Stash or Trash + FAAB Tips, Handcuff Strategies

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With your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Excuse me. Was that you? It sounded like I belched. No Jason today. That's okay. We'll survive. It's great. It's great. Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast. Yeah, we'll survive because we got Jay Gris in the house. Keeps it locked down. Keeps it furry. Mike Wright is here. Brooks is here.

Oh, yeah. Always with the Orioles shirt. Always got the Orioles hoodie on, Brooks. Not have been a good year for the Orioles. That's, we're talking football here, Andy. Okay. I thought he was going to go with a, well, that's like your opinion, man. We have a good show today. We have a special segment. Stash or trash, Mike. Oh, very excited. Stash or trash. We're going to talk through late round picks.

Late round picks. And everybody faces, as a fantasy owner, you face tough decisions with those last picks. Because week one and two, here comes somebody you want to sign. That new hotness. Yeah. They emerge. Some third string wide out somewhere caught two touchdowns on accident. Are you talking about Ogletree? Yeah, I'm still remembering Ogletree. And now you have to decide who to drop. So this is a stash or trash.

episode will talk through some of the late round guys will remind you of what happened last year and help identify the ones that you can let go hopefully and the ones that you can and need to hang on to i'm not pleased with what twitter has done in the last 24 hours oh what is what has the social media done to you there's a lot of don't be in andy out there right now wait this this caught on

Well, yes, because of my Tyler Lockett mistake yesterday. Where four minutes after I released Tyler Lockett into the waiver wire pool, he signed a long extension and that somehow means he's great. It doesn't mean he's great, Brooks. Well, it doesn't mean he's great, but to me it means that Seattle views him as essential to the team and he's going to get an opportunity. Seattle doesn't know what they're doing. Well, that also may be true.

this team needs to get a hold of their lives now this tyler now tyler locket lives to destroy me yeah so um if he breaks out sigh we'll talk about it yeah but a lot of don't be in andy don't be in hang on to hang on to guys until the last minute glad you're at least leaning in embrace it you got to accept it i didn't say i was leaning in j gris is leaning in all right mike let's jump into the quick question here uh this one comes in

Is this Twitter, Brooks? Where does this come from? Do you know? Oh, that was sent in to our submit a question on the website. All right. Bonjour. Bonjour. So someone from a distant land. Our league is using Fab for the first time this year. Congratulations. Any tips? Should I be conservative with my Fab early on in the season? Thanks, guys. This is obviously subjective advice. How do you approach?

Fab. And maybe explain briefly what it is in case someone out there doesn't know. Sure. If you're new to Fab, it is FAAB stands for free agent, free agent. Not agent. No, it's not an agent. Free agent acquisition budget. This is your way of acquiring players off of the waivers using a blind bidding system instead of the old school. Oh, well, I'm first in line. Yeah. It's not record based. Get out of here with that nonsense.

Open it up to the people. Let's make it a little bit more fair. Oh, this is from Slater in Alaska. Is that true, Brooks? Yes, sir. Love it. So not in the contiguous United States. So therefore the bonjour is it applicable? Is that what we understood here? Yeah, that's, that's all I got. He's from Alaska. I'll allow it. They definitely speak French in Alaska. No doubt about it. It's your first year with Fab. If it's your leagues overall, if these players have never used Fab, I will say this. This is a tip for first time.

users of the system. People are going to be scared to spend that money. So you can be a little bit more aggressive trying to acquire guys, get those new hot players off of the waiver wire and you can get them a little bit cheaper because the league they tend to. At least when I've been in leagues where there's players who are newer to the system, they don't want to spend. They want to save the money because they think if you finish the league with the most money, that's going to benefit your team.

But surprise, it doesn't. You can't take it with you. No, you can't. And if you don't make the playoffs, then you just get to look at it. Yeah. So I generally take an aggressive approach with my FAP. I do too. If there is a player that I believe I can acquire that will be a contributor to my team for a long period of time, I'm going to pay for him because there's no guarantee somebody else comes along later. Now, you can play that, you know, wait for the running back injury in week nine and then.

grab the backup and hope you have something. But if I know a couple years ago, Julian Edelman, you know, week four, all of a sudden available, you know, you just go after. Go after him. So it is valuable to have some towards the end of the year. Yes, that was my next point. Yeah, for things like picking up the right defense, the right, you know, by week situation. You want to have some flexibility, but don't be afraid. You can't play scared. When you play scared in fantasy, most of the time you lose.

That is 100% true. All right. Jay Gris has no advice on the matter. Also, when we talk the Waver Wire show, which is the Tuesday episode when we are in season, we do talk fab amounts. We talk in general. Generalalities. Man, I'm having it. No, no, no. You still got it wrong. I got it wrong? Yeah. General. No. Generalities. I'm adding an extra owl in there. Big Al hits diggers. And he invades my language today. Big Al. Look.

I didn't think this was possible, but your grammar is subpar compared to the bear, the cardboard bear we have on set. I apologize. It's like you're filling in for nothing. You're filling in for Jason. Yeah. Follow us on YouTube, YouTube.com slash fantasy footballer, subscribe, click the bell. You'll find out when we do live streams this year. Remember, every Sunday morning, Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright is jumping on the live stream and you get to watch a grown man tilt for one hour.

Wow, whoa, whoa, whoa, 30 minutes, bro. For 30 minutes, sorry. What are you trying to do to me? Well, you tilt for an hour, but only 30 minutes is on the live stream. Then you do 30 minutes of private tilting. Yes, I do. The website's the fantasy footballers.com. That's where you can submit questions. You can see articles. There are some great ones that just came out on the website, including defenses with favorable opening schedules.

Make that decision on who you want to have on your roster for the first few weeks. There's some auction strategy. People ask for auction tips and tricks. We got a lot of that on the website. And you just got to check it out. We got a great writing staff, some really smart people, good minds. Yeah, check it out. UltimateDraftKit.com. If you're drafting this week, there's still time. Get in there. Do your research. Set the foundation for your league. And then a reminder.

We're a week away from football. Oh my. Brooks is nodding with a big grin on his face. You're all done filming billions. I mean, I think you're in the off season. Now you can watch football there, Judge. It's exciting stuff. Yeah. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Are you looking for a drop over there? No, no. I don't have any money drops. Do do do do do do do.

I'll just, I'll sing it while you talk about it. Packers signed quarterback Aaron Rogers to a four-year, $134 million extension. What did you say yesterday? In this studio, you get paid. You figured out the money per day. Oh, someone else had tweeted out about it that he will essentially, up until sometime in March, we'll be getting the equivalent of $400,000 a day. What do you even do with that kind of money?

I'd like to tell you. I'd love to find out and report. Only situation that you panic to spend it. You're like, ah, ha ha. It's a Brewster's million situation. It's piling up. I got too much money. And this is one of those signings where you're like, okay, that makes sense. It's Aaron Rogers. If I were an NFL team, I too would give Aaron Rogers that amount of money. He also, I believe doesn't even fall in the top 25 when it comes to NBA salaries. Oh, yeah, they're.

You're in the wrong sport. If you're trying to make money, if that is your goal as a professional athlete, do not play football. So Aaron Rogers locked up. That deal's done. O'Dow Buckham Jr. Aaron Rogers, both done this week. You've got some situations like Aaron Donald in Los Angeles, still unsigned or unexended, I guess. I mean, he's just waiting. And then Cleo Mac, we don't know what's going to happen with Cleo Mac in Oakland. Sounds like he's going to hold out.

Yeah, it's just not good. No, it certainly is not. He's a fantastic player. Word on the street is they're willing to trade him for two first round picks. Speaking of trades, the ringers, Mike Lombardi reiterated on his latest GM Street podcast that Randall Cobb is available for trade. We've heard the yes he is, no, he isn't. He's probably not part of the future plans there. I mean, this is kind of.

When you look at Jordy and the old James Jones and Randall Cobb, that was the old weapons. Yes, the old regime. So with this news yet again, so it's not really news, but the reiteration that Cobb is available, are you, if you have a draft this weekend in the eighth round, are you still going in on Randall Cobb? Probably. Maybe not there. If he slips into the...

10th round. I would take the shot on him. Sure. It's a similar situation to how you approach the running backs in Green Bay where you have to. It's going to be a good offense. Aaron Rogers making $400,000 a day to make that offense move. That's just, that's amazing. It's pretty good money. It's pretty good money. It's decent. Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy B. traded from the Jets to the Norland Saints.

Really a masterful move by the Jets. They signed Bridgewater for about a million dollars and they ended up with a third round pick for that investment. They basically bought a third round pick. That's great work. Yeah, it is. You have your franchise quarterback, Sam Darnold, at least the perceived and he will be given the opportunity for the next three or four years to prove himself to buy a third for a million dollars. Yeah.

Yeah. And the Jets, what this means is the Jets have pretty much decided Sam Darnold's going to be the starter. Does this bring concern about some of their fantasy weapons, Mike? You know, things like Robbie Anderson had such a rapport with Josh McCamp. Sure. And the deep ball. Do you hesitate about Robbie Anderson because you don't know who the favorite target is for Sam Darnel? I hesitate slightly just because we need to see Sam Darnel get it down the field.