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Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, let's... I'm doing seated jumping jacks. Yes, seated jumping jacks. The exercise for 30-year-olds everywhere. Welcome to the Megalodon. The heart pumping, the blood flowing. I've already got a calf strain. This show's already off to a bad start. Welcome into...

The Megalodon. I don't know what's... I'm looking at you. I don't know if you're going to go full Megalah. Welcome Wednesday, November 21st. Happy Thanksgiving. This is the show of all shows where we take the Wednesday, the Thursday, the Friday show. We stuff them inside of a shark. We tighten them up. Yeah, I mean, really, the only animal that could properly consume this in one bite would be.

A megalodon. As always, let us know if you make it through the megalodon in one sitting. We'll give you a special little something at the end. Will we? Do we have something in there? I'll figure. I've got long enough to figure it out. Yes, you do. And just for good measure, this is show 65 in our history. Oh, jump! You got the crickets in here, Brooks, for today? What? No, that was great. That was incredible. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard jump.

I didn't get it. Chomp is much better. So let me just let you know what's going on today. We have Turkey Day Awards. Okay? We'll see if you guys can guess these. We have pump the brakes. We've got in or out all the news you need to know to set your fantasy lineup in week 12. We have the fantasy forecast. All of it. All the matchups. Oh. We have starts of the week. We have boom, boom kicker. We got daily dose. We got mail back. Oh, my goodness. I'm out of here.

Oh, that's too much. So, first of all, Jason, eat a banana, fix that calf cramp. I did have a, I did have a slice of breakfast pizza in preparation. Well, of course you did. And tall you out there. Very underrated pizza, by the way. Breakfast pizza is awesome. It had breakfast gravy on it? Is this another one from like like like like like QT? Hold on. Yeah, it's from QT. Hold on. I see those advertisements. Breakfast gravy? Yeah, like sausage gravy. Like, you know, biscuits and gravy. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. White?

Yeah, the white gravy. Oh, man, so good. It's also very heavy, like the last thing you'd want to eat right before a megaladone. No, it was a bad choice, but I've made it. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's like drafting, what, Delvin Cook? Is that a bad choice that you've made as well? Yes. If you're listening, make sure you shift your weight appropriately. We don't want bed sores. Don't lock your knees. Don't lock your knees. Be careful. Get up, walk around. Enjoy yourself.

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The Turkey Day Award. As we should. And the question, and this comes from Kyle, our editor, he came up with some awards. And I want to see if you guys can guess them right here right now. Fantasy Football Awards. I already have a problem with these awards. I don't know who the awards go to, but I've read the descriptions. And they're.

Just horrendously bad takes. We'll see. That's because the first one is the Cranberry sauce award. Okay? So it should go to the worst? No, just silent. Enough of you. Just be quiet. This is by far the sexiest of turkey day dishes. When you get it just right, it makes everything about Thanksgiving feel right, considering how cheap and simple it is. What player wins the Cranberry sauce award? So I'm leaning that this is a...

Extreme value. Sure. So my guess, because he's a sexy devil himself, I'm going to be Patrick Mahomes. I am going to guess because I refuse to play into the disgusting takes of this being a great option. Cheap and old and busted. I'm going. Frank Gore is cranberry sauce here. Thanks for playing the game, Jason. Yeah, I made my guess.

I bet I got it right. Patrick Mahomes wins the cranberry sauce award. Oh, yeah. Honorable mentions to James Connor and to George Kittle, who only cost me a kittle on the waivers. That wasn't cheap. I mean, he was cheap in the draft season. Sure. I apologize to those three wonderful men having to be put in this category. It's well known that Mike and I are big fans of canned cranberry sauce, as is all the people worldwide who buy it and eat it. The can hear the better.

Yeah. That's what I say. Put it in two cans. That's what I say. Ooh. You open the hand. Not the bird, but two separate cans. All right. The burned dinner roll. Okay. The burned dinner roll award. Gosh, man, you put so much time and effort into preparing the meal. But unexpectedly, the rolls were burned. So this is disappointment. Yeah. And sometimes you just have to scrape the carbon shavings off and eat it anyway.

Okay. Oh, yes. So this is the burn dinner roll award. Do you have any guesses? The way, I'll let you go first. There's, it has to be between one of two people. The two people that to this point in the season have completely wrecked you. It's gronk or Dalvin Cook. I will guess gronk. I'm going to go with Dalvin Cook was the immediate thought of, I mean, how do you burn? How do you burn the rolls? You'd be a bad cook. Oh, I'm changing the cook. Rob Gankowski.

Dang it is the winner of the burned dinner roll. With honorable mention to both Dalvin Cook. All right. All right. Oh, yeah. Oh, Henry. Some of you have, you had a few bad bites of that roll. By now, you probably threw it in the garbage. Yeah, there was mold on that roll. Maybe. Here's the sweet potato casserole award. So you've got a heavy, hearty, delicious for the first few bites. But you can only have so much before it makes you a vomit all over the floor. And thus completely ruined Thanksgiving.

and your family calls you a no good has been. Oh. All right. Who is the sweet potato casserole? Who can you only handle a few bites of before it goes sour? Trying to remember who got off to a super hot start this year. Well, that's a good hint because it's definitely a player that did that. Well, right. Oh, I think I got it. Deshaun Jackson?

You are very warm, Mike. You are wrong, but you are very warm. Oh, I'm going to go, I'm going to go Ryan Fitzpatrick. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yes. I just guessed that out of nowhere. Ryan Fitzpatrick wins the Sweet Potato Casserol Award. Jordan Howard, Golden Tate. Oh, Jordan Howard is perfect for that. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty heavy. Yeah. Pretty hearty. And ultimately, you only got a few bites before no good. Yeah. I guess we'll throw one more award in here.

All right. This is the Mike Wright special, the Jack in the Box Award. If you don't know this already, Mike is not a supporter of Thanksgiving, gratitude, happiness. Puppies, joy, children. How dare you be spurred puppies? I love puppies. That is true. I love them. But all the others, joy, happiness. The other crap, get it out of my face. Cursory greetings to one another in public saying hello. The worst. Smiling. Anyways.

The Mike Great Special is the Jack in the Box Award because Mike every year. Every year he goes out and instead of having a fine Thanksgiving dinner, he gets Jack in the Box. Well, to be fair, the normal dinner I think is the garbage leftovers of the garbage Thanksgiving lunch. So what I do is every Thanksgiving night, you get that football, the extravaganza of the Thursday night game. This year it's going to be fantastic. You get that ultimate cheeseburger combo. You just get absolutely.

Ill. This is not a slang term. No. Literally. This is not Beastie Boys. It's time to get ill. This is this is after the game. I'm going to have a problem. Yes. But while I'm doing it, it's real, real fun. So the Mike Wright special, the way that Kyle described it. Of course. It's the random dish that somebody brought because, well, they're convinced Thanksgiving food is trash and outdated. It's time to stop with the old way of thinking, open your eyes, realize that this could be the best thing ever. So what?

I don't even know what that describes. I think it's a new hotness. A new hotness? That's very fair. Ooh, and Aaron Jones is a great answer. Aaron Jones is the answer. Oh, nice one. Kenny Galliday. Yeah, that works. Nick Chubb, honorable mentions. Oh, Nick Chub. So there you go. There's your holiday. Turkey Day Awards. Thank you, Kyle. Those were wonderful. Brought to you by the Borgogan. What I was thinking about this morning. Do you know what's coming?

In like two months, we've got the footies. So Folkland, don't forget, the footies is one of the most fun shows of the year. Right after the conclusion of the fantasy season, we will give out our year-long, incredibly important footie awards. Yeah, very important. Yeah, they show up on people's IMDB profile if they win one of those. I don't know why. All right, it is, you know, it's, we got a lot on this show. Yeah. So let's jump in. Oh, oh, oh.

O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Whoa. It's a Megalodon show. You've got to take it to the next level. It's Pump the Brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. My pump the brakes. Yeah. It's Adrian Peterson. He surprised us last week with two touchdowns, but he gets to take on Dallas with Colt McCoy behind center. And I took a look at this, Dallas.

That defense is playing pretty well. And when it comes to stopping opposing running backs, they've given up one total touchdown. Over the last six weeks to opposing running backs, I think it's going to be tough sledding for Adrian Peterson. If you need eight fantasy points, you got it. Adrian's going to get you that. I don't think you're going to be excited. And if you need an upside play at running back, I would pump the brakes on AP and turn elsewhere. My pump the brakes this week is focused on...

Dionne Lewis and Derek Henry, the burnt dinner roll himself, Mr. Henry. Andy, you had talked about feels like people had thrown him away. The problem was they got to the gooey middle where it's actually a little bit delicious. And he had that three game run and people thought, oh, maybe this role is okay. But then the true colors of Derek Henry's usage came back to fruition. I mean,

So many games where he doesn't even hit the double-digit carry mark. He was being carried fantasy-wise by touchdowns, and now he's on the road against the Houston Texans. I don't, like, I'm not playing Henry under almost any circumstance. And that transfers over to Dionne Lewis as well. If I can find anything that resembles a good option at the running back position, I'm going to play him over Deon Lewis as well this week.

We are in the running back pump business here because my pump the brakes this week is Lamar Miller, who has been pretty okay for most of the last month, had one game where he was given a little bit of rest. But outside of that... Where he was feeling blue? Yes, he was feeling very Alfred Blue that game. The issue here is Tennessee Titans. This is the Monday night game at the end of the week.