Fantasy Football Today - Darrell Henderson Ranking, Mailbag, Fantasy Cops (10/15 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 15, 2022

*We learn during the show that Cam Akers will be out this week and we tell you how to value Darrell Henderson (20:30).  We're answering your questions and giving you the latest news, but first Dan Sc...hneier needs the Fantasy Cops! Dan's home league is falling apart and the Fantasy Cops need to restore order. Then we'll give you the news (13:10), discuss an idea for FAB leagues (15:35), read your Apple Podcast questions (18:00), Fantasy Cops requests (31:00), tweets (37:40), emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com (40:00) and your YouTube questions (47:30) Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Get 20% off Fantasy Football Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-football-today%20?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-football-collection Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:37 Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Mailbag time. What's up, everybody? Hope your weekend's going great. I'm Adam Azer with Jamie Eisenberg and Nicolas Cage superfan Dan Schneier here on a Friday afternoon. It's getting tougher to come up with nicknames for Dan. Jamie, good to have you back on the Mailbag, my man. What's up?
Starting point is 00:02:00 It's good to be here. I miss you guys. You know this is the most fun show. We love the Mailbag. We get to do it. Of course. I think it's Dan's most fun show. Thank you, Jamie. Love it. You said Adam, right?
Starting point is 00:02:11 No, I hate you. Dan, greetings. How are things in Schneier's fantasy world? Not very good, Adam. A lot of hectic energy going on right now. An absolute disaster went down in my league this week. And we'll talk about that on today's show. Yeah. Right. Freaking now.
Starting point is 00:02:33 The fantasy cops are here to help one of our own. Internal Affairs is looking into this. All right. Dan's got some issues in his home league. What's happening? Let me set the stage here. I'm the commissioner. It's year 16 in his home league. What's happening? Let me set the stage here. I'm the commissioner. It's year 16 of the home league. 70% of the original members of the league are still members in the league.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Started as a salary cap, what formerly known as auction draft in 2007 has remained that way. But it is a keeper salary cap draft, which means each year you still get the $200 budget. But the prices of the players you draft the year before go up by 10% the first year. And we've made it, we've changed the rules to the point where you now no longer can keep someone basically for two years. So just as important to note, it's basically a one-year keeper. So it's not a dynasty of any form, really. There is one dynasty player, but he goes up by 50%, average of the top three, so it's hard to do. Anyway, throughout our 16 years until this year, we've never had an issue with tanking.
Starting point is 00:03:27 We've had some issues with trades in the past, like Calvin Johnson, who was the best receiver at the time, was traded for like a $6 Mike Williams on Tampa. And then Mike Williams wasn't a keeper. And the guy who traded for Calvin Johnson won the league. We used to allow keeper trades where you could trade for next year's dollars, but that really screwed up the balance of league. One year, somebody traded Colston for like six bucks and the team who got colston won the league we've never had an issue of tanking though so this year adam something happens this week without jamie jamie yeah no this is for both i just i want i'm very interested to hear both your opinions not only on what i should have done as commissioner but if what if what I did was wrong and a lot.
Starting point is 00:04:05 There's a lot going on here. There's so many moving parts. So this week, there's a team managed by our friend Scott Yanofsky, and he's a sharp dude. He owns his own real estate company, Elite Realtors in New Jersey. And one of the things they've done is give the highest commission to a realtor. So he knows how to get deals done. He's got sales experience. But he's also someone who loves chaos.
Starting point is 00:04:26 He loves bringing chaos to the league. He loves when people are like mad at him. He loves when people are talking about him. He loves the attention, no matter if it's negative attention. He actually says he likes negative tension more. And so he at two and three, Jamie and Adam at just two and three decided I am going to tank.
Starting point is 00:04:42 I am going, I have no interest in trying to win this year. Are you taking Kimberly Martin's advice and doing the yes he's taking kimberly martin's advice but even worse because it's not a dynasty league you can only keep these guys basically for a year but he in his mind what we allow in the offseason is you can keep three players but you can also trade your excess for draft dollars in the offseason so you're allowed to trade for draft dollars in offense let's say you have three good keepers, but you also have like Jerry Judy for two bucks. You can trade them to another manager for three bucks. And then you add that
Starting point is 00:05:10 to your budget before the draft. So only in the off season, can you trade draft dollars? So in his mind, it made more sense for him to try to get every possible potential keeper asset. So he can either trade or keep them over trying to remain competitive. So it starts off with Tuesday night. I'm recording my Giants podcast. Shout out Big Blue Banter for those Giants fans listening to the show. I had to do it. And I get a slew of texts during the show, just ruining my flow of the show. It was a terrible situation to begin with from that standpoint.
Starting point is 00:05:37 People angry texts just over and over and over again. The first of the tanking drops. It's basically Damian Pierce, who was drafted at $12 and can be kept for $17 for Saquon Barkley. That's the start of it. But he also gets Jameis Winston and Barkley. So a quarterback in a super flex league where quarterbacks are valuable. So that's the start of it. Then we get the next ball to drop, which is the same manager doing the same trades.
Starting point is 00:06:01 He trades Mike Evans for Devante Smith. Devante Smith's $5 can be kept at $6. Or not Mike Evans, sorry, C.D. Lamb. C.D Mike Evans for Devante Smith. Devante Smith is $5 can be kept at $6 or not Mike Evans. Sorry. Uh, CD lamb, CD lamb for Devante Smith. That's the closest one to being somewhat. Okay. Then it gets worse. He trades, he trades for James cook who hasn't done anything yet. Maybe you can do something next year and he's going to be $5. That's not as important. They're all kind of in the same range, Travis ETn and dj moore for james cook then after that he says and throughout this he's sending text messages to the group chat and by the way let me preface this by saying this our league and this is important to note our league is very very very
Starting point is 00:06:35 against making any kind of rule change in season we've had massive arguments i had a debate once somebody picked drop picked up tigay hob. Robinson after he was dropped or something. And it's always been a rule that you can't do that. Turned into like a 72 hour debate where people are firing off on emails. The group chat's going nuts. So people are very against changing rules in season and everything he's done so far is per the rules. He's essentially not breaking any rules. So then he says, I still have Kyle Pitts.
Starting point is 00:07:01 I still have Justin Fields. It's two quarterback league. Anybody want them? I'll give them away for any, he's basically giving away for anything. So he finishes it off by trading those two for, I think like Kenny Pickett and like Rashad white, which actually is also not that terrible. Um, so then this happens and this goes down, people are fierce, but it's not over now, a manager who's actually owned five. So remember this guy was two and three, he still has a chance to win. And he was the guy who has drafted Ken Walker. So he was going to get the Ken Walker boost to his roster. But now the team Owen five is so pissed off. He's like, I can't believe this. I did the league integrity is
Starting point is 00:07:33 completely ruined. Now there's this is what he said. He said, the league integrity is ruined. Now I should have done this. I should have just got all these best keepers. But by this point, there are really no more keepers left to be traded for the most part, all the potentially good ones. And it's hard to predict at this point, who's going to be a good keeper in August of 2023, how we value these guys. Right. But he's like, I'm, I'm done. I'm, I'm taking my whole team. I'm dumping my whole team. But by this point, the teams that are not in contention have the best keepers. Like one team has a lot of a cheap, um, Drake cheap and Deshaun Watson cheap and a super flex, but he's also doesn't want it. He wants to keep those guys cause he's not winning right now. And so this guy who's now 0 and five is like, that's it. I'm taking my entire roster. And so he's in, but there's no one left. So he texts me and he offers me Jonathan Taylor and date and my choice of Derek Carr, Russell Wilson for, and all these guys are cheap. Jamison Williams, Christian Watson,
Starting point is 00:08:28 and Sky Moore. You got to do it. So I felt too bad about doing all that, but I also, at the same time, I'm in a moral dilemma. I'm the commissioner, but I also,
Starting point is 00:08:39 the two teams, I have the, I had the best team going in. My team hasn't really, I'm like second or third in points. Cause Jamar Chase has been great, but there's two other major teams. And those are the guys who got CD lamb and Barkley, the two main competitors for me.
Starting point is 00:08:49 So I'm like, I can't fall behind here and decline this trade. Because if that happens and I don't do this trade, someone else is going to do this. This guy is desperate to tank right now. This guy is just like, I can't, I need everything I can get. I have no interest. And so I'm like, all right, let's take out the quarterback from the deal. That's just way too unfair.
Starting point is 00:09:06 And let's just make it Jonathan Taylor for those three rookies. So I do that, which is obviously not a great trade. What were the rookies again? Jamison Williams, Sky Moore, and Christian Watson. For Jonathan Taylor. For Jonathan Taylor. And the league flips out? No, it gets worse.
Starting point is 00:09:21 It gets worse. This guy is now in full tank mode. So then he's not done yet. He's not done yet. He's not done yet. He ends up trading to another team who is actually doing bad. He was two and three tenths in points. But he's like, you know what? I don't believe in keepers.
Starting point is 00:09:33 And he's right. It's hard to predict keepers. Like people can be like, oh, Pierce is going to be such a good keeper. Jameson Williams is not. But no one knows before August 2023 how we're going to value these guys. But he's like, screw it. I'll just I don't believe in keepers. I'll just go for one of these.
Starting point is 00:09:44 And then this is this. I think this one's the craziest one to me. It might be the Taylor one. Some people might think, but he finally, the tanking team, the second tanky team finally trades Dalvin cook. I'm reading it right now. Derek Carr, Russell Wilson, remember super flex week, Dalvin cook, Derek Carr, Russell Wilson, and Devin Singletary for Ramondre Stevenson, who's eight bucks and can be kept at 10. Hunter Renfro is like nine bucks can be kept at 11. Baker Mayfield and Daniel Jones at eight. Oh, no, that's really bad.
Starting point is 00:10:13 Oh, my. And so we now have two teams that have completely even appealing. There's like one appealing keeper in there potentially in Stevenson. That is right. Total BS. So there's now two teams that have completely tanked. There's a bunch of super teams that fell behind. And so my question was to you guys, one, should I have changed the rules? And should I have just said, screw everyone and all your
Starting point is 00:10:36 complaints? I'm going to finally make a decision to change a rule in season and just figure out a way to stop the tanking before it even began or even at some point through the tanking. Two, should I have not accepted that trade or should I have just accepted the original trade with Carr or Russell knowing if I didn't do it, someone else is going to do it? And three, rank the trades from worst. I can't comprehend all of the trades. The last one was the worst one. The last one was the worst. Did they do anything wrong? What did you say? Did they do anything wrong? Yeah, that's the trades. The last one was the worst one. The last one was the worst. Did they do anything wrong?
Starting point is 00:11:06 What'd you say? Did they do anything wrong? Yeah, that's the question. Did anyone do anything wrong? By the rules, they didn't. But at the same time, is a league okay if this type of thing happens where two teams are now completely tanked? They're just going to try to fill their rosters through free agency. And one guy who was 4-1
Starting point is 00:11:21 but was traveling, shout out Scott Levine, sends me the most angry text ever last night. He gets home, sees everything that one, but was traveling shout out. Scott Levine sends me the most angry text ever last night. He gets home, sees everything that happened. And he's like, this is ridiculous. I thought this league was competitive. This is the most BS Bush league thing I've ever seen. This is worse than some of my home leagues. He's like threatening now to drop his whole team. If he falls out of contention and he's like, I'll just drop my whole team and pick up any long shot moonshot of a rookie. Why not? That's what everyone else is doing. So it's turned into an epic disaster
Starting point is 00:11:48 where two teams are completely bottomed out. They're super teams now, and it's just a disaster. What do you do, Jamie? I think you have to let it go for now and make it clear that at the end of the season, you need to revisit the keeper slash trade rules in the league and what sort of scale
Starting point is 00:12:11 should be decided and how trades can be made in this type of format. We had a situation in one of my fantasy basketball leagues where it was getting to a point where teams that were out of contention were trading players for draft picks and we had
Starting point is 00:12:26 to amend it where you couldn't trade for a first or second round pick that it had to be where these guys were drafted versus where the the compensation was and it sort of put the league back in balance a little bit um you know and and it's it's frustrating at times because you know you're giving up you know a team that stinks you're giving up a team you know a star player but we just kind of made it where you couldn't trade certain players in certain ranges because it was just making the league too. Every year it would be the team that is out of it. Next year is dominant because they're just getting all these draft picks
Starting point is 00:12:56 and keepers. So there are ways around it, but it's a... So we tried to move up the trade deadline. It used to be like week nine. We thought moving it up to week six would prevent any team from ever deciding to tank. No one's ever tanked in league history. But this team at two and three said, I don't care. I don't believe in my team, and I'm just going to take everything I can possibly get for next year.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Yeah, but it was almost like he was just trying to prove a point. You know, it wasn't even good strategy. That's bad for league integrity. That's the problem. It's hard to just put a rule in there, though. Should I have done anything while it was going on or to prevent it before it was happening? Because he did threaten earlier this season.
Starting point is 00:13:35 You should have sent a note to the league and said, Listen, this league has been going on for 16 years and this has never happened. You know what you're doing is wrong. It may not be against the rules, just like Doug Peterson tanking in week 17 a few years ago, but you know it's wrong, so don't do it. You could have done something like that,
Starting point is 00:13:54 but you were a little powerless. These are bad actors. I think that you just let everything slide and come up with a consensus rule for next year. Should I have taken Carr? No, you did the right thing. Should I even have taken Taylor or should I have just let other teams build? That wasn't even that crazy of a trade.
Starting point is 00:14:15 I think that's fine. And someone said you had too much Oreo cream this morning. That's everything. All right. You ready to start the show now? Let's do some news and notes here. Update you on what's going on in the fantasy football world. Jonathan Taylor and Naeem Hines both practiced.
Starting point is 00:14:33 We're hoping to get both of them back this week, and we're hoping to keep them on our fantasy team instead of trading them for spare parts. T. Higgins practiced, but he's in a walkthrough. So it wasn't great news for Higgins. We'll have to keep an eye on that one. Kyle Pitts, questionable, but we expect him to play. Mack Jones, questionable.
Starting point is 00:14:55 Nick Bosa, questionable. Looks like Wandale Robinson is going to play. I wouldn't say that exactly, but he's trending in the right direction. Probably more of a stash than a start, but he's owned in about 9% of, or rostered, pardon me, in about 9% of CBS Sports League. So you can take a look at Wanda Robinson
Starting point is 00:15:14 as a guy to stash. P.J. Walker is officially starting. No Shaq Leonard or Quiddie Paye for the Colts. Two key defensive players for them against the Jaguars, but as long as they have DeForest Buckner, their run defense should be pretty darn good. Good news for Aaron Rodgers. First of all, Matt LaFleur does not think his thumb
Starting point is 00:15:30 will be an issue, but left tackle David Bakhtiari, who didn't play much last week, he's practiced all three days this week for the first time this season. They get the Jets this week. Cleveland's going to be without two key defensive players, Denzel Ward and Jadeveon Clowney. Rashad Bateman likely out. Gus Edwards nearing a return and the Buccaneers are going to be without two key defensive players, Denzel Ward and Jadeveon Clowney. Rashad Bateman likely out.
Starting point is 00:15:46 Gus Edwards nearing a return, and the Buccaneers are going to be without Akeem Hicks, Logan Ryan, and Sean Murphy bunting this week. So that's two members. Did you see an update? I know they didn't practice today on Marcus Peters. I have not seen a Peters update.
Starting point is 00:16:02 No, I did not. I should know that. Does it matter? If he's going to skip one game, it should be this one. It would help? Yeah, he's obviously an important player for them. You keep poo-pooing Derek Slayton. I know you're anti-Giants for everything. No, no, it's a big deal.
Starting point is 00:16:17 It's a big deal. Here's our terrible idea of the day from Andrew in a place outside of Tampa. More terrible than letting Dan open the show with a 20-minute rant. I didn't expect it to be that long. I thought it was going to be like three or four minutes. What? It was entertaining. 10, 12 minutes is a little long there. It's all right. He says,
Starting point is 00:16:35 Dear Eddie, Dustin, Robin, and Steve. Hmm. Oh, that's Stranger Things. Yeah. good call. Just a general thought I'd love to hear you all discuss in a Seinfeld voice. What's the deal with Fab?
Starting point is 00:16:51 Isn't it annoying when you bid, say, $16 on a player and the next closest bid is $5? Don't you kind of feel like cheated out of $10? Why can't everyone just bid the most they're willing to pay and whoever bids the highest gets player X for $1 over the next highest bid? He uh yeah that's he says basically that's what they do on ebay so this to me is the terrible idea of the day jamie what do you think about this idea of just having to pay one dollar more than the highest bid uh in fab all right so ken walker
Starting point is 00:17:20 is available in your league and everybody now wants to pick him up. So you would say, I guess, the first person to be able to throw out the bid would be the person that's last in standings? No, everyone gets to throw out the bid. They're blind bids. Nobody sees them. But then how do you know you're bidding one more dollar than the next person?
Starting point is 00:17:38 You don't. That's the other problem here. You could say, oh, I'm going to bid $80 on Jacoby Myers because the highest bid will be 12 and i'll just have to pay 13 but somebody else said well i'm gonna do that for 75 if and just i'm just thinking about it all out if instead of we did waivers blind waivers we did it as a salary cap draft right every every week yeah you could do that that'd be fun just
Starting point is 00:18:01 that'd be interesting yeah that'd be interesting. It's clearly a non-level playing field because not everybody has the same amount of money like you would in a draft. If you have, let's say, you have 90, Dan has 80, and I have 70, and Ken Walker is available, and I say I'm going
Starting point is 00:18:19 to start at 60 as the number, not factoring everybody else, but we're the three guys that are going for him, three players that are going for him, you know you can go to 71 and I'm done. Yeah. But in this scenario... No, this scenario doesn't make sense. Yeah, no.
Starting point is 00:18:34 I don't like the idea because this takes a little bit of the strategy out of your bids. You know what I find? I have two leagues where I've never been this bad in fantasy before, two winless teams. And one is waivers, one is salary cap.
Starting point is 00:18:50 Maybe they're both salary cap. No, one is waivers, one is salary cap. It's so much more challenging in salary cap, in fab, to get back into it than it is in waivers. Yeah, of course. So much more challenging. Right. And, you know, it's actually good for trash talk.
Starting point is 00:19:07 I say like, oh man, I can't get any of the good players in this league because Darst is so bad, he gets them all every week. You know, it's like... All right, let's read some Apple podcast questions. I want to give a quick note to Daniel from a town north of Dayton. Not going to have time to read your fantasy cops question, but you are not the jerk. Your trade was fine,
Starting point is 00:19:29 and your league mates need to get over it. Now, Wild DC says, I'm in a two-receiver non-PPR league, and I need to use a wide receiver as a flex, so pick three of these four. Jamar Chase, Chris Godwin, Gabe Davis, and Justin Jefferson. Who are you sitting? Chase,, Chris Godwin, Gabe Davis, and Justin Jefferson. Who are you sitting?
Starting point is 00:19:46 Chase, Godwin, Davis, Gabe Davis, or Jefferson? Non-PPR. Davis, but I hate it. Yeah, Davis for me too. All right. You're not maybe Sid Godwin with the playing time?
Starting point is 00:20:00 Yeah, I just took a point. I just feel like I don't want to bench Godwin in this matchup. That sealer secondary is such a disaster right now. Yeah. This is from TylerIsPrettyGreat34. Grade the trade. I traded Kamara and Sutton for Brees Hall and CeeDee Lamb.
Starting point is 00:20:20 Kamara and Sutton. Yeah, for Hall and Lamb. It's kind of interesting. We saw the poll of Mixon versus Hall the rest of the season, and most of Twitter said Hall. Most of Twitter. It was like 53% most of Twitter.
Starting point is 00:20:31 59%. Yeah, 59%. Adam just changing, just moving the percentages here. But this one is a little different because we got receivers involved. This is tough. I'd rather have CeeDee Lamb than Sutton.
Starting point is 00:20:44 I think that's for sure. But I'd rather have KameeDee Lamb than Sutton. I think that's for sure. But I'd rather have Maher than Hall. Yeah. I think there's more upside with the Lamb-Hall side, so I would go with the Lamb-Hall side. There is more upside with that, yeah. Let me see if I can find this Twitter poll. That doesn't mean it's the right choice.
Starting point is 00:20:57 I just am an upside player. Right. I mean, look, if Russ gets right and Sutton starts to find the end zone a little bit more consistently, he should be better than Sutton. Yes. But you also have Dak Prescott coming back. And you have Russ going in the opposite direction from any of the three.
Starting point is 00:21:11 Oh, this is not what I thought. What the hell kind of tweet is this, Zach? Tyler Lockett just tweeted a bunch of Ms. Maybe he's mad that his hamstring is bad. Oh, yeah. That was weird. Oh, Tyler Lockett just pocket tweeted tweeted all right lock it in the pocket nice again in case anyone wanted to see those random m's and numbers again all right this is
Starting point is 00:21:35 from maple syrup pup pick one in full ppr romeo well you have some take about maple syrup dan no i love maple syrup but you got to make sure it's actual maple syrup. There's a lot of faulty maple syrups that go around. Most places, you know, there's diners. You'll see it when you go up to Vermont. You actually have to pay extra for the good syrup, and it makes a big difference. Okay. I'll keep that in mind.
Starting point is 00:21:58 I've never been to Vermont. Oh, it's a great place. Pick one in full PPR. Romeo Dobbs, Deontay Johnson, or Kareem Hunt? Oh, wow. Hold on. Yep. Huge news.
Starting point is 00:22:10 Oh, whoa. Sean McVay said Cam Akers will not play Sunday. Oh. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. So, Daryl Henderson week? Apparently.
Starting point is 00:22:23 Oh, yeah. Let's check the roster. Don't publish my sleepers column yet. All right. Daryl Henderson is 79% rostered. Get him. I don't think he's rostered in any of my leagues, but I'm going to check. Where are you
Starting point is 00:22:35 going to rank him against the Panthers? Daryl Henderson. I don't even love that. Where am I ranking him against the Panthers? Top 20? I mean, I already had Akers in the top 24. I thought it was going to be a good week for him. How about Eno Benjamin versus?
Starting point is 00:22:53 Still Eno. Close, though. I still don't trust the Rams' run game. They can't block. I don't know. They're 10.5-point favorites, though. They are, yeah. You're right. The game script is the winning. They're 10 and a half point favorites, though. They are. You're right.
Starting point is 00:23:07 The game script is the winning. They were five and a half point favorites last week, but this should be. No, that was a joke of a line, though. I didn't really think so. I thought, I mean, I probably would have taken Dallas, but. It was only because the only reason the line was that way was because Cooper Rush. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's same thing this week, I feel like.
Starting point is 00:23:25 And I like the Eagles, but Dallas is the best events in the nfl potentially no one's talking about that maybe the second or third best behind san fran but that makes a huge difference in these games i mean the ramps whatever let's get back on track here with daryl henderson i'll put him inside the top 20 as well just inside okay and just behind you know benjamin yeah it's i'm just looking at some of my leagues now to see if he's available and he isn't. How am I losing? You're so selfish. I'm losing 27. That is pretty sad.
Starting point is 00:23:50 I'm looking at a score. I'm losing 27-0. After last night's game, after Thursday's game, how could you possibly be losing? How is that possible? Somebody started defenses. Somebody maybe had... Super flex.
Starting point is 00:24:00 They started Justin Fields. Fields and McLaurin. I've made a trade with George Maselli in our magazine league that at the time I needed to. The last two weeks I've kind of regretted it. I traded. I had no receivers at all. It was when Mike Evans was suspended. Somebody else was hurt.
Starting point is 00:24:19 The three receiver league. So I traded Clyde Edwards-Hilaire and Brees Hall for C.D. Lamb and Daryl Henderson.ilaire and Brees Hall for CeeDee Lamb and Daryl Henderson. This was before Brees Hall started to clearly dominate the touches, and I thought Clyde was going to struggle a little bit. But now, I feel a little bit better about that. Faker's going to miss the touch.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Yeah, man. Yeah, right. They're working through some personal things for Cam Akers, so I hope everything is okay there. All right, let's get back on track here. Let's read some more questions. Did we answer this? No. Romeo Dobbs, Deontay Johnson, or Kareem Hunt?
Starting point is 00:24:55 What's the format? The format is PPR. Deontay's probably the right play, though, just based on the volume we saw last week that he got already. I'll change it to Deontay. probably the right play though just based on the volume we saw last week that he got already I'll change it to Deontay this is from BB Baseball literally love the banter
Starting point is 00:25:14 literally like talking football with your idiot friends that's exactly how I feel yeah I'm the main idiot here yeah App State Aggie Slayers in a Dynasty League. It is a 1QB Dynasty League. Struggling on whether to trade away Jalen Hurts.
Starting point is 00:25:33 My team isn't really competing this year, but I have good pieces for next year. I have Jamar Chase, Kyle Pitts, and three first-round picks next year. I was offered Trevor Lawrence and a late first round pick for Jalen Hurts. I think you need more than that. What do you think, Jamie? Would you give up? Are you working on some Henderson stuff?
Starting point is 00:25:53 Yeah, I'll answer this one. I got to go. Is it super flex or is it? No, it's not. Would you give up Jalen Hurts for Trevor Lawrence and a 2023 first round pick and dynasty first round? Late first round, you said. In a super flex league? No. No no okay all right well Jamie was fun having you good seeing you yeah I want to hear more about Dan's uh league next time and um I can't really wait yeah actually you know what tell me a little bit more about it right now oh man all right I
Starting point is 00:26:21 didn't think that was bad I can't believe it it. It was a little long. Leave it to the listeners. It was a little long. Yeah, you know. And you guys, I wanted more from you guys. I wanted some more reaction. I would have liked to have given more, but it was just going on a little long there. But that's okay. You know what? Sometimes it's a tough feeling because you sometimes-
Starting point is 00:26:38 You miss sometimes. Yeah, I miss. You can miss sometimes in this job. Yeah, it happens. It's tough. Sometimes I do games and stuff like that. They just end up being terrible. It's tough. Sometimes I do games and stuff like that and they just end up being terrible.
Starting point is 00:26:46 It's okay. You live and you learn. It was a good story. It just was long. All right, grade the trade from Travis. What's that
Starting point is 00:26:54 seriously hair in the cookies man comment? What's that? David A. Seriously, the hair in the cookies man? I guess he's just saying I'm the best
Starting point is 00:27:03 because I have great takes on cookies and I have great hair. All cookies, man? I guess he's just saying I'm the best because I have great takes on cookies and I have great hair. All right, thanks, David. Yeah, half of that is true. All right, grade the trade. Standard scoring. I traded James Robinson and J.K. Dobbins
Starting point is 00:27:14 for A.J. Brown. He still has Henry Fournette and Gordon. Henry Fournette, Gordon is his RB depth and Robinson and Dobbins for Brown. Oh, I like that trade. Yeah, that's a good one. It's a B plus.
Starting point is 00:27:27 Yeah. This is for me. Tom's burner. I want to move Hollywood Brown. Mike Williams are both thoughts on potential trade targets for Hollywood Brown. Mike Williams are both Hollywood Brown. Mike Williams.
Starting point is 00:27:39 Um, I guess he wants to move Mike Williams because of Keenan and Hollywood because of, because of Hopkins. I don't have great targets for those guys. I really wouldn't move either of those guys personally. I'm not on that same bandwidth. I understand why you're doing it because Keenan Allen will be back
Starting point is 00:27:55 and DeAndre Hopkins will be back. I would look for, well, I don't know. Like a four net or something if you look back if if 59 percent of people are taking breese hall over joe mixon then i would make hollywood brown and or mike williams part of a package for joe mixon you love yourself some i mean i love the guy who gets more touches than just about any any running back in football that's fair fair. Alright, this is from ZombieVec. He's on the all-cream team. Thank you. Another guy on the right side of history.
Starting point is 00:28:29 12-team, single-flex, half-PPR league. Give up Mark Andrews and David Montgomery for Brees Hall and Michael Pittman. And he can get Taysom Hill to replace Mark Andrews. 12-man, single-flex, half-PPR Hill to replace Mark Andrews. 12-man single flex, half PPR.
Starting point is 00:28:47 He gives up Andrews and Montgomery for Bryce Hall and Pittman. Brees Hall. Or Brees Hall, obviously, not Bryce Hall. He wrote Brees, but yeah. He wrote it, but still, I should have known that. Another miss by me. Not my best day. I wouldn't do that.
Starting point is 00:28:59 No, I wouldn't do that. I think Andrews gives you more of an advantage than any of those other two can give you on a weekly basis, and Montgomery is, as we've seen, Montgomery, even though Khalil Herbert is unbelievably talented, Montgomery still got a guy in that backfield. So I wouldn't do it. All right. This is from Young Mart. Dear Dansby, Austin, Ozzie and Matt.
Starting point is 00:29:21 Braves got an offer for Jeff Wilson for Cordaro Patterson and Dak Prescott. You knew that one, right? Yeah. The Braves one? All right. I had a team named Dansby Samsonite in a fantasy baseball league. Not your best. Your best by far was Alex Menorah.
Starting point is 00:29:37 By far. Alec Menorah. Alec Menorah, sorry. It's maybe one of the best team names I've ever seen in fantasy sports. Did you even understand Dansby Samsonite? There's not really, no. Then you don't get to criticize it. It's a dumb and dumber reference when he's looking for her name on her briefcase.
Starting point is 00:29:55 He says, Samsonite. Oh, I was way off, and her name is Swanson. Do you remember Matt Schau? My favorite team name I've had, and we can get back on track after this. For Matt Schaub, when a friend of mine had him manage on his team, Shabbat Shalom. Love it.
Starting point is 00:30:12 Yeah, it's Schaub, though. It's not Schaub. Shabbat Shalom. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. All right, got an offer. Jeff Wilson. Would you rather have Jeff Wilson
Starting point is 00:30:22 or Cordero Patterson and Dak Prescott? Wilson or Patterson and Prescott patterson prescott from ep junior give up christian kirk for josh jacobs and mark oh and excuse me hold on i have to sneeze would you give up christian kirk for josh jacobs you know all the time i would normally say no to this and they did just mention this week doug peterson's like we got to get him back up to 10, 12 targets a week as far as Kirk goes. But I really liked the tape from Josh Jacobs this year. He looks to me like the running back. They drafted out of Bama. He looks to me like the running back that he flashed as a rookie.
Starting point is 00:30:54 He's really decisive with his running this year. He's creating a lot more force, missed tackles and a lot more yards after contact and the film backs it up. So I, and they don't really go to, I thought it was going to be more of a committee there. So I'm taking the Jacob side. I'm back on job.
Starting point is 00:31:07 Jacobs. All right. We're going to come right back with some more fantasy cops about your leagues. When we return on fantasy football today. All right, baby, here we go.
Starting point is 00:31:19 The fantasy cops are back and we are settling marital issues. Now this one comes from Jeff from Dallas. Cops are back, and we are settling marital issues now. This one comes from Jeff from Dallas. My wife has asked me, or no, I'm sorry. Let's do it again. My wife was asked to join her work fantasy football league, but since she doesn't care about football, I agreed to help manage the team.
Starting point is 00:31:40 Another manager sent me a trade of their Brees Hall and Elijah Moore for my Curtis Samuel and Romeo Dobbs. Naturally, I accepted. Gave up Curtis Samuel and Romeo Dobbs for Brees Hall and Elijah Moore. Right. A day later, I see the trade was canceled by the commissioner, so I asked why, and this was the response I got. Quote, by other league members. Since we are a low-stakes work league and are here for fun, we tend to cut some slack to people that don't pay major attention to football
Starting point is 00:32:07 or haven't played fantasy before. But if the original manager still wants to go through with it, she can resend and it'll be accepted. Of course, I resent the trade and it wasn't accepted. I'm very annoyed since the trade was proposed to me
Starting point is 00:32:20 and I want to say something back or send trades of my whole team to other teams so their accepted trades get vetoed. But it's my wife's work league and she doesn't want a fantasy football league to affect work relationships. Makes sense, but what do I do? Jeff, let me start by saying this is my favorite fantasy cops we've ever got, mostly because of how it finished off. this is my wife and i don't want this to affect her work relationship so put that forward that that is very important here i will
Starting point is 00:32:50 say this this is one of the most absurd things ever from the commissioner the commissioner goes on to say we're low stakes work league we're here for fun but then they won't allow a trade that's not even that bad like dobbs and samuel for like sure you rather have the hall side obviously you're getting a good deal. That's not so bad. That's not crazy bad. And it's supposed to be low stakes for fun. Let it go through. And also the logic here, Adam, from the commissioner makes no sense to me.
Starting point is 00:33:13 If she resends it, if you resend it and she accepts, we'll let it go through. What? Well, I mean, because she now knows that everyone else thinks it's a bad trade. But if she still wants to make it. OK, but yeah, it wants to make it. Okay. But yeah, it is kind of silly. You're right. For it to be a low stakes just for fun league,
Starting point is 00:33:31 you should be encouraging people to make trades. Right, right. Now, it's not guaranteed that Brees Hall and Elijah Moore's side is going to be better. With all trades, it's never a guarantee. The Ops could really break out. Who knows? It's just, I don't know. Yeah, this sounds a little questionable,
Starting point is 00:33:43 but don't do anything. Please, don don't know. Yeah, this is a little questionable, but... Don't do anything. Don't do anything. Please, don't do anything. All right, Jeff, take one for the team. This is from Brian. Dear Tony, Corey, and Jordan. Tony, Corey, and Jordan, this just seems unfair.
Starting point is 00:33:58 How are we ever going to get this? Who is Corey? Tony Soprano. Tony, Corey, and Jordan. Is this Always Sunny in Philadelphia maybe? No Yeah I don't know what this is
Starting point is 00:34:13 Anyway here's the question The Fantasy Cops issue Second week in a row that a manager of Brian Robinson Will be leaving him in his IR spot Through Robinson's game In most leagues I play in the understanding is that the software will alert you, but not force you to fix this. So it's left up to the commissioners
Starting point is 00:34:30 to contact managers and ask for compliance. How does the podcast feel about this quote-unquote legal tactic? Leaving an IR player, leaving Brian Robinson in an IR spot even though he's no longer on IR. Yeah, so most leagues will will not allow you to make a roster move until you take him out of your eye take a guy
Starting point is 00:34:51 who's in your ir spot who's not actually on the ir out but if you don't make any roster moves you can kind of just leave it as is which it seems like this manager is doing i find it unfair i think that you kind of have to self-police it but then that gets into the problem of having leagues or you need commissioners who self-police and that's leads to kind of have to self-police it, but then that gets into the problem of having leagues where you need commissioners who self-police, and that leads to kind of messy situations as well, Adam. So I don't really know what you do here. You can tell the commissioner, but there has to be an understanding in the league
Starting point is 00:35:14 that the commissioner steps in in these scenarios and makes these changes, right? Yeah. It is up to the commissioners. The commissioners have to do it, and you, I guess, have to tell the commissioner. Now, if this manager already knew, if he'd already been called out once...
Starting point is 00:35:30 Yeah, that's a problem. Then he should have to drop Brian Robinson, I think. Ooh, I like that. Yeah. If people are asking where Jamie is, the Cam Akers breaking news, Jamie had to go... I don't know if he had to write something or what. He probably had to be on HQ is my guess.
Starting point is 00:35:47 So that's where Jamie is. We did not kick him off the show. Jamie would never be kicked off the show. Okay. We've got a couple. What? Oh, something happened with the Yankees. It's such a tough life for Adam as a Yankee fan, you know?
Starting point is 00:36:04 All right. What Adam said before the show, you know, he criticized. Stop, stop, stop. You don't want me to say it out loud. It's so bad. I understand. All right. This is from, I don't have a name on this one. Sorry. Team A traded Devin Singletary to Team B for Greg Zerline.
Starting point is 00:36:21 Team A, by the way, is 4-1. Team B is 2-3. Team A traded Devin Singletary for Greg Zerline. Team A needs a the way, is 4-1. Team B is 2-3. Team A traded Devin Singletary for Greg Zerline. Team A needs a kicker this week with Daniel Carson on a bye, and he doesn't want to drop him. Team B needs a running back this week. Now, where it gets interesting, we have a rule that any player dropped to waivers
Starting point is 00:36:36 at any point during the year is not eligible to be a keeper the next year. To avoid this and to keep Singletary eligible as a keeper next year, Team A traded him. Then, next week, these two teams have agreed to trade the players back. Oh, the trade back. The classic trade back.
Starting point is 00:36:53 Yeah, what do you think? I'm very against trade backs. Oh, 100%. I don't think they're fair for fantasy at all. I think there needs to be a rule. No trade backs. Am I just, you know, I don't follow kicker scoring that closely. Is Daniel Carlson that good that he can't be dropped?
Starting point is 00:37:11 It depends on you. Wow. He actually is having a pretty big year, huh? He is, but like that does not really has proven to not be predictable rest of season. For the most part,
Starting point is 00:37:19 kickers are not really easy to predict. Look, he's been great. He didn't want to cut Carlson in. Some leagues are wild, Adam. I've seen some leagues. I play in a league now that I joined via some friends and it was a high buy-in league. Let me make that clear, where it's like five-point
Starting point is 00:37:34 bonuses for every 50-yard kick in addition to the five points you're already getting for the 50-yard kick. And so if it's one of those leagues, Carlson is ripping those 50-yard bumps. He's also hit like 37 field goals in a row, Carlson. Wow. Yeah, so tradebacks are a no for us.
Starting point is 00:37:49 Fantasy cops hate them. You can't do it. All right, these are some tweets. Let's fire through some tweets here. Okay. AJ Dillon or Travis Etienne? In this matchup? Dillon.
Starting point is 00:38:03 Start two. James Robinson, Kareem Hunt,ke or aj dylan james robinson kareem hunt zeke or aj dylan i'll go i'm gonna go hunting dylan dylan and robin dylan and hunt dylan and hunt flex spot in ppr aj dylan or Zach Ertz? Dillon for me. I'm going to go Zach Ertz. Oh, PPR, sorry. Ertz, PPR. My bad. AJ Dillon or Romeo Dobbs?
Starting point is 00:38:31 Have PPR. Dillon. We got so many AJ Dillon questions. So many Dillon, yeah. All right, non-PPR, pick two. Corey Davis, Brandon Ayuk, Josh Kelly, Romeo Dobbs. That's dumb.
Starting point is 00:38:45 That's gross. I'm going to go Ayuk and Dobbs. That's gross. I'm going to go Ayuk and Dobbs. Was Dylan in that? I feel like I keep ringing in my head. No, no more Dylan. Okay. Yeah, Dobbs and who? I'm going to go Ayuk. I think that's probably the best route. It's not a great option there.
Starting point is 00:39:02 No. From Ruben, Raheem Mostert or Clyde Edwards-Elair PPR? I'm going to go Clyde Edwards-Elair. I think there's going to be a ton of scoring best route is not a great option there no uh from ruben raheem mostard or clyde edwards elair ppr oh i'm gonna go clyde edwards elair i think there's gonna be a ton of scoring in that game and he was so close to scoring again last week that's the only week he hasn't scored yeah i am too don't underestimate the potential for skyler thompson to just be so bad that it takes the dolphins out of their true out of their game plan uh pits or tasem hill at tight end ppr oh my god we've reached that point of the season already and it's only week six i'm going to taste some hill i i can't believe i'm gonna say taste some hill you're saying hill
Starting point is 00:39:38 too it's unbelievable waddle or pierce half ppr waddle or uh alec PPR. Waddle or Alec Pierce? Or Damon Pierce? Oh, Alec Pierce. Waddle for me. Okay. I'll take that. All right. The upside there is so much higher.
Starting point is 00:39:52 Daniel Jones or Trevor Lawrence? Lawrence. Isaiah McKenzie or Travis Etienne? PPR. Etienne. Okay. Yeah, that's pretty reasonable. It's a tough one for me but i'm gonna go again
Starting point is 00:40:06 because it's like etn's trends he's been going up and everything snaps target everything you want to see time for some emails now fantasy football at cbsi.com most emails these days are great to trade not a lot of starters sit so just keep that in mind uh this is from jake and brew city dear eric hyde kelso and fez that's um that 70s show correct am i right in thinking that you're a that 70s show super fan you are 100 incorrect i mean i like the show but i don't know a single that 70s show super fan you kind of remind me in some ways of eric on the show i could see that except you can see that i don't do that thing where they're in the room
Starting point is 00:40:45 and the camera's going around in circles. That's not my thing. Okay. I recently picked up Taysom Hill and Gerald Everett is available on the waiver wire. Would you drop either Hill or Dalton Schultz for Everett? No. I would not.
Starting point is 00:41:00 No. Yeah. From James, 12-team non-PPR, give up A.J. Dillon, get back Michael Pittman, non-ppr give up aj dylan get back michael pittman non-ppr i would do it yes this is from time and yeah i would of course you have the potential of the aaron jones injury and then this trade would be terrible but yeah i would do it uh all right from time and hey marcus darren dennis and joey marcus darren dennis and joey i mean do it. From Tymon, hey, Marcus, Darren, Dennis, and Joey. Marcus, Darren, Dennis, and Joey. I mean, I don't know how people do these. I got like one
Starting point is 00:41:31 right in my history of these shows. Oh, Oregon quarterbacks. Oh, yeah. I never would have gotten that. Marcus Mariota, Dennis, what was it? Dennis Dixon. Who were the other ones? Joey Harrington and Darren. Don't say the last one. I was trying to Dixon. Who were the other ones? Joey Harrington and Darren. Don't say the last one.
Starting point is 00:41:47 I was trying to get there. Who's Darren? Um, well, that's a good one. Yeah, I don't know. He's also from the hometown of the delicious custard coconut chocolate bar. Whoa, that actually sounds pretty damn good, but I have no idea where that town is. It's obviously in Oregon, I assume.
Starting point is 00:42:04 That sounds terrible. Coconut is one of my least favorite foods. Oh, don't. You're delivering a take like that. You're an anti-coconut guy. Very anti-coconut. Just awful. You don't enjoy a good pina colada? No. First, I don't drink.
Starting point is 00:42:18 And no, I don't. I know there's virgin pina coladas, too. Oh, who's going to order a pina colada? What am I, in the Bahamas? And I'm 14 years old? So, anyway, I also don't like custard. Custard is too thick. It's too thick. It's just like,
Starting point is 00:42:33 what is the... Too much. Alright, grade this trade. Yeah, like pudding is... Pudding should be separate. Would you want pudding in your donut or your chocolate bar? I would not want that. I wouldn't mind it, yeah. Give up Chris Olave, who's a bench player. Get Darren Waller, half PPR.
Starting point is 00:42:52 No, I don't trade for injured players like Waller, and I think that one's going to linger. Big Bopper says coconuts suck and olives suck. Kalamata olives are unbelievable. Let me start by saying that. I like it. There's some bad olives out there. There's good and bad olives.
Starting point is 00:43:06 Bad olives are like the ones that you get in a pizza place, those black olives. I like those too. I'm fine with those. They taste like nothing. They're fine. They're just like filler. But then those good Kalamata olives that you get on a cheese board,
Starting point is 00:43:17 those things taste great. They're so salty. Dan is a food snob. I 100% agree, David. That is such a bad take, David. I'm very open to all people's food likings, but I will criticize people who say something as ridiculous as the cookie is the reason people eat Oreos.
Starting point is 00:43:33 I never said that, but also, yeah. Yes, you did. I did not say that's the reason people eat. All right, this is from... No, that... I'm not... No, we're not doing this. Ben from Connecticut.
Starting point is 00:43:45 I got to fill a tight end spot and a flex. I have Pitts, Taysom Hill, and Zay Jones. Leave that comment up. Please take it down. Oh, I honestly didn't realize it. I'm sorry. Can we change the lower third, please? The data's a food stop.
Starting point is 00:44:02 All right, who are you starting? Two out of three. Pitts, Taysom Hill, and Zay Jones. Pitts, Taysom Hill, Zay Jones. Two out of three. I'll just go Hill. We already said that part of it, the Hill versus Pitts.
Starting point is 00:44:14 And it's like Zay Jones versus Pitts. I'll just go Pitts based on upside. I'd rather swing for the fences. Okay. From Kyle, would you trade Brian Robinson for Drake London and Eno Benjamin? Brian Robinson for Drake London and Eno Benjamin? Brian Robinson for Drake London and Eno Benjamin. I would do that trade.
Starting point is 00:44:29 Yes. Yeah, I would too. I will say this about London, though. We got really excited about him. He's an amazing talent. And the rate stats look great, but it's kind of where rate stats can be deceiving, right? He's getting a ton of targets. He has a great target share.
Starting point is 00:44:41 But they're not throwing the football. So despite the fact that the rate stats are great, the volume isn't there. And that's really what's most important. So I still would do the trade. I just feel like I may have gotten a little too high on London earlier. From Rob, I traded Debo Samuel and Jeff Wilson. Debo and Wilson,
Starting point is 00:44:57 two 49ers, for Aaron Jones and T. Higgins. Debo and Wilson for Aaron Jones and T. Higgins. Yeah. How do I like that trade? Yeah, it's a good one. I don't think it's close from Brandon. Give up Camara,
Starting point is 00:45:09 Jamal Williams, and Deandre Hopkins. Okay. Get Brees Hall and Jalen Waddle. Ooh, Camara, Jamal Williams and Hopkins for Brees Hall and Waddle. I like it.
Starting point is 00:45:22 I like it too. Yeah. The Waddle thing's got a little scary though because if it's like Skylar Thompson or Teddy Bridgewater rest of the season, that changes a lot of my opinion on the ceiling for a Waddle and Hill type. I'm feeling like Tua will be back next week.
Starting point is 00:45:37 Okay. Is there anything based on it? It's just a gut feel. Well, they keep saying he's making progress. Maybe two weeks at most. From Alexis, start two wide he's making progress. Maybe two weeks at most. From Alexis. Start two. Two wide receivers and a flex.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Oh, this one's so hard. It's half PPR. Gabe Davis, Cortland Sutton, Chris Godwin, and Ken Walker. We need to sit one of them. I'm not sitting Walker. Let's start by saying that. It's Godwin, Gabe, and who was the last one? Sutton. I feel like i already read this question
Starting point is 00:46:06 no something similar but not this exact one uh you know what i'm gonna sit i'm gonna sit sudden i'm gonna say godwin it's half ppr and i'm just just not convinced i mean i kind of am but in in this context i'm not convinced that he's healthy enough to earn this spot in half PPR. From Patrick in a town in northern Kentucky. Springfield. Never heard of it. Well, the Simpsons, there's an episode called Behind the Laughter. And they say that they're from northern Kentucky, I believe.
Starting point is 00:46:46 All right. Okay, when Jameson Williams gets back, is Amandra St. Brown a clear-cut number one, a top 15 to 20 player rest of season? Should I drop Josh Reynolds? Yes, you should definitely drop him for Jameson Williams. Is DJ Chark droppable? When DeAndre Swift returns,
Starting point is 00:47:03 does that diminish their value? What is your take basically on the Alliance when healthy? Is DJ Chark droppable? When DeAndre Swift returns, does that diminish their value? What is your take basically on the Alliance when healthy? Yeah, I still think the offense will operate through Amon Ross and Brown. He has the best connection with Jared Goff. They designed the layup routes for him. Goff has always targeted the slot more. But Jamison Williams, at least at first to me,
Starting point is 00:47:29 is going to be kind of that field stretcherer the guy who opens up the rest of the offense from a schematic standpoint by running those burner routes and that could change fast because he's the waddle type after the catch and so you can hit him on quick in breakers and he can break those Adam say but we're the in breakers and he could break those touchdowns but I think at least to start the volume will remain through the offense will still run through Amon Rossi and Brown. This is all if Amon Rossi and Brown gets healthy again. All right, we're going to read your YouTube questions here. Let's see. This one from DC.
Starting point is 00:47:56 Well, where's your question, DC? Yeah, we will answer it, but we need a question there. You didn't have a question. Yeah, okay. Well, we can address Akers again. Daryl Henderson, top 20 running back, top 20-ish. I'd start him over. Sure.
Starting point is 00:48:10 I'd start him over the Bills and Chiefs running backs. I wouldn't, but I'm also, I'm a little bearish on this, which I understand. No, and you should be. I mean, they don't have a good running game. That's exactly why, yeah. And they can't block and they can't run the reason. No, and you should be. I mean, they don't have a good running game. That's exactly why, yeah. And they can't block and they can't run the football. Yeah, but last year he was a top 15 running back
Starting point is 00:48:31 before he got hurt. Now, I know the situation is not the same, but also he's catching some passes. So I think you'll get three catches from Daryl Henderson. I think you'll get every down work. And I have enough faith in Sean McVay that they can turn things around in a positive game script.
Starting point is 00:48:47 So, yeah. I would start Eno Benjamin over him. I would start Ken Walker over him. I would start Miles Sanders over him. I'd start him, of course, over Darryl Henderson. I'm talking about here. I'd start him, of course, over Zeke. I'd start him over the Jaguars guys.
Starting point is 00:49:01 I'd start him over A.J. Dillon. I'd start him over Kareem Hunt. Okay. How about pick two? Dillon, Pittman, Garrett-Wilson, Algier. Dillon, Pittman, Garrett-Wilson, Algier. Give me Pittman and Dillon. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:17 Would you drop A.J. Dillon for DJ Moore? Wow. No. I wouldn't, but I don't hate it. drop curtis samuel to pick up zay jones no no would would i if i were curtis samuel would i drop a 40 yard touchdown pass yes full ppr start one that was painful i had the over on his yards that literally gets it right there um start oh one wide receiver and a flex. All right.
Starting point is 00:49:47 The wide receivers are Deontay, Amari, London, and Olave. Is Olave going to play? If Olave plays and Michael Thomas doesn't, I'm starting him. If Thomas plays, I'm starting Amari Cooper. That's my exact take, too. I like Amari here. My flex would be Mixon, for sure. Walker for me.
Starting point is 00:50:09 Okay. Pardon me. You okay? Yeah, something in my throat. I'm a little verklempt. No, you don't get that. You're having a good hair day today, Adam. I'm having a great hair day.
Starting point is 00:50:21 I had a good haircut. You finally did. You got another one? The first one was so bad you had to get another? No, it just grew back. You have the same hair every time I see you. I don't understand. Your hair never grows. How often do you get a cut? Once a year?
Starting point is 00:50:36 Once every three weeks. Three weeks? Try to keep it kept. Why? How often do you get a haircut? Five weeks? But that's why I look like an idiot for two weeks. why i look like an idiot for you know two weeks you never look like an idiot adam um half bbr christian kirk george pickens elijah moore pick one oh it's kirk kirk for sure especially with the coach speak this week squeaky
Starting point is 00:51:00 wheel will get greased i have a i have a startling confession okay oh how are you about how are you with ironing terrible yeah i'm so bad ironing i hate ironing i don't understand it why is it so hard yeah i don't know i do what everybody else does i put the freaking iron on the clothes the wrinkles don't come out everyone's like it's so easy but then you go over it and you make new creases how do you avoid the creases? It's no way to avoid. Here's what you do. Here's my, here's my confession.
Starting point is 00:51:28 I am so bad at ironing that I bring clean shirts to the cleaners and just have them like clean them. Just to have them iron it. I love that. I think they steam them, but they just clean them again and they come back. Nice. Nice.
Starting point is 00:51:42 And that's always been part of my strategy. Whenever I have like wrinkled clothes that I need, instead of ironing, I'll run a shower and then I'll leave the shower on for an extra 30 minutes. Yeah, it's very environmentally unfriendly. Yeah, I was just going to say, it's so good for the environment. Would you start CeeDee Lamb or Cortland Sutton this week?
Starting point is 00:52:00 I would go with Lamb. Okay. David says, I can ire. The military taught me. You're probably very good at that. David goes ahead and calls me a food snob, David. But I got to be honest, some of your comments sound very condescending. And snobby.
Starting point is 00:52:15 He's a military man. You lay off. Yeah. Well, I appreciate and thank you, by the way, for obviously everything you did. But, you know, you've been coming down very hard on me in recent recent streams, David. So it's a take it easy. Take it easy. George, does he really?
Starting point is 00:52:30 A couple. David, David has been a hard. I didn't realize that. I like it's fine. I enjoy it all. This is all a joke. Keep coming at me, David. I enjoy the negative intention.
Starting point is 00:52:38 DJ Moore, George Pickens, rest of season. Oh, wow. I take the to me. They're both flyers. I would go with more because he has more of a proven track record joan says i don't iron just throw it in the dryer and warm them yeah i do that another very good strategy just fire it in the dryer yeah let it rip i had so many shirts i was like forget this man i'm just i love that move just take it to the dry cleaner it's clean i don't care i want you to steam it. Would you trade DeAndre Swift for Stefan Diggs?
Starting point is 00:53:07 Oh. Yeah, in a second. I'd turn down... Actually, I never ended up responding, and then another trade got made involving these players. But I was going to turn down a trade of... I would give up Diggs and Dillon for Barkley and Thielen
Starting point is 00:53:26 in a three-receiver PPR league. And I think I'd probably win the trade on paper if I give up Diggs and Dillon for Thielen and Barkley. But Barkley gets hurt, and I couldn't give up Diggs. I have a good team. I'm 4-1.
Starting point is 00:53:44 Better record than Dan. I think they're pretty equally valued up Diggs. I have a good team. I'm four and one. I don't have a record than Dan. I think they're pretty equally. They're pretty equally valued between Diggs and Barkley. And one's a receiver. One's a running back. So you know where I'm standing on that. Here's a great question to end it. Rest of season, Chris Olave or Michael Thomas?
Starting point is 00:53:59 I'm going to Olave. Why would I go with the guy who's been injured already this year? Yeah. Was injured in camp. Was injured for the last two years oil of olave oil there's a better vert let me let me get for you right now the better olave olave garden we already established no there's even better one kalamata olave no no here we go here we go just let me get there kalamata olave is a good one especially because they're so tasty live laugh o laugh, Olav. That's the one.
Starting point is 00:54:25 Why? Shout out Nathan Egan. Live, laugh, love. Yeah, but Olav and love are not that similar. Olav and Olay are very similar. You know what's interesting? This guy has been known in our league to have the best team names ever. He's going to be very disappointed when he hears this. So he'll have a good retort.
Starting point is 00:54:41 He's a smart guy, so I'll wait for that. He's already up in arms about your crazy boog anyway. Yes, he is. All right, everybody. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you on Sunday. Good luck.

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