 I got so many comments about the pronunciation of my starting running backs name. And everybody in the comments thinks they're so smart. Well, here's something you guys don't know. I actually met my starting running back last year and I asked him because so many people pronounce his name wrong. I said, how do you pronounce it? Here, from his own words, is how you pronounce his name. Are you ready? Go outside, touch grass, embrace a female. I know, it was hard for me to believe too. Okay, I'm sorry, I've been pronouncing this wrong. It's, I believe it's Devon Achan, instead of Devon Achan. But truly at the end of the day, who cares? Let's get back to Wheel of Mud, baby! I hope you guys are as excited as I am. You're getting three Wheel of Mud's a week for all of December. You're probably getting daily uploads in December too. We're getting after it. Woo! The Wheel of Mud team is currently three and O. We could use a little bit of help on the left side of the line. I'm not the biggest fan of this day flowers. I got him and now I'm thinking, man. The Castro's nice. We've got at least one good offensive lineman. Defense is really where we need help. Linebackers are still pretty bad, other than Ray Lewis. Derek Thomas is great, but he's not in the right position. Like, he really should be an edge rusher, but I want to keep Bowson Bruce Smith here. So I don't really know what we're going to do with Derek Thomas. Vince Wilfork, a nice little addition, but I still got Jacob Slade at Detackle 2. Kara Moe has got to go. DeMarcus Ware has got to go. Jerry Jacobs had a spectacular game last game. But at the end of the day, he's honestly very outdated. He's 5'10 with 88 speed. Derek Thomas is faster than my corner two. That's not good. Kair Elam has been shockingly good. And then a saying, Bassey, all of my corners, slow key could get an upgrade. Paul Kraus, I actually really like Paul Kraus. I think he'll probably stay to the final lineup. And then obviously, Durvin James is a prestige. So I don't know, we'll see with defense, but this is kind of my focus point right now. Our kicker is locked in thanks to the prestige. And three and O means we have a little bit of leeway. I'd love to go on to feed it, but we could afford a bad game. I'm not trying to tee up a bad game. I don't want a bad game. I won't waste your time, gentlemen. Let's get right in the very first wheel spin. Is it episode 30? It's episode 29, dude. We have it. Woo! Yes! Oh, I've been waiting for this one. I know, I was in the middle of saying a lot. I just wanted to say, we have a lot of Wheel of Mud episodes this year. Hopefully we get to episode 69. But Immaculate Grade 15K per square. All right, so here is today's Immaculate Grid. I get 15,000 coins to spend on one player per correct answer. So let's start with Seahawks 3000 plus yard passing season. Russell Wilson has to have done this. I refuse to believe he's never done this. Did I spell Russell Wilson wrong? A Jetsp? Honestly, I don't know a jet who's done it, but I believe it could be any player whether they did it for the team or not. And Brett Favre ended his career with the Jets. I don't know if he did this with the Jets, but they should, yeah, they do. They give that to you. And then a Panther who did it. Kim Newton MVP had to have thrown more than 3000. Three out of the gates right there. That's 45,000 coins. A Niner Seahawk. I'm pretty sure Jerry Rice was a Seahawk at one point. So he should count here. A Niner. I have a poverty ass option for Sam fucking Darnold. Sam Darnold. And then another kind of Bummy option. Dave and Karr should be a Texan Panther. But now I'm kind of drawing a blank on a Jet Niner. Jet Niner, Seahawk, Texan, and then Jet Texan. I think was Frank Gore? Frank Gore should be both of these teams. I'm pretty sure Jets and Niners. Oh my God, let's go. I almost put Frank Gore on Jets Texans, but I don't know if that's true. Ryan Fitzpatrick. Oh my God, am I actually gonna fucking, am I gonna clean this? How am I gonna clean house? I'm actually gonna clean house. Seahawk, Texan, I have one guest left. I'm just gonna type a name and I'm just gonna guess. I'm gonna go Richard Sherman. I don't know. But eight is honestly a lot better than I thought I would do. Eight correct, times 15,000 coins. 120,000 coins spent on one player. That's pretty awesome. I think I know the perfect fit for this lineup. So 89 overall, Dave Robinson. Dave Robinson was the first player in this game to get the Lurk Artist ability. He's a 6-3 left outside linebacker. Really good stats. And most importantly, he is a coverage lineback. He's got 90 zone and 90 man coverage. I want my edge pressure coming from my defensive line and I want my linebackers to cover. Dave Robinson's the guy. And honestly, I might just run two Lurk Artists. I'll run Lurk Artists on Ray Lewis and Lurk Artists on Dave Robinson. He's a little bit cheaper. Like I didn't need all 120K, but I still think he's the perfect buy for this team. Unfortunately, the 90 overall outside linebackers were 130,000 coins. They were just out of my price range. So on defense, I'm gonna take DeMarcus Ware out. I'm gonna put Dave Robinson in. DeMarcus Ware is technically a better MLB too, even though that is such a disgusting position for him, but he is a little bit better. So I'm gonna put him there. Now Dave Robinson, I'm gonna go ahead and give him Lurk Artists for one AP and now we just gotta free up a little bit of space on defense so that I can activate that. One on him, three on Ray, two on Krause. And just like that, we've got two Lurk Artists on the field. Excited to have Dave Robinson. That should be a lot of fun. And our second wheel spin, first one's got a Lurk Artist 89 overall. Love to see that. And our second! I've been thinking about this for so long, I don't even know what to take. A Pack-A-Punch lets me take any player on this team and turn them into the best version possible. For example, I could get the 92 Pat Tillman. Vince Wilfork, I could get the 92 Vince Wilfork. Derek Thomas has a Pack-A-Punch. Offensively, do any of these guys have a Pack-A-Punch? I don't think so. Maybe somebody on the offensive line does, but no, it's gotta be on defense. I was just talking about Pat Tillman, but I think the most important thing right now is Vince Wilfork. They are gonna be switching around a lot of abilities on this defense. My Pack-A-Punch is going to Vince Wilfork. What an awesome player to have. Dude, he could be a good prestige too. Big Vince Wilfork, six to 325 pounds with 92 block shit, 92 power moves. He's not the fastest, obviously. That doesn't matter. This guy's gonna be a monster. Now, big Vince, we do have an ability dilemma here, right? Because not only does he have five options, but he has a discounted interior threat, which is a new ability this year. Aaron Donald Terminator gets it. You get dominant pass-fresh moves from the interior, but by and large, people are running inside stuff. 73% of Vince Wilforks are running inside stuff. 36% are running interior threat. I'm going dual threat because he gets a higher chance to defeat pass blocks and to activate it, he just has to make TFLs and inside stuff is just a TFL machine. Vince Wilfork, oh my God, I'm so excited. And now we have our third and final wheel spin. Honestly, if I could just get a better left end than Bruce Smith, I think my defense is going to look a-mmmmm. Maybe. I don't want to speak too soon. Team Wheeljackpot, any single player, but they must be Max Crosby, a raider. Sorry, I was thinking in my head what I could get here. So the Max Crosby is an outside linebacker, but I can easily just put it in my left end. That's also assuming I go Max Crosby. I'm sure there's a lot of good options. Oh, so I get any raiders player. You just gotta hope they're not in jail. Oh, shit. There's a 92 right end, Howie Long. I'm going to be totally honest with you guys. I think this Howie Long is probably better than Max Crosby. Yeah, that Howie Long is probably better. I'm still going to go Max Crosby. Look at that guy, bro. You know he has the N-word pass. My editor's black, guys. Ty, can you confirm? I can't make that determination. He's going to tell you exactly what. Sup nigga? Oh my gosh. Max Crosby, 91 overall. 89 speed, 91 Excel, 91 block shed, 91 finesse moves. He will be playing left end for this team. And you know what? I can move Bruce Smith to my backup detackle. So this actually works out really well anyway. My only hope is that, can I like, does he have a secondary position? Not that it matters, but then go. Cam's enabled when right end. Since he's an 87 overall at left end, whatever, I imagine he's going to get some heat. My detackle too now is 75 overall, Bruce Smith. Our team is still an 87 overall. It is a little ugly, but I think it's the right decision. So at this point, there's only two players on this defense who are really out of position. And that's Derek Thomas into Marcus Ware. These guys are meant to rush the quarterback. They're not coverage linebackers. So eventually I'd like to get them replaced for now we're chilling. I'd like to upgrade the DBs and I'd like to get a backup to Durban James that isn't Pat Tillman. But I think we made all the right decisions today. Massive defensive upgrades. Max Crosby, Dave Robinson, and Vince Wilfork. Woo! Let's get it, baby. And of course the challenge wheel. What do you got for me today, baby? Give me something. Give me something I could use. Oh, this actually would be good redemption. You guys remember when I sold the rushing yards challenge a couple of games ago? 150 plus rushing yards is a lot, but it is as a team. It's a good thing I have Devon a chain to do it. It's a good thing, right? Guys, it's not my fault I have sexual intercourse. Okay? If you have sexual intercourse with females, it causes you to mispronounce names. It's not my fault. Bellio! Top three! It's got, oh my God. It's got Vince Wilfork in it. He's got Jack, Campbell Lamar, and Gus. Got a little Eagles Ravens matchup. Is this a potential Super Bowl? Dude, the more I see of the Ravens, the more I really, really like the Ravens IRL. Look at this, dude. Two lurk artists in the middle. Dave or Lewis, I could use her whoever I want. Potions one out. I don't see him getting anything, Max Crosby! We knew that was the right decision, right? He's gonna do something similar. He's gonna check down to Gus, make a crazy juke. Could definitely run the ball. I don't wanna pass commit quite yet. Oh, he's got that corner out. A saying, Bassie with a nice hit. Valleo's free-forming. Does he go half back? He does. Oh, nice hit, Derwin. I'm gonna use her, Paul Kraus, because his man cover just so bad. Oh, oh, damn, damn. That came off so weird. I was ready for it, but I wasn't ready for everything he did after the catch. He's gonna fake it to Mark Andrews. Interesting play call, I like it. Okay, nickel three, three. I actually like this. This is a really meta defense, but the run is pretty good against it. Devon Achan. Devon Achan, is how you really say it, right? We'll start out with six yards. Yep, the throw's there. Yeah, see, I wanna scramble there, but I just, if I think too much about these rushing yards, I'm just gonna lose. All right, first and 10, we're just gonna hand off to the Boway. Ooh, okay, we'll get something out of this for sure. Ooh, I like that. Cut it up, Achan! Use those wheels! Holy shit, he's gonna go! Hey! Devon Achan in the end zone, seven, six. Great start, and what would we say that is? I think I had 18 yards passing and that was a 76 yard drive, so every other yard should be rushing. 76 minus 58. The Philadelphia Eagles defense just does not have any of the plays that I'm familiar with. I like the offense a lot. I don't know, I don't know what to do about it. Play action. He's got a deep corner, no, he doesn't actually. Oh, I did not see that. Second and inches, six for six, 110 yards. His Lamar is going off. I don't really know. Oh, he's got a very, oh, he's got a lead! Oh my God, he did! I was just about to say he threw that late and he put way too much loft on it. Ooh, if I could've heard every time now that's game. This guy's never gonna make a mistake like that again. This guy's way too good. Uh-uh. All right, hey, we have to capitalize and capitalize hard on that. Achan, four rushes, 67 yards. Take your rushing yards. Go block, go block, go block, go block. 15 for Johnny, we're almost at 100. He's staying in cover three drop. I imagine, wow, I was just about to say I imagine he will switch defenses now. That was a very nice play and he switches off. Oh my goodness. I can motion gray out to guarantee that block. That's actually kind of sick. Damn, Adoread is fast. You're tracking down. Achan got lead. Oh, what the fuck was that pass? Johnny, football, what was that? I didn't even mean to go to him. I was going to why. Dude, I think I goofed all my buttons there. That's okay, fourth and five, I think we convert this. Wow, that blitz was so hot, I couldn't throw it. I got to stop, he got to stop. That last play with that weird ass throw, that really ruined that there. But that's on me, I don't really know what I did, but it doesn't matter, we just got to get the ball back. Looks like he will run the football. Don't know why he hurt it there. Floats went out to Mark, he's out of bounds. Is this RPO? It is. Oh, I wish he had thrown that. Oh, huge hit out of Ray Lewis. Okay, he's just going to hand it off up the middle. Looks like he's probably just chewing clock. Oh no, okay. I actually don't know what he's doing. I have no fucking idea what that was, but he's nasty and I had nobody to act with. Dude, this play is fucking diabolical. This is RPO Peaks own bubble of this year. I clearly can't show me how to stop him because he can't stop me. Absolutely does not stop it. He doesn't even get fucking close. Are you kidding me? Is this play really this fucking diabolical? That's 106 yards and Johnny has 15, which puts me at 121 on the game. We almost have the challenge. The reason the challenge is so important is because this is a close-ass game and it's going to be a good game. If I lose, which I don't plan on, but if I lose, I can salvage a player. So I really want to have it here. Pin, pull, sweep. Yeah, he had that one bottled up. Second one, I'm going to call the, or second 11, I'm going to call the timing. A chance going to take that to third and two. I have one time out left. Olson! First and goal from the one. What a fucking catch from Greg Olson. Hey, we're the Philadelphia Eagles, right? So this should be easy. Olson, I think Greg Olson made that though. He really did. He went for two with that fake little Mark Andrews sweep and that's getting him in trouble because now we're up by one. Do we have the challenge wheel completed? Because A-chan had another good run there. All I know is we're dominating with the run game right now. He's onside kicking. All right, let's get the hands team out there. I don't actually know the meta for this. Do I run up and go grab this ball? All right, OBJ, beautiful. Probably don't chew clock. I'm going to pull out stretch alert bubble. It is shocking that he doesn't know that I'm doing it. This is stretch alert bubble. I think he just rank him in middle. Oh my God, did I not get that? Fourth and inches. Holy shit, this is what I get for chasing like a little dick head. Dive at the middle. A-chan's just barely got it. Okay, Greg Olson runs a beautiful route and he'll take us to third and inches. Oh my God, I had a touchdown. But Johnny football. Johnny football, oh my God, he's so fast. That ability. The escape artist, Johnny football makes this first and 10. I got to go for two. He's got a bottom up. That's such a risky ball. That's so stupid. Why the fuck would I throw that? I couldn't tell you why I wanted to throw that, boys, but I did. Keeps it with Lamar, goes down third and seven. I don't think he meant to do that. Guessing pass. Could be a big stop here. Cute stop, fourth and four. He's gonna no huddle it. Fourth and four. That was a very nice play on fourth and four by him. Close up the middle. Will Fork was there, but kind of missed it. And now, dude, all that clock that I chewed is biting me in the ass. Cause he could, if I don't get a stop, he can chew the clock here and just end the ball game. Yeah, we knew that was coming. I thought I'd get him a little sooner. Second and seven. And I only have two timeouts. Yeah, dude, I put myself in a really tough spot. Those have back, no! Oh, I think that's game. I don't know why I threw that ball, but I did. Nice tackle, second and nine. I'm not sure why he no huddles here. He almost just threw a pit. Third and nine, I still have two timeouts and he's gearing up for the field goal here. I'm interested to see what he does. I just hand this off, right? My God, he's risking it. This is aggressive. Wow, not any more. Nice play. First and 10 calls a timeout. As soon as we'll just run a few more plays and kick this field goal. I do have an avalanche there. Ooh! Oh, and that was a fumble! Although he might be on ball carrier conservative, so maybe it wasn't. Second and inches. Justin Tucker come out, bear it for the ball game. Won't let me call a timeout right now. I don't know why that is. One nice one. All right, we are down two. Zae Flowers, you got one in you? Zae Flowers, you got one in you? I think these are my best thoughts, you. Dude. Hey, that was a great game by my opponent. Hey, I said the challenge was important and it was. Gigi's the Vallejo. I sold that game when I threw that stupid, I don't know why I did that. Honestly though, like if you throw three for six and you throw an interception, you don't really deserve to win. It would have been a cheesy ass win if I had won this game anyway. I think he deserved it. He honestly played better. His one interception was bad, but my one interception was bad too. I needed to convert on that last drive, at least get a field goal out of it. Dude, we were fucking dominant on the ground though. HN was 14 for 127, nine yards per carry, a touchdown, a broken tackle. He was an absolute monster. 14 carries 127 yards for HN and four carries 27 yards Johnny Manziel. So I had 153 yushing yards just barely over, but completing that challenge will salvage me a player here. Sadly, we dropped to three and one and I can't open a pack. It's actually a huge bummer. Would have loved to open a pack here, but now we have to decide which one of these players we're actually gonna keep and which we gotta get rid of. So we have three options. We have Dave Robinson. We have Max Crosby. We have Vince Willfork. Vince Willfork is the highest overall and honestly, I think he's the most impactful. Max Crosby did have a really good game. Kinda wanna keep him, but an inside stuff, 92er all-de-tackles hard to come by. I think we stick with Vince. Robinson was nice too, but if I wanna keep him, I gotta win the game. I did not do. All right, I'm gonna sub back in Jacob Slate. At left end, I'm gonna sub back in Bruce Smith. And at left outside linebacker, I'm gonna put, I'll just put Jeremiah Ushukaramoa. Challenge Wheel Clutch, we keep Vince Willfork with a dominant, dominant run game there, but no win in a close game. Nobody to blame on myself. I don't know why I threw that ball. I just wanted to and I did. The voices in my head took over. Boys, I appreciate you watching. As always, get a little redemption next week. Three and one in Will-a-Mutt. I'll see you guys then. Peace.