The Ringer NFL Show - Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups. Plus, Harry Potter Character or Coachella Band?

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

The guys react to the Jets hiring a search firm to find their next GM (3:02). Then, SHOWDOWN TIME! Must-add players at each position ahead of Week 13 (7:50). Later, Craig and DK guess whether someone is an artist at next year’s Coachella or a character from Harry Potter (34:45). RB: Tank Bigsby (Jaguars), Gus Edwards (Chargers), and Ameer Abdullah (Raiders) (8:05) WR: Xavier Legette (Panthers), Devaughn Vele (Broncos), and Dontayvion Wicks (Packers) (15:07) TE: Will Dissly (Chargers), Noah Gray (Chiefs), and Cole Kmet (Bears) (24:03) QB: Caleb Williams (Bears), Matthew Stafford (Rams), and Derek Carr (Saints) (31:53) D/ST: New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Los Angeles Chargers (32:50) Check out our 2024 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings here! Email us! [e-mail] The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Social: Kiera Givens Producers: Kai Grady and Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey y'all, Sirot Sohi from The Ringer here, and I wanted to let you guys know about a new show that I'm hosting. The Ringer WNBA show. We're going to be talking about all the biggest personalities, breaking down and analyzing the latest happenings that make the W so fascinating, featuring some of the best guests and experts from around the league. Tap in with us on the brand new Ringer WNBA show feed on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Hyphen, and I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Worldback. But today we are going through all our must-add players after week 12.

Here's how it's going to work. We're going to go through waivers. Must-in-quotes. Must-add-in-clothes. Actually, it's a good call. There's no must-ad this week. This week is awful for waivers. If we're telling you the truth, there are no buys this week the week of Thanksgiving.

And it's week 13. And most, I would hope, all fantasy football now is structured basically. There's 14 weeks in the regular season. And the playoffs of like week 15, 16, and 17. And so right off the bat, here, we're going to tell you the truth. There are no buys this week. There are six teams on buy in week 14, which for most everyone is the last week of your fantasy regular season.

So this waiver show is going to be a little different than others because realistically, I bet almost nobody is like plugging a waiver player into your lineup this week. And I bet a ton of people are going to have to do that next week with your playoffs on the line. And so we're going to be trying to like double dip a little guys who might contribute this week, but we're also going to be keeping next week in line

And honestly, if you take one thing from this episode, I highly, highly, highly, highly encourage everybody to click the little button and check your starting lineup in week 14 because like Bo Nix is on by a quarterback and Anthony Richardson's on by a quarterback and Jaden Daniels is on by a quarterback. And like look at those positions.

Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson. He's going to kill a lot of people in week 14. Yeah, that's tough. Yeah. So keep it like go to your lineup right now while you're listening to the show and look at what positions you'll need in week 14. And keep those in mind while you listen to this episode because you don't, you want to be a week ahead of that.

So that's really the thing for right here. So yeah, we'll go through each position. We'll pick our favorite player from each position. And then we'll do a little trivia tiebreaker. It's not that complicated. Again, email is trivia. Ranger Fantasy Football at Gmail.com, fantasy courts, etc., etc. So there you go.

And again, no buys this week, but Broncos, Colts, Patriots, commanders, Ravens, and Texans are on by next week. It's really bad, yeah. Can we spread them out? And Nico and Stroud and John Taylor Yeah, a lot of guys on buy next week. So with the playoffs in the line. So week 14 buys.

I know. Can't. Can't abide it. So we'll get into waivers in a second. I do want to just note the follow up on the Jets. We were joking about how, like, we basically were like, why did the Jets fire Joe Douglas, the GM, when they did? And then I kind of like half joked, half kidding, was half serious when I was like,

I think they wanted to hire a search firm earlier. Well, the Jets hired a search firm. the 33rd team, which is a real website that covers the NFL, and the Jets hired, led by Mike Tannenbaum, who used to be the GM of the Jets,

and Rick Spielman, who's the GM of the Vikings, and to quote our own Sean Fennessey, who tweeted out, hiring the GM you fired to hire your next GM, can't make it up, worst franchise in professional sports.

DK, do you think it was a good idea that the Jets hired the GM that they fired to hire the next GM? I do not. I don't. You don't like that?

I don't think it's a good idea. Okay. Well, I don't know. Do you think somebody would, it's like getting your ex-wife to help you find your next partner. They know everything about you. Yeah. Maybe they could help you, they could help the new person do what they couldn't.

Maybe they happened in sex in the city at the end with Carrie. You know? Like, have you guys seen sex in the city? Yeah, but wait. I'm actually, I've never seen it. And I'm on season four. So stop talking. Oh, okay.

Please don't spoil it. I just kind of tried to not even think about what you just said. I don't even know what you're saying. Anyway, in a weird way, I was kind of like, Like if you actually play process of elimination, Woody Johnson is going to be the ambassador to England, probably again, or something, I don't know. And so do you want him to rush it?

Do you want him to do it at all? Do you want his brother do it? His brother runs business for the Jets. Do you want him to also like, that guy hired Adam Gase. You want his brother to hire? So I'm kind of like, I want his kid to do it, Brick. Dude, Brick. Okay, yeah, we found Brick Johnson's Instagram.

Woody Johnson's kid. Brick. Brick. Brick Johnson. It's crazy, too, because... Brick, Dick. How old is Brick? How old is Brick?

I think he's in college. He's college age. Which is weird because that means he was named Brick right when Anchorman came out. Do you think Woody Johnson saw Anchorman and was like, that's my son, Brick? That's that of all the people, he's the one I want to name my son after. Do you think Brick is going to get to interview? I don't know if his real name's Brick, but he goes by Brick. Either way, who goes by Brick anymore?

Yeah. Did people ever go by Brick? I was going to say. No one went by Brick. Brick was never a name. That's why they named Steve Crowell Brick. No one goes by Brick. That is the heat check of like my dad is like a billionaire ambassador who owns the Jets and we own a pharmaceutical

company and I go to Harvard. Like you can go by whatever you want. Harvard tennis. Brick Johnson. Brick Johnson. Yeah. So Brick will hire the next channel. Honestly, it kind of sounds like a porn star name.

Honestly, it does. I mean, look, well, maybe he. My reaction to this whole thing is in the age of everyone doing their own. research. Why can't this team just do their own fucking research and figure out who they want to hire instead of hiring some firm to do it for them? You know why? I think that the GMs, so like there's this weird

thing where like general managers, once you're a GM, it's very hard to be a GM somewhere else. Like very hard because either you do a good job and you stay there or no one else wants anyone's damaged goods. And it's really funny to think that like the people with experience don't

actually get a second shot. In theory, you'd think that actually be good at it now that they've already done it. You'd you could try again. However, all the GMs then kind of set up shop and then do consulting because they know what the owners need to look for, but they're not really in the market to be hired again. So you have all these people actually end up kind of advising and being a spoutence and like shadow industries. And frankly, they kind of just stay on the cash flow of all these billionaires.

It's a really funny like world. But yeah. Yeah. It's just incredible. You can just go to like the team websites and be like, look, this guy works for the so-and-so team that's been drafting well. Maybe I can interview this guy. Get the assistant GM on smart teams. It's just a thought. Yeah. I think I could do it. I could run the Jets. You could not run the Jets because I think your tenure would fail there because you can't hire Bill

Bellichick. He won't work for the Jets. Bill will work for me. That's true. That would be a challenge to my hire Bill Belichick strategy. Brick, I've been playing a lot of tennis. So if you want to link up in L.A. when you're out here, I'm assuming you are a lot. I don't know why, but I just feel like you are. Hit me up. We can play. Talk Jets. No, they're in Florida, dude. They're not going to L.A.

You don't think, look, billionaires, he's going to L.A. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. He'll be at Coachella. Maybe I'll see him at Coachella. There you go. Oh, yeah. Later, we're going to do,

Kai has prepared for us. We're going to do a game with Craig called Coachella artist or Harry Potter character. I've made a point to not look at the set list too closely. Yeah, we're going to play a little game with Craig later. Or, yeah. I haven't, I haven't binged or read Harry Potter in the last three days. So, but first we'll go through waivers.

And again, waivers is pretty gross this week. But again, it's fine because there are no teams on buy. And frankly, knock on wood, not many players are hurt by the standards of like week 12, week 13. So like, you know, again, we're going to go through this. Starting with running back, D.K., who's your number one running back, entering this week? And or next week as well. Looking around for my teams this week, I was going to go ahead and try and make a few waiver claims. And then I just went on, carried on living my life instead.

But there's like no good running backs to add this week, I would say. The best of the worst, that group, I would say, is Tank Bigsby for the Jaguars. He's been banged up last couple of games. They were on by this last week. But it sounds like Trevor Lawrence is coming back. Previously, he had sort of taken over the lead back duties for ETN. He had 18 carries and 26 carries in the two games preceding his injury. I don't feel great about this, but he's at least like a quote unquote starter for the

team. So I'm going to go with Tank Bigsby, even though they have a pretty tough lineup, schedule coming up here. They do. They play the Texans next week, and then the Titans who are actually really good. They just bobbed up to Mixing. Yeah. But he doesn't have a buy next week, which honestly, a couple of the waiver wire running back guys I was looking at do have buys next week.

So yes, I also had Tank Bigsby. I mean, he's the best running back on this team. And, you know, when he's healthy, he's probably going to get 15 carries. It's like breaking tons of tackles. Yeah. He's better than ETA and as a rusher. And I'm fine with that. Doug Peterson's going to get fired after the season. And I swear Doug Peterson just doesn't like Travis E.TN and he will probably play tank picks because he doesn't care anymore going

forward. So I like that. And also the other ones like, like Washington's in a weird situation because Washington, Brian Robinson hurt his hamstring and he entered the game and he got hurt in the first play and then it came back and then he left again. And then like Austin Neckler got like knocked out on a kick return late in that Washington Cowboys game. So I don't know if they're going to play this week. But I don't know if you want to, so Jeremy McNichols is like the last running back on that roster. And he's played for spurs. I don't know if. But he's not even like a. between the tackles guy.

They're probably going to bring back Chris Rodriguez who they had two weeks ago. They waved. And that offense in Washington is like way less sexy than it was four weeks ago. And so the combo of the offense is worse. The running back is worse.

Yeah. And they play the Titans. And they're on by the week after. That's exactly it. It's like I don't know if you want to add Jeremy McNichols or Chris Rodriguez for like, you're not going to play in this week probably.

And then you're on buys. You're going to cut them. So honestly, I agree I'll do Tink Bigsby. Yeah. However, I'll say this. Because if you go through the other options, Amir Abdullah for the Raiders,

who has had a 200 rushing yard to the season since 2017, and Nate Yonki at PFF did a good job charting. And he has like a three-down role here. But all these teams suck. The Raiders are one of the worst rushing teams in my life. So all that's to say, if you really need a guy, I agree, Tank Bigsby,

but I think that we never talk about this. But if you have a waiver system, I would rather save your waiver claim. And like, don't put, I would rather add one of these guys on free agency. Yeah. Yeah. Save your fab.

Save, like, waiver claim and just try to go higher in the order. I wouldn't add anyone this week. If you have fab money by week 13, good on you. Yeah. I'm, man. I have like $2. You just shooting? Pulling trade.

Shoot or shoot. Yeah, shoot or shoot. The other one, I'll just shout out is Rochon Johnson for the Bears who has like seven goal line carries and six touchdowns. And that's all they do is just give him one yard carries for touchdown. And that's all he does. But yeah, I'll go to thanks. I guess, guess Edwards still out there as well. Yeah.

He's playing tonight. So we don't know exactly what is. We can do. Let's do the trivia. And then we can figure out who we want to do after. It is the Tank Biggsby. showdown time. I want to time it. So on video,

it looks like I'm banging. It'd be cool for the gong was behind me. And I spin around and bang it. My buddy, my buddy, Brian offered to give us, he has a gong at his work. And he offered to give it to us. And then I he like hit it and it was just nowhere near as satisfying as

the sound effect gong. So yeah, thanks Brian. But yeah, we like the little deeper, bassier. Your gong is not good enough for us, Brian. His gong was small and it was like, ding. His gong doesn't go deep. Not deep enough for our gong.

Yeah. All right. This one's from Dan. Size kind of does matter with gongs. It does. I would say. This one's from Dan. Dan.

Dan. In recognition of Craig's claim that Ross was not in the wrong because he and Rachel were on a break during friends. I didn't say that. That was what are you? I think that was hyphids. Yeah. You hyphitz.

Oh. Well, I said it. Okay. What percentage of people in a 2019 poll said that Ross did not cheat when he and Rachel were on a break. What percent of people said that think that Ross did not cheat?

And I got to tell you guys, I guess that I nailed this. So wait, what is the female female population in the world is like 51% or something? Yeah. 50 split roughly. Can we do a quick friends refresher?

I have seen the show multiple times. They were on a break. Did Ross sleep with a woman or just make out with her? I think she worked at a kinko's. No, they slept together. They slept together. But they like ended. Ross and Rachel like,

broke up. They were on a break, but it was like on a break, but like on a break, like a break, like a break, like the next day or like two days later,

Ross slept with the girlfriend Kinkos. And this is what percentage of the total population thinks he was cheating? No, thinks that he was not cheating. Oh,

thinks that he was not cheating. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. I'll count out three, two, one. And then I'll tell you what I did.

Three, two, one. Twenty five percent. What did you say, DK? With the wrong. wrong way. I said 60. I said 66%. Okay.

And I'm going to fucking kill D.K. Because the answer is 60 on the nose. I can't tell you how confident I was I had that. Because I literally was like, well, every man, and then some women will call two thirds. Life is that's literally the exact same logic I use. I'm like, every man.

Every man. 49% plus a fraction of the women. I thought I had better faith in society and I was let down. They're on a brain. They're on a brag. They were. Okay. So, D.K., you get a thing. Do you think it was okay what Ross did?

I think it's not cheating, but it's not okay. Like, it wasn't cheating. It's like, what's that Olivia Rodriguez song? If you're ever planning on getting back together with that person. Yeah, like, Olivia Rodrigo, and she's like, you didn't cheat, but you're a traitor. Like, Ross didn't cheat, but he's a traitor. I think that's the vibe. So, D.K., you get Tank Biggsby.

Yeah, I'll take Gus Edwards going blind into Monday football, even though it happens. and I'll take Gossette with everything these people. But again, the real answer is I wouldn't even use a waiver claim. I would just like save your powder and see what happens next week. I agree. But if I have to take somebody, I'll take Amir Abdullah. Yeah, that's fine. It's brutal.

And again, the thing with the Mere Abdullah is like, so the Raiders, you know. They play on Black Friday. They play on Black Friday. But then if you need someone for week 14, it's like, will Zemir White or Madison be back by week 14? So it's all ugly. Keep all that in mind. I think White is actually an okay addition to Zemirmeer White.

He sucks. He had taken back. sort of the lead job in that backfield and then he got hurt. I know. So when he comes back, if it's this week, he could be the starter. He's sort of a speculative ad. I know, but Desmond Ritter is going to be the quarterback for the leader. It's all bad.

It's all bad. Just carry on living your life instead of placing a waiver claim on any of these guys. Wide receiver. This is hard. Who's your number one receiver for this week and or also next week? Kind of. Well, for this week, I'm going with Noah Brown, the commanders. Again, you mentioned it at this start of the show.

it's like week 16 or sorry there's not there's no teams on buy this week week 14 there's a bunch of buys but if you do need someone to plug into your lineup this week i think no brown is a solid solid option he had 10 targets last week six catches 71 yards if you go back the last five games um or sorry the last four games he's actually out targeted terry mcclorin 26 to 17 and again this is because cliff kingsbury just lines terry micklorin up on one side and hopes for the best yeah moving his best receiver around that one's tough though just because noa bratt i think last week, Rich Rebarred at this great stat

that Noah Brown lines up on that side of the right side of the field the most, and then the Cowboys give up the most yards to that side of the field. And so it was kind of like

an IQ test for whether Cliff would put Terry McLaren over there and he didn't. So I'm a, yeah. His targets last five games, 10, four,

seven, six six. But would you take, would you use a waiver claim on Noah Brown knowing that the Washington's on buy? Like, do you like him that much more

of than some of these other guys? By, yeah. Yeah. I think the other guy that I would add. There's two other guys I would add. Devon Veilay for the Broncos and Xavier Leggett. But the problem

with Velae, once again, on by. Yeah, he's on buy in week 14. Yeah. There's no good options. There's no good options in Week 13 waiver wire edition. Craig? I think I would go with Xavier Leggett, who is not on by over the next two weeks.

She's playing the Bucs in week 13, which is nice. Bryce Young's actually playing all right. We were just texting about this. Bryce Young is playing easily the best football he's played as a pro. They're playing the Eagles week 14, which is like basically a buy in fantasy because of how the Eagles have been against the past. The only other guy on my list, you know, Josh Downs went down with a shoulder injury. He might be week to week. Alec Pierce for next week against the Patriots, but again, the Colts are on fucking by week 14. So it's very hard. So the two guys I landed on Xavier

Leggett and then maybe Dontavian wicks for the Packers, Romeo Dobbs is going to be out most likely with a concussion on Thanksgiving when they play the Dolphins. If that lingers and he misses another game, the Packers are playing Detroit. And Wix played the majority of the snaps when Dobbs went down. So I'm going to go with Liget or Wix if I had to pick. Oh, God. You know what? Maybe I'll go with Dantavian Wix.

I would go, I would go Liget of those two. I would go Liget because here's my issue with Wix. The Packers. I don't think he can catch, but neither can Kristen Watson. He can't catch, but here's my issue with Wix. Craig, you have a type. If you're going to play Wix this week, there's no buys. So you're playing Don't Tontavent.

Wicks from waivers to your lineup because there's like an injury situation if someone's questionable. But the Packers play on Thursday night on Thanksgiving, right? Like they play, I'm pretty sure the Panthers on Thursday. So I feel like you're not going to, like, you're going to want to know, you have like a game time decision. I feel like you're not going to want to make that decision on Thursday. So that bothers me a little. And then like if Dobbs comes back, he won't come back from the concussion on Thursday, but the Dobbs can come back the following week. So I would go to Leggett is that with, I think that's the tiebreaker to me is that like, you know the Panthers want to see what they have with Xavier Leggett going forward. And I think

I just worry about feeling. But that's totally fair. No, yeah, this all sucks. I would say the other person we're not mentioning, Marquez Valdez Scantling. Sure. Who just had the second best stretch of his entire career, basically tied for the best stretch of his entire career on the Saints.

And then they're playing the Rams this week. And again, also not the greatest thing. But they're playing the next two games. And Valdo Scantling had like three touchdowns and 200 plus yards over the two games. And I'm like, you know what? Again, upside like,

I refuse. One pass to return the thing. Also, week 14, MVS is playing the Giants. Who are about to give up. imminently about to quit on Brian Daibel. I can't even tell you how imminent the quitting on Brian Daimble is about to be. I'm sorry to report. But the other person will say if you don't like that, if you would like to, again, kind of

like getting into Bitcoin at $100,000, Nick Westbrook Kinney for the Titans, who has six touchdowns in his last seven games. I love that we just refused to pick him. I know. It's like, meanwhile, the person who's, it's like every time on the roulette wheel, it's red. And we're like, shit, should we put it on red? And we're like, no, next time it'll be black. But it's going to be red every time till we put the money down.

So we're not recommending Akina, which means that he'll keep scoring touchdowns. But the moment we recommend Nick Westbrook-Akeena, you should stop taking him. But yeah, that's the other person I would rather. And also Trey Tucker for the Raiders, because Desmond Ritter came in and immediately had four completions to Tray Tucker. Shout out to Nate Yonkey for pointing that out. That's not nothing. It's ugly as hell. But if you are like looking at your week 14 lineup and you're like, oh my God, like, I have nobody to play who will play snaps, you could do worse than Tray Tucker.

but it's not like cool or sexy, but like I think he will actually be have a chance to deliver you double digit points in week 14. Is AOC coming back? I don't know, man. I thought that Aiden O'Connell could come back. I don't think they would have traded for Desmond Ritter

if they liked him. Aidan O'Connell returning to practice Tuesday could play. We'll see. Other way, I think Trit Tucker's solid. But again, this is all scraps. I think this is very much like if you're looking at week 14, if you've been relying on like Terry McLaurin and Nico Collins and you're like, oh my God,

I literally don't have received. I think MVS, Westbrook-Kine, Trit Tucker, and then also Xavier, I like Xavier Legate a lot. But Legate would probably be my first choice. D.K., who did you pick? You picked Noah Brown. I think I'll switch to Legat to make it a little more simple. I like it. Okay. Well, I'll jump on to since he was in the top two for me. All right. We can do that for trivia.

All right. It is the Xavier Leggett. Showdown time. It's pretty good. It's an overhand gong hit. I like that. I go for the underhand like sort of like baseball swing. I'm sitting at a desk

so that's fair. I'll get a standing desk next time. This one is from Matt. Matt, what year was the leap year created? Oh,

for crying out loud. What a fucking miserable question. We appreciate the, the questions. You guys are salty. You asked for realistic questions and like, we got questions

that people were like, no offense the person who said this, I like this, but you're like, we got questions of like, if this, how many lumens does it take to power the Superdome? Because, you know what I mean? And it's like, that living room takes up one to 2,000 lumens. And then like, how many would it take to power the Superdome

when the Harbaugh met last time and the power went out? And I'm like, this is a real question. It's a leap year right now. This is a real trivia question. When they come up the leap year, you guys are complaining. Correct. That's a real question. There's going to be some smart guy logic to this that I will. not pick up on

leap year leap year define leap year great can you read it in a Wikipedia all right so what year did the leap year

we're picking the year it started? The year you pick the year the year it started or the year they came up with it or is that the same thing like do you know what I'm saying am I going to say 1742 or am I going to say 280 years ago are you trying to say 17 142.

Yeah. Same year. The leap year. You know. The reason there is a leap year is that a year is not actually 365 days long. 365.65. Yeah. So there's six extra hours that they have to account for.

Oh my God. You guys are so salty. All right. Let's just get this over with God. I just have no idea. I have no idea. All right. Three, two, one.

14, 1400. 1585. That was really funny. It's going to be like 1987. I just said like 500. Okay. The year of 500? Yes.

The answer is 45 BC. Wow. Okay. Part of me was like, did the Mayans figure that out? But I didn't want to go that far back. Yeah. My thinking was like they've known for a long time that this is a thing. But then when did all like the calendars sort of get like synchronized or whatever?

People are going on all kinds of different fucking calendars back then. That's really funny. So I got second High Fitz got first I got first 1987 off I'll take legate

but someone should probably just take Valda Skatling and Westbrook Aquite like right now now I'll stick with Wix I like Wix yeah

I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with no Brown over Valde's actually I'm gonna throw caution to the win I'm going Devon Vailay he's on by week 14 but I guess this is just for this is for this week

all right I just love that we just don't have Valdo Scantling or Westbrookiccunee I refuse to take these people we're doing it for the people because they should take them but now those guys will continue to be good because we didn't take them

obviously if like John O'Smith for the Dolphins is available go get him he's like literally a top three tied in the last month Hunter Henry is good I feel like he's mostly rostered yeah like Hunter Henry if he's around

Zach Hertz Zachertz I think like those three John is Smith Zach Ernst Hunter Henry. If they're available, just go get them. They're better than all these people we're about to talk about. But if those people are rostered, which they probably are, Deky, who's your number one tight end? Assuming Zachardt's, Hunter Henry and Jada Smith, are all gone. My boy, Will Dissley,

who has yet to play tonight. So that's a leap of faith a little bit. I think I went with him last week, too, in the week before. So just run it back again. Will Dissley. I would take Disley, too. Craig? Yeah, but there's a guy in second, even third, who I'm okay with. okay all right well this uh this seem well no will disley showdown time it is the will disley showdown time bang it's dekies doppelganger will disley

yeah although i don't i don't you guys don't really see it well his friends your friends say it i was honoring him it's been a thing i get tim robinson a lot more now this is from dj DJs. We were talking about all the crazy things that have happened on times that Nick Castellanos has had home run. DJ says since 2020, how many home runs has Nick Castellanos hit on the same day or at the exact same time is a tragic or historical event?

Wow. Since 2020. Yeah. I like this question. Okay. Got it. All right. Three, two, one.

16. You said six. You said 16. I said 12. Right? Okay. So we have to, I think the, God damn. I think the answer is 17.

Let's go. It's kind of like up to interpretation. Hold on. This is actually, it's actually insane. That's a lot of fucking times. We got multiple emails. I've compiled like three different emails because people had all these, kept having more answers.

It was incredible. I'm just going to go through them. Shout out to everyone who emailed us about this. Thank you so much. It's honestly unbelievable. And if you have no idea what we're talking about, there's a meme where Nick basically an announcer said like a homophobic slur on air and then he was like giving his like apology the next inning and he literally had to veer out of the apology to announce a Nicholas Castiano home run. Deep deep deep deep but a left field.

Cassiato, home run. And it's just and it goes back to the apology. Anyway, I might not be here tomorrow. So yeah. So it became a thing and then it was like really, it kept continuing like it was a little weird. It was like Nick Castellanos was plugged in the matrix. I had never looked into all of. the times this had happened.

But I'm going to do it right now. That first incident. Then Castellas homered when the opposing team's coach, they were reading his apology for a DUI on the broadcast. He did it after Fernando Tatis had a career threatening injury. He homered after they had a eulogy for a World War II veteran. Yeah. He homered immediately after the 9-11 tribute video package on the broadcast.

God. He homered in his first. at bat after Will Smith slapped Curse Rock. Wow. He home run in the Memorial Day tribute package on the air. They delivered a eulogy for the PA announcer who had just died and then he hit a home run. They announced that the owner of the team had cancer and then he hit a home run. My God.

They announced that the legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vince Scully died and then he hit a home run. Oh, I remember that one. And he hit a home run an hour after they announced Queen Elizabeth had died. Oh yeah, that was a big one. There was a bridge collapse. He homered the day of the Ocean Gate submarine implosion. This one I had to look up because I thought it was fake. He hit one home run on the anniversary of Hiroshima, and then he hit two home runs on the

anniversary of Nagasaki. God, dude. Which is like, that's fucking weird. Like, what the fuck? And then he had a home run the day that Trump was almost assassinated. He had a home run seven days later when Joe Biden dropped out. Oh, yeah, that's right. The Trump and the Biden.

Both days. Then, someone emailed this hours ago. I couldn't believe it. I looked this up. This is true. Because I did not believe this is true. It is true.

His first minor league home run, the first home run of his professional career was the day that bin Laden was killed. Wow. It's like we didn't know about the connection back then. We didn't know it then. But like literally this guy's entire career is like, this is like a glitch in the matrix.

It is. They're like, we did like let's add something. lighthearted to the Well, just something's coded wrong. Yeah. Like, it's just every time there's some weird crazy thing, it's just Castellanos over.

So yeah, it's, yeah, that's... A drive deep into left field by Castellanos. Has he, has Cassadianos addressed this at all? I'm sure he has. That's a great question. I don't know. Yes, he has. He's probably like, sorry, guys,

I just keep hitting dingers. Anyway, so Craig gets Will Disley. Okay. So I was third. I'll take freaking Noah Gray, which is probably dumb because he had two touchdowns last week. And I was like, well,

that's like, you're getting on the Aquina thing early. Yeah, he had two touchdowns last week. And I was like, that won't happen again. They had two touchdowns this week. And I'm like,

all right, well, so it'll keep happening. Rule of threes. Yeah. So yeah, two touchdowns for Noah Gray coming up. He's better than Travis Kelsey right now, though.

Low key. Okay. I guess I'll take Cole Komet. Yeah. Who is playing like 95% of the, snaps now. 100% of snaps. He played cold commit played every snap last week. Now that Thomas Brown is the OC. Every time I say the Thomas Brown, I'm like, that can't be right. That's too generic. Tom Brown, right? And yeah, Caleb's been playing better. 10, 10 targets in this last

game, seven catches 64 yards. He's kind of like the underneath option, which is nice. It's not going to get you a ton of yards, but he might get you a lot of targets. So, Cole Comet. Can I throw out? Is it ridiculous to throw out Isaiah likely? No, not at all. 75 yards last week and he missed the two weeks before with a hamstring injury and I know he had that big week one and then kind of didn't do a whole lot for a while

but I still think in terms of like explosiveness and wanting a guy who can just have a hundred yards and two touchdowns in a game other than Noah Gray I mean likely's the guy to do that likely is like the best player in the NFL who plays like 50% of the snaps.

Yeah. The new Tony Pollard. I feel very strongly that. quarterbacks, I think quarterback's actually a really important position to stream and I do think you should be a week ahead of it. Just check because again, Lamar Jackson,

Jade and Daniels, Bo Nix and Anthony Richardson, that's three, maybe four quarterbacks who are starting, never mind C.J. Stroud and Drake May, who I think if you're in a two quarterback league, you're probably starting him. So quarterback's huge.

I will, and I think you have to start thinking about, because I don't think any of these guys you're playing this week, but I do think you have to plan ahead. Caleb Williams is, like, decently available and Caleb Williams is playing, it's not an awesome matchup,

He's playing the 49ers. The defense is not quite the same. Nick Bowe, so we don't know if he's going to play. Either it doesn't matter. He's running. Caitlin Williams says, I would add him. Stafford, it's not like awesome, but they are playing the bills. So maybe that's a shootout, although I would also throw out the other guy.

Honestly, dude, Derek Carr playing the Giants. Again, I'm a little worried the Giants defense is going to quit. I hate Derek Carr, but also I bet that Derek Carr is going to shred the Giants because that just kind of feels right because of how much I've complained about Derek Carr in the last couple of years. So, yeah, I. Will Levis versus Jacksonville, baby. That's the other one. It's Will Levis versus Jackson.

Billy Jeans. Hell yeah. Will Levis is a really good schedule for like the fan. I don't know if I really have the chutzpahsput to like trust Will Levis with my entire season. But Will Levis plays Washington, Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Jacksonville. It's pretty solid. Levis has been like actually kind of okay, the last. Since he came back from that pretty brutal shoulder injury, he's had 19, 16 and 17 points.

Yeah. Not bad. So yeah. Levis is a totally viable candidate. it's just you have to be able to stomach whatever embarrassing thing he'll do. You think Levis has played well enough for them not to take a quarterback in the first round? No, I don't think no. The short answer is no.

I don't know if the Titans will be in position to take a quarterback because I don't, you know what I mean? If like Sheter Sanders has gone and Cam Ward's gone, I don't know if they're going to be like Quinn Ewers or Carson Beck is good enough. But I don't think it's like they're going to be like, well, Will Levis is the reason. I think the way and win really killed them. Yeah. Yeah, no, winning's bad as a, you know, winning's terrible.

defenses, there's a few. I just mentioned, if you're looking purely at next week, I mentioned the Saints, like the Saints' defense playing the Giants and Tommy DeVito, that's one that's definitely available, probably. I will throw out the Buccaneers, though, which is, the Bucs defense is not as good as it's been in past few years, but if you just look at the quarterbacks they're playing in the next month, Bryce Young and the Panthers this week, which Bryce Young's playing better,

but still, the Raiders, which will be either Desmond Ritter or Aiden O'Connell in week 14, that's like, you talk about streaming defenses on a week where like, you know, six teams run by and you get to find the team that's playing the Raiders,

that's pretty solid. Then they play the charges in week 15, which isn't great, but then week 16, it's the Cowboys where it's going to be Cooper Rush or Tray Lancet quarterback.

That's like as good as a stretch as you can kind of ask for right now. So I would say the bucks, that to me is really solid. And then if you want to look ahead to week 14,

I mean, some lower roster defenses that you could probably sneak in and grab. I mean, the Saints are playing the Giants week 14. I don't know how you feel about that. Well, yeah, no, I just shout out of them out. I think that the, I really think the Giants are going to be disaster. Oh, sorry, you said them.

Yeah. I was talking about the Giants. You probably tuned me out. I get it by now. I understand. The Giants have gotten a lot of air time in the last couple of days. Yeah, but it's negative, though. Yeah, this is the one case where any good press is not, any press is not good press for

the giant sides. I don't know. Where's Daniel Jones going to sign, Hyvitz? I don't know where he's going to sign this year, but I think there's a reason. I mean, Schaeftering them throughout Minnesota, I think there's a reason for that. I think Minnesota, like, Daniel Jones in, in Minnesota with J.G. McCarthy is, like, kind of perfect for everybody because it's perfect for the Vikings, because Daniel Jones stylistically, like,

is a really good quality backup for J.G. McCarthy. He's good enough that you could play him early for J.G. McCarthy like coming off the meniscus surgery. And if Daniel Jones, you're like, probably will get a few starts, but also you're going to like learn, like, you know, the Kevin O'Connell, like they're going to have that Shanahan, like McVeigh kind S system, which frankly is what Daniel Jones should be. That probably should be what he should be for the rest. Right next seven or eight years, it's just like someone, kind of like our cam Acres has just passed back and forth between the Rams and the Vikings over and over because he

knows the system. And then Houston, same thing with the Shanahan. Like Daniel Jones should just be the backup for C.J. Stroud or J.J. McCarthy or Brock Purdy for like the rest of his life. So I think that's a good place from to learn. I don't know. Going forward, I don't know, just hop and go to San Francisco. Go to someone's going to make the playoffs, win a Super Bowl. You just want to do a little, little, what was it? Kai pop in right here, and we do little Kai's guys,

and we're going to do a little Harry Potter or Coachella artist. You want to do the waiver and trivia wrap up first? Oh yeah, wait, yeah, Kai, wrap us up with some waiver here. Pick some teams. What's going on? Of course. First of all, hi guys. How's it going? What's up, King? It's up, Kai. That's good to be here.

Do you want to dress the video that's rapidly circulating the internet of you in the Washington facility where you may or may not be dropped, just totally bombing a perfectly thrown ball by your friend? No comment. Okay. TCU hands. Okay, cool. Release the Grady cut. Release the Grady cut, you know? There's a cut out there. I might have caught a touchdown or two. Okay, so Craig, just trivia total real quick. Craig, you have 14.

You're in the lead. DK. You're in the lead. DKs at second with 13 High Fitz you have nine. Last week, to recap, High Fitzhead, Rochon Johnson, Alex Pearson, Will Disley, still to play tonight, 12.1 points and counting. DK. At Trey Benson, Elijah Moore, and Hunter

Henry for 12.3 points. And Craig's in first with Christian Watson and honestly just, no, not Christian Watson. Jono Smith, 19.6 in counting with Gus Edwards tonight. And I picked Craig. So back in the win column. Knock on one. So I beat everybody with

one player and Christian Watson should have doubled my score. That's waivers. It's waivers in a nutshell right there. And then this week, just to recap real quick, Hy-Fitz had Gus Edwards, Xavier Leggett, and Noah Gray, decad tank Biggsby, Devon, Vela, and Cole Komet.

Craig had Amir-Dula. Grossest team of all time. Yeah. It's a stinky week. I don't want any of these teams. Amir Abdullah, Dontavian Wicks, and Will Disley. Ah. Just a gross taste. What's worse?

Picking this or eating mac and cheese? It's close, honestly. Yeah. I don't like looking at these players. I'll go with high fits. Let's do it. Thank you for solidarity, Kai. Yeah, man.

We'll go down together. So there's that. All right. Let's play this game. Last week we were talking, but I don't remember when. We talked to the Coachella lineup. And then also,

Craig had seen Harry Potter. And so we realized, Kai, it's time. Have you prepared? Harry Potter, character or Coachella artist. I sure have. This is one of the more fun things I've been able to do for this pod in a while.

And that's really saying something. What a fun job. You got paid to do that. Yeah, you got paid to eat mac and cheese and pick between Harry Potter and Coachella people. It's great. So I've actually, do it. DK. Have you read Harry Potter? I've seen the movies, though.

Oh, okay. But some of these might escape. If I know the answer for sure, I'll bow out. Oh, I thought this is this for me and D.K.? I kind of want to play. No, it's for you. But if D. But if D.

If I know the answer. I won't do it. Okay. So I've prepared two. Two Coachella artists and a Harry Potter character and then two Harry Potter characters and a Coachella artist. Which one? I think you should just give me the name and I'll just pick Coachella or Harry Potter.

I agree. Okay. I like that. I like that. Yeah, just throwing at me mix up and whatever order you want. I agree. Artemis. Wow.

Coachella. It is Coachella. One for one. Oh, I was going to say that was Harry Potter for sure. D.K's Oprah. I'm already overweight. This is the trivial over again, the better you know

what the worst you do. Vincent Crabb. Harry Potter. Same. Two for two. Okay. Boris Bredger. Harry Potter.

Yeah. Coachella. Now! Boris Bredge? I don't know who that is, man. Sounds like a quidditch player from the Slovakian team or whatever. Damien Lazarus.

Damien Lazarus Coachella I think Coachella It is Coachella That's a perfect name for this exercise That was a great call guy Lavender Brown These are so good

If J.K. Rowling Couldn't come up with anything better Than Lavender Brown I'll be upset I have bad news for you Craig God damn No I don't know actually I'm gonna go Coachella

I think it's Coachella Harry Potter That's JK step it up I think I have one more Hyphithe I might have a few more but I've got one more from my list

Yeah I had fun doing that yeah I saw Kai's list that it inspired His name of course Of course Lavender Brown Lavender Brown I think was my favorite one Damien Lazarus As Damian Lazarus is a good one Who's Lavender Brown in the movies?

I'm honestly not sure Lavender he's the one who splinches Ron Oh yeah people were so mad that we said Hair got splinched because Ron got splinched Yeah we know You splitched Ron. Ron's been splinched. Ron's been splinched.

All right. Um, splinched. Okay. Okay. Barty Crouch. That sounds so fucking Harry Potter. If that's not Harry Potter.

What's a final guess? I'm doing Harry. Terry Potter. Yeah. All right. You did great. I'm four and two. That's good.

Yeah. All right. I got more. I have some of two here. All right. Okay. God. Ivan Cornejo

Ivan Cornahoe Coachella I think it's Harry Potter Oh TK's seen Harry Potter Sparrow and Barbosa Wow Is this a little two-person group

Sparine and Barbosa No sparrow Sparrow and Barbosa Well is that like a duo in Harry Potter I'm gonna go with Harry Potter Me too that is a Coachella lineup

Damn it That is a Coachella artist I thought that one I thought they were the death eaters That's a Pirates the Caribbean reference That's Jack Sparrow Barbosa guys It's good Is that oh god damn it

All right Craig Mowing Mertle Is either some Gen Z hipsters She opened for genuine I remember that Mowing Mertle Moneing Mertle Harry Potter

Yes Let's go I got one more She lives in the toilets right Yeah she's the toilet ghost as a toilet ghost Yeah you gotta Craig you gotta get into it man

Yeah toilet ghost I gotta dive in She did literally Kyle what are you gonna say I got one more All right Tom Riddle Harry Potter

DJ Tom Definitely Harry Potter It is yeah All right All right I'm basically seeing the movies All right here we go Wait

I gotta I gotta do a couple of I'm seven and three right now I'm like I love that DK's like Batting five hundred I'm like doing way worse All right

Here Craig A couple wait Fleur I've also genuinely I've never heard of any of these bands Whatever whichever one of the bands I've never heard of them Here wait

Fleur de la Kerr Cochella No That is a character in Harry Potter Damn it Yes Jesse Murf Jesse Murf

Jesse Murph Jesse Murf Coachella Yeah Coachella Coachella Nice And last but at least I'm sweating

Last but not least Rita Skeeter Rita Skeeter Harry Potter Yes Open for a little John Open for little John Damn DK you're also kind of cooking right now

Yeah well Rita Skeeter was like the one that did She's like the gossip columnist Yeah she's like yeah she's like the page six Harry Potter columnist yeah Okay actual last one for me She's kind of She's kind of like Matt Bellany in Harry Barber world

Okay how dare you Not a gossip columnist How dare you? No I'm just saying like Hollywood insider info Okay. I don't know. Look, I barely know these characters. Now, it wasn't meant to be a distancing yourself, to be clear.

It was not meant to be an insult. He actually hasn't seen the movies. Yeah. Okay. Blaise Zabini. One more time. Blaise Zabini. First name, Blaze?

Yeah. Oh, God. Coachella. Yes, same. Harry Potter. Oh. So good. Blaze Zabini.

Who is that? I don't know, man. Admittedly, I outsourced a lot of this. My girlfriend's a huge Harry Potter fan, so I just texted her. She sent me some names. Okay. Here we go.

Post Malone. Oh, okay. It's good. Austin Post. There we are. I should have done Austin Post. Honestly, Lady Gaga sounds like a Harry Potter. Lady Gaga does sound like a Harry Potter character.

She's an eccentric witch. Yeah. Email us at ringer fantasy football at gmail.com. If there's something else you want us to compare to Coachella. and yeah we're also Craig people emailed us a bunch of bands you should see and there's an official Coachella playlist people the people think you should go to Coachella yeah I want to I got a we got a really nice email from uh oh man I'm gonna pull it up right now from Alex Alex Alex yeah it's just like a very nice email about him and his partner going to Coachella for like the last decade and they

love it and they're in their mid 30s and they gave it a great pitch so thank you yeah were they the ones who emailed in and basically were like, it's cool to like have the opportunity to see a bunch of up upcoming bands right before they blow up. Yeah. And they like listen to you can say I saw them live before they were big. And it's, yeah, the email he sent was really really, it was a really good pitch

because do you want to read it? Well, he sent the lineup of the first show he went to, I think. In 2012. And it is pretty crazy to see, like Calvin Harris is in like the fifth line. It's, yeah. So the headliners are Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Drain, Snoop Dog, which is very cool. But then, yeah, like the other bands on this list that are like the small font in 2012.

It was really cool to see the small. Frank Ocean was on the one, two, three, fourth line. That's crazy. He headlined like eight years later. That's kind of announced. Right. Who else? Yeah, Calvin Harris is on the fourth line.

Santa Gold. Ooh, that's fine. Black, I think a Thundercat. Porter Robinson. Yeah, Thundercat. Dada Life. Oh, my God. Remember, Dada Life?

No. Azelea Banks is. And A-Sap Rockies on the fifth line. Wow. Yeah. It was pretty cool. So, yeah, there's your pitch. Go to Coachella.

Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Boom. Convinced. All right. Thank you, D.K., thank you,

Kee, thank you, Evan, for emailing us at Ringer Fantasy Football at Gmail. Thank you everyone emailed us about Nick Castellanus. Thank you, every email to about Coachella and everything and all the other dumb stuff. Email us about whatever. Thank you, Kai. Thank you, DK. Thank you, Katt.

Thank you. I already did that part. Thank you, Guy, God, producing this episode. Thank you, Lord. Lord. Thank you. Dylated Peoples. Dylated peoples or dilated pupils? Why do I know? Dylated peoples.

Worst comes to worst is probably what you know. It doesn't bring a bell, but I know the name. Oh, are they a sample in like a popular rap pop song? Or are they like featured in a like a popular song from like 10 years ago that was like a big? Probably. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I mean off the top of my head. That's cool. They sample. They do like some of their beats are. sampled.

I don't know why that nameling's a bell, I don't know why. I think if you listen to Worse Come to Worse, you would definitely recognize it. Cool. Okay. Oh, it's a song called This Way. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know that song?

That's another one. Yes, this is the song I know. Oh, yeah, Kanye's on it. Oh, wow. They have a Kanye feature and they don't even list them. That's how underground they are. Yes, that's why I know that song, that band from this way. Damn.

Okay. All right. Just to let everybody know before we leave, it's Thanksgiving week, but we will still be back all week. We're going to have power hour on Wednesday morning. We're not doing it live on YouTube, but we will be there Wednesday morning. We are still going to have a preview that will come out on Friday morning as well, and then we'll be there Sunday night. We're not going to actually celebrating Thanksgiving. We're all just going to be together and watch football. We're abandoning our families. Yeah. And we're going to listen to dilated people and all those Harry Potter, Coachella bands. Yeah, yeah. People's. Who is the highest up on that, on that rundown? Like, who was the most popular of all the people you do? Cornahos on the same line as Charlie X-C-X, which is unbelievable to me. Oh, my God. That's pretty...

Cornahoe? It's astounding to me. Oh, Lavender Brown was the girl who liked Ron. The third name on this list is Benson Boone for Coachella, who I sure is famous because they're next to Missy Elliott, but I have no idea who Benson Boone is.

I'm sure they're very famous. Benson Boone, I confused stupidly with Shibuzi, but Benson Boone has that song beautiful things that you've definitely heard. Oh, okay. He basically screams a lot in every chorus. Well, maybe we'd get along. Yeah, maybe he'd fit right in with your family.

Yeah, I'm home for Thanksgiving. There's a lot of yelling here. Should we do a poll? And if people want my dad's take some chicken salad? Wait, chicken salad or chicken Caesar salad? Just see his opinions on anything. Okay. All of it.

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