Buy/Sell + Let’s Talk Trades, A Healthy Beating

You'll have competition. Other people will be going to try and pick them up as well. Yeah, if you've got the roster spot. All right. Kyle Eusechek's sidelined four to six weeks with the sprained MCL. I think we mentioned that yesterday, but I'm not, look, he's great. He's a great fullback. He helps this offense move. After he went out, we still saw this offensive line do some work. I'm not that concerned about the production. I think, I think Kyle Shanahan will overcome.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, are they going to run for another 300 yards? No, probably not, but they weren't going to do that with Kyle Use Check anyways. I think that, yeah, Shanahan's going to scheme around it. He knows he's got no Kyle Use Check. He's going to, you know, use the personnel he has and make them good. And as far as the running game goes, it will be just fine. All right, a couple of quick other notes. James Washington is going to miss a few weeks. Normally I would care if I thought I could go.

you know, oh, now I can guarantee start Deonté Johnson, but, you know, James Washington didn't have a big role in the offense and you're on a third string quarterback. Brian Flores, starting quarterback situation is, quote, settled. Josh Rosen will start the remainder of the season. Mike, you have to be happy with this. This is no more equivocating. This is just, hey, we are where we are. We're trusting the process. Josh Rosen is such. Give us the best chance to lose. He's the start of the rest of the season. I mean, it's very likely Rosen will be the starting quarterback for the majority of the season.

for two separate teams that have the number one pick in back-to-back years. That is true. That means if you are a team that is thinking about that 2020, one, if you have that, go ahead and trade for Rose and he can get you to the promise way. It's like the, what was it, a Ryan Reynolds movie where.

everyone he dates. As soon as they break up with him, they find the person that they find true love. They find the person they marry. Oh, man. And so everyone just tries to date him. Well, this is Josh Rosen's life now. Josh Rosen is going to be dating another team next year. Franchise quarterback finder. Josh Rosen. What's up in $12 on Gerald Everett? I did. Interesting. Yeah. Our waivers just went through. This is our weekly drop it like it's hot reminder. Players are released into the.

You know, every time the waivers go through, you forget players are being released into the free agent pool. Make sure you check your waiver wire, see what happened. Interesting. Yeah, Mike went after some Gerald Everett. I was curious what Jonathan Hilleman would be, how much someone would pay. I got him for six. Are you playing him this week? I might have to. You don't know what dissuaded me from spending up on him? The Thursday night football matchup against the Patriots? That's what's going to dissuade me.

Sure. Yeah, and it was just kind of, obviously there's still a Saquan rumors. I don't think Saquan plays. But then there's Elijah Penny that got some work last week too. And I'm like, man, if I'm looking at Jonathan Hilliman splitting with Elijah Penny against the Patriots, I did bid on him, but I bid like $2 a fab. To me, it was one of those like my opponent really needed a flex option. This was as much keep away as it was for me until Andy traded Emmanuel Sanders to my opponent. Thank you.

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I'm sure this discussion will venture into the territory of selling high, buying low, certain players. Do you let them go when they're at their lowest possible value? Do you trade for them when they're at their highest? And then we ping the foot clown. We said, hey, what are some of the questions that you have regarding your trade targets? Or what do you do with certain players and whether you should trade them or not? So let's go ahead and talk through some of our favorite trade targets right now. Jason, why don't you kick us off? Sure.

So my favorite trade targets, I've got a handful, but the ones that I want to bring up to start, first is Lev Bell. Levion Bell, I think, is an absolutely perfect trade target. He's been pretty disappointing recently. You have players who have drafted him that have not gotten a lot out of the backup quarterback, the bad matchups that, you know, that...

They've been through with the Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots. Those are rough. However, he is past his by. They're about to get their quarterback. He is the centerpiece of this offense. Their schedule opens up very nicely. As the season goes along, he's going to be one of the, I mean, who's getting more volume than Love Bell?

You got Christian McCaffrey, Sequin, if he's out there. That's maybe the end of the list. He's near the top. I mean, I was looking that up to check on it, rushing attempts per game. He's number nine right now. Basically the same. He's basically tied with Chubb, Carson, Kerry on Cook, and him. I'm on board with you big time. I looked at making a trade for Levill this morning. Their situation has been as, I mean, he's.

near the bottom of the league in yards per carry right now because all they can do is hand him the ball and hope something happens you don't have a quarterback that can function you've been working with a third stringer getting darnel back being through the bind knowing what they paid for him nowhere to go but up right now and he's not destroying your team even with the production he's giving you right now because he's you know he's doing what putting up david montgomery lines i mean he's not

destroying your team so i love that pick yeah and and the thing is is you know he he has not been great and that means you're not paying you know go you know who you should trade for right now christian becalfrey he's so good but you can't you can't get macfrey so it's like you've got to find those players that you know you don't necessarily want to trade for the guys that have just been completely washed just how you know o j howard

He's definitely a buy low. You can trade for him off the waiver. Right, but you don't want to buy him. You're looking for players that have been okay. I caught him in my money league. Yeah, I don't, I mean, you have to. O.J. Howard for me is, if it happens, if the breakout happens, I'm very happy for him. I'm very happy for the man, but I'm not, I'm not sitting around waiting for it to happen anymore. You're rooting for your ex to get it. I hope she marries a great guy someday, but it's not going to be me. Yep. I hear you.

Did you see O.J. Howard last night? Holy. Yes. That was unbelievable. Do you see that, Bruce Ariens? Little one-handed. Left-handed. Yeah, one-handed catch at the Tampa Bay game. Bear, yeah, not the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game. Correct. Unfortunately. Yeah, the Tampa Bay Rays game where he was in the stands and caught. Does that mean he's at the same amount of catches at the baseball game as he does the football game? That is exactly what it means. But as one of our writers pointed out.

Far more air yards on that baseball. Oh, yeah, a lot. All right. I'm going to tell you something right now. I'm targeting Cooper Cup. You better be ready to open up the wallet, then go to the ATM, have it empty out again into your wallet. That would be the Christian McCaffrey attempt, right? No, it's not. Because Christian McCaffrey has a long track record of being a top five player.

Cooper Cup does not have that perception in fantasy leagues, especially a lot of normal leagues. Super Cup is at Cooper Cup certainly playing at his ceiling. But it takes time for a player to play at their ceiling in finish seasons and not be, you know, he had the injury last year. So he didn't kind of perceptually come into the year as the number one on this team. I don't see anything changing with Cooper Cup. But when you can come and offer players for Cooper Cup like,

I don't know. Odell Beckham Jr. A big name with five plus years of performance. And you can make offers. All I'm trying to do here is tell you that if you go trade for Cooper Cup, I think you're trading for somebody that will continue to perform at a top five level. I don't see any reason why Cooper Cup is not a top five finisher on the year. I see an outcome where Odell Beckham Jr. isn't. In the last two years when Cooper Cup has played the whole game, he averages.

a fantasy points that makes him the wide receiver won. You're telling me you can't. Over that time span, no one else has been better. You tell me you can't go out there and offer Michael Thomas and get Cooper Cup and maybe something back. I don't know if you're going to get something bad. But I think you could offer Michael Thomas. That's the kind of situation I'm talking about. There are even Julio Jones or DeAndre Hopkins. If you can go get Cooper Cup and something potentially.

then I would try to angle that name recognition. Julio Jones is a monstrous name. Cooper Cup is not. And there's a lot of leagues where people, yeah, they want the big name. I'm telling you Cooper Cup is a big name, but you don't know it yet in some leagues. I can buy more into that. Like perhaps you can flip Michael Thomas for Cup plus, perhaps. But I bet you right now.

in the vast majority of leagues, you go to the coup, you have Otto Beckham, you say, I'll trade you back in for Cooper Cup. They're going to turn it down instantly. I don't disagree. The people who have Cooper Cup, they're winning. So they're not going to trade that away. So while he doesn't have the big name, what he does have built up now is fantasy victories for these teams. The other thing that you can do is take a big name that isn't performing, even if it's Beckham or Juju.

You tell you, go send juju plus something to go get Cooper Cup. I would be shocked. Yeah, but I would be willing to send Odell Beckham plus something to get Cooper Cup. Yeah, I would be willing to do that. If you look at the first five games from last year for Cooper Cup, right? He was, he was unbelievably good. And the whole reason he wasn't super highly drafted this year was the ACL.

You didn't think he was going to get back to the level he was at last year this quickly he has. Clearly it's fine. But his pace from last year was 131 receptions, 1,600 yards, and 13 touchdowns. That's the wide receiver 1. All right, Mike. Who's the by-low candidate for you right now? Or a couple of them. I'm going to go with a combo here because I really want to highlight what's about to happen with the Buffalo Bills. First off, they are a good team.