Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Players to Trade For & Trade Away - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/30

Episode Date: September 30, 2026

Fantasy Football show for Sep 30, 2026. Trade targets for fantasy football week 4! Find out which players Andy, Mike, and Jason are trying to trade FOR and trade AWAY. Plus, waiver wire reactions, inj...ury updates, and a preview of Thursday Night Football. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.JoinTheFoot.com - Get ULTIMATE DASHBOARD access + in-season tools and resourcesConnect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:06 to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. We're over here reacting to all the waivers. I need more tight-ins. Jason. It's not fair. We had, I mean, we're in a bunch of leagues,
Starting point is 00:00:45 and the Ollie Gordon Express took place. Holy moly. I mean, every league I'm in, he's going for over 80 fab, which to me is insane. Maybe look, it's tough out there in the streets and you want the Dolphins running game. You would if it was A-chan out there, obviously. And we believe in A-chan. Now, Ollie Gordon, he was a prolific. And not A-chan.
Starting point is 00:01:10 He was a prolific collegiate running back. He's a three-down kind of guy. All I'm saying is, I was trying to. Think of like a what a seventh round running back? Well, let me ask you this. If the pros loved him. Well, okay. Was he seventh round? All right. Let me double check.
Starting point is 00:01:25 I'll check my work. I remember he was definitely talked up and then fell. Sixth round, I apologize. Much different. Let me ask you this, though. If Brie Saul was out for the year and Braylon Allen is on the waiver wire for the Jets. Right. Braylon Allen goes for more than 82, right?
Starting point is 00:01:42 Yeah. I mean, you should probably go right around there. Now, the problem, part of the, and Isaiah Davis will get work this week with the Jess. Part of the problem, I think, is not everybody is aligned on Ollie Gordon v. Jalen Wright. Correct. And we are not 100% certain about that situation. Jalen Wright was out with a foot injury, higher on the depth chart, Ollie Gordon. They talk well of him.
Starting point is 00:02:04 I've always liked the film. But that's the unknown. That's why I'm not, that's why on the show yesterday, I'm like, I'm not dropping 80 on a player on the worst offense. Well, second worst offense. New England, what up? I think it is 100% because it's a season-ending injury bet. I get it. I'm not saying it's worth 82.
Starting point is 00:02:25 I didn't bid that. You know what I mean? I had A-chan. I bid 25. My bid was 25 in the league I had A-chan. I wasn't willing to go harden the paint there for the Miami offense necessarily. But I'm just trying to think of the rest of the season. and there's only a handful of not-roastered players.
Starting point is 00:02:45 Most of the backups are rostered that aren't available out there, like the high, prolific big-time names that are, you know, the Emmett Johnson, right? Oh, sure. Like, I mean, obviously, if Ken Walker went out there, it went out, and Emmett Johnson's on waiver. That's a $100.
Starting point is 00:03:02 That would be a full fab drop. But it's like the guys where you feel confidence that they would take over and that they would be very usable. like Brian Robinson. I mean, I don't know what its roster percentage is, but I have to imagine it's in high, 80s, low 90s.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Brian Robinson would go for a ton. That's not an offense we love either. But he's not as good as. It's better than the... It's better than the Dolphins. You know who's not better than the Dolphins? You know who's scored fewer points than the Dolphins? Oh, man, Brian Robinson's roster is way low.
Starting point is 00:03:33 The Patriots. The Patriots are the only team that scored fewer points in the Dolphins this year. You guys should pick up Brian Robinson. man. He's 33% rostered on Sleeper. You guys being our listeners? Yes. Not just the two people you're sitting across? No, not us. He's rostered
Starting point is 00:03:48 in our league, yeah. So, yeah, a lot of, you know, our chop league, we had big money spent on Pooka Nakua, which is a scary spend. He went for over 500, right? Scary spend for chopped, because anytime there, you know, it's like if you then don't get him this week and
Starting point is 00:04:04 lose and are chopped, it was a bad bad buy. Yeah, I mean, he's probably not playing this week. But another, like in our chop league, a lot of players that went this week were players with long-term question marks like Malik neighbors. What's he worth in a chop league? Because what is he rest of the season? He ended up going for 200 on a thousand dollar budget, which double nines can take care of it. Double nines. Yeah, because he's 18 now. Yeah. Talking about McCarthy. Oh, I didn't see that. Is that his number?
Starting point is 00:04:32 Oh, I was 18. Yeah. You thought nine was good? Just wait. Yeah. The second time. Yeah. That's, too. That's why. We have a trade-oriented show today. We're going to talk about some trade-for-tradeaway players on today's episode. We'll preview the Thursday night game, jump into the mailbag as well. News to catch you up on. Let's start there. News and notes from around the league.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Bears coach Ben Johnson said, we'll see how it plays out this week. When asked about who will start at quarterback in week for the Bears play, the Jets this week. It has to be that way. You can't have Case Keenham perform the way that he did on a Monday night against the Philadelphia Eagles and just automatically throw Secret Beget Man in there as your backup. You have to at least evaluate something. Yeah, so this was not in the context of the potential return for Caleb because that's still weeks away. Correct.
Starting point is 00:05:29 So, yeah, if I'm the Bears, there's no way I don't play Case Keenum this week. I would be shocked if that's not the decision. And, yeah, go ahead. I would say, I would probably put Keenum. out there. But the percentage chance that Case Keenom goes out for this game, and it is the worst thing that
Starting point is 00:05:47 you've ever seen? Not impossible. Not impossible. And the Jets are, they're playing okay. Jalen McMillan on injured reserve for the Buccaneers. This dude's body does not like football. No. So yeah, unfortunately. He's flashed a few times
Starting point is 00:06:03 when he's been on the field, but that's also been a few times. Yeah, so Ted Hurst. He continues to get 70 plus percent of the snaps. I picked him up in League of Record. He'll get opportunities. We won't have Baker. You traded them to me. Did you click the button? I'm about to. I was wondering if you'd do that. Because you have too any tight ends. Nobody's been outraged at this level. I need more tight ends. Jason is trying to, he's trying to keep four plus tight ends on his roster. Our league, which nobody knew. Apparently Andy might have known this. No one else in our league knew that we had roster limits. We've lived. We've lived. We've
Starting point is 00:06:37 literally had the conversation before on the show that you shouldn't have limitations on transactions and who you like to me it's stupid I'm going to bring it to a vote is dumb but apparently I have found out that we do in our league of record you can only have a maximum of three tight ends and I want more honestly I want five in today's NFL I mean so what is the trade happen I'm not yeah I did you take it so because I I literally went to um make a transaction and put a wide receiver in, and it said, oh, I'm over the limit. I have four tight ends, which I mean. So what was the trade?
Starting point is 00:07:12 The trade was I needed to get rid of them. So I traded Darren Waller for $1 of Fab and Ted Hurst, which, yeah, to your point of us putting a cap on how many you can have, who would you rather play this week? Exactly. Darren Waller by a billion. Yeah, Darren Waller or Tyler Higbee. Look, I have no problem with changing that rule. I just, it's been funny because it's been back to back weeks where you, like you signed three tight ends or whatever. You talked about this last week and then you're like, oh, what happened?
Starting point is 00:07:46 I can't do it again. Honestly, I assume that the sleeper system would not let me pick up more than the limit. If the limit is three, it wouldn't let me pick up a fourth. I think that's, I think that's fair. And if we need to change it so you can stockpile your future tightens. There's so many out there I want. The funniest part is, I think. Two sets of your tight ends, aren't they like, well, I guess you had Higby and Ferguson
Starting point is 00:08:08 combo. Yeah, Ferguson and Higby. You should get Parkinson too and just. And Alan. Don't tip me with a good time. Go full Rams. I mean, the NFL is not putting a limit on the Rams. Right.
Starting point is 00:08:18 Oh, okay. Tell me I can't play 05 personnel. Come on. Oh, I love this. I don't love this news, though. Packers placing Jaden Reed on injured reserve. He tweeted 11 out. it looks like it's indefinite to season ending.
Starting point is 00:08:35 We don't know for certain, but it's a neck injury. It was serious. And Jaden Reed, at least according to his Instagram, seems like he's not going to be here for the near term at all. It'll be interesting because we're going to talk about some players on today's trade segment that relate to the Green Bay situation. So we'll save it for that. We all say stupid stuff sometimes.
Starting point is 00:08:59 Yeah, we do, Mike. That's a good point. You would know better than most. I will just letting you know, like, you don't have to say something stupid today. I'm not going to say anything stupid. Okay. I'm going to say something tempered and within context. We'll ask the people.
Starting point is 00:09:11 I'll say something stupid. Perfect. Yeah. Dan Quint said, you're going to read Andy's tradeaway? Don't take it personally. There's context to tradeaways. Jaden Daniels would be considered limited if it was a full practice today. I saw a picture of him.
Starting point is 00:09:26 He's got a new sturdy left arm brace. Oh, yeah? Huh? Something you could have been doing. this whole time. Rashad White dealing with a shoulder injury, receiving treatment for it. They signed Austin Echler. And then Jaylon Waddle is, quote, believed to be
Starting point is 00:09:40 fine despite being seen in a walking boot on his right foot following the game. Classic preventative walking boot. Yeah, I mean, it didn't work out well for the Coker walking boot. Yeah. I guess it was a different injury. I don't know. But preventative walking boots, put them all in them, if that's the case. If we need
Starting point is 00:09:58 to keep these feet safe. Yeah, I mean, just armor up. Like these guys, should just be living, you know. Does anyone have Monday through Saturday in full Iron Man gear? Business proposal for you guys. Yeah. Designer walking boots. Oh, designer.
Starting point is 00:10:14 Yeah. Oh, because when they're coming down like on game day and they're in their swag. When you got the big one where it's like all these Velcro straps, you like. Yeah, that's ugly. That's medical grade. Nike, where are you at? Nike needs to put a swoosh on that. No, not Nike. I just gave you with the proposal.
Starting point is 00:10:29 Oh, I'm going to create my own brand. I just got to buy this from us. Yes, we just patent pen pending. You're thinking bedazzled? What are you thinking? I mean, some of them. Pat and leather? Yeah, we're icing them out for sure.
Starting point is 00:10:42 That would change my perspective. I was like, yeah, he looks hurt, but he looks cool. Jaylon Waddled, I do, he's the only player where fine can correlate to already being hurt. So we'll see what happens there. The Waddle situation, he should be okay. but he's kind of a scary dude in terms of, we haven't seen consistency from Waddle since the Tyreek Hill Miami year. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:09 Even though we know how good he is, it's kind of a weird thing and he gets banged up. But, okay, any other news coming through? I do want to let people know we have some news on our site. Like if you're an ultimate foot clan member, for the first time ever, we have dynasty startup rankings available in season. And not only that,
Starting point is 00:11:28 and they're frequently updated, They're used in our trade analyzer, which has dynasty-specific trade advice. But there's also a new option, and I'm so... Oh, this is so cool. So happy about this. Because people want to know, and this has been the story of our show forever, that context matters. Your league mates, what your plan is in a dynasty league, not all rankings are made equal. And so we now have an adjustable bar at the top of the dynasty rankings that you can drag from,
Starting point is 00:11:58 win now all the way to long term and everything in between. We have a balanced setting, a win now setting, and a long-term setting. So it adjusts the rankings based on your actual goals as a dynasty team. So we've always had dynasty startup rankings in the UDK Plus in the dynasty pass during the off season. They're now available year round. And you can drag that bar to adjust your plan. So if you're evaluating a trade and you want to look independently, You're going to see who we think are win now players versus long-term assets.
Starting point is 00:12:32 So super excited about that. That's all part of the Foot clan. We just added it in there yesterday. Teams been working on it with us and the rankings are up there. Join thefoot.com if you want access to it. It is only a part of the ultimate because that's where the Dynasty Pass lives. That's where the season-long stuff is. So if you want to upgrade or you want to jump in there, super cool.
Starting point is 00:12:52 We talked about it a good bit on today's dynasty pod and just gave us some examples so you can check that out. Yeah, no, it's super helpful. Let's talk some trades. Let's talk trades. Well, this should be fun, and I'm open to full-on discussion around these players, disagreement, all of that stuff. Three weeks in, good opportunity to kind of get a lay of the land. Players that might be outperforming, you know, a reasonable, you know, touchdown number or something to that nature. guys that we are choosing as trade four candidates
Starting point is 00:13:32 and then players that we're choosing as tradeaway candidates after three weeks. So, Mike, why don't you kick it off with the trade four player? Sure. That's on your list. So the trade four, we're trying to find players that we believe are underperforming. And I would like to highlight Mr. George Pickens of the Dallas Cowboys because it's just the huge game hasn't happened. I mean, last week was much better.
Starting point is 00:14:00 11 targets 7482. Like, that's a very usable game. We're happy about that. But the first couple weeks, it was down, even though the Cowboys are still putting up points. But looking at the, like, behind the scenes metrics, the numbers are actually very good for George Pickens. His target share, his targets per route run,
Starting point is 00:14:23 his yards per route run, those are all up compared to three-weeks. into the season for last year for the Dallas Cowboys. It's just that the production is lagging a little bit. You know, no touchdowns. George Pickens is going to start scoring touchdowns. It's like, like, it will bounce back. And so he just, the volume is, is still completely there for him. The schedule, I mean, the upcoming schedule is actually fantastic for him.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Dallas faces, Dallas wide receivers, as of right now, face the third easy. rest of season schedule. That, of course, rest of season is a little bit tricky right now because we'll leave the three weeks of data. But the early outlook is it's going to be great for the Dallas passing game and C.D. Lamb, you're not going to be able to trade for C.D. Lamb
Starting point is 00:15:11 because he's been performing. But if you still want a piece of that Dallas passing offense, then George Pickens, I think you can get him cheaper than he is going to be in just a couple weeks. I think you can get him cheaper than what the perceived value of him was before the season two. I think maybe there's been a
Starting point is 00:15:27 change in people's minds. I don't mind the suggestion at all. I will say the only thing that I think has been definitive through three weeks that was a question in people's minds with the pick and selection was whether is C.D. Lam still the dude. Is he still that guy? Is he still elite? I think we've had that answer pretty definitively in three weeks.
Starting point is 00:15:47 That, you know, one of the concerns that I had around C.D. Lamb as somebody who has him on his roster was that this team would kind of do with C.D. Lamb what the Arizona Cardinals eventually did with Larry Fitzgerald, which is you had players that came in, John Brown, Steve Breston. They became downfield threats, and you saw underneath as kind of the prime, like you stopped, they stopped going deep to Larry after a while. Sure. My biggest worry was like, are we going to get all bombs go to Pickens and all underneath goes to Lamb? Lam's had the downfield shots in multiple weeks. So I was happy to see that as a lamb manager.
Starting point is 00:16:23 But I think with the zero touchdown number is what jumps out, and that's going to change. And targets. C.D. Lamb 26. George Pickens. 25. Yeah, I mean, it's really... Everything is neck and neck between the two of them. Lamb has just been...
Starting point is 00:16:39 George Pickens had a couple nasty drops. And then this past week, C.D. Lamb had that... Like, the freebie... Reminiscenceant of championship week a couple years ago where the Cowboys are back on what they're... Oh, yeah, he almost had like a 90-year touchdown. And he was a shoestring away from... But, like, that... hit. That hit for Ceding Lamb. That hasn't hit yet for George Pickens. And it's definitely
Starting point is 00:17:01 going to. I think Lamm has a couple touchdowns so far. Yes. And yeah, no, I think Pickens is, nothing on the field tells me Pickens isn't one B. I saw a tweet that was talking about the most missed opportunities so far in the league and who's basically underperforming the expectation based on the opportunities they've received. And it was a list of a bunch of bad players, which makes sense. Like, oh, they've gotten opportunities, they've failed. And then there was George Pickens, who is not a bad player at all. And he was leading, you know, he's the largest gap. So I think this is a good trade for candidate. His good games are coming. He is not the archetype of a every week consistent player. At the end of the year, you're going to have a handful of bad games. Remember last year at
Starting point is 00:17:48 the end of the year, it was unfortunate timing. I think it was fantasy playoffs or right before it was like he had a couple games in a row where, oh, he just disappeared. Oh, he's His effort is, you know, it's like he will have bad games. And he will also probably finish the year as the wide receiver 15 or better. And so if he hasn't had those games yet, they're coming. I like trading for him. Last year he never had a three game stretch where he didn't have a 20 yard catch. And that's how he started the year.
Starting point is 00:18:14 He hasn't had the big play yet. So, you know, that's kind of wild. Three games in, George Pickens doesn't have a 20 yard catch. He's had tons of opportunities. Oh, yeah. And he's also had a couple of pass interference. and penalties that he's drawn. He is amazing.
Starting point is 00:18:28 Him and Matthew Golden, just drawing PIs. Yeah, yeah, no, he's good at that. I think we all agree that Pickens is a nice target right now. You can get him at a value that will not be the same in a few weeks. So we'll take a quick break and come back with a couple more trade four candidates, Jason and myself, and then we'll get into some tradeaways. All right, coming back into our trade talk segment, Mike sharing George Pickens as his trade for candidate.
Starting point is 00:19:02 am going to bring up Jeremiah Love. I think Jeremiah Love, the moment is now, the time is now. If you had the opportunity in years past to pick up Ezekia Elliott in week three of his rookie season, or Sequin Barclay or Christian McCaffrey, Bejohn Robinson, this is your moment with Jeremiah Love. And so I think you would only have hesitation. This is a top five draft pick. this is one of the greatest best graded running backs that we've seen heading into the NFL
Starting point is 00:19:35 and you're sitting here three weeks into the season and the breakout is coming the big play is coming and it's on an offense that's pretty darn good on a week to week basis like the Cardinals defense is
Starting point is 00:19:48 like by every metric is terrible. They're going to be down in a ton of ball games Jeremiah Love is the past catching back. Jeremiah Love got 19. He had 19.4 fantasy points and 26 opportunities last week. You could argue that it happened.
Starting point is 00:20:04 The usage breakout definitely happened last week. Which was, it was surprising. The way that they handled the first two weeks. Oh, this was like a concerted, like we just made this decision and it's happening. Yeah, it felt like, oh boy, here we go. The Cardinals are just going to be as stupid as possible with their draft pick. They paid Tyler Al Jir. Now, just Jeremiah Love, you know, it seems like forever ago now.
Starting point is 00:20:29 He did have the ankle injury in preseason. So perhaps that the plan was just a, hey, we're going to make sure he's healthy and ready to go. So usage, this usage spike in week three, this should be sticky. Like for the top five draft pick, you got to, you have to do this. I think there's some interesting trays that I know you could get done. I don't know if you would say yes or no to them. but I would be looking at some of these players that maybe are out. Like, would you trade D'Andre Swift straight up for Jeremiah Love?
Starting point is 00:21:01 Yeah, I would. So D'Andre Swift is the sixth running back right now in terms of fantasy output. So that trade on paper, I think you might be able to get done, depending on the league that you're in. But, you know, would you trade Ashton Genty for Jeremiah Love? That may be a bigger conversation, but I think it would be wise. I think that would be a smart one. Man, that one's tough. I don't.
Starting point is 00:21:24 I have Genty above, or I'm sorry, I have Jeremiah Love above both Swift and Genty. For rest of the season? Yeah. I don't think I would. I mean, I, you know, it's like the Cardinals' offense might be good, but the Raiders offense might be good too. Yeah, I think that that one's really, really close for sure. But if you could go take Kyron, Kyran is the name.
Starting point is 00:21:46 And you could take Chuba and put other pieces with it. I think Kyron is the is the perfect name where, What about Tudin? I would move Tyron or Tuton to Jeremiah Love. I mean, you know, they're in good situations. They're good fantasy assets. They aren't some sort of generational talent. That's what Jeremiah Love is.
Starting point is 00:22:06 So if you don't have an absolute top tier fantasy back, if you've got a really good fantasy back, a low-end RB1, I think you try to take the chance that Jeremiah Love is a top five running back rest of season and in trade form. but I also view, like, that is what I think Ashton Genti is as well. Yeah, I think love, I think your time is now to move on Jeremiah Love. And I think the Cardinals will be in a lot of games at the offense. We saw them move it. They put up 30 against San Francisco last week. They had a good week one against the Chargers.
Starting point is 00:22:38 They slowed down against Seattle's defense. That's not too surprising. I mean, Washington didn't. No, everybody but Marcus Mariotta, of course. But, yeah, I think that this is the moment for Jeremiah. Love, if you can take advantage, and maybe this last week doesn't let you do it, but that's my target. Yeah, I'm going to go with a back that's in, I think, the same tier. I wouldn't trade him for Jeremiah Love, but I would trade for him because he is coming off of a down week. And that is
Starting point is 00:23:06 Chase Brown. Chase Brown has gotten off to a decently slow start. He was running back 14, 22, 30s. He's not been bad. No, just good. Yeah, but he hasn't been great yet. However, the opportunity is completely there. He's tied for seventh in routes wrong among running backs. He's eighth in targets. He's ninth in total opportunities. And the Bengals, for some reason, I don't know, they always every year get off to a slow start. This happened last year with Chase Brown with the Bengals. I mean, it happens every year. I think extremely bright days are coming for Chase Brown. What we know is he is the dude for this team. Yes. He is talented. He's, he's getting all the work, and this is an offense we want a part of.
Starting point is 00:23:52 There's just been some weird outlier stuff. Here's just some crazy thing that's just happenstance. It's just randomness. Cincinnati has six total snaps inside the 20-yard line in the last two weeks combined. That is 31st in the NFL, and for context, the NFL, the average team gets 10 a game. And they have six in the last two weeks combined. that's where fantasy points are scored. And so I just think he is one of these guys, it's like he's a top 10 fantasy running back.
Starting point is 00:24:27 And you're not going to have to pay most top 10 fantasy running backs you just can't acquire. You just can't like people aren't willing to let go of them. I think right now you can make a trade for Chase Brown unless you're in the league of record because I went to look for Chase Brown. He was on Mike's team. Yeah, that's correct. From your cold dead hands, I'm sure. Yeah. So, you know, to me, I think he is a great trade for candidate.
Starting point is 00:24:51 And I'll just throw out quickly two other names that I think the opportunity is beyond what the fantasy production has been. Cam Scadaboo, who I just traded for in one league and Josh Downs, who I just ironically traded away in League of Record. I think those two guys have... Downs is like my favorite target right now. Yeah. Interesting. The opportunity ahead appears really, really good for both of those players, too. Yeah, I think Josh Downs is about to cook.
Starting point is 00:25:19 And Jason had sent some offers out. He's not acquiring to win. So he's shipping and shopping Josh Downs. And I was like, he wanted like a third round pick in our league, our keeper league, but you can't trade above a second. And a third is, it's pretty good. And I was like, man, I can't do that right now. But I bet you could get it.
Starting point is 00:25:39 And I bet even in a couple weeks the value might go up if he stays healthy. But no, I love that one. Absolutely. Now let's talk about trade away players, Mike. Why don't you kick us off? All right. The player, I'm looking to trade away. And this is not a necessarily an overperformer where I'm like, I got to get out.
Starting point is 00:25:59 It's Brock Purdy. And I only bring him. Oh, you did say you were going to say stupid stuff. I don't mind this. Your argument for this guy is the same argument I'm going to have for my guy, just so you understand. Right. But my argument for Brock Purdy is that there are. are other teams who are desperate for quarterbacks and they, I think they might have big eyes
Starting point is 00:26:24 where like if you have, you know, we've brought it up, but Drake May, Herbert, or you have one of the injured guys, my recommendation, for the most part, it would just be figure it out streaming off of the waiver wire because players are there. Matchups are there to be had. We have a weekly segment every single week, but that's not how everyone likes to play fantasy football. Some people just want to have their stud quarterback. And I think that you can trade Brock Purdy, get a bunch, and then you can still be okay at the quarterback position. That's where I think he truly is overperforming.
Starting point is 00:26:56 He's not going to be the number two quarterback rest of season. Let's put it that way. Not with the amount of injuries they have at the wide receiver position. Brock Purdy is to me an easy top 10 guy. Top five is not outrageous to me. I really like Brock Purdy. I just think that this is a good strategic move with what is happening. into the quarterback landscape, fix the rest of your roster for a position that you can more easily
Starting point is 00:27:20 replace off of the waiver wire. I just don't know if people, like we see Brock Purdy as a, an elite quarterback. He is great. I don't think most people do. I mean, you look at where he was in drafts before the season. I'm not sure people are going to pay up. Like, in general, what you're saying, I agree with. He's the quarterback two. He's not going to finish his quarterback. He's not going to finish as a quarterback two. He's got injuries around him. He's far more expendable to me. I agree with that. I just don't know that. Drake May's manager might want him. Anybody is paying number two quarterback prices for Brock Purdy. Also, it's worth noting they got positive news, but Trent Williams, when Trent Williams, their all generational left tackle went down, I was like, oh,
Starting point is 00:28:02 trade away these guys. He had a neck stinger. It was checked out. It's not serious. He should be be back, but at the same time, he's dealt with that a few times. He's missed games for that before. that would be very scary. I mean, you know, all of their injuries. I mean, they don't have any wide receivers left if Mike Evans does not get back and get healthy. At some point that does come to call. You're not going to get the same plays out of Jordan Watkins that you're going to get out of Mike Evans. And so I'm just agreeing with you that like, I think party's going to be fantastic.
Starting point is 00:28:39 Like, Kittles there. Yeah. And Debo's there who caught zero passes this last week. week. How dare you? But he had 80 years. He was the only quarterback in the NFL that has not been sacked one time. He's a he is a very good quarterback and you
Starting point is 00:28:55 could be right Jay that the value name wise he doesn't he's not Lamar he's not one of those type of players but get into the negotiations show the fantasy points I don't know. I think you can sell Brock Purdy and be all right. I
Starting point is 00:29:11 the name that Mike says is stupid to bring up in this segment is I get both sides of it is currently the wide receiver four in fantasy and Mike of course is going to take this personally because this is Mike's my guy because I said draft him he's going to be awesome and he's been awesome so trade him away so Christian Watson is look trading in fantasy is all about value it's about what do you get for the player and do I believe that Christian Watson is going to score 23 touchdowns oh No. No, no, no, no. He's on pace for 23 touchdowns. Do I think he passes 1,600 receiving years? Maybe I don't think that's going to happen near 100 catches. I don't think that's going
Starting point is 00:29:56 to happen. Now, it could. My point with the tradeaway candidate of Christian Watson is not you trade at all costs. It's the same argument you just made with Brock Purdy. It is trade if you have the opportunity to take advantage of where he's positioned. He has four touchdowns through three weeks. you have a team that has not been able to run the football that would like the identity of this team to be able to run the football. I think they signed two different offensive linemen this week. We'll see what happens with Josh Jacobs. I think Watson, is he the number four overall receiver at the end of the year?
Starting point is 00:30:24 I think there's no chance of that. Is he top 10? Probably. But if I can go out and I can turn Christian Watson into Chris Olive in a trade, if I can turn Christian Watson into Garrett Wilson in a trade, those are situations, and I might even get a little bit more, depending on the names that you pick there. That's something I'm going to look into
Starting point is 00:30:44 because I think he's the inverse of Pickens right now. Like Pickens has no touchdowns. He is overproducing. For a target perspective, like you look at the top players in fantasy right now, target-wise, 36 for JSN, 35 for Amon-Ross St. Brown, 36 for Chris Oliva.
Starting point is 00:31:01 Watson's at 29. It's not a bad number. Golden has more targets than he does on the season. So, you know, and Golden has one, touchdown. Like from a, you know, statistical standpoint, they're pretty comparable. He's just scored four times. And he's going to score a lot of touchdowns. He's probably going to be a 10 touchdown guy. I don't think he's a 23 touchdown guy. So I, I'm just saying you may be able to
Starting point is 00:31:23 take advantage of this window where everyone's bought in. He is an injury risk. He just is. That's just the nature of Christian Watson. If I could get out of Christian Watson for a less injury risk player, maybe a lobby is not the answer to that question. But he could he could currently be injured. Like, they're practicing, I was pulling up the Packers practice report. I'm going to be surprised if I see full participant this week for Christian Watson.
Starting point is 00:31:53 And hopefully he is. I think Mike mentioned it at the end of yesterday's show, but it was like the last play of the game, he kind of looked like you pulled this hammy a little, but it was not reported. You know, who knows? Maybe it's absolutely nothing.
Starting point is 00:32:08 We just are always worried about Christian. Watson's hamstrings. I love Christian Watson. He looks like he's going to be the clear wide receiver one for a team that can pass the ball. He is always good for fantasy points when he's on the field. I want him on my team. If I had him on my team, I would be trying to trade high because it's not, you know, Mike, you loved where he was in the draft.
Starting point is 00:32:34 You thought he was going to be great. He's been great. He's been a great pick. You know, succeed on your mind guy. If you then trade him at the value that he deserves, if you're trading him at a top-tier value, it's a guaranteed win. Your draft pick was a great pick no matter what,
Starting point is 00:32:52 even if he does well. And can I just, I'll just like Jackknife, a trade four candidate in there? I think Matthew Golden is a trade four candidate. I totally agree. If you look at the numbers outside of touchdowns exclusively, they're almost identical seasons for these two players. 17 catches on 29 targets for Watson for 284 yards
Starting point is 00:33:11 15 catches on 30 targets for 253 yards for golden They're very similar production They're being used in similar ways down the field Their yards per catch 16.9 for golden 16.7 for Watson Go trade for golden if people don't buy in They were burned all rookie year Golden I think is a great one
Starting point is 00:33:30 Because Watson is we're soaring with the Eagles With Christian Watson and people may not realize how close Matthew Golden is. The target share is going to be split. Now you have Jaden Reed probably out for the year. Yeah, Sky Moore. So now it's Skymore as the slot wide receiver. Yeah, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:33:49 That concerns me even less than Jane and Reed when it comes to a target competition. Where I am at with. I think the touchdowns may start to, sorry, to just say, like Tucker Kraft getting acclimated to the offense, that could be where some touchdowns end up. It's where it's difficult for me. is like if you guys
Starting point is 00:34:07 want to look at your rest of season like I have Watson right now at wide receiver 10 rest of year so it's like there's not a not a lot of room there's not a lot of room Olave maybe I mean definitely I'd prefer Olave I don't know if you'd be able to get him
Starting point is 00:34:22 would you trade Watson for Nico Collins no ooh no I would not so I have Nico one spot higher in rest of season rankings would you trade Devante Adams would you trade for Devante Adams would you trade I would prefer Christian Watson Jefferson Jefferson Jefferson is is the, that was the name I was going to bring up where it's like,
Starting point is 00:34:38 it sounds insane at the, would even bring up the discussion, but just truly think about it. Like, where the Minnesota Vikings are, we still have no evidence of Kyler Murray being able to get it done for Justin Jefferson. We know how bad it can go for Jefferson if they don't have proper quarterback play. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:34:59 the second week for Jefferson was not good with no proper quarterback play. would you if somebody sent you an offer right now Mike do you have Christian Watson anywhere in a couple spots yeah somebody sent you an offer for Puka Nakua oh you would have to take that
Starting point is 00:35:17 I mean you would probably want to take it but you could find out tomorrow he's having surgery I thought that was maybe the most agonizing holy moly question I could ask Buka is what do you even do with Puka? I don't know because Buka could go out this week
Starting point is 00:35:32 or he could play this week. That's what I mean. I'm saying he could play this week and you're like, okay, everything is in the... 64 targets. It's in the mirror. Pook is still great for the race. Not a crazy question. All right. Let's say, now let's make Puka the trade away the way. If you had Puka, would you trade him away right now for Parker Washington? I was looking at them in my rest of season. He's the kind of sound bites that come back on Twitter in six weeks. I have Parker at 11. I got Parker at 7. Oh, dude, I have Parker at seven as well. Behind Puka by one. Same.
Starting point is 00:36:07 Yeah, I, I mean, would you trade Puka for Zay Flowers? Mike? I feel like Puka, the answer to this question, if you have Puka, hold him. If he's somewhere else, don't trade for him. I feel like that's the recipe for Pucca. How much risk do you want to take? Flowers has his own hamstring risk. Puck could win you the year.
Starting point is 00:36:27 And that's the thing is that, like, to win a championship, you usually need. I was talking about, I was talking about, I was talking about, this with Andy this morning. So in our main dynasty league where Mike is the champion there as well, he has a sensational team. I've got a very, very good team. I lost two of my three running backs, but
Starting point is 00:36:45 I was, I look at my team, and I've got a lot of really good players. I've got Olivae, and I've got London, Rushie Rice, Devante Smith, but I don't have the like, the guys that are going to go out there and put up 30 points of back-to-back weeks in the playoffs, like a Jamar Chase, a JASN, or a Pooka.
Starting point is 00:37:03 I just remembered last year's playoffs. I'm sorry. But it's like those players when it comes, like I'm going to make the playoffs. Great. But once you're there, do you have those nuclear players? You need a Josh Allen or Jemir Gibbs or J.S.N. or a Brock Bowers or a training. You have to have some of those guys.
Starting point is 00:37:20 And so trading, Puka is such a trade for a tradeaway conundrum. It's a bat. He's your biggest bet in either direction. Yeah. And honestly, if you sometimes when you're playing fantasy, got to think about just pure upside. And there is not much higher upside than Puka. And if you could trade for
Starting point is 00:37:39 Puka right now and then it turns out he doesn't get surgery, people are afraid of surgery, and you turn Christian Watson into Puka. That could be a championship type of move. But it is a gamble. I disagree with one of the guys you said. I mean, that too. But Olave, I think Olave can be a guy
Starting point is 00:37:57 who, like, he could just go. That's who I told you this morning. OLAV is a monster. I think he's a monster. He's so high on my rest of the season ranking. Yeah, he's at number four for me. But at number five, right now for me, is Drake London. Like Michael Pennix, Michael Pennix, Drake London games equals fantasy domination. Like, you can look at Michael Pennix and he'll, the end of the statline for Michael Penix is not going to be great for him to be a fantasy quarterback.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Yeah, but all he does is throw to Drake London and throw to Drake. PSA to Sucky quarterbacks. Throw it to the really good guys every play you can and it works out way. better than you think. Yep. So I'm with Drake London. As long as it stays Michael Penix, which that's a, who knows? It wasn't, it wasn't Keenum that was in Houston that just hyper-chucked it at Hopkins, was it? I'm trying to remember if they had overlap. Oh, maybe it was Osweiler? Oh, Brock, yeah. Was it Osweiler? Because Keenham played in Houston, right? I think so. I mean, Keynes.
Starting point is 00:38:59 Had 16 careers, but T.J. Yates maybe, I don't know. Jason, you got to give us a tradeaway candidate. It comes from the same team as Mike's. Yeah, it's another 49er. I mean, obviously, the injuries there. Last man standing. But honestly, it works almost in his favor. The injury issues and worries about Mike Evans says that the last guy there is Debo,
Starting point is 00:39:20 Samuel, who has been good. He's a man. It took you too long to get there. I know. I know. How did he not get a target last week? Well, see, this is... He was already the last man standing.
Starting point is 00:39:35 It lends itself to Jason's argument. I'm not sure. I think Debo's current abilities are all gadgetry. Oh, 100%. And not wide receiver-e. Basically 50% of his routes this year are running back routes. There you go. There are screens, flats, backfield.
Starting point is 00:39:51 I mean, he is, his average depth of target is 3.4 yards. Which defense against position do you look at for Brock Perth? for a, right, to stop him? Is it like, do you look at the wide receiver? Do you look at the running backs? Right, the matchup. You know, it's one of those things where there are teams that have lost a lot of players. Wide receiver, you know, go look at the Jefferson, the Mike Evans team, Jalen Koch or the Puka manager who's struggling, Nico.
Starting point is 00:40:23 You know, there's a lot of teams out there that are like, man, I really need a guy. And I think this isn't someone that you're selling super high. You're not getting a star back. But you can get someone who is maybe a struggling young wide receiver back or a middle link package Debo to a wide receiver needy team with someone else to get like a Chuba Hubbard who's like, I don't know. I'm not super excited about him. I don't know that that's going to happen. You know, they're two kind of older seeming players if you need a running back. Or, you know, Jordan Tyson.
Starting point is 00:40:55 that manager who's held on to Jordan Tyson for three weeks, if he has another wide receiver injury, he might just have to make a move and can't hold injured wide receivers. Carnell Tate, who's been super disappointing, people might be like, should I drop them? Who do I start? I've got to get a win this week. Like, try to flip Debo for some of these other struggling young guys,
Starting point is 00:41:17 like Roma Dunzee, who, I mean, I would rather have just about all of these people over Debo. I think Debo's manufactured points are just not reliable. I don't think he's going to be really anything rest of season. And right now, he's scored enough fantasy points. I mean, like last week, the 80 receiving yard play was on one gadget play. So it's like you can't rely on that. And I think after another couple weeks, you're not going to be able to trade him for anything. So, yeah, to me, if he was on my roster right now,
Starting point is 00:41:53 I'd be shopping them, seeing if I can capitalize on a couple of good fantasy performances. All right, let's take a break and talk Thursday night. Thursday night breakdown. The Pittsburgh Steelers, 2 and 1 guys, taking on the 2 and 1 Cleveland Browns. Here we are. AFC North Battle, Pittsburgh minus 2.5 on the road over under 38.5, which is right about where the average overrunner is for every Pittsburgh Cleveland game for the last five years. and the last two games last year were at 38 and 34.
Starting point is 00:42:37 So here we are. Two teams above 500, Deshaun Watson on a two-game winning streak. Aaron Rogers got it done last week. First 290 and three game in, what, five years? So fantasy-wise, Mike, you'll do the morbid, told you so, with quench on Judkins,
Starting point is 00:43:03 right now. 35th in yards per carry, 35th in rush success rate, 35th in yards before contact. That's bad because there's only 36 in the sample. So that's pretty much the worst starting running back. If you want to make the case against Ollie Gordon, you got it. You got it right here where I don't think any of us think when Sean Judkins is the 35th best running back in football from a talent perspective. But on this team and this situation with what they're able to do with the offensive
Starting point is 00:43:33 line. He is really entering the don't mess around with category, which sucks. It really, it does, because he's a better player than what he is able to do right now. But the path forward. I mean, we got 18 carries, so 20 opportunities last week against Carolina. Yeah, that must have been a bunch of fantasy points, right? I mean, you're the top 24, but you're, you have to sheer volume your way there. And he will, you'll get a couple touchdowns along. the way. But overall, it doesn't feel great. This game is disgusting. Dude, who's
Starting point is 00:44:09 going to win? The Steelers are going to win. No, they're not. No, they're not. Not the fans. No, not the fans. Wait, you think the Browns are going to win this game? I do. Oh, man, I really don't. Since the Browns can't run the ball, they've been passing the ball okay the last couple of weeks. DeShon Watson has looked. I'm thinking through this. I think I'm with Mike. However, the passing defense for the Pittsburgh Steelers this year has been phenomenal. phenomenal.
Starting point is 00:44:34 It's been... T.J. Watts's been awesome. I mean, it's just, they're a very difficult team to throw the ball on. And so I don't think Deshawn Watson's going to be able to succeed there. Judkins hasn't done anything, and their defense is not what it was with Miles
Starting point is 00:44:49 Garrett. So I think this is definitely the Steelers win this game. So we're split on that, but for fantasy purposes, there's not a lot of stars hit decisions. Jalen Warren? Jalen Warren is talent and volume. You have to play him. He looked amazing last week. The two players I want to apologize to the most right now
Starting point is 00:45:07 is like Janlon Warren and Kyron Williams. Like three weeks into the season. From an efficiency standpoint, both are better than I thought they'd be. Yeah. Warren certainly got his opportunity with Rico being out. And Warren, Warren's always been a great player. So with him getting everything, it totally makes sense. I mean on the Steelers side
Starting point is 00:45:33 are we playing any of these wide receivers? You're still trying to see how it's going to shake out? I do think the targets say that you can play Metcalfe. You know, he's on pace for what? 136 target. No, look, he scored last week. I'm not wanting to. I'm just saying that like if I had to,
Starting point is 00:45:52 if I'm in that category of just I don't know players. Dude, I mean, he's on pace for 136 targets. So that's where it's like, okay, that's, that's a wide receiver one, maybe a wide receiver two. He's also on pace for 550 yards. Do you want to make this game interesting, Jason? Yeah. Let's do, I dominated you last week on a $100 bet. If you remember.
Starting point is 00:46:14 Yes. I took Bryce Young and he took Justin Herbert. And they were a point apart. They were a point apart and it was not a lot of points. Yes. But I dominated. I got $100. So I've got house money here.
Starting point is 00:46:26 I'll bet you Browns versus Steelers. Oh, okay. I think the Browns will win the game. And the reason I think they're going to win the game is, you know, you made a good point. They might not be able to pass the football. I think they'll hit the under in this game, by the way. Yeah, oh, it's going to be disgusting. It's going to be gross.
Starting point is 00:46:39 But the reason I think is that the pass rush and the defensive line for the Browns at home, where they're, by the way, 7 and 0 in the last 7 Thursday night games, Aaron Rogers becomes incapable of functioning with any pressure at all. And there were five players, I think, they got five pressures last week for the Browns. That's why I think they'll win the game. And now we have something to care of. That's fun. That's easy money.
Starting point is 00:47:04 So, yeah, I guess you just became the biggest Aaron Rogers fan. That's all I want you to know. Although, I guess it's worse for me. Yeah, it's definitely worse for you because there were no odds. So it's great for me. But the Cleveland Rush defense right now, they're allowing an explosive play on 17% of designed runs. That's the highest in the NFL. and we saw Jalen Warren with some explosive plays back to back last week.
Starting point is 00:47:31 So I think they're going to be able to run on the Browns. And I just don't think the Browns are going to be able to score. Yeah, I mean, that's what we're looking at here. It's a close line, Pittsburgh minus two and a half, low over under, boring game. Don't play players if you don't have to. Yeah, I would say don't play players if you don't have to. If you've got another option from that half. Fanon, that was where I was going.
Starting point is 00:47:51 I'm getting into Fanon. Fanon is the one guy. Watson finally figured out. You see the target? Maybe I should throw to him. You see the target progression here? 369. Oh, 12s on the way.
Starting point is 00:48:02 And if you can't pass to wide receivers, Jason. Get low. Let's do it. Let's target fanning. I'm going to give you a disgusting start set question. D.K. Metcalfe on Thursday against Cleveland or Ladd McConkey on the road against Seattle. Ladd.
Starting point is 00:48:23 I'll go lad. Hoping that the ribs are getting better. I want a good wide receiver. That's not a great matchup either. Yeah, I mean, that's not a good time. I just, any Metcalf decision is not a good time. Can you play both defenses this week? Sure.
Starting point is 00:48:40 Yeah, okay. Sure. We'll find some silver lining there, and then we'll move on to Mailbag. Mailbag. Presented by Paramount Plus. All right. I like it. the flourish after.
Starting point is 00:48:57 You've got to find a spot. If you have a question for the show, we're here to help. That's what we do. We want to help you win your week. You can go to the fantasy footballers.com and you can click to submit a question button or dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. We'll start with a voicemail.
Starting point is 00:49:11 Hey, ballers. This is Trevor here, a big fan of the show. We've got a member of our league that is battered at wide receiver. And I have Michael Wilson. Would you rather have Michael Wilson or Nico Collins rest of season? I think I've got an opportunity here.
Starting point is 00:49:27 Let you know. Bye. Okay. Michael Wilson or Nico Collins? So you get the chance to turn Michael Wilson into Nico because they need a player this week and Nico's out potentially? I mean, do it. I would do that in a heartbeat. I would absolutely take it.
Starting point is 00:49:38 We were talking before the show. Nico's a great trade for candidate personally. Yeah, I agree. They need him. He looked good. Obviously, dealing with his own hamstring injury sucks for now. But if you can, you know, if you can withstand victories long enough to. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:54 to acquire Nico. I mean, he could be back this week. He was listed as a decent chance to return in week four. So, yeah, I would definitely do that. Michael Wilson is a very good wide receiver. It's clearly the best wide receiver on the Cardinals roster. He's better than Marvin Harrison. He does everything well.
Starting point is 00:50:12 He had 17 targets last week, but he will never be the number one receiving option. When Trey McBride is there, he'll be a best number two. Nico is there one and so that's that's a level I would always always trade for. I am very bullish on Michael Wilson finishing you know probably in the top
Starting point is 00:50:33 15 to 16 range. I think he could get there. It seems like the team targets a game he will. Yeah. It seems like the team has you know last year Marvin Harrison's injury forced Michael Wilson to show that he could be a one and he was
Starting point is 00:50:50 dominant. Michael Jerry Rice Wilson a new regime came in, new head coach, new staff, everything changed, and now it's like, okay, well, Marvin Harrison is part of the future of this franchise. And we're three weeks in, and in the third week, they were like, dude, the other wide receiver is way better. And so I think the transition's been made. I do think Michael Wilson will be good. And Marvin Harrison is. I mean, he had five targets this week, Jason.
Starting point is 00:51:18 That's a huge uptick. Mark? Yeah. Yeah. 17 for the other guy. I don't think that they are looking to force Marvin Harrison to be something he's not. No, and it says something when you come out in press conferences
Starting point is 00:51:30 and you have to defend the usage of Marvin Harrison, and then your answer to that on the field of 17 targets for the other guy. Yeah. All right, another voice mail question. Hey, fans, footballer. It's Blake, and if I get on this, my dad's going to freak out. But I was wondering if I should play Trayvian Henderson or Braylon Allen.
Starting point is 00:51:46 Thanks, love the shelves. Tell your dad to freak out. So we got Braylon Allen or Trayvian. Anderson this week with Briseau. Breesaw hasn't ruled out yet that I've heard, but he's not going to play. I would
Starting point is 00:52:01 play Brayland Allen. I would go volume. Look, I don't want to discount Travion's potential to randomly show up. Agreed. But that is what it is right now. It's not, you don't play him with any guaranteed production. You play him with a
Starting point is 00:52:16 hope that you get a big play. He's playing the Buffalo Bill's and Brayland Allen is playing the Chicago Bears. Both are decent matchups for running backs. I would play Braylon Allen as well. I think that he'll get enough work in a good matchup where he's looked good. The Jets have been better. Their offensive line has been improved and you just don't know, you don't know what you're going to get with Trayvion Henderson. The matchup is good and so I was like, man, should Trayvion be a start of the week? No, I can't do that. Should Ramon Dre be a start of the week? No, I can't do that. So it's like,
Starting point is 00:52:51 look, he's becoming an if man right now. It's like if you use him in their receiving game, Trayvot would be awesome. Yeah. If you give them enough work, he'll break one that way. I mean,
Starting point is 00:53:00 but what, this team is so broken right now. You've got to understand they're the lowest scoring team in football. Owl dropped Drake May this morning for Austin Eckler. Oh my gosh. That's where Drake may, what does he have like one touchdown and six interceptions? He's broken.
Starting point is 00:53:19 He's confident. Dood Pans. And it's certainly going to change with the way that the Jets with Brees Hall out. But to this point, it's only been Brees Allen and Brees Hall and Braylin Allen. Like they're the only running backs who have actually gotten any sort of work. Isaiah Davis has not seen us an offensive snap. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:42 I think Braylon's going to be a true. But Isaiah Davis has been active, right? Has he been active in those games? I mean, that's a great sign. I'm saying, like, I see what, Andrew Beck has run five routes. Did we get, didn't we get Braylin Allen alone a couple of times in his career in terms of getting a start? I was just trying to remember, like, I don't, 24. I'm not saying Allen is a slam dunk by any means.
Starting point is 00:54:08 Let me see if he ever got more than 12 carries in a game in his career. And I'm not saying that you're saying that. This is pure volume versus a matchup that we can exploit. Yeah, he's never had more than 12 carries. So he's going to have, I mean, he's only 22 years old. He's in year three. He had 10 carries with Breece Hall in week one. All right.
Starting point is 00:54:27 Let's see how we do. We'll see what happens. Question from YouTube. Gabe writing in Tucker Kraft or Colson Loveland rest of season in a PPR league. Wait, wait, Leveland or who? Kraft. Tucker Kraft. Like I can tell you if somebody offered me Colson Loveland for Tucker Kraft right now, I would turn it down.
Starting point is 00:54:47 I mean, I would take Tucker Craft. I think the target consolidation in Green Bay, Jaden Reed's injury, there's so many limited options, and I think Tucker Kraft is on the uptick, and I think Loveland is going to be a little more hit and miss than we wanted. So I would turn the trade down if somebody offered me. I don't mind staying with Tucker Kraft.
Starting point is 00:55:07 And then making that move at this point, you're trying to hit a true home run, and like hoping that these three weeks are just, or whatever, then things get back on track for Loveland and he turns into the monster he was at the end of last year. But if you miss, you're going to miss real, real bad. Yeah, the issue. So maybe I just stay with Tucker.
Starting point is 00:55:30 The issue that I had with Loveland preseason and the draft season was always just target competition. You know, will he get the targets? Will or will it be a Luther game and then will it be a Rome game? Will it be a Khalif Raymond game? And it seems like, you know, he's not. the primary target. They're not drawing everything. He's not the first read all the time.
Starting point is 00:55:55 You wanted him to be a Trey McBride. Fowler point. He is the primary focus of the offense. I think through three weeks and I know we had a ring game. We had a backup quarterback game and we had a crazy, you know, the running game works. So we haven't seen
Starting point is 00:56:11 their standard offense, but at the same time three weeks in, we know he's not the focus, the focal point of every week. for their offense. Follow-up question by Lucas, would you rather have Isaiah likely or Tucker Kraft for us the season? Tucker Kraft.
Starting point is 00:56:25 Yeah, we don't have Jackson Dart for the rest of the year. That's one you might be able to get done because Kraft's been disappointing. I think you're probably right. I would assume most people would want craft, but someone out there might be like, yeah, I'll take, I'll take likely,
Starting point is 00:56:39 and I would definitely go to craft. I think the Tucker Kraft, like, notoriety isn't anywhere near the other top-in tight ends because he only had a small run last day. So if you didn't catch that run, dominance or know that he signed a contract, all that stuff. It's kind of just the nerds. Yes.
Starting point is 00:56:55 Here's one for the nerds. I got two trade questions I think are very difficult. Maybe. Dylan and Long Island, do I trade Zayflowers for Jeremiah I love and a PPR? I mean, that's perfectly fine. Yeah, that's just about positional. Yeah, it is about positional need. But the thing is, is when they're in the same tier and I think they're, Zay Flowers is good.
Starting point is 00:57:17 Jeremiah Love is good. I'll take the running back. That's where the needs gets, you know, more, more scarce and more needy. Yeah, I think you're right. Where the needs get more needy. The slight hesitation is just the way that Flowers has looked this year is like electric. Something a special season could be. You're getting Antonio Brown vibes. Well, I wasn't saying that, but I just, I mean, like, this is a different offense. I'm, he's being used different and he is. I'm just afraid. I'm just afraid of Mike. I'm just afraid of the year of Mike.
Starting point is 00:57:53 We don't know. We don't have conclusive evidence. It's over yet. He suffered no injuries anywhere. He drafted perfectly in our league of record. Those players are all breaking out. And I know people want to make me the enemy this year. Let me point the,
Starting point is 00:58:06 let me point the finger over here to this guy. It would be much, much, much. Do you want Mike to go back to back? It would be much worse. I would rather you win than Mike. But I'm telling you. about. You know what that's about. But I think your odds of winning are much higher than Mike.
Starting point is 00:58:21 Yeah, see? Look, I've already, I'm not going to say it out loud. I've already figured out all of what Mike's doing the rest the season and how easy it is and how easy it's going to be for him to make the title game. And I'm terrified. Tyler, would you trade Cam? I was doing the best I can.
Starting point is 00:58:37 Oh, shut the front door. Would you trade Cam Scataboo for Amari and Hampton? Jason. You just traded for Cam Scataboo? I also mentioned that I think Cam Scadaboo was a good trade for candidate. The workload has been there. Last week was a super rainy game.
Starting point is 00:58:56 He averaged three yards per attempt, but it was like a sloshy, you know, everybody's up at the line of scrimmage. The game was 12 to 7. That being said, he got 20 carries, four targets. He's going to get the work. You know, I think I take, man. Can we get a zoom? Is there a slow zoom?
Starting point is 00:59:17 we can put on Jason? I would take both. Let's do that in post. Both Cam Scatibu and Amarian Hampton. I will take them both. Would I trade Cam Scatabu
Starting point is 00:59:27 for Amari and Anton? Thank you. There we go. Would I, if I had Scathe. Yeah. Yeah, I would. You would trade for Hampton? I would trade Cam Scataboo for Hampton.
Starting point is 00:59:38 Oh, man. I know. The Herbros can't stop. I would do that. He is on an island right now. I know. He is. Getting there under the beating sun.
Starting point is 00:59:49 I'm going to get you that whip so you can just hit yourself in the back over and over. Yes. I'd rather have Cam Scadaboo. It doesn't feel great. I think I'd rather have Cam Scadaboo. I think that the workload. But man, that's brutal. Well, it's the workload of like, but the Giants offense is not going to turn around and all of a sudden be a juggernaut.
Starting point is 01:00:10 Correct. The Chargers are not going to do that. But if one of the teams is going to, it would be the Chargers. He answered the question. That was the mailbag presented by Paramount Plus. Paramount Plus is the streaming home to the NFL on CBS all season long. See you Sunday. We've got starts of the week.
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