Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep/Trade/Cut, Pump The Brakes, TNF Preview, Mailbag

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All right, Andy Reid thinks there's a good chance of Spencer Ware will be ready for week 10 against the Panthers. Do you guys share Andy Reid's confidence? I do. I do. Okay. That's a good sign because he's a lot better than Char West. All right. The ESPN Buccaneers reporter, Jenna Lane, called Jekwiz Rogers a long shot to play in week 10. Is this the Peyton Barber experiment in full force? Yep. I think it's the Peyton Barber necessity in full force. Sure.

Some experiments are by necessity. Sure. Carlos Hyde remains in a no contact jersey. I just don't feel like he's going to play. I just don't think he'll get back on the field. What do you guys think? We saw this. This is exactly how he started out last week. It's, oh, Carlos Hyde is back at practice, but he's in a non-contact jersey. I think.

I lean towards him not playing this week. Why throw him out there against the hard hitting Arizona Cardinals defense if you're not willing to have him touched in practice yet? And he had the sprained AC joint. He's still within the expected timeline, the possible outcomes that they say. So he could miss another week with the shoulder injury. Also, is their offense really hurting with the DeWan Harris experiment? Oh, that was the Saints.

Yeah, the Saints make everybody look great. True. Larry Fitzgerald, you're going to see these reports. He wasn't at practice. Bruce Ariens says he's going to play. It's likely he doesn't practice. He's a veteran. He's got, he's banged up. So don't fear, but pay attention in case something breaks the wrong direction. We talked about Time Montgomery, now being running back wide receiver eligible in Yahoo. I'm pumping the brakes on him long term. Victor Cruz doesn't expect to miss more than one game. So he expects to miss a game. There you go.

Ryan Fitzpatrick believes he'll be able to start despite the MCL injury. Okay, start the Rams D no matter what. Tony Romo medically cleared. Now they say it's in the coach's hands as to when Romo can be active when he will start and all those things. Is that what Jones is saying? No. Is he watching? No. I don't make the decision. I make every decision except for this one. Look, the controversy is going to begin, but the question for fantasy owners is,

Is he worth a pickup? Yes. Do you stash him? Hey. Because look, let's pretend, you know, you're not stashing Alex Smith right now just because he was hurt and then he's sitting there. So taking up a bench spot with a quarterback. Yeah, I guess I guess I jumped to a yes because I'm so used to.

Tony Romo has been able to be a good stash on, because you can put him in your IR, and he's been labeled as out. If he's back, if he's at practice, he will actually have to be on your bench, and it's just not worth taking up a bench spot to roster a backup quarterback, because should Dak Prescott stink it up, which I don't even expect will happen, or get injured, and Tony Romo becomes a great waiver pickup.

you know, he's going to be a slightly better pickup than other quarterback available on the waivers that week. So he's not worth keeping a bench spot, you know, frozen for the chance. He's not that difference making as a quarterback. Yeah. Last time, 2000, what was that? 14. No, but a while ago. But let's, let's, let's, let's.

caveat there is that, you know, you're the biggest proponent of you ride the matchup guy into the playoffs to win. I think Romo was just that for you. I mean, he wasn't, he didn't end the year as a top five quarterback. He just ended the year in that stretch. Right. Winning your fantasy league. So, Philip Rivers might be that guy this year. There are other candidates for that role. I'd rather have rivers. If I'm in a Superflex or two QB, though, I might pick them up. Yeah. In those leagues, it is worth it. All right. Let's move on. Keep trade cut.

More and more trade deadlines on the way for fantasy owners. It's time to play a game of keep trade cut with a number of big names. Tell me what you guys are thinking about a number of these players where you're leaning what you would do with them. If you are an owner, let's start at the quarterback position. What do you do with Eli Manning and Russell Wilson? Russell Wilson. Eli Manning, I mean, was he owned?

Did anyone play Eli last week? If a tree falls in force... I guess the answer is trade, if you do own him. Yeah, I don't think you're going to be able to get much for him unless there's a giant, giants fan in your league. For me, he is almost still a cut. And the reason why for me is because if you look at which games he has gone off and he's had a few big monster games, they're not really the games that you would predict.

And the games that you would predict, like that New Orleans game, he has stunk. So when it comes to predicting, okay, this is the week to start him, he's a little bit more difficult than, say, a bin Rathusberger, where you look at that home road split and you've got a little bit of clues as to when those touchdowns are going to come. The touchdowns come for Eli. When Odell Beckham breaks a big play, and that can happen against a good defense. That can happen against a bad defense. I feel like you need to wear a blindfold as Eli Manning owner this year. You just put it on.

And you mute the TV and you just hope at the end you have enough statistics. It's so fabulous. You have the New Orleans, the Washington game, Green Bay. These are beatable secondaries. Just atrocious for fantasy. But then you have Philly, who's considered one of the top defenses. You have Baltimore considered one of the best defenses in the league. That's when he went bananas. Eli is the Sean Jackson of the quarterback position. He really is. You don't know when it's coming.

But if it does, you're happy. Brace yourself. There's another, there's other options. Also, Russell Wilson's side. Keep trade cut. He is a 100% keep for me. I said this last week. I haven't really wavered on this. The first, I mean, now we are to the point last year where we are the exact week that we are in last year where Russell Wilson started his great move forward. If you compare the fantasy points that he had to this point last year, it was.

pretty darn near the same. It was one week after their week nine by, and so I think you hold on to Russell Wilson. You saw last game.

that he was able to move a little bit better. He did not look like old Russell Wilson where he can just outrun everybody and avoid those hits because he's really smart with how he runs, but he did run a little bit. He picked up some first down yardage with his legs, and it says to me, and nothing happened in that game to say, oh, he's going to be hurting more.

tomorrow morning and the next morning. So I think he is going to heal up as the season goes along and get together. He is a keep for you. Mike, what is he for you? I'm going to go with the trade. And Russell Wilson is a quarterback. Win healthy. I think he can rise above a bad matchup. But here's what is coming up for Russell Wilson. New England this week. One of the best deep, very underrated in New England. Philadelphia the next week. Two weeks later, Carolina. His playoff schedule is Green Bay.

Rams, Arizona. This seems like the time where if you're in that camp and you do believe he's a trade, you wait for a game like what he had this last week to kind of reinvigorate his name in people's minds so that you can move him. Let's try to go through a few of these other ones kind of quick here. Big Ben, keep trade cut. Keep. I would keep for now, but if you can get.

Or trade. Did you not just pump the brakes on it? So I'm keeping them for now. I'm saying my pump the brakes was I'm looking at the fantasy playoffs. But if your trade deadline is coming up, then I'll trade. Yeah. Tyrod Taylor and Matthew Stafford both on by this week. Keep trade cut. Tyrod Taylor? I'm going to keep them both. Yep. Okay. Let's move to the running back position. Keep trade cut. Terrence West. Great question. I'm going to keep Terrence West. I pointed this out in the, in the office yesterday off the air.

that we were all surprised when you look that Terrence West got 15 carries last week. He wasn't, you know, you had Kenneth Dixon get nine carries, but that didn't stop Terrence West from having enough opportunity. They just were selling out to stop the run. Kenneth Dixon didn't do any better than Terrence West did with his nine carries. No, they were both really bad. Right. So I would rather have the lead guy who has shown that he's all right. I would keep it. I'm going out on a limb here. I'm going to say this right now with the Thursday night game tomorrow. I believe this is the week in which you see.

a changing of the guard with Kenneth Dixon. I think you're going to have, I'm going to predict that Kenneth Dixon out touches Terrence West in the Thursday night game. Yeah, my position here is I am talking to whoever has Kenneth Dixon saying, hey, why don't you hedge your bets here? I'll trade you, Terrence West. You can own that Baltimore backfield. Why don't you give me a little something, something? Yep, a little something, something. All right, before we move on to the rest of the running backs, I'm going to give you a little something something on the Fandings app, the sponsor today's show, good friends of the show.

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All right, back into keep trade cut. Todd Gurley, keep trade cut, guys. Keep or trade four? I pump the brakes. I'd trade for him. I pumped the brakes on him. I think it was about a month ago because of the last stretch that he's been in, and we've seen some tough stuff. But coming, we're nearing that trade deadline. We're nearing towards the playoffs. And I love his, his end of season schedule. I saw someone in our listener league. I believe it was our listener league actually traded for him. And if you're both listening, which I assume you are.

The one that got Todd Gurley won that trade. All right. I'm with you on that one, guys. Ryan Matthews, keep trade cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. Sorry. You can cut him. Yeah, I think so. Rashad Jennings. Ooh. I think Rashad Jennings is the perfect example of you keep him because running back depth is so important, but you're not excited about it. And you just kind of, if you need them, you can play him.

Can you say the same thing about Ryan Matthews? I mean, he might get like three snaps, but a touchdown is one of those three. You could. You could say that. I mean, those are. I mean, that's kind of the running back story, though. Are there any of these guys that you're really just blatantly cutting out of spite? I mean, for me, it's Ryan Matthews. But other than that. Yeah, Rashad Jennings. Jerich McKinnon, Matt Aziada. Those guys. Quiz Rogers. I mean, it. Jiquiz Rogers is the one guy. That's what I'm saying. You don't cut those guys. The running backs. Yeah, well, I'm.