Week 18 Senioritis, Bad-Vibes Playoff Teams, and Fixing Meaningless NFL Games

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Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show.

Danny Heifetz (0:52)

My name is Danny Heifetz, and I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck. And we're previewing the last week of the regular season. But first, quick programming note.

SPEAKER_3 (1:00)

We're not going anywhere. I'm not leaving.

Danny Kelly (1:02)

I'm not fucking leaving.

Craig Horlbeck (1:05)

Show goes on. You're going to need a wrecking ball.

Danny Heifetz (1:09)

Fantasy Re-Watchables is coming to you instead of trivia on Monday. Please listen. That's one of our favorite. It's my favorite episode. Maybe we do the entire season is the Fantasy Re-Watchables instead of trivia. And then for the playoffs and everything, we're still recapping them Sunday nights, Monday mornings for you. The whole playoffs and everything, including Week 18 Still got to preview all the playoff rounds. And then Wednesdays instead of power, it's going to be the NFL Draft Show. DK, Craig, Solak covering everything draft to cover the whole off season. The NFL Draft Show. Eventually we'll be coming to you with that twice a week. But for the Super Bowl or through the Super Bowl once a week on Wednesdays. So that's still three episodes a week for you guys. So again, we're not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_1 (1:45)

Not leaving.

Craig Horlbeck (1:46)

Not going to leave it.

Danny Heifetz (1:47)

OK. Week 18

So on one hand, incredible week 18 because 20 teams are still alive. I believe it's the most teams still alive for the playoffs in the final week of the season in 40 years. That's pretty amazing. On the other hand, kind of a weird week. Don't know how to feel.

Danny Kelly (2:03)

Got to tell you, despite that fact, despite that, there's still a lot of playoff leverage here happening. I kind of feel like I have senioritis. You know what I mean? Like the fantasy season's over.

It's like this week is senior skip week. Let's just go wakeboarding. Let's just like go.

Craig Horlbeck (2:18)

It's like we already got into college. Finals don't matter.

Danny Kelly (2:20)

I like just, it just doesn't feel like a real week. It's like half the league, we're not half the league, obviously, but like the Rams aren't playing any starters. There's like the list of starting quarterbacks this week is just absolutely ludicrous.

It just doesn't feel like a weird week. It feels truly like this is nostalgia. I feel like I have senioritis right now. Like the season's over, right? Like we can move on.

Danny Heifetz (2:43)

So if you are playing week 18, we do have our week 18 rankings at fantasyfootball.3o.com. Not going to like take a track of who's playing, but yeah. It's honestly, people's commissioners made a mistake. That's really it.

Danny Kelly (2:53)

Right.

Danny Heifetz (2:53)

And so you can check that, but you got to see who's playing. Again, I mean, my God, the quarterback's playing this week.

Danny Kelly (3:02)

Pure sex here. Easton Stick versus Blaine Gabber. I'm racking my brain to figure out who these teams are.

So I think that's the Chargers and the Chiefs. Aidan O'Connell versus Jarrett Stidham. Raiders, Broncos, just scintillating. Jeff Driscoll, who is apparently still in the NFL.

Craig Horlbeck (3:21)

Can't believe that man is still employed. Has he been on the Browns the whole season? There's no way.

Danny Kelly (3:26)

I don't know.

Danny Heifetz (3:27)

I think Jeff Driscoll's parents are probably surprised that Jeff Driscoll's playing this week.

Danny Kelly (3:31)

If you guys had offered me $1 million to tell you what team Jeff Driscoll was on before yesterday, I would have not won it.

Danny Heifetz (3:38)

I don't think he was on until yesterday.

Craig Horlbeck (3:40)

How much money do we think Jeff's getting paid?

Danny Kelly (3:43)

Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Craig Horlbeck (3:44)

What's the minimum for you to show up for a game? Is it like 100 grand?

SPEAKER_3 (3:48)

Flacco got 100K.

Danny Heifetz (3:48)

Sounds right. I'm thinking that was the lowest I had seen for a quarterback.