Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag! Fantasy Cops and Rankings Updates (10/29 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 29, 2022

Will Brinson joins us with a Fantasy Cops dilemma (2:15)! Should he be allowed to retroactively change his Week 7 roster to make his lineup legal? He actually has a compelling case. Unfortunately, he was facing Dan Schneier last week so we'll get Dan's opinion on this too! Then we've got the latest news (11:15), Apple Podcast questions (21:50), thoughts on Eno Benjamin (38:30) as we learn that James Conner is out again, Fantasy Cops (44:15), emails (48:15) at [e-mail] and YouTube questions (59:10) Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Get 20% off Fantasy Football Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-football-today%20?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-football-collection 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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Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Fired up for this Saturday Mailbag. It's actually Friday afternoon as we record. Welcome to all of you watching on YouTube. Hit that like button, baby. I'm Adam Azer. Dan Schneier's here. Jamie Eisenberg's here.

And it's always great. When was the last time we had Will Brinson on? I haven't spoken to him since the Draftathon. Will Brinson, host of the Pick 6 podcast, at Will Brinson on Twitter. Welcome, Will. Make this show awesome. I'm counting on Twitter. Welcome, Will. Make this show awesome. I'm counting on you.

Well, sure. Well, I know you have a fantasy cops issue. It's weird to talk to you without Nanda around. Yeah, I know. At this point, I'm just conditioned to

talk. I get to play the straight man when Nando's around. It's unbelievable. Well, someone will draw a picture of a body part just to make you feel like Nando's. A body part. I don't know. Something below the waist.

Dan Schneier's in the Halloween spirit wearing his Freddy Krueger outfit. Good stuff over there. That's where you're going with it. All right. I get it. Look, it's a weird shirt, weird color combination. At the back end of that, you know, when you got to do laundry,

he said, I'll give it another day. I gave it another day. You really believe that, Adam? Or he just went and was like, I like this shirt. He wears that shirt all the time. Come on. No, he just got back from a trip. So I think he's probably behind on the laundry.

I think that's probably true. Look, Dan seems six in one. He can do what he wants. Yeah, there we go. Yes, that is true. So we have news on Ezekiel Elliott, Chuba Hubbard, DK Metcalf, etc. Remember, it's Friday afternoon.

If you're listening on Saturday, you probably know things that we don't. We'll get the fantasy cops a little bit later. Emails and Apple podcast questions. The best way to get your question on the air is to leave us a five-star review on Apple podcast. But, Jamie, I'm going to let you intro this one. Detective Eisenberg, what's going on? Well, I got a text message from Will yesterday. And he prefaced it by saying maybe this is an issue for the fantasy cops.

So I thought, of course, why not just have will on the fantasy cop so will requested me to retroactively remove jk dobbins from his did you say active roster or your bench injured reserve okay so from from your injured reserve are you aware of who i played this oh i'm well aware okay so you wanted me all right i'll let explain it, but you wanted me to move JK Dobbin somewhere to help you get your lineup from being illegal to legal, which would have, I assume given you a win because your opponent who happens to be on the show failed to set his lineup last week and left three Eagles in his lineup of Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown and Dallas Goddard. So he ends up winning to go to three and four.

You ended up losing to go to four and three in the magazine league that we are all part of. And that said person would be Dan Schneier. So Dan will lose a win in this scenario here because he neglected to set his lineup himself. He left for Mondays. He left. Can I. Before we get into the nuts and bolts and the moral compass nature of whether or not Dan should do the right thing and say, of course, we'll have whatever his score would be, which we don't know what it would be. I would like to point out that I think it's kind of a commissioner flaw here to have a lineup be made illegal by not having enough players on your bench.

Now, if you have too many players on your bench totally fine to be legal but like i shouldn't be yeah we need we need more information here just okay so will you had jk dobbins in an ir spot and you had one too few players on your bench and therefore you had an illegal lineup and you got a zero so on what day of the week did you ask Jamie to move Dobbins into your active bench? So I usually will like

I mean, I have too many fantasy leagues try to pare them down. I will try, obviously do waivers and all that and then try and set the check Thursday and then make sure, you know, come back on Sunday. I'm not actually sure. I think what happened was I was trying to add somebody. What's that?

Check the text message. What was it said? Well, the message was yesterday. Oh, okay. Thursday. I noticed it. I noticed it on like, obviously like Monday when I was checking the scores, I was like, oh,

or maybe, yeah, it was Monday. Cause I was like, oh my God, everybody's already played. I can't, I can't move anybody into this spot. So I had to add a person or move Dobbins from IR to the bench to make my lineup legal. So Dobbins was on my team. He was just in IR. But it was illegal because I was one bench player short. Okay, right, right.

Okay, and that's interesting. The league settings are just so people understand what Will's saying is there has to be a minimum amount of players in your bench. But yeah, right. Yeah. Which is interesting. You know, not a lot of not every league has that. So it wasn't like he had too many players. He had too few and he could have easily just had Dobbins on the bench instead of I.R.

But he didn't realize it. So here's what I think happened is that I did, you know, like so Dobbins got put on I.R. And I didn't think where I attempted to add a player and move Dobbins to IR. No, you know, I moved Dobbins to IR in anticipation of adding a player off of waivers. And I think either I lost the play, lost out to the, somebody else on the player, or if the player, you know, player had played, it wasn't, you know, didn't like, couldn't be picked up before the time period. And so when I didn't recheck my lineup, did my lineup on the CBS Fantasy app, which frankly should have notified me. I mean, I should really sue for malpractice.

Or whatever we sue for. Yeah, people get sued for this a lot. Yeah, we'll find out. Negligence, negligence. Yeah, you sue. People get sued for this a lot. Yeah, we'll find out. Negligence, negligence. Yeah, sure. But, you know, so I didn't look again until Monday, at which point no further options to add, drop, et cetera, et cetera. And then I was like, oh, my God.

I was like, if I text Jamie right now, he's going to be like, oh, boy. Here we go. And then I started looking at it later and I was like, you know what? Kind of got hosed there. You should be allowed to have nobody on your bench if you want. Maybe I don't want anybody on my bench. And so I texted Jamie. It's interesting.

Dan, what do you have to say for this? Because you won with three Eagles in your lineup. No, no, no, no, no. Is that true? I have a lot to say. I'm cycling and rifle if you see me looking down during will's uh speech right there are you like running through the transaction space because i know even worse even worse i'm running through my app so here's the issue this is not something i'm using as an excuse i'm incredibly embarrassed by this to begin with

but during the off season for fantasy sports doing our job job, we drafted this. By the way, Dan, I said that Jamie and Adam should do the right thing and allow you to remain anonymous. Thank you. I wish they had. We are dragging you. I wish they had, and I want to be clear about something before I say what I'm about to say. In the five other leagues that we're in right now,

I'm pretty sure I'm no worse than four and three. I think I'm five and two across the board. Never missed a lineup, never missed anything. But what happened here is that, and this is no no excuse but i'm just giving the truth of what happened as i tried to rifle through to find this league in the off season during our job we have like multiple mocks sometimes two or three per week and those all go up on your fantasy page so at some point before the season i wanted to clean it all up this is actually a really so i removed all of those mock leagues and i removed all of those leagues that we weren't playing out for some odd reason i removed the

magazine league which i think is one of the only leagues we don't actually put any extra scratch on on the side we do well that's not a good sign as i did not realize the magazine league qualified for that well it makes you feel any better Dan. I once hit the 2QB league for the entire season and didn't realize it. You hide a league, you're screwed because now I'm scrambling right now

because I can't even figure out a way to get the league back. This is a great excuse, Jamie, next time. Man, I'm doing so badly in the podcast league. I must have hit archive. I hit it the entire season.

I can't believe it. All right. So I just want to speed this up. How do I get the league back so I can fix this thing? It sounds like I have a good roster. I have like a Hurts, Ramondre Stevenson.

What are you saying is the website and the app are broken? I am broken, Will. So what are we doing here, Jamie? Because I think that you should let Will basically have a legal roster retroactively. Because he didn't do anything wrong. He had one few bench spot. It's a silly reason. One few bench players.

It's a silly reason. Well, he did do something wrong. He could have just left Dobbins on his bench. Yeah, it's a silly reason to lose a week, I think. If he had too many players, then I would say no. That's on him. Oh, my God. My team is so good.

I can't believe I hit this league. So I would... That's what I would do, Jamie. What are you going to do? Well, the fact that he didn't ask me until Thursday. One more point clear. Let's pretend it's not me.

It's just an average CBS fantasy user. This is a podcast. Pretend I'm a podcast listener, not me. Then I want you to make your judgment. Take the bias out of it. This is a podcast. Pretend I'm a podcast listener, not me. And then I want you to make your judgment, you know, with a little, like take the bias out of it.

Because I know if I were. It's not you sitting here? Yeah. What an idiot that guy is for not checking his online. Jamie, you're right about the Thursday thing. Not texting you until Thursday actually sways me the other direction. Like you sort of reach. That's the beginning of the next scoring period. I mean, give me a break here.

Yeah, because I was setting my lineup for Thursday. I was like, oh, my gosh. No, you know what? I changed my mind. I changed my mind. If you had done it on Monday or Tuesday or even Wednesday, fine. You took that long. I didn't think you would do it.

All right. Here's what we're going to do. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to let the audience decide. Oh, so to post the poll, Adam. On YouTube. On YouTube. Zach, So, post a poll, Adam. On YouTube? On YouTube. Zach, can you do that?

All right. Zach's going to do it. All right. Should Will be allowed to have his lineup retroactively changed and give him a victory over Dan Schneier? Yeah. I need to look at these comments and see if I know any of these names. No.

I will vote. Selfishly, I will vote no. I'm going to vote no also. I'm going to go on like five different teams. No, no, you guys can't vote. Why? We're in the freaking league. I played the first seven weeks

not even knowing I was in this league. What is the page? It's not FFT. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. By the way, it sounds like me and you are the only two goons who might need to know this well Will, but if you need any information on how to reshow a league you've

mistakenly hidden, just reach out. You have to go to the site. Exactly. You've got to go to the site. If I lose this, I will thumbs down this video. I'm voting no. One thumbs down. Feedback shared with the creator.

Will, you can hang around. We'll get to the rest of the show. You can hang around until we have a little bit of conclusion on that. News and notes. James Conner was not seen at the portion of practice that was open to the media. Jamie, if James Conner's out, Eno Benjamin is what? A top 20 running back with top 15 upside. Jerry Jones said that Zeke's not going to play.

It doesn't seem like Zeke's going to play. We don't have an official word on that, but Tony Pollard is an absolute must start. Let's go Tony Pollard. Chuba Hubbard is out. Dan, would you start Deontay Foreman or Eno Benjamin if James Conner is out? I would go Benjamin over Foreman in that spot.

All right. Would we start Deontay Foreman over, you know, Devin Singletary, Michael Carter, Najee Harris? Would Foreman be ahead of all those guys? The only one would be Singletary. I'd have a little bit pause on. I did pause on when you said it, but over Najee, over Montgomery, over Carter, over...

About that range. Okay. DK Metcalf likely out. We haven't spoken really about Marquise Goodwin since Tuesday. Jamie, any interest? Desperation, number three receiver. Wando's better, right? Much.

Okay. Tampa Bay linebacker. Trade offer. See what you guys think. Well, you can weigh in on this one, too. Dynasty League, I am 5-2, I believe. Maybe 4-3. I'm not sure. Is this our... Different Dynasty League.

Okay. I have Garrett Wilson and the team that is in total tank rebuild mode. I offered a second-round pick for Wanda Robinson. I got countered with Wanda Robinson and another manager second round pick for a team that is on the winning side of the ledger. Maybe back into the second round. Wanda Robinson and a second round pick for Garrett Wilson. So you'd give up Garrett Wilson. You'd get Wanda on a second round pick in a 14. I would give up Garrett Wilson. I would get Wandale on a second round pick, and a 14-team...

I would give up Garrett Wilson, and I would get Wandale in a late second. 14-team, right? 12-team. Oh, 12-team, sorry. 12-team Dynasty League. Okay. What do you think?

Wandale in a late second? Wandale in a late second for... Wilson. Garrett Wilson. So, the way I would... I mean... You start five receivers in this league, by the way. I'm just sort of wondering,

is there a chance that Wanda Robinson could be just better than Gary Wilson? So that's what I'm thinking for this year. But my guess is, and, you know, it would be nice to talk to two guys who know about the Giants, that the Giants significantly upgrade their wide receiver court next year. Wanda Robinson goes from the one to the three and Garrett Wilson evolves into the one that he was drafted to be. I would say based on the way the Giants are running their offense right now, Jamie, he'll

always have a pretty strong role within this offense. Wanda Robinson, they don't even if they draft the number one, they're not really operating an offense right now that really targets the number one too much downfield. Right, but that's right now. That could change. That could change, right. That's assuming Daniel Jones stays in the spot that he's in. That's true, right.

Yeah, it all depends on what they do at quarterback. Right, like Wanda Robinson does not profile to where Garrett Wilson profiles. I would keep Garrett Wilson. I think you should keep Wilson only because you could get more for Wilson in a trade than this. Yes, that's what I was leaning toward. But, you know, it's hard when you're in the thick of it, knowing that Wando Robinson will produce more. And knowing that this is a five receiver league and for that, even with a late second next year, you can probably get like another Wando Robinson type who might be able to contribute early on for you in one of those five receiver spots. Look at this.

Will Brinson commenting. Vote yes. Save our Brinson. I subscribed to comment, too, which is really annoying. Now I have to unsubscribe. No, don't unsubscribe. Oh, my gosh. It is getting close.

Come on, people. Vote yes. 53. Save our Brinson. 53% no. Give me a chance. We're not setting his lineup. I actually set my lineup.

It's a stupid commissioner rule. Thursday. Oh, no, no. Don't say stupid commissioner rule. What does that mean? I have to decide for you. You might want to watch the intro. It's a stupid accidental rule by a generally benevolent,

very intelligent commissioner. Yeah, you know, why did you wait until Thursday? And because I didn't think Jamie was going to say yes, that is the worst reason. It's ridiculous. I looked on Monday. I had like 10 fantasy leagues. I go through and check to see if I'm winning.

How many of them did you have an illegal roster in? Huh? How many of them did you have an illegal roster in? This should have taken precedent. What do you mean it should have taken precedent? Well, you said you have so many fantasy leagues. If I see that I have a zero in one of my leagues. You got a job, man.

I'm not expecting that. But you knew about it. All you had to do was text Jamie. But you didn't. Right. And all... Look, I want to text around with Jamie and a very tan man

and a very loud New York wage-ertainment fellow. Not me. Not me. I didn't get the new york part yeah yeah yeah it's um when it starts uh when it gets going on sundays and mondays if i said jamie a text on monday he's like this happened jamie like oh i will say if if you if you said this

on monday if you said this on mond, it would have been, oh, okay. Yeah, you obviously made a mistake. Of course. But there's like nothing that's changed. Like, I have the same number of bench players. You've got to notice it early. It's all perception. You've got to notice these things early.

And I said this to Dave when I was telling him the story. I said this to Dave. Like, if this was just, oh, hey, Will lost and he just needs to get the points. I don't even know if I won. I don't know how many points I got. He started three guys that didn't play. Did you see what Lamar Jackson did? He might as well not have played last week.

It'd be interesting to see who would win. I mean, how many points? I don't think the listeners should be rewarding someone who would have potentially lost against a team that didn't have three guys out of their lineup. I think it's worse. I think it's worse.

Like you didn't even know that this thing was going on. Stupid hide button. I can't believe I hit it. Actually, I think that's what happened is like, I saw this illegal. I was like, Oh my God. And I was like, that's so annoying. And then when I went back, I was like, wait a minute. Now I'm like four and three.

Like this team's actually pretty good. And I went and looked at the score. I was like, wait, Dan didn't even start three guys. I was like, I was like, that's so annoying. And then when I went back, I was like, wait a minute. Now I'm like four and three. This team's actually pretty good. And I went and looked at the score. I was like, wait, Dan didn't even start three guys? I was like, that doesn't make any sense either. Why would Dan? All I know is now that this league is on hit. We'll have a chance to correct some things. Maybe we should allow Dan to correct some things as well,

just to see how this would actually play out. Oh, yeah, right. Exactly. I would be willing to do that. I don't know what my score would be. I think if you can get the best possible score replacing the three guys he would have done. Yeah, why don't I get to if you get to?

Good point. But here's the thing. Dan doesn't have a quarterback on his bench. I don't think he has a side on his bench. Well, that's a Dan problem, not a Will problem. But at least he has the right amount of bench players. I will acquiesce in the name of fairness and for podcast interest

to give Dan whatever the average quarterback score is from that week. This is getting way too complicated. You're making this so much more work for me. Listen, it's over. It's over, folks. The no's have it. Should Will get to have his lineup retroactively

changed and be given a win over Dan? No, 53%. Yes, 47%. It is over. It is official. No, this is ridiculous. That's what Jamie said. And the people who are logging on now.

Jamie just said he was going to decide. He said the people would decide, right? The taxpayers get to decide. We're the fantasy cops. Taxpayers? These are the taxpayers. to decide we're the fantasy cops these are the taxpayers they pay our salary we don't pay this it's a free subscription it's an analogy it's the metaphor

here the fantasy cops literally like I'm subscribing give me a refund you just said you were unsubscribing I'm going to unsubscribe if I lose you're going to dislike the video, too. I promise to you. All right, Jamie, what's it going to be?

The people have spoken. They say no. Got to trust the people. Yep. It's a no. Come on. Congratulations, Dan. Now start setting your lineup so you can compete in this league.

I know. Now the league is unhidden, and the embarrassment falls on me for this situation. But I looked at this team, and I feel really good about it. I can make a run in the second half with this type of team. I think I'm giving you both losses. I'm a fan for that. I like the idea of, alright, I'll tell you what. Who would have been the, who is your

best waiver wire quarterback from your column this week, Jamie? This week? Yeah. I'm sure you know right off hand. It's Daniel Jones. You mean last week, week seven. You don't want to give me Jones. Jones scored like 26 last week.

Week seven, it was Matt Ryan, so we're not going to give him Matt Ryan. You can give me Matt Ryan. That's fine. I think one of us started Matt Ryan. Yeah, I did. Listen, we got to end this here. We got to move on and get to the rest

of the people's questions here. I think what you should do, Jamie, what I do in this situation with the legal lineups, give Will the loss, but give him the fantasy points. And you have to do that manually in case there's a tiebreaker. You're going to have to know how many points he scored. Just throw the toppers to the bench and see if I won or lost. And then that's the outcome.

No, you lost. You waited too long. You lost. There's a statute of limitations. It expired. Listen, I'm not saying that I'm going to start a Latte Larry's type of situation, but I promise you that this will

come back and haunt both of you. You're going to be a very, very powerful and spiteful enemy this day. You may suffer some collateral damage as well just because it was your team. I'm sorry if that happens.

Just know that this is not over. Well, I don't like that, but I want to keep our integrity here. The people voted. All right, Will. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Thanks, Will.

I'm just stopping by to say, fire Ryan Wilson. Later, buddy. All right, that's Will Brinson. All right, let's get going here. Mondra St. Brown likely to play. And apparently the Giants are interested in acquiring Jerry Judy, according to Ralph Vacchiano. And with that...

I can feel about that. Great. Great. That depends what they'd have to give up, what the asking price third and a sixth round how about a third to six round pick yeah that they're not going to get them for a third and a six i was hoping they would use tony as the trade instead of the picks so that that ship has sailed they already traded tony four picks but a second i think i would do it for a second. I really do. Yeah. All right, let's go to our Apple podcast questions here.

This is from Danny Mac. We're going to have to go fast here to make sure we get to everybody's questions. Danny Mac, 25, eight-team, non-PPR league, grade this trade. Give Saquon Barkley, Ken Walker, and A.J. Brown. Get Mixon, Fournette, Cooper Cup, and Bryan Robinson.

I do not like this trade. I love this trade. You're giving up Barkley and Walker. You're getting Mixon and Fournette, and you're upgrading from AJ Brown to Cooper Cup, and you're getting Bryan Robinson. I think there's a huge downgrade going from Barkley to Mixon, and

even for me, from Walker to Fournette. So I guess Cup can sway it. I would probably do the trade. The only concern I would be is if the Bucs continue on the route that they're going, how much more will they start playing Rashad White over Leonard Fournette? Yeah, that's a major issue in this deal. We saw that a little bit actually last night when they were down by 11 with about six minutes left.

It was Rashad White in the game. Then Fournette came in near the goal line. You know what? I actually apologize. It's non-PPR. So the cup over Brown advantage is not nearly as big. It's not as big. It's big.

It's still huge. No, I still think it's a good trade. I think you're right. There's too much of an advantage there. But non-PPR, you're getting two running back upgrades on the other side. Yeah. All right, from Zappy Hour.

I just lost Mike Williams, and I'm pretty thin at wide receiver. Should I trade Austin Eckler for Damian Pierce and Amandra St. Brown? Half PPR, by the way. Eckler for Pierce and St. Brown? Mm-hmm. I like that.

Yeah, let's do it. All right, from PJ. Start two in full PPR. He also says, Dear Kyle, JT, Reese, and Bryce. That's our Phillies Phillies, right? Yeah, there you go. You're on fire.

I'm only laughing because the email that somebody sent in earlier this week goes like, Dan is the best only because every time you do one of these, where you throw the names out,

D or whatever, he has no idea. He just ponders around for a while, takes a deep sigh and is like, I don't know. So true.

All right, start two in PPR. Kareem Hunt, Michael Carter, Deontay Foreman. Sid Hunt, right? I would go, who'd you, yeah, Deontay Foreman. Sid Hunt, right? I would go, yeah, I mean, Foreman for sure for me with Hubbard out. And then it just comes down between Michael Carter and Hunt,

and I think I would lean Carter. Carter. All right, from someone who says, Dear Matt, Jared, Dan, and Dante. Matt, Jared, Dan. This is another one I'm going to have to take a deep sigh on. Is there a Jared Dolphins quarterback? Is there a Jared Dolphins quarterback?

Matt, I'm asking. I don't know. Well, yeah, I think you're getting... Because there's Dan Marino, Matt Moore, Dante Culpepper. That was pretty good by you to get. Oh, I was thinking Deontay Foreman. Deontay. What other Deontays are there?

Grade the trade. 10 teams, super flex. I traded Geno Smith for Raheem Mostert and James Robinson. I have Hertz, Cousins, and Garoppolo. So he traded Geno for Mostert and James Robinson. Super flex, 10 teams. I don't love it. I think if you're going to trade,

in the Superflex League, these quarterbacks are a valuable commodity, and Gino's playing good football. If you're going to trade Gino, I would want to get more than Mostert or Robinson, or I would try to trade Cousins if you don't think you can get enough for Gino. To me, it's just not enough of a return.

I guess it just depends on what your quarterback situation is like if you can afford to trade Geno. He can, yeah. He has Hurts, Cousins, and Garoppolo. Is that all you can get for Geno right now? I mean, is Mostert so bad? And Mostert's a...

No, it's just the injury. It's the history of injuries. Like, how long do you trust him? And then it's Robinson in a timeshare with the Jets definitely needs running backs by the way yeah i guess if you're running backs you're getting two guys who are playing right now so and most are starting all right from drewish guy you don't know the planet druidia do you dan is that uh is that one of your shows what's what show is the movie It's a movie. How about you, Jamie? I don't know, Geridia? You know Geridia, right, Jamie?

Of course. Is it Spaceballs? It is Spaceballs. What, did you Google that? No. Do you think I had any time to Google? That was really quick. No, I didn't Google. It was just a great educated guess

based on some of our past conversations. Very good. Before Rashad Penny got hurt, I traded Penny, Kelsey, and Sutton for Jefferson and Goddard. We were grading a trade from like four weeks ago. Penny, Kelsey, and Sutton for Jefferson and Goddard. I would go the Jefferson-Goddard side for sure.

Obviously, well, now Penny's out, so that's pretty easy. Yeah. Also, he criticized my editing. Oh, no. Whoever edits the pod skips all over the place at least two episodes a week. I don't know what that means.

I don't do any skips or anything. I didn't even find out who leads the league in end zone targets. I think you mean, he said red zone. I think you mean end zone targets. I told you it was, well, it was number one was, who the hell was it? Then after that, it was like Allen Robinson, DK Metcalf. That was part of the segment.

All right, from Spike2Me. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope. It's also Spaceballs. I'm three and four. I need a win. PPR League, Philaflex. Rondell Moore or Chuba Hubbard or Bryan Robinson?

Well, no, Chuba. Yeah. It's a tough one between those two. I'd go Bryan Robinson? Well, no. Chuba. Yeah. It's a tough one between those two. I'd go Bryan Robinson. Yeah, I think just better chance at volume. All right.

This is from Detective Frank Drebin. You know who he is, Dan? No. Wait, wait. Keep doing that. No, that's the wrong music. Give me a little more.

Oh, it was the wrong music. That's the odd couple. That's the odd couple. That's the odd couple. What's the music for that? Well, it's I love L.A. Oh, no. It's the Naked Gun. Never even heard.

What? You've never heard of the Naked Gun? No, I have not. You've never heard of it? I think I've heard of it in passing, but I couldn't tell you what a poster of the naked gun no i've never heard of it i think i've like heard of it in passing but i couldn't tell you what like a poster of it looks like i couldn't tell you any of the characters on the show there's a hall of fame football it's a movie it's a movie oh it's a movie so i've definitely never heard of the naked gun oj simpson starred in it co-starred

leslie it's a leslie nielsen movie it's one of the funniest movies ever i will be getting roasted for this take but we'll move on it has one of the best movies ever. I will be getting roasted for this take, but we'll move on. It has one of the best umpire scenes in any movie history. Okay. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Gotta check it out. All right, so this,

the writer, Frank Drebin, loves our show. He says, when Adam gets fired up about.001% of the time, he slips up with an unintentional but passionate expletive. I equate this to an overexcited

cockeraniel puppy runs up to you tail wagging, but is so pumped up it pees all over your face. Sounds about right. 10-team PPR league. Give Pierce and Dylan. Get Waddle. Yeah, do that.

That's amazing. Talking about like Alec Pierce. Oh, Damien Pierce. Is it Damien or Alec? It's Damien. Damien Pierce and AJ Dylan jaylen waddle he still has mcafree aaron jones and rashad white and patterson i think i keep peers the only thing about it is is that it's hard to give up running back capital especially guys getting as much work and productive as he is.

Right. And Waddle's been so dinged up lately. At some point, could that come back to Haunted Plus? Pierce already passes by. Waddle still has his bye. It's a fair deal on the players, but it's when you factor in the positions that they play. I probably keep Pierce.

I keep Pierce. The bye thing is kind of sneaky. I think experienced fantasy managers probably pay attention, but if you're just in a casual league, people might not pay attention to, oh, he's had his buy or he hasn't had his buy. You can sneak in some value that way. This is from Grash13.

This is one of my favorite things when people do this legitimately. They really think it's his name. Great show by Adam, Jamie, Dave, and Keith and the rest of the crew. I need a flex and half PPR. David Montgomery, Khalil Herbert, Curtis Samuel, George Pickens.

Well, Zeke is probably going to be out even though there's a glimmer of hope today, right? I didn't read Zeke because he's going to be out. Yeah, okay, okay. Montgomery, Khalil Herbert, Curtis Samuel, George Pickens. Half PPR. I don't really feel great about any of these. Montgomery, I guess, just because of the volume.

From Noah, should I feel comfortable starting Chris Guywin and Leonard Fournette every week, or should I look to trade one of them? Non-PPR. Well, we talked a little bit earlier about Rashad White's role growing there in Tampa. From a just pure efficiency standpoint, the Bucs are arguably the least efficient rushing the football over the last few weeks.

And I think that will trend up. We'll continue that way, I should say. The offensive line isn't getting any better. So I think you can feel comfortable starting Godwin. I'm not so sure Fournette will be in that. I don't know what you can trade them for, though, right now. I think if you need a receiver, like you can look to package some,

like maybe get Miles Sanders and something for Fournette. Yep. You know, if you get a really good receiver, maybe Deontay Foreman and that receiver for Fournette. It's got to be a good receiver, though. Yeah. You know, you could a good receiver, though. Yeah. You know, you could try and buy low on Zeke with the hope that this injury isn't bad. Turn Fournette into Zeke.

I play so little non-PPR that I almost don't even have a measure of what's a good week in non-PPR for a wide receiver. So there are... For a wide receiver, a good week? Yeah. I think you probably look at 60 yards and a touchdown as a good week.

Oh, no, 12 points would be a great week. There are only seven wide receivers averaging 12 points per game in PPR. I have... I'm just thinking about Godwin. If Godwin gives you seven non-PPR fantasy points per week, is that good?

And that's not even top 30. I'll give you a build that I have in non-PPR. It's a league that i've done forever and they don't want to change um i have uh you start two running backs in the flex and only two receivers my starting receivers are christian kirken it's been a rotating i started with kirk and alan robinson right now it's kirk and wandel Wanda Robinson. But my running backs are Eckler, Walker, was Brees Hall, now Tony Pollard. It's all running back driven. It's so running back driven. So I'm getting like six to eight points a week

from my receivers and still dominating. Yeah, yeah. But I don't know. Chris Godwin is so different right now in non. Six points a week. Yeah, and he'll score some touchdowns eventually. But if you just seven seven fantasy points at non-ppr that's not very good there are 42 wide receivers averaging seven fantasy points per game in non-ppr uh but there are only 18 who are averaging 10 so if you get a 10 point week in in ppr in non-ppr non-ppr from a wide receiver

that's very good all right back to the Apple Podcast questions here. Team name Tuesday. Dulcich and Gabana. That's very good. From Fool's Karma. Jamie, did you ever weigh in on Adam? Adam was really excited the other week when he told me one of his team names that I didn't find that great or interesting,

but maybe it reached you and you were like, it was interesting by Adam and it was creative. He has oil of a lave as his pun on a lave. Is that good? No. It's great. He doesn't even know what oil of ole is. He doesn't know.

No one. That's the problem. That's the problem. Some people know. Jamie knows. Jamie knows. Jamie uses it. No, he doesn't.

I don't know. It's a skin product, I think. I don't even know what it does. You don't even know. Nobody uses it. It's only a little lava. A little lava. There you go.

What, an LA? Nobody cares. From Fool's Karma, I traded Devante Adams. Fool you. Fool you. Traded Devante Adams for baseball. Baseball. Stop.

You're so bad at this. Why do I even try? I traded Devante Adams for Leonard Fournette and Clyde Edwards-Ziller. What do you think? PPR. I don't love it. I hate it. Yeah. It's tough. It's tough. It's not easy to like that one. All right. From so many attempts, the subject of the title of the review was

Best Podcast Out There Hands Down Plus Adam Has Better Hair Than Dan. No way! of the review was best podcast out there hands down plus adam has better hair than dan no way the comment then reads this show has the best hosts in podcast history insightful information from experts in the industry best segment is fantasy cops uh love how early it's released also we need more of adam singing his game of the week song is my new favorite song oh you got damn good today that was fun fun. Anyway, after all of that, here's the trade. Grade the trade.

10 team PPR. Give up Aaron Jones and Christian Kirk. He never starts him on his team. Get Devante Adams. He never starts Kirk is what he's saying

here, I assume. The two things that go back to, one, Raiders have already passed their bye week, so you don't have to worry about Adams missing time. Packers still have their bye week. Jaguars are about to have their bye week. The only thing that I would say,

give me a little pause for making this trade, is will Adams face any suspension for what happened in Kansas City with the photographer? Yeah. It doesn't seem like that would have happened the photographer. It doesn't seem like that would have happened right now. It doesn't seem like it, but it's still looming.

Would you do it? Would you trade basically Aaron Jones? If you have the running back depth, then yes. Because you're getting a huge upgrade at receiver. Not that Kirk has been bad by any stretch, but Devontae Adams makes you a lot better. He has McCaffrey and Walker and some bench pieces.

He only has two running backs then effective? No, he has Brian Robinson, Gus Edwards, Rashad White. It's close for me because I think Aaron Jones is going to play an even bigger role moving forward as we saw in the past game. But the upgrade is huge.

I think I would lean toward yes here with Adams. James Conner's out. Oh. All right, Eno time. And Daryl Williams is a game-time decision. All right, let's do that real quick here. Actually, let's finish up these questions, then we'll talk Eno for a minute.

Grade the trade. No. Who's better rest of season in PPR? Sutton, Pittman, Mike Williams. Rest of season? Yeah. Assuming we're going to lose four weeks of Mike.

Sutton, Pittman, Mike Williams. As Heath would say. I'm going to say I'll hope that Ellen Gerr is good for Pittman. I'll pick Pittman, Sutton, Williams. And then the running backs. Who's the best rest of season? Ken Walker, Aaron Jones, Joe Mixon. PPR.

Walker for me. Walker, Mixon for me. Walker, Nixon, Jones. Yeah, same order. All right, last one here.

No pushback on the Walker ranking there, Adam? I'm a little nervous about it in full PPR, but I can't really blame you. He's so good. Too much upside. From KB Surfrock, I have Brees Hall in a keeper league keep two players do i hold on to him to keep him in the third round or drop him i also have ken walker in the 11th and

josh allen in the sixth and you can only keep two right yeah i would drop him then because we don't even know he had this acl injury what mid late october maybe he's back for early october if they're if things go well i mean it could be earlier i shouldn't say that there's some crazy there's been some crazy you know advanced he could definitely be back in week one he could be back week one but he might not be the same i think i'm learning my lesson about that i drop him too jamie would you drop him i mean i'm not keeping him over those other two guys at that value so no but yeah, two questions would be, does somebody else get to pick him up and then still keep him in the third

round or does they get to keep him maybe as a last round pick if he's dropped? Right. I wouldn't want to give that advantage. Right. Right. True. So good point. Uh, you need to know that rule. Um, what was your other question? How that goes? You said you had two questions. Did you want to just like ask him to go to dinner or something the other one would be is that uh um why is no ir spot oh yeah talk to your commission true yeah all right well uh well let's talk about you know benjamin here james connor is out so jamie uh you're gonna move you know benjamin up in your

rankings to where we have a rank as if there is no James Conner. All right. So Eno Benjamin is 20th for you. The guys directly ahead of him, Miles Sanders, Aaron Jones, Raheem Mostert, DeAndre Swift. Just going to leave them there? It's hard to expect them to be significantly better than those guys.

I feel like there's a very similar range of outcomes for all of them. I don't want to also overvalue what, you know, Benjamin did last week. This is a tougher opponent against the Vikings, given what they look like coming off their bye week. So I think Benjamin is fine, you know, so expect him to probably be in the neighborhood

of 20 total touches. Hopefully he's in the four to five catch range again and that this offense plays as, you know, efficiently as it did last week. Also relevant, Rodney Hudson and Max Garcia, two offensive linemen, not going to play for the Cardinals. So it makes things a little harder on, you know, Benjamin. Hudson did not play last week.

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to get the job done right. Data sourced from the ORCGA 2023 Dirt Report. Welcome back. Dan, do you anticipate getting any trick-or-treaters this year where you live? Yeah, there's going to be a few. There were a few last year.

I ended up buying a ton of candy, and I would say it's – so here's a take that I have, Adam. I was talking about this with a friend yesterday who bought a ton of candy for Halloween. What happened in our society that no one trick-or-treats anymore? When I was a kid, our parents used to, like, drive us around places. They'd just drop us off and let us go. They trick-or-treat.

They're out there. They're out there. Are they? Yeah. And just not in our area. Jamie, you have three trick-or-treating age kids do they they everyone trick-or-treats right all their friends and all that well covet probably changed some things right yeah maybe maybe the first year yeah do you feel comfortable jamie letting them go out like i don't know what age is they're at right now

um so my kids are 10 8 8, and 4. The problem is that we can't let the 4-year-old go by himself. Right, right. So the 10-year-old, yes, we would let him go. We haven't done that yet because, again,

basically missed two years of trick-or-treating because of COVID. The 8-year-old, probably yes in our neighborhood. Not outside our neighborhood, though.

Okay. I am so excited this year because there's a neighborhood right by me where it's like trick-or-treating. I want to live there so badly, but there are no houses. It's like a lot of young families. It's the most Americana neighborhood I've ever seen.

Basketball hoops and kids playing on the street and everybody loves each other and everybody's friends come over. And I live like a mile away from there and I'm not part of the community. But I think we're going to go trick-or-treating there and it's going to be really cool. Are my kids in your neighborhood you don't live in? Yeah, I have friends there.

So hopefully... Oh, you have friends there. Okay. Yeah. Well, they haven't invited me. I tried to get them to invite me last weekend. I was like,

hey, what are you guys doing for Halloween? They didn't say anything. So I'm going to work on it. Wait, wait, wait. You're going trick-or-treating there uninvited? I'm going to go. We're Wait, wait, wait. You're going trick-or-treating there uninvited. We're going to go there regardless because a lot of people just go there. It's called Phillips Manor.

A lot of people just go to Phillips Manor to trick-or-treat. You're going to a neighborhood that you don't live in where you have friends that live there. That's not a gated community. It's not like in Florida where— And you're going uninvited. We're not going to—yeah, we're just going to go to— No, no, just answer the question. Yes, because I live—

You're going to a neighborhood that you don't live in. Jamie, I can't, I can't ticker tricker G to my neighborhood. It's, it's a bunch of townhouses. It's not, that's not trick or treating. We want to give our kids in the neighborhood.

That was a bunch of townhouses. We went trick or treating all the time. We want to give our kids real trick or treating. You walk up to the front door and you, you know, there's, there's a little effort involved and there's a bunch of kids around and it's cool.

We want that. Hopefully we can link up with our friends, but we haven't gotten the invite. And what if you show up and your friends are like, Oh, Hey, there's so many, it around and it's cool. We want that. Hopefully we can link up with our friends, but we haven't gotten the invite yet. What if you show up and your friends are like, oh, hey. There's so many. It's such a big neighborhood. What are you guys doing here?

We're going to go. A lot of people go there, but anyway, I'm excited for it. Uninvited trick-or-treating. It's not uninvited. It's not. That's the first time I've heard Adam go places he wasn't invited to.

My neighbor. Where did I go? What the hell are you talking about? I was thinking about the time you were in New York a couple of weeks ago, like a month ago, and you wanted to, this is not uninvited. This was a different scenario,

but you wanted to go to the burger place. Everyone else wanted the fancy seafood and you're like, come on, let's do the burger place. And you ended up being right in that one. Oh yeah. They all were like, no,

we're good. We're good. And then I had the rabbit paella. Everybody should listen to me. Who orders that? I know. That's the thing. There's like nothing there.

Nothing. Nothing there. There was definitely something on that menu that was non-rabbit related. There's no way you can sell something. No, they had sandwiches. You ate Bugs Bunny. For no reason. Now he's claiming there was nothing else on the menu.

All right. From the people here. This is from Ethan. I'm running a league in its first year. I had a manager who was not active and not setting lineups,

not making moves. I didn't realize this was happening until another manager who plays him next week brought it up in the chat. A few minutes after he brought it up,

the inactive manager immediately went in and made some roster moves to pick up players to fill his roster. The manager who brought it up and who plays him next week is upset because now this team has an active lineup for their matchup

but, quote, gave other teams free wins, end quote, in previous weeks. How should I handle this as the league commissioner? I know I should have been monitoring manager activity, but I just assumed his team was not very good based on the scores. I think he kind of nailed it. I mean, part of being a good commissioner,

Jamie, is notifying the league members if they're... No, I actually take this back. This is a bad take. I don't want to follow through on it. It's such a bad take. It's on the manager. It's on the manager. I don't want to put it on the commissioner. It is on the manager. I don't understand why this person was inactive and decided to be active just needed a little kick in the butt like were you playing were you interested in playing this fantasy football league or not from the start yeah but what do you do this is this happens you know this happens yeah this does happen what do you do there's nothing you can do about it all right like if the season has been playing out and you have not set the other person's lineup you cannot change in the middle season but he he was, yeah, but now this person is playing

active, though. Yeah, they're setting their own lineup. So Dan, for example, if he realizes that we're playing this league out, and goes in and starts changing his lineup, that's his right. Yeah, too bad I hid that. It's so embarrassing. I feel terrible about it. It's such a lie, too.

You just weren't having a good year, and you were embarrassed because all you ever say is, I'm doing better than you in every league. I'm doing better despite not making any moves or setting any lineups, Adam. I'm obviously not having a bad year. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. I think you traveled last weekend and you didn't set your lineup.

And now you're saying that you hit the league. No. And it wasn't. I can prove easily that you're a moderate Stevenson. All right. This is from Terry Blevins from Lebanon, Missouri. I need a ruling from the fantasy cops in a deep PPR league. By the way, Terry Blevins from Lebanon, Missouri. Everything about that sounds fake to me.

I don't know why. Team A picks up Julio Jones on Thursday in an attempt to trade Jones to Team B, who's desperate for wide receiver help this week. They're unable to agree to a trade, so Team A drops Julio Jones five minutes before Thursday night football in order for Team B to pick him up and start him.

This has all been admitted to on the league message board. In my opinion, this is obvious roster drop collusion. What is the appropriate punishment? Just a warning. Both teams get zeros this week. Trade ban rest of season or worse. Oh, trade ban. I've never even heard of it. It's a collusion.

Yeah, basically. It's also noted that obviously in this league, there's no waivers you've you drop someone he's immediately eligible to be added so i have a strict rule against collusion that's the only thing in my my mind as a fantasy commissioner the only thing that warrants a veto is if there's collusion involved when there's worth of examples to tell yeah i won't i won't go down that path again uh sorry for ever doing it but to me collusion is a

it's like the no hold you can't come back from that i would remove look to remove these managers from the league and unless they had a good explanation for it um which doesn't sound like it and then find new managers for next season that's my that's my take i don't like collusion there's there's no yeah you can't collude. That's the one thing you can do. I don't know if I'm getting that kick right away. I probably would say you're both getting zeros for this week as your punishment. If this ever happens again, you're out of the league.

Okay, there you go. All right. Emails. I got one more, then I'm done. All right. We got to go fast here. Emails. This is actually a good one here from Andres.

I'm confused why Swift is so low in the rankings with such a great matchup. I don't know. Is it such a great matchup? I see he's ranked behind Travis Etienne, who has a bad matchup. No, he actually has a good matchup. Broncos are terrible against Ron.

Am I really benching Swift for Pollard and Etienne in a PPR league? Jamie, Swift is not as high as he usually is. So talk about how you rank Swift. I don't think it's a slam-dump matchup. I don't fear the Dolphins' defense when it comes to most running backs. It's a pretty good week for running backs

at the top end of the group. And so Pollard is an easy one for me without Zeke there taking on the Bears. That's a no-brainer. If you want to start Swift over Etienne, guess what? It's your team. So just because we have it ranked a certain way, as Heath would tell you, who does projections,

and I would feel the same way if I was projecting them it's probably a half a point you know so if you feel more comfortable with Swift if you were to tell me right now Swift has been playing no issues he would be a starter over Travis Etienne. Etienne's coming off three straight weekers having eight yards per carry he's got the job completed to himself I still think we're gonna see a timeshare in Detroit and the matchup I think is slightly in the favor of ETN versus the matchup for DeAndre Swift. So they're very close in my rankings to begin with. Trust your gut. Go with DeAndre Swift. It's fine.

Okay. See you, boys. Gotta go. Bye. I open up a league page and I see I'm getting my butt kicked already. I face, well, I face Lamar Jackson and Chris Godwin. Could have been worse, right? Right. Yeah, for sure. And I had Tom Brady. Oof. 50-50%

50-50 is the, I'm projected like it's the total toss-up, playing Heath. Brady, stupid Brady. Yeah, he's killing me. Look at this, look at this league. I have to start in a PPR league. Kareem Hunt, Josh Reynolds, and Brian Robinson.

Where are my good players? I don't prefer my magazine league. I have to start in a PPR league. Kareem Hunt, Josh Reynolds, and Brian Robinson. Where are my good players? I had almost picked for my magazine league where I didn't even check line. Michael Thomas is killing me. And he's out again, by the way. He and Landry are both out. He's killing me. All right, back to the emails here.

Swift or DJ Moore from Joseph PPR? Swift for me. Pick three from Jeff. Christian Kirk, George Pickens, Michael Pittman, Gabe Davis, Wanda Robinson. Pittman, Kirk, Davis for me.

Davis healthy coming off the bye. Kirk still in that high volume role. And then Pittman potentially another high volume role there. I'm sorry about that awful sound. I hit the microphone with my headphones. Are you alright? I'm fine. Yeah, just it was probably unpleasant to listen to.

From Kane. We'll put him in the concussion protocol. Pick two. Latavius, Kareem Hunt, Josh Reynolds, Paris Campbell, Jermichael Hasty. Pick two in PPR. I'm going to eliminate Campbell and Hasty if you're okay with that. I am. Latavius and Hasty if you're okay with that. I am.

Latavius, Kareem Hunt, and Josh Reynolds. I'll go Kareem Hunt, and we need one more. I think Amon Ra is a full ghost. That really deflates my enthusiasm for Reynolds. It's Hunt and, sorry, Latavius. And Paris Campbell, look, maybe I shouldn't poo-poo it that quickly. He's got two really good PPR games in a row. It's just, like I've said many times,

it was very much aligned with Matt Ryan's style. So I kind of want to see what happens there. In full PPR, pick two. DJ Moore, Michael Pittman, Corlin Sutton, and Deontay Foreman. I'm going to go Foreman. Full PPR gives me some pause. Sutton. Yeah, I know.

I want to do Sutton. So are you going Sutton and Pittman? Is that where you're going? No, I'll go Sutton and Foreman. Sutton and Foreman. I'm going to try to be hands-off on... On Pittman? Yeah, I mean, not a total sit, but I just want to see what happens with Ellinger's first career start.

I don't know. Right. Yeah, I think I would lean Pittman-Sudden, but I could see the case for going Foreman with just more volume. More on Michael Thomas. Wow. No time table. No, no, no.

More on Michael Thomas. Okay, okay. wow no time no no no more on oh okay uh no timetable according to dennis allen he will play this season he's working hard to rehab he'll play just put him on ir like give me a break yeah so he went up so many and he wouldn't he declined to say if it was turf toe probably might be turf toe. Yeah, compensation injuries. From Jared, should Pollard owners or should Pollard managers sell high now, sell high after this week, ride the young buck to a championship? It's a great question because if, you know,

Zeke appears is fighting to be back on the field as soon as this week, I think they'll give him the week off. But the whole question will be, can he get re-injured? And will that second injury be longer term than this one? This one appears to be short term. For a Pollard to be worth what you need him to be, he needs Zeke out. And so you're kind of just guesstimating

on if that injury will get worse. I think if Pollard goes off this week, I would look to try to sell high. I'm just not so sure you can. You will need there to be still uncertainty on the Zeke injury situation, or maybe like a bad report for you to really capitalize, I would look to try to sell high. I'm just not so sure you can. You will need there to be still uncertainty on the injury situation or maybe like a bad report for you to really capitalize, I think. Yeah.

I'm not really looking to sell him, Tony Pollard. Here are his fantasy points in seven games. 4.2 against the Bucs. 19.8, 10.5, 1.8, 14.6, 7.2, 12.9. So just as it is now, he's a number three running back.

He's an okay bi-week replacement. But could he keep getting more work? Could he have an even split with Zeke? Just, you know, no injury. And then, this is like the third year in a row that Zeke's had a knee injury. And I'm not just going to assume that he's going to come back and not get hurt again. And all that, I'm just not selling it.

There's just too much upside. There's too much potential by every metric. This guy seems to be one of the best running backs in football for, for several years now. So can he do it? Can he do that over a bigger sample size? I don't know, but damn, I really want to find out. All right. From Joe in Columbus. sample size? I don't know, but damn, I really want to find out. Alright, from Joe

in Columbus. I'm the Jamar Chase manager and Bengals season ticket holder. Grade the trade. I am 3-4. I traded Damian Pierce for Amandra St. Brown in a half PPR league. He still has Ken Walker and Travis Etienne, Gus Edwards, James Conner,

and Eno Benjamin, and he has CeeDee Lamb and Chris Godwin, Josh Palmer, Wondell Robinson. So needs the wide receiver help without Chase. Damian Pierce for Amonra St. Brown. I love this trade for you because you really are stronger at running back, especially given that you have locked up both the Arizona Cardinals' backs there. And maybe Edwards can get healthy again. So you need wide receiver help.

You can kind of rely on Wondell, but you don't want him as your wide receiver three. You'd rather have him as your bench guy. Um, so PPR, full PPR. I love this deal from Nathan pick one for a flex Tyler Lockett, Devin Singletary, Miles Sanders, or Gabe Davis. Yeah, I think my answer will be different than yours, Adam. Just the way I really lean in these fantasy spots. I want the upside. I like Gabe Davis with a full week to rest off of the bye week. So I will be going with Davis. I'm going to go lock it. Yep. Aaron Jones or Adam Thielen, PPR from Rob. Jones for sure for me. Bob from NOLA. I was able to pick up Geno Smith. I have Stafford. Who should I pair with Gino Smith? Should I keep Stafford or pick up Justin Fields? I'm on Fields here. I really think that the changes that they made to their offensive

system and just not even their, it's the same system. So I should say to their play calling mix to utilize Justin Fields as a design runner is going to change his fantasy value big time. The rest of season, it gives him a massive floor that we've now starting to see with a player like Daniel Jones, but it can be taken to an even higher level because he's a better runner than Daniel Jones. So I think Fields has more upside. Speaking of Fields, Dan Schneier told me off air that Fields of Gold is his favorite Sting song. Fields of Gold. It's better than anything from the police. I was very surprised by this. What are you talking about? You know, his strange taste in music. He's made that up are you talking about you know his strange taste of

music he's made that up you don't even know the song fields of gold do you of course i don't know the song fields of gold but i do like the police i knew the police it's a sting song it's pretty bad yeah perfect nailed it uh i was watching a movie last night big time movie trivia i did not know this and i've seen the movie like a hundred times. You ever see the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer? No, I didn't know it was a movie. I thought it was only a TV show. No, it was a movie. It's really funny.

It's a very good movie. And Ben Affleck has a cameo in it. Whoa. A young Ben Affleck. Yeah. And I Googled it to make sure it was him. And I came across this article. I just want to make sure it was him, and I came across this article. I just want to make sure it's real.

I feel like this is real. From a fake site? Okay, Ben Affleck, Buffy. He said, according to Cineblend.com, Ben Affleck said that he was so bad that he had one line and they dubbed it because he delivered it so poorly that the director decided to dub the line so he said apparently i'm so bad in that movie i had one line i think it was take it i think and it was that they had to dub it it

even though it was in english it's so funny um but But yeah, I was watching. I was like, is that Ben Affleck? And yes, it is. All right, we'll get to YouTube in a second here. Two more from the email from Sean. I'm 7-0, but I dropped Ken Walker a week before Penny got hurt. Dope. I want to get him back,

so I just offered Aaron Jones and DeAndre Hopkins for him. No. No, that's too much. No, that is terrible. Okay. Too much. This is from Mike.

Dear Sam, Mary, and Pippin. Sam, Mary. Is that Lord of the Rings? Oh, it could be. Yeah. Is it? You're killing it today. That is right.

Nice. Yeah, very proud of you. Thoughts on trading Dalton Schultz and Gus Edwards for George Kittle. Yeah. I like that trade. I think you have a good chance to upgrade their tight end. Obviously the Kittle situation, the injuries are always going to be a factor there,

but he has shown in these last couple of weeks that he can be an upgrade for you at that tight end position. And he can be one of the few rare difference makers on a weekly basis. So I like this move. Yeah. So people were talking about Buffy, Christy Swanson and and peewee herman are in it and luke perry is in it joshua just watched it last night me too it's about 1 30 in the morning and i was watching buffy the vampire slayer and i needed something good after that football game yeah i had a twizzler last night that was pretty good i never have one twizzler yeah it was like

kid size it was okay it was a halloween thing we went to okay twizzlers are great they're under very underrated right yeah really very underrated and they're fat free it says that on the thing i don't know what that means it probably means nothing there's probably still insane amount of sugar in each one of those but yeah every time i see that free i feel like all right i'm doing a little better the fat free craze was when they started pumping sugar into everything. Right. And now we're in the, uh-oh, everything's got sugar in it. Yeah.

Eno or Foreman, standard scoring? Eno or Foreman, standard scoring. Standard makes it a little more complicated. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I'm going to lean Eno, though. I still lean Eno. What did he have? He had 12 carries and four.

So he's had 16 or 18 touches in two straight games. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go with Eno Benjamin over Foreman. Pick a flex from Eric, DJ Moore, Cortland Sutton, Eno Benjamin, or Deontay Foreman? PPR. You know, Adam, I'm going to go Sutton here.

I'm going to go Eno. I know. I get it. I saw enough from that Jacks defense that leads me to be scared a little bit of what they can do in coverage. And they just lost starting cornerback for the year. Exactly. Is it for the year? He's on IR. Not the year, but it's a definite IR situation. Yeah, so it's a risk, but I would go Sutton.

All right, I'll go Benjamin. Let's see. Grade the trade. Zeke, Monty, and Iuke. Zeke, Monty, and Iuke, I think I'm probably going to like your trade here. Maybe not. A.J. Brown, Najee Harris, and Allen Robinson. Which side would you rather be on? It's a slam dunk, A.J. Brown. iuk i'm thinking probably gonna like your trade here uh maybe not aj brown naji harris and alan robinson which side would you rather slam dunk aj brown i mean i don't love naji harris but

i don't think he's that far behind even zeke in that and then you're upgrading big from iuk to aj brown then you got montgomery for alan robinson i guess you're a small downgrade there so i like the deal i'll give it a plus oh sorry man i am so tired dan i know what's going on i was up so late last night long night yeah late night early mornings this is a busy week oh well they're sick you know they're sick and we've been running around doctor's appointments and all this stuff at least you have do you have heat and air in that house we do okay that's a that was a huge step for the Azar household. It was big.

They were living a while without air conditioning. And, you know, I just paid my electric bill, and I thought it would have been lower. Right, you got it cheap, right. No, it wasn't that cheap. It was still pretty expensive. What the hell? Last month, that should have been a huge edge from that.

Oh, that stinks. Ramondre Stevenson or Tyler Lockett this week? Ah, Stevenson. Okay, Twix. Actually, you know what? PPR, I would have to say Lockett. Twix underrated says Mr. TD. Have to disagree because I think they're very highly rated.

Okay, that's fair. Because if you're considering them highly rated to begin with, okay, they're not underrated, but they're a good candy. You know what? Actually, I can't say it. Never mind. There's a candy I don't like, but I can't say it. Good. Restraint. Restraint. Are we playing Brandon Cooks this week? Are we dropping him if he has a dud this week?

Playing Brandon Cooks? Are we dropping him if he has a dud? We're definitely not dropping him, I don't think, especially because there's a chance that Cooks could be moved at the deadline and get into a really good situation with a much better quarterback. As far as playing him this week,

I could make the case to Benjamin if you have options that make sense to start over him. Yeah, I basically said he's a number three guy because of Nico Collins' absence, but, you know. Can't trust that passing game, though. You certainly cannot. They run the ball.

That's what they do now. You would, too, if you had Davis Mills at quarterback. Eno or Thielen in my flex. Eno, for sure. Way better chance of volume. Stevenson or Swift? Now it gets a little tougher. I think matchup-wise, I lean Swift.

Snickers is the goat for meal slash candy bar. Okay. It's hard to argue that. I love Snickers, but do you, does, does caramel burn your, your mouth?

No, it has like a burning sensation. That's a burning sensation. That Adam is something you should look a little further into. Probably get checked out by a doctor. You're telling me that every time you eat caramel candy, it's a little Bernie. It's got a little burn on it.

Little Bernie. Whoa. Come on, chat. Help me out here, chat. Has anyone ever heard of this? Has anyone in their life ever ate a caramel candy and got a burn sensation in their mouth? Yeah. Thank you, Andrew. This is scary, dude. I'm now a little nervous for you. I would say you should look into this. Tell your wife. See what she thinks about it. I'm getting a little nervous, Adam. You get a burning sensation when you eat candy it's got like yeah it's got a it's just caramel it's not that i mind it you know i'm not a huge caramel guy but there's it burns a little bit now you don't so you're getting burn feeling and you don't even mind uh listen man i've never heard of this i hope someone could corroborate this yeah you're

allergic exactly thank you elliot this is probably you're just allergic to caramel yeah somebody also said something even worse. I think I'm going to, I'll put it on YouTube. I won't say it out loud, but yeah, I don't think it's that. All right. Who, Jerry, Judy, George Pickens or Wanda Robinson. I don't want to Homer this with Robinson, but I really feel like it makes the most sense here.

Given we haven't seen enough Kofi out of Judy with Ross, Pickens I don't want a part of that passing game Wandel against the Seahawks Adam Hazer needs to donate his body to science I agree with that statement yeah that would be there's a lot to look into like you could be like okay one what's going on with this reaction to Carmel? Why is his mouth... Caramel, Caramel. Caramel. Caramel. Caramel. There's another A in there, man. I know, I choose not to pronounce it. It sounds way better as Carmel.

You ever seen Back to School? I think it's Back to School. Rodney Dangerfield says, yeah, they're going to donate my body to science fiction. No, I haven't seen that. All right, one more here. Let's see. Get a starter sit here.

Christian Kirk or Cortland Sutton? I'm going Kirk here. There's so much more guaranteed volume there. All right. I do like Twix, by the way. It burns me a little bit, but I do enjoy the Twix. He enjoys the pain. Thank you.

You know what, Dan? I think that next time you have caramel, just pay attention. No, I will be. Your throat is going to feel a little something. So you're going to feel a little tightness in the throat. That's what I should be looking for? Not tightness. It's going to feel like a burn.

A burn. Okay. So I would suggest this, Adam. I will be looking into this, and maybe I'll even have a piece of candy at some point today just to try to figure this out i'll text you yeah but i would put this up on twitter and i swear if you put up on twitter i'm not doing that i'm not doing that has anyone in the history of this podcast listening to the podcast ever got a burning sensation when eating caramel and at the same time was not just simply allergic to

caramel nobody knows what caramel is that's a car service in the tri-state area. Caramel. Sorry. Caramel. Has anyone had a burning sensation with caramel? There you go. Somebody asked, what's my favorite candy? Great question.

So tough. Take five. Take five. Chocolate and non-chocolate because they're such a difference. Take five is my favorite. Oh, so in the chocolate, take five. Take five. Chocolate and non-chocolate because there's such a difference. Take five is my favorite. So in the chocolate, take five. Take five's good, man. It has caramel on it.

I might have to take five. I need something different than take five, though. Wow, that's tough. I'd have to really think about it. Milky Way Midnight is surprisingly amazing. I don't know if anyone's had a Milky Way Midnight, but I would probably go with my favorite of all time is the Hershey's Cookies and Cream Bar. That thing is just unbelievable

tasty. Did you see the Oreos with the mega fudge in it? Yeah, that somebody sent us. Oh, man, I can't even get... I love Oreos. I can't get on board with that. Too much. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching and listening. Have a great weekend and early happy Halloween. But of course,

we'll talk to you before then. For Dan and Jamie and Will and Zach and Adam, later.