Fantasy Football Today - 10/05: Mailbag! (Recorded Fri.) (Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 5, 2019

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Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. It is mailbag time, ladies and gentlemen. Hope you're having a great Saturday. We're recording this Friday afternoon. Welcome, everybody. This is the Fantasy Football Today Road Tour presented by Little Caesars. Pizza for dinner tonight? How about ordering your favorite online from Little Caesars

and using Pizza Portal Pickup? It's the latest, greatest, and hottest way to pick up a pizza without even going to the register. I'm Adam Acer. He's Ben Gretch. Come on down, Ben. Winner of Fantasy Feud on Wednesday. What's up?

Raining champ. Yay! Should I be like running down the aisle? Woo! I have some sound effects for that, I guess. We could do that, but I wasn't prepared for it. Everything good? You finished your DFS column? Yeah, everything's good. Good go i'm excited uh yeah excited not you know knock this podcast out and head off for

the weekend it's gonna be a fun weekend oh you're doing something this weekend i'm going to a kid's birthday party i'm not doing anything that fun you said head off so what's that it said head off to the weekend so it sounded like you were heading off somewhere. Oh, no. Yeah, no, it's just generally the fact that it will be the weekend sounds fun. And, I mean, Sundays are always great. We can watch football all day. Yeah, exactly.

All right, let's get to the news and notes. T.Y. Hilton and Marlon Mack are trending in the right direction. If they both play at Kansas City, are they both starts? Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's obviously a good matchup with the Chiefs. direction if they both play at Kansas City? Are they both starts? Yeah. It's obviously a good matchup with the Chiefs. Juju Smith-Schuster is questionable with a toe injury. What would the impact be if he misses the game?

Would you be really excited about Deontay Johnson against Baltimore? Or James Washington? I would be crazy excited. I also think it's pretty clear that he's going to play. I mean, that's what I've been seeing. Well, does this make you more hesitant to play Juju? I wouldn't say that Toe does necessarily,

just because they've said he's probably fine. But there are reasons to be hesitant to play him, certainly. James Conner says he'll play. Saquon Barkley is out. Damian Williams is in. Sam Darnold is out. Josh Allen has not been cleared yet, but he still could play against Tennessee.

Colt McCoy is going to start for Washington, and Terry McLaurin is a game-time decision. I think you missed your chance to sell McLaurin. Do you think he's going to be good rest of season? I'm so concerned about this team having one of the worst passing offenses in football going forward. No, I mean I think it's a legitimate concern. It's definitely

a concern with Colt McCoy taking over because McCoy's calling card as a quarterback is that he doesn't really throw the ball down the field. He really likes to throw underneath. He targets the tight end position a lot. Obviously, McLaurin's a guy that's been getting down the field and one of the big reasons he's been so productive has been a lot of air yards and a lot of deep shots but he's also been pretty productive in the shorter area of the

field it's he's almost like a ty hilton where he's been a downfield option but also had volume in the in the intermediate and shorter ranges and i think he's very good but yeah it's probably it's not a great quarterback switch and yeah it's probably going to be tough in washington regardless like you said let's get jeremy sprinkle in our lineups then if cole mccoy likes that well i saw he tweet that and i was like oh really oh i did not see he tweet that you tweeted it but uh you could sprinkle him into some dfs well that's the thing about he i knew he would i guess i should have known he made some sprinkle pun. Vernon Davis is out this week,

and Jeremy Sprinkle will get some targets for Washington. Okay, Jalen Ramsey is out. DJ Moore, Curtis Samuel, how do you feel about them? Yeah, I feel really good about that. I mean, we just watched Emmanuel Sanders and Corlin Sutton completely gash this Jaguars secondary without Ramsey. I mean, it's easy to think on paper, like we see the Jaguars matchup in our lineup.

It's a problem. It's probably a plus matchup without Ramsey. We have some really interesting pronunciations of the team that plays in Jacksonville. Oh, man. That's one that I see people get mad about, and I'm like, oh, I definitely do that wrong. And I don't think of it, but

yeah. Yeah, you are Jaguars. Jaguars? Heath is Jaguars. That one cracked me up. Is it Jaguars? It's Jaguars, yeah. No, it's Jaguars. Jaguars. Jaguars. Jaguars? Jaguars.

Like agriculture. Yeah, Jaguars. Yeah. I'll always getars? Ag, yeah. Jaguars. Like agriculture. Yeah, Jaguars. Yeah. I'll always get that wrong. Apologies to all the listeners. Devin Singletary has been practicing, but he is still questionable. Tyreek Hill's out this week. Jarvis Landry's on track to play.

Hey, remember a couple weeks ago we were talking. You start Juju Smith-Schuster against San Francisco. I gave you that stat about wide receivers with six or more targets. Basically every day of my life I wake up and I tell people, six or more targets. I've given it basically every day of my life. I wake up and I tell people six or more targets against the Niners. You're going to do well. So Landry, I'd actually start him. I don't love him, but I'd start him if he plays against the Niners.

Tyrell Williams is questionable and Stefan Diggs may not play. So, oh, I miss that. Yeah, well, it's not an injury thing. It's, you know, this whole. They might just deactivate him. Yeah, well, it's not an injury thing. It's, you know, this whole trade. They might just deactivate him. Yeah, yeah. Like, they just, Mike Zimmer did not commit to Stefan Diggs playing. Yeah, it's a very Mike Zimmer thing to not, I mean, he's not a squeaky wheel type.

He's a, you know, I'm the boss type. Right, right. Well, we want to thank you all for your questions on iTunes. Those are so helpful with the five-star reviews. In our inbox at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com, let's get to the show with some start-sit from iTunes. This is Justin from a Russian city in Florida. Moscow?

St. Petersburg. Oh, there you go. Yeah, yeah. Moscow. I'm a peridot. Don't worry, don't worry. There's one of those in Idaho. Oh, okay.

Gallman or Phillip Lindsay in PPR? I will take Gallman just for the more locked-in volume. Logan from the best town east of the Mississippi. St. Petersburg, Florida. Half PPR league, struggling who to start at my flex. Juju, Gallman, or MVS? Half PPR. petersburg florida half ppr league struggling who to start at my flex juju gallman or mvs half ppr that's that's a super tough one without adams i can see the appeal of mvs i think i'm gonna go away from mvs i'm probably in half ppr just gonna play gallman even in a bad matchup

knowing that he's gonna get a lot of volume i'd love to play juju as well but we don't even know if they're like whether they're gonna do theuju as well, but we don't even know whether they're going to do the Wildcat thing again, and we don't know how healthy he is. We're getting a lot of Gallman questions, so let's take a look at Gallman here. It's going to go to my notes. Let's see what running backs are doing against Minnesota. Vikings are giving up 3.8 yards per carry.

Ninth fewest fantasy points. I'm going to look for running backs who had significant work. Aaron Jones, big game. 23 carries, 116 yards and a touchdown, four catches for 34 yards. That's... Oh, David Montgomery. This is what I fear. 21 carries for 53 yards, three catches for 14 yards.

Tariq Cohen also caught a touchdown. Minnesota not as good on the road as they are at home. So I don't know how to feel about Gallman. I would like to avoid him. I think you probably would too. I would too. Golden Tate coming back probably dings us a little bit, but the reasons to like him are

he had seven targets last week. He's involved in both the ground and receiving game. He had 18 carries and John Hilleman, the backup, had 10. But I think it was seven or potentially eight of Hilleman's carries came from the midway point of the third and after. The Giants won 24-3. I mean, I wrote this in Stealing Signals.

A lot of Hilleman's work came late in that game. Goleman was still playing because they're not deep at running back but that's when they started to work him in it was he sprinkled it a couple times earlier in the game but it was all gallman through two and a half quarters if this is a game where they're losing or uh or you know even it's more competitive if they do you know somehow get ahead but i expect them to be down you'd think gallman would be in there for the majority of the snaps throughout the game, probably get some targets as well in case he doesn't run. So like the David Montgomery thing, you also had Tariq Cohen catching passes in that

game. In this scenario, Coleman's probably going to play almost all the running back snaps. Yeah, so that's the reason I said I don't know how to think about him, how to feel about him is I don't know what his passing game work's going to be. Wayne Gallman had six catches for 55 yards and a touchdown against the Redskins.

Even Saquon Barkley wasn't doing that. He's been a good receiver. He played a little bit a couple of years ago and had some good receiving lines. Three in a row. I think he had three games in a row with four or five catches. You know what? I could buy into that. I could buy into the game script being good for him to catch some balls.

Okay, back to the iTunes questions here. Ben from a small town in Minnesota. Duluth? St. Petersburg. Start two. Mixon, Montgomery, Eckler, and Goleman. So, this is tough because I just mentioned a light Goleman, but Goleman's got a tough matchup.

He's actually going to be last on my list here. Montgomery's Jamie's start of the week, and I love the faith in him, but I'm a little concerned. We also just got a report before we jumped on the air here that Anthony Lynn said he doesn't feel any need to rush back Melvin Gordon, and Austin Eckler's been playing so well that he can continue to use him as a lead back. And the way that Eckler gets the the high value touches I'm always talking

about the receptions and the red zone work and Gordon may play in the red zone that might be specifically where he plays because Eklert had some fumble issues but just the fact that we know Eklert's going to be so involved in the passing game has a pretty good matchup I think I would have a hard time benching Eklert and then this is for me a mix-in is very similar to David Montgomery where he's a guy who's been struggling a lot but is in a really great spot as well going up against Arizona. I could definitely see this be a game where the Bengals really try to get Mixon going, especially after Andy Dalton took so many hits last week. I believe it was eight sacks. So I actually am going to go, I'm pretty high on Mixon. I wrote him up in my DFS article. I'm going to go Mixon and Eckler here. It's not because I don't like Montgomery, but I just feel a little better about those two.

And from Cheetos, Devante Freeman or Deontay Johnson in the flex? I think you got to go Freeman. Johnson's been great the last couple weeks, but you can't trust Mason Rudolph. Anthony from Detroit, Damian Williams, start or sit? I guess that depends. Who are we starting him for? No,

I mean, I think, I think, yeah, we don't know like for certain, certain he's going to play in there on Sunday night football, which is a little bit tricky. If I didn't have any great options,

I'd be willing to play him for sure though, because I do expect he'll come back. And I, I don't think like Dryl Williams has been playing ahead of Damian will like stay in a role. I think Damian's going to come back and get that role back pretty much. So that's kind of my expectation. But it's uncertain.

He could get ease back in, too. I'd play him in a PPR league, especially because I'd expect him in that route running role alongside McCoy if I needed to. But I'd probably want in a PPR league especially because I'd expect him in that route running role alongside McCoy if I needed to. But I'd probably want to see a week. And pick a wide receiver. T.Y. Hilton, Tyler Boyd, or Josh Gordon? Oh, I'm going to go Boyd. Same thing with the Cardinals.

I mean, there's a lot of DFS hype for Tyler Eifert and Odd and Tate who are some cheap options this week. But I also think the Bengals could just feed Boyd. I mean, again, the Cardinals can't stop anything. Jeremy from Las Vegas, pick two. Cortland Sutton, D.D. Westbrook, Golden Tate, Auden Tate, and DJ Moore. I will take Moore and Sutton. I will take Sutton and I think Auden Tate.

Over DJ Moore. He's got seven targets in two games with Kyle Allen. Yeah, but Jalen Ramsey's out. Yeah, but Kyle Allen's in. Well, definitely Sutton. Sutton for sure. And then, yeah, for me, it would be either Moore or Auden Tate. From WakeUp23, dear Gary, Mooncake, Kevin, and Hugh.

And apparently I am Kevin, so I'm going to have to look this up. But two wide receivers and a flex PPR. Oh, no. I don't have the rest of this. Thielen Marquis Brown. Oh, no. I didn't put the whole email in. You have two wide receivers, so I'll take D'Alema Marquez Brown.

Okay. I'll find the rest. Some trades to get to. Aaron in a South Carolina suburb of Charlotte. Oh. South Carolina suburb of Charlotte. Oh, because it's right on the border. Yeah. How about that?

Whatever. St. Petersburg. I get Chris Carson and Hooper. Carson and Hooper. Carson and Hooper for Lamar Jackson. Yeah, that's an A. Okay. Yeah, we hate quarterbacks. I mean, if you're getting Chris Carson got a ton of work last night. I mean, if you're getting a running back that's even just a starting running back for a quarterback, it's an A.

Two nights ago. Two nights ago. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. Wink. Colin in a city north of Detroit. 12-man Ontario. No, like Ottawa.

I don't... Somewhere in Canada. 12-team half PBR. I have McCaffrey, Henry, and James White. I have Beckham, A.J. Green, D.J. Moore, D.J. Chark, and Beasley. Should I trade A.J. Green and Derek Henry for Todd Gurley? That would give him Beckham, DJ Moore, Chark, and Beasley at wide receiver. Yeah, that's an interesting one.

I mean, you can't have a lot of optimism about AJ Green the rest of the way. I think his value has fallen. Why? What's that why because we're not we're getting a lot of bad reports that it's like gonna take longer than we expect typically with injured guys as time goes along i think that happens that that people are like oh we haven't seen him play for a long time and his value falls and i always say that's wrong i think value – guy's value shouldn't fall because he's had more time to heal, and it's usually a good time to buy around now. But with Green, we keep hearing like later and later dates.

Like they already ruled him out for this weekend early in the week and like multiple more weeks, and he was supposed to be back probably by now when he was initially injured. There just seems to be a lot of weird stuff going on there. And I'm not real comfortable with that. But I also am like, OK, I don't really like Derrick Henry, but how much of an upgrade is Todd Gurley over Derrick Henry? I think he's a pretty significant upgrade. He played a lot of snaps last week on just three days rest after playing a lot of snaps. Or excuse me, this week, two days ago on Thursday,

on three days rest after playing a lot of snaps on Sunday. So they don't seem to have a lot of volume concerns for him but I mean I just don't know if he's like I think I would take Gurley in this trade but it's just uh like Derek Henry's not like has some value okay um I mean has plenty of value obviously but he's just a guy I don't love for the high value touches but I don't know green and Henry for Gurley and but he's just a guy I don't love for the high-value touches. But I don't know. Green and Henry for Gurley. And basically what I'm saying is I don't really feel great about any player in this trade, so it's a hard thing for me to judge. Okay.

All right. Yeah. I guess this comes down to the running backs then, I suppose. Let's see what we got here from... No name on this. Hey, Lincoln, Bob, Barry, and Bud. Gosh. I don't know.

14-team PPR league. I have Carson, Chubb, Eckler, and Ronald Jones, and Bud. Gosh, I don't know. 14-team PPR league. I have Carson, Chubb, Eckler, and Ronald Jones, and Jalen Samuels. Those are Oklahoma head coaches. Barry Switzer, Lincoln, Riley, Bob Stoops, and Bud Wilkerson. Okay, what do you got? 14-team PPR league. Gave up James Conner and John Brown. Got Cooper Cup.

Gave up Conner and Brown. Got Cup. I think that's a little bit of an overtrade, but, I mean, Cup's obviously smashing. It's really hard to knock it too much. And finally, hey, Stan, Kyle, Eric, and Kenny. Yeah, that's

South Park. Wouldn't it be fun if they made South Parks and Recreation? They combine the shows, a little crossover. How would that look? It'd be animated. It'd be an animated version of Parks and Rec? Yeah, but you've seen they can put animated characters in real shows.

Oh, they would just walk around in the real show? Yeah, sure. I like it. This is a good crossover idea. I'm one in three in the league I care most about. I was just offered this trade. I'd get Gordon and Eckler, Carson Wentz,

and Marvin Jones. So Wentz, the two Chargers running backs, and Marvin Jones. I'd give up Wilson, Julio Jones, and David Montgomery. Should I take it? Um... and David Montgomery. Should I take it? I wouldn't. I mean, it's...

So don't. Gordon and Eckler are like... You could feasibly use them both, but to go down from Julio Jones down to Marvin Jones is a pretty big drop-off. If you need running backs, I think you could say, yeah, you're giving up David Montgomery, To go down from Julio Jones down to Marvin Jones is a pretty big drop-off. If you need running backs, I think you could say, yeah,

you're giving up David Montgomery, you're getting Melvin Gordon and Eckler. I think the Wilson and Wentz swap is pretty much a wash. But if you need receivers more, then I would want to keep Julio Jones. But yeah, overall, I think I would probably just take the Julio side. Back to WakeUp23 and his Gary Mooncake, Kevin, and Hugh, which is Final Space, which I've never seen. It looks interesting. What was it called?

Final Space. It's a cartoon. I haven't even heard of it. Final Space. What can we find? Office Space could cross over with the characters from Office Space. We're making really good ideas here. So the question was, pick two wide receivers and a flex PPR.

Thielen, Marquise Brown, Cole Beasley, Dorsett. So I guess sit one. I'll sit Beasley. Beasley. Yeah, that's an easy one. I'll tell you what else is easy. Lightstream.com. Very, very easy website to use and very, very helpful.

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Are ties okay or should I reinstate the... Missed it. The tiebreakers. Ties are fine. I mean, you definitely should have decimal point and you'll run into them every, you know, five years. Yeah, ties are fine. No big deal.

And that one has been regulated. Next one from Jason. I'm the commission of 12-team standard league. Previously, it had been an office-only league, but since there wasn't enough interest, I took the league private this year. The commissioner from a different league I played in joined, and now he's ripping off my old boss.

Old boss gives up DeAndre Hopkins. Other league commish gives up Peyton Barber and DJ Chark. I talked to the other league commish, and he tried to convince me that the trade is fair, and even because old boss has Ronald Jones and is getting the handcuff. The trade is massively lopsided. Hopkins for Barber and Chark.

So how can the other league commish deny that? He has been playing fantasy for years. Meanwhile, my old boss is just a casual fantasy and NFL fan. Do I go to my old boss and try to explain he is getting fleeced? Regulate. No, you don't go to your old boss

and try to explain that he's getting fleeced. He's getting fleeced, but that's what happens sometimes in fantasy trades. What you do, since you think that you need us to regulate on just a normal run-of-the-mill lopsided trade, for all we know, DJ Chark could be a wide receiver, won the rest of the year, is I think you have to make the other league commish the new commish

because I think he's totally right here and you're totally wrong. Oh, you're giving up? No, no, no. That's crazy. I think like all the other commish, that is such crap. You know you can get away with that. But really? You're really going to do that?

You're going to ruin the integrity? It's about integrity. The integrity of the league, Ben. It's at stake. That's a terrible trade. So you're on the side of our listener here. I mean, I'm on the side that it shouldn't happen, but I wouldn't do anything about it. Yeah, you know what? If I was in this league, I would be really

annoyed. Yeah, of course. There's nothing you can do about it. You should definitely tell your old boss he's getting fleeced, actually, in hindsight. Just to make fun of him. But there's nothing you can do about it. The trade's a trade. If it were your current boss, though, I would tell boss he's getting fleeced, actually, in hindsight, just to make fun of him. But there's nothing you can do about it. The trade's a trade. If it were your current boss, though, I would tell him he's getting fleeced.

But, you know, that has been regulated. One more here. This is a 10-team, two-quarterback, non-PPR league. At the end of week three, I offered another league member a trade. I give up Matt Ryan for Leonard Fournette remember it's two quarterbacks non-PPR he responded that he would do the trade he'd give up Fournette for Ryan

but he wanted to wait a week because he liked his quarterback matchups that week and he had Le'Veon Bell on a buy on a buy week so he needed Fournette so I said no problem as long as there are no injuries we can go through with the trade

and he agreed fast forward to Fournette's breakout performance and a subpar performance from Matt Ryan. And the trade was vetoed by the other owners. I asked the trade partner about his situation. He said that, yes, the trade was not ideal for him anymore. But he is a man of his word and he would be happy to go through with the trade. So I brought the text message evidence of us determining the trade situation the previous week. This helped convince a few owners to not veto the trade,

but there still are four, enough to veto it, that are hell-bent on making the trade not happen as they determine the trade is not fair. Matt Ryan for Leonard Fournette in the two-quarterback league. The difficult part is that I am the commissioner, and if I force the trade, it makes it seem very unfair and biased. If it was someone else, I had evidence that the trade details were determined earlier i would just force it and no problem what do i do in this situation do i take my medicine and not go

through with the trade or do i force it anyway and say screw the rest of the guys i'm making this happen i mean this is a really unenviable situation to be in as a commissioner because you always want to do what's fair but it it's like the hardest situation is trying to figure out when you know that like your situation, like the fairest thing benefits you is figuring out how to do that, but without like, even if you're just trying to be fair,

you're not trying to like tip the scales towards yourself. It's figuring out how to do that without making it seem like you're tipping the scales towards yourself. This is a very obvious situation where this trade should go through. Yes, so listen, this is what you should do. I love the whole make the trade the week before thing, though. Yeah, I mean, I'm okay with that.

I've done that before. You make the trade and say, hey, as long as there are no injuries, sure, let's do it next week. I'm fine with that. Come on, Ben. Lighten up. But what I would tell you to do, Kamish, is play this podcast for your league and tell them that the regulators said

this trade goes through. It's completely fine. Don't overreact to one week. It's ridiculous. There's one more thing we have to mention here that while you're playing this for your league, your rule that four owners is enough to veto a trade is absolutely ludicrous.

That's a lot of owners. I mean, if you want to vote on vetoes, it needs to be like 70% of the league. This needs to be worse than the Senate. Okay. All right, so this trade is going through, and you tell your friends that if they have a problem with it, they can come talk to the regulators. Also tell your friends that they have the opportunity

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What's your answer? It's pretty funny because I'm not a cake guy. I know that's weird but my wife loves cake like she'll go to like whole foods and just buy a slice of cake and like have it for dessert by herself well good for her i am not a cake guy but yeah i mean if i had to choose something it'd be one of those like uh fruit flavored like layered ones that has like the fruit flavored stuff in the inside and like actual fruit in it too probably i what like are you gonna have that with your werther's original in a a tray on your coffee table like look i'm an old man what can i say yes apparently apparently you

are well when your grandkids want cake i hope you get them something better than that all right uh let's go to the emails at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. What do you have for cake that's so much better? Ice cream cake. Okay, that's good. That's your only good take. Ben and Jerry's ice cream cakes are...

Ice cream cakes are really good. I don't know why I wasn't thinking of that. I haven't had one of those in a really long time, but they are very good. I like ice cream cake with the crunchies in the middle, like a Fudgy the Whale at Carvel. I don't even know what that is. You mean like cookies and cream? No, no.

You've had it before, right? It's got vanilla ice cream maybe on top, chocolate ice cream on the bottom, and in the middle, there are those cookie crunchies. Sure. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I know what you're talking about right yeah they're wonderful okay here's a trade from sean give up courtland sutton

get jarvis landry what's the we're grading this i oh it's a c you said c's average yeah i mean average i'm fine with Landry. I also really like Sutton. I liked him as a breakout candidate. I had him in my breakout receiver's article this offseason, and I'm not trying to sell high on him. I think he's good. All right, so it's a C.

From Jimmy, dear Emmanuel, Miles, and Colonel. Emmanuel, Miles, Sanders. Yeah. The Sanderses. That's right. I wanted to propose the insult-o-meter for how insulting a trade is. Adam, this is not a prod at you, I promise. Rate the following trade on the insult-o-meter,

one being not offensive, ten being totally offensive. I was offered in a non-PPR dynasty league, Tyler Boyd for my George Kittle. What is that on the insult-o-meter in a non-PPR dynasty league Tyler Boyd for my George Kittle. What is that on the insult-o-meter in a non-PPR dynasty league? Boyd for Kittle. A one? Yeah, I was like, this is not a bad trade. I mean, I would rather have Kittle.

Why are we even instituting an insult-o-meter for a very balanced offer? I think in a non-PPR league, Kittle's clearly more valuable than Boyd to me. Boyd's young, though, and good. Very good. Yeah, so is Kittle. And he plays a premium position. Like, I definitely wouldn't take the trade. But you can't be insulted by this.

It's not insulting. Right, exactly. You can decline a trade and still not be insulted by it. This is not a trade that should insult you in any kind of way. It's not a one on the insult-o-meter. It's a zero. It's a zero. From Andrew.

Give up. Oh, no. This is just a which side would you rather have? Mark Andrews and James Conner or George Kittle and Le'Veon Bell? Andrews and Conner. George Kittle and Le'Veon Bell. I'll take both the tight end and the running back on that side. Someone dropped TJ Hawkinson.

This is from Rich. Is he a better option rest of season than Chris Herndon? No, I mean, I, I, no, I mean,

he's not, I, I've been talking big about Herndon all, or all during his suspension. I'm excited for him to, to come back. The, we know that the jets,

and this is something I mentioned on a couple other shows as well, though, but we know that they're playing really concentrated with their main skill positions. They're all playing like 90% plus snap shares. It's something Adam Gase did in Miami a lot. That's really good for fantasy. It's something we don't think a lot about, but teams that cycle in their backups for 25% on the snaps, those guys don't have value, but they do cut into the ceilings of the starters. It's a big reason why I just mentioned I really like Le'Veon Bell. I think he's a good buy low right now. And I think Heron when he comes back if he's gonna be playing 90 plus snaps there's not a lot of tight

ends that do that and Sam Darnold's gonna be back they should be a little bit better when Darnold's back eventually I like Herndon quite a bit he's a he's an upside play for me I you know I don't hate Hawkinson I think he's probably now fallen off more than than he was overvalued after week one but I thought he was overvalued then, and we just need to find this happy middle ground, but Herndon's clearly ahead of him. Yeah, I don't know if he's clearly ahead of him. I don't know. I like Hawkinson.

Hawkinson's a top 10 pick. Hawkinson is a big-time prospect. You know, Herndon wasn't. Yeah, but rookie tight ends have a tough time producing. Herndon, as a rookie last year, was very productive. He's already shown a lot of production. Ryan from Parker, Colorado. Give up Kenny Galladay.

Get Julian Edelman. Another C. All about format for me. Yeah, probably C-. I'd probably take Galladay in that. The other one was probably a C- too. I would have probably taken Sutton over Landry. But they're pretty even trades, both of them.

I'll tell you why I'd rather have Edelman in PPR. Galladay has the Vikings twice, the Bears once, because I think he gets them in Week 17. No, he gets Green Bay in Week 17. Oh, he's got the Bears twice, the Vikings twice, the Packers once because he gets them in week 17. They have good cornerbacks. He has Dallas.

He has Denver in week 16. So it's not that I don't like Gallaudet, but I think that's why I would take Edelman over him. Sure. All right. From Adam, give Emmanuel Sanders, get DK Metcalf and Carlos Hyde. Who cares?

What? I'll give it. I mean, it feels like moving around deck chairs on the Titanic. Carlos Hyde's not going to make a difference. DK Metcalf is an upside play that I like, but he's a flex play at best, and I'm not real high on Emmanuel Sanders either. So if this were give Cortland Sutton get DK Metcalf and Carlos Hyde,

you'd be like, F, F. Yes. So that's how I feel about this. You like Emmanuel Sanders more than Sutton. No, no, I don't necessarily. I value them pretty evenly. But Metcalf and Hyde are guys who are, I guess, good sell high guys. Because you're not going to be able to rely on them rest of season, especially in PPR.

Neither of them are going to catch a lot of balls. So this is a terrible trade. Don't do it. From Jason, I'm 4-0. Looking to strengthen my running backs. I give up Eckler and Hopkins. Ooh. I get Barkley and

Robbie Anderson. I mean, if you're looking to strengthen your running back position, you obviously accomplished that by going from Eckler to Barkley from a purely value standpoint. I don't really hate it either. Robbie Anderson and another jet. Obviously, I was just saying that.

He's going to play a ton. And when Darnold comes back, if Darnold plays as well as he did in the preseason, there's plenty of upside there. I'd probably still take Eckler over Anderson in a vacuum. And I would probably take Barkley over Hopkins in a vacuum to kind of put them on, like to compare the, the, the similar valued players. So that gives me the,

uh, the Barkley and Anderson side. I, I'm leaning more that way, but which that's what he got. So yeah, B for him. This is from Nick in a beach city near or in Los Angeles.

Let's go Santa Monica. I heard the song Santa Monica onica on lithium yesterday it was awesome one of my favorite songs you know that song santa monica by everclear uh i it's not common to me right now but i know of it they're a west coast band man you should know them yeah i mean i've i'm very familiar with everclear but it's like their biggest hit. Okay, I know of them. I shouldn't act like I actually listened to them. I was offered Adam Thielen for the Sean

McCoy and Matt Breida in a half PPR league. Thielen for my McCoy and Breida. He still has Fournette and Lindsey. Doesn't really have great running backs though. I'm not sure I'd do this. I don't think I would do it either. I actually think McCoy has quite a bit of staying power

as the lead running back. I mean, I mentioned already, I think Damian Williams is probably still going to play, but there's a lot of running back value in Kansas City. There's enough for two backs to be good. All right, finally. Oh, sorry, Ben. This is from Matthew.

My quarterback is Rivers. I was offered Lamar Jackson and LaShawn McCoy for my Alvin Kamara. There you go. We were just talking about McCoy having value, but I wouldn't do this. Well, I would order a pizza tonight, and I would get it from Little Caesars. And if you are ordering a pizza online, you are missing out if you're not using Pizza Portal Pickup. What is Pizza Portal Pickup from Little Caesars? It's like getting a pizza right out of the oven yourself.

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show with some start or sit from the inbox from fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. This is from Kyle. Austin Eckler, I'm playing him. Pick another one for my flex. Melvin Gordon, Eric Ebron, Emmanuel Sanders. Wow.

Because we don't really know what's going to happen with Gordon. I think you can go with Sanders. I don't know know what's going to happen with with gordon i think you can go with sanders i don't know i'm gonna let you answer it because you you feel a lot more conviction about emmanuel sanders i'm not going with ebron that's for sure yeah yeah i this is where it's tough because like i'd like i think i want to say sanders but i wouldn't i feel like they are going to have a lot of production between Eckler and Gordon, so I wouldn't mind starting both of them. So I would say this.

Non-PPR, I'd go Gordon. Half or full, I'd go Sanders. And if there are more reports about a reduced role for Gordon, then just go with Sanders. From Pam, PPR League here. Please rank my awful running back matchups for this week and tell me which two you'd start. Josh Jacobs against Chicago. Phillip Lindsay at

the Chargers. Not an awful matchup. Chris Thompson against New England. Also for him, not an awful matchup, I'd say. Ronald Jones at New Orleans. That's awful. So pick two. Jacobs, Lindsay, Chris Thompson, Ronald Jones. Yeah, Lindsay. Probably Lindsay and

Jacobs. She asked us to rank the matchups and jacobs matchup is the worst but uh i think i would still play him i would go with lindsey and thompson it's ppr yeah i mean thompson yeah you're hoping for those receptions late and it could happen with colt mccoy a quarterback and look i i can't get out of this this question without talking about ron jones he's amazing and he's probably going to score a thousand points he's yeah it's such a shame that this matchup's so tough but it's tough because he's on he's in a road a tough road matchup as a road underdog they might not need to run a lot this week he's not done enough in the past game i want to wait another week on him and pam also wants to know alan robinson or will fuller oh that's tough because we yeah we do

love fuller's matchup this week he's probably gonna go off but i also really like robinson uh oakland's not good and robinson's been kind of their main their main option but you know what with chase daniel at quarterback i think they're going to be pretty conservative i think i would play fuller like just for the the upside potential okay metro links and cross links are reminding everyone to be careful as eglinton crosstown lrt train testing is in progress please be alert as trains can pass at any time on the tracks. Remember to follow all traffic signals. Be careful along our tracks and only make left turns where it's safe to do so. Be alert, be aware, and stay safe. Ready for some rapid fire here?

Yeah. From Max, half PPR, Boyd or Mixon? I'm going to go rapid fire fire i like them both half i mean if it was if it was standard i think i would take mixing easy if it was full i think i would take boyd i'll take mixing and half from garrett dac or jamis four point per passing uh i'm gonna go jamis i think with the packers being so bad against the run and very good against the pass, and also with Tyron Smith being out, which as a left tackle, he's more of a hit to the passing game than the run game probably,

I think we're going to see Dallas run. I do think if Kevin King does not play for Green Bay, and he's unlikely to play, according to a report 20 minutes ago, on Friday afternoon. So I'm just saying, that changes things. He's at their best corner. He's going to saying that changes things. He's their best corner. He's going to make things easier for... He still has a tackle.

And he's not been as good without Tyron Smith. He has one good game. If you're looking at splits, he has one good game. It was Week 17 last year, but Smith's missed three games each of the last two seasons. And I think in the other five games, other than that Week 17 game against the Giants, Dak has not had a very high ceiling in those other five games okay

uh i don't know if king is their best cornerback but i do think he was getting alexander's considered king was pretty much shadowing uh alshon jeffrey as i recall you might know that better than i would in week four so i thought that would be the guy that would get on cooper anyway all right just go with jamis whatever uh from sean pick two guy that would get on Cooper. Anyway, all right, just go with Jameis, whatever. From Sean, pick two. PPR.

Mixon, McCoy, Allen Robinson, Jalen Samuels. And he adds, if Connor doesn't play. If Connor doesn't play, you play Samuels for sure, but I think Connor's going to play. And assuming Connor plays, for me, it's Mixon and Robin. Oh. Probably Mixon and Robbins.

Probably Mixon and McCoy. From Curtis, standard scoring league, Eckler or Montgomery? In standard, I guess I'll go Montgomery. He is Jamie's start of the week. From Mitch in Toronto. That's tough, though. We now have this report that Gordon's not going to play a ton, so it's tough. Mitch in Toronto.

Hey, Clooney, Affleck, Bale, Kilmer, and Keaton. Those are my doppelgangers. Fatmans. Oh, yeah, that's right. 10-team PPR. I need two. Josh Gordon, Daryl Williams, Jordan Howard, Demarcus Robinson, John Brown, and Calvin Ridley.

Can I just thank Mitch toronto for putting five names in the thing he added he had one for me i must be ben affleck fine i'll be clooney all right uh okay fine i'll be the guy that was like named sexiest man in america like 50 times when was ben affleck batman i don't oh oh in batman just recently like a batman and superman right or something with jesse eisenberg jamie's cousin did you know jesse eisenberg is jamie's cousin i did know that yeah uh so wait we need to flex here 10 team ppr we got josh gordon daryl williams is not an option jordan howard i don't love demarcus robinson tyree kill's gonna be out again don't

love it john brown calvin ridley i'm I'm going to play Gordon and John Brown, probably. Really? Who are you liking? Well, Gordon for sure. I wasn't going to go John Brown because it could be Matt Barkley, and Tennessee's good anyway. Sure. I was going to go with Jordan Howard or Ridley.

It's PPR. I just think Howard's going to score against the Jets. Yeah, I think Ridley's a good one. I'm going Howard's going to score against the Jets. Yeah, I think Ridley's... I'm going to change mine to Ridley and Gordon, but you can say Gordon and Howard. No, I'll go Ridley. All right, this is from Adam. Jalen Samuels, John Brown, or Curtis Samuel?

Curtis Samuel. You just got me off John Brown pretty easy. Matt from Nashville. Half PPR. Josh Gordon or Aaron Jones? Oh. Is Jamal Williams back from this concussion?

Did not practice on Friday. I think you gotta go with Jones. And a half PPR. We just don't know about Gordon's volume, but I do like Gordon this week. Yeah, I know. I know. This is a tough question, actually. Jamal Williams. Oh, Jamal Williams is out. He's out this week.

So you got to assume Jones is going to get plenty of work. I mean, I think you probably got to go with Jones. Roman. Lamar Jackson or Carson Wentz? Jackson. From Jathan. Always Jackson. PBR. RB2 in a

flex. Marlon Mack. Montgomery. Miles Sanders, Darren Waller. RB2 and a flex. I'm starting Mack. I'd like to match up for Waller, and I wouldn't want to start him over a running back. So for me, it's Mack if active and Montgomery. Montgomery is in here, and then it's Mack. If Mack's not active, it's Waller.

From Devin, Eckler and Gordon over Ridley. No, let's go Eckler and Ridley. And Sean, finally. PPR League, two running backs and a flex. James Conner, Sonny Michelle, Wayne Gallman, Miles Sanders, Tevin Coleman, Josh Gordon, Tyrell Williams. All right, this is easy. Now, the Conner.

He needs two running backs and a flex. So James Conner, Wayne Gallman, and his flex is Josh Gordon. Tyrell Williams is banged up. Yeah, Josh Gordon for sure, Conner for sure, and then you're going Gallman? Yeah. Okay. All right, that works, man.

Who are you thinking, Sonny Michel? Well, again, I think Sonny Michel is going to score. But if he doesn't, you're in so much trouble. Yeah. I go Gallman over Michel. You convinced me on Gallman. Yeah, he's going to get some volume. Thanks, Ben.

Get yourself some ice cream cake, will you? Thank you. I will. Go Cougars, right? No, no. Sorry, go Huskies is what I will. Go Cougars, right? Oh, no. Sorry, go Huskies is what I meant.

Go Huskies. There you go. Go now. That's Ben Gretsch. I'm Adam Azer. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll talk to you Saturday night with the radio show,

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