Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag, News and Fantasy Cops! (10/28 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 28, 2023

Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and wherever else you listen to podcasts A quick look at the latest news (2:04) and controversial fruit rankings (3:50) and then your emails (7:25) at [e-mail], the Fantasy Cops (23:30) are settling your league disputes, your Apple Podcast questions (33:45) and YouTube comments (53:00)  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179 SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1 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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He's just going to go the distance! Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. And happy weekend, everybody. Welcome to the show. It's mailbag time. We got your emails at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. That is the letter I, C-B-S-I. And your Apple podcast questions.

Got a lot of those today. So thank you so much. Leave us a five-star review. One of the reviews said Adam is the funniest on the show. You know that one's going to get read today. Jamie's already laughing because there's someone who's a little funnier than me today. It's Dan Schneier as he is bringing the comedy with his get up. I don't even know what I'm looking at right now. I don't know what's wrong with it. It's a sweatshirt. It's a hoodie and a hat. Look, I'm trying to test out in life if you can become a hat guy later in life. I've

never been a hat guy, basically never worn hats my whole life. Then came down to Florida for the week. Obviously, worked from the office. And shout out, Adi. He got me a couple hats. I like this one. The CBS Sports hat. I went golfing with Thomas.

Had a couple nice shots. Hit seven fairways to start the day off the deck. And I was like, I got to start wearing this hat more. Maybe I am a hat guy. Are you going golfing again today? No, not today. It's a little cold out. What does the sweatshirt say? This is just a regular hoodie.

Shout out, Lolligon. Stop acting like this is normal here. You're all black with white lines. You know what it is? This is what I figured out. We spent the last few weeks of making fun of his hair and the tight shirt and he's covered up everything. You can't see the hair. You can't see the tightness of the shirt nothing look it's a comfortable hoodie and a comfortable hat i'm trying to become a hack guy i don't know if

it's a thing we'll see we'll find out they say that if you wear a hat every day it makes you lose your hair dan i have heard that so i have to keep that in mind because it's completely all right i only do it two days a week. Yeah, exactly. News and notes. Daniel Jones is out this week, and Brian Dable did not commit to him returning this season. Let's get our Giants insider, Lil Dan. Should I spit it like a mixtape? It's close to Halloween. Dan's trying to be a member of the BC Boys.

Yes. What do you think, Dan? Is Daniel Jones out for the year? I don't know how I could provide you any insight on this. I don't know what the situation is with the neck, but he has to be cleared for contact to play again. And he hasn't been cleared for contact in my mind. It's like, what would lead to him getting cleared for contact that I don't

know, but it doesn't seem like something that can just be six days later. It'll probably be cleared or I don't know. So it's not looking good. I can tell you that because it's neck injury. He already had season ending neck surgery in 2021. He says it's a different injury or a different area of the neck. But, you know, neck is not the biggest muscle in the world. So I'm sure two injuries to the same area is not a good thing. So it's it's a bad situation all around.

Yeah. Uh huh. You got to really see. You got to go to youtube.com slash fantasy football today and look at what he is wearing. And Robert says,

Dan doesn't have heating in his bathroom. All right. That explains everything. It is a little cold in here because we haven't, look, it's like a cold day

on the east, northeast coast. These are the type of days I wonder if it is better to live in South Florida. No, we don't. Oh, he's moving here. We don't live in the northeast, Dan. We live in the northern east.

That's true. As you would say. Zay Jones is out this week for the Jaguars and more bad news for the Panthers defense, Brian Burns, not seen at practice. Okay, that's all I got for News & Notes now. Hopefully we'll get some things that pop up. The Panthers will be getting a lot of?

You know what they'll see a lot of? C.J. Stroud. C.J. Stroud. Let's rank these fruits from Brian. This is what the mailbag's all about. Bananas, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, apples. Ooh, okay. Bananas, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, apples.

Dan's going to start this with, I got a strong take on this, so go ahead. Dan's going to start this with, I got a strong take on this. So go ahead. I was going to start that with that. The tier one by far are the berries here. We're going to start with blueberries, a good blueberry, a good sweet blueberry. Now, you know, you got to wait. Whenever you eat your blueberries, this is a little trick I heard. When you get your blueberries, if they're sour at first, it's because they're not ripe.

And that's why, and I never knew this. I thought some blueberries are just not as good as others. And they're sour. So you got to wait for them to ripen. So you wait for them to ripen a sweet blueberry. Then we'll go with a sweet raspberry. Raspberries suffer from the same thing that blueberries suffer from. Occasionally, it's too sour.

Then we go strawberry. Got to get a good strawberry. And then a banana apple. Those are really like tier three type fruits. Oh, wow. Jamie, there's no way you're going to agree with that. No, strawberries are definitely the best. There's no question about it because they could be just fruit, they're dessert. There's just a lot. I mean, I guess all fruits can be dessert,

but strawberries are the best. Strawberries would be one. I would probably go banana two. I'm going to go apples three, raspberries four. And just because it's to be different, I'll go blueberry these are all tier one fruits by the way actually i would put apples i would put apples in tier two apples gonna be last for me tier one is like mango cantaloupe like that's the real tier one cantaloupe a good cantaloupe is amazing you've got a really sweet what time is your bingo game? All right. You know, I'm going to go strawberries one.

I'm going to go bananas two. I think I like blueberries better, but let's not forget how useful bananas are. I mean, they go with everything. I put some in my cereal today. You can make banana pancakes. You can make banana bread. Bananas, they're filling. They're a good snack.

Yeah, because blueberry pancakes are terrible. You know know i make pancakes every weekend with banana and blueberry and i can say banana is definitely a more important ingredient to the pancake than the blueberry yeah but which ones do your kids like more the blueberry pancakes or the banana both they're both in this banana and blueberry pancake uh knowing adam knowing the way adam talks about his kids they like everything that Heath does not. Oh, we both like candy. We're going to eat a lot of candy tonight. Anyway, strawberries, bananas, blueberries, raspberries, apples. And now we can talk about football. Does Dan know what Heath's favorite fruit is?

Oh, it's a tomato, right? Yep. Oh, my God. That is such a Heath take. Right? Come on, Heath. Well, it's kind of stupid technically if you look up the definition

yeah exactly alright this is from Adam before we get into football one last thing and we should save nonsense I agree but this is something that I heard this week that just has to be addressed you don't know how to flip a coin oh that's what it was that's what you said

you can't like successfully flip a coin? Yeah, I can't really get the tumbling motion. Oh my God, Adam. You think you're going to beat me in any kind of competition when you're showing the functionality to flip a coin? I didn't realize coin flipping was in our decathlon. Sorry. Not that specifically,

but it shows something with those motor skills is just not right. So in travel baseball, they determine who the home team is by a coin flip. So if you guys were to determine who's going to go first and who's going to get ball first or whatever things, Dan would win every time. Because that's the point. Yeah. All right. Let's get to the emails now. FantasyFootball.CBSI.com.

This one is from Jeremy. He says, he's spoken. He said, Dear Burt Macklin, Duke Silver, Janet Snakehole, and The Architect. Oh, I know this, and Adam should too. Yeah, I know it. Parks and Rec. Better show than The Office. No, it's not. I don't remember the last two.

It's considerably better. Need your help picking a flex in a two receiver half PPR league. Pick one. Zay Flowers, Rasheed Rice, Josh Downs. Zay Flowers, Rasheed Rice, and Josh Downs.

Flowers is the easy one. I'll go Rice. He said just one. Flowers. From Kerry, I'm three and four in a half PPR league. I need go Rice. You only need one. He said just one. No, I'm sorry. Yeah, flowers. All right, from Kerry. I'm three and four in a half PBR league. I need a win.

Give me a wide receiver and a flex. From Hopkins, Dobbs, Bryan Robinson, Warren, and Spears. Hopkins, Dobbs, Bryan Robinson, Warren, Spears. He could also pick up DiMercato. This is Jay Williams. That's got to be Jamal Williams. Akers or Singletary. But he'd have to drop one of the above.

Or she. This is not a pretty one. Let's start by saying that. Carrie. I'm going to need... Give me a rundown one more time of those names, Adam. All right, we've got... We need a wide receiver and a flex. We've got Hopkins, Dobbs, Brian Robinson,

Warren, and Spears. I'm going to go Robinson as my flex. Don't really like any of the other options. That's maybe Spears, but don't really like Spears with Will Levis slash Malik Willis, so I think we'll get some snaps. That means I don't't like Hopkins but I don't like Dobbs either I guess I'm going Dobbs I have to pick I only have two receivers to choose from Dobbs and Hopkins right

that's correct yeah Dobbs um he's brought up an interesting theory the other day about would the Titans consider resting Henry and Hopkins to avoid them getting hurt before the trade deadline. Ooh, that's interesting. That would be nuts. Yeah. I'm still going to go Hopkins.

I think Hopkins and Rob, I would go Hopkins over Dobbs. I guess Dobbs is so bad. I take it back. Give me Hopkins. I can't go Dobbs. It's just, I can't do it.

I wouldn't mind picking up DeMarcado though. I just don't know who I drop. I'd probably just ride with. I don't mind picking up Di Mercato, though. I just don't know who I'd drop. I'd probably just ride with... I don't even think Dobbs is really rosterable, personally. Half PPR league? That offense throws for 130 yards a game, basically. If those are your choices, yeah, you could probably drop Dobbs for Di Mercato.

If Di Mercato's still on your waiver wire... Then you have to start Di Mercato over Brian Robinson in that case. Yeah, I would. All right. From Jared, do I trade Alexander Madison for Tajay Spears, hoping for a Henry trade? Madison is on my bench.

No. If you're never playing Madison and your team is in really good shape, it's not a bad call. This is from nick dionte foreman for or chris olave this week ppr olave full ppr definitely yeah from there's some good underlying numbers about olave that suggests that a relative breakout could be on the way i don't want to call it a full breakout with derrick carr but i just can't want to call it a full breakout with Derek Carr, but. I just can't take you seriously in this outfit.

Adam, at least there's two people on the show who are repping the company. You see the CBS sports hat and you see Jamie's beautiful looking Super Bowl sweatshirt that I never was offered. I don't get any swag, but you know what? I got one piece of swag, so I'm repping it. Unlike you. What's this thing? Yeah, that board's been up forever, Adam. OK, it's a CBS board.

Wear a CBS shirt for once in your life. If it looks like it does on you, I'm not wearing it. David wants to know who you would drop from his bench to pick up Tajay Spears. Rice, Warren, Lockett, Rashaun Johnson, Tank Dell. Either Rashaun or Warren for me. I'd probably lean Rashaun Johnson, Tank Dell. Either Rashaun or Warren for me. I'd probably lean Rashaun. Same.

I mean, the fact that Spears is on your waiver wire suggests that there's probably going to be a lot of good players on your waiver wire. So if you're not playing... So what were the receivers again? It's a 10-team half PPR league. Rice, Warren, Lockett, Rashaun Johnson, Tank Dell. I might drop Lockett for him.

Lockett's only had really two good games. Yeah, Rashaun Johnson's at zero, though. Right, but there's still the chance of him becoming something. I don't know if Lockett's going to magically become what he was once again. Okay. And now he's hurt. From Dylan. Believe it or not,

Dalton Kincaid is a top five tight end rest of season. Well, what's the status on the Knox injury? I know he has the wrist. Out indefinitely. He's out indefinitely. Surgery most likely, but we did see J. We had the surgery, but how, I mean, we saw JSN come back from that pretty fast.

I don't know the difference between that and the injury jsn had but he came back in what under a month so for as long as he's out yes i do think he has top five upside i thought this from the start of the season they're finally using him in better ways in my opinion not just like these around the line of scrimmage play action bootleg dump it down short a dot type stuff using him in the intermediate range and i think there's a chance that he could start to really, uh, impact just like the deep intermediate range as well with his skillset. So I like him a lot. Top five is probably aggressive, but I'm okay.

He's not better than Kelsey Andrews Hawkinson. That's easy three. I would still take Goddard over him. I would still take Laporta over him. I would still take probably Waller over him, I would still take Laporta over him. I would still take probably Waller over him, especially with the better quarterback in New York now. I don't know if I would. I think he's,

I think he could be anywhere from four to eight. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Uh, you know, it's, we,

I wish we had more of the, to go on, but he's so talented. Uh, all right. What would, uh, a question from our Zach Brooke, our producer.

What would Dan's rapper name be? And I like this one here. Danilla Ice. Nah, it's Schneiguy. Schneiguy? Oh, you have a name already. Look, he's given himself a name. Nah, it's just the nickname that I've had

growing up from the friend group. Schneiguy. MC Burger Stick. What'd you say? MC Burger Stick. Oh, that's you say i'm telling you you got to keep the sandwich together nobody wants it sliding around all the toppings sliding out this might be your worst take ever and can we just can we just back it up a little and and nobody touched on this but what jamie said he's like i took dan out to lunch just so i can observe him

no one found that one interesting he's observing me He's looking at all my things that I'm doing. That's exactly what he should do. That's exactly what he should do. What do you mean? I took you out to lunch. Period. Because I wanted to. And I wanted to observe you for the show.

MC Oreo cream. I like that. That's for all the good people. Jamie, did we ever ask you this question? You've had Oreos before in your life, right? Yeah. No, we haven't. That's part of the Oreo. Jamie, you've breathed air in your life, right? No. Jamie seems like a health-first type guy who

might have not had Oreos. You know what I mean? Doesn't eat junk food a lot. Even today, he's like, I had a crepe for breakfast. I never have a crepe. Who has a crepe? Never treat myself. Who has a crepe? What? No one ever has a crepe. Thatpe that's true but he's like they've been in my house forever and i finally decided to eat one they're for the kids but anyway what's your answer oreo cream over oreo cookie obviously right oreo cream over yes yeah that's not even it's not even the point of the okay uh back to the show here from go pokes toilet takes jaylen i just i i don't understand what what do you do

with your burger that makes it move around so much while you're eating no it's toppings adam it's any sandwich not first of all this is not a burger this is any sandwich i've when they give you that do with your sandwiches i don't get it like just hold it in your hands and eat the damn thing adam you're just when you take a bite, things start to move around and fall out. This is an obvious thing. You know what it is? Dan probably went to a lot of amusement parks as a kid and had hamburgers on roller coasters. Yeah, seriously.

Keep this thinking if you're on a roller coaster. Alright, this is from TK who says, go Pokes. Someone offered me Barkley and AJ Brown for Josh Allen. The best quarterbacks on waivers are Geno Smith and Jimmy Garoppolo. How can you not do that?

But you're going to suffer at quarterback big time. So what? You'll get 10 points out of Geno a week or 10 to 12 out of whatever Geno, Geno and whoever else you can roll out there. And you get A.J. Brown and Saquon Barkley. These are two of the only people who get like 10-plus touches a week. A little flush. That's a great one from Zach.

Thank you, Zach. A little flush. I like that one. From Mark, two flexes, please. Michael Thomas, Miles Sanders, Rashawn Johnson, T. Higgins, and Dalton Kincaid. Hopefully he started Kincaid. He said he was leaning Kincaid and Higgins.

Is that how you would go? Yes, that's how I would have gone before the week. All right, so let's say he didn't start Kincaid. Pick one from Michael Thomas, Miles Sanders, Rashawn Johnson. I'm sorry, Thomas for me. Yep. Little flush. From Enrique, dear Tim, Victor, David, and Manu.

Those are all Spurs basketball players. Look at you. I was first, I am so embarrassed to say this, but I was like, who's Victor? But now I remember. Oh, wow. I watched him the other night. I'm a huge Titans fan.

I love Derrick Henry, but I need to upgrade my team. I gave up Henry, Calvin Ridley, and Jalen Warren for Bijan and Garrett Wilson. Grade the trade. A plus plus. Yeah, that's a good one. I'm a little more lukewarm on it, but I give it

an A minus. What do you look warm about? I don't know if you hear that and you're like, so let's just break it down. So we have Ridley versus Garrett Wilson. I actually think that's a loss. I know people, you're like so let's just break it down so we have ridley versus garrett wilson i actually think that's a loss i know people you're not high on ridley jamie i think ridley will eventually come around and be an asset i think he'll come around but i mean wilson i think is still better gary will okay so i definitely don't with zach wilson rest of season but i think it's probably you're right closer than i'm saying but i don't know for sure

if i think bijan is the asset we thought he was preseason and when that will happen. And if that will happen with Arthur Smith, it just doesn't sound like it's a priority for them, despite that they would help them win games. I put down, I put a clip on Twitter this week that just thought was so funny. It was Desmond Ritter rolling out,

scrambling out of the pocket. It was a broken play where Algier started to move upfield and go vertical. It ended up being a 44-yard gain. But he threw the ball out to Algier, and then he got tackled basically immediately after within like five to six yards, despite having a pretty good angle, I think, on the safety if he wanted to cut and go vertical. And you saw him running out there. Some of the replies I got were, it looked like he was running in quicksand, Algier.

And I was like, sure, Arthur Smith doesn't care about a fantasy football team, but what about his real-life Falcons team? If Bijan Robinson was the player on this play instead of Tyler Algier, And I was like, sure, Arthur Smith doesn't care about a fantasy football team, but what about his real-life Falcons team? If Bijan Robinson was the player on this play instead of Tyler Algier, it would have been probably a touchdown for the Falcons. But that was last week? Last week, yeah. Yeah, Bijan wasn't available. I know, but it's not like he has been playing a crazy amount before this headache.

But Bijan, despite the lack of touchdowns, has been better than Henry. Than who? Than Algier? You're missing the point. You're giving up Henry for Bijan. Henry and Warren for Bijan. It's definitely an upgrade. It's a good upgrade. That's why I give it an A-.

It's a sizable upgrade, but then you downgraded my mind from Ridley to Wilson. Less of a downgrade. If I can just give a number here for Bijan. Here are his touches every game. 16, 23, 14, 19, 16, 18. That's a pretty good workload, especially... What's Henry's touches at?

Henry has two games, I think, with more than 15 carries. You know, Bijan in his first six games, he had 26 catches. So, you know, it's good for PPR. I think this is a very good trade. Anyway, we'll move on. For Cody here, Pickens or Nico Collins? Pickens. This will be Collins.

I'll stay with Pickens. From Trey, I'm in first place in PPR. Would you trade Keenan Allen for Chris Olave and Dallas Goddard? I'm streaming tight end, and I currently have Trey McBride. And he also, by the way, he also has Tyreek Hill, AJ Brown, and DK Metcalf. So would you give up Keenan Allen for Olave and Goddard? No.

Yes. Yeah. I just think Keenan Allen is still locked in and just getting so many targets. I mean, I guess you get the upgrade there at tight end, but I don't find it too consistent with Goddard. This is from, no name on this one, sorry, but in a non-ppr league would you trade josh kelly and jamar chase probably should have led with chase uh for camara and higgins so it's chase and kelly for camara and

higgins no for me and non-ppr have what side? I'd rather have the Chase side. I think I'd rather have the Camara side. Camara and Higgins? Non-PPR takes a lot of the Camara value out of the way. And Higgins still, I mean, look, I expect him to have a good bounce back end of season, but he's dealing with a rib injury that he said is going to be tough to play through all year.

It's just a pain tolerance thing. Could get re-aggravated. Hasn't been consistent anyway. I just think Chase is by far and away the best player in the Steel in non-PPR. I would agree. I think you're right. This is from...

I don't even know who. I put from Mailbag, but there's no way that's accurate. Rank these in order. From Thursday. From Mailbagbag Ridley, Hollywood, Brown,

Nico Collins, Hopkins, Dobbs. How would you rank them for this week? Ridley, Hollywood, Brown, Nico Collins,

Hollywood, and Dobbs or Ridley, Brown, Dobbs. I go Ridley, Nico, Nico, Ridley,

Hopkins. I'm sorry. Nico, Ridley, Brown, Ridley, Hopkins. I'm sorry. Nico, Ridley, Brown, Hopkins, Dobbs. I'll go Ridley, Nico, Brown, Hopkins, and then Dobbs. Earlier, I think you said you were starting Dobbs over Hopkins. No, no. Remember at the end of that segment,

I said I'm coming back around to it, and I've changed my mind. Is that just Jamie? Dobbs is too bad. Jamie must have said Hobbins. I have no interest in starting Dobbs this week or rest any point the rest of the season. Okay. I was trying to insult you and you just kept talking. Make sure you watch our content, youtube.com.

I got free of an insult. Nice work. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today, 1130 a.m. Eastern on Sunday morning. I see a comment in here. I agree with Jamie. Is that Dan's rapper name? The first line of every bar. That's good. I agree with Jamie.

Adam is leaving. Let's take a break. When we come back, we got the fantasy cops. We're going to be grooving to the fantasy cops after this on Fantasy Football today. Mama, look at me. I'm going really fast. I just got my license.

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Be alert, be aware, and stay safe. Here we go, baby. Let's settle those league disputes. This one is from Adam in NYC. Dear some combination of Dave, Jamie, Heath, Chris, Dan, Jacob, and Thomas, and Zach, a friend of mine is in a work league with a serial dropper. A partner at their firm is one in six and doesn't set her lineup. She's playing the number one team,

so my friend in third place asked her to set her lineup. Her response? Dropping Debo Samuel and Justin Fields for Dobbs and Latavius Murray. There are IR spots that she didn't use.

Now the number one team and several others with all of their fab left will have free reign, and my friend with about 50% left has no shot at either player. This is a 14-team league, so both players are very valuable. Wow. Yeah, so last year after...

I'll get back to that. But last year after not setting her lineup in the first few weeks, she dropped Brees Hall out of the blue. My friend claims that dropping these players is not a mistake, but she doesn't know better and sees they are hurt because she is a partner.

She's his boss's boss's boss. He doesn't think there's anything he can do about it, and the commissioner doesn't want to get involved. The pot is over $1,000. So this isn't just for fun. What do you do in a situation like this where the person clearly doesn't understand the rules, but is everyone's boss?

So no one wants to kick her out or tell her that she made a mistake. Oh God. First off, I think if they probably told her, that might be a good thing for you because hey, you're pointing out a mistake that she might not want to make moving forward. Unless she just doesn't care because she's just doing it to, hey, I'm one of the people.

I would probably point it out. But I think in this case, you just have to let the league play out as it is, because if somebody is dropping players, they're dropping players. Oh, I mean, I think there should be. First of all, isn't there a don't drop list anywhere on this, like whatever platform they're playing players oh i i mean i think there should be first of all isn't there a don't drop list anywhere on this like whatever platform they're playing on or anything we don't have that we don't have that that's true which i'm not but like even if there's not shouldn't there be some kind of i don't know what you do in this spot though i guess because you don't want to make it subjective for the commissioner decide this person's worth drop you can drop this person

but you can't drop this person. So that becomes difficult. So I think, sadly, what Jamie suggested is what I'd go for, even though it's horrible for the league. And you can't really be like, listen, your drop's over there. They're not good. Yeah, you can. Well, maybe. We don't know who this is.

She might be really mean and scary. Right. Exactly. What if she's not reasonable? If she's trying to be one of the people for you, the people, um, then,

then clearly she's trying to, you know, play by the rules. What is technically playing by the rules? Alternatively, what if you had the other 11 people in the league privately say, you, nobody is allowed to add the players that this one manager drops?

No way. Why? It's not really that fair. I mean, the people who have all the fab are going to get Justin Fields and Debo Samuel. So they'd just be sitting there on the waiver wire? Okay, again, so at what point do you determine that that's, you know, somebody drops TyJ Spears right now? Oh, hey. No, this is one person

who's a serial dropper who doesn't understand the rules and dropped Debo in fields. You could say, hey, listen, if it's this person who did the drops, nobody is allowed to pick that player up. Nah. Alright. Alright. No. Next up, this is from

Matt. Dear Fantasy Cops, I need you to weigh in on, you know what, I'm going to test the whole up. This is from Matt. Dear Fantasy Cops, I need you to weigh in on... You know what? I'm going to test the whole no vetoes unless there's collusion thing. So here we go. Dear Fantasy Cops, I need you to weigh in on a very questionable trade that happened in our longtime Keeper League.

The manager in last place, one in six, has been in the league from the start. His trade partner is his childhood friend who's playing with us for the first time and is currently in the middle of the standings. The last place manager just traded away Kelsey, Cup,

Najee Harris, and Gus Edwards. Kelsey, Cup, Najee, and Gus. For Cousins, Hawkinson, Rashad White, and Christian Watson. It is not a Superflex League.

It is not a Dynasty League. I was shocked when I saw the lopsided trade go through and messaged our commissioner who said that he didn't like it either. But after a split vote, it was allowed to stand. Am I wrong to be upset about this? It seems like a classic case of collusion. The team that's out of the race sending his best players to his buddy to help him make a playoff push. What should be upset about this. It seems like a classic case of collusion. The team that's out of the race sending his best players to his buddy to help him make a playoff push.

What should be done about this? Yeah, well, this is the thing. Collusion, to me, it's like classic case is one way to term it, but I view it very strict terms. If you're colluding, you're either colluding or you're not colluding. If you're colluding, there's no hard collusion or soft

collusion. You just should be kicked out of the league immediately. In my opinion, both teams, if they're, you know, uh, found to be colluding, I don't know how you prove collusion to be honest. Like, yes, it seems cool. Very like you'd have to me, you'd have to prove that the last place team is getting some of the money or some of the pot or something like that. Right. Like, cause how else do we prove it? I don't know, but it's a horrific trade and I'm not for vetoes typically, but if there's collusion involved, I am for vetoes. So it just, it's, it becomes like, can we prove the collusion? I agree with you, but the problem is that if they, if they put it to a vote, so those two members clearly voted, if they allow it to be voted to allow the trade. And then there has to be at least

three to four other people doing a 10 team league or 12 team league um how how are they allowing this as well are they all colluding together are they all in agreement that it's not that egregious of a trade so you know if if the commissioner stuck and then he's trying to do his due diligence say okay i don't believe this trade should go through but i'm going to put it to a vote and we'll see what the league says. And the league says, fine, or split. There's really nothing you can do. But if you can prove collusion, then yes, you're probably going to want to get rid of those people in your league.

Yeah, because in this scenario, there'd be at least three people voting that it's okay. It's so hard. You can't prove it, and that is such a bad trade. Again, for those of you who don't remember, Kelsey, Cup, Najee, and Edwards for Cousins, Hawkinson, Rashad White, and Christian Watson. I don't think it is. Hawkinson's very valuable. Maybe this manager needs a quarterback.

He gets Cousins. Rashad White is now looking better. I don't think... Kelsey and Cup are two of the six or seven guys you can count on every week. It's obviously a bad trade, but I don't think I would vote against it. But I do think, Matt, that you are right to be upset about this. It's terrible.

And I'll say this. Yeah, it does suck. It's a warning. If this ever happens again between these two managers, then we start threatening. Or in this case, if there was a history of it, and this is not the first trade. But it is the first trade because this is his first year in the league. One of their first years in the league.

Okay, last one. 12-team home league. The first-place team attempted to make a trade with the last-place team, their cousin, for Justin Jefferson. The first-place team was giving up Kareem Hunt, Deontay Johnson, and Jerry Judy for Justin Jefferson.

I disallowed the trade and I told the manager they need to offer the last place team some of his starters if he wants the trade to go through. Now the manager is complaining every day and asking that I allow voting on trades now. But this is the exact reason I have not done so. Was I wrong in disallowing this trade? Kareem Hunt, Deontay Johnson, and Jerry Judy from the last place team, from the first place team to the last place team for Justin Jefferson. I think you were wrong in disallowing this trade.

This trade is fine. Justin Jefferson is out for a minimum of two more weeks. Now I've seen up to six. It could be four weeks. It could be longer. He could re-aggravate the hamstring injury when he comes back. That happened with Andrew Thomas, different player tackle, but Giants tried to bring him back too soon before the Seattle Monday night game three weeks ago, re-injured.

Haven't seen him since. Won't see him for a while. Hamstrings are tricky. They're soft tissue injuries. Also factoring into this, if Vikings start, I know they beat the 49ers. If they get upset or they start to lose football games, there is zero incentive for Justin Jefferson to play football unless the Vikings are in the playoff race because he did not get that contract preseason.

So this is not some unreal guaranteed asset. And you're giving up guys like Deontay Johnson, who if healthy can start, we'll see what the injury situation is there. Jerry Judy. I mean, not as much, but Kareem Hunt, who until Jerome Ford is back, should have a pretty nice role there. These are starters in some, you know, in deeper leagues leagues or if you're using flex spots, these are starters. Like, what do you expect him to give up?

In my opinion, you can't give up the best of the best just to get a guy who's playing in three or four weeks and may not even play again this season. So I don't know. I think this trade is completely fine and the commissioner should have vetoed it. I think if there's a history of vetoing trades, whether you agree with it or not, then it's fine to veto this one. If there is no history of vetoing trades, then you should not veto this one. It's not that crazy because you are still giving the Jefferson manager some level of help. Right. And they're last place.

They need to win now. Yes, but the point that the commissioner made, which I do agree with, is that's not the most realistic trade. However, that's not your decision to make. That's the manager's decision to make. So it does seem a little sketchy. But if you've been vetoing trades for a while now or doing it over the course of the time you guys have played in this league, then this trade is vetoable. But you should not be vetoing trades like this blanket, you know, just on, on, on a random situation. And also look into if anyone else has off has

like made trade offers for Jefferson from this manager. If it's like one of those situations where, you know, it's clear there's collusion because they've gotten better offers, but they chose this one and it's hard to figure out why they chose one over others. Then that's another factor that would make me maybe veto it. Thank you, everybody, for your fantasy cop submissions. And let's move on to our Apple podcast questions. Always appreciate those five-star comments. This is a grade the trade from Noah. I gave up Ridley, Pollard, and Drake London, Ridley, Pollard, and London for Kirk, Bijan, and McLaurin. Ridley for Kirk, Pollard for Bijan, London for McLaurin. It feels like a wash across the board.

Yeah. It's pretty close. I like the Bijan side a little better. I don't know about you guys. A little better. Yeah, but I mean, it I like the, I like the Bijon side a little better. I don't know about you guys. A little better. Yeah. But I mean, it's like at some point there'll be a little bit of a balance where

Ridley will start to play better than Kirk. And Bijon feels like a wash to a certain extent. Cause I don't think we've seen the best of Paul. We probably haven't seen the best of Bijon either, but you know, his situation feels like it could get somewhat more murky moving forward than Pollard's does. It's a C.

I have waited all week and I kept forgetting to bring this stat up. It's my favorite stat. Did you know that Drake London and Devontae Smith have the same exact statistics this year with the only difference being one target.

London has 32 catches, 383 yards, two touchdowns on 49 targets. Smith has 32 catches, 383 yards, two touchdowns on 50 targets. You know what the best part about that is? One is being viewed as a bust, and one is being viewed as a breakout. Yeah. And I think I did a poll. Because I put this stat on X. I say that sarcastically to mock x uh who would you rather have and i think like it was overwhelming oh yeah i said they have the same stats who would you rather have on your

fantasy team davante smith got 73 of the vote over drake london i thought it'd be a little closer than that well you anticipate that he's going to be better uh yeah i thought it'd be a little closer than that. Well, you anticipate that he's going to be better. Yeah, I thought it'd be closer, though. I also said, who are you taking rest of season? ETN, Eckler, or Bijan? And ETN got 61% of the vote. Eckler, 25%. Bijan, 14%. All right, next up from KKID.

What do you think of this trade in a 2QB league? 14 teams. Josh Allen, Puka Nakua, and Javante Williams. Four, Joe Burrow, Tyreek Hill, and Drake London. So you go from Allen

to Burrow, from Puka to Tyreek, and from Javante to London. I think I still like the Allen side better. The only thing is, you got to figure at this point, London's better than Gervonta or safer than Gervonta.

Tyreek is clearly an upgrade over Puka, but not by much. Maybe by much. And Burrow, if he closes the gap on Allen, then that side wins, I think, hands down. But will he close the gap on Allen? That side wins i think hands down but will he close the gap on alan that's the question i don't think so i don't think so and i think that gap is the biggest gap of all the other of all three options that's why i like the allen side best all right

from nicky flash seven percent for a second like at what point does it become less risky or more risky to trade for him as he's getting closer to his deadline and we're not hearing anything or as he's getting closer to his deadline because he might return that i mean we're not gonna i don't think we're gonna hear anything regardless jamie because they're just not gonna test it for a while right like there's no point in testing the hamstring out until he's right off ir and ready to practice again so they win this game they're four and four okay and then it's one more week right till he's eligible didn't we read that it's more like six weeks than four i thought that was the last update we got on it that they're expecting more like six than four um he's on ir for at least the four it's tough

it's tricky uh again i just feel like with these injuries there's a lot of re-injury and a lot of compensation injuries typically it's just i'm not very, you know, I'm very, this is what happened to me with Cup this offseason, and I made a mistake. I moved him down my draft board too far, and now Cup looks fine. So I just think it just depends. But there's a lot of examples the other way where just they re-injure, they re-aggravate. It's tough to deal with. So I don't know.

Next question. Next, we ready? All right, NickyFlash77. Start one. Garrett Wilson, Jordan Addison, Deontay Johnson, Daryl Henderson. Addison. Addison. From UVA1L, Team A gets Christian Kirk. Team B gets Debo Samuel and DK Metcalf.

Metcalf and Samuel. I'll take Team B, yeah. Yeah, that's an easy one. From Dave from New Jersey. Dear Jermaine, Sharif, and Royce. Ooh.

These are apparently O'Neal's. Oh. Yeah. Royce and O'Neal, yep. I don't know who Sharif O'Neal is. Shaq's son. Oh, who's Shaq? Okay. Anyway, the question is, where the hell is the question? You stumped me. I was all over Google.

I was able to grab Kincaid off waivers, so I traded Schultz for Daryl Henderson and Cortland Sutton. I love the show, and I'd love to whoop Dan in some golf in southern Florida sometime. P.S. Schaefer sounds just like me on the golf course. Yeah, so trading Schultz for Henderson and Sutton. Good?

Yes. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. You have Kincaid. You might as well get what you can from Schultz. Who's going for like schultz right it's pretty good value from henderson look he could play for a while that he picks up pass production well so that's a reason to stay on the field from young and is slicker uh there's no way i said that right pick two brian robinson damian pier, Jalen Warren. PPR. I'll go Pearson Robinson.

I will go Pearson Warren. I'm so curious what the Steelers do without Deontay Johnson. Now, remember, that was when Jalen Warren's past game involvement was huge. Last week, we saw it somewhat crater a little bit. And the Jaguars, most of it is based on Alvin Kamara last week. But they have allowed the most receptions to running backs this season. From Super Lame Sauce, I have Evan Ingram and Sam Laporta. I'm looking to trade one of them away before the trade deadline and their upcoming buy next week.

Who would you trade away and who should I target between Ingram and Laporta? What do you guys think? I would trade away Ingram. I think Laporta is a little bit more of a role that I can get behind rest of season. As far as who to target for a player like Ingram, I don't think you're going to get much. I think you might want to target a player like a struggling receiver who could have some upside later, like a Jerry Judy who we mentioned earlier, maybe somebody like him. Ridley.

Ridley, but I don't think you're getting Ridley for Evan Ingram. Well, I mean, clearly if someone's looking to acquire one of these tight ends, they're looking for an upgrade on that position too. So they may have some depth at running back receiver. What I like to do in situations like this, where I'm not sold on who do I want to keep or who do I want to trade away? Let the other manager value that for you. So go to the team that has a tight end hole that has some players that you like and say, here's these two tight ends. Make me an offer for one,

and let's start a trade conversation. So they may say they like Laporta better, and you might be getting some huge value in return for Laporta. They might say, I don't love Laporta, but I want Ingram. Here's something for Ingram, and then you decide.

You can always counter. I like that. So Andrew is saying in our chat that Deontay said he's playing and that yesterday he was just being cautious. I did not see that. I may have just come. Hopefully that's the case.

Yeah, I think he was just talking to the media, but I didn't see that update. Andrew, I mean, we've been doing this for years, Andrew. You don't know how to spell Jamie's name. Yeah, come on, man. Come on, Andrew. Come on, Andrew. J-A-M-E-Y.

Dan's going to rap about that. I spell Andrew A-N-D-R-U The A, the M, the E, the Y The J, the A, the M It's Jamie It's Jamie I've never been more creeped out in my life This one is from R.J. Gilbert Absolutely incredible

Fantasy advice from Dave, Jamie, and Heath And sometimes Adam Grade the trade Dear Otto, Nelson, Jamie, and Heath, and sometimes Adam. Grade the trade. Dear Otto, Nelson, Carl, and Lenny. Otto. And then Nelson is, ha ha.

And then Carl is kind of like this. And then Lenny. Isn't that bad? That's actually the best thing you've ever done, I think, from an impression standpoint potentially in your life. Which one? Carl? The Carl was your best.

That was elite level Carl. That was. It's hard to do the voice you just did. I guess that's easy, but it was still good. Thank you. I've seen enough Simpsons. Superflex Dynasty League trade. AJ Brown and a 2024 and 2025 second round picks for Justin Jefferson.

No. Yeah. Way too much. I'm doing it. Dynasty. You are? For Dynasty. I'm doing it.

I'm not even considering. I'm not even like looking back. Justin Jefferson is a much better asset than A.J. Brown and Dynasty. He's the best asset. We don't know who his quarterback is going to be. Like, what if it's terrible? the best asset we don't know who his quarterback's gonna be like what if it's terrible true but he we don't know also like i guess you're assuming he's definitely gonna sign there that we don't we really there's a lot of they're not letting him go are you probably not you're right you either tag him and you're right they can't let him go and they won't let him go that's a good point with the quarterback

but i've learned in dynasty through the years jamie i when i first started doing dynasty redrafts i used to always try to pair those players together like i paired oh i want tyree kill because he's got years of pat mahomes then he gets traded like there's just a lot of fluidity in play and player movement both the quarterback and wide receiver position i don't really like to base it on that now i just base it on the talent and the age more so and to me justin jefferson is a much better difference on these two guys it can't be more than a year let's take a look a look. But also remember, A.J. Brown has an injury history that

Justin Jefferson has. I'm sorry, Jefferson doesn't have a what? What is he dealing with right now? His first injury. His first injury. A.J. Brown has had all season. How valuable are two second round picks, I think is kind of the question. Not that valuable. It depends. Right. How good is...

Right. I mean, how good is your team going to be if you're giving up the two second round picks? If you think you're going to be a contender and they're too late round picks, at least you really can only predict one year, I guess. But, uh,

I think, I think I do it, but I'm on the fence. I mean, is this person in contention now? Probably. Probably not. Well, he has AJ Brown. So that's what I'm saying the fence. Also, I mean, is this person in contention now? Probably. Probably not. Well, he has A.J. Brown, so.

That's what I'm saying. Well, why would you give up A.J. Brown? Like, I'm not moving on. It is weird to be making a trade for your future when you're giving up two picks. That is just a weird thing to be doing because it's obviously a trade for the future, as Jamie just said.

But I just think it's worth it for Justin Jefferson. You know what? I'm going to say no. What's the age difference? I'm with jamie it's only 24 to 26 but i do think there's something to be said about the off-season knee injury surgeries that aj brown has had i know just jefferson's hurt right now but it's a hamstring injury he's not gonna need surgery for please more impressions from adam his dan and heath heath ones have hit so hard all right what's the danger one dan was of course you gotta leave got to leave the stick in the burger.

It's going to fall apart. You got the tomato. You got the lettuce. What are you going to do? That's got to do that. That's pretty good. That's actually pretty damn good. It was better this morning.

This is from Beard. Please pick one. Deontay Johnson, Jerry Judy, Jeff Wilson, or T. Higgins. I have Jamar Chase. Oh, Higgins. Yeah, I guess Higgins? I have Jamar Chase. Oh, Higgins. Yeah, I guess Higgins. Off the buy. From Fantasyland.

Grade the trade. I gave up Laporta, Damian Pierce, Jamison Williams, and Jerry Judy. Okay, Laporta, Pierce, Williams, Judy. For Pitts, Nico Collins, Hollywood Brown, and Najee Harris. B plus. I like it.

I like it too. I like B plus. It's a good one. Good grade. Uncle Stink Stonk again says, Dear Mr. Furious, The Blue Raja, Spleen,

Shoveler, Casanova Frankenstein, and Captain Amazing. And he says, These are characters from one of the funniest movies ever made, Mystery Men.

Which I did see once upon a time. I never saw that. Remember when people used to go to the movies, Jamie? Yeah. Mystery Men was a big deal. I think Ben Stiller was in it, right? And did they write the song All Star for that movie? Smash Mouth?

I'm going to look that up. Okay, anyway. Wow, Jerome that up. Okay, anyway. Wow, Jerome Ford at practice. Oh, interesting. According to Schefter, Ford surprised the organization with how he ran Thursday despite his sprained ankle. After testing Ford

during today's practice, the Browns list team was questionable. Damn. Okay, talk about that, by the way. It looks like Smash Mouth All-Star was written

for the movie Rat Race. But yeah, so so okay what do you do with that information what if jerome ford plays if jerome ford plays i think you got to treat him as a flex not a must-start guy just because of the potential re-aggravation of the ankle injury but they did say it was a low ankle sprain so you know clearly he's feeling better feeling better. And it's a huge downgrade for Kareem Hunt if anybody's relying on him. So I think he just approached it like Ford's still

the better of the two. Hunt still has a chance to be contributor, but not as predominant. It's a really good defense that they're facing also with a bad quarterback too. Okay.

All-Star was in Mystery Men. So just look it up. I don't know how you remember him. What's Luke musgrave status this is for adam this morning he was so like thrown off by his his order of his games yeah must have said luke musgrave's not gonna play or what do we think about oh wait musgrave's out or something about musgrave like 75 times i think it was three times, and then Jamie kept making me say it. From Doc Payne,

I'm trading away Brian Robinson in half PPR league for Drake London and Amari Cooper. Grade the trade. Who are you giving up? Brian Robinson for London and Cooper. A plus. Yeah. Great trade.

D-Tay, I need two running backs and a flex. Bijan, Mostert, Taylor, Waddle, Olave. Yikes, those are great options. Bijan, Mostert, Taylor, Waddle, Olave. I might just go all three of the running backs there. How many do you need? Two running backs there. How many? Two running backs and a flex. Uh,

Bijon, Mostert, and who was the third running back? Taylor, Bijon, Mostert, Taylor, Waddle,

Olave. I'm going to sit Taylor for Olave. I can, I can get on board with that, but I think I'd play Taylor. Wow. Okay. I was thinking of sitting Bijon for Waddle. I'm not sitting B Taylor. Wow. Okay. I was thinking of sitting Bijan for Waddle. I'm not sitting Bijan, though.

Okay. Not with Tyreek back. Crapping on Bijan? No, I was not crapping on Bijan. Don't try to pull this apart. I just said the trade was an A-minus, and that was considered crapping on someone. I didn't give it the A-plus.

You were crapping on Arthur Smith. I was crapping on Arthur Smith. And you're always crapping on the podcast, but in a different way. Thank you. I have that sound effect. So this is from Eagles011. Sit two in PPR.

The first two are cup and puka, so no. So sit two of these guys. Olave, Addison, Flowers, Hollywood. okay the first two are cup and puka so no so sit two of these guys olave addison flowers hollywood hollywood and flowers are the sets for me yep yeah and he also goes on to say adam is 100 the funniest on the show makes me laugh all the time can't argue with that can't argue with that believe me you know what you want me to I will read I will read the Dan is the funniest ones right now okay let's

move on to Gunner's comment from Dan is so much funnier than you it's not even close oh you don't believe that listen how many stories have we told about you recently I mean that's your again you're laughing at him, not with him. That's different.

Oh, there's nothing wrong with that, Adam. I'm a character. He's the one that has the stick in the burger. Okay. Would you consider Zach Galifianakis funny? Yes, I would. You're laughing at him a lot of the time. I used to watch him when he was doing standup way before Hangover.

Did you? Did you watch his standup back in the day? I like standup, but I haven't seen his. Oh my gosh. He did the funniest thing where he would just be really quiet on the stage and then he would scream at someone in the front row. Just berate them out of nowhere.

It was amazing. Anyway. That explains a lot about you. Yeah, it was so funny. You want to hear a good stand-up? Did I tell you this story? I think I've told this story like five times about when I went to a stand-up comedian. I didn't hear it.

It was probably like 12 years ago, whenever I lived in New York. It was before that. Oh, did you get heckled? So my friend says to me, he says, my friend is doing stand-up tonight, and he needs people to sit in the audience. Will you come with me? I'm like, yeah, sure. Whatever. So it's like a very small room. I remember where it was. It wasn't at like a comedy club. I don't even remember. And I go and I'm sitting there and, uh, the guy's he's doing his material. He's like, yeah, I went to a movie by myself the other day. Anybody go to a movie by themselves? And I'm like trying

to be nice to the guy. I'm like, yeah, yeah. I raise my hand. He goes, I'm just kidding, you freaking loser. Who goes to the movies by himself? It's like, dude, I came to your show for you, and you heckled me. And I used to love going to the movies by myself. Great, great time. Freeing experience.

Last one from Apple Podcast. Grade the Trade. Team A gets Devante Smith and David Montgomery. Team B gets Daryl Henderson, Deontay Foreman, and Calvin Ridley. Oh, God. Team A with the W here. Crushes this one.

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Looks like Ella is going to the movies by himself. Yeah, Ella might be going to the movies by himself next weekend. I'm doing something today that I've never done before. Or a hat and a hoodie. A hat and a hoodie. I'm not a hat guy, so that is new. So last week on Thursdayursday i was supposed to go to a concert of my favorite living band playing my favorite album by them front to back but i had

bought those tickets five months ago with my brother but i was in florida because for work can i make a can i make a dan on the can front to back joke or should we just let that go oh on the album go ahead go ahead but because i was in florida for work i didn't get to go and i missed the concert so this band is touring and they're leaving the area after tonight or after tomorrow but i've planned on saturday so they're playing a show tonight in philadelphia i asked a friends. Obviously, people don't want to drive down to Philadelphia. It's a ridiculous thing to ask. I don't have anyone I know who lives there that wants to go to this type of concert. So I'm going to this concert.

I'm driving down after this podcast. First, I'm going to play some poker at parks, and then I'm going to go to this concert alone. I've never been to a concert before in my life. I bought a GA, so I feel like that's a good ticket to get because you're standing. Has anyone ever, have you guys ever gone to a concert by yourself or considered this?

Is it weird? I've done it. No, it's not weird at all. I went to a- I'll still have a great time, right? I went to Oasis at Madison Square Garden by myself. Okay. And what's the band by the way?

And by the way, you said you're going to play poker, but you're going to change before you go, right? Obviously. Okay. What band? What band, man? I'm not going to play poker. It're going to change before you go, right? Obviously. Okay. What band? What band, man? It's fine poker attire.

It's just not great concert attire. It's fine poker. I'll be one of the best-dressed people in a poker room. But the band, Andrew, is My Morning Jacket. Oh, okay. Chris won't go with you? I told Chris about it, but he's not going to drive to Philadelphia. Philadelphia's a crazy idea.

You've got to drive all the way down there. I drove to Philadelphia three weeks ago by myself in the horrible rain because we were getting hit by a hurricane or a tropical storm or whatever went to a football game came back later that night wasn't that bad it was two hours for me how long is it for you to drive back yeah it's it's only a couple hours so can you take a train could take a train i could take a train but i want my car with me i'm gonna play poker first. All right. I love it, Dan.

Good for you, man. All right, let's hear the... Here are some of the questions. I'm in a loneliness competition and my opponent is Dan. Not weird at all. Good way to make friends, to be honest. Yeah, people are... There's no chance Dan's making friends.

No, I doubt that. Dan, I've been to dozens of concerts by myself. Bring something to entertain you between sets. Not a bad idea. Okay. Would you drop Christian Watson for Tajay Spears? If that's the worst player on your team in a 10-team league, again,

the fact that Tajay Spears is available, there's going to be a lot of talent on the waiver wire. So 10-team leagues, you've got to make some tough choices. Somebody in my league, because of bye weeks, they dropped T. Higgins, and I just dropped Tyler Lockett to pick up T. Higgins. So you're going to get situations like that. What do you think of trading Gabe Davis and Isaiah Pacheco

for Brees Hall in my Dynasty League? God, I love that. I love it. Just do it fast before this offers off the table. We're talking dynasty. Traveling across the country by yourself is insanely cleansing, by the way. I don't think so.

I don't think I could do that. I agree with Jersey on that. I think that would be a cool thing to do. I've always wondered if I could do that, like a road trip and then relocate. But anyway. Henderson or Madison? Madison still.

Henderson for me. I'm worried that we see more K-makers. Jersey, I really hope you started Kincaid over Ferguson. Zach Moss or Jerome Ford at Flex? I'll take Ford if he plays. Yeah, can't not.

Ford for me too. Alright, let's sit one. Puka, Olave, Kirk, Collins. I's sit one. Puka, Olave, Kirk, Collins. I'll sit Nico. I'm sitting Kirk. I have Christian McCaffrey, and I lost Chubb and Kyron Williams. So pick two from this group.

Deontay Johnson, DK Metcalf, Zach Moss, Kareem Hunt. I'll take DK and Hunt still. DK for sure. And Deontay if he plays in full PPR. Oh, this is funny. Why did the fantasy analyst start a bakery? So he could get points for turnovers. That's good, Cody.

I like that. Grade the trade. Give up Eckler and Ridley for Taylor and Garrett Wilson. Ugh. D. A. A? You'd rather have Taylor and Garrett Wilson than Eckler and Ridley?

I think Taylor, if he looks like he did last week, and the way Eckler is struggling right now with his injuries, if Taylor was 100%, he would have been ranked right up there with Eckler coming into the season. Not by me. And right now, he's looking like the better player. But he does. Part of the reason I didn't rank him so high was because I thought Richardson would steal

some of the red zone touches, which is no longer a worry, so I give you that. I just, I don't know what this Garrett Wilson thing, like he's getting targets, but they're terrible targets, and he's not really producing at the level we want. Like what's going to change there to make us feel comfortable? And Ridley is? No, Ridley's not.

I know, I know. Yeah, that's the thing. I would rather have Wilson than Ridley. They should really consider changing up Ridley's role occasionally. Like, I love Doug Peterson. I have a ton of respect. I think he's one of the best offensive designers in the NFL. But just leaving him on the boundary every single snap,

like this is the type of dude who can do damage for you in the slot at times. The Falcons did it, used him there, and they're just not using him in that role. All right, let's go rapid fire. I want to get the chart right. From Underdog Fantasy? Maybe Jacob Gibbs had some stats on Garrett at least this week that I saw. From Underdog Fantasy, over the middle throws,

the three worst teams over the middle throws are the Bears, the Jaguars, and the Jets. Now two of those have quarterback concerns. Young quarterbacks, you think that's typically where they're afraid to throw. Trevor Lawrence is not throwing over the middle. Yeah. All right, downs or foreman this week? Half PPR.

Foreman. Foreman. Garrett Wilson or DK Metcalf? DK. Wilson. Downs or Tank Dell? Full PPR. Downs for full PPR.

Too much target volume. Zay, Higgins, Deontay, Rice. Pick two. Zay, Higgins, Deontay, Johnson, Rasheed, Rice. He wants floor over ceiling. Zay's the easy one, and then I would probably still go Higgins. I'll go Zay and Deontay for floor

as long as Deontay plays, and he's fine. Would you trade Bijan, T.ins and DJ Moore for Jamar chase, Derek Henry and Cortland Sutton? No, I don't think so. It's closer than I love. I'd love to get Jamar chase out of this, but I still don't think I can do it.

If you could take out the Henry and Sutton part and maybe take out one of the... If you could take out DJ Moore. So Bijan and Higgins for Chase? Yeah. If that can get done, I'd do it. Yeah, that's a good idea. You would give up Bijan and Higgins for Chase?

100%. But you wouldn't give up DJ Moore for Derrick Henry and Courtland Sutton? No. I think you might be underrating Derrick Henry a little bit. He hasn't... I don't know where Henry's playing. Yeah.

If he moves to the Ravens, though. Blockbuster trades at the trade deadline are still pretty rare, right? Any team that's going to be trading for him is going to want to use him and probably be an upgrade for him, I would think. He's not going to go to some

crappy last place team that stinks. He's going to go to a contender that's going to want to use him. But is he going to go to a contender that's going to want to use him. But is he going to go to a team where he's going to get the touches that we love to get from him? He's probably not going to get traded. I mean, I just think he's going to get traded. It might be worse.

It's worse if he doesn't get traded. Without Tannehill, it's so bad. It's going to be so bad without Tannehill. All right. Well, all right. He's not having that bad of a year. He's had two terrible games and four, certainly, games where you'd be starting him. What were his numbers?

I don't know if you have them in front of you, Adam, but his numbers with Malik Wills last year were just horrific, weren't they? No targets. Honestly, I don't know the rushing. I just remember that offense getting like six first downs a game. No targets. What if he goes to Dallas? Why would he go to Dallas? Why would he go to Dallas?

Why would they do that? Because Pollard hasn't been the guy that they hoped. But Henry hasn't either. He's not going to Dallas. Have you met Jerry Jones? I will. Oh, boy. I will lose some sort of bet with you if they go to Dallas.

I don't think it's happening either, but like Buffalo, Dallas, like these teams that aren't happy with the running back situation that are contenders are going to be in the mix. Yeah. The problem is all those teams. It's like also a situation where every one of those teams, Dallas and Buffalo did because they're contenders.

They did like manipulate their cap situation to where they don't have like any cap space at all to work with right now. Cause they've maxed their roster out depth. I don't worry about cap space. Cause they could cut players. It's more like, what are they giving up to get them? Let me read some more

here before we leave. I don't think they can take in the whole thing. All right. Start to Ridley, London, Higgins. Who are you starting? Higgins, Ridley,

for me. And Ridley. London, Ridley, Higgins, Ridley, okay. Bench two of these. Garrett Wilson, Aaron Jones, Pickens, Foreman, Gervonta. Bench two. Gervonta and Jones.

Half PPR. I'm going to give different advice. I'm going to go Jones and Garrett Wilson as my bench. Do you know what number one receivers have done against the Giants this year? Here's why you get Garrett Wilson. He's playing the Giants this week. No, I'm not. Giants are a terrible team.

I'm the first to admit that. I've just watched Zach Wilson too much. I don't, like, first of all, Giants are not the best matchup for this. What? I want to read questions before we leave because we're at an hour already. Okay, okay, okay.

Let it roll. Oh, man. I'm pretty much out of questions. All right, choose. Last one. He's just cutting off that rant. Just go ahead. Choose one. Am. Here, last one. Last one. I just got off that rant. Just to get into this. Go ahead.

Choose one. Amari Cooper, Josh Downs, or Ken Walker? Walker, if he plays, is easy. Yeah. Otherwise, I'll go Downs over Cooper. Downs over Cooper. All right. Thanks, Echo.

DJ Echo in the house. What am I supposed to say? If that's the answer, what am I supposed to say? What would you rather me have said there? Let me ask you a question. If I believe that Downs is a better start than Amari Cooper and Kenneth Walker is obviously a play if he's healthy, what would you like me to say? I'm just curious.

I would just... Because you said the same exact thing that JB said. JB said Downs over Cooper. What's a bet? You just have to phrase it differently? There's no added value. Actually, Jamie said Downs over Cooper. What's up? You just have to phrase it differently. There's no added value. Just say, correct. Actually, yeah, I'd play Cooper. Like, I could tell you why,

because Downs has a good rapport with Gardner Minshew, and I don't like, and even though Amari Cooper did okay last week with PJ Walker, or he's had okay moments with him, I don't like PJ Walker. Like, there's obviously

some rationale to it, but we're trying to do rapid fire here, Adam. All right, you know what? I'm not going to take any criticism from a guy who on Friday night can't find a single person to hang out with and is driving two hours just to be with other people.

Wow. Was that rude? That hurt, Ab. No, I'm kidding. Wow. For a second, you thought I almost got you there for a second. Like, did you actually hurt me? I thought I crossed the line. Have a great weekend, everybody. We'll talk to you on Sunday morning. See you.