Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag! And Commissioner Drama (06/12 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

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This is fantasy football today from CBS sports It's time to dominate your fantasy league Here's some combination of Adam Dave Jamie and he All right, here we go, it's mailbag time. Your email is at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. Your Apple podcast questions. Go ahead and leave us a five star review on Apple podcasts. We greatly appreciate it. And your YouTube comments if you're watching live at youtube.com slash fantasy football today. It is Thursday, June 12th. Adam, Jamie and Dan. Dan, I know you're always down for a mailbag. Dan Koffman Always down for a little summer bag action.

Everybody just tuning in. Listen, don't give Adam a hard time today. He's having a really bad day. And I just wanted to put that out there to start the show. Really bad day. So let's show some compassion. Jason Tate Appreciate that. You know, if Heath were here, he would give you a hard time for saying it's summer because it's still spring. This is not summer. June, June is an obvious summer month. June 20th is the first day. That's what I'm saying.

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Anyway, how's it going, Jamie? I can't wait for Fantasy Cops. Oh, we don't have that on today's show. Oh, you better. We got one for you. Well, listen, we got the- Jamie, pull it up. I wanna hear about this.

You know about it. You know it. Oh, actually, he probably doesn't. I probably don't. He's fine. I probably don't. You know, fine, fine. Get it off your chest. And I'm just gonna tell you, like, get it off your chest. Go ahead. And Dan, by the way, is completely oblivious to everything that happens in the Big Burger Dynasty League. But I am. And yet my team is awesome, regardless. But go ahead. You can't all of a sudden make your own rules about the IR spot. He's making up rules.

I was told that I had done this before. There's no way that I would have let this slide without with you allowing this without saying something. Look, what do you try to do? What I try to do is an IR spot that aren't officially on IR. All right, listen, it's roster. Hold on. It's roster cut down day.

Well, by Monday, everybody's we just did our rookie draft. And in addition to that, players who are on IR last year are no longer on IR. So a lot of us have, I mean, seven ish players that we need to cut by Monday when when fab starts. So someone said, you previously allowed some flexibility with with putting players on IR, even though they're not officially on IR. Can we do that again with the guy like Tank Del? So I said, yeah, sure. Tank Del is- When did you allow that to happen? I don't know.

I've never- But it sounds like something I would have done and he's not a liar. How could it ever happened? He's not lying. I mean, I don't know. You mean he's not lying. But I thought it was reasonable. You have to work in the system, right? I thought it was reasonable. It's not reasonable because there's so much gray area to this. But not with Deshaun Watson and Tankdale. First off, Deshaun Watson benefits you so you don't get to talk about Deshaun Watson. No, I didn't even think about Deshaun Watson.

The guys I said were who Tankdale and Jonathan Brooks. Jonathan Brooks is officially out for the season. He has been placed on his putlis by his team. Okay, fine. Honestly, I have no issue with you having an issue with the policy. You were a total, honestly, you were a jerk about it. You could have done it in a nicer way. You could have said, I disagree with this. Here's what I think about it. If you're, you said, I can't really see him being in the, if you're putting players coming off an injury or dealing with an injury

on IR without being official from the team, then you need to do it for every player without exception. Anyone who ended last year on IR or currently has an injury designation should be eligible then. It was a little, it was a little, it was a little saucy. You're just sensitive about it because it impacts you. No, that's not true. Don't say that. I'm not talking about the Sean Walsh. I'm talking about you as the commissioner. You're sensitive about it because it impacts you. No, that's not, don't say that.

You're sensitive about it because it's something that you decide. I think you could have been a little bit more elegant and delicate. You're setting that at president. Here's what could happen. Because the, the man, the, the, the manager with Brandon, I, you, that's a perfectly specifically said no to Brandon. I, you can't be a guy like Brandon. I, you know, we'reyuk. And I can't be a guy like Brandon Iyuk. Now we're just making individual players that can't be crazy. No, because we know there's a difference between Tank Del and Brandon Iyuk.

Fine. Honestly, if it was a bad policy, it was a bad policy. I didn't like the way you one-upped me, put me in my place and made the rule. That's what I didn't like. You could have done it differently. And quite frankly, you're sensitive today because you're having a bad day. It's a little bit. No, I'm not taking that on you. I just think like, I just think that you reality is if he's not on IR, technically by the site, he can't go on IR.

Exactly. Nobody's on IR right now. Even though there's what Jonathan Brooks. That's it. Then there's no IR right now. Hold on. This is part of the game we play. We have to manage our rosters. I get it, but people are gonna have to cut players that they really don't wanna cut. Sorry, that's the role.

Sorry, that's part of the game, yes. That's a tough, that's a tough pill to swallow. We're just getting an IR spot for somebody in the middle of the off season. That's crazy. And quite frankly, first of all, we're talking about just that. The new season, the season restarted.

We're talking about a handful of players that might qualify for this. Okay, so again, you got. you have Brandon, you find bad policy. Fine. I didn't see any of this because I would have, you have a guy coming off an ACLT. You don't know when he's going to be ready. Fine. Bad policy.

I admit it. Fine. I didn't like the way Jamie went about it. I thought you were overruling me as commissioner. It wasn't your place. You could have voiced your opinion. I would have taken it into consideration. I probably would have changed my mind.

I thought you were kind of a jerk about it, honestly. And honestly, I get, I'm kind of freaking tired of this league where everybody's just always ripping on me, telling me what to do. You should do this, you should do that. Honestly, we don't need to have a damn rookie draft the first week of June. We don't need to have that.

Why did I let everybody pressure me into that? Like, you know what? J.K. Dobbins was out there as a free agent. We should have waited for him to sign. We should have waited for Nick Chubb to sign. Then we should have done our freaking rookie draft. But I'm always listening to everybody else instead of putting on my commissioner hat.

You know what, people, if you elect a commissioner, or if you have a commissioner, forget about elect, if you have a commissioner, sometimes what the commissioner says goes. And if you're in the big burger dynasty league, today is June 12th, 2025. You've got a new commissioner. You had old Adam previously. Now you've got new Adam. And I'm putting on the commissioner hat and I'm making some decisions. And I don't give a crap what you have to say. Our email of the day. One of the best rants I've ever heard from you. Our email of the day comes from Anthony.

I can't stop smiling. Okay. That was so good. Anthony P. Now listen, this is a much more serious subject here. Oh, you were serious by the way. I'm not joking. But much more serious subject here from Anthony P. because guys, Draftathon is coming up. This is where we raise money.

Two years in a row, we've gone over $100,000 for St. Jude. Anthony P says, I wanted to take a moment to express how you all make a difference. A year ago today, when he wrote this two days ago, June 10th, 2024, my younger brother, Jesse, had brain surgery to remove a tumor. Thank God it was successful. After a day of being out of commission, he started having conversations with his family. His first conversation with me in his hospital bed was about fantasy football. He said to me, I need to get caught up with fantasy football today and the fellows. It was awesome. He soon returned to work and is in great health today. Also, he won our league last

year. Let's go. That's awesome. That is a great story. I love that. The first thing he's thinking about is what is Adam ranting about today? And is it the big burger dynasty league again? Yeah, I don't think so. Thank you so much. Obviously, that that's awesome to hear. And that goes a lot into what we try to do in the summer with the St. Jude drafts. So anyone listening who enjoys the show, I think definitely take part in it this year if you haven't already. Yeah. And the tennis match last year raised like $16,000 for St. Jude. There will be a rematch this year and we're hoping to raise even more. I think this year we got to do Dave as the ball boy slash line judge. Jamie and Heath

come. It's gonna be in New York so. No we'll go to Florida. No we're not going to Florida. We're doing it in New York. Why? I already I've had these discussions, these preliminary discussions. The plans are in the work. I'm going to talk to somebody tonight about a venue with a really good view for it.

Set up a camera indoor venue. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed here. All right. Listen, let's get to the show. News and notes and then your emails and comments. Christian McCaffrey says he feels great. Just more good news about Christian McCaffrey, more fun vibes. Ken Walker has an ankle injury but he should be fine according to head coach Mike McDonald. So this is interesting, Jamie

Pittsburgh offensive coordinator Arthur Smith says he wants to be more balanced and play to the strengths of the team. You know he mentioned, you got Aaron Rodgers also mentioned you go out and sign DK Metcalf. So what do you buy in that that they won't be one of the most run heavy teams in football? Um, sort of, I think, you know, again, I go back to when Arthur Smith had Matt Ryan, and it was the end of Ryan's career. It's a very similar situation. Obviously, Ryan doesn't have the resume that Rogers does. But he allowed him to throw the ball a lot. That was Kyle Pitts having a thousand yard season as a rookie and not the best run game.

But I think you look at it as he seems to be the type of coach who will trust a quarterback who has the experience of someone like Rogers. And so to what extent? Obviously Russell Wilson had a lot of experience as well. So to what extent, we'll see. I think it just goes to the hope and the expectation that Rodgers is going to have a little bit more freedom. Metcalf is more proven, let's say, than George Pickens. And maybe it's also a wait and see sort of situation of, can Caleb Johnson do the similar things that Najee Harris did? And what I mean by that is the veteran things that coach likes to see. So I'm sure it's sort of an open canvas for the Steelers because you have a new quarterback,

new running back, new receiver in place. And maybe Arthur Smith is gonna just sort of change some of his terminology and approach and all those things. But I would be shocked if all of a sudden they morph into a heavy pass team comparatively. More balanced makes some sense. Laughing at this comment about my rant lol I'm a real boy. That was a big I'm a real boy rant.

It was. Just again, so Dan started the show saying be nice to Adam. Obviously I was giving Adam a little bit of a hard time about, I was calling Dr. Azer because of him deciding on his own who's healthy, who's not. To get that rant was just absolutely beautiful. Like I'm so proud of you, you know, for- I guess you just, it was all, it was you sparked the Jamie with the- Well, no, no, no, he's having some things going on

away from work that he's frustrated with. Nothing too bad. I mean, yeah. Did I mention that on the show or just off the air? No, off the air. Yeah. No, I woke up and my cat had crapped on the couch. So that was not fun.

A lot of things go down around that kitchen couch area. We've peeing in the sink. We have cat crapping on couches. Oh, did you? No, I didn't. I didn't. Oh, no, you didn't. And by the way, you said something way worse than your rant.

So sort of. You did. So there was that and there was something else. And then I thought, let's just let's just I've got a lot to do today. It's a bad day. He's having a bad day. Got the exterminator coming today. I don't know why.

I want no part of it. Can I say this real quick? Back to fantasy, I'm selling I'm buying what Jamie said because he brings up a great point in that, right? I'm selling the idea that these two can work together Aaron Rodgers and Arthur Smith I don't buy it because I think about last year when Russell Wilson had that big game I think where the Steelers scored like 52 and he threw the ball around the yard And then we heard reports of like Arthur Smith didn't like that. He scaled it back He stopped letting Russell Wilson call his own audibles line of scrimmage and he took that away from him

That's not gonna fly with Aaron Rodgers. Maybe it flew with Russell Wilson. That's not gonna fly He's gonna have to let Rogers decide at the line of scrimmage What he sees based on the defense and what play he wants to be in and that doesn't work I think there's gonna be problems there. So, I don't know. I don't trust that relationship They was oh that's been addressed That was addressed in the press conference. Okay. Addressing it is one thing. But yeah, I mean they kind of talked around it.

He didn't say, I'm going to give him freedom to do this. And Roger sort of pushed back on this idea that he needs it. But no, it's a great point. And someone else brought up a good point about DK Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers. DK Metcalf, I wish I remember the writer who brought this up. DK Metcalf is not a very precise route runner. Right. And Aaron Rodgers is a taskmaster in that regard. And yes, you know, you can see you could foresee the sideline blowups. Now we'll see how it works out. It's like a modern day Todd Haley. Let me get through the rest of

the notes here. Sorry. Trayvon digs Dallas cornerback. He hopes to be ready for week one. He's recovering from a knee injury. Buffalo edge Joey Bosa expects to be full go for training camp. He's recovering from a calf injury and the Raiders signed former Bengals linebacker Jermaine Pratt to a one-year deal worth more than $4 million. Pratt had the 10th most tackles in the NFL in 2024. All right, let's take a quick break and get right back to it. Give me a few more things real quick before. Yeah, please go for it Greg Roman on o'marian hampton. Did you see this? Oh, yeah, he's the real deal or something like that total package total package Yeah, you don't see a lot of guys find a hole like he's doing right now. So he was you know, obviously very glowing about him in

News conference yesterday. He was also I apparently very excited about a ronda gatzin too so something to keep an eye on there and then to Gadsden too, so something to keep an eye on there. And then Aaron Glenn, you know, talking about Breeze Hall, there's a story on NFL.com about how he said, I don't want to trade you, I want you to be here, you know, and still expecting Breeze Hall to be a big piece of the offense. So what he said at the owner's meetings, you know, in terms of using three guys, I'm sure that's still on the table about using multiple running backs. Again, I don't think anybody expects three running backs to be sharing the ball equally,

but you know, sort of backtracking on that a little bit, apparently this week. So that's a that's a positive sign too. And I know we mentioned yesterday, Brian Thomas seems to be fine with the shoulder. Oh, yeah, that's right. I should have updated that he is fine. He seems to be fine. And Jamie, your equivalent of Tyree kill is my Tyree kill. Tyree kill to me is like a Ronde Gatston to you. But I bring him up a lot. No, you don't bring him up a lot, but I know you love him.

And I know that you will bring him up whenever given the opportunity. I like it. That's just an Aranda Gaston senior thing for Jamie. He liked his dad. All right, we will be right back after this with your emails at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. First email is from

Colby. This is- I can't wait to watch back this episode. He says, what's bothering me about this episode is that when I read Jamie's message that he sent to the league that sent me off, that set me off, really didn't sound bad. I should have done it in a voice. Yeah, Hugh read that so highly. It sounds bad at all. I thought he was going to say something mean or like, you know, kind of personal. None of that. I just felt like he could have voiced his opinion and said, I think you should do this

or instead of just being so absolutely... I think what really happened is people have been getting on you like over time and it's been a build up and that was just like the tip of the iceberg. I think that's what it was. I can't, this sometimes I can't stay in this league, but I do love it. I do love it. Being a commissioner, being a commissioner of a dynasty is actually, it's a lot, there's a lot going on. All right. Being commissioner is one of the most thankless jobs being a fan of football commissioner.

Yeah. Jamie hasn't said thank you once. Let's say that. I say thank you to all the time. Not about being a commissioner. I love you as a commissioner. The question from Noah, he says, dear Mike, Jonathan, Colby and Ozzy. Mike, Jonathan, Colby and Ozzy, they're all survivor characters. Yes. Good for you. Wow.

I know we say this every year. Side note, I don't think we do. I hope we don't. But due to the historically deep running back class, is this the year to invest in early wide receivers and tight end quarterback and basically go zero RB? Again, I don't know if you necessarily have to go zero RB. We've illustrated a lot and this is, you know, an awful use of the the exercise in my opinion because

average rep position now is not truly indicative of what it's going to be in a month and a half or when summer actually is here. But I think in terms of where we're seeing a lot of these running backs come off the board and if you like some of these running backs. So like if you feel comfortable with where Caleb Johnson and Quid-Shan Judkins and you know, the sliding scale of those guys, Isaiah Pacheco and Tony Pollard and you know, these guys that still have a chance to be, you know, top 20 caliber running backs, throw Brian Robinson in there if you want to, the Giants backfield, you know, again, however

you feel about them, forget it, you know, Ramandre Stevenson, Rashad White, those type of guys. Like you can, in my opinion, go hero RB, take a guy early, whoever you feel the most inclined to take in rounds one, two, or potentially three, and then wait for a very long time and then just start, you know, throwing darts at the wall of, you know, whichever of these running backs that you think can sort of eventually hit or backfill your roster here. But I like the strategy of getting a couple of top 10 wide receivers really if you can and not necessarily focusing on running back early because I think the talent pool is so deep. And even with these muddy backfill that we're going to see, someone is going to emerge most likely these rookies and you're going to get a lot of good value late. Okay, got a comment from

get a lot of good value late. Okay, got a comment from Dave Richard. Greetings from a beach. Should I draft back Hollins or a lobbyist? Yes, Dave is in the chat. This is me. Eli Moore as a sleeper breakout. Look at that pic. That picture of Dave is how very old.

Yeah, it's pretty old. You could take that picture of Dave and say it was from 2000 and actually 2022 and you would not know the difference. I agree. He's barely aged, but this is egregious. This is egregious. This is too young. Well, it's just the hair situation. I think that you're looking at a little bit. Yeah. All right. Let me say one thing about the question to answer that. I will say this after doing a lot of research into this. And then we also had, um, two different guests on, uh, Nate Tice, Rich Rebar last year on beyond the box score with Jacob Gibbs, there is an obvious and

definite shift in the NFL with all these defenses now almost 90, 95% playing this. Some version of the Vic Fangio defense with two high shell where teams are just going to continue to run the ball and throw the ball, the running back short in that short area where they can create space and create yards. And we saw it happen last year. And it's the reason why last year was the worst, in my opinion, dear RB year that I remember in a while. I don't think that's going to change.

There's no reason for coordinator. There's still a lot of these coordinators are that same mold from that same tree. And there's no reason to allow these quarterbacks like my homes and borough to have single high safety looks. So I still think running the football is gonna be the best option for a lot of teams in a lot of situations. So I wanna bake that into my strategy.

I said I would do it mid season last year and I'm going to do that this year despite the question, which is right, which is from a scarcity standpoint, yes, I wanna get my receivers early and I could wait at running back. But from the idea of who's scoring fantasy points on a weekly basis with passing yards way down, I want to get those running backs that are talented.

All right. Next question is from Curtis. He says, dear AJ, Michael, Noah and Nick, AJ, Michael, Noah, Nick, no shot. These are Seahawks, tight, typical names, Seahawks, tight ends. Say it again. AJ, Michael, Noah and Nick. Noah Fant, AJ, Barrett or something. Like you don't even have Elijah on there? Come on now. These are old Seahawks, tight ends, I didn't even know.

I was very worried about Mark Andrews coming into this year after he struggled early last year and Isaiah likely seemed to be a rising player and got a lot of buzz this off season. So I decided to do some research and found this after I did some Azer statting. And I'd love to hear more about the two of them from you guys on the podcast.

He didn't tell me what he found when he Azer stated. Keep up the good work. All right, I'll give you some stats, not Azer stats, actually a little bit. So Isaiah likely missed one game last year. And I, Andrew's had a big game. He had seven targets. He had 18.8 PPR fantasy points

in a big Lamar Jackson game against the Bengals. So if you look at the other games that they played together which would have been, I think 18 games, including the playoffs, their stats, some of them are incredibly similar. So every game that Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely played together last year, including two playoff games, 72 targets, 369 routes for Andrews,

67 targets, 350 routes for Likely. Almost the exact same amount, almost the exact same target per route run rate. 14 red zone targets for Andrews, 13 for Likely. Likely had two more green zone targets. They both had 10 end zone targets. Andrews had 90 more yards and three more touchdowns on five more targets.

He had a little bit better of a catch rate, but it was like they're yards per target, yards per catch, yards per route run. They were almost identical. It was crazy. And even near the goal line, they had almost identical numbers. So I thought that was really interesting. And also looking at Mark Andrews season, and he only had 69 targets in the entire regular season. If you take away six catches, 68 yards, and a touchdown on seven targets, the one game that he played without likely, It looks even worse. Jamie, your thoughts on the Ravens tight ends?

I mean, I think at this point, you're taking the approach with Andrews of, you'll settle for him as opposed to targeting him like we have in years past. And you may end up being a great value pick. I mean, you know, we've been drafting him for years as a top five tight end and now we're barely drafting him, I think, as a top 10 tight end, you know. So he's not going to be in the top five guys unless somebody just reaches for him. So depending on where the, I think the top four are going to get locked in with in some order, Bowers, McBride, Kittle, and Laporta. And then it's really that next group of Nijoku, Kelsey, Hawkinson, maybe missing somebody there. And then that next group of guys I think is where Andrews comes into play, where you're

looking at the rookies of Loveland and Warren, you're looking at Ingram, Kraft. I don't know if I'm missing somebody there, but, uh, you know, that, that, that next wave of tight ends. And, you know, to me, Andrews is, is still, he's, he's the, he's the bridge for me between the rookies and those other guys. Like I would take Evan Ingram over him at this point. You know, a lot of the guys I just listed, I just think that you're, you're still going to get eight plus touchdowns from him. If everything, if he stays healthy, like that's just hard to overlook with what his role is.

And I do think we'll get a little bit of a bump in targets. I just don't think that's You know given his resume like that's gonna happen now the same thing with likely is you're taking a flyer on him late because oh my god what if he hits and what if he is you know an all pro is as hardball is saying and gets more opportunities. But you just paid Bateman, Flowers is in it, you know, entering his prime, you bring in DeAndre Hopkins. Like it's hard to see all these guys putting up huge numbers knowing how Lamar Jackson works. He spreads the ball around. He doesn't necessarily rely on one guy. So it's a touchdown dependent thing, which could obviously hurt everybody if you're not getting those touches. OK, next email. Next email has some inaccuracies in it. It's from Rich. And he says, hey, since you said Dumb and Dumber was your favorite movie, I thought I would share a-

What's that? Who said that? Yeah, that's it. That I don't know. It's not my favorite movie. I do love it, but that's it. That's it accuracy number one. Here's a picture of me.

And he put a picture in the email with Mike Starr, who was in Dumb and Dumber. He's the guy, he's the bad guy who eats the rat poison. And also here is Steven Root, who played Milton in Office Space and was on news radio. So he has this random picture of him at a football game with a guy from Dumb and Dumber and the guy from Office Space.

I like it, I like it. He says, Office Space is hilarious. And if you haven't seen that, Office Space is hilarious if you haven't seen that. So not exactly in an accuracy, but if you think I haven't seen that. Office space is hilarious if you haven't seen that. So not exactly in an accuracy, but if you think I haven't seen office space, you are really like you don't know anything about me. Come on, dude. Office space is amazing. I've even seen office space and I've seen it multiple times. I've never seen them and

dumber though. Oh, yeah. I told you I don't watch movies. Oh my gosh. Not even dumb and dumb. I'd like it. New Adam is not happy about this. Yeah. Neither is old Adam. Throw it to the list. All right. Curious what your opinion is on third round reversal. Oh, you have,

have you started the Sopranos yet? No. Oh, you're starting Sopranos? Yeah, we made a deal. What's the deal? I've never seen the Office okay, I'm gonna watch the office. He's gonna watch the Browns. Oh, wow I literally just started to rewatch the Sopranos and it was just as good at him. You're gonna love okay, all right

All right. Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna start it unbelievably good. I'm gonna try this weekend All right, I'm gonna start it when I get a new background. It starts good, too So it's not like it's not a slow start. That's a good part. You'll get hooked immediately. All right. So he wants to know our opinion on third round reversal and something called rodeo style where you randomize and then the first person gets to choose what spot in the draft they

get and second goes next. Oh, I definitely. Okay. I'll throw in to start. I love that idea. I'm so much a bigger fan of we randomize the order and then you get to choose where you want to draft in that order instead of you get the one you get the two. I think it adds fun.

I think it adds intrigue. Some people don't always pick the one or the two. They go different spots. Some people like the back. This, so it just makes it more fun. So I like that far as third round reversal goes. I've played in it a bunch now via Scott fish bowl. I want like, I think it mattered more. It matters more in super flex leagues to me somehow. Um, no, because even in the non super flex,

I don't know. I, I, I don't love it. I don't like it. Yeah. You hate it, Jamie. Why do you hate it? First off, there's really not a format that I hate. It's just not something I prefer. Right. Right. Well said. I like trying different leagues and different rules. You think it gives too much of an edge to the back end, guys? When we do third round reversal and I can pick my slot, I usually pick somewhere between 10 and 12. So I can get the third round reversal

Yeah, what about fifth round reversal? Let's try fifth round reversal Right that seems to me a little bit more fair like the third round. It just seems still too many valuable players. You're right Okay, next up. We have an email from Matthew. He says hey Adam Adam Adam and Adam and these are all Adams Okay, I like that. He didn't put new Adam in there though. That's a good, that's a good comment real quick here. New Adam eats normal sandwiches. There's a new Adam in town, baby. New Adam is always polite.

Yeah. Oh, go ahead. Jamie. No, I was gonna say, I think we should start like ranking our commenters in the chat. Like Johnny Airport is always fun. Johnny Airport is, yeah, he's 1.1. He's elite. All right, question from Matthew is-

Well, I mean, there's a lot of good ones. I don't wanna just, you know- Yeah, no, there's a lot of good ones. But Johnny usually makes me laugh quite a bit. The chat's great. I thought you could save this topic for when you don't have any other good reason to bring Tyreek Hill up today.

Save the streak. I was very puzzled by the dink and dunk approach of the Miami offense last year. There are so many teams that take shots down the field with little chance of success, just to keep defenses honest. You often see a backup quarterback, blah, blah, blah. And then you have the Dolphins.

They deliberately don't throw downfield in order to execute some methodical and slow moving offense. My question is, what's the difference between can't throw downfield and won't throw downfield? If I were the boss of the guy who made it the decision to not throw downfield, even though you have the perfect personnel, he would get a stern talking to at the least.

Well, I think part of the problem with the question is they don't have the perfect personnel, which is why they didn't throw downfield. Their offensive line was terrible last year and they didn't trust their offensive line. And more importantly, I don't think they trusted to it to sit back there on five and seven step drops, given his health and history, which I don't know how that improves moving forward. Um, but maybe it was just an in-season thing and they go into this year

fresh and trust him to operate these five and seven step drop backs, but they're risky with a bad old line. And so personnel, when it comes to the deep passing game, yes, it is good to have to rekill and Jaylen wattle, no doubt, but you need an offensive line. If you want to operate a deep pass game for the most part, there are exceptions to that rule, Pittsburgh did a good job of not having an amazing O-line, still a better O-line than Miami, and operating a deep passing game

because they were run heavy. And if you bring a lot of bodies around the line, scrimmage via the run game, you can do that. But the Dolphins weren't really able to do that either. So, because not in just the way their style of offense works. So I didn't really think they had the personnel to do it last year.

I think it also goes to your comment about how teams are playing defense in the NFL, you know? And it was the start of this, not only the start of this, but I think the, the, the mass appeal of this was taking Tyree kill away from Patrick Mahomes. And then he goes to the dolphins and it's taking Tyree kill away from to a tongue by Lowe. And it is interesting, you know, and you're not wrong, Dan, about protecting to a tongue

of Lowe. I think people forget how he got hurt. He wasn't hurt getting sacked. He was hurt on a scramble where he had to run through the Mar Hamlin. And so like you wonder if the philosophy just morphs a little bit, you know, and, and maybe getting back to who they were a year or two ago. Look, they would have been a playoff team if two of us stayed healthy, you know, and I'm sure that's the approach of, okay, well, they're not a Super Bowl team,

but you know, they were in the mix at the end of the season, if you recall, you know, they would like so many things had to happen for them to make the playoffs, you know, down the stretch, and then two had of hip injury and they shut them down So I'm sure they you know envision themselves as as a contender The question is what kind of contender they want to be and part of not only Protecting to a was getting the ball quickly was you know Adam when you brought the story preseason? It was also because their defense was on the field so quickly because they were making these big plays and scoring so fast. So it's going to be an interesting watch for the Dolphins and how we value their players,

how their players obviously attack opposing defense is what Mike McDaniel does to sort of reinvent the wheel a little bit for what this offense looks like. And maybe if they still trade Johnna Smith, that's a big part of it. But I think you're looking at it, you know, to simplify it for our purposes. Tyree Kill is going to be a very potentially great value pick. The more he falls, the more upside he has, you know, so, um, HN what he showed us last year with two in the passing him, I don't think that goes away. And then it's a matter of, you know, where you take John Smith and other ones tight end,

excuse me, that I missed, uh, that I would take a head of Andrews. And really the, the, the guy that could be fascinating is, is waddle because if he gets back to anything close to what he did his second year, forget about his rookie year, his second year when Tyreek was there and the big plays were a big part of his game. Like if that comes back to any sense of production, my gosh, he's gonna, you know, be one of the biggest league winners we have. Okay, question from Tommy says, bear with me. I see Omarion Hampton being essentially the same thing that J.K.

Dobbins was when he came into the league, talent evaluation, draft capital, and going to essentially the same coaching staff, but a different hardball, an offense that Dobbins was drafted to be great in out of collards. Can Hampton be what Dobbins could or should have been if he had stayed healthy? If so, is he being drastically under drafted? Dan, what do you want? You want to take that one? You watch all the tape? Yeah, I mean, I don't I don't necessarily see it with Dobbins and Hampton comparison. I think they're very completely different backs. Uh, Dobbins more built low to the ground, shorter back runs with great pad level, really good at getting in and out of the cuts from a low center of gravity

standpoint, Hampton more of a Jonathan Taylor type build, really big high runner, but also my opinion, a more powerful after contact runner than Taylor though Taylor is good at that as well, maybe not as good of a long strider, but does have that ability as well. And a more natural pass catcher. When you watch the tape of, of Hampton at UNC, you would be surprised at how often they use him on our routes and how often they used him on three or four different routes out of the backfield and how naturally look, he had only two drops in

his career, he's going to be a much better pass catcher than people realize. And fantasy, I think we're put, people have put this label on him as this, like, you know, nausea type, like plug and play play like Harbaugh power back, but he's actually a really uniquely good pass catcher for this style back, which I think helps his profile a lot. There's not much in his game that I don't think he can do. Dobbins was a better was a good pass protector for his size, but he's not going to offer the same level of upside just given the fact that he's not as big a body as Hampton. So no, I think Hampton is a totally different back.

Hampton profiles to me a lot like Jonathan Taylor, but a better pass catcher. All right. We're gonna take a break and come back, finish up with some emails, Apple podcast questions and save time for some YouTube comments. We write back on FFT. All right. If I responded to your email and said I was going to read it on the mailbag, some of these, I'm not going to be able to have.

Sorry, it's a new Adam. He's not reading it. All that I would have read it on the mailbag. Some of these, I'm not gonna be able to have time to. Sorry, it's a new Adam. He's not reading it up. Old Adam would have read it. New Adam doesn't have time today. I'm very sorry though. Thank you for the emails. This one is from Trevor. He says, dear Stimpy, Budhead, Hooch and Chong.

Cartoon characters. No. Stimpy is from what show? Ran and Stimpy. Budhead is from? Evis and Budhead. Hooch is from? No? Brandon Stimpy. Butthead is from? Beavis and Butthead. Hooch is from? No idea.

Yeah. And Chang? Cheech and Chang. Yeah, Turner and Hooch. So these are like the sidekicks basically. They're the ones whose name comes second in the title. I saw the funniest Beavis and Butthead clip the other day. It was-

Oh, Beavis and Butthead. This is terrible. So good. Ha, ha, ha, go ahead. It was, um, so good. Go ahead. What was it? Uh, it's just funny. They were in a classroom and the teacher was like, do you know what white privilege is and how you have white privilege? And they're like, what? And they find out they have white privilege. Then like the next scene is like them in the cafeteria cutting everyone. Sorry, move through. We got white drivers. So funny.

That show man was amazing back in the day. I haven't watched the new ones much. All right. Give Jalen Warren and a 2028 first for Ken Walker in half PPR. He would then not have first round picks in 2026, 27 or 28. One more time, Jalen Warren and Kenneth Walker. For what? Wrong. Jalen Warren and a 2028 first for Ken Walker. Oh, no. 2028.

Oh, 2028. Wow. Yeah. But then he would be giving up his first round picks because he's already given up his first round picks in 26 and seven. Oh, he's one of those guys. He has he has chase Nakua and Collins. He has Kyron Montgomery, Pacheco.

Yeah. I mean, can't Thomas just ask us his questions personally instead of sending an email like that? Yeah. What do you mean? Thomas is blowing up all his draft capital. Thomas said he hates draft picks. Oh.

I respect that take. Actually, I kind of hate them and- I would make this pick. They're overrated. I would make this pick. I wouldn't make this pick because I don't think Ken Walker is that good of an asset at all.

I'm very down on Ken Walker. Yeah, actually, I don't know. We'll see, we'll hear about this on FFTN5 after, I mean on Express after this, but I really understand Ken Walker's even ranking this year for redraft. Oh, wow. What has he done to deserve that?

He's done plenty. He's- He flashes sometimes when he's healthy and he's not even healthy a lot. But he flashes when he's healthy. That's even goes better. Last year, James Cook or Kenneth Walker points per game. Was it Walker? No, it was, it was cook. It was cooked slightly. I liked that. How you frame that. It was probably that.

Walker had some blow up moments and some close ones and he caught a lot of passes last year and, and I think he did well in that regard but I don't know man I don't see it with him. Yeah so Jamie's talking about full PPR in half PPR. Right. James Cook. He's caught a lot of passes that does not seem like it's going to carry over this year. They added weapons and it's the new quarterback.

We'll see. James Cook 1.3 more points per game than Walker in half PPR. It's a pretty big difference. Yeah. Full PPR closer gap. All right yeah don't make PPR. It's a pretty big difference. Full PPR, closer gap. All right, yeah, don't make the trade. All right, this is from Sam. 12 teams, Superflex, startup dynasty, tight end premium. First time doing a league like this,

looking for advice for my first pick and possibly some draft strategy. All right, so what do you think? It's 12 teams, it's Superflex, and it's tight end premium. Startup dynasty. We actually just did this, didn't we? I was gonna say, he just did this on Friday. He ran this draft on Friday.

I think he did it on the air. He did last Friday, which explains his autopick of when he took four quarterbacks in a row. Yeah. So you know what I'm doing? I'm going to save time and I'm just going to say, check that episode out, go to youtube.com slash fantasy football today. It's from last Friday. That would be June 6th. Find the results which will be valuable for you to use as you go through the draft.

Yeah. My quick advice would be quarterback early though. New Adam hates Tyreek Hill. I don't know about that. I think you will be the high drafters on Hill this year, Adam. And McCaffrey. Yeah, I know. I thought about that, but then I was like, do I really want both of them? That feels like a risky start.

But if you get both of them, there's so much upside. I have them both in a dynasty league, which has obviously brought me a lot of success having them. And it's like, I thought last year, okay, I'm gonna squeeze out one more season. It was frustrating clearly. And now I'm like, okay, I'll squeeze out one more season. It was frustrating clearly. And now I'm like, okay, I'll squeeze out one more season. One more.

All right. This one is from Helen. She says, Hey, Adam, I just got back from a trip to Bermuda and learned that there the preferred bread for fish sandwiches is cinnamon raisin bread. Just thought you should know. I kind of love that mix in the and the salty as an Adam special. That's disgusting. Cinnamon raisin with fish.

Oh, you don't like that? Fish? No, that'd draw the line there. Fried fish. I mean tuna fish. Battered and fried, battered and fried. Ew, tuna fish. All right, last one.

Who else find tuna fish kind of disgusting? No, I love tuna fish. Comes out of that can, you open the can, it's kind of like, ugh, I love to comes out of that can, you know, open the can. It's kind of like, what is this? And you're very strange. No, he's he's got a point. But yeah, I don't really want meat out of a can in general. Like, generally speaking, I don't want my meat out of Thomas says.

I agree. It reminds me of like dog food. Yeah. We're eating cat food almost. It feels like it's not. But they almost take that can off. It's just like sardines. I'll never have sardines. Those are nasty to me. Now a lot of people listening don't know this, but if I've never had it, there's nothing grosser than gefilte fish. Oh, gefilte fish is the most disgusting. I actually like it. The literal most disgusting thing in the world. I don't even know why they

sell it still. Who likes it? I've heard people say, like, I've had this rant a lot, Adam, and so I've heard a lot of rebuttals to it. I've heard people once say, like, you don't know, you got to have my mom's, like, homemade gefilte fish. I'm like, homemade gefilte fish? No. That's disgusting sounding. Like, this is by far our strangest show ever.

Yeah. No one needs, like, you know how people always say, like, if you ever knew, and I don't ever want to know, but if you ever knew what goes into the making of a hot dog, you'd never eat a hot dog. So like if you ever knew if Jews ever knew what goes into the making of the filter fish, they would never eat. You don't have to bring religion into it. Okay.

All right. Let's go filter fish. Yeah, no one does. You can just leave it at that. All right. We got some Apple podcast questions here. This one is from Balzy05. 12 team, half PPR, one quarterback league, three wide receivers, and it's four point per passing touchdown. Keep two in a $200 salary cap, and you can

keep the same cost for two years. So $200 salary cap, it's half PPR. Malik neighbors for $26. Brock Bowers for $14. Jameson Williams for $14. Evans for 12. Jayden Daniels, excuse me, Jayden Daniels for two. One QB? One QB, and it's four point per passing touchdown, yeah. Oh, this is tough.

It's neighbors, Bowers, and Jayden for me. It's down to those three four point per passing touchdown. Yeah. Oh, this is tough. It's it's neighbors, Bowers and Jaden for me is down to those three. Obviously for me, clearly. I'm, uh, I'm getting rid of neighbors there. I'm going Bowers and Daniels. The value is too good for those guys. I think you're right. But I mean, the fact that you're keeping Daniels with even neighbors at his cost is still a pretty good start. I know. And neighbors, I think I might go Daniel's neighbors. Saving 12 bucks going down from neighbors to Bowers is too tempting for me. Yeah. Yeah. All right. This is one is from BMW three, three, seven, uh, 10 team, one QB. That's a car.

That's true. Uh, 10 team QB, 1QB PPR redraft league. I'm, oh sorry. I've been in that league. Now I'm joining a startup 12 team, half PPR, super flex, tight end premium IDP league with a 10 player taxi squad. Our slow draft starts in about six weeks. Any advice on how to approach a 12 team half PPR super flex tight end premium. It's one point PPR for tight ends. I don't know if it's

half for everyone else. Oh, it is I'm sorry, half half for everyone else. One full point for tight ends. And it's IDP with 10 taxi squad spots. How do you approach this especially from the IDP side? You got well, the first part is check out the heat dynasty episode and look at the board same answers before as far as the IDP side. Jamie got any thoughts on that? You still wait it out. I mean clearly it depends on how many IDPs you start because that's gonna

you know sort of factor in. What we see a lot of is you know three to five players and nobody wants to really you know get their hands too dirty with a lot of is you know three to five players and nobody wants to really you know get their hands too dirty with a lot of IDP players. If you have a full roster like you know Dan and I play in a dynasty league with Heath that has a full IDP, two defensive linemen, three linebackers or maybe two of each I'm not sure but it's multiple players at multiple positions then you have to have a little bit more, you know, early round, you know, view of it. But usually my approach is, uh, I, I tend to wait and, you know, get into the middle of the IDP, you know, pool. Um, I don't usually take the first IDP or first few players in that positions,

you know, I kind of just look for better value and stock up on offensive players first. So I feel like you can accrue IDP a lot via free agency as well and late draft picks. So look, if you're in a league where it's tight end premium, it's very different, right? Tight end premium where it's 1.5 points for a tight end and one point for everyone else is very different than this league where it's half a point for running backs, wide receivers

and a full point for a tight end. You're talking double the points now. So if you told me that Brock Bowers who could get a hundred catches is the first pick in this draft, even though it's super flex, I wouldn't really argue it because Heath made this point actually during last Friday show that we keep referencing the tight ends that are going to catch a lot of passes like McBride and Bowers are super valuable more so than a tight end that's going to catch, you know, 60 passes or something like that.

I don't know, just throw that number out like a John Smith or something. So a hundred catch tight end. If I had one more year of Brock Bowers being great, because I've seen sophomore slumps from Pitts and Laporta and Shockey back in the day, I've seen it. Then maybe I would say that he'd be my 101 in this format. I think I'd probably still go with a quarterback,

but you know, Bowers and McBride I think are easy, easy, easy first round picks, and if not the top six. They're first round picks. I don't know again if you wanna take them over the top quarterbacks though, just based on how those guys also perform. Yeah, but right, but if you took Bowers in round one and then two quarterbacks in

rounds two and three, you're probably going to end up with very good quarterbacks. True. But again, think where Bowers was drafted last year, and you know, what if you're taking those quarterbacks and then let's say a Tyler Warren or, you know, that's right. That's the wild card there. These rookie tight ends, especially the first two. Okay. Let's see we've got I think I had one more from Apple podcast. Missing it. Could have sworn I had another one. Well, I'm sorry if I missed it. Okay, let's go to our YouTube comments. fellas and ladies.

Ooh, here's the YouTube comment. If I was gonna say fellas and ladies on YouTube, fire away. But this one says Brock Bowers will be a bust. If not, ask Jentie. So, you know what's interesting guys? Last year I remember going, really not just me, like kind of the community, right? Man, are we really sure we want to take two Jets in the first round? Because Breeze Hall and Garrett Wilson were first

round picks. If Wilson wasn't a first round pick, he was like early second. Are we sure we want to take two Raiders in the first 18 picks? This is kind of an interesting take here from it's Chuka, baby, that Bowers or Genti will be a bust. Clearly that one of them could be. I would hope both are not. So you could see the pitfalls for both. Genti coming there and Bowers not getting as many opportunities as we saw last year because of a more balanced offense and throwing Jack Besh and whatever his chances are of being a prominent receiver. But then his value declines a little bit and he's more like tight in five. Then for Gentie, look, we sit here and say Sequon Barkley had a lot of work.

Nobody had more work in college than Gentie in just last season alone. So could he have a little bit of maybe a struggle in his rookie campaign, but there's just so much upside with those guys. It's hard to overlook taking them in those, in those ranges, you know, late round one for Genti, you know, middle to the end of round two for Bowers and just hoping that they're going to be as good as their talent profiles them to be. I think it'll be a concentrated offense with these two. Just looking at some of the stuff Chip Kelly's done and Chip Kelly's really in a lot of ways reinvented himself, just digging through some of the tape of Henderson and Judkins last year at Ohio State.

Like, A, the run game has always been diverse for Kelly, but it's even more diverse than it's ever been as far as the blocking schemes he's calling, the different concepts that are running out there. But also just like the usage of the tight end in this offense and in that offense, I think it'll work for both of these two. I'm more confident it'll work for Gentie. Okay. Some Richard says, someone asked whatever the issue was

that Adam had to deal with that set him off. I couldn't follow what the issue was. And then Jake said, Jamie rudely overruled Adam's poor commissioner decision. There was nothing rude about it. Adam overreacted. Adam's cat pooped in Adam's nap spot. That's somewhat true.

It's like, here's what I got an email. We do everything in that area. We got an email from one of the guys in the league that said, Michael Pittman had a boo boo last Thursday. Can you either put him on IR or kiss it and make it better? Yeah. So this is what I'm dealing with right now. You kind of deserve it though, to be honest with you. It's an off season, dude. No one him on IR or kiss it and make it better. Yeah. So this is what I'm dealing with right now. You kind of deserve it though.

Be honest with you. It's an off season, dude. No one's on IR. You don't just get to fricking put IR guys there. What the, are you kidding? No, I said fricking. Oh, geez. So, okay, hold on.

You started this. Give me a break. Take responsibility. 40 to 100 episodes for me. And you started this with your whole brand. We're all on edge today, Adam. I don't believe that to be true. 12 team PPR league question from Jake. Is there a better start than being at the 10th, the 10th overall and landing neighbors in round one and McBride in round two?

I don't think so. I love neighbors in round one at 10. It's a great spot for him. I think in terms of McBride and round two, it feels a little too soon. You know, like that could be neighbors and AJ Brown, for example. Um, which I like a little bit better, but if you have the feeling that McBride's gonna do what he's done the last year and a half and get more touchdowns. Hello. I don't think the touchdowns are going to take a huge jump, just based on his history and Kyler's history. The question for me,

and I think I like to start better than the finish there. I don't like McBride there in the backend. Question for me is, can McBride continue to get that type of target volume, which has really been the driver of his success in fantasy? And can Marvin Harrison Jr. take a step forward? Can those two things happen at once? Which I think is a question you have to ask yourself

more so like, can Kyler become that kind of rhythm passer that's leading those types of passing attacks? I'm not sold on that personally. All right, anybody else got a comment in the chat? I see a lot of comments, but not a lot of questions and we have to wrap this show up in a couple of minutes. So if you have anything you'd like to say, now is the time favorite late round quarterbacks. Oh boy, we do this a lot.

Drake may for me, Purdy, fields, Lawrence, uh, Kayla, not Lawrence. I think Lawrence isn't late round anymore. I see him in, I was looking at our rankings yesterday, Jamie, you guys all have him in your top 14 or 13, I believe Which I guess is kind of late round Yeah, I have him in May back-to-back, you know, I think those are too high-end You know QB twos that could easily be top 10 guys this year You know, I guess it depends on you know, what source you're looking at. Yeah Jordan for me. I think he's gonna have a big back is one of

my favorite late run guys. Another good one. Based on his track record and what he had options. Yeah, so many to because of Tyree kill. There you go. quarterback early. Yeah, it's it's actually going to be tough deciding which guy because there are so many. I'll probably mix it up in my leagues, but. But the draft fall to you.

Yeah, right, you could just wait and wait and wait. Drake May is interesting, because I feel like I haven't taken him. I mean, I don't know that I can justify May over some of the more proven guys. I think you take, if you're taking May, you're taking another flyer like that, and you're hoping one of them will break out.

All right. Yeah. Or depending on how deep your bench is, you know, like you can, I have one magazine draft that we play out where I took Baker early, early ish, you know, around eight ish and there wasn't anybody I liked on the board better. So I took, I took Drake May and if he hits, then I'll be happy about that. But there, I mean, like Michael Pennex and JJ McCarthy, you know, Johnny brought that up in the chat, McCarthy, uh, Pennex, you know, another young guy that easily can have

a big season. Look the way Bryce Young finished last year. I mean, there's so many, maybe Cam Ward can have a great rookie season. Like there's so many good quarterbacks. It's, it's uh, for fantasy. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you know, you, you want to get one of those studs early

I totally get it just a matter of how early you want to pull the trigger on Lamar and Alan and Daniels and you know miss out on some other, you know, potentially good players I want to leave I gotta leave we gotta leave the show here, but hmm. I want to leave everybody with this story So last year Dan and I played the tennis match. And what we did was we auctioned off for St. Jude spots in the fantasy football today league. And basically, you got to co manage with us. So you could be on Team Dan or Team Adam. And whoever won the match got to do got to swap picks in the in either the third or the fourth round. Fourth round, I think.

Well, it ended up being the fourth round because you had an earlier pick in the first round and in the third round, and then you ended up with, you had to swap picks with me in the fourth round. So you ended up with the fourth pick of round four, and I ended up with the seventh pick of round four, whereas it should have been reversed. Would you like to know who we selected with those two picks?

I think it's gonna work out bad for me, go ahead. Then you swapped up and took Travis Kelsey. Okay. Whereas I was pushed down four spots and drafted Joe Mixon. Wow. Yeah. Very nice, very nice. It was a pleasure doing business with you.

I am happy now. What did you say? I'm happier now. This has bored my heart. Yeah. I don't like the way I played yesterday though. Yesterday I played and realized I have basically no chance to beat Dan. So we'll leave it at that. Oh, I love to hear that. Everybody, old Adam would tell you to have a great weekend. New Adam doesn't give a crap about your weekend. We will see you Monday on Fantasy Football Today. No idea. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Talk to you Monday. See you later.