Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag and Fantasy Cops! (09/09 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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It's time to dominate your fantasy league.
This is going to go the distance.
Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.
Bailbag time.
We got the fantasy cops a little bit later.
We have actually five fantasy cops cases scheduled for today's show.
I do not like this development, though, from Schneier.
I don't like the new camera angle.
No, it's terrible.
Why is it so bad?
Go back to embrace the stink.
Go back to the bathroom.
Go back to the toilet look.
I confirmed before moving angles with Jamie that it still would make me look like I bathroom. Go back to the toilet. Look, I mean, did you try it?
I confirmed before moving angles with Jamie that it still would make me look like I was on in a bathroom on a toilet.
So I'm still I, you know, I didn't change the chair angle.
So you still can't see the chair.
I'm blocking the chair.
It still looks like enough of a toilet.
What I have to do is really embrace it, though, and throw in a little toilet roll right there.
So I'm still working on that.
You should put Lysol back there or whatever.
I mean, really, you should just go for it.
I love it.
Do you know that we discovered
that you stole fantasy cops
from somebody?
Oh, no, Adam.
First of all,
I don't believe that.
Who was it?
From who?
No one.
Just the look on your face
was worth it.
No, it's garbage.
I remember it used to be
the fantasy regulators.
He's still dealing
with the backlash from stealing that.
Christopher Harris' flag earlier.
He's still dealing with a lot of backlash from that.
He does plant your flag players.
I was doing plant your flag or takes.
I almost, but to avoid.
Don't do semantics.
To avoid the poop storm that you were going to deal with.
When I was giving you credit for your Josh Reynolds last night,
I was going to say kudos to Adam Azer for talking about Josh Reynolds for a month.
He really planted his flag on that guy.
I have a new nickname for the Vikings.
I had my three sons for the Vikings, for Madison, Addison, and Hawkinson,
but someone said you forgot about Jefferson.
So how about, yeah, I know, pathetic, right?
How about Sons of Anarchy?
That's what we can refer to the Vikings as.
They got four sons.
Jefferson, I mean, that's a little weird, right?
Jefferson, Addison, Madison, Hawkinson,
were there four main characters in Sons of Anarchy?
Sure. Man, I knew you didn't know that one. No, of course, Madison, Hawkinson. Were there four main characters in Sons of Anarchy? Sure.
I knew you didn't know that one.
Of course, I've seen it.
But yeah, you got the guy from Braveheart.
You got Jax.
You got the guy from...
I've seen Sons of Anarchy, but you haven't seen Friday Night Lights.
All right, let's read some emails and podcast questions here.
Apple podcast questions.
This comes from Dan in a small town in New York.
Toilet town.
Yeah.
I had both Chris Godwin and Mike Evans fall to me
in a 14-team PPR league.
I couldn't help but take them at the time.
Should I try to unload one,
even though I feel I've got a strong team,
or write out the stack?
If so, who should I try to get rid of Godwin or Evans?
Got to go with Dan on the unloading question.
So Dan,
what would you do?
Yeah,
I would get rid of Evans in this regard.
Um,
you dump actually,
you know,
I take that back.
I think you're going to get more back for Godwin.
And I don't think,
I think I see,
feel like there's enough of a different season long and someone might
actually trade for Godwin. if they're in a bad spot
at receiver due to injuries, especially if this
is half PPR or PPR. So I'd actually look to
move Godwin. It's PPR. I would
disagree with that.
For me, I would actually wait
this week if you can.
And I expect both
guys to have actually a decent game because
while I do expect the Vikings secondary to
improve, I'd like to see it first. And I think if both guys have a good game then the trade value
goes up for both of them but I would rather trade Evans specifically for what Dan said I think you
would get more in return for Godwin but I think if Edmund Evans does go off like you could see
I would never do this but you could see as we were talking about on Friday morning
the potential of somebody getting panicked about Jameer Gibbs and maybe you have a a Gibbs and something for, I'm sorry, Gibbs for Mike Evans and something,
and you might get something pretty good in return. Yeah, just be careful because we could have said,
well, if you want to trade Sky Moore, you should do it after week one because Kelsey's out and this
and that. I mean, if Godwin and Evans have bad games against the Vikings, their trade value is
going to go flush right down the toilet.
That is a great point, but I would counter with that and say Sky Moore and Mike Evans are not the same.
One guy has yet to do it. One guy
has certainly proven it time and time again.
I know, but the point is they could easily have
bad games.
This one is from DarkWrestler4.
Dear George, Gerald, Ulysses,
and Franklin.
Ulysses, Grant. That's the only Ulysses I and Franklin. Ulysses, Grant.
Those are presidents.
That's the only Ulysses I know.
These have got to be presidents.
Okay.
Yes.
Do you think any of the Panthers' wide receivers
will make an impact in fantasy this season?
Yes.
There'll be some weeks where Adam know adam thielen or hopefully dj charke and maybe
the the mingo eight year baby um have some some good moments oh i'm gonna definitely steal that
as a team name since i don't creatively come up with my own and adam doesn't like that about me
but i do like that one a lot but i i would bet on mingo i think if you're looking at that receiver core and you're looking at this pass game overall,
the concerns for me are, will this offensive line hold up enough for a consistent pass game at any point this season?
And I think as they go on through the season, there will be improvement on the O-line,
and we'll start to see the passing game create a little bit more, but I think it will run through Mingo at that point,
or at least that's the player I would want to bet on
having the most consistency in fantasy.
Thielen, to me, I feel like that's an injury waiting to happen,
if not just bad production coming out of it.
Chark is interesting, but I don't know if he perfectly fits
into what Bryce Young's skill set is, so I would bet on Mingo.
Okay, this is from adjacent to Naperville.
I need two in a flex.
Pirine, Mostert, Elijah Moore,
Nico Collins, or Romeo Dobbs.
Pirine, Mostert, Elijah Moore,
Nico Collins, or Romeo Dobbs.
Mostert to start for me.
Mostert is the easy one.
It comes down to Pirine versus
is Romeo Dobbs the guy in Green Bay
because Christian Watson is out.
So if Watson plays, I would go with Pirine. If Watson is out, I would go with Dobbs the guy in Green Bay because Christian Watson is out? So if Watson plays, I would go with Pirine.
If Watson is out, I would go with Dobbs.
But I also wouldn't rule out Elijah Moore
because I think he could have a decent game as well against the Bengals
in the game of the week.
But yeah, I think it's between Dobbs and Pirine.
Dan, you missed one of the most –
I don't even know what the right word – like awkward.
It was really funny do what Adam do.
No.
So Adam texts me right before the show starts.
You know,
we have our game of the week stick with Dave.
So Adam texts me right before the show starts, uh,
on Friday morning and says,
when I say Joe Burrows playing Baltimore,
don't correct me.
I want to see what Dave says.
I said,
I'm hoping Dave jumps in and corrects me.
And then he's trying to trap our employees. I got it. And then I was going to do, I want him to what Dave says. I said, I'm hoping Dave jumps in and corrects me. And then game of the week.
So he's trying to trap our employees.
I got it.
And then I was going to do, I wanted him to say, no, he's playing the Browns.
And then I was going to, you know, smash game of the week.
So Dave doesn't catch the mistake and he just starts to, no, of course I'm playing Joe Burrows.
And then Adam goes, so you're playing Joe Burrows against the Ravens.
And then Dave freezes.
His internet freezes. So he's stuck.
And so now Adam's trying not to
giggle.
I'm just looking down because I'm starting to laugh too.
I don't want Dave to see me. And Adam's just
starting to laugh. And so he's like,
basically like, so Dave,
against the Ravens.
I think I
asked him three or four times if he liked Burrow against the Ravens.
And he's like, what am I going to do?
I'm going to sit Joe Burrow?
Anyway, what's the...
Okay, next one is from
The Ego Formerly Known as Joel.
Best comedy of the 80s continued.
This is something that Jamie asked
and I said cheers.
Joel says says perfect strangers
Adam is Larry Appleton and Dave
Heath Jamie and Dan all come together
like Voltron
to form the wildly unpredictable
fantasy football version of Balki
Balki Bartokomus
not even going to pretend
like I've ever heard of this movie
it's a show
it's a show this It's a show.
There we go.
It's a show.
This is from Chucky Buckle.
A friend asked me to join a league at the last hour,
or the last minute, two hours before the draft,
and gave me the general rules of the league.
12 team, half PPR, et cetera.
Not until after the draft did anyone tell me that in this league,
you're only allowed two transactions per week and three trades during the
entire season.
My questions are one,
are these rules stupid?
And two,
should I have been told this before asking me to join the league?
Well,
one,
I don't know if these rules are that stupid.
I think some leagues that I've played in,
not typically the ones that I'm super excited about, but leagues that I've played in
prefer, let me try to say this in the nicest way, prefer less involvement during the year.
Some players just want, some managers want to draft their team, have something to root for,
but they don't want to be forced to really be into it every day of every week and really
play it out in that sense. So there will be some leagues where you
get people who prefer this. I don't prefer that. I'd rather be into it and play it out and give it
my all, but some leagues prefer that. So they don't want trades and they don't want all these
transactions. I'm going to league baseball league, fantasy baseball league with 10 transactions for
the whole year and no trades for that exact reason. So I don't know if it's stupid. I think
it's just preference for some people, but I will say this. It is terrible that they didn't tell you this before the draft.
That has to be fully communicated to anyone who joins the league.
That they didn't tell him or he didn't ask?
Because I think that's the question that he should ask.
Oh, you shouldn't have to ask that.
I don't think you should have to ask.
Is there a transactions limit?
You just assume there isn't.
Well, yes, you're right.
That specific stuff.
I mean, I don't know.
I would assume I play in the most leagues of the three of us here. And I've joined a couple this year where that's the first thing I ask. Okay, so just tell me what the rules people. And I don't want to say abusing it. They're just trying to figure out the right way to add and draw players.
So there are some formats where transaction limits do make some sense.
But think about it.
You're the Travis Kelsey manager.
You're the Cooper Cup manager.
You've already had to probably make one transaction.
Jonathan Taylor, Jeff Wilson, one transaction already in your league,
whether it's putting somebody on IR
or trying to find a replacement for a starter
that you were hoping for. Now imagine
that happens again on the weekend.
Or there's just somebody was dropped.
I'm in one league where somebody dropped Van Jefferson
because they had to make a transaction.
I'm going to pick up Van Jefferson. We have deep benches. It doesn't make sense
to leave him on the waiver wire.
If I couldn't do that, that would drive me nuts.
Yeah, of course.
All right, let's go a little faster
because we do have some news.
We have some Jerry Judy news.
We have some Ramondre Stevenson news.
Stevenson did not practice today for the Patriots.
This is DJ Slater.
Adam and Dan should do all of the combine drills
for best athlete.
I'll win the agility ones
and he'll win the strength ones.
Never win the agility ones. You think win the strength ones never win the agility ones
you think you're going to beat me in the 40?
you weigh 40 more pounds than me
40 is not an agility drill
the speed slash agility drills
I will beat you
you might be able to beat me in a speed drill
because you're 40 pounds lighter than me
which is also absurd considering we look almost the same
from a skinniness standpoint
you just have no muscle whatsoever on you
agility drills that has nothing to do with deep speed or it's like i will be
i will jump higher than you i'm very agile closer than you and i want to not i don't want to bury
that we are playing some sports we're going to play basketball for sure yeah you think you're
good at that for sure even good at basketball just know i can back you down every single play
and i'll just out physical you and any sport like that.
We'll play some football drills.
We'll have that automatic quarterback.
Maybe Jamie will come up and play auto QB for us.
We're going to figure it out,
but it's happening next year for sure.
Right.
I said,
did I say,
let's go quicker here.
Let's go.
Dotson,
Deontay or Damian Pierce and PPR.
Dotson.
That's it for me as well.
Chig,
Everett or Ferguson. Chig, Everett or Ferguson,
Everett or Ferguson,
uh,
Ferguson,
first giants from dirt beach.
I have Tua and Jordan love.
Should I drop love for Sam Howell?
I would rather love.
Um,
I would rather have Howell and I would certainly rather have Howell this
week.
If there is no Watts.
I mean,
think about this.
They're dealing with injuries right now.
Like true.
If great.
So Terry McLaurin was also banged up.
So take that into account,
but it just feels like,
my gosh,
can you trust Jordan love if he doesn't have any of those guys?
Uh,
no,
he's got, he's got two of this week, so he doesn't need any of those guys? No, but he's got two of them this week,
so he doesn't need to start him.
It's just a stash.
Yeah, it's a stash for the rest of the season.
I think Howell's rushing will surprise a lot of people if he does it.
I think that could be the case.
I'm a little concerned with Howell not translating
what we saw in the preseason to the regular season
because we've seen that with a lot of these,
not as, I should say, valley-hood or talented preseason to the regular season. Cause we've seen that with a lot of these, you know, not as I should say,
Valley hood or talented quarterbacks at the NFL level.
We'll see.
And that schedule is really tough.
I can see a lot of 150 yard passing games coming out of Washington.
This is a PPR league,
James cook or mile Sanders.
Sanders.
I'm going with cook.
I know the matchup sucks,
but I, if I draft Cook,
I want him on the field for the first game.
I have just very high expectations for what he can do
within that offense this year,
especially if this league's PPR or half PPR.
It's PPR.
This is from a sad Detroit sports fan.
Oh, I didn't know.
Those shouldn't exist right now.
Why should those not exist right now?
They just beat the Chiefs.
Yeah, come on.
Yeah, but there's been
years of misery.
So obviously just one win
isn't going to totally
make up for that.
It should.
A sad Detroit sports fan
is in a 10-team
three-receiver PPR
Dynasty Startup
Salary Cap League.
And he has Jefferson,
Hill, Diggs, and Higgins.
Plus Geno,
Dobbins, and Mostert, and Kyle Pitts.
Did you think he structured his team properly
going all in on wide receiver?
Jefferson Hill, Diggs, and Higgins
in a startup dynasty league.
Ten teams.
It's fantastic.
Yeah, good job.
This is from BB Baseball.
Ranking of analysts and hosts by humor level.
One, Heath. Dry humor, sarcasm specialist, keeps Adam in check. baseball ranking the ranking of analysts and hosts by humor level one
Heath dry humor sarcasm
specialist keeps Adam in
check to Dan nerdy witty
humor also keeps Adam in
check three Adam every man
humor a bit of an absurdist
for Dave dad humor self
deprecating great at
accepting jokes on himself
Jamie was actually left off the list.
He was left off the list.
That's so insulting.
That's insulting.
Wow.
Dan is not funnier than me.
I'm not what?
You're not funnier than I am.
That's ridiculous.
If there was a combine for that, I would destroy you in that.
Adam, there's only one person on this list who had the word witty attached to their
breakdown. And that was me. So let's just keep that in mind.
So what do you can't even come up with a team name?
I don't need to. I use my resources, my funny resources toward other things like keeping you
in check. Okay. I'm very much looking forward to seeing those things. Uh, this is from Lindsay
Wolf says Dan Schneier gives the best advice about streaming kickers.
Wow.
This is unreal.
This is a great show for me so far.
You did give good advice on that.
What was it again?
Thank you.
So for streaming kickers, what you want to target are two things.
You want to target the teams with the heavy, the teams are at home.
You want home kickers first of all.
And the second thing you want is home kickers with a big spread.
So if the team is, has a nine point, they're nine point favorites or eight point favorites.
Those are the kickers you want big spread. So if the team has a nine-point, they're nine-point favorites or eight-point favorites, those are the kickers you want to target.
Okay.
We got some news and notes on the other side of the break.
We will be right back on Fantasy Football today.
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dirt report so a couple news items here and we're recording this mailbag a lot earlier than we
usually do so we don't have all the practice reports hopefully we'll get them throughout
the afternoon but remandre stevenson did not practice and jerry judy said it is his decision
whether he plays this weekend against the raiders um Jamie, what do you think about the Patriots right now, if Stevenson's questionable?
He didn't practice today?
Correct.
There would be no Patriots I'd want to play.
What about Zeke?
There would be no Patriots I'd want to play.
Okay.
Zeke would be a flex at best. I could see flexing Zeke. There'd be no Patriots I'd want to play. Okay. Zeke would be a flex at best.
I could see flexing Zeke,
but it is never a good sign when somebody pops up on Friday of the injury report
with a do not practice,
at least as far as their availability for this week goes.
So I think you could be looking at it,
but I think what Jamie's maybe saying,
I don't want to put words in your mouth,
Jamie,
but I'm not sure if this is your opinion on this,
but even if Stevens doesn't play,
we're not sure that Elliot is going to be this bell cow in that backfield.
No,
I think he will be the bell cow,
but you're talking about him being the bell.
What'd you say,
Dan?
I just,
I'm curious if you guys think he's going to get every touch right away.
If Ramondre misses,
I just knowing the Patriots,
I just can't see that happening.
They have the worst running back depth room behind Stevenson.
So I think he'd get 15.
I think he'd get 15 touches.
Yeah, okay, 15 is fine.
All right.
You mentioned a fantasy baseball league.
Yeah.
I was wondering if I could briefly tell what happened in my fantasy baseball league.
I'm not talking about the one you quit as commissioner.
No, I was in a 16-team league.
Somehow I had Ronald Acuna and didn't make the playoffs.
Oof.
My 16-team league was decided, the championship round,
the guy won by like
.13
fantasy points. And it came
down, I believe,
to the final inning of the
Sunday night baseball game.
And if Jordan Alvarez had struck
out, the guy would have lost
a half a point and he would have lost.
But I think he grounded out, which is zero points.
That is epic right there. Isn't that he grounded out, which is zero points. Out non-strikeout. That is
epic right there. Isn't that cool?
That's what we play for.
Exactly.
Another thing that we play for
is the fantasy cops.
We got a busy week.
I got a lot of cases on my desk
today, guys. A lot of paperwork.
Let's start with Matt.
Our fantasy football commissioner likes to say he, quote, rules with an iron fist. today, guys. A lot of paperwork. Let's start with Matt.
Our fantasy football commissioner likes to say he, quote,
rules with an iron fist.
That is not hyperbole. It is a direct quote.
Every year, about a week before the draft,
he comes up with some non-traditional scoring
change. Things like negative points
for field goal misses, defensive points for a
fourth down stop. Changes we
are typically used to.
Whatever they are, we just roll with it because
even if we protested, it wouldn't matter. He really isn't a commissioner. He's a dictator,
and he's proud of the way he runs the league. This year, his scoring wrinkle was points for
kick and punt returns. It was billed to us as 0.25 points per return yards. So four return yards would get you one point.
But what he actually did was set the scoring to 0.25 yards per point.
So one return yard gets you four points.
I don't think I need to explain to you why this is a problem.
Full disclosure, I did notice this mistake the day after the draft.
It was kind of a dead giveaway when the top player on waivers was Ray,
Ray McLeod,
but I chose not to notify the commissioner as he's made it known to the
league,
how our opinion doesn't matter.
The rest of the league picked up on the mistake during the second quarter
of the chiefs lions game.
And our dictator quickly removed all return yard scoring.
My question for you and the podcast is,
do we finally revolt and overthrow our commissioner
slash dictator?
If everybody agrees,
then you probably should.
I think it's,
I kind of feel like
this is harmless fun
for the most part.
Like, he removed the points, right?
He realized he made a mistake here
with the scoring.
He wanted to just have fun and add like, i had something quirky every year like i'm a
commissioner in one league and and one of the funny things about it is i'm i'm known as the
opposite kind of that people want me to iron fist some rules because instead that is so funny you
that is funny you are very funny that's what they want they want more iron fist
we need that for all your dad jokes too the sign tells the map track all right yeah but um
and i'm the opposite i like to have everything go by a vote and then it turns into a whole debate
and a back and forth on email and people are going off on each other and that was not really the best process either so i don't hate the idea of a
commissioner just being like we're throwing in rules but obviously he made a mistake here and
made the point scoring too much and fixed it since but okay i don't know if you guys don't enjoy it
obviously then that's a different that's a different viewpoint as well this one is from david
wait wait hold on though what what what have people drafted based on the rule?
Oh, yeah.
Well, I don't think anyone really knew the rule,
so I think it's harmless in this situation,
but if people did draft based on the rule...
No, they knew the rule.
They just didn't realize that the scoring was screwed up.
Yeah, that's true.
So they did draft.
Yeah.
You know what he needs to do is get it to the right setting
where return yards are four yards for one point. That's what he needs to do is get it to the right setting, where return yards are four yards for one point.
That's what he has to do.
Now, do you overthrow him?
I don't think you overthrow him.
But, yeah, you just got to accept it.
You're living in a dictatorship.
If all 11 people want him out as the commissioner, then that's fine.
All right, fine.
If somebody wants to step up and do it, then that's fine.
Adam's been trying to Oscar music us off for the last four then that's fine. If somebody wants to step up and do it, then that's fine. Adam's been trying to Oscar
music us off for the last
four seconds.
Next up, from David.
Is it ever appropriate to veto
and is it part of a commissioner's
responsibility
to protect
newbie players from experienced players
as they encircle
the new guy like hungry sharks in the water.
We had a situation in our league where a novice manager took zero RB to the extreme. He didn't
know how to pull it off. He just read a few articles preaching zero RB and he only drafted
Jamal Williams, Samaj P. Ryan and Roshan Johnson. A savvy manager in our league traded him three
dead zone running backs, Camara, Javante, and Khalil Herbert for Jamar Chase and Jerry
Judy. The savvy manager
already had Justin Jefferson in the homes. Now he
has Chase and Judy too.
He's got a juggernaut. I'm the commissioner of
the league and several managers
were telling me I needed to veto it.
But the way I looked at it was it gave the novice
manager three starting running backs.
Camara, Javante, and Khalil Herbert.
The novice manager still has Olave,
Garrett Wilson, Dotson, etc.
I feel like he can feel the competitive team now.
Clearly, the savvy owner or manager
got Chase and received the best
player in the trade. Should I overturn the deal or let it
stand?
You should definitely let this one stand
according to me. I'm not
a big believer in vetoes in general.
As far as the first question goes,
what do you do about newbie managers? You have to let them live and learn in my mind,
and they have to play out fantasy and learn from their mistakes. If you go to a poker table in
Las Vegas right now, or wherever you play poker, and there's a newbie fish at the table,
do you think that other players are being like, no, man, you should play this hand like this?
Or like, no, I have the nuts here. Don't call me't call me. Don't call me. Or like, you know, that's not how it works. You have to live and
learn. You have to play out the game and get better at it. And so he tried something zero RB.
Maybe he didn't like how it played out and he had regrets. And in the end, he gets three guys,
like you said, who can start, or at least can play, they're going to get some touches and he
gives up the best player in the deal. It's obviously not great, but now he can
feel a little bit better about his team.
That's something he goes into next year saying,
I'll never do that again. I'll never
leave my draft with running backs that bad again.
Yeah.
Look, if Schneier goes to play pickup
basketball, they're not going to say, no,
just leave him open. Let him shoot. They're going to
cover him. They're going to let him learn
and try to get better that way.
Yeah, I would probably let them shoot.
Yeah, don't veto the trade.
Let it stand.
This is from Patrick.
We have an issue in our Dynasty League.
There's a league member that knows
he's not going to be able to compete at a higher level,
but doesn't just want to win four games
and get a middle round pick in the rookie draft.
There are other teams that are pretty bad
and could get better spots.
So to combat this,
this manager is benching some of his better players.
Our commissioner took note of this
and told them he wasn't happy about it
and was going to look for a way
into implementing a rule to keep it from happening
day of the start of the season.
LOL.
So anyway, this is a common question.
You know, what do you do about teams tanking
in dynasty leagues? So one way that one league I'm in combats it is, This is a common question. What do you do about teams tanking in Dynasty Leagues?
One way that One League I'm in combats it is,
and I think you can only do this on some of the apps,
is you take the best ball score of a team,
and that's the draft order.
The draft order is determined by last to first in best ball scoring.
So no matter what, if you want to bench your good guys
or start your good guys, it doesn't matter. You're're getting the score the best score you would get that week for
whoever's on your roster that's one way to do it um in managed leagues i'm not sure that's even an
option in managed leagues i personally think you should let people tank however they want
as long as they're starting somebody who is in the nfl and playing on that on that week
um i just think that's part of dynasty to me,
but I know other people have a stronger opinion on the opposite side of that.
I think what you said there matters. Cause I liked the way Heath does it with the dynasty
league that we're in, where you have to at least be starting somebody who's playing.
So it can't be somebody who's an active, can't be somebody who's just on a roster.
Uh, it has to be somebody who's actually playing. So I'm in a situation where I took over a dynasty
league. Uh, I drafted, I cut the entire roster. So I'm in a situation where I took over a dynasty league. I drafted,
I cut the entire roster.
Basically I have an entire roster,
basically a rookies and a few guys that matter.
And I'm trying to lose.
I'm trying to get,
you know,
the chance to draft hopefully Marvin Harrison and,
and,
and continue the rebuild process.
But I am starting players that are,
that are actually there.
Yeah.
I'm looking at one of our teams in our Bakeburger Dynasty League,
Tim Stafford, who is
going for the first pick in the draft.
He's going for Caleb Williams at Superflex. He's
starting CJ Stroud, Rashawn
Johnson, Kenneth Gainwell, Josh Downs,
Cedric Tillman, Chigokonko, Irv Smith,
Deuce Vaughn, Juwan Johnson,
and Derek Carr. He is benching
CeeDee Lamb, DK
Metcalf, Tua, Traylon Burks, George Kittle,
Mike Evans are on the bench.
Oh, he really is
going for this.
He's going to Owen whatever.
Or he's going to try.
It's an interesting strategy in a startup where
everybody had the same level playing field.
Yeah, he's
going for next year. He wants to have a juggernaut
hopefully for next year. We'll see a juggernaut hopefully for next year
we'll see how it works that this is actually the most experienced dynasty player in the league
he must have also made i think he was also making trades in draft for future picks if i'm not
mistaken correct yep yep okay let's uh go to mike from montgomery new jersey how do you feel about
montgomery new jersey though considering I've never heard of it,
my guess is it's South Jersey.
Up here in North Jersey,
we don't really take as kindly to the South Jersey people.
Last night,
I bid $2 on the commander's
defense. So did someone else.
And that other manager got
the commander's defense, but I should have
because I drafted ninth and the other
manager drafted first. It's an offline
draft and the commissioner forgot to set
waiver priority for tiebreakers,
which always starts the season as
reverse draft order. Should
I be given the DST? The other manager
and the commissioner said submit it to the fantasy
cops, and if I get a reply in my favor
by Sunday, they'll reverse it.
Reverse it.
Reverse it. Yeah, reverse it, but also reverse it. Reverse it. Reverse it.
Yeah, reverse it, but also get with the times, guys.
I mean, we don't need waivers that are reverse order of the draft.
Put in a budget. Give everybody the budget
to work with. They had the budget. They did the budget.
You weren't listening. The tiebreaker
for budget is always
record or... That's why, okay,
then I take it back. Yeah, listen. I missed
that part of that. I was listening.
Observation about New Jersey,
by the way.
Hold on.
New Jersey is just
a collection of towns
that I have no idea
where they are.
Okay.
There's no continuity.
It's just like,
oh, you live in this place
in New Jersey?
I have zero idea
where you live.
That's everywhere in New Jersey.
It's a very, you know,
condensed area with a lot of towns. You know what comes with that,
Adam? You don't have to drive a million hours
to get to places like you do in Florida.
Let me just say this about
the mistake I just made.
The tiebreak shouldn't be the rolling draft order
either. To avoid tiebreaks, give a $1,000
budget instead of a $100 budget.
That's what we do in our league, and so it's much
harder to tie on the bid. Okay uh zach moss practicing again jamie your reaction if he plays he's the
best colts running back to me which is not saying very much so still at best they flex yeah and uh
that's like saying the best athlete among adam and Dan. Let's read some emails.
Fantasy football.
You're going to be so embarrassed next summer.
Okay.
I have a whole year to train.
So do I.
You're not going to train.
I'm going to take this a lot more seriously than you.
If I get out athlete by you,
that could be the end of my life.
Let alone could not let a career.
Who's Wisconsin got this week?
What'd you say? Who's Wisconsin got this week? I can't think of that far. Who's Wisconsin got this week?
Wisconsin this week has Washington State, I believe.
Big fan.
Don't even know they're playing.
No, I know they're playing one of those Pac-12 teams
they lost to last year.
I think it's Wazoo.
I wasn't really thrilled with week one of the air raid
for Wisconsin.
I think we have a long way to go
in trying to make that conversion.
Yeah, I know the most important thing for Wisconsin
is knowing the opponent they're playing.
So let's go to our emails, fantasyfootballatcbsi.com.
This is actually a very funny greeting from Peter.
Dear blank, blank, and blank,
those are usable Chiefs wide receivers.
Who to start in a full PPR flex?
Brees Hall,
Khalil Herbert, or Brandon Cooks?
Herbert.
PPR flex. Yeah, I'll go Herbert. I think Cooks
could have a good... No! What the hell,
bad guy? It was Washington State. I'm not a
fake fan confirmed. I was just correct, and I just
didn't have the confidence level that I should have had.
Okay? Okay.
But it is Herbert.
From Joshua.
This is my first year playing fantasy football.
I've wanted to for a while.
Your YouTube channel has been one of my main resources.
All right.
Welcome, Joshua.
That's great.
10-team PPR redraft league.
I'm seriously considering trading Cooper Cup.
Would you trade Cup and Cam Akers for Terry McLaurin and Alvin Kamara?
No.
He still has Amonra St. Brown, Amari Cooper, and Jerry Judy.
And he has Dijon.
Yeah, it's probably not enough.
If Cup is right, he's arguably best receiver in fantasy still.
Okay, we've got an email from Trace.
No, first from Michael.
2QB League, Ryan Tannehill or Jordan Love?
I am a Tannehill guy.
Love if his receivers are healthy.
We're talking for this week or longer? Yeah, no, this week.
Oh, this week.
Then it's even more so 10-0 for me.
I just think with the injuries for the Packers,
it's going to be a tough week.
This is from Trace now.
Dear Will, Jack, Hector, and Davey.
I'll give you a hint.
Will, Jack, Hector, and Davey,
this is a ride at Disney.
And a movie. Never been at Disney. And a movie.
Never been to Disney.
One more time.
Will, Jack, Hector, and Davey.
So happy I never had to go to Disney as a kid.
Yo-ho, yo-ho.
Pirates of the Caribbean.
Bottle of rum.
Yep, you nailed it.
Pee-pee.
Pee-pee. Something with a bottle of rum in there. I in there i know that yo ho ho and a bottle of rum but this is yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me it's pirates oh all right it's a trade here in a ppr league give up
mark andrews for kyle pitts and damian pierce
andrews for a weak at running back.
Yeah, Andrews for Pitts and Pierce.
He has Pollard, Bijan, James Cook, Jalen Warren, and Bigsby at running back.
I wouldn't do that then.
You're getting Pierce along with those guys,
or you're giving up Pierce because you have those guys?
No, you're getting Pitts and Pierce.
You're giving up Mark Andrews.
And you have Pollard and all those other running backs?
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know if I would do that, but I think in a vacuum
that trade is fair because Pierce and
Andrews weren't being drafted that much farther apart.
And if Pitt fits, he's potentially
close to Andrews in production. I don't think it's going to happen,
but it could.
This is from John. Would you start
Dobbins or Michael Thomas in PPR?
Dobbins.
You don't even need to get Jamie's answer for that.
We already know.
This is from Dan.
Hey, Adam and friends.
I have no idea who he's referring to.
Would you trade away A.J. Brown and James Cook
for Garrett Wilson and J.K. Dobbins?
Yes.
Yeah.
I really like that trade
for the Garrett Wilson-Dobbins side side yeah i think jamie would do it
for just dobbins yeah uh sky more too yeah there you go this is from brian dear hunter sean badass
and road dog uh xbox what do they call themselves oh degeneration x degeneration x yeah xbox
was the other x right is that what that is good job yes it is wow all right who would you start
this week marquise brown jsn nico collins or elijah moore it's standard scoring marquise
brown jsn nico collins elijah moore didn't you ask a very similar question on the show Friday morning?
Maybe.
I think you did.
You posed it.
I would start Elijah.
It would be either Moore or Nico Collins for me, for sure.
I think Nico has a good chance to get volume right away.
I think Moore also has a good chance to get volume right away,
especially if they're using him like they used him in the preseason.
That really excites me. So I'm just going to chase the projected volume here.
And I'd like those two over the rest for sure.
On a volume standpoint.
Yeah.
JSM would be the second guy for me.
This is from Trevor Deontay Johnson or Juju Fryer,
Muther Ferguson,
uh,
both Steelers and Lawrence or Richardson four point per passing touchdown.
Lawrence,
Lawrence. Lawrence.
But if you do want to split up the Steelers,
I would go Deontay and Ferguson.
Okay.
This is Joe from Boston.
Need two running backs, half PPR.
Rashad White, Zeke, Akers,
Khalil Herbert, Antonio Gibson,
half PPR, pick two.
Rashad White, Zeke, Akers, Herbert, Gibson.
White is the easy one.
And I would probably go with Gibson.
I'm on White and Herbert from that group.
And you should start Ridley in your flex over the other running backs, Joe.
This is from Brian.
Pick one in PPR.
Higby, James Cook, Flowers.
James Cook for me, for sure.
From Matt, Damian Pierce or Rashad White?
White.
I'm going to go Damian Pierce there.
This is from Nathan For You, or just Nathan.
I thought I'd throw a Nathan For You reference in there for Dan.
I'm surprised you saw that show, yeah. Yeah, believe me.
I know a lot more about it. You look a lot like him, people say, right. I'm surprised you saw that show. Yeah. Yeah. I believe me. I know a lot more.
You look a lot like him.
People don't look like him.
Come on.
Now the problem with the Nathan for you,
Adam comps is like Adam's voice is just 17 decibels higher than,
than Nathan's voice.
So it's just,
you can't really ever make that count for that reason.
I want him to do standup.
He's so funny.
It would be.
All right.
Two running backs, two receivers,
and a flex. What'd you say?
Have you ever done stand-up? Yeah.
I knew the answer
that was going to be yes. I have not done stand-up.
Okay. You strike me as a guy who has been
done the stand-up, gotten all his friends out
to the comedy club. I don't know why.
I have somewhat of a stand-up routine in my head.
One day you'll
get to? If I ever get called up on
stage at the improv or something, it's about
how lazy we've
become.
You
have keyless ignition in your car,
but God forbid you had to rent a car
and you had to actually put a key in
the ignition and turn it. You're like, are you
freaking kidding me? Of course, I'd be cursing and stuff.
Then you go to use your credit card at a store and like,
you know,
back in the day,
we used to have to swipe our credit card.
Then we got to just insert it in.
Now I can just tap.
I can just hold it over the reader.
Can you imagine if I had to insert my credit card again?
I have this whole routine about how lazy we become.
What do you think?
It sounds like it has some legs to it,
but it also sounds like it's just a total knockoff of Jerry Seinfeld.
So I'm not, not, not quite sure where to stand on this. I don't see that. I don't see it. I think, I but it also sounds like it's just a total knockoff of Jerry Seinfeld. So I'm not quite sure where to stand on this.
I don't see that.
I don't see it.
I think it's got some.
You know what would be funny?
I'm only kidding.
What?
You not doing stand-up.
Hey, Jamie.
How do you find Will Smith in the snow?
You look for the Fresh Prince.
You look for the what? The Fresh Prince. Oh, the Fresh Prince. You look for the what?
The Fresh Prince.
Oh, the Fresh Prince.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, I guess it was a joke.
It was a joke.
Looks like no John Mechie.
Okay.
This is a question from Nathan from long ago.
Two running backs, two receivers, and a flex PPR.
Barkley, yes. So give me one more running back.
Rashad White, Khalil Herbert,
Damian Pierce.
Rashad White.
I'm sticking with Pierce.
Give me two receivers.
Good news. What's the good news?
Armstead going through workouts today. See if he can play.
Oh, Taron Armstead. Nice. That's huge
for Dolphins.
So are you really asking me play. Taron Armstead. Nice. That's huge for Dolphins. So...
Are you really asking
me Tyreek Hill, A.J. Brown, Chris
Godwin? Come on, Nathan. You're going Brown
and Hill.
Is that his fault
for asking or your fault for reading?
Mine. Definitely his fault for not
throwing out the... Pick a flex.
Wait. Who was the running back you chose?
Rashad White, Herbert, Pierce?
We were split.
I was Pearson and G and Jamie was white.
White.
Okay.
So then you can go either white or Pierce or Herbert or Dotson or Godwin at PPR flex.
Uh,
dots in there.
Thought.
Uh,
you know,
it would be funny.
This is from the chat. If you guys
actually hit on some of your predictions, that would
be funny. Oh, look at
you over there. I predict we're
going to block you.
That was a big tough guy comment
over there from the YouTube section. Yeah, come on, Josh
Reynolds.
I'm about Christian Watson last year for me.
Yeah.
So whatever Dan says, just wait until week nine.
Yeah, I didn't say it was going to happen right away in week one,
but whoever drafted him was definitely happy they did.
Not really, because I guarantee they dropped him,
but it was a good prediction on your part.
I know you were very high on him.
This is from Michael.
Start two and a half PPR.
Christian Watson, Jahan Dotson, Christian Kirk, Rashad White.
If Watson plays, Watson and Dotson, Christian Kirk, Rashad White. If Watson plays
Watson and
Dotson, if Watson
doesn't play, it's Dotson and Cook.
Kirk, you said, right? I think Kirk
for me is definitely in my lineup, no matter how
I do this. I would be Watson and Kirk if Watson
plays, but other than that, I can
do Kirk and Dotson, but I got to keep
I think that whole Jaguars offense is going to have a
really good, fun first game.
What about Watson and Crick?
Watson and what? Watson and Crick.
Is that a TV show
or a movie? No, those cheesy jokes
are just in my DNA.
They're scientists. They
discovered DNA, I think.
Some really
random reference. Well, you said Watson and
Cook, Watson and Kirk.
So like,
how do you know the people who discovered DNA?
I went to school.
I went to school.
Oh, you don't learn that.
That's not like a something.
Joseph.
I will not play.
Okay.
That's bangles.
Pass rusher.
Bangles are not playing the Ravens this week.
This last one is from LT.
Yo,
Drew,
Chris and Brooke.
Drew is spelled J R U E.
Chris is K HH-R-I-S.
Chris Middleton.
Drew Holliday and Brooke Lopez.
I got the hockey box, baby.
Let's go, Adam.
I need two and a half PPR.
Mike Evans, Christian Kirk, or Raheem Mostert?
I'm sitting Evans.
Yeah, I'm going Kirk and Mostert.
Yep.
When we come back, we'll finish the show with your YouTube questions.
Submit them.
YouTube questions.
Go for it.
We'll be right back on Fantasy Football today.
Schneier, by the way, I want to thank Dan Schneier in all seriousness
for working on his day off.
He has Fridays off, but he's decided he's going to do the mailbag with us
almost every Friday, which is really cool.
We're going to do it a little bit early next week too.
So we won't have all the injury reports,
but I think going forward,
we should probably try to start maybe around 1230 or something.
So we have more news to cover and update everybody.
So we'll,
we'll do that.
But this,
this week it was 1130 AM on Friday.
Next week,
it's going to be the same thing.
Let's see what we have in YouTube.
What'd you say?
A little earlier next week.
11, I think, was what we were doing for next week.
11?
Oh, all right, 11.
Yeah.
All right, that's fine.
Daniel Jones or Tua, week one?
Tua.
Tua, yeah.
Tua.
Jamie obviously brought up on a previous podcast,
if you guys missed it,
Daniel Jones has a really bad history against the Cowboys,
so you don't want to chase that.
See,
there's a different way to go about it though.
I like when Jamie breaks down,
you know,
Daniel Jones,
it's always fair.
It's always,
uh,
um,
objective when he gets into Daniel Jones,
it's,
it feels like there's something behind it.
You know,
it's me,
like it's you,
but it feels a little different for some reason.
Like the other day you were like,
here,
let's talk about fantasy players. We haven't talked about it. And like, I think it's fair to talk about Daniel Jones at that point some reason. Like the other day you were like, here, let's talk about fantasy players.
We haven't talked about it.
And like, I think it's fair to talk about Daniel Jones at that point.
Right?
Like he's a fringe QB one.
Some people are excited about his rushing upside.
He's like, no, no, no, no, no.
We're done with this.
And he barreled it down into the point where you just like moved on to the next player.
I feel like you just got like, you got kind of, you got, uh, got barreled down on that
one, Adam.
You know, whenever you hear Heath talk about how much he doesn't like Daniel Jones, just
replace Daniel Jones with
Adam Azer.
It's so personal.
Yeah, basically.
The funny thing is he likes Daniel Jones this week.
You're not supposed to like him. He likes him.
I'm surprised by that, too. I did hear
him say Jones over somebody. I forgot who.
Yeah, look, it's a bad matchup, but
his history against Dallas doesn't really
bother me because his history in general is just really bad.
So if Daniel Jones is good, then, you know, then I don't really care.
Take that next step. You're saying it doesn't matter.
I think my prediction as a fan is this is not going to be the week for the offense to take off.
I think the Giants offense will take a step forward in 2023.
Not this week at all against that front.
It's also not just the long-term history.
Look at the two games last year with Brian Daywell.
If you want to just go the,
what did he do versus this team and this defense
with a good system?
Granted, Darren Waller wasn't there,
but track record doesn't matter.
He got pummeled in that week three game.
Anyway.
The pass rush.
Heath is right.
Now we actually are talking too much about him.
Deontay Johnson, Juju, or Dobbs if Watson's out?
Dobbs if Watson's out.
Deontay for me.
Would you trade Dalvin Cook for Alvin Kamara?
In a second.
Artbeat as well for me.
I like Kamara as an asset this year.
James Cook or Antonio Gibson, half PPR?
Cook for me.
I'll go Gibson.
Rank these guys. Tua, Geno,
Lawrence.
Lawrence, Tua, Geno.
I'm going to go Lawrence, Geno, Tua.
What should we do about the New England
running backs?
Cry if Stevenson doesn't play.
If Stevenson's out, I still think you can flex
Zeke. Just don't be too excited about that.
I think that you should...
Do you have him in the Dynasty League?
Bake Burgers?
Who?
Jamie.
Stevenson?
Yeah.
No, I have terrible running backs there.
Okay, and we're playing this week.
I hope I win.
I need two starters.
14 teams, PPR.
DJ Moore, Tyler Lockett,
Dotson, Deontay.
Moore and definitely Lockett for me.
I was into Lockett or Dotson.
I can go Lockett there.
I'm excited about Seahawks pass offense in week one against the Rams.
Whatever's left of that secondary.
Who are you sitting?
Miles Sanders, J.K. Dobbins, or Alexander Madison?
Sanders for me.
Sanders.
I'm sitting.
Phelan was back at practicing.
Oh, all right.
I'm sitting Madison. Can you do that?
I'm sitting Madison.
I'll start Sanders over Madison.
You play Sanders over Madison?
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, they're pretty similar.
They had, you know.
Well, I think one's on a good offense. The other's on a probably bad Madison? Yeah. Okay. I mean, they're pretty similar. They had, you know. Well, I think one's on a good offense.
The other's on a probably bad offense.
Yeah.
I'm just not sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're very close.
Okay.
Andrew Callahan, who covers the Patriots
for the Boston Herald,
says that Stevenson's absence is, quote,
puzzling.
Oh.
Yeah, I know. I read that.
It might not be injury-related.
Oh.
Hmm.
Okay.
Would you drop Justin Ross for Pierre Strong?
It's probably too late to do that, but I would not.
I don't have much interest in Pierre Strong.
I also don't have much interest in Justin Ross either, though, for fantasy.
DJ Moore, Van Jefferson, or Javante
Williams?
Javante Williams. Or no, I'm sorry,
DJ Moore. I missed him.
Van Jefferson does not belong
in the conversation with those guys.
That's what confused me, but I'll go Moore.
Moore as well.
I did this one, sorry. Can Adam
grow a beard? No,
I can't.
No,
actually he can.
And I don't know why he doesn't grow it out.
Cause when he does it,
it comes in pretty full.
Like I have,
but I can't up here.
Like I,
that's as full,
that's as full as it gets.
I,
what you have with the shadow,
it looks pretty good.
If I were you, I'd give it a shot and see what happens.
The thing is like,
if you committed to it,
it would be done in half an hour.
Yeah,
this is it. I shaved before the mailbag. And by the way, have you committed to it, it would be done in half an hour. Yeah, this is it.
I shaved before the mailbag.
And by the way, have you noticed that Jamie's hair now has grown back completely fine after he buzzed?
The thing you were so scared to do, buzz three lines into the side of your head.
Oh, I can't do it.
My wife's on an important call at 10.30 at night.
She was.
It was true.
By the way, the draft-a-thon ended at 10, so it wasn't 10-30.
It was like 9-15.
Why so low on Hollywood Brown?
Should be number one wide receiver on a team
playing from behind. Washington has no
lockdown cornerbacks.
They have a very good defense.
The pass rush will be a problem for whoever's starting
there, and good luck figuring out whoever's starting
there and if they're any good. So Josh
played in tune.
Not good for Hollywood Brown. Josh, yeah, late in tune. No,
not good for a Hollywood round.
Yeah.
Jamie know that you can't have confidence in the Cardinals offensive line,
given what they've done. And you can't have confidence in the quarterback throwing the ball downfield.
So how does Hollywood Brown get his touches or his yards or his touchdowns?
I don't know.
Jahan Dotson or DJ more,
more,
more plus Washington drafted a first round corner this year so we'll
see what that's true they did yeah uh someone just dropped camara in a half ppr 12 team league
how much fab for camara oh my god 12 team league i 50 at least i don't really understand why anyone
would have dropped camara that drafted camara this This is a wild league, but I'm going 65%.
Yeah.
I think a better free agent all year.
I think 80% is justifiable.
Would you say 80?
I think it's justifiable.
I,
I don't love doing that.
You're really at the mercy of Camara,
but I think it's justifiable.
There won't be a better free agent this entire year.
Godwin or lock it half PPR.
Lock it. Lockett.
Lockett, yeah.
Iuke, Addison, or Gibson?
Gibson.
Just given the matchups, I think Gibson makes the most sense there.
Two.
Okay.
Let's see.
What do you think about Addison?
What do you guys think about Addison for week one?
I think he might have a little bit of sneaky flex appeal for me.
Yeah, I don't disagree.
I think we were talking about this on Thursday's show
that sometimes with the rookies in week one,
you want to be a little cautious,
and Jameer Gibbs clearly proved that.
How much work will they get despite the situations,
despite what we love?
I said really the only...
I like two and a half rookies for this week.
Gibbs was one of them,
but it was Gibbs,
B John and Addison was the half,
just because I think the matchup is,
is good.
The,
like you said,
there's some sneaky flex appeal,
but how much is he going to play over KJ Osborne a week one?
You know,
is it,
is it just,
he has to work his way into it.
You know,
we see it all the time.
Second half of the season is when those guys,
second half of the season is when those guys tend to take off.
And so not bad for this week, but not a must-start in my opinion.
Okay.
I'm just going to read a few more here.
Thoughts on Tyler Conklin for the Jets?
I have none.
Not a safe start yet.
Could become a potential waiver wire guy
yeah, wait on that one
Deontay Johnson, James Cook or Brandon Ayuk
PPR
Deontay
it's going to be Cook for me
any thought on Marle Andrews
I think that's
Mark Andrews
any thoughts on him? I just think that's Mark Andrews.
Any thoughts on him? I just think he's probably fine. I mean, he came back to practice this
week. They said, let's not go
eat. When he first happened, Harbaugh was like, don't
go crazy over this. It's not a major injury.
So I think you
just treat it as normal. He starts
you start him. Yeah.
Pick up Jake Ferguson or Luke
Musgrave.
Ferguson. I'm going to go with Musgragrave i've been on musgrave train all draft season i finally have to start using actual draft
capital to get him i was able to get him last round every draft for a while but just believe
in the talent believe in the role he played every first team snap with jordan love in the preseason
he's getting open constantly the ball didn't always go his way i think he's a
credible talent i want to be in on i think he has breakout potential last one buy or sell happy
gilmore is better than billy madison great one from dave berry here i am going to sell sell oh
you're selling you have billy madison over happy gilmore yeah i would tell you i have happy gilmar
as the one those are very they're in the elite tier though.
I also,
and I know I got a lot of crap from this,
from you,
Adam,
or maybe it was Adi.
I also have big daddy in that tier.
I think big daddy is an amazing movie.
It's not as funny,
but it's just so heartwarming and amazing and still has funny moments,
but I know it's really not viewed properly.
It's more in the borough fields.
Lamar Jackson tier.
I, I, I would just say that, that the best in the Burrow Fields, Lamar Jackson tier. I would just say that the best Adam Sandler movie is clearly The Waterboy.
And I'm a little parched, so can we wrap this up?
Yes, we can.
Very, very tasty.
We can.
We can.
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