Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag, Fantasy Cops, News (11/26 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: November 26, 2022

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He's just going to go the distance. Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Well, you might not be working today on Friday after Thanksgiving, but the fantasy cops are certainly on the clock. We welcome you to Fantasy Football Today. Adam, Jamie, and Dan here. It is an early show. We usually record at about 2 p.m. Eastern. It's 11.30 a.m. Eastern today, so we don't have a lot of news.

We're hoping that some of that practice stuff comes in while we are on the air. All right. So, Jamie, I know you had a great Thanksgiving and your mom, sorry, your wife made those pumpkin and what was the other pie that she made? Cherry. Cherry pie. And you love them. Dan, how was your Thanksgiving? What was the best thing you ate?

Great Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun seeing my family. I haven't seen in a while, especially my cousins in from Minnesota. Best thing I ate. That's a great question. I actually think it was something that's not very traditional Thanksgiving. My dad makes a flank steak with a really good marinade and it's really, he cooks it really well on the grill.

And so I'm going to go with the flank steak. Oh, damn. Yeah. Invite me next year. That sounds really good uh all right we got your emails at fantasy football at cbsi.com apple podcast dan actually invites you for thanksgiving oh zero and the chance i'd come or like negative five well he would never come but i would like to have adam there adam's an entertaining dude he would be fun he would fit in too if it were just me i would go but my i wouldn't bring my family and i'd be weird but i would i'm just hoping for adam's sake that he has an actual traditional thanksgiving next year he's now like going no no i did i we did it this year we we

wait what you went sick you put everyone in no no she was not sick we she recovered so everything was everything was good and we had a traditional thanksgiving it was a joy. Alright, so Thanksgiving mailbag is always the fewest emails we get all year. So we don't have a ton of questions, but we will get to what we have, including the email of the day. I didn't put this in the notes. I wanted to surprise you guys with this one.

This is an email from a frustrated guy named Alan. And the subject was, thanks for throwing my money away. Yeah, this is terrific. And he says, Adam, he addressed it to me. Last season, championship week, I reached out to ask who to start,

A.J. Brown or Antonio Brown? You said Antonio, who promptly ripped off his jersey and left the field in dramatic fashion. I should have learned from that, but I didn't. I followed you, Jamie, Dave, and Heath's picks in my drafts. AJ, Dylan, Kadarius, Tony, Kyle Pitts, Gabe Davis, DJ Moore, Khalil Herbert, and all the other upside players got me to a 5-7 record.

He's already giving himself a loss. 5-7 record and behind the eight ball after last night's games, Thanksgiving. Have you or any of the others listed ever played a down of football? There we go. I would wager Dave, yes, maybe Heath, but you, absolutely not. Done with your podcast, done with your, quote, expertise, and done with this season. Hope you stub your pinky toe on the bed frame or table

at least 20 times the next year. Thanks for nothing. You've been in the industry for a long time. I certainly have. Dan, I know you're relatively new by comparison, but you've been around it certainly long enough. How many fantasy analysts do you know that have actually played football? That's what I said to this guy. I mean, he was taking out his frustrations on me, and we had a little bit of a back and forth after, and it got a little less heated.

But you want to hear his response? Because that's what I said. I said, find a... I said, find... I'll tell you exactly what I said. He said, did you ever play a down, is what he said after I respond. Do you honestly think that matters?

You couldn't possibly think that. Why don't you go find some former NFL players who are giving fantasy football advice and tell me how that works out for you. And he said, I bleeping hate fantasy football. Don't know why I keep playing. Has absolutely ruined football for me. Thanks for all the, oh wait.

Oh, that was before. Oh no, his response was, yes, it does matter. When you or another pundit say this player sucks or that player sucks, you don't know what it took for them to get there. You don't know about two-a-days, puking up your guts, running the gassers in 100 degrees heat in July and August. You don't know the pain of tackling in snowy weather

or the pain of pulled hamstring, groin, separated shoulders, picket injury. So, yes, it does matter. Just for optics' sakes, be aware that when you besmirch a player with words like terrible, sucks, horrible, being said merry christmas happy and safe new year my favorite is my favorite usually is you suck you this you that then you reply back to them and it's like yeah i kind of see your point by the way who should i start in week seven that happens a lot do you think that football players know what it's like to talk for seven days straight with a strained voice i mean that's just terrible i know right and the training that

we do for that two waters a day the pain we go through the pain the emergency that i've been taking this past week to make sure i don't get sick uh the other thing is about the funniest part of this email he goes he hates me for recommending antonio brown over aj brown in week 17 if you go back week 17 last year antonio brown ripped off his jersey left the field in disgrace will probably play never play another down of football again he scored half a point. Brown was terrible that week. Amazing. So anyway, thank you for the comedy, Alan, and I hope you make up with fantasy football

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or our customer service team. Promo codes are not valid for online gift card purchases, and promo code cannot be used with sale or charitable items. No news and notes at the moment. Yeah, go ahead. Can I just say one thing to Alan? That was Alan, right? That was his name.

Yeah, yeah. Alan, I'm curious if Alan himself played football. We never got to that. I guess that never went through the back and forth in your emails. No, I didn't care. To play football yourself,

you have to be mentally tough. And being a fantasy football player is you have to be mentally tough. It's 90% pain and frustration. But that 10%, that 10% when your season goes well, when you win the championship, that joy is worth everything. It's just like being a sports fan. So I don't know if he's mentally tough. I don't know if he's ever played sports because he's just quitting fantasy football after a couple of frustrating years. So Alan, I would suggest maybe you shouldn't, you know,

look back at your history and we can see if you played any football, if you touched any grass. I honestly, I don't want to have another email exchange with him. So I think I'm fine not knowing. Um, but that's my favorite when people tell me to touch grass, that's my favorite. I never heard that. Look, I, I, we've done shows with NFL athletes and they don't know anything about fantasy football and that's not an insult to them, but there's actually a lot that goes into it. They could, you could you know they just it's just different what they look at and what we look at but i think most people understand i mean look it's it is a uh fairly common complaint for people to sometimes get offended when we say this guy sucks you know like you're you are being

a little derogatory towards somebody now Now you can say their play sucks. You could say that their performance sucks. It does take obviously a lot to get to the NFL level. We're not discrediting that by any stretch, but you know, when somebody is playing poorly and we have high expectations for them, certainly, you know,

we, we talked about a few of them on our earlier show today, uh, Friday that it gets frustrating, you know? So yeah, but I mean, that's the sports media industry.

I mean, who's talking, which sports media analyst is going, well, Baker Mayfield, he has worked really hard and he's great at being a quarterback, but in comparison to just NFL quarterbacks, he's not good. No, everybody's like, Baker Mayfield sucks. That's how it works. Anyway, I don't believe it. I mean, Russell Westbrook's a Hall of Famer by most standards.

And there's a pretty famous sports analyst who calls him Russell Westbrook. Right. He doesn't like that, by the way. All right, time for our Apple podcast questions. We'll start with those. This is from Noah. Who should I start this week in non-PPR? Deontay Foreman, Christian Kirk, Cortland Sutton, Rashad White, or Keenan Allen?

Non-PPR, Foreman, Kirk, Sutton, Rashad White, Keenan Allen. I think I'm going with Keenan Allen here. I would go with Rashad White if Leonard Fournette is out. And then I would go with Sutton over Allen in non-PPR. Where's the Fournette situation at? Because I haven't seen the latest update. Is he trending toward not playing? And then I would go with Sutton over Allen and non-PPR. Where's the Fournette situation at? Because I haven't seen the latest update. Is he training toward not playing?

He's been limited in practice. I'm going to guess he plays, but the Bucs say they're riding the hot end. I might go over to Saban anyway, to be honest with you, just because if he is the guy for the Bucs to whatever extent, 80% of the touches, that could be pretty good against Browns. From SeahawksAreTheBest? What do you do when you have two wide receivers in the same offense? Specifically, I have Lockett and Metcalf,

and they are probably my two best wide receivers. Should I just start them together this week? Every week? I also have Judy, Ayuk, and Devante Smith, and I need to start three receivers. So the immediate question is pick three out of Lockett, Metcalf, Ayuk, and Devante Smith.

I probably, I mean, if you want to split up the Seahawks, you can play Lockett over Metcalf. Is PPR? I don't know. In PPR, I'd play Lockett over Metcalf. In non-PPR, I'd play Metcalf over Lockett. If you want to split them up, I think you go, I,

you go over Devante. Is it two or three, three? Yeah. If you want to play Smith over Mac, I mean, I would just play the two Seahawks guys. They're playing the Raiders.

It's a, it's a pretty good set. Yeah. I think it's based on the answer to this question. I think it's based on the matchup. If you have a great matchup, like this Raiders one is you can play both. I mean,

you can expect that both will have good fantasy games against one of the worst pass defenses. This is from Gambino Mafia. Are you at all worried about Chris Godwin's matchup this week? Cleveland has been good against wide receivers the last month or so. Yes, they have been. And start two, Godwin, Pittman, and Palmer in PPR. Godwin and Pittman. I would go Godwin and Pittman too,

but as far as answering his question, the first part of it goes, I would say I am worried about the matchup, especially because the Browns right now on run defense have to be, I think they're arguably, I know Houston's last in the NFL, but when you watch like the film of what the Browns are doing on run defense, they have so many small bodies on the field right now.

They don't have anyone on the interior defensive line. I think they took Taven Bryan, who's like a total draft bus from the Jaguars. They're starting him on the interior. They have small linebackers. So I think there's a chance the Bucs could just control the clock, run the ball the entire game, and it can be like a low pass volume game for the Bucs. So I would be a little bit worried about Godwin in this matchup. If Mike Williams is out, you would not start Palmer over Pittman?

Not against that defense. No, we talked about it. Yeah, I would still start Pittman there. I would almost consider Palmer over Godwin before calling Palmer over Pittman. Really? I don't really feel that way about Pittman, I guess. I think you know what you're getting with Pittman. You're getting probably 6 for 70. Yeah, if you're going to tell me I'm getting 6 for 70, then I would bet on more than that from Palmer.

But obviously there's upside. We've talked about this, what outside receivers against the Cardinals do. And now with Keenan Allen there, he's playing outside. Yeah, but they don't have their best cornerback. But you said it doesn't matter the last two weeks either. I know. It was John Walford in one game. By the way, just... Sorry, go ahead. No, no. It's the same. Just repeating

myself. Go ahead. I just looked. Six of the last nine games for the Seahawks. Both guys have had 13 or more PPR points. Oh, that's pretty good. All right. This is from Core2186. Trading Ramondre Stevenson and CeeDee Lamb for Travis Kelsey and DJ Moore.

Too much, too little, or just right? Ramondre Stevenson and CeeDee Lamb for Travis Kelsey and... DJ Moore. That is a bad trade. That's a bad trade right now. He did it before last night, before the Harris injury. But I love Kelsey.

Andre was trending up even before that injury. The only way that this trade comes out more in your favor is if they sign Beckham, the Cowboys do, and then CeeDee Lamb, I don't want to say goes in the tank, but certainly tails off a little bit. After that game, do you think Beckham will I think they will sign Beckham which team do you think Beckham is going to favor after Thursday night's game well I mean I don't think yeah go ahead Jamie no I was just going to say I don't think it's even about who Beckham favors I think Beckham's been using the Giants's leverage this entire time. Joe Shane's not signing a 30-year-old Beckham coming off two ACLs to a big deal long-term.

Jerry Jones, as Dak Prescott said last night, is willing to go over the top for this. So I'm pretty sure he's going to the Cowboys. Right, unless he goes to Buffalo or Kansas City. Yeah, I guess he could even be using the Cowboys' leverage too. You're right. All right, injury update here. Joe Mixon not seen at practice.

We have really no expectation that he's here on week yeah all right next question from apple podcast is from az wild cat 36 who should i start at flex and running back so we need a running back and a flex in non-ppr the running backs are elijah mitchell well it was elijah m Elijah Mitchell and DeAndre Swift, so sorry about that. So you're starting Mitchell. Go, Elijah. The flex is Josh Palmer, Traylon Burks, Darius Slayton,

or that's it. Palmer or Traylon Burks? Palmer. Yeah, Palmer in that spot. Even if Williams plays, I'd play Palmer. All right, this is from WakeUp23. It says, less is more, M-O-O-R-E. I've been playing fake foosball for six years now. Ooh, news update.

Raheem Mostert may not play. He's going to be a game-time decision. Hello. Hey, start of the week. Been playing fake foosball for six years now. I've had some lucky swings in my favor, but this one tops them all. Going into Monday night's game,

I'm down 0.4. And my opponent has Rondell Moore. I absolutely hate when people do this, but I send him a text saying, good job, better luck to me next week. And the only way I can win is if Moore fumbles behind the line early and doesn't play another snap. And then I'm good.

Of course, that exact thing happens, and I go on to win 147.2 to 146.5. High stakes league, and I need to win every matchup with three remaining. Just thought I would share. Felt kind of good and kind of wrong at the same time. Happy Thanksgiving. Do you remember my worst fantasy beat ever?

No. I've told a story before. So I'm in the playoffs, Thanksgiving. Do you remember my fantasy beat ever? No. Um, I've told a story before, so I'm in the playoffs. It's the first round of the playoffs. Uh, our tiebreaker rule, which obviously sucks is a reserve points.

We are tied starters through bench all the way through exactly the same points. Our entire roster all the way through is tied. Unbelievable situation. Our entire roster. All the way through is tied. Unbelievable situation. Wow. So we come to the conclusion that this is Sunday night. One of us has a player on our roster playing Monday night, which is me, which is Tim Hightower for the Cardinals.

All he needs is one point. He fumbles on his first carry and never sees the field again. And I lose. I did know that story. I totally forgot. Un-freaking-believable. Oh, my gosh. Did you get mad?

Huh? Did you get mad? Do you remember? Of course. It's one of those, like, all right, he'll come back in the game at some point. And he had a fumble problem that year, too. So it was like, nope, he's nothing to feel like. No, because I'm definitely like, are you kidding me?

This mother down. Like, I'll definitely curse it up his throat. I get mad. I get despondent. I lost two most important leagues last week when that stupid Kittle touchdown where the Cardinals had three chances to tackle him out of bounds, and they just gave up on the play. And I was just so angry at that display of football. I will say this to wake up one, two, three, though.

I'm for it. I think reverse jinking. I think there's a skill to reverse jinxing, which you did here. You're like, oh, the matchup's over. Good game, man. That's a skill. You know, you throw the reverse jinx in. It is a skill.

You throw the reverse jinx in. It's judged on how well you reverse jinx it. And don't feel bad about a reverse jinx. You're trying to win the game. Anything you need to win the game without cheating and collusion, which that's none of, I'm for. This is from John. Grade the trade. I give up Damian Pierce and Tyler Boyd for Jeff Wilson.

Essentially, it's Pierce for Wilson. I think I like it. I'm so in on Wilson the rest of the season now, especially if Mostert could be down for a little. Yes. Grade it. I'm in on, I'm so in on Wilson rest of season now, especially if most are, it could be down for a little. Yes. So great. It C is even. Oh,

I'm going to give it an a, a, that's a little, a, a Rick. I'm down loud. A Rick. I'm a little down on Pierce rest of the season.

First of all. And I think Wilson, I said this, I think on the month or no, I was on the Monday and Tuesday night stream with you, Adam. I think Wilson could be like a surprise league winner down the stretch with the way that teams are playing that Miami offense.

So many, the safeties are playing so far off the ball. All right. The last one is no name on this one. Can we please get a game of the week mixed tape at the end of the year with all of Adam's game of the week songs? It's got to be with Dave's reaction to it though. Yeah.

Not this week. Cause Dave ruined that by not being on, and Jamie ruined that by spoiling it, basically. He couldn't even pretend. Anyway, the Fantasy Cops will be here when we come back. We're going to take a quick break and settle some league disputes after this. What does possible sound like for your business? It's having the spend that powers your scale with no preset spending limit. More cash on hand to grow your business with up to 55 interest-free days.

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from a soiled manager. Yikes. As in they feed themselves? A little dolt diaper run here. Alright, so soil manager says, hey fantasy cops, 10 team PPR league among coworkers, $50

buy-in, six team playoffs start in week 15. The top two teams get a buy and I'm in first place. All pretty standard stuff. And then on Tuesday, November 22nd, we get a notification from the commissioner that she is expanding the playoffs to eight teams starting in week 14 when there are players on by and there are no first round buys. I texted the commissioner in complete disbelief asking

what's going on here. She said that that her boss who is currently in eighth place asked her to expand the playoffs so more teams have a have a chance she told me she didn't know what to do because it's her boss so she made the change here's the kicker the commissioner is in seventh place so she also gets a seat at the big dance. Fantasy cops, what is this tomfoolery? What do I do? No way that's going to be allowed. What do you do, though? What do you do?

Yeah, the better question is what do you do now? Because you got someone who's scared of her boss, obviously. Yeah, you lose your job. Oh, my gosh. You go off on everybody and you get fired by the big boss so it's a co-worker league right so it's also his boss i assume right or do you think it's like yeah it could be a different manager okay yeah if i if i were the boss and i said to my employee i want you to change the the the playoffs so more people get in, i.e. I get in, and the

employee did that, I would have questions about how that employee would handle themselves if they're making rules to make something happen for other people. HR needs to be involved in this. Maybe they get HR involved in this. That's a very good point, Jamie. Now you got to question what this commish,

what she's doing in this spot, how she's going to react under pressure if something important happens. I like that take. All right. But in all seriousness, here's what I would do. I would. OK, you have to have somewhat of a relationship with her boss, somewhat of a friendship with her boss. I would go into her boss's office or talk to the boss somehow and be like, whoa, I can't believe that she expanded the playoffs.

Like, what is that all about? You know, and not bring her into it and get her. And then when you find out, when you get the confession that it was the boss's idea, you got that. Are you, you know, you need to bring it up. If you can do that without any repercussions, you need to bring it up. You need to leave her out of this and try to make this right. Because it's so wrong. I don't even think you need to bring it up. You need to leave her out of this and try to make this right. Because this is so wrong.

I don't even think you need to do that. You referenced what the rules were at the beginning of the season. Say, I'm sorry that you're getting left out of the playoffs, but this is what was established before the season. You cannot be changing

the playoff parameters with any rules in the league before next season happens. So do better. Are you doing this on the message board? Because I think you got to do it on the message board. So the boss sees. You definitely have to do it on the message board, Adam. I didn've got to do it on the message board. So the boss sees.

You definitely have to do it on the message board, Em. I didn't know what you were talking about with going to the boss's office. You were suggesting like, hey, can you block out like 930 on your calendar? Can you block out a 930 AM on Monday on your calendar? You pop in. I think it's very important to talk about. I think if you involve it in a work setting, you're putting yourself in jeopardy of bringing work into this. You leave it strictly in the fantasy league.

You pop in. You got a relationship. You pop into the office. Adam, you haven't been to an office in four years. I used to pop in. You were never a pop-in guy. I was a pop-in guy. I popped in. You were never a pop-in guy. Here's the reality. We always say that you move for love.

You really move because they told you not to come back. Yeah, no. I move so I can work for Bo. All right. Next up is Chris. Hey, fantasy cops, settle this dispute. One manager in our league became inactive in week seven. He stopped making roster moves,

and he would leave injured players and bi-week players in his lineup. Before week nine, someone in our league noticed that this manager had been inactive for a couple of weeks and brought it up in our group chat. The now inactive manager replied to that message

by saying he was sorry for quitting, but life had gotten really out of control and he no longer had time to invest in fantasy football. We were all disappointed, but we understood and we wished him all the best. So week seven was when it started. Week nine was when they figured it out. He played these two games with all these players on by, injured players in his lineup.

After that conversation, our commissioner decided to bench that guy's entire roster for the remainder of the season, beginning in week nine, because he's not playing anymore and essentially gave an automatic win to whoever that guy is playing every week. I played the inactive team in week seven. He left Daryl Henderson in his lineup when he was on a buy and I lost to him. So I asked the commissioner to change my loss to a win since everybody else is going to get an automatic win against this team starting in week nine. And you guessed it.

My request was laughed at and denied. Does my commissioner need to be fired or am I being a sore loser since I'm probably going to miss the playoffs because all of the automatic wins to the other teams, your commissioner needs to be fired this was a horrible way to deal with this if anything if you want to if he wants to do this whole thing where he's benching the lineup from week nine on then he has to go back and retroactively give a win to every single player in my opinion at least every single team that played him from

week one through no no because he was playing at that point so what you're now giving away free wins the obvious thing you're supposed to do here as a commissioner is set the lineup for him maybe not do any free agency the rest of the year obviously but set the lineup every week for him including those two weeks you go back and you set it for those two weeks as well in my mind at least it's not set in that set no lineup the rest of the season and give free wins to whoever luck boxes into having him on the schedule that's a terrible idea, no? I would think if it's been a lineup that has not been altered in some way for the first part of the season,

and in mission to taking the season off and not being an active participant, I agree with what Dan said. That way, anything that happened prior to that, at least you're leaving it up to chance, as opposed to just giving wins away for no reason at all. Uh, while not obviously retroactively giving wins to those teams that face the same scenario previously, because again, up to chance.

So the only thing I would disagree with Dan is that you should, you, you should, the commissioner step in and just set the lineup with what players are there. And then if there's anybody injured or on a buy after waivers run last day of the week, you go take the highest projected player and you could swap out whatever injuries, as long as you're not dropping players that will impact the rest of the league. I'm good with that too, because the fact of the matter is like, you can't have a league where you just have a team completely bottom out in the sense that they're not starting a line,

but that can't be a good scenario for anyone. once it's already been going on you know so like this this this person here who lost in week seven you lost by chance you lost because the players that that were active and and still participating on that person's team performed better than what you had i mean we all go through situations like that where somebody forgets to change a bi-week player or forgets about an injury player it happens you know people have lives they're not obviously staring at their fantasy teams 24 7 like we are so i think as long as the commissioner could step in and and realistically and and the week that the commissioner is playing that team somebody should have a pair of eyes on it as well that you're making sure that the best optimal lineup that they can perform

without altering the league in some way shape or or form. So not making first runs or waivers or ad drops, whatever they should be able to set a competitive lineup. And however it comes out, it comes out. You can't get, you can't find one person to join the league and take over the team. Would you ever want to do that though? I mean,

I agree with Jamie. I would never want to do that. So I wouldn't, but I would, somebody would, I think all three of us just said we wouldn't. So who are you going to find to do that? You could probably find a sibling in a league.

You know, I mean, I'm obviously old enough, you know, where my kids, you know, would probably take over a league. Yeah, you can find someone. You know, you could probably find someone like that. All right, this one is from Juan. I have a league that's pretty serious. One of the new guys who is a very competitive person,

but out of the playoffs, continues to use their top waiver priority for the new people, every, you know, Latavius Murray's of the world, Samajapir, whatever, even though he's eliminated from the playoffs. We have a weekly winning for most points and money for the toilet bowl. But my family and my uncles and my childhood friends

will get annoyed at him using his waiver claims. I kind of hinted at him that at eight losses, no one should be using waiver claims. Ad drops are to be done after the... This is ridiculous, isn't it? Could not disagree more with this email. I know, especially since they have weekly winnings for the highest scores. I'm sorry, Wad, but this is a terrible, terrible take. Terrible.

I think it's a terrible take regardless. The weekly winnings locks it in is obviously a bad take, but let people play. Even if they're out of the playoffs, until the playoffs start, then obviously that changes. You shouldn't allow add drops in the playoffs or teams officially eliminated, but let people play until then.

It's still a fun game, fantasy football. You still want to have something to look forward to on Sunday. You set your lineup as best as you can to try to win and have fun with that. I don't know. I just don't like this at all for Mon. Let's open it up to this comment here from Jimmy J. Resetting waivers are the

worst. Do we all agree? Resetting waivers? What does that mean? The worst team gets the first priority. The worst team gets the first priority every week. Anything but free agent. I'm going to say anything but free agent. No,

no, that's a cop. I knew you were going to say that. I knew you were going to say that. That's a cop out. Why? That's right. That's correct.

Fab is great. Fab is the best. Wonderful. However, I don't want all of my leagues to be fab. It'd be a little annoying. I like some waiver leagues. I like it.

I like the waiver wire. Really? So I, Jamie, do you agree with that? Hold on, Jamie, do you agree with that hold on jamie do you agree with that take which i i also like variety i mean fab is definitely a fair way to do it but i enjoyed i enjoy all all different forms of waivers i think there's there's a way that

if resetting waivers your team stinks you're able to get yourself back into it there's there's no other way around that you know by giving you that privilege um but i also think there's some serious strategy involved where waivers don't reset you know I also think there's some serious strategy involved where waivers don't reset. So you have to make some serious choices when it comes to what you decide to do and what you don't decide to do. You know, I don't think I've ever played in a league like that

where waivers don't reset and you can just keep your number one waiver wire priority. I've never played in a league like that. I don't think anyway. So I'm in one league where I'm terrible. I think two and nine. But it's waivers that don't reset. It's our 24 or my 22 teams this year, 22 team office league. So you make a decision and it's a bad one, which I think I did.

And you go to the back of the bus when it comes to waivers. Well, you're screwed. Yeah, right, right. Oh, my gosh. 22 teams. All right. Thank you all for your Fantasy Cop submissions. Good stuff today. Appreciate it. Also, there was one that was, oh, this guy that we don't like trading with. He's kind of a bully. I think it was he traded Chris Godwin and James Conner for Justin Jefferson, and everyone's up in arms.

Like, no, that's fine. So he got himself Justin Jefferson. Good for him. People, stop getting mad about trades that make good teams better. You know, it was a fine trade. Please, that's not the way it's supposed to work. You can't get mad about trades like that. All right, let's go to our emails at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com.

That's the letter I, fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. This is from Bill in Oak Forest. Jamison Williams, when he comes off IR, who do I drop to make room? Gerald Everett, Taysom Hill, Cortland Sutton, George Pickens,

or Christian Watson? One of those things is not like the other. It's one of the tight ends. Taysom Hill. You wait and see. You wait and see until after this week. What are you saying?

Oh, yeah, I forgot on Tuesday. They played Taysom Hill a season high at quarterback. He had nine carries. If next week Mike Williams and Keenan Allen are back and Josh Palmer's in the fold and they're not playing, actually does have great matchups, you might have a pretty useless player in Gerald Everett and you might have a guy getting eight, nine carries a game in Taysom Hill.

What did Taysom Hill do with those wonderful nine carries? I'd still rather have him with nine carries than Gerald Everett most weeks, if he's really going to get nine carries. I mean, that's a lot. It's clearly one of the tight ends, and you don't have to make the decision. It's not clearly one. It's one.

We'll see. Are you going to owe me an apology after this week? I'm with Jamie on this one. It's definitely'll see. Are you going to owe me an apology after this week? I'm with Jamie on this one. It's definitely him. You both are going to owe me an apology. Yeah. All right. Fake Italian Dan, how would you say this guy's name?

S-A-L-V-A-T-O-R-E. Salvatore. Salvatore. Okay. I'm kidding. It's probably Sal. I just call him Sal. All right.

We'll call him Sal. I like that. Who should I start in a must-win week to make the playoffs? It's half PPR, four point for passing touchdown. Fields or Herbert? This week? Yeah.

It's so weird if Fields plays because if he gets hurt, he could leave the game. The safer play is Herbert, but the more upside play is Fields because if Fields is Fields, then bye-bye. Who are you going to start? If Fields is starting, I'm starting Fields. I am too. I just swing for the fences.

But I will say this, for all future references, I prefer to be referred to as wannabe Italian, not fake Italian. Okay. Wannabe Italian, Dan Schneier. Uh, we got to change your last name though.

Yeah, we do. Yeah. Uh, all right. We need two running backs for net Camara, Rashad, white P Ryan Latavious too.

Yep. Half PPR for net Camara, Rashad, white P Ryan, Latavius. Two? Yeah, half PPR. Fournette, Kamara, Rashad White, P-Rhyne, and Latavius Murray. It's got to be Kamara as much as the matchup stinks. Yeah, you start there, but then it becomes interesting. I think if Fournette sits, you can go White for sure, right? Yeah. Otherwise, I want P-Rhyne.

If Mixon sits... Yeah, but in half PPR, though, I mean, I think the only real appeal to me for P Ryan is PPR because that matchup is so tough. Yeah. I might go with Tavius. Ooh, Tavius over P Ryan. If Mixon sits. I mean, I I'm, I'd be shocked if Latavius has fewer than 18 total touches. They're going to be gross touches though.

They're totally gonna be gross touches but they may have the same amount of receptions and there's probably a better chance that latavia scores and give me a wide receiver oh no give me a flex keenan allen courtland sutton or one of those running backs uh alan alan for me yeah yeah okay i PPR, I'd take Allen. Same. I have some news. Gus Edwards practicing again.

Practicing full on Thursday, so looks like he's going to play. And what does that mean for Kenyon Drake and Gus Edwards, Jamie? They're both flexes. I would still lean toward Drake just because I think he's earned enough of a role to still be the lead guy, but it would not be surprising if Edwards is better. So if you could avoid it, avoid it. But if you have to play one of the two, I'd play Drake. Started from the bottom. Now we hit. I don't I just don't understand how Drake is popular. Like he doesn't he doesn't even speak coherently. It's just

never going to I'm never going to understand it. Never going to understand the Drake. I'm out on Drake, too. Yeah. I mean, look. I'm out on almost all of the mumble rap that goes on today, in today's day and age.

Mumble rap? Is that a thing? That's what they call it. Mumble rap. Seriously? You saw the news on Von Miller? Von Miller did not. Yeah.

That's good. This is from Rob. Dear Walter, Peanut, Bubba J, and Jose. Walter, Peanut, Bubba J, and Jose. There's no chance I know what this is. The only Walter I know is Walt White.

Yeah. Bubba J? I don't know. This is Jeff Dunham and maybe his puppets? Okay. Maybe. Here's an interesting decision to make. It is PPR, but it's also tight end premium.

Latavius Murray or Foster Morrow? Murray. Murray, yeah. Well, tight end premium is still going Murray, though. This is from Barbara. Eight-team league, half PPR Murray though. This is from Barbara. Eight team league, half PPR, 0.3 points per carry.

I guess that doesn't matter. Who is your wide receiver, your favorite wide receiver stash rest of season? Lazard, George Pickens, Garrett Wilson, Palmer,

Peoples Jones, Mooney, Rondell Moore, Traylon Burks, or Jamison Williams? It's between Lazard and Pickens for me. Maybe Garrett Wilson, depending on how Mike White looks, but you have to make a decision now.

The only reason I wouldn't say Lazard with full confidence is if Aaron Rodgers decides, as I said on Friday's show, decides to shut it down because they're out of contention and that thumb injury is just not worth the risk of maybe further damage for him. And I would to see jordan love to alan lazard that would be not fun um pickens is just trending in the right direction right now so that might be the safest play to go okay i would actually lean trey lawn and um wilson here as far as just well he wants one or she wants one so i I'm going to, I'm going to

say trail on Burke's. I like the upside for Burke's rest of the season. I see a path there toward him being potential league winner in those playoff weeks. He's starting to build it. And I can see, you know, there's still the, the Titans are still needing someone to lean on in that passing game and to try to get it going like they did last year. I'm not saying he can do what AJ Brown did for that passing game, but that's what they drafted him to be, and he was one of my favorite receivers in this class, my number two overall. So I'm just going to go with the talent there and the potential for the situation to boom.

We had this conversation yesterday. Redrafting right now, who's the best rookie receiver? Oh, Alave. NFL-wise? Yep. Or fantasy? NFL-wise, Alave for sure. NFL-wise, Alave for sure. NFL-wise, Olave for sure. Yeah, Olave's the man.

The absolute man. More than Jamison, though. Well, I don't know. More than Jamison. Oh, no, no. I love Jamison. It's so hard to say because he hasn't played it down yet. But then again, Olave has proven a lot more than I thought he could.

It's not that I think he could. I loved Olave early at Ohio State. I don't know why I fell off a little bit at the end. I loved him. I don't know. Did he play all four years? I loved loved him i think his junior year maybe it was a sophomore year his second to last year i was like it was the second to last i was like holy cow this guy pops every single time i plays and uh yeah i just i just the metrics weren't there

that's what it's always like we get too focused on the the um you know like the what is it like the combine stats and like the measurables. And then you see the, you see that graph from mock draftables. You're like, Oh, you know what? He's not that tall. It doesn't have a great vertical leap. And then, but you watch him on film and he just separates. Yeah.

I would go. Now where would Pickens come in? Cause you can make a case. He might be the best too. Right. Pickens is still to me, the highest upside of anyone in this class by far, cause of his size, speed, weight combo. But he's being held back a bit by the quarterback play, I think.

Is he? He'd probably come in. I think so. He'd probably come in as number three for me after Wilson. I'll tell you who was held back by the quarterback play last week was Friar Muth. He could have had an even better game. Yes. Two of the worst throws that I would say Pickett made last week were to Friar Muth. He could have had an even better game. Yes. Two of the worst throws that I would say Pickett

made last week were to Friar Muth. Definitely one. I'm pretty sure there were two that was like, oh, come on. Anyway, where the hell are we in these notes? Did we answer a question? Okay. I think we did. From Reed, do I start

Jamar Chase, Antonio Gibson, Michael Pittman, Robinson, or Akers? Just one? Yeah. Chase. Chase, yeah. He plays Chase. From Devin.

Okay, and if he doesn't play, then who? Gibson, Pittman, Robinson, Akers. Gibson. Pittman for me. From Devin. He says, dear Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil,

and doc. I think that's going to be one of the first movies I watch. I think that's tombstone, right? I've never seen it. Never seen tombstone either. What is tombstone about? Wyatt Earp.

I have no idea. It's a Western. Literally not. Okay. Gotcha. Uh, two flexes a Western. Literally none. Okay, Western. Gotcha. Two flexes, please. PPR. Rashad White, Paris Campbell, Chris Olave.

White and Olave. Yep. Even if Fournette plays? Rule out Swift. If Fournette plays, you're going with Rashad White? I'm still going with White. I love that matchup. The fact that Todd Bowles said, we're riding the hot hand.

Pretty sure he said that last week too, or two weeks ago before the Seahawks game. And Fournette was more involved than White before the injury. Well, White started the game. And I think that's... Look, it's pretty clear the direction that's heading. If White runs away with the job, it's his job. That'd be nice. That was a prediction from Greg Allman of The Athletic

a couple weeks ago. All right, from Trevor. Sit a receiver. Christian Watson, Alan Lazard, or DJ Moore? If you don't want to play both Packers, I would play Lazard over Watson this week, so you can play Moore over Watson, but I to play both Packers, I would play Lazard over Watson this week. So you can play more over Watson, but I'd play both Packers.

Yeah. The last person I'd bench there is Watson. From Joe. Dear Joe, Doug, and Mark. Schneier, what do you got here? Joe, Doug, and Mark. They're Washington quarterbacks? They are Washington quarterbacks.

Who did what? Won Super Bowls. Won the Super Bowl. Super Bowl winners, yeah. If Jamar Chase plays this week, is he safe, or do I wait and see? I have good options. I have Evans, Godwin, Keenan-Allen,

Andy-Andre Hopkins, and Travis Etienne. So this actually might be a scenario where you could sit Chase. He needs three receivers and a flex. So he has Chase, Evans, Godwin, Keenan Allen, and Hopkins. Who are your three receivers? I mean, Hopkins and...

I'm sorry. Give me the names again. Yeah, you got Hopkins, you got Keenan Allen, you have Evans, Godwin, and Jamar Chase. Three of them. Hopkins is a must. That's the easy one. I think

you split up the Bucs. ETN will come to later. He's the flex. Give me your three receivers, Jamie. Hopkins, Hopkins, Godwin, Chase. That's my exact picks. I think I might go. I'm going to go Keenan Allen. I'm going to go Hopkins, Keenan Allen, andwin, Chase. That's my exact picks, too. I think I might go...

I'm going to go Keenan Allen. I'm going to go Hopkins, Keenan Allen, and Chase. Especially because there could be like torrential rain in Cleveland. True. But I don't really see why Godwin's better than Keenan Allen. You know?

I take that back. I'm going Allen. I want to be out a little bit on the Bucks pass game in this matchup. So I'll go Allen there. But I'm not benching Chase. That's the original question. If they're playing Chase, he's healthy.

He's going to be himself, I don't think. I don't think they would rush this back. They're in the playoff hunt. They've been fine without him. There's nothing to indicate that they're rushing him back and they feel desperate and they'll use him as a decoy or something like that. All right, and then you can throw either Travis Etienne

or a Bucs wide receiver in at flex. ETN. Oh, I got one. All right, this is from Jeremy E-mailed. He says, Dear Mitch, Sam, Josh, R, and Zach. Mitch, Sam, Josh, R, and Zach. Huh. Are they Jets quarterbacks?

Maybe. I don't know. I really like that, Jeremy. You like that, Jeremy? I really like that, Jeremy. I don't know who this is. I wish he could do the one-point IMG program.

Oh, cool. Should I start Brian Robinson or Cam Akers? Or Raheem Mostert if he plays would be the third option. Akers. I think that Akers and Robinson are basically the same type of guy because they need to score. They're not going to be involved in the passing game.

True. Robinson definitely has a better matchup. But maybe Akers gets a few more passes this week because of who they're playing. So I lean Akers too. What did you think? You thought you liked my Pearl Jam there? a few more passes this week because of who they're playing. So I lean Akers too. What did you think? You thought you liked my Pearl Jam there?

I did. At some point, I wish he did the breakdown at the end there. You know how he does? He goes through the whole song. He does it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always wondered if you ever met Eddie Vedder in person. Yeah. Yep, that's the one. All right.

I always wondered if you ever met him in person. You'd be like, hello, I'm Eddie, or something like that. Is that his voice in real life, or is it just totally exaggerated? I don't know, man. You know, it's a great, great cover that everybody should go watch after, you know, sometimes the celebrity deaths really get to me. And Tom Petty, I was very sad. So I watched a ton of Tom Petty stuff on YouTube.

Eddie Vedder does The Waiting with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. But Eddie Vedder sings lead vocals. Both of them sing. So it's a live performance of Eddie Vedder playing, singing The Waiting with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Strongly recommend a YouTube stream of that one. Or go singing the waiting with Tom Petty and the heartbreakers strongly recommend a YouTube stream of that one or go, go watch it on a stream,

but go watch it. I'll check that out. Uh, all right. Uh, I think we said acres at all of that. So let's read your YouTube questions here. Uh,

all right. What is this all about? I'm betting Adam and Dan that Trevor Lawrence goes shredder for 30 fantasy points against the Ravens. I will take that bet. I'll take that bet too. In a heartbeat. What are we betting?

Ilya? You guys never sing again. All right. Adam probably had pie for breakfast. He's wired. I had a kind bar for breakfast. I had pie for breakfast. Hey, What flavor?

Pumpkin. Oh, you had pie for breakfast. I thought you said a kind bar. Quick top five pie rankings, because our editor-in-chief staff, Adi, I don't know why I just called him that, but the main guy on the editorial side, Adi, ranked pies last night on Twitter,

and I thought his rankings were somewhat solid. Blueberry was his first pick, which I thought was a nice sleeper pick. But he had apple pie like eight of ten. Is that a horrible ranking or is it just me? It's horrible. Right. Apple's great. Apple crumb is great.

I mean, you're going to, of course, I mean, this can go in the thread for Heath's thread, but I don't like pie at all. I just, it's cake. I just, it's just to make cake. Cake is so much better than pie. No, pie is better than cake. My top three, I can't give you five pies that I would actually eat. My top three would be apple pie,

banana cream pie, which I had last night, and humble pie after all of my fantasy predictions. But I only would eat two. Jamie, are you pie or cake, Jamie? I probably would go cake over pie, but I only need to Jamie. Are you pie or cake? Jamie? Uh, I probably would go cake over pie, but, um,

it's, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm a dessert horse. So I would not turn on anything. All right. So what are your top five pies dad,

since you brought it up? Blueberry starts at one apple to pecan. Incredibly underrated three. Um, let's see what, uh, I would probably go banana cream or no key lime for banana cream. Apple. Two. Pecan. Incredibly underrated. Three. Let's see. I would probably go Key Lime. Four. Banana Cream.

What did you say? Key Lime's great. It's better than Pecan Pie. You're just eating pecans. What is the point of Pecan Pie? Pecan Pie is great. Terrible. A good Pecan Pie is so underrated. What is in a Pecan Pie? Is it just pecans? I feel like there's got to be caramel

It tastes like caramel Caramel You still can't say caramel? You say it the way 8 year olds say it It's ridiculous I'm still saying it the way I say it You're saying Foster Moreau's name wrong You just said it wrong by the way

What is Dutch apple pie? Dutch apple pie is awesome. Also, pecan is awesome and underrated, like Dan said. It's from Octagon. Good take. It's amazing that Dan got his burner on there while still sitting there. All right. If you have more questions on YouTube, fire away.

Dan liking pecan pie makes so much sense, I agree. Keenan Allen or Donovan Peoples-Jones? Keenan Allen. Allen, sure. By the way, Corey Davis is going to play, which brings us into this question here. Garrett Wilson, Christian Kirk, or Christian Watson? Kirk.

Yeah, Kirk. Yeah. And taste. Taste. Dulcich. Oh, peach cobbler. Now that sounds good. I could get behind some peach cobbler.

Yeah. But is that actually a pie though? As peach cobbler, its own thing. I don't know. I don't think it is a pie considered in the by rankings. Mr. Scampers wants us to pronounce it pecan. Pecan pie?

Nah, pecan. Is Aaron Jones playing? I think he's playing. I saw he was on the injury report. What's his deal? Yeah, he's supposed to be playing. A coconut cream pie, Dan H. That would be one of my least favorite desserts in the world.

Coconut is poison. Oh, why? is poison. Why? Coconut's great. Oh, you're terrible. Where does Tyler Conklin rank? Where's that question? There was a question. Where does Tyler Conklin rank rest of season with the quarterback change? Anytime

they're going to throw the ball more. You like Tyler Conklin, Garrett Wilson, Corey Davis, you know, it was the Joe Flacco tenure. It was the two games of Zach Wilson actually throwing the ball. I mean, I think if they let Mike White throw, it'll be okay. Read this question. I have to Google something. What's the question? For PPR, Pickens, Burks, or Palmer for the flex?

I think I lean in this matchup Palmer. Palmer easily, Mike Williams is out. If Mike Williams is in, I might go Pickens. I do have some news for you here. According to Google, cobbler is sometimes described as a kind of fruit pie, but strictly speaking,

the two are different. Pies are made from pastry rather than biscuit batter, and they are fully encased with a crust at the top and the bottom, while cobblers typically only have a topping. That comes from findininglovers.com. So there's no bottom on the cobbler. Okay, that's interesting. So I was right. It's not a considered a pie. You're the man now dog palmer or foreman thank you for that confirmation that's all i needed to go on with my weekend uh palmer uh non-ppr sanders latavius montgomery olave or mitchell

i might go Sanders non PPR Sanders I think I have to go Sanders there in that matchup it's non PPR let's see Chase or Latavius Murray Chase

and I'm just going to leave this one up for a while it says no coconut agree with that. A lot of questions here. Brandon, are you, or Debo Samuel, rest of season?

Uh, are you, I think I would go, I can, that regard to the commanders are placing linebacker Cole Holcomb on IR. And he's been out for, I think three games and now they're putting them on IR. It's tough blow.

Uh, banana bread with chocolate chips is awesome. Agree with that completely. It's been out for, I think, three games, and now they're putting him on IR. It's a tough blow. Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips is awesome. Agree with that. Completely is one of my all-time favorites. Rashad White or Miles Sanders in PPR? Sanders, unless Fournette is up. I think I would go White here. I think that I see a little bit. I'm pretty high on

both Bucks' backs, even if Fournette does play. And I think White will kind of lead the way. He mentioned the hot hand. Fournette's hurt. And there's definitely more potential for passing volume with White over Sanders, right? I mean, the last game, White didn't catch a pass. But I don't think that's an indication of what's fully for him. Yeah, especially against a bigger role.

You know, people have been wondering, why is Leonard Fournette not losing his job? He's been so bad all year, basically. So, you know, inefficient. Because Rashad White was not doing much better. So they finally both had a good game. White was better than Fournette. Most of it coming in the fourth quarter.

That's fine. I think we might be assigning a little bit of skill level or, or, you know, it's could just be the offensive line to a little bit of success. I would say to Rashad white a little bit early here. I'm just saying that, that if four net does play,

I think I, Dan, I think you're a little too high on Rashad white. That's if four net, I might be, we'll find out this week. All right. Two more here.

Hurts or Gino hurts. Yeah. Itts still. And, all right, if Fournette sits, Rashad White or Damian Pierce? White. I'm going White too. Maybe I am too high on White.

No, I'm saying you're too high on him if Fournette plays you're too high on him. That's all. If I had White on any... Well, I do have White on some teams, and I might change my team name to Rashad Walter White. That's a terrible team.

That is so... No? No, there's nothing. You know, the... It's not a good, loyable way. Olave. For a criticizer of team names, you probably don't have one good team name.

Not one. That's correct. I have two girls, more cups. Everybody's been there, done that. Been there, done that. I don't put the same amount of time into the team names as you do. Time is just off the top of the head.

Every league I've ever played with Adam in, he has like a very I'll give you, some of them are great. Alex Menor, one of the best names in the history of fantasy. Alex Menor, say it and respect the team name. Don't give him credit for that one, please. Oh, did you? Is that you all along, Jamie?

That's mine. No way. What? Oh, my gosh. Adam claimed that as his own. BS is such BS. That is totally me. That was totally me.

Adam, did you really claim that as your own? I think, honest to God, I think we both arrived at it at the same time. No, that's not possible. When we drafted Alec Manoa. There's no way you both arrived at that. When we drafted Alec Manoa, we had this moment of clarity where we absolutely knew that our team name had to be Alec Manoa. We knew it right then and there.

I think we both arrived at the same time. All that junk aside, let's say. I don't want to be here when Jamie checks the text messages to find out he's telling the truth. So I am going to end the show before this reveal. For Jamie and Dan and Zach. Go ahead. Let's do it.

We're up in the draft. Alec Minora? Your reply. Alec Manora? Your reply. Alec Manora would be a great team name. I said it. There you go. But Jamie's the one who said Alec Manora. You said Manoa or Manora?

Manora. Are you sure that's what it says? You said it first? I said Alec. Oh, no, I said Alec Manora. Yes! Yes, it was me! Oh no!

Yes! Alright, we're out of here. Later everyone.