Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 8 Keep/Trade/Cut, Pump the Brakes

Post-Dalvin Cook. We don't have a quarterback that's established. You don't even know if it'll be Bridgewater in three weeks. A lot of variables. Good reason to trade. I agree with Jason. All right. Keep trade cut. Demarius Thomas. I am trading for Demarius Thomas. Yeah, I was going to say I would absolutely, I would keep Demarius Thomas. He had a monster, monster play that was called back last week. So his stat line ended at 2 and 9. But I think it was like an 80-yard reception. I mean, it was humongous. Got called back.

on a penalty. So it's one week removed from 10 catches for over 100 yards to Marius Thomas is a beast. He is not that wide receiver one that he was with Peyton Manning, but he's still a very solid wide receiver too with upside. And the thing about Thomas is zero touchdowns. It's, I don't even know how it's possible for a guy to have 30 receptions for 389 yards.

13 yards of reception, zero touchdowns. So the return to the mean of touchdowns should be coming for Demarius Thomas. I was shocked when you started saying that you would trade for DeMarius Thomas. I thought you were saying you would trade him. That would shock me. He's an absolute hold, a keep, or yes, as you say a trade for. I'm going to hold you to the fire on this. You can only say one word for each of these five redskins. You have to say keep. You have to say trader. You have to say cut. Cut.

Terrell Pryor. Cut. Jameson Crowder. Cut. Keep. Cut for me. You said keep. Yeah. But I did say one word. All right. Robert Kelly. Keep. Keep. Chris Thompson. Keep. I trade him high. That's what I'm doing. Robert Kelly, getting healthy. I'm going to keep. Sorry. Sorry. I'm saving too many words. No, you're right. Keep. Jordan Reed. Keep. All right. Amari Cooper. Do you trade him after a 40-point week?

Going into Buffalo? If you can get the value. If you find that Cooper Truther. Yeah, you find the Cooper Truther who is going to say, oh, he's back. He's going to be that top 10 wide receiver rest of season. Absolutely you trade him because while maybe he'll continue getting 19 targets a game and break all sorts of records, the reality is probability says that he's going to continue to bounce up and down as he's done his whole career, have monster games, have disappearing acts.

And if you can get the value off of a 40-point fantasy game last week, then absolutely take advantage. I would trade. The fantasy yo-yo effect that Cooper has had over his career. I think there's been a lot of times people have sold him too low and bought him too high throughout his career. I do want to help people out here, though, because they're all facing this decision with Amari Cooper. What do you do with him? I want to give you some names rest of season who would you rather have. Nice.

Rest of season, Chris Hogan or Amari Cooper. Right now, Hogan is the eighth ranked wide out. I'm going to go Hogan. That's who I would take. Hogan. Hogan. Here's his own teammate. Michael Crabtree or Amari Cooper rest of season. Oh, Crabtree. Yeah. It was Crabtree before the season. It's Crabtree now. Keenan Allen or Amari Cooper. Keenan. Okay. Do you rather have T. Yilton or Amari Cooper? Cooper.

That's really, really close for me, just because of the consistency, I think, that Adam Thielen brings you. Yeah, they're very, very different players. You don't have the ceiling with Thielen that you have with Cooper, but you don't have the floor with Thielen that you have. So I'll go. I would go Cooper. Doug Baldwin or Amari Cooper rest of the season? Baldwin. Okay. You guys, this is crazy. Do you realize that Brandon Cooks?

Where he's ranked right now is a wide receiver? Yeah, he's a top 10 guy. He's a top six guy. Yeah, he's been solid. I mean, didn't you see that incredible pass that Tom Brady gave him for a passing touchdown? Oh, yeah. Where he dropped the ball right into his tummy. Yeah. That's a point in a PPR league. Seven step drop. I mean, like the run by Brandon Cook's using the blocks. That's got to be. That was a great play. This has to be a new move. Like get your tight ends out and have like.

an arm just holding on so that you've got four legs harder to take harder to take you down. That's 100% how I played fantasy football or I mean flag football. Yeah. When I was running, I didn't have speed. I got behind a big guy and just kept pushing the big guy forward. You transform into a centaur. Right. I mean, you're sort of seem like with gronk out in front real tall. Keep trade cut Devante Parker. I'm going to keep him.

I might be able to trade for him. If I'm a six and one team, do you want to stash Devante Parker? Yes, I would love to stash him. He was limited in practice yesterday. So there is a chance that he plays this Thursday. I would say it's, it leans more of the side that he is out. Yeah, I agree. But then he should be back. If you own Devante Parker, I think you have to keep him because.

You're not going to get good value in trading him right now. And he will be better than what you can get. And in those situations, it stinks. But you just have to hold on to him. Okay. This one is for Brooks to close out. Keep trade cut. Brooks. From across the room. Keep trade cut. CJ Anderson. What are you doing with C.J. Anderson, Brooks? Oh, I thought it was from Brooks. No, it's for Brooks. Keep. You're a key. Yeah. I would keep too. Definitely. Yeah. I didn't ask you, Mike. I didn't ask you.

Well, Mike and I will not tell you that we would keep him then. You both would keep him. I'm not saying. I don't know. You asked Brooks. But Jason. Oh. But Jason, he sucks. No, no, voice of public opinion. C.J. Anderson does not suck. Yeah, looking at his numbers, he certainly does not suck. His schedule is brutal coming up. Kansas City, Philadelphia, New England, Cincinnati.

Yep, I'd still keep him. You need to go through puberty. His playoff schedule, the Jets and Indianapolis in weeks 14 and 15, followed by Washington, I mean, he may be able to get you 8, 9 points. I mean, you're talking. Maybe 10. No, he'll have good games. I keep him. Real quick, before we move on, we did have a ton of request for Aaron Jones, Ty Montgomery, even though we have discussed that situation. Sure. Talk about them. Sure. Keep trade cut.

Aaron Jones? He's a trade for me. Trade him away. I want to trade him away. I'm going to keep him. I think here's my reasoning. Next week, Aaron Jones could be this week's Jordy Nelson. The offense, the efficiency, the ability for them to score. Maybe next week Jordan Nelson catches the touchdown and Aaron Jones is, you know, meaningless. I'm just worried about like.

No, I can see that completely. I mean, you've got an offense. The Colt situation, right? You've got an offense that could be really, really bad because of the loss of Aaron Rogers, exactly what you're saying with the Colt situation. You got Frank Gore, who's had a couple good games. It's had a lot of bad games. And I think you will see that with Aaron Jones as well. So, yeah, if you can turn around and trade him off of his high game for value, it might not be a bad idea. But what's value for Aaron Jones?

A value would be getting, you know, someone that believes that he's going to be this top 15 back. If you're in a redraft. If you're in a redraft. If you're in a redraft, would you rather have Jerich McKinnon rest of the season or Aaron Jones? Jerich McKinnon. Probably Jerich McKin. Okay. So that would be when I'm talking about trading. I think you might be able to go after McKinnon had a little lower week than Latavius Murray. You spend that narrative. You can go trade Aaron Jones on a big week. Go get Jerich McKinnon. Yeah. Now what about Ty Montgomery? Oh, his situation stinks because I think the right answer is cut. I genuinely do.

But you can't because I don't think you can cut it. Yeah, you can't. So I would trade. I would trade him for pennies on the dollar. I would keep him. I still want to see after the buy week if his health returns and he gets the role, he might have the opportunity in a couple weeks to trade him much higher than you could trade him right now. Because if you're trading him now, you're probably trading him for nothing. Yeah. You're right. And it's a unfortunate situation. It's a reminder for fantasy owners who think.

or thought they were out of it, think that there's juggernaut teams. A player like Time Montgomery went from being a top five running back, looked like that was the way it was going to be for the whole season to being a player we're debating a cut or trade on. So it can happen at any time. For interesting to note for Time Montgomery, so Montgomery, the first week of the season had 19 carries. After that,

10, 12, you know, 5 the injury game, 10, 4. Aaron Jones has seen no fewer than 13 carries the last four weeks. So even saying even when Montgomery was healthy, he was getting fewer carries than Aaron Jones has this past month. What is the conclusion based on that? It's that the team, I think the team believes that Aaron Jones is a better running back.

Montgomery might be better for their system when Aaron Rogers is in. But this is kind of what we had talked about before that. But Aaron Jones is a better running back. He's better at that position. So I think that's why he's a key for me when you can maybe trade him away for a guy like McKinnon. If you can get that done, that particular deal, I would do it. Otherwise, I'm going to hold on to Jones. Jones or Joe Mixson rest of season. Joe Mixing.

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Neither are Vegas is 37.5. 37.5 point over under. Dolphins. The Miami Dolphins travel. They take on the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore is three and four. The dolphins, they're four and two. Yeah. This is being an early game, speaking, we just talked about Devante Parker, I think the fact that it's Thursday leads me further to believe he's not going to be able to play.

If he doesn't play, we've talked about Kenny Stills and the connection he has with Matt Moore. Now, this is a difficult matchup in a low-scoring projection. So Kenny Stills is one of these players where I think people are going to need to play Kenny Stills this week because of the bypocalypse. So many teams are just looking for waiver wire scroungers. And Kenny Stills could absolutely come out and get one for 12 in this game.

and put up a dud. But he also has the capability of going, you know, seven for 88 and a touchdown in this matchup. So I think Kenny Stills is one of those guys you can, he's a sneaky snart, as we say around. Matt Moore, I picked him up in our dynasty league. I think he is a streaming bowl option. If you're in a tough situation, he's moved this offense over time. He still has the weapons there. I, you know, look.