Rashee Rice avoids league discipline + RotoPat’s Coach Rankings #11-22, New Hires
Rotoworld Football Show – Fantasy Football
NBC Sports, Pat Daugherty, Kyle Dvorchak, Denny Carter
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Daugherty (@RotoPat) and Denny Carter break down the latest NFL news, beginning with the surprising tidbit that Rashee Rice has avoided league discipline for his latest off-the-field issues. Pat and Denny debate his fantasy fit for 2026 before moving on to Ben Johnson’s glowing words on Luther Burden and the latest A.J. Brown trade rumors. They spend the second half of the show breaking down the back half of Pat’s just-released coach rankings. Who are they most bullish and bearish on amongst the new hires? They also debate Mike McCarthy’s Steelers landing spot, if Brian Schottenheimer was actually that bad, and if there’s any hope for Dan Quinn in Washington.
(2:45) – Denny gives his latest update on his Fantasy Baseball journey this season
(5:55) – Top Headlines: Tank Dell reportedly in line to return in Week 1, league rules Rashee Rice didn’t violate personal conduct policy
(18:30) – More News & Notes: Ben Johnson foreshadows more Luther Burden III touches, latest on A.J. Brown saga
(32:00) – New Coaching Hires: Examining the hot/cold meter on Kevin Stefanski, Robert Saleh, and Mike McCarthy
(49:35) – Coach Rankings #11-22: Brian Schottenheimer, Dan Quinn, Aaron Glenn
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Rotorold football show Tuesday, April 7th, |
| 0:19.9 | 2026, fourth month of the year. My goodness, Where does the time go? I guess it goes when you have four months and five children. That is neither here. That is neither there. Football is always here. It's never there. Tank Dell, not here right now. We're hoping he's there in the fall. We're going to talk about checking on the recovery for a guy we loved in fantasy football who had two major injuries in three years. We'll talk about Rishi Rice, who we were expecting, frankly, like a season-long suspension. Somehow the league has already litigated this and he will be playing football. In 2026, we'll talk about if he's a wide receiver one and fantasy. we'll talk about Luther Burton, who was everyone wanted to be a wide receiver three last year. Didn't quite work out. It was not a bad year, though, by any straight. It was still a very promising year. It wasn't quite a wide receiver three. That's not stopping best ball drafters from taking him as a wide receiver two. Yeah, no, of course. That's what they do. Ben Johnson, though, kind of fanning the flames. |
| 1:13.2 | They're talking up Luther earliest week. We'll talk about if an AJ Brown trade is still inevitable. Now talk will be traded after June 1st. There's actually, I'm saying now. Now's not the right word there because there's been a lot of talk. That'll be traded after June 1st. continued talk |
| 1:25.6 | but June 1st |
| 1:26.7 | is the magic date |
| 1:27.7 | and over under |
| 1:28.9 | after we get |
| 1:30.0 | hit on that news |
| 1:30.7 | then we'll get into my that'll be traded after June 1st. The continued talk with June 1st is the magic date and over under. |
| 1:29.4 | After we get hit on that news, then we'll get into my annual coach rankings. I publish them on Tuesday. Please check them out on rotorold.com. Danny, we have to use the rankings framing, so there has to be a reason for someone to click the article. Absolutely. But I, you know, I think the write-up, which contextualizes things, looks at things from a zoomed-out perspective is the most important part of the article. Very few people agree with that. They don't agree with that. They don't agree with that. And we're going to start from the back and go forward. Or Denny's going to ask me some questions about some of the new hires. Actually, I'm going to ask him some questions on some of the new hires. He's going to ask me some questions about some of the guys I have in the back half of the ranks. And then we're going to maybe Brian Schottenheimer, Dan Quinn, Mike McCarthy, coaches of that nature. Then we're going to talk Denny's recent rookie tight ends article, but we would be remiss. |
| 2:18.7 | Everyone knows baseball back on NBC, back on Peacock, my St. Louis Cardinals, stirring comeback victory, |
| 2:24.7 | Sunday night on Peacock, and a stirring comeback to fantasy baseball from Denny Carter. |
| 2:29.6 | We know a lot of our listeners have been following this very closely. They're wondering how |
| 2:34.0 | Denny is doing. |
| 2:35.4 | Denny certainly reality has not already bit, has it? |
| 2:39.2 | No, not at all. |
| 2:40.6 | In fact, it's been great. |
| 2:42.2 | I'm not mad or upset or regretful, frankly, at all. |
| 2:47.6 | First of all, I'm in fourth place in the league. |
| 2:49.8 | I'm feeling good about that. It's a weekly |
| 2:52.6 | league, so the lineups lock for the week on Monday. And here's something that I didn't do last |
| 3:00.6 | Monday was I didn't get a fella, I don't know if you've heard of him. A fella goes by Andy Pius. |
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