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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

Hottest NFL Combine Story Lines From Indy: Is Malik Willis Worth $30M? Plus, Tua vs. Kyler, A.J. Brown's Future, Coach/GM Interviews, and Nick's 30-Foot Cuddy

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The guys react to the chaos coming out of combine press conferences, decoding front-office speak, quarterback rumors, and which teams might be headed for major shake-ups this offseason. They also discuss risky QB gambles, hopeless franchise rankings, and the league’s latest drama—plus a deep dive into security-guy lore and why combine week always gets weird. (00:00) Intro (03:09) Trades and cuts (01:04:23) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out the Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings: https://fantasyfootball.theringer.com/ Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com 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

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show, aka the Ringer NFL Draft Show. My name is Danny Hyphen. I am joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Rolbeck in Indianapolis. DK. We're here. We are here. NFL Combine, DK, or NFL Draft expert here at the Ringer. You got your top 50 big board up at NFLDraft. Dot the mirror.com. We do indeed. And we have Craig.

0:37.8

You're our insider.

0:39.2

That's right.

0:39.9

Boots on the ground here in Indy talking to my sources, crushing a lot of pods that are available to everybody else.

0:45.1

Yeah.

0:45.5

But getting a lot of great information, I talked to close to 32 GMs and coaches over the last 24 hours.

0:53.2

Everybody else got the chance to talk to them as well. and I didn't ask any questions. But I did, I've taken in a lot. But other people were asking them questions and you listen to yelling at that, and then you listen to the answers at the press conferences. So yeah, we have a lot to get into today. We actually do. Yeah, we actually do. So the press conferences they do actually have all the gyms and coaches stand up.

1:11.4

And I think I assume the owners just kind of make them do it for content's sake.

1:14.3

And so you actually kind of get like a little taste of all what the off seasons are going to be like for all the teams.

1:21.6

And it's funny because all the coaches and GMs try really hard to not do anything newsworthy or controversial or just make it

1:30.1

whatever narrative they want.

1:31.6

But they also are talking about, frankly, work drama that they care about a lot.

1:37.1

And you can only hide so much of like these work drama things that they're really passionate

1:41.6

about.

1:41.8

So we're kind of going to go through all the hot work mess of the NFL.

1:44.4

Yeah.

1:44.6

It's drama rankings. And we're going to kind of just translate what they're saying. Sure. Because they're kind of talking in code, but they're also very much trying to say stuff. Did you find that coaches or GMs leaked more of how they are actually feeling? B. GMs probably. I think so too. You think that they're giving away more?

2:01.7

I think coaches are better at masking how they actually feel because they're doing so much more oppressed. Every game after a terrible office, they just have to show up and talk their way through it and they're much more media trained. GMs, you know, they're less public figures. Way more public speaking too, because even talking to a team of 60 people is also kind of public speaking. So like coaches are talking to big groups all the time. I enjoyed the GM part of that, actually, I think, a little bit more. Just because I don't know, these coaches, I'm like, all these press conferences after games, they sound the same. Yeah. And it's funny to see new GMs. Yeah. I don't know why. Because they're like, coaches at least are still coaches. But a GM walks up and they're just like, oh, you run a team now.

2:36.6

That's weird.

2:37.2

Yeah.

2:37.4

And they were like,

2:37.9

oh, shit. It's funny to see new GMs. I don't know why because they're like coaches at least are still coaches, but a GM walks

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