Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Rotorold football show. It is Thursday, March 26, 2026, a massive sports day. It's MLB opening day. It's the NCAA tournament, Sweet 16, Elite 8 this weekend, but you're here to hear about football. We actually got a surprising amount of things to talk about. Ty Simpson debate raging. Some of it may be manufactured. ESPN on ESPN crime on the Tyson's and discourse space.

Some interesting clips this week. Some interesting money news. JSN mega extension, quote unquote.

We'll talk, is he the unchallenged wide receiver one heading into 2026 or is that just playing last year's numbers?

We need to look ahead when we play the game of fantasy football.

We'll talk Ladd-McConkey bounce-back odds under Mike McDaniel for the Chargers. The athletics, Daniel Popper, believes its possibility. Zayflower is apparently up for extension. We'll ask Denny if he has any untapped upside. I'll ask him about Joanne Jennings, Steph Diggs, neither of whom are signed. Brian Robinson, who is signed and the dreaded Alger role. We'll see if Denny can claim he is better than Bajon Robinson. Najee Harris, visiting the Seahawks, items on RJ Harvey, items on C-R-R-J-Harvey, items on C-Rod. And you may wonder, how are we still talking about C-Rod? The answer is we don't know. This is only the ninth mention of Chris Rodriguez over the past weeks. And who we mentioned on Tuesday, I'm sure, in our best ball draft, if we have time, we're going to get to our loves, our regrets from our best ball draft, but we would be remiss. Not only is an MLB opening day. It's MLB opening day on NBC and

Peacock. It's back after a long quarter century without baseball. NBC baseball's back where it belongs.

And Denny Carter is actually back where he belongs. He played fantasy baseball growing up.

He made a very personal admission on this show recently but he has resumed playing

fantasy baseball he was very excited until he found out the scoring method of his league what is

it how are you feeling do you care are you having fantasy baseball sweats already tell us about it

well i would like to you know and and that's why you know i logged on right before we recorded. I'm like, oh, let me go to the standings and see, see where I stand, you know, halfway through opening day here. Well, I already got to hit you with flag immediately. There's only one game yesterday. And the roto standings don't update live they update like overnight you can

usually click on a live scoring tab actually you can find that thanks sometimes they do update live

like your league standings page okay update until the following morning well i looked at it and

immediately realized i don't understand any um and i had to ask you and producer Adam, am I bad? Am I good? What's happening here? It's roto scoring apparently. Roto Pat explained that well to me before the show. So, you know, hey, look, I have the Cubs pitcher, whatever his name is today. And he's lightened up the, you know, the nationals, not my nationals, the national. Not your nationals. And so I have that going for me. That can't be all bad, right? No. Who started Cubs opening day? It was Boyd. He's older. He's the guy, what you call a regression candidate and the football. He also called them that.

In a good way?

No bad.

Oh, man.

Come on.

He's a big time regression candidate this year.

I will see how it works out for you.

It is not worked out for Logan Webb managers, for Paul Skeen's managers.

I will say, NBC, we bring baseball back.

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