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That's what I would do. Mike, would you wait? Oh, 100% I would be waiting. But in an 18 league, I do prioritize Gronk. And it's not a Gronk or this because Kelsey and Ertz are not in the same tier as Gronk. But I do prioritize getting one of those guys in that small league. Yeah, because you're not going to give up. Your team's still going to be great. Everyone's team is going to be incredible.

So you've got to find those slighted. You've got to be incredible, as Jason would say. If your league has not started yet, which I assume it has not, you're talking about the draft. I would recommend if you're in an eight-team league, add a couple extra flex positions. It's going to make the league far more fun. I would love, I would much rather play in an eight-man league that's got three flex spots than a 12-owner league that has two poor owners who are.

that changes things that don't have a lot of money changes things for the for gronks advantage if you you want to kind of take that out of the equation add more flex spots let me ask you a follow up mike because last week when you were gone the question came in about small leagues like this and whether you would extend or reduce bench spots to make it more competitive and i think we kind of answered oppositely because i was thinking if you have

fewer bench spots than it's easier for people to just quick stream. And if you have more bench spots, you know, maybe it's more competitive on the waiver wire. Which side do you lean on for a smaller league? I lean more starting positions. So instead of one flex, I'm going to go three flex. And one of those is a super flex. And I want to make the quarterback.

more valuable. In an 18 league, everyone's going to have an incredible quarterback. Make it so you have to start two quarterbacks. Make things deeper and have a larger bench. All right. Dustin in Michigan says, hey, ballers, on this day in 1963, my mother was born. Oh, congratulations. Happy birthday. Guess hold that makes her. That one snuck up on me a little bit. Also, I'm a huge, long-suffering.

Lions fan. Oh. So he's enormous. I think there's a real possibility. A huge. He said he's huge. I'm not. There's a real possibility that Kenny G. is Lions wide receiver won this year. This is what he's. I think there's. This is what he thinks. I try not to reach for players, but I might not be able to help myself with all of those smooth. Oh, look, the routes, they're smooth. Smooth routes. They are, they are, oh.

So incredibly smooth. Are they smooth enough for a one? Happy birthday to your mother, Dustin. But there is not a real possibility of Kenny G. being the number one wide receiver. That would be a big leap. That would mean Marvin Jones suffered a season long injury in training camp. If you want to reach for him. And then Golden Tate decided to retire.

I don't have a problem. I see a lot of upside with Kenny. I'll never leave you, Marvin. With Kenny Goladay. I see the upside there. I'm fine with you believing that he could be a very relevant player, not to the wide receiver one, but reaching for him, he's going to the 12th round. So if you reach for him, don't take it before the 10th. The 10th round is a reach, and at that point,

Take the guys you like. When I get to double digits, I want the guys that I like. And so that's where I would recommend take it. I was digging into some stats yesterday and saw that Matthew Stafford, he was in the top five quarterback wise in throwing the go route, you know, the fly. Right. And he was the most efficient by far. Like the most go routes converted into completions. That's because of Marvin Jones. I'm going to say. And Kenny G. And Kenny G. But more, I mean, far more to my scenario.

where Marvin Jones is not playing and Kenny G is the number one. Matthew Stafford's efficiency is going to go way down. All right. Neil from Twitter has a question. Maybe this is lame, but who are some solid wide receivers that can fill your third wide receiver position and contribute weekly? Larry Fitzgerald, first guy that comes to mind. He's just one of those. Did you say third wide receiver position? That's not Larry.

You can't get him as a third. Emmanuel Sanders, if you want to bring his name up as a wide receiver three. Larry's going in the back of the third because people are giving him at least some of the respect that he deserves. They listen to our show, Mike. A month ago, he was in the fifth round. By the way, just because we like Larry Fitzgerald does not make us homers. If you don't, go look at his stat line, people. The guy who's coming off of us. I saw we got a four-star review for liking Larry Fitzgerald.

The Hall of Famer. The guy who's been a top 10 fantasy wide receiver. Who had 100 receptions or whatever. Led the league and recessions. Multiple years in a row. Sure. Okay. Homers. All you Pittsburgh fans of Antonio Brown. Right. I know if we were on Green Bay, we would still be allowed to like Aaron Rogers, right? That would be permissible. Okay. So other Emmanuel Sanders tier type of players that fill that third wide receiver position.

I've got one later. I'm not a huge fan. I know you two will go, oh, that's great. He's seventh round, but if you're looking for the weekly starter, I just, I believe something could fall off or change, but you guys like him a lot. Piergarsone. Ooh, yes, I do. Nailed it. Yeah, what's wrong with that? That's a, what a great name, Jay. Thanks. Way to bring him up. It's a great third wide receiver. The more you bring Piergarsan up, the better. And I will say this. I have seen Amari Cooper.

His average draft position is like fourth round, but his variance is very wide. I've seen him drop to the fifth round where... I guess that could be technically your third. Yeah. Two running backs three. Chris. Chris. Very easy. Chris. Oh, Chris Hogan. I'm rising on Chris Hogan like crazy. Back of the fifth, almost six round. Chris Hogan. Sammy Wachens. Yeah, so funny. Right at that turn. Listen, what do you make... He's got a lot of heroes. What do you make of the reality?

That was a bad joke. No, I liked it. What do you make of the James Washington and two wide receiver sets that is going to be a reality in Pittsburgh this year? Well, because reality is, there's talks of it, though. I'm feeling pretty confident that Juju's going, and they'll line up three wide most often. But if James Washington is on the field with Big Ben for the majority of snaps. Being Martavis, you're saying? Well, I'm just saying he's a talented, I mean, he's the reigning.

Wide receiver of the year in college football. I know you and I like him, Mike. I liked him a lot coming in. Now he's on a team where what? He's the fourth option? I just think it's interesting if a guy is going to get that many snaps. James Washington starts to look like a very interesting name to me, and he could be the reason why judu doesn't deliver on massive expectations. It's very possible. Those concerns as well as some others, that's why juju is such a

a scary proposition for me at his current ADP. I know Jason talked about being ashamed, and not necessarily that he's a bad player, but that's, I'm shocked. Sometimes a cloud comes in front of the star, Jason. Just how risk averse you play those early rounds, your favor of juju is shocking. That's why he was ashamed. That's why I was ashamed, because it goes against how I normally draft. I did, however, just write down a great new segment idea.

from this conversation. Or maybe a quick question. Okay. But it's hard-headed. Like, which players are we just hard-hearted? I don't know. But, like, all I think about, here's where it comes from. James Washington, I know I am in the vast minority. I mean, I am sitting by myself on the playground watching all the other kids play where they all love James Washington and his college film. I couldn't.

The Steelers loved it. Yes. I just thought, you know, he's a one-trick pony that's too short to actually succeed at that trick in the NFL, not fast enough. So to me, I thought he was going to fail. I don't like him. I don't want to like him because I love juju, so many reasons. But I do recognize, like, you could not have gone to a better situation for his one-trick skill set than to go into the Martavis Bryant role. So I'm kind of hard-headed. I don't want to like him. I refuse to like him.

But there are things that say maybe I should. You just ran the segment. All right. Congratulations. All right. Before we jump into the next question, I want to take a moment now to thank our sponsor, SimplySafe. Here's why we, by the way, we've used SimplySafe here at the studio the last three years. Yep. Here's why we like SimplySafe. And we're big fans of them. One of the reasons is because they're actually good people and they charge you what is fair and what is right. And that is like $14.99 a month for security.

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or weekly rolling list. And my answer is reverse order. I believe if it's a tie, it should go to the team with the worst record. I agree completely. Reverse order of standings is one of the reasons. People say, how can I convince my league to change? And one of the big hurdles is that people believe that reverse order of standings is actually the far more fair, more balance. It's going to help the bad teams. The issue that I always bring up is the...

The week that it matters the most is week one. Right. And all these 0-1 teams get higher priority when they're not necessarily bad. They just lost their first week. And I've been in leagues where people try to tank week one just so that they can have...

The better priority on your waivers, that's silly. But if I ever lose week one, I want you to know it's because I tanked it. Yes. On purpose. Yeah, but the reality is as a tiebreaker for Fab to still have reverse order of standings, it does help balance. That's my preferred method as well. I like reverse order. And honestly, I think it's happened in our league maybe a handful of times. Yeah. Tide Fab.

Yes. Oh, it's happened. It happens all the time. But the thing is, it happens with like a one or two dollars all the time. Okay, yeah, with cheap bids. Yes. Late in the season, all the zero dollar bidding, that's where it's like, okay, that's for, I'm thinking of those, like, the actual players that people are focusing on. Week one, you want to get the guy who's, you know, just come into the best position. And, yeah, those are rarely ties. Someone spends $30 more than second place. Guess what, guys?

Andrew from Twitter as a question. Hey, Andrew. I love Michael Keaton. Wow, well done. I'm the commissioner, he says, of a 10-man dynasty league with 30-player rosters. We're looking at adding two expansion teams. How do I add two teams to the league without forcing pre-existing managers to give up too much of their talent? That is a tough situation. Yeah, I mean... That's a lot of players. That's 300 players distributed. Obviously, some of those players need to be exposed for...