Sep 7, 2026 · 1h 23m
Fantasy hosts put football orthodoxy on trial
The 2026 Fantasy Football Take Purge
The episode tests popular draft and team assumptions against deliberately contrarian calls that could reshape how listeners view the 2026 season.
- 1The hosts challenge premium valuations for Brock Bowers, Bears players, running backs, and other consensus fantasy targets.
- 2Bold team predictions span a Steelers playoff run, a winless Dolphins season, and a must-win 49ers opener in Australia.
- 3Football arguments eventually give way to equally committed opinions about bacon, plastic bags, magicians, and 1980s music.
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The brief
Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck revive their annual Take Purge by suspending conventional logic and putting popular NFL and fantasy assumptions on trial.
The hosts question Brock Bowers’s draft price, Caleb Williams and Bears hype, and the industry’s running-back-heavy strategy, weighing ceiling, context, injuries, and groupthink.
Their team takes swing wider: Mike McCarthy leads Pittsburgh to 12–5 and a playoff win, Miami goes 0–17, and San Francisco must survive its Australia opener.
Justin Herbert becomes an MVP candidate, Chris Godwin regains elite fantasy value, and Sam Darnold faces regression anxiety as coaching and supporting casts change.
After football, the same contrarian energy targets bacon, plastic bags, and magicians before the hosts close with submissions, scheduling, and 1980s music.