Dolphins Fire McDaniel, Wild-Card Preview, and Craig Watched 'Lord of the Rings'

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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The guys preview wild-card weekend, including Rams-Panthers, Bears-Packers, and Bills-Jaguars, and discuss what it all means for the playoff picture. They also debate the Rams’ dominance, the Bears’ magic, and Jacksonville’s legitimacy—and Craig finally watched 'The Lord of the Rings' for the first time. (00:00) Intro (02:34) Dolphins fire Mike McDaniel (21:37) Rams @ Panthers (30:15) Packers @ Bears (37:09) Bills @ Jaguars (44:18) Chargers @ Patriots (49:44) 49ers @ Eagles (56:27) Texans @ Steelers (01:07:10) Ringer 107 picks (01:15:42) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out the 2025 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings: https://fantasyfootball.theringer.com/ Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Kai Grady, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie “Arcade”: NSYBBH8ONNLKC7H4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hear that? It's your Big McDonald's hunger calling.
0:03.0	Because the Big Arch is back.
0:05.0	And this time it's here to stay with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that Big Arch sauce.
0:10.0	Hungry? You are now.
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0:16.0	Upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders.
0:18.0	Subjects availability, price and participation may vary. Welcome to the Ritter Fantasy Football Show.
0:42.4	My name is Danny Hyphen.
0:43.3	I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Korole Beck,
0:44.9	and we are going over the NFL playoff games, baby.
0:48.3	Whoa.
0:49.3	Playoff games are here.
0:50.3	The playoffs are here.
0:51.3	It's one of the more fun playoffs I can remember. And even though the Giants aren't there, obviously, I'm fucking amped for these playoffs. It's going to be awesome. We're going to go over all these games. We're going to go over the dolphins firing Mike McDaniel. We have some emails that I am excited to run by you guys. But first, a reminder, our next episode is going to be on Netflix. Isn't that right, Danny Kelly?
1:11.7	Netflix?
1:12.4	Really?
1:14.0	Tell me about it.
1:15.5	I'm glad you asked. So Monday morning, our playoff recap is going to be on Netflix.
1:20.0	You can watch it there.
1:20.8	And all of our episodes going forward, you can watch on Netflix going forward,
1:25.1	or you can watch them on Spotify going forward, or you can just listen to them like a normal podcast on the podcast platforms you already listen to going forward. I want to just take one second to linger on this just to be really clear. So going forward, if you listen to this show as an audio experience, like you just, you don't know what the hell we look like. You don't have to do anything. Nothing nothing's going to change you could just listen to our show you no action items required unless if you want to pop on Netflix and put our show on on Monday and just like let it run you're not there like that would be trying try and guess which one of us is which which I'm already getting I'm already like making all my friends and family throw on Netflix and then go to sleep at night and just have our show running.
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