Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - #FootClan Mailbag Episode, Dynasty, Keeper, Commish Questions

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Jointhefoot.com. There are over a thousand of you already on there discussing various fantasy football related goodness. And every Thursday like today, we put out an exclusive show over there. So go to Join the Foot. Yes, an extra show every week on Jointhefoot.com. Today I have a quick question for you, gentlemen.

before we get into the mailbag. And the question is simply this. If you're running a league, you are a commissioner or you are a member of a league and you're looking to make your league the best it can be, what is the best way to handle trades? Okay. So there are a lot of... Functionally, you're saying. Functionally, as a commissioner, is it better to have limits on trades or no limits on trades? Is it better to have trades process immediately?

or wait two days for the league to vote on trades? Should you be able to trade draft picks in, you know, keeper leagues and things like that? Answer kind of philosophically, what do you think are some of the best parts about trading and how leagues should be run? A good commissioner is going to know the lay of the land for his league, and I would say it would be different, meaning I would choose different things based on the league that I'm in. If it's a new league...

And you guys haven't been working together for a long time. There's not camaraderie there. I think you need to set up rules that help build to that. Rules like having a 24-hour... Build some trust. Yeah, a 24-hour vote system for every trade that goes through. I'm not a big fan of limiting trades at all when it comes to, like, you can only have five trades this year or something like that. That being said, if you're in a group of great players, you're in a great league, the league that everyone wants to play in, I say get rid of that deadline.

so that you can be faster, you can just trade instantly. Waiting period. Yeah, the waiting period. Not deadline. Because you would have a trade deadline. Certainly. Certainly have a trade deadline. But removing the waiting period is actually really liberating. It allows you to trade more during the season where you're still having to wait for waivers to go through. And there's Thursday night games are creeping in. It seems so hard when you have a trade waiting period on acceptance. You're always doing the math. Like, okay, so if I trade.

After the waivers go through, how many hours do I have to get a trade done before I have to start this guy on Thursday and lineups lock at X clock? That's something that didn't really apply to fantasy owners before Thursday night was a big time, you know, and the Saturday games that take place too. It's a lot nicer when you don't have to, you know, say, okay, that's Friday. I can't trade anymore this week. Yeah, what's say you, Mike? You got everything. You nailed everything. You hit it out of the park.

I got nothing else to add. When's the right time to have a trade deadline? Ooh, the right time to have a trade deadline depends on if you are a keeper league or if you're just a full redraft. If you're redraft, it can be pushed back a little bit later. To me, in redraft, I would want it done by week 10-11. Okay.

I wasn't sure if you could say about 9, 10. Yeah, right around there. It seems good for redraft. You have to have one of those, though. Because, you know, every now and then, when we get to the playoffs or even championship week, we still deal with questions every now coming in saying like, hey, my league doesn't have a trade deadline. My commissioner didn't put a deadline in. Now I can trade in the playoffs. Yeah, that's ridiculous. I will say this to that. If you can trade there in your playoffs and so to speak.

I would still do it. I would not feel a moral responsibility to hold up because I don't think it's fair. This is part of the league rules. I will play to the rules of the league. And let's say you have that, you're like, well, we've never had a problem. One of these times you're going to have a massive problem that will end up with someone leaving the league because it will have that catastrophic of an effect.

Well, let's move on then to the mailbag. Now, listen, when you were gone, Mike, last week, Jason did his best. And I would not describe it as a good birthday gift to you. I got to hear that back. I had no idea I did such a bad job at that mailbag drop. I mean, I screamed in my ear. I hurt my own ears. Well, I think your first problem, I'll give you the...

Pro tip is you got to go less as more. I feel like you want to extend it out to feel like you're giving it some gusto, but you're not. You're just ruining it more. Well, why don't you show us how it's done here, Mike? Mailbag. That was nice and punchy and staccatoed. When do you think that's going to start fading for you age-wise?

I mean, your game, you know, you said, I'm already up there. You're older than Larry Fitzgerald. I mean, that's really the standard here. I don't know, I keep the pipes nice and loose and exercise. You think you can get into your 40s? Brett Farr of this thing. Oof.

Though I will say this. They probably will be Brett Farve as in. I'll retire and I'll unretire. Into some other podcasts? Yes. You'll go for our competitor podcast and do some mailbag drops for them. Which show was it? As I don't, they blurred together, but there was the standard show and the Patreon mailbag show. There was one where you challenged the Foot Clan. That was the- Was that Patreon? Oh, that was Patreon. Yeah. Okay, I think we need to do it on here. I want you to play the drop in Foot Clan.

Record yourself doing the mailbag drop. Yeah, we want to see who's the best. And send them in. Yeah, we did that on Patreon. It was fun. So here's your opportunity right now. Three, two, one. Mailbag. I nailed it in my head. Hopefully there were a lot of cars careening off the road. I said hopefully, because hopefully you're recording yourself while you were driving and singing that. I would love it if people said that. That can be the birthday present for me. There you go. It's just record yourself doing the mailbag drop.

All right, I said it before. If you have a question, you can go to the website and submit them. But you can also call our voicemail number and leave us a voicemail question. That number is 302-464 TFFB. Let's jump into the mailbag. Kai in Dallas is first, and he says, would you all rather take a running back like Bell McCoy and maybe reach a little bit with a mid-round pick to secure their handcuffed?

or take a flyer on a back that has the potential to rise to the top of the depth chart and be a viable RB 1 or 2. This is coming from a guy who lost Bell Fawcett, Chris Johnson, and Rawls last year, and didn't have any of them handcuffed. However, he does sign off with a hashtag Foot Clan title, which means you took care of business despite those injuries. So well, well done. So what say you, Mike? So this, to me, this is the handcuff.

discussion and the handcuff discussion is always related to the talent level of the backup because you don't just handcuff every single running back if their backup is going to come in and be just kind of a guy like the uh the arian foster situation you never quite know who it's going to be if there's it alfred blue is it grimes who is it down there in houston and on top of that they performed

Right. Not so great for your fantasy team. So that's the number one decision. But for me, when I have a guy like Levi-on-Bel and you got Dewell, who even last year, I mean, we knew he was the handcuff. We didn't know he was going to do that. And number one running back through the first two weeks. Right. And even when you saw him do that in the first two weeks, you thought, nah, there's no way. But he was great. But if the talent level is there, I mean, you don't want to just.

do it super early, like I spend a sixth round pick on a handcuff. But isn't that hard with guys like Bell or McCoy where you feel like, if you're the McCoy owner this year, don't you feel desperate for Carlos Williams? Aren't you doing the, okay, so McCoy is my first round pick, Williams is my fifth round pick? I want to get him in like the seven. Well, I want to too, but I don't think you will. No, you're not going to be getting Carlos Williams at lay. I think you kind of tear the type of handcuff you're getting.

First up is going to be the guys that by themselves can already be valuable to your team. And if the starter were to go down, they would explode. Like Ryan Matthews. That was the exact name that I was thinking of. Ryan Matthews, great example. Then you're not going to go for just handcuffs next. What you're going to go for is the flyer, the potential of just a blowup guy doesn't need an injury. He's a rookie or something like that.

Then after that tier of player, I'm going to go for the straight handcuffs. So I go, I go player who can be great without it and better with an injury in front of them, then the potential flyer, then the straight handcuff. All right. All right. Nick in Williamsburg, Virginia, which three of these guys should I keep? Alan Robinson for a one. Half point PPR. Yes. DeAndre Hopkins for a one.

AJ Green for a two, Mark Ingram for a two, yelled him for a three, and Brady for a three. He needs to pick three from that crop of very talented players. I'm going to guess that you cannot keep both Robinson and Hopkins. Let's just evaluate it from that. You're saying because it would cost you two first round picks? Because if you could, then I would keep Robinson, Hopkins, and Green or Ingram because it just keeps pushing the picks back.