10 Tips & Tricks to Win Your Fantasy League - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/14

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You have to have gotten the 2024 Ultimate Draft Kit. You're not entered if you're the 2017 to automatically be in there. But yeah, go get it now. I mean, this is the time, man. This is the draft season is upon us. We're right around the corner. Take a look at the 100 plus video profile, you know, breakdowns of each of the top players are tiered rankings. That's the way we try to encourage everyone to draft is based on tiers. We're going to give you a lot of tips and tricks today and some of them will be. You know, it'll correlate to what you can do with that tool. Yep. And this is the time. We see it every year. People are listening, but this is when they jump into the Ultimate Draft Kit. That's Ultimate DraftKit. All right. I'm excited about this. We had a week one of preseason football. So let's talk about it. Welcome to Hungry for More, presented by Uber Eads. All right. Looking at.

Preseason week one and players we are hungry for more from. I have to bring up a name that is kind of, you know, it's percolated throughout the off season and there are other names involved in the wide receiver discussion in Cincinnati. But it doesn't hurt if you come out in week one and go three for 82 and a big touchdown. Germain Burton of the Cincinnati Bengals. The big play is the M.O. for Jermaine Burton. So to see it in preseason week one, I mean, this is a guy that was top five, or actually he led Power 5 wide receivers in average depth of targets. Yeah, we got to hit him with that number. Average depth of target. So this is how far he was down the field on average when he was catching the ball. 20.2 yards down the field. That's unbelievable.

He was also like third fastest and next gen stats and ran a 4-4-5. So, you know, you talk about what makes a wide receiver 3 if he ends up winning that job valuable. When you're not number one in the pecking order of targets or number two with Higgins and Chase, it is the big play. And even Tyler Boyd, it sounds funny because we don't look at Tyler Boyd as an explosive player necessarily by, you know, kind of archetype. But in that offense, even Tyler Boyd, regularly was kind of forgotten about by the secondary and would end up with these big plays. So I want to see more Jermaine Burton in the preseason. I love this call so much. I mean, he should be higher in most people's dynasty rankings and perceived long-term value than he is right now. I think he's undervalued. T. Higgins obviously is not going to be on this team next year. At least that's what it seems like right now. And so you're talking about a future two for Joe Burrow. I love it. I'm going to talk about a current.

two, but not really for the Tennessee Titans running game. And that's Tajay Spears. I want to see more of Tajay Spears. It's very, very interesting. This entire offseason, there has been complete consistency from the coaching staff about their running back core, that they have two starters, that it is a 1A and a 1A. I mean, 1A, 1B at the least. Someone's going to get the first snap. Tony Pollard had a great preseason game. He got the first snap. Second snap, spears. Then they basically every couple plays. They just rotated out. We haven't really seen something like that a lot, but this is really truly that all, both of those guys could be out there on every single down. All the plays, they're capable of playing. Should either one of them get injured, the other could be a really great asset. But when I look at these two players and I think, okay, Tony Pollard looked good this preseason game. He's getting paid more. Sure.

But look at last year and look at, you know, last year Tony Pollard was disappointing. He was not the same explosive back he was years prior, and he's older than you think he is now, whereas Tajay Spears was extremely explosive. He had a reception of 48 yards, a reception of 42 yards, a reception of 89 yards, a reception of 41. Like, he's a really explosive back. And if he's being utilized and they go with the hot hand, I think there's a good chance. that his hand is hotter than Tony Pollard as the, as the season goes on. Is that the test on the sideline? Yeah, they do a handshake. They do they. Oh, they don't go the laser thermometer? Oh, no, no. This is a, this is coach feel. This is this is straight up. Give me a hearty handshake on the sideline. Line up. You know, Pollard, you get first handshake. Tadja, you get second. Give me one of your strong. And then he's going to be like, whoa.

literal hot hand approach that's exactly right look i like the idea of them having a kind of an old school green chalkboard on the sideline and it's just a dash for every carry for each guy when he evens it up when he said spears was in on the second snap it was imagine if like no matter what the rules for the titans are it's every other snap Oh, no matter what. Do you know how tired those running backs would be? That's not. Half the running is getting off the field. The amount of running just to get out there's like, coach, please leave me on the field. I'm tired every snap. Believe it or not, we have a Sam DeSorbo wrote a does the hot hand exist article on the website that you can go look up. So apparently we have an article for everything you could say, Jason. Sweet. Which is scary. All right, Mike, who do you got? Who are you hungry for more? I am.

The Senate. Ben Senate, baby. The Senator of Washington. Did you see it? Did you see the play? I am famished and I need more Ben Senate in my life. It was rumbling and bumbling and stumbling and dragging multiple defenders down the, just down the field. He looks like the guy that I scouted and hoped it would translate. He is a rookie title for Washington. Yeah, yeah, yes. Voice of public opinion. Zach Ertz is eternal and immortal. He is. And unfortunately, the offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury loves Zach Ertz. So I still do think that it takes time for Ben Sinit. However, this is about being hungry for more of a player. And.

It's hard to have a better debut in limited snaps than what he put out there. Three for 57. The big catch was 44 yards. He looked like he looked big. He looked strong. He looked fast. And this is what I need from a tight end. So hopefully sooner than later, hopefully. Ben Sennick can take the job. He was the highest graded rookie tight end or highest graded from PFF. So. It's just, it's very exciting. It is a little bit comical, the parallels between the McBride and the patients and the, you saw the, it's outrageous. You saw the individual plays for McBride and it was stuff like dragging guys down the field of breaking tackles. And then you see this from Senate and both had Zach Ertz just, you know, catching and falling. And Cliff Kingsbury involved in their maturation process. But, um,

Good names. Good names for Hungry for More. That was Hungry for More presented by Uber Eats. Get almost almost anything for game day delivered with Uber Eats, official on demand food delivery partner of the NFL order now. And I will say this. Oh, what? We are, this is not a tip or trick to win on game day, but is. Give us one to lose. It is a, I figure you could write that book. The tips and tricks that I mean, what we eat, what we get delivered is very dependent on how the week and day is going. I'm just saying we've had some ice cream afternoons to kind of medicate away the pain. And then we've had some celebratory meals. It's so fabulous on a Sunday morning to have like if you're watching your fantasy team and your guys put up an absolute stinker.

You're in a bad... It's not my fault. I'm in a bad mood. It's their fault. And you know what? It's not my fault. I'm going to put down half gallon of ice cream right now. That's their fault. That is... But I'm going to love it. That's how it works. Yeah, it's my player. It's my player's fault. It's in my mouth. It's your fault. Can you imagine when you talk to your doctor? And they're like, sir, what are some of the things leading to... your challenges with food. Tony Pollard. Who's that? All right. Let's jump in. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. All right. We've got news for you. We do. Jamar Chase, Mike. You are not doing work with your guys at all. Jamar Chase missed Tuesday's practice. I'm keeping him healthy. He's awaiting a contract extension still. So he had been showing up.

and involved during drills. I don't like, what's the next level? Yeah, as you say, what's the like come back, do some drills, then I'm out again. It's just, I mean, give me my money. Yeah, give me my money or I'm going to go home and figure it out. I'm curious. So like obviously, Jamar Chase, he's, he's by rule has to be fined for all of these missed practices in the, in the new collective bargaining agreement. Same with CD Lamb. All, all these guys. Which cannot be rescinded. They can't be rescinded, but they can be restored on the contract. They add it usually to the contract that they eventually signed. But I was thinking about that with Brandon Ayuk. If he ends up getting traded, he's probably just losing that money. You know what I mean? Maybe. Are the Steelers going to add in all of his fines from him missing practices on the Niners? I think they're going to add in so much. I mean, the contract's going to be beautiful. So, I mean, right now, I mean, we don't have it. We don't have an update.

officially for i you but i do i mean it's worth bringing up right here just to give you a lay of the land if you're listening to this show and you want to know what's going on and we have been talking about brian and iuk as it stands right now essentially what's being reported by the best in the business is a contract agreement and a trade has been agreed to in principle between the pittsburgh steelers and the san francisco 49ers the only thing remaining is for the 49ers to give their final sign off to the deal. The reason that hasn't happened yet is because they have made some final overtures to Brandon Ayyuk about a long-term deal. And it seems like it's going to come down to Brandon Ayuk choosing a financially better situation for a team he does want to play for. He wants to go to Pittsburgh or San Francisco coming far enough on their offer to bridge that gap and keep him in a situation where he's thrived.

The last report I saw is it's just a difference of years now from San Francisco. Again, these are all secondhand reports that we're getting. But that's, we got the, there was news yesterday that's, oh, well, they're the San Francisco. They've come up. It's, they're not that far apart. But if you're like, no, you're a full year apart, that's, that's a big amount of money actually apart. Yeah. This is, I mean, we've all been in. Fantasy leagues where we're trying to trade for a guy. And that owner's like, yeah, I think I'm going to do it. I just got to talk to my co-manager. I got to do something. I'll get back to you. Let me run the numbers. Can you imagine how upset the Steelers are right now? Like the GM in the office, his door is shut and he's cursing out. He's like, come on. You've had weeks. You know, what's funny is you asked me the question on the show like a month ago about how long would you wait for a deal? And the truth is,

If I think it's in my advantage, I wait, like I waited two weeks for a deal in our dynasty league because I liked it for myself. So maybe the Steelers are in that boat where it's like, oh, they are. We don't expect it. We didn't expect the chance to get a guy like Brandon Ayuk. It's on the table. We might as well just ride this thing. But I guess I'm just, I'm saying shame on you Niners. That's what I'm saying. Come on. It's not helping. I say, come on. If they make a trait. and they get something in return. Like, it's not helping them to wait. Like, get ready for the season with the personnel you have. And it's not helping Brandon Ayuk if you are going to bring them back to not have them on the field practicing. So, yeah, the delay, not great. This is great, though. Lions head coach Dan Campbell, aka Guns Mahoney, says he thinks Jamir Gibbs is, quote, going to be fine. Oh, yeah? Keep reading there. Let me give you the exact quote. I think we're going to be fine here, Campbell said. So I think we'll be good.

Okay, he's thinking, he's thinking they're fine, thinking they're good. Not a doctor. That, I mean, okay. Do you want that reply or do you want the Jim Harbaugh reply of, I'm not even qualified to be qualified to talk about this? Do you want the tantalizing possibility of him being fine or do you want nothing at all? No, I think I do prefer this, the dog in the fire. GIF where this is fine. We're all fine here. You know, I mean, I guess it's better than saying I don't think we're going to be fine. I think we're going to miss games. But when you hear this, it makes me feel like. Could have been more like certain. Like certain. It makes me a little fearful of week one. Like this sounds to me, not a doctor, but this sounds to me like I think we're going to be okay for week one. I want you to say we will be.

All right, Hollywood Brown, four to six weeks. Mike, you had kind of nailed this. You had talked about some previous injury history with this. I'm going to go for it. Sterno clavicular. Yep. Nailed it. Yeah. Injury. So here we are. Justin Watson taking reps with the first team. And that is because when Hollywood went down, they put in Skymore in replacement during the first preseason game. And then they went, oh, that sucks. Justin Watson, you are now. You're kind of like summarizing what you think the internal thoughts were. Yeah. Tyrone Tracy. I think they're like, who let Sky go out there again? He just ran out. Yeah, who did this? With a Watson jersey on. Giants rookie running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. Wow. Was diagnosed with a low right ankle sprain after he got injured during practice. I'm sorry, everyone. We reported what was reported to us.

It wasn't a made-up report. We were told he was air-casted and brought to a hospital for special surgery. Now, the hospital clearly, did they turn him away? Because they said, dude, you just got an ankle spring. Like everybody, like I love the comments on this. I think the Falcon was sharing these with us yesterday. Because when these news, you know, the news breaks, you look at the comments from these major reports. And. It came out that he had a low right ankle sprain. And the first comment was like, I thought he was dead. It was like, how do you go from like aircast season over to, uh, you're going to be fine. You're in meetings and you're not, nothing's wrong. Yeah, he was back in meetings. Is this a pain tolerance issue? He feels strong. So that's my question is there's really only two paths of truth here. It's either he is like a Wolverine.

And the doctors got out there. He doesn't have an ankle spray anymore. Doctors got out there on the field and said, oh my gosh, aircast him, get him to the hospital immediately. And by the time he's there, it's like, I'm good. Or, or he's more like, you know, owl. And it's like, owie, owie, owie, owie. And when he got injured on the field, it's like, ah, owie, owie, owie, owie. Thoughts on that owl? No, no thoughts. I have a third option. Al's so tough. He. He Paul pierced and he pooped his pants. And he needed a way out. He needed a way off that field. Doc, tell him the foot's out. Tell him the foot's off my leg. Mac Jones turned down surgery. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Lesser players would have got the surgery. Is that the Tyrone Tracy? Like, maybe. So anyways, the good news is here. Tyrone Tracy seems like he's going to be fine for the season. I guess. Awesome. That's big news. It is really good. I mean, all jokes aside, this is great news.

Deante Johnson, day to day with a groin strain. So groin index.com already updated. And there you go. Getting news. What is this? This is an evolving or developing story. We just got word that Mike Evans is leaving. There's a joint practice right now between the box and the Jaguars and Mike Evans was seen leaving with helmet in hand. No, it, no, it says specifically with Jags helmet in hand. So I'm just curious to he rip a helmet off another. It is written that way. We could have used a comma. Okay. Because it's leaving joint practice with Jags. I see. Comma. Helmet in. Yes. Okay. I see it. I was so omitted it because I read it the same way. And I was like, this is not rock and jock. He got traded in the middle of practice. Or to do, do do do do do do leaving with a Jags helmet on. Okay. Oh, man. He left the joint practice with the Jags.

helmet in hand. So we'll pay, we'll pay attention. He also pulled up in like a, uh, did you see he pulled up in a buck's helmet. He pulled up in like a, like a gigantic, um, like car that was a buck's helmet. Oh, for real. It was awesome. You got to see the video. All right. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USA.com slash insurance. We will take a break and we'll jump right into the tips and tricks. All right. It's time to jump into the tips and tricks to win your league. And again, one more reminder for you.

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All right, we'll call number 10. Don't live in the past, right? There were a lot of players drafted last year that had very, very hot starts to the season, and it is very much human nature, the nature of fantasy football managers to believe that they are set, that they have figured out exactly the roster that's going to carry them through the season just because players get off to a hot start. Examples of that like Travis E.T.N. and A.J. Brown had the blistering pace and people traded for him. And Ken Walker started really, really strong. And I've got other examples for you. Tua was the quarterback five through the first eight weeks. From week nine on, quarterback 20. DeAndre Swift was the RB7. From week 12 on, the RB 35.

I like that you have them called the hotness and the notness. The hotness and the notness. Yeah, these were players you thought were locks. In fact, I traded two at a mic on the basis of the first half of the season. He was presented to me as the hotness. Did you get the notness? No. No, I got up close and realized this is not. Yeah, it's not good. Stefan Diggs was the wide receiver four from week 11 on, the wide receiver 46. And again, these are not small spans. These are top five, six, seven players. for eight to ten weeks of the season. And then over the back half of the year, they were players that you would have, you know, in some cases, definitely pivoted away from, like Tua, was not going to win you a championship. So the message here, the tip here is don't copy and paste every previous week. It's not viable to simply do that. You do not win on paper. You do not win on the past or looking at previous stats. And here's a little bit of a nuanced part of the equation.

It's not just the schedule changing. It's not just injury to your player. But there are also fundamental injuries that happen to players that your player is dependent on. So that's something people don't necessarily pay attention to. You might have a hot start for a wide receiver, but their quarterback might go down. You might have a running back that's been dominant, but their offensive linemen might go down. So paying attention to more than the injuries for your exact player could help define the second half of the year. And it is easy and it's human nature to want to merely coast your way to the end with that beautifully pictured roster. But do not live in the past. Live week to week and make adjustments isolated to that time and place. Okay, I've got a question for you on this. No questions. Sorry. All right. The number nine. Yeah. So you traded Tua when he was the hotness. You didn't even bring up like what I thought was last year's best example.

Patrick Mahomes, who was the quarterback three through the first nine weeks, and then from week 10 on, he was the quarterback 18. At the halfway point through the season, or maybe five, six weeks in, are you willing to trade? So like, like Mahomes is more in the level of like a Josh Allen, a Jalen Hertz. You're expecting what he did and you're expecting it to continue forever versus a Tua. Are you willing to take? that first half of the season where you are hitting on your Josh Allen or your Jalen Hertz if you drafted them and trade them to capitalize. Obviously, if you trade them, you're getting a haul back. Or is there like a tear break where, you know, if it's not the super expected guys, you know, if it's if it's someone more that was drafted later and they're exploding, is that who you're trying to capitalize? I mean, yes, it's a good question because there are players like Tyree Kill.

For example, who you don't want to go in and just say, well, every player that's playing well, for the first half, I want to trade. That's not the message. The message is if you do trade those players that might be outperforming their average, that would be probably the first line of my thinking is, are they outperforming a standard that I would expect them to be able to perform at? If you make a trade and you're basing it off of players you think are going to perform in the back half of the year. That moment you make the trade is even value, right? So even if that player keeps playing at this pace and the players I got back keep playing at their pace right then, I'm even theoretically. Right. But if I make the judgment call, this player's outperforming and I like the schedule for this guys, that's where I can flip the script. And the big component here is just don't sit back and think that I've got it all figured out. It's going to run this way the rest of the year. ETN was one of the, I think he was RB2.

over the first half of the year just behind CMC. The back half of the year didn't score as much. But you could kind of see some of that. We talked about his touchdown dependency in the first half of the year. So those are the opportunities, right? The situations where you are, you know, ETN's not scoring 28 touchdowns this year. Like that's a very obvious thing that you can say. So it's a judgment call, but let's not rest on our laurels. Number nine. You're so comfy. Number nine, I call this make. delicious boxes okay I mean it's like you know all right okay your meal your meal prepping for your draft here this is what you're doing okay you're getting you're getting ready to go in with just oh man I got I got this delicious treat that delicious treat and what I'm saying here is put some categories together in your mind of things that are important to you archetypes of players okay and I'm gonna give you examples I'm gonna give you five of my delicious boxes this here