Pump the Brakes, Stash or Trash, Riding Zebras

I would say you don't need to hold him because you spent $44. It's the same philosophy of I spent a fourth round pick on this guy. He's supposed to be good. If he's not, he's not move on or at least, you know, when you're negotiating in trades, get rid of the value. But the fab is kind of, that mindset only goes so far, Jay, right? I mean, if it's a first round draft pick.

You're not doing that. Well, but the reason... You're not cutting a first rounder? No, of course not. But that's not just because you drafted him in the first round. It's actually the reasons behind drafting him in the first round. Those symptoms to the disease are the reason that you would still hold on to him. You just call me a disease? I didn't mean to, but if I did, fantastic. First question coming in here from Ethan and Hoskins, New England. Should I trade James Connor?

for Kenyon Drake. Ooh, that's a great question. So that falls right in line with what we've said. The only way I'm moving James Connor right now is if I get a season long, or what I perceive to be a season long starting running back, you jump out of the game of is Levion Bell going to be back this week? Is it going to be back this week? Yeah, it's still tough. That's really hard. James Connor is going to be an RB1 this week.

Again. Every week. I think he'll be an RB1 just about every with his usage. 100% of the running back touches. Type of work. So even if his efficiency is nowhere near with Love Bells is, he's going to be an RB1 almost week and week out. So what you're doing here. Until Levi-on-Bel comes back. Correct. Which maybe that's next week. Yeah. So, you know, this is, I'm trading the immediate future. I would do it. Getting a little bit worse for a long-term.

proposition. So I would do it if I absolutely need that person to be a starter. You know, if James Connor is locked in and you don't really have a good option behind to, you know, if it's like you could take James Connor out and put in Tevin Coleman, that's your next player on your depth chart, then I would absolutely trade for Kenyon Drake, someone that's going to lock that position up for the entire year. But if, you know, a lot of people are going to have James Connor just because they scooped them up on waivers and maybe they've got good running backs. And if they've got other good

starters for the season. I'm going to just keep riding the hot points. The hot points. Ride the hot points. That's how I like my points. If you have a question, you can go to the website and click on the submit a question button, the fantasy footballers.com, or dial the voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. Here's the voicemail question. What's going on? Footballers, this is a story from Denver. Quick question regarding waiver ads. Had a guy in our league, Anthony Miller, Monday morning after he had already

be played. Sirius, if you guys feel that a player that has and cannot be dropped, our league is split on this, just trying to figure out what you guys think. 100% locked. 100, I don't even understand. He must be the commissioner. No, it's on Yahoo. Yahoo lets you drop players that are. They did last year. I was in a league, and I was shocked to find out, I was shocked to find out that if a player who was on my bench,

If they have already played in their NFL game, I was able to drop them. So it's bench-related. Because if you had started Anthony Miller, he would have been locked. So they're letting you drop a bench guy to draft. No, I don't like that. I don't like it at all. But I will say if the platform, if platform specific to me, you can't, I'm not trying to enforce a rule that the platform allows. It's now, now you know.

Now you know that these are the rules of engagement and act accordingly. If the platform allows it, you have to, I mean, look, suspended players should not go in an IR. But if your platform allows it, then you can't say no. Fair enough. Another voicemail. Hey, ballers. John calling you up from Phoenix, Arizona. Oh. It's that glorious time of the week where you get to see who other people drop. And I saw another owner in our league dropped.

Mike Williams, who I'm really high on this year. So my question to you guys is, would you drop Kelvin Benjamin to pick up Mike Williams? Thank you so much for the podcast and the guidance. Appreciate you guys. This is a great Andy Holley question. My question to you, sir, is why have you not picked up Mike Williams yet over Kelvin Benjamin? Yeah, I mean, I would rather have Mike Williams as well, but I was curious because Andy, you're the highest on Kelvin right now of the three of us.

But you've also been very high on Mike Williams, so I wanted to know who you'd rather have. I'd rather have Mike Williams. Yep. Agreed. He looked good. He looked good in week one. He did. So we'll see where that goes. Stephen and Hershey, who do you guys feel is the least trustworthy coach when it comes to hyping up a player? Pete Carroll does it every year. That was the name that came to mind. Yeah, he's just a hype machine. Adam Gaze is not very good either.

Yeah, those are the two camps where you get the most nonsense spewing out during the off season. The most nonsense. But Adam Gaze isn't always a hype machine. Sometimes he's a destroy your player machine. You know, talk bad about this guy's needing to step up. Pete Carroll is just, he's going to be the best player of all time. He's an eternal optimist. Yes. You don't chew that much bubble gum unless you're an optimist. If...

If I wasn't talking from the perspective of fantasy football, I would love it. If I was a Seattle fan, I would love Pete Carroll. Yes. I like that. I like that motivational tactic as opposed to trying to tell somebody to get body and they suck, hoping that they'll get better. Shaming them into getting better. Exactly. I'm more on the Pete Carroll side of let's build them up. But I play fantasy football, so I need accurate information, Pete Carroll.

Tilt check, Matt in Kansas City. Can Russell Wilson be started this week against the Bears? I have flacco on my bench. I'm considering starting him over Wilson. I would still start Wilson. Yeah, Russell Wilson is the clear start. I've seen a lot of Russell Wilson fear. Russell Wilson with no number one target. With Will Disley. Will Disley. This is, yeah, this is the Will Disley, Montana Strong. The moose. The moose wrestler himself. Will Disley. Mooses. Thank you, Andy. Well, you can't. Look.

He can take on a whole pack. No, as strong as Will Disley is, there is no way he can wrestle multiple mooses. No, he could ride them, though. He could probably ride them. Do people ride mooses? Do people ride mooses? That's what I want to know. Has anybody ever tried? No, they are not tame kind of creatures. Yeah, they are angry animals. But they're shaped in a fashion that would allow you to ride them. So it should be. Because they have four legs and they're large? Yeah, I mean, just like a zebra. Do people ride zebras? People do ride zebras, yes.

They do? They do? Absolutely. What do you mean absolutely? Is there a wild west of Africa that I don't know about? Most zoos have like a zebra ride. What? What zoos are you going to? Did you just say most zoos have a zebra ride? Am I wrong in this? There are elephant rides? Zebraide. Who's riding zebras? I've never seen a saddle on a zebra. What? I'm looking it up. Brooks? I'm going to stick by it for now. Do you have any information about this whatsoever? I do not.

Baby Josh, do you ride zebras around? No? He waved no. What is happening? This question is, why don't people ride zebras? Yeah, because I've never, ever seen a person on a zebra. I mean, people have ridden a zebra. I've got video evidence. You could paint your horse. That's the ticket. Give them stripes. Paint your horse to look like a zebra. That's... It's the referee of horses. Oh, my gosh. The ref. All right.

Last question, Christian in El Paso, Texas is Josh Gordon a keeper? Got a trade offer today requesting Josh Gordon for Rex Burkhead. Yeah, I would take Rex in that situation. But Josh Gordon is a keeper, absolutely a keeper. But I also believe that Josh Gordon is a great option to trade because not to the average person. The average person views Josh Gordon about right, but every league will have two or three people that view Josh Gordon as.

A wide receiver won, a top five potential, and you're going to be able to trade that kind of value that I don't think he's ever going to get this season. Oh, this might be the week, though. Exactly. But here, look, a question from Andy in Arizona. Yes, Andy. How do you feel by Josh Gordon right now? Well, this week is a great matchup according to what we saw from Tampa Bay.

torching the New Orleans Saints last week. Like, are you starting him this week? I think he's a flex. Yeah, I mean, Mike? Yeah, I think he is, he has flex worthy. Keel and Cole against New England or Josh Gordon? Josh Gordon. The, what is upsetting about Josh Gordon is they've talked about he's not going to start. He's going to be on a snap count. The dude played.

77 and a half percent of Cleveland snaps. And started. Which is a good sign. It's in the middle of a rainstorm. But he only got three targets. Meanwhile, Jarvis Landry, cruising over the century march. I told you I love Jarvis Landry. Yeah. That's the concerning part. Jarvis Landry in the rain did Jarvis Landry things. I targeted him. I made trade offers for him all day yesterday, which are now going to be rejected vehemently if they listen to the show. And they do. Yeah.

Just send him George Kettle. Say he's worth $44 of Fab. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, well, hey, we'll see how that buying goes. Thanks for listening to the show, draft.com slash ballers. If you want to play some daily, and if you want advice, grab the ultimate DFS pass at ultimate DFS pass.com. We'll be back tomorrow with starts of the week. Goodbye. Goodbye. You for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

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