Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag and Fantasy Cops! (10/12 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 12, 2024

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Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Well, hello, everybody. It is mailbag time on a Friday morning for us. Adam Azer and Jamie Isenberg welcoming you to Fantasy Football Today, presented by BetMGM, the sportsbook born in Vegas. Hoping that we get some injury news trickling in throughout the show, so we'll keep our fingers crossed for that. Jamie, I just had a very weird snack.

I was very hungry. I knew I just had a very weird snack. I was very hungry. I knew I only had a few minutes to eat. I just heated up a little bowl of rice pilaf and just ate rice at 11 o'clock. Isn't that weird? I mean, that's a little weird, but, you know, rice is one of those universal things you eat any time of the day. You think so? Yeah. I feel like when I heat up rice and meat at the same time,

you have to do them separately because they cook at such different paces. You feel that way? By heat up, like cook from scratch? No, no. Microwave. Microwave.

Microwave. Yeah. I'm, I'm probably the wrong person to ask because like when I'm hungry, like I'll just microwave it, make sure it's a little warm and then I'm good to go. Okay. This is a problem with, with Chinese food is sometimes like you heat up like your chicken and your rice and then you the temperatures are all off anyway uh dave said in the chat that robinson was a game time decision which

rock do you know which robinson he was talking about i asked i mean i i would hope it's brian robinson as opposed to bijan robinson but I didn't see that anywhere else. Okay. I don't see that for Bijan. Yeah. Oh, it is Brian. Okay. Brian Robinson Jr. is a game-time decision.

It looks like Ramondre Stevenson is going to be out. Oh, really? So I'm reading Mike Reese. Gerard Mayo hints that Patriots will be elevating either running back Kevin Harris or Terrell Jennings from the practice squad, as Stevenson has yet to practice this week, Mayo says Stevenson's foot injury doesn't fall into the category of something that should keep him out long term. God, this is the second time this has happened today because I'm going to this one league

where I have Antonio Gibson and I'm losing 64 to 10. What happened here? I placed Debo and Kittle. Gosh, I had a 10 and Fred Warner. Terrible night. Jeez. So I guess I'll be starting Antonio. I mean, I'm going to start Antonio Gibson over Devin Singletary, Jamie. Over Devin. Yeah, I probably would too. Yeah, probably. All right. So where are you, Gibson? Get in there. Okay. Let's get to your questions here. No Dan today. Might be a shorter mailbag. I do have a decent amount of fantasy cops because

we got some naughty, naughty fantasy managers and commissioners out there and the fantasy cops are definitely needed today. So here we go. Starting with this one from G from a city south of Baltimore. Would you like to be the geographer from a city south of Baltimore. Would you like to be the geographer today? City south of Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Yes. Great one. Hey, Aaron, Luke, Anthony, and Garrett.

Aaron, Luke, Anthony, and Garrett. Yankees? You're damn straight. All right. Start one. Trey Sermon against the Titans or wait for James Cook? Then I could drive Juju to pick up either Ray Davis or Ty Johnson.

I think you'll know by Saturday what James Cook's status is. You should be able to wait. Yeah, and the other thing, I would start, if you want to play that game, I would bench, I mean, sorry, I don't know how you feel about this. I would drop Sermon.

Yes. And pick up Ray Davis and then just commit to the Bills. Yep. All right, from James, I'm interested to hear Jamie's take, spelled J-A-M-I-E, on Tank Dell, Wandale Robinson and Roshan Johnson and others, as they compared to recent Waver Wire ads, some of these

guys are hanging around on the Waver Wire. Tank Dell, Waddle and Roshan Johnson. Tank Dell is a high-end number three receiver this week with the chance to start to have some blow-up games because of Nico Collins being on injured reserve. Roshan Johnson is a handcuff that you can use as a flex, but if he doesn't score a

touchdown, you're probably going to be disappointed. Plus the other bi-week in week seven. So we could see him dropped in some leagues and the other one, Jalen Waddle. So it was Wandale. Oh, he, no. Oh, he wrote Waddle. Yeah. Cause he said Wandale. And then he said bottle. I read it. He wrote Waddle. I just read it as Wand then you said waddle i read it he wrote waddle i just read it as wandale because you know but no it's oh my god get waddle uh if waddle is available and you don't need any of these other players then that's the one to go get yeah you can't really use waddle for another at least two weeks because bye and then still one more game without tyree kill who do they play in week seven again? I don't know.

I want to say it's something favorite. Is the Colts maybe? Yes. Yes, it is. So given the bye weeks, like he's going to be ranked higher than he has been the last year. There's only two teams on a bye, Cowboys and Bears. But Huntley definitely played better against New England than he did against Tennessee.

But still. It also could be Tyler Thompson though though, coming off the mound. Four for 46 on eight targets for Waddle in week five. All right. Question from Jake. Grade the trade. Give up Brian Robinson Jr., Amari Cooper, and $10 in fab for Jalen Waddle and Devon Achan.

Brian Robinson Jr., Mari Cooper, $10 in fab. So it feels like you're giving up too much. For Waddell and Achan? Well, I mean, Robinson's been better than Achan. Yeah, but not when Tua was playing. Seven catches in both games.

I guess so, if you don't need the other guy. Yeah, this depends probably on your record. Look, you may not get Brian Robinson this week anyway. But this has a potential to hit in a big way. I would, yep. This is from Kenneth. Travis Etienne or J.K. Dobbins this week? Dobbins.

This is from Sean from a city with steps more famous than the museum they lead to. Philadelphia. Yeah. Do you know what museum that is? Is it the... No, I don't.

Me either. But he put in the email, it's the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Museum of Art. Okay. Yeah. I'd't. Me either. But he put in the email, it's the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Museum of Art. Okay. Yeah. I'd run up those steps. I would run up those steps too.

I will tell you this. I wouldn't mind going the rest of my life without going to an art museum. Wow. Yeah, I know. Look, I'm an uncultured football guy that just would rather sit and watch sports. But I've been to an art museum. I was really bored, like really bored. It's not my most favorite thing to do, but on occasion.

I think you got to take the kids. You got to give them a little bit of culture. Chase Brown is practicing today. Let's see. Is Zach Moss practicing today? I don't see that. We'll find out. All right.

So what's the question here? Oh, it's dear Victor, Amani, Hakeem, and Mario. Look at these Giants, Yankees. You guys know the way to get your question read. I'm in first place, 12-team PPR league.

I'm 4-1, but I have a very unlucky run of injuries. Three of my top wide receivers are injured. Neighbors, Collins, and Shahid. My top three running backs are injured and one of them is on a bye.

So since I don't need a win this week, what are your thoughts on starting a subpar team that's likely to lose just to keep my lineup and my bench intact? If your team is good and you don't want to ruin things, then I understand it. Just, you know,

hope that those losses don't come back to haunt you. You did this in some fashion last week. I did it in the FFT League where I started an inactive Evan Ingram because I knew I had very little chance to win and I'm glad I did because if I had lost Evan Ingram to the waiver wire, I would have been pretty pissed off and now I'm just going to... Look, he's Evan Ingram. He might be terrible. I don't know, but I am

happy to be starting him this week. I did something similar. It actually worked out in my favor, but I thought Cam Akers would be better than Rico Doudle last week, but I didn't want to give up Rico Doudle to keep Cam Akers, and that worked out well.

The only league I'm doing that this week is a dynasty league where obviously I would not be dropping the players, but I'm just anticipating a loss. I have too many bye week concerns. Right, and so I'm totally fine with this, Sean from Philadelphia. And also this is why I would be totally against any rules that you have to start, you know, active players or whatever. Now that in our dynasty league, I do have that rule because of tanking where you can't start

inactive players. It is different in a dynasty league. But I think you're perfectly you have the right to lose a week or probably lose a week to set yourself up better for the rest of the season. There's only one league where I would not do that. What's that? Guillotine League.

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bet loses. Just make sure that you use the bonus code FANTASY when you sign up. And we're going to take a break. And when we come back, we got more of your emails. We got the fantasy, Kyle. So we got your Apple podcast questions. And for those of you watching on YouTube, we'll get to your questions toward the end of the show. We'll be right back on FFT. Did you know 66% of utility damage is caused by not requesting a locate? Don't let your project become part of this statistic. A quick locate request can save you from unexpected downtime, financial penalties, and keep you safe. Don't let avoidable damage cost you time and money. Click before you dig. Ensure your next project is safe. Visit OntarioOneCall.ca. It's free.

It's easy. It's the law. Data sourced from the ORCGA 2023 Dirt Report. This one is from Jonathan. Dear Milos, Poppy, Kenny, and Jackie. No idea. It's Seinfeld. I remember Poppy. I remember Jackie. I don. It's Seinfeld.

I remember Poppy. I remember Jackie. I don't remember Kenny. Who's Milos? You're not. The tennis player. Who is he? The tennis player.

I don't know. I remember he, the tennis, I think he's a tennis instructor or he's definitely a tennis player and Jerry, Jerry's better than him and then Jerry has to lose to him on purpose. I don't, I really need to watch for Seinfeld. So, okay. That's like me loss is the best.

All right. Jonathan's question. I was looking at some team stats recently and I noticed that the saints give up a lot of passing yards, but virtually no passing touchdowns. This must be partly because they have a very high red zone success rate. Is this a sign of luck that isn't sustainable, or is there something about their defensive scheme that allows them to give up yards but prevent passing touchdowns? I would think it's probably a combination of both.

I'm obviously not so familiar with what they're doing in the red zones, but I don't want to say anything out of line. But their defense has just been great, certainly given some of the injuries. But their secondary is playing fantastic, and I think you just look at it and say, okay. Like last week, for example, that was luck, Juju having the ball bounce out of his hands and turning into an interception.

But you look at the gauntlet of quarterbacks that they've faced so far this season, and they've just been locked down. What did you say, one touchdown allowed, five interceptions, six interceptions? Five or six, yeah. And now I'm looking, I didn't know this, but they are leading the NFL in red zone defense, 25% conversion rate.

This would be one of those regress to the means kinds of things where I would – I don't know if you agree, but I would say they'll probably be good at this, but not nearly this good. Not sustained. I agree. Which gives me a little bit more hope for Baker Mayfield. Look, Baker is – I wrote this in the quarterback start-sit story

that's on CBSSports.com. I said it on our podcast today. It's very difficult to sit Baker. Number two quarterback in fantasy. He's got new rushing touchdowns. He's got a great offense around him and a lot of different guys that make plays. But the Saints have done a very good job against, as we know, Mike Evans.

And if you take Evans away, are you really relying on Baker in this matchup to be as successful as he has been i hope so but he's not a sit he's just not a slam dunk top five caliber quarterback for a guy that's number two at the position yeah this reminds me a little bit of the falcons last year they hadn't given up a rushing touchdown to a running back for like their first like 13 games or something and then all of a sudden at the end of the year it was it was like uh a little bit like the floodgates had opened i'm just trying to buy time before i so i could actually look it up but um falcons falcons falcons we're uh just let you know both bangles running backs are practiced all right so they hadn't given up a rushing touchdown

to a running back until week 16. And then they gave up five rushing touchdowns to running backs in their last three games. That was pretty wild. All right, let's go to our next question here from James in California. Hey, Christopher, Paulie, and Tony. This is a show I definitely have not seen.

Sopranos? Yeah, yeah, never seen it.ly, and Tony. This is a show I definitely have not seen. Sopranos? Yeah, yeah. Never seen it. Oh, God. Grade my trade. Rico Dowdle's been on my bench all year, so I gave up Rico Dowdle and Kyler Murray for Jalen Hurts and Braylon Allen.

Rico Dowdle and Kyler Murray for Jalen Hurts and Braylon Allen. I mean, if you're getting the upgraded quarterbacks, not bad. You need it. Yeah, I'll give it a B-. Yes. Because Braylon, I mean, Braylon still has huge potential. Obviously, he needs an injury, but it could be great. From Andrews.

From Andrew, if I lose neighbors again this week, pick two at flex. Pickens, McBride, Josh Downs, Darius Slayton, Kincaid. I think the first two make the most sense if you're buying into Pickens, having a bounce-back performance. If you're concerned about Pickens, then you just pivot to Slayton. But McBride should be in your lineup.

This is from Kerry from the Red Sox spring training home. He calls it Fenway South, but Fort Myers, Florida. Remind me not to go to Fenway South. I'm already starting AJ Brown. Do I start Devante Smith in half PPR or Travis Etienne, Tank Bigsby, or Rico Dowdle? Devante Smith is definitely your best option in terms of an isolated situation. In your scenario, if you want to avoid the Eagles receivers because one may be great and one may disappoint, then Bigsby would probably be the one I'd pivot to of that group.

But I would probably still start both Eagles. Ty says, Adam, we have similar takes, unfortunately, but when it comes to film and television. But watch The Sopranos, my man. It's the best. You should watch The Sopranos. You should carve out some time. I started rewatching it in the summer just because I kept seeing clips on like Facebook and whatever my social media algorithm has been. And so like the clips,

I was like, Oh, I should probably go watch it, rewatch it. And I got through the first three seasons and then just football season came and I haven't finished it, but it's just so good. Yeah,

it was good. Oh my God. Yes. I know the end. I mean, I've seen the last scene, so it kind of don't want, I don't know if I should watch. But that's honestly one that if you have seen the ending, it's so ambiguous and leaves so much room for thought that you should still watch it because the ending does not change anything about what happens transpiring leading up to it. So speaking of funny clips, have you seen the,

look, I'm not a big barstool guy, but I prefer chairs. No, but there's a clip, I guess, like at the barstool offices, it looks like the Phillies fans and the Mets fans watch the game together. And the Phillies, there's a clip of the Phillies fan. Yep, I saw it. i saw it you saw it

the game one and then game four was that a bait that was so funny i have watched that like 15 times it is incredible it's very good yeah sorry yeah anyway see if you can find it not safe for work uh from crosby i was offered higgins and Tank Bigsby for Malik neighbors. Higgins and Tank Bigsby for Malik neighbors. If you need to win now, that's probably a trade you have to make. If you can wait out, then I would do so because I think neighbors has just been so amazing.

Bigsby is not guaranteed to be anything more than a secondary running back for the Jags. He could be the starter for all we know, but I would still peg him as the backup that's going to have some good moments, just not consistent. And if you're saying just receiver for receiver, I'd rather have neighbors and tickets. From Josh, from a capital city on the West Coast.

Capital city on the West Coast. Sacramento? Sure. Dear Ron, Bren ricky capital yeah it's the capital i'm pretty sure i'm bad with capitals but i'm pretty sure uh dear ron brennan ricky and buddy uh anchorman and there will feral characters so can you name the movies ron is anchorman. And there will Farrell Clark characters. So can you name the movies? Ron is anchorman. Brennan. Brennan. Is that stepbrothers? Stepbrother.

You've never seen stepbrothers. Have you? I have not. No. So this point, what the hell it's on TV every day. Every time I'm like, Oh,

I'll watch it. I'm like, I want to watch it. I can watch it. Don't watch it on cable though. Cause there, the, there is so much profanity,

unnecessary vulgarities. It's just amazing. So don't watch it on cable. Watch it legit. Ricky? That's Talladega Knights. And Buddy? Buddy is off.

There you go. Pick one to bench. It is one point for every 25 yards, rushing and receiving. So it's kind of a heavy touchdown league. Pick one to bench. It is one point for every 25 yards rushing and receiving, so it's kind of a heavy touchdown league. Pick one to bench. Josh Jacobs, Marvin Harrison, or Terry McLaurin? Jacobs is the one that doesn't score touchdowns, right? But I'd probably bench Harrison there.

This is from Michael in a town in Pennsylvania named after a meat that Adam would bake. What? I don't know. BurgerTown? I drafted Jonathan Brooks in the 10th round. I stashed him in IR. My question is,

who are we dropping to make space for Jonathan Brooks? I get it if you have a backup tight end or a kicker or a defense or maybe even a backup quarterback, but where is Jonathan Brooks ranked among running backs? You sort of cut it out there for a second. So I didn't get the part before that. So basically who are you dropping for Jonathan Brooks?

Like, you know, it's easy. He said, it's easy if you have a backup tight end or a backup quarterback or a defense, but what about it running back? So like,

if you tell me right now,oks is active for week six and is going to have some role secondary role behind jupiter like i'd be dropping somebody like roshan johnson i'd be dropping you know the backup texans running backs i'm carrying them that's easy i'd be dropping um you know like it gets tougher like when you're talking about like jaylen tolbert or juju smith I'm carrying them. That's easy. I'd be dropping. You know, like it gets tougher. Like when you're talking about like Jalen Tolbert or Juju Smith-Schuster or, you know, some of these receivers that have a lot of upside to get that. That's the thing. Look, you can have some tough decisions to make, unfortunately.

Yeah. Well, you know, a name that comes to mind. What about a guy like Tajay Spears? So if you're never playing Spears, then you're probably dropping him. Jalen Warren, same thing. If you're never playing, probably dropping him. That said, those guys Jalen Warren, same thing. If you're never playing him, you're probably dropping him. That said, those guys could be the best running backs on their team in a week or two due to injury or just change in role.

So you just have to understand what you're doing. There's never any slam dunk answer. You're dropping these guys. Would you drop Christian Watson for Jonathan Brooks? Yeah, I think I probably would. I want to talk about Christian Watson because we've been saying a lot to pick him up, and I dropped him in one league, and then I saw he practiced, so I picked him up again.

But I have a decent amount of Christian Watson. I just want to think there are some warning signs here that Watson may not be nearly as good as we thought. He's not playing. Granted, it's been very little. But even go to week one, he didn't really play that much. I don't know. I just don that much. I don't know. I just don't know.

I don't know what to expect from Watson. He's not the slam dunk. He's not as appealing as I thought he was when I was drafting him ahead of Jaden Reed, which obviously I think we all were by the end of it. Maybe not Dave, but that was pretty stupid. But then at the same time, I've got to say this about Jonathan Brooks. His value, or at least his perceived value, is definitely lower now

because Chuba Hubbard has been so much better than we could have thought. Agree on both parts. Yeah, so maybe if you have Jonathan Brooks, go see what you can get from the Chuba Hubbard manager. Yes, yes. That might work too. But don't make a bad trade.

Don't make any trade that involves collusion. Because then if you do, you're going to end up on this show in the wrong way. Let's go to the fantasy cops. Here we go. First one is from Luis in Los Angeles, and he needs our help. I am the commissioner of a 12-team league. I am 5-0. One of the managers tried colluding with another manager who is his brother

by dropping DJ Moore for him this week. The manager was supposed to go get DJ Moore. He's 0-5 and the guy who dropped Moore is 3-2. But I picked up DJ Moore and I ruined their plot. Two other managers saw this and called me a vulture

as they tried to pick him up as well. But I was quicker on the draw. Doesn't sound like they have a waivers system here. I'm not sure. The manager saw this and called me a vulture as they tried to pick him up as well, but I was quicker on the draw. Doesn't sound like they have a waiver system here. I'm not sure. The manager who was supposed to pick up the player admitted to colluding with his brother to the league, and now the league wants me to give the player back to the dropping manager because they think it's not fair. I truly believe they are only saying that because I'm 5-0 and I got him. Should I return DJ Moore back to the dropping manager

or keep him? Can you confirm collusion? Yeah. The brother admitted it. We know it's collusion. So what I would probably do in this situation, Dan would say kick them out. I would say you put DJ Moore back on

the 3-2 team's roster and you freeze them from making transactions rest of season. Yeah. This is really bad right now. This is a casual league and maybe they didn't know that you can't have collusion or something like that. Then you could,

you could be lenient here, but if they knew what they were doing was wrong, this is the kind of stuff that gets you kicked out of leaks. So this is awful. Like it, you know, there, There are some situations where people just, I don't want to be friends with somebody like that. Yeah, people take your fantasy football very seriously. Yeah. I would freeze their rosters, probably both of them, to make it fair, and say,

you ride it out as you have it. You try to do something shady. Or you can't make moves until Sunday morning. Yeah. Maybe giving the 0-5 team DJ Moore is the best thing to do because he's not going to make the playoffs. And then you've punished the 2-3 team because he doesn't have DJ Moore anymore. But no, Jamie's right. Freeze the lineups and screw those guys.

By the way, Brian Dables ruled out in League of Nations. Damn it. I really don't think they can win without him. This sucks. All right. Matt from Boston. Or Matt from Boston. Hey, Tom, Drew, Steve, and Vito.

Who's Vito? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Who's Steve? Steve DeBerg? Steve DeBerg. I don't know who Vito is, but we're thinking he's a Patriots quarterback. This past week, we had a league player

compete without a starting defense. He ended up winning, but there is now league outrage that his illegal roster should not be allowed. His team is 1-4, and he claims it's not worth it to drop his bench players in favor of starting a DST, and we do get one keeper. After his pathetic start to the season, he may

not start a DST for the rest of the year. We have no rules in place that say this should not happen, but basic fantasy football integrity is at stake here. There's talk of a midseason vote to put a rule in place on this. Is this player in the wrong? Is the league overreacting? Is it Dynasty League?

Keeper League. He didn't start a DST. That's different than what we were talking about earlier when you start a player that's on a buy or a player that's injured so you don't have to drop them. But there's no rule that says you have to start a DST. If there's no rule in place, then I don't think there's anything they could do.

And midseason votes to change rules was never something that we would advocate for. So I think you just reevaluate at the end of the season. anything they could do. And mid-season votes to change rules was never something that we would advocate for. So, I think you just reevaluate at the end of the season and you continue doing what you're doing.

Okay. So, you're good with what he did? Yeah. There's nothing in place for it. He doesn't want to ruin his team long-term. Right.

If you're going to do a mid-season rule change, it's got to be unanimous. And then you don't go back and you don't punish the guy. You just say, going forward, you have to do this. Oh, correct, yeah.

By the way, how do you not know Vito Babe Parilli, who played quarterback from 61 to 67 for the Patriots? Terrible of me, sorry. Three-time AFL All-Star. And, oh, if I had said the 1966 AFL Comeback Player of the Year, you probably would have said that. Oh, then, for sure. Wait, hold on. So 67 was... No, that was 68. Very famous comeback

player of the year in the AFL, Vito Parilli. Alright, a couple more fantasy cops. This one is... Oh, I don't have a name on this one. Hey, Jan, Mike, Marsha, Alice, and Bobby. Brady Bunch. Yeah, it would have been better if you put Tom in there Hey, Jan, Mike, Marsha, Alice, and Bobby. Pretty much. Yeah, it would have been better if you put Tom in there at the end. I had a trade that I forgot to withdraw, and we used commissioner approval. The trade was my Wandale Robinson for his Dontavian Wicks. I'm the commissioner, he is the co-commissioner, and he's my father.

I sent him this trade Saturday, and I ended up looking for rings and stuff with my current girlfriend. Ooh. And I forgot to withdraw the trade. Anyway, and then it got accepted. Would it be wrong for me to reject it as the commissioner? I'm obviously going to push it through, but if an injury had happened or something,

would it be wrong to reject it since I didn't yet withdraw it? Sorry, man. Yeah? You're stuck. All right, so two people make a trade in a league, I didn't yet withdraw it. Sorry, man. Yeah. You're stuck. All right. So two people make a trade in the league and then someone says to you, you're the commissioner. Someone says, oh, Jamie, I'm sorry.

I was ring shopping with my girlfriend. I forgot to withdraw the trade offer. I don't want it. Unfortunately, that is your responsibility as the person dealing with the trade. You either have to pull the trade off or withdraw the trade or make it clear before the trade is happening some sort of parameters, which would only be injury in my mind. Life happens. Unfortunately, that's the case. There have been injuries.

Yeah. Go ahead. Sorry. You play in how many leagues? Uh, 10 redraft, 10 redraft. I'm in 30 leagues. I,

it's my responsibility in all 30 of them that if I make a trade and something happens, I have to be responsible for it. If there had been an injured player in the trade, then I would veto it. Uh, I, I think you can,

you can certainly make a case to veto it, but it's gotta be like season ending injury, not just. Well, okay. you can certainly make a case to veto it, but it's got to be like season ending injury, not just. Well, okay. So let's say someone says, all right, uh, there's a trade. Jordan Mason before the game Thursday night, he hurts his shoulder. Are you withdrawing the trade after he played a half? Was it the trade already happened?

Yes. Oh no, no. Here's what I'm saying. Oh, okay. I make a trade offer on Monday and I'm giving you Nico Collins for your Jamar Chase, and then Nico Collins goes on IR. He's a bad example because we knew he was hurt. But then he goes on IR, and then you accept the trade.

And it's like, no, no, no, no, I'm vetoing that. We didn't know he was going to be on IR, so that way I would step in. All right, let's see. I think we have one more here. This one is from Harry in London. Good morning, Rodney, Pete,

Rafi, and Kevin. Rodney, Pete, Rafi, and Kevin, uh, would be tennis players.

Oh, right. No, no, very possible. I was thinking it might be the, the league. Isn't there like a Rafi in the league?

Maybe I was thinking the doll. Uh, yeah like a Rafi in the league? Maybe. I was thinking Nadal. Yeah, I think this is the league. But tennis was a good guess too. Okay, in my home league this week, I'm playing the commissioner. Prior to Saturday, this is crazy, listen to this. Prior to Saturday,

he'd used all five of his pickups. Okay, I guess there's a limit. And then discovered that Evan Ingram had been ruled out. So he proceeded to trade Evan Ingram to another team for Jacoby Myers

and Rasheed Rice. The other team then dropped Ingram for another tight end and traded that tight end back to the commissioner for Jacoby Myers and Rasheed Rice.

Oh my God. This is bad enough. However, the tight end end back to the commissioner for Jacoby Myers and Rasheed Rice. Oh my God. This is bad enough. However, the tight end he picked up for him was Tucker Kraft, who has won the week for the commissioner. I was angry before because it feels like clear collusion, but I'm even more angry given Kraft's dominant performance. I called them out on the group chat and they said the commissioner has

promised to trade a player to him at a later date. But that doesn't feel right. Player to the person complaining? No, the commissioner is going to trade a player to the guy who made this shady transaction for him and picked up craft and gave craft to him. I mean, he just admitted collusion. Yeah, this is terrible. This is awful. Like, you need to step in.

The league needs to step in, remove this guy as a commissioner. And you can't really go back on the moves that already happened, but again, freeze their rosters. Oh, that is so bad, man.

Yeah. You can't go back. And he's the commissioner. So that, that is like the commissioner did this. So that makes it even worse. But Harry, you are absolutely right

to be outraged. The fact that he admitted, oh, I'm going to make a trade with him later? A player to be named later? Are you kidding me? That's absurd. All right.

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in the subject line. When we come back, we're reading your Apple Podcast questions, your YouTube questions, and then we're going to skedaddle and stick around. More to come on Fantasy Football today. All right. Welcome back, everybody. Only a few Apple podcast questions today. And here we go. There probably are more, but they haven't populated yet. So the earlier you can get these in in the week, the better.

And don't put any Thursday players in them. But leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcast and ask us your question. Tell us why you like the show and ask us your question. This is from Goldmember. Dear George, Thomas, Teddy, and Abe,

those are presidents. I believe those are the Mount Rushmore presidents. A huge fan of the show. Even Dan's crazy takes. Oh, I have a great... I miss Dan. I miss Dan, too. I have a great one for Dan. I'm going to bring this up on Monday.

But I think he said something like... Oh, update on Jordan Mason, by the way. I think he said something like, you can tell the character of a person by whether or not they bring the shopping cart back to where it's supposed to be rather than leaving it by the car. Okay. And I have an update for him on that. Someone texted me about a study about that very thing.

So I could do it on Monday or we can save it until next Friday. It's up to you, you know. Do both. All right, all right. I'll do both, yeah. All right, here's the question. Rico Dowdle, Bucky Irving, or Cortland Sutton? This is half PPR.

Rico Dowdle if Rashad White is healthy. Bucky if Rashad White is out. Both over Cortland Sutton. Okay, next question is from Tom. PPR, pick two. Tank Bigsby, Braylon Allen, Jerome Ford. Tank Bigsby, Braylon Allen, Jerome Ford. I would sit Braylon Allen as of now.

Unless Nick Chubb is active, then I would sit Jerome Ford. I have a horrible shopping cart story. Oh, please. It's one of my most embarrassing moments of my life. I was putting the groceries in the car. I think one of the kids was an infant, screaming, whatever. And the shopping cart return, like, you know, you put the shopping cart,

not back in the store, but in the car. Right, that's what we were saying is you're a good person if you put it back there. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, I stepped like about halfway across the street and push it and what crappy shopping cart veered off and hit somebody's car. Oh, um, with the person in the car. Oh, there was no damage. And I just, I couldn't stop apologizing but oh i felt like such such a jerk such a jerk because i did i mean i didn't intend to do it you know but like i kind

of just i think it was raining too and i like shoved it across the street you know halfway and then they were like oh jamie eisenberg but yeah never again will i and like you know sometimes my kids will like put i'm like no no please don't like never forget that moment oh yeah no that is really wait so i'm sorry you pushed it and then it or like it's empty yeah i'm trying to like push it back into the cart return empty cart return no no other cars there so you know it's wide open yeah and so like i i was i don't know maybe 10 feet away. And he gave it a push. And I gave it a push. Yeah.

By the way, so with Jordan Mason, the report is AC joint sprain not believed to be too serious. So that's good. But he will undergo further testing per sources, according to Adam Schefter. We've got this from GHJ. Pick three. DJ Moore, Chris Godwin, Chris Olave, Jaden Reed.

Chris Olave is sitting. And grade the trade. Derek Henry for Brees Hall. Ooh. You know, it's sad to say. I think you might need to get more for Derek Henry so what are you going to give you rather have Henry than Hall right now yeah all right wouldn't you in anything except a full PPR league in a full PPR league I still think you're going to get a lot more catches from Brees Hall so that might be stupid and stubborn what yeah no I still think you're going to get a lot more catches from Brees Hall. So that might be stupid and stubborn.

What? Yeah, no, I'm with you. Might be stupid and stubborn. Might be stupid, but let's be stupid and stubborn. Yeah. Okay, this is from The Squirrel. I hope this five-star rating gets to you and treats you well. Oh, thank you very much.

I'm losing my mind. In PPR, super flex,oflex, six point per passing touchdown leagues. I built this roster. Richardson, Lawrence, and Carr. Moss, Dobbins, and Chuba Hubbard. Chase, Jefferson, Lamb, and Pickens. Wow. Kincaid

and Bowers, and then Aubrey and Steelers. I have the most points in the league, but I either keep making the wrong start-sit decisions or three times I've scored... Oh, this is terrible. Three times I've scored the second most points and played the highest scoring team. This week, I score over 200 points and I'm losing. Anyway, I switch Kincaid in over Bowers because I know Shakir, blah, blah, blah. Do I give up? Do I try to make a trade, put a lineup on auto and forget about it so I don't screw up?

This team should be crushing. Maybe I can still sneak into the playoffs, but my heart is broken. I wouldn't be upset about that. I think a lot of people would rather have that situation than just a crappy team. It's unfortunate that you're making the wrong decision, but you're still scoring a lot of points, and there's still so much potential, especially as we're dealing with injuries and buys. Hopefully it gives you some easy line of decisions moving forward.

But it never hurts to make a trade when you have so much talent and maybe to acquire even more talent. So take two of your mid-tier players and turn it into another superstar. But I would just kind of maybe trust your gut as opposed to projections or rankings. Go with the players you feel are going to do the best or go the other route. Trust the rankings and projections if going with your know, go with the players you feel are going to do the best or go the other route. Trust their rankings and projections if going with your gut has worked out poorly for you. If you have the most points in the league, then obviously you're doing something right.

So don't sweat it too much. But it is frustrating. I'm sorry about that. All right, now it is time for your YouTube questions. Here's the first one. In Flip Cup, who wins? Dave, Jamie, Heath. Oh, Dave, Jamie, and Heath versus Adam, Dan, and Jacob Gibbs.

Oh, I mean, you give us Heath, we win, hands down. I don't know. Don't you think Dan is pretty good at Flip Cup? Just ask him. No. That's one of the reasons why I thought I might beat him at tennis. Because he's like, I got to be honest with you, I'm a very good rock, paper, scissors player.

He said that. That's a quote. And then I beat him two out of three in rock, paper, scissors. And I thought, all right, I got him in tennis. But I think he's probably, but you're right. Heath would crush it. Okay. Sorry. In flip cup. Tank Dale or Amari Cooper this week? You didn't answer crush it. Okay. Sorry.

In flip cup. Tank Dell or Amari Cooper this week? You didn't answer the question. Oh, shoot. What was the question? I don't know. Oh, crap. Sorry.

See if I can find it. But for this one, Tank Dell or Amari Cooper? Standard scoring. Here, I got it. I'm probably in the minority. I would go with Tank Dell. Roshan Johnson or Brian Robinson Jr.? Robinson Jr. if he starts.

Roshan's not a bad pivot play, but look at Jeremy McNichols also. Should I start Slayton over Sutton and Ligette? Yes. Sit two in PPR. Dowdle, Ford, Bigsby, Javante. Why'd you put Javante? Sit two.

I would sit Ford and Dowell. I have got to look in all my leagues for Darius Slayton. I have to. I saw him picked up in one league. That was a mistake. I should not have allowed that to happen. By the way, do you like Alec Pierce or Darius Slayton this week? Slayton.

Jalen Tolbert or Xavier Liget, non-PPR? Tolbert in both formats. Would you sit Olave for Bigsby or Spears? Or if Mixon plays for, well, Stevenson's not going to play, it seems like. He's not at practice today. Would you sit Olave for Bigsby or Spears? I would sit Olave. No, I'd start Olave.

Okay. Superflex, Herbert, Caleb Williams, or a Colts quarterback? I would sit Herbert. Who would you start? Who's your favorite? Williams. Broncos, DST, Bucs, or Texans? Texans Texans

would you trade away Marvin Harrison Jr. for Brees Hall I would yeah that I would do Tankdale or Amari Cooper this week we read that one sorry Montgomery or Harrison PPR Montgomery and

Kyler Montgomery and Kyler would you drop Goff or Kirk Cousins? I have Dak Prescott. I would drop Goff. I was only going to say Kirk because Goff already has a bye week. But I think as we've seen that the upside probably favors Kirk at this point. But check the bye weeks.

I don't know exactly when the Falcons and Cowboys. Oh, no. Cowboys are next week. Cowboys are next week. I apologize for reading the question because I'm just thinking you two audience are listening on it and did not know it was Kyler or Fields. And this is golfer Fields. I'm just

nervous about Fields that if he has any sort of slow start, they bench him. So I don't want to trust him with Russell being healthy. That said, if you tell me he's playing a full game, I would take Fields. For that other email or that other YouTube question, you have Dak Prescott. Would you drop Kirk or Goff?

So then you've got to be thinking about next week because Dak's on a buy. So Kirk has the Seahawks at home. Yes. Don't even have to line it up. Detroit is at Minnesota. Yeah. Easy. So you'd rather keep Kirk Cousins then? Yeah. I mean, look at Seattle's defense right now. They can't stop anybody. I know they'll

hopefully get healthy with a little extra time, but my goodness, they're terrible. Deere, McCormick, and Cartman. Is that Kenny and Eric? Kenny and... Yeah. Where's my Eric? Kenny and... It has to be South Park. Yeah. Where's my Eric? I'll get it.

Javante Williams or Trey Sermon? Oh, that's the wrong one. Javante won. That was Friday night's a great night for football. There he is. Let's see. Oh, Connect Four or Checkers checkers oh wow um checkers yeah connect four honestly gets a look gets pretty boring pretty quickly

it's like tic-tac-toe you know it's it's hard to win you trade would you trade mixin and higgins for lamb yes someone in my dynasty league wants Garrett Wilson and Sam Laporta. He or she has offered me two separate deals. Would you do either of these? George Pickens, Aaron Jones,

and Brock Bowers? Okay, so George Pickens, Aaron Jones, and Brock Bowers for Garrett Wilson and Sam Laporta. Or Jalen Waddle, Ray Davis, and Brock Bowers for Garrett Wilson and Sam Laporta or Jalen Waddle, Ray Davis and Brock Bowers for Garrett Wilson and Sam Laporta. I would do neither of these. While Bowers, you can make a case is now the best player in this trade.

And maybe the Waddle Bowers Davis deal. I guess the Waddle Bowers Davis deal is interesting. That's a little bit closer. Yeah. How much worse is Waddle than Wilson in dynasty? So the question you have to ask yourself is who's the quarterback for both these teams as as really as next year right because rogers is 40 and you know they add devante adams is probably a rental and there's a there's a pretty realistic scenario that Sarri Kill could be off the Dolphins next year. So,

I guess if you value Bowers more than Laporta, that's the one I would make. Yeah. Okay. All right, we got to run. Jamie and I have to do CBS Sports HQ in 15 minutes. I want to thank everybody for your questions and for watching and for listening. Tell your friends, support the show, subscribe, hit like, do all those things,

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