 is off to a hot start. Hey, send it to the dashboard, this puppy's over. This is the second episode, and as you can see, we're already a 76 overall. For anyone just joining us in Wheel of Mutt, our goal is to win a Super Bowl. The only problem is we start with the base silver team. In each episode, we can spin the Wheel of Mutt three times to build to our squad, and if we win the following game, we keep all those players, the lost wipes, all of them. On top of that, we have our prestige players. Our prestige players are locked into our lineup no matter what we do. We get three to start every season. I selected Derwin James, Nick Bosa, and Jamar Chase. And in the season opener, we were able to secure 87 overall Kenny Pickett as our quarterback. We got some solid fill-in golds and core elites. We still don't have a tight end at all. Our wide receivers are atrocious. There are big holes on the O-line. And on defense, we were able to get some usable gold corners, some usable gold delinemen. Nothing too fancy, but we did pick up Harrison Butcher. It was truly the best season opener I have ever had. Our record is one and O. We need five wins to go to the playoffs. Let's get right into it. For our very first wheel spin, my targets are tight end, DBS, wide receivers. Let's say those are my top three right there. Our wheel spin is house rules. We get 100K to spend on one player. We win, only 25,000 if we lose. 25,000 coins will get us as good as an 81 overall. 100,000 can get us as good as, I believe, an 86. All right, he's starting out with the ball and he's gonna go with a stretch first thing. Shit, the pass. He's got absolutely nothing. The way this house rules works is X-Factor start on. You've gotta go first in 20 rather than first in 10. He's gonna throw right here. I knew it. Oh, that's so depressing. I knew he's going there. I need the 87 overall say-out, not 81. 81's a little too slow for that. It's gonna be a run if it's a run, I'm in trouble. Okay, it's not. We're good. Cross-drag. That was a very nice ball, right, it's young. Oh, that's us. Derwin's got it. We have a really good opportunity to win this game now. This is an aggressive blitz. I'm gonna try and run it. Oh, okay. Let's see what we got here. Oh, I had Fred Taylor. Oh, wait a minute. Pickett has infinite room. Oh, he switched off. Pickett, dog status. Oh, this could be risky. Does he run? He got it, Fred Taylor, front flip. That's the guy who lost it. Oh, damn. But play action, he wasn't having any of it. He's still gonna be in man coverage, I would imagine. Oh, he just got a DPI. I can throw anything. 3rd and 25 DPI is massive. He just, he's sold pretty hard right there. I'm gonna max, protect and just run corner routes here. Kinda gotta look at Shabar Chase though. I don't think Kenneth Gainwell can really get open, but Jamar Chase can. Hang on. Oh, his feet were down. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Look at those blocks. I'm gonna go inside zone Frank O'Harris. I'm gonna let this clock tick a little longer. I don't want him to have an opportunity to win this. I'm gonna snap it at three because he expects me to go to one. Snap it right here. Oh, go, go, go, go, go. That was really bad power inaccuracy. Do I hit that? Do I hit that? Thank you, Harrison Bucker, because Jake Moody would have shaked the piss out of that. Okay, we gotta defend for a little bit. I'm guessing pass. I'm playing back. It's what I say. He probably wants to get out of bounds. I'm guessing pass. I'm in cover three though. Oh, let's go Derwin. Oh, Derwin could have just ended the ball game. If he has a tight end corner route, I'm in trouble. I assume he's going Canaries Tony though. Wait, what the hell is he throwing? Eddie Jackson, I need you. Oh my God. I'm the most bailed man on planet Earth. Eddie Jackson absolutely with that, but I guess it was enough to throw off the K-back cap. And I'm going to go back there with Kenny Pickett as in. Why is Kenny Pickett in? He throws back across. There's absolutely no way why is Kenny Pickett in? 100 K to spend on one player. It's going to be a hell of a player. Like the most important position for me right now is tight end. We can go 84, 85. TJ Hawkinson is an option. Dallas Goddard is an option. A con quo is an option. And 85 is Mark Andrews, but Mark Andrews is 120,000. So couldn't pick him up. Dallas Goddard, 80 speed. Really good route running. Solid catching. This is like a, this is a salad all around tight end, but it's run blocking. It's not very good. DB, I could get 84 Sherman. I could get JC Horne. JC Horne is a super good corner. Dude, Pat Sertan. This is actually a really good price for Pat Sertan too. 62, 202, 83 speed, 82. Oh, I have two man. The value is here. I'm sorry Dallas Goddard. I'm going Pat Sertan. PS2 is my pickup. Hey, start us out with Patrick Sertan. I'm very glad we won that game. Damn. I think about that price is actually kind of crazy too. Our next one, three separate packs. This is actually much less helpful to us than it was before. Now we actually have to pull something good for it to be on our team. I'm going to try the headliners fantasy pack. Kailin Geiger, Kobe Bryant. Ooh, oh my God. I don't know how good he is. We'll check right after this. Damn, first round of the headliners fantasy. Got 84. Round twos got a whole lot of nothing. I guess technically that's an upgrade on my current gold G-Hog ward. Steven Sullivan. Okay, that round is dog chip. Martin Emerson, Jr. 6'2", 84 speed 86, 6. Bro, he's like better than PS2. Well, pack one has a big upgrade with Martin Emerson. Pack two, I'm going to go headliners, heroes. Guarantees me in 84. Oh, oh my God, I didn't get a tight end yet. I was thinking I already got a tight end. Why am I feeling it? This is like a pack in play. I'm feeling every position. Final pack, I'm going to rock a mystery pack. They're just too fun to pass up on then. Technically I could have gone triumphal leader legends, but ah, shit, it was a headliners pack. Don't gamble, kids. Unless I just pull a fucking 87 heater and my gambling pays off. This is a horrible pack. Yeah, it's not going to do any good to me. So wide receivers are now Jamar Chase, Kailin Geiger and Kenneth Gainwell. Still not the best, but we do have a conco at tight end. And then on defense, we'll put Martin Emerson as our DB1. He also has a built-in ability, so we'll make sure we activate that. DB2 gets to be Patrick Sartan. And DB3 can be Richard Sherman. He played really good. And MLB2, it could be either Ezekiel Turner or the upgraded Jihad Ward. Jihad Ward is 6'5", 74 speed. I'll rock him. Another episode with some excellent, excellent wheel spins right now. Our third wheel spin. Oh, is it going to be 87 behind? Ah! Actually, this is probably better. It just depends what division we get. I'll get one random NFL division. I can take any player from that division. I don't even have like a dream division in mind because I don't know what players are available, but I think I want a wide receiver. Am I going to go NFC North? For the Lions? Oh, you piece of shit. Oh, I was right there. All right, whatever. AFC South, the Texans, the Jaguars, the Colts, and the Titans. So the best Jaguars player is 87 Fred Taylor, but my 84 Fred Taylor's been great. So I'm going to rule that out. Colts don't have an 86, 87. We've already got Quentin Nelson and I don't need John and the Taylor. Damn, this is probably the worst division to get. Texans, do you have anything? There'll be tons of John Mechie. Wait a minute, John Mechie's got to be so good, isn't he? Ew, whoa! 85 speed, 87 jump, great short-rot running, great acceleration and agility. Ooh, this is the move. All right, Texans. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Texans came in clutch. Kenneth Gainwell, your reign as a wide receiver comes to an end. I'm sorry, buddy. Damn, John Mechie is so good. How does John Mechie stack up with Jamar? Faster, more jumping, catching and catching traffic, less spectacular catch, more short, same medium, a little bit less deep. I'm actually significantly better. He's just shorter and only by an inch. Shit, don't tell my girlfriend that. My girlfriend thinks an inch is a mile. That doesn't make sense. That literally doesn't even make sense when I just said. Last but certainly not least is the challenge wheel. Completing the challenge is one pack of our choosing or we salvage a wheel spin. Ooh, we definitely got this last week. We'll see if we can get it this week. Our team needs to accumulate 85 fantasy points. PPR, by the way, this is PPR scoring. So I'm incentivized to throw the ball a little bit more than running it, but overall, I just need a lot of offense. Can he pick it? Martin Emerson, Derwin, James, Andy. What do you got? 87 Drake London, Saw Skarner, Jalen Ramsey. Oh, we got a ball game, boys. Will you be starting with a run play, sir? CJ Stroud behind center, it's play action. He'll heave. Oh, I talked shit about Pastor Tan. I said Emerson was better. He heard me. Lots of audibles from CJ Stroud. Another pass, play action throws. Basically the same thing. Same thing? Oh, big boy! Derwin! Derwin might be the most impactful prestige right now. He's made some nasty plays. Slot offset. I really don't like this defense. It's a scary defense, or a scary offense. Okay, I like that though. No, Gondry Swift breaks the tackle. He'll go in his first run of the day, swallowed up. I don't like cover three here. And I think he agrees. Oh my God, bad ball! Oh, he threw a mallard. All right, we're gonna switch it up on him. We're going DB Blitz. I got to spook CJ Stroud into throwing a bad ball. This D-Swift block, he does. So I go cover. I'm on everything. Oh, shit. Shit. Holy shit. I risked it for the biscuit, and there are no biscuits. We definitely want to get some receptions. Let's just take an easy one right here to Kaelin Geiger. I really want this challenge wheel because I know this is going to be a tough game. We had to be ready in case. I'm not going to say it's not winnable. It's definitely a winnable game, but I have to secure this challenge wheel in case I can't win. Where's he usuring? He is usuring a super weird spot of the field. We get it into a cock while the tight end. 3 for 3, 28 yards. A very efficient drive so far. Yeah, this is so weird. He's usuring the high safety. He shifts his line right. I've got to stretch. We're going to go right side of this. Get around, Jordan. Pull, you're going to go! Fred Taylor! The juking is way too strong. Hey, boys, enjoy it while you can because I would bet my ass that gets nerfed. Oh, I'll go Fred Taylor underneath here. Easy pick up. Nice! Dude, I love Fred Taylor. We're going to go play action here. We're going to try and take it all. Oh, no! No! Oh, thank God we got it back. Oh, my God, I had a touchdown. OK, this is zone. I can get this. I'm going for it. I'm looking at a conch or a chase. Depends on where the user is. It's Jamar. Oh, shit, that's man. I can't get this. Calculate it! Holy shit! Risky ass double coverage. That's why you prestige Jamar. Chase ties the ballgame up, adds to our challenge wheel fantasy points. I have a titanium set of gorilla nuts. They should put these things in a museum. I'm going to send the blitz. And I'm going to guess pass. Oh, shit. That's really bad. Pass for sure. Probably play action. Yes. I'm on this. I'm on this. I'm on it! No! Dude just robbed my pick. Oh, he's celebrating like he did something. Stroud play action again. Heater! No way! Oh, my God! The dig, I see it. He throws underneath. Damn it, there's two digs. He can throw half back. That's kind of what I'm worried about. Damn it. Throws that same thing. Whoa! Somebody tackled Drake London. I actually can stop him here. This is a really hard spot on the field to be on. He'll probably QB Spy. Tampa 2? How is there nobody there? There's a light blue sitting right where he caught it. This is going to be a slug fest, boys. We got to play our best game. Magoa Conqo early here. He's got some room to work with. Love that. Great approach and tackle. 7 for 9, 73 yards and a touchdown. All right. Well, Jamar Chase was absolutely clamped, but Kailin Geiger isn't. So we already got eight receptions, 85 yards. So that's eight PPR points. There we've got the touchdown. Not going to try and do the math right now, but I think we're in a good spot. Not an amazing spot, but we're in a good spot. I had a few things to throw there. Franco Harris, holy shit. Buddy, unhitch the trailer. Oh my God. He's so slow. If it ain't broke, don't fix those. Dude, we haven't gone to John Mechie. Let's feed the boy. Oh, he's fast. Oh, he's fast. John Mechie. Is he guarding Jamar Chase on this? Absolutely not. What? Holy shit. He just shanked the easiest throw of the game. Why did Jamar Chase just stop? Hey, yo, what the fuck? Jamar Chase was on a slant. He stopped in the middle of the field. Dude, that entire succession of plays, I got to know what happened. That corner route, just clean pocket, fully clean, misses the throw. OK, that sucks ass, I guess. But then Jamar Chase has a slant route. He dead stop. Why would you dead stop in the middle of a slant? It's not a fucking hitch. OK, so this play was very open last time I ran it to Mallory. Why? Why is it poor accuracy? I'm going to try the same thing. Please tell me what's going on here. That time I got him, 3rd and 16. Holy shit. Sacked again almost instantly. What just happened? All right, boys, hey, like I said, it might be time to start thinking about the challenge wheel. He ends up getting single coverage over there. All right, well, we still got 10 minutes of football. We get the ball here. If we score, we can start to think about this again. But damn, I'm not going deep again. I can't hit these passes. It's time to make up for it. Franco Harris stopped his slant in the middle of his slant. Oh no, that time, that time John Mitchell, that time the slant will run like a slant and I'll throw an interception. That's a horrible ball, I'm just tilted. You know what's funny there, though, is if he had decided to chop down in the middle of his slant like Jamar Chase did, that would have been a completion. I kind of expect him to do that same thing he did on the Tampa two. So I'm going to use a sartan and I'm going to try and just steal it. Oh my God! Oh my God, it was the exact thing I said and we don't pick it off. You cannot read that any better. Throws in the middle of the Drake London. This is the same score from last game, except reverse. It's time to worry about fantasy points. We need 85 fantasy points as a team. A conqua was wide open. Dude, where are you throwing? I'm like genuinely confused. Not like, I'm not trying to be like ultra negative, but some of these throws are so like weirdly off. Even that was a poor accuracy throw. He's just standing in the pocket. Okay, a conqua. That should just be, yeah, beautiful. Okay, I could throw a lot of things here. I'll just take a conqua, break it. Oh! Oh, I had X. Look at X just butt naked over there. Oh, look at that. He tried to get through it with a D-Line and I respect that. A conqua gets in the end zone and shit, we get more fantasy points if I go for two. I don't think it's a reception, but we get two points for it. Well, it's definitely not a reception, but we do get two points for it. John Mechie. Kenny Picker just had a five throw stretch where he forgot how to play quarterback, but he remembered. One of the man blitz here, kind of gotta be aggressive. Ooh, I know where you wanna go. Martin Emerson! Oh my God, Martin Emerson. I'm not ready to give up on this play. It's gone poorly before, but I'm not ready to give up on it. John Mechie. You want a ball from Kenny Pickett? A good juke, yes sir. So he's looking for it this time, but we got a conqua. We are really using the drags right now and they're going great. He is press covering Jamar Chase, he's inside too. Oh no, he sees it. He doesn't see a conqua though. Great. Dude, and all of a sudden, all of a sudden Kenny Pickett's just back to perfect accuracy lasers. This game ain't over! Be smart, Matt. Same ball. Oh, bad ball. Not smart. I said be smart. Jamar Chase burnt his man. Absolutely torched him. It's first and goal. Jamar Chase in the middle, he's in, he's in. And my two point conversion before, I'm not going to take another two point conversion. I'm just going to take my points. It's one less fantasy point, but it's a six point game right now. I'm going to stay ready for this drag from his tight end because I know it's what he wants. Yes. Oh no, he has a deep middle. That was just a, it's such a good play. Oh shit. Bad ball. Oh no, it was a great ball. I thought Derwin had an opportunity. Does he shoot Glock here? Or will he be stupid again? If he's stupid again, I have a shot. Assume he runs it. Yes. Say out, get in there. Oh, don't like a psycho with say out. He wants this shit. Ah! So close. Holy shit. Yeah, I knew he was going to run that again. I knew he would. Now we just check the middle. Oh my God. Wait, are you serious? Fourth and goal from the eight. You got to kick a few goals, dude. Please don't be weird. You just got to say there's no pride in losing this. I didn't want to win like that. You obviously take a field goal here. Wait a minute. Oh, I should have gone for two. Oh, I should have gone for two last time. I genuinely can't win. With one time out, I cannot win. He was really struggling with five wide before. So let's see if that continues to be the case. Continues to be the case. That will be open every single time. Kaelin Geiger is getting reps, ladies and gentlemen. Yup. And then he has to switch on. John and John, matchy gets picked off. You know what I have to do? I have some unlearning to do. I have all these bad habits. I got to unlearn them, because that is a laser. This was a wake up call. Let's call it what it is. Second and three, I will use my time out. On the off chance, I can like somehow get a turnover. I want the fantasy points. Just in case I'm short. Very well could be. Strip it. And that is all she wrote. A and EJ hands us the first loss of the season. You know, two things happened. Number one, I tilted and I started to play horrible. Wow, when I just started to miss open throws, I just like fell apart. Now it's time to count our fantasy points. So pick it. Three touchdowns, three interceptions. Trash game for him, but he still threw for 307 yards. We literally didn't run the ball. Fred Taylor had one for 27 yards. Receiving, we had Jamar with seven for 103 and two. Akanko with seven for 120 and one. So monster games there. And then we also had Franco with three for 22. And matchy two for 41. Fred Taylor two for four. Kaling Gager two for 17. Yeah, so those are just nice little like, that's little PPR yards. One PAT and one two point conversion. The final tally, gentlemen, Jamar Chase had 29. Pick it at 18.2. He lost a lot for those interceptions. Akanko had 25. Franco Harris, 5.2. Matchy, 8.1. Brad with 5.1. Kaling Gager, 3.7. Harrison Bucker added a point for a grand total of 95.3. Fantasy points. Thank God. So we do hang on with our challenge wheel. And luckily we had those big drives down there at the end, otherwise there's absolutely no way we were getting to 95.3. Bummer to lose the game, but I'm not upset. My opponent played a good game. We had solid, similarly matched teams and I made too many mistakes through some bad interceptions. So I don't deserve to win that game. We're one in one and now we have a decision to make. So we can salvage one wheel spin thanks to our challenge wheel. All right, gentlemen, my decision has been made. We're keeping John Mechie. There was a lot of value in keeping Akanko in Emerson that probably made more sense, but I don't know how realistically I can get a wide receiver like this back on my team. And hey, I'm excited, man. I've got some learning to do, obviously. We've met in 24 with a lot of passes today, but that just means there's room for improvement or one and one. We've still got some good steam, two more losses and I'm booted for more wins than I had through the playoffs. I love you boys. I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.