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

I'm okay moving on from Minnesota. I think the Minnesota is, those are the running backs where throwing the wire. You're like, oh, I have it by week. Hey, look, there's the Minnesota running backs. I'll pick them up and I'm going to get three points. It's going to be awesome. Yeah, you also have a three-way, a three-headed monster there in Minnesota now. It's not just McKinnon and Ozziata, but Ronnie Hillman was involved. It's a two-headed monster, and then there's the annoying little brother. Okay.

All right. Let's talk some wide receivers. All right. Keep trade cut. Let's fly through these guys. Des Bryant. Keep. Keep. Yeah, I'm going to keep him. Marvin Jones. Oh, what do you do with Marvin Jones? I think you just have to keep him. You keep him. Ride it out. Yeah, you play based on matchups. You keep him with a fake smile. That's what you do. Jeremy Macklin. I'm fine cutting Jeremy Macklin or package trading him away. He's hurt. He's not producing. He's in an offense that.

doesn't lend itself to offensive production for the wide receiver. There's better options. I thought you were describing Ryan Matthews for a second. Calvin Benjamin, keep him. Yeah, you keep him. I just can't. Do you trade for Benjamin or you just status quo? I'm status quo right now. I find myself not able to quit Kelvin Benjamin. I just can't like he got off to that hot start and I just believe. I believe that it's going to continue and I'm disappointed almost every week for where I have him ranked.

That's about how you feel about Cam Newton in, too. It is. Right? Because, I mean, you expect they need to, like, Newton should pass the ball to Kelvin and then they'd have more fantasy points. Yeah. Hold on. Don't you know how this works? I'm going to talk to Cam and let him know. Can you write that down and send him a, I mean, you have a verified Twitter, so you can obviously connect with some of these. Calvin. Look, Calvin has been at 70 yards or more the last four weeks. He's giving you solid production. Add in the end zone there. Could you add that to the end of that?

All right, keep trade cut Brandon Marshall, one of the more disappointing superstar quality guys. I mean, I'll be honest, I went in and made a little trade in my dynasty league. Some trade offers trying to unload Marshall. You're trying to get rid of him? Yeah. Well, it's a dynasty. He's got very little. You got to sell. If Andy has finally turned on Brandon Marshall, things are dire. Here's the problem. I mean, last year you saw a methodical.

game script from this team each and every week where there was a consistency to target totals, to red zone opportunities, and I don't, for a second, believe that Brandon Marshall can't deliver monstrous weeks for you. What I don't believe is that he will do it consistently because this offense is too all over the place. Now you've got an MCL injury, Bryce Petty could end up in the game, no Eric Decker, a noon wall pooped the bed last week. You know, you have a different backfield. I just don't like...

the feeling surrounding this team. No one likes the feeling of a poopy bed. No. You of all people know that. Not the bed, man. That was a car. Oh, yeah. That was in the car. This is why show up for the shows were special. We've got to keep bringing it. Every time you, if that happens, just bring it up. We'll do a show up to the show. Okay. All right. Let's go. Willie Sneed. Keep trade cut. You can cut them if you need to.

I would definitely. Defing Diggs. Sell high or keep him or what do you do? I love the target totals, but I think we liked the opportunity last week. What do you think? They're not able to run the ball. You saw the offensive coordinator change, which instituted the West Coast offense, of which he was the number one beneficiary. I think you just keep him and hold on and see if this is what it looks like moving forward. I really like what I saw last week. He was second in the entire league in targets.

behind Mike Evans last week. Like you said, West Coast, PPR leagues. I really like Stefan Dix. T.Y. Hilton, you're keeping him, right? Yes, I'm not trying to trade him. Interesting stat on TY Hilton. Only less than 25% of the team's targets the past two weeks, which is abnormal for him. I'm sure Dante Moncrief had something to say about that. Moncrief and the hamstring. So the buy week is perfectly timed here for TY. Alan Hearns. You can cut him. Travis Benjamin. You can cut him. Yeah.

Cole Beasley. Beasles himself. You definitely have to keep him. I know some people have... You guys are looking at each other like you have... He... Mike... What do we think? No, Mike is staring me down saying, oh, who's the number one largest receiver for Dallas? And it's Des Bryant, but... I hate Mike's voice. I know. That's just... That's exactly what it sounded like. I hate Mike's beard. I hate Mike's man bun. You can hate the truth all you want.

It doesn't stop it for being accurate. Yeah, you hold on to Cole Beasley. He is a valuable plug and play in any kind of PPR format wide receiver. I'm not trading for him. Sure. No, I give that a blue check mark. He is the type of guy, though, where if I can include him in a package trade because someone else sees, hey, I can start this guy and it's valuable and I can.

upgrade to a stud. In fact, I think in that Todd Gurley trade that I spoke of earlier, if I remember it correctly, Cole Beasley was in the trade to get him. So I'd be completely willing to trade him or keep him. All right. Some tight end options. I really want to know this one asking for a friend Kobe Fleener keep trade cut. Depends on what's available to stream on the waiver wire. My position on Fleener is still the same. He's part of the bar feet tight ends. But.

He, at least his head can poke out from the sewage because his ceiling is. Drew Brees. Yes, and exactly why he's, so he's still above the other guys in that area for me. Yeah, he's a streamer. Same with, you know, I know the next guy we're going to talk about very similar to me in Gary Barnage. He is, when you look to the waiver wire, right, these are just streaming tight ends. They are, Gary Barnage.

Kobe Fleener, they are nothing more right now than streaming tight ends. But every time that I have one of those two players on my team and I go to look at a better matchup, I think to myself, well, they still, look, Cleveland's going to be down every game. So they're going to be passing the ball and they're going to need Barnage. Drew Breeze is the quarterback for Fleener. So both of these guys are involved enough and have the high enough upside where I usually end up keeping them over the other waiver options. Important question.

Do people name their kids Gary anymore? Like, I feel like that name has been very underutilized now. I mean, you used to have the Gary Patens of the world. Gary Sheffields of the world. Gary Barnage. So the answer is no. I don't think people are calling their kids Gary anymore. I apologize to the listener who just named their child Gary. I applaud that listener. Yeah. I say bring it back. All right, Kyle Rudolph, keep trade cut. Oh, keep.

Keeping the touchdown machine. He's above. I would much rather have Kyle Rudolph over Kobe Fleener or Gary Barn. Especially for the holidays. Right? Right. The Red Zone reindeer? I think that's science. All right. Thursday night preview and then we're jumping into the mailbag answering listener questions helping you win your week 10 matchups. What game are you not looking forward to more than the 0 and 9 Cleveland Browns against the Baltimore Ravens?

On Thursday night football, this game is a toss-up. Wait, no, Baltimore's favored by 10 is what I meant to say. The network has been pushing this game. I feel like for three weeks just please, please watch this football game. Do you, you know how they have the like promos for these games and they feature one player on each side? Who are they featuring for the Browns? It's Terrell Pryor. Okay. As they should. He is their only really good. I mean, I think are they begging Mansell to come back for Thursday night?

Oh, how about this stat? The last Cleveland Brown starting quarterback to have a victory is Johnny Mansell. He was their last starting victory. Remember that guy? Oh, that's rough. Oh, man. But look, there's no one. It's not no one. The Pryor is fine. But are you really playing anyone with any sort of confidence from the Cleveland Browns against the Baltimore Ravens? Yeah, I'll play Pryor.

That's it. That's when prior. I would also, yeah, I guess that is almost it. I would probably play Barnage as well. I don't have the confidence to play Crowell. I don't have the confidence to play. Duke Johnson. Cory Coleman or Duke Johnson. The Ravens are historically very good against tight ends. Well, the Ravens are second against the run, seventh against the pass. So they're a good defense altogether. They're at home. This has the makings of a massacre. It's part of the reason I like Kenneth Dixon as a.

Look, deep league flyer this week on a Thursday night game in which I think there could just be garbage time to run the clock out. The only tight end. Watch Cleveland win by two touchdowns. This is the NFL. Watch it. Not going to happen. Look, tight ends against the Ravens, a high of 68 yards this year, a low of zero yards. How many of those guys were named Gary, though? Probably zero. No, it's a fair point. I take it back because.

They already played Cleveland. So one of them was... And how did he do last game? The week two against Cleveland, the tight end position overall was held four for 37. Yeah, and this is not just this year. So in other words, stream a different guy. Yeah, that's what I would agree. This week is a bad week. Last year for the Ravens, I believe they were the number one defense against tight ends as well. So this is not just... This is a large enough sample size to know they defend that position very well.

All right, we flip to the other side. The headliners for me, you know, you talk about Terrence West and Dixon, and then Steve Smith, Sr., and Mike Wallace, and Dennis Pettis. So how do you feel about the Baltimore side of things? Great. Joe Flacco is my stream of the week, so I'm rolling him out there, especially if you're one of those, you know, Andrew Luck owners from this week. I'm okay floating Flacco out there and getting some points. Yeah, you could potentially have a game where Mike Wallace,

and Steve Smith both have very big games alongside Dennis Pitta. All three of those guys could be enough, have enough production individually to start all three. I'm starting Jim Harbaugh on this game. That means Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco should be okay. All of them. Now what about the running game you think that? I think you can start Terrence West tonight. I just think this is the game where I think tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow. Maybe tonight if you're listening on Thursday.

Fair enough. Yeah, I think you could start. Yesterday. You start both guys. This is the Cleveland Browns, 23rd against the past. 31st against the run. That's almost dead last. They're at home. They're going to wear them down. We saw this last week. Roll them out there. Roll them out there. Man, Brown's defense. I have allowed 21.8 points per game. This is a perfect picture of you talk about streaming tight ends. You know, if I had Gary Barnage and Dennis Pitta was on the waivers, I'm fine.

Dropping burnage to pick up. All right. It's time. Let's get into the mailbag. Mailbag. Well done. Well done. All right. If you have a question for the show for the fantasy footballers, go to our website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click that questions button in the upper right-hand corner. You can check out the website. There's lots of good stuff over there as well.

And you can also dial our voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB. Leave us a voicemail question about your team, about what's going on, commission questions, anything you got. We're here to answer them on the show. So we're jumping right into the mailbag, and we're doing it right now. I'll start with Daniel in Brazil. Bonjour, Daniel. Do I trade Eifford for Michael Thomas with Jordan Reed and Antonio Gates already on my roster and having a lack of wide receivers on my team? Wait, wait, wait, Daniel.

Why do you have three tight ends? No, no. You're telling me you have Eifert, Reed, and Gates. A lack of wide receivers. But you don't have wide receivers? The answer is yes. The answer is yes. I mean, you're describing why some trades are very, very team dependent. Look, I get it. Those are three. I like those three tight ends, but you do. You got to make a move here. I'm going to move.

Eiffert for Thomas. If that's the best you can get for Eifford. That was what I was going to ask is, do you think that he could move either Eifer or Jordan Reed for a better wide receiver than Michael Thomas? And would that be better for him? Because he clearly has plenty of options. Yeah, maybe. In general, that's another option for you. If you could, I would prefer to move Gates, who had the big game, then Reed and Eifert. Yep.

Yeah. So, all right, let's jump into a voicemail question now. Here we go. Hey, what's up for Klan? This is Lewis. I love you guys. The show real quick. I have James Winston in my lineup. I also have Derek Carr and Latavis Murray. And I also have Livon Bell. My running back game is good. I also have Riddick. This one guy that's out of the playoffs has Evans. He wants me to trade for him.

Derek Carr and Latavis Murray for Mike Evans. Do I do the trade? Do I not? It's a PPR, full PPR league. Guys, I love you guys. Best show I've ever heard on Fantasy. Made me delete all the other podcasts that I had that were on Fantasy about a year ago. Guys, thanks again. Please, please, please, please answer my question. Please, I need this for the playoffs, guys. Playoffs. Playoffs. I love it. I love it. I do the trade.