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

In a vacuum, in a vacuum, I also do the trade. Lev Bell and Riddick are more than enough to get you through. I really love. Riddick was almost a rising star for me this week on the snap count. So for me, PPR League, heck yeah, I do it. I stack Evans with James. I ship out Carr and Murray. We like James's into season schedule, and I ride Mike Evans and maybe a, he's a top three wide receiver. No, I forgot that he said it was a PPR with Theo Riddick. You're fine. Theo Riddick, Levy on Bell. Obviously, you hurt your depth. Yeah, I hope you have some depth.

But to win the championship, you need the best players, and Mike Evans is going to help you get that done. I like the trade. Yeah, and this is a chance for you to, you know, go out and make sure you have, after you do this trade, if you do it, go out and make sure you have DeAngelo Williams. Because if you don't have running back depth, if you can handcuff those two guys, you're safe. Can't handcuff Theoretic. Theoretic goes down, nobody steps up into that role. Yeah, I signed Dwayne Washington. Yeah, but that's exactly what I'm saying. Yeah, fair enough. That's quite lucky.

that someone out of the playoffs is willing to make this trade with you. If this is only a redraft. No, I'm sure it must be a keeper league. Otherwise, why would they? Maybe they want Derek Carp. That's what I'm saying. It's bizarre. But why would you trade Evans? As you say, it's very rare for someone with Mike Evans right now to be out of the playoff run. That's the other thing. All right. Running back question, a depth question from Eric in Italy. Oh, bonjourno.

Would you rather have James Starks or Dionne Lewis sitting on your bench? Lewis. Yeah, Lewis for me for sure. I want the upside. All right. Elizabeth in San Diego. You see that they did not pass the stadium bill yesterday. Not only did they not pass. They full on rejected. That was not a close. Didn't get the two thirds. Now you're talking L.A. maybe for the Chargers.

Which makes me feel bad. We've got good friends that are charged with fans. And all I can say is if you are in San Diego and your team leaves, some people are going to travel with them emotionally. And some people aren't. And if you're not, welcome to Arizona. Yeah. The Cardinals. Why not the card? I was going to give the consolation of if your team leaves, at least you're still in San Diego. That's true. It's a pretty nice consolation prize. It's a.

Nice place to live. All right. They should buy winter grills as well. All right. What are the footballers thoughts on switching to a keeper league in the middle of this season? Don't do it. To be clear, this would mean choosing a keeper for next year now in week 10. Yeah, you can't do it. Nobody drafted with that. Nobody made the early season waiver pickups and trades based on who they might keep. Now is when you can decide that you're going to do it. There is one case in which you can do it. 100% vote.

100%. And I mean, not a heated, I talk you into it. Everybody comes together and they're like, we all want to do this and we want to do it right now 100%. Otherwise, and it sounds like that's not the case. She said that things are getting heated. So if that's the case, you just wait. Wait until next year. Say now, we're going to make it a keeper league starting next year. So who you draft, use the strategy of a keeper league, which to be clear is almost the same strategy as a redraft. Sure. And if I want to throw, if you want to do something before, you know.

Because let's be honest, if you wait till next year, you have to go through the whole season and then they first make their keeper picks. You want an alternate to that? Have a keeper draft. Have a random keeper draft in the middle of the summer. If you want one guy on your team or something, people can draft them oriented towards keepers. It's just another idea. So trade question from Raphael in Peoria, Arizona. Oh, hello, neighbor. Yeah, need help at running back in tight end. Was offered Ajai in Olson for his Mike Evans. If you need help.

at those positions, I think I would take it. I think I find another way to get help at those positions. That's exactly what I'm thinking here. So this is a one yes vote and two no votes. This is a, when you say you need help, I don't know what you have outside of Mike Evans. Because if it's Julio Jones and somebody else, then sure. But most likely, you don't have somebody that's going to help you like Mike Evans well.

So you're right. Yeah, that's the way the vote breaks down. Yeah, hopefully you have another stud wide receiver and a good enough crop to get rid of Mike Evans. You're going to take a hit there. All right. But I'm a yes. Dan in Milwaukee, I have Murray, Shady, Sproles, and Coleman as his running backs. He's in good shape to make the playoffs. So would you pick up Gillisley and drop Coleman? Right. So he's got Murray, Shady, kind of leading the way on his running back core. Do you drop Kevin Coleman to pick up Gillisley and handcuff your...

Shady. Man. I think I do. That's really hard because when you have a player that you can kind of start outside the framework of a handcuff, I think I do because of the Coleman injury. If he was lighting the world on fire, you wouldn't need to. I'm going to throw this out there and say that most of the time that I get questions exactly like this, there is an alternate wide receiver that you can drop.

You might have a Willie Sneed and you're not thinking about, oh, you know, maybe that's only your fourth wide receiver or something. And so you're not willing to drop because you think you need depth. But the depth that you can find on a weekly start if need be from the waiver is okay. So if you've got, you know, a cuttable wide receiver, I would be willing to do that even if it leaves your perceived wide receiver depth a little empty. And Kevin Coleman has played seven games.

Right. So we just finished week nine. He's played seven games. He's still the running back 17 in standard formats. So you do not do it. You try to find another way. Yeah, you got to find another way. All right. It's also possible. Yeah, I'm going to throw this out there too. It's possible Gilisley just sits on your waiver wire. Right. Yeah. And you don't have to make this move for a week or two. It's very possible. He sets on the wire. The thing is.

is you're doing that preventative pickup. Yeah, so you don't fight over. If he's on the waiver, why someone else is likely to get. And of course, the percentage-wise. The strategy that I always use, it doesn't come to mind because in our League of Record, the trade deadline is passed. But I know that this is like, this coming week is the normal trade deadline for most people. In every situation where I'm like, I really want to pick this guy up, but I don't have someone to drop. I am always, always, always looking to package trade. If you're considering, do I drop Tevin Coleman?

I mean, you can package Tevin Coleman with one of your wide receivers. Go to Devante Freeman owner and say, do you want this for the slightly better wide receiver? Upgrade your lineup, pick up the guy. Then it helps your team and, you know, it's probably good for the other owner as well. Here is a great question from Buck in Charlotte, North Carolina. He says at what point?

Do you abandon these must-start defenses like Minnesota or Denver? You can throw Philly in there as well. When do you abandon these must-start defenses? And do you? I think... You saw last week you got negative points from Denver. Yeah. Do you just roll them out there still? Sometimes it's going to happen in matchups you don't expect like last week. But for instance, this week, Denver, I don't have them in my top 12 defenses on the road.

at home for Drew Brees, which is what matters there. I think it's just matchup dependent. And really, it's not just matchup dependent on who your team, your Minnesota, your Philadelphia, your Denver is playing, but what the alternate is as well. I mean, if you don't like the matchup, there has to be someone that you love.

You're not going to start a middle of the road defense against a middle of the road matchup over your great defense with a bad matchup. You're going to go out there and say, oh, look, the Rams this week are playing. Rams are jets over Denver this week. Rams for sure. I would play the Rams over the Jets. I think I would probably play them over Denver as well, but not if I had to cut someone that mattered too much. Okay.

All right. Let's go ahead and jump into one more question here. Eric in Connecticut, in a quarterback pinch with the bi-pocalypse continuing. Would you trade Stafford for Winston knowing what lies ahead for both players? Yeah, I think I would. I'd rather have Winston. You get the extra week. The schedule for James Winston is very in his favor coming up. So you have Chicago this week.

Kansas City. We'll see on that one. Then you have Seattle. That's tough. But then Chargers, Saints, Dallas. Yeah, Dallas Saints. So it's, I would do it. I would get James over Stafford. Yeah, especially if, especially if you actually need the start because I would not recommend starting Matthew Stafford this year. Here's, here's. It's as simple to me as he's got Mike Evans.

Sure. It really changes things for me with Winston. Stafford has a fine fantasy playoff schedule, but the thing is, let's say you need to win right now. The next three weeks for Matthew Stafford, by week, Jacksonville, Minnesota. Things could go sideways for Stafford in both of those matchups. There you have it. There you have it. Thank you for all of the questions. You can continue to submit those on the website. You can also check out our fantasy community where we're answering.

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