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

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has answered a question that we have posed of whether Mike should have to pay out his ivory Yeldon water bet from last week. And the answer is 71% safe. It's going to be yes. Mike wet. Yeah. And I realized as I was making my defense of that it didn't matter. Well, no, once the ivory news broke in week one, Yeldon jumped up to my running back 13.

So if I'm putting him at 13, why would I bet he's not in the top 20? I agree. But I'll take it. Twitter's spoken, you know. It's nothing we can do. Twitter is vicious. I'll tell you that. There's just no chance that a poll was going to say, yeah, don't pour water on him. If Twitter is like, you're like, can something bad happen to that person? You're like, yeah, please.

All right. Keep trade cut. Golden Tate. Well, you can't trade them at this value, and you're not going to cut Golden Tate with the target volume. Sounds like you're keeping it. That's an easy keep. That's the important part, though, because he's the perfect type of player that people will say, oh, he's not involved. Cut him. Do not cut him. Keep trade cut. Doug Martin, and I'm going to throw a twist in there. It's keep trade four. Did we mention the update that Doug Martin is expected to miss three weeks?

I don't think we did. Okay. So Doug Martin's expected to miss three weeks with the hamstring. And then right after those three weeks is the buy week. So I would expect that Martin will be out through the buy week. Should you go trade for him? I think if you have an IR spot, I would love to trade for him in the sense that, you know, he's going to be good when he comes back. And honestly, the games he's missing right now?

are great games to miss. I mean, I, yeah, is he actually injured or did he just look at the upcoming schedule? He's playing against the Los Angeles Rams, good run, then Denver, then at Carolina, then a bye week after the buy?

From then on out, you are smooth sailing. Listen to this schedule after the buy, assuming he's back in week seven. You got San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, Atlanta, Chicago. That's great. And his playoff schedule, week's 14, 15, 16, New Orleans, Dallas, New Orleans. Yeah. So I would say if you can stash him and if you can get him cheap, I would trade for him, but keep in mind.

It's going to be taking up a big chunk of your roster for a while. I have some other names we have to discuss. Keep trade cut T.J. Yeldon? Oh, Ivory's back in practice. Oh, what do you do with T.J. Yelden? I had someone, I should look this up. Someone literally, oh, I remember what it was. This was during the show. Someone just asked me, do I cut T.J. Yelden for Matt Aziata. Oh, man. Do I cut T. J. Yelden for Matt Aziata? I don't think so.

No? No. I don't think so either. I still think Yeldin, I mean, they've had a couple of difficult matchups. You know, you had a circumstance with, what? They did. Green Bay has been great against the run this year. The Chargers who got destroyed by Ware, where went off on the Chargers run, D. Because they were winning by 35 points. I mean, and where went off against them in the passing game. He did not go off on them in the running game. T.J. Yelden caught eight passes.

Exactly. And he did nothing against it. I'm saying the circumstance. So you played Green Bay, who's a great run defense, and you were down by a million points. They weren't running the ball. Kansas City was down by a million points. It was the exact same thing, right? That Kansas City got super down, had to throw because they were getting blown out. They threw the ball to where, and he destroyed them. Downfield.

I'm just saying to me, I would not sell T.J. Yelden at the lowest point you can possibly sell him right now. That's all I'm saying. He's a keep, right? But is he a possible cut? Would you cut him for a McKinnon? Yep. I think I would. It's just not realistic. It's tough. That's not a realistic situation. I think I keep Yeldin. Or you try to package him in a trade. I mean, sometimes when you've got a name together with another guy.

Put Yeldon and, look, for me, put Yeldon and Tyrell Williams, if you just snagged him. Put Yeldon and Will Fuller together and go get an A.J. Green. I mean, that's what I would do. Yeah. I think you're right on that. Right on the money. So that's a trade. All right. Thomas Rawls keep trade cut. You got to keep. Yeah, you have. There's no value in anything other than keeping. You don't have a choice. All right. Let's talk about Sterling Shepard. Oh, that's interesting. Should we be trying to acquire Sterling Shepard? I think that.

You're not going to get what happened last week where he just, he went over a Hyundai. Volume has been there, though. Right, but I don't, I think the 100 yards is the anomaly, not the new normal for Sterling Shepard. He's going to be fine, but I think he's a high-end wide receiver 3. Sterling Shepard, to me, is a guy that because of where he was drafted, my roster should be fine without him. And he is a big name who has such.

kind of sexy upside right now, you know? And so if you can package him with someone, you're going to get a great player back, right? You're not packaging T.J. Yeldon with someone to go get a great player. But Sterling Shepard might really sweeten the pot. So for me, I'm going to say I'm going to trade Sterling Shepard. Will Fuller or Sterling Shepard rest of the season? Fuller. Okay. Shepard. Interesting. Interesting. You know, Eli Manning has completed 74% of his passes? Wow. That's incredible.

Uh, keep trade cuts, Sammy Watkins. Where, where is the temperature of Sammy Watkins? I, look, because I see, I still, for some reason, I feel like I should buy him because he's values so low. I was just going to say, I, but if he's out for the year because something happens next week, then I really regret that. I'm trying to keep him, uh, and just hope that in the second half, he is ready to go. Man, I, I'm a Sammy Watkins owner in a lot of leagues because I really like the talent. Um,

I can tell you, I am wanting to trade him. And so that might not be the right thing. Maybe I'm emotionally on tilt because of the worry. So Andy brings up a good point. Like, you're going to be able to get him affordably. It's just a matter of, are you a risky gambler? And you want to take the high upside swing, then trade for him. I'm like the risk adverse type of guy, and I don't want a guy that's going to, you know,

be shut down in two weeks for the rest of the season. So if I can get something for him now, I would. I think he is a trade away and a trade for depending on what style of player you are. All right. Last question. Justin Forset, keep trade cut. Put yourself in the same circumstances you just did with TJ Yeldon here. What do you do with Justin Forsett? Keep trade cut. And would you sign some of these waiver wire guys and drop Forsett? Last week, Forset had a 55%.

snap count, I believe. And Terrence West was at 28%. So far this season, they're basically identical. 24 for 78 on the ground for four set, 23 for 74 on the ground for West. They almost have the same amount of targets, which is a big problem. I think you have to keep him because what you're saying in the snap percentage. Oh, what's your snack count? My snack count is 100%. I'm pretty much always snacking.

Right. I have some Warhead sour jelly beans over there that I've been snacking on. Pretty tasty. But I'm going to hold on to Justin Fawcett. Remember, last year he got off to a slow start in weeks one and two. From then on out until he got injured, he was an RB1. So I don't think it's impossible for him to do well, especially considering he's got the high snap count, in which case, if I can, if he comes out and.

does great this week. Then I'm going to trade him in fear of Kenneth Dixon coming back. All right. It's time to jump in. Mailbag. Mailbag. Yeah. All right. We love answering questions from the Foot Clan, from the listeners. If you have a question, head to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click on the submit a question button. Send your question into the show. And we answer them from time to time, especially on Wednesdays when we do mailbag episodes.

You can also dial our voicemail hotline 302-464-T-F-F-B. Leave us a voicemail question. We like to feature a few of those as well. Jake in Lemore. Lemore. Is that where you're from, Jason? That's where all Moors are from. Lemore. Yep. All right. I have Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall, Demarius, Thomas, Kelvin, Benjamin, Stefan Diggs. Nice. And I don't know who to play. I also have Fleener and Barnage, and I don't know who to play. Thank you for the advice. Love the show. I package Demarius Thomas.

and Stefan Diggs, and I look for a trade as hard as I can because if I've got Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall, and Kelvin Benjamin, I am fine. Go upgrade your running backs. However, we will now answer your question. Okay. Brown is, Brown's an auto start every single week, no matter what. I agree. Yeah, and I mean, you can lean on our rankings, which come out later today, all of our, you know, week three rankings. If you are making a start-sit decision between two players,

To put those guys in order? I mean, you are starting Brown every week. I'm starting Kevin Benj. I'm staying in the flame. And so at that point, you're looking at matchups, and you can see our projections on the website on the rankings tab. So Patrick. And I'd go Fleener over Barnage this week. All right. Here's a trade from David and Fort Worth. All right. He said, I have been offered a trade to receive Melvin Gordon in exchange for Jamal Charles. Good trade or bad trade? It's a PPR. So that definitely factors into the equation.