Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 5 Keep/Trade/Cut & Pump the Brakes

against Tennessee possibly without Marioita? Yes. Okay. All right. I mean, that's what I would say, too. Jets have released Will Ty. That escalated quickly. He went from 22 snaps to inactive to released. ASJ, getting it done. Yeah, it's huge. Confidence level of ASJ is there. And then for those following Josh Gordon's life, not applied for reinstatement. He did just get out of rehab. The Browns have been.

kind of ambiguous about what they would even do with Gordon if he was reinstated. So nothing new there. And then Josh Doxon, he hurt his shoulder, but this is a buy week for the Redskins. So we'll have more news on Doxon and Kelly's availability as we approach week six. They say he heard his shoulder on that last catch, right? That failed touchdown catch, yeah. Well, right, that failed attempt at a catch. I feel like that's one of those things where he comes down, drops the ball, and he's like, ah!

Oh, you mean like when P. Ryan got a bruised hand for his humble? Oh, my hands destroyed. It's broken into a thousand pieces. That's the culture of fear that Jay Gruden has instilled is if you make a mistake, you have to pretend you're hurt on Washington in order to escape punishment. Keep your job. Coach him up. In order to not be grounded and not be able to call your friends on the phone. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I was hurt, sir. It was the dog.

The dog knocked over the base, Mom. Unbelievable. All right, we're getting into some Keep Trade Cut. Keep Trade Cut. All right, keep Trade Cut. I think we said this yesterday. But confirm it. Terrence West, I'm cutting him. I'm cutting him. Yeah, he's a package trade cut guy.

But I don't know what that. I don't know what you just said. There are certain guys that you're going to cut and you don't even need to explore package trading them because no one would ever pay any attention. That's Terrence West. See, I think Terrence West, I think you might be able to get somebody in a package trade to. You know, you always talk about when you trade, you want a running back back. Yeah. So maybe he's the running back. You give back to someone to just make them feel better about life. It's also very possible that.

You look down at your watch and go, I will never get those two hours of my life back. Sure. Trying to trade Terrence West. All right. What about the other backfield mate there? Javorius Allen had the big week and then he's not been great. What do you do with Javori's Allen right now? Keep him? Yeah, you hold him. I mean, he's got three weeks in a row with five receptions or more. He hasn't been great, but the Baltimore office hasn't been great. He's still an involved running back. You've got to hold him. I think I would try to trade him because while he's.

He's going to get the targets. He's rocking the mark of the beast right now with targets the past three weeks. But he's not going to get carries. He got two this past week against Pittsburgh. I mean, the way that they use him, they just, they don't want to. That's certainly what it feels like. That they don't want to use Buck Allen. Well, that offense is terrible. Yeah. It's a big problem. If you got.

40-something yards passing through the first half of these games. That's an issue. Brandon Cooks, New England Patriots wide receiver. Keep trade cut. Brandon Cooks had a big week two weeks ago. Has the ability to disappear like a magician. Yeah, he's Houdini. Yeah. But, man, how pissed are you? If you draft to Brandon Cooks in the second round and then you watched Chris Hogan get drafted, what, 15th? Eighth, ninth round after the...

after things shook up in the draft. He's a keep for me. He's definitely a keep for me because of the matchup this week. Jets. Atlanta next three weeks. Chargers. Here's the thing that you know about Brandon Cooks. He has monster blow-up games. He did two weeks ago he will this week or next week. I'm not trading him unless it's off of the week where he has a monster week because that's when you're going to get the most value for him. Last week he had five points.

And, you know, so you're trading him low right now. You hold. Brooks, the matchups that you have in here on the dock, are they going through weeks 16 or 17? 17. They are going through 17. Okay. I wanted to be able to glance at kind of end of season schedules for some of these guys as well. Keep trade cut. Alex Smith yesterday on the show, we asked the question. Was he in every week's start? I think we all agreed he was. I think that means what? I think that means trade.

Whenever you can trade a quarterback for a running back or a wide receiver, you know, I was able to convert Cam Newton of his monster week into Mark Ingram coming up on his buy, but I just couldn't pass that up because if you can, if you could trade Alex Smith for a serviceable running back or, you know, a good wide receiver, I would do it. All right. What about your quiz Rogers Thursday night? I'm starting to bend myself a little bit more towards the thought that.

Martin's going to take over and take over quick. He was reinstated to the active roster yesterday. You trade him to the Doug Martin owner. But let's say the Doug Martin owner is not biting. Are you going to hold him? I'm in that situation. He doesn't want him. And I'm going to give him a week. That's my policy. I'm going to keep him for a week. Make sure something doesn't go sideways with Doug Martin this week. And then I'm going to let him go probably. Because if I'm the Doug Martin owner, I mean, I'm calling that bluff.

on the Jaquis Rogers owner. Like, yeah, okay, whatever, man. It is a tough, it's a tough situation. Do what you're going to do. You're going to cut him. But you might not. You can go, you can play that game wrong. If you're the Doug Martin owner and it's a 50-50 split this week, that Doug Martin owner might be really interested. Right. So, yeah, I'm just saying, I'm not trying to buy Jaquiz Rogers right now. You're going to wait. Yeah. All right. Keep trade cut. Let's go, uh, what do you do?

with Kareem Hunt's current pace. I know it seems like a weird guy to bring up, but he's on fire. People talk about 2,000 yards. People talk about 2,000 plus all-purpose yards. Kareem Hunt, if you are hurting at running back, is this a player that you can go leverage for, I don't know, would you trade him for, would you trade him for DeMarco Murray and Melvin Gordon? I was going to say, if you're doing a two-for, I mean, you're going to have to buy low on.

But that's so frightening. I would not do that. You would not do that. No, I would not do that. No, I would not. I would keep Kareem Hunt. He's a keep for me, too. I don't think. So you're saying if you were offered Melvin Gordon to Marco Murray. I'm keeping Kareem Hunt in that situation. Because there's no risk. There's no risk with Kareem Hunt. He's awesome. He's going to be great for the rest of the year. Meanwhile, DeMarco Murray is getting off to a really slow. I know he had the 70-yard touchdown where everyone escorted him into the end zone.

But besides that, he's done very little. Melvin Gordon has, he's dealing with the knee injury. He's shown at times that he can vanish if he's not getting a touchdown. You're looking at guys like Gordon Ajai. Would you trade Cream Hunt for those two guys? For Gordon and Ajai? Yeah. See, I think I would. I still would. I would in both those situations if you don't have others. But it is worth noting what you guys are saying is there are very, very, very few.

fantasy football players out there that are difference makers that are like having two players in one spot the guys that will have a high floor but can it erupt for 40 points in when you a week you know your antonio browns and gronks and love bells cream hunt is one of those guys and it it takes it takes a knock me off my feet offer to get i mean in in a half points ppr you have two running backs

Over 100 points. You have Todd Gurley and Cream Hunt. Third, you got Leonard Fernette with 71 points. Right. Like, while you're, oh, I'm getting two guys. Right now, Karim Hunt and Todd Gurley are playing like two players in one roster. So, uh, no, you bring up good points. I'm not taking the chance on that. I have a couple of other questions I want to get into some interesting ones. Based kind of around, uh,

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Right. This is hypothetical, Mike. Thank you. I don't want to, I know it's hard for you to put yourself in that position. If you're one of those teams, let's say you got Michael Thomas, let's see you got Julio Jones, right? Both of those players, premier talents, guys you wanted on your roster, league winning type of players, and yet they have biweeks this week. And you're sitting one in three or oh and four. Is this the time to move them to change something on your roster?

What is your philosophy when you're sitting there? Because Mike, I hate to say it, you're dominating one league, and you have had some bad breaks in League of Record, and you've had to make the decision the last two weeks. Do I change something? Do I sell? Do I stick with my roster? How do fantasy owners make that decision? Because I'm getting tons of Twitter comments, and all the Twitter comments say, tilting, tilting, tilting. Do I trade in the tilt? Because I think my philosophy with a guy like Julio is you've got a hip injury.

He's got a big name and you got a buy week. I'd be trying to make a move so I can get a win this week. Yeah. Honestly, of those two, I would be looking to move Julio if I'm trying to do a two-for upgrade. And, yeah, we talk about on the show, you want the best player in a trade. But if your roster is really lacking and you're not going to have Julio Jones this week anyhow.

Sometimes you got to make that move. You got to suck it up and trade. Michael Thomas, I don't want to trade. He's just been so good. He's great. You know who else has been great? Drew Breeze. Zero turnovers. This, Drew Breeze is normally, you're like, oh, he's going to be great, but I know he's going to throw a bunch of interceptions and all this stuff, but he's been fantastic. And Michael Thomas is the go-to guy. So I still want to hold on to Michael Thomas, but if I can flip Julio Jones and I'm one of those, oh, for.

four teams, which I know nothing about, then I'm certainly willing to do it. And on the other side of that, if I'm a three and one, four, and no team, I'm going to go and try and get Julio Jones from those, from those rosters. It's not a, I don't believe in Julio Jones moving forward, just as there's, there's got to, you've got to play your record. Yes. You have to play accordingly. And if you need to manufacture wins.

then you do that, whether it's on the waiver wire or trades or things like that. You know, one of the things that if you want to get real sneaky with is you can look at your next week matchup, not this week. Look at who you play next week. See if you got any guys on by that you can trade to him.