Did Kyle Pitts End Our Best Ball SZN?

December 12, 2025·1 hr 27 min·7 clips

Kyle Pitts just dropped one of the highest-scoring tight end games ever to kick off the best ball playoffs—did he end your season?

Kyle Pitts is the problem, or at least the player everyone has to argue with. The cold open treats Thursday night football as a ridiculous start to best-ball playoffs, because Pitts instantly becomes the name hanging over every roster. The vibe is tilt with a little hope mixed in. The host keeps poking at the same questions: are non-Pitts teams dead, are Pitts teams live, and should Bijan or Mike Evans be part of the same opening sweat? Chat makes the panic sharper. If roughly 60 to 70 percent of pods have at least one Kyle Pitts team, the fear makes sense, but the answer is not clean. Some pods have multiple Pitts teams. Some have none. A few Pitts rosters have to knock each other out, which keeps the whole thing from turning into simple doom math. The host clearly likes that wrinkle. From there, he moves into actual roster checks, especially his 23 DraftKings milli teams and the one lineup currently advancing. It is alive, but not exactly cozy. The team has Michael Penix, a thin but crowded running back room, Jalen Hurts as the hoped-for stabilizer, and Pitts sitting there as the reason the build still has a chance. Even that good news has a catch. The same roster only has Tucker Craft alongside Pitts, and Craft is out for the season, so the Pitts spike comes with the kind of best-ball compromise you just have to swallow. This is spreadsheet panic with a pulse. The episode keeps shifting between pod probability, individual roster construction, and the weird feeling of watching one player bend an entire playoff week. There is no clean answer. Pitts matters a lot, but pod composition, overlapping opponents, and roster context still decide who is actually buried. The ending stays competitive and friendly: he roots for the audience to finish second or third behind him, admits his own first-place hopes may be thin, and sends everyone into week 15 with the sweat still open.

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A sweaty best-ball panic session that turns Kyle Pitts's eruption into playoff math.

This episode stays locked on Kyle Pitts and the best-ball playoff sweat around him: which pods are alive, which teams are cooked, and how one big Thursday night game can reshape the whole picture.

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When your best-ball playoff teams live or die on Kyle Pitts, this is the sweat.

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