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

Alex writes in on Instagram. Yeah, Schrodinger's running back. Generally, how do you value the number one waiver priority in a league without FAP? Great question. To me, it is, if I've got it. Next question. If I've got the number one priority, I am absolutely holding on to that until there is that running back. Well, you had mentioned Kalin Black, you were willing to burn it for him. So.

If there is a, I mean, obviously, Kaelin Black in week one show that he is a must be rostered player who is good enough should CMC go down. And in week one, there wasn't really a lot of options. From this point forward, if I've got the number one spot, I think I'm going to hold it, let the waivers pass through until an injury to a main guy happens. And, you know.

then I get to pick up a star running back going forward. That's how I would personally use. The way I handle it is if I have number one or the top priority, I will use it for if I'm going to pick up a player who I need to play right now. Like I'm not patting my bench with depth by burning my number one priority. But there are, there's times where it stinks, perfect example. Perfect example.

You needed Debo this week, which is why you paid up 17. If you had the number one waiver priority in a waiver priority league, would you have used it on Debo and gone to the back of the line? I would have had to, yeah. See, I probably would have held on to it and then let the waivers run. Because you still get to pick up a player after it runs. Obviously, you're not going to get your Debo. That's stuff. Where do you stand on that? Like that specific example. I wouldn't have got Debo, wouldn't have got Matt Collins, would not have got Caleb Douglas.

This week where the wide receiver shook out, I don't know, I felt like Debo was the most playable guy immediately. And with stribling out, who knows? Yeah, I think he's going to be involved for a while. It doesn't feel amazing to spend on Debo. No, especially because the last time we saw Debo on the 49ers, he was not good. So the perfect example then to play that one out, you would have lost Debo.

And all those other guys. Right. So right now, like, just looking at our league, you would have probably picked up Khalil Shakir. Right. And be starting him instead of Diba, but you would have retained the number one. So it's like a trade. Yes. Would you trade the number one priority and Khalil Shakir? I think it's really hard to sit there and just wait for an injury. Yeah. Because you just, I think you will grow.

like it can get frustrating and it can be a pretty big impact like sure the biggest waiver wire running back impact could win you a handful of weeks starting in week seven eight nine something like that but then what happens in those early weeks when you have needs and depth and you know other people are not going to be patient either so there is a bit of a like know your league aspect of well okay maybe i burn it but these guys are all going to burn theirs like i i don't know i it's just a tough call it's very valuable but

you can't be beholden to just like, I'm going to hold this. Because it's like, maybe I can't think of it, but last year was there a week where it was like, oh, man. The last two years, I will say this. Because the running back stayed healthy last year. We brought this up. Running back health has been abnormally high. I mean, outrageously high for the last two years compared to pretty much every year for the previous decade. They got some new cleats or something? I don't know. It's the peptides, man.

I mean, look, give them to the wide receivers. The other thing you can do in a league with a waiver priority you want to preserve is make sure that I think in those leagues compared to fab leagues, I think you even more need to have your insurance backs so that you don't put yourself in the position where you've got to hold that to get those guys. Maybe that puts you, you know, in a better spot. I don't know. It's a tough call. And I just hate the idea of like holding it and holding it and holding it and then nothing materializes. And I'm not.

I'm not picking up guys I need to pick up. Chance writing in on Instagram, Parker Washington or DeMonte Smith rest of season. Oh, good. Oh, chance. You dog. That's brutal, man. I don't want to be. Well, let's rely on the rest of season rankings here. Week one. Yeah. I mean, I love. That's amazing. I don't want my love for Parker Washington to distort this answer.

I want us to all write it down. Yeah, I've got the answer. I know where I'm at. I'm going to let sanity prevail here. I've got Devante Smith four spots higher than Parker, Washington. I'm going Devante. I'm going Devante Smith as well. I have Parker two spots higher right now. Okay, there you go. It's a fair question. That's why it's so funny. I still think Devante is just the, I think he's more assured. But we'll see. They're both great.

And they'll both, it'll even out. All right, YouTube question from Sonic Spartan. How many weeks until you bail on a stack? I have asking as a Bo Nix Jalen Waddle manager. Ouch. Ouch. Indeed. I would, so here's the... Individably. Here's the real problem. And this is why Andy before the show was talking about how he wanted to make Bo Nix a my guy, which makes sense this is a player who was the quarterback seven, then the quarterback six, and was drafted as quarterback 15. Yeah.

Yeah, that just jumps out as like, hey, maybe I'm on my guy. Maybe I'm a perfect target. But the opening schedule is why you didn't. I want to tell this person, well, don't bail. The Chiefs have a great defense. I would have expected a bad game for Bo Nix and a bad game for Jalen Waddle in week one. Like those aren't. But then it's like, okay, well, what do you expect for the next five weeks? I don't have it pulled up right in front of me. It's Jacksonville is next. Okay, that's fine. That's totally fine. Then it's Rams.

It is at home. But you won't have Miles Garrett, who's on IR now. Right. They might have Darnel. It's very good. Okay, but that's, okay. And then at San Francisco. I think that's... The weirdest thing, the schedule has not always mattered for them. Yeah, they put up a fart against the worst team. The Raiders? The Raiders on Thursday night football. I will say this. I would like to see it. I would like to see the good form soon.

So here's what you do. You can't just be like it's going to be bad six weeks. You've got to have good forms somewhere in there. Here's what you do. You can bail on the stack, not by like dropping Bo Nix, but by starting another quarterback. Sure. And hoping that Waddle just gets more involved. I think that is a reasonable expectation. I would bail on the stack now. What do you mean by that? I just mean letting go of Bo Nix. And I don't think you have to keep on your roster. If you want to do that, you can. But.

I don't think that that stack in particular is that crucial for you. If Brock Purdy's out there, pick him up and drop Nix and just play Brock Purdy and Waddle. Yeah, I agree. And then minimize your exposure to a bad schedule for Denver and maybe a bad play caller. Who knows? That's another variable here where, like, is Davis Webb part of the problem? Is Bo Nix going to be the problem? Uninspiring start and really discouraging targets for Waddle.

Yeah, I think that what we saw doing waiver work for week one was that this year there's a lot more multi-drafted quarterback leagues. Like, for instance, Brock Purdy, I think was drafted in 82% of leagues, something like that. The name that I think is probably out there at quarterback that if you're wanting to pick someone up and hope that, hey, going forward, mostly available and could be really good is Tyler Shock.

I was, I did not drop him. I was very, I didn't have him in any waiver bids. I was like, you know what? I want to, I want to see what this looks like. One more question from Instagram, Skyler writing in, quote, Mike sucks. Oh, what? Told me to start Kyler over my home. Oh, Michael. Can you give him the booze, Jason? I don't have that power. For sure. No, that's on me guys. Dude, listen. That's on me. How did you see that not coming? I mean. That's on me.

That's ridiculous. You told them to start someone that was going to get injured. Yeah. I'm going to put it into my process. Nice. Way to learn from your mistakes. When I know a severe injury that will not get out of the game, if I know it's coming, I'll put it in. I'll put it in. If it's early. I'll weigh it as a very. We'll do a new segment guy getting knocked out this week. And we'll just call the shot, which.

Hey, that's coming week two. It's the worst segment, but Jason's done. Week two quarter two. Oh, you. That's, we're in it. We're in it. I still can't believe you're sticking with that. I just call. This is your fault. It's wrong. I just call. How is it my fault that you'd say something so egregious? You put Ramandre up behind me. Oh, at the live show? Yeah. I just saw the future. Wait, one more. Edward wants to know how we ever thought about switching seats on the set.

I certainly have not. I'm not a profile guy. I'm pretty interested in Jason's seat. We've done it one time for a reason. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, Hillbilly. Mike and Andy flip-flopped for toothgates. The prospector showed up. I had lost the tooth on one side. And it was weird. It was very weird. But Jason has long since said he does not want to be in the profile.

Correct. Let me, let me, like, do you change seats like in a car? In your family? You ever change the side of bed you sleep on with your? No, I actually have one. You have you? I wondered. It was because I was closer to the bathroom and then the wife was pregnant and I was like, okay. She should probably be closer to the bathroom. That's nice. Who would defend an intrusion though? Who's closer to the door right now? It is now still the wife. Okay, Jason. Who's closer to the door in your situation?

back door or no your your bedroom the main entry uh because they say my wife is only use like which of my seven doors to my room you freaking well i'm like right by the back door someone comes in the front door and comes in to attack you it it would be the wife that's my house too and i'm right there ready to escape the back i say i'm very close to the escape window i am closest well jason's got a bunch of other doors you can get out of um it's like a scooby do house golly golly

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