Fantasy Football Today - FFT Dynasty - Fantasy Football Mailbag: Your Questions, Expert Answers! (03/08 Fantasy Football Today Dynasty)

Episode Date: March 8, 2024

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Russ, first time on the show. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much for considering my name in the pantheon of amazing people you have on your show. Well, you know, I actually put the request out, what was it, six weeks ago, eight weeks ago? Who should I have on FFT Dynasty in the next couple of months? And I will tell you, you were one of the leaders in the clubhouse. You wasn't one person or two people. It was multiple people that said we should have you on. And I agreed. I said, yes, I'd absolutely love to have Russ on for a lot of reasons. Now, you have in your Twitter profile that you like to podcast. Where have you been podcasting lately? Sometimes I feel like it's easier to list where I'm not.

I've thankfully cut back over the years. But I mean, let's let's start. I am the host of the Trade Addicts podcast, which I've been taking a little break from recording at night. So I haven't been on but the past few shows, but I'm coming back. Also, one of the co hosts of the grind, which is on Peter Howard'sard's uh youtube stream which again at night coming back to it though uh dynasty wall street which is on the dynasty trade calculator podcast feed the oh well we're at dlf dynasty game night i am one of the hosts of that so much fun show uh on the dlf family of podcasts uh dynasty wall street which is on the DLF family of podcasts. Dynasty Wall Street, which is on the Dynasty Trade Calculator podcast feed. I think I said that already. The DLF YouTube show,

the DLF Trade Show on the DLF YouTube channel. See, there's so many I never remember. I just start going through the days. Like, all right, on Monday, I record this. On Tuesday, I record that. So this happens to me during the season, but I wonder, do you ever have an anxiety attack thinking, am I supposed to be on a podcast right now? I am very thankful for having a very steady schedule.

If it was, all right, well, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday, whatever day works better, I would absolutely be freaking out. But I have a calendar, a Google calendar, specifically for podcasting now another thing i obviously you love podcasting you also love fantasy cares you love and everybody knows like i've talked about this on this show a bunch of times um so tell everybody what's going on new at fantasy cares including i believe a uh maybe a marchness bracket challenge on CBS? Absolutely a March Madness challenge on CBS. I mean, let's lead with that, right? I mean, it's March, and the first thing, like,

it's weird to say March without having Madness follow it. And we're jumping in on the madness. Fantasycares.org slash NCAA. You go in, you make your donation, and in your email that you'll get after you make your donation is the link. We both have a men's and women's bracket. So lots of ways to play, lots of ways to win. We have some awesome prizes. A random person, open for anyone who joins in.

We have a signed Magic Johnson jersey. Wow. We have two because there are two brackets. The winner of the men's and the women of the women's will get a signed Dominique Wilkins jersey. Now, I know these are for the older folks, but unfortunately, we're older who make these purchases. So just go back and Google what Dominique Wilkins did back then, and you'll see why he's a grand prize winner. I will tell you, you know what? If you would have been much happier if you'd have skipped the dunk contest this year and just watched YouTube videos of Dominique Wilkins in the dunk contest.

Yeah, it's so good. But we also have a ton of extra jerseys and, of course, Scott Fishbowl 14 tickets. You know, I keep these by my desk because I have to always say we have some golden tickets available for SFB 14. We're going to go live on our YouTube channel every week to give away prizes to people who scored the most, who did the best, maybe who had the biggest upset just for showing up in the YouTube stream. It's a problem. You know, Scott Fish, our fearless leader, gives us very angry looks that we just like giving stuff away. So join up. And even if you can't, join us for the YouTube streams and maybe you'll win something. But we guarantee you'll have a good time.

I love the fact that we've got both the men's and the women's bracket. I will be participating in both, filling out both. We'll be probably picking Caitlin Clark to win it all because I'm a little bit of a homer, and why not? I understand that's probably not the best odds on bet, but man, she's fun to watch. So yes, excellent, excellent stuff. And remember, everything

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Okay, on today's show, besides me saying words in the wrong order, we will have your mailbag. Almost every question that I got seemed to be about trading, which is good because one of the responses to my request for questions was that Russ taught me everything I know about trading. So you seem to be the perfect guest to have on. This should have been that trading show with the trading expert. We've got questions about trading rookie picks, about trading Travis Kelsey, about trading Puka Nakua. Yes, and more. But first, we always start the show, especially when we have a new guest three questions for our guest and you are the first one getting the uh the qualified question i've asked this question

to every guest i've had on and enough people have answered super flex that i'm taking that off the board so other than super flex what is the one rule that is non-negotiable for you in dynasty i i need to say this because i i will start out by saying every league i am in is super flex it's not necessarily a requirement but if it is one quarterback there needs to be some real fancy scoring okay blake bortles ruined us all is really what it comes down to blake bortles jamis winston these sorry fans out there but these bad quarterbacks that can score a lot of fantasy points which was why super flex became necessary but i know there's a lot of people that have been toying with scoring that makes good quarterbacks score better than bad

quarterbacks so again it doesn't need to be super flex but that's really it would need to be very fancy scoring. Other than that, I don't really have a specific thing it needs to be. There's already people making fun of it in the comments. I always say I never league shame anybody. You know, if you want to play in a six-team league, go play in a six-team league. You want to play one quarterback, play one quarterback. Anything you want is right. This is a game. It's supposed to be fun, except for two tight ends. That's wrong.

Okay. So one tight end slot in your lineup is your answer. And that's a new answer. That's what I was going for. I'm going to put the super flex in there. I'm going to get a new answer. Now we've got a new answer. No more two tight end leagues. And the chat is absolutely agreeing with you. Okay. so question number two. What is the one thing that you care about the most when evaluating rookies? And, you know, we have the stats versus film crowd. And then within the stats side, you've got, is it like production? Or are we just looking at these advanced rate stats and that's all that matters?

Or is it just the measurements? Like what is the one thing you care about the most when evaluating rookies i will be 100 honest i don't do my own evaluation i know there are so many people that are so much better at anything i would ever want to try to do um i will the dynasty dummies rookie hootenanny with Zach Reed and Jay Mike are like, that is my go-to. Like they are so good at watching film and they talk about it first from an actual football perspective, which is missing a little bit in a lot of the fantasy football evaluation of these rookies and then tie it back into fantasy football. And then there's the numbers people, you know, J.J. Zacharys and Peter Howard and a lot of these people where it's just like,

I don't know, like I'm good at math. I work in spreadsheets for a living. They say these things that I don't understand what it means and they start making it make sense and telling me why these players are good. So really, this is a question I can't super really answer. No, I think you did answer no i think you did answer it like you you did answer it like that and that's i think that's a an answer that more

dynasty managers should be comfortable with not just about rookies but about whatever aspect of dynasty that you feel that way about we're going to talk about trade evaluations in just a minute maybe that's it but maybe it's fab but like if there's something you you don't really feel like you're an expert on, the most important thing should probably be figuring out which experts that you do want to base your understanding around. So I know I like that answer a lot. One more. And you've kind of dodged the first two. So you have to give an actual name here. Who is your favorite veteran by this offseason?

Oh, wait, hold on. Let me just move my head for a little bit. I'm a very big Tee Higgins fan. I run around screaming hashtag team Clemson big wide receiver. It was funny. It's not something I realized I was doing, but I was a, see, exactly. I was a big DeAndre Hopkins fan. I loved Sammy Watkins.

Martavis Bryant was so much fun. I love Tee Higgins. I'm like, wait a second. There's something here. There's something. And then I realized that I just become a fan of a lot of Clemson, big wide receivers. And unfortunately for Amari Rogers and Hunter Renfro, I had to throw the word big in there because I mean, they were okay, but well, I mean, Amari Rogers wasn't even really okay. But other like, again, I know it's, there's a question like this coming a little later, so I don't want to just give all my answers here.

But I know for a fact that I have sent offers in just about every single league for T. Higgins that I don't have him already. Okay, so let's talk about that, because I, in my most recent update, had him at wide receiver 17. Now, that was before the tag, but I was mostly assuming the tag, um, wide receiver 17, which is behind DK Metcalf, Devante Smith, Jordan Addison, Tank Dell is ahead of Brandon. Iuke, Drake London, Michael Pittman. Um, I, I know somebody in the chat actually had asked earlier, how do you feel about T Higgins versus Brandon? Iuke. That's one of those where I just wouldn't make a decision, whichever one I have on my team. I'll just keep them.

Does that, does that seem like I'm in the right spot or are you high enough to where you, you think he's like a top 12 dynasty wide receiver in my heart? He, his top 12. I will say that in reality, I know he's not.

And I hate the franchise tag more. It ruins wide receiver, free agency completely. And I'm not holding my breath for the franchise tag more. It ruins wide receiver free agency completely. And I'm not holding my breath for the mythical tag and trade. You know, I'll believe that happens when we see it more than once in the past, like, 30 years. So in my head, I mean, but beating on the Bengals isn't a bad thing. Right. You know, assuming he's willing to play on the tag, it's great to be back.

Last season was so bad for the Bengals in general. But if you look back with a healthy Joe Burrow and a healthy Tee Higgins, which we only got for about two and a half games, by the way, Higgins was averaging about seven targets, 80 yards, and just about a touchdown a game. For the second wide receiver on a team, that's great. Oh, yes. And that's not even including what spike games

could happen and of course there's going to be jamar chase game so but again not sad that he's on the bangles do i want him to go to jacksonville and be the wide receiver one because they're not going to sign calvin ridley back because they don't want to give the the falcons a second yeah i would love for him to be the first target for Trevor Lawrence, but still not sad he's on the Bengals. Okay. I like that answer. That's enough of my questions. Let's take a short break.

We're going to get to your questions and see if Russ and I can answer any of those. Metrolinks and Crosslinks 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

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Skip to the good part and get groceries, meals, and more delivered right to your door on skip. Okay, Russ, we are back. We've got some emails. We've got some tweets. I will open it up in the chat for whoever wants to get ridiculous just a little bit later, but let's start with an email from Logan. And it's, I think it's a little bit of rookie pick FOMO is what Logan's got here. So he actually received a trade offer. Somebody offered him Brees Hall and A.J. Brown for Travis Etienne and the 104 in a 10-man PPR league. He took the trade.

I would have taken the trade. He's very happy with the trade. But now he's feeling a little bit sad that he can't draft any of these wide receivers. league. He took the trade. I would have taken the trade. He's very happy with the trade, but now he's feeling a little bit sad that he can't draft any of these wide receivers. And so his question is how often do you trade your first round picks? He finds himself constantly trading picks for players around draft season. He never actually gets to draft in round one. so the important thing i will say is no trade is ever your last so yeah it you had to take that trade i'm sorry that value was great you you you got a really good trade offer and you took it that is the absolute correct answer and the question of know, how often do I trade my first away?

It is a rare situation where I have a team that is competing and I have my first round pick, because the truth is, chances are, I'd rather have someone who is getting drafted earlier. So I do exactly what you just did. I'll trade my first away. And then when it comes down to it, trade for someone else's, you know, I am always willing to trade my first away and then when it comes down to it trade for someone else's you know i am always willing to trade my first away on a competing team because i want a better draft pick than what i'm going to end up doing in my head it's going to be i play in 12 team leagues it's going to be the 112 why do i want the 112 i'd rather have the 16 so i'll trade for that later of course price will change and you'll have to pay up for it right but i'm also absolutely proponent of just go do it because you want to. So again, you should literally be skipping somewhere after accepting that trade. Great,

great trade. And yeah, it's a little disheartening to not have any firsts, but just go trade for one later. I'm sure you have something on there you could move. I think a couple of points that you made there that I really like. One, I would like to have two or three firsts because I'm not competing or zero. It's generally the way that I work. And then the thing I get nervous about trading for players this time of year is, man, there's a lot of time for something to go wrong before they're going to score any fantasy points. But when you're trading for Brees Hall and A.J. Brown, I'm okay

with that. I don't want to be trading for Saquon Barkley and Tony Pollard and Devante Adams and Travis Kelsey this time of year, because if something goes wrong with them, the value never bounces back. If something goes wrong with Brees Hall, we've seen it. It took about four games, and oh yeah, he's awesome again. So yeah, I think if you're going to make those types of trades, make sure you're trading for players who you think have value beyond the next year in case something goes wrong for the next year. But if you're trading, what's that?

Age. If you're trading for players now, they should be younger. But I'm always trading for Travis Kelsey, but I think we're talking about that later also. We will talk about Travis Kelsey later. I mean, and I think I don't want to go so far as to say, never trade for those other guys, but I will pay more for a Saquon Barkley type in October or November.

That is considerably more than I will now. Yes. Okay. Question number two, we would full agreement there. Matt has a super flex rebuild. He gave us a little bit of like, it's a rebuild.

He's got Anthony Richardson, though, Geno Smith, Ayuk, Hollywood Brown, Nico, James Cook, Jaden Reed, Njoku. More importantly, he's got 103, 106, 109, 111, 112, 203, 205. It's six of the top 17 picks, seven of the top 17 picks. Good job.

That's exactly where you want to be. You want to know, what would your game plan be here? It a super flex league anthony richardson's really his only sure fire starting quarterback and he's played like five games before he got hurt does he have to quarterback at 103 is kind of the first question and he knows the first two teams drafting ahead of him they're going to take a quarterback okay draft for value trade for need you can't go you shouldn't go into a rookie draft saying my team will be able to compete because of these rookies i drafted you get lucky if it does i mean we've we've gotten very spoiled the last few years finding a couple

of these rookies that produce right away, you know, not even counting Puka. Like that is never expect Puka to happen again. That shouldn't happen. What do you mean? We've got two months of this is the next Puka Nakua. This is the next Tank Dale. This is the next Puka Nakua.

It's not supposed to happen. Like even CeeDee Lamb, Justin Jefferson, like, you know, Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, like that like that shouldn't happen either. Like wide receivers at best are supposed to start coming on like the last six, seven weeks of the season if they're lucky in their rookie year.

You never really should depend on rookies to produce for you right away, which is why you always want running backs maybe, yes, but not this year. Draft for value, trade for need. You are handicapping yourself by saying, well, Marvin Harrison Jr. is on the table, but I need a quarterback, and this quarterback is worth less. Of course, if you can trade back a pick, let someone take Marvin Harrison Jr. So you can take May or McCarthy or whatever quarterback you like as next um daniel's completely blanked um you know that that's cool also but taking a positional need which first of all you don't need any position we're going to talk about this a lot i read through the questions it's march the drafts your rookie drafts most likely happen in may. You're not setting a lineup for many,

many months. You have zero needs right now. So all that matters for your dynasty team is the dynasty value on your roster. So the best move in my mind is to always just draft the most valuable player. If it's not something you need, someone in your league will need them. So in super flex, would you have Marvin Harrison ahead of the third quarterback, whether it's Daniels or may, and just in terms of just blatant blanket value, it's tough for me to say yes, because they're going to be drafted. The quarterbacks are going to be drafted one, two, three, but it just, it would be very weird if they weren't. So it's hard not to put them one, two, three, but it's Marvin Harrison Jr. I'm going to, I want him at two and I'm fine with

that. Honestly, I'm go take him at one. If that makes you happy, like Marvin Harrison Jr. Doesn't come along very often. Now in this type of situation, I mean, this is a lot invested in one draft class. Would you be interested in either packaging a couple of picks to try to get to the 101 to see if you could get Caleb, or maybe trading one of those later firsts for a 2025 first just to diversify amongst draft classes a little bit? I love having this many draft picks because my mantra is trade half, draft half. It is the ultimate safety mechanism. It stops me from making bad decisions,

the amount of Jalen Ragers, and I took over Justin Jefferson, sorry, Eagles. But it stops me from making a lot of mistakes, but also, like you said it lets you kick the can a little bit down the road so you can get into 25 you can go get these players because especially when you're on the clock in your drafts you'll see some players that you don't you're not thrilled about and they're like but this guy wants in and he has t higgins brandon iuk like these older wide receivers and the heaviest quotes possible that you

might be able just to make that swap at the time when you're at the six or seven or eight. So yeah, there's, I love having all these picks. I'm not drafting all those picks and you're right. Okay. Kelly is going into their second year of a dynasty league and has a few questions.

Seems like more about league management than team management, which is good. We do this too. And I think these are important questions, but I'm not sure we can give blanket answers. It might be something we need to vote on. When do you recommend opening rosters back up for waivers and trade? Kelly's suggestion was to do that April 1st, two weeks after the free agent period starts. And then the second question was, after rookie drafts, are you going to lock rosters again until the preseason? I'll start this time because I do have a pretty strong preference,

and I don't know if you do or not. First off, I think this discussion should be completely different for trading and waivers. I, I don't, I, I'm don't have a strong feeling on the trade deadline between say Thanksgiving and new year's Eve. I can, you make good cases on a, on an in-season trade deadline before the playoffs.

You can make a good case for not having it. Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, I'm giving people a grace period. You guys decide what you want to do. Trading should be always open in the offseason. There's no reason to restrict that at all at any point. I would restrict waivers personally for almost the entire offseason. I like to not have waivers after the end of the regular season. I like to have not have waivers at the end of the rookie draft.

I love when we get to July or August or whenever we set that first waivers run. I mean, I'm in dynasty leagues where we're guys who made real difference this year were available on the Kyron Williams have been dropped in some dynasty leagues because of everything that had gone wrong. and they got picked up week two in a dynasty league like i there's so especially in deeper leagues there's so little opportunity for excitement on the waiver wire that i think closing down the waiver wire for a good portion of the offense offseason gives you that plus and kelly makes this point nobody actually wants to be

the one who has to make sure that rob gronkowski was rostered when he signs in the middle of April. Like, let's just all find out together that, oh, Rob Gronkowski is a free agent. So that's my stance. For the most part, don't restrict trading time. Heavily restrict offseason waivers. All right. So I'm going to go back to what I said earlier. Play what makes

you happy right i i am not i'm going to start speaking very emphatically and i don't mean it to come off as dance offish because this is one thing i you should play whatever makes you happy right i am absolutely against trade deadlines okay um this is a dynasty league. This isn't real football. If you ask someone why you are in favor of a trade deadline, every argument they will give is not for a trade deadline. It's against not having a trade deadline. And more importantly, it's usually protecting themselves against crappy managers, which is a very different problem. That's a people problem, not a trading problem. But that's not what I'm going to start fighting about. But if you want to have a trade deadline, I think it needs to be kickoff of playoffs. Okay.

And I know everyone's going to say, well, trade deadline spurs action. Needing a player in the playoffs spurs action. Let me tell you. There's players that will get traded in the playoffs that should never get traded. Like you're going to get third wide receivers because people are afraid of their depth. Like that's not going to happen at the trade deadline. Plus not everyone knows people are going to start to get sheepish. If it's like, well, I would rather get the 104

and just lose instead of missing the playoffs. if you're gonna have uh if you're gonna have a trade deadline i think it should be a kickoff of playoffs if that's what you're going if you have a trade deadline trading should start the second there is a champion in your league right the second the the league year is over open up trading again there's there's literally zero reason to cap it agreed dynasty is supposed to be about year round. And it's completely different from waivers in that one person who happens to be paying attention at a certain time can't execute a trade. You've got to have two people. So it's like, it's not like one person's going to great advantage. Now, do you agree on the free

agency or would you like to leave that open in the offseason as well? A little bit. I run a lot of leagues. I run about 17 leagues. So laziness and not wanting to have to click so many buttons absolutely comes in. What I will do is I will leave waivers open and all of my leagues are on myfantasyleague.com, which they do their rollover from one year to the next, like a week, a couple of days after the super bowl. So I leave waivers open until the MFL rollover. Right. So you have a couple of weeks after the fantasy league ends. Oh, we get most one waiver run after the super bowl. And then it's cut off. The next part is really how you do your rookie drafts. My rookie drafts include free agents. Yes, mine too.

If that's the case, I have my waivers locked until after the rookie draft. Because you want, if Kyron Williams-esque players get dropped, you want them in the rookie draft. That changes the value of your rookie picks. It makes people want to trade in even if it's just like in the third round anything that could add action to what use usually could be boring things is absolutely worth it so if you get someone trading into the third round of a rookie draft to go pick up a free agent awesome more stuff and i mean he brings up notifications it's like so turn off your waiver notifications for the offseason.

I mean, I don't know what to tell you on that one. You know, action makes the league good. So why restrict it? Yeah, no, I think we're mostly on the same page. I'm a little more restrictive in terms of waivers. I think it depends on what your waivers process is and keeping trap a fab in the offseason and all that stuff. But let's get to Alexander's question. He's got another trade question here.

12 team half PPR one QB. It's a super flex league with some other random stuff, but it seems like pretty standard league. He has one Oh one, one Oh seven, one Oh nine. But he's a competitive team. Maybe we put that in air quotes because he earned the one Oh seven last

year. Needs a cube. Needs a QB2. Could use some wide receiver help. Not sure if he should make the 101 pick in this situation. Someone has offered him Dak, Brandon Iyuk, and the 112 for 101 and Luke Musgrave. For some reason, it's very comical to me that luke musgrave's included in this trade i love when that stuff happens dac brain and iuk in the 112 and the guy's like no not just the 101 i need luke musgrave in that deal also so like what he's trying to figure out

is like if i feel like dac and iuk make me like a real contender is that worth giving up the 101 for it sounds like I think this is a good enough package for the like it's not I hate social media for the fact that you see some trades that are just like that shouldn't happen in real life but it builds your expectations on what you want to get for the 101-on-one. Caleb Williams most likely will be a first round startup pick in super flex startup drafts, not rookie startup drafts. Right. You need a lot for that.

Dak Prescott, Brandon, I, you can, the one 12 is a lot, right? That is two players that will be in your starting lineup, two players.

You will be happy to start every week. And the one 12 is just a nice sugar on top. And I love when people put Luke Musgrave and stuff in because, again, I play everything on myfantaseyleague.com. They list in order of position and then alphabet. So if this trade was on my fantasy league, I had to read a trade where it was Matt Breda and the 101 for a bunch of other stuff and i made sure i left matt brada's name as the first thing i read in that entire

trade because what was he doing there why did someone involve matt brada in a trade but his name was there um i i i take this like i i don't care that dac is like 30 31 he's gonna play for however like quarterbacks at that age doesn't matter. That offense is him and CeeDee Lamb are just great together. They're going to infuse something at the running back. Tony Pollard's probably going to walk. And since that didn't work out, they're going to do something to bring back that running game. I like that offense. I love Brandon Ayuk. Part of me is hoping his unhappiness in san francisco gets him traded because that that guy deserves some volume and while the offense in san francisco is amazing it's it's too spread out

and it should be that is that offense that offense works they should not change but brandon iuke deserves a change the nice thing for him i think because it is really crowded but you're talking about a 30 year old george kittle and a 27 or 28 year old christian mccaffrey like he's probably one year away from it not being near as crowded probably yeah but i i call myself a rucasalt like i want it now i i have patience is not a virtue i possess like you know go go put t higgins in jacksonville go put brandon iuk in carolina you know, let Bryce young take that step forward by having a real X receiver on his team. Like let it, let's go.

Yeah, that is, that is like, that's something that we could spend a little bit of time on. That's a, that's a wild idea that, that going to play with Bryce young might be a good thing. Let's take a quick break and we're going to get into the tweets. We're moving from the emails to the tweets next. Did you know that across Ontario utility damage happens 19 times a day? That's over 4,222 incidents a year. Don't let your next dig be one that causes costly delays or safety risks. Before

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What's Brock Bowers or Roma doing? Say what's an ideal return for a win now team with that pick or for a rebuild team. And I would say if I had the 104, I'm probably not looking to trade that pick for a player that's already in the league. So good. I'd make the pick for, for, but for like, we're not talking about what the 101 with Harrison, we're not talking about maybe one of the top two or three picks, but, but an early to mid first round pick, what caliber of player are you hoping to get if you're trading during the draft? Draft picks are always more valuable than players. That is something to keep in your mind when you're doing all of this because draft picks come with two things, choice and hope. And those are very, very powerful. Players in the league, you can have hope,

but we've seen things. Like I have a whole lot more hope that Jackson Smith and Jigba is going to do so much better than he did his rookie year. But still, we've seen him play in the league. We've seen him start working his way into the offense. But Roma Dunze, Brock Bowers, Brock Bowers being a better prospect than Kyle Pitts being the end-all be-all. Maybe he, I mean, he's getting drafted in the first round. There's no maybe there. So just make sure you're taking that into account when you're thinking about this. Like, there are two ways to go about this.

How do you feel about Brock Bowers or Roma Dunze? Take that. Do you like it better or worse than this player that's being offered to you like one-to-one pick for player trades is easy to think about because it's just like would i rather have the hope and chance of you know x player over roma dunesay let's let's put this like to action because let's let's just stick with the dunesay for a second let's assume you have the pick that you think is going to be that guy but you are wanting to win it all this year and you don't think he's going to be that guy this year so i i've got dk t higgins brandon iuk all

in that high end wide receiver two range you're trading him for all those guys any of those guys none of those guys that 104 pick i would trade the 104 pick for yeah probably any of those guys if i was feeling saucy about it um i think once the actual rookie draft rolls around you might be able to get a second or third added to the player to come over which there's never a harm in just countering with that anyway you know getting a little bit on top but i i think that's a great move if you want the certainty. You've seen DK Metcalf score as a top 15 wide receiver. We've seen Brandon Ayuk, T. Higgins, score as a top 18 wide receiver. We've seen these things happen.

Do I believe Roman Dunzay or Brock Bowers are going to bust? No, they're both very very good prospects and probably going to land in good spots but there's a chance you know we've had better prospects do worse so I don't think there's harm in trading for established players but you need to be very certain about it and you need to make sure you're getting enough value, knowing that draft picks will always gain value until you're a rookie draft, until it's on the clock. Right. So keep that in mind that if you're iffy about it, that trade's not going away. If someone offers you DK Metcalf for the 104 right now, they will offer you DK Metcalf for the 104 in two months.

So don't feel like you have to rush. Right. And again, I'll go back to the point that we made when we were talking about the AJ Brown-Breece Hall trade. The three guys I chose, I chose because those are all three guys that we think have at least a three-year window of being as great as they have been. And those are the only types of players that you should be trading for right now don't don't don't make the mistake of making that trade for a cooper cup last year or something like something like that and i think i would throw even tyree kill into that group like he's he's gotten to be 30 now um i'm not saying i think he's gonna be awesome next year but if i'm trading for him i'd rather trade for him in like the season as opposed to now absolutely or if you're gonna trade for him, I'd rather trade for him in the season as opposed to now.

Or if you're going to trade for him, you don't do it with an early first. Now, I mentioned this at the top of the show, and I did not expect any should I trade Puka Nakua trades. But, I mean, you do not go broke making a profit. And there is an enormous profit to be made based on Puka's rookie year. And somebody, it sounds like, has a deal here where he's being offered in a one qb league and we're getting a lot of one qb questions today that's that's good because we probably talked super flex enough he's got the 103 and the 108 on the table for puka nakua um in super flex i think this is an easy one to say yes to but that 108 particularly is is a big drop in a 1qb league 103 i still feel pretty great about so you're probably talking about a dunesay or neighbors

one of the two yeah plus the eighth pick in the rookie draft for puka nakua where do you come out on that um well i mean my assumption is one and two in 1QB drafts are going to be Marvin Harrison and Malik Neighbors. And so taking them off the board makes me not interested in this at all. Them two are a tier of their own. Or if you want to have Marvin Harrison, one tier, Neighbors, two tiers, and then Adunze, Bowers, three. You know, I made the joke before about you should go skip somewhere for taking that breeze hall trade unless you are not trading puka away unless you feel like someone made a mistake in the offer they sent over like they didn't mean to send me this much did they

but i'm gonna accept it anyway and if they made a mistake they'll let me know like there's there's no like you said getting a profit is, but literally the best rookie season, receiver season ever. You hold on to that when you can. So I don't take this trade. Let me say that flat out. Would you rather have Harrison or Puka? Say that again? Would you rather have Harrison or Puka?

I mean, the answer is Harrison. Harrison is going to be worth more and again to me that's really what matters right now because in two months you'll be able to trade harrison for probably even amin rah st brown plus a little bit the reason i ask that is i do think there's it's like if you're thinking you know i wouldn't mind getting off of puka and you're hearing we wouldn't do it if you could get Harrison. I might at least call the team with the 101 and say, hey, is there any chance you'd move back to three if I threw an eight?

Would you take three and eight for one? And then you're turning Puka into Marvin Harrison? And I think we both feel pretty good about that deal. Yeah, I have that idea. You don't always have to trade for something to keep it. You can trade for picks or players to use them also to get what you really want. So keep that in mind. We'll talk to the one-on-one person first before you do that. Look, if I were so happy to find my way into these picks, would you do that trade? Right.

Yeah, that's a great idea also. Like I said before, no trade is ever your last. If you have an active enough league, doing things to gain value is absolutely the right move but also like like he said if you're willing to get if you want to get off puka you're more willing to do right not as valuable of a trade but still i don't feel like roman dunes and brock powers are both going to be dropped drafted in the first rounds they're going to hold a lot of value. But that 108 in a one quarterback is a little too late for me to care about it. And speaking of, I think we probably get into this range in the next question. When are you starting to look at running backs and rookie drafts?

The top of the guys are late first, early second. And this is something I've talked about several times on the show over the last two or three weeks, because when I see the top 12 rankings right now in Superflex leagues, it's very popular to just have zero running backs in your Superflex top 12. And if I was doing a rookie draft right now, actually before without landing spots, I think I probably wouldn't draft a running back either. But I am very convinced that by the time we get to May, there are going to be two running backs in the top 12. And there's a significant chance there's going to be one running back in the top nine. Just because somebody's going to get drafted in round two to one of these 14 teams that need a starting running back.

And we're going to decide that that that or at least one person in each league is going to decide that's better than drafting this third tier of wide receivers or jj mccarthy or something like that so are you thinking just strictly round two for these running backs or do you think there's a possibility they get bumped up once we get landing spots they will get bumped up once they once the landing spots roll around. We as a Dynasty community have this need to have running backs in the first round. So it's going to happen. It seems to happen a lot with Tampa Bay running backs.

We pushed up Keyshawn Vaughn and I'm blanking on others. I mean, Rashad White deserved to be up there. But, you know, we did it with James Cook last year, his rookie year, which it took time, but he kind of got to being worth it a little bit. So we absolutely will push a running back into that number 12 spot, if nothing else, in a super flex league, let me say. In a 1QB, absolutely top 12. I think for the advantage of these running backs, there's a lot of open spots. So there's a lot of places running backs

can go where they can produce pretty much immediately, even if it is as a 1A, 1B. Work courses are almost a thing of the past again. It's, it's a nice cycle. But they will work their way up. In a super flex league, I am not planning on drafting a running back in the first. Right. I also didn't really plan on drafting Devon Achan in the first, but took him with a whole lot of 111s last year. Because when there's a tier, you have to have a tiebreaker somehow. And it's like, all right, well, a running back landed in Miami.

So I'm going to take that. I think that's one of the interesting things somehow. And it's like, all right, well, the running back landed in Miami. So I'm going to take, I think that's the, that's one of the interesting things about it is that like those one 10, one 11 drafters, one 12 drafters, if they earned those picks. Yeah. Like I, I agree with you draft for value trade for need,

but if you're a real contender, I can, and you get a running back and this it's a drinking game at this point, I think. So I'll just go ahead and say it. Blake Corum on the Chargers in round two. I did this poll on Twitter two weeks ago, like, where's Blake Corum getting drafted?

And the answer was 110 to 112, I think, was what was most popular, if he's the first running back taken by the Chargers. I think there's no way he doesn't end up in the top eight. Just because of assuming they don't draft a free agent or they don't select a free agent high as well. But yeah, it will be. It's going to be interesting to watch. It'll probably end up with one in the top 12, but I wouldn't be surprised if we have to. Definitely early round two, though.

Like if you want to take a couple shots on running backs in this draft, go see if you can get you some cheap round two picks. And there's about six of them that right now seem almost indistinguishable to us. So you might get the guys with the worst landing spot. Sometimes that turns out to be okay. Todd asks the question. It's similar to mine, Todd.

In fact, exactly the same. What is your number one must have by low candidate? He asks for each position that's that's too much to ask russ so you've already given us t higgins as your favorite wide receiver by low this offseason give me a non-wide receiver i mean i can give you every okay i can give you like four at every position probably um my quarterbacks that i'm buying low right now, and again, low is relative. Um, people aren't high enough on Kyler Murray again yet. And it's weird.

Kyler Murray had his worst points per game finished this season as QB 10. That's ridiculous. Like he's really, really good. And he's not back in that mid early first round of startup drafts yet. Kyler Murray should be a top six quarterback and he's not yet. Um, but also we not yet. But also, we talked about Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott, all he does is score points. It's just not pretty. So I'm all about getting Dak Prescott on my teams as well. Running back, I believe in DeAndre Swift.

I do. I don't know why. Okay, yeah, that in general, just took a swing for the worst in Philadelphia. Either they resigned him in Philadelphia or he goes somewhere else where he will be at worst to one B and it's not going to take much. You can probably get him for a mid second at this point, which again, you're, you're throwing darts at running backs in that area anyway. So I absolutely like the idea of pulling Deandre Swift on some of my teams. But also, like, the free agent running backs, like, Saquon Barkley, you can probably get him for a very late first. And imagine if he ends up on the Chargers. Like, if he ends up anywhere but the Giants, like, put him on a good offense, and it will be scary.

Like, Christian McCaffrey's scary. Maybe not Christian McCaffrey's scary, because he's not real. He's fake. Like, that's not fair. Wide receiver, I gave real. He's fake. Like that's not fair. Wide receiver. I gave T Higgins, but I'm also just a fan of the old producing guys, Keenan Allen,

you know, like we, we said that Larry Fitzgerald was done in retiring for about seven years until he did. Right. So I'm Devante Adams, Keenan Allen, stuff like that.

Those are the types of guys you'd like to wait until in the season to buy. Oh, see, I'll buy them now because you'll get them cheaper now. Like, you can probably get Cooper Cup for a mid-second right now. If that's the case,

I would, yes. It'll be a late first. Again, nothing wrong with paying that wait. I call it the wait-and-see tax. You know, I can get this guy now, but he might not do well. Okay, I saw him do well. I have to pay a little extra, but now I feel less scared of it. You pay the veteran tax by waiting until points are being scored.

I call it the point scoring season. If you want guys that score points cheaper, you get it when no one's scoring points, like running backs in general. Tight ends, my answer is Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey is the tight end one until he decides not to play football anymore, which I'm a little worried is right now, but getting a guy who has been the tight end one for producing tight end one, which he was for most of the season in points per game,

because he missed a few games in the beginning for a second is ridiculous, especially if there's the slightest bit of tight end premium in your leagues. So that leads us right into our next question. Great job, Russ. You obviously do a million podcasts a week. Somebody is actually thinking about trading away Travis Kelsey, and that's very understandable. I get it. At his age, they'd like to just get a little something now because if they don't, they might not ever get anything again. And so you were just talking about how it'd be great to be able to go get Kelsey for a second.

If somebody's ready to move off of them, you're requiring a late first still? You won't get it. Like right now, you won't get it. Again, if you have the patience, which I hope for the rest of you, you do, you're going to have to wait until points are being scored for Travis Kelsey to get his value back. Because again, he's very, very good at football. And we've seen elite players in general produce at elite ages very, very late in their career. Like Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates were 47 and still top to scoring tight ends so i'm not scared at all about travis kelsey's production but if you want to trade him

away if you're worried more about value if you're not if you're rebuilding retooling you don't want to score the points if you want to score points hold travis kelsey he's going to keep doing it if you're trading him now try and get two seconds for like, try and get a first, obviously. But I think you might have to be willing to accept the equivalent of maybe an early and a mid second, which isn't terrible, especially in this year's deep class. If you can get the 202 and Dallas Goddard, you know, some okays. Well, you have Laporta, so you don't need another tight end. So like some mid low wide receiver to kind of player to throw in there also. Yeah. You take that because it's a good enough value. Andrew brings up that Andy Reed said after the Super Bowl, the chiefs were saving his legs for the playoffs. And I think we've seen the Packers

do that a little bit with Aaron Jones the last couple of years as well. So that might be a little bit of a reason to be concerned about Travis Kelsey. It's really going to depend on the sideline when he was out for one play in the playoffs. I'm not, no, I'm not worried about Travis Kelsey's competitiveness going away. He will want to be out there. He will see a play go poorly and be like, I would have done that. Right. So I, I'm not really worried about it because again, you have him on your roster already. You're not paying to bring him over. It's house money. At this point,

he will still score as a top scoring tight end, even if he's not the tight end one by seven points per game, which he has been. Let's let's go a little rapid fire fun at the end of the show and get, get your chat questions ready. We'll answer those here in just a moment. Do you think this upcoming Scott Fishbowl theme might be the GOAT theme? We feel that almost every single year. I'm currently wearing two Scott Fishbowl

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but you hate fun. Why are you so against fun and won't watch The Office or Parks and Rec? Well, I have watched Parks and Rec many, many times. That is one of my favorite shows. But I've watched The Office straight through, the American Office. I've seen a bit of the English Office. But at this point, I will refuse to watch it again just to make John Bosch angry because it's his favorite show and what he quotes more than anything else. But he also loves throwing out random sci-fi gifs and saying hashtag Star Wars gif because I'm a huge geek. And he knows calling things that aren't Star Wars Star Wars will annoy me. But I got to be honest, The Office was good. It's funny. I get it.

It's just not my... The second Pam and Jim got together, there was never anything close to a compelling storyline. So it was just based on the characters that didn't change. I may have just lost you a lot of viewers. I'm sorry. No, I think just you. People are blocking you on Twitter now. Yeah, lots of unfollows. They're not going to hold this. Listen, anybody who's listening to me also listens to Adam Azer. They've heard much worse TV and movie takes. It's okay.

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going to start giving stuff away you know funko pop signed jerseys spots into sfb it's again it's a problem because our boss gets angry at us but we have too much fun and that's all i care about okay we got a question here from somebody who just took over a new team. They have Christian McCaffrey and Jalen Hurts, but other than that, it's a complete rebuild. What should I be looking to get in return for those guys? I saw a question actually on Twitter in response to ours that I didn't get to

that somebody had asked what they could get for McCaffrey, and the answer was a mid- or a late first and a second. It's, it is very hard to trade away a 28, 29 year old running back in March. Again, patience is the best virtue you can have, especially with McCaffrey waiting until people are about to score points. Like I said, I don't, I don't care about what my lineups are in march but like august is going to roll around and i'm going to go into my app and start clicking those i start 10 players in my leagues i'm gonna start clicking those 10 buttons just to see what my lineup looks

like that's when you strike that's when you might you start messaging people you look a little weak at running back i got this christian mcafree guy um but jalen hurts i saw um i think i got tagged in a in a tweet or someone dm'd me and they talked about they got kyler murray in the 107 in a super flex league for jalen hurts and i loved that okay it seems a little hard to trade away right now which is strange because he's still a top three quarterback for me but especially if i'm trying to get a quarterback back in the trade i'm not downgrading too much like i don't want to go past that second third tier of like that trevor lawrence i still put justin fields there because i don't care where

he plays he's going to score fantasy points like i'm not going down to like the kirk cousins even those older guys that are producing and then i want picks or production on top if i'm rebuilding like you are then you don't want production you just go get kyler murray in the 107 something like that trevor lawrence and the 106 you know something along those lines right and i think like this the the mcafree thing is the same equation as the kelsey is how much risk do you want to carry into the season you can get more for mcafree assuming he starts the first month of the season like he played the last five years when he's been healthy. If he tears an ACL, you may never get anything for him ever again. And so you have to decide, like, if I get this offer of somebody will give me one Oh five for Christian McCaffrey. Am I okay with that? Or do I want to push to get a mid first plus

later? The problem is that we trade them in season. You're probably trading with a team that's going to be picking like 109 to 112. Yeah. So I, I just decide how much risk you want to carry. We've got a, an AJ Brown question, really some context.

He earned one Oh seven last year, considering kind of resetting at wide receiver. He's got AJ Brown, Michael Pittman, Chris Godwin, Deontay Johnson at wide receiver wants to know if Malik Neighbors and Roma Dunzey are good enough to trade A.J. Brown away for both. So he gives up Brown. He gets both.

You get like the 102-102. Yeah. I mean, that is, that's rough. I love A.J. Brown. I was a fan of him coming in. I really, really wanted him to go to the Seahawks. It seems like the perfect fit. Like he would have just taken over for Doug Baldwin when Doug Baldwin was leaving.

And then, you know, DK Metcalf is what a consolation prize. But yes, I think I could do this and feel okay about it. That's really good value. Because when you stop and think about it, this is not the correct way to think about it, but it helps. Where are neighbors in a doomsday going to go and start up drafts versus where's AJ Brown going to go in a one QB, AJ Brown's probably hitting the end of the first neighbors is probably

going to be mid seconds. Like he's probably coming in as the wide receiver eight ish, you know? So getting a guy that's probably gonna get drafted in around below a doomsday won't be that far behind neighbors. So when you think about it in a startup draft, would you trade the one 11 for the two Oh six and three Oh five? Probably.

Right. So I think it's definitely enough. This one's painful, i'm gonna make you we're gonna finish on on a on one that makes you sick and we talked about this earlier in the week with mike evans returning to tampa for two more seasons it looks like the hope of the chris godwin bounce back seems to be disappearing very quickly he's and he's always been a guy who was a little older than it seemed like people realized. I think he's 28 years old now,

coming off of a negative season, which was coming off of an injury season. And now he's stuck with Evans and probably Baker Mayfield for the next two seasons. Somebody's got an offer of 208 and 404 in a super flex rookie league for Godwin. I don't like it. I also am not sure that you're going to get anymore.

It's rough. Chris Godwin was one of those guys like Terry McLaurin, where you had hopes that something needs to go right. And this guy is good enough to be a wide receiver one. And it never really clicked. There were some injuries and bad quarterbacking. And the problem with having Jameis Winston as your quarterback is he's much more likely to throw to Mike Evans than he is to anyone else because he just likes chucking the ball. I don't want to take this.

If you're rebuilding, yeah, I me and you have no patience and you want Godwin off your roster because you're rebuilding and it hurts your soul to see a 28-year-old wide receiver on your roster, which I don't really... You shouldn't do that. But again, I do it. I think you take this and feel gross about it. That's... Maybe later you can get the 206. Right. You're not getting a first-round pick for Chris Godwin again.

You're not getting a first. It's negligible. Counter for a second and a third instead of a four. And maybe it makes you feel a little better. But I hate it because of how I feel about Godwin. I love Penn State pass catchers. I was always a Godwin fan. And it didn't work out as well as I would have liked.

No, no. It was a disappointing last couple of years for God, no, it was, it was a disappointing, uh, last couple of years for Godwin, but it was not a disappointing show. Russ, thank you so much for being here. You did a fantastic job.

I would encourage everybody to go follow him on Twitter at dynasty outhouse. Check out the link in the notes, go give some money to fantasy cares, join their bracket challenge on CBS. And, you know, go pick somebody other than Iowa to win the women's bracket. You'll probably beat me. Thank you again for being with us. Thank you so much for having me on.

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