Episode notes & curated moments 12 records
momentJason wins the week and still finds a complaint
Jason's Mark Andrews and David Montgomery beat Jahmyr Gibbs, and he posts the League of Record's highest score even with CeeDee Lamb recording a zero. He nevertheless argues that Andrews was not actually good, declares himself unsatisfiable, and answers 'Never' when told to grow up.
momentRussell Wilson gets the wrong Unlimited first
Wilson's fourth-down failure summons the clean 'Unlimited' cue. The desk immediately rejects it as the wrong one, then fires 'Unlimited diarrhea. Unlimited' and asks whether Wilson has played his way out of the Hall of Fame.
momentSports cards become a player stock market
A host says he began collecting sports cards with his son and explains the hobby as a stock market for players. Russell Wilson's Super Bowl cards once belonged in a vault, but his late-career decline turns them into a sell, while the market is already trying to exit C.J. Stroud.
momentBoth hosts traded out of Camp Scadaboo
Two hosts realize they recently traded Cam Skattebo to one another and both moved out of 'Camp Scadaboo' just before his breakout. The desk then lists his team lead in carries, rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, targets, receptions, and receiving yards.
momentMac Jones rips it and gets sent back to backup
The hosts verify that Jones sincerely minimized a defender's catch, mock him for putting the ball on the player's neck, and quote his self-credit—'but I did rip it.' The response is blunt: he sucks and should go back to being the backup.
momentJackson Dart activates breaking-news party mode
The quarterback change arrives live. The desk demands lights, explicitly assigns Mike to break the news, announces Dart as the Giants starter, and declares Wilson's Unlimited Diarrhea flushed. Video visibly inserts a three-host BREAKING NEWS graphic and then cycles the studio through multiple party-light colors.
momentBye weeks are the British offshore
The hosts defend saying bye weeks are 'coming' because they are not here yet, compare the distinction to the British are coming, place the byes offshore, demand lanterns, and congratulate themselves on a perfect Revolutionary War parallel.
momentDeucers Alley follows Final Destination order
In a 17-team chopped league, direct video shows two of three visible Deucers raise their hands as already eliminated. The desk identifies Baby Jake as first, Falcon second, Papa Josh third, and Owl as the survivor; Owl says he is not going anywhere. Josh and Falcon each died with all 1,000 FAAB, so they are said to take it with them.
momentThe podcast needs Thornton find-and-replace
Andy promotes Trey Tucker while repeatedly calling him Tyquan Thornton, discovers the mistake, calls the podcast horrible, and requests global find-and-replace. A related Tory Horton slip follows, after which Dante Thornton, Tyquan Thornton, Trey Tucker, and Troy Franklin become so entangled that the hosts no longer know whom they mean.
momentThe Great Gadsden survives consonant court
Oronde Gadsden is introduced in the transcript as 'A Rondé Gadston' and immediately called the Great Gadston. The hosts spell G-A-D-S-D-E-N, debate whether a D became a T, try Gadston and Gadsby, and finally leave pronunciation authority with one host.
momentStarts of the Week leaks two days early
A host identifies Matthew Golden as his Start of the Week during Tuesday waivers. The others react that it is not Thursday, tell him to turn the reveal down, and salvage the recommendation as a 'drop it like it's hot' waiver note.
summaryEpisode notes
All three regular hosts are named and visibly at the desk, with no missing host or Jay Griz presence. Jason wins his Monday League of Record matchup with Mark Andrews and David Montgomery, scores the most points in the league despite a CeeDee Lamb goose, and still argues that Andrews was not good; the others tell him to grow up. Russell Wilson's decline then misfires the soundboard: a clean 'Unlimited' cue is rejected as the wrong one before 'Unlimited diarrhea. Unlimited' lands, reviving both the Wilson cue and Week 18 Nasty Boys phrase. A host explains sports cards to his son as a player stock market and watches Wilson go from Super Bowl cards placed in the vault to an urgent sell. Two unnamed hosts admit they recently traded away Cam Skattebo to one another just before his breakout, turning his all-category team lead into shared regret. Mac Jones's refusal to credit a defender's catch is replayed as arrogant self-congratulation—'but I did rip it'—and the desk tells him he sucks and should return to backup duty. Andy's prior-day Cardinals camera stare returns when he says he hates the team but still finds Atlanta's passing offense worse. The biggest production payoff arrives live: the Jackson Dart starting announcement makes the hosts demand lights, Mike breaks the news, a dedicated three-host BREAKING NEWS graphic visibly appears, and the studio visibly cycles through colored party lights. Russell Wilson's 'Unlimited Diarrhea' is declared flushed. Bye-week planning becomes Revolutionary War narration: the British are coming because the byes are still offshore, lanterns must go up, and the hosts openly congratulate themselves on the parallel. Deucers Alley then gets a physical chopped-league audit. Direct video shows three producers and two raised hands; the dialogue identifies Baby Jake as first eliminated, the Falcon as second, Papa Josh as third, and Owl as the survivor who says he is not going anywhere. Josh and Falcon each admit dying with all 1,000 FAAB, prompting the claim that they are taking it with them. The sequence is compared to Final Destination. The waiver discussion later collapses into names: Andy spends a Trey Tucker argument saying Tyquan Thornton, requests global find-and-replace, Jason is caught in a related Tory Horton slip, and the hosts lose track among Dante Thornton, Tyquan Thornton, Trey Tucker, and Troy Franklin. Checked video shows ordinary Waiver Wire framing, not a corrective graphic. A premature Matthew Golden Starts of the Week reveal gets a 'turn that down' response, and Oronde Gadsden's name ends in a pronunciation loop plus 'the Great Gadsden.' Routine waiver advice is omitted.
53:36 ↗He ranks top 10 in pass success rate, completion percentage, yards per attempt, and sack rate. And on top of that, gets to take on the Arizona Card Cardinals who are just not very good. I'm going to go next with Geno Smith. If you believe in Trey Tucker as a pickup, a.k.a. Dante Thornton. A.k.a. Taequann Thornton. Yeah. I mean, all the Thorntons. Let's throw Bess in there. His name is also Thornton. Geno Smith, he was the quarterback for last week. Bess doesn't play football. Two of his three games, he has been at 10 or more yards per pass attempt. That is only Lamar and Geno
54:15 ↗have done that for context. That's as many games of 10 plus yards per pass attempt as Justin Herbert has for his entire career. So he's chucking it. He is slinging it. And Chicago's pass defense has not been very good. Their star cornerback, Jalen Johnson, just got surgery. So he will be out. He's not out for the season, but he's gone for a while. A big over under 47 and a half. It's indoors. A lot of things I look for. Big Geno Smith is kind of a pickup and play. And I want to remind people, Justin Fields could be a very good start this week
54:45 ↗if he's back off the concussion protocol. They do. He does get extra time with the Monday night football game facing Miami. Miami's 25th against quarterbacks. Dead last in place, success rate and expected points per play. It's a really good matchup. And Justin Fields has the legs. So if he's back from the concussion, which I don't know if we'll get word on that before Thursday, but just pay attention to that because I think he would be a streaming candidate. He had a great week one, a dud of a week two with the concussion, but definitely an option. Yeah, no, I'd go right back to Fields
55:17 ↗if I had him. You get Miami and then you get Dallas the next week for Justin Fields. Speaking of Dallas, people want to know if they can drop Dak. Man. So here's what you can't do. You can't play Dak. Okay, so Dak. So then you got to roster two. Exactly. I am. I have this situation in a lot of places where I have him. I have the stack. And because of that, I am waiting. I'm going to roster Dak. But what you have to do is you have to look at do you have enough bench space to actually roster two?
55:50 ↗If you don't, then you have to move on from Dak and cut him. But you should not be starting Dak right now. His schedule is brutal and he doesn't have CeeDee Lamb and he doesn't have a strong offensive line for a couple more weeks. On tomorrow's episode, we'll talk some trades. We'll get into the Thursday night preview and then Thursday, Friday, the matchup starts of the week. The fantasy face-off and the wheel of shame returns again on Friday. Whee! Woo! So that'll be the rest of the week. So thank you for joining us. Check out jointhefoot.com for the community and the Discord channel