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A trademark euphemism for the Super Bowl becomes an on-air domain search, exposing the company's collection of unnecessary properties such as ChristmasFootball.com and TuesdayNightFootball.com and its apparent plan to own every weekday before another pandemic moves games around.
Sean Mannion becoming an offensive coordinator makes the hosts revisit an unnamed host's multi-year early-show conviction that Mannion was one of the NFL's best quarterbacks and that Jared Goff should be benched so Mannion could get on the field.
The wide-receiver Truth segment is formally opened by the familiar 'You want answers' and 'You can't handle the truth' courtroom montage before the hosts begin grading finishes and consistency.
The hosts say a Bengals extension for Chase Brown would be detrimental to everyone in the League of Record, while Brooks loves the possibility because Brown sits on his dynasty roster.
After Kyle is asked for an ADP result and the ensuing answer places Michael Wilson ahead of Marvin Harrison Jr., he writes 'spread them' in the company Slack; the channel automatically returns a perfectly timed GIF of a kick in the nards.
Looking back at Egbuka's hot opening and disastrous second half, the hosts remember Papa Josh acquiring him in dynasty at what they call the worst timing imaginable.
When asked whether he still wants J.J. McCarthy in Minnesota, the likely Mike response says McCarthy was supposed to be a helpful scuba tank but was filled with lead instead of air, dragging him deep without oxygen until he decides when to remove it and swim up.
The hosts cannot say the championship game's trademarked name, so they explore buying the Big Game, Bigger Game, and Biggest Game domains before exposing their real portfolio: ChristmasFootball.com and TuesdayNightFootball.com. They joke about more weekday variants before discovering Wednesday Night Football is missing, then realize on air that these were supposed to be company secrets. Sean Mannion's offensive-coordinator job triggers a direct retrospective to an unnamed host's multi-year bit demanding that Jared Goff be benched for Mannion and insisting Mannion was one of the league's best quarterbacks. The recurring Truth segment enters through its familiar courtroom dialogue. Internal league and crew details keep surfacing around the analysis: a Chase Brown extension would hurt everyone in the League of Record but delights Brooks because Brown is on his dynasty team; Kyle types 'spread them' into Slack and automatically receives a perfectly timed kick-in-the-nards GIF; and Papa Josh's high-price Emeka Egbuka acquisition is remembered as having the worst possible timing. Mike's defense of J.J. McCarthy collapses into an image of scuba diving with a tank filled with lead rather than air, forcing him to decide when to abandon it and swim upward.
domination season because of the change at quarterback because of the missed games just something to pay attention to um oh he's entering year five Kyle so he's about to get paid yeah he's about there's no way he's not even 25 yet yeah entering year five he will be he's way up there in the dynasty rankings man he'll get his fifth year option well they would have already had to pick that up I'm saying he'll get an extension yep and he'll get it this he'll get it this off season digs insanely at 18. Consistency rank of 26. I mean, Stefan Diggs felt sort of like... Mostly irrelevant for a lot of the year. I mean, like you said, his consistency rank of 26. This is sometimes when we're looking at this, now we're getting to the place where the guys that surprise are the guys that played 17 games. Diggs played the whole year. So at the end, he accumulated more on a points per game basis. Obviously, he didn't do what...
some of the other guys. Would you have rather played digs all year or Abuka who comes up next at 19? Abuka consistency of 36. First half was 16, second half 43. I would choose. Don't look at the back half of the year on our consistency charts. It's gross. If I had to lock one of them in all year long, I would choose Diggs, who went off in weeks 16 and 17 for the championship. I don't have to look to see how Ibuka did in the playoffs because I know that was in the second half of the year. where Abuka was second half ranked 43 in consistency. I mean, he's a horribly difficult player to rank in Dynasty. Man. Because it's not about whether, I think Abuka's good. It's just you have a lot of players there right now. He was holding the breath away from the 101 in Dynasty startups. Like early this season. During the hot run, it was like this is. I think it was right when Papa Josh acquired him in Dynasty.
Wasn't that? Didn't you, don't you have him? But she, I don't even want to talk about it. It was the worst timing imaginable, dude. At least you didn't have to, at least you didn't have to play him in the playoffs. By high. That's very true. Right? By high is what they say. Um, you know who was one spot better than a mecca, Bucca inconsistency in the second half of the season? Uh-oh. A mecca, Bucca, wider two, inconsistency second half. Don't say Jalen McMillan. Justin Jefferson. That's another. Let's finish with that. Yeah. Because he came in at 25. Ouch. 27th in consistency. Eighth in the first half, 42nd in the second half. Look, you can say anything you want about what you believe about. Oh, my gosh. About J.J. McCarthy. But the proof is in this man's Hall of Fame stats. I mean, Justin Jefferson, if he doesn't perform, it's not his fault.
That is the position I will take. He played all 17 games. Well, does that add up to 0% great games? Uh, let me check. 17 games from Jefferson. You would think that a randomly thrown pass. I would think that if you went out there, you could get him one good game. Was it David Blow that threw that random deep bomb to Gala Day on Thanksgiving? I believe so, yeah. I mean, just do, I mean, how did he not get one of those? Nine. He had more bust games. than good games, percentage-wise. Yeah, he crushed people. I mean, it... Do you really want J.J. McCarthy there, Mike? You're a Minnesota guy. Do you want him there? I still believe that J.J. McCarthy will turn out and be okay. You're not just... Do you want somebody great behind him for a quick... Yes, he needs to be challenged. Also, turn out to be okay, it's not a high enough bar. I feel like I...
Like JJ McCarthy, the career will be okay. JJ McCarthy is my scuba tank that I was happy to have on as I went scuba diving. And I went down and instead of being filled with air, it was filled with lead. Okay, so I'm diving deep and I've got no oxygen. And I got to figure out when do I take this thing off and try to get to the surface. I was trying to figure out how that tight. I get it. You take it off. Yeah. So you can breathe. I'm going to try to swim. On account of JJ McCarthy, the people need to hear this.
Jefferson finished at 25 this year with a consistency rank of 27. Take your year. You will finish higher next year. Take your time machine and tell me the numbers. For next year? Yes. Jefferson's fantasy finish. If he has JJ McCarthy as the starting quarterback. Just whatever you think happens in Minnesota. So where did he finish this year? 25. It's definitely going to be better. I'll say top. Better not have a wand in front of it. It will. Oh, man. It will. Well, I'm trying to work my way. through it. I don't want to just be like, he's top five guy. I mean, the top 15 will happen. I, he's, it's tough. He, top 10 is still in play. He's being drafted as Justin Jefferson. Right now in best ball, he is the wide receiver eight. He's being drafted that way in Dynasty too. And it's, he's the wide receiver eight in best ball. Yeah, right now. Goodness. I can see it. Yeah, I could too. If they trade for a quarterback, if they.
Get Kyler Murray or someone. I could see it, but with JJ there, I will be. The weird thing is they won the last five games in Jefferson was 79, 77th, 26th, and 52. In four of them. That defense was great. Yeah, it was very good. I mean, the McCarthy year, you also, you forget how much time he actually missed. I mean, he missed nine games. My, Maybe I'm doing the math wrong. Five, six, seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to go really fast, Jason. I'm back to advanced math over here. One plus one is two, plus one is three, plus one is four. I'm having so many conversations in my head at the exact same time. He had, he had a couple of good games at the end. Yeah, please. He had a couple of good games at the end. Not his last two games. I know. It was Washington and Dallas. Then he got hurt. Dallas.
Yes, Dow has really, really proven their worth there. He gets hurt the next week. And then the final week of the season, if you remember, that was the, there's no way he's coming back. It's going to be, oh gosh, now the backup, his name is escaping me. Was that Brozmer? Yes, Brozmer. So, also in some of these Jeff Jefferson games is Brozmer. Oh, yeah. So. Before I shut it down, don't just crap on McCarthy. Yeah, before he shut it down, last player to just throw out there because he was consistency rank of four, and I want to remember that going into next year. Four seems high. Four seems high, but he was because we don't penalize the games that you don't play in. It was Rushie Rice. Rushie Rice was the consistency rank of four in the first half consistency rank of number one. He was great. Another really difficult dynasty player to rank. Yeah. Because you're right. The numbers for him when he was on the field.
Unbelievable. Why did she were 11, 2, 13, 6, and 3 and 5 of the 8 games? Is Kelsey back? Doesn't matter if he's back? I mean, Kelsey was there for those. Rishi Rice, that's, well, that's what I mean? Okay, let's say Kelsey is completely out. Now, what does that do? Is that better or is that worse for Rishie Rice? Because they have to find someone who can. I think it might be neutral or, I mean, I think if he's out there and all the exterior, all the externals are not considered. I mean, he's been targeted on 30% of his routes. He has Patrick Mahomes. He has Andy Reid. Only Puka and the league neighbors have been targeted on a higher percentage of his routes when he plays. It's been a couple of years of him not playing all the games. But yes, I'm glad you brought him up. That way, the last player we talked about didn't have to be D.K. McCaff at 26. So we won't talk about D.K. McKaff today. Oh, no. And we won't talk about wide receivers anymore.
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