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Jason beats Papa Josh but misses the playoffs when a roughly 400-point underdog wins elsewhere. Al's team causes the elimination; Al calls himself the hero who spared the league, presses his own applause, asks that the record show who did it, and admits the self-dunk. Jason later names the Pittman non-trade and benched Gabe Davis as the five-point difference.
A free Foot Clan giveaway pairs a signed Travis Etienne jersey with Footballers swag. When the hosts discuss signing the merchandise, the wording makes it sound as if Mike might sign Etienne's name; the desk answers that a certificate proves the jersey is authentic.
The recurring sophisticated ritual celebrates Heaven Ingram, Isaiah Lovely, David Winchoku, Scorland Sutton, Cooper Yup, T. Debo Samuel, and Rashish Rice, then condemns Patrick Mac Jones, Jared Blarf, Justin Hurtbert, Amon-Ra St. Brownstains, David Midgmery, Gabe Dufus, and others.
A third every-other-week zero in six games fulfills the December 8 promise to crown Gabe Davis the Goose King. His boom-bust cycle becomes an ice-cream street magician who offers a delicious cone and pulls it away; the Dud review repeats the crown after another forty-plus-route zero.
A host says 'ligments,' is corrected, and then rationalizes the missing syllable: when ligaments are broken, a piece is missing, so the shortened word describes the damaged version.
Andy's Jets Almost Upset hits while his Carolina selection fails. When the Panthers are named, Andy says he would never make that choice, and the desk answers that the record belongs to him.
While discussing players who walk off injuries, a host says dehydration alone would put him on the cart, then upgrades a near collision and simple thirst into another immediate cart request.
Mike wants any backup stuffed after McCaffrey is tackled near the goal line, knows Arizona is next, and says he will spend $12,000 on CMC in his DraftKings lineup. Direct video identifies Mike at the right microphone for the price line.
As Jason softens into an Arthur Smith apologist, another host says he would like to vote Jason off the show; desperate times are given as the justification.
The hosts ask Kyle to chime in if he can find Rashod Bateman's target total, and the immediate off-camera answer is four. Video remains on the three-host desk.
The desk learns that a touchdown plus the same player's two-point conversion is called an octopus and reluctantly accepts the eight-based name. Chris Collinsworth's use of heater then prompts the hosts to claim he stole their word because they overused it for one show; their words are said to be on a heater.
The show introduces the Duds with 'Pooped in his big boy pants.' The published video genuinely displays the green host-cutout title animation, then a close-up manure texture, before returning to the Christmas desk under a DUDS monitor.
After two poor games, the desk mocks Jason's Zach Moss love and suggests Moss may need Jason not to believe in him. Jason responds by declaring complete confidence under reverse-Tinkerbell logic, which the others call an attempt to kill Moss.
Complete review of all 41 storyboard sheets plus targeted direct-video frames shows Andy left in a bright aqua hoodie, Jason center in black with cap and glasses, and Mike right in black with a white Arizona cap. The Christmas desk has lit tinsel, a large red bow, figurines, mugs, a DeLorean model, and a black Fantasy Footballers helmet. No Jay Griz name, drop, image, cardboard cutout, physical bear, missing host, Listener League detail, or Megalabowl detail occurs. The episode opens on Jason's League of Record disaster: he beats Papa Josh, but a team outscored by roughly 400 points upsets the needed favorite, so the defending champion misses the playoffs. Al says he spared the league and is a hero. When the hosts request applause for Al eliminating Jason, the published edit cuts to the real neon DUCERS ALLEY row—Papa Josh left, festive-cap Brooks center, and Al right—while Al presses his own applause, tells the record to show it, and admits he dunked on himself. Jason later adds that the rejected Pittman trade or simply starting Gabe Davis in a five-point game would have put him in. A free Foot Clan giveaway offers a signed Travis Etienne jersey and swag, then jokes that Mike might counterfeit Etienne's signature despite an authenticity certificate. Monday Punday supplies Heaven Ingram, Isaiah Lovely, David Winchoku, Scorland Sutton, Cooper Yup, T. Debo Samuel, Rashish Rice, Patrick Mac Jones, Justin Hurtbert, Amon-Ra St. Brownstains, Gabe Dufus, and more. Gabe's third every-other-week zero in six weeks fulfills the prior promise to crown him Goose King; he becomes an ice-cream street magician who repeatedly offers a delicious cone and pulls it away. A second consecutive goose is confirmed near the close. Andy's weekly Almost Upset hits on the Jets but misses on Carolina, after which he tries to deny ever picking the Panthers and the desk invokes the record. Broken 'ligments' lose a piece of the word, and dehydration or a near collision becomes enough reason to summon the injury cart. Mike is visibly the host willing to spend $12,000 on CMC against Arizona while rooting for any backup to be stuffed. Jason's Arthur Smith apology makes another host vote to remove him from the show. The Borgogon supplies Bateman's four-target lookup from off camera. The desk accepts the touchdown-plus-two-point 'octopus' term but says Chris Collinsworth stole 'heater' because the Footballers overused it for one show and therefore own it. The Duds section genuinely uses the full-screen green POOPED IN HIS BIG BOY PANTS animation and a manure close-up. Finally, Jason tries reverse-Tinkerbell logic on Zach Moss—professing belief so Moss will thrive—only to be accused of trying to kill him.
Really? You don't want to start Noah Brown next week? Are you guys being serious? Yeah, being very serious. Noah Brown last week was just back from injury, Goose. This week in the rain against the Jets with, you know, obviously Stroud got injured at one point. I guess if Stroud's out. Yeah, I mean, regardless, I mean, if you have no catches in two weeks where you play a bunch of snaps, I think it's very fair minded to question whether you should start that player. Noah Brown is not the kind of player that. can take advantage of a defense without help. Nico Collins and Tank Dell opened up the defense to allow Noah Brown to take advantage. If he has to be the guy, I don't have a trust in Noah Brown after two gooses. I think it would be a very risky play to put him out there. So that's my perspective on him. It's fair. Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. It's very fair-minded what you're saying, but this is an NFL franchise that is going to have to throw the ball.
And if I look at the options, we don't know if Schultz will be back. So it's Robert Woods or Noah Brown. And you go, okay, well, Robert Woods, maybe he's more reliable, a veteran, he can get it done. This is all assuming that Stroud plays, because I'm not playing them with a backup there. However, Robert Woods gused two weeks ago, just like everybody did other than Nico Collins. And against the Jets, I don't know what's better to goose or to have negative two yards. So, you know, you win some, lose some on the Robert Woods versus Noah Brown. Brandon Cooks, two for 37, big disappointment. Josh Downs, three for 32. It happened real quick, and then it was over. Calvin Ridley 13 targets, four for 53. You got to keep playing 13 targets. Lawrence was, I think he ended up with a good fantasy day, but he was not very good. He had an okay fantasy day. And it was, you know.
He had a couple touches to go. Late late touchdown. Garbage time. Saved him. And three, yeah, three interceptions. I mean, Lawrence looked bad. Three interceptions, 56% completion rate. Basically, if he wasn't targeting Evan Ingram. Yeah, Cleveland was all over. Yeah, 27 targets between Calvin Ridley and Zay Jones. Three picks. They ended up with nothing. Addison, two for 27. Addison, I mean, he's got no hope right now. Yeah, he's got a big quarterback problem. Holy crap. I don't know how many people listening to the show watched any amount of that Raiders Vikings game. Goodness gracious death was awful. Nobody should be winning that game. It was not a defensive struggle. It was right. It was ineptitude on both sides of the ball. If you're not familiar, if you are unaware, you know, we talked about this was a three nothing victory.
That three points came at the very, this looked like it was. Two minutes left. This looked like it was headed to a zero, zero overtime, which has literally never happened. Sam Leporta, very disappointing game because Jared Gough was awful. Dalton Kincaid, five for 21. Okay, that's the question. What do you do? Oh, I'm moving on to Najoku rest of the season in my situation. With Dawson Knox back. He was out there a lot. Kincade was out there. He had some downfield shots. I was watching closely. But you know what else I was watching? The snaps where he wasn't on the field. And there were times when you'd see 88 out there instead of 86. And, you know, I'm fine playing Kincade because your options, like, if you don't have Najoku, what are you going to do? I say likely.
matchup dependent tie matchup dependent tie for those two yeah i would say so nojoku looks like he's just too involved the matchups we know are all good going forward so i would agree there but i am not moving off of kinkade i was actually really impressed that he was out there so much you look at the last two weeks without dawson knox he played 67 and 61 percent of snaps this week with dawson knocks he was up at 78 percent of snaps It was a bad game all around. Obviously, Kansas City's defense kind of... Love the team in routes run, so Jason's probably right there. Well, I just, they're, I mean, Dossanox, what, 36 snaps? He ran 17 routes. I mean, that's returning from injury. That number is going to go up. Sure, but I'm not out on Kincaid, unless I've got someone like Njoku, then it's a clear pivot. Okay. And the Mewth, not Luth. No. Dallas Goddard. I don't have a stat line here in front of me. But it wasn't. But I have his name. I mean, the...
So here's what happened with the Eagles. What do you do, Kyle? If you didn't, if you didn't watch the Eagles, you had a drive that was ended. Four for 30. You had a drive that was ended prematurely by a Jalen Hertz fumble. Then later you had a drive that looked good that was ended prematurely by an AJ Brown fumble. Then you had a little bit later a drive that looked like it was finally happening and it was ended by a Devante Smith fumble. They didn't ever score. or have any fantasy relevance because they kept dropping the ball. And to be fair, it wasn't like, this was great defense. Those punches were world-class. I mean, this is heavyweight boxing from Dallas. All right. Waiverwire show tomorrow. A reminder, head to footclang giveaway.com. If you want a chance of that sign, Travis E.N. Jersey and the swag pack. That'll do it for today's episode of the show. Thank you for joining us. Good luck in the doubleheader tonight.
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