Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep, Trade, Cut + #FootClan Mailbag

The full 360? The full 360 has happened for me. I'm not trading for him. Wait, now you're back around to good. I am back to good. I'm definitely holding on to him. I'm keeping him. He actually got one more target and played in more snaps than Alshan Jeffrey, which is just bizarre.

He is involved in the game and you're going to come up against games where you've got that lockdown corner that's going to try to go on Alshon Jeffrey and Kevin White could explode. So for me, I am very much holding on to him or picking him up off of waivers. You guys should throw a few names out there too. All right. Keep trade cut. Tori Smith. Cut him. Cut him. Cut him. I would not cut him personally because I would never have rostered Tori Smith. Oh, yeah. You said that yesterday. So.

If for some situation you had to accept him in a trade offer, you'd immediately cut him. Yes, yeah, exactly. If it's like, he's coming along, I would ask that that person not include him in the trade. I would say, no, I won't take this trade unless you take Tori Smith out. The guys that you traded for, they get on the bus, they're driving to your team. You ask the bus driver to pull over. Please stop halfway through, let him out at the lake. You're cutting him too, Mike, right? I am. Camar Aiken, keep trade cut.

I think you got to keep them. Yeah. I would actually, okay, so Kamar Aiken versus Will Fuller or Tajay Sharp. I would rather have the two guys you mentioned. Kevin White or Tyler Boyd or Aiken. You know, it sounded like Kamar Aiken's becoming a cut. That's what it sounds like. Because a lot of those guys are available on waivers. How does that make you feel, Mike? Do you, I mean, pretty bad. If these guys are cut, can they come over and watch the games with you, like Aiken and Smith?

Yeah, if they're not up to much, we could grab a Froyo and hang out. All right. All right. How about this name? Jonathan Stewart. I'm Kevin Stewart. I'm keeping. He's a straight up hold. Yeah, he's a key. He looked great. Yeah. Bad matchup played good. I get a lot of tweets this last week that were like, do I drop Jonathan Stewart for so-and-so? And it's like, no, no, no. No, no, no. No way. What are you doing? Here's a hard one.

Samuel Watkins. Keep trade cut Samuel Watkins. He has to be a keep. I think you're stuck. You're not dropping Sammy Watkins. No, certainly don't cut him. But you need to. Here's what you do. As a Sammy Watkins owner, he's a keep, and you are making plans in waiver wire to have more depth, the wide receiver position that you can play in lieu of him.

I mean, you're going to have to do the dance with Sammy Watkins. I am. And the dance is not a good dance because he's limping during it. It's a dance of danger. Here's what I would try to do personally. If I, if I'm a Sammy Watkins owner, not in Dynasty because I still love, love, love him in Dynasty. In a redraft this year, I would try to pair him with another somewhat solid wide receiver.

and go trade for a Sammy Watkins tier wide receiver if you can't. And a lot of people are afraid. So maybe overpay to get rid of the anxiety. Exactly. Because you need those stud wide receivers. It's Sammy Watkins and would you throw in like, let's say you've got Tajay Sharp on an okay week. Sammy Watkins, Tajay Sharp for Demarius Thomas. Yeah, I think I would. Well, Demarius Thomas, man, I'm not loving. He's got his own issues with the ankle and. Okay. Or yeah, the hip.

It was a hip with him. But you'd be trying to offload Watkins on the promise that he's still okay. Yeah, I mean, maybe if you've got a team, maybe you can even upgrade the position, right? Like, let's say you have Willie Sneed who blew up and Sammy Watkins, who's got a great name. If you could pair those guys together and woo someone for an AJ Green or an Alan Robinson or something like that to where that starting position is solidified.

and you don't have the worry of Sammy Watkins. So I would recommend trading, but it's going to be very difficult because the news on Sammy is awful. Keep trade cut Willie Sneed. Ooh. Oh, man. I'm, like I said at the top, I'm probably keeping him, but I will say this. I've seen some trade offers floated around on Twitter where people are just taking the house for Willie Sneed. Yeah, that's what I was. So if someone's going to pay the house for Willie Sneed.

Then let's do it. Truth is, I trade him. I have Sammy Walker or Willie Steen on a lot of my rosters. And in most of those, I have offered him as bait because he's great. And in that, I believe. He's great. Oh, he's a good player. He's a good player. I also believe in Larry Fitzgerald. But I have been floating those guys out in every league I got him because people see those big weeks and they think, oh, man, he's going to be this good. You got to get value for that. All right. Last one before the mailbag. Keep trade cut. Gary Barnage.

Keep. You got Josh McCown coming in in replacement of RG3. You saw when McCown was out there, Barnage was like a top three, top four. He was great. Consistent. I will say this. I think you're going to have to keep him one more week. He could have a good week this week against the Ravens, but the Ravens have a real sneaky good D against the tight ends. At least they did last year so far. So I...

I think that you hold on to Barnage this week and beyond. I lied. One more. Keep trade cut. Josh Gordon. Josh Gordon. Oh, man. I've thought about buying. I've thought about buying him as well. As soon as I heard Josh McCown was the quarterback. What was that meme you saw of RG3? It was not very, it was a very kind. It was for Cleveland. You know, it was the Robert Griffin era, September 11th, 2016 to September 12th.

2016. I don't think he plays another snap with that team. I really don't. I don't think he ever plays another snap with the Browns. Do you think he plays another snap in the NFL in live action? Yeah, as a backup. As a backup. No, not as a starter. All right, it's time. Let's jump into the mailbag. Mailbag. Mailbag. Oh, it feels so good getting back into the mailbag. Yeah.

If you have a question for the show, you can submit them on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click on the submit a question button in the upper right hand corner. Submit them to the show. You can also dial us on our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. We will be answering both written and audio questions today on the show. Let's start right here a trade question from Chris in New York City. New York City? Should I trade Antonio Brown and Jeremy Hill?

For Adrian Peterson and Doug Baldwin. Nope. Nope. No, I can understand you're upgrading from Hill to Peterson and you think that Baldwin is going to be solid. I'm not trading Antonio Brown. It's just not going to happen. Someone asked me a question that it was absolutely crazy that it was even a question. I'm trying to remember who the other guy was, but it was Antonio Brown for, it was Julio Jones.

and someone else. So Julio Plus? Yeah, it was Julio Plus, I think, like a Des Bryant. And I said, that's what it's going to take for me to trade Antonio Brown. But what was crazy is that it was a question. You thought about no? That I thought about, well, would I? And that's lunacy that we've gotten to the point where it even has to enter my mind of like, wow. You saw the boot scooch? You guys are going to enjoy this next voicemail question very much.

Hey, ballers. This is Jared in Omaha. I've got a question. I just beat Andy in the listeners league. And I didn't have a question. I just wanted to say that. But I do have a question. In a few of my other leagues, I've got Tyrod Taylor in two leagues. I've got Barnage in two leagues. I've got Fleener in two leagues. And all of them had abysmal.

weeks this week. Should I hit the panic button? Should I pull the eject lever? Should I bail? And just stream, QB, and tight end? If the answer is yes, who would be some of your targets for those two positions? Or if your answer is no, fit tight, and don't panic after week one, then I would love to hear that as well. Thank you very much, guys. Keep up the good work.

You keep up the good work. He got you good. He got me good. If we had our listener of the league, listener of the week drop from our Patreon, join the foot. Sure. What do we call that? The foot cast now. Yeah, we do. Barnage and Fleener, you're going to keep him. I'm bailing on Tyrod Taylor for now. I'm not giving this guy any advice. I will give it. He doesn't need it from you. I'm bailing on Tyrod. I'm fine with Barnage and Fleener. You cannot, of all the positions in not to overreact to too much in week one.

On either side of the equation, it's the tight-in position, unless you want to start Jim Doyle for the rest of your season. And I threw out Flacco yesterday as my stream of the week, assuming that Dalton wasn't available in your league. And I was actually short-sighted yesterday. Jason mentioned it earlier, but here's Joe Flacko's upcoming schedule. Cleveland, Jacksonville, Oakland, and Washington. I mean, those are four straight weeks where Joe Flacko might be.

your streamer of the week? In my weekly, daily Jacksonville defense, I'm predicting Jacksonville to have a good week on defense this week. I thought they held up against Green Bay last week. So just temper your like every single time you play Jacksonville, it's going to be an explosion expectations. I'm saying that right now. Sure. Well, in their matchup this week is San Diego who lost Keenan Allen, so they're going to be figuring things out. It's not a bad, not a bad thought this week. For Jacksonville?

I'm just saying I think Jacksonville's defense is going to be okay. That's all I'm saying. Fair. Tradeaway Gurley. That is the question from Ed in Glendora, California. He said, thoughts on trading Gurley and Forset for Grunk and Ware. I have Charles and he has West on Baltimore. Interesting. If you have Charles. Current tight aid is Gates. Man. If you have Charles, I think I'm willing to do that deal.

Personally, it seems rather sideways. You're replacing, you know, one star for another. I don't want to sell Gurley low, but if you're- Nor do I want to buy wear on the, on the tippy top. No, but you're getting Grunk. I feel like, if the question was just, would I, would you trade Gurley for Grunk, straight across? I would say no. Especially if I have Gates as my tight-in. Sure. If you've got Gates as your tight-in, you don't necessarily need them. A lot of people down on Gates getting a lot of

Gates, tight-in questions. And the answer is always, and every question I've ever seen, should I drop Gates for this guy or that guy? The question's always answered with Gates. Right. Hold him. Just hold him. But in this, I mean, you're getting that backup. I would say if you have another solid running back. You know, if you happen to have a Latavius Murray on your roster or someone in that caliber. CJ.

Well, yeah, C.J. Anderson or anybody else. You could have him because of where his draft position was. If you've got another guy like that, then I take this deal. If not, then I wouldn't because essentially while you are getting another back, it's only one like R.B. slot because Jamal Charles and Ware are going to just take that slot. All right. Dylan and Kansas City, Missouri. Hey, footballers. Love the show and your advice will take me to the top. I have Ingram, Langford, Riddick, and Ryan Matthews.

Half point per reception league, who would you start in week number two? Also, who would you look to use in trade situations? Thanks for the advice. I will say this as a preface to the answer. Today's the day, Wednesday, when we finalize all of our week two projections by the end of the day. So you can check those out on the website on the rankings tab. Those will all be up by the end of the day. We have not completed them all.

We have that fine balance of waiting as long as we can to get all the information, practice reports, matchups, who's going to be there on defense, offense, all of those things. We build them out on Wednesday. You can find them from Wednesday through the rest of the week on the website, normally later in the day on Wednesday. I have done some of my running backs, and I will say this. I think Ryan Matthews is getting too little love. That's not a normal statement there. He's not getting enough love from the ESPN projections. What?

He had 22 carries last week. I think this week I have him projected much higher than ESPN or the other websites do. And I would not be trying to unload Ryan Matthews this week. Let me put it that way. And Mike is aghast because I cannot believe it. So if you're asking me about this week's matchups, I mean, I don't know how you sit Langford. I'm not sitting Ryan Matthews. The volume would tell me, now it's a half point per reception league. The volume tells me Reddick would be the sit here. So.

Wait, you only sit one? Would you, so let's say you only have. Who would you start? So I'm ranking them. So I would rank them Ingram, Matthews, Langford, Riddick. And I get that. For me, I'm putting Langford ahead of Matthews.