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

I'd still rather have Antonio Brown if it's a PPR league. Yeah. But the trade is fair. I mean, it's, it is a team dependent. So you really, really need a running back and you're looking to actually move Antonio Brown. Then you have to get someone he, like Shady McCoy. He notes that he's playing that opponent in week nine when Antonio Brown is on by. Oh, you sneaky dog. He already had his. I don't know.

It's always something worth looking at. Whenever you're making a trade, look at your upcoming schedule, because those things do make a difference, especially if you're on that playoff cusp where you can buy a win that way. All right, this is a good one. Chase in Ohio, you're six and one, and your only quarterback is Matthew Stanford. Would you pick up Rogers or Luck off of waivers with the chance that they return for the fantasy playoffs? And which of those would you prefer if you could only grab one of them?

I would prefer Andrew Luck. They have said that they're not shutting him down, and Rogers having the injury to his throwing side, I would feel better about luck being a fantasy playoff help. Yeah, I can't fathom Rogers being able to get back. So if you've got to pick one of them up, it would be luck. All right, Joe in San Antonio, Texas, huge fan of the show. Huge. Should I give up?

with a one and six record in one of his leagues. So in one of his leagues, one in six, please help me, he says. Here's what you're going to find out. Three or four teams in your league about now, maybe next week, but very soon. They'll answer the question. Are going to give up and they're going to say yes.

I'm out. I can't get it done. They're going to stop making waiver claims. Maybe they'll make a bad trade because they don't care. Maybe you could take advantage of that and be the one they make a bad trade with. But the point is that every year, 99% of leagues, you have a quarter of the league quit and give up, which means those final eight weeks to the playoffs, which is such a long run ahead of you still, you've got some easy opponents to get victories over.

And when one or two of those massive teams that looks like their playoff bound loses an Aaron Rogers, loses an Odell Beckham, loses their Dalvin Cook, all of a sudden, they're on the outskirts and you're in. Andy, a couple of years ago, you started with a poor start and battled back and almost won the championship. We have people every year right in. I started 0 and 5.

And then, you know, I started listening. I grind my way to the playoffs and I won the championship. And to be a realist, you're up against it. Like being one in six is not ideal. Your odds of making the playoffs have gone down. But like Jason said, I mean, I had this situation a couple of years ago. It is possible. And a wise man that I don't even remember who said this, whatever has happened can happen in reverse. You could go six and one your next. And I would also look at.

Look at the records of the teams who are in the playoffs, because I guarantee you that there are at least a couple of them who are simply four and three. You're only three games behind them. I mean, it's not a, it's not a monster climb for you to, to take over just three games. All right, all of our rankings for week eight.

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