Let’s Talk Trades, Pump the Brakes, Doctor Smocktor

on the return, the early return three or four times, it's like, do you want them back? Teams need to learn next year. I mean, the Jaguars, the Vikings, I feel like they did this to themselves, trying to rush back their guys after one week and saying, oh, he says he's good to go. You can't fast forward a hamstring issue. You have to let it rest or else you deal with this all year. And now they're...

They're missing so much more than I think they would have missed if they would have just kept them out, you know, three weeks the first time. You say teams, I say fantasy football players. This is why when we talk about injuries, a lot of them are hard to say, okay, well, I don't know if he's going to be back or not, but hamstring injuries in particular, look at this, Davena Cook out, Leonard Fernette, out. When you get them early, it's.

Bad news. It's huge red flags. So that's a little thing to jot down. And I'll take this time as a reminder. We're about halfway through the fancy football season. Now is the time, ladies and gentlemen, get out your little notebook. Start making notes to yourself of, I do not want to forget. I do not want to forget this heading into next year because...

Once the playoffs and the championships start rolling, it's real easy to forget something. So just write it down. Yeah, it was one of the reasons why there was a little pause around Sequin Barclay entering the year, but they gave them enough time, I guess, to get back and be fine. Let's look here. Denver is reporting that the Broncos will not trade away and are not shopping to Marius Thomas ahead of next Tuesday's trade deadline.

That doesn't mean Emmanuel Sanders couldn't be traded, but that's what you're looking for if you want Cortland Sutton, rookie wide receiver to have additional value this year. Chad Kelly. Just two weeks ago, we were saying, hey, maybe Chad Kelly is going to take over in Denver. Buffoon. He was arrested, and then he was released today. Swag Kelly season is over. Unlikely to take over at this point now that he's been released. His career is done. And, man.

I agree, Andy. Talk of weeks away. Weeks away from potentially changing the future of not only your life, but your generations of your family. I mean, come on, man. Very disappointing. Yeah, not good. Lev Bell, Mr. Ah, yeah. Ian Rappaport tweeted, not that it was a question, but it's past 9 a.m. Steelers have begun for the weekend. Lev Bell is not in the building.

He won't play for another week. He's now walked away from $6.8 million. Well, he wanted to get paid, you know. So that makes sense. Well, Levy on. Good luck to you. Yeah, good luck. Jeff Swain, tied in for the Cowboys, diagnosed with the Sprane MCL. My boy. And so, yeah, he won't be playing. And then John Ross is going to miss a few weeks. Well, Zach Martin.

diagnosed with a sprained MCL for the Cowboys. Right guard. That's a bigger deal than Jeff Swain missing time. Yeah, that's true. I want to bring something up. I have a question for you guys. Before we get into the trades. Would you agree that the Rams are playing well? I would. Yes. Are you concerned if you are dependent upon Todd Gurley, Brandon Cooks, Cooper Cup,

Robert Woods, Jared Goff. Are you concerned about... Week 16? Week 16. Because everything, and I looked into this this morning, Sean McVeigh has historically always rested when nothing is important. In fact, last year, he could have played his players in Week 17 to secure a three-seat instead of a four-seat, chose to sit them, could have secured...

Todd Gurley's MVP campaign chose to sit him. In the preseason, they didn't play. When nothing's on the line, and ESPN came out with an article talking about this this morning, when nothing's on the line, they don't play. And right now they could clinch, like there's a decent chance they could clinch in week 15, everything that's relevant to them. So maybe they play half of the game. Bill Barnwell put an article out about this. I'll say this. And said that there is a.

So it looks like about 39% chance at this point that they will have clinched everything relevant, the entire NFC, by week 15 against the Eagles, and then those players would be benched at the juicy at Cardinals matchup. Yeah, I'll say this for the devil's advocate of the narrative. They arrested, they went to Atlanta, and they put up a stinker in the NFL playoffs. So I don't know if that will change McVeigh's mind or not.

Maybe he thinks that there's no correlation. I don't necessarily think there's a correlation, just saying, just trying to get into the mind of what the coach is doing. Also, you better hope that the Saints, Saints keep rolling because the Saints are the closest competition to the one seed because they're five and one. Well, and you have the week after next, the week after next, they play the Saints. Oh, that's going to be a huge game. It's going to be a huge, you know, deciding factor. That's a huge game.

If you are a girly owner, if you're, you know, Rams, root for the saints in two weeks. Just wanted to bring it up. No, it's a great, it's a great conversation point because, you know, the whole goal of this show is to have people ready, willing, and able to win championships. Would they really rest two weeks? So that's, I mean, that's full three weeks. Not right. I would not expect the rest. I would expect it to be one of those. Yeah, where you see a lot of Mac Brown drives. It's the Cardinals.

they will be able to rest after the first quarter and go, okay, we did our job, we got it out of the way, let's get the backups out here, not have anyone get injured right before the playoffs. Right now, concerning. Gurley is by far the fantasy MVP. I mean, he has more points scored than the bills by himself. I field questions about trades all the time. Every time I'm fielding the question of, okay, here's this trade offer, and it's, I can get Gurley and it's,

this and that and this, whatever, whatever it is. Every time that I start considering the offer, and I go, well, let me, I stop myself and go, yes, no, it's Todd Gurley, go get, yes, you win the trade. Like, there's just, at this point, he's the closest thing we've had to Ladanian Tomlinson, who did it for, you know, whatever it was, three or four years in a row, where if you played fantasy football back then, it sucked because whoever had Lidaneon Tomlinson,

If they had any other good players at all, they pretty much won the championship. Listen to this. Red zone attempts. Okay, rushing attempts in the Red Zone. I heard this. Todd Gurley has 43. The next highest is Alvin Kamara at 27. Kareem Hunt has 18. Melvin Gordon is 15. Barkley, 15. I mean, so that means you can basically put together Barkley, Gordon, DJ, and you get one Gurley in Red Zone attempts. Yeah, it's... So maybe he only needs a quarter.

in your fantasy championship game. Well, he'll be fine. He'll be fine in that quarter, and he'll have a 15-point game. But when you get used to all these 30-40-point games from Gurley, and that's what you're banking on your championship. So what are you doing, Andy? Do you selling Gurley? I'm not selling Gurley. But if I know for, there's one player in the league that I would, I think I would feel comfortable.

Yeah, I want a two for one. I want to get Saquan Barclay plus something. Sayquan would be the next player on your list. Plus something big. What about Melvin Gordon? Maybe. Does the hamstring worry? Yeah, I would just talk about. Look, I'm not trying to trade Gurley on that. I probably, I'll probably wait if, you know, you might not be able to wait. But.

Yeah, you're probably just keeping girly. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to get into a bunch of trade options, talk about players that you guys, the Foot Clan, are requesting the most. What do I do with this player? Should I take this trade? Should I give this trade? Before we do that, I want to remind everybody about Hello Fresh.

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Hip-hop anonymous? You always give him to these ones. All right, we're going to do exactly what Jason said. We're going to jump into some trade questions we've received across all of the social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, the website. Let's start with a question off of Instagram. Someone just traded Rob Grunkowski for Isaiah Crowell. No! What has the world come to, Mike? No!

What are your thoughts? Be candid. So I can understand the logic of Rob Grunkowski's got the back problem. It's indefinite. We hope he's back for Monday night's game, but with his history of back problems, you just don't know. And we've all played this game with Gronk before where he missed a week and it was a late down grade. And you went, oh, well, he's fine. Oh, he's on the IR.

So we have played this game before. I'm not, that's not what I'm saying is happening. But it's, you've seen it before. And Isaiah Crowell should get the volume bump with Blal Powell out. But no, I mean, you feel like. What can be for what Crowell can be, no thanks. I do not mind. So like this is a trade that looks so dirty on face value that I think a lot of leagues out there, you got to break it down. A lot of leagues out there would say, oh.

You got to vote against this. Also, don't ever veto. Don't. Because you don't like a trade. I mean, it's just this sounds like a vetoable trade to some people, and it's not at all. Because there's no such thing as a vetoable trade unless there's collusion. This trade could end up working out well for the Crowell owner. And I don't blame someone. There's a lot of people out there that have two.

tight ends that are working out. You know, you've, you've picked up O.J. Howard, and he's pretty much fine every week, or you have Trey Burton and Gronk. And whenever you're in that situation, I would probably look to trade Gronk. I think the issue here is because of the name of Gronk, you can, I feel like you can get more than Crowell. Even with the bump, I think you can at least start aiming higher for sure. Yeah, and who's to say, I mean, I still bank on Gronk?

this season. But who's to say when he returns, he's getting the kind of work. He hasn't grunk smashed since week one. Yeah, perform at the level that you hope and expect from him. So there are question marks there. You can't just lean on the name and let it scare you. And maybe you're in a win now situation and you need a running back. Yeah, maybe. Desperately. Actually, someone asked me about a trade this morning and it was related to trading Melvin Gordon. They were a two and five team.

And they have Melvin Gordon, and they had a chance to pick up Robert Woods and another running back. And I can't remember the other running back. Better be a pretty good running back. But the thing is, is you're two and five. So you have a hamstrung Melvin Gordon. Well, he's on by this week. Who's on by? And so you can, I mean, that's why you don't veto trades. Is there are different motivations for trades too. I mean, if I was him,

Whoever that running back was, I said, you probably got to do it. You got to get a win. You can't go, you can't be two and six and be like, man, I got Melvin Guard, you're two and six. That's not a fun place to be. He ain't going to get you wins in previous weeks when he comes back. Also, this is a note for fantasy football players. Look for high leverage situations like that where a player with a bad record has to make a move. I mean, go after it. Yeah.