How We Feelin? + TNF Preview, Trade Q's - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/16

not an exciting offensive output in some capacity. It's hard for me to imagine at home, the home opener for Buffalo, they can't score on the Lions defense after what we saw last week. And if they score, then it's going to be wheels up for Detroit trying to get back into this game. I mean, it is a five and a half point line for Buffalo. I get it. I mean, it makes sense. They looked pretty good. My goodness, the Lions defense in week one gave up 45 fantasy points to the valet.

Olave combo. Yeah. That was impressive. Mr. Vele with the two diving catches. Yeah, this game is easy. I'm just kind of wasting time here. I mean, what else? Is there any questions? No. Let's do some mailbag. Mailbag. Presented by Paramount Plus. I feel like that was a little quiet. What? You were a little chill. I didn't feel that. Okay.

Maybe my ears are clogged. If you have a question. Yeah, is there they're clogged, grandpa? The fantasy footballers.com. Submit a question. Button or dial the voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. Looks like we have some voicemail questions in here. Let's start with a, I think a chop league question. What about? It's Docs from Atlanta. A quick question about these deotching leagues. I've got some buddies that are really doing some.

nefarious things in the chat trying to bait everybody into spending all their budget at the beginning, you know? And this first week we had a Jamar Chase hit the wire. And everybody's saying, oh, I bet it all. I bet it all. It's kind of like a poker match here. What do you guys do to, you know, keep it clean but still get a little dirty on the chat forums. Guillotine League. Let me know. I mean, this was our lunch conversation yesterday. I was trying to tell people to spend up. League chat influencing. And here's.

You don't have to worry about collusion in the guillotine league. I don't think. Yeah, you're saying when you're talking about spending money, no. At that point, you're just trying to affect markets. Yeah. Survival of the fittest. I mean, you just do whatever you want to do. Dude, I'd lather me up in the mud, bro. I don't get dirty. I think that's part of the fun is taunting people into.

trying to spend. I mean, I had no idea what people were going to spend. At the lunch conversation, I didn't think I was getting Jemar Chase for $666. You didn't think you were going to give up. We really did talk it up. I mean, Mike bid $5.15. I mean, I was there. But the DeMarcus Robinson guy, the guy who paid $150 for him. Yeah, we got him good. I thought he said he really needed him. I thought he was going to spend $1,000.

I mean, I have seen some resources come out. We may put some up on the site in terms of like fab guides for these players at some point. So, I mean, it's so difficult to actually tell people what to do. I think that the best way to think of it is the, it's a pretty big range for these guys. And then you add your context to the range. It's like, you know, Chase is probably, you know, it's.

375 to 500 you know something in that range like that's probably a fair price for him i guess we could you get the most weeks in week one that's another factor right like you get the guy for the longest amount of time and if you but on the flip side you also have the most amount of teams that you that have an opportunity to be better then so um you know it's one of those what what the the small

research that I've done, because this is a newer league in the last couple of years, play style, is that saving your fab is more valuable. Obviously, your team context is going to very much matter. If you don't have a wide receiver to play or a running back to play, go hard in the paint because if you, you know, if you are going out there and putting up a goose egg and you're out, you're out. Yeah, that's the funniest part about saving fab, right? Right. Yeah. It's so valuable unless you go out.

then it is the dumbest. I mean, people last year, I feel like the first four or five of the first six or seven people that went out had full fab budgets. 100%. They didn't spend. A lot of them spent on Brock Bowers. Well, that eventually happened. But I do remember, I think the first three weeks, it was like almost full budget people that went out. Which just feels bad. Like if I go out now, I went out swinging. And yet Matt is saying the people that won.

as I assume you're saying Schneider didn't spend until week four or five. Yeah. Yes, because if you can thread the needle, if you make it through with that roster, you got, you know, you didn't drive Josh Jacobs. Yeah, that's where, that's where I think at the beginning of the year, you just have to not be the worst. And when there's 17 and 18 and 16 and 15 teams that, like, you've got good odds at not being the worst. Yep. Save your money and then you can get.

bigger and better studs that drop to waivers for cheaper later. All right. Justin and New York, hey, ballers, what do we do with AJ Brown right now? Should I try to trade him for someone that will at least play these next few weeks, who would be the cheapest player you would be comfortable trading him for now? I think that's a good question to work through here. Yeah. If you feel like he was a key cog, you don't have a bunch of other depth or players that are going to carry you. I mean, we've got rest of season rankings that are valuable for,

situations like this where you're like, okay, well, how do you value him on the season? And so let me bring up some names and see if you guys would be willing to trade, you know, right now. He's really low for me. Yeah, he's pretty low. Where is he in your rest of season wide receiver rankings? Because I've got my number. He's at 35 for me right now. He's at 27 for me. Yeah, he's at 34. So above, the name's just above AJ Brown for me that I would trade him for based on rest of season rankings. Luther Burden.

Yeah. Jamison Williams. Mike Evans. Jamo, you might be able to do. Oh, yeah. A burden, I don't think you're going to get that trade. Romo Dunez is just below him for me. I'm guessing he's above for you guys. Devonte Adams, would you do that? Because, I mean, it sounds like he's above yours. I would do it for Adams. I would do it for Rome. It's a lot of weeks, guys. It's six weeks plus some reduced production. Yeah.

And never proved that he's been with May and done it yet. Yeah, this is a player I was extremely bullish on. Just check his rosters, guys. He put his money where his mouth was. I still believe that, you know, it'll work out in the end. But if you don't make the playoffs, it doesn't matter if they go off during them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that one's really unfortunate. It's just a big injury that happened early and you got to.

Sometimes you do have to do this. You just have to accept your losses. AJ Brown is not worth what AJ Brown was. And how did the rest of your draft go? Did you hit on one of the middle or late round wide receivers that you can tread water with them? When it comes to trading the big boys like this, it's just so difficult to give a blanket statement of what I would do with that player.

Jason brought up the rest of season rankings, but those are what factor into the trade analyzer algorithms that we have on in the Foot Clan. So there is a trade analyzer. You can plug names in there right now and see how we balance it out based on rest of season rankings. That's a quick way to put some of the other names maybe on these opponents of yours. Put them in there and see what we think about it. That's at Jointhefoot.com. Let's do another voicemail. Hey, Ballers. Would you trade Josh Jacobs and Colston Lovelland for Brock Bowers?

Half point PPR. Thanks, bye. Hmm. It's a big no for me. Yeah, that's a no for me as well. I think that you are then having to find a tight end to play. Would you trade just one for one? Loveland for Bowers. That is interesting. Yes, easily. You'd trade away Loveland to receive Bowers? Easily. Yeah. I'm on the Bowers side still. I wondered though when the injury happened like.

Would you, but I don't think I would. However, if you're adding in Josh Jacobs, which I expect you're going to have half of a season of a, you know, an RB1, at least probably a top 15 running back, but potentially a top five running back. I mean, that's where he was last year before his knee injury. I would rather have Loveland and Jacobs. Okay. Did Mike answer that? I would not do the two. I'm still thinking of.

the your immediate you're like no I would take bowers over the level and I'm I'm worried about the knee I'm worried about the knee that's all it comes down to yeah if you I'm very optimistic that the knee is not going to be a problem for more than a week or two more right well I'm saying long term yeah no I get it that that's part of it if you if you're afraid that you don't want to do that dance yeah and he's going to get hurt again um that that that would be a monster problem and you don't want if you don't want to be in that

situation. If the production of Bowers becomes someone that's like, okay, he's good, but he's scoring, you know, nine and a half, ten points a game, rest of seasons, that's good for a tight end. That's fine, but that's not what you drafted Brock Bowers to be, hoping that you were getting 15 points a game. You're not going to get a goose from him. That's for sure. That is for sure. That's not going to happen. We'll take a break. We'll answer some more questions. Warren Elder in Ontario writing in.

You guys have been talking about Kellanmore's offensive system and how it results in more snaps. What are some other teams that have a similar pace of play? And alternatively, what are some teams that are prone to match a slower pace of play? We do put a pace of play article up on the website every Wednesday afternoon, and it is Wednesday. So that'll be going up there. But the top five pace of play teams from week one. And then Jason, you can share the bottom five. Saints were number one.

insane 86 plays in that game. The next closest team, by the way, 67 plays. Green Bay. Kansas City with 67 plays. The Steelers with 64 plays. That's interesting. And then the Panthers were in the bottom five in the neutral pace of play. They were just so doggone efficient. The Broncos.

were down there. Yeah, that felt like it. 29th. The jets were very low, which was, I think, surprising. I expected them to be a little bit faster this season, but that was, that's worrisome. The dolphins, as expected, were very slow. And then the Vikings were. The slowest, they were the worst. But I will say that they had an, you know, when you have a quarterback that two weeks ago was your third string hopping in, not just even like, you know,

pregame the way that happened with, you know, the Cooper Rush. Cooper Rush had all the week one snaps in preparation. You're going to end up with a slower pace of play. So I don't view the Vikings as necessarily like a, oh my gosh, they're bottom five type of team. Miami compounding how bad the offense was in terms of expected points added, you know, their EPA for everything and they're slow is concerning.

The fact that the two of the bottom three were in the same matchup, that was, that's a fun one. All right, the next question comes in off of YouTube. Would you trade Darien Price and George Pickens? Whoa. What? For CMC and Kalin Black. I know, I know my answer. I know my answer to. Oh, and it's, my answer is in almost every situation, yes.

Mine is basically the same. I am a yes. If I have zero wide receivers, but Pickens, obviously I'm not going to do that. I can't imagine they'd be asking the question. I mean, I'm doing this. I want CMC. I do too. I think we saw what we saw from Judarian Price was worrisome. We talked about it. It could be, hey, rookie's first week. Sure. He's going to get more and more and more involved. But also, Charbonnet is going to come back in a couple weeks. And this definitely seemed like a team that, you know,

Was it Clint Kubiak or was it the Seahawks that were so adamant in the timeshare? Well, Clint Kubiak left and Genti was all this worry about, oh, Mike Washington's going to hit me. Genti got a monstrous workload. And then the Seahawks were a 50-50 split just like last year. So I think it's, I think it's a Seahawks problem. And we can know for sure that Ken Walker was a very good enough to be a.

workhorse running back. And they still didn't. So to me, Judarian Price... That situation is going to forever be in my brain as a conundrum of right and wrong. Sure, they won a Super Bowl. Because the plot, the bigger picture was perfectly executed. And you don't know what you don't know. You don't know if Ken Walker can handle the workload this level in Kansas City. And you don't know if he would have been as efficient, good.

or uninjured as he was last year in Seattle. Sure. You also don't know if the Seahawks would have won the championship. Had Charbonnet been there to take out? Like they might have backed themselves into a Super Bowl by having to forcibly use your better player. That is. It's wild. I mean, the unknown there, yeah.