Fantasy Football Today - Week 1 Mailbag Q&A! Start/Sit, Waivers & Questions Answered (09/12 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 12, 2026

Adam, Jamey and Dan have your Week 1 fantasy football mailbag! They kick things off with thoughts on picking up Josh Jacobs and injury updates for Jeremiyah Love & Brock Bowers (4:56), before diving into who to start after A.J. Brown's injury (8:12). After more start/sit questions (13:48) and an Adam movie recommendation to Dan (24:04), the guys get into Fantasy Cops with a special rendition from Dan himself. The guys weigh in on drafting the wrong B. Robinson, auto drafting in a high stakes league, and a wild family league situation with 2 teams under the same manager (40:03). They finish the show with chat questions, answering all your start/sit decisions as we head into Week 1!Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcastsWatch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? It's a no idea. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Up 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 Belback time. I see the genuine joy on the faces of Dan and Jamie when I say that. We love the show. This is like our little reward for a hard work week. Now we get to just kick back and relax with our fantasy football community. What's up, Dan? Not much. And I don't like to always say it's been a hard work week because we get to do the greatest thing in the world.

And there are people who are doing actual manual hard labor in this world. But I will say this, this is the joy at the end of the week because it's fun to just kind of BS a little bit, talk about some things outside of football, but also answer a lot of questions. Jacob and I did a show yesterday, Adam and Jamie, that we answered a lot of start sit and flex questions. And I kind of feel for you guys now. I know how hard that can be when you're hitting rapid fire flex start sits. Well, you don't want to be wrong, right? You're just like... Exactly.

It's a lot of responsibility. Hard work just didn't mean like bad or anything. Just, you know, work hard. Now we play hard. Let's go. Yeah, busy. Right. Jamie, what's up?

How are you? Good. I got a question from the chat to start things off. If Josh Jacobs was dropped in your league, how much fab? are you dropping on him? Assuming you haven't spent any of it already since it's the start of the season, I probably go up to 30%. What do we know that we didn't know?

I mean, that's the thing that's the question that I asked to start. Like I think everyone feels like, I guess, I hate to use these terms in this situation, but like it's optimistic about when he might play now based on what we learned yesterday. But I don't feel like we learned any real information on this. And I still think it could be a situation where he is out for longer than people expect at this point. So I'd probably be a little bit more reserved, more like 15, 20% by FAB. I understand it.

And obviously, a lot of room for interpretation on this is that he's got to meet with the commissioner now. And it sounds like he's going to be able to play at some point this season. When that is, we don't know. Most of these cases are usually six games. And if they're going to count the games that he missed on the exemplist as part of that, he could be back as early as week seven. So if Josh Jacobs were available in my league, and he's 93% rostered, which is obviously very high, but usually he's 100% rostered. If Josh Jacobs were available in my league and I knew he were coming back in week seven, I would spend at least 50 to 50% of my budget.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. If I knew he's coming back in week seven, I might honestly just spend 90%. Yeah, you could. Because that's the free agent of the year at that point, by far. And you miss six games of it, but whatever at that point, you're unlikely to get a running. back in Freedency that has that kind of impact even for all of the games.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you for a good question to start off the show. We will have more of your questions at the end of the show in the chat. We have fantasy cops today. We've got really, I think a very, it's one of my favorites. I don't want to hype it up too much, but I love it. Really?

I think it's great. I think it's really fun. I love that you know what Jamie. I put it in the notes, but yeah, I know. Dan and I are both wearing Giants blue. We got to. It's the first week of the season. The only time we can be optimistic about this team.

The whole season's not the line for them. If they lose, it does feel, my brother called this, honestly, my brother called this a must-win game, and it kind of feels like it, considering they have angry Rams and week two.

Yeah. This does feel like a must-win game for the job. Yeah, angry Rams and week two. Yeah. Sounds like a big game. I just wanted to say, yeah, Angry Birds.

Brock Bowers, the only news I have right now is on Brock Bowers, although, like, here's one coming in, coming in hot, from Josh Wine, Weinfest.

A source told me the expectation is that Jeremiah Love will play Sunday against the Chargers. Yeah. All right. We're pretty much expecting that. And Josh covers the Cardinals for ESPN. Okay. Anyway, Brock Bowers, Adam Schaefter spoke yesterday or Thursday about Brock Bowers.

And it wasn't quite as optimistic as just the, oh, he's got, he's out one to two weeks with this meniscus trim. It may be longer. He may not be himself when he comes back. So just be aware It sucks if you drafted Brock Bowers in the second round But it's not like a death sentence You know for your team or anything

But it might be a little while Until you get the best of him We have one draftathon question From a donation here It's a rate my team And it is from Brian He says 10 team

Or 12 team PPR League Six point per passing touchdown I picked 10th I went Chase Brown and Derek Henry, got Ramandre Stevenson later, got Loveland, McConkey and Burden,

and Godwin, didn't get a quarterback late. I took, who did he take? So, oh, he didn't tell me. But anyway,

what do you think about, oh, Mahomes, Mahomes. Is his second. Who the hell is his, oh, Herbert. There we go.

Wow. Still, they're getting Herbert and Loveland. Herbert, Loveland, Chase Brown, Derek Henry. McConkey, Burden, Godwin. Yeah.

Great team. Yeah, it's my kind of build. I'm going to give it an A. So I like that he leaned into the early running backs where the value is there. And then allowed him to kind of pile on those receivers in the range I love and get a lot of my favorite buys there. But also still manage to somehow get what I have as a top six quarterback in Herbert in my rankings and a top two for me, but top three tight end in Loveland. So I think this is a phenomenal draft. It's a full A for me.

You say it's 10 team league or told? No, he picked 10th in a 20th. 12 team league. 10 to the 12 team, got it. Yeah, 12 team league, it's an A. 10 team league,

I was a little bit more pessimistic. Yeah. Good talent, but not like a lot of all stars there. But yeah, it's awesome. Absolutely fantastic, Jeff.

Yep. And that's why... I think we're going to find out like, assuming that Gibbs and hopefully Bijjan don't like just wreck fantasy, that picking at the back end may have been the best place to be.

Yes, because of the second round. It's finally, it finally paid off to pick of the back in. Well, I think more so the third, the fifth, like you just said. those receivers like that you get still and he was able to do it with still getting Loveland.

So to get McConkey, Burden and Godwin on top of Loveland is just awesome. Yeah, because it allowed for the running back, running back start. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. I think that'll be determined by how well the, you know, we always talked about the top 12 running backs and it kind of became top 11 with Gentie. And then he kind of based on AP, he came back in there right with 12. It will depend probably on how those running backs do in the second round. but we really liked them.

And then, yeah, the 3-4 turn has a lot of good receivers and Loveland. Okay, 10-team PPR Lee. Oh, yeah, so email here. Now we go to the emails. Fantasy Football at CBSI.com. Email us there, Fantasy Football at CBS.com. That is the letter I.

You can put Fantasy Copps in the subject line. If it's Fantasy Copse, otherwise, just ask you, you know, put whatever you want in the subject line. 10-team PPR League with two wide receivers and two flexes. I lost AJ Brown and Dejan Strax. dribbling. I have Amon Ross St. Brown, Jaden Reed, and Casey Concepcion. Who should I roll the dice on before Sunday to help for the next four to six weeks and beyond? A Raider, a Patriot, a dolphin, Jacoby Lane, or Malachi Fields? The first few names that came to my mind were Trey Tucker,

if he's available, just because of Bauer's injury and the usage, just knowing that he did well last year. Devon Vele. We talked about this on our full-length episode. Four games last season. He averaged over six targets per game in his final four, and Jordan Tyson's out to start the season. So he's going to be involved. And then we like the Kellynne Moore, Tyler, Tyler, offense for the Saints. You could take a chance on Ad9 Mitchell. You could take a chance on Chris Bell. You know, those guys are going to get some opportunities. I'm assuming it's a league. I know Yahoo allows you to do it. So if a team played already, you could pick up players. So if you're looking at the Patriots, I guess I would still lean Romeo Dobbs.

I know it was miserable for him, but you don't make that investment in looking at what this receiving court looks like to say DeMario Douglas and Kyle Williams and Matt Collins have more upside than Dobbs. I still think Dobbs has the highest ceiling of that group. So for me, I would prioritize probably Tucker first, Velae second, and then I would actually take Chris Bell over Adnichael if that's the way I'm looking at. It's Chris Bell easy for me. If I'm just picking one out of this group, to me it's the clear most upside best talent by

far on the board, reminded me on Louisville tape of like A.J. Brown post-catch with the Titans. Obviously, it doesn't have that full, you know, ability to play that style of game, but can win over the middle on in-breakers on slants and on the drags and the overs really just fits what NFL is about. And I just love how his steady drumbeat has built this offseason. The Dolphins didn't like, he's back in practice. Let's ease him in. It was like, nope, you're right away with the first team. Then immediately your name starter. And it's like, we're not going to like kind of slow play you. I feel like he's a big reason they can move the, if they're going to move the ball through the air,

he'll be a big reason for it. So just looking at all those, I think he has the best chance to actually be fantasy relevant. So the only thing I would push back on is, in his situation, the fantasy manager situation here, he may need instant production as opposed to waiting on it. Yeah.

And I think Tucker and Velae gave you that more so than Bell does. I don't disagree with the talent. I don't think you're wrong. I don't think you're wrong. I think there's a path for him. to be very good because wide open canvas for targets and there's not a lot of competition

but you're just looking at it's Malik Willis, it's still, it could be Douglas, it could be Malik Washington like I think just you kind of saw what Trey Tucker did last year, saw it Velaide did last year again, you know, if you're comfortable enough with I think you said St. Brown, there was somebody else besides Concepcion in there. Who else was it?

Jane Reed. Who? Jaden Reed. Oh, Jade, yeah. So those will be your starters and then Concepcion own and the other guys will just kind of be, you know, whoever gets hot, I think at the right time. All right, next question. I have a question for Dan, though, before we get there.

Did you listen to anything of our morning show, Friday morning? Have missed completely every show. After listening to every single FFT, what we're in that. I hope nobody says anything in chat. What would you rank the best games for this weekend? Assuming, taking away all the games have played, right? Okay. Well, you know me.

What do you think the game of the week should be? Give me a second try to figure this out. So you want just number one game of the week? Yeah, I'm inspiring you. Inspiring you with music. But it's got to be like a good fantasy game too. Yeah, so it's for fantasy or real life? It's a combo.

It's a combo. For both. I mean, it's, I'm going to go Buccaneers Bengals for fantasy, if that's allowed. That's not my game of the week for both, though. Oh, what's the game of week? It's probably Bill's Texans for both. Oh. Texans.

I don't know why you'd say, Because the Texans, it's too good defensively. Yeah, shut up, Adam. Keep going. Okay, so there we go. Let's move to Broncos Chiefs. Okay, keep going. I still think that's good.

I still think that's good. Oh, wow, I missed a good one. Saints Lions. Okay, good. Keep going. Yep. Oh, wow. Adams is going to be so bad, isn't it?

This is just, I'm already disgusted. I mean, if I had to go with a fifth, that's four. That's already stretching thin. But if I had to go with a fifth, it's, uh, uh, I mean, it could be, it could be, for fantasy, it could be Chargers Cardinals. I can see a lot of points in that game for fantasy. At the first game of the week. How bad is it?

The 2026 season was Ravens Colts. What? What? That's so bad. Such a bad pick. All right, we'll see. It's gross in so many ways. It's so gross in so many ways.

We'll see. What are you thinking? Like, what's the rationale is just like the Colts pick up right where they left off? when Jones was healthy last year or something. If they do, then it's going to be a great game. Okay. If they do, it's going to be a great game. It's so bad.

It's like a crazy pick. This was the highest scoring offense in the league last year when Daniel Jones was healthy. Against the Ravens with Lamar Jackson. That's good. Okay. All right. All right. Let's catch up.

Let's make up for some lost time here. Josh asks four point per passing touchdown, Herbert or golf? Herbert. Herbert. And do you ever pick your lineup decisions based on your lineup or your opponent's lineup? I have Laporta. My opponent has St. Brown. My opponent has Hampton.

So he's deciding between Herbert and golf. No, I try to maximize my points. Yeah. From Paul, start one, Jaden Reed, Jordan Addison, Chris Godwin, half PPR. Godwin. Godwin. From John, Marshawn Lloyd or Jaden Reed, full PPR. Ooh.

Don't love either this week, but I'd go out. I don't either. I think I would go read. I'm very skeptical of the whole Marshaun Lloyd thing. Okay. Gawfer Lawrence, PPR, half a point per carry, half point for completion. Oh. Got to go golf, I think.

With the completions, I would go golf. I think, yeah, that's what pushes. I like both. From Nicholas, start one in PPR, Luther Bird and T. Higgins. And I'm just going to read everyone's typos today. Marshawn Floyd. Start one. It's definitely not Lloyd.

It's either Higgins. That's a tough call. Higgins, for sure, if Odunze plays, it's closer if O'Donte's out. I would lean Higgins just based on the projected score. I think I'd lead Higgins regardless. The Tampa Bay Corners are not good. From Nicola. I just read that one.

From Michael, I'm going to read the typos. I already started Roman Stevenson. But I have Marshawn, Lloyd, Tony Pollard, and Quinchon Judkins. Who should I start? Lloyd, Pollard, or Judkins? I'd start Judkins, but as I said on the earlier show, like Judkins and Pollard feel very similar to me just because it's like the involvement in the passing game

will be questionable. I like the matchup better for Pollard, but I think Judkins is just a better player, so I lean to. Yeah, but what about Lloyd? I don't want to trust Lloyd. Against Minnesota defense. Yeah.

No. The thing, I was talking about this with Dave, like Jamie had to hop off the podcast for a bit this morning. No, no, I had to decide it to after your terrible game week. You disgusted it. Your take was so disgraceful. You had to leave. Minnesota's defense on paper doesn't make sense that it's as good as it.

Yeah, it's purely a scheme thing. Florida is just running a wild scheme out there and daring teams to beat it. And like, nobody, only a few quarterbacks can beat this scheme. Yeah. Okay. Well, they didn't have an amazing run. At times they were great against the run. At times they were not.

They're going to be run blitzing all games. so they're just naturally going to be good against the run. I just think we got a very clear example of what could happen to Marshawn Lloyd with Jadarian Price. Like he could be extremely talented. He could be game scripted to a point where he deserves more touches but may not get them. And that's my fear. I think he's the goal line back, though, whereas Price...

Why, though? We don't know if he's the goal line back. We don't know that, right? I think he's the goal line back, whereas with Price, I think he is not the goal line back. Well, Price is definitely not because he's, there were two carries for Halani. It seems that way. Yes.

But also, Price to me is definitely a better talent than Lloyd, but we'll see if I'm wrong about Lloyd. I'm not going to. Look, I really liked Marshawn Lloyd coming out of college. I personally did not like. And I didn't know about Chadarian Price.

He just didn't have enough work. But he looked very good. And I could see him taking that goal line work away from George Halani when they just go, you know what? I think we're just going to let, we're just going to let the guy that we drafted in the first. Yeah, he should be in in the red zone.

They have a better chance to score touchdowns. Sure. It's ridiculous. This felt a lot like Walker Charbonnet, except Halani is not Sharbonne. And that's a ticking time bomb, too, because Charbonnet is already ahead of schedule. It might be back by week five, so.

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apply, C-Sight for details. Adam, let me ask you a question. When you sent in your case to Stitch Fix, did you just send in a picture of the Star Trek shirt and they can't work with you? You're too far gone. Josh from Canada

says, Dear Andy, Adam, Danny, and Pat. Andy. Adam, Danny, and Pat. This is just not good for me. You know one of these people. I've been hot lately. You know, you actually know one of these people. Whoa. Say it again. Andy, what?

Andy Adam, Danny, and Pat. And I know one of these people. You play in fantasy. These are probably two of them. These are fantasy football podcast hosts. Well, Adam Azer. What were the other ones? Oh, Andy, the guy from

footballers, his first name. Yeah. Don't know him at all. What's the other ones? Don't know Pat Mayo at all. Who's the other? Who's the last one? Let's see if I'm, Adam's right now. Could be Patrick Doherty,

Roto Pat, too. Don't know him at all either. Who's the last one? He's in Rifti open. Danny from the ringer. What's his last one? I do know Danny Kelly. All right.

So I got one. I don't think. Oh, well, then no. Danny Hyfitz? I think I know Danny Hyfitz. Danny and I follow each other and Twitter. Okay, I know Danny Hyphitz too. We got one.

You were right. You were right. I knew too. Okay. Okay. Well, Josh has a quarterback question for us. 10-team league, two receiver, one flex, one superflex. I waited on quarterback, and I accidentally clicked on Jordan Love instead of

Kyler Murray. So my quarterbacks are Love, Daniel Jones, and Malik Willis. He'll be fine. Superflex. I want to upgrade. Would you trade Parker Washington and Malik Willis for Jared Gough? No. I have Amon Ross St. Brown, Nico Collins, Justin Jefferson, Jalen Waddle, Parker, Washington,

and Stefan Diggs. If it's four-point passing TDs, I wouldn't even consider this. if it's six point, I still wouldn't do it. I don't like this idea at all. I would do it. This is where you're wrong, giving up a key player like Parker Washington. It's a 10 team league. Yeah, that's the fifth receiver.

Oh, it's his fifth receiver. And how many do you start? Do you know? Two and a flex. Just two in a flex? Yeah. Oh, and then you do this in harp. This league is, I mean, we got to, I don't know when I'm supposed to take things seriously.

Like, you're in a 10 team league and you have two receivers in a flex, so you have no starting lineup. Like, what are we doing here, boys? We have all sorts of good players in the best. bench every week. Come on. All right. Do the trade. Whatever. Look to upgrade. Do two for one anytime. And you can in this kind of format. I would probably aim a little bit higher, though, if you're trying to trade for a quarterback. Like, I like golf a lot. Whatever. 10 team super flex league. Like, you want to try and see if you get a superstar and

Parker Washington with a quarterback might do that. Yeah, I guess he. I don't know if he would, though, because like nobody needs Parker Washington. It's a 10 team leader. You only start two receivers. Well, he's important player. He's not even in the top 20. Is he? Okay. This thing is ridiculous. Thank you, Adam. Like, this is where you're wrong. And then later, like almost instantly admitted I was right.

What? From what you, I said, I do the trade. You go, this is where you're wrong. And then, wait, wait, wait, well, yeah. Well, you didn't give me the context. You didn't give me all the comments. I think I did give some of the context here, but not all of it. The two receiver starting thing was key.

Yeah. This one is from Scott. Dan, do you know what that's from Scott? I think that's your impression of, what's his name, the guy. You know the guy. What's that guy's name? Oh, are you doing a now, is that Austin Powers? Dr. Evil.

Scott. Is that Austin Powers? Yeah, I knew. You know what? I've actually seen all the Austin Powers movie. How weird is that? That is weird. I've seen like a total of 3% of great movies of all time and somehow Austin Powers made the mix.

I don't think I ever gave my movie recommendation. Now, I'm about to give a movie recommendation for a movie that is like universally loved that everyone who's seen, I think loves it. Okay. But if you haven't seen Project Hail Mary, I did watch it. I thought it was incredible. I didn't love it. I can't believe it.

I know everyone loved it. I don't know what was wrong with me. I didn't, I like, it was good. First of all, I watched that on a plane. When you watch a movie on a plane, I watched on a plane home from Florida. Me too, me too, but I stopped on. That's so funny. I hope I didn't tell this story on the air.

But it's a two hour, 35 minute flight. They said, or at a movie, they said my flight was going to be two hours and 30 minutes. I was able to, I was like, okay, you know what, there's probably at least five minutes of credits. I was able to start a little before takeoff. Maybe I can get this in. And then they start, well, we got the JetBlue credit card. And here's what we have.

Like, they got 15 minutes of just chatting. So there was, so I only watched like an hour on the plane and then I finished at home. It made a big difference. It made a big difference. Don't watch it on a plane. Watch it home. Yeah, it's always, movies are always worse on the plane for sure. It was definitely good.

I didn't say I didn't like it to the chat as saying that. I just, I thought I'd love it a lot more because like Martian I loved. one of my favorite movies. Oh, yeah, I didn't see that. At that level. I think that was considerably better to me. Do you see it, Jamie? Project Hellmery, no.

It's amazing. Okay. Dan, what did you think of the auction that you did with Adam? Oh, that was, did you not talk about that yet on the air? No. Briefly.

So, just that you were trolling. He and Adam got into several bidding wars, first of all, which was fun. I made him go up on a lot of guys. Adam, like, mismanaged in his, I think you would agree with this. Oh, yeah.

He mismanages his budget so much that, like, he was the guy at the end of the end of the, end of the auction that was like, I don't care I'm bidding up and up. So like it would get to a point where he was like overpaying like Leporta went wildly. Yes, you almost bought him for the same price as Loveland. You were a buck off the Loveland price. Okay, but you had a bunch of those at the end where you're just like, I'm getting him no matter what. He did like three.

I'm getting them no matter what type bids. More than that. And unfortunately, more than that. And unfortunately I was in on those players. I let him go. I took like Watson for five, McLaurin for five. I took all the values instead. So I like my team.

It's super depth base. But then I have two potential. I got Genti super cheap at 16 and I got neighbors super cheap at like 13. And we'll see if both of them are good to go. Genty looks good to go already. That could end up being all I need with the depth I have. Yeah, I know. I made a mistake.

I just everyone, the expensive players were going for so much more than. They were going so over what they went for. I planned it out using last year's results and they all went wildly over, which meant there was value at the end if you could get it. I really do feel like the guys I mentioned plus some of you, maybe you got whatever out. Yeah, I got a lot of value at the end. But at the same time, what it led to is me and Adam missed on all the big players.

I mean, I got lamb and, I'm not not, yeah, I got lamb and, or no, neighbors and gentie. Yeah, did I get lamb too in there. I think you did. No, I think I got lamb too. So I did get lamb, neighbors, and gentie. So I do have some stud power to go along with a lot of depth. But I think you got like no first round picks. My best player is AJ Brown.

So there you. Yeah. So Adam really missed it. Like Adam just didn't get in on any of them. So he had so much money and just was like power. You never want to do that. My worst player is Josh Jacobs. So I basically, my entire team is like guys from rounds three through eight.

It's an interesting, it's an interesting team. Like it's going to help when biweeks and injuries come. But my best player is injured now, so I'm screwed. Okay. You should try and package Brown and Jacobs to see if somebody who gets off to a good start and loves their team has a step. Maybe. Scott says, we always rank quarterbacks one through 24,

but maybe we could start ranking up to 32 with Superflex leagues. I can't comment on that, but I would like to know some guys, Jamie, that maybe didn't make your top 24 that you might like this week. There are some good matchups for some of those lower-end quarterbacks. Who do you think might have a good game? I have Rogers ranked, and I think he'll have a decent start because of the lack of pass rush from the Falcons. And I just think getting off to a good start with McCarthy is on the table.

Gino Smith, just because of the Titans defense, he didn't make the top 24. He's actually somebody I'm starting in a couple of Superflex leagues. I'm trying to think who didn't make the cut. So there's eight quarterbacks who did not. How about Bryce Young? So Young, I want to say I might have had him ranked. But yeah, he's in that mix. Sure, you know, bears have some secondary concerns.

I just don't know how high of a ceiling he has. But like, you know, Cam Ward against the Jets could have a decent game, but do you really want to trust him? So I think for the most part, like if you have your 24 guys, the reason we don't do that is because when we get into biweeks, we can't alter our rankings page during the season. So we just kind of run into trouble. Interesting, interesting.

So he wants to know, Scott wants to know if you would play Gino Smith over Jordan Love. So I wouldn't do that, but it wouldn't surprise me if they're close. You know, that's kind of the situation, I think, when you look at,

at least from my rankings, like basically quarterback, like 20 through 32 would be, if I was doing projections, it would probably like a point off between like 20 through 24 and 24 through 28. you know that type of slide scale.

I'm so match up heavy that I would start Gino over Jordan Love personally. Okay. Next question is from Ted, from somewhere southwest of the North... I know it's not supposed to say North Falk, but I'm going to say Norfolk Naval Base. San Virginia. Yeah. Who should I start in my flex at half PPR? Marchon Lloyd, Casey Concepcion, or Jonathan Brooks?

Concepcion for me. Lloyd for me. Lloyd for me. This is from Nate in Flushing, Michigan. Dear George, Michael, George Michael, and Buster. Should I trade? Oh, this is the rest of development.

Yes. It was so obvious I didn't feel like I needed to say it. If I hit, I hit, and I want to take my wins when I could. Dear Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine. Oh, that's Seinfeld. Should I trade? You act like everyone knows Seinfeld. I think maybe, you know,

not everybody knows is a Seinfeld thing. Should I trade Tetaro-McMillard? for DeAndre Swift. His RB2 is Derek, is J.K. Dobbins. I like that then, yeah. Yeah, I think... Tedderall and Milan for DeAndre Swift.

Yeah, that's fair. And his RB2 stinks. Yeah, I like that move. Here's a dynasty question from Greg. My RB2 is a little weak. And I have Sequin, Dowdell, Mason, Jonathan Brooks, Bill, and Breeland Allen.

It's not that bad. That's not that. But he wants to win the league. I've been offered Tony Pollard for my... Yeah. Well, he's contending, I mean. I've been offered a trade of Tony Pollard for my Braylon Allen.

Trade chart indicates I win the deal, but I'm thinking that the 29-year-old Pollard may not be any better than Dowdell, Mason, Brooks, or Bill. And if Brees goes down, Alan could be very valuable. I see his point. I mean, you're upgrading your...

You're obviously upgrading your backfield now by getting Pollard. There is no... guarantee that Braylon Allen is better than Pollard when Breeshall, if Breesall misses any time, because they'll still use Isaiah Davis and could be a split. Here's a question on Apple Podcasts. I want to thank everybody for their Apple Podcast reviews. Really appreciate it. I asked y'all if you could leave some five-star reviews and you came through. If you leave a five-star review and ask a question, we will try to read it on the mailbag.

However, you're going to have to probably send it in Monday or Tuesday just to make sure it shows up because they take a while to show up. Ben says... Did we live with Dan now? Yeah, I think so when he's coming back. I'm in a league with Jamie, BFL. What is that? Barris Fantasy League. There's lots of actually family members from this league.

Can you please ask Jamie to let me win this year? That's good. I think I had one other Apple podcast question. It was a rate my team. Let me see if I can find it real quick. That's a great question. No, from Wisco Disco. Wisco, hold on. I'll come back to that in a minute.

But here's one from Apple Podcast. With the Trevion Henderson News, do you think Ramandre Stevenson will finish ahead of Devon A. Chan rest of season? Good fantasy option, not a great real-life option, but because of the receptions, as we saw Wednesday night, he'll still give you number two fantasy value. Where the hell did Dan go? Did that fix it?

I mean, I thought that was your internet. an issue. It seems like it slipped. I'm using a different browser. No, we're both having some issues here, I think, unfortunately. Well, you should show Wisco's question. Okay. Wisco disco. What's he saying? I don't even see it. Oh, do Dan and Adam secretly live together? We would kill each other if we live together. I think your wife would kill both of you. Yeah, 100%. A hundred percent. I could have made a joke there. I won't. It was like a two-hour... So many things I want to say off of that. But I just can't.

What? Of what? Nothing. Nothing. Oh, man. All right, Dan's connection is still not great. Right? No.

It feels good on my end. I see you guys. Am I crazy? I think it was your. I think it was you. By the way, you were the one having it. I hate, see, I'm getting the blame well. It was you the one having internet issues at them.

And then all of a sudden, you had to do your thing with it. Oh, you get the top left and you kick me off the show. No, that's not what happened. All right. We're going to take a break and come back with the fantasy cops in, And right now, we'll be right back. One last cool thing to tell you about before we get into fantasy cops here. Can I ask a quick question?

Is there a reason why every ad is just Adam? We don't get Jamie, Dave, or Heath on any of them? We get Jamie. You're sucking up 90% of the ad airtime. Do you think you're better at reading ads than I am? I think so. Thomas is not on right now. But actually, let's let the listeners.

I've had a couple ads on here. I usually get the Z biotic, the one that I'll give them the Zbiotics. It's an amazing product, by the way, that I use every day. I don't drink. So I'm not going to promote. I'm not going to do an insincere read. That's why you do it. All right.

By the way, I do use that every time I go out and it's amazing. It really is. I've heard very good things about it. I wake up so good. All right. So if you are Sunday, we already decided we're going to set a record for most watched, our most watched Sunday morning live stream on YouTube. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. and that is from 11 a.m. to kick off, basically.

But if you're watching that on your TV, you can now use your phone to jump into the YouTube chat. So you can watch on TV, and you can ask questions on your phone. So keep us on the big screen, grab your phone, open up YouTube. It will connect to the stream and send us your lineup questions, and we will answer them live. Now, full disclosure, we are going to get probably thousands of questions, thousands and thousands of questions.

We will not answer all of them, but I will do my best. All right. And that will be Sunday. And look at us. Where are you, Dan? You're not coming on Sunday. Yeah, thanks for the invite.

You want to be on? Like I said, you know, I'm happy I got Zbiotics because it is a great product. I have used it a bunch recently, especially went out to a concert. It is actually unreal that you can drink on that thing and wake up like nothing. That happened. No, it's good. I mean, I've heard many people talk about it. And I've seen Dan's read.

Are we going to have another tailgate this year? A giant game tailgate at him. That was epic. The people have been asking. Thursday night against the commanders. I'm in if you're in for that game. I'm in. All right.

Let's go fantasy cops. Here we go. This is from Ben in... Wait, this is the Fantasy Cup? Yeah. Yeah, it is. I got you, Jamie. This is the Fantasy Cops.

Tuesday night, this is Ben in Syracuse or for Dan, Syracuse. Tuesday night. We held our auction draft on the site we play on. With almost everyone remote, several managers drafting from their phones. With the second nomination, someone nominated Falcons running back Brian Robinson. Several managers clearly thought this was Bijan Robinson, and he ended up going for about a third of a manager's budget.

On this site's draft page, the avatars are small and their names are listed as first initial and last name. and when drafting from your phone, you don't see many stats. And the draft chat doesn't come up unless you tab over to it. This is not a CBS draft, by the way. During the bidding, people using computers tried to warn everyone via the draft chat, but the messages weren't seen in time. The person who nominated Brian Robinson did so completely intentionally, hoping this would happen and has shown zero remorse,

saying he did nothing wrong. To add to the intrigue and drama, he is also the older brother of the Brian Robinson manager. How would you handle this? Obviously, the correct action would have been to pause the draft and undo the pick in the moment, but we weren't aware until later that this is even possible on this website.

And even if we want the, you know, redoing it. And even if we wanted to redo the entire draft, the season has already started. So should the Brian Robinson manager get any kind of restitution, like extra fab, extra auction money next year, refunded dues, et cetera? Unfortunately, no. Yeah, I don't know what you do here because you can't start the draft over.

That would be crazy anyway. You had to kind of catch it in the moment. How was it not caught in the moment, though? That's the part that, like, I understand I've seen some of these sites where it does say B. Dot Robinson, because I saw someone post like a TikTok about this. But once they're bid on in one into your league, then it's like, it's on your roster is the full name. It should be.

Okay. Sorry you are. I don't know what happened there. It just sucks, but this was, you know, I mean, you got to pay attention. I know that I'm sure they were trying, but Yeah, they couldn't really. I mean, it seemed like it was. Well, they, I don't know about stopping the draft in the middle of it or after that it happened,

but like there could have been a way to rectify this unless the site that they're using just complete sucks. What I would have done is giving them, I would have given that manager Bejean Robinson for a dollar. Whoa. That's what I would have done. Yeah, but you can't do that though, because he's, this person's, bidding up Brian Robinson, everybody else that was, or the other people that were aware of it. We're not. We're not.

Yeah. Including the person to put him up from me. No, no, no. Several people were bidding on Brian thinking it was beat. Yes, but not everybody was. I guess that's a good point. Yeah, that's a good point. It was probably just the brother versus brother. I mean, look, it sounds like a fun. No, it was homish. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Well, I guess you're out of luck. I'm sorry. Your brother's kind of a jerk. And yeah, the brother that got Brian Robinson

should get free punches in the arm on the older brother, whenever they get to the next. I just think it's funny the whole thing. It is kind of funny, but so is this. Yeah, it does sound about right. It does sound about right. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, right? Or Fancy Cops number two.

Sounds about the same, yeah. Yeah, because you nailed it. This year, myself, and three, four. friends have collaborated in FFPC chasing big returns. So these are, yeah, these are like high stakes leagues. You get a lot of money. If you win. I've personally been successful in this format, even when it was FFWC.

So I've been taking the lead to help my friends as it's not your daddy's home Yahoo League. Why you say Yahoo, dude. It's tight end premium, 20 roster spots, bare bone waiver wire, fab bidding, and some very confusing rules. One guy has been very insubordinate. and quite frankly, an awful teammate. He thinks because he's lucked into a few championships in 10-team standard leagues in the past, that he doesn't need help with FFPC.

Well, listen to this now. He's drafted three teams so far, one in which two players got auto-drafted during a six-hour slow draft, and in a live draft, half his team got auto-drafted because he doesn't understand time zones, apparently. Essentially, both of those teams are dead because of his mistakes. I call them on it. He's unapologetic and offers no solution to the problem. I suggested we alter his split for payouts

or demand that he draft another team to be fair to his teammates in which he gave a hard no to both. The thing is, this is big money. Thousands of dollars of entry fees and millions of dollars in the prize pool. I'm ready to just cut him loose and humble him and split with the other three teammates, although I don't want to have to do that,

but I don't see any other way. What do you guys think? So there's four people collaborating on this? Yes. And the other three are all agreement? Seems like... Yes, yes. The other three are all in agreement that this particular friend of there screwed up?

He did not say that. I would say if they're all three in agreement that he screwed up, whatever the shared buy-in is, maybe you just buy him out, and you guys split the winnings on the other three league so that he doesn't lose his money. And he can manage the team that he screwed up on by himself. It's going to ruin a friendship potentially, but if he's unwilling to budge on what the four-es, of you decided to do and three of you are in agreement, then that's the only solution in my mind.

I mean, that's one solution. It's probably the fairest solution, Jamie, but to me, it's like, you guys had a task. You joined together. You said, we'll kind of split the upside and the winnings. And then one guy just didn't do his task. He all got auto-drafted. That's unacceptable. Like, I would just be like, dude, you screwed up. You didn't do what you said you were going to do. If any of us had auto-drafted, if I had done this mistake that you had made, I would have wanted you guys to penalize me as well. Like, you deserve to be penalized. You deserve to not be in on this.

You deserve to have to take those teams on yourself 100% and be out of the group thing at that point. Like, you screwed up, dude. This is thousands of dollar leagues. Like, you can't get auto drafted and then accept, but it's all right. Like, you guys are going to have to deal with it. No, you're going to have to deal with it in my mind. The one who did.

It's not as bad as you think. It's pretty bad. All right, here we go. Let's get yours on there. Put yours. Get a recording of yours at some point. That's not good either. If you played that back on recording, it would sound a lot worse.

Here we go, ready? It's exactly it. Go ahead, Dan. Do it. Getting better. What the hell was that? Are you a base? Are we harmonizing here? I don't know what we're doing here.

It's not good. Whatever it is. Okay, here we go. This one is, I think, a very funny fantasy cops. It's super long. I probably hyped it up too much, but... Okay. This is from...

Do we have a name here? I don't know. So, this is less a fantasy cops and more of a fantasy court case. The quick summary is that I caught my uncle, catfishing, his $20 buy-and-and-and-a-fitching. his $20 buy-in family fantasy football league with children playing for the better part of a decade

and he had one of the most epic meltdowns I've ever witnessed from an adult. Okay, here's the setup. I am the commissioner. I set this family league up more than a decade ago pretty much to have a shared experience to talk about at holidays. $20 buy-in, 12 teams, PPR,

two keepers, it's close family, including my two nephews who are under 13 years old, a few aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Anyway. Seven years ago, someone's significant other left the league. To fill the open spot, my uncle Jim said his son, should I use the real names here?

I mean, he gave me all the real names. Yeah. If they send it, you use it. Okay. Yeah. My uncle Jim said his son Adam would play. Okay, we're taking over a family, a significant other who left. Do you have an uncle Jim?

Yeah. Uh, cool. I remember at the time, the email address he gave for his son seemed off, but I didn't really think anything of it. and NFL.com fantasy hid email addresses, even from the commissioner, as soon as the manager accepted the invite, out of sight, out of mind. Over the years, I've shared conspiracy theories with my sisters who are both in the league, joking that Uncle Jim has two teams.

Nothing obvious, but little things in the way both teams behaved that made them seem like the same person was managing them. Did they never ask cousin Adam? He was getting to that. Last year, there was a complete... Was Adam a real person? Yeah. It's his son. It's Uncle Jim's son.

So he probably had to be in on it too, Adam, the kid. All right, we'll see. Last year, there was a complete Superman-Clark Kent situation where during the draft, every time Uncle Jim was in the draft room, Adam's status showed that he left the draft room. This is when I really started to think it wasn't a conspiracy anymore. Fast forward to the NFL.com fantasy being shut down and migrating to ESPN. All email addresses are visible to. me again and all the managers have to sign into the brand new ESPN league. I noticed again that my uncle appears to have two email addresses and they're very similar. I won't read them.

Kind of odd considering that Uncle Jim's now 22 year old son, blah, blah, blah, I won't go into that. Uncle Jim one and Uncle Jim two at Yahoo.com. I mean, it's, they're almost identical. They're almost identical email addresses here and neither of them have the word Adam or the guy's middle name in there or the kid's middle name in there. So as the commissioner, I ask, Uncle Jim to explain. And that is obviously pretty sketchy. And as it seems like he has two teams, he had a range of unconvincing explanations,

including that when his son joined fantasy football, he didn't have an email address yet, so he borrowed his dad's. As you can imagine, saying that your Gen Z kid didn't have an email address in their teens seems sketchy. Immediately following the conversation, the managers changed the team initials

of both teams in question to James and Adam to show they were different, one minute apart. So, I got Adam's cell phone number from a relative and I asked him directly for a personal email address so Adam's team at least looked independent. He responded that I should kick his dad off one of the teams as Adam wasn't in the league.

In fact, he said he had never played in the family league in the seven years that he supposedly had a team. All right. I confronted Uncle Jim that his son has said that his dad runs both teams and that Adam himself said he's never once played in the league. Uncle Jim said that Adam actually was playing. But if I had problems with it,

the team could be converted to a dummy team, blah, blah, blah. He makes some more excuses. This is so long. I introduced that it seemed pretty obvious that Uncle Jim was cheating by managing two teams in the same league. And then, let's see, where did he go here? How many times did Uncle Jim win in the six years?

I don't know. This was a full, this was when a full nuclear meltdown by Uncle Jim occurred. It included things like saying, how dare you accuse me of cheating? I've done so much for this league. You've been cheating for years, not me. Your ego is quite the problem.

And bleep you, I'm out of here. Following the temper tantrum, Uncle Jim immediately... We all go to Thanksgiving? Yeah, I know, right? Uncle Jim immediately quit the league on his own accord. Both of his teams left the league within two minutes of each other. Quite coordinated for teams allegedly

run by different managers. To wrap it all up, Uncle Jim tattled on me, tattled on me by texting my mom, who is also in the league, as if she needed to whip her 39-year-old son into shape for questioning Uncle Jim's integrity. This is awesome. This guy's insane. That's pretty much it. I have a video of him caught red-handed managing both teams. I'm certain he was cheating based off the evidence. Oh, please send the video that. We won't air it, but please send the video to us. How does he have a video that? That's even funny. What I don't understand is like Uncle Jim got caught red-handed and then just like spazzed out and crashed out. But like I don't really know like what happened here. Like he got caught, dude. There's like no. What was his explanation? What's the final

thing? He said that his wife was managing the league. After he had all, after the whole like Adam was managing the league. It just didn't seem to work. Then he said his wife was doing it. This makes no sense. Liv had never been mentioned before. She never talked about the league at family events. The team name has been Adams pack for a couple years. So like why would Lee have a team name? Adam's pack. back. I just, I have a lot of questions. So, what's the name of the person that wrote us? I don't know. I'll find out. Thank you to whoever you are. This is my personal favorite fantasy cop from all the time. By far.

It's from John. All right. So John and Adam obviously are not very close. Right. Because he had to get his email address from somebody else. His phone number. He had to get his phone number. Right. So this whole thing is a little strange. But funny. I would like to see the video if if John will just send it to you and then you can share it with us. We won't show it to everybody, but internally I think it would be good. Don't let Uncle Jim carve the turkey. Yeah, don't let Uncle Jim serve you food. He's going to be such a good.

This is going to be such a good Thanksgiving coming up. It's like normally you get like the potential like family blowups over politics. This is going to be over fantasy football. And I can't wait to hear what happens next. If you guys do have a blow up, if Jim goes in at if he goes in at this point post storming out of the league, let us know, please. I will say this. If John is willing, again, just for us, to live stream his Thanksgiving, we will give him a spot in one of our leagues next year. Yeah, just the moment when Jim walks in and then say something to him.

Adam froze like the worst possible time. Yeah, can you guys hear me at least? Just like at the Thanksgiving table, everyone got their food and you're like, you just start talking about your fantasy squads for that year and just want to see Jim's regale. I would just bring up Adam's team. Like, guys, have you seen what Adam's team looks like now? Have you seen Adams pack? Have you seen Adams pack in year before? It was my wife the whole time.

It was never Adam. I love the chat saying Uncle Jim asks for a water cup and fills it with soda at restaurants. Oh, my God. That was incredible. It was so good. I'm going to hop out here. You guys can finish with, if you can hear me, just read some questions from the chat. We can hear you fine.

You just can't hear your cameras off. I know. I think I'm a little. delayed, though. So read some questions from the chat and you can end the show. There's one from Scotty wants to know Terry McClorin or Chuba Hubbard. Sam, if you want to post them on the site. Terry McClorn or tuba Hubbard or Flex, I think this is pretty easy to go with McLaren. Yeah, PPR McCorn. Pick two, Trevor Lawrence. I'm sorry, go ahead. Marvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Godwin. I'm going to go Godwin there.

Godwin, for sure for me. All right. Go ahead, Sam. Just keep awesome. Trevor Lawrence, Caleb Williams, Joe Burrow, at quarterback. Who are we going to? with there. I'm going to go Borough. I'm going to go Burrow as well. And then Luther Burden or Jalen Waddle, who do you like better receiver? I'm going to go burden with a matchup, especially if Rome's in or out. I would go Waddle if Rome is in. I would go burden if Rome is out. All right. You're strivling a keeper done in any news. So they have said at least last I saw that they're going to wait until they get back and then reevaluate him. I think it was good news.

Obviously, it's his ankle, not his Achilles, which it looked to be just based on the nature of how he left the game. We talked about this on our Friday episode, Dan. Adam was saying that you probably cut him at this point. I said you want to wait until they put him on IR because you can stash him. So don't make any hasty moves just yet in case they do keep him out for the next four games. Fair. Let's do another couple, like three or four more.

Deshawn Watson or DJ Moore flex. And is a crazy play Jordan Love over Josh Allen because of the matchup. I don't love either quarterback, but I'd play Allen. And then I would go slightly DJ Moore over. Christian Watson. More for me. Avoid that matchup. Yeah, Alan.

All right, Dan, pick two. Jalen Waddle, Jameson Williams, or Emeka, Bucca. I will go here. Matchup. I'm going to go with Jamo and it Bucca. Okay, I'm going to go Jamo and Waddle. It does help a Bucca, though, if DJ Turner is out, but I just don't know how much he'll play,

just coming off the toe injury. So all three in a very similar range. Bachel Tutin, Jordan Mason, or Marshawn Lloyd, full point PPR. This is going to be a weird. pick for me, but I'm going to go with Marshaun Lloyd. I mean, I'm sorry, not Marshall Lloyd, Jordan Mason. Yeah, I'm going to go Tutin. I like the potential game script there, and LeQuint Allen may not play. So maybe we get a few more passing down's opportunities,

which lead to some receptions for Tutin. Justin Herbert or Dak with the greatest avatar ever. I can't believe I saw this earlier. I need this picture retired from the internet somehow, some way. I did just a 183 photo shoot for, thank you, Claire, for sending those to me. So I got to find a way to erase this picture from the internet, which is not easy to do. Once it's on there, it's good for good. But I will go with Herbert here. I would go with Herbert as well. All right, one more. And remember, we have a full live stream full of your questions on Sunday morning, starting at 11 a.m. Eastern. So fill those questions up for us, and we will get to as many of them as possible. All right. So I dropped Tyler, Alger, Jonah Coleman, or Jalen Coker for Chris Bell.

I would not. I know, Dan, you like coming back and there are potential as well as I like Jalen Coker better than Chris. I would drop. I would probably drop Alger or Coleman, either of them for Bell personally, but I wouldn't drop Coker. Okay. So if you need a receiver to stash on your bench, Chris Bell has plenty of upside. All right, great job, Dan, great job Adam. Thanks, Sam, for producing. We appreciate everybody for watching and listening. We'll be with you Sunday morning at 11 a.m. Eastern again with our live stream on YouTube. And as Adam said, if you're watching at home, on your big screen, you can sign in and ask us questions from your phone.

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