Week 4 Buy or Sell + PANIC ROOM Players - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/30

See? See? Let's go. I will. Let's go. Okay. It's football time. There might be like a question mark. A little bit of a pubescent voice when you say it. All right. The O and three Denver Broncos take on the O and three New York Jets. Here's what's on the line. If Adam Gaze loses this game, he could be out on his keister. He could be gone.

And so we get to watch Sam Dornold face Brett Rippin. And, well, there you go. Vic Fangio doesn't even know his quarterback's name. So he called him Mark Rippin. You guys remember Mark Rippin? Either of you do? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The name's familiar. Yeah, I mean, Washington Redskins, if you grew up watching football, quarterback for the Redskins. Oh. So he was actually, he was great. He was a good quarterback. All right. But this is his son.

And Vic thought it might be his father when he called him Mark. But here we are. Fantasy-wise, that is what we do. We talk about fantasy options for this game. You are looking at... All right, great news. The quarterbacks are out. The quarterback are out. Get them out of there. Yep. Melvin Gordon, I actually think I'm quite content, happy to play Melvin Gordon. He will bounce back in this game because it's the Jets. Mm-hmm.

Frank Gore, he's averaging 18 rushes a game. He must be a start, right, Jason? Jason? Nope. No, I'm not starting Frank Gore. No, I'm not either. You've got the 30th in points per drive versus the 32nd in points per drive. You know, outside of Melvin Gordon, you know, I might start Jerry Judy in a pinch in a desperate situation and no affant.

And then whoever the PPR wide receiver is, whether it's Crowder, if he's in or Barrios, if he's out. Yeah, so where are you, Andy, on Braxton Barrios? Let's say, let's go through the exercise. Jameson Crowder ruled out. Yeah. I mean, it still is Sam Darnold. So it's, you know, it's at least their starting quarterback. The Denver Broncos currently 28th.

against fantasy wide receivers. There's an opportunity here. Would you go Braxton Barrios or Hunter Renfro? Renfro. Case close. That was too easy. It was too easy. Barrios is setting up, unfortunately, like a trap. Barrios or Sammy Watkins? Watkins. I just chose Watkins in a start set on this show. I thought it would be closer. That was smart. No, here's the problem.

It's Braxton Barrios. And the last two weeks, his fantasy production, well respectable, 16th, 24th. You should start him, right? I mean, he scored both weeks. If he doesn't score, you're going to sit there with a five or six point week with Braxton Barrios. And you have, it just seems like it's a desperation PPR dart throw despite the past two weeks. I've turned the corner on Barrios. It's chasing points.

You know what I mean? When you're going based off the past and saying, I, oh man, I don't want to miss out on his touchdown last week. Well, guess what? You did. So move on. I would rather chase points here. Which I've never said before. All right. I also have another very difficult question. Who wins this game? I think it's probably the Jets, unfortunately. Jason, who wins this game? I.

I believe it will be the Broncos, but the world, the entire world, is rooting for the Broncos to win, and this is where Adam Gaze comes through and keeps his job and wins the game. But I think the better roster is, even with the third-string quarterback, who is not as good, you know, as Sam Darnold, I think the team and the coaching and everything else is better.

on the Broncos side. Mike? I think the Jets win. A reminder to take your Thursday night players out of the flex. Or just out of your lineups altogether. Or out of your lineup. You could do that. Take Malcolm Gordon out of your flex, put him in your running back spot. He might be in as a flex. That way you have some room to move. Looks like we'll have a game on Monday or Tuesday as of right now with the Titans game. So that'd be good. Brooks, is there any...

Real key Thursday night players that you've been just dying to hear us break down? Nope. All right. Let's do some mailbag. Mailbag. Mail bag. All right. If you have a question, go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click the submit a question button or dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. We have a voicemail question to kick us off. Hey, guys. Big fan on the show. I've been listening for three years now. I had a commissioner question.

Two guys in my league who dropped David Johnson or Levi-on-Bell this week. What should I do? We think that's kind of crazy. Thanks. So some rage drops, some rage quitters? Why would you drop? And what do you do? That's so bizarre. He's... He's great. He's been good. I mean, he hasn't been, like, outstanding, but he's been passable. They started the year, what, Chiefs, Raven Steelers? Yeah, and looking at our strength of schedule,

uh tool like he is he's set up for for some good matchups here i'm just i don't think i think the question is more like what do you do as a commissioner mike in a situation where somebody drops an undropable what do you do you do you just let everybody bid on that player or do you put them back on the roster i guess it's pretty arbitrary why i was working through it is like david johnson i don't get it levion bell you know let's say you have we don't know the size of this bench maybe you don't have an ir slot and you're

and you're like, I don't want to hold on to Levi-on-Bel. I'm just going to drop him. To me, you can make the case for it. I wouldn't do it. I don't advise anybody to do that, but you can at least make the case. David Johnson simply doesn't make sense. So I guess I needed to work through that process first. So how do you handle that as a commissioner? You don't. I mean, you let it happen. Hopefully you have FAB. Hopefully you don't have.

waiver priority that's just resetting every single week. So the worst team gets to pick up all these players for free. I wouldn't do anything. I mean, I remember we had back quite a few years ago in the League of Record, David Wilson. You remember David Wilson? Running back for the Giants. He was a first round pick at the time of our draft. I can't remember who his teammate was, but he broke his leg.

in the preseason week three. All of a sudden, David Wilson's the start. That's the year. Then David Wilson comes out. He fumbles right away. Yeah, full fab went out on David Wilson. And, well, no, he was, Wilson was drafted. Coughlin benches him because, you know, got to be a man. You got to teach him a lesson. Someone in our league dropped David Wilson. And it seemed like the stupidest thing that anybody had ever done. And we all, there was a hullabaloo about it.

Someone dropped the full hundred here on David Wilson, and it was completely the incorrect decision. David Wilson never did anything that entire season or his career. So I'm just letting this play out. If it was done, though, by a manager that's giving up. Because that could happen. That happens in league. Somebody is furious. They're upset. They don't like the league.

they dump all the players. At that point, you've got to put them back on the roster and bring in a new... If it's a full roster dump, then yeah. You have to put them in, put the players back. You have to lock that team and you have to unfortunately remove that person, which is easier said than done because it might be your friend. One more question from John in Arizona. Should I trade James Robinson for Joe Mixing right now? Oh, man. That is a tough question because James Robinson has been so good.

So we have the details. This is an eight-person league. So in an eight-team league, I think I would make the move. I would make the move. Grab Joe Mixon, hope you can weather out the storm. This is exactly what happened to Joe Mixon last year. He was terrible to start the year. Joe Burrow looks like a legitimate franchise quarterback. I know Jason was showering him with praise earlier maybe a couple weeks ago, but I'm with him. Joe Burrow looks fantastic.

The attempts are there for Joe Mixon. The running back share is there. I think the touchdowns will end up, they will end up coming for Joe Mixon. So I'm willing to take this chance because I think that the ceiling should Joe Mixon hit it is higher than what James Robinson can sustain with Jacksonville. It's zero touchdowns for Mixon on the year so far, three for James Robinson across three games. That is the majority difference. I would do the deal. I would rather have Joe Mixon rest of season. It's tough, though.

That will be a tough trade to actually hit the XF button. Yeah. Those are the toughest ones when you have a player that's playing really well and a player that isn't. You're making a gamble. You're betting. Later today, we've got the Footcast, the bonus weekly episode of the show. You can get access to that at join the foot.com. Tomorrow we've got matchups. We've got starts of the week, taking it to 100 players. It's going to be a great episode tomorrow. Make sure you tune in, subscribe. We'll talk to you then. Goodbye.

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