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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Most Boring Players That Will Win You Your League

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The guys are in-studio in NYC again to discuss the under-the-radar picks that will slip through the cracks in drafts for this year’s All-Boring Fantasy Team. 2:53 - The All-Boring Fantasy Team: Running Backs 32:00 - The All-Boring Fantasy Team: Wide Receivers 1:01:02 - The All-Boring Fantasy Team: Tight Ends and Quarterbacks Getaway sales event. 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: Ronak Nair, Kai Grady, and Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Ringer Fantasy Football Show.

0:14.7

I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Quilbeck in studio.

0:18.0

Again, in the World Trade Center.

0:19.2

Somehow they let us back into Amy Puller's studio in New York City.

0:22.3

Still got the ficus right behind us.

0:24.0

Today we are doing the all-boring team, which basically is just a really simple premise,

0:30.1

which is what if it's basically impossible to get a discount on cool players,

0:33.9

like cool players in their prime are just never going to be had at anything but either

0:38.5

too much value or at value. What if the only actual discounted fantasy is boring people? But good

0:43.9

also. Good boring people. Like we like these players and we think that they'll do well for your team,

0:47.5

but right now they are to value because they're boring. It's the best idea I think we've ever

0:53.3

come up with. Yeah. I think we've ever come up with. Yeah.

0:54.8

I think we're right.

0:56.4

I'm serious.

0:57.6

Like everybody has, oh, sleepers, everybody has, oh, who's your favorite guy?

1:00.6

I think attacking the boring players, the players, the selections that inspire apathy is the most important part of fantasy drafts because everybody's going to go after the sexy players. Everyone's going to go after Jemir Gibbs. He's going to be impossible to get. But every draft, guys like Mike Evans just sit there. Mike Evans is perfect. He is kind of like the poster child last few years. It's Mike Evans and James Connor. Every year they just sit there. Nobody wants them. And every year they're top 12 guys. It's the guys that when they go, either no one acknowledges. They're like, yeah, Mike Evans,

1:30.5

yeah, yeah. It's the ocean's, it's, it's the Ocean's Love and Matt Damon. It's like,

1:23.8

the moment we're going, we're going to like you. And the moment you're gone, I'm going to forget you were ever there. Just like forgettable people.

1:25.3

And then that really is the key though.

1:26.7

Yeah, like if you're drafting on Yahoo,

1:28.1

you know,

1:28.3

they have the expert ranks and the 80,

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