Fantasy Football Today - News, Mailbag, Fantasy Cops! (08/06 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: August 6, 2022

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No, I can. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races! And he stays on his feet! He's just going to go the distance! Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. All right, welcome to your Saturday Mailbag. If you're watching on YouTube, happy Friday afternoon to everybody.

It is afternoon. It is 1220 p.m. I can confirm that is afternoon. No disputes here. Today, our favorite segment is back. The Fantasy Cops are coming. I love Fantasy Cops. Adam didn't even tell me we were going to get a little Fantasy Cops going today. Yeah, baby. It's Fantasy Cops.

It's in the thumbnail and everything. We got so many in the inbox. I have four in the show, so I'm not able to answer everybody's Fantasy Cop questions. But if you're new to the show, Fantasy Cops is you have a league dispute. Send an email to fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. That's the letter I, fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. And put Fantasy Cops in the subject line and we will regulate it on the air. Can I ask you a favor for this fantasy cops, Adam? Yeah. There's been a lot of variations of fantasy cops. I've been a part of some of them,

but no matter who the pairing is, or if it's three people on fantasy cops, you're always playing good cop for once. You got to play bad cop. Me? These leagues, Adam. Yes. Oh, you think I'm always playing good cop? You're always playing good cop. Like, oh, that's okay. It's okay to do a trade like that i'll tell you i'll give you a real life i'll give you a real life example we're in a fantasy baseball league together right yep so i get a text from someone this is so funny i crack up man he says um this was at 7.48 p.m. on Monday. The games started at 6 o'clock p.m. Right. He said, dude, I took DeGrom off my IL,

but he went to my bench instead of my starters. Any help or nah? And it was such a nicely worded text that it seemed like he'd be fine with either scenario, right? Right. I thought about it, and I said, if someone texted me at 1.48 p.m. Eastern on a football Sunday, there's no way I'm letting you change your lineup.

So I said, I'm sorry. DeGrom's start had already started at that point. DeGrom's game had started. He started on Tuesday. Oh, interesting. He hadn't started yet. I said, I'm sorry, man. I can't do it.

This is Monday. He goes, Jesus. And I said, you got to set your line up. What can I say? I mean, wasted a first round pick on a guy that won't play because you made us draft weeks before the season. But yeah, cool. Wow. That went from zero to six.

That was a nicely worded text. I like this guy. And now he's just coming at you. And it went on. It was a nicely worded text. I like this guy. And now he's just coming at you. And then it went on. It went on and on and on. And I just like. Wait, this went on further than that? Dude, yeah.

This is not that serious. I know. I know, man. And he blamed me for having the draft too early. And I was like, oh, yeah. Who could have seen a Jacob DeGrom injury coming? Well, let's not go there. We're not going to turn this into a Mets bashing podcast.

We don't need any of that. All right. We're going to turn this into fantasy cops, mailbag, and some news. A lot of news, including Bucks wide receivers. All right. Let's talk about a few players that you're high on and or are drafting a lot. I asked you for three players that we've done a lot of drafts, most of them mocks, but that you find yourself drafting a lot or that you're just high on. Who do you got? This is a fun question. I leaned into that. I'm drafting a lot. So I looked back at all of the

drafts we've done. We do just, just a good heads up for those of you who are listening, but may not follow along on the website. We have mocks every single week, and now we're up to two mocks a week. And with every mock draft we do, Jamie Eisenberg writes up a mock draft recap. And then I turn that into a mock draft survey. So you're getting insight from everyone in the draft and you're also getting a recap of the draft. But looking back through these, I found Adam that I end up with Tom Brady a lot in these mock drafts. It's just, he continues to fall sometimes even into that not round nine, round 10 range. And I just can't help myself drafting a guy who crushed the league when it came to first downs against the blitz last year. You can't blitz the guy. He throws downfield at a ridiculous rate. Now he has Julio Jones in the mix who looks

pretty damn healthy to me. So Godwin practicing say we'll get to that a little bit later. He's looking pretty good for where he's supposed to be at. So I find myself drafting a lot of Tom Brady Adam at running back and this one's going to change. I know it after Sean McVay's recent comments, but I was crushing the Daryl Henderson pick. I mean, he was falling and falling and falling. Nobody wanted anything to do with him, which I think has something to do with his injury history potentially, but he's been a pretty explosive and pretty effective back when on the field. I don't think his injury profile is too much worse than say cam acres, for example. Yeah. So I found myself drafting a lot of him and just in case anyone missed it, Sean McVay,

basically he said that he kind of felt like they had two number one running backs. So that's why Dan's thinking he won't be able to get as much Daryl Henderson because his ADP is going to rise. Go ahead. Yep. You nailed it. And then finally, again, a similar player from a similar team. It's Alan Robinson. This one's going to change, I think, because the camp stuff is just crushing me, crushing my soul when it comes to getting this guy at value because he's just making highlight play after highlight play. But Allen Robinson, I just always end up with him.

I feel like this year, Adam, I don't know if you felt like this in doing all the drafts. Receiver thins out way earlier than I ever remember it thinning out. We get to that maybe back. If you're in the back end of the fourth round, I would say, or even honestly, the back end of the third round in that third, fourth round range, the entire range, I find myself looking at the board and I don't want to reach out running back. Cause that's not how I design my teams. And I need a receiver in that range. And it's looking at guys like Robinson. Maybe you get a chance at a court and Sutton, maybe a Jerry Judy, but it really does start to get to that point where you got to pick the guy you like and the guy you

believe in. For me, that's Alan Robinson. I do sort of agree with you, except there are a few players that I think I'm just going to check their ADP now. I'm picking a date, July 20th. So I'm looking at a little bit more than two weeks on NFC, which is 113 drafts. And where are these guys going? Can you get them in round three? So Michael Pittman is 27th. So he's early round three in a 12 team league. T Higgins and AJ Brown are 28th and 30th.

DJ Moore is 35th. So there's one right there. If I'm late in round three and i can get dj more i feel great about it because i do expect baker mayfield to start the other guy is sutton and i don't know where he's going to end up as of from uh these 113 drafts on nfc starting july 20th to august 5th courtland sutton is 44th overall. If I make it, let's say, August 3rd, let's just see how many drafts we've had in the last couple of days.

15 drafts. Cortland Sutton is now 39th. Yeah, he's moving up. And he's one of the guys that I was going to say that I draft a lot. That was before the Tim Patrick injury, but now I am even further emboldened. I think he's justifiable late in round three

because it is, You just have to take your guy. I'm not quite on Alan Robinson that early, but the training camp reports have been very encouraging. However, the Matthew Stafford situation, a little nerve-wracking. Considering my Rams

exposure everywhere, I agree. Yeah, but I think once you... i think rounds four through six i say it every i say it all the time that ends up being a good range for wide receivers some of these guys are going to really impress really jump out um brandon cooks is going 50th yeah um alan robinson 44th darnell mooney 53rd rashad bateman 59th. This is all NFC. Chris Godwin is 60th. We'll see where he ends up. Michael Thomas is 68th.

There'll be some values, but I don't know if I agree that receiver thins out more than usual. I really feel like every year in a 12-team league, there are about 30 picks that I love. And once I get to the second half of round three, I feel like every pick is risky. And that has not changed this year.

I don't, I think you're probably right on that. I just get, I get the feeling that in these past drafts in that exact range, even like look at last year, for example, I had guys I love like Cooper cup and Deontay Johnson were, were just circled on my list. And every,

almost every draft, I felt like I can get them in that range this year. Who are those guys? Cause once you, once you said, yeah, after, uh, last year it was Cooper cup and Deontay Johnson in that range. And they kept falling into that four to six range, but for this year, cause you mentioned Cortland Sutton and I agree with you, all the guys you mentioned, I really liked. And then once that it's really like if Cortland Sutton goes and I'm in that range and it's, you were right. It's not back in three, it's back in four.

Then it's like, I like the guys you mentioned after that, but all of them, I see some red flags with, and I don't, I think there's a teardrop for sure after Sutton to those guys. Yeah. But I saw red flags with,

with Cooper cup last year. You know, I saw, you could say I saw red flags with Deontay Johnson. Yeah. I mean, you're right. If they're going 40 picks in, they got to have some red flags. Right, yeah.

Okay, well, my three players that I find myself drafting a lot, Cortland Sutton, Trey Lance, Kadarius, Tony. Lance, we talked about on the quarterback preview, Adnazium. He's a guy that you can take

earlier than his ADP and back it up with a safer quarterback like Rogers cousins car, you know, go, go away from ADP. Um, although let's see where Trey Lance is going in the last couple of days, he's going 11th ahead of staff. Yeah. So you take him 11th and then two rounds later, you grab Kirk cousins or Aaron Rogers. You can do that. They're going 14th and 15th in 50. It's only 15 drafts over the last few days on NFC. But Lance and Sutton,

we just talked about, and Tony, are you in on that too? Yeah, I love all three of your guys there. I'm going to be honest. Tony, Sutton, two of my favorite guys to draft, especially Tony. But Tony is seeing

a little bit of an ADP rise. So I feel like the other two, Lance and Sutton, don't have too much more to rise because you really got to get bullish if you want to rank Lance any higher than some of the guys ahead of him. And Sutton, like you said, has already risen a bit. But Tony's going to rise because he's having an excellent camp. Yeah, I'm looking at, again, I went back to ADP since July 20th.

So that's 113 drafts. Kadarius, Tony's wide receiver, 41. I'll tell you, the guy right behind him is Alan Lazard. Who would you rather have, Lazard or Tony? The answer used to be Lazard for me. I've done a little more digging because I did have a ton of early exposure to Lazard. I've cooled off a good, a good bit on Lazard. I kind of went into it thinking there's these vacated targets from Devante Adams. They're kind of the Aaron Rogers named Lazard as his wide receiver one. We know Rogers, that type of quarterback that likes to lean on the guys he trusts, but I just don't know that he has the

skill set to really command that kind of target share. And I feel like there's guys who are stepping up in camp already, like Romeo dobes. I don't, I don't know. Is it dobes or dobes? Yeah. I always pronounce that one wrong. And so I just feel like it's going to be a bit more spread out than I was originally expecting. Okay. Well, uh ahead of Kadarius Tony and Alan Lazard are Michael Thomas. There's no way I'm taking them over him. But the other guys, I might. Devontae Smith, Drake, not at this point, but I could see. Well, Lazard.

Actually, I like Lazard. I like Lazard. I'd take him right after Michael Thomas. Then it's Devontae Smith, Drake London, Russell Gage, Christian Kirk, Kadarius Tony. So we'll see. I don't know that he's going to get any higher than wide receiver 36, which is Michael Thomas.

It depends on this camp, man, because if he's getting all those guys you mentioned, with the exception of Michael Thomas, who of them is commanding the potential target share that Toney's going to get in that offense? Unless you think it is going to be spread around a bit with Gallaudet. Yeah, I do with Barkley and, um, and I just,

I don't love to play this card, but I don't know how many wide receivers are more injury prone than Tony. That's fair. Not just in the NFL. Right. I mean, all throughout college too. That was what I got when I,

when I asked my Florida friends about him, when the giants drafted him, they said he's great, but we haven't seen him much. Right. And so, all right, those are some players that some players that we like here on August 5th. So we've got a lot of great content on the website and let's talk about the draft-a-thon. So we're going to do our fifth annual draft-a-thon to benefit St. Jude and we need you to be a part

of it. Usually I say we want you, we need you. We want to raise as much money as we can for St. Jude, and we need you to be a part of it. Usually I say we want you, we need you. We want to raise as much money as we can for St. Jude who would not want to contribute to that cause. So please be a part of it. And Dan will give you more details right now. Yeah, it's my first year really diving into this thing and becoming a bigger part of it. And it's been really awesome to work with the St. Jude's Children's Hospital, the people we're working with. We're planning a really cool event. It's the draft-a-thon. Most likely, I don't want to give the date just yet because it hasn't been fully finalized, but it's probably going to be that last Wednesday of August. It hasn't been finalized? I sent out an email to like 30 people.

It's almost definitely August 31st. Let's settle down a little bit here, but almost definitely August 31st from 6 to 12 p.m. We're going to have an unbelievable show that's going to have guests from the fantasy community. Basically the best of the best from the fantasy community. I mean, we even get guys that I love, like the deep, deep dives, the rich rebars of the world. The people that I think are my favorite guys. He's probably my favorite guest. Yeah, I mean, Rich has...

He's mainstream now. Is he mainstream now? I guess Rich is considered mainstream. No, I was just saying since I like him has he's mainstream now is he mainstream now I guess Rich is considered mainstream I was just saying since I like him he must be mainstream now but we got we're gonna get unbelievable guests from the fantasy community we're gonna get some athletes again most likely which will be cool

maybe a celebrity appearance here or there maybe you get something cool and fun from the CBS side in that so we're not gonna we're gonna tease it all out not gonna give away too much, but it's awesome. You join us. It's from six to 12 PM. It's six to midnight.

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It's more of like a PG 13 version, at least as far as we go on fantasy football today. So you have fun. So you have fun with it. You join us. And more importantly, if you can, whatever you can donate, please donate to St. Jude's. We're actually hoping to get up soon, starting next week onto our streams, a button where you can just click it and donate

to St. Jude's. And we're going to have some fun events around this too, that you can hopefully join as well. We'll be giving out listener league, uh, entries. We'll be giving out things of that nature. Um, so there will be an eBay page. That's where most of our drive is. So we're going to start promoting and advertising that once that goes live on Monday, this coming Monday. And so if you want to donate, you can donate straight through the button. But also you can join the eBay page where we'll be having auctions of fun things, championship belts for your leagues. You can get Adam Azer to announce your first round. Fun little things like that.

Join our list of leagues. So be on the lookout for all of this. We're really excited about it. And to me, it's one of the best things we do every year. Okay. So seeing a comment here in the chat, apparently it is Romeo Dobbs. And he had to correct it

because all throughout his college career, his coach called him Dobbs. And even the pronunciation guide apparently said yes i knew i was gonna get it wrong but it's dobs all right not dubs this is like a tony and tony and yeah all over again totally those packers and their pronunciations news and notes chris godwin was wearing a brace at practice he's back at practice but but don't get too excited yet they're being cautious with him and meanwhile mike, Mike Evans left Friday's practice with a hamstring injury.

There's no idea the severity. That happened just a couple of hours ago as we record this. Roger Goodell appointed former New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey to hear the appeal in the Deshaun Watson case, and we hope to have some closure on that soon. Matthew Stafford's elbow pain is a little abnormal

for a quarterback, according to Sean McVay. So it's... What's your read on this? I don't have a good read on this, but it's so important because so much of fan is so much of our fantasy. Success is tied to this guy. I mean, there you're seeing cam makers drafted high Cooper cup, Alan Rumson.

We talked about earlier. I'm hoping it's nothing. I was worried about staffer going into last year because of the back issues that he had with Detroit and he played through everything, made it through the full year. I lean more toward being bullish than bearish. I think he's going to play through this thing. Marlon Mack says he is back to his pre-Achilles tear form and he could just be a headache in that Houston backfield. This is what ESPN's Josh Weinfuss said about Rondell Moore. And I just recorded, actually ended up being about a nine-minute profile about Rondell Moore with Jacob Gibbs.

And the biggest thing was his ADOT was so historically low, basically. It was 1.4 yards. That was his average depth of target. So he was just not used downfield. But this is what ESPN's Cardinals beat writer said. Rondell Moore's speed will be a major component of the Cardinals scheme in 2022

in all areas from behind the line of scrimmage to downfield. So if he can get downfield a little bit more, he's got some potential to be a nice sleeper. Peter King says Robert Woods looks like he's back to his normal self. Brandon Ayuk has had a good camp. Romeo Dobbs has had a good camp.

Donald Parham of the Chargers, tight end, he's having a good camp. Kansas City rookie Isaiah Pacheco is having a good camp. Bills rookie James Cook is having a good camp. They just talked about him turning some heads in the run game. Meanwhile, Isaiah McKenzie for the Bills, he is right now the starting slot receiver. He's running ahead of Jamison Cratter, who has missed some time.

So these are names to know as good late-round picks. I mean, Brandon Ayuk was very good the last, say, half of the season. Had better receiving numbers than Debo Samuel. Doesn't mean that'll happen again, but Debo obviously had the rushing totals. But Ayuk is a name to know. Also, you should keep in mind, Ayuk did a lot of this without Debo on the field,

this training camp. Dubs, Parham, Isaiah Pacheco in Kansas City. You're not going to draft him, but could be a headache in that backfield. They have a fairly deep backfield, I guess. I think what's interesting about the Pacheco situation, just to cut in real quick, Adam, is they've been using him, and he's had some of his best highlights in the passing game. And so if that's because, you know, they re-signed Jarek McKinnon, they don't really fully trust Clyde Edwards' layer to be on every passing down.

But look, if he shows out in the passing game, and Andy Reid sees something that he can use, he's looking for mismatches at all times. He could potentially get some work this year. We'll see. We've seen weirder things. Derek Gore had a little stretch last year, so. Right, yeah.

Javante Williams, there's been some, I don't want to say controversy, but disagreements about the type of split he's getting as the number one back. Is it 70-30? Is it 55-45? You follow the beat writers pretty closely. What is it with Javante Williams? There's no consensus right now. I think I'm going to lean on Ben Albright because

he's had really good scoops on the Broncos. He's been really checked in and he thinks it's going to be pretty similar to what it was last year, which is close to a 50-50 split. I'll say somewhere in between that and 70-30. I'm going to go with 60 40 as my final. Cause I do think they're going to give him more chances, right? It's like, he's a budding star there. They don't want to keep them off the field. Javante Williams that is, but it goes back to what we said in the scared to draft episode, a few months or a month and a half ago, this guy is going in the early to mid second round and you can't even guarantee workload there. Everyone else you're drafting there is either a target hog as a receiver or a workload hog as a running back. So it's just, it's very

scary for me with Javante Williams. I'm scared to be wrong because the talent is there. Right, right. If he gets 60%, if the workload is the same as last year and he gets 60% instead of 50%, then you'll see him have enough work to be a great running back if things break right. Like James Conner, for example. He didn't have a ton of work, but he scored a lot of touchdowns. So if he can get 60% based on the workload last year. Yeah, go ahead. Just the Conner example always to me, because part of the Conner thing was he did have that stretch without Edmonds where he really became the RB1.

And I remember us talking about him before that as this kind of touchdown-dependent guy. And a lot of fans were like like fade him because the touchdowns will regress. But that wasn't the case because if you look at the rates, almost nobody in the NFL, and this was surprising to me, ran the ball at a higher rate in the red zone than the Cardinals. I don't know if that's necessarily going to be the case with the Broncos now that they have Russell Wilson. And I'll, what concerns me is I don't know who the passing downs Russell Wilson. And what concerns me is I don't know who the passing downs back is, and I don't know who the goal line back is.

It's not just, well, here's a split, but we know where the high-value touches are. We don't know that. It could just be like last year where it was almost 50-50. The carries were exactly even. Javante did... I have hope because Javante did have more catches

and more targets than Gordon. I think he's going to be a better pass blocker. So I think he's the best bet for the third down work, but I don't know about the goal line. All right, finish up with some more news here. And we've got, yeah, don't get too excited about Albert O because he and Greg Dulcich are competing there

and they're both going to have to fill Tim Patrick's role, especially in the red zone, according to coach Nathaniel Hackett. A couple of rookie wide receivers for the Titans to keep an eye on, Terry McCormick, he's been getting first team slot reps, and Dan, you like Kyle Phillips. Yeah, Kyle Phillips, my boy. At a UCLA, I watch the tape on Phillips, and if you're going to look for a player who is as close to Cooper cup as it

gets, but also be at the same time being a very poor man's Cooper cup. So let's, let's back that up. He doesn't have Cooper cups, total power, which is a big part of what makes cups game go. And he doesn't have the vertical element that cup has, but that ability to win in a phone booth, that ability to win on those two way routes in the slot. Kyle Phillips was up there with anyone in this draft class for me,

and he was a total sleeper, was never going to get drafted because he didn't have the deep speed, but now he's showing out in Titans camp, and I think he can be a real... I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes a big receptions racker this year. Okay, that is Kyle Phillips for the Titans, and Colts rookie wide receiver Alec Pierce has been working with the starters since day one,

according to The Athletic. And a question for you, Dan Schneier. You said, when in a phone booth. How old are you? I just turned 33. Have you ever been in a phone booth? Phone booths were definitely a thing when I was really young.

Yeah. Phone booths were fun. They were never fun. When you were a little kid. They were never fun. When you're a little kid, you're in a phone booth. You feel like you're, I don't know,

some secret mission in a spaceship or something like that. You can let your imagination run wild. Anyway, when we come back, the fantasy cops

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There's the music. That sweet sound of the fantasy cops. Figuring out your league disputes. We've got your back. Let's do this. All right. Apparently, I am always the good cop. Let's test that theory. This is from Seth. This past Sunday, I did a public 14-team full PPR super flex draft, 13 rounds, offensive players only. With a lineup of one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, and three super flex spots. I took Herbert and Hurst with my first two picks,

Cousins in the sixth at pick 83 overall, and then that sparked the commissioner to put me and another team on blast who at that point had four quarterbacks rostered for being qb hogs when we defended in the draft chat as we because the flex spots being super flex so we could start up to four quarterbacks this set the rest of the draft in a tailspin as when the draft wrapped up wrapped up exactly half the league seven teams had one quarterback and didn't think about the super flex aspect of it. All right, now here's the thing, right? So I'll pause.

Got three super flex spots. He drafted accordingly. One other manager drafted accordingly. Seven teams drafted one quarterback. Now here's what happened. The commissioner said that he tried to cap the limit to two quarterbacks before the draft, but it wouldn't let him do it.

So he set up the league. He thought it was going to be just a regular super flex league. Instead, he created three super flex spots. 30 minutes after the draft finished, the commissioner posted in the league that he meant to put the flexes as one super flex and two standard and set the limit of quarterbacks roster to two per team. He said that I and the other team that has five quarterbacks need to drop down to two QBs in two weeks or he will go into our rosters and drop the quarterbacks

that went after our first two drafted. He put the stipulation that we cannot trade these away for anything, but rather we have to drop them into the free agent pool to give the other seven teams a chance at a better choice of a backup quarterback. My God.

What is the right course of action here? Would you let our two teams make trades to get down to two? Would you schedule a redraft? Would you tell the seven teams with just one quarterback to run to the waiver wire right away? Oh my God, there's so much to unpack here.

Let me start by saying this was, originally he called this a public league. This is the most intense public league I've ever heard of in my life. Like this is a public league. You got a chat going, you got a commissioner going nuts. Let me say this. The only thing that would be even remotely fair in this scenario would be to redraft with the rules that he never told you before the draft, but then told you after the draft,

this idea that you can just cut these players you took in like round four, five, six is absurd. But also, let me just say this, Adam. No one drafted accordingly. Kirk Cousins was available in round six. Literally, my first five picks would have been quarterbacks. Round one, round two, round three, round four, round five. You can start four every week, and I want a backup, too. I might go round six, too.

If there's a starter quarterback, I would be taking it. And how about the fact that even in a super flex league, even if they thought it was just one super flex, seven teams only drafted one quarterback. That's absurd. I, you got to redraft. You got to redraft.

Total redraft. All right. Well, anyway, let's go to cam from Winnipeg. Dear Harvey, Mike, Lewis, and Trevor. Harvey, Mike, Lewis, and Trevor.

Harvey, Mike, Lewis, and Trevor. Why do I never get these right? This is hard. I don't know what this is. Harvey Dent? Oh, Suits. People keep referencing this show Suits. What is this Suits?

Oh, my God. I've watched one episode of Suits. To me, I don't want to be. You know what? Our listeners like Suits. Enjoy that show. That's all I'll say. Okay. This email comes baked like lasagna as there are layers to the situation. I am a fantasy football fanatic. I'm going to be the commissioner for a dynasty startup as well as a redraft league. I am trying to encourage my girlfriend for a dynasty startup as well as a redraft league. I am trying to encourage my girlfriend to play for the first time. She doesn't really know football, but I told her I would help her draft.

Fantasy Cops questions. What are your thoughts on me paying her entry fee? How do you think it will come across if I help her draft? Do you think trading between our two teams could be a red flag? Let's go one by one. Thoughts on him paying her entry fee. Totally fine by me with that. Who would be who would have an issue with that? Not me. How do you think it will come across if I help her draft? This is the interesting one. So you're also in the league. This is why this

one's a problem. So one of the only things I'll ever veto a trade over is potential collusion. That's basically the only thing. And so this would be hard. You know, you can make a case that there's some collusion involved, right? She's on the clock. You can't draft. You cannot help her draft. Yeah, you can't do it. Let's not overthink it.

You cannot help another team draft. No way. That's in the league, yeah. Do you think trading between our two teams could be a red flag? I think just a little bit of a red flag, Cam. So pay her entry fee, but she's got to get her own advice. I know a podcast she can listen to. All right, next up.

Eric from the Second City, which is Chicago, right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Hey, Mike, Greg, Zach, and Cole. Mike, Greg, Zach, and Cole. The Yankees pitchers? I wish. They don't have Jordan anymore. It's the worst trade ever. I don't know who that is. Alright, this is a fantasy

cop dispute from 2010. Ready? This happened in 2010. I'd like to get your perspective on this. 10 team, 5 keeper, PPR league. A trade was made between Jimbo and Ronald. They swapped multiple picks a month before the draft.

This included swapping their first-round picks with the verbal agreement between the two that Ronald would not draft Jermichael Finley with the newly acquired pick since Ronald would now draft

ahead of Jimbo. All right, so they swapped first-round picks. Jimbo says, you now draft ahead of Jimbo. All right. So they swap first round picks. Jimbo says, you can go ahead of me, but you can't draft your Michael Finley. And Ronald agrees. Ronald then approaches me with a deal asking to swap our first round picks with an added sweetener. My pick is also ahead of Jimbo's. So let's say Ronald ended up, after the trade with Jimbo, he ended up with the first pick, and Jimbo had the fifth pick. And then our emailer here, Eric,

let's say he had the third pick. They agreed to swap. So Ronald is still ahead of Jimbo. And remember, he made that agreement not to draft your Michael Finley with Jimbo's pick. I accepted this, but Ronald disclosed his reasoning. He was trying to get around

the verbal agreement that he would not draft for Michael Finley with Jimbo's first round pick. So he did it instead with Eric's first round pick. Jimbo threatens to quit the league if Finley is drafted by Ronald,

stated that he is beholden to the verbal part of the deal since the traded pick was used to acquire a different first round or blah, blah, blah. Luckily, Ronald bowed down to the league pressure. I guess he didn't draft Finley and he drafted someone else. Finley went on to only play four games that season. So it was all kind of a moot point.

What would your ruling as commissioner be? Are verbal stipulations okay as long as the commission is informed? So we have had this situation occur in our home league. Wow. Really? Something not, not exactly that, but the idea was there was a verbal agreement that somebody tried to go

back on. And so we made a ruling that everything has to be in paper. There are no verbal agreements. If you have a verbal agreement that you make with somebody else and somebody goes back on it, that's just life. And you just have to deal with that. But we said,

if you write it in the email, in addition to the trade, as in a stipulation, like we agree verbally to this, then you're beholden to it. So I think you got to get it in writing. I think that's so funny though, to make a second trade for a different pick ahead of,

of Ronald or Jimbo's or whatever. I almost respect the hustle there. Really? It's great. It's great. All right. Let's see one be honest. It's great. It's great. All right, let's see. One more here. Let's go. All right, this is from Anthony in Tacoma. Myself and the commissioner of a keeper league.

I'm in. We listen to your podcast, so I hope this airs. All right, here we go. 12-team keeper PPR league. We each keep two players every year for up to three years, one round in advance of where we drafted them. We just selected our keepers and we were informed that preseason trades for players and picks would be allowed in the coming draft. I negotiated with last year's champion

and we settled on my receiving Austin Eckler as a fourth round keeper this year, but no value after this year. He gets Dobbins as a 12th rounder this year and my ninth round pick. So this guy is getting, this is Anthony, he's getting Eckler in the fourth round.

He's giving up J.K. Dobbins in a ninth round pick and Dobbins has a 12th round value. For the first time in the history of the league, the commissioners elected to veto this trade under the idea that it was too lopsided. And the commissioner believes, based on their conversation, that the

champion, the one who gave up Eckler for Dobbins in a ninth round, the champion is simply electing to make his team worse to up the challenge rating this year. I feel a bit bothered by this outcome, and I'm willing to hear y'all's opinion, maybe to help smooth things over for me. Is this a totally lopsided

trade, needed to be vetoed, or is this an abuse of commissioner power? Oh, or is this an abuse of commissioner power? Oh, this is a total abuse of commissioner power. Let me start by saying that. First of all, what is a challenge rating? Are you aware of this, Adam? Is that something on the site? Absolutely not. I think he's just

a very cocky... First of all, I don't think that he's doing anything wrong here, but I was going to say he's a very cocky commissioner, or champion, who thinks that he can win with anything wrong here, but I was going to say he's a very cocky commissioner, or champion, who thinks that he can win with the worst team, but the trade is fine. Right. I was going to say, let me say this. You're getting Dobbins at a 12th round value plus a 9th round. That's not

bad at all. And you can only keep Eckler for this year. This is not bad at all. This is nowhere near vetoable, but also the idea that the champion is trying to make his job harder, that I don't buy into either. Look at us agreeing on everything. I know.

How about that? It's not good. What's wrong with that? There needs to be a little dissension here between us, Adam. Alright, we'll get there. This is from Eric from a large island in British Columbia. Is that your most quoted movie thing?

You always do the Eric. Yeah, I think it's probably. Does anyone on here know what the Eric is besides Adam? I've learned it because of that. I'm sure. We have 196 people watching right now. What is Eric from? Oh, look at this one from Castor Troy.

I know what Castor Troy is from. Ew, two Giants fans? I can't. I don't blame you. I can't either. You know, who cast your Troy is? Um,

he's yes. Yes. He's, uh, from one of those movies with it's, it's Nicholas cage, right? Is it the face off one?

We just call it face off, but yes, it is from that one. I'm losing my voice by the way. So I hope I can make it through the rest of the show. All right, this question is from Eric. It says, keeper question, 12-team league, start two flexes, half PPR,

four point for passing touchdown. Should I keep Justin Herbert or Javante Williams? There's no rounds attached to either. No. And they said no super flex, right? Correct. Javante Williams.

All right. This is from Dr. Will. I'm a contending team at a 12 team dynasty league. I got what I believe is a nice offer for T Higgins, who my number one wide receiver, but should I take it or ask for more? I was offered Sutton and a mid 23 first and a mid 23 second for Higgins, my number one wide receiver. But should I take it or ask for more? I was offered Sutton and a mid-23 first

and a mid-23 second for Higgins and a late 23 third. Whoa. Yeah, you should take that. Oh, my God. You get a first out of it, too, and a second. I love this trade in Dynasty for you. I don't even know necessarily that Higgins is. I like Higgins over Sutton,

but, man, Sutton's not a bad play either there. It's possible this was written before the Tim Patrick injury. Kevin said Billy Madison. Yes, that's where... Eric is from. You're giving the company to Eric? This is from Jalen Hertzfan. I did my draft last night.

How do you think I did? 2QB League. I had the eighth pick. I have Jalen Hurts. Wait, it's a 2QB League? He has Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson. You took Hurts before Jackson? I'm confused.

Because he said bench, Lamar Jackson. But all right. 2QB? Yeah. All right. That's GPP? Yeah. All right. Okay, Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson, Najee Harris, Cam Akers,

Tyreek Hill, Michael Pittman, and then he has Irv Smith and Cortland Sutton. This team is incredible. Are you kidding me? Yeah, it's too loaded. That doesn't make any sense. Maybe it's a 10-team league.

I don't know. This might have been the one he was drafting with his girlfriend and he got his girlfriend to just throw the pigs. This is from Scott Matthew, 12 team, half PPR keeper league, AJ Brown and the six,

their cam makers in the 10th. Oh my God. I am going to go AJ Brown in the six. I've just soured so much on acres. Okay. From Jared, Ten-team standard scoring league. Start three receivers. No

flex. What kind of draft strategy would you lean on here? I listened to the recent format podcast and you said two wide receiver versus three wide receiver changes your strategy more than PPR versus non. How do you balance that? Yeah, this is a good question. I've never played in a non PPR three receiver league without a flex because that flex you're going to want to be a running back,

but you don't have a flex. So this is interesting. How would you approach this draft? To me, Adam, I still think you need to be more running back heavy than normal here because i know you have three receivers to fill here but it's only 10 teams so that means you know that goes through wide receiver almost just a little past wide receiver to range so for me i'm still leaning into the strategy we had for our standard league uh podcast segment i think I'm going to probably just not I'm going to really focus on running back and wide receiver and not quarterback and tight end early I think

you know look everything changes if Travis Kelsey falls to the end of round two or something like that that'd be one thing but I think my first five picks are going to be running backs and receivers just get the foundation of your team there

but again I've never done it. So we'll see. This is from Anthony. I have Justin Jefferson and Michael Pittman for $5 and $1 respected respectively, $210 cap. I can keep three of them. Which of the following would be your third? Um, Deontay Johnson for five. He already has two receivers, Jefferson and Pitt? Deontay Johnson for five. He already has two receivers, Jefferson and Pittman. Deontay Johnson for five, Akers for four, or Bateman for two? Oh, my God. This build makes me want to go away from who I would normally say, which would probably be, for me, Bateman for two

because I love Rashad Bateman. But this build makes me want to say Cam Akers. Are you similar with that, Adam? Because he's so strong already. Yeah, I would. I mean, if Deontay Johnson or Rashad Bateman were A.J. Brown or somebody, if they were a top 15 receiver, then sure. But I think get the running back.

All right, this is from T on the East Coast, the mushroom capital of the East Coast. What's the mushroom capital of the East Coast. What's the mushroom capital of the East Coast? What kind of mushrooms are we talking about? Yeah, also, great question. Definitely need some clarity there. Let's see, I'll just Google it. The Aaron Rodgers kind of.

Kennett Square in a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania is the mushroom capital of the world. I would have never guessed that. Super Flex League, we get one keeper. Akers for a fifth. Gervonta for a tenth. Oh, come on, Gervonta. Oh, whoa.

Gervonta for a tenth. Wait, there's two more. There's two more. Okay. Adams for a second. No. Dobbins for a fifth. No.

Gervonta Williams for a tenth. Bang. Bang. It's a huge keeper. Time for your emails. Hey, Jose, Alec, Kevin, and Yusei. No clue. Oh, come on, man.

I think those are Blue Jays pitchers. Like Kevin Gossman. Yeah, Alec Menorah. That's my team name. Sorry, Alec Menorah. Great team name. He's so proud of that, as he should be, to be completely honest. That's my team name. Sorry, Alec Minora. Great team name. He's so proud of that, as he should be, to be completely honest. Thank you, thank you.

Jose Barrios. Okay. And you say Kikuchi, right? Oh, yeah. Yep. You say goodbye. I discovered your show a few years ago. I've become a huge fan.

Thank you. I'm in a new 12-team league this year. Five-man keeper league going forward. I've got the second overall pick, and I'm wondering if I'm overthinking about concerns about age and injuries for Eckler and McCaffrey. Am I crazy to ignore the upside and take a younger and hopefully more durable player

like Najee Harris? To me, the way I draft Adam, the answer would be yes. I would never take Najee Harris over those players. And you can even look at a player like Harris and wonder if there's concern there, right? Because he doesn't have Brenn Roethlisberger anymore. And Roethlisberger was way past his prime, but Roethlisberger was checking down at an insane rate to the running back.

So I think some of the volume there is going to go a little away from Najee Harris. So there are concerns even with a player like Harris. I do understand that, look, he hasn't had an injury at any point in his career yet. And they have a major injury, Najee Harris. So there are concerns even with a player like Harris. I do understand that, look, he hasn't had an injury at any point in his career yet and had a major injury, Najee Harris, but he's still so young, right? He's only year two in the NFL. Give it a little time there. I mean, he's basically the only back in this entire class

with a clean bill of health, but I don't lean too much on that. No, I think it's pretty random. So who would you take second overall? If Jonathan Taylor was first overall? Is this his half PPR or PPR? No. Was it not specified? Don't know.

Well, assuming it's half or full, it would be Christian McCaffrey for me. Najee Harris, by the way, is not that young. I mean, he's 24. He's younger than... Yeah, he was an old rookie, you're right. Eckler would be the first player to finish top five at running back

at a... What is he, 27 or is he 28? He is 27. He would be the first player to finish top five at running back at age 27 or older since LeSean McCoy six years ago. Wow.

But he is a different, he's got 607 career carries, you know, he's still very much in his prime. I think rules are meant to be broken. This is not a guy who's wearing down. Uh, right.

Do you see it that way with Eckler? I'm a little scared of Eckler this year for a couple of reasons. He actually has been pretty injured throughout his career. Last year was on the luckier side as far as that goes, more so i'm injured because of the touchdown regression i mean if you look at his entire career as a touchdown producer versus last year last year just looks like sticks out like a sore thumb i mean he's not and i get it the offense is a lot better well but he had the role and that's the difference yeah he had the role let me tell you about 20, I want to say 2019. Yes.

The first four games of 2019 for Austin Eckler, Melvin Gordon was suspended. And he averaged 14 carries per game and six catches per game. And he scored three touchdowns, three rushing touchdowns. And I believe two of them were like one or two yard touchdowns, if I recall, in four games. So that year without Melvin Gordon, he was on pace for, wow, some pace for like 2,100 yards or something, 102 catches and 26 touchdowns. Just in those four games without Melvin Gordon. But it's basically just he had the goal line role then

and he had the goal line role in 2021. I'm a little worried that someone else could have that role, but not that worried. Anyway, Austin from Canada's, the home of Canada's Oktoberfest. No clue. Sounds fun. I just don't know what it is.

10-team, 2QB league with two flex spots i have the ninth pick my league drafts quarterbacks heavy and early um with that in mind how would you suggest i go about my first two picks knowing that the top three quarterbacks will definitely get picked ahead of me and possibly the likes of jalen hurtsts. Would it be in my best interest to pivot by taking two of the top running backs or top wide receiver? This is a 2QB league. It is 10 teams. What do you do picking ninth here?

Yeah, so for me, I've been asked this question a lot in Superflex or 2QB leagues. In 2QB leagues, it actually goes even further in this direction for me. You just can't afford to skip on QBs. I know it seems like there's some interesting strategy you can do loading up at running back or receiver.

You're going to be, have such an advantage there, but QBs are literal gold in these leagues. There are a finite resource. Every other resource there's more of you can, and I, and I, I'm sorry, Elijah Mitchell can appear out of nowhere at running back. Right. And that goes for all these other positions. That's not going to happen at quarterback. This is a finite resource. It runs out.

Get them and get them fast. I agree. However, you have a 10-team league. There's no way I'm not taking one quarterback with those first two picks. I don't know that you need to take two. You could definitely get a Tom Brady or something in round one and then maybe a Kirk Cousins or a Derek Carr

in round three in a 10 team league because that's 28th overall yeah you could because we in our league for example especially but this is the difference like remember in our super flex yeah but in in our Scott Fishbowl by the time it got back to me and we had the third round reversal so we were picking in the early part of the round he's going to be picking in the late part of the third round by the time it got back to me i ended up taking trevor lawrence that's where i was at he's not really he's picking in the middle of the third round because that's what we're talking about 12 team right so this is only 29th overall so you got i got trey lance one pick before you took right laurence so and i think there's a drop off

after lance between before that lawrence range i yeah. And Lance goes higher than he did then, but... Right. Yeah, it's risky. Okay, we just did a two-quarterback draft, a super flex draft on Tuesday night. I've already talked about this on the show. I'm sorry, but I had the sixth pick, I think. I took Jonathan Taylor, Travis Kelsey,

Matthew Stafford in round three, and Trevor Lawrence in round four. So I was pretty happy with that. I would say you have to get a little lucky, but it could happen. And you have to know your league. If you drafted with these guys and girls before, you have to know if it's one of those leagues

where everyone's just racing to get those quarterbacks or not. Hey, remember that pick-by-pick series we did on Monday, Dan, and all the articles were published? Yep. Yeah, why is it that my articles are like the only ones that aren't on the website? They were on that website for about five minutes and then they must have been so bad that you pulled them.

That's not true at all. George was running Arena, so this is a complaint you have to direct to George. I rarely get to write and I guess I know why. You did a pretty good job. I actually thought you did a good job, Adam. I mean, you didn't get it in Prism, so there was a little,

you made me do a little extra work. I wasn't thrilled about that, but otherwise it was good. All right, this is from Kenan. A couple of years... I think this subject was you're wrong about Russell Wilson. A couple of years ago,

I wrote into your show about Tom Brady and his warm weather stats. Adam seemed intrigued by this, but the panel shrugged it off that Brady was not the fantasy... not that fantasy relevant as a top QB in their eyes and the weather was not a factor.

Two years and many touchdowns later, I have another weather fact that I think you are overlooking. You guys are fired up about Russell Wilson and his new surroundings, but his play in cold weather is very subpar. He does have the numbers to back it up. I don't know how he found this specific stat but um i'll

take his word for it and he says after his week nine by six of his last nine games will be poor cold weather i think that's a little presumptuous i don't i i would be surprised if he had six bad weather games well what do we have the games in front of us? Sure, but it just doesn't usually work out that way. Okay. But six is a ton. I can't remember a quarterback having six bad weather games. Yeah, if we're talking really bad weather, like ripping wind. Yeah, go ahead.

But I guess I'll throw it to you. I mean, should we be concerned about this? Russell Wilson has – this is a true thing. Like I, this is backed up by the film is backed up by everything. He's been a quarterback who struggles in bad weather because Russell Wilson doesn't exactly win with arm talent. If you look at him throwing the outs, they call them the NFL throws the passes outside the hash marks.

The ball doesn't get there very fast. And Russell Wilson has been a quarterback his entire career who wins with anticipation. He is one of the best anticipatory throwers in the NFL. That's a little harder to do in the cold weather. So this is a bit concerning to me. I'm going to take a deeper look into these games after the pod out, Adam, because I don't necessarily know that like some of these like Cardinals at Broncos, Chiefs at Broncos.

I'll tell you, I have the schedule. Because look, the home games for Denver, they make quote unquote seem like bad weather based on maybe, I guess, the degrees and the cold, but that air and mile high, that is conducive to a quarterback. That is conducive to throwing the football. So I think that has to bounce into the equation too. Yeah, his last five games are at Baltimore on December 4th.

I don't know that that's going to be bad. Kansas. That one's going to be bad, yes. December 4th? Yeah, it's Baltimore. It's December 4 december 4th yeah it's baltimore it's december 4th i mean it's not christmas that's a there's a big difference uh kansas city at home arizona at home at the rams should be fine at kansas city at kansas city on january 1st that'll be gross championship yeah that'll probably be pretty gross oh it's a decent point this isn't these

aren't that bad it's a good point if there was a harder schedule though. Like a lot of these are home games where again, I think the air helps in mile high. I don't really see anything like besides that Chiefs game. I don't really, and maybe the Ravens. I don't know. And this is from Tim. Hey, CJ, Fred, LaShawn, and Boobie.

Ah, CJ, I, Leshawn, and Booby. CJ, I'm just... Oh, yeah, I got it. How do you get these every time? I Google them. Oh, that's not fair. Well, no, I tell you when I actually get them. So this one you Googled, and what was the answer? This bill's running backs.

I was going to say that, but then it was like... Booby Dickson. I wasn't going to say that. I just lied. I wasn't going to say that. Go ahead. Alright, Tim from a city in Virginia with the same name as the place where they make Jack Daniels in Tennessee. Hicksville?

Isn't that like Hicksville or something? No idea. Okay. If that's right, someone let me know if that's right, please. When listening to your podcast, I keep hearing the guys say, I'd love to get him in round X, but he's never going to fall there. Or I'd love to have him on my team, but he never falls to me where I would draft him. Playing in an inexperienced league,

how can I get the good players if people reach for them all? Don't I just end up with a bunch of safe, unknown guys drafted at their ADP without big ceilings? Do I have to reach if everyone else is? No, actually, these are my favorite types of drafts when everyone's reaching i feel like the draft board always falls into a way it falls away that really is conducive to me building out a high value roster because when people are reaching that means guys are falling that should be going higher right that's the definition of people

reaching so i end up with a team that maybe i wasn't thinking i was going to get going in but in the end i'm like wow it's good value every single pick. So I think this ultimately works in your favor. All right, I'm going to read some YouTube questions. If you want to fire them in, go for it. In our auction dynasty league, Christian McCaffrey is available. Would you pursue McCaffrey or Brees Hall in a dynasty league? Auction dynasty league? I've never... Salary in a dynasty league? Auction dynasty league.

I've never. Salary cap, sorry. Salary cap dynasty league. Salary cap dynasty league. But I guess they read, I don't really understand the concept of this league. Cause if it's dynasty, but they're, is he available via trade? Oh crap.

I'm on the clock at my dynasty league. Oh no. I hope I didn't auto pick. This is funny. This is zone, right? right very funny but i don't really understand i'll toss this to you jake from safe farm i'll talk to you adam because if it's a dynasty league there's usually no one available unless you're talking about available via trade so i have a dynasty league where we're actually doing a draft right now and let's hope i didn't

time out oh crap i crap. I timed out. This is great radio right now. Damn it. Adam is such a time router. This happens so often for him. It's crazy. I'm very busy. And he's like, I don't get the emails.

No, I got the email. I just forgot. I had a busy day. I drafted Sterling Shepard. Ugh. So my Dynasty League has contracts. So every few years, here were the first. We do a free agent draft.

And this year is our last year, so we did not do a separate rookie draft. But these were the first. This was the first round of the free agent draft. Mixon, Connor, Michael Thomas, Juju, Brees Hall, Mike Williams, Devante Parker, Bills DST, ridiculous scoring in this league, Hopkins, Kareem Hunt, Tony Pollard, Hunter Renfro, Dak Prescott. So we have usually about a round of really good players

because we have contracts and some guys just can't be kept any longer. Right. But who do you like better in Dynasty, McCaffrey or Brees Hall? That's really what the question is. Yeah, that's a great question. I like Brees Hall better personally. Obviously the age factor here, but I'm a big fan of Brees Hall? That's really what the question is. Yeah, that's a great question. I like Brees Hall better, personally. Obviously, the age factor here, but I'm a big fan of Brees Hall's profile in general as a prospect.

From Albert, Lamar Jackson and Amari Cooper and a 23 first-round pick, or Dak Prescott and Diggs in a super flex league? So Jackson, Amari Cooper, and a 2023 first-rounder, or Dak Prescott and Diggs? That's a good question. I think I'm going to take the first rounder here with Lamar and Cooper.

I mean, sounds great. Next year you go into your draft with a first round pick, an extra first. From my opinion, oh, he's giving us the finger in his avatar. That's not cool. Why would you take a quarterback so early? There are plenty of good quarterbacks later on.

I agree. I don't take quarterbacks early unless it's, we were talking a lot throughout this podcast. We've been talking a lot about two quarterback and super flex leagues in those leagues. You have to take them because there's finite resource in the one QBs. I'm with you. Yeah.

It's just a matter of if you're in round four and Justin Herbert happens to be there. No, I don't take him. No, I probably don't. But I do think my strategy has changed a bit because in past

years there hasn't been this nice grouping of like the Brady range, the range of like Brady, Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott, that whole range in round eight through ten. That I never used to have, so I would wait all the way until the end. Now I'm not waiting. I'm getting one of those because then I see the teardrop.

Andy wants to know, Sky Moore or James Cook in a PPR Dynasty League? It's a great question. These guys were drafted. I did four different Dynasty drafts. They were drafted within one or two picks in every single one of them. Moore went ahead in all of them.

I would still take Sky Moore over James Cook in a PPR League. From Joe, out of these guys, who should I keep? Javante Williams in the 6th, Justin Herbert in the 7th, Jalen Waddell in the 9th, or Jalen Hurts in the 13th?

So I have to assume this is one QB league because it wasn't specified otherwise, and so for me, it's Javante Williams in the 6th. Yeah. Oh, boy. Jalen Hurts in the 13th is tempting. But okay. I agree. Javante. This is from Carlton.

I have the 12th pick in PPR. I'm hoping Diggs and Lamb fall to me. Or should I do wide receiver and Kelsey if available? Like them both. For me, it's wide receiver and Kelsey. I'm just a big believer in getting one of these tight ends, man. I mean, look, if you get past a certain range of tight end this year, it gets so gross. I was looking at our rankings, Adam. And I think after, after the Goddard, um, Hawkinson and Schultz range, right? Like once you get to those guys,

I look at the next 10 guys ranked Adam. I don't think that the guy ranked first is any better than the guy ranked 10th in that one through 10 of not Zach. Is it's is the only one I consider, but now that's the only one. I agree with you completely. I mean, I know we just did the tight end podcast earlier this morning, and you're always going to hear some Cole Komet hype on our show,

but that could just be, that could completely blow up our faces. But we're taking him so late. But there's no reason why a tight end that does not even get drafted is a free agent pickup could not be better than cole commit you know like dalton schultz was last year 100 so yeah kelsey if kelsey's available at 12 it's a no-brainer for me digs also lamb fine i would probably take a guy like deandre swift or Alvin Kamara over CeeDee Lamb. In fact, I would.

I would not take Swift, and I would probably not take Kamara. I mean, if you think wide receiver gets thin in round three and four, you should look at running back. Oh, I feel like it's the opposite, Adam. I feel like running back is, there's guys in the dead zone

that I never would take in previous years. Ezekiel Elliott's going in round four, for example. No, he's not. Yeah, he's been falling into a little bit of round four. It's been late round three, a little bit in round four. I mean, it depends what you look at, because that's as long as George Maselli's not in your draft. He's going.

If you're looking at our drafts, that's different. But if you're looking at fantasy pros, Ezekiel Elliott's going 30th. And I haven't seen any draft where he's gone that high yet. And let's see, David Montgomery's 32, James Conner's 32. Right. That range is better than it used to be. And then even if you go a little further, J.K. Dobbins in that next range,

I mean, that used to never be able to get. Like last year, we were taking Mike, Dave, Peep, not we way you were one of them, Adam. I was never one of them. I am going to drive to New Jersey and hit you with a Jersey Mike sub. If you tell anyone one more time that I drafted Mike Davis, I did. I did not like my, did you not draft my single in our one? Okay. And I was, I was kind of on the fence about Mike Davis. It was Miles Gaskin. But it was Miles Gaskin. No, Miles Gaskin was the one that I was like, there's no way I'm drafting Miles Gaskin. I did not like either of those two guys.

You have to stop the siren. I unfairly have put Adam in. And he is a bigger believer in the dead zone than most, but I guess he wasn't in on these two dead zone bats. No, I wasn't. The point being, those were two of the guys you were getting in that same range last year, right? Don't you think these guys are way better than those guys much yeah yeah i do absolutely i think people learned

a little bit of a lesson from guys like gaskin and davis there has to be a little bit of provenness to these guys or they have to be rookies i really want to get some breeze hall i think he's going to have a good year it might have to wait it's another guy in that range right he's going in the 50s oh even further but i like aj dillon a. I know you don't. I like him 60th right around there. I like him, just not as much PPR. But yeah, I do like him a little. So, yeah. I mean, Dave had an interesting theory

that it's going to be more of a balanced year at running back and wide receiver. In what sense? What does he mean by that? Like fewer, less separation between maybe wide receiver 12 and 20 or something. Oh, okay. I'll let him explain it.

I don't want to put words in his mouth, but, you know, there'll be some studs, but maybe not as many as in the past, and it'll be more of just like a giant tier. I could see that, actually. I don't hate that. I could see that, too. And I think, you know,

a lot of the great running backs are aging out, you know, the guys that we've been relying on for so many years are getting older. And a lot of the great wide receivers, Adams and Hill in particular, they're in worse situations. Then you throw in the Julio Jones thing. Maybe that makes the Bucs guys a little bit less valuable.

You've got the tight ends, Waller, Kittle, and Pitts. All of their situations got worse than the off season. So, uh, I don't know what to make of it. I'm very excited for this season. I think there's,

I think it looks like it's going to be so much fun for fantasy. And thank you all so much for being on and watching and listening to, uh, our mailbag show. Hope you have a great weekend. I need some water, bro. I'm struggling.

We'll talk to you, uh, we'll, yeah I'm struggling. We'll talk to you. We'll talk to you. You'll hear from us. You'll hear from us. Goodbye.