Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag and Fantasy Cops! (10/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 21, 2023

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Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Hail back time, baby. Adam, Jamie, and so flawed and that would be self Florida Dan loving the life he's got his tea time in like 20 minutes so he's barely going to be on the show he's eating great food he's thinking about moving to Fort Lauderdale

and betraying his roots I hope you're enjoying sounds like you're enjoying your week it's been a great week down here I have to admit it it's been a lot of fun it's also been cool to actually be part of this office I will say this no offense to New York office it's got its own you know good things about it but the energy that level down here is just so much better it's just so much better it's cool to be here I'm happy I got to spend time with Jamie I'm happy I got to spend time with Dave and Heath and RJ.

Even Adi was down here. Really, the whole FFT team, except for Adam Hazer, couldn't find a way down here, couldn't find a way to be part of the fun. So it was Jamie's birthday yesterday. We got to go to the spot for a little lunch birthday, even though he didn't want to tell anyone it was his birthday. And apparently you forgot to even remember his birthday yesterday.

I forgot to remember his birthday. Didn't even wish him one happy birthday. You didn't know it was his birthday? If you weren't around him, you wouldn't have known it was his birthday. Oh, I knew. I knew. I had it in my calendar. I'm actually a good friend and colleague, unlike you.

And also, I have to admit, look, I was wrong about Southern Florida. It's pretty nice down here. I have to admit, waking up with the sun and the warmth, it's nice. Which dance story do you want first? Let's do some news first. Let's do some news first, and then we'll get into some dance stories. We've got a lot of them. We also have this Halloween costume.

I'm going to put that in the notes for those of you watching on YouTube. All right. Anyway, so we do have some big news. Pat Fryermuth is out, so you're going to need another option if you have Fryyer muth and maybe that's good for pickens i mean fryer muth was getting what a four targets anyway but uh he's out this week jameer gibbs is going to play and he's going to get the lion's share of the work so uh real quick guys jameer gibbs or or start of the week jerome ford uh for me it's ford but i could certainly understand the uh upside of gibbs it's i mean look it's a tough matchup man they're the ravens i know we're like oh excited he's gonna get all

this work but still baltimore's run defense i know they haven't exactly faced murderer's row of of tough running backs right now but uh still i would lean toward ford okay i'm also leaning toward ford because of the matchup great Great comments so far. Dan looking fresh. Breaking news, Dan's haircut's still bad. I will say it wasn't as bad in person as it was last week when we saw it on the air. Yeah, it looks much better right now. Dan upgraded to the corner bathroom with a view. That's good stuff. Deshaun Watson is likely to play, and Daniel Jones hasn't been ruled out yet.

So we'll see if that happens soon. Um, Dan, why hasn't been cleared for contact either? Why are your arms significantly more tan than your face? I don't know. That's just a ring light in the background. That's a ring light in here.

And this makes it up. This is awesome. Uh, Deshaun Watson though. Um, top 15 or no just outside that for me so he'll be

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I didn't think you had Sportsline stuff. You do too? For the third week in a row when you bring this up, I tell you every time my DFS lineup is going there. Oh, DFS. DFS. If you hadn't said it, I would have said it. Just like your birthday. I remembered.

Yeah. Okay. Before we get to the emails, we have a picture of Dan's Halloween costume. If you want to see it, go to YouTube.com slash Fantasy Football Today. Zach, whenever you get a chance, can you bring that up? Here we go. Dan, I'll go trick-or-treating with this guy uh oh god here it is there it is that's so good it is a it's one of those party pooper it's one of those you know that wasn't so expensive if i if that wasn't so expensive

i might buy that and go and when we get to the Halloween show, wear that. I still might do it. I'll pitch in. Remember all the same June money I embezzled? Remember that guy who accused me of that? I'll put it toward this Halloween costume. This is a Halloween costume of the adult party pooper inflatable costume. It looks like a person sitting on the toilet.

It is very funny. Yeah, so an option for Dan for sure. Jamie, give me a Dan story. I have three of them. I'll go in chronological order.

Can we do one and then emails? Yeah. Go ahead. The first one is Dan and I went out to lunch. I took Dan to an establishment that i wanted to see what his reaction was just based on some of how things go there and it's not one of those places don't think it's one of those places but um still some some interesting um things to

look at and uh he wasn't faced so i was i was impressed but i've never eaten with dan and dan got a hamburger and he ate the entire hamburger, at least 90% of the hamburger, with the temperature measuring stick still in the hamburger. That keeps it together. No, that keeps it together. That's what keeps the sandwich together. That's not a club sandwich. It's not a club sandwich.

That keeps it together. What was on the sandwich? It was just hamburger. It was a lot. It was like brisket. There was like all sorts of stuff on there. It had to a club sandwich. That keeps it together. What was on the sandwich? It was just hamburger. It was a lot. It was like brisket. There was like all sorts of stuff on there. It had to keep it together. What are your hands for, though?

You use your hands, but that's what keeps it together. Everybody knows that. You take that thing out, and then you're eating sour sleep. It's getting all over the place. No, dude. You're thinking of a club sandwich. It's got the bacon and the tomato and the lettuce. I also like that Jamie observed that, but didn't actually mention it to me and

then just like empty in his head he's like i'll bring this one up at some point oh no no it was there was there was a method to the lunch it was it was to observe you for uh for for content for the show yeah um but you you had it like down to them that down to the nub of the last like bite you had that thing still in there yeah and it wasn't metal it was one of those like wooden ones yeah a standby it kept the burger together absolutely not necessary to keep that in the burger not even close

it's great though alright that's Dan's story number one you said to wait yeah alright good alright we have more coming up later you're gonna have a lot of weird there are a lot of weird if you're going toward that direction there i do a lot of weird things so keep going all right email from brian here hello david sammy and gary this feel like van halen members i don't know i mean gary gary is i mean is gary was gary another replacement option i don't know who Gary is. I mean, they need a little more context.

Was Gary another replacement option? I don't know. Oh, Gary was a Van Halen frontman. I didn't know that. All right. I don't like that band anyway. This is from Brian. He says, obviously, I want to play Christian McCaffrey if he plays on Monday night,

but I don't want to risk a zero. I could start either Rishi Rice or Deontay Johnson over Jordan Addison on Sunday, and then I could start Addison over McCaffrey if he's a no-go. Is that how you would play it? I mean, I would like to play Addison regardless. So I'm going to guess just based on how this is going to unfold. We'll know Sunday. It's not a bad choice though. If you were going to choose Rishi Rice

or Deontay Johnson, who would you pick? Deontay. Especially with Frank as well. You have to have Addison in your lineup. No matter how this goes. You have to have him in your lineup, but you're risking a zero for McCaffrey. That's the problem. If you start Addison on Sunday, then you've lost your chance to replace McCaffrey.

If he just kept McCaffrey out, who would he use? He would use Addison and one of those two receivers, and Deontay. Yeah, I would just do that, unless we know. You would do Deontay and then Addison, and if McCaffrey plays, you'd sit Addison? No. I would just plan to have no McCaffrey, unless we know. Right, but that's the thing. So if you have no McCaffrey, then you start Deontay and you start Addison. And if you do get McCaffrey, then you bench Addison.

That's exactly what he's going to do. No. He's doing it with the idea of waiting till Monday. He's waiting. Okay. He can start Addison on Sunday and McCaffrey on Monday. Okay. Let me ask you a question.

What is he doing if McCaffrey's out, ruled out tomorrow? He's starting Deontay Johnson and Jordan Addison. Then do that. Go with that plan. And then if things change Sunday, you go with the maybe McCaffrey's out, ruled out tomorrow. He's starting Deontay Johnson and Jordan Addison. Then do that. Go with that plan, and then if things change Sunday, you go with the maybe McCaffrey plays lineup. And if things change Monday, you bench Addison for McCaffrey. Sure. That's what you have to do.

You have no other choice. You're not going to bench McCaffrey. All right, this is from Joe. Dear Marino, Ugla, Orlovsky, and Campbell. All Dans. Specifically, he says, more athletic Dans than Dan Schneier. That's for sure. I never claimed to be athletic, just more athletic than Adam.

By the way, we have a new best athlete on our staff. Oh, really? Not even close. Former football player, that's right. Yeah, not even close. And his kids might be better athletes than all of us also. I'm sure that's true. Oh even close. Former football player. That's right. Yeah. Not even close. And his kids might be better athletes than all of us also. I'm sure that's true. Oh, yeah.

I think his kid will be. I'm not even joking. All right. Half PPR. I need two of these three duds. Keontae Ingram, Jahan Dotson, and Luke Musgrave. Musgrave for me. And one more.

You need two. Ingram. I'll two. Ingram. I'll go with Ingram. There's nobody better. Ingram and Musgrave. I guess not. All right. From John, would you drop?

Okay. He's going to pick up T. Higgins. Who should he drop? Okay. Javante Williams or Jalen Warren? Warren for me. Yeah, I think you drop the backup versus the guy who should still be

the starter, but it would not surprise me if Warren's better the rest of the season. This is from Michael. Dear Lucky, Dusty, Ned, and El Guapo. Those Simpsons characters? No, Jamie's got... I know Dan wouldn't know this, Jamie you gotta know this we have this one all the time it's the three amigos oh right right right yeah

I was waiting for something to click but no it didn't it was on a few like a week ago and it's just so funny it really is I'm currently 6-0 and sitting with Raheem Mostert DeAndre Swift Alexander Madison,

and Aaron Jones. I have Kup, Lockett, and Gabe Davis at wide receiver. Is it time for me to move on from Raheem Mostert, and if so, what should I expect to get for him? I feel like the running back core

is pretty good without Mostert, and the receiving core needs some help aside from Kup. So you should be looking to a running back needyostert and the receiving core needs some help aside from cup. So you should be looking to a running back needy team that has a receiving core that, you know, can help you out too. So at this point you should be trying to trade Raheem Mostert for any wide receiver, not named Calvin Ridley. Um, no, but I, I think, you know, you could probably turn Raheem Mostert into maybe Olave and something. Let's just, let's just do straight up.

Let's just do straight up and not do the old and something. Would you trade Mostert straight up for Olave? In this situation, if that was the worst I can do, then yes. But like, I'm thinking like, could you turn if a team has like terrible running backs and great

receivers, can you turn most of it into a Mara St. Brown? Probably not. But that's like, I would aim a little bit higher than, than a lot of, you know what I'm saying?

Like that's higher. Yeah. So, you know, would you, would you do it for any of those guys? So I saw an interesting tweet today about basically how this year we have the wide receiver dead zone that was drafted in rounds two and three and there's also by the way the running back the

running back dead zone didn't go away there's really just a dead zone in rounds two through five but these are the receivers let me know if you would do it for any of these receivers one jalen waddle straight up no yes no okay to chris olave we discussed him davante smith no okay no t higgins no no okay and we already said calvin ridley dk metcalf no i don't think you're gonna find anyone here i think that's the thing it's like the the raheem mostt manager is going to value him much differently I think than somebody trading for him

because you're giving away top three running back, I don't know where you want to value him right now, but you know A-Chain is coming back, you know he's 31 you know this has been against a lot of great matchups, but you have to get something great in return that's why I don't think Adam I know you don't want to do the package deals, but I think you almost

have to do a package deal. Well, yeah. I think from your end, you do the package deal. You do Mostert plus something, and you try to get that next tier of receiver. You could probably do Mostert and Tyler Lockett, maybe. Let me give you two more here. Would you trade Raheem Mostert straight up

for CeeDee Lamb? Yes. Would you trade Mostert straight up for CeeDee Lamb? Yes. Yeah. Would you trade Mostert straight up for Puka Nakua? Yes. If he didn't have Kopp, I would. Yes, but he has Kopp, so that makes it more difficult. Oh, this manager, right.

Okay. All right, this is from Noe from NorCal. Start a running back from this group of dung. That's my ad living. Zach Evans, Deontay Foreman, Jeff Wilson. Foreman.

Roshan doesn't come, come back, which doesn't look like it's happening this week. Yeah. From Colin. I picked up Hoyer and Bajent. Which one are you playing? I would play Bajent. Which one are you playing? I would play Bajent.

I'm going Hoyer. I can't trust Bajent. I got a funny Dan comment here. Oh, God. Get them all in. Why is Dan filming in a public changing room? Today, you're taking shots at CBSbs sports fantasy in fort lauderdale any shots you take at this room though i have

talked to a lot of people who have recorded from this room including jamie and he's not very happy with this room and i understand oh yeah it sucks what's wrong with this room still too too narrow there's a lot wrong i don't want to say it all on air because it is our company but we can oh you can i mean look we have we. We're having studio construction right now. So you'll see me in there on Sunday. So we're a little bit limited. But you're staring at a window. There's the ring light, whatever you call it, that we use to do stuff at home, is right in your face.

The microphone is, as you see, giant right in your face. It's hard to hear and it's just it's just like a and and you know i think you see the comments like you're like in a little closet yeah that's that's no good um all right next up we have you want you want dance story number two almost elliot says hey aaron eddie ryan and jamal oh those feel like Packers running backs. Yeah, Ryan Grant. Yep.

Okay. I play in a 10-team half PPR league where we use the league median as a second weekly matchup. Through six weeks, we have a 12-0 team and an 0-12 team. This seems impossible,

even without the median. With it, it's completely insane. Have you ever seen an undefeated and a winless team in the same league this deep into the season? Yeah. I don't know if I've ever experienced it. I'm trying to think if I've seen it this deep.

So it'd be six and oh, and six or this is, yeah, but this is 12 and oh, and I don't know if I've ever met even more. No, that's what I'm saying. It would actually be even worse.

Yeah. 12 and oh, and 12 because of the apex. I don't know if I've ever seen that. We have it in our Dynasty League. I know for sure. I'm undefeated, and I know at least one person that's tanking. Oh, in Bay Burger?

No, YOLO. Oh, in YOLO. Okay. Okay, a few more emails here. This one is from Carrie. Dear Taylor, Street, Riggins, and Williams. One of the shows that Dan, one of the 50,000 shows that Dan watches.

And somehow you've never watched. Howl or Love? Howl for me, but it's close. Yeah, those are both matchups you like. I'll go with Love, though. And rest of season, I think the Giants defense is going to be better than

you think. Would you rather have Kyler Murray over Howell or Love rest of season? Yes. Definitely. I think so, if you're not playing them after this week because of bye weeks. Depending on who your starter is. The comment

from the chat, the microphone windscreen has the same haircut as Dan. That's good. Okay, this is from, oh, this is our last one. Last email is from Kelly. Kelly is the person who cuts Jamie's hair better than the person that cuts Dan's hair. I'm four and two. I could have waited.

I have a ton of depth. I'm thinking of making the following trades. Pukunukua and Christian Watson for CeeDee Lamb. Puka Nakua and Christian Watson for Devante Adams. Puka Nakua, Christian Watson, and maybe Roshan Johnson for Derrick Henry.

Would you do any of those trades? Not one. No. I would do Puka and Watson for Adams. No way would I do that trade. Oh, get out of here, Dan. Why not? Do you think that Adams is going to get traded? Or are you doing this with the thought that he's staying there?

Because trades are rare in the NFL. So yes or no? No, I don't think so. But I think he's going to be awesome. I think he's going to be fine. Based on his comments, it doesn't sound like he's going to request a trade. You know, he's... I mean, like everybody's looking at just the one, I think, part of the quote that he said. He was in his comments saying that he feels like this team can win,

and he doesn't think that they could win to the level that they're capable of if he's not as involved. So it felt more like a squeaky wheel situation as opposed to a trade request. That being said, I think you're giving up a little bit too much for all those guys. Adams is the closest one, though, of the trades that you mentioned. I think those two guys for Stevie Lamb is a little bit of an overpay. Certainly do not do that for Derek Henry. Yeah. And if you're trying to consolidate, but I don't know.

I think you might be giving up too much depth. Okay. Me too. All right, we'll take a know. I think he might be giving up too much depth. Me too. Alright, we'll take a break. When we come back, Dan's story number two and the fantasy cops after this on Fantasy Football Today. Whether in the game or in life, the right coverage can make all the difference. Securian Canada gives

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hosts on CBS Sports HQ. And I guess did not either say his name clearly or even say his name at all. And after Dan walked away, said host sent me a text and goes, who was that guy? And you didn't tell him until right now?

No, I didn't tell him until right now. That's awesome. That's too late. Oh, man. That was like completely gone. I don't know what he said to the two. It was, I'm not going to reveal, but he said to – I'm not going to reveal. But he said to the host, and it seemed like it was a friendly conversation.

And this guy is an extremely friendly person. He was like, I'm sorry, I didn't catch his name. Who is that guy? That's great, man. Give me dance story number three. What's dance story number three? me Dan's story number three. What's Dan's story number three? Yeah, give me a number three. I'll keep it in the same range of the story.

So Dan wanted to meet somebody who works for us, and he did not say anything to this person while they were in the building. Then he happened to see him. They stayed at the same hotel. Dan also did not go up to the person at the same hotel and then told him, he he's like i really wanted to talk to him like all you had to do was go walk up we got stage fright no that's not true that's not true that's not true i did not have stage right actually that was called being considerate so the person who i saw at the hotel won't reveal his name or her name sat down immediately ordered his dinner immediately. I mean, immediately sitting down. So I had already feeling like, okay,

this is probably not the person who wants to be Bob during dinner. Then got a call from someone close to him and said, sorry, my burger just got here. Hung up immediately. Ate the bird, ate, ate the dinner immediately. Immediately asked for the check. Like it was at the bar. They're like, check.

I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. So I was happy that I didn't do that. And later I confirmed with another colleague that that's how this person likes to eat. Yes. They want to, they, they want to. Yeah. So I'm happy. I didn't bother that person. You know, not everybody wants to be bothered during dinner. Some people just want to eat and go. So as I did really want to talk to that person who works for us more than probably anyone I wanted to talk to here, but I didn't get

to, and I'm happy. I didn't bother that person. All right. You want the last story? Cause quick. Yeah. I also like how Dan's like, I was going to talk to him or her. And then he's like, and then he ordered his burger immediately, and then he got a phone call. So well done. Way to keep it gender neutral.

All right, yeah, last Dan story. So yesterday, I was at the vending machine, and I got a granola bar and a bottle of water. And out of nowhere, I just hear someone right over my shoulder whisper, what'd you get? Oh, my God. How creepy. I was afraid to look back. I look back, and Dan is right here.

What's up with that, you creep didn't like like and it's a big room it could have been like hey what are you getting like i have no defense for that last one that was weird i don't know why i did it see if it had been me you know getting something the vending machine dan would have been like sure, I'll go hang out at the cafeteria with you. And he would have stayed there for 30 seconds, gotten a phone call and left me for the next 15 minutes. I will say I walked the whole 15 feet. Oh, yeah, right. Exactly. Look at this comment here from David.

Dan is thick skin. He's holding it together like the stick in his burger. I'm telling you, those things keep the sandwich together. Try it out alright wrong music sorry there we go the fantasy cops are here let's do it let's settle your league disputes if you have any emails fantasyfootball

at cbsi.com put fantasy cops in the subject line or you can ask a different question that's not fantasy cops but the address is fantasyfootball at cbsi.com. All right. This is from Fabian. Now, Fabian, I think, wants me to be on a certain side here to validate his feelings. I don't think it's going to happen, Fabian, so this might not feel great. Fantasy Cops, help. Arrest my brother and my nephew. Or give the league the words of wisdom to chill out. We're in a family league, 12 team, half PPR, one quarterback. A few weeks ago, Team A has Lamar Jackson

and traded away Pollard, Adams, Sanders, and Watson for Mahomes, Henry, Madison, and Pierce. Now he has Mahomes and Jackson. Two weeks later, he trades away Mahomes for Lamb straight up. The league is in an uproar over this trade. He traded the wrong quarterback. Remember, he has Mahomes and Jackson. He traded the wrong quarterback or even gave up Mahomes to the Kelsey manager too easily

to a team that's also streaming Stafford and Smith. And both those managers are constantly getting harassed on the group chat, especially when the new Mahomes manager is defending the trade. So I guess people are not happy that he traded Mahomes to this guy. I don't know why.

Under duress, they attempted to trade the players back along with the threats of this and that. I'm the commissioner and homie don't play that. I vetoed the trade. I guess I was confused. Which trade did you veto? You vetoed them trading the players back, I hope. If you did that, then good job.

This is my brother and my nephew on my brother's side. Fantasy cops, say the words, and these teams will get an apology, or I'll drop them from the league. Please advise. I don't see a bad trade here, for the trade back exactly that's what i'm saying right why is everybody flipping out about my homes for lamb we were all drafting lamb ahead of my homes and right news isn't it the homes hasn't been that good so yeah it's a one qb league

he's been a fine even even in a two qb league it's not that. It's questionable, but it's not good. Yeah, the trade is fine. These are fine trades to make. You've got to let people make these kinds of trades. You can't be nitpicking like, I think this guy's a little better. Let people make these kinds of trades. This is not a good example of a bad trade.

You can't be, I just, this is devastating. You've got to hold it together, league. Get it together. Put that stick in the burger like put that stick in the burger and understand you can. And by the way, you didn't even mention, I did move the stick throughout eating the sandwich. You move it. That's the thing.

You keep it together. You readjust where it is. They didn't notice that you're moving it. Just like it was there the whole time. You moved the stick. You really have misinterpreted. That's what you do with the sandwich. You misinterpreted the stick.

They brought the stick in the burger probably to indicate the temperature. Was it medium rare? Was it medium whatever? This is wonderful. Adam, this wasn't just a burger with nothing on it. This had brisket and onions and all sorts of stuff that's falling in and out. You've got to keep it together. That's what your hands are for.

Listen. Oh, no, no. This is kind of the problem with Jamie's stories because Jamie did say it was just a burger. He did misrepresent what you were eating. I mean, it could have been. It's a massive burger with all sorts of stuff on it. First of all, it wasn't a massive burger.

There was a little bit of stuff on it. It wasn't like you're talking about this giant thing. Yeah. One way or another, you were wrong to have moved the stick, without question. All right. Next Fantasy Cops is from Walter. Let's see.

Walter says, 10-team Superflex Dynasty League. The commissioner's team is a surefire contender, and he has won the most titles. He is a diehard fan of his favorite teams. This is important. And USC is his college team. Okay, so I think we have a little Caleb Williams situation here. A day before the season started this year, the commissioner texted me to get my opinion on a deal he was trying to work on. There are a few of us that he will run things by just to get opinions on before doing them. Anyway, he has four first round picks in

next year's rookie draft. One of those he has from a team that should be tanking. The deal in question was that he would simply give one of his first round picks in exchange for the tanking team to do just that, to tank. Okay? He essentially locks in a great chance at securing Caleb Williams for just one pick. He has four first-round picks. He identifies a team that should be tanking. He says, I'm going to give you one of my first-round picks, but you have to tank.

So I guess he had that team's first-round pick too. I'm going to give you a different one. You have to tank. At the time, I was on vacation chasing my kids around the Airbnb. I didn't put up a fight on the matter and it came and went without me looking into it or giving it much of a thought at all. So, so little that I didn't even remember it was happening. I was scrolling through the league scores and looking at how the draft order might shake out and noticed that there were two teams that were clearly tanking. I knew the one team had their first, but I clicked on the team in question to see their situation. I noticed they in fact did teams that were clearly tanking. I knew the one team had their first, but I clicked on the team in question to see their situation.

I noticed they, in fact, did not have their first round pick. I began looking through the league to see who owned it, and it was the commissioner. I was dumbfounded and immediately raised this for debate in the league chat, to which several people voiced their displeasure. After much debate, the commissioner simply determined that the deal stands due to it already being week six. It is a free league and one that keeps our friends engaged. So while I did consider quitting, I decided to stay. What are your thoughts on this sly maneuver? I'm a little confused. So the team that is supposedly tanking does not have a first round pick? Does not have his own first round pick. He has a different one that he got from the commissioner. That's for a team that's not tanking.

So the team that's in first place, let's just say, does not have his first round pick. The commissioner has his first round pick. The team that is currently in last place has no first round pick, but the commissioner has said he's going to give him the worst first round pick that he has of the four. The commissioner gave him a first round pick of a team

because the commissioner had four first round picks, right? So the commissioner gives him a first round pick of a team that is not tanking. So it's not going to be the best pick. In exchange, this manager decided to tank, which makes no sense. Like if you're going to tank, just keep your own first round pick.

Why would this tanking manager? Why would this tanking manager tank? They may have made the trade a year ago. No, they made it before the season started. Are we sure about that? A day before the season started. Yes, this trade was made at the beginning of the season.

How do you convince the person who made the trade that's tanking that the pick that they're going to get is better when it's obvious they're going to get a worse pick because they're they would have had their own tanking pick yeah oh oh oh i know why because the commissioner already had this team's pick and the commissioner wanted to make sure that this team was going to tank so he said i'll give you a different first round we just gave him a free first round yes that's what it is i'm sorry okay so i i got confused too he gave this team a an additional first round pick because this team let's say team team a we'll just call it teammate didn't have his first round pick

it was the commissioner so the commissioner said listen, listen, team A, I want you to tank because I already have your pick. And in order for you to do that, I'm going to give you a different pick. Right. So essentially, they made a trade with a conditional pick on top of it. So he got this first round pick, let's say, last season for a player. Okay, yeah, yeah. And then he's saying, I want to guarantee that you're going to be, because my team is probably better than yours and I may win a game. I want to guarantee that you're going to be, because my team is probably better than yours and I may win a game.

I want to guarantee that you're going to be 101. And if you finish 101, I will give you 110. Right. Right. It's something like that. Yeah. Right. Okay.

Sorry, I confused everyone there. Thank you for clarifying. Yep. So, yeah, you can't do that. But I don't know what the penalty is here like i think the penalty is you just can't give that guy another freshman pick like i never know how to feel about these like unique types of stipulation based dynasty or whatever trades like it's creative i don't like hate the idea in general, but it, it is too much on the borderline for me of collusion.

When we get into allowing these types of things. This is one manager telling another manager how to set his lineup every week. This is the definition of collusion. This is absolutely not okay. I think, I mean, fortunately the problem is like,

how do you punish the commissioner? It's easy to say, okay, you're not giving him that, that additional first round pick, but like, how do you punish the commissioner? It's easy to say, okay, you're not giving him that, that additional first round pick, but like, how do you punish the commissioner in this regard? Do you just make the tanking team start setting a lineup? They'll have a bad record, but maybe it won't be one, one.

They definitely should be set. Yeah, that's a good point. They definitely should be setting a legitimate lineup from this point forward. Yeah. Um, someone's asking, I'm new to fantasy football. Why would you tank? So this is for dynasty leagues. So the worst team gets the first pick in the dynasty draft.

So this is a super flex league. So if you want to tank for Caleb Williams, then you just keep losing. And there are two teams in our dynasty that are break burger dynasty league that are doing that. Dan is one of them. Unfortunately, he's not nearly as bad as the other tanking team.

Uh, but I got a question. I got a question on Twitter about this. Dan is one of them. Unfortunately, he's not nearly as bad as the other tanking team. I got a question on Twitter about this. Like, hey, can you lay out your rules for tanking for Dynasty? And I said basically what we do. The first thing I said was make sure there are no rules in place against tanking. And secondly, if you're going to do it, just make sure there are no rules in place against tanking. And secondly, if you're going to do it, just make sure you're starting somebody who's active.

So at least you're attempting to put players that are going to accrue points. You can't just put guys that are going to get zero on purpose. And I had a few people. What about a backup quarterback? Who's active again, someone that's going to accrue points. So the way I would do it,

like you should not be starting Mike White. You should be starting somebody of who's playing. All right. I'm allowing people to just start acting. Well, I mean, two QB leagues is a little bit different. Yeah, that's true. Right. It is.

And again, every commissioner is allowed to have their own views on this. For me, it would be someone who's playing and accruing points. In any event, I got some responses from some Dynasty players that this is why Dynasty leagues are, this is why it's frustrating to play in Dynasty leagues,

why people don't love it, and tanking should not be allowed. Again, I'll go back to the first thing I said. If you have rules in place, you need to have rules in place for this. There should be something that is written in the bylaws that say, if you are going to purposely try to get your traffic better, I mean, you know, keep in mind when we talk about this, you're giving up a year of your fantasy. You're giving up a entry fee for a year to do this. It's not like you're just sacrificing. Okay. And in this case, it's a free league, but you're just sacrificing okay and in this case it's a free league but you're just sacrificing um nothing you're you're you're i'm i'm paying you i'm giving you the winner money on on purpose i'm giving the league money on purpose i'm giving up a year of me

playing i'm not guaranteed anything yep i'm only guaranteed that particular player who by the way may suck look at bryce young yeah he's going to suck, but he might. There's no guarantees. It's a frustrating way to play, but some people, they have a lot of success doing it. It's just a matter of you've got to make sure you do it right. Dan's been taking in our YOLO league for about seven years. He's only been in the league for three, but he's been taking it for about

seven years. That team is a disaster. Let's go to our Apple Podcast questions here so Dan can hit the links. Jeff from Colorado, pick one. Zach Moss, Gus Edwards, Justice Hill, Cortland Sutton, or Josh Palmer, half PPR? Moss.

I'm going to go with, yeah, Moss. I was thinking maybe Sutton, but I'm going with Moss. The Fantasy Ballers start two of these mediocre wide receivers. Lockett, Flowers, Rice, London, Godwin. If you think those are mediocre, sit around. Flowers, London for me. Who'd you say? Flowers and London?

Yeah, that's what he said. I'll sign off. I like Lockett a little bit better than London, but to make it a? Yeah, that's what he said. I'll sign off on that. I like Lockett a little bit better than London, but to make it where we're at agreement, I'll go with that. From Zsu or so or whatever, I don't know. Trade veto help. I was 5-0.

I set out to acquire Justin Jefferson. I got him from a 1-4 team. I gave ETN and Adam Thielen for Jefferson and Pacheco. The league was in an uproar, and the commissioner caved to allow a vote. Of course, everyone voted to not give the 5-0 team, Justin Jefferson. I went to 6-0, and the other manager went to 1-5.

Had the trade gone through, I would have lost, and the other manager would be back in business at 2-4. Am I crazy for wanting to leave this league league or was my trade egregious no you are not crazy for wanting to leave this league this is a fine trade this is like a perfect trade almost and completely unfair for this to be vetoed completely unfair yeah good trade uh yeah but it might have worked out in your benefit if etn continues to do this i actually think it does work out. I'd rather have ETN and Thielen than Jefferson and Pacheco rest of the season. Jefferson, I don't know when he's going to play

or if he's even going to play at the end of this year. If they're one win or two win, I don't understand the incentive for the Vikings to play him, and I definitely don't understand the incentive for Jefferson to play in a contract year. No incentive whatsoever. Yeah, you're right. From ForestB93,

would you trade Ridley for debo samuel uh yeah yes you're you're yeah you're down on ridley i don't debo's hurt right he's playing through this injury he keeps getting re-injured i just i guess on paper it's an easy one i just don't know if I would do it. I think Ridley has more of a chance to be a league winner at rest of like at the end of the season. I'm going to guess the fact that this was probably sent before last night, that trade's not happening. Well, he might be able to do it after this week, but I'd rather have deep. Are you done on Ridley now? What like the key reference?

No, I'm not done on Ridley. I'm down on Ridley. I just think at this point, like, you know, if you can get a player like Debo Samuel, who still has... I know he's been frustrating too, but you just look at right now, who has the chance to rebound? I would lean toward Debo. I think Debo would probably be a better rebounder

than Calvin Ridley. From Nike, grade the trade. I traded Bijan Robinson and Terry McLaurin. Five and one record. I traded Bijan Robinson and Terry McLaurin, five and one record. I traded Bijan and McLaurin for Montgomery and Jefferson. See? Okay. This is from...

I'm out on the trade for Jefferson train. Just going to put that out there. Look, if Jefferson comes back in five weeks, then the trade's going to work out for you. Burrowhead, 2023. Just again, to be fair, I know your point is valid, Dan. They played their first division game.

They won their first division game, and they did it without Jefferson. True. They beat the Bears on the back of the quarterback. I agree. But still, they beat the bears. I agree. It's it, but it's still, it's they,

they did have first game, first division game of the season, which is a little scheduling snafu that they waited until week six

to play their first NFC North game. And they won. They're not, the Lions also got the five. They're not great,

obviously, but, but the Vikings are, I mean, I wonder what their point differential is. The Vikings are a minus six and they're two and four. I mean, I wonder what their point differential is. The Vikings are a minus six, and they're two

and four. I mean, they're really not that bad. Like, the Bears are a minus 48. The Panthers are a minus 74. Yeah, what are the Giants? Minus 90? Giants are a minus 96. You know, so the Vikings... What are the Dolphins? Plus 250? The Dolphins do not have the best

point differential in the division. The Bills are plus 84, and the Dolphins plus 250. Dolphins do not have the best point differential in the division. The bills are plus 84 and the Dolphins are plus 67. Really? Well, the bills beat the Dolphins by 20. Uh, the highest point, uh,

plus the plus minus is the Niners at plus 97. Wow. And the worst is the Giants at minus 96. I think. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, I got to Giants at minus 96, I think. Yeah. Okay. Anyway. All right.

I got to jump off. I got to jump off, Adam. But before I go, one quick, I'm going to give you all three. So I had the luxury of going out to lunch with everyone on the staff this week. All three of our big three took me out to lunch, and all three picked the spot. I want you to guess my power rankings of the three lunch spots who made the best choices out of Jamie, Dave, and Heath. And then I want you to factor in the second factor

that I'm going to reveal after. But first, rank those, and I'll go over each one. Are you telling me where they went, or this is without me knowing? No, you just have to guess who took me out to lunch. Who had the best choice for lunch? I know two of the three spots. Was the spot as one of them, or was that different? Yes, it was.

Okay. So that was Dave's. Jamie's was Twin Peaks, where you ate the burger stick. And I don't know where Heath took you. So I'm going to say Dave, Heath, Jamie, in terms of the – Dave's was the best because La Spada's is legendary. Heath probably took you to a barbecue place or something, and Jamie took you to a – you ate the wooden stick, and best because the spot is legendary. Heath is probably took you to barbecue place or something. And Jamie took you to you ate the wooden stick and you thought the burger was bad.

Correct. Those rankings were correct, though. Heath took me to Tucker Duke's, which was a good spot. But out of all three, he took me out to lunch. Jamie was the only one who treated me to lunch. So because of that, he moves all the way up the rankings. Wow. They didn't treat you. No, but it's the way up the rankings. They didn't treat you?

No, but it's okay. Oh my God. Why would they treat him? I wouldn't treat him. Yeah, no, I wouldn't treat him. Yeah, you don't have to treat me. I wouldn't treat him. You don't need to treat me. He's too close in age. It's okay. But it was nice by Jamie, and I will say that, and I'll stand by it. Dan does so much behind the scenes for me in particular, but for all of us, I mean,

the only time I get to see him, of course I'm going to take him over lunch. What did you think of Las Patas? Because yes, as I all of us, I mean, the only time I get to see a person, but take them over lunch. What did you think of La Spada's? Cause yes, as Ilya points out, it is a chain, but it is so good, isn't it? It's a local chain though. It is a chain, but it's a local chain. There's a difference between a chain and a local chain. I'll say this about La Spada's.

It was amazing. It lived up to the hype, but my favorite kind of delis are Italian delis. Delis you can get like chicken cutlet prosciutto a fresh mozzarella like that type of stuff so it's it was a it was you know regular sub type of stuff you know it's not that kind of deli so it was it was great don't get me wrong it was first off all three places are technically chains so none of us took tucker dukes to the chain too well i mean there's multiple of them i don't know if you consider that chain. So there's definitely two Tucker Dukes that I'm aware of. Okay.

The allure of the spot is, first off, I think the meat that they use, the bread that they use, the peppers, the sweet peppers. Yeah, the peppers and the bread were amazing. Yeah. It was great. It lived up to the hype. I told Dave, it lived completely up to the hype. Yeah.

But I still like an Italian deli a little better. And that's part of the New Jersey versus Florida thing. That's fine. Get back to New Jersey already. La Spada's is great because basically they give you a sub and within the sub,

they stuff in like another sub. They just give you so much food. I know. It's horrific. That is the best part of it. The side part of the story is our producer today, Zach Brooke, we had a... Oh, God. That is the best part of it. lives in florida would understand that so dan sends a text because i was running late and and he i think was running late also um but we had said we're running late zach are you coming and zach says i'm here so where the chain comes in is zach went to the wrong one yeah oops yeah i'm

sitting there for 10 minutes i'll take partial blame i'll take partial blame for it zach because i just you were like, oh, something happened. He has some weird phone issue where he was on the group chat, but it disappeared randomly. So he's like, oh, what time? And I was like, I don't know, 1145. I was like, I don't know this area that well. I figured he would know which one Jamie was referring to. And then he texted us, nope, I'm 35 minutes away.

I didn't know where Zach lived. I know it's kind of which one's the closest to the office for where, you know, Dave, for example, is coming from. For me and Heath, that was the closest one for us. And I was heading that direction to the office. I got a new phone and I was activating it when that text sent. And for some reason I saw it and then it disappeared. And I saw the name of the place. And I'm like, oh, that's obviously the one near the office.

And I double checked with Dan. I said, the spot is, he said, what time is it? I said, cool. I was off yesterday, so 20 minutes drive, driving over there, paid to park, sitting outside. I'm like, it's a little small place with small tables. And all of a sudden, there's no one there at 11.50. I'm like, where the hell is everybody at? And he goes, are you here?

I'm like, yeah. I'm like, no, you're not. I thought it would be right around the corner. So I'm like, I'll be there in five minutes. And I looked it up, and it said it was 35 minutes away. I said, yeah, that's not happening. Yeah, that sucks, man. All right.

Dan, thank you. Have a great weekend. Thank you very much. I don't know what this means. Adam Azer is the Abercrombie and Fitch of fantasy analysts. Looks good, but doesn't hold up over time. Ouch. I don't know what that means either, but I like it.

Yeah, I bet you would. All right, let's finish up, Jamie. Bye, Dan. Bye, Dan, yeah. From would. All right, let's finish up, Jamie. Bye, Dan. Bye, Dan, yeah. From Burrowhead says, I recently made a trade. How bad did I do? Half PPR, two flex.

I traded Adams for Addison and Damian Pierce. It's bad. You sold low on Adams, which is never a good place to be. I don't like it. I don't like it. bad. You sold low on Adams, which is never a good place to be. I don't like it. I don't like it. F go pack. Go 77.

This is actually Sean from a town 40 minutes East of Toronto, not Buffalo Heath. He said that last time. Ha ha. Uh, he says pick two to start Jerome Ford, Gabe Davis, Ramond Ray Stevenson,

Rashad white. Sorry. One more time. I was looking at the latest update. Yeah. Deshaun Watson is questionable, but likely to play according to one report. Jerome Ford, Gabe Davis, Ramondre Stevenson, Rashad White. Pick two. Ramondre Stevenson and Jerome

Ford. From Darth Bowser. Dear Alfred, Mary, Jeeves, and Adams Au Pair. We haven't talked about Au Pairs in a while. Let's see. He can't make any trades.

He's tried moving everyone, but it's a constant rotation of injuries and poor performances causing trades to fall short. Do I just weather the storm and try to make trades closer to the deadline

when managers are more active and my bigger names are healthy? I don't want to sell low, but I'm at three and three. He has Burrow, Adams, Puka, Taylor, Barkley, Ingram. He has Brees Hall, Aaron Jones, Christian Watson, Zayflower. It's a good team. He's got HN on IR, but you can see why he hasn't lived up to it. Do you think he needs to make a trade for a quarterback or do you think he should just stand pat with Burrow? I would stand pat with Burrow, but you can never hurt to explore some trade options and maybe you could

do some sort of a package deal to get a quarterback upgrade and something else that might help you. So keep trying. You're getting guys healthy now. Adams should start to turn the corner. Aaron Jones back. Barkley's back. So you might be able to make some things happen at this point.

Don't sell low, though. Don't sell low. Don't sell low. Don't just give away players. All right, this one is grade the trade. Give up Mahomes, Kamara, and Waddle. Mahomes, Kamara, and Waddle. Get Tua, Jacobs,

and Jefferson. Do we have a record? No. I don't like it. No. Okay. I mean, Kamara, if he keeps this up,

it's going to be amazing. We do have a record, actually. Longest time of leaving the wooden stick in the burger. Have you ever heard anything like that? No, he's so wrong about that. It doesn't keep things together. It's a temperature thing. I guess I should have paid attention that he was moving it, because

it doesn't make sense. Now that he says it, it doesn't make sense like it was at the end when I last noticed it. This is from Doodler Pim. Half PPR. Which two should I start going forward out of these wide receivers?

I know it's going to depend on matchups, but best answer you can give here. Ridley, Garrett Wilson, Addison, Pickens, Rice. Ridley, Garrett Wilson, Addison, Pickens, Rasheed Rice. Which two should I start going forward? I'm going, Garrett Wilson, Addison Pickens, Rasheed Rice. Which two should I start going forward? I'm going to lean Wilson and Addison. But yeah, I think it's the matchups will probably determine that. And look, I hope Reggie Rice, Raji Rice,

Rasheed Rice starts to play better. How are we saying it now? Rasheed, Rasheed, Rasheed Rice. Like R-U-S-H-I-E? I think it's more like Rashi. Right, that's what I was saying. Rashi Rice. So Rashi Rice, I think, has immense upside, but

he's just not there yet. Let's take a break. When we come back, your YouTube questions to finish out the show. Send them away. We'll be right back on Fantasy Football today. Okay, YouTubers. Let's see a break. When we come back, your YouTube questions to finish out the show. Send them away. We'll be right back on Fantasy Football today. Okay, YouTubers, let's see what we got from Mido. Mido, I don't know. Please pick two. Zay Flowers, Terry McLaurin, and Jerome Ford.

I think the safest two are the two receivers in PPR and Flowers and McLaurin, but I like Ford a lot. But if you're going to go one running back, one receiver, it would be Ford and McLaurin for me. This is from Wood Wrench. I traded James Cook and I got Devante Adams and Chuba Hubbard. It's an A.

This is from Chase. Pick three. Jonathan Taylor, Josh Jacobs, Jerome Ford, and Jordan Addison. They all start with J. So Taylor, Jacobs, Ford, and Addison. Like we would have said at the beginning of the season, sit Jonathan Taylor. Lockett or

Ford? We don't know the format. I would lean toward Ford. Jacobs or Barkley? Rest of season PPR. Barkley. Foreman, Warren, or Evans?

Half PPR. For this week, I would go with Foreman. What if Rashawn Johnson somehow plays? Then I would go with Evans. Raiders or Seahawks this week? Seahawks. We need a sit-to. DJ Moore, Pickens,

London, James Cook, Curtis Samuel. Who are you sitting? If it's PPR, I would probably sit the Samuel and Pickens.

Non-PPR, I would sit Cook and Samuel. Non-PPR, you would sit James Cook? In non-PPR, yeah. I mean? In non-PPR, yeah. I mean, he's got one touchdown. Okay.

Pick two here. Rashad White, McLaughlin, and Evans. I would go Jaleel McLaughlin and Evans. Wow. Start a running back in a flex and full PPR. Taylor, Cook, Gibbs, and Moore. Gibbs and Moore.

Lockett or Ford, I did that one. Watson or Amari Cooper when you have Jordan Love? I would start, well, this is, is it Deshaun Watson and Amari Cooper? Or is it Christian Watson and Jordan Love? That's a great question. He says Stack Watson with Love or Cooper? Yeah, I guess it's...

Did you go Christian Watson with Love or Amari Cooper with Love, right? Yeah. I would go with Christian Watson with Love if there's no Deshaun Watson. Okay. Madison, Javante, or Zach Evans? Madison.

Hamburger holder together stick. That's just a fun comment without context. Josh Jacobs or Aaron Jones? Jacobs. And a couple more here. Would you give up Pickens and Mostert to get Christian Watson and Jonathan Taylor?

No. I don't know if that's enough for Mostert. That's the thing. I wouldn't do it. No. And lastly, pick two here. KJ Osborne, Wandale Robinson, Deontay Foreman, PPR. Foreman and Wandale. Okay.

That's it for the show. Thanks, everybody. Great stuff. Good luck this week. We'll talk to you on Sunday morning, 10 a.m. Eastern on CBS Sports HQ on the CBS Sports app. 11.30 a.m. Eastern right here,

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