Trade Targets, Snap Count Surprises, Shark Bait

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If you want that, and check it out. The Sonas Bean. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast, coming to you from Draft.com Studios, with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, let's go. Let's get ready. Week four, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, back again. I am Andy Holloway, joined as always by Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright. Hey!

Jason Moore. Yo! Hey! We've got a great show for you today. We are alive. And Jason... Step one. Jason went to his first ever. It is true. Baseball game yesterday. In my life, they built this gorgeous stadium in Arizona, I believe... Chase Field. Just 20 years ago. 20 years ago. And I...

Finally made it down, saw my first game of that baseball. Shout out to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Thank you for hooking us up. They were fans of the show. Got us all. I mean, we got on the field. It was a great time. And I'll tell you, if you like baseball, that stadium was awesome. And if you're like me, we may have got a clip of him. Football is so much.

Better. It's not fair to baseball. Jason, now, in baseball's defense, I know you fell asleep during the third inning. Yes. However, in baseball's defense, you broke your diet a little bit yesterday. Yes. I've been on the keto, and I was like, well, if I got to watch baseball.

I might as well have self-medicated. Yeah. Coldstone cream. A lot of ice cream, some baked goods, got the deep fried chicken with the nach sauce and the... I don't know if this was baseball's fault or not. But... Can either confirm nor do that. We all had our kids with us and we all left early because we had been down there and the game was going late into the night and school and all that. But did you guys...

Did either be realized that D-backs walked it off last night? Not until you said that this morning. It was a walk-off homer last night, beating the Dodgers. Very exciting. When we left halfway through the game, it was one to nothing, nothing had happened. And then a walk-off exciting finish that we didn't get to see it. All right. I got a quick question for you guys. Who is one?

Now, this is not fantasy baseball, Jason. This is fantasy football. Who is one player that you are targeting in trades right now? So last week on Wednesday, we talked about some trades that people had done. Brooks thought this would be a good question. Who are you actually going out and targeting now that we go into week four? Maybe it's someone underperforming. Maybe it's somebody that's performing well that you think other owners haven't bought into, right? They think it's a, it's just a phase, but maybe it's not a phase. Right.

I could tell you mine. I mean, I gave a tip about going after teams that are 0 and 3 or 1 and 2. They are much more likely. Well, I think you're going to find a couple 0 and 3 or 1 and 2 teams that have Robert Grancowski on them because you have to give up an early...

draft capital pick in the draft to get him and the last two weeks he hasn't done what you expect what you need what you will get from gronk going forward which is just completely and utterly dominate so there's very you know usually it's hard to get gronk and it's rare to find gronk coming off of two

poor games but if you're a if you've got jordan reed or you've got jimmy graham or even you know kelsey who's way outproduce him so far you can probably work a deal to snag gronk and i there's not one ounce of me that thinks you wouldn't really trade kelsey for gronk right now yes i would trade kelsey for gronk you would you not i don't think i would it wow

And this is not a player versus player. This is an offense versus offense. The Kansas City Chiefs are on a historical pace now that maybe they don't. Yeah, maybe they don't break the records. And the Patriots are on a slow pace and they won't stay there. You brought up the fact when they get Josh Gordon, when they get Julian Edelman, these things are just good for the offense. Of course, but you're hoping and projecting that it will improve. I would rather have the gronk.

Meanwhile, the Chiefs are, they're just dominating. And I think the domination of the Chief's offense continues. That's why I would be hesitant to move Kelsey for Grunk. Teams are going to get tape on Mahomes and adjust. It's a matter of whether Mahomes readjusts. He's not going to get to do this the whole year. You don't get to do the exact same thing the whole year. Every quarterback in the history of the NFL.

people have adjusted for and made changes to it's going to be up to mahomes to make that change i don't disagree that they're an incredible electric offense but i'd rather have gronkowski and regardless of the kelsey situation uh only one out of one 12th of our listeners have kelsey right now in their favorite league everyone else right you can still trade for gron i'm targeting t y hilton t yelton is better than excuse me

He is better than the 32nd ranked wide receiver that he is right now. I know much has been made about Andrew Luck, average depth of target. It is bad. It is bad that we're not seeing him extend the field as much. There have been incompletions down the field. He has made throws down the field. My belief is that this is going to be a progression for him to get down the field. And either way, T.Y. Hilton is simply too good to be a wide receiver 3.

And so I'm targeting him because I think the disappointment, he's likely on some of those 1 and 2, 0 and 3 teams. I would look to pick up T.Y. Hilton. I'd love to have him on my roster. The guy I'm going to throw out, he's a player who is already excelling, but perhaps the person who has Matt Brita on their fantasy team, maybe they're freaked out by maybe they are scared and nervous that the handsome one has gone down to a very unhandsome injury.

What if they're scared and nervous that they don't think his 8.9 yards per carry will continue? Well, that won't. But here's the thing that's going to pick up. Last year, Carlos Hyde was the bell cow for the San Francisco 49ers. When C.J. Bethard, the new quarterback, when he was playing with Carlos Hyde, Hyde averaged over eight targets a game as compared to 3.8 last year. Matt Breed is about to see. You're saying as opposed to 3.8.

That was Hyde. That was Carlos Hyde last year in games with Garoppola. Garapolo and Hoyer. Now, so what I'm projecting, what I'm expecting is a huge uptick in targets for the running backs. Maybe Kyle Uschik gets a little bit more action, but running back targets are going to go to Map Rita.

Yeah, they're not going to go to Al. This was the name I went to put in. I wanted to target Matt Breed. He is a clear target for me. I mean, you just laid it out perfect. When the starting quarterback goes down and he's overperformed expectation, you go, I want to cash in. I want to capitalize on him. It's not going to continue. The offense is going to be worse. I get all those arguments, but I agree with you. I think he's going to be more involved in the passing game. He's going to be a legit.

running back to the rest of the season who I think it's not going to cost you much to get Brita from half of his owners. What about Alfred Morris, who had a very good week last week? I almost made a trade for him this morning simply because I thought I could get him cheap. Sure. Do you believe that because of Bethard, you know, obviously the offense has to be dialed back a little bit? Is there an opportunity for Alth to exceed?

There's definitely an opportunity that the run scheme of Kyle Shanahan has been extremely successful, but Brita would be the target as well. And perhaps they're also, if you have Brita, you're concerned about the injury. So maybe that brings down the price even more. You know, changing offense, the guy looked like he was done for the season for a portion of that game. I think I'm with Jason that. I think he could, for what he has done and what I'm projecting for him to do, he's going to be cheaper than.

He should be. The injury turned out to be a hyper-extended knee. He came back in the game and performed well. Before we get in to pump the brakes, because it is Wednesday. Before we do that, I want to remind you. You can check us out on YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you missed... Oh, poof. Best news segment ever. You missed some of the impromptu news drop change from yesterday. There is a highlight video up.

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Stay tuned for that. We'll continue to adjust and improve them all week long as we get more news, notes, information. But like I said, oh, he's warming it up. Me, me, me. Bumblebee. It is Wednesday, so. Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Riley. Auto parts. That was a real low one. Uh, by me. Yeah. The registered old man river.

Rivers? We're talking about Rivers? Yes. Are you pumping the brakes? No, what I was amazed is that I clearly was like teasing pump the brakes and leading into it and it's still caught Jason by surprise completely. I mean, he was like, little known fact. Everything catches me by surprise at all times. Who are you pumping the brakes on week as we head into week for Mike? I'm going to throw out Isaiah Crowell.

People may be excited by his fantasy output thus far, and it was a very exciting week for Isaiah Crowell. However, he gets to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars who are allowing the second fewest points through three games. Crowell is a touchdown or bust type of guy. You got two last week, so you were incredibly happy. The problem is, Crowell only received 53% of the running back attempts.