Tier Jumps, Tough Questions, Fedora Jason

They're going to flip the scripts and overlook running backs who can be foundational tier jump RB1s for these wide receivers. Well, I think the thing that's very interesting about the running back position is outside of that tier one group. Melvin Gordon should have been included in that probably. Oh, yes. Yes. You are absolutely right. But outside of that, you have a variation. Like Lev Bell James Connor right now, they're kind of back of the first guys. Philip Lindsay, Joe Mixin, Dalvin Cook, back of the third.

So that gap, I mean, do you feel confident that you know that Leonard Farnett or David Johnson is going to have a better year than one another? Nick Chubb or David Johnson?

Philip Lindsay and Marlon Mac you brought him up. Philip Lindsay and Joe Mixon. I do not like that Philip Lindsay at all. No, the Philip Lindsay price is ridiculous. I'm a big fan of Philip Lindsay. I believe he wins the job and has it, but I wouldn't spend this capital with the risk that still has to be admitted is in his situation. Mixon and Cook should both go ahead of Lindsay. Honestly, when I look at this, Joe Mixin, Freeman, and Marlon Mack are three of the better values. I think that's why we're saying we see them as possible tier jumps.

From now till draft season, or if they stay there, certainly that's when you want them. All right, you still have a chance to grab a signed Todd Gurley jersey, by the way, at Footclan giveaway.com, a bunch of freeways to enter. Go ahead over there and get yourself a few opportunities to win a signed Todd Gurley jersey and some other stuff. Let's get into the news. News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper.

All right, the bills have received tight-in Charles Clay. Mr. Necessary. Mr. Unnecessary. Yeah, very unnecessary at this point. Yeah, I mean, he may resurface, but not in a fantasy-relevant role anywhere else. The 49ers, they've declined Pierre Garson's 2019 option. This was interesting to me. Dante Pettis's jerseys up on our wall today, Jason. Nice. The reason why it was shocking to me, so they...

They cut ties with Garsohn. I get it. I mean, he's, he's an older guy. Expensive. He's been beat up. Yeah, he's, and he's, he would have been expensive, but he's expensive to cut. I mean, 7.2 million in dead money, and they gain just over a million dollars towards their cap for next year. I mean, so you're taking a huge hit for, to me, it was almost like you should just pay him because I think that Garsohn could still be.

A productive part of a team. He'll be 33 years old by the time the season starts this year. So I know that that's not ancient, but at the same time for a guy that's been banged up, they might just want to develop a younger guy versus worry about it. I guess that's a fair point. How much does the declining of that option, does it aim the 49ers towards a big name free agent pickup, whether that's trading for...

So Antonio Brown. The biggest free agent. Or even Tyrell Williams or something like that. The big free agents is not a free agent. It's Antonio Brown. Other than him, I mean, the list is garbage. We'll be previewing it very soon, by the way. And a lot of like a wide receiver who's at the top of a lot of free agent lists at the wide receiver position is Golden Tate. Yeah. I mean, why would you cut Pierre Gerson to give a guy like Golden Tate a bunch of money? No, that doesn't make sense. So it's huge news for Dante Pettis who is going to.

man he's getting a first class ticket right on that hype train people are going to love him this off season yeah no doubt about it uh we will be getting into brooks what is the thursday show

I don't know. It's not the free agent preview on Thursday, right? Not quite. Next to me next week, but this Thursday, 10 things to remember from 2018. Oh, that's. Bringing out the little black book that we keep all year long, all the notes that we're writing down to ourselves of, I don't want to forget this. I don't want to forget this. I need to make sure next year. I get smarter. I got one for you for next year. Don't wear it for a door. Yeah, that was it. Yeah. Let me write that down. Put that in your little black book for those days. I would like it known that.

You're the only reason I'm wearing a fedora. How dare you? What are the odds? I'm going to put this to Andy. What are the odds by the end of Thursday show? Jason starts looking in the mirror going, you know, you know. Zero percent. Zero percent. Boom. The way, I believe his quote before the show started was, I want to punch me in the face. So he doesn't seem like he has a lot of confidence today on the show. No, I feel, man, suit up.

I feel weird. And put the hat on it. You remember when I, when I had the optometrist appointment. Oh, yeah. I got to wear my shades inside. Oh, that was liberating. I felt like, I felt like a genius. I feel like an idiot right now. So you feel like you have to, to guard your takes? No, I feel like this has made me dumber as a person. Impossible. I know. I'm already so low on that scale.

All right, that was today's news and notes. We've got a lot going on on the show today. So be sure to switch your Dynasty League over to Sleeper. The Sleeper app, download it today. Super easy. We love it. You ready for some mailbag? You ready to answer some questions? Oh, my goodness. Okay. Mailbag. Mailbag. For a edition. Jason doesn't look, he just looks sad. I feel bad. Now, look, I...

I put the petition out there. I wasn't the only signed it. I mean, that was hundreds of thousands of people. I'll bet I can find your name on that list. Let's do a quick trade. I am also wearing a hat. You give me the fedora. Yeah. And just so... You're going to look cool. And I'm still going to look stupid. How do I look? Oh, you look so cool. You look way cooler than Jason does. Wow, you look great in a fedora. Okay, how do I look? Oh, I look so stupid. You also look like you're wearing your dad's baseball cap because my head is so large. Hi, guys.

All right, we're going to dive into the mailbag. If you have a question, by the way, you can send in a voicemail question, 3.02464 TFFB. Keep those brief to the point so we can put them on the show. And then you can submit questions on the website. Go to the more tab, click submit a question, and we answer them from time to time here on the show. Try to make your life easier. Try to get you that W in 2019. All right. Here's a question from Travis in North Carolina.

I'm starting a Dynasty League this year. I've been planning on using a taxi squad. What are your thoughts on taxi squads instead of having all players on a regular roster? Mike, you've spoken before about taxi squads. So for the uninitiated, a taxi squad is almost like a separate roster. So I mean, you know the dynasty, you keep everyone on your player. You have a huge amount of players. And there's oftentimes.

guys that you don't want to get rid of to make room for the incoming rookies which if you don't have a taxi squad that's what you have to do so you add in a taxi squad it's usually you know three to five spots and these are rookies that you can draft and just let them sit there they don't count against your active roster but you can't play them right but you cannot play them if you're going to add them to your active roster you would have to drop someone

from your active roster. And there's all sorts of different ways to use a taxi squad. It's like the Dynasty League I'm in it or I'm in that uses one. Its first and second year players are allowed on that squad. It's nice because then you have these developmental players that you're taking with your third and fourth round rookie picks that you know they're not doing anything for.

two years. But you believe in that player. This gives you an option to hold on to them and see if they actually amount to anything. Now, there is an article on our website, the fantasy footballers.com, the introduction to dynasty fantasy football article by Corey Evans. He'll talk a lot about the ins and outs of a dynasty league if you want to learn more in that capacity. In general, do you prefer having a taxi squad? I do. I like it. I prefer no taxi squad. Do you guys want to fight about it?

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I mean, look, if you're 0 and 6, you're going to need to rebrand. You're going to need to rebuild. You've done a rebrand, right? I have done a rebrand after a poor season and also taking on a co-owner, and we made it ours. Our team name. The Rat Pack, right? Yeah. Yeah, see? No, but... May and Brooks, see? I mean, we play in a lot of leagues where, you know, it's keeper or, you know, there's...

There's history. I don't know, man. You know, and I think whenever there's history, divisions, things like that, I would say I prefer to not change your team name. You want the banners in the rafters, you know. Exactly. Okay, let's just say redraft, though. This is one off. Look, if you can get a psychological edge over your opponent, that might be a reason why. There was a time I was going through the playoffs.

Oh, yes. Remember this? Years ago, me and Mike were heading towards another battle in the title game, and I changed my logo to, this was my little superstitious get in their head. I just kept changing my logo to a picture of my opponent's best player. And then they would struggle week after week. And then when we got to the final, it didn't work. It didn't work, yeah. It's almost like the player didn't even care.

That they were my logo. I'm going bad luck. Yeah. Bad luck. Don't do it. All right. This question from the YouTube community, Dan Hinkle, says, who will retire first? Is it Frank Gore? Wow. The Eternal One. Or Adrian Peterson, his name is all day. So either Frank Gore or Adrian Peterson. Maybe they're in a competition with one another to last the longest I think.

I think Adrian Peterson will last longer than Frank. I agree. Now that there's been a change down in Miami and Gase has gone, if Frank Gore doesn't sign there, I don't know how many teams out there want to sign Frank Gore. Even though he looked okay, like, I don't know if they. He looked, sure. He looked pretty good in spurts. In spurts, but do you think other GMs are like, yeah, we need to add.