Mahomes Interview + Can’t Play Mike, Buy or Sell - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/16

Greg Olson or Austin Hooper. Greg Olson. Yeah, Olson looks to be the third target in that offense. Jimmy Graham or Austin Hooper. Jimmy Grandpa. Jimmy Grandpa. Oh, Jimmy Grandpa. All right. Reminder, take your Thursday night players out of the flex position. Make sure that if you are playing Beckham or AJ Green, they're in your wide receiver slot, don't make the mistake of leaving them in your flex and then a player gets hurt at the end of the week and you don't have flexibility for your lineup. And alternatively, because we don't usually give this piece of advice.

But if you flip it on its head and you've got players that are playing on the Monday night football game, put them into your flex. Ah, yes. Because I know someone in our leagues had Golden Tate and didn't have a pivot because he was in a wide receiver spot on Monday night football. Mr. Gobelage. Tare down this fall. All right, more matchup preview starts of the week, taking it to 100 on tomorrow's show. Let's do some mailbag.

Mailbag. Mailbag, yeah. All right, you got a question for the show. You can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click the submit a question button or dial our voicemail hotline. 302464 TFFB. I caught Mike giving the eyebrows. The camera was left on me for some reason, so I had to do something. Very nice. Okay, Instagram question. What's your take on using Fab as a tradable asset in a league? Some leagues allow you to include Fab in trades.

Great question. I feel like this is a debate that we have in our league. And I'm sitting on two sides of different opinions. So I will be the judge here. Both of you can make your case. Mike, why should Fab be used as a tradable asset? I think it should be a tradable asset because it helps balance out trades. If you're in leagues where picks are able to trade, you know that.

Sometimes you are not compatible with other teams and you say, okay, well, what if I throw in a pick swap in your favor? All of a sudden, that trade becomes far more balanced between the two teams. I think the same thing, the same argument can be made for your free agent budget. Okay. And Andy, why should FAB budget not be used as a tradable asset? It's preference. I like the FAB strategy experience to be a season long.

event where you are everyone's navigating the same budget throughout the course of the year a team can't manipulate that budget have double the fab of another team those type of things it's just preference though i like to mike's credit like anything that facilitates more trades if you think that that's better for your league and that's what you prioritize over that fab strategy argument then i i mean

Do what you want. Honestly, you guys both gave such compelling arguments. I was like, Mike, that is a really good point. Oh, Andy, great point. So do what you want for your league. Either option is good. Do you want to be the judge of this? And just like, how do you weigh in after those? If I had to choose, I would say that in a veteran league, meaning you guys have been playing a while, there's no new people here. This is, you're not worried about an even playing field. You're, you all are fantasy lovers. I would allow the trading.

because you are going to make the decisions on whether you make fab mistakes or whatnot on your own. I think what Mike doesn't realize is that no one's going to trade with us in our league anyways, even if you gave us all the fab to trade. That's true. They don't like trading with us. All right, voicemail question. Hey, ballers. This is Nick. Long-time listener, first-time caller. I was curious about your guys' season outlook for Julian Edelman. Should I drop him for...

someone more exciting like Campbell or Anderson or any of the other rookies that may be out on my waiver line or would he be worth us holding on to for season long? Thank you. I'm not extremely excited about the passing offense in New England, but I would not be cutting bait on Julian Edelman. I think he's going to be the most frequently targeted option there and probably pretty safe as a PPR player.

What's interesting about Julian Edelman is, I mean, for years and years, he is the engine of the passing game, back when it was Tom Brady. However, he was only on the field for 58% of the snaps. Now, in that limited time, he still pulled in seven targets and five receptions. So I'm with Andy. I'm not, I'm not bailing out on Julian Edelman just yet, but this is something that you need to keep your eye on.

that maybe he comes out and has another seven target game, but the snaps are kind of strange, then you may want to trade high. I haven't watched through all of the film of that game yet. I'm curious how many of those, you know, when Edelman's off the field, how many of those were designed cam runs? You have 15 runs in that game. Are you using other wide receivers to block? You know, that's what we saw with Cooper Cup in Los Angeles. But I'm not ready to bail out.

Although I am really interested in Robbie Anderson. Yeah. Those two options are interesting of Robbie Anderson and Paris Campbell. They're both going to see a ton of targets. All right. Let's go ahead and grab another voicemail question. Hey, guys, big fan. I'm just wondering, should I go with Antonio Gibson or Mark Ingram as my flex? Thanks. Now, to clarify, was he saying his name is Big Fan? Yes. It could have been. Because it's like, hey, guys, big fan.

It's a subtitle for all of our listeners. Big fans? Big fan. Oh, man. Okay. So Antonio Gibson, he gets to play Arizona. Mark Ingram, limited opportunities. This is when the data is sometimes a betrayal of reality. I believe Arizona may show up so far through the year as the number one team to play a running back against. But it was a singular. It was a singular play by Rahe Mostert in a passing route.

ends up being the most fancy points against at the running back position. I think I'm going to play Mark Ingram in this one. Yeah, I'll play Mark Ingram as well. I'll let Gibson, I'll give him one more week on my bench here. Hopefully we see the Gibson breakout this week. That'd be great. You know, I bought Ingram as a top 20 back, so I'll play Ingram here. But I don't view Gibson as a must stash and bench this week. I do think it's a flex situation if you don't have a Mark Ingram.

Gibson is, I think you can play him in a pinch this week. Yeah, I agree with you. I agree with you. A Twitter question from Matthew, full PPR rest of season. Great question. Can't wait to talk about it. Awesome. Eckler or Jonathan Taylor in a full PPR rest of season. Oh. So glad you asked this. I saw this in the dock. I wasn't sure if we were going to ask this question. I asked it. I love you. I love you. To me, it's Jonathan Taylor. And I don't, I mean, it's, it's clear to me. You have.

I mean, a lot of the offseason narrative of whether or not Tyrod Taylor, and it's only one game, but whether or not he would throw the ball to Austin Echler, that's where he really makes his hay in fantasy. Regardless, let's say he starts throwing the ball. He sees the error of his way, starts throwing the ball. That offense stinks as a whole. Right. The scoring opportunities with the quarterbacks there are not going to come along. Give me a super prospect in Jonathan Taylor with a great offensive line.

a much better offense who, oh, caught six passes in his first game. That's the funny part is you have rivers shifting over to the Taylor side and he's just the offensive line. The situation is so much better for Jonathan Taylor. Yes, Jonathan Taylor and is not particularly close. It would be interesting. And we'll go top of head here because I didn't have this plan. Running backs that you want ahead of Jonathan Taylor rest of season in general.

Oh, okay. So you've got the big three. I assume you still want Sequin, Zekin. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And Christian McCaffrey. You will probably want Alvin Camara, Dalvin Cook and Clyde Edwards Alvin Zalier ahead of him. I would want Derek Henry. I would still take. Josh Jacobs? Yes or no? Ahead of Jonathan Taylor rest of the season. That's where the line is right there. That is where the line is. I would rather have Josh Jacobs. The fact that he was involved in the passing game.

as we hoped. But week one said, yeah, he is going to be more involved in the passing game. I will take him. And now one is very, very difficult. And then that's the end of the list. I mean, to meet breaking news. That is terrible. We do have news from Adam Schefter this morning. Miles Sanders and Lane Johnson, both on track to play this week against Los Angeles. Oh, okay. Miles, could have used you last week. About a hundred of my fantasy teams rejoice.

Yeah, I mean, that team overall needs to be able to threaten on the ground for Carson wins to look better too. So, all right. I think that's it. Miles Sanders or Jonathan Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. Yeah. Kenyon Drake or Jonathan Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. Hey, you can ask me one with one of my guys. Joe Mixin or Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor. Yeah. Look. If you knew ahead of time, the Marlon McInjury changed.

The entire landscape of things for Jonathan Taylor. Similar to when Damien Williams opted out of the season and it changed the entire landscape for Clyded Resolution. All right. Final question, Andy, Jonathan Taylor or James Connor. That's just a poke at you because you have them. I'm so glad that I have been east now. Oh, yeah. And I'm so.

I still want out of my one James Connor team so badly. It also has Jonathan Taylor, though. That is true. Yeah, baby. I did a little Swabski there. All right, that does it for today's show. Thanks for tuning in. We'll catch you tomorrow. Goodbye. Do for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.

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