Keep/Trade/Cut Decisions + Go Big or Go Home, SOS Tips - Fantasy Football Podcast for 6/2

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A great day. The UDK is out. You go check it out at Ultimate DraftKit.com. Been a lot of fun seeing people's comments on social media, their feedback. Thank you. Thank you for picking it up, checking it out. You're going to love it. And if you don't have it, you can go get it at Ultimate DraftKit.com. A lot of improvements this year. A lot of stuff we're really excited to show and share with you. And a lot of improvements that are coming. The...

Draft analyzer in particular will be out on July 1st. That will let you import your team and we'll evaluate it. We'll tell you where your strengths and weaknesses are, things to focus on heading into the 2022 season. You know, it's useful after your draft, obviously. You put in the roster that you got and we give you some feedback and just another part of it. What else is going on? How are you doing, Jason?

Well, I'm doing great now that the UDKs out. I can breathe and sleep again. That's not a black shirt you're wearing either. No, but it is a pickleball shirt, and that's what's important. Okay. Pickle is life. Yes. That's like a Heather Navy shirt, so good on you. If you say so. Nice job. How you doing, Mikey? Fantastic. Thanks for asking. The volume, a little jarring there. Brooks, you doing well? Fantastic. Yeah, thank you, Brooks.

All right, Twitter at the FF ballers, the communities join the foot.com. Here's the quick question of today's show. How much do you factor strength of schedule into your rankings? We've all been through every team, every player. And this is actually one of the most frequently asked questions in general. It's one of the areas of the UDK that people look at a lot. We break down, you know, in the UDK, we break it down by full season, strength of schedule by position. So you can see, you know, which.

quarterback or I should say, you know, which team has a difficult schedule for a quarterback, for a running back, for a wide receiver. We break it down by early season, end of season. How much do you factor it into what you're doing, Jason? Yeah. As far as into the rankings, I mean, it's factored in in the extremes. If you know that someone has just a brutal or a very soft schedule, you might tweak your numbers a little bit. But for the most part, it's not so much in the ranking process.

that the strength of schedule is used. It's kind of afterwards when you've got kind of what you believe is going to happen this season in kind of a generic vacuum. And then you look at the strength of schedule. So, you know, one of the ways that I use it, like as a drafter, when I'm using the tool in my draft is for early season defenses. You have to draft a defense. I will never, ever, ever.

ever think about grabbing a defense that I think is so good, I'm just going to hold on to them the whole year. I hope I get a defense I can hold on to the whole year, but that's not my strategy. I'm going to be streaming. I'm going to be playing matchups. Matchups are more important. And so that's where, you know, you go to the strength schedule, you go, well, who's got a great for the defense schedule to start the season. That's who I want to draft. The Browns popped out at me like crazy on that. The Browns, if you are unfamiliar, they start against the Panthers.

followed up with the Jets. Okay. Then the Steelers. Okay. Without Big Ben and let's go Falcons to finish the first month of the season. That's pretty nice. They might give up a touchdown in that run. Yeah, I think the Steelers can get one. Yeah. And inversely, you might be in on somebody like the Chargers as a defense this year. You know, they add Clayl Mack to that crew. They play week one against Buffalo.

So, you know, you might like them, but what are you going to do? You're going to roster two defenses to start your season, not even knowing if they're going to be great. That kind of takes a team like the Chargers off your draft board because, like Jason said, I mean, there are presumptions made with strengths of schedule. I mean, you don't know which of these. There's massive turnover every year in defensive, you know, talent ability output. Some teams you know pretty definitively are going to be pretty good. Yes, the Jets. But.

You know, a lot of it is still guesswork. So the worst thing to do would be to, you know, over-emphasize that, take a defense that you're not even sure about. I like that early season schedule looking at that just to give me a small guide of how a player might start. Yeah, I mean, that's where I'm looking at it for the most. And defensive, that's a great tip. And also looking at the quarterback position, who's going to get off to what?

what could be a hotter start. And, you know, I mean, in the draft, you've got to factor in the value of the ADP of a quarterback, their upside, and a guy that we like a lot. I know Jason and I really like him is Jalen Hertz from the Eagles. And his opening schedule is outrageous. It's at Detroit, Minnesota, at Washington, Jacksonville. And then I believe they follow that up with...

the Arizona Cardinals, who their secondary is like they've had a really rough off season there in Arizona. And then so like, but in Hertz is a guy you're going to, who will be drafted? You know, rounds six, six through eight or so, he'll go. But then you're looking at if you are playing a late round quarterback situation and trying to get someone with upside and you think maybe Trevor Lawrence has a shot of becoming something this year.

And he really opens up. He has a decent opening schedule as well. And it's maybe he streams well. Maybe he doesn't. And then you can just move on. But like Jared Goff opens up with an okay schedule as well. So like it's really the early season that you're looking at because.

Don't start looking at the fantasy playoffs just yet. Don't cash that check in the draft season or in week one or week two. We will get to that throughout the season. Alternatively, same thing that Andy talked about for my defense works in the reverse, too. Tua is a very promising streaming option this year when you add Tyree Kill to the mix, and you might be tempted to grab him as, you know, your late round quarterback to start. But, you know, their season does not start.

very easily with the Patriots, the Ravens, the Bills. You've got some tough defenses there to open up the season if you're looking to stream. Yeah. Yeah. So point of correction, though. I made a mistake, Andy. Buffalo plays the Rams, not the Chargers. The Los Angeles Rams, not the Los Angeles Chargers. Correct. Okay. Okay. So then everything I said about the Chargers just apply to the Rams. If you like the Rams defense. It was well said. Yeah. No, I mean, that that.

is an interesting tidbit in and of itself because the Rams are one of the highest drafted defenses. Right. They're great. Assuming that Aaron Donald will be back, you expect them to be one of the best defenses. They'll be drafted in the top five of your draft. Maybe let someone else grab them because week one, you might get off to an L playing against Josh Allen. One tiny bit of news, but worth bringing up since we brought him up before, Rashad Penny, back at...

Seahawks OTAs. Okay. For now. For now. Well, I mean, yeah. He's only got like two possible states. Injured, not injured. He's currently in the not injured state. He's got a pretty big gradient of injury of not injured to kind of mostly, severely. He can do it all. I'm a little shocked at you both. Because.

We love Rashad Penny the talent. Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't think you'd be in on all this offseason kind of like disparaging him for injury history. I thought you'd be more optimistic, more excited. Look, I just drafted him in one of my eliminators. I am optimistic for the talent. I don't think the team is great in his injury history. Just kind of, you know, it's a lot of years of it. It speaks for itself. I'm not saying he's injury prone. I'm just saying he's been injured a lot.

All right. Well, today's main event, we're going to do some Keep Trade Cut. Keep Trade Cut. All right. Let's start with the category of post-hype running backs. Keep Trade Cut, Clyde Edwards, of the Kansas City Chiefs, Miles Sanders of the Philadelphia Eagles, and Travis Eton, who we never got to see last year, of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Who allegedly is looking, you know, closer to his former state.

in the OTAs. Which would be the uninjured. Yeah. Well, I'm saying like his recovery. The beat reporters are saying that he looks like he's back and has his cuts and his bursts and stuff. I'll weigh in. Right now, these three running backs pretty close in average draft position in basketball leagues right now. E.TN's going higher, actually, at RB20, Clyde at 26, Miles Sanders at 27.

I have seen a lot of aggressive opinions about how much Philadelphia may or may not pass because of the investment to A.J. Brown. Regardless, I think, you know, balance is the key and the goal. And I think Miles Sanders is the best running back of this group. From it just on the ground, best runner, by far as Miles Sanders. He's who I will keep.

in this situation, and I will trade Clyde on the everlasting promise of Clyde Edwards-Alaire. Not to say, again, he can't be a heavy contributor in the passing game, but just think about what we said about Darrell Williams last year, or I mean this past couple shows ago. Darrell Williams was a top 10 total pass catcher in terms of receptions. He had the 12th most targets. 12 most targets. That's what it was. So heavily involved in the passing game.

over 1,000 yards combined rushing, receiving, it's very possible that the Darrell Williams season is the Clyde season or something similar to it. So you can still be a heavily involved important part of the offense and not necessarily deliver on the everlasting promise, like I said. So I'll trade him on that, and then I guess I'm going to cut Travis E.TN. I don't have anything for or against him. It's just...

the unknown versus a little bit more known. Well, I will hop in then because he would be my keep of the three. Travis E.T.N. is someone I'm rising on. When you say Miles Sanders is the clear-cut best runner, you know, the best running back. I don't know that that's actually true. We forget. Renier. Renier. You know, we forget Travis E.T.N. was a very, very high. He was a first-round draft pick. Miles Sanders wasn't. Like, Travis E.T.N. was supposed to be great. The only reason.

that he, you know, obviously he missed his rookie season, but prior to the injury, the only reason there was already some cold water being thrown on Travis E.T.N. Was it because he was drafted to the Jags that already had James Robinson, and now you didn't know what was going on? Right now James Robinson's not there. Travis E.T.N. is healthy. He's working with his college quarterback, where he was a great pass catcher. I think he's going to be a PPR machine in this offense. I think he is actually the most talented if...

healthy and that's the question mark is is he back to his you know pre-injury self but he is um rising up my rankings uh literally today prior to this question um i moved him up and james robinson down a smitch yeah i mean it's it's a little tough giving him credit for being a first round pick late first round yeah Clyde edward's allaire was a first round when this i'm just saying not as high when the situation was

We ridiculed the pick for months and months and months. That wasn't ETN. That was the Jags taking a running back when they had so many holes and had a running back. So he would, I mean, he would have to go 26 through 31 to stay in that first round. I don't have any problem with you picking him. I mean, I think your logic makes sense. You know, you had an issue with David Montgomery due to circumstance and situation on the offense. That still exists in Jacksonville. But.