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The desk confirms the eclipse did not end the world, jokes that every eclipse is supposed to do so and that this one stopped photosynthesis, then claims comic ownership of the 'great American eclipse.' Nearly fifty minutes later, Derek Carr's long-ago peak is dated as twelve eclipses ago.
The hosts announce a first-ever Fantasy Footballers Draft Special for NFL+, beginning near the end of round one on April 25 and delivering live fantasy reactions. They contrast it with prior next-day reaction work, which is jokingly dismissed as being for cowards.
While warning dynasty managers not to abandon viable title runs, the hosts single out Papa Josh as someone who definitely ruined a chance and speculate that his itch was simply that tearing the roster down sounded fun. The response is that fun lives in championships.
Andy inventories an old contender whose stars no longer attract offers, says he has competed for nine straight years, and admits the promised tax bill has not arrived yet. Jason says his and Mike's co-managed roster will answer the rebuild question when its players retire together in about three years.
The hosts say Jalen Waddle played fourteen games and limped off in all fourteen, turning the recurring exit-and-return pattern into the verb that he 'Paul pierced' every game.
Andy and Jason treat Mike's WR20 ranking for Mike Evans as a pair of middle fingers and then as 'ferocious hatred.' They also revive an alleged prior claim that Evans should not enter the Hall of Fame; Mike denies ever saying that and clarifies that he considers Evans a Hall of Famer, though not first-ballot.
The established city cue plays during Michael Pittman's ranking, and the published video briefly shows a celebratory Pittman/host collage. Later, one host calls the others Pity City settlers and complains about its plumbing, only to learn that money has begun flowing into town and its champion is upgrading everything.
Chris Olave frustration makes Derek Carr 'stupid' and then 'stinky.' At the end of the discussion, the established Send in the Carr phrase is reversed into 'Don't send in the Carr': it stinks, smells bad, and this year there is an odor.
Complete review of the published video, all sixteen five-second storyboard sheets, and targeted one-second frame sheets shows only Mike, Jason, and Andy live at the main desk: Mike sits left in a black T-shirt and purple cap, Jason sits center in a dark patterned shirt, black cap, glasses, and beard, and Andy sits right in a plain black T-shirt. A large black-green Fantasy Faceoff helmet occupies the center foreground and a WIDE RECEIVER RANKINGS screen remains behind the desk. The video begins on Jason, runs the standard opening montage at about 00:12-00:30, and returns to the three-host desk. The montage includes a generic realistic bear at about 00:16 and a produced WITH THE DUCERS card at about 00:29-00:30 depicting Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Jeremy/Owl Borland, and Kyle/The Borgogon; neither is Jay Griz or a live producer appearance. The episode announces the first-ever Fantasy Footballers Draft Special, live on NFL+ near the end of round one on April 25, with same-night reactions instead of the prior day-after approach. No NFL+, draft-night, or special-event graphic accompanies the announcement. A real DYNASTY DOWNLOAD bumper runs around 06:44-06:50, followed by desk-only discussion: Papa Josh is accused of ruining a title chance because tearing down sounded fun, Andy inventories an old but dominant roster and says he has competed for nine straight years without yet paying the tax bill, and Jason says his co-managed team with Mike will answer the rebuild question when its players retire together in about three years. Kyle is mentioned only as the person who will research the Chicago Bears' leading passer; he is never heard or shown. A real WIDE RECEIVER RANKINGS bumper runs around 14:40-14:49. The desk later says Jalen Waddle 'Paul pierced' all fourteen games, accuses Mike of ferocious hatred toward Mike Evans and revives a disputed Hall-of-Fame claim, and calls for Pity City. Around 42:36-42:37, the published video briefly overlays the desk with an exuberant Michael Pittman graphic containing a Colts player cutout, repeated host cutouts, fireworks, and city imagery. The later plumbing, civic investment, mayor/champion, Derek Carr odor, and all dynasty tax, demolition, and retirement props remain dialogue-only. No fourth live human, player guest, producer cutaway, Jay image, cardboard bear, or Jay sound drop appears.
He had 12 and a half fantasy points per game. That's very good. That's not great. That's like wide receiver. I think it was 16 somewhere around Amari Cooper last year. He should finish better than wide receiver 25. I disagree that I don't think he, I think he is the two. I think Puka has replaced him. Whichever way it goes, Cooper Cup is a value if you're talking about a fourth round pick. His targets per game when averaged out was 134. He would have been at 134 to 140. Scored in four of his final five games. Cooper Cup's awesome, and he's a spitwad, loves the spitballers. Yeah. That's reason enough to put him in your top 12. I mean, I really don't like where I have him ranked, which, what was it? Oh, not your top 12. Water Sheaver 15. That feels low. I don't like that. I do think he finishes close to a round there, but when you're talking about drafting him as the water receiver 25, 26, I am all about that. My current best ball leagues, I've got him in.
Did he miss the first? He missed four games to start the year? He missed four. Yep. So last year you could have, last year was the example of why this year he could be ranked lower. It's because everyone thought they were going to get a bargain, drafting the guy. Oh, once he comes back, he might be the one. That's the reason to keep. He just wasn't. He had to come back from an injury and then be the one. Instead, he came back and kept getting hurt and not producing. And then playing hurt. So 11 is Devante Adams, 31 years old as well. I got him at eight.
Mike's got him at 12, Jason at 13. He finished at 11, 103 for 1144 and 8. Definitely a situation that could be massively different depending on a quarterback that they find in the draft, 175 targets. He was actually a huge, huge fantasy championship deliverer. Oh, yes. If you made it through. The game before. Him trying to destroy you in the semit. Thankfully, I did. Yeah, he was at eight in week 15. He had one catch for four yards in week 16 against Kansas City, which was the Sneed debate. Hold on. He played 91% of the stats. He played the whole game. He had six targets. And then he followed that up championship week with 21 targets. 21 targets. You just realized that he had two games.
with 20 or more targets. So 40 of his 175 targets came in two weeks. 175 had to be near the league lead. Oh, that is an outlandishly high number, especially for a team that wants to run the ball so much. You think about the pace of play the Colts played with and how much they threw the ball and how much of the target percentage went to Michael Pittman Jr. And Michael Pittman only finished with 156 targets. CD Lamb at 181, Andy. Devont Day was number two. Number two. And Gardner Minchu is now the, you know, quarterback here. for now. TBD. Which. I do think they're going to get one of them. CD Lamb turned 181 targets into 1,749 yards. Devante Adams turned 175 targets to do 1,144 yards. One of those things is not like the other. One of those things a lot older, Mike. Yeah, he, how many total receptions for CD? 135. Yeah, 103 for Adams. I mean, there was.
Changing quarterbacks, right? You got Aiden O'Connell and Jimmy Garoppolo and, you know, disgruntled Adams throughout the season. 63% of his targets were catchable. So he did great work. That's the part where I'm holding. Like I think we all know that the talent of Devante Adams, if it doesn't decline, which it could at 31. But like when he had the ball in his vicinity, it was still the same guy last year. It was just disappointing to have. no consistency at the quarterback position. He is the kind of guy that I think a head coach like Pierce listens to, and that's why you saw that force feeding of targets at the end of the year. Yeah, because he's coming off. Number one, number three, number three. He said, Pierce, I won't be here next week. If you don't give me 20 or more targets, I'm not coming back. And so I gave him 21. Yeah, so I mean, he listened to him. Yeah, I mean, Adams is good. His quarterback is not. We don't know who his quarterback's going to be.
But we know he's not going to be good. That's brutal. Yeah, I mean, it's fair, brutally fair. Similar questions about some of the guys in the top 10 we'll have to talk about. So that'll do it for today's episode of the show. Counting it down from 20 to 11. On Thursday, we'll jump right in to our top 10 wide receivers, early wide receiver rankings. And a reminder, one more reminder at the end of the show. Yes. Join us on Draft Night, Round 1 reactions immediately following Round 1 on NFL Plus, the Fantasy Footballers Draft Special. Make sure you are there. It's going to be great. I agree. Some of my opinions that night, outstanding. I can feel it. Take care, everybody. Goodbye. You for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter.
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