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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

Draft Needs for All 32 Teams, the NFL’s Plan for 18 Games, DOJ Case Explained, and Tom Harmon Is Missing Again

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

The guys run through team needs for all 32 teams ahead of the draft, mixing real roster-building debates with offseason chaos—from NFL streaming drama to why an 18-game season feels inevitable. (00:00) Intro (01:45) News (10:52) Team Needs (01:21:16) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out The Ringer’s 2026 NFL Draft Guide: https://theringer.com/nfl-draft/2026/big-board#content Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com Shop Amazon and save the everyday. Visit amazon.com today. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Austin Gayle, Abou Kamara, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, quick note before we start.

0:08.2

So right after we finished recording this,

0:09.7

and we recorded this episode on Friday, April 10th,

0:12.1

the Eagles traded a fifth round pick this year and a six round pick next year to the Packers

0:16.5

for Dantavian Wicks, the receiver, which only makes us feel a little stronger that A.J. Brown is going to get traded. We don't know when, but we talked about the pretty good amount in this episode, but only makes us feel stronger. We don't know when, maybe during the draft, maybe after the draft or closer to the season because of the timing of how it'll help the Eagles cap situation if they trade them probably a little after the draft. But just wanted to note that it is just more smoke that we do think the Eagles are probably going

0:40.6

to deal A.J. Brown at some point. So without any further ado, we will get to the Ringer NFL Draft Show,

1:01.7

A.K.K.combe, today I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Khorrellbeck.

1:05.7

And today we were going over the team needs for all 32 teams, literally what every team in the NFL

1:09.8

needs in the draft, which is only in two weeks. If you don't like listening and you like reading, which I don't think anyone in the world prefers that these days with these crazy kids, but if you do, if you're like over 60 years old, NFLDraft.orgher.com, Haifitz has all of his team needs on the website. You can go through all this and look at it and scroll and have a great time. And you could go. You actually do that while listening to us. You could go and scroll through them with your thumb or on a computer with your mouse or DK's guides and needs and mock drafts and everything there at NFLdraft.30.com or you could just hear us talk about it. So we're going to go through a 32.

2:02.2

First, I want to start though with this news. DK, the Department of Justice says it's too expensive to watch football. What say you, Daniel? I mean, I think I would agree. There's just too many places to watch the NFL right now. I mean, you have to buy, how many subscriptions do you have to buy to watch every game? Like eight? Yeah, something like that, seven or eight.

2:18.5

I think the number they put on it was if you actually want to watch every game, it's like $800 almost to watch every single game in the NFL. That seems a bit much. It's a lot. So I think this is a big enough story. I wanted to just mention it. And I didn't even know the right way to explain it without it. The reason,

2:24.5

what this is all happening is basically the NFL, this is obvious, but it's also the point. The NFL is 32 different businesses, but they all sell the same product, which is just they have football games.

2:30.5

And then those 32 businesses collude to fix the price of what they sell football games as.

2:37.1

And when businesses collude to set prices, that's called a cartel, like drug cartels or oil and OPEC.

2:43.6

And the NFL is legally a cartel, but you're not allowed to be a cartel in America.

2:47.6

So they actually got Congress to make it legal for the NFL to be a cartel in America. So they actually got Congress to make it legal for the NFL to be a cartel in 1961.

2:54.9

But the problem is when Congress wrote this bill, there was no internet.

2:57.9

And they put the word broadcasting in the bill.

3:00.0

So now what the Department of Justice is saying is like, well, no, like these games on the internet,

3:04.6

that wasn't included in your cartel legalization bill 60 years ago.

3:08.4

So is the NFL putting football games on streamers?

3:12.6

Is that actually broadcasting if it's actually like a pretty narrow cast for money?

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