Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag! Plus Fantasy Cops! (12/07 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 7, 2024

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with iGaming Ontario. This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath. It's Bailbag time. What's up everybody? Welcome to Fantasy Football Today presented by Bet MGM, the sportsbook born in Vegas. It's Thursday night, 1141 PM Eastern. And because this episode is airing on Saturday on the audio version, we're going to not talk about Thursday Night Football because we're going to do that Friday morning on the audio version. We're gonna not talk about Thursday Night Football because we're gonna do that Friday morning

on the Starter Sid episode. So that's tough, tough to do. So I'll just ask this to Jamie. Jamie, what'd you do tonight? I watched a great football game. I don't wanna hear about it. I don't wanna hear about it, yeah. No, it was pretty great.

And we'll talk about it all on Friday morning. Mostly what you could have hoped for except except, you know, obviously a couple of Let me, let me ask you a question. Did Dave watch it live? Was he going to watch it in the morning? No, he texted me at 1104. So he, he stays up now. He's, he's a, he's a late guy now.

So he watched it live. Um, all right. So with that said, I do want to bring up something that, that Jamie and I were just talking about, we weren't exactly talking about it, but it reminded me you should institute this rule if you're a commissioner. Okay. The leagues and I'm not a great commissioner. Here we go.

I'm a terrible commissioner, but I have a rule. If you score the most points in the league, you are guaranteed a playoff spot. So if it's a 12 team league and six teams make it and you don't have a top six record, but you have the most points you get the sixth seed sorry to the team that you know by record got the sixth seed that team is bounced most points guarantees you a playoff spot this comes into play you have to have the most points are the most points of the like more points than the final plus most points in the league most point most points in the league is in the playoffs that's how i do it this comes into play because

in one of our leagues i'm in six james in seventh he needs me to lose i have the most points in the league. Most points in the league is in the playoffs. That's how I do it. This comes into play because I'm one of our leagues. I'm in sixth, Jamie's in seventh. He needs me to lose. I have the most points in the league. Right now I have the playoff spot, but just that's something you don't, and apparently in one of the FFT Open leagues, so on the message board, it wasn't mine,

the points leader finished in last place in one of the leagues. It might've been mine, I'll check. All right, that's insane. So I just recommend that next year for all of you. Just make sure whoever scores the most points gets in the playoffs. News and notes, we're not doing it

because we'll just talk about the news and notes on Friday show and if you're hearing this on Saturday, I don't have the most current news and notes, but it's kind of an interesting week right now. I have something in my eye, I'm sorry. It's kind of an interesting week right now because we could have some some big-time names Well, they missed practice on Thursday. So well, whatever it's mine. That's that's wild

I just I just beat him. He wasn't he didn't have a shot at the playoffs, but I just I did that was the game I needed to clinch the one seed and Yeah, his team's really good. Oh, man Four and 10. I'm guessing most points again. I'm sorry, four and nine. Yeah, most points. So he scored, or they scored, 1506.

I'm in first place with 1333. You gotta love fantasy football. All right. Right now they're, well, they finished for nine. Read some emails here. Start with Jared from Atlanta. Pick two in non PPR. Brian Thomas, Breeze Hall, Joanne Jennings and Debo Samuel.

Brian Thomas, Breeze Hall, Joanne Jennings, Debo Samuel. I mean, Breeze Hall, if he plays as we're recording this, he has missed two practices and Brian Thomas. That's non P this, he has missed two practices. And Brian Thomas. That's non PPR, just so you know. If Hall is out, I'd go still Jennings over Deebo. This is from Cody. Who to start for week 14 from this list, we need three, three wide receivers,

a tight end and a flex. Mike Evans, Tyreek Kill, Lad McConkey, Khalil Shakir. Shakir is the odd man out. This is half PPR. John Oosmith or David Njoku? I would go with John Oosmith. David Njoku or Khalil Shakir at flex? Njoku. All right, from Lance in Phoenix,

Quentin Johnston or Xavier worthy Xavier worthy that's what I said unless McConkey doesn't play I'm sure you would say Yeah, I guess okay. Oh, okay Robert says pick four and half PPR CD lamb Cooper Cup T Higgins, Marvin Harrison Jr. This is tough. Jerry Judy, Isaac Arendo, Jalen Warren, and Rashad White.

All right, so let's eliminate Jalen Warren. And Rashad White. Eliminate Rashad White unless Bucky Irving doesn't play, then we're not eliminating him, right? Yeah, sure Alright, so so let's say Irving plays we need four out of this group lamb cup Higgins Harrison, Judy Garando Lamb cup Higgins and

Wait, I said Evans in there? No, that was the previous one. It's gotta be Garendo, right? Over Harrison and Judy, half PPR? No, doesn't have to be him? Well, I'm trying to think like, all right, so Garendo? Yes. Oh, you weren't answering, you were just saying the names.

No, I'm thinking it through now. Like half PPR, Garendo probably is the best bet here. The easiest ones for me are Garendo, Cup and Higgins. Yeah, I would agree. And then I'd probably go with Judy over Lam at this point. And Marvin Harrison Jr.? Yeah. Okay.

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and sign up using the bonus code fantasy. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game and you'll receive up to $1,500 in bonus bets if your bet loses and just make sure you use the bonus code fantasy when you sign up. All right back to the emails this is from Will Q. I have a conflict I need to drop someone to pick up a defense. I have the Broncos and I can't see myself benching them for a one week replacement. I'd rather drop a position player. I'm running back wealthy.

On the bench I have Pacheco, Swift and Garendo. I'm starting Kyron and Pollard. I also have Andrews and Sutton on a buy. It is a 10 team league and I've played the waiver wire pretty well. I'm a win and get in game this week. So what should he drop the Broncos or should he drop Pacheco, Swift, Guarendo, Andrews or Sutton? I guess the first question is and I don't know if you know the answer. Is it fab or is it waivers? I think I think it's waivers. the answer is it fab or is it waivers? I think I think it's waivers. So there's one of two things if you want to stick to the route you're gonna go it's probably Swift

is the one you're drafting dropping. And if you're doing this I'd still would do it Saturday. But if you're gonna do that I probably just dropped the Broncos and hope you get them back. The thing the thing you gotta keep an eye on with the rest of your league is like, what does everybody else need? You know, look at the playoff teams and what they need. Like if, if there's a, there's a team that doesn't need much and they may go get the Broncos, like what other DSTs are available? Like I'm in a few, you know, 10 team leagues where I picked up the Eagles this weekend. Like I don't know. I'm, to me, I'm in a few, you know, 10 team leagues where I picked up the Eagles this weekend. Right. This week, like, I don't know, I'm to me, I'm dropping the defense.

Yeah, especially if the Ravens are available, because they get the Giants next week, they're on a buy this week. So take a look, see if they're available, and then just pivot to them for next week. But you drop swift before you drop Pacheco. I would, you know, I mean mean if they both start to play at their best You know, you know what Pacheco is capable of. Yeah All right. This one is from this Remember Swift's last two games have been miserable and he gets the same matchups coming up again against Detroit, Minnesota

That's great point. Okay. This is a funny email from That's a great point. Okay, this is a funny email from Elon or Elan says, Dear Jim, Mike, Al and Joe. Play by play, guys. Yeah. Fascinating take from a therapist and speech expert on when Jamie was host versus Adam as host. As many of you know, people listen to the podcast on 1.5 speed since as wonderful podcasters you speak in patterns that everyone can understand, but some of us take the world at an increased

speed. All of you have different speech patterns ranging from fast to slow and I assume you are aware of them. For example, Jamie and Dan are fast talkers and Adam and Dave are slower and Heath is glacier slow When Adam hosts the show there is a pace that everyone follows in their speech But when Jamie hosts it that pace speeds up since he speaks faster It even forces Heath and Dave to speak faster all that is funny because while the words move faster when Jamie hosts the podcasts Are longer who would have thought?

faster when Jamie hosts the podcast or longer? Who would have thought? Oh, wait, I cut off his question. Let me let me go back and find his question. But I did think that was pretty interesting from an expert Jamie, you speed everyone up. How about that? I mean, I know that I speak fast. And unfortunately, sometimes I tend to mumble. I apologize for that. I do think yes, that Heath and Dave probably were trying to keep up with with me and knowing that I speak fast I thought I could squeeze in a few more topics. So all right now the question was I know we look at the amount of plays a team calls but have there ever been an important fantasy take on, for a speech therapist, you got a lot of typos here, man.

That's why he's a speech therapist, not a writer. Exactly. Has there ever been an important fantasy take on the pace of plays in terms of teams who snap faster leading to higher fantasy points? Wondering if that has ever been looked at. I mean, yeah, you do a good job of pointing this out from time to time when you notice it. You know, I'm trying to think of the team that you,

Tennessee maybe was one, right? I know, okay, here's, I can tell you right now. Average play clock. Oh, Seattle, I'm sorry, Seattle was one that you talked about quite a bit this off season, that how slow they were. So the Jets, this is an Aaron Rodgers trademark, right? Yes.

The Jets are by far the slowest team. I have it right now on true media. Teams who have the most time left on the play clock to the least when they snap the ball. He is notorious for letting the clock run out. Yep. So he's the lowest. San Francisco and Philadelphia are second and third least

amount of time left on the play clock. They're the slowest teams in between snaps. I mean, it's interesting because the 49ers, the Eagles and the Bills are all bottom five. The Packers are bottom seven. The Bengals are 24th, the Dolphins are 23rd, the Ravens are 22nd, the Vikings are 21st. In other words, it's not such a bad thing. You see a lot of great offenses here that are taking a

lot of time off the play clock. The fastest teams in between snaps are the Cowboys, Falcons, commanders, chiefs, and Seahawks. So I think that's probably why it doesn't get talked about that much because Aaron Rodgers has had the best offenses in football or you know, he's been up there for so long. But I guess I'm just learning. I'm really just doing this now. I'm not trying to act like an expert, but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of correlation between fantasy production and this particular stats.

Great question though. Next email is from Dan, the FFT fan. By the way, what do you think Dan was doing tonight that he couldn't come on the show? Oh, wow. He was karaoke. He was playing poker. Oh.

But I'd love to know, I'm gonna text him and find out what his karaoke song would be. Okay, I need two from this group. I'm rocking in Memphis. Why? Just... I don't know. I don't think he knows that song.

Oh, that's true. JSN, Jacoby Myers, Joanne Jennings, and Khalil Shakir. Pick two. JSN, Jacoby Myers, Joanne Jennings, Khalil Shakir. It's easy for me, Myers and JSN, but Myers popped up on the injury report on Thursdays. Just keep an eye on that. And Aaron Jones or Chuba Hubbard at flex. Aaron Jones or Chuba Hubbard. I'm not a Chuba Hubbard fan for week 14. So Aaron Jones.

Yeah, Aaron Jones. I mean, I would start Jones too, but he has one carry in his last six games longer than 13 or 14 yards and was against the Bears. Let's see what you got. start Jones too but he has one carry in his last six games longer than 13 or 14 yards and was against the Bears. Let's see we got Paul McComber I need a quarterback this week I can get Russell Wilson, Gino Smith, Aaron Rogers wait hold on wait wait wait wait wait Aaron, wait, wait, Aaron Rodgers. I have a sound effect I wanna play. Forget it.

Okay, Geno Smith, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Jamis Winston, Derek Carr, Kirk Cousins, Will Levis. Who would you go with? I would go with Jamis if you're just looking for this week. If you're looking for the next two weeks, I would go with Will Levesse because he gets Jacksonville and Cincinnati and back to back games.

Yeah, so he said, I know you all seem to agree that it was Winston, but I'm really nervous about the Steelers D now that Highsmith is gonna play and his habit of throwing to the other team. So you wanna talk a little bit more about your feelings on Jamis Winston against a team that did so well against the Mar Jackson and they're tough matchup.

They're very tough matchup. And look, it's a it's an angry Steelers defense after they lost to Jamis, you know, and they're in their building. But I think the weather is going to be much better comparatively. That's not saying very much because the weather was so horrible last time. You're hoping for volume, you know, and typically when James has volume, he's pretty good. So I still think he's got the most upside. But if you want to take a safer route, then you know, you're one will have this or Russell Wilson would be the two fallback options.

All right. We have our Sunday morning content as usual. You can join us on youtube.com slash fantasy football today at 1130 a.m. Eastern for our live Q and A. Youtube.com slash fantasy football today. We answer a bunch of your questions and your lineups. You get your lineups set. Jamie is on CBS Sports HQ. Not the entire three hours, but from 10 to one. Intermittently, they talk about fantasy.

They talk about football just in general. It's a great show on CBS Sports HQ, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern. All right, we're going to take a break and we got more of your questions and we got the fantasy cops when we come back on Fantasy Football Today. Hey everybody, it's Dave and my family just got a great gift, an Aura digital picture frame and now I have a slideshow in my kitchen. High resolution photos from the days my kids were born, pictures from my wedding, all kinds of incredible memories from family get togethers, trips to amusement parks, sporting events, meeting famous people. They're all there thanks to Aura. Aura memorializes as many photos as you can upload. There's no limit. And you can share them directly from your phone to the frame set up was so easy.

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Well, come back. Okay. This is a week 16. Is it week 16? Yeah, week 16 question. Okay, so from Michael, he's got the number one seed. So week 14 doesn't matter. Week 15 doesn't matter. Here are his quarterbacks in this 12 team league in week 16. Jaden Daniels who has the Eagles, Jared Goff who has the Bears on the road, and Brock Purdy who's at Miami.

For what it's worth, the Bears are second best against quarterbacks, the Dolphins are third best, the Eagles are like seventh best, but I personally think they're the toughest matchup. He also could play Cooper Rush who has Tampa Bay and Aiden O'Connell who has Jacksonville. Would you play them, he didn't say it's a Superflex league but I'm thinking it must be.

Would you play Cooper Rush against Tampa Bay or Aiden O'Connell against Jacksonville over any of those three? Jaden Daniels against the Eagles, Jared Goff at Chicago, Brock Purdy at Miami. Probably not, but let's see what happens over the next two games because Cooper Rush has a great schedule.

He gets Cincinnati this week and then Carolina next week. So if he has two strong games, you might consider it. O'Connell's got a great matchup this week against Tampa Bay. So let's see what he does. If he comes out of this game with a strong performance also It's not awful. You know both guys have shown some flashes I mean look what O'Connell just did going into Arrowhead and what he did against the Chiefs and Cooper Rush has been 18 plus points in two of his last three so You know wackier things have happened right that you've used some crazy quarterbacks to help you win some fantasy leagues.

This is from Brett, non PPR league. Brett says, dear Mark, Joe, Abdul and Marty. Mark, Joe, Abdul and Marty. Anytime I hear Marty, I always think back to the future. It's not that. I'll tell you their defensive lineman from a different era. Mark Joe Abdul and the Jets. Yeah, yes.

The sack exchange, New York sack exchange playing for division title this weekend, neighbors or Garrett Wilson and non PPR. Neighbors or Garrett Wilson. I'd go neighbors. No, you know what? They both are like allergic to the end zone at this point. Yeah. I think it's not PPR. I'd probably go.

Hmm. I go Wilson. I mean, Wilson's got the tougher matchup. They both have crappy quarterbacks. Yeah. Oh man, that's a tough one. But you know what? Maybe we can start one at flex because he's got Hubbard, ETN, Keenan Allen, or the other

guy at flex because he's got Hubbard Etn Kenan Allen or the other guy at flex. I Mean look Kenan Allen's got three touchdowns in his last two games. I Probably Still got neighbors in Wilson. All right from Paul to or my homes four point per passing touchdown. Oh, Tua. From King Noel in Boca Raton. I picked up Jameis Winston. Should I start him over Kyler Murray? Yes. And going forward in the playoffs? I maybe let's let's take I'm gonna go back to Kyler if he's semi

competent this week, which look, I think a lot of a similar game to what he had last week, you know, 17, 18 points, gets New England at home. Should be a great matchup for him. Is this even a thing? Ben Gucci says, Adam is the type of guy that every time he goes home, he turns on his GPS because he likes hearing, welcome home home as he pulls into the driveway. Yeah. Being news to me.

Yeah, I don't know. Like, I don't know which GPS does that. And from Alex, would you start Tyrone Tracy over Garrett Wilson, Jacoby Myers, or AJ Brown? Maybe Garrett Wilson, but no chance the other two. Okay, yeah, that's exactly what I said. We're going to talk about it on tomorrow's show, but we're going to talk about it on Friday's show, which is tomorrow for us, but yesterday for many of you listening.

What did you make of the Giants running back usage last week with them basically getting the same amount of carries but Tracy getting about 75% of the snaps. He's their guy. You know, I understand the punishment to start the game, you know, after the back to back fumbles back to back weeks of fumbles, you know, so okay, single Terry started the game. You see what Tracy does. You know, he got the goal and opportunity when drew lock was, you know, take the touchdown

was taken away from him on the first run. I just think Tracy's number two running back the rest of the way. Yeah. Ryan says Adam is it's Adam is the type of guy to buy orange tic tacs and eat them all in a few minutes like candy. Yeah. Do they have any breath benefits? I really think they're just candy. The colored ones? Yeah, the orange ones. Yeah.

No, those are candy. Right. Yeah. Like you're not going to freshen your breath with orange tic tacs. No, it's just the mint ones. They're delicious. Well, with that said, let's get to the fantasy cops. We got some good ones today.

First one's from our buddy, Andrew. He says, Isaac Garendo went for $85 this week to the last place team. This team hasn't spent $1 all season of his fab. He's been checked out for weeks. The commish who's fighting for a playoff spot has $0 in fab left. He told the last place team to bid $85, which is one more than the next highest fab

available, convincing him he might be a good keeper and will help him in the consolation playoffs. The commissioner did this to prevent a playoff contending team from getting Garendo. What do the fantasy cops say about the commissioner funneling his waiver blocking strategy through the last place team? So this has been documented? What do you mean? Like there's proof of the commissioner saying this to the last place manager. I get the sense it'd be kind of weird to just make that up, right?

Yeah. So I mean, if you see this has happened, then this is collusion. This is the definition of collusion. Is it? Yes. You're telling someone to do something else to benefit you? So I know we get this question a lot, right? It's week 14 and this guy hasn't set his lineup and the commissioner told this manager or it doesn't even have to be the commissioner. This other guy told this manager to set his lineup because I'm facing him and he needs me to lose and this and that, you know what I mean?

This is kind of the same thing and And it's a bit of a gray area to me. I don't know that I consider this collusion. It's worse that it's the commissioner doing it, but if it hadn't been the commissioner, would you see that? Do you hear that? Are you Adam Gase? I have no idea what's going on. Oh my god, you turned to Adam Gase at the press conference. Alright, I gotta go. I gotta go. I'll be right back. Where are you? Do you have the notes? No, I sent them to you. There is a strange sound in my house. What the heck was that? Oh my God. I wish I could. Did you take a heesey guanos home with you?

I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta make sure everything's okay. You have the notes. I'll be back in like two minutes. All right. So anyway, I'll wait for Jamie to pull up the notes. Which fantasy cops were yet? The first one. All right. So this is the Garendo one. Alright, so what can we do to solve this problem here? Put your comments in the chat, I'll read them if you think that the commissioner here should be... Where did he go? Anyway, so Isaac Garendo went for $85 to the last place team.

I think that what should happen here is, I don't know if there's really anything that could happen here. Adam's right. This is one of those situations where you can point somebody in the right direction. You can't necessarily make the move for them. It's not like the commissioner made the transaction. The commissioner just said, you have your money left to spend on this player. And I'm sorry, I'm not going to pull a heath and say you have to go and

strip the commissioner of his duties. But you hate to see stuff like this happen because it's just somebody that's not paying attention and then the last place team makes a move. So I'm going to say nothing happens here, unfortunately So sorry Andrew, I guess you're just out of luck that that manager decided to Make that particular move. All right, I'm gonna say this one because it's a little long. We'll go to There's only three of them. So we'll read along. All right, so this from Joey Okay, fantasy cops. I have a fantastic one for you back in week four and one of my dynasty leagues I made the decision to tank.

I traded Jonathan Taylor and the understanding of the rules at the time was that I had to start active players. And as long as I did that, I wasn't breaking any rules. One of the league co-commissioners texted me saying that the league was pissed. I was benching all of my good players, but since I wasn't breaking any rules, there isn't anything he or the league could do. Fast forward a few weeks and the other co-commissioner started Richardson, one of the weeks he was benched. No one said anything even though this was a violation

of what was understood, of what we understood was the rule of the time. You want me to take over here? Yeah, go ahead. This is a crazy fantasy cops by the way. Yeah, so anyway. What was the name? Dude, I don't know. I, and I have to, as soon as I have to go back

and check something, cause I gotta make sure like everyone's safe, cause this is insane. Safe? Yeah, there's something like crazy going on upstairs. I, I, I don't know. I'm gonna, you know what? Anyway, um, okay. So, so this guy, he may, where were you in

this? The co commissioner with Richardson. Okay, so Richardson, the I noticed that the co commission had Richardson benched, that has Richardson had benched his entire lineup, it wasn't starting a single player, which is a clear violation. I see this and based off the precedent that was set by him and the other league members starting bi-week players,

I decided to bench my whole lineup too, and this is where things go off the rails. One of the league members dug up the original rules that somehow had been lost when the first commissioner dropped out of the league. The original rules stated that we had to start our most competitive lineups, thus making what I had been doing illegal. So the league decided that they were going to hold this rule now in week 12 and

go back and change everything going back to week four when I made the trade or when I started tanking. Um, they changed his lineup for every week from week four to week 12. Based on the projections, they gave him like his optimal lineup. They went back and so they eliminated his tanking by digging up the old rules

and basically changing his lineup for the previous eight weeks or nine weeks. Crazy. Terrible league. Yeah. Quit the league. Quit terrible league. Yeah. I'm sorry. That was so disjointed. All right. So let me read this one for you here.

I am the commissioner of a guillotine league. This is from Nicholas. There are four teams left and only one team has any fab left. All the other teams have $0. The team manager who had Fab, he texted me several hours before the waiver claim deadline, asking if he was entering his waiver bid correctly. He wanted to acquire five players. And since the rest of the league had no Fab left, he only needed to bid

$1 to win each player. He texted me a screenshot of his bid asking if he had entered it correctly. He said he had not needed to do multiple player bids in one week prior to this, so he wanted to make sure that he did this correctly. This is the first year any of us in this league have used this platform, so none of us are experts at it. I also use the mobile site on my blah blah blah. So anyway, I was busy with work and I responded to his text saying, yeah, I think that looks right. You should win the bids. Several hours later, waivers cleared and he only got one player he bid on

and two of the other players were claimed by other teams with $0 bids. It turned out that the bid he actually made was just a single player bid and the other four players were the backup contingency players. So when he won the bid on his first choice, all the contingency players were wiped out.

This team manager now wants me to give him the two players he did not get since he clearly stated his intentions prior to the waiver deadline, but just made an error in entering his claim. I'm torn on what to do because on one hand, he clearly told me he wanted to acquire these players and sent me a screenshot with $1 bids next to each player

and that I told him looks right, even though it wasn't. But on the other hand, it's week 14. I feel like you should know how to correctly make a waiver claim. It's such a tough one because clearly there's evidence of said manager trying to get this done right. And I think if there's other examples of people having issues with their waiver claims, then you allow it to happen. If this is the only time there's ever been an issue and granted sometimes we get in these situations, you know, so I'm going to guess based on how

you described it. So they tried to make the same ad drop or I guess not. It doesn't make sense. No, they're trying to keep going. They were doing, I'm pretty sure I'm aware of the site that they're on because it's a little wonky how you set the contingency drops as opposed to just they would have had to make multiple ad drops, you know, so if you're adding, you know, Devante Adams and then you want to add Garrett Wilson, then you want to add Cooper Cup and etc. You have to add those.

You can't just be contingency players for that. Where are you going now? In any event, I would say that if there's any other examples of something happening with ad drops, you allow the screenshot to hold. If this is the only time it's ever happened, then unfortunately it's your user error. You say don't give him the players? you allow the screenshot to hold. If this is the only time it's ever happened, then unfortunately it's your user error.

You say don't give him the players? If there's other situations that have happened throughout the season where, okay, people have had some issues making these airdrops, then, otherwise I think you just gotta go chalk it up to user. I don't think you're wrong. You think the commissioner should allow it? I don't think you're wrong.

I probably as commissioner would have given him the players because so obviously that's what he wanted to do. I would have shared the screenshots with everybody. It was his intention. He has the fab. He benefited from keeping his fab. Everybody else was out. This is not an easy one.

I don't disagree with you. But it's a tough call because I guess the reason you do allow that to happen is because if you are the commissioner, you should know how the process should work. And because the manager checked with you, they should be allowed to do it. Okay, I'm gonna take a break here and come back, read an Apple podcast question. By the way, thanks for the fantasy cops. We'll be right back with Apple podcasts and YouTube comments after this on fantasy football today. All right, welcome back everybody.

So let's get to Danny Mac 25 on Apple podcast. Does your wife know the sound that's happening? Yeah, yeah. Well, she said what was the sound? I don't really know. It sounded like something was on the roof, but I don't think. I'm making that face.

Oh. It sounded like something was on the roof, but I don't think the roof is above me. I think there's like a storage area above me, but that's kind of scary to me. Anywho, so Apple Podcasts. Oh yeah, Danny Mac says, dear Frank, Ricky, Ron and Brennan. Hockey? Frank Ricard, Ricky Bobby.

Oh yeah. Ron Burgundy and don't know Brennan's last name. Starred four in PPR. Tyreek Hill, Calvin Ridley, Deandre Hopkins, Aaron Jones, Deandre Swift, Jerry Judy, Adam Thelen. Judy, who were the first two again? Tyreek and Ridley. Yeah, those three and Aaron Jones. Okay, unfortunately that's all we have for Apple podcasts.

So you can always get your questions in there. It's a good way to get your question read on the show. I get a lot more emails than I do Apple podcasts. So the odds are better of you getting your question read on the air. If you just leave us a five-star review with a question, I would publish it on Tuesday at the latest because it takes a while to populate.

All right, YouTube, let's do it. What's it's Santa? Oh, the comments are hysterical. It's David, a Santa suit holding an iguana. Okay. Yeah, look, here's the thing. I would love to take a break and go check it, but I can't. I can't just leave Jamie.

He doesn't even have access to the chat, so he can't bring up questions. But I do need you guys to ask some questions here because I'm not really seeing any. Just comments about what the sound was. So yeah, anyway, let's get, here we go. Would you drop Kyler Murray for Will Levis? I have Jayden Daniels as a starter.

I mean, you need a starter for this week. I like Levis better. So you just unfortunately giving Kyler or somebody else most likely. So if you can maybe carry three quarterbacks, I would do that. But unfortunately, if you want to, you need to win and get in, then I would go with Levis. Dear Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike. I don't know, Harrison or Garendo this week? Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike. I would go with Garendo. This is Belle Biv Develle. Oh, now you know. I never would have gotten that.

Are we worried about Breece Hall and Mike Evans status? Well, it's not a great question for Saturday, but for Thursday night. Evans? No. Breece Hall a little bit. That's a mean guy. That is a great callback right there. Yeah, I can't say it out loud.

Lam or Judy? Judy. Neighbors or James Connor PPR? Neighbors. Would you drop Spears for Charbonne? Yes, especially with Thursday's practice situation with Kenneth Walker. Purdy or Jameis?

Jameis. Ken Walker or Brian Thomas Jr.? Purdy or Jamus? Jamus. Ken Walker or Brian Thomas Jr.? Assuming everybody's healthy, I would go with Walker. E.T. Rico Dowdell, Jennings, ETN or Khalil Shakir? So I said this on Thursday morning's show that we wanted to see what the Bangles practice report was going to be and they have since ruled out Logan Wilson for the rest of the season. So Rico Daddle to the moon. Okay. Okay. So Nick Westbrook-Akina or Devontae Smith

half PPR. Devontae Smith. He's got the setup that he needs. One guy is missing of the core three. Devante Smith, he's got the setup that he needs. One guy is missing of the core three. Lam, Aaron Jones, or Jacoby Myers? Jacoby, assuming he's healthy. And last one is Breeze or Najee Harris? PBR. Assuming Breeze is fine, it's Breeze. If not, Najee's not a bad pivot play.

Okay. I hope to talk to everybody on Friday. I will have a great night. I can't wait for tomorrow's show. Thanks. I can't wait for the screen grabs. The screen grabs of you when you were like... When I tell you, you look like Adam Gase.

You're like... Have a good night, everybody. Thanks, Jamie. Thanks to all of you for watching and visiting. We'll see ya.