there's a joke. I can already hear Bill Simmons making a joke about Andy Reid in January for September. But the point is they're always coming into new seasons with new wrinkles. And I'm like, meanwhile, they're playing the Cardinals who have the worst cornerback group in the NFL.

And then one of those cornerbacks in the worst cornerback group in the NFL was cooking and spilled hot oil over himself and got second degree burns and is out. And then they had to trade a seventh round pick to get a guy that Raiders were going to cut so he could start for them this week. Like, this to me is like, I am so, look, is Jude you going to have a big week? I don't know, I hope. But like, I am so ready to roll the dice on the Chief's offense this week of all weeks. Got to wear an apron.

The apron is underused in the kitchen by the lay cooker. I feel like I have a lot of aprons because they're good, like, gifts. But I don't actually use them. It is one of the most useful tools that nobody cares about because they look kind of lame. It's like knee pads. That's essentially what an apron is in the kitchen. but it is so useful. You can wipe your hands all over your body.

You got pockets left and right. The apron is incredible. What are you using knee pads for? I'm saying like a kid who like wanted to skateboard when he was like 12. He's not putting on knee pads. Have you ever tried kneeling down? This shit hurts, man.

Like no one's putting on knee pads because it's kind of lame. And I think NFL players don't wear pads. Not of these guys who are cups. I know. If you played high school football, like you know, you have the hip pads, knee pads. Dude, look at any running back.

They don't wear knee pads. They don't wear hip pads. you're right okay I'm just saying toss on an apron one day while you're preparing dinner it'll change your life all right

Craig you got a Sunday scary other than just not using aprons starting David Montgomery this week is like just staring down the barrel of a Monday morning on a Sunday the Bears O line

is a legitimate disaster this is the lowest game total the week 40 and a half points and the Niners are projected to score 24 and a half of those which leaves 16 measly points for the Bears this team

This game is just going to be a slog. The 49ers are like the slowest team in the league. They're going to run a lot. They're probably going to run even more. When you slow, it's not speed, like pace. Pace. Seconds per snap. They have the longest seconds between each snap

compared to any other team. And they're probably going to be even slower this year because now they have Trey Lansom they're going to probably run it even more. I just think the bears are going to barely have the ball. They're going to be down big, so they're probably not going to have to run it a lot. Fields might be in major garbage time catch-up mode in the second half of the game.

I just think, like, David Montgomery might get his touch. But like 15 carries for 41 yards and no touchdowns is is imminent in my mind. This feels like a JV team versus a varsity team. Like the Bears roster versus the Niners roster and like a new coach versus Kyle Shanahan. I just one of the hardest debates in fantasy football is the running back who you know generally is like start worthy. But they're going up against a great defense and an awful game script. And you're like, man, like could he punch in two touchdowns and 80 yards?

Yes. But what's more likely that or he just like rushes for 42 yards? because they're getting killed the whole game. Well, Dika, how do you feel about the Bears offense versus the Niners? I would say the only comeback or whatever a tort that I would have to that, Craig, is that they'll use them in the passing game. Like, if this is half-p-p-r or PPR, he's still going to have value because he's going to be utilized in the passing game.

They're going to have dump-offs. Maybe that's me just rationalizing because I'm kind of excited about David Montgomery this year. So if you go back to their final preseason game, like he was basically getting all the snaps with the first-team offense, which means in my mind that they're going to utilize them in the passing. game in the two minute, you know, offense, all that stuff. He's going to have enough catches to make himself at least start worthy, maybe not like have a super high ceiling in this game.

So that's the only thing I would say about that. My next category, which is a good segue here, is the Cambucha Girl player of the weekend. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google, girl tries kombucha for the first time. It's like this famous meme where she's basically like, she takes a, I can't remember the exact order. She takes sip is like, no. Well, no. well

I've seen that meme a thousand times I had no idea that was kombucha I just knew her as the meme woman who goes like oh well yeah it's kombucha that that was one of like the real I don't know if it was vine or TikTok but it was a real OG viral

meme at the very beginning of the video she's like this smells like a public restroom I've never seen the video I've only seen the kid it's funny she's like popular now on TikTok she has like millions of followers, I believe. Yeah. So anyways, this is my reaction to trying to talk myself into Justin Fields this week. So big picture, like, Justin Fields is probably not going to be a starter in 12

team leagues, like, especially non-superflex. But I think there's a world in which he is a sleeper this year in fantasy because of his running ability. Like, obviously that is a big part, the Konami code. It's a cheat code. Hyfitz hates it, but it's reality. It's just stupid fucking rules. But yeah. Well, it's a cheat code in the current rules as they're set. Right. Yeah, it's just dumb rules. It's a giant loophole. I look back. Over Justin Fields is over his last

let's see here, seven starts or I think it was over his last seven starts, he averaged 52 yards rushing per game. Guess who also averaged 52 rushing yards per game last year? Jalen Hertz. Jalen freaking hurts, who we love because he runs, even if he's not a very good passer, and even if he

needs the fourth quarter to like score 20 fantasy points, this is like, I'm just like trying to build his scenario here where I'm actually into Justin Fields, but I'm doing the kombucha thing where I'm like, ah, no. Well, no. But this is why he's either on your bench, if you're in a deeper league, or he's just on waivers. And if he does something cool, you're

at, you'll add him, right? Yeah, but you've got to be balzy to, like, start him this week. I'm guessing not very many people are going to start. No one. Maybe Superflex. Maybe super flex. Maybe you get super flex. Sure. And two quarterback leagues, yeah, sure. But like, if you're in a one quarterback league, you're not doing it. Do you guys know that the starting right tackle protecting Justin Fields' blindside is a fifth round rookie out of southern Utah.

Yeah. What's the Southern Utah schedule? Remember when the Patriot drafted Lucas Strange and we were going through, what college did you go to? Chattanooga. Chattanooga. Lucas Strange. I don't think his name was Lucas Strange. Whatever his name was.

We're talking about Nuga. Cole Strange. I combined. Dude, by the way, I forgot to mention this. Someone emailed us and offered to buy us a Chattanooga Cole Strange jersey. I just want to say thank you. In retrospect, we didn't see that email in time. I felt bad like responding like a.

month later and like saying yes, send us this thing. But we do appreciate it. I'd love to finish every Sunday night show with a Nuga update. How'd they do this week? How'd you do? Anyways. Yeah, I think it would be very ballsy if you started Justin Fields against the 49ers, who are a very good defense.

But like the fourth quarter, baby, he's going to be running for his life. Yeah, that's the difference to me between Jalen Hertz and Justin Fields is Jalen Hertz is running because he thinks it's the right thing to do. and Justin Fields is running because he doesn't want to die. Because he has Southern Utah rookie boxing jokes. I have the worst fucking attorneys. The worst fucking attorneys. Southern Utah's first game is against Bethesda University,

which is such a small school. They don't even have a link on sports reference. Made up school. Utah Tech. St. Mary's. You're Utah Tech? Yeah, I was thinking of the same thing. This sounds like the league from the movie accepted.

They just like had a made-up college. slipped in there? Can we do, we should do two colleges one line. Is it there like acronym shit or something like that? Yeah, South Harmon Institute of Technology. That's such a good, that's an underrated movie. That should be really much. Very underrated. I don't think any of that was based in Utah, though.

I have a sneaking feeling. While we're on the Bears here, Fields is not playing. Montgomery, we didn't really resolve. But this is the first, in Argue, I don't know. We've invented something incredible. You guys know of the Mendoza line. which is like in baseball

if a player is hitting over 200, but really it's just, you know, it doesn't mean it's great if you're 201, but like you gotta be over the Mendoza line. You gotta get there. It's a threshold to tell

if a player is good enough to be on the field in baseball, right? That's kind of generally what it is. Yeah, exactly. So we were thinking, we need a Mendoza line for like the flex. Like,

we need a Mendoza line for like, am I going to put this guy in my lineup? We're not saying like he's good, but we're like, all right, can I put this guy in? Like, you know. And feel somewhat comfortable with the situation. Tall enough to ride the roller coaster.

And so we were thinking, well, who is the player who represents that Mendoza line? Who was the worst player that was still over the Mendoza line most weeks? And we realized it's Danny Amandola. Which then brought us to the Amendoza line. The Danny Amendoza line. And so we will, for this season, we're going to have a little test here of just, is this player over the Danny and Mendoza line. Now, David Montgomery obviously is for the season.

But for this week, Craig, are you saying, like, you don't like David Montgomery enough that you would like bet you're saying he's below the Danny Amendoza line? Because that's aggressive. By next week, we're going to have a number of where we want to set the Amendoza line at, like whatever, nine points, 10 points, 11 points, whatever it is where we feel comfortable or not. Because we've got David Montgomery basically ranked like 40th out of all the position players. So you're being pretty aggressive if you're saying he's on. Yes, I am lower on him than both of you by a significant. margin. To be honest, like, if we're saying it's around 10 points, that's 100 yards, no touchdowns, that's 50 yards, receiving, 50 yards rushing. I don't think that's going to happen. I think he's below

the Mendoza line. I disagree. So we were having this discussion offline, like, you would rather start Josh Jacobs this week, like, by a lot. Like, you're way more excited about Josh Jacobs. Easily. Let's do a bet. Let's, let's bet. I think Montgomery is going to outscore Josh Jacobs this week. Done. Let's play ball. What are we putting on this? Five bucks? I don't know. Let's go big. Let's go really big. $10.10. 10 dollars.

That wasn't what I met. Everybody is, I feel like before the season starts, everybody's so Pollyannish about each offense. It's like, like, nobody ever thinks about the fact that there are like dozens of games every year where offenses put up like six points. Wait, can I tell you something? Polyana is one of those words that I always hear. I'm like, I have no idea what that means. It means like overly optimistic. Oh, okay.

That works. Okay. Sorry. I should figure that out. That was easy. Exclus. Yeah. A quick Google search could have solved your problem.

I don't know. I just wanted to be vulnerable amongst my friends. No, you know what? I respect that. There's a great Pete Holmes joke about how there's no wonder anymore in the world. If you're like, where's Tom Petty from? You can just find out immediately, but back in the good old days, you'd have no idea. And then 10 years down the road, you met some guy to bar and he happened to grow up with Tom Petty.

And you're like, holy shit. Tom Petty's from Florida. Anyway, that's what Paul Yanish means. We used to look up to God for answers. Now we looked down to our phone and check fantasy. rankings. Our fantasy rankings. Fantasy football.

Dot the rear. Okay. So, but, all right, but so, all right, well, we'll say,

Josh Jacobs. I can't believe there's a Josh Jacobs been already and I'm not related. I'm not involved in it. I'm with D.K.

actually, I think, no, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm actually with, I, gun to my head, I think Josh Jacobs because that's,

that game's going to be more points. Oh, boy. For this week? The lowest total of the week for it's like the highest total the week. Dude, Nick Bosa is going to like,

this. By the way, we got to stipulate. Were we talking to half PBR here? Yeah, sure. Nick Bosa is going to eat the guy from Nuga alive or whoever held the right tackle. Southern Utah. I don't think playing Utah Tech prepared that left tackle. It's a friend, Justin Fields.

All right. We got to move on talking about a different game for the love of God. All right. The next category is the Family Guy Mystery Box. If you listen to us for the NFL Draft show, you know this one, but there's that family guy joke where basically Peter and Lois are being offered a boat. but they could also... So fun, I'd explain every time.

They're being offered a boat. And he's like, or you could have what's in the mystery box. And the box is like the size of a shoe box. Yeah. And Lois is like, Peter, take the boat. And he's like, but the mystery box could be anything. Could even be a boat. This is way more prevalent in my daily life than I'd ever like to admit.

D.K., who's your first, like, mystery box team player of the week? The entire 49ers offense, speaking of, I love that we're like highlighting this specific game most this week. Like one of the worst games. The game with the lowest total. They're like 10 point favorites. Don't worry. I went here because I thought we were done with this game.

We will talk about other teams here eventually. But I do think it's like the 49ers are a complete mystery box to me because we do not know what Trey Lance is going to bring to the table. Like we just don't know. We don't exactly how the offense is going to look. We don't know if it's going to be super, super run heavy, even more run heavy than we think. Like we don't know what Debo Samuel is going.

going to bring iuk iuk has gotten so much hype in this offseason is the best player in forty nineers camp all this stuff like is he going to live up to that um we don't know really what's expected in the run game i don't know to me they're just like this is a very scary situation starting any of these players from the 49ers offense except for lance like i feel pretty confident about land you feel afraid starting debo well i don't feel afraid starting him i just i don't know i don't know what to expect essentially you know okay there's a there's a high letdown rate i think we have no idea how the Niners are going to allocate the ball, right? Like, we just don't know if Debo's going to get the same volume we did last year that made

him a top five wide receiver. Like, it just could be completely different this year. Yeah, it's, I think, look, and again, I know a lot of people who listen to this has taken Shrey Lance on our home. And I think that one of the reasons we like Lance is because he's so cheap. And like, the upside is insane. And I still believe in it. I think the downs, but we also didn't really love Debo this year for the same reason of, like,

paying for the certainty of Debo was terrifying. Paying for the, like, the potential of Lance was cool. But yeah, I agree. It's like, I really want to see if he sucks a football or not. I really hope he doesn't. But, man, we got to find out. The other mystery box that I just, as soon as we talked with the family, I think, I was like, you know what?

The mystery box, it's like, what's in the box? It's the Patriots offense, man. What is this going to be? They're playing the offense this week. It's like, Bill Belichick is the, it's like, you could have a boat. You know, you could have like a good offense coordinator, run your offense. And he's like, well, the. mystery box. It's like, what if the defensive coordinator runs my offense? It's like, it could be

anything. It could even be a good offense. And I'm like, like, you know, I don't want to beat this to death. We've talked about it a lot. And like, we'll just see, right? Two days, like, you know, there's not much to kind of analyze here. I'm just, I don't have many patriots that I've been, like, excited about. Damien Hayt. Like, the only guy I feel like on the Patriots I've been even interested in really is like Ramandri Stevenson, just because he could shoot up. I just want to see what the hell is going on here. I'm like, is it going to be competent or not? I feel, I feel, I feel like you could argue every single player on this offense is worrisome to me. Even straight down to Mac Jones, obviously, like, Mac Jones is a super flex guy only.

But after a very promising rookie season, which he looked pretty good and pretty poised and confident and accurate and all the things that you want to see from a rookie quarterback. He was the best rookie quarterback last year. Now you're putting him in a situation where it's like, what the fuck? What are we doing here? I don't know who the leading receiver is going to be. I guess I assume it's going to be Jacoby Myers, but Devante Parker's new here. there are more players who could, if everyone stays healthy on the entire league, more players could lead the Patriots in receiving than probably any team in the NFL.

Yeah. So, yeah. Jacobi Myers, I assume is the top guy, but they got Devonai Parker. Nelson Aguilor has gotten a ton of hype in the offseason. They have two fucking tight ends. They have a tight end platoon. So I don't trust either of those guys. And then the running backs, Damien Harris is in danger of being supplanted by Romantrey-Stevenson, but it might not matter because Thai Montgomery is coming here.

to ruin all our dreams and make it a three-man rotation. Yeah, but he's hurt, right? He's not playing this. He was limited. Sorry, I should have mentioned this earlier because it does apply to Harris and Stevenson. Like, he was limited at practice. He might play. Like, that's the point where, like, Ty Montgomery being limited as a third running back

might take the GEOCet. Like, it's just, this is not a fun situation. It sucks. If you have Damien Harris, you probably have to play them. But honestly, you might not, depending on your options. And it's just, it's not, this is just wild. And like, we'll see. Maybe it'll be a good offense.

Well, Hyfitz, this is why we invented the Amendoza line. In your gut, How many patriots are above the line? Literally just, well, Hunter Henry, if he's your best tight end, but even Hunter Henry, I'm like, he's just a red zone option. I'm a little worried about the usage for Hunter Henry just being touched on our bust as much as a tightening can be, other than like old Jimmy Graham. Honestly, the only patriot for me that's above the Amendoza line this week is Damien Harris.

And even then it's like, not Romantre? You could flex Vermont. Well, no, not even in 12 team league. You should not be flexing Ramonja. I don't know. I think I think I think I would say Harrison Ramandria. Craig, what do you think? Yeah, I guess Amendoza line is that, yeah,

Ramonja's sure. He's hitting 205, but yes, he's above the line. Right. You got to hope for a few catches here and there. Yeah. Yeah, I think I agree. The two running backs. Sticking in this game,

my other mystery box is the dolphins, man. Totally. How Shanahanee will this team be? Last year, this team, you know, they were fast-paced, ran a ton of plays, and this year, the preseason, they look like the Niners. They were slow.

They ran a lot. Zone running scheme. like yards after catch creating plays, you know, like, is this just going to be a three-headed monster of Edmonds, Tyreek and Waddle? Tyreek was seeing 10 plus targets

a game in Kansas City. And the games he didn't, he was not thrilled by it. You know, like, are they going to force feed him the ball? Will he be the alpha in this offense or will he just kind of be a cog in the Mike McDaniel offense?

Will this just be short, intermediate passes to the two guys that they try and get them in yards after they catch situations? You know, how much are they going to run the ball compared to throw it? Like, is two are going to go deep?

There's just so much about this offense that we don't know a lot about. Absolutely. Yeah. I cannot wait to watch this offense, to be honest. But, like, it could be a total disaster. It wouldn't surprise me all that much. It could even be a boat. It could even be a boat.

Who do you guys think is going to win this game? I think it's the dolphins. And, like, maybe that it's crazy. It's really hard to know because, you know, betting on Mike McDaniel to beat Bill Belichick sounds pretty stupid. But you know what? I believe that the Patriots offense is tough. And, like, it's important to remember this.

The week one of the NFL really is an extension of the preseason now. Like it is. And I don't actually think the Patriots solved their offense. And I kind of think the dolphins, I kind of think the dolphins win. I mean, there's a massive talent imbalance on the offenses.

So if you want to at least go by the roster, it's Miami. All right, we got another one here. Silver linings playbook. But it's not about the Eagles. We should rename this. But either way, basically silver linings alert. Yeah.

Hyphins and I were like, what do you call? it when something good comes out of something bad. Oh, silver linings. Okay. Okay, anyway, my silver linings playbook is Elijah Moore playing with anybody but Zach Wilson? Like, you don't want your starting quarterback that was selected second overall

last year to get hurt. But we don't talk enough about the fact that, like, not only did the Jets get better last year was Zach Wilson, any quarterback, Josh Johnson signed 12 days, they were better with him. Mike White, never heard of. Mike White. Better than Zach Wilson. and executing their offense.

Elijah Moore averages 29 yards a game with Zach Wilson and 84 with any other quarterback. Oh my God. That's insane. It's unbelievable. Wait, so 30 to 80. More than double. Yeah, triple pretty much.

Holy shit. Also, so Joe Flacco is going to start, and there was this funny story we heard that there was an interesting exchange that occurred in the betting channel of the fantasy points, Discord, Scott Barrett's company of Fantasy Points. the other day. And Elijah Moore's uncle was in the discord. Yeah, he was talking about his

nephew and how great his nephew is, of course. And then at the end, he said, Flacco will feed him. Take your time, Zach, no rush, L.O.L. Like, obviously, you want your nephew to do well. And the numbers are very clear. Like, Flacco is going to feed Elijah Moore. Like, that is what he did last year. It was a very small sample, of course. But everything, all the vibes around Zach Moore, or, sorry, Elijah Moore are really, really good during this preseason. Like, he's the best player on their field. He's a star just waiting to happen. However, the vibes, man, if Zach Wilson was starting, like, I would be very scared.

Elijah Moore's uncle was like, take your time, Zach. Yeah. He's lost over this. That's like the way infinitely more polite version of what Odell Beckham's dad did with the bacon. It's the same thing. It's just one person's being, like, nice about it. I love that he was just in a Discord chatting it up. I know.

I don't know anything about like this is the new world of Discord servers. I think it's funny that they're called Discord servers. Like, why are we calling it a server? I don't know how to respond to that. Like, what else do you call a server? Like, that's, it's just bizarre to me.

I got nothing for you. Do you call like G-chat like a server? Like America on-line? A-Well online. Like, what was the instant messenger? That wasn't a server. I just think it's weird that it's a service. I also like that you used it. Like, we're in a new area of like discourse, but you just said Discord instead of the discourse.

No, it was, it's, Discord is the company. No, I know, I know, but you, I know, I know it is, but I just, I absolutely don't know how any of this works. We're either all like, I'm the dog typing on the computer. What's going on? You know that, you know that, oh, it's this Roger Sherman Slack Avatar, the greatest. It's just like, uh, you know that little baby deer at the keyboard being bottle fed, just typing?

I do not, just me. Now, am I the old person? We're in a tough point in society where there's too many memes and you can't even talk to your friends about it. It's like television shows. I completely agree. It's like, you know that meme? It's like, no, I have a completely different algorithm that the advertisers want me to see. So I don't see the memes you see.

Sometimes I see a meme and I'm like, I don't ever want to know what this means. Don't tell me. I never want to learn this. I'm never going to use it. A lot of the succession memes were that way. I don't understand them because I've only seen like three episodes of succession. That's all. I don't want to learn.

Is this where we bring up the? the Don't Worry, darling. We should have had that be a category. What were you thinking? Don't worry, darling. Is that Elijah Moore's uncle, like the don't worry, darling? Just like, you know what I mean? No, don't worry, darling is Matt Stafford's elbow.

Yeah, well. Hope that's fine. All right. Next category here, I know it when I see it. And we talk about the Supreme Court definition for, first of all, we were saying, the Supreme Court basically said that porn hard to define, but you know when you see it. However, I guess a lot of people thought that what I said was Supreme Court said, porn.

Hard to find. Oh. No, hard to find. But hard to find is much funnier. It was hard to find in the 80s. You had to go to the woods. Yeah, exactly. Go to the woods.

You had to stumble upon some moldy, wet magazines in the woods, yeah. Nowadays, you can just hop in a Discord server and there's porn everywhere. It's called a fucking server. I don't know. I don't know to answer that question. I don't know. We don't call anything else servers except for servers.

I just think it's so weird. I like where DK's at. It's like the server is like where you host like the data. You know, I like. It's just why we call this a server? I don't get it. All the people who've asked us, do you guys have a discord?

This is the answer. Like this is the fucking answer. We're too hung up on why are they call it a server. I don't get it. We don't have a disc. We don't have a server. Oh my God. For the love of God.

All right. Anyway, I was talking about porn. DK. Anyway, the point is you know when you see it. And we want to talk about this, Craig brought this up as a good point. Every week one, there's a player that one game and you're like, fuck, that guy made the leap. It was like Mike Williams last year. You know, he had like 100 yards in a touchdown with Herbert in week one and you're like, oh shit. Mike Williams is going to be a massive thing. He's here. Well, it changed, but a bad example, but. Well, I mean, he was like a top 10

wide receiver last year still. Like, you know. So Craig, in honor that, who's the, I don't want to call us the porn thing. But I know. know what when I see it, guy? I think it could be Michael Pittman, man. It's crazy that Michael Pittman had 88 catches last year, 1,100 yards with Carson Wentz. And I just think the Colts, I've kind of been beating this drum all offseason, but I just think the Colts could look a lot different with Matt Ryan and Reich together. I think they're going to throw a lot more or at least be much more balanced.

They're going to have a faster offense. Again, they were super slow, ran a ton because they didn't trust Carson Went. And I just, it's going to be completely different. And I think, you know, Michael Pittman could have 150 yards in a touchdown a week one and everyone's like, oh yeah, he is just like a top 10 guy now. Right. That's a good one. Especially against Houston.

I feel the same way kind of about Kyle Pitts. But to tell you the truth, I'm most confident in it. I more just need it to happen. I don't want to live in this world where Kyle Pitts is just this hypothetical, excellent guy that'll be, I want Kyle Pitts week one against a Saints defense, a very tough defense that's rocked the Falcons for a long time. And I want Kyle Pitts to have 150 yards and two touchdowns. and I want to be like, okay, cool, this guy's going to go to the Hall of Fame,

and I get to watch this entire career. Awesome. I just wanted to begin. You know how Bill said that Seekloners was like the best running back he's ever seen after a tiny sample size? He watched one Giants game. It was like great pick. I want to declare Kyle Pitts a Hall of Famer.

We want validation, right? Like, we just want, okay, okay, yes, this is happening. That's how I feel, that's how I feel this year about CD Lamb. Like, if CD Lamb goes out and has four catches for 45 yards this weekend, like I might, you might, You guys might need to check on me because I'm going to be like distraught. I've been hyping in a ball off season. And there were moments last year, especially down the stretch where like he was kind of invisible.

Like, Cedric Wilson was outscoring him like in way too many games. Like if C.D. Lamb doesn't lift off. If there's no rocket ship in this game one, I'm going to be worried. The best take any of us had all year was Craig saying C.D. Lamb, too wiry. Don't like him. Not enough meat on his bones. I hope he's drinking his milk tonight. I, it's like, but you know what? Because if he's not good, you're just going to feel so good for not

having CD-Land. I know, it's going to suck if he actually like tweaks an ankle on like week two. And I like kind of feel okay about it because it was part of my prediction. Well, hopefully it doesn't look that bad. Or no, hopefully it does look bad so that it's fine. So it'll be fine. Okay. So always a bunch of players every week that's just like if you're not first, your last, the Ricky Bobby stuff. People who defy the bell curve. Yeah, these are these are the players. And I'm just going to say it, Cadaristone is the definition of this player. He's He's either going to have 13 catches for 145 yards and two touchdowns and score 45 points in fantasy, or he's going to get hurt on the second drive and have zero catches, and that's going to be it.

Like, he's either or. Like, he's either going to win you your week or you're going to lose your week because of Kadar's turn. We should bet whatever his over is in the first quarter, we should just hammer that because he's going to get targeted probably like seven times in the first quarter and probably get hurt. But it's worth it. I would take every Cadarious Tony under this season just so you can capture the value of when he's ruled out for the game in the second quarter. He's off the injury report, baby.

This is maybe the most underrated news of this entire week. Cadarius Tony off the injury report as of at least Thursday afternoon. If only someone had started this episode with the injury report. Just saying, I want to reiterate it. I'm just very excited to see what Tony can do. I mean, he's like nobody moves like him. I'm a Giants fan and somehow I'm exhausted of this guy. Yeah.

I hope he's awesome. I just, I am, I would put myself as I have guarded my hope because I have, I have seen and learned too much. That's fair. All right. Next category. The George Costanza, if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite must be right. Yeah, so this is the guy you're starting exactly because your instinct is to not start him.

And that's Miles Sanders for me this week. Miles Sanders hasn't scored a touchdown in 620 days. Wait, wait, was that before? after COVID. I don't know. Who knows? I don't know. 620 days. That's a lot of days, guys.

That's so many days. It's a lot of days. Boston Scott is like a bad cold that won't go away. Kenneth Gainwell is like everybody's preseason crush every single season. Jalen Hertz, stealing goal line work. You know, they brought in A.J. Brown. They've revamped their past catchers. They claimed Trey Sermin for the 49ers.

They claimed Trey Sermin. you know, to top it all off, Miles Sanders is dealing with a hamstring injury. Oh, God, come on. And yet, I'm starting. Is it so sane? Yeah. What does George say?

Instead of tuna and toast, I'm going to do a chicken salad on rye, untoasted with a side of potato salad and a cup of tea. I don't know, man. I just think Miles Sanders is good. If you look at the last five weeks you played last year, he had like 90 yards a game. Detroit's terrible against the run.

They have an awesome O-line. They have a fantastic O-line, Philadelphia. Detroit gave up the third most points to running backs. Also, some narratives are so prevalent, especially locally that the teams actually respond. The Eagles are intensely hyper aware that Miles Sanders didn't score

a touchdown last year. I actually genuinely think they try to get him a touchdown in this game. And I'm not always saying like that matters. I think that stat chasing happens for like the end of year with like the last two weeks for like contract incentives. But certain things like the Miles Sanders stuff of like he had to answer questions

about are you starting running back, and that was embarrassing. He's, like, he's kind of just been embarrassed. And I think it's important to remember, these guys are human. The number one thing every athletes want is to win, but it's more like 1A, 1B, nobody wants to be embarrassed at this level.

Like, no, it's almost equal to winning. And I actually think it's been so bad for Males Sanders. I think they try to get him the first Eagles touchdown of the year. I'm serious. You should bet that. I like this. I actually should. I should.

I really think so. They're not going to sub him. out in this game, I don't think. Miles Sanders has even said that this season is a little personal to him and he wants to get the respect he finally deserves. Yeah. And to be clear, I'm not saying like, oh, they're going to get him 30 touchdowns. I'm saying they're just going to get the monkey off his back for his own confidence

and so they don't have to hear about it anymore. 620 days. Yeah. That was good, Craig. Next one, we got the Sarah Marshall quote when he's trying, when Coon, he's trying to teach him on his service. Kunu, too much. Do less.

Too much. too much. Now you're not doing anything. Actually, you're doing nothing now, so you actually have to get up. But yeah, this is my don't overthink it. Just too much, do less. Josh Jacobs, and this is, we argued about this earlier. DK, can I, we'll hop in a Discord and then duke it out.

I kind of can't believe my corner is dead zone running backs today, but here we are. Yeah, this is bold. I don't think it is. He's a good, he is a good starting running back in a game with the second highest total of the week. Do you remember the last time these two teams played, the charges and the Raiders? it was like 70 points were put up in that game Josh Jacobs had 130 yards, 26 carries His only competition is a rookie who's fourth on the depth chart

And two journeymen, third down backs, who are over 30 years old I'm taking crazy pills Just don't overthink it, start Josh Jacobs I mean, you can start Josh Jacobs Yeah, yeah, sure Cool We're not going to be excited about it, Craig, but okay, fine, geez My whole point with Josh Jacobs was just any round

where you're going to get them, I like the receivers better or the quarter extra ten-ins. Like every single time he's available. I'm just like, I like other people there. The hate has gone too far. I think we're bored of him. We're bored of him. But I'm just saying don't bench you.

If you have them, I wouldn't bench him. Like, you probably have him. You probably need to play them. Sure. But if you're like, oh, man, like, I'm thinking about starting Robert Woods, but, you know, that's an easy decision because I have Josh Jacobs,

who the ringer fantasy guys have been shitting on. It's like, no. I think, like, Josh Jacobs is starting running back close 1,000 yards and eight touchdowns every year. I'll, I'll go this. To reiterate earlier, I would rather play Josh Jacobs than even David Montgomery this week just because the difference between Josh Jacobs being a running back

against the Chargers and like all the points that could be exchanged versus David Montgomery and my very, my big concerns for that Niners defense. You know why? Maybe I'm maybe I'm just too anchored. But like, man, that that bears bucks game last year when Tampa Bay just like fraud. You know when like you watch like a nature video and it's like the lion finally like gets the little animal and then they just shake them around?

Or like your dog with a toy. You know your dog or your cat just has like murder practice with their toy and they're just shaking it? That was like the box of feels. And I'm just thinking about Nick Bosa first that southern Utah left tackle. So I'm like, yeah, you know what? I'd rather have John. Can't wait for Braxton Jones to have the last last last. This podcast has spoken more about that Southern Utah tackled than any other podcast in sports media this week.

So what about Southern Utah? They must have a podcast. Everyone's theirs got a podcast. Actually, no, you know what? I bet we actually do talk about them more than that freaking. If anyone Listen to this Is that Southern Utah

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We play some other than the Bethesda of California All right guys, I forgot to mention this on the podcast. I forgot to tweet about it. People were kind of like, what the hell is wrong with you? There was a squirrel in my living room the other day. We were just all sitting there. And all of a sudden, there was a fucking squirrel there. Like, I don't know how this goddamn thing got in the house. I think maybe it fell in through the chimney or something like that. All of a sudden, there's just a fucking squirrel in my living room. My puppy, George, starts chasing this thing around. The squirrel keeps jumping at the window trying to get out,

because obviously he's scared as hell. Calvin, my son, my son, three-year-old son is sitting there on the couch, I go grab him. He's like, Daddy. Like, he's like all freaked out because it's just total mayhem. It was like out of a movie. And like, we're just screaming like, what the fuck? How did that thing get in here? And all this. This is my, there's a squirrel in the living room player of the week. Like, I was wondering where you were going with this. I was like, what are you talking about? Long preamble, guys. That's what we do here. Basically, this is the guy. Every week, I feel like, not every week, but like many weeks during a fantasy season, there's one guy that just creates mayhem and scores like 50 points.

Like, you throw out all the projections, you throw out, like, who's supposed to, who has a better team? This person is going to win because of this player this week. And so my stipulation is that we have to be, it has to be someone who's like, in theory, going to be in some lineups, which of course is like, you know, there's a wide range of leagues. There's a wide range of like numbers of teams, all that stuff. But who is your player this week that? That's, you know, that's is going to be the squirrel in the living room. I'm going with Rahim Moster of the Dolphins. What, yeah, what do you envision with Rahim?

So I think that they're going to have a split with him and Edmonds, where Edmonds is more of like a pass-catching guy and like third downs and just involved in the passing game. And I think Moster could have a bigger role on first and second down than we think. And like, as we've seen, he could just run for 75 yards and it touched on in the first play. And then, of course, like if they continue to run and continue to run, it could get ugly. There's a world I'm describing and I'm imagining. and reverse engineering

where Rahim Moster is like the squirrel in the living room of the week. It's a bold prediction. Mine would probably be Chase Claypool, especially with Deontay Johnson.

I like that. Pickens is like, you know, the flavor of the month. Deontay Johnson's super banged up and Chase Clayball is just going to be like murdering people out of the slot

and he could have like that's a great one. That's a great one. I mean, I don't know if anyone's going to play it, but I mean, the answer is obvious. It's Mike Davis.

I think people could play them and I love this. Like Davis is the starting running back for the Baltimore Ravens this week. Like, no one wants to come to grips with it. I know, look, I burn people, don't care. Mike Davis is so above the Amendoza line this week.

It's not even funny. Like, if you are stuck with, like, Alan's, if you were, like, banking, I'm playing Alan's Ard, you don't know where you're going to do to flex this week. Mike Davis is totally, it also makes sense football-wise that the, like, the Jets are going to be like, yeah, sure, we don't want Lamar to get the ball. Every option, like, just give it to Mike Davis.

Like, crash down on Lamar. Mike Davis gets all the handle. I'm telling you, man. Can I go one? I'm going to go one step further. It's going to be Kenyon Drake, not Mike Davis. No, I would die.

I would literally never come back and be a podcast again. That would be amazing. I would just not return. Fair. All right. This was incredible. Email us at ringer fantasy football

at gmail.com. If you have any thoughts on any of this, fantasy questions, thoughts on categories, other fake doctors instead of the rest of the development doctor. Real quick, Zach Ertz did not practice today.

We saw this as we're recording. So don't play them this week. That's it. Fake ass doctor time. Well, if he plays, maybe he can play him. Yeah, but he's probably not going to play if he didn't practice today. For all the people who have injured players on their lineups, set your alarm Sunday morning. You got to get up.

Oh, I also have an alarm. If Zach Gertz is out, don't play him. He's going to be all right. Check out our rankings. Fantasyfutball.com. We have rankings every week. If you have a start sick questions, please check out our rankings. We're really happy about it.

Check those out. Thank you, D.K. Thank you, Craig. Thank you to everybody who does the behind the scenes work in the rankings. Riley McAty for dealing with us way more than he ever should have to. Thank you to Dan Comer for fact check. Thank you to all the copy dust. Thank you to all the developers.

Everyone involved with the fantasy rankings. Thank you so much. And thank you to Braxton Jones. Good luck this weekend. I got it, dude. Thank you, Lauren. Thank you, Lupe Fiasco. Ooh. I used to love Lupe when I was in like... Lazers was such an amazing album, but like that song was

everywhere. Yeah, it was. Hip Hop Saved My Life. Fantastic song. Lupe was just like killing it. I don't know what happened to him. Well, he, I would if Kyrie Irving's like a contrarian without a cause, I would say Lupi Fiasco is a contrarian like with a cause.

Did you say Fiasco? Fiasco? What did you say? Fiasco. What did you say? Fiasco? I don't know. Isn't that one of those words? You can say it either way? I think it's fiasco. I mean, that's definitely how I think it's based on the word. Isn't the word

fiasco, fiasco? I've heard it both ways. It's like aunt. I don't know. I don't know if it is. Also, D.K. says cambucha. We didn't talk about that. We did? Yeah, he says cambucha.

What is it? Combucha. It's, I don't want to say cum, but it's kombucha. You don't want to say come. He's walking me into saying come on there. You don't want to say the word C-O-M-E? It's kombucha. I did not know that, actually.

I like that everyone just got a window in how D-K is like almost 40, but he's actually just seven. He's like, what, you don't want to say C-O-M-I? I thought it was pronounced Cambocha. God I'm an idiot Well no I was talking about what you just said there Fiasca Fiasca I was I was rattling

I knew what he was talking about Fiasco can be pronounced both ways I'm doing this I don't I don't know I've never heard somebody say fiasco Yeah unless they like Spent some time in Britain Yeah or are you like a Hitchcock film

I just watch you know those weird YouTube videos That are like how do you pronounce the word I'm like one who makes all those Right like that's just some guy's interpretation of the word Is that like Webster's dictionary That's your opinion It's an Italian word in English.

Yeah, but Fiosco, you're saying it with a British accent. Fiosco doesn't, I don't know. This is what I'm saying. If it's like the British, God bless them. They anglicize a lot of, like, for instance, French words. Like, they'll say fillet instead of fillet. Oh, yeah, I was watching Mastership. Because, fuck it.

Why would we say it their way? Yeah, Gordon Ramsey had one of those that was, oh, because there's the aluminum or whatever. Aluminium. Aluminium. Yeah, there's Gordon Ramsey called it. Oh, no, it's a spice. No, I just forgot it. Shit.

Look it up. Look it up all we're thinking. Oregano? Oregono. Oregon. That was it. Oregon. Oregon.

Anyway. Anyway. I feel like we got off the Lupe and fiasco thing. Fiasco. The point was it was like the, you know, it was a good album. I'm guessing. It's good. The Italians probably do pronounce it Fiasco, right?

I don't know. I don't speak Italian. I don't speak Italian. If you are Italian, I just know. Look into it, Craig. We'll find out. We can look into it. Okay.

All right. Goodbye, everyone.