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of issue because we have FAB penalties and rewards based on draft picks. So then if you're making that switch, you question, do we get rid of that? You know, level the field for everyone. I'm short on FAB right now, so I vote yes. I don't even know why you're bringing it up. I'm just, I don't care about your money situation. Yeah, that part of it is, you sleep in your bed. That part doesn't matter too much to me, but the.

The, you know, the Monday night, the Sunday night, those games are the ones that are more concerning because if you're running waivers at 9 o'clock in the morning every day, but then you find out four players that are out for a Sunday night game right before and you don't have open waivers. Right. That's the situation that I think, and this is bringing it to the surface so that you can make the same type of accommodation for your league that you need to do. And I, we may need to make open waivers after waivers run daily. Sure. And or the platforms are listening to us right now. Yes. And platforms.

Listen up. All of them. And I don't know why it's not like this where for everyone. You know, some platforms have the ability, some don't. But have waivers run once a day. And then once they run on Sunday, have them be open. Like it shouldn't be that hard to make it that Sunday. Just for Sunday. They run on Sunday and then they stay open. And now I know there's going to be some other problems like maybe in the afternoon. A player is.

put on the COVID list, someone gets elevated, and it will be advantageous for certain teams in the fantasy football league who have a spot to make a quick addition. You know what I mean? Where some teams, maybe all their players have locked in the morning, they don't have room to add somebody. I get it. There's going to be some complexities that you have to deal with for this situation. But for me, that's, that is what it is. Like I said, this whole time, let's make.

COVID, let's try to negate the impact of COVID on fantasy football decisions as much as we possibly can. Yeah, it's a good point. And obviously it doesn't apply to everybody out there. A lot of you play in leagues with just open waivers all the time. But the reason we don't is because we like the even playing field of, look, if you're somebody that works and something happens, you know, the advantage to your league shouldn't go to everybody who's nearest to the computer wins. It should be something that is based on strategy, which is what Fab does. Right.

But to Mike's point, that might mean extending your benches a little bit. Good. Adjusting some of the waiver rules. I, you know, and if a platform can't accommodate something like Mike's talking about, you might have to make the decision to go open waivers for 2020. Right. And just, you know, deal with that consequence versus the, because what's worse?

You know, at least, you know, is it running to the computer and being late or is it having nobody to play? So I'm fine with the open waves. It was a detriment to us. Apparently Jason wants to throw Fab out because he's like $5 short or something. It's like, because I went in with a few draft picks missing. There's nothing to do with this. Myopic. Jason is very, you know, he's looking at his own situation. Did you have one of those like tear off vocab calendars?

The word of the day is... The odds that I'm using that word correctly are still very low. Yesterday, I was talking about circadian rhythms instead of circadian rhythms. Myopic simply means nearsighted. Which is exactly what I meant. You were kind of looking at your own fab situation. You weren't helping everybody. You were helping yourself. That's a way to interpret near sighted. All right. So...

The official deadline for players to opt out of the NFL season is Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern. So there could be a separate deadline for players with health risks. The NFL and the NFLPA spent 10 days trying to sign the paperwork. And so there's been some concessions on a 10-day period from the signing. And it ends up being Thursday. So we should know, maybe not in totality, but in...

majority how many players are out. Yeah. And if you weren't aware of this, there is that deadline here in a few days. So all the news of this player ops up, that player opts out. Don't worry about fantasy this season being like, I don't want to just have my players opting out left or right. It's over after this Thursday. Nobody can opt out. I wonder if we'll have a flurry on Thursday. We'll find out. And we'll bring it to you as it happens. Yes.

As long as it happened while we were recording the podcast. Ron Rivera said he was pleasantly surprised by Alex Smith's recovery from leg injury. Let's go, Alex. He could compete for the starting spot in Washington. He still has to be cleared by the team, I believe. Yeah. Rivera said he could envision the 36-year-old Alex Smith entering the conversation. Wow, that is a lot of equivocation. He could envision?

Thinking about it. Great. Thank you. I can think about thinking. Yes. About thinking that Alex Smith will start. No, we're going to fake the fake. Preston Williams, Dolphins wide receiver. Think about fake. Cleared for football activities. He tore his ACL in November. I think that is, to Jason's credit, I think this is bigger news than just like, oh, hey, Preston Williams is clear for football. That's what you said, right?

Correct. Okay, I was talking to Jason. Sorry. But Preston Williams was receiving a whole bunch of targets last year for Miami before he tore his ACL. He's up against it. An undrafted rookie tore his ACL. He still has to come back. However, if he has all systems go, I think that changes a lot of things for Miami. He was almost my answer to the quick question. One of those late last round picks that you...

look at taking a shot on. He was an undrafted free agent last year, made huge waves in preseason. If you remember, everyone was like, always, and it's like, well, so what? People do this all the time. They're preseason superstars, and then they go away. And then he didn't go away. He was actually very relevant to that team through the first, I think it was seven or eight weeks.

And we've talked a lot about the difference of what happened to Devante Parker and the difference of what happened to Mike Gassicki once Preston Williams went down. But if Preston Williams is able to come back, I mean, you know, we worried about Cooper Cup. He tore his ACL. The timeline was fine. He was great. I don't have a high view of, we just disagree on that one. I don't think Preston Williams is that good. Albert Wilson missed all those games when Preston Williams was making hay and getting the default target. So it depends on what you've.

view Preston Williams as. We've talked about his catch percentage and things like that. But Jason and Mike, you both think it impacts. Let me ask you this. Jason, you said he might be a late round pick. Does it negatively affect your Parker view more than it does your excitement for Williams? Or is it both sides? It's both sides more so on Gassiki than on Devante Parker. Gassiki had, he was the tale of two seasons. It was with...

And without Preston Williams, and without Preston Williams, he was great. Now, there's the, you know, we talked about this with Tyler Higby yesterday. Once you prove that you can be a really valuable tool on the field, regardless of what situation put you there, like Gassiki did the second half of the year, then you can be utilized that way. So that's the hope with Gisiki going forward. All right. Jordan Reed, Rule 86, Mike. What is this? Jeremy Hill, Jordan Reed.

Ghosts of Christmas past. I'm playing the hits right now. Hold on. I'm got to Google what's going on with Kristen Michael real quick. Yeah, hold on. Check on Christian Michael. He's signing with the Arizona Cardinals. It would not shock me. Is Roy Hulu on the way? Do we have Roy Hulu on the way back? Oh, man, Roy Hulu. Look, I'm not in on Jordan Reed. He signed. I didn't even say it. He signed with the 49th. It's interesting because he is back with Kyle Shanahan.

George Kittle's the guy. I'm not taking anything away from George Kittle. If somehow Jordan Reed is on the field, to me, it would be taking things, opportunities away from other wide receivers. Jordan Reed, when he's been on the field, he's been great for football teams. He's been great for fantasy football. People are asking, is the rule gone? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Rules are made to be broken. There you go. Rules are made to be broken. Rule 86. Don't obey it.

Uh, yeah, yeah, I think... Oh, man, if he could be great, it'll be awesome. The current depth chart for 49ers wide receivers says that they would like to take some targets away from them. Yes. And give them to somebody else. The rule 86 has been 86th. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But it is, I mean, hopefully he can stay healthy. Yeah. Because he can, you know, you can make more of an impact.

On the team than he would for fantasy potentially. It is, it is ironic. I watched this very long interview with Kyle Shanahan the day before yesterday. It was, it was great. Six hours. Very insightful. No, it was like an hour. But, um.

You know, an hour? You watched an hour interview of Kyle Stanahan? I did. Evaluate your life. Oh, I mean, this is kind of my job. It's a fair point, Mike. You researched for an hour? What are you doing? I don't ever research for this show. I'm not watching a coach talk for an hour. Well, here's the thing. If you watch this one, I think you might because it was really, really insightful. However, in that, he was talking about how the defense really led them in the beginning of the year, and the offense was.

struggling. And it wasn't until they brought in Emmanuel Sanders that the rest of the offense started to click. And so now they lost Emmanuel Sanders. They lost Debo Samuel. And so the fact that they go out and sign Jordan Reed was interesting to me right after that thinking like maybe he will be used, not in anything taking away from George Kittle, but they just might need a veteran who can go get open. How would you feel, for example, if Jordan Reed signed with the Kansas City Chiefs instead of the

San Francisco 49ers about Travis Kelsey. I wouldn't have impact Travis Kelsey one iota and I'm not having it impact George Kittle. All right. We'll do some fantasy Q&A in a moment. Before we do, I want to thank today's sponsor. That's WGU. Are you ready to earn your degree but need a university that works with your schedule? At WGU, their programs were built to be flexible. More flexible than Jason, more flexible than Mike.

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