Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag and Fantasy Cops! And Top 5 Holidays (11/27 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: November 27, 2021

We've got the latest on the Giants WRs, the Packers RBs and Kareem Hunt and then your emails (9:15), Fantasy Cops (26:40) and Apple Podcast questions (39:30)! Plus, Dan ranks his Top 5 holidays (33:00) and we debate if Halloween is a holiday. Get some FFT merch here: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/shop-by-podcast/fantasy-football-today Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. This is touchdown. Oh, he's done it again. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath, and Beck. What's going on? It is your weekend mailbag for week 12. And this is always an interesting mailbag because it's Thanksgiving and people are traveling and all that stuff, so we don't have as many questions as we usually do. But we have plenty of news to get to

and the fantasy cops to settle some league disputes and another top five list. This time just five. Top five list from Dan Schneier and he's having trouble. It's the simplest thing I've ever given him. He's having trouble filling out five. Very strange kid.

He can't give us five holidays. We asked him for his top five holidays so we'll see what happens, Dan. I don't think there's anything better than when someone who's like two or three years older than you refers to you as a kid. You seem so much younger than me. I don't think there's anything better than when someone who's like two or three years older than you refers to you as a kid. You seem so much younger than me. I don't know.

Is it only two or three years? I think so. Unless I'm giving Adam too much credit. How old are you? I'm 32. Just turned 32. I'm 37. Okay.

Isn't that weird? Good God, I'm old. We all look young. Everybody looks young. Yeah. Dave looks exactly the same if you look at any picture of dave richard from the time we started working together which was 2006 and by the way if anyone hasn't seen it go look at the throwback halloween picture of jamie from like

four or five years ago i mean i might have been longer ago he was jacked i didn't know he used to lift like that jamie i was a monster wow is that a joke no you gotta see this picture like a fred flintstone costume or something the guns are out i don't remember this at all i don't i remember the costume we did the flintstones yeah i do that i do remember that i just don't remember i was barney i was barney rubble and i had my sleeves cut off and at the time i was lifting much more than i lift now there was a lot of commentary on this throwback picture. Really? Yeah, now I just lift a spoon and a fork. Oh, man. Now you're more like Rubble from Paw Patrol.

Am I right? Yeah, I take Rubble from Paw Patrol. Yeah, he seems like he'd be pretty ripped. Okay, let's get to the news and notes. Strongest of the Paw Patrols. What'd you say? He's the strongest of the Paw Patrols. I actually don't really think I've seen it.

We have the toys and the books. I think Dan should rank the Paw Patrols. The pups. All right, here we go. So Cordero Patterson practice looks like he's going to play. Jamie, he will be what for you, Cordero Patterson? A football player in the National League. National Football League.

Oh, good. No, he's a designated hitter, Jamie. He is a jack of all trades. He will be a start at every position that he is available to start at. So if you can only use him at wide receiver, he is a must-start wide receiver, and he is a must-start running back as well. Also the reason to jump on Atlanta minus one.

Oh, okay. Cleveland right tackle Jack Conklin and running back Kareem Hunt if you've heard of him they will both play on Sunday night Dan start or sit Jack Conklin first and then we'll do Kareem Hunt

I wish my team had Jack Conklin had signed Jack Conklin that's all I could say what about Kareem Hunt what do you think in this matchup at Baltimore it's obviously not a great matchup, but Hunt in his first game back, I think he's someone who,

at this stage of where we're at with running backs, he's someone I think I could trust in a flex, maybe back-end RB too. I don't think it's too much more than that. I would hope they use him a lot in the passing game because he can help there and easy throws for Baker. So yeah, I think flex at best, but tough to sit him.

All right, Sterling Shepard and Kadarius Toney will not, well, they seem unlikely to play. Oh, wait, has one of them been ruled out officially? Shepard officially ruled out. Okay, and Toney's probably not going to play too. So, Jamie, what do you think here? Galladay and Darius Slay is going to play. Is Slayton actually the sneaky play?

Should we just forget about it entirely? I think Ingram is a sneaky play just based Slayton actually the sneaky play? Should we just forget about it entirely? I think Ingram is the sneaky play just based on how they defended tight ends. But, you know, in terms of the receivers, I would forget about it

entirely if you can. Here's what I want to see. Whether you start Gallaudet or not, you want Gallaudet on your fantasy team if you have a roster to play with.

Ten targets. I don't care if Daniel Jones throws ten interceptions on those ten targets. This has got to be the biggest thing coming out of Joe judge firing Jason Garrett.

Or one of the biggest things is get Kenny Galladay the ball, especially when those guys aren't there. And I think we will see that because, you know, without actually saying it in words, Joe judge said, you know, we've got to do a better job of getting our playmakers the ball.

And we've seen earlier in the season, Kenny Galladay had a problem with Jason Garrett. It was obvious on the sideline. He confirmed it wasn't with Daniel Jones and who was yelling at it. He was yelling at Jason Garrett. Galladay had, what, four targets last game without Tony in the mix, without Shepard in the mix.

It feels like this could be a sweet little game. Yeah, two targets, right? Two targets, sorry. Yeah. He doubled his output. Let's do it. Yeah, it was four for Tony. Both of them were just disgustingly low.

No, no, it was 10 for Tony. It was 10 for Tony. It was 10 for Tony. It was four for somebody else. Aren't you a giants fan? Don't you like watch giants all 22? It's just terrible. Yeah. Come on.

What's going to be worse is my rankings of the holidays though. So I'm in trouble. I remember that time as a young dolphins fan, Dan Marino threw four passes in a game. Yeah. That was a good day. Yeah. All touchdowns. And Aaron Jones practiced again, so he is trending in the right direction.

Dave had an interesting take, Jamie, on FFT that he'd rather have A.J. Dillon with Aaron Jones back, just doesn't think they're going to use Jones the way that they typically do. You still are on Aaron Jones over Dillon. Yeah, and one of his defenses for that was a little strange. He said that the quarterback's got a toe injury, so why would they not lean on the run game?

I think they're going to lean on the run game. He probably thinks that Dylan's going to be more of the running downs. Yeah, I think if Aaron Jones is out there, I'd be very surprised that they're not going to lean on him more so. Now, to the extent of where we typically see Aaron Jones, probably not. So I think, like I said um every time we've talked about this on various platforms that jones is better than dylan if you have both in my opinion i'd start jones over dylan if i handcuffed them but jones is not a top seven eight five ten running back still i think he's closer to you know 12 um

and dylan is still worth starting the way i've described it to you this morning since we've talked 100 times um is uh that like like how i had the cowboys rank going in start start you can start both of them you must be so sick of me at this point yeah i was gonna say you have to talk to adam 100 times in a morning that disastrous. It started at 7.30. We podcasted at 7.30 and just the two of us. Then we had FFT at 10. And then now this. And then we're doing three more shows later tonight

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These 25 things remind you of how bad you smell. All right. From Brandon. We're going to start with the emails here. Fantasyfootball at CBSi.com. Dear Kirk, Pike, Spock, and McCoy. Cardinals receivers. Christian Kirk,

Gerald McCoy. I don't know who Pike and Spock are. Has Dan ever seen an episode of the old Star Wars? Star Trek, yes. I actually love Star Trek. I love sci-fi. I knew he would. I just knew you would. I knew it.. What does that mean? I just knew you would.

I knew it. I'm confused on what that comment's based on. It doesn't mean anything. I don't know what you're implying here, Adam, but go on. No, I just... Adam, did you ever see

an old episode of Star Trek? No, no. I was always showering. I knew he wouldn't. 12-team half PPR Dynasty League. Spock. I recently traded away Noah Fant for Derek Carr.

This is Dynasty League. I gave up Fant for Carr, Dan Arnold, and Cole Komet. My backup quarterback is Sam Darnold, and I only had Dak Prescott. So he wanted to back up Dak Prescott in his Dynasty League. He gave up Fant for Carr, Dan Arnold, and Cole Komet. I don't like it. Fant for Dan Arnold and Cole Komet.

Oh, he has Kelsey and Schultz. Yeah, but in Dynasty, it's not about really what your lineup currently is. I don't like it for Dan Arnold. Oh, he has Kelsey and Schultz. So yeah, but then dynasty, it's not about really what your lineup currently is. It's about the value. These guys can have longterm. I think fan, if the Broncos do what I think they're going to do this off season is

massively upgrade. That quarterback position is going to jump in value. And so I don't really see the car jumping in value. Arnold, maybe no, but commit is a nice piece. That's a nice piece. So like when you were saying the fan,

like fan has been disappointing based on the expectations for where he's been so far. And Kemet, I think it's starting to scratch the surface, you know, from what we've seen to the last three games. There's most likely, I mean, you could probably make an argument that there's two coaching changes coming there for each of these guys, but certainly more so in Chicago. And will that play caller and Justin Fields unleash Cole Komet? So I don't mind it, but I think fan is probably still the best player in that deal.

Do you know how old William Shatner is, by the way? He's in nine. I don't believe, I personally don't believe it. I've never, ever, ever seen a 90-year-old look like that. He looks like he's in his 60s. Well, his hair is 45. It's incredible. I just don't believe it.

I think the only reason I know his age was because when he was going to space. Went to space, yeah. Yeah, he's going to space. To space, yeah. Yeah, he's a national treasure. I don't know what his secret is. All right, from Blake. He showers.

Is this from Blake? Grade these trades. No, he probably doesn't. His skin's much better. I get Gibson for... The nice thing for you is that you shaved this morning. You already have a 5 o'clock shadow. Yeah, I shaved. I don't really have a 5.

I think I look fine. Look to the side. It's not that bad. All right, here we go, guys. From Blake. Grade these trades. I gave up Madison and Mitchell for Gibson. Madison and Mitchell for Gibson.

Yeah. I like it. I'm bigger on Gibson, I think, than most are. Obviously, the role didn't carry over to last week. We're hoping that what we saw the week before was going to carry over last week but i still like gibson the most of this trade i don't like it because of mitchell well i think mitchell and gibson are comparable because they're both not involved in the passing game they're both dependent on how they do running the ball something happens to dalvin cook that trade is such a landslide it's not even close yeah so i i much prefer the the Mitchell. I can see that. I get Hertz for Stafford and Gibson.

So give up. So I think he's kept on trading. I get Hertz. Yeah. So he gave up Stafford and Gibson for Jalen Hertz. I hate that. It's like the worst trade. Sorry.

Is it four points or six points? That's mean. I have no idea, but I don't like this. At this stage, he's just gotten rid of three backs for a quarterback is where he ends with this. But then he gives up Eckler and Mike Williams for Diggs and Jamar Chase.

I don't know if it's the same league, to be honest with you. He just no longer has any running backs to start for the rest of the season. I don't know if it's the same league. If it is the same league, he's giving up Eckler, Madison, Mitchell, Stafford, and Mike Williams for Hertz, Diggs, and Chase. Yeah, you ruined your team.

The three guys are good. Well, I think Eckler and Mike Williams for Diggs and Chase is a solid trade. Is it? In a vacuum, I think so, too. Yeah, I don't know if it's this league where he gave away all his running backs, but if it's a separate league and you have running back depth, I think it's fine. Yeah.

I don't know, man. Eckler's the best player there. He is, but Williams is by far the worst. Yeah. All right, from Chris. Start a flex in non-PPR. A Titans running back, T. Higgins, or Bateman? If it's only Hilliard and everybody else is hurt, I would take Hilliard.

If everybody's healthy, I would go Bateman. I was thinking the same. I was thinking the same. I was thinking Bateman first, but I think what Jamie said makes the most sense. If you're going to get that kind of volume with the injuries in Tennessee, you have to go with Villiard. Okay, now start one in a different league. Jeff Wilson, Titans running back, Ty Johnson.

Jeff Wilson, Titans running back, Ty Johnson. If there's no Mitchell, Wilson. If there is Mitchell and there's no Titans running backs besides Hilliard, it would be Hilliard. If not, it's Ty Johnson. Yeah, that's it. I don't know what to make of Ty Johnson, to be honest, because the opportunity is great.

We know that Zach Wilson doesn't check down like Mike White does. I wish we had an idea of what the carries would be because like Tevin Coleman is such a wrench in all this. Yeah. Our projections on sports line for Ty Johnson are like top five. What an interesting game, right? It's all these undesirables, basically, with opportunities,

including Tyrod Taylor. Let's play a game here. We are going to predict the best players, the top three players from Jets, Texans. Whoever gets the top three, or whoever gets the top three, or whoever gets the closest in terms of winning, gets to pick the next list that Dan has to do for next week.

All right. We can have overlap with the players? Because I feel like we're going to pick the same players. Sure. Is there a better way to do this besides top three? I'm trying to think about it. We can do a draft. I'll do a draft. A snake draft.

Snake draft. I like it. All right. We'll go alphabetical. That's not fair. All right, Dan's our guest of honor. So, Dan. We'll go in age order. Age order.

Youngest to oldest. All right, youngest to oldest. Dan, you have the first pick. So, I'm picking the best fantasy player from Jets-Texans? Uh-huh. From the Jets or the Texans? Yeah. No, no.

Both teams. Yeah, no. Both teams. Yeah, yeah. Both teams in the game. Most points. Okay. Tyrod Taylor. All right. I'll take Brandon Cooks.

Wow. I'll take Zach Wilson. And? Oh, and... Here we go. It's going to get tough. Elijah Moore. Stack them up, baby.

Shoot. I like it. That's who I wanted. I'll take brandon cooks and day hi ppr yes ty johnson no that's who i wanted and now i have no one else who i want all right give me give me tyrod taylor and i'm gonna to go full out, risky, boomer bust, Tevin Coleman. I like the Tevin Coleman wrench. I think he's going to weirdly score this week and do weird things.

The wrench. All right, who else? One more. Oh, we're going three players. I forgot. This is brutal. This is just getting to a point where I'm running out of healthy players that I know on both of these teams right now that I can start. So we lost Ty Johnson.

You got all the Texans running backs. You got Crowder. Maybe who wants the Texans running backs. That's the problem. Davis is playing by the way. Corey Davis is playing, but I don't trust him. You know what?

I'm going. So boom or bust. Let me just go another boom or bust. Corey Davis. That's what I was going to take. I will take David Johnson to go with Ty Johnson and Brandon cooks. That leaves me with the choices of Rex Burkhead.

Tight ends stink. I was thinking the tight ends are too. The tight ends stink so bad. Oh, the DSTs. I didn't know they were in play here. The kickers? Alright, you can go whoever you want. Yeah, kickers, DSTs count. I'll be fair since we didn like the DST call. The kickers? All right, you can go whoever you want. Yeah, kickers, DSTs count.

I'll be fair since we didn't know DSTs. I'll take Rex Burkhead so we all have a score. All right, yeah, plus the thing with DSTs is the scoring is so different, you know.

All right, that was a great, that was really fun actually. I very much enjoyed it. Can I remind everyone, by the way, of the time we were in a very important mock draft this offseason

and Adam went back-to-back Texans and drowned six to seven on the turn. It was one of the single worst decisions of any fantasy analyst in the last decade. The Cooks pick was fine. Everyone critiqued him at the time. I was hosting a show while I was doing it. You don't even know what that's like.

You're always hosting a show while you're doing it. Can I tell you that? So I share our podcast team with Todd Rones, and we're playing against Adam. And he goes, God, you really drafted a good team for Adam in this league. Because I drafted a few teams for Adam because he was hosting or not hosting. And I said, no, I didn't draft this one for Adam. He goes, oh, he actually did one by himself.

Good. Actually, there's a funny story about this guy. He hosts this podcast about the Giants, and he thought that Kenny Galladay had four targets at Cadareous Tony had two or something. All right, let's go. Let's move on here. We've only answered like three questions.

Uh, this is from Nathan. I think we should do this more often. Like draft me to team draft the game. Yeah, I like it. I agree, but I'm going to mute your mics.

If you don't let me speak, I was offered Claypool Lockettett, and Jonu Smith. Claypool, Lockett, and Jonu Smith for Darren Waller and a 2022 third-round rookie pick. It's a full PPR Dynasty League. So Claypool, Lockett, and who? And Jonu for Waller and a third-round pick. I like the Claypool side personally.

It's fair. I mean, you know, it sounds like the, the Claypool side is giving up, right? Maybe, but I mean,

well, yeah, it's, it's definitely a win now for the team that's acquiring Waller, but Waller's 29 years old and the third round pick amounts to almost nothing in dynasty for the most part. It, unless if it's a third round rookie pick,

if it's third round pick, if it's not like a full dynasty league, it's a little different. Okay. Yeah. Some people, it's a rookie dynasty, but it's not like,

you know, you keep your whole roster. I'm going to guess it's probably the case. You're right. But rookie pick, rookie pick. Okay. Uh,

yeah, no third round rookie pick is not generally very good. So yeah, it's a fair deal. All right. From clay. I'm in a PPR league with Kup and McLaurin. My starting wide receivers are...

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Kup and McLaurin are my starting wide receivers, and James Robinson and Dillon are my starting running backs. Oh, why didn't I just ask the question? Who should he flex? PPR. Javanteante Williams Marquise Brown or Devante Smith you might be in a situation where depending on how

comfortable you feel with Dylan because I have this situation myself of flexing Marquise Brown and playing Javante Williams over Dylan now I'd probably still stick with Dylan over Javante but I would definitely be flexing Marquise Brown yeah same exact here. Okay, from James. Grade the trade in non-PPR.

Give up Alex Collins. Get Brandon Ayuk. I am 8-3, but I really need a number two receiver. Currently, it's Brandon Cooks. So give up Alex Collins. Get Brandon Ayuk in non-PPR. I mean, if you haven't accepted this deal yet, you're crazy. This is a win win win across the board

this is so easy yeah all right tim unless you're desperate at running back but even then no he's getting iuk he's getting iuk yeah he's giving up yeah if he has the worst running back situation i can but yeah you got to take the better player here this is from tim rest Rest of season, Stafford or Hurts? Oh, boy. So Hurts, I think, is the better fantasy quarterback, but you've got to factor in his bye week is still ahead. So depending on what your record is, do you want to be scrambling for a replacement option?

So take that into account, but I think I'd rather have Hurts. I mean, I hope Stafford comes off his bye, and they figured out, okay, Jefferson's this, and Beckham that and, you know, everything's hunky-dory again. But the Robert Woods injury just sucked. Okay. From Matthew, I'm the Travis Kelsey manager. I need a tight end for this week.

I could pick up Logan Thomas, but we don't know if he's going to play. Or I was offered Tyler Higbee and Michael Pittman for AJ Brown. What would you tell Matthew? I'll tell you what. AJ Brown may not be great. So he has,

you're down two weeks potentially of AJ Brown right now. So it doesn't play this week by next week. You have Pittman who we don't know exactly which iteration of pitman is going to be the rest of the season is he going to be the guy that we saw in that stretch where he was awesome or is it going to be the guy that's been this last few weeks um it's not a horrible trade i probably you know i think it depends on your record like if your record is solid you can wait out aj brown for the fancy playoffs i do that and not make the trade and just pick up logan thomas do think Thomas is going to play,

but if you're in need to win now, I'd probably make that deal just to get Pittman for the next two games. I would not. I would definitely go the Logan Thomas route if he plays. I also think even if Logan Thomas doesn't play, you can roll out Evan Ingram here in a game without Tony, without Shepard, and against the defense that's set to last. To me, it's more about you have to replace a game without Tony, without Shepard and Ingram against the defense. That's yeah. No, it's more to me.

It's more about, you know, you have to replace the receiver too, for two games. Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. That's a good point. I just,

I hate Pittman schedule coming up. He's just one of the players that I identified this week, having a horrible schedule. Yeah. Let's go. So Tampa Bay, but would you rather have, would you rather have Michael Pittman or the replacement, like Jamison Crowder?

I don't know what his... If you have to start Crowder, then I would make the trade and go with Pittman. I don't know what his wide receiver situation is. He didn't mention it. But if it's just basically to get a tight end, then I would keep A.C. Brown. Totally agree.

If it's just the tight end, like Dan said, get Evan Ingram, worst I would, I would keep Asia Brown. Totally agree. If it's just the tight end, like Dan said, get Evan Ingram, worst case scenario, definitely get Logan Thomas. You know what you, and if you have an IR spot, you pick up both until Thomas is activated

because it's probably not gonna find out until Saturday. All right. We got one more email here. It is from Clay. No, it is from, who is it from? Eric, Eric, No. It is from...

Who is it from? Eric. Eric! Dear Richard, Susan, Johnny, and Ben. Richard, Susan, Johnny, and Ben. Is that from Big Daddy, Dan? That one's never going to die. Ted Team, full PPR league,

two wide receiver, two flex. I'm 11-0. I am most likely getting the week 15 bye. Should I grab a defense to hold for week 16 and 17? I love my lineup. I've been streaming defenses all year, and I love Seattle's matchups for week 16 and 17. What do you think? Let me get their sketchy.

Look, I mean, the theory's not bad. If you're locked in, they have Chicago and Detroit, Seattle, in those two games. That's not bad. Yeah? I think I'd rather get the, is it the Eagles?

All right, well, anyway, but you guys agree with that premise here? Just get a DST for now? Yeah. I mean, I'm in one league where I've been carrying two defenses, and the second one, I just keep looking ahead next week and picking up the best matchup, and then playing, keep rotating it,

but doing it ahead, and I should probably do the same thing, because right now I'm in second place, and most likely head to the playoffs. So it's not a bad move to make, you know, if you feel that comfortable and confident, your team, you don't have to carry and you have the bench space to do it. Most people don't have the bench space to do that.

That's probably to say, it depends if the league has a lot of bench space or not. Okay. Let's, but he also like move on. I mean, I'm in another league where like the defensive scoring is so minimal. Yep.

Like if you want to just wait it out with seattle wait it out with seattle and you know you got to hope for like in this league if we don't get touchdowns it's just a waste oh well that's that's annoying but it's better than my league where defense i had the bills dst last night everything what do you think they scored oh four points eight you'd you'd hate my league then, Adam. My main league, we have quartered all defense and kicker scoring. They can score anywhere between two and seven points in a week. Like, why even have them?

That's what I said, but we're catering to people who just want tradition and they want to keep them. Fantasy Cops is a tradition. I'm pumped about that. Let's go to the Fantasy Cops from AJ in a small western New York town south of Buffalo. I have no idea. Dan? That's Sleepy Hollow?

I don't think so. Is that Rochester? Sure. Why not? Hello, insert clever foursome of characters from a show you don't know here. How about Richard, Susan, Johnny, and Ben? I still haven't figured out what that is. I'm in a 12-team Dynasty League with a very... Oh, that's Fantastic Four.

Oh, okay. Cool. Good for you. Richard is Plastic Man. What's his name? Yeah. Plastic Man. Ben is The Thing.

The Thing. Johnny is the hot guy, the fire guy. Hot guy. And then Spoonstorm. I have no idea what any of that is. Yeah, it's fantastic four. All right. All right, I'm a 12-team Dynasty League

with a very clear and detailed constitution. For the third time this season, a manager couldn't be bothered to remove bi-week players from his lineup. When given his third strike punishment of getting docked his third round rookie pick, he dropped his entire roster in a fit of rage and quit the league. We already know to put the roster back together and remove the manager from the league. Mid-season, the rest of the way becomes...

Oh, I'm sorry. That little format typo there. Okay, the rest of the way becomes... Oh, I'm sorry. I had a little format typo there. Okay, the rest becomes tricky. Do you have the commissioner set the lineup for this team rest of the season? Do you let the next permanent manager in and continue business as usual? Do you remove the team from the playoffs?

What are your suggestions on how to best handle this act of immaturity mid-season? So we had a situation uh like this um in uh in an analyst league it's the uh one of the the leagues that i was in with mike taglier and when he passed away so he was actually the commissioner um but somebody else uh just took over his team with just setting his lineup. And that's all that it was. It's Dynasty League, so it's a little bit trickier. You don't have to really make a lot of moves.

There's not a lot of moves to make because it's a very deep Dynasty League. But somebody just set his lineup for him and just, you know, continued to play it out that way. He actually was, to show you how good Mike is at his job, his team at one point was undefeated. I think after five weeks was undefeated with only Zach Wilson in the 2QB League, if you can imagine that.

He had somebody else but got hurt. So he had a really good roster. But yeah, somebody just set the lineup for him. And then when we got to a point when Zach Wilson got hurt, we just allowed him to pick up the, I think it was Mike White or whoever the backup was to the Jets.

So I think he just let the commissioner set the lineup, play it out, and then after the end of the season, if you make the playoffs, just continue doing the same thing. And then after the season, just give it over to the new manager. Why not give it to the new manager now? That's what I would do. If you have somebody ready to take over, then sure. Yeah, if you do.

I think that seems like, seems fine. All right. Those are two options for you there. Dan, with that yeah i think just give it hand it over to the next manager i like how he added in that uh email an act of immaturity i think that was a good way to describe it all right star trek boy let's go to our next one. You've seen like four episodes. Four more than me. From Austin. Is this a vetoable trade in a keeper league given it was offered to multiple teams?

The main keeper rule is you can keep someone for a pick two rounds better than their draft cost the previous year. I don't really understand how it was offered to multiple teams. But, okay. The trade was Ayuk, Chuba Hubbard, I don't really understand how it was offered to multiple teams, but okay. The trade was Iuke, Chuba Hubbard, Freeman, Wilson, and an eighth round pick.

Okay, Iuke, Chuba Hubbard, Freeman, Wilson, and an eighth round pick. For Kareem Hunt, George Kittle, Chris Godwin, and Khalil Herbert. Or, oh, well, it's probably Justin Herbert. I don't know who it is. It just says Herbert. Are you covered, Devante Freeman? We don't have any rounds attached to these guys, so we don't know what they would be kept for, right? Right.

My answer was no. I don't think this is a vetoable trade. Well, this is definitely not a vetoable trade. Hunt, Kittle, Godwin, and Herbert. There's no vetoable trades unless there's collusion. Yeah, we've already established that's not true. But Hunt, Kittle, Godwin. You've established in your mind that's not true.

I mean, practicality, it's just I know there are trades that wouldn't be collusion that you would say. Sure, so you kick that person out of the league and you find someone more competent. They just grow on trees. These fantasy managers, there's a queue. Yeah,

I would not, I would not veto this trade. I would not be those right now. Okay, great. Well, thank you for your fantasy cops entries. We actually have one more from Apple podcast coming up in just a few

moments. We're going to step aside real quick. Take a break. When we come back, Dan Schneier's top five holidays. What are they going to be? Where is Thanksgiving going to check in? Or was that one of the ones that he couldn't think of? We'll find out after this. Harbor Day next. What do Mattel, Banana Republic, ButcherBox, and Glossier all have in common?

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ahead and did send an email forward to HR because I don't think this is a fair question to ask, to ask a Jewish person because I don't get to celebrate Christmas. I've been jealous of everyone I know who celebrated Christmas their entire lives. One time, just one time I got to do like the seven fishes, the night before Christmas thing with one of my friends who's Italian. Great time, Incredible experience. Better than anything I've ever had on Hanukkah. Hanukkah just, I can't even put Hanukkah in my top five. And I'm struggling to figure out.

Hanukkah is so bad, it doesn't belong in the top five. I don't get Easter. So I can't even put Easter as a clear cut top five pick for most Americans. I can't go there. So, I mean, what am I going to do? I start with the obvious one-one for a Jewish boy and that's Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving yesterday, great day,

great food, family, you get football. Now you get three games. It sounds like recency bias. No, this is an obvious one-one for a Jewish person. I mean, what else do we have? Everybody has Christmas. Everybody gets off of work. Everyone does not have Christmas.

My Christmas. The only good things I've ever done on Christmas is eat Chinese food and go into the movies, which is actually a fun day. So like, I'll put that as a great day. That's a great day. I'll put that as my two. But I know I'm missing out on so, so much. So Christmas is two.

It's two for me, even though it's just consists of the uh movies and chinese food but again i know i'm missing out on a lot so it's one of those holidays where you're just kind of going through the motions you're like you know someone over there my friend over there is getting a lot of presents eating that spiraled ham i've always been like that looks pretty good i never had one of those i don't know what they taste like they look good i had one yesterday for thanksgiving did you of course so that's another thing I miss out on Thanksgiving. All I get is turkey. So we don't have ham in our household.

So, you know, as far as the three goes, I'm going to put St. Patrick's Day as my three because, you know, I've had some good times going out on St. Patrick's Day, and I don't know what else I could really put in the mix here. As far as four goes, I'm really starting to draw thin here at this point. I'm going to go with Father's Day.

You're forgetting about it. I think I'm going to tell you some holidays and you're going to go, oh, okay. Fourth of July. What? Fourth of July. Halloween. Fourth of July. Unbelievable omission by me.

Fourth of July. Let's redo your list here with Fourth of July. That was not holiday. Unbelievable omission by me, 4th of July. Yeah, all right. So let's redo your list here with 4th of July. When you emailed HR on this. Look at you, the way you disgraced the flag in the background with your Wisconsin flag. That's not a disgrace. You don't even remember 4th of July. Unbelievable. The only disgrace is you trying to pretend to the listeners that you live near a farm

and that you have some experience on farms. What you talking about why did i say that remember a couple episodes ago yeah i drive around my neighborhood and there's farms everywhere oh here yeah yeah i do live near stone barn yes no one believes that no one ever believed that just all right fourth of july is an easy that should have been the two fourth fourth of july was the other one you said, Jamie? You can't say Halloween. It's not a holiday. Of course it's a holiday. You get days off for Halloween?

It's still a holiday. Yeah, I didn't know if that one counted. Yeah, what Jamie said. If you don't get days off, I don't know if it counts as a holiday. Well, you said St. Patrick's Day. And Halloween counts. Halloween, you celebrate. You do things.

There's festivities. But let me say something about Halloween. And this is the same reason why new year's barely cracks my list. If at all, new year's is not like new year's. Has anyone ever had a new year's where you're like, Oh, I'm so excited to make plans for new year's. This is going to be great. Every new year's is a struggle to find anything to do. I feel like anything you want to do has a very sheltered life, my friend.

Yeah. Two years ago I had the best new year's ever. It was what do you guys do on new year's? That's so good. Usually I didn't, usually I don't like it that much, but two years ago, I had the best New Year's ever. What do you guys do on New Year's that's so good? Usually, I don't like it that much, but two years ago, I went to Florida. I saw my family. My sister had a party. It was great. Yeah, we had a great time. And no work the next day. I mean, that's awesome. I used to love going out with my friends on New Year's.

That wasn't really my thing, but a lot of people do. All right, so what rounds out your stupid list? You got Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day. Yeah. And I what rounds out your stupid list? Yeah. Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day. Yeah. And I'll round out this stupid list, this horrific list with, I guess I'm throwing in New Year's reluctantly. I've had a couple of good days. A couple of times I've been like, oh, yeah, the plans have worked out. Most of the time it's a scramble to do anything that you wanted that that could be considered fun. I'll give you a thing about new years. You know, there's, when you're younger,

you want to do these things for new years and it's, it's like there's such crowds and you have to buy things in advance and it is, it is a little pressure. There's a lot of pressure. I've never been around. Well, look, when you don't drink, new years isn't very fun. Dan, what you need to do is marry an Italian girl, like I did, so you can start celebrating Christmas. I like that.

Very fun. I want the seven fishes. Lives up to the hype. I don't know what the seven fishes are. Ay, ay, ay. I know what the seven fishes are. Yeah, I don't know that. I guess I'll learn.

But Halloween has to be on. I've been at it for like 10 years already. Yeah, they don't do seven fishes. I don't know. Ay. All right. So Thanksgiving, Fourth of July. It's a holiday. How is it not a holiday?

It's not a holiday. It's a holiday. If you're not off for it, it's a holiday. I mean, for the sake of this discussion, I think Valentine's Day is a holiday. Is a holiday? Yeah, sure, it's a holiday, but it's not going to be on a top five list. Grandparents Day is a holiday? That's not a thing. Yeah, sure, it's a holiday, but it's not going to be on a top five list. Grandparents' Day is a holiday? That's not a thing. Halloween's really fun.

You know, your rankings of holidays I think change when you have kids because now they're all about your kids. So Halloween is actually very fun. Right. And Thanksgiving is the worst because it's extremely stressful. What? It's very stressful. Thanksgiving is the worst? That's a horrible take. No take could be worse than the one you just made. No, I used to love it. It's very stressful. Oh my God. Thanksgiving is the worst? That's a horrible take.

No take could be worse than the one you just made. No, I used to love it. It's just so stressful now. Thanksgiving is the worst. Adam Azer, Thanksgiving is the worst. Actually,

Heath would back me up on this one. Christmas is tough. It's really tough. It's a lot of gifts. Yeah, but Heath is also the same guy who doesn't like candy.

What? What are we doing here? Christmas is tough. It's a lot of gifts. It's a lot of work's it's a lot of work you gotta do gifts for eight nights i you don't have to i mean christmas you can give one gift why hanukkah is such a terrible holiday you don't have to you're right you barely get it i don't remember a single eight eight get hanukkah is just a disaster of a holiday i I'm sorry to say it. I hope I don't offend anyone. It's on Sunday. It's always a different day every year

too. It's now. It's coming around Thanksgiving. It's Sunday. It's crazy. How is that even possible? Yeah, I don't know. All right. Apple podcast questions here. This is from I Dropped Herbert. Oh, that was not good. Dynasty League.

Is this Dynasty League? No, this is not a Dynasty League trade, but this is a Fantasy Cops question. A 2-8 team trades Dalvin Cook to an 8-2 team, the commissioner for Brandon Cooks, Josh Jacobs, and Jordan Howard. It's a PPR league, and it's half point per carry.

The playoffs start next week. Is this a fair trade? Rewind to last year. The commissioner made an attempt to trade obvious bench players to his wife for Russell Wilson. Similar to this year, it was a week before the playoffs

and his wife was not in playoff contention. Is this a trash commish? All right, so the trade again was commissioner gets Dalvin Cook, gives up Brandon Cooks, Josh Jacobs, and Jordan Howard. And he's trading with a 2-8 team and he's 8-2.

Yeah, I mean, this is collusion. This is what this is. This is honestly one of the most frowned upon things in my mind in the fantasy community. I would never play in a league where there was collusion, apparent collusion like this one. You've already proven it. It's happened in the past.

For some reason, you're still playing through this league. You need to find a new league. I don't know what to tell you. Like Adam said, they, they, they don't grow on trees, but you know, maybe contact us, contact that. Not going to find a new league. I don't know what to tell you. Like Adam said, they don't grow on trees, but maybe contact us. Contact Adam. Not going to get a new league here. This is a trash trade. Two and eight teams should not ever make a trade with anyone. They're

eliminated from the playoffs in all likelihood. I guess you have to see if they're really... No, they're not going to make the playoffs at two and eight. They shouldn't be making trades. That's the bottom line. They should be vetoed. 41 votes into this poll. Is Halloween a a holiday yeah 54 say yes 37 say no nine percent say adam azar is crazy listen are you adding that to the nose because that could be part of the yeses no that's the nose somebody made a great point you don't get time off for work it's not holiday jimmy jay

says memorial day memorial day is a great holiday. Labor Day is good, but Memorial Day is definitely a good holiday. Jimmy, you're right, man. This is actually a great point. Memorial Day is a great holiday. That's a big miss by me. We had this conversation the other day, Adam, that for what we do for a living, the 4th of July is the best holiday.

Yes. Because it's one of the rare ones we get to celebrate. 100% good point. Now, we get to celebrate the other holidays, even Christmas for those of us that don't celebrate because we get the time off, or at least our families get the time off. But 4th of July, Memorial Day,

and according to Adam, Valentine's Day, all the non-football related holidays you get time off you get to celebrate with your family but yeah we do at least well that's honestly why i said christmas is stressful it's working you know and thanksgiving too it's not really like i can just relax but christmas is really you're under the gun trying to get a bunch of presents. I'm a really late present chopper too. I thoroughly enjoy Thanksgiving from the standpoint of

the football games along with family that typically comes to visit me because I can't go anywhere. Today is the worst day in the world for me. Because you're tired? Because there's no football. I'm still working and everybody else around me is off. Aren't you pretty much done by now though people aren't you pretty much done by now though on friday with with i had to i had to do three shows yeah yeah but i i don't mind doing

the shows it's the it's all the you're done with all your research and stuff no i still have to write another story that george maselli is going to kill me because i haven't started all right yeah that's it's once i finish the research i'm just like yeah let's do it i love it but the stuff. No, I still have to write another story that George Maselli is going to kill me because I haven't started yet. Alright. Once I finish the research, I'm just like, yeah, let's do it. I love it, but the research takes a while. Alright, from 21Damage, should I start DJ Moore, Miles Sanders, or Jeff Wilson?

DJ Moore. Yeah, Moore for sure. Unless Mitchell's out. Unless Mitchell's out, then you start Wilson? Yeah. I love Miles sanders this week i'm upset you didn't pick him but that's okay you're probably right and this one comes from usa red devil it was a one-star review and the subject was host only asks questions about his own team and the comment was the squeaky voiced host only asks only asks the same questions every week about who he should start on his own team. We know this because it's the same questions every single week.

Take some questions from followers. What? Yeah. That's a bad review. I don't know who this squeaky-voiced host is. I don't know who he's talking about. Do you think USA Red Devil knows that 4th of July is a holiday?

Oh, you mean because Dan doesn't? You're right. You mean because Dan doesn't. I do not ask questions about my teams. Best holiday is Thanksgiving. The second best holiday is Christmas. The third best on St. Paddy's Day. That's all right. He forgot. It's okay. I've had some great St. Paddy's Days. Great St. Paddy's Day. That's all right.

He forgot. It's okay. I've had some great St. Paddy's Days. Great St. Paddy's Days in Hoboken, New Jersey. I forgot about Memorial Day and Labor Day. This did not occur to me. Also, Cinco de Mayo is fun for a lot of people. Yes.

But you don't get off of school or work or whatever, so it's not a holiday, according to Jamie. I think that's kind of a ridiculous rule. Okay. Let's finish up. I will read some questions from the chat for a few minutes here. Jamison Crowder or LaVisca Chenault?

I'm starting to get excited about LaVisca Chenault after what Urban said. Oh, they're going to give him carries? Yeah. Please don't get excited about LaVisca Chenault. Why? Here's what's going to give him carries? Yeah. Please don't get excited about Leviska Chenault. Why? Here's what's going to happen. This is going to be the most annoying thing for what we do.

Leviska Chenault is going to finish very well over the last six games of the season, whatever, six games left. And we're going to go, oh, yeah, finally, Leviska Chenault. And then they're going to add a receiver next year, and they're going to change coordinators, and they're going to do all these different things. No, it's Leviska Chenault. Here we go, Leviska Chenault, Chenault, Chenault. And then he're going to add a receiver next year and they're going to change coordinators and they're going to do all these different things. But no, it's LaVisca Chenault. Here we go. LaVisca Chenault, Chenault,

Chenault, and then he's going to be terrible and we're going to be wrong again. I'll like him going into next year. I think, you know, it'll be tied to Lawrence. He can't run. Who can't run? LaVisca Chenault? He's slow. He just, he doesn't separate. Yeah, I haven't liked what I, he doesn't look anything like the player I saw on film at Colorado.

So for that reason, I mean, it's an eye test thing, but he doesn't run well anymore. Eckler, Barkley, Fournette, pick two, full PPR. You got to go Eckler and Fournette. Yeah. It's crazy that we're at that point with Saquon, but that's the correct answer. Mike Williams or Elijah Moore?

Elijah. the correct answer mike williams or elijah moore elijah yeah elijah moore i think even though i don't trust as much with wilson but i'm still going more aj dylan or aj brown i don't think aj brown is playing i'm gonna see if i get it is aj brown play jamie seems to have more energy as the sun starts to go down. I think Jamie is a vampire. Oh, definitely. Yeah. Dave also a vampire as he is not. I will say this.

For someone who lives in Florida, Jamie, it doesn't look like you get much sun. I'm never outside. Yeah. You got to get outside. People think that we're in Florida, as someone who used to live in Florida, like we just live on the beach.

My friend used to joke about this. My friend is very pale. And he would be like, he's like, I live indoors. I have a house with a roof. Start two. Ayuk Smith, I'm guessing that's Devante Smith, AJ Brown.

It's Ayuk and Smith. Yeah, I just don't think AJ Brown's playing. Right. Kareem Hunt or AJ Brown? This is going to get rapid fire AJ Brown questions. If AJ Brown plays, I'll take Brown over Hunt. All right. Cousins or Rodgers?

Rodgers. Yeah, Rodgers. He's not practicing today, but I don't think that's a concern. And rest of season, Heineke or Garoppolo? Riverwire? Is there anything better? I go Heineke alright one more Rashad Bateman or

who's R. Smith I was thinking the same thing this bad we can't come up with R. Smith Adam just think of Rod Smith when I see R. Smith Devante Smith do you remember Rod Smith Adam of course I of Rod Smith when I see R Smith. Devante Smith? Do you remember Rod Smith, Adam? Of course I remember Rod Smith.

He was on Star Trek. I remember Rod Smith. R Smith? He was on the Broncos. He was awesome. Who is R Smith now? There's no R Smith. It's got to be Devante Smith.

Devante Smith or Rashad Bateman? Yeah, it's Devante Smith. All right. Carlton, you confused us there. Now we have to go. At some point soon, we'll be doing fantasy football today in five. It'll be me and Jacob Gibbs. Thank you so much.

I know this was a little early. Thank you all for being here this day after Thanksgiving, which is a holiday. And let's all just... How old are your top five holidays? My top five holidays are July 4th, Memorial Day. You can't say it's your top five. You don't remember it. Christmas.

Now that I think of it. Well, it's my mom's birthday is that weekend. So a lot of times she's here. What? You don't remember your mom's birthday weekend? No. That is so screwed up. A lot of times she's up here.

We usually have a family up here on Memorial Day, I think. So July 4th, Memorial. Someone send the show to Mrs. Azar immediately. Cut the clip. Dan, don't deflect. Yours was horrible. She changed her name when I got so unpopular. She was like, I can't be associated with you anymore.

So she goes by her maiden name now. Sorry. July 4th, Memorial Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving. What else did we say? Halloween. Oh, no.

Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving. Yeah. Halloween doesn't count. Okay. We're out of here, everybody. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Good luck in week 12.

See you later.