Keep/Trade/Cut + Week 9 Buy or Sell, TNF Preview

Remember when Cory Coleman was shipped out of town? Yes. I would rather be traded for a literal ham sandwich than a seventh round or two years. Yeah, one of those things is going to pan out. It's going to be delicious. It was interesting that the Jets did that. And then also what was interesting, it came out later that the Falcons were talking to the Lions, or I should say the Lions inquired about trading for Devont to Freeman because they have a glaring need at the running back position, but Atlanta chose not to trade him. No, they're satisfied with Trey Carson.

And Ty Johnson. All right. This is one of the bigger topics, I think, for fantasy owners. 49ers running back news updates. Kyle Shanahan said Rahim Mostert, quad injury, Matt Breed, ankle injury. They didn't practice. He said if they had to go today, it wouldn't be good. I'm really curious about your take on a kind of...

cursory Jeff Wilson signing for your fantasy team because Wilson went down with what looked like a really scary injury, ended up being a stinger. If the game was last night or tonight, you would have Kevin Coleman and Jeff Wilson. Yes, and I think both players would be excellent starts against Arizona for the 49ers who've been able to run. They've pretty much had two. Who gets the goal line work? If it's Kevin Coleman and Jeff Wilson. I think you'd end up with Jeff Wilson as more of the goal line guy because they're going to split the load.

And I think Tevin Coleman, while he can also be the goal line guy, he has a much more capable skill set on the ones and twos as a DJ. It was, if you look at it last week, it was hard to read the tea leaves on which guy gets the goal line work because they were blowing him out. So like Tevin got it an opportunity, but then Wilson got it later and then obviously got hurt. So I just think nobody's talking about Jeff Wilson. My name is Jeff.

And there's an opportunity. It won't just be Kevin Coleman. He only had 13 touches last week in the blowout. Jaggs placed Marquis Lee on injured reserve. He's not been able to stay healthy for years. Brandon Cooks, this is big news. Brandon Cooks is visiting a concussion specialist in Pittsburgh. The Rams are on by. They're trying to figure out how he keeps getting concussed so often, things that they could do to help prevent that. But you're talking about a situation for dynasty owners.

you start to look at Brandon Cooks and say, how long is this career really going to be? Do you guys have that fear? It's at least in the back of my mind. I don't know if it's a full force like, I'm bailing out, man. I'm trading Brandon Cooks immediately. But concussions are extremely scary. Repeated concussions is, it's scientifically proven. Multiple concussions is.

is horrendous on the well-being of just your life. Like your quality of life goes way down. And you enter a new category with cooks where regardless of how long his career is, another concussion at any moment means multiple games. It doesn't mean one game. Correct. And so the risk is higher. I don't necessarily worry about the longevity of his career. But I do think, and it's nice. He's got the buy week. Maybe he comes right back.

But I have to assume that this is going to be a lengthier absence because the way that concussions work is you need time. It's really the repeat head injuries that are worrisome. And so I would expect him to miss a significant amount of time on this current concussion. Serling Shepard is practicing today. Okay. Could clear the protocol this week. O.J. Howard's still sidelined with the hamstring injury. I think a player, a lot of fantasy owners is excited to see.

are excited to see back on the field. Chris Herndon, limited in practice. Come on, Chris. He could make his debut. And then Zavian Howard, this is notable for Robbie Anderson, Truthers. Zavian Howard is on IR. Yes. With an knee injury. Dolphins cornerback, he is an absolute stud. There was a pretty noticeable shift in effectiveness of the Pittsburgh passing game when Howard left that game.

Don't forget to drop it like it's hot. Check your waiver wire today. You might see Kenny Stills find his way back out there. A number of players, you know, people are filling holes for by weeks. They have to let somebody go. Next week you got bypocalypse. Six teams on by so you can prepare now get ahead of it. You know, if O.J. Howard is out there and you're the Zach Gert's owner. Next week he's on bye. And O.J. Howard plays Arizona.

We've talked a lot about handcuffs, like certain must-own handcuffs. If they're owned by your opponent, next week, it could be when they slip onto the waiver wire. Because when you're staring down, do I have somebody to fill in on my flex position or hold Malcolm Brown on my bench or whatever? You're going to let those guys go. Yeah. News and notes is always brought to you by the Sleeper app. Be guys ready to do some. Keep trade cut. Yep. Trade cut.

Mike, I'm looking at the graphic of you up here on the screen. You look like, there's a couple observations. One, you look like you're really having a hard time deciding whether to keep trade or cut. Yeah, you definitely have a headache. And you might be from, is that, are you from Brazil? I mean, that kind of looks like a flag behind you. Oh, I see what you're saying. I was looking at my face and I feel like I look like myself and Matt Patricia are from.

Like Lord of the Rings. Oh, okay. I thought maybe you had had some bad Chipotle. With those forehead wrinkles and that beard, man. You've been on, you've been on the pot of while in that picture. In that picture. YouTube.com slash the fantasy football. All right. Keep trade cut in season edition. We went to you, to the Foot Clan to get the most popular request, whether it was Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, the players you wanted to know.

what we thought about them. The number one request by far is keep trade cut on Robert Woods. No, none of us are cutting Robert Woods. No. But you do have to make a decision with trading deadlines coming up on a simple question. Does Robert Woods bounce back to what you need and want from him as a fantasy player or not? Yeah, I mean, that is the question because

If you believe he bounces back, then he could be a trade for target. If you don't, then he should be someone you trade. I believe that he will bounce back. I mean, you know, you've had a lot of, especially, you know, you look at those first five games. His target counts were phenomenal. You watch the games, some just barely misses or callbacks on penalties.

I don't think you saw a lot missing. Now, the last couple weeks, you know, you go back the last three weeks and baffling. That's where, right, they're baffling. I mean, you would, he would be on a 16-game pace of 69 targets, which is not nice. Not nice at all. That would be putrid. And I just don't believe that that's the real Robert Woods, the real Rams, the real golf.

I am scared. I'm scared because, look, I acquired him a couple weeks ago on a by-low. I'm scared because when push comes to shove, when Cooper Cubs not available, all of a sudden, Gerald Everett or Josh Reynolds, it becomes the guy that they're looking to. I'm right that Robert Woods has zero receiving touchdowns on the season. Yes, you are correct. In the first half of 2018, he was the wide receiver 11.

at this point. Right now he is the wide receiver 39. This is a very big decision for fantasy owners. And what's wild is you had this past game against the Bengals, a team that you can, whatever your offense wants to do, you can make it happen. Yeah, see 220 yards for Cooper Cup. Brandon Cooks goes out immediately. Okay, Cooper Cup, Robert Woods. Let's see the natural bump up. Cooper Cup, 10 targets.

What do we see? Oh, Josh Reynolds here with age targets. And meanwhile, Robert Woods had two. Caught 100%. He did. He got 100% of his targets. I like your spin zone over here. But that is very concerning. Yeah. Now, they are going to their buy week this week. So you can have things fixed or you can utilize him in a package trade. You know, if you are looking at.

upgrading your roster and, you know, he's on buy and somebody's willing to buy low for a future bounce back. I mean, it's hard to trade for a guy who's been disappointing that you want to bounce back on their buy because it's like, you really have to wait and see now. For me, the decisions for Woods is really, do I hold onto him or do I trade him? And I'm scared the way Andy is scared that. I'm looking to trade him away and just if he, if he has a great second half of the season,

Good, good for him, but I lean on the side that it's, that I want out. It's worth noting that the next three weeks is by week, this week. Pittsburgh, which their defense has actually been pretty great, and then Chicago. So, you know, it's one of those situations where I had to make the choice. I'm out. I don't know if we're talking in depth about Jared Goff, but he was a drop for me. Oh, that's, yeah, that's fine. Because.

you've got a, you know, a month where you're not going to use them. Yeah, and I think you can still sell Robert Woods on the historical past. Yeah. And the bad breaks. And the Brandon Cook's injury. And you can, there's a, there's a strong trade narrative there. But I would, I'm going to have to go trade. Before we move to the next player, want to thank today's sponsor. Introducing the Capital One Walmart rewards card earned 5% back at Walmart online. Games for kids. Headphones for dab a lap.

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That was a quick answer. Sorry. And I accept it if you want to give a quick answer. I reserve the right to change. But it's not been. Keep. It's not been good. We don't. If you pulled the studio right now and you said, you want to put your life in the hands of Matt Nagy. I don't think any of us are doing that. From a trust perspective. So, you know, you've had one good week, one good week for David Montgomery in eight weeks. And it was a great week. And you could trade him on the high of that great week.

Should that be a consideration for fantasy owners to cash in on all this, on the quick reaction of keep? So this was a trade four target for me last week. He was one of my second half MVP's. Obviously, if you made that deal, you were very happy because of his big week. Now that that week is over and it was so big, I think it's worth at least exploring what you could get because if people believe that this is the new norm and hey,

It could be. I said yesterday, I think the reality is in between, right? It's not as bad as it was, and it's not as good as this last week was either. They play Philadelphia this week. Obviously, not a good matchup for a running back. Let me ask you this. I'll put it to you this way, Mike. Rest of season. Who do you prefer? Austin Echler or David Montgomery? Ooh. Man, the change of OC throws...

a wrench in what you can believe right now about Austin Echler like that has to go up into the air at least a little bit does Anthony Lynn actually did Ken Wisenhunt and go out because they want Melvin Gordon to take the ball more uh I think Montgomery's volume is safer but Echler has more upside so I'll go Echler what about Philip Lindsay would you rather have David Montgomery or Philip Lindsay rest of the season I would rather have David Montgomery Jason Jason

I would rather have Philip Lindsay. We've seen him dominate for a long stretch. He's trending in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, Montgomery is trending in the right direction. One more half point league. James White, rest of season. James White. Over David Montgomery. Yes. Yeah, James White has been incredibly steady. There's. I lied to you one more. Jordan Howard. Jordan Howard or David Montgomery rest of season. There you go. That's a tough one. I would, I think I would take.

So when it comes to thinking about this, the next few weeks are very difficult matchups for the Eagles. You've got Chicago, a bye week, and the Patriots. But their playoff schedule is so nice. I mean, you know, I've been struggling with the Eagles, Miami, New York Giants, Washington. Quick side note on that.

If you're looking towards the playoffs and you don't have the pads, you don't have the Jets right now, a good stash defense for your playoff run, the Philadelphia Eagles. Yes. Here's why I will say keep on David Montgomery and not trade. What you're going to get for David Montgomery is not going to outpace, in my estimation, the potential upside. When you are at this point in the season,