The Ringer NFL Show - Week 10 Matchups, Must-Starts, and Must-Benches

Episode Date: November 11, 2022

We kick off our NFL Week 10 preview by discussing why Josh Allen’s elbow and Justin Herbert’s matchup give us the Sunday scaries, figuring out who the Colts are as an offense, whether Najee Harris can be trusted, which offenses have shootout potential, and finally, list our George Costanza picks of the week for the fantasy players we want to start despite what our instincts are telling us. Check out our Week 10 Fantasy Football Rankings for this week's 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

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DK. Yes. What are your Sunday scaries? Your Sunday. What are you scared of? What are you so scared of, D.K.? Look, I'm a little afraid for Josh Allen and his elbow to be specific. It kind of, it feels like it's trending towards him not playing,

and maybe not playing for a few weeks here. The bills are playing their cards very close to chest right now, but he has not practiced Wednesday or Thursday. And I think the whisper is going around, or is like the best thing for him would just be to rest for like several weeks and just get it healed up. So I guess number one, I don't know what to do with Josh As of Thursday afternoon, we do not know what his status is.

So what are you guys thinking about this whole situation? You could probably drop them, right? Yes, got to be. Sure, sure. The hardest part of doing this job every week is the injuries and figure out what's severe, what's not, who's going to play, who's not. And I don't have many rules, like hard and fresh, but if a coach declines to even answer whether his starting quarterback has thrown a football this week, I don't think he's going to play.

That's like a good rule of thumb. that's usually like an we have an unanswerable question category here that's like a very answerable question has your quarterback thrown at football so if let's just assume Josh Allen isn't playing I guess the rest of my Sunday scurries are

what do we do with the rest of this team obviously you're going to start Stefan Diggs probably regardless if Case Keatnam is out there Gabe Dave I might sit Gabe Dave honestly if I'm like on the fence about this Dossin Knox he wasn't running enough routes anyway so he It feels like sitting on the bench.

Gabe Dave is totally sitable. Because the entire reason you have Gabe Dave on your team is because you're hoping that Josh Allen's going to throw something like 50 yards in the air to Gabe Dave in stride. And I don't think Case Keatom's going to do that. It's weird to me that Case Keatim and Stefan Diggs are both facing the Vikings and they did the Minneapolis miracle. That's kind of crazy. Oh, yeah. Also, like, everyone, the stats been going around about Stefan Diggs's like best five career games

and the top four are not with Josh Allen. So everyone's like, oh, he'll be fine with Case Keatom. His second best game ever is of Keith Steeham. and Kirk Cousins and all these other players. But the only other thing is that Minnesota is terrible against the past. Their cornerbacks get shredded every week. So I actually, I don't know. If you're in a pinch, I still don't think Gabe Davis is that bad with Case Keenum.

It's a good point. The Vikings are frauds. The funny thing that just came to my mind is... They are. What's that? The Vikings are frauds. They're seven and one, but this will be their fifth backup quarterback that they've played this season. That is, that is the thing.

But, yes, you guys were talking about how, like, you want Gabe Dave because of the off chance that Josh. Chowen is going to throw like a 70-yard pass to him. That's exactly what he did immediately after injuring his elbow, hit off of Gabe Davis's face. Wait, that pass? I couldn't believe this. There was a lot of versions of the stats,

so take up the grain of salt, but by next-gen stats, that pass that he threw two plays after he hurt his elbow is the longest pass that's been thrown in the air in a game in six years. That one? That one. Now, there's a lot of ways to mess. measure it, but like, is there's like air yard, but like by one metric of how they measure it.

And I'm like, he did that immediately after he hurt his elbow. And I'm like, does that mean he's an alien? Does that mean he made it worse? I don't know how I, every, again, it's every, the older I get, the more I'm like, I don't know anything about the human body. I feel like I know less now that I'm older, not more. Well, I feel like when athletes suffer certain injuries in game, it doesn't matter until after the game.

Like, remember when Clay Thompson tours ACL in the NBA finals, then jogged back. out of the locker room and played like two minutes on defense, he just played with a torn ACL. Like players are just aliens in game when it's important even if they're injured. It doesn't matter. It's like the parents lifting a car to save their baby deal. It's like you just find the strength.

The other thing, by the way, that is nerve-wracking about this whole bill situation. It's not just the passing game. What do we do with this run game? Devon Singletary the nominal starter, but now they got Nahim Hines involved. James Cook played more than I think we were expecting last week, so

maybe this is going to be like a three-headed rotation. I don't know. I think everything about the bills this week is just kind of frustrating. Outside of like you're starting stuff on digs and that's the only thing I feel good about. You don't play any of the bills running backs except Devin Singletary under any circumstance. And you probably probably still play Devon Singletary. Under any circumstance? Well, I don't know about that. But yes, I think generally speaking.

With that said, if Case Keenan plays, I think I'm going to bet the bills. I think I agree. No, I think they're going to be the Vikings. Vikings fans are seething right now. The Vikings fans, no. First, two things. One, Vikings have not won by more than eight points since week one. So on paper, yeah, they're seven and one. They just keep winning these like one possession games.

And then two, shoot, shout out Austin. Austin, Gale here at the ringer for finding this. I love this stat. Obvious passing downs. So it's like second and third down, seven or more yards to go. Kirk Cousins is literally dead last in expected points per dropback. In anything where the defense knows you're going to pass the ball. like 38th.

And like all the bad quarterbacks ahead of him are ahead of him on that. Think about all the quarterbacks that have played this year. This man has made like $200 million in his career. It's otherworldly. The Vikings have played one playoff team this year and they got murdered by them.

It was the Eagles. They played the Dolphins, but it was with Skylar Thompson. They haven't played anybody. Yeah, so. I think it's a good Sunday scary, DK. And obviously, if Josh Allen does play,

you still play Cash Allen. All right, Craig, what's your Sunday scary for this week? Justin Herbert against the Niners? I have Justin Herbert in two of my three fantasy leagues I'm terrified to start him but I have no other option. Sunday night, which is fun game

but the Niners are favored by seven. The Chargers are five and three and the Niners are four and four and the Niners are favored by a touchdown and both starting court. I mean obviously like Keenan Allen and Mike Williams are hurt but still like that's pretty wild to me. That's interesting. Yeah.

The Niners are coming off a buy their defense is getting better. They're giving up the least yards per game in the league, the six least points per game. Like I said, they're getting healthier. And, man, Herbert has actually been one of the biggest disappointments in fantasy football this year at quarterback.

You could argue he's been number one. I mean, he was drafted in that elite crew, right? He was in the top five. It was like Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Kyler Murray, and then Herbert. Like, Herbert was justifiably the second or third quarterback off the board.

He's averaged 14 fantasy points per game over his last four games. averaging 5.4 yards per pass a temp. That's only ahead of Mac Jones and the entire NFL in his last four games. This is the best, this is the best D he's played all year other than Denver. And when he played Denver, he had nine fantasy points. So if you, you know, if you're in a one quarterback league and you have a backup on your bench, do you have like Gno Smith, Jimmy G, Daniel Jones, dare I say, Jared Gough against the Bears? I think all of those. players. I mean, we have to just accept

reality. Justin Herbert's not doing it right now. He has no weapons around him. He's dinkin and Duncan and he's playing the Niners. I hate this matchup for him and I would consider all those other guys over him this week. This is good. This is a good Sunday scary. What's the meme where it's like the Ferrari or

whatever, Maybach that's sitting in like just the little lap covered area by a crappy house? Yeah. This is the Chargers offense right now. I think we got so excited about her because of what he is physically. He has a cannon for an arm.

He can make some of the most impossible throws of any quarterback in the NFL legitimately. Like, he's up there with Josh Allen in terms of arm strength. But he's running this just crappy offense and he doesn't have any guys around him. It's so frustrating. I hate it.

He has this rib injury and I'm just waiting. Like, I just am so, I feel so positive we're going to get the, like, the Ian Rappaport tweet on like January 9th that it turns out Justin Herbert was playing all year with four fractured ribs and also, you know what I mean? One collapsed,

lungs. Exactly. Oh, my God. We're going to get one of those and just be like, yeah, it doesn't talk about it. But it's not a coincidence to me that he just has not been as good as soon as we were concerned for his internal organs being exploded on prime time football. And he hasn't been the same since. Yeah.

I mean, they're getting the ball out quick. He gets hit like the least in the league in part because I think they've designed their game plan around not having to make him take hits. And Michael Bandy is like a person that we thought was fake four weeks ago and is now like a somewhat important part of their offense. It's just a disaster. I guess we're going to have to wait until Keenan and Michael Williams come back and see

if it gets any better. But like Herbert is borderline like a fringe starter now. Gun to your head. Like for this week, like if you have to get this right to live, would you rather have Justin Herbert or Jared Goff for fantasy,

for most fantasy points this week? The Lions are playing the Bears. Oh my God. You will die if you get this wrong. I'm going Herbert. I'm going Herbert. I would, oh God, it's one of those things where I would go Herbert as well, but I would kind of really go with Gough. You know what I mean? Like, I'm going to pick Herbert publicly if the gun is to my head.

But if I have a fantasy league and like I'm like four and four, I'm starting Jared Gough. Fuck it. That's insane. We have him 11th on our quarterback rankings in fantasy this week. I think that's pretty fair. Yeah, I don't know. He could be lower. He could be lower.

14 points a game. What was last four weeks? We're still anchoring. We're probably, it's a cool name. Yeah. All right. Probably unanswerable questions.

Again, how many passes is Josh Allen thrown in the last week? Answerable, these are the unanswerable questions, D.K. What are the Colts, would you say? What the hell is this team? They're a thought experiment. What are we?

What are we doing here, Colts? They're like a hypothetical. Seriously. New head coach, Jeff Saturday, who has no head coaching experience. at the college or NFL level. He had some mediocre head coaching. It was not on the team this year.

In Division I or it was like A-level high school football, whatever. Did you see his impassioned press conference Saturday? I did. Yeah. I enjoyed it. Have you ever heard of his new offensive coordinator, Parks Frazier? Oh, okay. He sounds like an actor in a CW show.

So I stalked Parks Frazier. Because Parks Frazier, first of all, he's been the offensive coordinator for what, a couple days? I just thought his name is Parker. I can't believe his name is Parks. Every time I've read this, I've just glossed. His name is Parks. Is that a name? Is that something?

Is that common? The first thing I Google, there are an estimated 400 people in America named Parks. 400? Yeah. Well, that sounds like a lot, but it's like that's one. No, no, it sounds like nothing to me. Yeah, yeah.

How in the hell could, how do you estimate that? They just like, there's like, birth records, I don't know, it's the census. Percutas, foxes. I don't understand how you can estimate that. It doesn't make any sense. There was something like point something for 100,000 people are named Parks. I don't know.

Parks. Anyway, it's even funnier than that. Wouldn't you either know or not know? I was like, who is this guy? He literally was assistant to the head coach. Yes, he was the Dwight Shrewt. Not assistant head coach. He's also 30.

He's 30 years old. So he's one year away from running a team like Sean McVeigh. But no, yes, before the pit. So 2018 and 19, he was assistant to the head coach, which is like straight up an entry level. job. Like, it's just the higher level of what you assume assistant work is. It's like that.

So, wow. Okay, that'll be cool. Also, by the way, Sam Ellinger is the starting quarterback. Sam Elinger. Saturday, Parks, Frazier, Ellinger. Linger. Linger. This is the weirdest NFL team, maybe ever.

Every year, one NFL team should be allowed to just kind of retire for the rest of the season. They just say, like, we're good. The SpongeBob meme? I'm out. I'm a head out. I'm out. And that should be the Colts. I have a prediction, though, about the Colts.

Are they going to win? No. Oh, we could do it. This felt like a Craig thing coming on. I don't think they're going to win. I think Matt Ryan's going to play again this year and be the starter once again. Yeah. I would feel that way, except that apparently one of the, I would believe anything.

But I think reading the tea leaves, one of the reasons Parks Frazier is Park, or is it Park or Parks? I already have forgotten. You said Park. I said Parks. Is that right? I got it. I don't know. Well, okay.

So his name is Randall. His name is Randall. His name is Randall Parks Frazier. The official Colts website just has him as Parks. It's his middle name. Maybe he changed. There's an actor named Randall Park who's been in things. Randy Parks.

I pulled that off the official website and I should have just triple check. That's so funny. That's so much less fun. Randall. I wonder if he's named after Randall Park. Is there a Randall Park somewhere kind of like how Taysom Hill is named after Taysam Rotary Park? in wherever it is Utah. I didn't know that.

Did you know this story? Taysam Hill is named after a supremely mediocre looking park called Tassum Rotary Park. I looked it up online. Is that like where his parents met or something? It's like a field. Yeah. Well, it's where he was potentially conceived. The thought.

The thought. I don't have any proof of that, nor have I read anywhere that that's what happened, but that's what many people believe. Many people are saying, Tayom was conceived at Tayson Rotary Park. Maybe he was conceived at Randall Park. Is that what's happening here? Well, I think that if that's what he sees,

I think that this might be where a lot of this Colsera just dies. I don't know. Craig doesn't know for the record. But anyway, like Matt Ryan's back practicing, and I kind of just think Elinger has been a disaster and Jeff Saturday's just going to start Matt Ryan. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.

Where I was growing up, that was Park Frazier, I think is better at Sam Elinger. But the funniest thing that can happen, though, with all of this. Because again, the whole Frank Reich Colts tenure didn't work out because he took the job

because Josh McDaniels didn't like bowed out and just quit. And he did to Seth Rogen, like, I'm not fucking going. And then they couldn't get the quarterback and Andrew Luck. And now they're playing the Raiders.

And Josh McDaniels is the Raiders coach. And the funniest thing that could happen is if Jeff Saturday and the Colts just beat the Raiders. And now the Raiders are like two and seven. or whatever, and Mark Davis is like, should I fire Josh McDaniels?

That'd be like the funniest possible outcome. Anyway, this is crazy. I didn't even think about that connection. Jonathan Taylor's, you have to play Jonathan Taylor if he plays, obviously, but then like, someone asked me the other day, like not the other day, like this, like yesterday, should I cut Michael Pittman?

And I was like, wow, that's where everyone's at with these guys. And I was like, no. Tell you, hold on to him. Matt Ryan's going to play again. Hold on him Michael Pittman. Yes. Anyway, honest, it's probably a good time to trade for the cults

because everyone who has cults players are panicking. I have another unanswerable question for you guys speaking to Colts Raiders and it is answerable but I bet it's unanswerable for you guys so Hunter Renfro is an injured reserve and Darren Waller's an injured reserve too can you name all the receivers and the Las Vegas Raiders

how many can you name? Well, Matt Collins, Devontay Adams can you name another? If I told you the Raiders at a three wide receiver set could you name that third receiver? Can you give me two wide receivers one line? Give us a clue.

Yeah, oh that's a good, yeah two receivers and a lie for the Raiders Keeling Cole, DJ Turner, Dylan Simpson. I'm going to go with Simpsons on the Raiders? Which of those guys do you think is on the Raiders? Oh, God. I kind of think it's DJ Turner. Okay.

I don't know. I really don't know. I mess with you. Keel and Cole is on the Raiders. Oh, what the past is DJ Turner? I made up Dylan Simpson. I just took their back. Pull the Craig on us.

This is just such bullshit. Is Keel and Cole and DJ Turner are like going to play for this team? my next question was going to be what team is Keel and Cole on? Because I've heard of this fellow. Yeah, Keel and Cole's kind of been around. He was in a Jets and a Jags. But anyway, Raiders are wild. All right.

Other unanswerable questions. I don't know. I've never heard of DJ Turner. I don't know if that's unanswerable. Other unanswerable questions, okay. Craig, this one's directed to you a little bit because you're the resident Steelers guy. Is Najee Harris getting benched or what?

What's happening here? Mike Tomlin this week was asked basically. I think the context was, like, they were asking him, is there going to be any big changes coming out of the bike? And he essentially didn't say whether or not Naji is like the guy. So it's like an unanswer. Yeah, it's like he took the long way of not answering it and basically said,

so here, I'll just quote him. We've got some awesome contributions from Jalen Warren, and it's reasonable to expect that to continue. I know that, blah, blah, blah, when we're talking about a division of labor and who's done what and who's done what well, I know that a topic of discussion, I know that was a topic of discussion and very evident in our tape review. So basically the idea, the question was, is Jalen Warren going to take over for Naji? Because Naji's been struggling so much. And he goes, I know

that was a topic of discussion and very evident in our tape review, who's done what and who's done what well. That sounds like some coaches want Jalen Warren to play more. Yeah. What I read out of, what the reading between the lines is essentially like, look, we're aware that Jalen Warren has been playing better. Like, you know what I mean? I don't think he's committing to benching Najee Harris, but it's kind of out there right now that this could happen. I don't think it's actually going to happen,

but it's like it's in the realm of possibility, kind of put it that way. Tomlin needs to chill. This would be stupid to bench Najee Harris. Even if he's not playing as well as Jalen Warren, like why are we adding this unnecessary drama into the Steelers locker room? They're not going to make the playoffs. You're two and six.

Unless Noggi's hurt, play Naji. Play your first round running back and stop creating this weird competition where you might bench the most beloved player on the Steelers for fucking no reason. Warren may have been a little bit better, but like play Najee Harris, dude. I feel like what just happened was like a good microcos of how like a whole news cycle happens that gets people riled up. The question was basically, Jalen Warren's been playing really well. You're going to play him more?

And Mike Tomlin gave this answer to Craig's like, why are you going to bench Noggi Harris? He's like, I don't think they're going to bench Nogh Harris. They're going to play Jailen Warren more. He's been better. The unanswerable question was, is Najee Harris going to get benched? I'm saying that's insane. He should not do that. If this is like a Zeke Tony Pollard thing, I'm fine with that.

That makes sense to have an even, a 60-40 split. I think that's what's going to end up being. Look, Najee is not good in this Steelers offense because of the way the offense is running. He's getting no help behind the line of scrimmage. Noggy's like a 16-wheeler. He needs to get moving. You know what I mean? Jalen Warren is like twitchier and can make a guy miss out of the line.

the backfield. That's not really Najee Harris. And with the offensive line and the way the Steelers throw the ball, this just isn't his environment right now. So we all need to relax. If they bench Najee Harris, that'd be ridiculous. Did you mean an 18-wheeler or 16-wheelers, I think? Oh, I meant 18-wheel. Because you said that and I was like, and literally my first thought was like,

are there 16-wheelers? I've never, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's a... Let's save a couple tires. Cut down on top. I guess I've ever counted the tires. Anyway, while we're talking about Nagee, though, same vibes. Basically the same question for Leonard for the Bucks. Like, these two dudes, Fournet and Anadje,

among just like starting running backs, basically, are just the two dead last guys in yards per carry. Like, they are averaging like 3.6 yards of carry and like under, and like depending how you look at a three and a half. And I was looking at this list, and basically I wanted to make it as simple as possible. It's like guys who've had 100 carries

like halfway through a season in the last decade. Like who were starting running backs, basically. 100 carries in the last decade halfway through a season. There's 220 running backs who've done that. if you sort those 220 guys by yards per carry, Naji and Fournett are both in the bottom 15. Like outside the top 200 of those 220. Like they've been abysmal.

And if you just look at who are the other running backs who've been getting 100 carries half for two the season and not even getting three and a half yards of carry. I'm talking like Nage and Fournette in the range of Levion Bell when he was on the Jets. I'm talking Frank Gore when he was on the Jets. Frank Gore on the Colts. Carlos Hyde on the Jaguars.

Running backs who were old and never got to be a starting running back again. Like, I'm not saying that's where nausea or Fournette are, maybe Fournett is, but the level, and again, their offensive lines are bad, there's context, but everyone else who's performed at this rate basically never got to be a starting running back again.

That's sobering. It is, that is the word. It's sobering. Sobering information. I still think context matters a bit. Yeah. Brooke Pryor, who is a great reporter on the Steelers, posted this stat last week. So it was before last week, so these numbers are a little different now, but she

was talking about how many design runs the Steelers call on first down. So they've called design runs on 42% of first downs. And Najee has carried the ball 65 times in that situation and Jalen Warren 37. Noggi is averaging 3.89 yards to carry Warren 2.85. So like that just goes to show you that the reason why Warren has a higher yards per carry in general is because he's just getting like third and ones or second and long draws and stuff like that.

Najee is getting like when they're both getting the exact same style of run, Nogie's been better. And I bet you four Nets is the same way. They're just getting put in shitty situations. That's fair. That's like what a lot of Zieg people said about Tony Pollard, although I have to say this. The same list I just had like 220 running backs.

You've had 100 carries half of the season. Yards before contact per carry. Naji is six to last. He's getting hit on average. This is the real number. 0.69 yards. That's all it is. Which, it's funny that's 0.6.

Not nice. But that's a thing. Not nice. Less than a yard. He's getting hit. So part of that's that. Look at Kenyon Drake. Kenyon Drake's just good right now on the Ravens.

And it's every hole in Baltimore. It doesn't matter. That's why I was so triggered by you guys when you're like, Kenyon Drake had juice. And I'm like, the Giants had 10 men on the field. And it's like Moses partying the Red Sea in Baltimore. Like I'm not saying you could score. But one of those Kenyon Drake touchdowns you could have scored.

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Craig, you can briefly break down why the Steelers are so bad. But according to what I'm looking at, Steelers are worst among all teams in a fantasy point to opposing receivers this year. They're giving up the most points to opposing fantasy receivers or receivers in general. And the other part

that I like about this, this is a funnel pass offense into basically OLAVE and Camara now. I guess there's a chance Jarvis Nydra can come back to the Saints, but I don't think he's going to make that big of a difference. Regardless, I think OLAV is getting a ridiculous amount of targets

over the last three or four or five games. He has a 25% target rate during that stretch. like really, really good numbers. He is on pace right now, full season. I look this up. 86 catches, 1,236 yards in 16 games. So he missed one game.

He's inactive for one game. But 86 catch, 1,200 plus yard season for Olave. I feel like we've not talked about him. No, we haven't talked about him. He's having an amazing rookie year. He's quietly been the best Ricky wide receiver this year. You know what we were saying about, we were talking about this with Pickens in the preseason,

but we're saying that rookie rider receivers, it's just like porn. It's like we can't define it, you just know a good receiver is good when you see it. Chris Olavé is just very clearly good. And we'll be not just above average. Like, I don't know. Right now I'd say he's like a notch or two below great,

but like already, like half a third his rookie season. And he's like two notches below being a great receiver. He's just so clearly the best receiver on that team. And he's not even in a good environment. Like Michael Thomas has been out since week three. He's catching passes from Andy Dalton. He's just putting it all on his back. Since week three, in fact, he is a wide receiver.

He's the Y receiver 12 in PPR. He's the receiver like right around that 100 turn. If you were drafting stake this year, that it was kind of like a minefield. It was like this where like Robert Woods was going. Yeah. And like you could have just got, you know, people that haven't quite worked out. And then Chris Olaubi was just like very clearly. That was the guy.

It was fantastic. So for context, Justin Jefferson had 88 catches for 1,400 yards, eight touchdowns in his rookie year. Again, Alave's pace, 86 catches. 1,200 plus yards. What did Jefferson have? Four touchdowns. He had 88. So they're off by two there in terms of catches.

Jefferson was more explosive, at least, in his rookie year. He had 1,400 yards and eight touchdowns. But, I mean, I just, the numbers are incredible for Alave. I just think we need to recognize that. Plus, he has a great matchup this weekend against Stewart. Not to be that guy, but Justin Jefferson had a 16-game rookie year, right? Yes, I'm actually saying Olive's 16 game page is that. Oh, that's actually really good.

Because he missed one game. Oh, well, yeah. All right. Well, yeah, Chris Olave. You have them. Yeah. Any other Mario Court rainbow strips for you, D.K.? Yeah, this is your guy right here, Hyfitts.

Saquan Barkley against the Texans. Barkley coming off of his buy. Houston is giving up the most fantasy points to opposing running backs this year. 31 points a game in half beat. That's just because teams are crushing the Texans and running a lot, right, to run out the clock. Well, yes.

And I assume that's probably not going to be necessarily the case with the Giants. You never really know. But at the end of the day, they just can't defend run. They can't defend the run. Miles Sanders, rushed for 93 yards and score last week.

Two weeks before that, Derek Henry, Derek Henry rushed for 219 yards and 2 scores. 219 years. Wait, also, Derek Henry, that was his fourth

straight, 200-yard game against the Texans, which is straight up the most unbelievable football stat I've heard for in a long time. I can't.

I know. He's like tied the record for like 200-yard games in a career, but like four, do we get four times against one team is insane? I cannot believe

he's done this four times in a row. That's fucking crazy. Imagine being the Texans and every time, What do we do? Yeah, what do we do? I don't know what to do. Like, it's just their meetings.

They're like, I can't stop it. Malik Willis is making his first career start against them. They're like, oh, I don't know, guys. It's getting happening again, right? Anyways, so Henry, 219 yards and two scores a week for it. The week before that, Josh Jacobs, 143 yards and three touchdowns. This team is a sieve against the run. So I'm excited about Sequin Barkley this weekend.

I have a question. What's a sieve? It's, you know, the thing that you like, pour, like say you want to, like, get the big pieces out of, I can't think of an example here. You pour the liquid in and it like sieves. Like a colander for pasta? But it's a, but it's a cloth.

Kind of, I think, right? A sieve that I'm picturing is made out of metal. I just, I've always heard this phrase. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what a sieve, I'm Googling it. Oh, like a filter, like you're panning for gold. Yeah. Very thin.

It's like a colander, but very tiny holes. I have, I can't think of like, It's like a really applicable example. You know what it is? It's like a screen, like a window screen. Yes, yes. What is it for? I was wrong with the cheesecloth.

But same usage. Well, no, I mean, the cheesecloth is similar. Yeah. What is cheesecloth for? I just know it's like a turkey thing on Thanksgiving. We need some cheesecloth. I don't even know. It's for separating the liquids from the solids.

Like if you're making like a gravy or something and you'd want to get all like the thinner juices through and like you don't want all like the thicker stuff collecting, you pour it through a cheesecloth. Okay, what about us? So to be clear, the three of us combined, we cannot think of an example of what a sieve does. Can you just Google? I am. What do we use a sieve? Siv comes up and I googled Siv and it just gives me pasta strainers.

Like, that's all that's really coming up. I mean, what do you mean? It's used to strain things. Like, if you have a can of beans. A canad beans. So it's a kitchen tool. Yes. Well, obviously.

No, a Siv? I don't know. What I'm asking you? Because they said, Collander. The expression, hyphitz, is a kitchen. it leaks like a sieve. In other words, a sieve is not going to be holding liquid.

Okay. I just wanted to be clear. There's a lot of weird expressions in the image. So a pasta colander is not a sieve. That's what I was confusing. It's a square rectangle thing. I mean, yeah. I don't know.

They might be. The same family. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I've never seen one. It's never come up other than the face. Besides, do you call it,

you guys call it a colander? Do you not call it a strainer? No, we call it a colander. I would know what it is if you said that. We call it a strainer. Same thing. Where I'm from. People would say strain the pasta in a colander.

My point is no one calls it a sieve. That's why I was asking. Anyway, we can move on. No. I'm a, okay. Good God. Anyway. What else we got?

Yeah. Any other? What category are we on? We're on the Mario Kart sieves, yeah. We're talking about kitchen. Which teams are sives on, which teams are pasta straightens on defense? Well, two, two colanders with giant holes in them are the bears and the lions. Oh my.

This is the third highest total of the weekend. Can you believe that? The Bears and the Lions. Who would have thunk? That actually makes sense, though, because the lions are awful in defense, and then the Bears just got rid of their two best defenders. I just love that it's like Jared Goff,

Justin Fields, Darnell Mooney, Jamal Williams, and it's like, yes, third highest total of weekend. Maybe, let's ride.

This game is going to be like reality television. It's going to be, it's like these two teams are bad, and I know they're bad, but I'm not going to stop watching. It's going to be great. It's like reality TV. These are the two worst third-down defenses in the league.

They are both allowed, over 50% conversion rates on third down. God, love it. That's the best. Love it. You're right. This is reality TV.

This is empty calories. It's just, wow. It's just garbage, but I'm going to watch the whole thing. They're both bottom five and yards given up per play. The lions are allowing the fewest punts in the league. And the bears,

man, bears are here. The last three weeks, they've scored on 53% of their drives. Over half their drives, the bears are scoring. It's unbelievable how far Navy has come. Fields is the QB1. Darnel Mooney, quietly,

been a top 20 wide receiver the last three weeks. Claypool, we'll see. He had six targets on 16 routes last week. He's playing majority outside. Fields throws a great deep ball. I'm kind of bullish on Claypool for the rest of the season. And yeah, it's just weird that we're in a world now

where despite both these teams clearly not being good and they could be poised for both having top five picks in the NFL draft. Not a lot to hate, fantasy-wise, for these teams. this is related to Micah Stanza so can I just like interject with my Kastanza play of the week? This doesn't sound like a typical

stanza but like DeAndre Swift like he played nine snaps last week I feel like he's completely untrustworthy they're being very cagey and vague about what he's gonna be doing they're like playing him and they're like the lines are like acknowledging

DeAndu Swift is injured and needs time to heal and they're talking about him like he's out but then he just is active and plays but not that much well he didn't play much last week. Ooh, you're calling shenanigans.

You're saying Campbell's playing some chess. I think they're going to play him the whole game this week. Or at least this is my Costanza thinking. Every instinct I have is like, it's too risky. They could play him like three snaps and be like, ah, just take him out. But the Costanza is like, ignore that and look at the fact that this is going to be a shootout potentially. These are two bad defenses playing each other. The Bears are giving up the fifth most points to running back.

They recently traded away their two best players on defense. Like, start DeAndre Swift, maybe? Like, is this stupid? Is this a Costanza or is this kombucha girl? Like, you're like, ah, do I? Do I? Do I not? It's funny you ask that because I literally had it at it's my kombucha girl play of the week at first, and then I moved to Costanza because I thought it was just kind of galaxy braiding it. But like, I think just my instincts are like, don't play Swift.

Like, this is too risky. He might only play like five snaps. It all comes down to what else you have on your roster, right? If DeAndre Swift or like Latavius Murray, screw it. Play DeAndre Swift. Well, yeah, I think if DeAndre Swift plays, you have to play Deandre Swift. And again, for my very scientific analytics-oriented reason of, if he does great on your bench, you'll feel like the biggest moron this ever walk the year. Here's what Dan Campbell said.

We'll see what he looks like Wednesday and Thursday. If he feels a little bit better than he did last week, then yeah, he's going to get more of a load. I think that's looking pretty encouraging. What do we do with that? plays and if you put him in your fantasy lineup and he barely plays, you'll be mad at Dan Campbell. And if he is on your bench and has like 30 points, you're going to be mad at yourself. So I'll let everyone pick between that. All right.

We can go back to the rainbow strip now. Well, if bears and lions are the rainbow strip, I got to do the opposite. I have like the Mario Kart, like the banana or not even that. You know, like, when you get hit by lightning and then you become really small and you're going like four miles an hour on the Mario Kart track. That is the Broncos Titans game. The Broncos. I forgot about that. I know, right?

The Broncos Titans are... And then you can get split. You know who's the worst? I hated running into those mystery boxes with the question mark that made you think it was like one of the... Like you explode? Yeah, you're like... And you always try to drop them like exactly before the other ones and you pick up a new one. Yeah.

Holy shit. This is bringing back some memories. I haven't thought about this for probably like literally 25 years. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. Well, you'll think about it the entire Broncos Titans game because these are two of the best defenses in the NFL and two of the worst. offenses in the NFL. Like the Broncos are probably,

I would, I think the Broncos are the best defense in the NFL, and they're, like, they're allowing like the few points per drive, their number one in DVUA, all this stuff. The Titans are straight up

their best run defense in the NFL. The offenses, these literally, these are the two teams that punt the most in the entire league. Like, it's awesome. Awesome. I don't know what's going to happen.

Like, like, shout out true media. True media is like, we have, you know, true media is this great research site. We have access. too. And you can do this cool thing with matchups where you can basically look at, oh, let's look

at the Broncos running a rushing offense versus the Titans rushing defense. And like if an offense or if it teams good at something, it's like bright green. And if they're bad at saying, it's like bright red. You look at the Titans run D versus the Broncos running O, it's just Christmas. It is like everything that the Broncos are bad at, the Titans are like the best thing in the league and vice versa. Everything that the Titans can't do, the Broncos are the best of defending. Everything is Christmas. I've never seen it. I don't know what's going to happen. This game could be like 8 to 5, and I would believe it.

Eight to five. I swear to God. It's got to be the lowest total of the week. I think it could be the lowest total of the year. It's 38. I would have believed you if you said 35. The only reason it's not the lowest total of the year, I think, is because of the weather. Because I don't even know how to go into all this. Like, teams are just running less on the Titans than anybody.

They just gave up. Teams don't even try because the tightness. Titans run defense is so good. And then the Broncos can't run, but now the Broncos are going to have to pass, but the Russell Wilson passing offense has been so bad that like, how are they going to do anything? And then on the flip side, the Titans, I guess Ryan Tanel is going to come back from his ankle injury, but like hobbled Ryan Tanahill against the best pass defense in the NFL and the Broncos. It's literally just can the Titans run when the Broncos know they have to run against like one of the other defense

versus Russell Wilson having you to throw. It's just the whole thing's hilarious to me. D.K., if you had to guess, how many passing yards is Denver giving up per game? 138. 165. Wow. An average of 165. That's very impressive.

How many points are they giving up for game? The Broncos are giving up 16 and a half points per game, which is the second best to the bills. The bills are given up 14. But here's a thing. Do you know who has the fewest offensive points per game in the entire NFL? Denver. No, the Steelers, but then it's the Broncos. They're basically tied for last.

It's like 15 versus 15.1. So that's the, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know how the Broncos, this is tough, but they're going to have to throw. But seriously, Cortland Sutton's been tough to trust, but I guess you have to play. I guess you have to play. I don't know. This is like a Greg Dulcich game. Yeah, he was, he's actually my kombucha girl of the week play.

Part of me was like, you're changing your mind a lot. Yes. part, like I'm trying to talk myself into it and then I can kind of convince myself, but then also I come back to everything you just said about this game. It's probably going to be like 12 pass attempts. I think they have to throw, though.

Yeah, here's my, here was my argument. Here's like my reasoning for Greg Dulcich having a good game. You absolutely cannot fucking run on the Titans. Like they are by far, like you said, the best run defense in the NFL. Teams don't even try at this point to run. So the Broncos are going to be forced to pass. Titans are actually giving up,

and it's not a lot. it's this sounds like it's sort of misleading by saying they're giving up the fifth most points of tight ends nobody's giving up very many points to tight ends because tight ends just don't score that much but the tight ends are giving up the fifth most points of tight ends in fantasy so maybe this is the dulcitch game he's played 80% of snaps last game 91% of the routes he's running all the routes he's essentially what we thought albert o was going to be he has 12 catches for 182 yards of a score in three games he's been pretty good he's exposed so he gets down the field.

It only takes like two catches and he has, they don't get probably like 50, 60 yards. I don't know. Also like, I think I'm talking myself into it. If you have Greg Dulcitz on your fantasy team, that probably means you originally had somebody like Tyler Higby or Mike Kisicki and they disappointed you and you went and spent like 30 bucks on Dulcich off waiver. So you probably, if you have Greg Dulcich, you're probably playing Greg Dulcich.

I did not anticipate spending this much time on Broncos Titans, but one more thing. I have to ask you guys. Titans are giving. giving two and a half points. Now, I get it's going to be low scoring. But the two and a half is so specific. Like, can you, is there a bigger coaching gap in any game this season than Mike Vrable versus Nate Hackett? Like, I kind of can't believe you can only, you can get less than a field goal with Mike Vrable. After Mike Vrable, somehow, some way, almost took the chiefs to like, nearly the end of overtime last week. Yeah. At home.

It's the most obvious thing. I'm like, give me the Titans money line. Like, they have to, I don't know. Just give me the under. I don't even want to pick a team to win. Just give me the under. Yeah. Well, it'll be five to eight.

Just bet the exact score. Like 30 to one. Five to eight. Five to eight. Maybe that's my Costanza, because that and the Seahawks just. I love it when people say a score with the lower score first. The game ended five to eight. That's like not how we talk, but I like it.

Wait, while we're doing Kastanzas, I have another one I have to ask you guys about. Cambuchas or Kastanzas? Either, actually. Wait, kombucha, sorry. You're right. They're similar, I suppose. Just things again, kombucha just, you know, you're like, eh, changing my mind. Does this matter?

Does the Seahawks traveling to Munich and like, oh, the first game in Germany? Does the travel matter? I can't decide. I keep changing my mind on this because in one hand, man, Seattle to Munich. That's so far. It's very far. No, it's not. it's the same as Tampa Bay.

Just from pro football talk, Stephen Ruiz on the NFL show me this. Because the earth is round, it's not that far. It's the same distance from Texas. Is it? Is it? Well, I was going to get into that.

Wow, that's crazy. The actual distance from both cities to Munich is basically the same. It's like a 200 mile difference, basically, to go from Seattle to Munich to Tampa Bay. The flight is a half hour longer from Seattle to Tampa Bay. So from Seattle, you fly over the North Pole, essentially, or the Arctic, right? Yeah, I don't know the exact line, but yeah, basically. Not the North Pole, but like you fly over the north, like almost that way.

And then you got to go like the whole circumference of the fucking Earth to get there from. Not the circumference, but yeah. You know what I'm talking about. So I'm not explaining it correctly. But yes, you know what I'm saying. Yes, I do. So it's round. So here's the thing, though.

This is a tweet from Gino Smith. in 2018. I've been studying this whole flat earth versus globe thing and I think I may be with Kyrie on this. Before you judge,

do some homework. And so I'm wondering, I keep going back and forth. I'm like, but if Gino doesn't think that the Earth is... Now, he did follow up and say, I find it funny how you all assume

I believe Earth is flat, Lahl. I just think you guys should have an open mind because as we know, a lot of the truths that we thought were true actually aren't.

So he's an open mind. So since Gino Smith is an open mind on whether the earth is round, does that influence Does that negate the travel distance? I keep going back and forth on this. What matters?

All I'm thinking about is, what kind of treatment is Tom Brady going to get in Germany? He's going to look good on the field that day. Well, he's been there a lot because, yeah, exactly. He's used to it. He's used to the time because he keeps getting the injections in Germany. Everyone's going to come back from this week healthy. D.K. Metcats' knee is going to get healed.

Everyone's going to be feeling great on the flight home. I think that's why all the bad teams go in Germany, all the good teams wanted to go. He's like, we'll send Brady to Germany. Yeah, okay. It's like the Willy Wonka coming out of the factory, like all hobbled and stuff, and then he does like the diving flip thing.

That's going to be all these players. Man, I forgot about that flat earth thing with Gino. That's tough. Is there really ruining the fire? Is there anything you guys are more sure of than the earth being round? I don't. What I was going to say is like, look, Gino, you got a great point.

Maybe we should just assume everything we've heard is true. And this isn't something I heard. We can't get past one of the most fucking obvious things and choose something else to like base this discussion on. Like the earth is obvious. I don't think the earth is round because like my buddy in sixth grade told me and I just never looked into it again.

Like I know it's round. It's because I don't think that all the airplane pilots are in on the conspiracy and they just decide they can't fly to the edge of the fucking earth. Like what do they think happens here? I don't understand. There's no logic in which the earth is flying. the astronauts are just in on it.

We're just spending all that money. All those photos from the moon, the moon, you got to be the dumbest fucking idiot to believe the earth is flat. I swear to God. Dick, we're turning off a really large segment of our listenership right now. Like, you can't just come out here and insult. Are we? I mean, I don't know. I can't speak.

Maybe it's one of the graphics. Make your case. Email us if you think the earth is flat. I was going to say, that's why I always thought that we never went to the moon is like the funniest theory to me because people will go to such lengths to be like, I don't know about the moon thing. I'm like, you know, there's like airplanes flying like every day, right? That seems like way crazier to me that there's like tens of thousands of airplanes. This giant metal thing flying the air. Landing safe every day. And like

one went really far. That's crazy to me. Why are people so passionate about the moon landing? Like how it doesn't affect your life that has nothing to do with you? I don't know why people give a shit. And like, this is where I'm going to put my foot down. There's no way we went to the moon. But you know what I mean? But there's like 10,000 of these planes in these planes and every day that are fine. How is it's, it's not even hard to believe one of them went really far.

It's not even crazy. Yeah, but, yeah, but Haifitz, they're all in on the flat earth conspiracy and they just

don't tell anyone. All these pilots, all these fucking millions of pilots, they just don't fly a certain amount west because they just make it 90 degree left when they get

to the end of the earth. To be fair, what is the like conspiracy theory that you believe? There's no, to be fair. There's no, no,

I'm saying, we all have something that we believe that we just do think that everyone else is wrong about that we're right about. Like, for example, me, I think the craziest thing I believe is every time, like, I think microwaving shit and plastic, like, even plastic that's like, says microwave safe, poor shit. I don't think anything plastic microwave. I don't trust

microwaves. I really don't trust microwaves. I know I'm wrong. I don't get that. I don't care. Everyone else is wrong and I'm right. Wait, wait. We, I think we all came to the same exact conclusion. I'm at the point where if I stand too close to it, I like psychosome. I like, hell myself, I like, my brain feels weird. This thing is frying my brain. And I'm like, oh, and I'm like, I think I just did that because I'm afraid of the microwave. Do you think anybody tested the adverse effects of my claims? You know what? No one tested the plastic. They invented the microwave in like 1965 and no one ever did a single test since.

They're like, no one's question that once. And also like, you know what? You don't know that one tested? Whether there was BPA in your Chinese takeout container. No one tested that thing. I won't believe that. I mean, I think we all can agree that microwave is bullshit. That one's pretty obvious. Yeah. Anyway. What's yours thing, Craig? This is a great example. I got to think of something. Email us at ringer fantasy football at Gmail.com for like the most main,

like the point being, please don't tell us the earth is flat. But it's like you, everyone has something that you're like, it's, you just think everyone's wrong about. So like you're saying you were something that is generally accepted as fact, and you don't buy it. Okay. I'm going to think of something to something too. All right.

Email some ringer fantasy football at Gmail. Wait, that kind of ties into my Kstanza, right? Oh, please. It's generally something. something everybody believes is fact, but I don't. Myka stands a pick for the week is that Kenny Pickett plays well and the Steelers are going to win. This is great. I think all the Steelers are bylaws.

I missed the Wednesday show, Power Hour. I listened back. But since I was gone, I thought that I would do my own little mini Power Hour, Power Ranking the most appalling Steelers statistics this season. So I'm going to do the five appalling. Most appalling Steelers statistics the season. You guys tell me which one's your first. favorite. I rank these in order of most appalling

to slightly less appalling. Appalling is legitimately one of my favorite words. Okay. You're appallant. Number one most appalling Steelers statistic. I saw this from Warren Sharp. The Steelers longest touchdown of the season is

eight yards. Eight yards is their longest touchdown of the season. What's their longest pass? The next lowest longest touchdown is 23 yards. The Steelers is eight. The bills is 98. yards.

It was against the Steelers. The bills did that against the Steelers. You're right. 98 years. Just because they can. That might be an NFL record. I cannot imagine they finish the season that way, but even through nine weeks, that might be an NFL record.

They're not scoring a touchdown from one or than eight yards out. They're the only offense with that at TD scored from outside the red zone. And conversely, opposing teams have scored nine touchdowns from outside of the red zone against the Steelers the most in the league. So wait. Okay, this is all building up to the Steelers winning. So that was the second one. The third stat, the most appalling stat,

the only passers to have fewer passing points per attempt this season than Kenny Pickett are Skyler Thompson, Brett Rippin, and Malik Willis. Oh, my God. That's three. That's appellate. Number four, since Kenny Pickett has started the season, the Steelers have scored the least points per game in the league, 13 per game, the Steelers.

Again, this is like the Steelers are playing the elite era Legion of Boom. True. And the last one, the Steelers are giving up, or sorry, the Steelers are averaging nine yards per completed pass, the second worst in the league. And they are allowing almost 13 yards per completed pass the most in the league. Oh, my God. Okay, so they're going to win.

Gilo's going to win. So, oh, man. Craig, I get that. Yeah. Here's the thing. No, okay, they're just two and six. No, this is, I actually don't have a silver lining.

No, also the vibes are awful. The nodgy stuff. The players are sub-tweeting Tomlin online. Kenny Pickett said the team doesn't watch enough film. They're going to win. They're at home, Andy Dalton. I think they're going to win. Well, I do think that this is,

I, yeah, This is definitely the Deiante Johnson. I somehow buy it after all that. Yeah, sure. I'm going to bet, here's my bet. The Steelers are going to score a touchdown longer than eight yards. Ooh, I like that. Can we get the Fandle to give us a special over under pro?

Well, usually there's longest touchdown. I can probably find that in the game. I'll look into that. How funny would it be if it was like all the props are like, can we do Deonti Johnson longest catch over under six yards? I wouldn't bet that. You guys want to get to a couple emails? Yeah.

Well, we're talking to the power episode that Craig missed. Craig missed the Wednesday show. And so Deakin, I did it with Adam. And it was kind of like when Tyra Taylor just couldn't come for the Chargers. Craig got stabbed right before the show. But we got an email that I wanted Craig to be there for. I don't know if you saw Craig, but basically somebody emailed us saying that they were listening to the Monday episode

with trivia. And you were literally, they were joining like their class on Zoom. And then someone's playing it out loud and they get to the point where you're like, how many people have ever farted in human history? How many farts have there been? And then the entire class heard it and they thought that the person listening said it.

So I just want to shout out one, Matt, who then emailed us in with the Zoom PSA for everyone listening. A PSA, go to Zoom preferences or settings, audio, and then mute my mic when joining a meeting. Yes, that is an essential. also definitely have your video default not being on when you join a meeting. Yes, yes, yes.

That can lead to terrible things otherwise. If this even helps one person changes through Zoom settings, then I think that we may have saved your professional career. So you're well. Sometimes I forget that people with real jobs listen to our podcast. Just like a teacher listening to my ass yelling about how many farted. I do think that we now have to, we have to, we have to, We have to answer that question, right?

Next Monday, we have to see if we can figure out... How many parts have been farted into me? People are so mad that we didn't want to do like crazy questions. You know many emails we got that were like, Craig is wrong. Take the weird questions. Just make them slightly more guessable. No one wants that. No one wants the normal questions.

All right, then fine. If anybody can figure out somehow figure out generally how many farts have been farted into the atmosphere since the beginning of man, we'll answer it. It's complicated, though, because you need the... life expectancy, you got to go with what the diets were. It's a lot of work. Is it complicated? Yeah, I assume. I don't know.

No shit. Yeah, literally, yeah. All right, we've got a fantasy court here. This is from Matt. This is like Duran. I cannot believe that this is really... Matt. Matt. Dear esteemed judges, in our ESPN Beach House League, where everyone, I guess they go watch the games at the Beach House League. I know, right? Yeah, I was going to say, bourgeois. Is that something I'm supposed to know?

Well, they're in Ohio, so I guess it's a lakehouse, but... Still, flex. It's a big flex. Big flex. But the Lakehouse League, champagne problems, they have an unprecedented tie. Two teams tied, and then they went to their tiebreaker,

which was quarterback points, and they also tied a quarterback. They do not have a second tiebreaker. Yeah. So they argued about what to do, and their commissioner decided to reach out on cameo to the former Browns defense. of coordinator, Greg Williams.

The Greg Williams, the bounty He's on cameo? He's on cameo. And they asked him to be... Craig, it actually makes more sense than you. How much money does he make? Does he make $8 a month? Is it enough to fund his Twitter account? I guess there's a bounty of some sort cameo, but Greg Williams, they asked,

can we play, they sent us the cameo that Greg Williams sent back and they asked them to decide who won. Can we like play this? cameo because it I haven't seen it should I watch it right now yes you should watch it he doesn't answer the question they were just like can you also I forget to mention both the people who tied her named Chris they literally just asked him pick which Chris wins and he just didn't do it he just didn't answer the question he clear I think he thought that the purpose of what he needed to do was to motivate them to find another tiebreaker

They were like, no, Greg Williams, you're the ultimate tiebreaker. And he's like, you guys, you can find the ultimate tiebreaker. He's like, you can do it. Greg Williams thought the question was, should we tie or should we have a winner? Encourage us to keep searching for another tiebreaker. He's like, yes, obviously you should pick a winner. So, okay, thanks, thanks, Greg. So, dude, you know what we should do?

We should have a different NFL personality. like we should pay for a cameo from them and play it at the end of every episode that would be so funny and just ask them different questions Ask them pick a band Yeah like We're gonna make a band

We essentially have all these guests on our show But they're actually just cameos we paid for And they don't know It says like week 11 waiver wires Plus Randy Moss And it's actually just the Randy Moss Moss cameo That's funny

So yeah So they're appealing the judgment of Mr. Judge Greg Williams to us because he basically bounced it to a lower court. So now we have to decide the tiebreaker for this league. They do have they did send

the score of said game. But I also think it's hilarious that these two people who tied twice also are just both named Chris. Okay. So how do we tell them which one we've chosen? What if we are we just picking randomly or should we come up with like a, you know, like they need

to add up their bench totals and whoever the highest Ben's total wins. So here's the real thing. They just have non-decemal scoring. The real answer is just add up the decimals, dudes. What are you doing? Oh, yeah. Just do the quarterback scoring.

And I hate to say it. But we could just look at which quarterback outscored the other in decimal scoring. However, I think that since they appeal to us and we're judges that we can do whatever he want, and that's how like the law works, right? So should we just- Shotkin a beer, see who'd finish his first? Well, should we just pick Chris C or Chris D, which, one we like more, like which initial we like better?

I mean, I'm going to go with Chris D. I'm going to go with Chris C. Oh, for fuck sake, Craig. Looks like we got another tiebreaker. Get Craig on the line. Craig, you pick C. I pick D because my name is Danny. Hi Fitz.

I said Chris C. Fuck it. Nice. Congrats, Chris. He just did that because of me. He just didn't want to side with me. Fucking son of a bitch. Greg Williams spells his name the way Craig Lumpkin spells his name,

but with a G, G, R-E-G-G-G. Well, yeah, he's 60% G. The double G. 60%. Is that what Rosenthal says? Yeah. I just, should we get a cameo from Greg Williams, or are we afraid that he won't even answer what you say?

I'm going to go look at what NFL personalities do cameos. Or even non-a- Let's look at the list right now. Oh, my God, Scott Hansen. Ray Lewis, Matthew Barry's can Matthew Barry on, but it says a came in a show. Dude.

What if we ask them trivia questions and they have to answer? They have to guess with us. That's good. Hugh Jackson. Oh, man. Can you ask them anything you want? Like, if we asked Hugh Jackson,

how many farts have been farted into the world, would he have to answer that? No, I think he can reject it, basically. Oh, my. LeVar Ball. Oh, my God. Bruce Buffer. That's the guy that I based the Danny Kelly on.

None of the people that you've said so far are surprising. Ray Lewis. That could get dicey. All of these makes sense on some level. Ben Danucci, the Cowboys backup. Oh, my God. That's amazing. Mike Leach.

Wow. Again, all of these makes sense. My brother's really good friend, Schaefer. They all went to Oregon. He's a diehard Oregon fan, and they hate USC. And they were there when Matt Barclay was at USC and beat Oregon. And for Schaefer's birthday, my brother and his friends paid Matt Barclay to do a cameo for Schaefer, but told Matt Barclay that Schaefer was like the biggest USC fan in the world and hated Oregon.

So it's just Matt Barkley talking shit about Oregon for 60 seconds. It was so good. That's really good. That is good. Oh my God. Saturday's on cameo. Oh my God. Oh, no way.

He's on cameo. I imagine he's probably a little bit too busy now, but I'm down to apply. Jeff Saturday is $63 on cameo. Alex Madison's like 100. Alex, we can expense this. Even if we can't, I'll pay for that. Wait, can you imagine if you like answered it still? That would be like a legitimate.

All right, yeah, our Sunday awards plus Jeff Saturday. That would be a legitimate scandal if he answered our Like Florio would blog about that Now we have to figure out What was the most recent cameo he did? He got to review October 3rd So basically within a month

He was getting an NFL coaching job He was doing these kids Can we try? Let's try. We have to. We have to try. We will do this like immediately after this buyer. Craig, how much money do you think you could make a month doing cameo?

Me? Yeah. Very, very little. Like $17? Do you think it's worth it? I think we could get Jeff Saturday prices. How much would you charge? I would charge $1.

A man of the people. Oh, man. All right, we're going to get, Jeff Saturday says he's got 5.0 rating, highly responsive. He's the highly responsive. Wow. I mean, yeah, he was a fucking ESPN broadcaster.

He's just like a sports analyst. I cannot believe this. All right, we're going to get back. God, I hope this works. All right. That's what we got. DK, thank you, Craig. Thank you, Jesse Lopez for production help.

Please, please, in advance, I'm putting this out in the world. Thank you, Jeff Saturday for your appearance on this show. Thank you, everyone who emailed us. Thank you, Lauren. Lauren. Thank you, Chuck Barry. Nice. Nice.

Is there a song called Saturday? By him, I don't know. Not by him, I don't think. Oh, I was just, I mean, just a separate question. I'd be stunned if there were not a song called Saturday. I was trying to. Saturday Night's Fier, obviously. Saturday.

Oh, damn. You know what? I just literally looked. I saw some official video. I googled the Saturday song and what came up, I guess because it's just Jeff Saturday, but I just thought it was Jeff Saturday Night Live.

It's a whole thing. You guys remember Rebecca Black? She made that song Friday. I guess she had a follow-up called Saturday. I see her. Did she really? Yeah. Have we talked about this on the show before?

I don't know. I mean, odds are. We talked a lot. What is the Saturday? I don't know. I could let you. I'm going to listen to it. She would give us the rights, right?

My right, Mara, Carrie won't. But like, I want to listen to that Friday. We could get, can we think we get Rebecca Black to do a song called Sunday, like as our intro song? It's Friday. Friday. Got to get down on Friday.

If we had Rebecca Black do that for every one of our episodes, like the Wednesday episodes, like, it's Wednesday. Everybody is looking. Looking forward to the weekend. The Wikipedia. Friday was derided by many music critics and viewers, who dubbed it the worst song ever. Remember the time this girl,

like, did a song for her bar mitzvah, or bat mitzvah when she was 13 and everyone made fun of her? Like adults bullied a 13-year-old girl. I bet you Rebecca Black has more money than all three of us combined. I can't see it. In retrospect, though, because Craig, we were like younger when this happened. I can't believe adults were just making fun

of this 13-year-old girl for singing. Whatever. It's a terrible song. 13. So what? Her parents should have not let that happen. Craig, when you were saying she was derided by critics as what they dubbed the worst song ever, I was like, you ever heard me play the piano? Like, at least they didn't release it, I guess.

Yeah. I used to play the piano for my mom, and I remember distinctly, this was like when I was five years old, remember very distinctly. I was playing very beautiful music. She just came downstairs. She was like, will you stop playing piano? Her Wikipedia reads like it's a bit. It says she joined the school's musical theater program

where she felt she was, quote, meant to be. And then like three paragraphs later, it's like Friday was considered the worst song ever recorded. Oh my God, I'm in the Wikipedia, too. On November, wait. That is like, that's quite a statement. Am I having a stroke? Wait, I'm on the Wikipedia.

I just had to read it five times. It says on November 10th, 2022, Rebecca Black announced the first full-length album, Let Her Burn, which will be released sometime in early 2023. That's today. Today is, they announced her, she announced the album today.

Holy five. You know what I'm more impressed by? It's not that it happened to fall on today's date. It's that it's on Wikipedia already. Who the hell wrote that? What were the odds that we were taught? Did we, one of us see us and like, see this in the news and accept us? Like, what are the odds that we just had this conversation?

She's like, today, going to have an album. Yeah, here it is. I see it. Rebecca Black teases his debut album, let her burn. Wow. Wow. Dude, I got, Friday's catchy. Bring it back.

I bet we could get Rebecca Black on the podcast. I'm not sure that would be that interesting. She's too busy releasing her debut album if it's no. But she's going to do a PR tour. I think we should get it. the rights of one of the songs. It's like a fun little intro for us. Do you think her album is just all the days of the week?

Is it just every song? She can replace Tom Tom, yeah. Get a little Monday going. Same song. It's the exact same song. It's Monday, Monday. Honestly, that would crush, though, because that would just do TikTok numbers. That would just crush just every day.

It's, yeah. High Fitz, I don't think we were inceptive because I literally, we were talking about Jeff Saturday, and I literally was like, okay, is there a song named Saturday? We just randomly mentioned it. But there's a song called Friday. I can't believe you got that. That is weird.

Weird odd. Thank you, Rebecca Black. Thank you. All right. Goodbye, everyone.