Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep/Trade/Cut + Fantasy Questions

We've got Sammy Watkins news. They say he doesn't need a second surgery on the foot. Wait. Is that what the news was? Yeah. Dr. Robert Anderson determined Watkins does not need a second surgery. He could return in six weeks. Wow. So do you... Did you invent some different news? Yeah. I thought I saw the breaking news that he was getting surgery. No, no. That'd be Eric Decker. Dislexia! Yeah, well. So now the question, do you stash Sammy Watkins on your bench?

I mean, what are you going to do? Are you going to play him in week 16? I mean, no, I don't stash him. I mean, I stash him in, I mean, he's owned in any dynasty keeper, so I don't know. I don't think this is news. Week 16? I mean, you're talking about, that's championship. Well, no, it's not Week 16. Sorry, six weeks. Six more weeks. So week 12. Okay.

It would be very, very difficult to have him. Yeah, no, I guess I would. I guess I would. I still think it would be very difficult to have him come at. Let's say he comes back in week 13. That's your week one of your playoffs. Are you going to start him? I had week 16 in my head because that was when Lane Johnson can return and that news about his suspension being upheld. So would you start him? Lane Johnson? No. I mean, would you start?

Watkins, maybe. If a couple weeks go by and he looks okay. Yeah, absolutely. Here's what I do, though. I mean, here's the story. If they are not competitive at the end of the year, why in the world would they put him out there? But they're winning right now. All right. Steve Smith is expected to be out in week six against the Giants. Who's the beneficiary on that? Kamar. Kamar Akken. Yeah. It's finally time. Oh, whatever. All right. Jonathan Stewart is going to play this week.

Do we expect a full workload for Johnson Stewart against the Saints? Because that's a great match. Yeah, if he starts, I would fully expect it. 20 carries probably coming up. Really? Yeah. First week back. I would think so. I mean, you've seen him. Pam should be back. Stewart should be back. This is season turnaround time for the, what, one in five? One of four. One in four. One in four, I mean, one and four Carolina Panthers. The math is running real slow these days. Palmer's back. Yep. Carson Palmer is expected to play. Yeah. He plays the Jets on Monday.

Passing D and the Jets have not been good. Very good news for all three Cardinals' wide receivers. Not that you're going to start Michael Floyd for trust reasons, but Larry Fitzgerald, John Brown, I think are good plays. Charlie Whitehurst has been cut. Oh, again. They call him clipboard Jesus has gone. Mike Wallace was wearing a non-contact jersey on Wednesday's practice. Yeah. You know, I was going to say this is something to monitor because I believe...

Or I had thought when Steve Smith was out that the biggest beneficiary would actually be Mike Wallace. I feel like the defense ends up coming in more, trying to stop the run more. And then you've got that long bomb opportunity for Wallace. Plus you have the fact that Joe Flacco, you know, was being the squeaky wheel saying, why aren't we throwing it downfield more? And then they change their offensive coordinator. So, you know, monitor this because if Mike Wallace is actually hurt these, you know.

Mike Wallace is the 16th ranked fantasy wide receiver right now. He hasn't scored since week two, and he really hasn't been a long bomb guy at all with 41, 34, 44, and 63 yards on, you know, a variety of catches. So it will be interesting if the offensive coordinator allows Flacco to take advantage of his arm or whether it goes to the running game. So that'll be like Jason said. I think both go up. We shall see. We shall see. So it's time to play.

Keep trade cut. All right. Keep trade cut. Philip Dorset. Oof. Oof. I mean, there's, judging from the waivers, the wide receiver waiver of this week, there's a lot of guys like Coates, Hogan, even probably Cam Meredith. Cam Meredith. I cut Philip Dorset. I agree. I agree. Dorset, since Moncrief's out, one catch, three catches, one catch, two catches.

Yeah, it's been very disappointing for that. Terrible. Terrible. So definitely not a guy that they're leaning on there. I'd cut him. We all agree. Lamar Miller keep trade cut. I'm keeping him. I'm definitely keeping him. I'm also trading for him. But, Andy, you would not trade for him. Am I correct by your facial expression? No. And that's because the price for Lamar Miller is the price that people paid in the draft.

I would say the price is down. Judging from the Twitter feedback I'm getting, people are panicked. They want to sell Lamar Miller. If you can get him for running back two value, then I'm fine trading for him. Yeah. I mean, he's yet to score on the season. Obviously, Minnesota game is a bit of an outlier. So if you can buy low on Lamar Miller after a three point game with only eight carries, that's fine. I, I'm just kind of surprised at.

the beginning of the season and maybe it's one of those things that we say look like with amari cooper this past week right there's positive regression coming yeah i mean with amari cooper my contention about him being you know start of the week the guy that you need to pay attention to is that things even out and uh i was reading uh he entered week five with more touches without a touchdown through four games than anybody in modern NFL history they're coming so they're coming just hold tight

There you go. So now you've got another week without him scoring. Only one catch. So, yeah, I think you have no choice but to keep Lamar Miller. Travis Benjamin, keep trade cut. Ooh, I trade. I wait until a big week like he just had seven for 117. And I trade. The reason is because with Travis Benjamin, Tyrell Williams, and Don Trall Inman, I don't have trust. And Gates and Henry. Right. And Gates and Henry. I just, I mean, they're going to have good games. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they're bad or they're not valuable. You better get lucky.

Exactly. I've never been one. Despite the fact that I owned Deshaun Jackson in our League of Record, I've never been one to own those types of players where you can get that big boom game or you can get completely, you know, you can crap your team. Keep trade cut to Sean Jackson. I'll say for the Chargers, they do have Denver this week and again in two weeks. Trade. So trade them when you can't trade them. I've been trying.

I'm telling you, I would love to trade him. Here's a surprise. Two very nice weeks. Three single digit weeks. Ho-hum, 42nd rank wide receiver. I would, if you can't trade Deshaun Jackson. You keep him. I would cut Deshaun Jackson. No. Yeah, I would. Really? Yes, because I think there are other. Would you cut Deshaun Jackson for Sammy Coates? Yes. I would do that. Sure. What about Jeremy Curley? No. Yeah.

You would rather have Jeremy Curley than Deshaun Jackson? Well, you know, no. I'll say no because the quarterback changing is happening right now. Let me just give a little narrative on Deshaun Jackson, okay? So he starts the year out as clearly, you know, he had a great 102 yards, six receptions, good game. Two weeks later, 96 yards with a touchdown. He was one of the top wide receivers. Cleveland comes up. Well, they just destroyed Cleveland so early with touchdowns to Jordan Reed, so you don't need him. And then last week.

We said right at the beginning of the week, or right before the games, those cross wins were crazy. 25 mile an hour crosswinds on the field. You're not throwing it down the field to Deshaun Jackson, and he had a bad game. I think it would be too early to cut him personally. I just don't like the schedule. You got Philly, then you have a good game at Detroit on the road. Sinci, bye, Minnesota. I don't know. I think I would cut him. I'm going to wait until a blow up and then try to trade. I'm not opposed.

to cutting him, but he's not a must cut. What do you guys do with C.J. Anderson right now? Keep cut C.J. Anderson. He has been disappointing if you're expecting those big RB1 numbers. There's just not been consistency of the quarterback position, obviously. What do you guys do with C.J. Anderson? People want to know. People, you know, a friend of mine, what's the, what's the numbers? I think you keep him.

If you can trade him for the value where, you know, the week one and two value where he's getting 20 carries, he's getting a touchdown. He's getting it done and he looks like a top five back. Then I would capitalize on that value. It's going to be hard to find someone to take that when the last three weeks he's had 37 yards, 49 yards, and 41 yards. So, you know, I think he's a value play. I would love to have C.J. Anderson on my team. So I guess that says, you know. CJ Anderson and Lamar Miller.

Miller. I would rather have Miller. But here's the thing. I talked about San Diego's schedule. They have to play Denver twice. You know what that means? Denver gets to play San Diego twice in the next three weeks, including this week. So that means C.J. Anderson should have a, he should have a great game this Thursday. He plays San Diego again in two weeks. Seven touchdowns given up to the running back position in five weeks by San Diego, including six of those in the last three weeks.

He has Oakland after that. It's a division game. I think Oakland is beatable. And then he gets to play the Saints. And then he has a bye week. And then he plays Kansas City who has not been good against the run. I mean, I'm trying to get C.J. Anderson right now, personally. All right. Let's, uh, we're taking a break for a second? Yeah. Let's, let's, let's thank our sponsor of today's show, Pristine Auction. Look, you've heard us talk about pristine auction. If you haven't heard us talk about them, well, welcome to the party. Pristine auction is the.

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I probably just blew out my money. Wow. That was simultaneous with our waivers in our league. And did you spend big on Mr. Coates? I went. I did. I don't know if I got him. I'll tell you in three. Sammy Coates went for $32 to you. I got him. Do you know that the next highest bid was $31? Yeah! Wait, that's how you do it. Well, why are you excited about that? Yeah, you just got a cap. That was really weird. Because look, I want it. No, I'm still.

The cast is whatever for this week. This is long term for coats. But when you pay up. That was so weird. No, no, no. It makes sense because he bid the exact correct amount. You always want to bid one dollar more than whoever bid. I could have been you bidding $20 on Cameron Brate last week and then no one else places a bid. Were you excited about that? No. But if someone bid 19, you would have been ecstatic. I would have been happier. Thus my reaction. Not if Cameron Brade had a cast on his arm simultaneously.

That's, I'm not, maybe this ends up being a seasonender and I just threw 30 bucks away, but I'm very happy. How hard is it for a guy with no hands to catch with a cast? Well, he already had no hands, so. Can he catch with his teeth? Big, that's big time news. I mean, a bunch of people spent money on Sammy Coates, and for that to break right now, do you have any other information? No, there's no follow-up blurb. I will investigate while you move forward with the Keep Trade Cut. Okay. Let's do a couple more. Keep Trade Cut. What would you do with Eddie Royal right now?