Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Pump the Brakes, TNF Preview, News, Mailbag

And I just brought up like, you need running backs. I don't cut running backs. If there's a starting running back, I always have them. So I guess the reality is I'm still holding on to them. Securely on your bench. Securely on my bench. And I would love to get rid of them. They've got no trade value. Basically, they are the guy that you're going to drop for every waiver claim of a better running back. Right. No, that's fair. Guys, I need an answer. Keep trade cut. Jordan Howard. Oh.

Trade, trade, trade, trade, trade, trade. There are still people. Are you interested? I am so not interested. I am interested in trading Jordan Howard. There are, you know, we get so many questions asked of us, and there's a lot of people have been asking me about, hey, should I take this trade, and they're receiving Jordan Howard. So there are people considering all sorts of trades that when I look at those trades, Jordan Howard is bringing Jordan Howard value, like name, you know, of the last few weeks.

And I'm just, you know, look, pretty soon it looks like it might be a three-headed monster for a, you know, a bad offense. You know, it looks like. And it's basically trade. Trade. Yeah. Look, Jordan Howard to me is we talked about you get to throw in running back in the trade. If you want to throw in Jordan Howard for me, that's the only way I'm taking it. He's a bonus. Keep trade cut. Kristen Michael. Oh.

Come on, that's a keep. All right. Just coming off. It has a great matchup this week. Yeah. He does have a great matchup. Keep trade cut. Ryan Matthews, who also went to school with Matt Jones when it comes to fumbling. Yeah. Well, you've seen a different approach from both coaches, right? Because for Washington, they said, hey, we're going to have to take some reps away from Matt Jones. And in Philadelphia, they've actually said.

we're we still have full confidence in Ryan Matthews, nothing's going to change. Well, I'm just saying, no, I mean, Doug Peterson said it's definitely a concern. We don't want to see it, especially in those situations. We've got to continue to find out if he's tired where he's at at the end of the game. If we need to put Wendell, Smallwood, or Sproles in there, we'll have to find out more about that. And then what you said, he's not down on Ryan. So, well, the good news is I went to, uh,

the grip shop and you know those little those things you squeeze that get your hands stronger i sent like ten of them to ryan matthews here so i'm keeping him here's the thing with ryan matthews i'm never going to be confident starting him from this point forward for the rest of the season good matchup i'm still not confident i don't like it so if i can get value for him

then I would trade him. All right. Last set of running backs I want to talk about. Isaiah Crowell, Duke Johnson, keep trade cut on both of those guys. You have the potential for McCown to return this week, Kessler, and probably some wide assortment of quarterbacks we've never heard of or seen that will be signed and then playing soon for the Browns. I'm going to keep Crowell. I mean, I'm probably going to keep them both, but I mean, Duke Johnson has the much off-season hyped Duke Johnson has not really performed.

Anywhere near what people were hoping. I mean, he's still catching the ball a ton. He's just not getting yards. If you're in PPR, I think Duke Johnson is certainly the guy I would prefer rest of season. I feel like Johnson's done all he can. I mean, he's run for a, he had been running for a pretty good clip. Quarterback carousel, no wide receivers. That's fair. And he's still a running back three right now. But you're right. No, he's not, he's not a fantasy.

mover and shaker. Yeah, I think both those guys are just keeps. All right. Wide receivers, I want to ask the question. Devante Adams. What do you do with Devante Adams? Well, you probably just picked him up. And you're going to play him this one? Yes, you picked him up, but the keep trade cut applies. Oh, especially in the keep and the trade part of things, right? Are you picking him up to play him? I would feel like that was a breakout. I would love to trade him. I would love to play him this week and I would love to trade him.

This week. So you think he has a good week? Or next week. I do think he has a good week. He's got a great matchup. You know, a pretty high. In Atlanta. In Atlanta, Trufant is not going to be on him. I think it'll be a high scoring game. In fact, Vegas has it by a wide margin, the highest scoring game in the week. I am completely fine playing Devante Adams this week. And then I'm fine trading him this week. I'm fine trading him next week. I don't expect him to keep up plug and play starting.

value in my lineup. And I think you could package trade him. If he has another big week, you could package trade him for a weekly plug and play rest of season type of starter. The thing I find interesting is his breakout was not just a high fantasy score. You know, five catches, but he caught two bombs. And so he put up 30 points. This was 13 for 130.

And two touchdowns. Oh, interesting. And he has five touchdowns on the year. You know, we need to bring this up. I regretted that we didn't get this into yesterday's waiver wire show. Waivers have cleared, I'm sure. But Mike talked about this last week. We have talked about it before. And even after waivers are cleared, I am sure.

than in most leagues. I think it's like 90% of leagues. James Starks is still available. The reason I bring this up is part of the reason why I'm willing to trade Devante Adams. You saw last week Aaron Rogers had to throw for the most.

Passing attempts in Green Bay history. I mean, the franchise, this long-storied franchise with great quarterbacks with Brett Farve have never thrown for as many times as they did last week. So, yeah, I mean, you're going to have big fantasy production from Cobb and Devante Adams and Ty Montgomery. But when James Starks comes back, they're going to have a legitimate running back. And that's going to, you know, that's going to change the value of the wide receivers. And also, there's not a lot of.

starting running backs out on waivers. But James Starks is, if you've got an IR, pick him up, move him to your IR, and just wait until he's back. And just a real quick, I had been, because this is on my mind of a guy that I want to stash. I think I'm going to pick up Paul Perkins. You know, he got some early reps. I just, going into the buy week, I don't know. It's just called that a completely a gut, a gut call of, I think Paul Perkins might start getting the job here. All right, let's run through these wide receivers. Keep trade cut Julian Edelman.

Oh, keep. And make these quick. Keep. Keep trade cut, Alshan, Jeffrey, and Cameron Merida. Keep or, oh, come on. Trade for Alshan. And I'm going to keep Cameron for now. I'm not going to cut him. I want to see what he does with Cutler first. I'd be happy to cut Cam Meredith. I'm fine to keep him. I'm trading for Alshan. Keep trade cut. Will Fuller. Keep keep. Keep trade cut. Chris Hogan. Cut. Yeah, you can cut for me. You can cut him if you got him. What do you do with Travis Benjamin?

If I can get value for him, I feel like I've said it before, but the roulette you have to play, I just don't like having them. Someone asked me this week, do you, you know, they were doing a trade, getting a wide receiver, wanted to know if they should cut Sterling Shepard or Benjamin. I told him Benjamin because you never know which week is going to be the week for a wide receiver there. Well, at least Benjamin could boom. I would have cut Shepard. I think Shepard can boom. Can he? Yeah.

Okay. I mean, I think the odds are low for both of them. I mean, Benjamin's had what? One good week? Yeah, it's funny because you go. I mean, I think Benjamin's had one boom week. He's the 31st rank wide receiver right now, and he had one week with 28 and a half points. He's had two, he scored two touchdowns, yeah. He's scored two touchdowns, and they were both on the same week. He hasn't scored the rest of the week, that year. Fair. I don't know. Yeah, I guess that's a call. What do you do at Sterling Shepard, keep trade cut? He's a cut for me. I think, yeah, definitely a cut. John Brown?

Keep him. I still really like John Brown rest of the season. If he can get the sickle cell figured out for the legs where he's not experiencing just constant pain. John Brown is a keep for sure. Yeah, yeah. So it's interesting. Keep trade cut tight ends, Travis Kelsey. Keep, just keep him. Got it. Cameron Brate. I would cut him. He's a weekly stream. Jason, you and I have both signed and then cut him.

in the past two weeks. We've both done it like three times. I think I mean, I even tried to drop them again after I got him for Doyle. Cameron Bray is just one of those guys. If he's got a good matchup, pick them up. All right. We're going to do the mailbag and then the Thursday night preview. So you ready to go? Let's do it. Mailbag. Bag, oh, bag. Yeah.

All right. If you have a question for the show, head over to the website. The Fantasy Footballers.com, click the Submit a Question button in the upper right hand corner. Send us your question. You can also send us your voice mail question, 302-464 TFFB. We're going to play some of those. We're going to be working the mailbag into the other shows a little bit more, like we did last year, sneaking it into the Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, Friday shows. So send us your questions. We're here to help. First one comes in from Chris in Philly.

That's how it's... Filet? It's Philly. Oh, okay. Mignon? Yes, delicious. Hey, ballers. Hey. Other than Julio, my receivers all seem to be matchup dependent. So he has like Sneed and Crowder, Alshon Coates. Should I try to trade for Alan Robinson and gamble on getting some value? In other words, do you buy low on...

Alan Robinson, and would you do it with Sneed, Crowder, Alshan, or Coates? I think Alshan is not matchup dependent. Alshan has been quarterback dependent. I would not trade Alsham for A-Rob. No, I would not either. I would rather have Al-Shon. I think Julio and Al-Shon are great. If you could then turn somehow a Sneed Crowder-coats combination in A-Rob, I would, but I don't think you can. Okay. All right. Question from Michael in Dallas. He says, is this a fair trade? Des Bryant.

and Amari Cooper for Ezekio Elliott in a half-point league. Yeah, if you need a running back, sure. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, yeah, there's nothing wrong with it. I mean, it's totally team dependent. To get a top-tier elite running back is very difficult at this point of the season. You're going to have to overpay. Well, I don't even think this is overpaying. I would rather have the Zeke side of this trade. Okay. But because of what you just mentioned, I mean, Zeke is.

There's no team out there that has Ezekiel Elliott that hasn't benefited all year long from an unfair advantage at running back. Okay. That's unfair. Here's what we're calling fair or foul. These are commissioner-related questions a lot of the times. This was from Matthew. Get this. From Mumbai, India. Bonjour. Every once in a while, I wonder if people hear that, and they just think you're.

You're as dumb as you're not. You're not dumb. All right. Do you think it's cheating, i.e. collusion, to do a temporary trade? Yeah, probably. Let's hear the rest. He's in two quarterback. I was waiting. I was reserving judgment. He's in two QB leagues where buys make it hard to fill out rosters. Last week, I almost did a one-week trade with Hoyer for West as he needed an RB, and he needed a quarterback.

Plan was to trade back after the week with the option to extend for a second week if you need to do it. Is this fair? Is this collusion? If it's fair, do you have to tell the entire league in advance of it and with your intentions to do so? What do you guys think? This is kind of a sticky situation. I guess it's like this, right? Let's say my buy weeks and your buy weeks lined up where I need a running back. You need a wide receiver. And next week it's going to be opposite.

and we go, hey, well, I'll make this trade and then we'll make that trade back. I guess there is a situation where that is actually just fair, but you cannot have it be a two-week trade. It's a trade. I am, you know, if my team gets better this week and your team gets better this week, that's a fair trade. That's not collusion. If next week doing that same trade again made my team better and your team better, that's fine. But if someone gets injured in that deal,

Like Brian Hoyer breaking his arm? Exactly. That's a situation. You're not, you know, whoever has. No, you're not trading back. Because there's no gentleman agreements of future trades. That part is we can look at it and say, look, I think maybe next week we'll want to undo this. Maybe next week we'll want to do this trade again. But, you know, you got to take it one trade at a time. In general, I think looking at like a temporary trade is wrong and is.

foul. It just doesn't make me feel good. Yes, exactly. I don't think you're breaking any rules here. It just feels kind of gross. What if you decided you did want to do it? Do you believe you have to tell the league that you're doing a tradeback and or just do it behind the scenes? I would just do it. I feel like the guarantee of the tradeback cannot be part of the original trade. And so you can't tell the league.