Fantasy Football 2017 - Playoff Primer, Keep/Trade/Cut, Pump the Brakes

run-stopping defense. They've only given up 284 yards in the last five games. That's 56 yards a game, and they've been doing that on a 2.8 yard per carry clip. Then you have the fact that, look, Seattle's favored by five and a half points. The game script is probably not going to be an uber positive game script the way that it was against San Francisco and the way that it was in his first week. So now they might need to pass the ball a little bit more. If they're down by a score, down by two scores,

they're not going to be able. I mean, they're just not going to be able to give him 25, 26 carries. And, you know, look, if he got more than 26 carries, which would be great, that would be the most carries that Seattle's had, you know, given up on them on the entire season. How many touchdowns of Seattle giving up the last two weeks? So last week, Rob Kelly saved his day by the two touchdowns, both of which were those, you know, goal line, one yard touchdown runs. So look, if.

If there's a pass interference on the goal line, he is the running back to have, and they'll give him the shot at getting that touchdown. So those things can happen. That's why I'm saying this is not a guaranteed must bench, but he is not a top 15 running back. And look, just like Rob Kelly, he got the touchdowns. You want to make a top 12 water bat? Oh, no. Oh, what? This is easy. Waterbed. Top 12, Adrian Peterson this week. All right, Judge, it's time for you to weigh in. I think the arguments have been made.

What's the verdict? I'm pumping the brakes on Adrian Peterson. Yeah, to the judge. That's okay. That's okay. If it's just me and Adrian Peterson walking together, that's fine. I like that man on my side. Corey Clement, Adrian Peterson, DeMarco Murray, the pump the brakes. This was. Pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto parts, better parts, better prices every single day. Before we jump into the news, I just want Mike's two-second take on where he sides on that argument. It's just so hard to put faith in a bad matchup.

A 32-year-old running back. It's Adrian Peterson, I get it. He's kind of proven that he is a superhuman mutant of sorts. But 37 carries on Sunday is to play football on Thursday. That's... Pumping them. I got to pump the brakes. All right. The pump crew. I got to work with you. News and notes from around the league. Mike Evans was denied in his appeal of his one game suspension. He's out week 10.

I told him to use that AJ Green tape. Deshawn Jackson this week with no Mike Evans becomes a wide receiver. This is where you fill in the blank. Two, three. Yeah. I mean, you don't move them up a lot. No. No. I don't think he gets force fed targets and it's still Ryan Fitzpatrick. Chris Godwin becomes a sneaky snart. Interesting. Yeah. Because he's much more the style of.

You know, the Mike Evans, the... Far more DFS related pick for me, though. I don't think I would start Godwin in a season long. No, he's... If we're not moving Dijax up at all. He's what we call a glory play. Sure. Well, Dijax, the point is Dijax's already on the field for, you know, his snap counts not going up because he's already up there. His role isn't going to change, but he might get a few more targets. I think someone else there will obviously benefit from the missing targets of Mike Evans, and that would either be...

Chris Godman, Adam Humphreys, or maybe Cameron Bray. O.J. Howard. Mike Tomlin confirmed Mark Tavis. Martavis Bryant will play. Week 10 against the Colts, doesn't matter. For fantasy, as in starting him, probably not. But he does help the offense. Darren, Darrell Bevel, Seahawks' offensive coordinator, said Thomas Rawls was starting Thursday against the Cardinals. Does that matter? If you are like me and you are just... Would you start to Marco Murray?

Or Thomas Rawls? I'd start Murray over Rawls. Just checking. Sure. But Rawls is worth a desperation start. Bad matchup, though. Okay. Case Keenham's going to start in week 10. It's not going to be Bridgewater. Bradford actually had surgery on his knee and might be headed to the IR. I expect that he will be. Yeah, he had his knee scoped, a clean-out job by Dr. James Andrews. Oh, oh. Yeah.

That's never good. Chris Hogan, Paul Richardson, Jimmy Graham didn't practice on Tuesday. I think the one to pay close attention to there is actually Paul Richardson because this is a new issue for him. What did he hurt? Jimmy Grant is his groin. Paul Richardson, I don't know if he's going to play on Thursday. That might bump Tyler Lockett up because Patrick Peterson is probably going to be mixing it up with Doug Baldwin more often than Tyler Lockett. Yeah, I actually really like Tyler Lockett as a play this week.

Which we'll get into later today. We will? Well, we're covering the Thursday night game today. Okay. Then we will. There you go. We're going to do a little bit of... You guys will start with the playoff primer? You want to start with Keep Trade Cut? Let's start with Keep Trade Cut. Okay. Then I'll push this button. Keep Trade Cut. I'm happy to report that there are... There's a large quantity of people that did, in fact, poop themselves when I hit that extra show drop the other day.

We had the double raising canes drop right in the middle of the segment. That was terrifying. Yeah, a lot of people had to pull over, clean up a little bit. Get the baby wipes. Get the baby wipes out. A little wet wipe. Yep, yep. All right. Keep trade cut. We're right around that trade deadline, guys. We have leagues where our trade deadline is over. We also have leagues where that big red banners popping up on your provider saying it's coming. So this is the time.

to make your moves. This is the time to know whether to trade some of these guys. We have, uh, breaking news. Is it worthy of the button? It sure is. Breaking news. We just talked about it, but now it's official. Sam Bradford will be placed on the IR. He has reserved seating on the IR. Man, first class ticket to the IR. I will say this. That's a bummer. That's it. Sam Bradford, I've,

I know everyone, oh, he's been paid so much money. Yeah, that's, that's fantastic. But the guy, the guy had a dream of playing football, and he was pretty good. And it's just, these knee injuries have derailed it. And it's week one, it stinks for him. Was awesome. I mean, oh, what could have been. His knees are not, uh, no, week one looks even better now when you think about where the saints are as a defense and like being six and two. Super Bowl, uh, Bound Saints. And getting completely and utterly.

You mean the team we picked to win the Super Bowl before the year? That's what I'm talking about. Somebody tweeted at me, and in April, they went and they got 75 to 1. Yeah. Well, you know. On a $20 Super Bowl bet for the Saints. We're making people money, Mike. I guess they do have to still win it. Yeah. It's a foregone conclusion. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of done deal. Player requests from the Foot Clan for Keep Trade Cut.

These came through on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, wherever you follow us. Number one request by far is Doug Martin Keep Trade Cut. Dougie Martin. He is a shop and hold. As in the trade deadline's coming up. A shop and hold? Yes. You shop him around and see if you can get good value for him. If you can, you pull the trigger. But if you can't get good value, you don't just...

trade him away because there is the chance. Yeah, you definitely don't cut him. There is still the chance that the ship gets righted and Doug Martin has a, you know, a great rest of season. And so, you know, when you're trading him, that's what the person taking him on is going to hope for. And that's where you need to get that kind of value out of him. But you should definitely be looking to trade him because I put the odds of him having a really successful fantasy season from here and out.

at the under 50%. You know, I don't expect it to happen the way that the outlook has been recently. I like his matchups if he gets on the field. And you have to hope that what we saw in that 30 to 10 loss was just arresting of Doug Martin because the game was out of hand. I think it was a benching for stink. Yeah, I think it was both. I mean, it was no need to put him out there. Might as well.

throw someone else out there. So if this team's playing from behind, maybe they do that again. That's the risk. I have a dynasty question then for Jason. Okay. If you have it at sub 50% for him to bounce back, which I would probably put it around there too. Because it wasn't just for fantasy purposes last week. He's been trending down since he had a monster game one, but it's been trending down since then. Is Doug Martin a Tampa Bay Buccaneer next year? I would say no.

He is very expensive. He's 28 now, so he'll be 29 next year. And if the team continues to stink, I doubt they want that kind of money in the running back position. They've got other assets there, but it's just a guess. Yeah. I don't believe any of his money is guaranteed. He's not guaranteed anymore because of the suspension. That's where I was curious. On and off relationship with that staff. So if that staff isn't there, that could change things.

Alex Collins, keep trade cut on the buy. This is the time you got to kind of, would you cut him if you don't have a buyer, which I doubt you will. I mean, you got to move on with the buy week and with Danny Woodhead coming back and Buck Allen. He's a hold for me. If I saw him on the waivers, I would pick him up. Now, because it's a buy, I think we said this yesterday, if you have to, if you have to, you know, make a pickup, make a start because of buy week.

issues, then drop him. He is, it's not the end of the world if you need to drop Alex Collins, but I would try to keep him if I could. I agree. I'd be a cut for me. I mean, single digits every game but won this entire year. I feel like it's, you're up against it trying to roster him through the buy. Sure. He's just as, I mean, he's a low level running back too, which if you feel like you can replace that or you don't need that, I'm okay.

I guess I'm okay cut. He's, you know, five weeks in a row of double-digit carries. Yeah. And he's looked pretty good and was more and more involved. And then this last week was a down week. I think that's why we're tempted to cut him. Okay. Keenan Allen, Stefan Diggs. Keep trade cut for both of those guys. It's, I'm going to keep Keenan Allen. And Stefan Diggs, if you can trade. The only problem with Stefan Diggs is health. So.

If you can move him and get fair value, I would do it. But I'm also okay, just rolling the dice, hoping that he heals up and that he gets back on the field for the rest of the year, because when he plays, he's very good. Yeah, I think I agree. I hold Alan and try to trade digs. I still see trade.

offers coming through where Diggs is getting a lot of value. He still has name value. Yeah. I mean, he's still got the value from, you know, those first three weeks. He was the number one wide receiver. Everybody wanted him that he was injured. So I've seen people give up a lot for him. And if you can, then, uh, then I would, I would trade Steph and Diggs. Hey, before we get into a few more keep trade cut. I want to thank today's sponsor, Pristine auction the best sports memorabilia site on the entire.

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