Mid Round Madness + Waiver Tips, Leeches - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Welcome in. Thursday, August 6th, 2020. The fantasy footballers. Oh, it's still 2020, huh? Still 2020, huh? Still here. Can I level with you, Mike? Absolutely. I know 2020's been a bit of a challenging year. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. However, it is the year that DeAndre Hopkins was given to my Arizona Cardinals. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. I am confused because I thought it was all supposed to be bad, but that seems very...

Very good. Yes, okay. All right. This good. Oh, yeah. That's a good start to this show. Glass half full. Oh, well, you know, let's get this thing started. Yeah. Sir, you're out of Wendy's. You can check out the Ultimate Draft Kit at Ultimate DraftKit. We have a mid-round madness show today. We're going to bring you...

Each of us have selected a couple guys between rounds four and eight. They're tough, man. The middle rounds are tough. You know, there's going to be a couple gems in there as long as you can get the pickax out, you know, and mine the rock. You find those gems. Just keep going with the analogy. Perhaps an emerald. Perhaps. But maybe you get some fools gold. That's true. You don't want that. I did look back at last year.

And where some big time players are going. Mid-round madness, Austin Echler, mid-round madness, Derek Henry. These. Cooper Cup. Yeah, there are some big-time players in those rounds. So we brought you, we're bringing you a couple of players each today on the show. Maybe get into some mailbag. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. Instagram's adding some reels. Oh, man.

which is there is nothing to do with TikTok. It doesn't see. No. Because there are 15 seconds. How dare you? It doesn't sound anything. It sounds different. Reels. Reels. It doesn't sound like TikTok. But we might put some hot reels up, you know. Maybe. We're with the time. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Subscribe, click the bell. Here's a quick question for today. Somebody wants fab tips.

One of our jointhefoot.com supporters asks this question, yo, yo, yo, ballers. Yo. I just entered my first league that uses fab. Any tips for how I should adjust my waiver strategy? Thanks and keep up the great work. What do you think? What is a hot fab tip? First off. 15 seconds or less. I'm sorry. First off, it depends on the league. Are these players all new?

to the fab system because that will change things as well. And my tip for that is don't be afraid to spend some money in week one and week two. People when they're brand new to the system. What if some of our listeners right now are brand new to hearing that term? Oh, free agent acquisition. It's based as a water based waiver system. That's how it would be fob. Acquisition. No, I should not have provoked an explanation. That was my fault. Essentially, it's a way.

for you to manage your waivers, you make a blind bid to add a player off the waiver, to acquire a player off of all-quire. Off of the waiver wire instead of just having the reverse order of standings where you have no say in who you're going to get off the waiver wire. This makes a little bit more fair, adds a huge element of fun and strategy to the league. We recommend it for everybody. But people who are brand new to it,

generally get a little bit greedy and hoarding with the money. So number one, don't be afraid to spend it. Yeah, gun-shy, right? They want to hold it until the end. They don't want to be left, you know, without money. And you should have some money at the end. But let's say you are going into a league and they're used to it. You know, number one, stick around to the show because when we talk about waivers on every Tuesday's episode, we do break down our favorite players off of the waiver. We talk about how much of our budget would we?

You're like, oh, no, I'll throw down 12% to go after that player. But that, I mean, that's what it's about. It's about prioritizing the player that you want. And sometimes you have to make a decision of if I wake up in the morning and see that I have lost out on that player, then bid more. Yeah, that's the question that I think is really helpful.

I were to save to, if I were to have spent two more dollars and get the player, would I be upset if I wasted two dollars and set your budget? But I agree with Mike. It's, it's really, when I think about the fab system, it's about the timeline of the season. Like that's the tips and tricks that I have for the fab system is in the beginning of the year, guys are just worth more.

Don't be afraid to buy them. They give you more weeks. If you were to get a guy after week one who becomes a valuable player for your team and you have them for 15 more weeks versus getting a guy right before playoffs who gives you one or two games, you know, if you just think about the dollar per week that you're getting for that player, it's fantastic. And the other thing is I always save like $5 of Fab to go into my playoffs.

So if I spent up big in the beginning and week four, I'm down to $5 in fab. Mentally, I say I have zero fab dollars because unless I'm out of the running and need to get back into the running for the playoffs. And hopefully your league accepts $0 bids. Yes. That should be on for every league. There should not be a, you have to have a dollar to claim someone off the waivers. That's ridiculous. All right. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Some interesting.

news out of Las Vegas this morning. And I don't know what to make of it quite yet, but Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson said first round wide receiver Henry Ruggs will start out doing some things in the slot. The team is very, it's interesting. The team's very excited obviously about, well, you got Tyrell on the outside, on one side. And you got Brian Edwards, another one of their rookie wide receiver draft picks.

that has, you know, Mike, what did you say this morning? There's a drumbeat for Brian Edwards. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he's been getting, you know, kind of not huge press, but low-key things. And Brian Edwards out of South Carolina, he, at least, you know, by people I trust in the draft community, because he fell to the third round. I mean, he was an incredibly productive, wide receiver, a good wide receiver. And there was just an injury situation that caused him to drop.

In the draft, whether that's fair or not, but, I mean, the Raiders still used a third round pick to get him. So the implication here is that if Ruggs, let's say he comes into the slot occasionally, they say they want to move him around, they're going to start him there. Well, Hunter Renfro is not going to be on the field in those situations. Correct. And a player like Hunter Renfro, who I think was thrown out as maybe the last round type of waiver flag type of player.

He needs every snap he can get to have any type of value in a league. Yeah. So this really just throws some water on Hunter Infro's potential PPR productivity. That's a lot of people. Yeah, I agree. I agree that that was great alliteration. And also that this does, the main takeaway here, I don't think is hyping up either of the rookies. I mean, that's a little bit. But it's really about you might want to take a shot.

in a different late round target than Hunter Renfro because if those two rookies are... Yeah, like Henry Ruggs. Sure, yeah. He becomes way more interesting to me. If they manufacture opportunities for him to be on the field, which they should. Just get him touches in space and let him burn. Yeah, he very well could be overlooked right now. I know that he is undervalued by me because I saw him coming in as more of a...

speed guy with a limited route tree that would be utilized more akin to... Like a slot wide receiver? No, like a Tedgin. Like a... Okay. You know, like a... John Ross. Right. Some speedster that's on the outside. So this moving them there and manufacturing more targets might... I'm with Jason on that. There's been, you know, you mix the Derek Carr and John Gruden with...

Speedster, you don't know how much he was going to be used. So I think this is intriguing. The Raiders also let Jeremy Hill go. So he's gone. He's gone. NFL beatwriter Omar Kelly, after being asked about the dolphins running backs, tweeted this. This is Jordan Howard and Matt Breedah. They are two completely different backs, insightful. I usually prefer Howard's style. I like big bruisers, but I'm told that it's Breedah's work ethic, which is stellar.

he'll be the lead back according to one of his trusted sources. Which is interesting. And the reason that this is interesting right now is with all the opting out that's happening to the Dolphins wide receivers, not that Alan Hernes or Albert Wilson were going to make huge waves and be these target machines in this offense. But you need someone to throw the ball to. And as you're losing actual capable NFL wide receivers,

Matt Berita is a good pass catcher, and you have Chan Gaylee, who I can't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but it's like his running backs combined almost always see over 100 targets. And Jordan Howard should not be seeing those targets, so he should be going to Matt Brita. Someone to throw the ball to. I didn't think of Jordan Howard. Exactly. What's funny is perception-wise, you think, okay, maybe they want to get Matt Brita the leadback role. He's a little bit younger, right? No, they're the same age.

Exactly same age. Jordan Howard's been here forever and yet is still 25. That being said, other dolphin news, Preston Williams, you know, Albert Wilson and Alan Hurons going away, the dolphins came out in a report and said that there's no assurance that he'll be on the field for week one. So Preston Williams, just adding fuel to your like, find a target. Like.

It makes me feel more confident about Devante Parker and Mike Gassicki to start the year. And that's enough for me. If I think those two guys are going to be targeted for the first, you know, heavily like the end of last year for two, three, four weeks, that's enough for me to go out and get those guys. And I can pivot off of them if I get a signal that the team's bringing somebody else back. But it gives me more confidence, is my point. Yeah, no, I agree. Those two guys right now are probably undervalued in drafts. We'll see come draft.

day if they've skyrocketed an ADP or if they're still values. The opt-out deadline for the NFL is today at 4 p.m. Eastern time, which means depending on when you have turned this podcast on, it might be over. So all the implications of that deadline if more players opt out will be talked about on tomorrow's podcast. So that will be interesting to watch. There is a...