Chapter 1: What is the Listener Take Purge and how does it work?
Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Korolbeck. And today is the listener take purge. We do the take purge every year, twice a year before the draft, before the season begins. But this year we actually had so many purges from all of our listeners. We actually had to do an entire episode.
Danny Kelly, can you explain for those that don't know what a purge is?
A purge is a confession or some thought that you have just in the back of your mind. You're not really sure if you believe it or not. You maybe don't even think it's true, but you need to get it off your chest. It's intrusive.
It doesn't go away.
Exactly.
I guess that's what a take is. I guess the purge is the movie where crime is legal for 24 hours. And then we made a take purge where you can do takes.
To be clear, there's no consequences to getting these off your chest. That is the distinction. You can say whatever you want. No consequences professionally or personally or legally.
Yes, like Chris Sims, but he does that 24-7, 365 days a year, which is why he is the takeoff. He's living in there, yeah. His whole life is The Purge, which is why we dedicated two episodes a year to him. Did you guys know that there's a new rom-com coming out this summer that is essentially The Purge, but for sex, where you can only have sex one night a year? The movie's called One Night Only.
What? It's a rom-com? Why didn't we think of this, Craig?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Patrick Mahomes' ACL injury?
That's not as bad as I... Kenneth Walker, Brees Hall, Mike Evans, but it's like... Just all the running backs. Running backs is funny. Jonathan Taylor is way down here.
Yeah. Well, the other funny one is just because of the rookie contract stuff where it's like you start looking and you're like, there are kickers that make more money than Jameer Gibbs. So it's just, it's funny. All right. Next take perch here. This is from Swish. Swish. S-Bone. S-Bone. He's a mod. Shout out S-Bone. S-Bone's take perch. We've already seen the best season of Jaden Daniels' career.
I know, I'm worried about this a little bit. It's kind of tough. What are some good parallels to Jaden Daniels?
RG3. RG3? What are you fucking talking about? RG's RG4.
TG up for that one. Okay, other than that, how about it?
Other than a guy who set the rookie rushing record by a quarterback and then led his team to a remarkable playoff run?
Look, that's tough.
No, the Jaden Daniels thing, I went back and I just was trying to recapture how good his rookie year was. Dude, double digit wins, first time for Washington in 30 years. He accounted for 31 touchdowns, almost 900 rushing yards. So it was like basically the most by a rookie quarterback. He had, I won't go through them all, but it was like five walk-off wins basically or fourth quarter comebacks.
And then halfway through his rookie season. So basically if you just look at a team's first seven weeks of the season, And you look at just like EPA per play. So the best offenses ever. It's the 2000 Rams who won the Super Bowl to the 2007 Patriots who went 16-0, the 2018 Chiefs in Mahomes' first season, and then the 2024 Commanders, which was just the first seven games Jaden Daniels ever played.
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Chapter 3: Why do running backs deserve more money in the NFL?
Like Josh Allen goes like five wide and just QB sneaks. Yeah. That's guaranteed four yards every time.
Right. I feel like that could be sort of an edge.
Just do that the whole way down the field the entire game all season.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a pretty good idea. And that's aesthetically pleasing football.
Get rid of the pomp and circumstance of the tosh push where everybody lines up and we wait like 15 seconds for them to snap the fucking ball. Just snap it quickly and get five yards.
If you guys could get rid of one part of the game, what would it be?
Probably kicking. Like field goals? And punting. Yeah, it's like if field possession is so important, then don't fucking give it up.
I think field goals. I kind of like field goals. I don't like field goals.
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Chapter 4: What are the standout qualities of Ben Shelton in tennis?
Ben Shelton's really good. Ben Shelton is Riz and is young and he's going to be a star. I'm telling you right now, Ben Shelton's going to be a star. Okay. Is he dating someone? He does have Riz. Trinity Rodman. He's dating Trinity Rodman. Any relation to Dennis? Yes, his daughter. She's on the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team.
You guys think more tennis players should tear their ACL? Are you surprised by that? It doesn't happen more? You never hear about that.
Different biomechanics.
It must be the way the game is played that is just less conducive.
They're not getting hit by their quarterback when they're running out of bounds.
Yeah, I guess that's right. You just never hear about that. You never hear about Achilles or ACLs with tennis players.
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Chapter 5: Why do tennis players rarely suffer from ACL injuries?
Knock on wood.
I'm surprised Achilles isn't a thing. I feel like Achilles has got to be a thing. Yeah, I don't know. It's a young man's game, too.
Well, some of the guys age pretty well.
The elites can age better, but like for the most part.
Being a pro tennis player would be awesome. I feel like the body type is great. It ages really nicely. You're just like so thin and lean. You're like usually long and thin and you're just like running around. You're in great cardiovascular shape.
You're just on the Mediterranean diet.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sounds great. You have like some sick European watch sponsorship. Hell yeah. If you're good, it's great.
The, it would be, I'd rather be, would you rather be a pro golfer or a tennis player? I feel like baseball.
The thing about golf is golf just seems like you're always fucking golfing. And it's just like.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of being a professional athlete in various sports?
If you couldn't leave heaven, is it still heaven?
Imagine all your golf stress. And imagine how stressed you get about golf. But imagine if it was for work.
I know.
And imagine if all of your, if being bad at golf meant you sucked at your job.
Yeah.
And then suddenly you're like, oh my God, maybe this wouldn't be super fun. Basketball, clearly, I think basketball is at a tier of its own. Being an NBA player, you're paid so much money to not fucking play. It is unbelievable. You can get two or three million dollars. You might not play a whole season.
And like, that just seems like the life. You have to be practicing all the fucking time.
Yeah, exactly.
I think tennis is like that too, Craig.
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Chapter 7: How does the conversation shift to the topic of food and personal preferences?
I forget what the event is. She just tries hard. Why is anyone good at anything? No, but it's different. I think it's the 1500s.
I'll Google it. Why is Katie Ledecky?
No, but she has the 18 of the top 20 times ever.
Yeah.
Like she literally, it's like the best 20 times ever in this event. It's just, it's like the highest rated programs every year. It's like football. She's like the football of long distance swimming.
But you're asking why is she so good at it?
Even Michael Phelps, no one's ever done in swimming what she's done with this event. It's like, no, Tiger Woods doesn't have the top 20 scores at Augusta National at the majors. Like, Michael Phelps never had the top 20 times at an event. Like, it's not like she held the world record. It's like, everyone else is behind her 17th best time.
Like, that's not a thing. Do you want to know what Gemini says about this, iFitz? So, there's a unique... She has a unique combination of aerobic capacity, highly efficient gallop stroke technique, which apparently... Hold on. She has, she's a physical freak. She has, well, she does have broad shoulders apparently, which helps.
Uh, but she has, unlike many swimmers who rely on a strong kick, Ledecky often uses a two beat kick, allowing her to conserve energy in her legs while using her upper body and core, uh, to keep her body horizontal and reduce drag. So there's, maybe there is some biomechanics about, obviously with, with, uh, with Michael Phelps, like he was born to be a swimmer in terms of just his body type. He
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