Draft Pick Trading + Keeper Decisions, Heebie Jeebies - Fantasy Football Podcast for 7/31

That's the only alligator I would ever wrestle is a toothless one. And I would also not wrestle that alligator. How many sit-down meals should one man get out of a rotisserie chicken? Oh, okay. So now we're not sharing this. One man. No, this is one man. How many meals should, okay, sit down, you're getting a meal, you should get at least one. You should get at least one meal. At least one? Yes. Okay. I think that was a given, but.

I believe you could. Glad you cleared it up. I believe you could go to two. But that's the cap. You can't get over two? No, I'm a grown man. So you're sitting down. You have the full rotisserie chicken. Are you going one drum one chicken breast? Yeah, I think you're splitting it right in half. Okay. You know what I mean? If you want to make this two meals, which is probably healthier, better, wiser.

Yeah, you split it. I get that you're bulking and you got it. I'm still trying to pack on the pounds before I shred. I'm in bulk season. So, yeah, you want to cut it down the middle. You don't want to go like both drums and then your second meal. You don't get a drumstick. That's not fun. You want to make sure you get the same meal both times. So split it right down the middle. This one's off of the website, Katie, in San Diego. Would you trade the 103 in a rookie draft?

for Darren Waller. Oh, yeah. So you're trading, you would trade Kyle Pitts straight up for Darren Waller because that's probably who it is. Okay, so Najee and Jamar Chase are probably your one-two. They're the most common. But at 103, you could see, you know, yeah, I guess any one of those four players of Najee, Jamar, Chase, Travis Etienne, Kyle Pitts. You would trade.

potentially one of those players straight up for Darren Waller. And Katie adds her current tight end is Noah Fants. Okay. So it's certainly an interesting debate. I think that you. Your reaction was very surprising. Yeah. You and Andy would certainly rather have Kyle Pitts than Darren Waller. Am I correct? That is correct. So the way that I look at it.

Darren Waller's 28, which sounds older when you're talking about running backs for wide receivers. It's not at tight-in. To be fair, he's about to be 29. He's, you know, you look at Kelsey right now. What's Kelsey? 32, something like that. I'll vet it. Okay. So you see a lot of... About to turn 32. Okay. So you see a lot of great tight ends that play longer into their career. I like that your cop is...

Well, how old is Travis Kelsey? The greatest fantasy tight end of all time. Well, that's my point is that he is peaking in his 30s. It's not like a, my, that's. He started peaking in his mid-20s. Sure. He's still going. I'll go with Greg Olson or Delaney Walker or Jared Cook or the others. I'm saying tight ends.

can have a lot of fantasy success later in the career. I don't look at Darren Waller like he's got one year left the way that I might look at a 28, 29 year old running back that he's got a year left. But he's a known commodity. We know he's great. We know he's going to be good for fantasy. We know he's going to dominate. Do you think Kyle Pitts is bustproof? It's impossible for him to go the way of Eric Ebron, who was a top 10 pick. It was supposed to be great. No, that's certainly not.

So anybody can bust. I guess maybe this is more team dependent, right? Like if you are a competing championship level team and you know a Fant is not going to really inspire you right now, trading to get Darren Waller and shoring up your already great roster to go get a championship, I think is worth it. If you are in a rebuild or you're, you know, someone that's maybe hoping to make the playoffs this year,

You might not. Then you're looking more build for the future, two years down the road. Okay. Then Kyle Pitts is better. Let's change it. It's not Kyle Pitts. It's Jamar Chase. He fell to number three. You have no affant. Are you trading the upside of Jamar Chase? Again, it... No, I'm not. Okay. I'll say again, I don't think that Jamar Chase can't bust, but all of the...

All of the boxes are checked for Jamar Chase. Yeah, I wouldn't trade Jamar Chase. I wouldn't trade Najee. I think there's a situation where I would trade pits, and I would definitely trade anyone after that, right? I mean, is there, if you had the fourth pick, is it a question of whether or not you would trade? Yeah, who would be your fourth after those three? Probably Javante. E.T.N or Javante? But it's tough, man.

The top of this draft class, when you, Giovante, Travis, ETM, then you have Devante Smith. I mean, I don't think I would do it. I don't think I would trade that, especially with Noah Fan. Noah Fan has breakout potential this year as well. From the website, Matt says, should I keep Darnell Anderson, aka Darrell Henderson, the Rams running back? So now it's, I'm even getting mixed up now. Which one is it? Darrell. Darnell!

Should I keep Daryl Henderson and forfeit a sixth round pick or J.K. Dobbins for a fifth. This is a PPR league. PPR league. So keep Darnel Anderson for a sixth or J.K. Dobbins for a fifth. That's interesting. I always speak first on these. I want to hear your thoughts first. Oh, man. Excuse me. The PPR bump is definitely in Henderson's favor.

Matthew Stafford is a checkdown guy. We have a huge amount of historical data that Matthew Stafford likes to throw to his running back. And we know that Dobbins, while is a very capable pass catcher, he won't see the targets. That's not how the offense runs with Lamar Jackson and that passing game in Baltimore.

The round difference is completely negligible to me. It's not impacting my decision. It's just, do you call your shot on Henderson, who the team replaced or the known commodity that is Dobbins? While there is touchdown regression coming for Dobbins, the volume he could see, his ceiling is volume, is not what Henderson's volume.

or ceiling volume could be. Yeah, I would agree with that. When I look at these two players, I'm more likely, like, Daryl Henderson, I think, is going to be successful. He's going to be a solid running back two. And I believe that J.K. Dobbins will be a solid running back two as well. But if he levels up going into his sophomore year where the arrow is pointing up for Dobbins,

in the sense that going into this season, they got rid of Markingham, and they know that Dobbins is their guy. They drafted him. Well, Gus Edwards is still there. Sure, but my point is... They refueled. They had a three-headed monster, and they realized they're better with just the two. And once he took over, he was basically... Because it was like a...

2.25 headed monster last year. Yeah, I mean, it was, I mean, certainly Mark Ingram was dragging a leg behind him. He was running zombie style, but I think I would go Dobbins here. Like you said, the round difference doesn't do it for me. I want the upside of Dobbins over Henderson. The PPR makes it closer, but I'm going to still go with the talent of J.K. Dobbins.

All right. Let's wrap it up with one more strategy question here. Mr. Party 4, what is the ideal amount of bench spots? So this is going to change based on your league size, right? Because obviously if you're in a 10 team league, the total pool of players will be smaller than if you're in a 14 team league. But talking on a standard 12 team league, and again, part of this will be your...

starting roster as well. So if you've got two flex, you should probably remove one of the bench spots because I like the... Remove or add? I would remove. I like waivers to have the ability to have quality pieces in there in any kind of redraft or keeper league. I don't want it to feel like dynasty where the waivers are just so sparse because we've got...

two flex or three wide receiver two flex and then we've got a seven bench. Then the waivers are so much less important. I like waivers in redrafted keeper. So I like a five player bench in a usual league, which is on the smaller side, but that's what I prefer. Our league of record is a two flex league and we have six bench spots. So I think that's solid. It allows you to hold on to some players that you believe in.

and give them some time to earn more playing time, earn more opportunities. But at the same time, it does create some scenarios in the season where you have to make a decision about putting that player back to waiver. And we are big fans of the IR spot. We have them in all the leagues we play in. That way, you know, if you have a smaller bench, a five-person bench or something like that,

what can happen is that can suck when you deal with injuries because it's like, oh, man, I got to drop someone or hold this guy who's really good. And injuries suck enough already. Exactly. So it's nice when the injury is the reason you need to make a transaction that you could just take that injured guy, put him in the IR spot, pick someone up and not have to, that way the waivers stay fruitful. The waiver wire does. And yet you can still manage your team and not be, you know, we have two IR spots in almost every league we play in.

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