Fantasy Football 2018 - Oh Henry! Bright Ducks + Big Questions

work in that backfield that Rex Burkhead can be played as a flex and then he has the built-in that Sony Michelle was a big-time fumbler in college and the Patriots brass has already said if Sony Michelle fumbles he's going to be benched so there's there's a lot of variables for there for Burkhead to be just a flex all the way to a solid running back too all right

Be Worley on Instagram. How do you guys come up with all the cool nicknames and drops for players? For example, how do we? We wrote this. How do you fall in love? How do you fall in love? You don't follow instructions. It just happens. Well, that one is just you stare at it and it's just the low-hanging fruit. Literally right in your face. Well, that one specifically, but I'm just saying we never. In the history of our nicknames. In the history of our nicknames, I can only think of one time.

ever that it has not been an that it was kind of a pre-planned thing about a nickname and that's out of like 10,000 I've lost track of our nicknames they're just off the cuff they happen on the show because everyone I'm sure is curious what was the one yeah I'm curious it was Kareem hunt when we came in and I screwed up the song Kareem yes

I do. Yeah, Jason killed that one. That wasn't really a nickname. No, it wasn't a nickname. It was just, we wanted to sing that song that I ruined. Generally speaking, my thought process, if you hang out with me for any amount of time, you'll realize that my references are generally a reference based on another reference that's based on another one. Yeah, it's, if it wasn't for Brooks and I,

You wouldn't understand one thing Mike said on the show. You got to be. You would refer to them all in his slang. You got to be quick-witted to hang out with this guy. That's one adjective that you could use. Oh, yeah. Okay. Instagram, while Diggs may be overdrafted under a new offensive scheme, new quarterback, and through injury risk, are we undervaluing Sterling Shepard picking up that role under Shermer? Yes.

Yeah, I mean. That's a good answer. Good answer. Definitely good beat because Sterling Shepard, here's what I like the most about Sterling Shepard. He's a great wide receiver. Like that's, you know, his opportunity, we don't know. It's a new coordinator, a new offense, new weapons. The opportunity might not be there for him. But he is a great wide receiver. He was one of my favorite guys coming out of college that year. And when he's been on the field, he's produced, he's shown that he is great hands, great route running. He's a gritty player.

So, yeah, I mean, he could be undervalued. And I imagine right now there's leagues where, I don't know, is he even for sure? 10th round is from fantasy football calculator right now. I'm surprised he's that high. So I would assume people would, with Sequin, with O'Dell Beckham coming back, with Evan Ingram in the mix, I would have assumed he would have been lower than that. I think that's probably about where he belongs. So maybe he's not too undervalued. But he is a good wide receiver. All right. Instagram question.

I can't read your name, but he asks, you can only pick three toppings on your nachos for the rest of your life along with cheese. Along, so we get four toppings? Essentially. What are your three toppings? Hmm. All right. I can bang out two real easy. Yeah, sour cream, ground beef. Oh, then I know them all. Yeah. And guacamole. And guacamole. Guacamole was my number three. Give us a hard question. I have never had guacamole on nachos before. Bro.

Oh, my goodness. Lunch plans! Yeah, I think we're, we know. Yeah, I'm ready to go. That's it for the podcast. You've never had guacamole on your nachos? Well, not for at least another 45 minutes. But it's about to happen. Nachos supreme. Healthy fat, my friend. So healthy. They see nachos, the health food. Look, it's got those. They see fat. So healthy. The best part for that, for me on that, with the keto restrictions, I just removed the chip and I'm going to eat all the rest of that stuff.

All right, Daddy's house off of Twitter. New to Fab, what's the best strategy for managing it? So free agent acquisition budget. What's the best strategy for utilizing that in your league? Maybe you guys could roll it back, explain what it is, and how you approach it. Sure. So the free agent acquisition budget, which is, in our opinion, the absolute better waiver system over the waiver priority list is a system where you get a certain amount of money. Usually it's $100 fake.

fake virtual dollars to start your year off. And the waiver system is essentially closed and runs once a day. So, you know, we've got 8 a.m. every single day. You make whatever claims you want and you do blind bidding on a player. So.

breakout candidate after week one of the NFL season, and you want to grab him. You know, he's the next Justin Fawcett or Alex Collins or whoever the new Baltimore running back waiver wire running back will be. And you say, okay, I want to bid $15 of my $100 or $25. And then in the morning at 8 a.m. or whatever time you set up, you get to see who everyone in the league bid on.

What prices they got. Who won who, who, who was dropped, all of that. And you get to do it every single day. You know, oh, this guy was dropped a bit on him or news breaks. So that's what a fab system is. As far as how to manage it as a first-time user, Mike, I'll kick it over to you. I'll say that for first-time users, if everyone is new to it, people are going to be scared to spend their money in those first few weeks. So take advantage of that. We on this show, when we're talking about.

our waiver list on Tuesday show, we will throw out percentages of our fab that we would spend in our leagues to acquire this player, basically our confidence level, that this player will be a contributor. So that'll give you some good guidelines to go with. Go a little bit more than what we're suggesting. And it's all about knowing your league. How do they spend their money? Are they Scrooge McDuck? Are they stingy with it? Who knows? And I just now thought that I should check in on our Dynasty League.

I was about to bring it up. There was some movement. Did I get him? And the judge and Jason. There were two players acquired in our league because you guys had the heads up. You thought through it because there is a tight end situation in Los Angeles. Brooks doesn't look happy. Well, Brooks should be happy because he actually signed the better player. Brooks got Antonio Gates for $17. And Jason spent 25 on.

Virgil Green. I did. You outbid your competition by $25 because nobody else bid on him. All right. Well, the thing, for clarity, we have an off-season and an in-season budget and almost nobody spends off-season budget. That's not an amount. No your league. On a player like that. The only other tip I'd give you on a free agent acquisition budget, if you're a playoff bound, which you will be. Assuming your playoff bound, when you get to the middle, late portion of the season,

You've got to put an absolute restriction on your route. This is what I do. I'll say, look, I really want this guy in week 10, but I've got $5 left. I'm not doing a $0 bid. I'm hoping to get it because you've got to have a few, a few dollars left when you hit the playoffs because a lot of your opponents will be at zero and you can block their players, block their, you know, they lost a tight end and there's a clear waiver pickup. You can spend a buck.

and make sure you steal them away. I always make sure I've got at least $5 going into the playoffs. Yeah, and that reminds me. Turn on $0. Make sure you have $0 bids as an allowable move. It's garbage without it. Yeah, if you don't, if you have, if you don't allow $0 bids, you're in fact putting restrictions on the amount of transactions a team can complete, which I am so opposed to. If anyone's.

Want to make your league more boring? Stomp people from doing things. But Jason is correct. I had a season in the fantasy playoffs. Gronk went down. Surprise, surprise. He went down for me. I had zero dollars. So my opponent was able to outbid me on every notable tight end on that waiver wire. And I was stuck with a guy who ended up getting me zero points at the tight end position.

That's not a lot. All right. Off in the streets. Mordecai tattoo on Instagram. With Des gone, I've heard almost no talk about the Beasles. It seems like he's done a good job in the past, stepping in when Des was hurt. Is he worth a flyer in a 10-team half-point per reception league? I feel like he would be a bit more reliable than a lot of the other late-round-wide receivers. And all I'll say, you guys can answer whether you buy in. But his highest fantasy finish in history was 37. Last year he was the 72-ranked fantasy-wide receiver.

and his career is filled with the smatterings of 53, 78, 91, 139. Yeah, it's really hard for him to do enough in a game. Like, he can have five receptions, six receptions in the game and still be not startable. Yeah, he could be that five for 50 guy. I was going to say, I think he's worth a flyer, but when you hit me with the 10 team, I don't know that Cole Beasley is a player that I am going to have much interest in. I'll just wait and watch, and if I got to bid him.

bit on him in the waiver wire, then I will do that. But there's other guys who I'd much rather have. We didn't really talk about Terrence Williams got himself in trouble with the law. Seems like Dallas is on his side, though. They put out a press release. Did they? Yeah. So, well, I mean, if the league is on his side. Sure. He could, you know, lose a game or so. But reading through the incident report and Dallas's press release, I would be surprised if any suspension came from this, although the mugshot,

The mugshot says otherwise. Sure. So we'll see. But, you know, you can't just think about, oh, Des is gone. They brought in Michael Gallup. That's the guy I wanted to talk about Alan Hearns. Those two guys are the much more. Alan Hurons is going to go towards the top of a draft, not early, but he'll be in those middle rounds. Michael Gallup could find. Gallup is a sleeper. He could find himself in the starting lineup for the Dallas Cowboys. And.

You may be able to get him very, very late in your drafts, a talented rookie. There were some that put him, projected him as the number one fantasy, or I'm sorry, the number one wide receiver in the NFL draft. And Dallas had a hole with releasing Des Bryant. They picked Michael Galup to fill that. So he is a name you must keep on your radar, monitor what's going on with his ADP. Beasles just wasn't good.

I mean, that's the truth. Last year he was better for your NFL team than your fantasy team. He had two games last year where he was actually a wide receiver. One, he was the 11th best. Two weeks out of 16th. The next best performance, like the next best was he was the 46th wide receiver. He was living in the 80s. Yeah. Not a guy. That's a bad mugshot.

Yo, you looked it up? Yeah, the Terrence Williams mugshot. The incident doesn't sound that big a deal, but his face is... Really, really shiny. Don't know what if he just got out of the shower for that or what, but it wasn't a good look. Okay, here we go. Chicken or the egg is the name of this question from Daryl and Columbus. He writes... Chicken. Egg. Yeah, if you just had to pick one, yeah, I'll go with eggs. Scramble chicken is disgusting.

Uh, which should come first to selecting keepers or determining draft order. Some owners would keep one player if picking early or another player, say AB in the first, if picking late. I would do your draft order first. I concur. It brings me great sadness to agree with Mike, but yeah, it's better that way. All right, Nick and Copenhagen, Denmark. Bonjour! Oh, bonjour! Oh, such a bonjour.

Shots? No, I had such a. Such a bonjour. And you know what he said? He said bonjour. Oh, bonjour. Oh, bonjour. Love the show. Just pre-ordered the ultimate draft kit for the first time. Oh, bonjourn. Struggling to choose my final two keepers between Cooper Cup, Jameson, Crowder, Jamal Williams, and James Winston. Already have Wince, Bell, Cook, Evans, Hill, A. Rob, Keekley. Yes, it's an IDP league. Sure.

Also traded for the 101, which means he has Sequin. We'd love your input. Would love your input. Thanks in advance. Cooper Cup is the name I liked the most in that list. Would you take Cooper Cup? Yeah, you'd take them over Winston because Winston will go later. And you already have Wins. Crowder Cup, it's a coin flip on who has the better season to me. I agree completely. Those, those two guys. Alex Smith's going to feed James and Crowder. He could, yeah. Yeah, I think Jameson Crowder has been.

You know, we haven't talked about him much on this show, but I actually think he has a good opportunity with Alex Smith coming there. It just depends on which Alex Smith we see. Is he going to be the Alex Smith of last year where he pushes the ball down the field, in which case I like Paul Richardson. But if he's Alex Smith of, you know, the other 10 years or however long he's been in the league, then Jameson Crowder will have an opportunity to feast on all the dinks and dunks. You got a feast on him. You got it. You got no other choice?