The Chiefs surely looked great on Monday night while thumping the Broncos, but it was a different kind of great, centered around the running back and not the quarterback. We'll discuss that one, and many more games from Week 1, trying to give you an edge in your fantasy football league. Then we'll spin it forward, and begin talking about Week 2, with a look at the Week 2 waiver wire. Guest: Brandon Funston of The Athletic.

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Week 1 Game Film Discussed Today:

DEN/KC

NO/DET

BAL/IND

CLE/JAC

MIA/LV

NYJ/TEN

Brandon's Week 2 Waiver Adds:

5. Alvin Kamara - 24%

4. A.D. Mitchell - 16%

3. Devaughn Vele - 8%

2. Caleb Douglas - 12%

1. Kaelon Black - 27%

Chris's Week 2 Waiver Adds:

5. Chris Brooks - 2%

4. A.D. Mitchell - 16%

3. Michael Mayer - 25%

2. Devaughn Vele - 8%

1. Kaelon Black - 27%

(h.m. - Caleb Doulgas (12%); Dontayvion Wicks (16%); Rashod Bateman (3%))

Is your mind palace shattered? It should be! Week 1 always gives us so much new information about what the NFL teams actually are, if only we'll take the time to watch the games. And around here, that's what we do! We've got eight of the Sunday contests fully reviewed on today's podcast, hopefully giving you insight that goes beyond box scores and silly metrics. What offenses look better than expected? Where are the land mines? We'll do our best to tell you both! Guest: Sam Gold.

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Week 1 Games Discussed Today:

ARI/LAC

CHI/CAR

TB/CIN

DAL/NYG

ATL/PIT

BUF/HOU

GB/MIN

WAS/PHI

We're putting this episode of the Yacht Club into the main feed, so everyone can get a taste! Today we'll mostly spend time on Week 1 ranks, and pick out players where injury or weirdness of short-term situation might cause us to put them lower (or higher?) in our weekly ranks than they were in our draft ranks. It's a fun list of guys, and hopefully we can help you build Week 1 fantasy football lineups. We'll also preview the Wednesday night Patriots/Seahawks opener, update the movie draft results, and say thanks for making Pound Foolish a best seller!

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Week 1 Ranks Discussed Today:

Christian McCaffrey

TreVeyon Henderson

Jeremiyah Love

Ashton Jeanty

Breece Hall

J.K. Dobbins / R.J. Harvey / Jonah Coleman

D'Andre Swift / Kyle Monangai

Jonathon Brooks / Chuba Hubbard

Marshawn Lloyd

Commanders RBs

Malik Nabers

Drake London

Rome Odunze / Luther Burden

Emeka Egbuka

Tee Higgins

Alec Pierce

Mike Evans

George Kittle

Welcome back from the long weekend, we've got so much to do! We're going to survey our teams and talk about the players *we* drafted most (the top guy may surprise you!). We're having a look at the Week 1 waiver wire to discuss players we'll have our eye on once the games start counting. And we'll have our grand prize Pound Foolish winner on the show to take over and talk about whatever they wanna talk about. It's big fun! Guests: Scott Fish of Fantasy Cares and Pound Foolish winner Greg Berthiaume.

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Scott's Week 1 Waiver Adds:

5. Kaleb Johnson (10%)

4. Tre Tucker (27%)

3. Cyrus Allen (8%)

2. Chris Bell (5%)

1. Ja'Kobi Lane (20%)

Chris's Week 1 Waiver Adds:

5. Terrance Ferguson (24%)

4. Tre Tucker (27%)

3. Kaelon Black (22%)

2. Keenan Allen (29%)

1. Chris Brooks (2%)

We've finally reached the biggest fantasy football draft weekend of the year! We know: you're ready! The reason we know? Because there *are* no right answers! Anyone who tells you they're positive about anything is lying! The NFL re-invents itself every year. So be a little nervous, that's fun, but don't stress too much. On today's show, we'll deliver that message of calm, and also hand out the hardware for this fantasy draft season. Guest: Cousin Josh.

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2026 Preseason Huggy Awards:

Year We Stop Doing Elaborate Technical Setups That Take All Morning Award: Zay Flowers

Javonte Williams Bounceback Award: Bucky Irving

Player You're Most Excited To See Play In Week 1 Award: Jeremiyah Love

Tear-Your-Hair-Out Award: Garrett Wilson

Player I Don't Want To Talk About Anymore Award: Brock Bowers

2026 Fantasy MVP: Derrick Henry

2026 Preseason Baggy Awards:

* 2026's Biggest Trashbag: TreVeyon Henderson

* 2026's Stealth Trashbag: Jonathan Taylor

* Coach Likeliest To Be Joe Philbin's Lime-Cutting Assistant During This Season: Dan Quinn

* Player You Think Would Be Most Fun To Travel To Italy With & Player Who Would Be Least Fun To Travel To Italy With: Stefon Diggs / Aaron Rodgers

* NFL Player Who Makes The Most Believable Bandwagon Utah Jazz Fan: Steve Young

* Movie That Best Captures The Essence Of Each Player:

+ Drake Maye: Aliens

+ D.J. Moore: Old Boy

+ Jeremiyah Love: Waterworld

+ Marshawn Lloyd: Million Dollar Baby

* 2026 Chipotle Award For The Player You Don't Necessarily Hate, But He Keeps Making You Sick And You Can't Quit Him: Blake Corum

* 2026 Steve Slaton Award For The Current Player You Irrationally Hate Most: Patrick Ricard

* 2026 Carlos Hyde "Out Of The NFL" Award: Tua Tagovailoa

* Biggest Trashbag In Current Pop Culture: West Wilson from Summer House

* Biggest Trashbag Menu Item Found On Too Big A Percentage Of New York Restaurants: Caviar Bump in Martini

* 2026 Fantasy LVP: Josh Allen

We're getting close to the end of fantasy football draft season, and our tradition is to turn a pod episode over to you! We'll take *your* questions all show on things NFL-related, fantasy-related, literary, Tom Petty and belly-button. Plus, Pound Foolish *is* actually a best-selling book (by some metrics), and we'll celebrate that a little bit. Thank you so much, from the management team at Cumulative Press. Guest: Denny Carter of Rotoworld.

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This is Chapter 21 from the audiobook version of my new novel, Pound Foolish.

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Part locker room chronicle, part neo-noir, all American: Pound Foolish tackles a season-in-the-life of a pro football team that has a serial killer in its midst.

Someone is murdering women in the orbit of Detroit's NFL franchise. But also: a new season is kicking off and nobody can really prove anything. Plus football is one of the last remaining ties that bind a city. So...the games will go on. And they should. Right?

Enter our gumshoe. Mouse Morrison is a former player the team brings in to investigate. The further Morrison digs into the locker room-and the more lunkhead players we meet on their journeys of supremacy and self-destruction-the stronger a stench of conspiracy becomes. Is this a coverup? How deep within the franchise and the league does it go?

The team keeps winning games. The bodies keep piling up. The whole mess bleeds from the sports section to the front page, nobody's sure what to believe...and absolutely everybody has an opinion.

Pound Foolish is a rollicking, cinematic murder mystery set in a multi-billion-dollar circus teeming with killers. It pulls back the curtain on a sport that grips America's psyche, and also owns a bloody chunk of its soul.

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It's a great time of year to reflect on the assumptions that underpin some of our ranks. We certainly have built up our mind palaces for what the 2026 NFL season will look like, and just as certainly, those palaces are about to be shattered. Which players are we worried we've got wrong? We'll talk about that on today's pod. Plus: it's Pound Foolish publication day. I'm freaking out. Guest: Ben Gretch of the Stealing Signals newsletter.

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Ben's Players He Might Be Wrong About:

5. What if I'm too high on Colston Loveland?

4. What if I'm too low on Ladd McConkey?

3. What if I'm too high on Keaton Mitchell?

2. What if I'm too low on Javonte Williams?

1. What if I'm too high on Jameson Williams?

Chris's Players He Might Be Wrong About

5. What if Jonah Coleman plays a lot?

4. What if Courtland Sutton is washed enough that he becomes a bit player?

3. What if Marv Junior is for real this time?

2. What if the Jets o-line is good enough to get Breece Hall really going?

1. What if there's a clear answer for Packers RB?