Bucky Irving (Live Q&A)

If we had a thumbnail for Tedoro McMillan, he probably would be the title of this live stream because that's the main story in my mind right now for fantasy football. Of course, we will talk about it all as we always do.

But here, Cooper Kupp and AJ Barner both listed questionable for week 10. Expectations in my mind will be you do not start either one of these players, and if you do, you are a psychopath. Now, Tory Holt listed doubtful for week 10. Again, doesn't really matter to me. They just traded for Rasheed Shaheed. So, you're not starting Tory Holt. You're not starting, you don't start any of these players. Bill Cross not listed on the injury report for week 10. They did make Chris Rodriguez a team captain though. So, it does look like Chris Rodriguez is very much going to be um involved, and it's a bad offense. JaKory Cross doesn't catch the ball. So, do not start JaKory. Terry McLaurin officially listed as out for week 10.

Aaron Jones on his status says, "I do feel good. Continue to take it each day. I still have two days, so I feel like I'll be in a good spot." Um, if we are looking at what we have when it comes to the playability of Jordan Mason. In my mind, it all hinges on what we have with Aaron Jones. If Aaron Jones is a-okay, then really there's no reason for you to be playing Jordan Mason.

Now, let's move this over to Penei. Not listed on the injury report for week 10. Great for all Detroit Lions players. Christian Gonzalez not listed on the injury report. KT not listed on the injury report, which obviously will make Loveland a little less exciting, especially knowing that Luther Burton will be good to go as well. Um, DeAndre Swift suffered a foot injury in week 10, waiting on a second opinion. So, this will be 100% something that we are going to need to monitor going into this next week where if Dobbins were to miss some time, if this foot injury does seem serious, then all of a sudden RJ Harvey may turn into a league-winning running back. So, if you're in a shallower format and somehow some way RJ Harvey is currently sitting out there on the waiver wire for you, I would do anything I could to add R.J. Harvey to your team. Michael Pittman Jr. not listed on the report. We'll be good to go. Um, Cedric Tillman, Harold Fannon. Um, Fannon did get in practice today, which was good news. Um, I actually have him on the bench on my team. I'm not really planning on starting him regardless. So, Madre, Kaan Booty both ruled out for week 10. Stefon Diggs looks like a great play. Trevian Henderson viable as well.

Ben Johnson says, "I believe in a guy having the hot hand. One guy, if he's feeling it and giving us a spark, we may lean on that a little bit longer." Um, DeAndre Swift also has something from a personal news standpoint that obviously we don't know. It's not our business that caused him to miss practice today. And DeAndre Swift is actually questionable now for the game on Sunday. So if Swift were to miss, then obviously you should say Calvin Nunga is a must-start running back.

Tedo McMillan pops up with a hamstring injury today. So if you are planning on having Tet in your lineup, you got to change your mind. And then the big story, Bucky Irving on Friday is ruled out and will not play week 10. So, if you go through the timeline that we have with Bucky Irving right now, you have no Bucky Irving at practice on Wednesday, no Bucky Irving at practice on Thursday, no Bucky Irving back, I mean on at practice on Friday, then he is ruled out on Friday. We don't even get uh oh, he's a game-time decision. So now all of a sudden I'm looking at this saying, "Well, you know what? Bucky obviously is not playing week 10." And I would assume if I had Bucky Irving, he's not playing week 11. Maybe I'm wrong here. Maybe he does make it back. But he has to get cleared for contact, dealing with both the shoulder and the foot injury. So I wouldn't plan on having Buck Irving anytime soon. I wouldn't plan on having Chris Godwin for a month. It's absolutely brutal. It sucks. Um, Rashad White's the play between the two of them. Shawn Tucker did expand his role a little bit in week eight though. So it's not like um Rashad White's an auto-start the way that he had been in the past and games in which Bucky missed. But yeah, I mean I again, if you had Bucky Irving, would not be planning on starting him obviously this week when he's already been ruled out. But I don't think you get him week 11 either. I think you're hoping that he comes back week 12, week 13. And keep in mind, we have weeks 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. You have five weeks left until the fantasy football playoff stretch. So, if you're fighting for a playoff spot and you have Buck Irving right now, RIP.

And then let's see if there's anything else that is um again, James Cook good to go. Rico Dowdle good to go. Those are two players that popped up missing practice on Wednesday, but they are just fine. Um, Jayden Daniels is not going to get placed on the injured reserve immediately. I still wouldn't plan on having anything with Jaden Daniels. So the big thing in my mind will be Dobbins pops up with a foot injury today. Tedo McMillan pops up with a hamstring and also Buck Irving's ruled out on a Friday. So I think you need to lower your expectations in a big-time way, to be honest.

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Okay, now let's move this over. Wa says, "Hey, Mason. Think this is the final product, but curious on any upgrades you think we can make. Sweat my butt off. Need the fan on." Um, depth doesn't really matter as much. Yeah, it's a 10 team, two wide receiver, one flex format. So, I'm not worried about the depth here at all. Also, what kicker should I use for Aubrey on bye, as well as streaming defenses? I don't use Denver tomorrow. Okay. I will say that I have no freaking idea when it comes to kickers, my friend. For my own fantasy team, I had um the Houston kicker and then he gets ruled out, so I had to pivot over to the Buffalo Bills kicker, but I'm not going to be um uh an expert on telling you which kicker you want. Frankly, I have no idea, my friend.

And one thing that we can actually do which is pretty cool now on the site is we can go ahead and look at the trades that you have made or the recent trades in your league. So I can see um how often people are actually trading in your league and it looks like people are willing to make deals. Now I will say if the trade calculator, I'm sorry, if the my team's page is pulling this in correctly. What the hell were you doing with this Kareem Hunt trade? Why did you go out there and trade Rashad White for Kareem Hunt? You clearly lost that trade in my mind, my friend. Now, other trades that we made um 13 days ago, you were able to trade Kamani Vidal coming off the big performance for David Montgomery. That looks great. Um, couple weeks back you traded Dalton Kincaid. I'm sorry, you traded Pitman, Jordan Mason, and TJ Atkinson for Dalton Kincaid. Really hope we didn't do that. But yeah, anyway, for how we are sitting right now, again, the depth's not going to be super important for our team in particular, it is a 10 team, two wide receiver, one flex format. Um, for that reason, I like us having the elite level quarterback. And, um, we do have the elite quarterback with Josh Allen. So, sitting with Josh Allen here, he's going to make up a super high percentage of your starting lineup output weekly. There's just absolutely nothing that you need to worry about here. He's already through the by-week as well. You are a-ok.

Okay. Going over to running back, you have Bijan, Devin Singletary, David Montgomery, Woody Marks, and Kareem Hunt. Again, I'm not a fan of you going through and making that play is selling Rashad White for Kareem Hunt. I just don't know what world you ever are starting Kareem Hunt in a format that's this shallow. Like, I think you could actually have considered putting Rashad White into your flex spot this week given the Bucky injury. Then going over to wide receiver, you have Rasheed Rice, Nico Collins, Zay Flowers. So you have three startable wide receivers. In tight end, you have Dalton Kincaid, Hunter Henry. So I really like the team the way that it's situated right now. I would like it a hell of a lot more if you were in a spot in which you didn't trade Rashad White for Kareem Hunt.

Based off what we just got with the word that um DeAndre Swift missed practice with personal reasons and at the same time you end up having Ben Johnson coming out saying that they're going to ride the hot hand. I think Kyle Pitts is a player that should be on your roster. And honestly, I would go ahead. I would drop either Kareem Hunt or Hunter Henry to pick up Kyle Pitts because if DeAndre Swift were to miss this week, I mean, he is a player that could win you your week from the flex and you have no Rashi Rice on bye and this is a five and four team. So, we definitely still need to be thinking about this in the short term here. And again, you have the elite running backs, you have the elite quarterback, you have three startable wide receivers. You don't have enough depth where we could come through and say like, "Oh yeah, let's go through and let's sell Jawan Jennings and Dalton Kincaid and go get a better tight end." Like realistically, nobody's going to be trading for that depth piece because it's a 10 team, two wide receiver, one flex. So, I really like the team with how it's situated now. I just think the main thing that I would look to do is I'd look to pick up Kyle Pitts from the waiver wire and I'd probably drop Kareem Hunt to do it. I'd drop Hunter Henry to do it. Just whoever you like more between the two players. And then in general, I like the idea of what you did a couple weeks back trying to trade for a better tight end. But a big thing that we have when it comes to I don't know. Big thing with Dalton Kincaid as well, the points per game have been just fine. What I'm going to be held up on is the fact that he's just not getting on the field consistently. Let me move this over. Like, we can actually pull this up on flockfantasy.com now. Okay, Dalton Kincaid right now is averaging 43% of the snaps for the Buffalo Bills. So, it's hard for me to call him like the elite level tight end. So, I like the idea of trading for a better tight end. I just don't necessarily know if you have the depth to do it. I would try to send Woody Marks and Kincaid to get a better tight end if we can, but it's just much much easier said than done. If you can go Woody Marks and Kincaid and somehow get yourself George Kittle, I would love it. But again, easier said than done. I appreciate you and really hope that I was able to help you out in some way with this. And yeah, main thing I would just do on your team is try to pick up Kyle Pitts and roll with it as is. I like the squad.

Now, let's move this over. Double A four and five and made several moves this week and trying to push for the playoff/upgrade my positions, specifically wide receiver one, wide receiver 2 and/or RB2. I have a pending trade going through Thursday morning, shipping off Breece Hall and Jordan Addison for Lamar, but my team is the same otherwise, looking for trade targets and advice. Okay, so we are fourth in the league analyzer. We just got Lamar Jackson, which honestly kind of saved us from starting Bo this week. We are four and five as well. So the points definitely matter here in the short term. It's a two wide receiver, one flex format. So again, that depth's not going to matter much. So we have the elite quarterback. We have the elite tight end with Lamar and Brock Bowers. I like that in a two wide receiver, one flex league. Obviously, Bowers doesn't really do anything last night, which puts us in a compromising spot, especially knowing that we also probably started Courtland Sutton. And I would say the big thing that does not matter in a league like yours is going to be wide receiver depth. That's going to be the least important part of your overall roster. And if we're going to look at what we have with the wide receiver depth of this team, it's non-existent. You have Alec Pierce, Christian Watson, and Jayden Reed. So, in general, like when we are trying to make trades in a league like this, if it's a two wide receiver, one flex format, yeah, I like selling our wide receiver three. I like selling our wide receiver four and seeing if we can go get an upgrade inside the starting lineup, which you've already done a good job of going through and selling Jordan Addison in that deal to see if we can get that upgrade to Lamar. So, I already love that move that we've made. Let me see if there have been any other trades that we've made here. Um, we went through and we traded Chris Godwin and Jakory Crosky Merritt to get Tony Pollard and Jordan Addison. That looks great. So, essentially, you were able to parlay that Jakori Crosky Merritt, Godwin deal and you threw in Breece Hall to do it to go over and get Lamar Jackson. So, I actually really like that setup that you have. And then in terms of waiver wire pivots, there's not necessarily anything that I'd be looking at doing. I mean, one thing that is kind of obvious with Lamar already through his bye, but if there was a world in which you could send Bo Nix and Alec Pierce and get a wide receiver upgrade, or Bo Nix and Tony Pollard and go get a running back upgrade, we would love to do so. And then going through and looking at the teams in your league that are the worst at quarterback. Um, this team down here has Baker Mayfield and that's it. Maybe they wanted to go ahead and pick up a name like Bo Nix as well. And realistically, I mean, if you could try to send them Bo Nix and get back like Khalil Shakir, maybe you would. In terms of other moves to make, it's really just going to be that simple. Again, it's a two wide receiver, one flex format where the main thing that we are trying to do is we are trying to sell the skill positional depth at wide receiver or running back to get an upgrade inside the starting lineup, which you've already done a great job of that. We're built around the two elite onesies. So, really, it's just like if you can get any value out of Bo Nix selling him, I would. But, it's going to be much tougher to do that now after Bo Nix just looked horrendous last night. But I really appreciate you and hope I was able to help you out in some way with this, my friend.

Now, let's move this over to K Soliner. Longtime member of the flock says, "Three and six, need a win out. Traded for Gibbs and he blew it for me this week. I'm up against the number one guy. Is there anything I can do or am I cooked? I've just had the worst luck." So, we are a Monday night dog in you. We are currently the third team in the league analyzer. We've scored the fourth most points in this league. We've had the fifth most points scored against us. So, how the hell are you three and six? It's a league in which depth is going to matter. It's a start eight format. We have Jawan Johnson a play this week at tight end. Not the worst play in the world knowing that they traded Shaheed. So, there are just targets available. I would actually consider picking up David Njoku though instead of Jawan Johnson, especially if Harold Fannon were to miss. Harold Fannon obviously missed practice with the hamstring on Thursday. He did practice today, but yeah, I I think David Njoku is a better player than Jawan Johnson. The Cleveland Browns project to be a better offense, especially knowing that the Jets have given up on the season. So, I would drop Jawan. I would pick up David Njoku for the play this week. Going over and looking at the other waiver wire names that you have, you have Zamir White. I would probably drop Darnell Mooney for Zamir White. I think I would also drop Isaiah Davis for Tyler Allgeier now that Breece Hall has officially not been traded. And then going over to quarterback, we have Lamar, Caleb. Lamar already threw his bye. So, Caleb would be a very easy player that if we could, we would like to sell. Um, and you're in a very compromising position here being three and six, needing to win out. You have no Chase Brown this week on the bye. You have no PCO. Um, you have no Jake Ferguson. T.J. Hockenson pops up on the injury report. Courtland Sutton gives you an absolute nothing burger this week. Um, what I would try to do here if possible is I know this is like marginal and it in general sounds like a horrible way to build your team long term and I would agree it's a bad way to build your team long term, but if you're three and six, we can't just be thinking long term for this roster. We need to be thinking about how we actually get points in here in the short term as well. So, like I actually wouldn't be opposed to going through and seeing if you could just flip off some of these players that haven't gone through their byes. I'm sorry. That Yeah. or going through their byes this week for names instead that I don't know that have already gone through them even if they're going to be slightly worse from a points per game perspective. Like a great example of a player that on a three and six team I'm looking to sell is if you're three and six pivoting from T.J. Hockenson who has a bye week in week 14 who pops up with a hamstring injury this week where you don't know if T.J.'s going to be playing pivoting from T.J. Hockenson and instead moving over and getting to a player like Khalil Shakir even if T.J.'s going to be a better option from a points per game perspective rest of season. But Khalil Shakir's already gone through his bye week and Khalil Shakir is fully healthy at the moment. Like that's a move that I would want to make, especially here in a 12 team start eight format. Going over and looking at other names similar to this, like Chase Brown going through the week 10 bye or like Jake Ferguson going through the week 10 bye. If there was any world in which you could sell Jake Ferguson and you could move off of him and go get to an option like George Kittle, I think that'd be something I would be very interested in. So, let's see other running backs that have already gone through their by-weeks that you could potentially sell Chase Brown for that you're going to get the extra week from him. Like if you could sell Chase Brown for Quinnin Judkins and obviously these running backs need to be healthy if you're making that move. I hate to say it. I think Chase Brown like if you could sell Chase Brown for Jaylen Warren, right? Jaylen Warren already through the bye, you're going to get the extra startable week. If you could sell Chase Brown for Breece Hall, I think those are additional moves that we would like to make. Even if you like Chase Brown slightly more from a points per game perspective, you're three and six. We can't afford to fall to three and seven. It's a 12 team start eight format. You're going to have a tough time actually submitting a starting lineup here, like having enough players to put in. So, that's the move that I would be looking to make here, my friend. But, I really appreciate you as always. Thank you for sticking with me for so long and I hope I was able to help you out in some way with this.

Okay, let's move this over to our next question. It's going to be from Smokey. Says, "Need some help, Mason. Currently number one in the league. The fantasy gods are on my side this year. Not sure how I got so far with this team. Is there anything I can do to make this team a playoff winner? Thank you for the help. And let's go get 400,000 subs. Really appreciate you, my guy." Um, let's dive into this. We are currently fourth in this league when it comes to the league value. I'm sorry, the value of the team according to the league analyzer. Looking at what we have when it comes to the points scored, you are third. And this is a team I mean this is a league with a lot of good records in it. Like this team down here at the very bottom is 0 and 9 which is fueling a lot of wins to these other teams that are seven and two, six and three. There are a lot of teams with great records here. Um, this is a 12 team start eight format. So, you are able to start up to four wide receivers here weekly. So, if you can start up to four wide receivers here weekly, like comfortable spot to build around wide receiver depth, I would say a very easy waiver wire pivot that I'd be looking at making right now would be there's no world in which you're ever going to play Tory Holt. Tory Holt injured. Not only is Tory Holt injured, but at the same time, they go out there and they trade for Shaheed. So, in what world are you ever putting this guy into your starting lineup? Um, so I would drop Tory Holt. I would pick up a player like Matthew Golden that honestly maybe has more upside if we are looking at what you're going to get um for weeks 15, 16, 17 which is going to be a big thing here just given the idea that um you are seven and two so we should be optimizing for the fantasy football playoffs. So I would drop Tory Holt. I would pick up Matthew Golden. You could pick up Jayden Reed if you would want instead. And honestly running back is a massive concern. So I think Breece Hall, Tyler Allgeier are both there as well. Well, I would say in general like I am a-ok. Okay. If you wanted to go through and if you wanted to if you wanted to roster two tight ends, if your tight end one was Mark Andrews, obviously I'm not super excited about Mark Andrews going into the future. So, it makes sense to potentially have two of these guys, but like in reality, your running back room is so bad that I would like to open up a roster spot for a player like Breece Hall and a player like Tyler Allgeier where if you were to get injury to the player in front of them, they can turn into a league winning option. So, I would pick which tight end that you want to hold and which tight end that you want to play going into the future between Mark Andrews, Zach Ertz. I'd probably cut the other one and pick up a name like Breece Hall or Tyler Allgeier. Again, really, whichever one you prefer. I think that they're both very similar that I mean honestly with the thing is with how bad your running back room is where Jakory Crosky Merritt's currently our running back two. There's a very real world in which like Tyler Allgeier actually hits your starting lineup. So yeah, I would drop one of the tight ends. I would pick up Tyler Allgeier specifically probably because he would be more startable in the case of no injury to the starter in front of him between him and Hall. You don't want to roster a second quarterback because we have Jalen Hurts. We're a-ok there. Um, and then one thing that I would explore the possibility of, and it's always something that I would be hesitant to do. I don't want to tell you to do, but if you could get an insane value down tiering from one of your studs, whether that's Puka Nacua or De'Von Achane, and picking up additional startable pieces, it may be worth it. Like, let's go through and let's look at some teams that maybe have a lot of depth. Look at the depth that this team has. In terms of pieces you could move down to, if you could trade De'Von Achane and pick up the combination of both Kyren Williams as well as Zay Flowers, that may actually be something worth doing. This team here with CeeDee Lamb, they have DeAndre Swift as their RB3. If you could pivot from Puka Nacua and pick up like CeeDee Lamb as well as Jaylen Warren, it may be interesting. This team has James Cook. If you could pivot from Puka Nacua to like Davante Adams and James Cook. Again, if you were to make a move like this, you are going to have to make sure that it's an absolute smash win on your side of the trade. Like it's always so scary to tell somebody to trade away Puka to tell somebody to trade away a player like De'Von Achane. So it would have to be two players that you deem are top 12 options at their position. Um, and because it's a 12 team start eight format as opposed to a 12 team start seven one. it may be something worth doing because the depth's going to matter in a league like this and you just frankly are so behind if you're having to put Jakory Crosky Merritt into your running back two spot as well as knowing that De'Von Achane's also going to have to go through his bye week in week 12. I know that bye week short term not too worrisome for us because we are seven and two, but I would still look at it. But I really appreciate you and really hope I was able to help you out in some way with this, my friend.

Okay, now let's move this over to our next question. It's going to be coming out from Jonah Sanders. Says, "I'm four and five and we need a win this week. Javante on bye. Thank you to making a move. We need wide receiver help. I was offered Judkins and DJ Moore for Kyren. Could try to get Deebo instead of DJ. Is there another move we should look to make?" Okay, we are Miles Sanders, Judkins and DJ Moore for Kyren. DJ Moore here in a two wide receiver one flex format is going to be it looks like we actually maybe made this trade. Yeah, you traded Kyren for Judkins and DJ Moore, which I'm fine with if it was a 12 team start eight format. So you had multiple flex spots, but if it's a two receiver, one flex, it's just going to be a little bit tougher for me here. But anyway, looking at this, we have the elite quarterback with Lamar. Puts us in a very nice position so far where you're not having to roster a backup quarterback. You get the open roster spot to spend elsewhere. I will say because it's a two receiver, one flex, I don't love the fact that we are rostering this many receivers. Obviously, we can say that uh when our wide receiver two is Troy Franklin, we are kind of behind at the position. So, it's understandable if Mike Evans is actually like if you have either Mike Evans or Brandon Aiyuk on your actual bench and not your injured reserve, like say you only have one IR slot and you have Mike Evans there and Brandon Aiyuk on your bench, then you need to go ahead and you need to cut Mike Evans to open up a roster spot for us to hopefully hit on the next Rico Dowdle, hit on the next Rashad White, hit on a running back coming off the waiver wire that does turn into a must-start player weekly. And if we were to look at those running backs off waivers, the two names that I always like bringing up is going to be Breece Hall and Tyler Allgeier. So like if you could cut Mike Evans and pick up like Breece Hall, I would like to do that. Running back, we have Javante, Judkins, DeAndre Swift. So, I mean, we are fine here unless DeAndre Swift does turn to dust. With DeAndre Swift now being questionable for this weekend, you may need an additional running back start, which puts you in a very compromising position because you're in a situation in which I mean, you're four and five. You need to be winning games right now. Tight end, we have Loveland, Kyle Pitts, T.J. Hockenson. In general, I don't love rostering three tight ends. In general, I would consider like if this was my league, my league, T.J. Hockenson isn't rostered, and both Breece Hall and Tyler Allgeier are. So, I would probably go ahead cut T.J. Hockenson, cut Mike Evans if you can. Again, if you only have one IR slot and maybe Brandon Aiyuk's there and pick up like Breece Hall, Tyler Allgeier and then in terms of looking for trades, I don't necessarily see anything like what's the expendable value that you have on this team? um what what player holds value that's not hitting our starting lineup that we need to fill a hole. There's not a single name, but because it's a two receiver, one flex, I don't think you need to worry about like down tiering from Lamar. Like, depth matters here, but it doesn't matter enough to make you trade away Lamar Jackson just to get a name in your starting lineup now, if that makes sense. But I really appreciate you and really hope that I was able to help you out in some way with this. I think the main thing that you look to do here is really just go through and make the waiver wire pivots to be honest. Okay. But again, really do appreciate you. I hope I was able to help you out in some way.

Now, let's move this next one over to It's Keegan says, "Just traded Tyler Warren for Rico Dowdle. Think that was worth my spot? Any other changes you could see helping us?" Okay, so we also Why are you Well, you're hiding things from us, my friend. Now that we are able to see the exact trades that y'all made, we can see you also had to send them T. Higgins to Wel Robinson. If it was just Rico Dowdle versus Tyler Warren, it's going to be Rico Dowdle for me. But we're also having a down tier from T.A. against two Wandale does get a little bit tougher. Now, other trades that we have made, you were somehow able to trade away Courtland Sutton for Kyren Williams, which obviously looks incredible. Now let's move this back. Okay. So looking at the waiver wire, I will say that there are very easy pivots that you have to make right this second. In my mind, RJ Harvey has to be rostered with the J.K. Dobbins injury report that we got today. Dobbins injured his foot in the game yesterday. He says he's going to be looking for a second opinion, but with the J.K. Dobbins injury history that we have. I mean, I think that RJ Harvey is a priority roster across every league because of the DeAndre Swift uncertainty. I wouldn't fault you if you wanted to hold on to Kyle Pitts, but at the very minimum, you have to cut Jameson Williams and you have to pick up RJ Harvey. It's a start eight format. We have Baker Mayfield at quarterback, a quarterback that we can start pretty much every week going into the future. We are chilling there. Going over to running back again, start eight format, so the depth's going to matter a little bit more. You have Dowdle, Kyren, Chase Brown, Amari Hampton. For long-term value, we are five and four, so it's not like we're in a position where we absolutely need to win. Um, so like I'm okay with us holding on to Amari Hampton and not selling him for pennies on the dollar. Wide receiver, you have Lamb, London, T.J. Hockenson, Wandale Robinson. So we have four startable receivers and we have the two tight ends. One thing that I would consider doing with how strong your team is, especially if you can just pick up RJ Harvey for free, is I would actually see if you could go and trade for the true elite level quarterback. Like if you wanted to send, say like Chase Brown and Baker Mayfield, and go ahead and try to get to Lamar Jackson, try to get to Josh Allen. like I think you can afford to do so even though it's a start eight format and the depth here matters a bit again if you're able to open up that roster spot you can pick up RJ Harvey for free you can pick up Xavier Worthy for free hell Brian Thomas, Ricky Pier are both out there on waivers. So, I would love to see if you can get an upgrade at quarterback. I think your team can absorb sending away Chase Brown to get that done. And there are a lot of teams in your league that I'm sure need help at running back that'd be willing to make that kind of pivot. Yeah. But before you do anything here, before you even bother sending out a single trade offer, the number one thing that you have to do in my opinion is you absolutely have to drop Jameson Williams and pick up RJ Harvey off waivers. But I really appreciate you and really hope I was able to help you out in some way here, my friend. But let me move this over and let's see if we can get over to some of these quick questions. the trade questions, start set questions, um, etc., etc. Here from Rudy, um, wide receiver, you have no Lamb, so you're going to have to figure out somebody off of the waiver wire. Um, based off all the injuries in Seattle, maybe actually Shaheed's probably not on your waivers, but I can't see your waiver wire in a start set question. And then here for the flex, you're going to have no Bucky Irving. So, it's like Kyle Pitts, Woody Marks, Tyler Warren. I'd plan on going Tyler Warren unless DeAndre Swift is officially ruled out. And if DeAndre Swift is officially ruled out, then at that point you pivot over to Kyle Pitts. Now, Bitter Hornet says, "Who should I start at the flex? Do we drop an injured Harold Fannon and pick up Theo Johnson or Jawan or just keep Loveland?" Um, realistically, I'd probably hold on to Harold Fannon because he did get back to practice today and he is listed as questionable for Sunday. So, it seems like he has a shot. And then if we are looking at our flex play, I would have preferred avoiding J.M.O., but you have no Rice, you have no Pier, you have no Aiyuk, you have no Chase Brown. So, you do simply have to go ahead and play Jameson Williams, but obviously we're not super excited about it where you do have an incredibly low floor. Now, Bitter Hornet trading Tyler Warren for De'Von Achane. I would do this very easily, my friend, and I'd be willing to go ahead and add another piece to get this done. Um, such as like Aaron Jones. I think it would be a no-brainer. Now, the other trade that would be looking at Tyler Warren for Puka. Same thing. I would trade Tyler Warren for Puka in a heartbeat and I'd be willing to add another piece like Terry McLaurin to get it done.

Okay, Lucky Trick here at quarterback between McCarthy, Love, Dak. Dak's on bye. Um, I actually may go McCarthy against Baltimore over Love. It's really tough. I think that they're in a similar tier and it is going to be up to you. I'd rather have Love rest of season, but you have a ton of injuries with the Packers right now and at the same time you have a really tough matchup going up against Philly. And then here for the flex, you're going to play Garrett Wilson pretty easily. Bitter Hornet trading Tyler Warren for Trevon and T.J. Hockenson. Here it's tough because T.J. Hockenson just pops up with a hamstring. So, it looks like it's maybe a tough spot for us to be able to tell you that like T.J.'s startable anytime soon. And I'd rather have Tyler Warren over Trevon Henderson. I definitely think it's a fair deal, but based off the fact that we don't have many tight ends on our team, like I'm not excited about this. Like I would prefer the other trades for sure if possible. Now Legend Wait For It Dairy here for the flex. We have no Bucky. So I think you plan on going with Kyle Pitts as well as Alec Pierce. Honestly, kind of regardless of if DeAndre Swift plays or not. Seek says it's a 2QB league. Should we make this deal for London? Um, it's a 10 team two quarterback format. So, here I would say if it was a 12 teamer, I probably keep the starting quarterback and Quinnin Judkins. But with it being a 10-teamer, everybody's going to be able to easily find two starting quarterbacks just given the supply and demand. So, you're not going to be able to charge as much. You're never starting Flacco with how good your two quarterbacks are. So, I'm okay if you decide to go ahead and make this move. Um, again, 12 teams if and also this being a superflex versus a two quarterback format is going to make things a little bit different. If it's a superflex league, I'm more excited to go with the London side, but if it's a true two quarterback format there, I would say you can make an argument on the Flacco end, but it's a fair deal regardless here. But your quarterbacks are strong enough where you can make it.

Now Smooth trading Kyle Pitts, T.J. Hockenson for Romeo Doubs. T.J. injured here at running back you have CMC, Derrick Henry, Sharp so you're fine with the running back depth. I would probably do this under the assumption that Um, I don't know. I'm sorry, but as long as Swift is good to go, I think I take Romeo Doubs. But if Swift like misses this week and looks to miss here in the short term, it'd be much tougher. But again, T.J. Hockenson now all of a sudden is injured as well where it looks like T.J.'s not going to be anything.

Okay, now BT99 says, "Who should I start my flex? Sam is my other tight end." I would go with I would maybe consider benching Sam LaPorta. Um, yeah, I think you probably have to start Rashad White here with no Bucky. But again, I think you could consider playing George Kittle over LaPorta. Can y'all please spam the chat? Who would y'all rather start this week? Would you rather go Kittle or Sam LaPorta? Are you going Kittle or LaPorta? Please let me know. Kittle, LaPorta, Kittle, LaPorta, LaPorta, LaPorta, Kittle, LaPorta, Kittle, Kittle, Kittle, Kittle, Kittle, LaPorta, LaPorta, LaPorta, Kittle, Kittle, Kittle, Kittle, Kittle. Looks like maybe more slightly more people are on the Kittle side of things, but again I could see you making an argument either way.

Now Iona is trading Rice, Jefferson, Cook, Benson for Jeudy, Wilson and two future firsts in Dynasty for me. If you're a rebuilder, which I'm assuming you are, there's no way you would make this trade if you were trying to contend. If you're a rebuilder, this is a great price to go and get the future picks and to get Malik Neighbors. I think you can go for it.

Okay, now our next question is Alfiti trading Walker, Franklin for Chase Brown and Worthy. I would rather have Chase Brown over Walker and I'd rather have Worthy over Franklin. So, I do that for sure. Kevin R trading Barkley, Kittle for Jamar Chase. Um, I have Saquon Barkley on my own team and I'll do that in a heartbeat. HCS here at running back we are going to go with the combo of Kyren Williams as well as Trevon Henderson. Wide receiver you play the combo of Amon-Ra St. Brown, Puka Nacua. In the flex. If healthy, I think you play T.J. Hockenson and probably Kamani Vidal, but your backup play if T.J. doesn't play is going to be Alec Pierce.

Okay, Now South says he's two and seven. He won't trade unless he's getting a clear win. It's an eight team league. The only thing that matters is in an eight team league is can you get the best player in the deal? Which for me, I have both Breece Hall and Nico Collins. And between the two of them, I probably think Nico is the best player in said deal. So I would like Romeo Doubs in an eight team format is simply never in your lineup.

Now our next question is going to be Dog on my knee. Running back you play Kyle Pitts regardless of the status of Swift for that team. You go Tyler Warren at tight end and then in your flex it's between like Dermacado Singletary, Allgeier and Pitts. I honestly may go Pitts here in a full PPR. Wicked Duck says I'm three and six 10 team three wide receiver zero flex tight end premium. Should we trade Kittle, Lamb for a Channon Pickens? Three and six. Focusing in on points right now. The team is Josh Allen, James Cook, Chase Brown, Dobbins, White, Jakory, Crosky, Merritt. Your running back room is not the best here, and you have Tyler Warren. So, obviously this being a tight end premium format, I think what we'll probably be most concerned with is the points per game that you're going to get from Kittle will be incredible. So, I don't want to sell him, but if you have Tyler Warren, you're honestly okay doing this. Like, Lamb, Achane, Pickens, none of these guys, and even Kittle, none of these players are through their bye week yet. So, they're all going to play the same amount of weeks going into the future. And if you have Warren, you're okay at tight ends. So yeah, I think you go Achane and Pickens. But let me send you over a bunch of free questions just in case there's anything else that you wanted to follow up with, my friend.

Okay. Now, Yosoy Fiesta here for the flex between Kittle and Trevon Henderson. For me, I would go with the running back that's just going to see the majority of the snaps now that you have no Madre Stevenson. So, I would go ahead. I would play Trevon. Now, Kobas. Okay. trading Zay Flowers, Jordan Addison for Nico Collins. For me, it's going to come if this is truly like a 12 team start 10 format, which is what it's saying here, I would want to hold on to the extra starter, I would want to have Zay Flowers and Addison. But if it's a shallow format or you only start two receivers in a flex then then I think you can make an argument for Nico, but like I have Nico Collins in my league which is a 12 team start eight and I'd probably trade Nico Collins for the combo of Zay Flowers and Jordan Addison. But if the depth doesn't matter in your league, then sure.

Okay, now looks like we just hit 200 likes. So, let me go ahead and send out some free questions in the chat if you'all wanted to qualify for free questions. Um, stupid simple. All you got to do is drop a like on the live stream and then drop your flockfantasy.com username in the chat. That way, if you win, I know who to send it to. But, Jags here, tight ends, Kittle or Loveland, give me Kittle. And then for the flex, we're going to go with Trevon Henderson with no Madre. JR B Hoopin go David Njoku over Theo Johnson with Harold Fannon banged up now. And then for the flex, you probably go DJ Moore, but I don't like it. Real W. Cheese running back, you're going to play Jordan Mason over Kenneth Walker with Aaron Jones banged up. Wide receiver, you'd take Addison and probably Quentin Johnston, both at wide receiver in the flex. But let me send out some free questions. This one's going to be going over to the legend of MD, I believe. Appreciate you hanging out with us on this live stream, my friend. The legend of Okay, perfect. Just found you and just sent you over a free start set question. Thank you.

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Now, Bill to the moon, running back. I'm sorry, it's just their running back best options, Rashad White. You probably want to put him into the flex. Your wide receiver best options, probably Parker Washington. And I honestly probably would start Kamani Vidal over like Parker Washington and the tight ends. Okay.

Um, Bitter Hornet always happy to see us. His whole bench on buy or questionable leaves me with just Singleary and the flex. Any better options on buy? Golden Tez, Chamira, DK, Theo Mason. If that's Jordan Mason, you pick up Jordan Mason for sure. Jawan Chuba Samson. Um, yeah. So, you're saying in the scenario in which you have no Tedo and McMillan and then obviously you have all these buys which you'd have to go with Devin Singleary. I would drop Singleary and start Tez Johnson over him. I would start if this is Jordan Mason, Jordan Mason's your top pickup. But yeah, either drop him for Jordan Mason and pick up Jordan Mason, put him in the lineup, or if that's not Jordan Mason, then I would go ahead and I would drop Devin Singleary and pick up TZ Johnson and play TZ Johnson.

Okay, now Bree's rights trading Tyler Warren for Kenneth Walker. Okay, we would have Lovelin left over at tight ends. So, you can't do this. Like, I'm okay if you think Lovelin's broken out for sure. He's here to stay and we 100% want to be banking on Lovelin rest of season. But my thing is one, I don't know if that's for sure the case. You now have Cole KT good to go as well as Luther Burden. Like, targets are going to be a little bit harder to come by. And at the same time, Kenneth Walker is just not startable. Like, I don't know what world I'd want to put Kenneth Walker into my lineup. So, I am okay if you really wanted to go through and if you really wanted to sell one of the tight ends and pick up an extra running back. I just don't think that can be your move there. So, for that reason, I think you hold on to Tyler Warren.

Now, Sukster trading Chase Brown, Garrett Wilson for Drake London. Okay. 10 team, two wide receiver, one flex. Leftover running back, you'd have Bejon Henderson, Kyle Manungai. This is typically a league in which you want to sell the depth and get the best player in the deal, but honestly, I think I'd hold on to the running back with Chase Brown.

Bitter Hornet says, "T. hurt the hamstring in practice. Should we grab Coker or Legette and start them?" I wouldn't. I would go Dow Bejian at running back. Wide receiver, you're playing Juanale J Mo. Tight end Loveland. And then in the flex, like I said, I would still rather go and pick up Jordan Mason. I would still rather pick up Tez Johnson as opposed to like Jaylen Coker and Legette would be such thin plays. I drafted a lot of Xavier Legette in underdog basketball draft. So I like hope Legette does something. But Tedro McMillan in my opinion is a very talented wide receiver that his talent was still not able to overcome this situation. Xavier Legette in my opinion is not a talented wide receiver and he's going to have that garbage quarterback play. So I would opt Jordan Mason.

TZ Johnson says, "With Fannon hurt and K.T. playing, should we drop Fannon to grab K.T. Utton and start him?" I wouldn't. Again, I just think that Kate Uton not a great player. I would still roll with um Loveland between them to be honest. And then is this the same team? Yeah, this is the same. Um, is it time to drop McLaren and pick up Bateman? No, you can't pick up Rashad Bateman. Bateman's literally just done nothing this season. And I mean, you've had a large enough sample with Bateman where he was drafted in 2021 and he's never been a viable starting player. I would hold on to Scary Terry instead.

And then Bitter Hornet says, "Fields or JJ McCarthy?" Let me see what the underdog projections are here. Um, because the thing with Fields is the Browns are favored in this game after the Jets traded all their defensive players. Though Fields will probably be forced to drop back in the second half and obviously you have rushing upside. Um, the McCarthy projections are just so bad passing volume-wise and obviously he's not going to run the ball as much. But I do think McCarthy probably gives you a higher floor than Fields does. I think Fields gives you the ceiling based off rushing. I think McCarthy gives you the floor. So, it's maybe gonna come down to how much of a favorite are you in your league? But let me go make sure that we send you over some more questions, my guy. Okay. But if you are a heavy favorite, I probably want Fields. If you're a heavy dog, I pro I'm sorry. If you're a heavy favorite, I probably want McCarthy. If you're a heavy dog, I probably prefer Fields.

Okay, now let's move this over to our next one. This is Nicholas trading Bejon for Josh Jacobs and Nico Collins. 12 team start eight format right now. Our wide receivers, you have Lad, Ro McBuka. Running back, you have uh not much depth here at all. Jacobs and Bejon are both already through their buy. Realistically for my own team, I have Josh Jacobs and Nico Collins, and I think I would trade both of them in a two for one deal if it got me behind as that second piece to down tier four Josh Jacobs. I think what you would probably want in my opinion is I think you'd want another running back.

Now Reese skull here. Bree or Henderson? Give me Bree. A wide receiver. Give me a L. Tight end. Give me Tyler Borin. And then in the flex, I'd probably take Travion Henderson. I just like starting running backs, especially in the flex, that you just know are going to get guaranteed volume.

Now, Xvar is trading Dowel and Rasheed Rice for CMC and Piol. Leftover receiver. It's a two receiver, one flex league. You'd have Lad, Marvin, Harrison. Brian Thomas injured, but Marv and Lad, actually, Lad's not already through his buy. I think you could do this if you have a winning record, but with the wide receiver injuries, it'd be tough to sell somebody like Rasheed Rice.

But next question is T. Dennis here for running back Rashad White or ETN. I may go Rashad White given how bad the ETN matchup is. Tight end, I'd go probably Kate Oden over Hunter Henry. And in the flex, you go ETN. Again, if you're going to get a running back with guaranteed volume, I like flexing him. Okay.

Now, CMC running back one overall. Wide receiver, we have Diggs and probably Quinton Johnston into our starting lineup. In the flex, you go Judkins and Keenan. Obviously, JO coming off the big week, but JO's floor is less than three points.

Okay, now Luke Tootszman trading Judkins for Rome and Woody Marks. You can't do this with Rome coming off the game with zero fantasy points. I mean, y'all know I actually traded Judkins for Rome a couple weeks back, but that was when Judkins hadn't already gone through his by-week. Now, you're going to get the same amount of games played from these guys rest of season. Woody Marks doesn't look startable. I think he got to go ahead and take Rome. I'm sorry. You got to take Jodkins at this point, especially like I said with Rome coming off the zero bomb.

Now the ants here for the flex between Barkley and Ibuka. How the hell is this your team? League Analyzer says this 10 team league. There is no way. Um, between Ibuka and Barkley I probably He probably You got to just take Saquon Barkley. Don't like the matchup for Barkley, but you have to.

Now, Tony verse wide receiver. Darius Sllayton verse Christian Watson. Sllayton. And then in the flex, you play honestly I would go Loveland over like Jakory Crossing. There's no way I could get JCM in our lineup.

Okay. Mitchell says, "Win now flexing Dobbins, Wandel, Debo Dynasty Superflex." Here's the thing, my friend. If you're truly a win now team, Chris is not winning you this league. It's Lamar Jackson here pretty easily for me. You would need a better piece to down to Caleb Joosesby. For wide receiver, we're going to go Shakir. Tight end Lovelands. Tell me who we have a running back for the flex. Thank god we go Trevian Henderson if DeAndre Swift plays. Kyle Manungai if DeAndre Swift doesn't.

Okay. Now, Rev. Ruiz says seven and two. Just made this trade yesterday. Injuries making me nervous. Did I lose? We also have Hampton on the IR. Seven and two. We're thinking long term. Because we're seven-two, we can afford to think long term. I understand us trading for Bucky Irving, but there's a big butt with this one. T like you just lost value. Tedo McMillan now with the hamstring injury. JK Dobbins with the foot injury. Um, give me Tyler Borin over Gadston. Give me Kairen over Bucky. RJ Harvey, Tedo, McMillan. I don't I think you lost the deal. I understand why you did it being seven and two, but I think this is a trade you make when Bucky Irving is actually back. At least in my opinion.

Okay. Now, Shoref fun trading James Cook, Nico Collins for Love, Harvey, Pure Salt, Keon, and Fannon Dynasty Superflex. I'm going to assume you're making this move because we're rebuilding. And even in that instance, you just need more value than this. Keon's almost a zero regardless. How excited can we truly be about Ricky Pierce Hall? Like I know R.J. Harvey from a rebuilding perspective is exciting. Jordan Love is as well. I mean, if this is the best you're going to get, it's the best you're going to get. And in the offseason, the package probably has more value, but I would try to get more from James Cook and Nico Collins.

Now, Flockadoodle do says, "Having trouble deciding wide receiver in a flex. Been waiting all year to play Henderson." Wide receiver, you play AJ Brown, L. And then in the flex, yeah, I'm fine if you wanted to play Henderson here. Okay, now that you have No, let me see if underdog has projections out for Henderson yet. Whenever I checked yesterday, they hadn't. They have Henderson higher, lower 72 and a half total yards. So I think that would put him right in line with like Metaf and Marv and Meaf. I think Henderson honestly has a higher floor than those other players.

Okay, now Bitter Hornet trading Tedo McMillan for R.J. Harvey. We actually just looked at a similar trade like 30 seconds ago. And while I have T ranked ahead of RJ Harvey right now, with Ted now dealing with the hamstring and JK Dobbins now dealing with the foot, this could flip quickly. Now, it's gonna be up to you. Um, can y'all spam the chat? Who would y'all rather have at this point with Dobbins with a foot injury and Tettero McMillan with a hamstring? Would you rather have T or Harvey? T or Harvey, please spam the chat. We got T Harvey. Tat Tat Harvey Tat Tat Harvey Tat Tat Harvey Harvey Tat Harvey Harvey Tat Tat. So for me like I still have Tat ranked ahead of R.J. Harvey, but if we got word like tomorrow like, hey, Dobbins is hitting the IR, then immediately it's the R.J. Harvey side. If we got word that T's hitting the IR, then immediately it's the R.J. Harvey side. So, this could change quickly.

Okay. Now, Sam Stew says, "Trying to get to 10 and 0. Hell yes. I've got four starters on buy and injuries affecting a few others. I have no idea what to do at QB or superflex." So, we have Nova Momes with no Rattler. So it's just Davis Mills, Tyler Shuck, insider starting lineup. Tight end, we have Lovelin, Theo Johnson, no Kelsey. I would go Lovelin even with KT good to go. In the flex, we have no Javvante. We have no Hunts. Tet may not play. I think you may end up getting stuck playing Shahed. It's a non-tighten premium format. I don't know why it spazz like this. I think you may get stuck playing Shahed and probably Christian Watson, but you could pivot from Christian Watson to Tedoya McMillan if Ted plays. We just don't know if Tat's going to be playing. Let me send you over another free start question in case you want to follow up with something or in case this was put in wrong so you can redo it.

Um, Bitter Hornet trading Aaron Jones for Harvey. I would trade Aaron Jones for R.J. Harvey in a heartbeat with the Dobbins foot.

Kayone trading AJ Brown for Roma Dunce and Ricky Pier Salt. Yes, sir. I would do this. I mean, AJ Brown so far this season is currently sitting here averaging 12.36 fantasy points per game, the lowest mark of his career. Ethan here. Our best option on the bench if we wanted to get somebody in our lineup would be Woody Marx. And yeah, we're not playing Woody Marx over anybody. Now, if Tedo McMillan were to play, then you could go ahead and you could throw in T instead of Gadston, but again, we don't know if T's going to play or not.

Okay. Now, Mace Dog trading Pickins for ETN and Diggs. How desperate are you at running back? We have Gibbs, Achant, Kyle Manungi. Wide receiver, we have Nico Pickkins, DJ. Honestly, for me, I think you're it's a completely fair deal. Don't get me wrong. I think you can make an argument for this, but um I don't know. I think that you have enough depth in your league where you don't need to make a trade like that and you can afford to hold on to the best player.

Now, Tom Hicks for the flex. Um, I would go with Amari Dermacado over Chris Rodriguez. I know Rodriguez was named the team captain. Looks like he'll have a decent little role, but still. That's going to be tough.

Now, mystery banana, you play Roma Dunay at wide receiver. And then for that second flex spot, I would probably go Trevian over Diggs or you can go Rashad White. It's either Rashad White or Trevian Henderson. Probably the correct answer is White though.

But Jackson Wave here, quarterback, we're going to go May over Herz. Running back, you play Dowel. Wide receiver, you go Rome. Tight end Tyler Warren flex Rashad White and that one's honestly pretty easy.

Um, but I think we are gonna probably call this live stream here. Obviously, we have more team reviews that we are going to be able to get to very soon. But yeah, I think that's all I got for you all. I will be live tomorrow answering all your questions. I really appreciate you hanging out with us. Told the fiance we could have a date night tonight. So, decided to stream a little bit early so we could still get to your questions, but have some free time to go to the movies tonight. But, thank you again, ladies and gentlemen. I really appreciate y'all and really hope we get to see out in the live stream.