Power Ranking the Best Week 1 Story Lines, the Michigan Mulligan, and the Listener Take Purge

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Danny Heifetz (1:49)

Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz, and I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck. And today it is Power Hour, where every Wednesday we power rank something. And this Wednesday we were power ranking things we are excited for this NFL season because the season is starting, Danny Kelly. We're actually here.

Danny Kelly (2:06)

It's crazy. I cannot believe we're starting. We have a Wednesday game. Is this the first time ever that we're starting on a Wednesday? I can't remember.

Craig Horlbeck (2:14)

Is that right? There's been another Wednesday kickoff?

Danny Heifetz (2:16)

Like 13, 14 years ago, the Democratic National Convention was like on a Thursday. So they did it like the 2012 season.

Craig Horlbeck (2:23)

The politics always getting in the way.

Danny Kelly (2:26)

But I'm excited about that.

Danny Heifetz (2:29)

It's going to kick the Patriots. But we're going to have a preview for you guys of week one. We're also going to have a Patriots conversation after that game for you this week. We're going to have a Niners Rams conversation after the Australia game. No one knows what it is. Kyle Shanahan doesn't know what time that game is. Nobody knows when Niners Rams will be. But whenever that game happens, we're going to have a reaction to it that will be up on the feed this week. And then we're in our in-season schedule, right, Craig? We got Sunday recaps, Monday waivers and power hours on Wednesdays. And we're going to have previews for each week on Friday. So we're here. We're in the in-season.

Craig Horlbeck (3:01)

Don't touch that dial. Go look at that dial and leave it alone.

Danny Heifetz (3:06)

We're going to get to listener purchase. We did the Take Purge earlier this week. It's the most fun we probably do all year. And then all the listeners sent in purges, including the Discord channel. Join the Discord if you like Discord. That'll be really popping with the games happening and actual threads. But so we have emails and also take purges from listeners. Fantasy Court is back. Emails, Fantasy Court. We're going to settle your disputes because we are actual lawyers. And so settle your Fantasy Court disputes with us, emails those. And we'll talk about the Ringer Fantasy Football League. We're going to get at all that.

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All right, it's time for Power Hour. Week one Power Hour, week zero. Never know what to call it, but we're going to go with week one.

For those who don't know, we power rank every Wednesday. We're going to power rank stuff. And this week we're power ranking things we're actually excited to see because the season's here and we talk about all this stuff in circles. And now it's actually just arriving. It's like this thing in theory. And then suddenly it's like no longer on the horizon. You just get out of the car and you're here. So we're going to go through and just things we are earnestly, unironically just happy to see on our televisions this week.