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

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It's the day in the middle. It's home day. It certainly is. Also known as day two for this guy with a coffee child in the bed. Wait, what? Coffee? What does that mean? Means he's coughing nonstop while I try to sleep. Very rude. Very rude. So we both have sick children right now? I call him the coffee kid. Well, yeah, I was just picturing, you know. Him sitting in bed with a nice brew. With a cappuccino? Yeah. Folgers.

Going, nope, Mike, Mike, Mike. Well, it actually, it sounds like that except it's just coughing. And instead of in the morning, it's 2 a.m. Why don't you parent better? Yeah. We're all thinking. That's a good question. We're all thinking it. Welcome to Wednesday, October 25th. We've got a great show today. Pump the brakes. Some mailbag. Keep trade cut.

I say parent better and I've got a sick kid at home. So that doesn't work. But are they in your bed just coughing directly into your face? No. Just stay away from me, Mike. Just projecting the Ebola virus all over to you. Ebola, eh? I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I'm just guessing. Well, no, mine was more like a heater. Oh, mine got in bed and it was just an emanating pulse of fire.

Dad life, right? Yeah. Dad life. It's the best. I've also been very busy. In our league of record, we have a three-keeper league with draft pick trading. And our trade deadline is a wee bit earlier than most. So it's Thursday this week. And mayhem has broken out in our league with trades and draft pick trades and people trying to figure out. In this league, you basically figure out, are you in or are you out?

Right? You're selling or you buying? Marty McFly style. Are you in or out? It's the MLB. Yeah, it is. It's like an MLB trade deadline. You bring your payroll down or you go all in. And, yeah, so I've been busy updating docs and players flying around. It's fun. We are here now heading into what? Week 8? Mm-hmm. Awesome. Well, it is Wednesday. And on Wednesday...

That transition was... It's not my best. Oh, man. How about... Alert the Emmys. How about this? It's not only hump day. It's pump day. Oh! The judge. Bringing it down. It sure is. You know what, Brooks? If that's the case, you're getting in on this. Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Oh, Rarts.

Thank you, Brooks. All right. I couldn't even get mine out because yours was so awful. It was pump. We didn't have like a melodious. They didn't come together in a. No, what you guys, it's called a semi-tone in the music world and you guys were all one semi-tone apart. The question is, did we hurt the O'Reilly brand? No, no way. We're bringing it together. Pump the brakes every Wednesday with O'Reilly Auto Parts, three players that we are pumping the brakes on.

Last week I pumped the brakes on Derek Henry. I feel very good about that. Yeah, you got him. And then he pumped them for, I think, 13 for 13. That's very bad. Latavius Murray is who I'm pumping the brakes on this week. Had a big kind of, I don't know if you call it a breakout game. I think maybe a surprising game last week. Got into the end zone. It's called a Baltimore Ravens game. I saw a trade happen in our league for Latavius Murray. Maybe that wouldn't have happened had they heard this segment. But I think Latavius Murray,

While he will be a contributor is not the greatest start this week against the Cleveland defense that surprisingly. But Andy? Yeah. It's the Cleveland Browns in there, doo-doo. Well, that's true. But their eighth ranked in the league against running backs. You have a split situation there. And, you know, it's very possible that Minnesota is running the clock out and Latavius gets it done. I just don't buy into the role in talent.

season long there i still think jerkinnan's a better back to own so don't freak out is what i'm saying don't go freak out and go trade big pieces to get latius marie yeah i'm going to pump the brakes on someone as mike shakes his head know that when i when i uh you're living dangerously i'm living dangerously mike says so you want to go in those flames and die in those flames i'm gonna pump the brakes

On the greatest thing ever, Deshaun Watson. Yeah. Now, I know coming into the season, I was not high on Deshaun Watson. I don't think anybody here was really...

believe that Deshaun Watson would be good. Now, we've obviously, we have updated our opinion. I think Deshaun Watson is going to be fine for fantasy purposes because he runs. He's also been able to, you know, scramble and have a good deep ball. He's got weapons. So look, I'm not saying Deshaun Watson is fools gold. He's not. He should be fine. But there's a difference between being a fine fantasy option as a rookie quarterback in the NFL.

And going into Seattle against the Seattle Seahawks, who are great against the position. They're the third best in fantasy points allowed against quarterbacks. And that's, you know, having played some, you know, week one was Aaron Rogers. They only gave up 22 points to Rogers. The last few weeks, they have shut down, they shut down Phillip Rivers. They shut down Eli Manning. I believe that.

Deshaun Watson is going to have a really difficult week getting it done in Seattle on the road. So I'm pumping the brakes on him. I would not prefer to start him this week. That's what I believe. So I'm staying in the flames and I might die here. Well, I'm kind of with you because I'm going to pump the brakes on the guy who's coming off a monster game. A monster game. I'm going to pump the brakes on Derek Carr.

And I know before the voice of public opinion jumps in here, I will just say what you're thinking. Well, going against the Buffalo Bills, they just gave up 384 and 3 to James Winston, one of Winston's best games of his career. And Derek Carr, he just found Amari Cooper. Murray Cooper had over torn yards. But here's the thing. The Buffalo Bills before that had given up two passing touchdowns the entire year. They are giving up the sixth fewest fantasy points.

to the quarterback position. Derek Carr on the road, the bill's defense is legit. We know that the chiefs are, we talked about this in the match of that. The chiefs, while they're not allowing a high completion percentage to quarterbacks, they're allowing huge monster plays. And that's where Derek Carr took advantage of the Kansas City Chiefs. I don't think he will be able to do that against the Buffalo Bills. And.

Because it happened last week, people are going to jump right back in and think Derek Carr is back to being this top five potential quarterback. So does that mean that you're also pumping the brakes on Amari Cooper? Amari Cooper. I'm pumping the brakes on a 200-yard game, absolutely. But he's got to be in your starting lineup. I'm just saying if you can find a different option, then Derek Carr, you may want to do that. All right. That was pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts, better prices, better parts every single day. Quick note.

Cowboys have signed Mike Nugent to replace Dan Bailey. Bailey's going to miss multiple weeks as the kicker for the Cowboys. Also, a quick reminder, if your waivers just went through, make sure you pay attention to who was dropped. Oh, you got it like a lot. You got Jaylon Rashard, Mike, in our league of record. Excellent. So there you go. Excellent. But pay attention to who was dropped. A lot of people ignore that. You might be able to buy them real cheap the next day. Pick them up on waivers the next day. And let's go ahead and get into some keep trade cut.

Let's go ahead and get into Keep Trade Cut. Keep Trade Cut. That was a really solid recovery. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night due to the... Did you have a coffee kid? No. No, no. No Fulgers in the house last night. All right. It's funny. My son, when he gets a fever, he just really wants to reassure.

my wife and I that he's totally fine when he's not fine. Oh. Like he's just kind of like it's the delusional fever, but he's just like, I feel totally fine. I mean, my head feels a little weird, but I'm just like 100% totally fine. It's kind of like, you know, a DeMarco Murray owner right now. Yeah, this is no big deal. This is totally fine. All right. Keep trade cut. Let's answer some questions about what we would do with some of these players. The number one request we've gotten on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. You can find us on Twitter at the FF ballers. If you have a question for us.

Stefan Diggs. Keep trade cuts. Stefan Diggs. Right now, not a productive player. This has been the problem. Amends talent. Yeah. Injuries. Injury problem. Plays, you know, has the Cleveland matchup and then the buy week. Do we think he's going to play this weekend? What do you do? Keep trade cut. I would, I believe I would look to move Diggs because there's still a lot of believers. Whenever somebody has a strong opening to the year, it, it.

It keeps with them the whole season. Stefan Diggs, I believe, you know, two of the first three weeks, he was the number one wide receiver. People remember that. And, you know, with the quarterback change, with the fact that coming into this season, we were all saying, Stefan Diggs is a superstar. His issue is what? Injuries. And he's what? Injured. So he has not overcome. I know. He has not overcome. Oh, what was that?

This was, that was my, Jay Gruden, yeah, from the quarterback camp. Those videos where he's just leading the quarterback saying, okay, the fantasy foot, what? Ballers, that's right. We're talking about Stefan, who? Stefan Diggs. That's right. Good job. Place for the Minnesota. Anyways, my point is that the injury bug that has plagued Diggs is not gone.

A lot of offseason hype about how he's changed his diet, his routine to get healthy. And sometimes you can't avoid it. But at this point, I think you're going to deal with more nicks and bruises rest of the year. And you're going to be able to get value from those first few weeks of the season. So I would look to trade Stefan Diggs. I would try and trade him as well. Unfortunately, he's so good. This is the time of your fantasy year.

where you need contributors right here, right now. So if you can go get a player that's going to give you something right here right now for Diggs, I think it's worth it. If you're a, you know, whatever, six and one, seven and O type of team, would you acquire Diggs for cheap? Yeah, I might. I might. Throw him on my bench. That way I have a rotational player, play the matchups end of season if he's healthy and contributing. But you've got like multiple variables, injury variable. You've got, you know, we haven't really seen him explode.