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The newly opened Megalabowl awards its champion a 2026 Listener League place, a UDK for life, and global bragging rights. Registration stands at 6,395 after more than 20,000 prior entrants, the hosts hope to exceed 30,000, and they credit the tournament with creating friendships.
Mike's studio chair keeps dropping and is declared to be giving up the fight. The show runs its actual BREAKING NEWS animation, asks Al Borland to follow Mike's head downward with the camera, demands auto-tilt, blames workout muscle weight, and briefly cuts to three laughing producers in Ducers Alley.
The FootClan's top sleeper Jacory Croskey-Merritt becomes Bill Croskey in an explicit Bill Brasky reference. The hosts build a Chuck Norris-style dossier spanning impossible speed, size, doors, mathematics, languages, time, onions, bowling, the boogeyman, rain, a unicycle, and a drowned fish, repeatedly interrupting analysis and the mailbag to add more.
The hosts ask Kyle to verify whether the NFL can suspend Quinshon Judkins before he signs his rookie contract. An immediate off-camera answer says the personal-conduct policy still permits suspension, and the show proceeds with the corrected rule.
Greasy snacks are banned from a working keyboard unless a boxed replacement is ready for one final dirty run. The hosts then design a one-use milkshake beer helmet with thick tubing and consider grape-jelly party meatballs, fork-and-knife pizza, and pre-shelled pistachios as hands-clean draft food.
Complete published-video review shows Andy, Jason, and Mike live at the desk in ordinary clothing throughout, with no missing host, fourth host, cardboard bear, Jay Griz image, Jay cue, or special costume. A generic black bear briefly appears inside the standard animated opening montage, but—as in accepted corpus convention—nothing identifies it as Jay Griz. The opening also displays a five-person WITH THE DUCERS portrait card: Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Josh/Papa Josh, Jeremy/Owl Borland, Matt/The Falcon, and Kyle/The Borgogon. Because the card is prerecorded, it is not used by itself to claim that all five are physically present. The Megalabowl announcement gives its winner a place in the 2026 Listener League, a UDK for life, and bragging rights; registration is at 6,395 after the prior field exceeded 20,000, the hosts hope for 30,000, and they say friendships have grown from meeting in the tournament. Mike's deep sleeper Kyle Williams is hurt, which is called true Fantasy Hitman condition, and the pick returns the show to Rookie Town. The physical production story begins when Mike's chair keeps sinking. The published video really runs the reporter-style BREAKING NEWS animation, the hosts ask Al Borland to keep tilting Mike's camera downward as his head drops in frame, and a later live DUCERS ALLEY shot catches three producers laughing; the dark booth shot does not safely identify all three seats, so it is not used to promote portrait-card credits into live attendance. The FootClan's top sleeper Jacory Croskey-Merritt then becomes Bill Croskey through Bill Braskey-inspired impossible feats: seven feet tall with 4.40 speed, able to slam revolving doors, divide by zero, hear sign language, speak braille, decide the time, make onions cry, dribble a bowling ball, sleep under the boogeyman's bed, build a snowman from rain, wheelie on a unicycle, and drown a fish. The hosts repeatedly abandon real questions for the joke, say the Ducers are dying, propose that Bill perform the mailbag drop, and carry him through the Megalabowl plug and close. Kyle is directly asked to check whether the NFL can suspend an unsigned rookie and immediately answers yes from off camera; targeted video remains on the hosts. The final online-draft snack discussion creates a disposable-keyboard policy, a one-use milkshake beer helmet, party meatballs with grape jelly, fork-and-knife pizza, and pre-shelled pistachios. Targeted review confirms that none of those foods, helmet, keyboard damage, Bill feats, or chair repair is physically shown; the verified visuals are the studio chair and set, five-person Ducers card, Megalabowl rear monitor, Breaking News package, standard Mailbag/Sleepers graphics, and brief three-human booth cut.
in terms of a player, I believe, the talent in, and a young quarterback, and it's Enoch Iommanner from the Tennessee Titans. This was a fourth round pick. Epic? I call him Epic Iommanner, because that's what happens when I try to type his name anywhere. But I hope he becomes epic, and I think he has that potential. This is a player that I adored the tape up out of Stanford. This is a player that absolutely destroyed Travis Hunter. in college. He was seven targets against Travis Hunter, seven catches, 145 yards, two touchdowns. Manhandled him. He is a physical, big-bodied receiver. And I look at Tennessee, and it's like people want to, they're one of the number one cases of just like, we're going to ignore them because they sucked. And it reminds me a lot of when Miami was at the drafting at the top of the drought that got Jalen Waddle and they were a terrible team. And Jalen Waddle came out and nobody wanted him.
Right? And that was also, I think, when I think Baltimore, the receiving room was terrible and they spin it on Zayflowers. Like, you have a situation here in Tennessee and just play this thing out. Like, do you believe in Cam Ward? I believe in Cam Ward. I think that dude is a baller. Now, he won't have prolific year one numbers, but they're going to give him every opportunity. And what they had in the wide receiver room last year was Calvin Ridley and nothing else. This year, it's Calvin Ridley. Is Calvin Ridley the future with Cam Ward? Of course not. Is Tyler Lockett? No. No chance. Tyler Lockett was a wide receiver three last year. He goes to a new team. That doesn't work out. Calvin Ridley could have a very solid year this year. I'm not putting Iommanner ahead of Ridley by any stretch. But one of these rookie wide receivers is going to emerge in this offense. It's not going to be just Calvin Ridley. And to me, Iow Manor is the far and away best odds of doing that. He is a very, very talented wide receiver. You saw him flash in the preseason.
We mentioned him on the 32 preseason takeaway show. D.K. was also drafted by them, but I think Ilemanor profiles to be the route running, big-bodied, touchdown potential guy. I absolutely love him. I wanted to make sure I got him in Dynasty. I managed to acquire him in Dynasty. I drafted him because I liked him. I agree with your takes here. And then you traded for him from me. So somebody's emerging from the rookie group. And it's not. Traylon Burks. I mean, not that he's a rookie, but he still feels like a rookie. Yeah, and he's not even on the roster. He still feel like he's on the team. Not even a Titan. Well, because he's going to do exactly what he's been doing for the Titans this year. Oh, which is nothing. I mean, right now I know the depth chart, it's, you know, it's Lockett and it's, you know, Calvin Ridley, but they got Van Jefferson there. You telling me. Oh, no. Can't be out there ahead of Jefferson? Van Jefferson, just still going.
Yeah. He's still around out there blocking. Still getting jobs. There's a few guys like that, man, that just keep Jalen Rager, still playing football. No. Still got teams. Of course. Wow. Jalen Rager. Yeah. Van Jefferson. What year are we up to? I think this is 30th year. This will be year six. Yeah. Dude, getting that pension. Good for you, Van. All right. You know, Van Jefferson, by the way, he was, I believe, the receiver on the other end of the Baker Mayfield touchdown in his one game with the Rams. Oh, that ended up saving the drive that saved Baker's career. Yeah. I'm going to go the complete opposite from you guys. I love it. You guys are going with almost undrafted. Two rookie sleepers. Rookie sleeper picks. I'm going to go with a guy who is the age of those guys's father. It's not him feeling, but he makes the same noises when he gets out of bed. It's two years ago's wide receiver eight.
Oh boy. Two years ago. Two years ago. That's good. Kenan Allen. Wide receiver for the Los Angeles Chargers again. And the reason I bring up two years ago is because he was old two years ago. And he played for Los Angeles Chargers two years ago with Justin Herbert. He wasn't this old though. He was the wide receiver eight. He's older. So I don't expect him to be able to be a top 10 wide receiver by any means. But because he. Semi retired this year by not having a team and just waiting out training camp to sign anywhere. He did everything the right way. 100%. He's like, I ain't got to do this. No, he hung out. Winners week one. And then he's like, he waited and it found a team that has a Super Bowl chance. But the thing is, is because he wasn't there, he was undrafted in all these platforms. All the mock drafts, you know, every now and then we would, even when he didn't have a team, we'd like,
use a last round pick on Keenan knowing he'll sign somewhere. But if you're playing on Sleeper, he's in the 15th round. There aren't, you can't get a full PPR guy that can be involved in the 15th round for a good offense who is going to, like this is going to be the wide receiver two for the team. Um, he's not washed. He's not as washed as you guys think he is. He missed games last year. Oh, no, we don't think he. No, we just think he's old. Yeah. Okay. That's a fact. He is as old as we think he is. Well, let's see. How old do you think he is without looking?
33.2. Oh, you looked. That is very specific. That is very correct. That is, I mean, great guess. But I don't, I don't think you guys realize just how still involved and capable of scoring fantasy points he is. So this game is called, this better be good. Keenan Allen or Ladd McConkey. Oh. Oh, fun. Yeah. The wide receiver one breakout superstar rookie sensation last year or the old, old busted man who, you know, is 33.2. Okay. First of all, who played more games last year? Keenan Allen or Ladd McCormacky? Oh, boy. I guess Keenan. Incorrect. It was Ladd-McConnor. He had 16. There. There was. We went with the rug right away. That's right, baby.
Okay, I hope it's all just laugh. All right, well, let's be so amazing. Let's go. How about targets? How about targets? Who had more targets last year? Ladd-McConkey or Keenan Allen? I know Keenan's abandoning, like Chicago's getting a bunch of targets back from him. But I can't, I don't know what Jason's up to, man. I guess I guess I'll go Keenan again. It is Keenan Allen. He had more targets in fewer games than Ladd-McConkie last year. So who had more first read targets for their teams? I kind of guess. Three question. Oh, are we tied? It's tied. Who had more touchdowns last year? Ladd McConkey, top 12 wide receiver or Keenan Allen? I'll let you guess. Three questions.
It's another tie. They both had seven. What is this game? He's playing the game with himself. The game. He's like, yes, I would like to play a game. Do you understand what these games are for? The games are for fun. The games are for fun. And that's what I'm having here, Mike. Okay. So they both have the same touch. They both were super involved in their offense. Same first read, same targets. Targets per game were way higher for Keenan Allen. And if you look at where they played on the field. You had 72% slot percentage for Ladd-McConkey. It was 50-50 for Keenan last year. He was on the outside. He played well on the outside. They will be on the field together. Again, last year as the elder statesman for a bad playing Caleb Williams, he had four games where he was a top 10 wide receiver. He's going to score a lot of fantasy points this year. And in the 15th round, in those super double-digit rounds, when you compare who's like who you're drafting him, you know, is it? He's going by Trey Harris. His teammate.
Look, I love the film on Trey Harris. Trey Harris isn't going to be on the field to start his career. Seems like it's not happening right now. Yeah. Rashad Bateman, you know, Christian Kirk. Those are guys where it's like I would, we know that the Chargers are going to be a good team, a good offense. We know the connection that this quarter, like this isn't a question like, oh, he's on a new team. No, he's on the team. He's played his entire career minus last year for with the quarterback. He's very used to. When Adam Thielen was Keenan Allen's age.
Long ago. He put up 103 for over 1,000 yards, four touchdowns on 137 targets, wide receiver 25. They do profile very similarly in terms of just productive and then not the kind of skill sets that are, you know, going to disappear instantaneously with age. Yeah, it's like Larry Fitzgerald, when he changed to the just the good route running, good hands. perfect you know he's gonna be where he wasn't beating people with athleticism anymore and Keenan doesn't need to do that when you've got Herbert with that rocket arm hey Keenan go make a little bit of space I will laser beam you the ball near a hundred times this year I think he'll I think he'll have so many more catches than we think like now that I know I don't know how many catches you think that he that I think you think he's gonna have 72 catches is that what I have no idea I haven't this is just thinking
I think he'll have more than it. I know you put the line in there intentionally to help us not be afraid of Ladd-McConkie's success because Keenan could play on the outside as well. But what Keenan... Yeah. Looks like you think that I think that you think are dumb. That's right. Well set, Mike. Trick question. You can't stop me no matter who you are. I'm trying to remember what I was saying. You were talking about how much... Like, is Ladd in jeopardy? No. I don't think so. I mean, I do personally think Ladd is going to have a worse fantasy finish this year than last year. I'm in love with Ladd McConkey. He was, you know, my dude last year and he's not getting any worse as a player. But they have more options now. They have other. Oh, breaking news. Mike's chair continues to shut it up about my chair. That was a message sent in confidence. No, no. We have a new, we discovered this on the live stream.
Yeah. Mike's chair is giving up the fight. Look, it's started. Congratulations on winning. It's starting to old cherry over here's lived a good life. I mean, uh, I need Al Borland to pay attention to Mike's where his head is in the frame. We need the camera to just keep moving down. I need the camera on Mike. What kind of an operation in this? Where's auto tilt? Yeah. This is not the first time we've been here. All of us have had chairs chairs chairs that give up eventually. I have been working out, so he's probably that. Oh, yeah. Muscle weighs more than fat. Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying. So Keenan Allen's your sleeper pick. No, to be clear, the breaking news was that my chair is going up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was still waiting for the. Yeah, I thought there was actual good one coming here. No, um, we did have, uh, we pulled the foot clan again on the discord channel for their top sleeper candidates. Number one is, uh, Bill from Capitol Hill.
Let me ask you. Bill Crosky. Oh, yes. I brought it up a little bit on the Dynasty show. Jason, I am so in. Bill Crosky. Bill Crosky is seven feet tall runs of 4, 440. It is how, I think it's important to mention that this is Jacori Crosky Merritt, by the way. Bill Crosky. Bill Crosky could slam revolving doors. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Bill Cross. He can divide by zero. You've got, you've got. Bill Cross. We can hear sign language. Bill Cross. Yeah, the number one sleeper candidate. I think it's important that he stays in the sleeper box. Oh, it's too late, man. Did you hear this? That's the, that's the whole point of this is that you're still part of a committee. You're still a sleeper. Like Bill's a sleeper.
he's not a breakout yet yeah he can speak braille this yeah he need all right i'm i've turned everything is everything is done on bill though this he needs to be great now you need we need him to be a hall famer keep doing this doesn't wear a watch he decides what time it is that's right um Okay, but back to a real question. No, you do what you want, man. I don't care. I got it on Twitter and I was like, oh, this is an interesting question. Uh, their draft already took place before the bill and Brian Robinson madness. And they asked, okay, so that has happened. Both, um, sorry, I was trying to remember which place. Bill. No, no, no, no, it's the, uh, I think Bill Crotsky, make onions cry.
The deucers are dying. Because these are the best jokes. They're the best jokes. Okay, so Bill got picked up, but Echler is still there. Who would you rather have Javante Williams or Austin Echler? I would take the shot on Echler. I think I would too. I would take, because we already know that Echler can do a lot with a little in terms of fantasy production. Who does a lot with a little? Bill Grosky. Other sleeper candidates from the Foot Clan, Cedric Tillman was one of the top names. I agree. Jaden Higgins. Yeah. In Houston, one of the top names. Pat Bryant and Troy Franklin. I don't know about Troy Franklin. Maybe the Troyes and the Trays need the second season. Maybe they need the second year. Yeah, yeah, maybe. And Pat Bryant. And then Britain Strange, it tied in. Britain Strange, absolutely a sleeper candidate.
uh from the foot clan there more sleeper picks are unanimous sleeper picks in the udk ultimate draft kit you should really have the ultimate draft kit you're talking to me uh i'm talking to all the listeners because i know who has the ultimate draft kit bill kroski and he could dribble a bowling ball oh i am i am enjoying this very much the hype it's reached um you know huge levels here for bill kroski Way to set your joke up. Also, for the record, Austin Echler, like I will be drafting Austin Echler in a lot of leagues and definitely over Bill Kroski. I don't think Echler's workload changes from what it has been with Brian Robinson. That's the only thing that I think, I mean, that's up for debate. I mean, it's totally good. But I don't think it really changes. I think they want to, I think they looked at Brian Robinson Jr. and said, you're a jag.
your first and second downs are not going to be different than Chris Rodriguez's or Bill Kroski's or sleeps under the boogeyman's bed or even even Jeremy McNichols the first and second down I don't want to do anything else on the show I know just want the last 20 minutes can be those jokes so stupid but Echler's in the 11th so we'll take a break calm down and come back with the mailbag This episode is brought to you by prize picks. Preseason football is underway, and college football is here, so don't miss any of the action this season on prize picks. Prize picks is simple to play. Just pick more or less on two to six different player stat projections. If you get your picks right, you can cash in and win up to 2,000 times your money. Price picks is also the best way to get in on the action on sports in more than 30 states, including California, Texas, and Georgia.
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Oh boy. Good old Bill Braskey reference. For those that don't understand are multiple layers. They don't need. I think it just works. Yeah. I think it just works. If that's the first time you hear a voice. Oh, it's still a good time. A name said like that. That's good enough. All right. All right. Is there any value in Nick Chubb this season? YouTube question from John wants to know. Is there value in Nick Chubb? I've seen it. It's kind of a posh thing right now to take a shot on Damien Pierce, actually, because he's still young. By the way, I misquoted his yards per carry last year. I want to apologize. Oh. I said he had 5.7 yards per carry last year. Okay. It was incorrect. It was 7.9 yards of carry. Oh, well, that's embarrassing. On how many? Three carries. No, no. I don't remember. Let's take a look here. Yeah, I'd like to know. Damien Pierce had 40 carries.
He was 7.9 on 40 carries last year. Okay. I do think there could be value. Oh, it helps. Yeah. So he had a 54-yarder and a 92 in the final week against Tennessee, which I had totally forgotten about that. Let me tell you what Nick Chub will not have, a 92-yard rush. He will not have a 40-yard rush. Nick Chubb is, he has, like, reached the Naji Harris stage of his career. He can get it done. He can be out there. He can score touchdowns. Is there any value? Right now, yeah, there's value in taking Nick Chub and just seeing what happens in week one. I think there is value because the thing about running backs that is honestly the most difficult part of running backs in fantasy football is, you know, we get these opinions. We like players. We often like players who are considered the backups. You're like, this guy's got the juice. Why are you not putting them in?
But when it comes down to it, it's who does the coach like? Who does the coach think is reliable? Because that's who's going to be on the field. It doesn't matter how much juice Damian Pierce has when he's on the bench. And like this staff, I feel like they made their decision with Pierce. Yeah, a little bit they did. They gave him 40 carries across the season. I know he missed a couple of games. Well, I'm saying like they went and they're like, We're going to go get Joe Mixed. He missed six games. They're saying they went and like, hey, we're going to go get Joe Mixing. You're not it. You're not good enough. So that's where is Nick Chubb just a solid enough veteran that he gets the plays and he has an efficient plays here and there. Dean Pierce is to Nick Chubb what Rico Dato was to Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah. And so at some point your hand is forced. The team, the team was.
crazily committed to Zeke. To the point where Mike's head was about to pop off. It was, he was so frustrated. And that could happen in the Chuck. All I'm saying is if Chub averages three a carry somehow for four weeks, it's not Woody Marks that I think will take over. It's Damian Pierce that'll take over. I don't, I don't think Woody Marks has had done much with his opportunity. He profiles more as a past catcher. He does. It's just, look, that situation sucks. There are five or six or maybe four or five running back situations right now that are, I wish I had a better answer for people. I don't know exactly what it's going to be like in Cleveland right now. That's just a tough one. Houston's feeling that way right now as well. Washington, we're talking about Bill. No. Bill Kroski joined the megalobo. He's hitting the megalobo. He also built a snowman out of rain. There we go. There we go.
Thank you. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what's going to happen in Washington. I don't know what's going to happen in Pittsburgh right now with that, with back, that back field. Yeah. Jaylen Warren's underdrafted right now. Yeah, probably, probably true. All right. Another Instagram question is Jerry Judyworth trading in Dynasty right now before those seasons starts to get the most value. It's a little bit hard for me to see him having more value. than he could have right now. Man, I could easily see that happening. We've talked about it. We made the jokes of like week one, the Browns play against the Cincinnati Bengals. But that is a perfect matchup where you're going to have to score a lot of points. The Bengals will be able to score on a good Brown's defense, and the Bengals defense is really bad. So they're going to throw the ball a lot, and they're starting with Joe Flacco. So like I expect right now, Jerry Judy, to get off to a 10 target plus.
week one. And so if he continues that off of the stretch of last year, you might have people saying, okay, this is clearly the number one wide receiver for the Browns. And I think you could trade him later. I also see a world where he is valuable enough to keep. So I'm willing to hold on to him for that week one and make a decision later. All right. This question, we've gotten it before, Instagram from Grant. Should suspended players be permitted? on the IR spot. Nope. I say no. I'm a no as well. You can turn that option on on Sleeper. So if you don't know the rules of your league, I would go and look at that. To make sure, because that changes how you might draft somebody. Oh, yeah. Rice and Addison, those become, you know. Maybe Judkins. For sure. Sure. Although currently not suspended. Soon. Soon. Well, I guess he's got to be employed by the NFL first. But like I co-managed.
Some dynasty leagues. I don't know if he does. What? I don't think he has to be employed by the NFL because he got drafted. Really? Yeah, I don't know. They couldn't put him on the NFI list. I think he can be suspended still. I think there is. Because he's still under the NFL PA, right? I mean, if you're drafted, you're under the NFLPA. I know that they were saying that he can't be placed on the NFI unless until he signs a contract. So I imagine he couldn't be suspended. I guess I'm saying that because I thought I saw them say basically that.
they were going to wait for the disciplinary. They might wait for the disciplinary process to go through before they choose to sign him. But I don't know if Kyle, if you can take a quick peek into that so that we give accurate information. Just go check because I found one league where I'm a co-manager where suspended players were allowed on the IR. And we had Addison and I just went, who thank you. Thank you for the free square. It looks like yes, he can be suspended by the NFL under the personal conduct policy even without signing his rookie contract. Okay.
There you go. So they may, you know, we may know that he's getting six games and then the Browns might find a way to sign him and we'll have to deal with that. All right, this one's funny. Instagram question kind of goes with the stack question at the top, a little different. Mr. Maddie writes in, is Lamar Zay the worst stack in history? No, because of where Zay is going in drafts. He is not being. overhyped. He's just right there where he should be. There is a world where, um, you know, Bateman is just as valuable a stack. Like, yeah, for sure. It does feel like the weak, one of the weaker ones that you can possibly put together because this is actually really not a one. This is a really, really good, uh, point.
when you're building a stack. The reason why Zayflowers feels like a bad stack, despite being a top 24 wide receiver, like he wasn't a good stack last year, and you got a top 24 wide receiver with the number one quarterback. So it sounds like it shouldn't be that bad, but the point of stacks is the high upside. It's really about touchdowns. Like when you're building a stack, you're wanting to get a touchdown receiving option. So whether that's a tight in like Mark Andrews, there's a better stack for you or so. Zayflowers had four touchdowns last year, despite Lamar throwing... 40 plus. Yeah, and it was only in three games before it came. So it was like three times you were like, and in one of those when he scored wide receiver 31. Yeah, that's why even wide receiver two is like a T. Higgins who profiles like, you could go out there and get 10 touchdowns. That's a fine stack to have. You're really wanting touchdown stacks. Yeah, that makes sense from snacks or from stacks to snacks here, guys. Delicious.
We have a question on YouTube. Favorite snack for online drafts? Is there a different snack for online versus? Well, yeah, because you've got to be on the keyboard. So not, so you don't want Cheetos. Yeah, you can't do Cheetos. Buffalo Wings is tough. Would you ever, would you ever go heavy grease and just commit yourself to super cleaning your keyboard afterwards? No. Just be okay with it? No, I would. I would, I think if I'm close to the end of a keyboard and I've got like a new one. in a box ready to swap out. I might give one good run to my like chip pieces everywhere. One last two wrong. Yeah, me and you, keyboard. You're going in the garbage dirty. It's how you do your keyboards. You got like an overstock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like this one's dirtied up. Throw it out. No. So what's the is it something like a milkshake with a straw so you keep the hands free? Yeah, that would be pretty good. Can you do a milkshake in one of those beer helmets? Would that work?