Week 11 Buy or Sell + Vetoes, Trade Phones, TNF Preview

It's inconvenient for me. I apologize. Brian Hill, I like a lot this week. So that's a challenge. I think you go with James Connor. Okay. I've seen enough of what isn't James Connor on the Steelers team to know what Connor means to them and what it's going to represent. This is a team that's playing incredible defense since Minkifitz Patrick was acquired. They're going to win on running in defense. It's not going to be.

on Mason Rudolph dissecting a defense, unfortunately, for, I don't know, his parents. All right, Pete Carroll believes Tyler Lockett's not going to miss any games. It was a serious issue. He had two nights in the hospital dealing with a severe contusion. That can lead to this compartment, I think it's called compartment syndrome, something of that nature, where you can actually, if you're not.

taken care of, you can lose blood flow and lose the limb, that type of situation. That's not what's happening. He is under control. And Pete Carroll basically said, hey, he's supposed to play. So we expect him out there. They've got their by week. So it timed up really nice to give him an extra week of rest here. Yeah, good point. Matt Breedah may miss some time. It's always about time for Breedda to miss some time. That's true. Saying that Matt Breedah may, quote, may miss some time. A couple of snaps. I mean.

You could say that any week blindly, it's like pin the tail on the donkey without a blindfold. Of course, he may miss some time. But he never ends up not being active for the game, though. And that's what I don't like. I think he'll miss this week. And I think Rahim Moster, it's a solid start. That would be so great. Which you'll play against me. Yes, I will. But you see, you, you set a good example for the foot clan out there, which is you had an opportunity to just add somebody at random on Monday morning.

You didn't pass up on it. You added Rahim Moster because why not? Why not just add a running back? If you had done that with, you know, Brian Hill, you know, you could have done it with Penny and seen what happened with Carson. You're not going to get it right every week. But if you take the shot, you've got a player that you can play. Yeah. All right, we have Emmanuel Sanders news. Day to day, expected to be a game time decision. You think he plays? This dude is unbelievable. He's Wolverine.

His healing powers are unbelievable. I definitely think he plays. Kyle Shanahan also hopeful that George Kittle returns against the Cardinals. Cardinals less hopeful. Cardinals much less hopeful. As am I. I would, you know, I don't know. Was it weird to either of you guys that George Kittle was up in the booth and like not down? I mean, every time there's an injured player. I saw it and I thought about it. I have to admit that. When I saw it, I was like, oh.

He just wanted to sit up there, huh? You know, and I get it, he's leaning against the glass. It just seemed like, is there more going on here with his knee injury? I don't think so. And for him, he's active equals play. That's what he is. 100%. Hey, guys, Chris Herndon's on IR now. Season over. Great, great season, Chris. That was an awesome season. Can I unsay all the words I've ever said about him this year and just pretend they didn't exist? Just fast forward to next year.

Unbreak my heart, Chris. We're all real excited for Chris Herndon again. I think in honor of Chris Herndon and in honor of our listeners, the best thing we can say from here on out on the show about Chris Herndon is coach Doug Peterson said Alshan Jeffrey is day to day. That is the next piece of news. Let's move on. That's true. He's day to day. And David and Joku.

is optimistic he'll be able to play when he comes off IR next week. That's something to pay attention to, maybe. I was going to pick him up, but I said Chris Herndon. Yeah, I looked and he's not eligible to play this week. So, yeah, I mean, you can look into that.

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All right. If you have a question, you can head to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click to submit a question button. You can also dial our voicemail hotline. That's 302-464 TFFB. Let's kick this thing off with a couple of very open-ended. What do I do questions? What do I do with David Johnson? Wait, is this, did this come in from Cliff Kingsbury?

Oh, my goodness. Multiple, multiple people asking this question. I believe. Steve Kime. Yes, Kime. Yeah, is one of those people. Michael Bedwell. Kenyon Drake. It looks like one of these questions came in from David Johnson. Oh, no. Listen, if you've been on, I think Jason or my Twitter over the last day, you've seen a few tweets that include a video. Oh, goodness.

It shows somebody named David Johnson running laterally. Running is way too kind of a word. Meandering laterally and then deciding where to fall. How to get panicked. Yes. And this, you know, we're from, this has multiple layers of sadness for us because we're from Arizona, Cardinal fans. We know David Johnson. Love David Johnson. We spent time with him. Great guy.

I choose to believe this is related to what Cliff Kingsbury has said this week, multiple injuries, ankle back problems. Because if it's not, David Johnson's time is a professional, not just a fantasy option, but as like a mainstay in the backfield is going to be over. That being said, what do you do with them now as a fantasy owner? What are you thinking about? The only thing you can do is...

the same thing that Cliff Kingsbury did, and that's bench him. You obviously can't move on from him. You can't drop him. You're not going to be able to trade him for the name value after the run of disappointing games. That window is closed. So it's actually a really, really easy decision. You have to bench him. It's brutal, but it's easy. He belongs on your bench. You cannot start him until he looks healthy on the field. And you're just going to take a loss, hopefully.

Hopefully you're going to take a loss one of these weeks on having a good game on your bench. But you're going to prepare yourself by getting all the bad ones out of the way first. And if you, I went back and watched Cliff Kingsbury's press conference yesterday because I wanted to specifically see what he was saying about David Johnson. And he got benched because he wants to put the best players on the field. And when he was asked, is this going to go forward? Is this going to impact his playing time? Cliff Kingsbury said, you know, I'm going to.

just put the best player on the field that gives us the best chance to win. And David Johnson's great. And when he's ready, you know, then he'll be out there. But, I mean, essentially, he's not ready. He's not going to be the lead dog. I think King and Drake could very well be the leader this coming week. Yeah, he could be. And then the matchup is against San Francisco and lucky for DJ. They have the bye week coming up still. So he could be, he could be ready to go.

for the end of the year. Chase Edmonds is going to come back after the buying week as well, and so you'll have three situations. And you wonder why you brought Kenyon Drake in, right? If they thought David Johnson was a guarantee to come back to form, you don't necessarily make that trade in the middle of the season. So it makes you question things. You're 100% right. You cannot rest on the laurels of the past. You will lose with your fantasy team. And what do you do with AJ Green? Do you just cut AJ Green at this point? I think you can, yeah.

Because I think part of the question is what do you get when he's back? Yeah. And you get Ryan Finley. Like for example, there's probably not a better wide receiver or upside play that you can get off your waiver wire. But I'd rather have my handcuff. I'd rather be looking at next week for a defensive play. I'd rather be stashing a defense for the fantasy playoffs than holding on to green. Yeah, 100%. And he's going to hurt you when he's back. If he's back.

Yeah, I mean, we don't know how Tyler Boyd's doing. I actually really like sneak peek to tomorrow. I like Tyler Eifford a lot. I think Tyler Eifford is a very sneaky tight-in play this week. He had his best game of the season last week with Ryan Finley. He's also in a situation with no AJ Green, no Tyler Boyd potentially, where Eifert, they may need to lean on him in the passing game. He scored last week, a bunch of targets. I like him.

But this is a low upside situation holding on to AJ Green. And that's disappointing because I thought he'd be back by now. And I was wrong. Twitter, Big Dave, wants to know something. Hey, Big Dave. Yep. He says, what are your thoughts on trade veto etiquette? I've seen three trades vetoed in our league for reasons such as I didn't want so-and-so's team to be good. Or I veto all trades. Personally, I feel the veto is for extreme collusion.

What say you all says at Big Dave Philly? They don't call you Big Dave for nothing, okay? Big Dave's got it right here. It's for collusion. Did they call him Big Dave because of his veto takes? No, yeah, because look, you know, when you're better. It's big of you, Dave. Yeah, exactly. Look, Big Dave is right. Trades are for collusion only. I like that. Trades are for collusion? Yes, trades are only to be made. I don't trade often, but when I do, it's for collusion.

Yeah, the veto should not be used unless something nefarious is going on. No, just vetoes. Turn them off. They're archaic. Like fantasy football was a different place 10 years ago. We, we have moved past that. If you're playing that. Trade should be instantaneous. There should not be a two-day waiting period. Yes. If two people agree on a trade, boom, it's done. It's done. They have agreed that this is a good trade for both parties. You don't need to have them pass a physical.

before they can be on your roster. It's fantasy. Here's what we're not saying. We're not saying you don't stop collusion. We're saying the mechanism by which you think you need to stop it is archaic. Yes. Which is if two teams collude, first of all, get them out your league. Yeah. But if you can't, you know, you might not have the luxury at that moment. The commissioner can then, you know.