Pump the Brakes, Lev Bell News + TNF Preview

Yeah, I agree. And I think Didi could be a two. This is one of those murky situations where we're just going to have to wait and see, you know, it's, you know, sometimes. Exactly. That's all it is. You're just playing probability. Right now it would go, I would say Cole, Moncrief, Diti. Agreed. All right. Here's a question that came in this morning directed to me, but I'm asking you guys, despite your disagreement with Jason on yesterday's show about Mike Gillisley.

He has been listed as second on the debt chart. Is it worth me dropping a guy like, and this is why I'm asking you, would you drop a guy like Tom Montgomery or Isaiah Crowell or Adrian Peterson for a chance at Ingram's full backup getting goal line work in his absence? Because that's the upside of Gillisley, right? Yes. Scoring. You know, maybe you get 10 to 12 carries and a touchdown or two in a couple of these games. So would you drop any of those guys, Montgomery, Crowell, or Adrian Peterson for Mike Gillisley?

I would not. I would not either. I'm the Gillisley truther. You're not going, I think Gillisley is going to be a fine play for these first four weeks. I really do. After that, he's going to be completely irrelevant. He's just a handcuff that needs an injury in front of him to be relevant. These other guys that you've mentioned will be, you know, it should be throughout the entire season so long as they're healthy, at least a flex play. Right.

Brandon and Kansas City, do you guys post weekly rankings for each week of the season based on matchups or a sit-start feature? Oh, what a great question. Not only do we post them for free and have developed a new sit-start feature. You know, we were the most accurate entity as far as having two top 14 ranked and the only one out there that did that last year for our in-season rankings.

The people got to know. Ridiculous. Where did they get the rankings at? The fantasy footballers.com. Oh, okay. You didn't know that, Brooks? Thanks, Brooks. I've been looking. Yeah. I feel like Brooks wrote this question. It seems that way. No, Brandon in Kansas City. Mike. Brandon. This question comes in. It's a commissioner question. I'm the commissioner of a league this year, and I got all the guys to agree in our Facebook group that money would be put up for each team. All of them paid on draft night, except for one. That...

was a guy who didn't show up and he auto picked. He's now made a trade. He's not responding to my message about payment because it's not fair to the rest of the league who is paid. Do I cancel the trade? What do I do? Wow. So everyone is paid except for one team. That team didn't bother to show up for the draft. And now they're making transactions. Look, I know it's absolute insanity.

to auto draft but it's but people do auto draft and they and they have to if he's making trades and is involved i think that you don't boot him out but you make it known that this owner has not paid and he give him a deadline say you've got to you've got to pay your deadline by you pay or we'll have to replace you yeah you could try to replace him with someone that'll pay but do you what if you just trade i don't think you do

Unless it's, I mean, unless he's throwing the trade or something crazy. I don't think you do because I think at a minimum, right, he could be ineligible to win any money, right? So. Sure. If you wanted to path of least resistance, you could just make him ineligible to win, then not include him next year. If you don't want to blow the league up and you don't have anybody to replace him with and he is being active, but ultimately pay.

Come on, people. Everybody agreed to pay. Pay up. Cheap skate. Don't be an Adam Gase. Don't be a Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, man. Sorry, Adam. Tony in Ohio, I am in a full point per reception league where we can keep three players each season. I was offered Devonta Freeman and Brandon Cooks for Christian McCaffrey. My wide receivers are Tate, Diggs, and Benjamin. They're decent, and he has Bell and Gordon on the roster. What do you think about trading McCaffrey?

for Freeman and Cooks. I would rather have McCaffrey. Do you have enough confidence in Golden Tate and Kelvin Benjamin alongside Diggs for him to not need cooks? That's my concern, is that Cooks could stabilize that wide receiver core. The difference between Freeman and McCaffrey might not be as big as the difference between someone like Tate and Cooks. It's a close trade. I don't think you have a problem doing it either way personally.

I would rather have... It is a full PPR, so Golden Tate's solid. I'm keeping the McCaffrey side, and I'm going to stabilize the wide receivers through... Even through the waiver. Get a Danny Amandola when you can't start Benjamin for these first three weeks. Right. James, in a place that has to be not America. Oh, bonjour! Let's go with Chizubik. Oh, I see, because you can't pronounce it. Well, it's C-Z-U-B-E-K. So we'll let the people...

Tell us how to pronounce it. It's because of the back. Clearly. Would you trade? You guys are the worst. We are? Yeah, bonjour. There we go. It's Poland, I think. Bonjour. Somewhere in Poland? So he says, would you trade Levion for Keenan Allen and Joe Mixon? Man, that's a great question. Levion, Levion, Levion. Now, you're obviously downgrading your running back, assuming Levion plays, let's say, 15 games. Standard league, I would do it.

I think I would as well. I'd pick up a top five, top six wide receiver and a top 15 running back. What am I saying? That's the trade I would offer for Lev Bell. Yeah, it's so tough. That's why I'm. Love Bell shows up Friday and you're like never. That's the bell tilt. The bell is ringing and it's messing my head up. Yeah. So no, I take back everything I said. That's the trade I normally would offer for Lev Bell. He's going to play. That's what I really believe.

I'm not doing the trade. Yeah, I mean, this is a philosophy question. This is how do you approach the risk of losing multiple weeks of Lev Bell? And where do you, where do you land? Like, what do you actually believe? Guys, we don't know. That's the thing. We don't know what's going to happen to Love Bell. It doesn't matter what qualifications you have. Do you know who doesn't know what's going to happen to Love Bell? Mike Tomlin. Right. You know who doesn't know? Pouncey. They don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if...

Left Bell doesn't know. If left bell is like, I don't know when I'm going to show up. I might show up Friday. I might show up Saturday. Maybe I'll take a couple more weeks off. Yeah, it's all guesswork right now. But in the end, he wants to be a great running back. And you can't be a great running back and prove that you're the best without being on the field. In the end, he just wants money, which I'm not blaming him. But I think that that's what he cares about is a big guaranteed contract.

Marlon Mack has remained sidelined at the practice today. Mr. Wilkins. Running back for the Colts. So it looks like it's going to be Jordan Wilkins and Kristen Michael in week one against Cincinnati. Would you rather start Adrian Peterson or Jordan Wilkins? And let's throw Chris Carson in there. How would you rank those three? Chris Carson, Jordan Wilkins, Adrian Peterson. I would go.

That's a really tough question. I'm going to go Wilkins, Peterson, Carson. And I think I would go Carson, Wilkins, Peterson. They're all bad. I'll tell you what. Yeah, I don't want to start. I don't want to start any one of those guys. How excited are you, Brooks, that we're actually going to get to see things come to fruition this week? It's Football Eve. It is Football Eve. We do have a Thursday night game. And you know what? Let's preview it. The Falcons. Take on the Eagles.

Oh, rematch. Is this an up-to-date line, Brooks? Are the Eagles favored by two still? Yes. Okay, the Eagles are favored by two. It's a 45.5 point over under. The game is tomorrow night, Thursday night. Chances of some light rain. Thank you, Jason. You're welcome. Thank you so much. Let's start with the Eagles side of the ball. Nick Falls is getting the start.

I was encouraged that JHA he's been practicing in full. Yes. He may be the one player you can kind of count on in this game on the Eagle's side. False. Who's the other one? Zackertz. That's true. Zackertz could against. Can you though? Yes. Yeah. Because Nick Foles over targets him. All right. Zekkers, you can 100% count on. He's going to be a great start. Oh, Alshan Jeffrey, no Carson wins. Right. How do you feel about Corey Clement right now? Because I was trying to make a roster decision.

So this morning in the League of Record, I had to decide between two players to drop. I had Pat Mahomes on the bench because I just kind of wanted to have them there similarly to the Garoppolo situation. Right. I dropped my homes for Tyrod Taylor. Good move. I could have dropped Corey Clement. No. Okay. So you're not worried about, like I'm just worried that Clement's not going to have a big enough role in this office. He certainly may not, but this is not a situation where you want to.

find out on Sunday watching the game. Oh, crap. Corey Clement is heavily involved and he's the Red Zone guy. Corey Clement here is to me the exact same as Mike Gillisley, except he's been with the team this offseason. He is fair. A chance of that goal line back. He will get some work, but he's not the main guy. He's at home in, you know, without an Ingram coming back. Right. Right. Yeah. Obviously on the on the season, I'd like Clement more for this week.

You know, the matchup is better for Gillisly over Clement, but I think you can.

throw him in in the flex and hope for that touchdown, hope that he gets a little bit of passing work as well. What's your confidence in JHAI, though? I don't know that we've had much JHAI talk from Jason. I am 100% fine firing him up. He should be started in most leagues. And here's another thing. We haven't really talked about weekly strategy, not just the fun, but there is legit strategy to playing guys on a Thursday night game. Now,

Historically speaking, over the last few years, we've had a lot of pooper Thursday night games once after the NFL opener because they've got plenty of time to prepare for the NFL kickoff. Later, you know, week two, week three, week four, it's a short week. And so you get some down offenses, but you also get to see how your guys did. If you've got one or two or three players in that Thursday night game, now you can make adjustments going, okay, I'm off to a huge lead. I'm going to play the safe guys or, man, those guys, you know, poop the bed.

I really need to swing for the fences here. But JJ, to answer your question, Mike, I would be surprised if I'm not starting him. You'd have to have really good running backs on your roster. What about the other side of the ball, Mike? So Matt Ryan, I'm okay playing him. The Eagles defense, I still don't really want to mess around with him.

And then Freeman's a start. Julio Jones, of course, is a start. So let's talk their auxiliary players to see if there's any interest there for... Jason, I know you like the combo of Freeman and Coleman. In general, yes. But I would do what I... I would hope I can get away from Coleman this week. Okay. Even though you've...

spent the draft capital on him. I mean, if you have Coleman on your team, you've got him in the fifth or the sixth round. Yeah, I mean, I've seen Coleman go later than that. And I think that when you've got a fifth or sixth round guy, a lot of times you can swap those. Your fifth or sixth option, that's a flex play. You can swap them out with someone else with a better matchup. And I would prefer to do that due to Philly's great defense at home. And the defense is going to know they need to step up. You know, Wince isn't there. This is a Foles-led team.

Yeah, I took the under on the points. All right. It's interesting. I was looking at the average margin of victory, Thursday night games compared to the average for Sunday games. Right. And last year it actually ended up being pretty similar. The average in the NFL for the regular season since 2012 has been 11.5 points. That's the average margin of victory. Last year it was 10.7 on Thursday night games.

Wow. We had a four-point game, a two-point game, five, five-one, five. I think that that's been the biggest concern about Thursday night as you end up with these. You have had some crazy blowouts on Thursday night games. But it'll be interesting. I'm excited for the season to get started. You can check out all the rankings if you want to compare players, by the way, on the fancy footballers.com. Just to close out the match of Nelson Aguilar should get a target bump, a perceived target bump.

because Alshon Jeffrey is out and he's the one who really knows the offense. But it's Nick Foles throwing the ball. And right now it looks like it's bad Nick Foles. It's not Super Bowl Foles. So are you comfortable flexing Nelson Aguilar? Yeah, I'm comfortable flexing him. You know, he's not a guy that I think shouldn't be starting. You have to bench him. But it's certainly not exciting. Is there any way they can trick Nick Foles into thinking it's the Super Bowl again? Ooh.