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I would probably put them in the next tier. And so you go down the list and you tear guys off and you're going to find major breaking points. You're going to find like, okay, I got little tiers here, but this is the big tier. Like after these first four guys, the rest is all about the same. And so you group guys together where you go, they're about the same, even though this guy's drafted higher or lower. So I'm not going to, if I'm in a draft. We just went through this. Yeah, we just went through this on the show where if you're in our last mock draft show, if you didn't listen to that.

Go listen to it. On Tuesday. Yeah. So if you're in a draft where you're at a spot and you look at your list and you need X position, but there's a lot of guys in the group that you're really looking at, then go somewhere else. Yeah, go somewhere else. We were facing the 11th round decision on Julius Thomas. Somewhere around there. He was the last guy that we actually considered kind of an upgrade over the pack. Right. So we took him. There you go.

All right, Big Daddy Beef Johnson in New York City. New York City? Oh, you got to do that with Big Daddy Beef Johnson. Oh, yeah. Which one of you guys would win in a professional wrestling match? Here's the rules, he adds in the details. Oh, uh-oh. Cheating is allowed, i.e. folding chair under the ring, brass knuckles in the turnbuckle. Confusing the referee. Well, I was going to go me at first, but now I'm... Because of your...

Former Jiu-Jitsu training? Because of my Jiu-Jitsu training. But now I'm definitely going to me because I will combine Jiu-Jitsu with whatever it takes. Yeah. It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry asked Elaine who would win between Jerry and George. And she says, George, because he'd fight dirty. And he said he'd do, you know, he'll pull hair, groin stuff. Oh, yeah. All sorts of things. You'll do whatever it takes to win. I'll speedbag on the bag. If you don't, inside into the soul of Jason Moore.

He likes to win. Yeah, I'm pretty competitive. And he never feels guilty about how that happens as long as at the end he has won. Yeah, I think that's accurate. Mostly. Mostly. I mean, you've grown a small conscience. Yeah, well, I consider myself, you know, a moral fella, but in competition, when we're competing and we're all in the same game together. Hashtag moral fella. I'm going to win.

is essentially what I aim to do. Yes, yes. All right, Ernie and Winnipeg. And I, so, okay, just judge this real quick. Mike and I. Oh, that's a great one. Mike wins, probably. I don't know. I mean, Mike has a little bit of submission wrestling training, but that very little, very little. You have the reach on him. And if I had to. You've always said that I'd beat you in a boxing match.

Yes, in a boxing only match, I think you would win. You've got the reach. You're an athletic guy and you're also a competitor. So I'm going to take you. Sorry, Mike's not here. I take Andy. I feel really good right now. Ernie and Winnibeg. Bonjour. In a keeper league where I can only keep two dudes. No girls. He can't keep any of the ladies. Nope. Nope. I have Gronk, Hopkins, Charles, and Olson. It's easy. League has a flex position open to receivers, running backs and tight-ins.

So, like, a normal flex. I would go Gronk and Hopkins. I see both of those guys as first round type caliber. Yeah, I mean, Jamal Charles is definitely in the equation. But to me, there's still a lot of question mark there with a guy coming off of a major... Would you be super afraid to have Gronk and Charles with the injury histories? Yeah, you go... I mean, Hopkins is so young.

And Charles and Gronk have both had major knee injuries multiple times. Right. So take Hopkins and then whether you want Gronk or whether you want Charles. And some of that in the Super League. That's what I would do, too. I would have one knee injury risk on that too. Right. Some of these Keeper League decisions aren't as straightforward as Andy and I make them because you know your league and you know who's keeping who. And so if all the running backs are kept, then yeah, keep Jamal Charles. Because you're going to just screw yourself if your number one running back is essentially a number.

you know, not even an RB1, you've got to factor those type of decisions in. Absolutely. So, Mike in New York City. New York City. Is DeAndre Hopkins worth keeping for a third round pick? Yes, as just covered, absolutely. It is the DeAndre Hopkins hour. I saw him on that same board from one of our colleagues in the industry that had Lev Bell at number nine. DeAndre Hopkins was number five.

That's higher than I would put him, but I mean, what do not love about a guy who gets as many targets? And we've talked to before. 118 and run yards after the catch. Yeah, that could be improved. Can only get better. Yeah. And he's a hard worker. We saw that on hard knocks last year. His practice looks like he's in a game. He's running full as hard as he can, breaking, trying to get better. So when you've got work ethic with talent. In the beginning of Larry Fitzgerald's career.

And I could be wrong if you looked up the stats. So I'm going to leave. So don't look up the stats. You know, that was something he really worked on. Was the, you know, he was a hands size guy, but his run after the catch wasn't there. And that's something that you can. He got great at. That's something you can improve at. Absolutely. And we know he wants to. So Chris in Thunder Bay, and this is basically the same question that Moy's in Dallas has. So these are both kind of two quarterback league.

questions. But he says, thanks for all the advice all season. Enjoyed the shenanigans. But he did not make the playoffs in his two leagues of records, which are both two quarterback leagues. He says, we tend to focus on the single quarterback leagues, but wants to pick our brains about our draft theory for two quarterbacks leagues. Totally different. 100% different.

He said streaming was not an option during the season. And he waited on quarterback with the Tanna Hill Bradford-Cutler combo. That might be why you didn't make the playoffs. Is it better to go to quality early one, early and one later? Any input would be greatly appreciated. And that's basically the same question that we got in from Moyes in Dallas. Yeah, and I'm sure a lot of people. What is the streaming? Because we talk streaming quarterback, so then...

People try to apply that to their two quarterback leagues. Yeah, and you're not going to be able to stream in two quarterback leagues very well because more teams will carry. 12-team league, two to three quarterbacks per team. They're almost all taken. Oh, yeah, almost three quarterbacks for every team. I mean, if you have to start two, you normally want somebody that you can rotate with. So streaming off the waiver wire is going to be almost impossible. However, that does not mean you cannot get value. Absolutely.

No, it does not mean you can't get value. What I would do, if I'm in a two-quarterback league, is I look at the quarterback position very similar to the running back position. You've got, now you start two like you usually do at running back, and when you double that pool, essentially in a 12-team league, and you're starting 24 quarterbacks, that's about where you get to garbage. You get to guys that aren't putting up.

good fantasy games. And so the spread between the first and last place, which isn't usually that big in quarterbacks, becomes pretty big. So what I would do is I like to have, in a two-quarterback league, one early and then one value. So I'm going to try to get a guy that I think. So you're talking about first three rounds?

For the first three rounds, you take one big quarterback. And then I wait and find the best value based on my draft tiers for the second. That's what I do as well. I think that's the philosophy we've talked about before. When you're in that situation, streaming is not going to be as easy. It doesn't mean you're not going to be able to do it at all, but it's less likely. Yeah, you'll have waiver injuries and things like that that make waiver wire important for quarterback through the year. But you cannot use our...

Wait to the 10th round to get your first quarterback theory to any success in a two-quarterback league won't work. Yeah, I agree. And every year there is a lot of value. It's just a matter of paying attention to which guys – we talked about Breeze, you know, potential to drop. We like Philip Rivers. There's a lot of guys like that that just end up later in drafts. Last year was Carson Palmer. You know, it was Derek Carr. It was Bortles, those guys. All right. So let's move on here to a question from –

gridiron gangsters in Santa Rosa, California. I guess there's a bunch of gangsters that have fantasy questions. Yeah, on the gridiron. On the gridiron. I'm in a four-keeper league with an auction draft at $380 cap. Can't decide on my third and fourth keeper. A $3.80 cap. Where did you get that number? Don't know why. Just pulled out of... Yeah, 380, man. Can't decide on my third and fourth keeper. Here are my choices. Antonio.

Brown for $105. I got to wrap my brain around this. So normally an auction budget is $200. That would be 27% of his budget. Okay. Blake Bortles for 20, your guy, Latavius Murray for 20, Jordan Reed for 20, help me pick two and a half point PBR. That is so much money to spend Antonio Brown. That is a lot of money. But I would probably do it. So that would be spending more than $50.

Here's the problem. If this is his third and fourth keeper, I don't... Does he have two other keepers we don't know about then that take up that 380? Because if you had two other big keepers for big money... Right, that makes a difference. If you've already spent a lot of money, don't. But I'm guessing here that if he hasn't... If he's already picked those other two guys, they were easier decisions, meaning they probably weren't super expensive. In which case, if they're not expensive, I lean with you, I would go... I'd go Brown and Murray. Yeah.

I would go Brown and Murray. If you already have a lot of money wrapped up in your other two keepers, then I would go Murray and read. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. I would not keep Bordles. No. That's for sure. That's two quarterback. Yeah. Theo Davis in Vermont has a question about commissioning his league, settling score disputes. He says he's the commissioner, and they have a dispute, or they had a dispute about a tie last year, which he solved by changing scoring to decimals.

Which is great. Every league should have decimal scoring. What is your opinion on ties and how to resolve them? Well, I think you did the right thing there. If you still have a decimal tie, most leagues that we're in go to bench points. Bench first. I mean, it's almost impossible to have a tie in decimals in the regular and then a tie on your bench in decimals. That's not going to happen. I'm not even going to address it. There you go. So I would do bench points as the secondary measure.

Decimals should solve it. I'll tell you this. Ever since we switched to decimals in our League of Record, we've had zero ties. That is entirely not true. Really? Yeah. We had one? Yep. Just one, though, right? I think so. But it is rare. So, and then it was solved by bench points. Yeah. So it just makes it easier because, and decimals, just speaking to league formats, I like them a lot because they...

They get you a little bit more connected to what's taking place on the field. You know, everything that happens, you're not waiting for thresholds to get broken. You get a result. You know, you got catches a seven-yard pass. You get 0.7 points. Right. I mean, you get... You get what you should get. You get what you deserve from that. So it's a lot more fun in that regard. So, again, we're going to debate the merits of Antonio Brown and Levy on Bell here soon in the show after the show. I cannot wait to make the case.

I don't know why we didn't pick something more controversial that Mike would disagree with, that he can't voice himself. Yeah, well, that's, yeah, that's okay. Mono-e-Mano. Yeah, exactly. So make sure that you follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. If you don't know, we're going to be recording all off-season long and into the draft season. We've got a lot of things that as a show, you know, we do this.

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