Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag! Plus Fantasy Cops and Injury News (09/06 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

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to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races, and he stays on his feet. It's just going to go the distance. Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. It's mailback time. What's up, everyone? 12.10 p.m. on Friday afternoon. We're starting to get some practice reports of injury updates for you here.

Hopefully we hear something about Christian McCaffrey. I doubt that's going to happen, though. If this hour on the West Coast, Adam Azzer here, well, actually, I should have done it Jamie Eisenberg's here. Hello, Jamie. Hello, Adam and Dan. Dan Schneier's here. Hello, Dan.

Hello, Adam and Jamie. And I am a guy who, A, is very excited to get a haircut in two hours. I need one, too. Your hair looks good. Why would you get a cut? Oh, it's ridiculous. It's all over the place. You are going with that, what's that guy from the O.C?

You're going with that guy, look. You kind of look like, to some extent. The O.C. You know what I'm talking about. The guy is the guy. California here we come. that song that show that bag wear great song um who's the guy you know set is that his name i never saw the show i think okay adam brodie adam brodies that is that is no no adam brodie

you're not adam brodie the other guy no i i get adam levin a lot anyway that is horrible from who yeah from who was ever called adam levin nobody nobody i hope you get recognized at the barbershop again where we get into the serious thing can we can you guys can you guys guessing what's new in the weird world of dan Schneier and what what is he doing today in his coffee so i did something i this week i started something very weird that i like okay before i do that welcome to fantasy football today presented by bet mgm the sports book born in vegas uh i have a team name i'd like to throw at you guys i have some music that i'm going to play today we've got your emails fantasy football at cbsi

dot com and your apple podcast questions a lot of fantasy cops your youtube comments if you're new to the mailbag we get a little wacky on the mailbag it's kind of like our reward for a week of work. So we unwind a little bit on the mailbag. I hope you enjoy it. But we'll definitely answer your questions and help you with your starts and sits. What is weird in Dan's coffee cup?

So I'm not going to sit here today and say I invented an Americano, but every morning I do have a shot of espresso with some steamed water. And this, you know, I'll be honest. Cream, milk, they make the coffee taste good at them, but they don't sit all that well. Genetically speaking, we're not built for that.

And by we, I mean me, and maybe you. But I have found an alternative that does taste good. Okay. And it's really disgusting to most people. Carry gold Irish salted butter in my coffee. It's so good. I can't quit it. I've done it now for a full week.

It is so freaking good. It makes the coffee. People like, is it too rich? No, it's the right amount of rich. It's so good. It doesn't sound very healthy, Dan. I'm a little concerned that. Actually, it's something called Bulletproof Coffee.

I looked it up. And not, I didn't do this for the health reasons. But apparently it is decently good for you, according to some studies, if you are on some sort of a ketogenic diet. And I am an intermittent faster. So I'll eat 30 grams of protein in the morning. Go for a walk for 30 minutes. And then I won't eat again until six or seven.

So I'm just having the carry gold butter. So it's just fat that I'm going to just burn off. Okay. Well, for someone who, for someone who almost keeled over and died during the second set of a tennis match, I think maybe you should watch what you're putting in your coffee. But let's get it. I got a team name for you.

I want to see, Dave didn't get it. Dave hated the team name. I want to see how you guys feel about it. Ready? Hi. Jamie, you ready?

Yep. Jamie's doing something over there. All right. I'm looking up practice reports. Ibuka Joe. No. Zooka Joe. It's not terrible.

It's not bad, right? It's not terrible. It's not that bad. It's better than oil of lava. It always will be. Anything will be. Now, While I've got your attention, I got someone submitted a song, song of the day.

And I missed this or he would have been in the Leftovers League. But here we go. This was a mashup of some of the things said and sung on our show. I think that Eddie Vedder's voice is annoying, fake, and exaggerated. And I wonder, I really do. I think it's annoying, fake, and exaggerated. And I wonder if I met him in person and be like, hey home. Hey home

Hey home Have you better on Hey home Have you better on? Fantastic. Have you better off? Have you better off? Have you better on?

Are we supposed to also be muted? That's pretty good. That's from Jamie. I'm good. I don't know why there was like a 20-second break between. You cut off the sound. Yeah, the sound cut off. Oh, no, I cut off the sound of the song.

Oh, we only got some of that. That's why I said we're supposed to still be muted. I like the beginning. Oh, I muted my mic. Yeah, something got messed up there. That was unbelievable, though. I'm in on that. All right, good stuff.

News and notes. So, Malik neighbors. Your sneaky snack might not be out there. What did you say? Who? Your sneaky stack might not be out there this week. What? Oh, Malik Neighbors?

Apparently he's going to play. What are we're talking about? Malik Neighbors has back tightness. What are you talking about? He said it's nothing that will be a problem. He's planning to play Sunday. He's just trolling. Don't scare the listeners for no good reason, okay?

Andrew Thomas. I mean, not practicing Friday. It's not good. Speaking of how much of a discount, I have, I told you guys about it last week. I have one stupid league that's also my most expensive buying that drafts this Saturday. A, what do you think Christian McCaffrey is going to go for? How much of a budget discount? And B, should I bid on him and be an idiot?

Or, and C, how much is Javante Williams going to? Like, what range of running back is Javonavri's going to? Dante Williams is going to be pushed up to. You get the stats from the first week. Oh, you get the stats? You get retroactive stats. Jamie thought he looked good. I thought the exact opposite.

I'm with Jamie. Not good. He looked very physical. He's not explosive by any means. I thought he read the blocks. Yeah. I mean, no, he still didn't look as good as good as a rookie. He used to be an unreal talent at UNC, but he looked like he followed the blocks well.

He looked good for the current version of Jvante Williams. Well, for the last, what we've seen the last two years. years, yeah. All right, listen, let's move on here. Malik neighbors has back tightness, but is expected to play. Andrew Thomas, we don't know. Keon Coleman was limited. He should play. If you have Tyler Bass, their kicker, Buffalo's kicker, he may not play. Christian Benford's starting cornerback. He was limited. He's expected to play as it probably going to play. Tire Kill and Devon A-chan are going to play, but James Daniels is an offensive lineman for the dolphins questionable, and Darren Waller is doubtful. Vita Vaya did make an appearance at practice today. That's a good sign for him. We'll see if he can get out there at Atlanta. New England left tackle Will Campbell was at practice today as well. In terms of how much Christian McCaffrey would go for, that's a pretty interesting question. I'm guessing he probably went for about 25% of the budget during the auction. And I think I'm going to guess he goes for about 18%. Yeah, I guess.

It's going to be an interesting bid. It really is. That's news and no. It's okay, Sunday programming. We have the 1130 a.m. show. No go. Why am we just getting giants? There are you random giants.

Because their practice boards are coming in. It's like Jamie's subtly trying to troll us. No, he's done. He's not practicing. All right. Well, we'll use Jude McAteamie instead. Graham Ganoe on the field from Pat Lender. Graham Ganoe on the field, but in tennis shoes.

Jude McCadamney. McTacamine or something. I don't know. Sounds like he's your kicker this week. Well, to be fair, we did lose a game to Washington last year. We didn't have a kid. The Giants lost a game because they didn't have a kicker acted. So that actually is important.

Let's get some questions. This is for, oh, Sunday. Yeah. Sunday, 11.30 a.m. Eastern, join us. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. Or answering your start and good questions for an hour and a half. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today at 11.30 a.m. Eastern. This is from Andrew.

I've drafted a world record eight, count them eight rookies. And now choose one flex in PPR. R.J. Harvey, Travis Hunter, Matthew Golden, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler Warren. One flex? Yeah. Matthew Goldman. golden for me as well. Okay, over Harvey.

All right. This is Al from Bushwood. Gambling is illegal at Bushwood. I'm looking for a good bench-wide receiver. I have a couple of injury-prone starters. So he's choosing between Dante Thornton, Cedlitt Tillman, Rashid, Elyke-Ill-Manner, and Jaden Higgins.

Who would you go with? Thornton-Tillman. Shaheed, Iow Manor Higgins. Between Tillman and Shaheed for me, I would go Tillman. Tillman's my easy early lean with Flack Owen against a bad defense. It's a nice matchup. But don't be surprised if Jaden and Higgins gets off to a nice start of Christian Kirk, and I don't think he will play, doesn't play.

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Bet MGM make it legendary. This is from Andres. Am I crazy for starting Romo Dunze over Ricky Pearsall in a 12-team PPR league with two. two wide receivers and two flex. I think the answer is a resounding, yes, you are crazy because there's a chance that Brian Flores absolutely shuts down this Bears offense. It's not a guarantee.

I actually think the Bears might upset them, but I wouldn't want to bet against Brian Flores right now in his first game with all offseason to kind of scheme against not only just Caleb Williams with Ben Johnson. I would go with Pierceell. This is from Jimmy and Palm Beach. Abuka or R.J. Harvey, full PPR. Jimmy also understands Lesbottas great. Understands what?

That Lasbadas is great. Oh, we don't need it. So, okay, quick aside, went down to Florida, visited the crew. Had a great time. Jamie took me to a not-safe-for-work restaurant, which we don't need to talk about. But one of the days, we did have lunch at what was deemed to be, a deli is good as what you'll get in New Jersey, New York, Lesbadas. I mean, look, it was good, but it was just sliced deli meats on a sandwich,

and they just put a lot on it with a lot of toppings. Like, yes, it was good. Hot peppers are good. The sweet peppers were good. But, like, that's your version of a New York, New Jersey deli. When I think New York, New Jersey deli, I think. Nobody said it's a version of a New York, New Jersey deli. Oh, I don't know what.

Nobody said that. First of all, the next time you decide to fly down, we will send the proper authorities to not let you. off the plane in Florida for being blasphemous about the greatest sub shop in Florida. Oh, in Florida. I'm okay with that. If you're just limiting it to Florida, that's fine. Yeah, Florida is a big state.

It's amazing. Yeah, this is great, man. It's good. It's not great. All right, so, do we answer the question, Abuka or Harvey? Egbuka. Abuka. Abuka Joe?

In full PPR. It is full PPR, yeah. Vida Vaya practiced and is looking. Do you guys think Adam's teaming, Egbuka Joe is good or not? No. I don't have any abooka, so I don't think I'm going to name my team's abooka Joe, but I would. But I don't think you can name your team after someone that's not on the team. So this one is from Dan.

Dear everyone, are you who selected it? I didn't mean to do that. Sorry. Yeah, okay. I'm actually reading that right now. Dear everyone but Adam. I play Adam in the FFT. open.

Ooh. I need help with a flex recommendation. Let's go. Full PPR. Calvin Ridley versus the Broncos or Khalil Shakir versus the Ravens. Oh, uh, Shakir. That's interesting. So Jamie's making that call.

Obviously, he wants to avoid Patrick's or Tan. I do think Ridley will get more targets. But Shakir seems to be full, full go, which means he was probably a value during draft season the entire time. Ravens are not the easiest matchup, but I'll go Shakir as well. Okay. By the way, YouTubers, you can feel free to ask questions and you all can answer them for now. I'll be laughing at. It's a team name. I don't know if it's offensive. I don't think it is, but I'm not going to read it.

Okay. But, yeah, we'll get to all. Listen, there's going to be a lot of Michael Pennix, Jr. No, it's not that. That's not a Panics one, but that will obviously come up. But there's going to be a lot of them. We're not going to read them. Yeah, I'm trying to get rid of this. They're going to be funny.

Can you get rid of this comment? This is not offensive. This is just hilarious if I'm reading the same one you're reading in the chat. How do we get rid of this? Oh, it was a lower third. No one would be offended by that. But it's okay. We don't have to, we don't have to take chances here.

I got so confused. I thought we had a comment up. It was actually just Claire doing excellent work with lower thirds. My bad. This is from Kenneth. I got offered Marvin Harrison Jr. and R.J. Harvey for my Derek Henry. Should I accept?

Give up Henry for Harvey and Harrison. Oh. I don't think that's enough. Yeah. reject depends where you're at if you're really in a bad position for whatever reason from an injury standpoint or a depth standpoint i wouldn't hate the trade but i'll probably say no too and i'm in a i got a different trade offer yesterday uh dynasty league okay league neighbors well and zay flowers for bison robinson oh i think that's a no right i i need robinson

more than I need neighbors. Yeah. You don't have the running back. Yeah. Pretty sure I took neighbors ahead of Robinson. I did. Really? In the dynasties.

Yeah, because we did the Big Burger Dynasty and I was just too running back heavy. And those running backs were ETN and Ken Walker. And I thought they were great, you know, at that point in their careers. And I regret it. Early in that and that's a bad mistake. Yeah, I regret it. You also took Gibbs and that worked out. But in this super flex startup dynasty, my first two picks were neighbors and Brian Thomas Jr.,

There's a Superflex. Yeah, if I was not like, I mean, I won the league last year, I have a very stacked roster. Like, I need Robinson more than I need. Yeah, you're playing for now. Robinson is definitely into play. All right. Yeah. I mean, again, it's a very fair trade offer.

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night football. Very excited for this game. I think it's going to be hopefully, I thought last night's game was pretty exciting too, so hopefully as a sight. What is this even drunk? What is that even from? Go away. What is that even from? You never thought for one second, Jamie, that he was going to know what that was from. Of course he didn't know it, but I didn't think he was going to embarrass himself.

I don't think I was even alive. How would I know something that I'm not alive for? Oh, Mike. Well, you ever seen The Godfather? I mean, do we have six hours for you to know something that you weren't alive for? What does that have to do? That was a movie that came out in the 80s. You were borderline alive.

It's called The Last Boy Scout. It's a football movie. Oh, I might like that. I should go watch that. I got to get better with movies. It's not really a football. It's not a football movie. It's a action movie.

Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans. It's very good. All right. Anyway, I didn't really care about your answer. I just wanted to play that because I forgot to do it on Friday show. All right, Dave and Flint has three starter sit questions at quarterback in four point per pass and touchdown leagues. One of them is a Dak Prescott question. So we'll skip that.

but four points for passing touchdown jared goff for justin fields four points yeah fields oh you're muted I didn't mute you my fault we've got issues at the house there's landscapers outside I didn't want to pick up on the mic but this is not a joke somehow this is my reality everything can go wrong that can possibly go wrong around this house

but I will go with goff here I don't want to start fields against Steelers I'm not hopeful about that. Okay. And then the next one is a six point for passing touchdown league. J.J. McCarthy or Justin Fields?

Wait, no, wait. It looks like it's four quarterbacks. McCarthy Fields, Darnold Russell Wilson. It's his dynasty league. McCarthy Fields, Donald Russell Wilson. McCarthy.

Uh, yeah, I'll go McCarthy there. You wanted to say Russ. No, I wanted to actually. say Darnold. You know, I think you did a good job. You kind of convinced me a little bit on Darnel. I've starting to come along on the Seahawks Offens I've been out on all year.

I'm starting to feel like, uh-oh, did I miss the boat? Saw that article you posted. I thought that was a really good article. Yeah, thank you. It was, I mean, I didn't write it, but I'm glad you agreed. No, I thought it was really, I thought it was fascinating. But also, um, did you know how many points Wilson scored against the commanders last year? Russ.

Oh, he had a huge game. I think he hit like Mike Williams on a bomb at the end of the game. Wasn't that that game? Oh, I don't remember, but he scored 24 points. Yeah, I think he hit Williams on like a go route then that game. Mike Williams was somehow on the Steelers last year. Okay, this one is from Bill. This is a critical email.

He's criticizing us, but in a constructive way, constructive criticism. And he says basically that we should spend more time on deep league players. And, you know, on the Waver Wire show, I do have that, yeah, none of these guys are available at my league segment, but it's very brief. Bill wants a little more time. So speaking, honestly, this is a tough call for me.

If I spend three minutes on Jaden Higgins and, you know, Dante Thornton, I think the majority of the audience is not going to like that. But I do also think it's important to give content to everyone, including the people who are in 16 team leagues and that kind of stuff. Yeah. So I'll try. Try harder.

I can't make any promises. I have to do what I think is the best for the majority of the listeners. But if we want to dedicate a little bit of time here to Deep League guys, what are some of the names that we should be throwing out right now? Well, I will say this. Our audience is obviously a very knowledgeable audience, and they play in, you know, I don't want to say like all high stakes leagues, but they play in probably leagues that are very cutthroat

and, you know, have a lot of experienced players against them. because people that, especially people that are watching live right now, are very dedicated to the fantasy football hobby and game and enjoy it. So they probably need a little bit more of those deeper league guys because everybody knows the, hey, Trevor Lawrence is going to be good, you know, the 75% roster guys. They want to know about will Michael Pennix be good and, you know, how much I trust Joe Flacko

if you're just looking from a surface level quarterback. I think it's important for those guys because you want to get me why do we say beat the way or wire you want to know about these guys before they blow up so like if thornton comes out in week one and has let's just say six targets and catches four for 80 and a touchdown right yeah i mean he's going to be top five of the wide receivers to pick up this week if not top three yeah easy you know whatie marks is going to be if he has more if he forget about touch if he has more the most playing time of the texans running backs he's probably going to be the number one player to add, barring any injuries. Like, there's reasons for these guys to be relevant, and not just for the deeper leagues. It's for 12-team leagues, too. I feel like this question was handpicked for me to provide some shameless promotion. We talked about some of these players on Beyond the Box score, and we do a lot of in-depth those deep league players.

Some players we discussed this week, Terrence Ferguson, a player of the Rams hand-selected as their first pick, and probably gives them something that Higby can't. I would be very interested to see if he potentially becomes the third option in that passing game with two guys ahead of him who are either older or injured. I kind of like that. Jalen Newell, a player who arguably had better tape than Jaden Higgins at Iowa State, now might have an opportunity with Christian Kirk injured. That's another player we talked about. We talk a lot about Isaac Tesla. That's a player who, man, at his size to move like he does, there's no role in play right now for him.

But there was no role in play for Pukkahua before his breakout in week one a few seasons ago. So just another player to keep an eye on. Those are just a few players that I have in my mind. But if you want to hear more, check out Beyond the Box Score. We haven't talked about Kishon Booty. He apparently has had a good offseason, good camp. He's going to be a starter, I think, for the Patriots. He's 3% roster.

So that's super deep. I mean, that's, I can't even see. You have a patient on these players, too. Because if you drive, like, if you have them now, it's going to be very, it's you're going to be very, you're going to want to drop them at some point, I should say. But if you, some of them are, to me, they're just that players you should stash over some of these, like, lesser bench players who are never going to be in your lineup?

Two running backs who are rostered in fewer than 25% of leagues that I could see being closer to 40 to 50% next week. It could be Woody Marks. Okay. And Chris Rodriguez, you know, Kroski Merritt is what? He's 95% rostered. Rodriguez is 23% rostered.

Obviously, I prefer Kroski Merritt, but I don't think it's the worst thing to take a shot on the guy who could be the short yardage back and, you know, could get mixed in there. All right, moving on. And I will say, listen, we have a, we have an audience that is dedicated to our show. There's a reason why I try to go as deep as I can on the Waverwire column on Tuesday. Yeah.

So if you want to read about those guys, like we don't, we don't ignore anyone. I would say not only that, Jamie and Dave both cover in depth throughout the week, WaverWire, and then in both their matchup, their start sit and Dave's line-up decision column, you're going to get hit with like the deepest of deep if you keep reading through that. So go check out the site. It's all free. It's all on our site. Jamie's columns come out waiver wire Tuesday, Wednesday for StartSit.

Dave will be out there Wednesday or Thursday. So you can all get it in probably, most likely before the week and Jamie before your waiver wire run. Next up, we have Ben. I traded Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley for Travion Henderson and Braylon Allen. I already have Lamb, Thomas, Sutton, Abuka, Pearsall, and Rice. So he didn't feel like he needed Calvin Ridley. So he traded Pollard and Ridley for Trayvion Henderson and Braylon Allen. I hope is that you got the best player in the trade

and Trayvian Anderson. I wouldn't do that trade though. I think the best player, I think honestly Pollard and Ridley will outscore Henderson this year. Can you do me a favor? Because I know you talked about this a lot in regards to Ridley.

Give me the four-game schedule again for the Titans, if you have in front of you. You can have it momentarily. Is it that bad? I know Broncos is a horrible start. It's not great. Broncos, Rams, Colts, Texans. Okay, so that's who Pollard faces

before Spears is Elton. eligible to return. Right. So questionable start in week one. Yep. Maybe questionable start in week two. Sure. I doubt you're sitting him in week three against the Colts.

And week four is who? Houston. Now, you know, Rams, for what it's worth last year, had a terrible run defense. So Colts, Rams, based on last year, would be good matchups. Texans, Broncos would be bad matchups. He could get close to 20 touches a game. I'm not talking about that, though. I'm talking long term, like Trevion versus Pollard, right?

Yeah. So, not in a vacuum. You know, this is just the trait. So I think for getting Trevion, who may be by week four, week five, when Pollard is now in a time share, it absolutely lost. We don't know that, though. Huh? We don't know that. Of course you don't know.

I think you're probably right. I mean, it's a high ankle sprain. He's probably not going to miss more than it would be like a six-week absence if he's back after the four games. So that's probably right. Yeah. I mean, I think it's fine, right? Because he could afford to give up Ridley with Lamb, Thomas. Sutton, Abuka, Pearsall, and Rishi-Race.

Yeah. I think I would do it, but I also think it works for the other team, too. For Aaron, would you trade Matthew Golden to get Tyrone Tracy, half-P-R? Their draft capital was probably close by the time we got to Labor Day weekend. So I think that's a fair deal if you need a running back and, you know, have the receivers to give up or vice versa. I would definitely not do that deal. Golden's one of my two flag plan players, so. keeping him no matter what one of your two you have 75 based on our drafts no uh we did a flag plant

player show i'm beyond the box for this week and other shameless promotion for me uh and but it's all within the site or within the big family word but it was golden and pickins golden and bad star for bad start for my second flag plant pickens yeah actually dave sent me a link to scott barrett have you guys had him on. Yeah. Fantasy points. Yep. And he said,

A.J. Brown, so Pickens was a bust on Thursday, but A.J. Brown was worse. AJ Brown just posted what was easily his worst performance of the fantasy points data era. For the first time since at least 2022, A.J. Brown didn't win a single route last night. Zero percent separation win rate. You know, the speculation would be that the hamstring was a lot more serious than the team led on. I don't think it was I don't do you think it was that I don't know I did watch a number of those routes and it okay it almost felt like first of all he was double teamed a lot yes but it really felt like he was a decoy out there I mean it just seemed like they were trying to get him the ball or get him open I'll defer to you because you watch the routes but from my vantage point I saw a lot of situations where Hertz would look to AJ Brown's side confirm that the safety was roll hold over the top of him and then just come off of it really quick. To me, it was more the linebacker underneath.

Because I didn't watch that many routes, but I didn't see him really go deep at all. I wonder what, I'm going to look up his average route. I would, I would assume we're going to see a lot more of AJ Brown in a week, too. Also, Hertz attempted one pass that was like above eight air yards, the entire game. They don't, this is going to, I have a, I have a take. I think the Eagles 20, 25 season is going to feel and look a lot like the Chiefs 2024. They're going to win a lot of games.

People are going to be like, they're not that great. or like it doesn't look that good. There's just going to be a lot of games like last night where they just do what they need to do, control the clock, burnt. Like some of those possessions killed half a quarter by the Eagles. And we didn't get that much fantasy production out of them, out of those specific possessions. Well, we did before the rain, before the weather.

Yeah, I guess you're right. All right. Thank you for your emails, everybody, at fantasy football at cbsi.com. And thank you so much for your fantasy cops questions. Top time. All right. If you've got some league issues, send it into fantasy football at CBSI.com, that's the letter I. Put fantasy cops in the subject line.

The first one comes from Danny. All right, this is a doozy. It's a long one. So everyone just buckle up. This is dear Albert, Stan, Ozzie, and Bob. Albert, Stan, Ozzy, and Bob. I mean, Ozzy Osbourne is the only Ozzy I've ever heard of. Hmm.

You've heard of Ozzie Smith, and you've heard of Albert Pooholz and Stan Musial and Bob Gibson. Okay, okay. And then again, players before my time, go on. All right. Yeah, no, it's okay. You're not supposed to know anyone before. Mine is pool holes. So, really Ozzy Smith, whatever. Okay. Anyway, they did a draft, 20th year of the draft, childhood friends, draft day controversy. Five of us live in St. Louis, myself included. Five live in Chicago, two live elsewhere. We do an online draft, but every year the five St. Louis guys get together. This year,

we did it at my house. For the last five years or so, the St. Louis guys have been known to use most of the full 90-second pick clock to make our picks, in part to savor the time together on our favorite night of the year. And our draft generally takes a little under two hours. This has always annoyed the Chicago guys who tend to pick faster, though no one has ever proposed a rule change during our annual league rule vote, the process by which all rules are changed. Through the first six rounds this year, it was the same routine.

St. Louis guys used most of the pick clock. Chicago guys complained that the draft is running long. After round six, the commissioner paused the draft and agreed for and agreed upon three-minute intermission. Here's where the controversy comes in. When we return from the intermission, the commissioner, a Chicago guy, all right, these are the fast pickers, updated the pick clock to 60 seconds. Outraged with the lack of due process and obvious dissent amongst the league, I threatened to disrupt the draft by pulling the plug on my home Wi-Fi.

if the commissioner didn't reinstate the agreed-upon 90-second pick time, as I figured that doing that would impact five people in St. Louis, and the commissioner would be forced to pause the draft. The St. Louis guys were in agreement that the clock switched mid-draft with no agreement was unfair, but did not expect my Wi-Fi threat was legitimate. So, after four picks with the reduced 60-second clock, the commissioner did not restore the 90 seconds. I made good on my threat and pulled the plug.

on my Wi-Fi router. I called the commissioner to tell him to stop the draft and he agreed. But six picks elapsed. There were some auto-picks. A couple of the St. Louis guys got auto-picked

and they got players they didn't want. So I plugged our Wi-Fi back in and the commissioner agreed to set the draft back to the spot where the St. Louis' Wi-Fi cut out. Okay.

After that happened, a couple of the Chicago guys were livid that players they previously had the chance to draft were now off the board. They cried collusion and began referring to the incident as plug gate. When the dust settled, the commissioner let the draft play out from there but did not restore the 90-second pick clock.

What say the fantasy cops? Was the commissioner right to cave to the pressure of the other Chicago guys? Was I right for cutting the internet? At the end of the day, I didn't get my 90-second clock restored and the clock reduction did not save any time With all the time lost from the internet controversy, we finished in just under two hours. So we are all losers. The last part is the best part.

They are all losers. I mean, to be fighting over the clock is just absolutely ridiculous. I mean... Obviously, you shouldn't change a clock mid-draft, though. That goes without saying. So that's the key here if we're looking to rule on something. But I'm with Jamie, man. Like, we're taking this thing too far.

We really can't afford to lose another 30 minutes of our life to this. Like, to one day of the year we're drafting. you're going to be a little tired the next day if you're if you're that been out of shape over 30 seconds on each pick yeah you really are you playing yourself i'm with that and i understand people don't like this take it's the same thing with the auction it's like you know some of us we have kids and we have a lot going on and we can't afford to even use like an hour of our time for one day of the year to draft our fantasy team but like we're talking about like a difference of 20 minutes probably in the end 25 30 minutes i don't know i mean i get it it can get it can get long but would you agree about that before

the thing starts. Yeah. You're halfway through and all of a sudden you're going to do it without explaining it to the rest of the league when they're all together. Yeah, yeah. These drafts are not that long in general, though. We finish ours and like we just did our, our FFT league in almost under an hour.

It felt like it was like an hour and 10 minutes. I mean, we're not trying to savor the night, you know, or this was a two-hour draft. A two-hour snake draft is kind of long, I think. That is long, though. Yeah, I believe. But, I mean, just if you pause the draft, say, listen, guys, I got to go to work next day. My kids, my wife is pissed. You know, you just speed this up a little bit.

I don't want to change the clock, but let's just make it. Right, right. Like, you just act like adults. Yeah. All right. I'd say the commissioner was wrong for changing the clock, but maybe do 85 seconds next year. I mean, 75 seconds.

All right, next up. Good compromise. Next up is fantasy cops from Abe. Dear Jennifer, Larry, Twinkaceti, and bulky. Is it perfect strangers? I guess so. Yeah.

No shot for me. Big fan of, you know, before your time, there's no way you could ever watch a show that aired before you were born. I actually have seen a few. But there have to be good. Shows, yes. My league is in chaos. Right after our draft ended,

one manager shipped off C.D. Lamb and Marvin Harrison for Jaden Daniels and Roma Dunzee. gave up Lamb and Harrison for Jaden Daniels and Roma Dumzee. That's it. The commissioner. Commissioner, what'd you say? Not a Superflex, right? Not a Superflex.

The commissioner slammed except immediately. No league discussion, no hesitation. I'm against leagues where teams vote on vetoes, but it has to be accompanied by reasonable judgment from the commissioner. So the commissioner ended up getting Lamb and Marvin for Daniels and O'Donzee. Oh, who's the commissioner? Yeah. Oh, my God.

Also, the two teams involved and the commission. Oh, no, no, no. I was wrong. I was wrong. The commissioner just clicked except, my bad. Okay. The two teams involved and the commission seem to be the only managers that know each other from before. And they've all been involved with fantasy for over a decade.

So nobody thinks this is a rookie fantasy manager making a bad trade. Right. So when people in the league questioned it, the commissioner and the guys involved basically shrugged it off saying that one of the managers loves Jaden Daniels and does not like the Cowboys. And he auto picked Lamb. Needless to say, our group chat went nuclear. So one, is this collusion? B, what's the right play when a commissioner is either asleep at the wheel or what the league suspects driving the getaway car?

And three, am I crazy for thinking that this trade, again, Lamb and Marvin Harrison for Daniels and O'Donze, basically ruins the integrity of the league before week one even starts? It's not a great trade. It does sound a little fishy, but is it that egregious when you're talking about a top three quarterback? Like, I would never allow it, personally, but... You would never allow it, you'd veto it?

No, I mean, that's just it. I wouldn't be happy about it. Yeah. I don't think it's one of those that throws off the integrity of the league. I wouldn't even give it a second thought. I was just like, okay, bad trade, just whatever. The fact that he thinks that those, the commissioner and the two managers are the only ones who know each other, that, you know, from the past. But how is the commissioner benefiting then?

I don't know. You're the commissioner, me and Dave make a trade, you approve it. we're all split the winnings later. No, I don't know. I mean, he's their friend or something. I guess. I don't know. That's not one you veto.

Yeah, don't worry about it. Look, just play and just beat them. It just sucks, but you don't veto it. Just beat them. That was very weird. My computer, like, froze up there completely, but I think I'm good. No, you're not. We're going to take a break.

While we take a break, Dan's going to fix his mic and change the input. Dan's in St. Louis. He's part of Wi-Fi. Pull the Wi-Fi. And we'll be right back on fantasy football today. Tim's new scrambled egg loaded croissant. Or is it croissant? No matter how you say it.

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I want to do a voiceover for Paramount Plus. I could do that, right? I think you'd do a good job with it. I don't think I'd do that good of a job with it. I don't have a great voice for that. But I want to do it. I want the opportunity. Yeah.

I mean, look, everyone can dream. So this is your dream. I don't know if you've noticed, Dan, but it's week one and I'm sick. Already sick. This is unbelievable, dude. We're not even in anywhere near the season where anyone should be getting sick. No, apparently there's some COVID going around. Some of the kids are sick.

My kids got a little sick. Our house is very sick, too. I seriously think that, yeah, but your house is sick, Jamie, but you sound fine. Jamie's never been sick. Jamie's never. That's my point, Adam. Jamie's never sick. Do you have maybe one of the weakest immune systems I've seen of anyone I've ever met

in my entire life, to be quite frank? It's really insane. You live nine out of 12 months sick. And that might be an understatement. It might be closer like 10 and a half. Oh, my gosh. All right. Next up, one more fantasy cop.

It's from Pat. Pat plays in a 12-team three-wide receiver of PPR League with three IDP spots. I did my draft prep, and I found out that Yahoo will allow you to play Travis Hunter in an IDP spot and count his offensive stats. Knowing this, I bumped him up my draft board considerably. I actually took him at the four-five turn. I had the fourth pick. I had the first pick. I drafted the rest of the team accordingly

and then slid Hunter into my defensive backspot after the draft ended. Soon after, someone in the league stated that they didn't think it was fair and wanted to force me to play him at wide receiver. Apparently no one else in the league bothered to look up how Hunter is handled on our platform. Drama ensued and the commissioner is holding a vote

to change the rules post-draft. I plan on playing him in my defensive back spot as the rules stated pre-draft regardless of any vote. I don't think change. the rules after a draft is right, and I will likely, sadly, be leaving this league I've been in for 15 plus years next season. What's your take? Am I nuts? No, you're right. That's on them. They should have, the commissioner should have thought about this beforehand. You can't make the change after the draft, and it is what it is. It should

be played out this season with you having Hunter and getting his wide receiver stats as a DB. It's going to be such a minimal difference, most likely, most likely. No, I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. I think this is like a league break. The problem is this is like a league breaking thing. It's not that he's playing him at wide receiver and getting his defensive points. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, you're right.

Yeah, he's going to be a cheat code. Yes. Yeah. You can't change it, though, after the fact. It's a bad situation, though, too, yeah. Because he should have been, if you, if you can play him at DB and get his wide receiver stats, it's like, what, a first round pick? I don't play enough.

I'd play one IDP league. Yeah. Potentially, yeah, it's really impactful. I'm getting a lot of heat in the flack. I'm getting a lot of heat and, flack in the chat here. Adam always sick. Yeah. Adam, you got to go down.

Some octaves for voiceovers. Yeah, I do think that's my problem. Voiceover's fine. It's the sick thing that we're worried about. Adam eats a bag of candy a day. So that's not true. Only during Halloween time, yeah. Yeah, I've been eating someone brought over these brown butter cookies from whole foods

and they're incredible. Oh, they're amazing. Right? Yes. You're not going to like this. Hopefully, these are amazing. I believe half the reason why this is something. not going to bring this to this is a very conspiracy theory of me should i say it i don't know is

it this one the adam seems like a germaphobe which doesn't help the immune system exactly it's that exact one i he's not that he seems like a germophone he is a certified germifel no i went to a giant's game i won't say what you did because it's a little offensive to use hand sanitizer big deal after shaking the hand of a listener yes no that was like 20 minutes after shaking the hand of a listener it's not like i'm monk where i asked you for a white i'm joking about but like he was constantly hand sanitizing. That's kind of one time. It's that, there is some, not science, but there is some speculation that if you are a

germaphobe and you're constantly, you know, your immune, so you never let your immune system get strong enough to where it can fight off stuff. A.D. A.m. Always diseased and miserable. No, that's not fair, hot girl. He's never miserable. I know Adam. He's a pretty uptempo, you know, a cheery guy in real life. Just always diseased may be true. Oh, man. All right. Let's, uh, let's, let's, uh, let's, let's, move on let's do some apple podcast questions here oh boy what now equanu how do you pronounce it ike equanu oh no he's out oh for the game yeah dial full to play sorry left tackle for the panthers

have you ever seen the show monk have i ever seen the show most of i just referenced that you didn't hear it oh i missed it it's my favorite it's one of my favorite shows at all time you are a lot like yeah is that his name first name tony yeah he's such a good actor and you you are actually a lot like him. That is an incredible show. I mean, it really is. It's so heartfelt and funny and the mysteries are great. It's a show I'm going to be watching for the rest of my life. I like him even more in Maisel. He's even funnier. I can't stand that show. Really? Wow. It's because I don't like theater and it's just a play on TV, basically. Okay. All right. Question from S.A. Jones. I have Devante Adams and Kyron Williams as wide receiver two and RB2. Should I try to trade one of

them to diversify my roster or roll with what I have. If you can get equal value, I'm in on that. Who is it? Adam Zoo. And Kyron. Yeah, not bad to shop them. You saw the pitfalls of going all in on certain teams

last night. Yeah. This is from Fantasy Lobster, 10 team full PPR, half point per attempt. Ooh. My wide receivers, blah, blah, blah. Is that per pass attempt?

I don't know. Oh, yes. I think past attempts. Really? If it's rushing attempt, it makes a little more sense. Pass attempt. It's got to be rushing attempt. Maybe past completion I've seen.

Pass attempt would be insane, dude. You get like 20 points a game from each quarterback extra. This is a pretty easy question, I think. Well, not at running back. Who should he start at running back? Start two running backs. James Cook, Chuba Hubbard, Tony Pollard, R.J. Harvey. The first two.

Pollard's the easy one for me. I think Chuba's the easy one and a half point per attempt league. He's going to get the most attempts in that matchup. Wait, we're starting Cook and Hubbard? Sure. Or Pollard and Hubbard, Jamie. So you're getting points for carries? I think so.

Then I go Hubbard. I mean, I go Pollard and Hubbard. And then we have a flex. Drake London or the other running back. Is there any reward for receivers? It's PPR. Outful. London over Cook.

Yeah. Okay. Let's see if I have some more Apple podcast questions. This is always a good way to get your question read. We have a grade the team. Twelve team, PPR, had the second pick. This is a two-receiver league. Quarterback Josh Allen, tight-end Jake Ferguson. Wide receiver, running backs are Kyron, Chuba. Kroski, Merritt, Charbonnet, Rashad, White. Shipley, wide receivers

Chase McMillan Tedroa McMillan Golden, Debo, Keon Coleman, Higgins. So starting

lineup's going to be Allen, Kyron and Chubbard, Chase, McMillan, Golden, Golden's the flex

and Ferguson's the tight end. B plus? Yeah, at least a B plus for me, maybe A minus. Yeah,

I'm missing the, oh, I guess it was Allen. So Alan and Kairn at the 2-3 turn. Fourth round pick is Chuba. Chuba McMillan after that. Right.

This team is missing, like, I don't know. It's missing something. I think the tight end is just too bad. I mean, you might have wide receiver one, QB1. You should have two top 20 running backs. Yeah, I don't. Ferguson should not be your tight end. Why?

I don't know. I mean, did you watch the game? Yeah, I mean, but tight end's not. You don't have to do much to be a starting tight end in fantasy football. He'll be fine, I think. 16 PPR League, grade the trade. Chase Brown and Pacheco for Bajon Robinson. Chase Brown and Pacheco for Bajon Robinson.

I don't know. I don't think it's enough either. Oh, I'm sorry. First of all, it's a six-team league. So which side would you rather have Chase? You definitely need Bijon then if it's 16-le. Six-team league? Yeah.

It's a hard. You can't trade Bijon in 16. No, he's getting Bijon. He's giving up Chase Brown and the check-up. Snap it up. Great job. You just won a 16-league. By the way, Adam, did you do that trade Heath offered you last night?

I saw it on Twitter. No, I didn't. I didn't. I thought, like, he's got to give me something else. I couldn't believe that he wanted you to add a player. I thought just straight up Bowers for CMC would have been. You know, you get the email and you don't see the entire trade. You just see the portion of it.

And so I saw Bowers for McCarrows. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. But it was Bowers from McCaffrey and LaPorta. And I thought that was too much. The fact that he wanted back LaPorteur, too, was a little crazy. Which league is this? Podcast League, 14 team. It's the one where he drafted, where he's drafted McBride and Bowers.

So he was our FFT. Oh, wait. It was our FFT League. I thought it was our podcast league. You know, there's a lot of leagues. I might be getting confused. Honestly, I'm not sure. I thought either way.

I know you have McAfree in the podcast league. I don't know if you did it in FFT. I don't think I have a lot. McCaffrey in the FFT League. I hope I don't. I have McCaffrey in too many leagues. Me too. Bad.

It's really not good. I have, no, I don't. My first round pick was Nico. I can't quit him. Okay, so look, maybe it's nothing. We'll see. YouTubers, you ready? Let's make it happen here.

If he gave you Bowers and ETN, would you do it? ETN, no. Should we try to sell high on Giovante Williams, if so, for what? AJ Brown. I mean, I would do that. Obviously, I would take AJ Brown.

I don't think that manager would do that. I don't know if we should try to trade on Williams. I kind of feel like I overlooked him this offseason if he's going to be in this role because he's going to get all the red zone work. And that offense is going to be scoring so many points. So I would say this. If what could happen happens of Hampton, Harvey Henderson stink because they don't get enough touches in their first game because coaches are stupid.

I would trade Williams for any of those guys. I mean, Williams is so slow. It's, I have a lot of Javante, so I'm not trying. I want this to work out. I started him in only one league. I think I have, he might be my most rostered player. Let's just keep it right. The Eagles' best defensive player got kicked out of the game.

Yeah, I know. And he averaged three and a half yards per carry or something like that. It's not going to be about that, though. No, but it is eventually. It's like Zeke being ahead of Dowdle last year. Eventually there was no doubtle. Who's the Dowdell? Jade and Blue.

I don't know about that. The fastest running back in the draft. Yeah, I don't know about that. And I like Blue. I don't know about that. No, I don't either. That happens. But that's my fear.

The thing is like, It's not going to be Sanders. They're really hard to predict. If he does not score two, let's just say it's one touchdown. No, the role was great, though. I mean,

the role was great. Yeah, the role was great. The role was great. But people don't look at that. They look at the production. So if he gives you 14 PPR points, right? Like,

I was hoping for more in the passing. game, to be honestly, than what we saw last night. That was what I thought was going to really help his boost his value. And so you're talking two catches for 10 yards on three targets. Like that, I thought would be another target and another catch at minimum. So he gives you 14 PPR points without the second touchdown. He just, he's going to need to score if this is going to be this. And I think that's the whole point, though.

Like, I think it's very hard for us. You're not getting 18 touchdowns out of this kid. No, but he did run, he ran a route on 80% of the dropbacks. Can you get 14 out of him? He has two already. If he's in this role, you might. No, you're not getting 14 touchdowns out of Jim. Why not?

I just don't, okay, look, you could, but I don't think you should sit there and plan on that. But I know, that's the whole point. That's like fantasy, and I get it. Look, as Fantazana's, we never want to lead you in this direction. We want to chase the things that matter. The advanced stats, the targets per route run, the volume, how these players look on tape, things that actually can translate, and touchdowns are insanely hard to guess. But he is also on an offense that's probably going to be top five in the NFL and touchdowns

due to how bad their defense is and how potent of a quarterback's back Prescott is when healthy. And their old line looked very good, by the way. Very good, I thought. That was a question. But they're also playing against the team without the best player. I get it. But even without Jalen Carter, that's a solid defensive line. They're going to have matchups against worst defensive lines all year.

All right. Listen, so Rico Doudal, in his last. From weeks 12 to 18, RICO Doudal was the number 18 running back per game in PPR. And in those seven games, he was on pace for 345 carries and 32 catches. Now, he was only on pace for five touchdowns. And no Dak Prescott. No Dak Prescott, that is true. But he averaged 4.6 yards per carry, 4.8 in that stretch.

I just don't see it with Javante. I mean, it looks terrible. I don't think he's going to be some kind of great fantasy play, but I think he could be like a great flex to RB2 all year if he's just collecting touchdowns in this role. I don't disagree with that because, yes, there is a chance for him to be productive as a fantasy option. That being said,

if you could turn him into one of these high-profile rookies coming off of a bad game, which one or two of them probably is going to happen, unfortunately. And I'm not talking about Jendi, because nobody's going to trade Jentee for Javante. But you might get somebody who drafted Harvey in round five and looking at Williams getting drafted in round seven and saying, oh, the draft capital is somewhat fair.

Harvey is clearly in a timeshare, at least what's most likely going to happen in week one, and Javante looks like the guy and the backup just fumbled in a very key spot. So it could be a situation where that manager is swayed and wants to make that type of trade. Now, again, I wouldn't give up the rookie at this point for that player, one of those three rookies at least, but some people panic. We just know that's the case.

You know, you get off to a slow start, your team stinks, and you're looking at somebody that's got a guy that scored 20, 20 PBR points. He outscored Sequin Barclay. You're looking at somebody that has that guy on their bench, most likely. And you say, okay, let's make a deal. And it might be two for two. It might be three for three.

You know, three for two, one of those trades. Just to be clear, I'm on your side of that, Jamie. I always want to make clear that we, it touchdowns are like a huge part of this game. And it's hard to predict them, but they're a lot. They determine who scores and year after year. Forget how it gets done. I said this about Javante during the offseason. Like, this could be the J.K. Dobbins.

You know, a guy goes to a fresh start and has the opportunity to, you know, be a successful fantasy option. So it's not, this isn't necessarily about like Javonte is going to stink, but I do think he's going to be touchdown dependent. And if you can turn him into something that most people believe, whether it comes to fruition or not, most people believe is better or has a higher ceiling, you always should try to do that. Yes, again, I'm poor with that. I see it more as potentially a 2023 Gus Edwards is how. I'm seeing this. Okay. He ran 27 routes, Pickens ran 33, Lamb 32, Ferguson 29, Javante 27.

It's a great role. But I just think if you want to trade Javante Williams, do it this week. I don't think his value's ever going to be higher. All right, more comments from YouTube. Should I drop to Mario Douglas for Isaac Arendo? I wouldn't do that yet. Yeah, I would wait to see today's practice report from the 49ers. My email is a little wonky, so I'm not seeing all the transactions,

but I saw one Garando transaction was Adam, and you dropped. It wasn't me. It was my co-manager. Oh, well, I mean, that's fine. I don't think I would have done it, but Keith and Mitchell, we dropped. Descent between Adam and his co-man. No, that's fine. It's reasonable.

Half PPR, start one. Yeah, you know what the greatest draft pick I had all season was? Oh, I saw you're so happy to tilt Adam off with that pick. So pissed. Half PBR, start a wide receiver and a flex. Pearsall, Metcalf, Coleman, pick one. I'll go Metcalf.

Pearsall, over Metcalf for me. Definitely not Coleman. He may not play. I hope you guys are right about Pearson. There's a lot of Pierceall, too. Swift, would be the Flex here? Yeah. I would go with the two receivers,

Pierceall and D.K. All right. Is it crazy to start Worthy over Kyron? No, non-PPR. Not, yeah, if it's full PPR, no. Harvey or Ford, Samson or Mason. I would go with the Browns. You know what's funny, Jamie?

The one in my league made fun of me because I had Ford in my starting lineup, and I was like, I don't know, like, and I heard you say it earlier this week on one of the shows. I think you had Ford, I got to check it out, your rankings for week one, but top 20 possibly? Yeah, why not? the why not the why not for me is that the browns have rarely been willing to give him a big workload you know they kind of gosh i don't have it off top my head but i'd love to know how many games he's had with more than 12 carries doesn't usually happen for jerome ford i i would say this you're not wrong but that's typically been when he's paired with a veteran well there were

times last year when he really was the guy, right? And he never had, he didn't have more than 12 carries at any point last year. Last year I think was a little, like go back to 2023. I think that's a better sample size because they were mixing in, I think it was Deonté Foreman. Yeah, so 2023, he had 15, 16, 17, 17, 15. So that's six games with more than 12 carries. And that was pretty early in the season when he was healthy, right? Um, throughout the season. Three of his first five games. I think just when it comes down to it for me, first off, listen, I have almost equal shares of Ford and Samson. So some of my teams will be worked out well if Samson becomes the guy and the others will be we go with Ford. For this week though, week one, you're talking about

rookie running back. I don't think that he is going to get more work than Ford unless he just absolutely blows the doors off things, which would be great because Samson's going to be a lot of fun. But I think for week one, the matchup's great. They should have an opportunity to, you know, know, use him in the passing game as a, you know, past protector, at least more season past protector than Samson for a 40-year-old quarterback. So I think in passing down, so be there, you know Flacko will throw the ball to his running back. So I just feel like there's a good opportunity for him this week. Same. And I think there's a good opportunity for an explosive touchdown at him this week as well. For both those guys. I mean, they're both. Yeah, right. I

personally don't think Sam's going to play a lot despite what Adam. And I like your suggestion. Adam, I just don't think he's ready. No, I don't know how it's going to play out. I also fear that none of Jamie's teams are going to be good with that respect because Judkins could be back and make... Well, listen, the value for both those... I'm not expecting Jerome Ford and Dylan Samson to carry my fantasy teams, but they were so cheap for what you could be getting from them. Yeah, I didn't mean it that way.

All right, let's finish up here with a few more. Should I trade Olivae for Giovante or Tracy? I would do it in a heartbeat for Tracy. Yeah. And I probably would do it for Giovante, too. I mean, unless you just need receiver help. But like, this is the type of trade, I think that works out. Because now you're looking at what Javante could potentially become.

Like, Olave's got such a bad injury track record and his quarterbacks are going to be terrible. He may be awesome. And I hope he is. But if Javante keeps that role to what Dan was saying, like borderline RB2 flex is well within the range of possibility. And that's where he was being drafted. You know, he was like around RB30. So I would do that. I'm actually a lave on this one.

I'm much higher than consent. on a lot of this year. I really like to buy. Okay, this is from Edison. Dear, Jack, Chloe, Tony, and Palmer. No idea. Oh, 24. I didn't know that, but I looked it up. Bench one.

Bench one in a standard scoring league. Pollard, Tracy, Pearsall. I would mention Tracy. Yeah. I'm good with it. Would you start Ford or Dobbins over Brees Hall in full PPR. I would vote for it.

Yeah, Ford. It's a good matchup. I'm in. Pick a flex. PPR. Judy, Trayvian, Abuka. Judy.

Judy. Judy, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, right, Jamie? What's that? Sweet Judy Blue Eyes. Garrett Wilson, Hunter, or Jennings. I was wrong about Sweet Judy Blue Eyes. I was corrected on Twitter.

She probably stills in Nash. No Neil Young in that one. Garrett Wilson, Travis Hunter, Johnter, Jwan Jennings, pick one. standard scoring I would go Hunter Jennings for me Jennings for me

Oh wow Three different ones Okay Bench one Full PPR Bench Higgins JSN Kiron or worthy

Oh wow Full PPR I'll bench Kiron I think that's the smart way to go But it's close Should I drop ETN for Robinson Garendo or Ford

Trevor for sure The only way I would do that I mean like what he's saying is doesn't have a startable second running back I guess you can make a case like starting Travis E.TN is not that big of a difference between starting Jerome Ford well no I would say that I would drop him for Robinson because if McAfrey were out I'm sorry I missed that part yeah yeah if McCaffrey were out I'd rather have Robinson

But then you're really hurting yourself. Yeah, you have no depth. You have no depth. Drop someone else. There's got to be a receiver or something to drop. All right, last one. Tederoa McMillan, Ricky Piersall, or a meccaabuca? McMillan.

Yeah, started with Tet. Okay. Dan is wearing a weighted blanket for a shirt today. This is a regular shirt. Like, this is insane. It's just, what's the problem here? I actually like that shirt. I think your mom bought you that.

shirt she might have back in the day this is an old shirt i have a lot of i don't think we ever we ever addressed um maybe we didn't i missed it um dan's brother's comment about the schneier men being all barrel chested it is true we have a weird build where the chest comes out but i did i don't agree or subscribe to any of the stuff about me wearing tight shirts those are just how they i'm between a medium and large i can't figure it out medium listen you you wear tight shirts it's no he's a marge this is not a tight shirt Like, this is a regular pullover. Is this medium a small and a medium?

I think he's a Marge. Yeah, I'm not between. Exactly. I'm a medium large. New nickname. Okay. Thank you for a while. All right.

Tell him, hey, Dan, you know this. Tell him Large Marge sent you. There's no way he knows what that is. Tell him Large Marge sent you. Nope. What is it? Peebee's good luncheon. Oh, no way have I seen that movie.

That's fun. You should watch. Okay. Thanks, everybody. Have a great weekend. Talk to you Sunday. 11.30 a.m. Easter. Bye.