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Alrighty, fellas. Um, week four came with, I would say, generally good vibes minus Malik Neighbors managers. Pour one out for your local Malik Neighbors manager in the chat.
But, uh, yeah, we got two more games on tap. I think these ones are going to be pretty fun. Jets, Dolphins could be a nice, uh, sneaky shootout spot. Um, and then Broncos and, um, who are they playing? The Bengals. And uh Danny and I are both going to be sweating and tightening our cheeks tonight. Uh in the league, we have to basically sweat out some [ __ ].
But uh here we are. We You got a lucky Monday Night Miracle last week. Uh hopefully we can continue that momentum into into week four. Uh because both of us could use a nice Monday Night Miracle tonight. Yeah, last week was able to win despite having CD Lamb drop a complete donut in my lineup and Zack obviously profiting with that. Jake Ferguson. That is um it didn't end up making the final cut for the flock league video, but I did a bit how flock league cocking is like when you have a running back and the quarterback throws a touchdown or when you have a like like you know what I mean, you know what I mean? When you get cucked in fantasy like I made a whole bid on that. Um didn't end up making the cut, but I basically reference like Jake Ferguson completely cucked me, but hey, we ended up coming up with the W this week. I can't tell you exactly what the details are, but we are rooting against Tyreek Hill is all I'll say.
Yeah. And uh I am rooting against uh Bo Bosef Knicks uh tonight as well. Also, shout out to Zach, by the way. Two weeks in a row he gets a star player going down in the other person's starting lineup. You had C Lamb go down and I have Lamar Jackson go down. So, yeah, kind of nuts.
I mean, kind of kind of an insanity run for him in terms of uh luckiness, but good luck to him. Hopefully, it's uh all I'll say is this. what he needs tonight is like the median projection for Bon Knicks. So that's going to be it's just going to go either way. Like if you were betting fantasy points on Bon Knicks right now, it's probably going to be like
Oh yeah, that's about what I would probably set this at.
Yeah. No, I feel you on that. Um sorry about the Wix take. No, you're good, Pete. Um I did the exact same thing. I mean, you we'll see if it ends up making the cut, but uh there was a clip I had where when Matthew Golden caught that deep pass, it would have been a walk-in 65 yard touchdown for Wix, but Matthew Golden, you know, rookie wide receiver running the wrong route, just runs right into Wix and steals his pass. It's like that was annoying. Uh on the bright side, I will say though, if anybody did tail the wide receiver pick them um that I made on Sunday, four of the five have hit so far. The last one we need the Jamar Chase lower at 65.5. So, um I mean we we we can basically just quickly recap that because um I I have it in the back end here. The running back one actually did hit. Omar Hampton hit us higher. Trevon Henderson hit us higher. Christian McCaffrey hit us higher $10. We ended up winning $63 on that one. And I believe, yeah, it was this one. So, Bukinua obviously monster week 36 BPR points hit us higher on his receptions. Roma Dunce ended up getting there late in the fourth quarter. He was at 62 I think for uh a couple seconds there and then he ended up catching a pass gets to about 69. Matthew Golden like I said kind of steals that ball that was intended for Wix but gets us the higher at the end of the day. Dak Prescott free square and then we got Jamar Chase going now. So that could win $10 to win to 100 on the flex entry.
Yeah. And I actually I nailed mine on Thursday night. Um, if anybody tailed this one, it was a it was a sweat because there was a play on the last uh on the last drive, I saw a running back catch a pass for like six yards and at the time Trey Benson was at 19 and a half receiving yards or at 19 receiving yards, sorry, and 21 and a half is what the lower was and I was like, "Ah, damn it. Trey Benson just caught a six-y pass and it was D Marcato." So, that uh that saved me uh quite a bit. But, yeah, we've been uh we've been hot. good week for us on the uh on the picks and uh we do actually have a couple more tonight over on the Tik Tok, YouTube short, and um Instagram. I popped these ones out. I'm personally not playing all five of these at once. What I'm doing here is there's a Bow Knicks gimme pick tonight. Um that should be live in the Pickham lobby. And I'm going with Troy Franklin, higher than three and a half receptions. Bengals are a terrible pass defense. Troy Franklin, 15 targets in the first two games. Little bit of a quieter week three, but I think he'll bounce back. And then T. Higgins, I like him to go higher than six and a half targets tonight. uh he had what 11 receptions for 131 yards and three touchdowns last time he played the Broncos. So I do think uh he could have a nice game tonight and be a heavily targeted guy especially if they lean away from Certan. And then for the Jets Dolphins game that's kicking off in about 30ish minutes or so. Uh to like him to go higher than 16.35 fantasy points. Jets defense is absolutely brutal. They're like a bottom five defense in DVOA allowed. And then I like Garrett Wilson five and a half receptions. The Dolphins, uh, fun fact, are allowing the lowest air yards per pass attempt in the NFL. They are literally playing the softest zone coverage possible. And that is Garrett Wilson, music to PPR, manager ears, and that's why I like him to catch a lot of passes. And then Brillin Allen, uh, season high 32% of the snaps last week. I think there's a chance he has, you know, six, seven, eight, nine carries in this game and can get well over this, um, this 21 and a half rushing yards. And uh as always, they do have a new customer promo right now where uh if you play your first $5 entry, you get 100 bucks in bonus funds. And of course, you guys know code FSE if you're new to Underdog. We do have a couple of questions here in the chat uh or in the chat as well, but on Flock here that we can get through.
Just two things. Um crazy tweet I just see on my timeline right now. So everybody knows how good a Dunay has been in fantasy this year. He's the wide receiver for three in fantasy. Puka Nakua just for a reference for how different level he currently is. I don't I haven't factchecking this could be wrong but the tweet says that Roma Dunay is closer to Ricky Piolaw wide receiver 21 in points per game than he is Puka Nakua who's wide receiver one and we're talking about the wide receiver three in fantasy like Puka Nua right now is just completely slapping the field.
Absolute beast man. Absolute beast. And um if you guys recall in my vlog with my buddies in my home league, they booed my Puka Nua pick at the ninth overall selection. And now that I have Bejon, they're all scared shitless of me. So it's fun.
You have Puka and Bejon.
Yeah. How is that fair? Come on.
I mean, hey, you you want to hear the funniest thing about that trade, Danny? So the trade was Bejon T. Higgins, who hasn't played yet, and Jerry Judy? That's what I received in exchange for Trey Benson, Kenneth Walker. Again, keep in mind that the manager came to me because they were down a running back and they wanted two running backs for the price of one. Never a good idea. FYI for those of you guys like I could do this in our flock league right now. I just have Bejon. I could split them into two running backs if I want to. Hell no. Kenneth Walker, Trey Benson, Devonte Smith. Do you know how many points they scored this week?
22 combined.
It was less than Bejon scored by himself.
Yes. Was it actually about 22?
It was uh Bej scored I think in my league format we get first down bonuses. He had like nine first downs in that game. So um I think he scored like 34 points or something and Devonte Smith, Kenneth Walker and Trey Benson combined scored like 29 points. And again keep in mind T. Higgins and Jerry Judy were also a part of that trade and T. Higgins hasn't even played yet. So
um I will give some credit too because I do recall uh one bold predictions video. I believe you said 2021 Cooper Cup.
I did. I did say 2021 Cooper Cup and right now 27.4 PPR points per game is about what Cooper Cup did that year. So, uh, yeah, he is uh he's having a monster year, man.
I know what you're going to say. Before I say this, I'm just going to say it right now. Puk is [ __ ] awesome this year. I'm making a joke. I'm letting this know now.
Are you turning this into a CD Lamb take? 2020 2023 CD Lamb averaged more points per game in the second half of the year that year
than Cooper Cup.
No, no, no. Than what Puka is at right now.
Oh, okay. I mean,
I'm just saying like how cra like that's nothing to take away from Puka. That that's more so like how bonkers the second half of the 2023 year was.
I uh I also said this at the be I I I said that uh like 2006 Leenian Tomlinson 2012 Adrien Peterson 2019 McAffrey. I said this would be named 2025 Bejon Robinson after this year. Also, I will like to say I I'll take I'll I'll say so I don't get too big of a head about this. I'll say two things that I was completely wrong about in a second. Um but Danny, do you care to guess my two highest rostered first round players on underdog?
Puka and Bejian. Yeah, it ain't close. Could imagine.
Um mine was well on his way before he decided to hurt his ankle, unfortunately. Um, good news on that though because that was the other tweet I saw in the timeline. So, I'm not sure if you saw the NFL tweeted a miked up play of CD Lamb like when Pickkins caught that big play um that was down on the one I believe, you know, when he like in double coverage. So, it shows Lamb like on the sideline like jumping up and down and like looking mobile and [ __ ]
And Jesse Moore basically said like based off how he's moving right now like he should be back in the next two weeks because moderate grade twos typically don't move like that.
Yeah, like he's putting a lot of weight on his leg.
Yeah, that's good good news for for CD. Um I gota I gotta make two bad takes now that I did cuz I just I just [ __ ] glazed myself repeatedly. Um Jir Gibbs actually my third highest rostered player in the first round. So shout out to that. Um my I my fourth highest rostered player in the third round in the first round is Malik Neighbors. So that definitely sucks and he's out for the season. That's going to really really hurt my my shares of him. Uh let me just look at what's a bad take. Okay, my third highest rostered wide receiver is Josh DS and my fourth highest rostered wide receiver is Travis Hunter, so that doesn't look great. But I mean, I'm looking at my exposures right now and I feel pretty decent overall about how things will turn out for the rest of the season. Um, but yeah,
and also I'm not going to lie, like maybe it was the early morning reaction. I didn't want to be too like quoteunquote biased when I did this.
I think Pickkins has to go even higher than I had him in that video. I have I'm not going to p move him to 10, but I have him in the tier with like Devonte Adams. Like I think that's probably how he should be viewed. Like what's stopping Dak from throwing 700 passes this year?
I don't know, dude. Like two weeks ago, were we really really excited about this offense?
I was.
I mean, you have been excited about this offense even if they were projected to win two games. I'm not talking about you. I'm saying as a non-biased community, were we excited about this offense?
Not even biased. They're the number one offense in terms of yards per game right now. And Dak is throwing the ball at a 42 attempt per game clip.
Yeah, No, he's great. I mean,
this is 2021 Tampa Bay.
Y'all can talk about all talk all day about the stuff that you choose now. Yeah. I mean, we do. Okay. Yeah. Let's let's get into the questions here. We were not going to do into the the Cowboys nonsense.
This is Bane, by the way.
Yeah, that's that's not not ideal. Uh Leatherhead Craftsman here, Lad McConi, AJ Brown. Um, yeah, I'd roll with AJ here. As bad as it has been for him, it's been worse for McConi.
I don't think this is outrageous at all. And actually, I mean, I think Lad's still outscoring AJ, as grim as that sounds.
No way.
I mean, AJ had the one game, but what's he done otherwise?
Lad has had the zero games.
35.1. What's Lad at?
Like ass.
Um, so AJ's outscoring him 35.1 to 33.4 on the year.
Yeah. In the words of Cam Ward, I'm gonna keep it 100. They've been ass.
Yeah.
So, for real,
at least AJ's getting the number one receiver treatment, the number one targets. And I watched somebody cut up all of AJ Brown's targets in that game. Our corners, our young corners, man, Ben Morrison, Jacob Parish, Jamal Dean, of course, Mcllum, they just played really well, honestly. Like, I I don't even necessarily think it was, oh, the Eagles are this bad, terrible offense. Dude, we held them to zero passing yards in the second half. And it was mainly a defensive skill issue on their part. We just played really, really well on defense. So, um, yeah, I think AJ will be moderately fine. I'm not saying he'll be like excellent the rest of the year, but I do think he's still a pretty easy mid wide receiver, too, for me. I am much more scared about Manki of the two of them.
Yeah, I would agree. Uh, sorry.
But we do have a we actually have a team review here from Jobby 2. He said, "I'm on the ledge here, guys.
What's up?" just because I saw Lucas address it in our group chat. By the way, shout out Lucas is on in the stream right now. Lucas, in that second half of the year, it was at 28 and a half points per game. Week eight on.
I'm I can't remember asking about that.
I saw Lucas in the chat, so I just
No one else is in the chat here.
Anyways, okay. Jo uh Joby Joby's team here. I think I've traded decent, but also
in I said he was in chat, by the way.
great timing.
Oh, this is Joe's team. That's why he's saying that.
That's That's what I'm saying. Like,
oh, I I thought you said Lucas was in the chat because you mentioned that earlier.
No, no. I'm saying like Job's in the chat.
Oh, I see. Okay. All right.
Yeah. Yeah.
Joe in the chat. He said, "It's hard to trade with half the league. Some won't trade, others lowball." Shout out. Uh, don't know the best strategy from here. I can negotiate well, but I'm also not great at knowing price limits, so I'm cautious. Yeah, I mean, if you're less experienced as far as like making trades and stuff, you definitely don't want to be just like selling players for the sake of trading and that kind of thing. Um, but this is a dynasty two quarterback league, 12 team, start 10. Um, looking at the roster, you're a little weak at quarterback. I mean, you got to start Bryce Young every single week, at least until, you know, Marcus Mariota is no longer a starter. Hampton, Jacobs, this is a really shallow dynasty league by the looks of it, too, because you only have four running backs on your roster. Lamb, Odun, McConi, Hunter, Higgins. Again, these are all it's not great like immediate production guys because Lamb is injured. Manki is not really performing. Hunter is not really performing. This is the type of team where I might look towards potentially shedding Jacobs off my roster and getting the peak value I can get for him because of especially what he just did yesterday. Like he just had a great game.
Yeah, I I think that makes a ton of sense. Josh Jacobs is the only player and I would say maybe David and Jooko and Joan Johnson as well. You can kind of see David and Jo unfortunately not really selling on a high right now because he hasn't really been that good this year.
Yeah, I think Jawan's better better sell of the two of them for sure.
Yeah, Jawan specifically, I think you can quite easily sell. Jawan Johnson, Josh Jacobs. I mean, if you package those two together, could you get like an offer of a one and a two right now from a competitive team?
Yeah, I think I think somebody should be willing to pay at least a mid- projected one for Josh Jacobs. And I think if you throw like Jawan's a hard guy to sell on his own because he's Jawan Johnson. He's not. But yeah, he's the perfect guy that if you're going to sell the guy Jawan Josh Jacobs, sorry, already you might as well just throw him Jawan Johnson. Maybe he has like Sam Leaporta is not really performing right now. Maybe he has some kind of um player like that. Like let me see if there's a competitive team with a weaker running back core that we could maybe go to. I mean this guy is Malik. You could potentially try and make a big play for for neighbors, but you're already pretty strong at wide receiver so maybe not there. Uh, this guy has I would say maybe he thinks this is a competitive team. You could probably sell him on Josh Jacobs potentially. You could see and inquire how much is is the discount on Brian Thomas right now in Dynasty. It's possible that he's a little bit um soured on him or you could just go after the picks as well like a one and a two like we said for Josh Jacobs and and Jawan Johnson. Uh this guy also has a weak running back core. His team kind of sucks. He's probably not looking to compete. Um this guy is just Saquon Barkley, too. So, this is another team. Kelsey's not really performing, but Hunter Henry's actually the tight end one overall in points per game right now. So, maybe he feels like he's okay at tight end. But
Hunter Hen is actually
Yeah, he is.
Oh my god.
Dead ass. Tight end one in points per game right now. You could definitely um entice this guy with a uh with a Josh Jacobs for, you know, a first and a second and throw in Jawan Johnson type of deal. This guy's kind of weak at quarterback right now though. He's starting Rattler Shadur if he ever gets starting opportunity. So this uh there's got to be a quarterback hoarder in this league because
like you don't really have a great quarterback core. I mean this guy's got Dart Herz and Daniels.
Go to the guy that's maybe got like one two.
I I just checked them. They don't really have that. I mean this guy's Gino and Stafford along with Pertie and like I there's not like really anybody hoarding like a bunch of quarterbacks, but either way um yeah, this team feels to me like a year away.
um yeah,
you got 27 first. Like Dak Prescott's a little older. He may be on a high right now given the the game he just had. So you can even potentially inquire to this guy that maybe could be looking for um for Jacobs. You could inquire to him about potentially giving him Dak too because
I mean he doesn't really have a quarterback to give you back 27 and you could go after I mean the problem is he doesn't really have any like like receivers or assets. Yeah, he doesn't have his 271 either, which is which would be a big piece. Like I would want if I'm selling Dak Jacobs, Jawan Johnson, like I would need at least two first in the deal if I'm not need more than that, but Brown too. So
yeah, like I I would I would basically, especially from a contender, need two first or Dak alone. So
yeah. Well, would let me ask you this. This guy maybe he just wants Dak. Would you take like one, two, and three for Prescott?
No. That's what I'm saying. I would need two ones.
I know it's difficult.
And like even like a one or two in Harvey. Like, are you doing that?
I would do that for Prescott. Yeah. A one or two in Harvey I think to me would make sense.
Like that's as cheap as I can get there.
Like I would just rather go to a different team and try to liquidate for two ones at least.
Yeah. It's possible that guy would be kind of interested in that. You maybe even just like throw him Kareem Hunt or something too just to be like ah take him. He maybe could use uh usable weeks or whatever. But yeah, just spitballing some ideas here. Definitely uh a situation that kind of sucks because you've built up this great wide receiver core, but the problem is like half of them are injured or underperforming. Like you can't use Aayuk right now, you can't use Hunter right now. T. Higgins had Joe Burrow go down go down. Lad Man McConi isn't performing. Roma Dun is the only one really producing at a high level right now. And Lamb is injured. So you kind of have to that your quarterback position can be kind of restocked into the 2027 class. you'll also have the um the firepower potentially to go and you know get aggressive for a quarterback at that point in time if you've built up a lot of liquidity. The other thing you could do as well because Bryce is a little bit of a shaky dynasty asset. Maybe that guy is desperate that Justin Herbert and nobody else guy maybe he would send you a one a two in Harvey for Bryce Young or something along those lines. I mean he's a competitive team. He'd probably prefer Prescott. But I mean resp respectfully like nobody in their right mind should give up even close to the amount for Bryce Young that they should for Dak right now. Like that's just terrible process.
Yeah. I mean, even have them pretty far apart in my rankings even though I've been notoriously the Bryce Young guy. And actually before the season I did have Bryce Young higher than Dak Prescott because I did expect kind of like a you know, a step forward from Bryce. And I again I I don't want to totally give up on Young, but like there's a good chance that he's the type of asset that if you are entering a rebuild and you're in a situation like this that you maybe want to just forego the risk and punt him into future capital just to just to make sure that you're not left holding the bag on an asset that maybe loses value a calendar year or two calendar years from now when you're actually ready to compete. So um yeah, these quarterbacks again, I'm not married to him. Josh Jacobs, I would definitely look to get him off of my roster. any of these other guys too that peak in value like for whatever reason um like because again even like Jaden Reed Brandon Iayuk like these guys are just they're not you have to hold them right now like they're not valuable assets on the market so once I gets back on the field maybe he starts performing you could try and sell him couple weeks or something maybe you could sell him Joe Bur said you know we get a report that he's going to come back in December or something
um also two things by the way appreciate the yodun hopefully Travis turns around and um I'm not drafting I'm not dropping Travis Hunter I want Yeah, Woody Marks on my team, but there's definitely somebody else that you can drop than Travis.
I'm going to pretend that Nick's in a league where it's like an eight or a 10 man, so it's probably pretty shallow. And in that format, I think unless you were desperate for a running back, I probably would just hold Hunter.
Um,
I do really like Woody Marks, though. I will give him his flowers. And spoiler alert, he's probably going to be very high on the waiver video tomorrow.
Yeah, No, absolutely. So, any easy drop,
but yeah, and here's the other thing. He said that there's a lot of guys that are tough to negotiate with and and that's going to be challenging. Just keep this in mind, Joe, because I know you're in the chat right now. If you're if it um enhances your rebuild, you can handle losing 5% of the value or 10% of the value. Like, if if you getting Josh Jacobs off of your roster, ideally, you would want to get a one and a two. And the best you're getting offered is a one and a three or something like that, then you might just have to be like, [ __ ] I wish I got a one and a two. I got a one and a three. He's off my roster. He's not scoring me points, and I'm tanking my own, you know, first round pick for that. It does actually look like though that Joe doesn't have his own one.
You don't have your own one?
I don't think so cuz he has a one listed here and it's not his.
Oh, in 2027 he has his one. Sorry.
Um
yeah,
I mean that that's the first person I go to then.
Yeah, the one that he has Yseph, what is his name? Uh this guy's team.
I mean like you could always just run it as a house money and see what happens if you don't have your one cuz like you still have multiple ones in 2027.
It's just given the injuries that he suffered. I mean, if you could weather the storm, again, he's one and two right now, and I would imagine after this week, he might even be one and three.
Um, potentially a really great situation here.
We do have some trade questions, by the way. Um, yeah, I know. Game starts in 5 minutes, though.
No, it starts in 20 minutes, doesn't it?
Oh, it might. Is it 7:15? I thought it was
I think so, right?
I thought it was 7 and 10. Um, let me let me see. Might be 7:15.
7:15.
Oh, my bad then. Okay, fair enough. Yeah, he said high chance of one and three. Yeah, you might just have to kind of play the market. See like Dak spike in value right now. Jacob's spike in value right now. This is a very good time to pounce on a couple of league mates that are trying to compete that could use a quarterback or could use a running back. So definitely you can't just put them on the block and expect it to happen too. You're going to have to go into the DMs with these guys, start talking through it, see if they're interested in Jacobs, see if they're interested in Dak Prescott. Because a lot of people go, "It's so hard to trade my league." It's like, well, putting guys on the trade block doesn't necessarily mean you're actively out there making trades. You have to be the one inquiring, hey, are you send you could use another running back kind of thing.
You have to get active. You have to get creative. You have to be willing to send some messages cuz tell you right now, I I wouldn't make like even remotely half the trades that I currently do if I didn't initiate conversation.
I've had like eight different trade discussions today like in multiple different leagues like just going through people asking me, "Hey, are you interested in this?" Like, and it's it's cuz we've kind of built that like open line of communication with a lot of our league mates that people are just like, "Hey, what do you think of this?" And we just kind of go back and forth.
Zach needs to stop posting the score of the Flock League and what he needs for Monday Night Football on his Twitter because that's supposed to be a surprise.
Yeah, he's got to stop.
He did it again.
Okay. Well,
he posted your matchup. So, uh, cat's out of the bag. I won't post it for you guys in the chat who want to be surprised here. But if you do really want to see it, you can absolutely go uh you can go check out Zach's Twitter. I think I have a trade on the on the table right now. If Ryland's in the chat right now, I'm going to live react to the trade offer he sent me because I know he sent me one earlier.
Um
Mason replied, "Brother, get help."
Mason replied to the Zach tweet, "Brother, get help."
Uh
trade went down and flocked up today, too. Second and a third for David Montgomery and Mixon. Pretty decent deal for somebody in a contending window. Okay. And flock and right. O, this is intriguing.
What' you get offered?
Ryland offered me Trey McBride for Malik Neighbors. This is a 2x tight end premium. I'm not probably going to do that. He also has Va in the deal and I can't remember what um Devi this is.
Does it not have a nickname?
Who is Va on my team? Oh, he wants a Mod Hardy, dude. over my dead body, bro. The guy's averaging like 200 rushing yards a game.
He wants neighbors and Hardy for McBride.
Yeah, no shot, dude. I know it's a 2x tight end premium, so I guess maybe that's that's why. It's also a best ball, though, which makes me devalue tight ends even more.
Ryland,
come on now. You're better than that.
Fired indeed.
It was one thing if you said, "Okay, yeah, it was a swap swap straight up, but like you just randomly said
for what it's worth, even if it was a I mean, I guess I'm a competitive team. team. He's thinking, "Okay, yeah, like maybe you want a competitive asset or whatever, but like I already have Jawan Johnson, Travis Kelce, TJ Hawinson, and Dallas Gddard, so I don't need a tight end at all. It's also a best It's not a baseball league, is it?" [ __ ] right.
It's a lineup league.
Okay, never mind. It isn't a baseball league, but still, I have four tight ends that are startable in a 2x tight end premium as like flex options because they have um really really good um target shares and whatnot. What would I take for neighbors? I mean, make me an offer. I would I would take a receiver in his same tier if you want to get younger. Like if you have Lamb or Jefferson, I'll take that. That's where I didn't move neighbors very much down in my rankings. I have him wide receiver six. He's in the same tier as St. Brown, Jefferson, and Ch and Lamb. Sorry.
I guess this is a good transition for it. But like speaking, if you got offered Jackson Smith and Jigba, Luther, Burden, Isaiah Likely, would you take it right now?
Is that what you're offering me?
No, I'm just curious.
Uh, no, I wouldn't.
You wouldn't trade neighbors for that?
No, I would not.
Okay. cuz that was the exact deal I made in Debbie Degeneracy.
A Monro for neighbors. Now that's more interesting
for sure
cuz that's about what he's worth right now.
Got you Joe. Appreciate you Joe.
For sure. Yeah, we can uh we can pop into the next couple of questions that we have here. Touchdown Jesus. Shout out. Um Christian McCaffrey in exchange for Chris McCaffrey Mahomes in exchange for Josh. You got to go McAffrey and Mahomes, right?
Unless it's a two quarterback league. It's McAffrey.
Yeah. 10 teams, start seven. Christian's just he's worth his weight in gold. As much as Josh Allen's a huge advantage in that format, too. Um him and Mahomes are gonna be what? Best case scenario, Josh Allen outscores Mahomes by what, three, four fantasy points per game.
Yeah. Also,
like Christian McCaffrey is going to outscore Pacheco by 10 to 15 fantasy points per game. I think maybe it's because of the running style because I know this guy [ __ ] like always talked about the way people ran. But I I still find it so odd how this guy Fussu messaged you on Facebook. Sorry.
I just that's all I can think of.
I uh I don't know what that guy's deal is, man. I really don't.
I you on Facebook.
I mean I I was [ __ ] talking [ __ ] Someone Fantasy Receipts tweeted out like a [ __ ] dumbass Igbuka take of his and I'm like that doesn't shock me. So, I was like, "Yeah, I'll take some time out of my day to dunk on fussu because he's a [ __ ] goober." And uh someone he messages me on Instagram and Twitter called, "Fuck you, bro. You got me blocked." And then his two burner accounts are commenting on both of my tweets and they say, "Fouse burner." And it's like, "Really? It's me." In the bio. It's like, "Dude, you are a clown, man. You are a [ __ ] clown." Aren't you like 40 years old? Like, don't you have a life? Jesus Christ, man.
You know how you know how much it would check me out if I get a notification that Fussu messaged me on Facebook? I laugh audibly.
But I would get so checked out if I went to go check the message and I see him [ __ ] what? Shirtless coming out of a shower. Like what is that profile?
Oh my god, dude. It's also like, dude, De's nuts. That hasn't been a relevant joke for 15 years. Like
you're big [ __ ]
You're big [ __ ] That's why you have me blocked these nuts. That's crazy.
Player profiler's official account commented on there. They're like, is he flirting with you?
This reads like he's flirting now.
I laughed when I saw that. I was like, why is player profiler getting involved? Don't they like make content with him? Um, but anyways,
he he So, what's so ironic about it is cuz I was like obviously I'm going to be more PG on my main account. I was burning him on my burner and he blocked my burner and he has no clue that he has my burner blocked. But like obviously I'm going to be civil on my main.
Yeah, I mean, well, you got to keep the main clean for all the Cowboys rage tweets during halftime.
Of course, bro. Of course.
Um,
it's so funny though.
Bejan and Manki like by a country mile in this trade by the way.
Yeah, Not even close. Like what the [ __ ] are we doing? as much as I like I so part let me just if you guys freak out you go oh my god lad manki 57 overall that's how far you have him down
partially partially
trying to motivate one of my players on my flock league team by ranking him this low keep in mind there's like maybe a five to 10 spot grace period in that territory that I'm like you know what [ __ ] you lad you're you're absolutely trolling my team right now
you should have made a bit of of you lowering him in your rankings and this is part should I'm literally going to do the opposite of what Danny does where he artificially inflates his players. I'm going to make lad go down the board to not get them too cocky.
See, I inflate my players when they play good. When your player is playing like a dog stained [ __ ] [ __ ] stained [ __ ] then I understand lowering him.
Yeah, that was a great sentence.
I couldn't That was not English. I'm I apologize for everyone.
Um, old Bo 33. I think I can afford the hit at wide receiver depth. I'm four and0. Go get Bon then if you can afford the hit at wide receiver depth. I mean, this is, you know, decent amount to pay, but I I like
even if even if you had to flex Christian Kirk and um Troy Franklin for three games because of this trade, I would still do it because John Robinson is that good.
Wait, wait, Cory, can you rehash who uh Bejian Robinson outscored this week?
Everybody. Also, Bejon getting tackled inside the 5yd line, the touchdown going to Pitts, and then Alir sniping a touchdown in the red zone as well. Dude could have literally had 45 points in this in this game.
I thought I was getting a second Drake London touchdown. I really did. I really thought I was.
I really thought I was getting number two.
You really did. You really thought that. Also, I'm never going to make a correct decision at my tight end spot for the rest of the year. Am I Whoever I start is just going to whoever's on my bench is just going to go off every single time.
This is an interesting deal. Um first of all, Zacher's like, if you need a tight end, I think that's reasonable. Otherwise, like he's not like the needle mover here. Um, this is close for me actually. Um, I think Auka and Addison are the value side, but if you need a running back, like I understand it.
Yeah, I think
Oh, he's getting side.
It's a little too much to pay of a running back tax for me. I think
um he's getting the Igbuka side, so that's good.
I'm saying it's uh I guess he is getting the Igbuka side, so it's not too much to pay, but yeah, this is a good sell high on Walker if that's kind of what you're what you're going towards there. Pits lowkey looks decent this year, dude. He does. I It's weird. I don't really love that I have two Atlanta Falcons on my team in the Flock League, but I do I do have to admit that Kyle Pittz 100% does look like a decent player this year. Um Preston,
what's up?
I said, what about when you get a third and you trade for London?
Yeah, I would like to not do that.
Um Preston W, Lamar Jackson in exchange for Acha Ibuka and Gino Smith. Now, this says two quarterback. So, I mean, you're buying low on Lamar from a team probably that is banged up or injured or something. So, this is
this is easily Lamar. We don't really know the status of his injury right now, which would be the only hesitation, I guess, that somebody might have about making a deal like this because in a two quarterback league, I mean, Lamar Jackson would be the first or second pick if we reddrafted right now. So, very damn near close to it. So, as long as Lamar is not out for a significant period of time, I think you'll be in really good shape there.
Shout out to AJB. We do have a team review here, so let's get
Yeah. Also, shout out to AJ Brown.
Yeah,
he's getting a team review from us. Um, hey guys, at this point, I think I should hold. Let me know. I flipped T-Mac and for London.
Good move. Team
Yeah, that's a great move for sure. But this week, I'm stuck starting BTJ and Pier's probably out. I'll probably drop to for Sllayton. I don't think I would do that, dude. I would rather hold my shell tutin. I also have
three.
What's up?
Which I don't like. You're three and0 right now. Like especially at 3 and 0. I'm not dropping an upside running back like Tutin for a floor play wide receiver like Sllayton.
Yeah, I mean, did you win this week? You said you're three and0, but you submitted this eight minutes ago. So, did you win this week?
Yeah.
I guess that would be my only thing. Are you four and0 instead of three and0? But either way, like I also have the offer of Javante Scataboo Pierol for Nico. So he'd be I think selling those players cuz I think he said he had Scat.
It's it's a 10 team league. I'm not overthinking depth like
Yeah.
I guess I guess he did make the deal.
He made the London deal. Yeah.
No, no, no. He made the Scataboo Javvante deal.
I also have the offer of Javante, Scataboo, and Pearl for Nico, but I think he had he said Pawol is probably out. He had Persolaw before. I think this is a deal in which he would be trading Paw, Scataboo, and Javvante.
Okay. Yeah, go get Nico then.
Yeah, I'm cool making making the move for Nico there. I mean, the one challenging thing is that if you get rid of Scataboo and Javvante Williams, you now have to rely on Chase Brown as an every week starter, which is not something that I totally love. Like, can you get him to throw a running back back at least that you can use? Like, does he have like Let me see who has on this in this league. This guy
can do Can he throw Dobbins back to you in this deal? I mean, he probably won't because Dobbins is like
I guess he's gonna be getting two running backs. Like, maybe he'll throw you Dobbins back.
Yeah, you could definitely try that. Also, uh you should be putting in an aggressive bid for Woody Marks given the state of your team, especially if you make that consolidation move. If you move to your running backs, you pick up a guy like Woody Marks. Woody Mark's a guy that we both have valued as a top 30 running back rest of the season. The way he looked in week uh week four specifically, he took over the mantle from Nick Chub since he got that uptick in snaps. like rest of game, second half of the game, like it was clearly the Woody Mark show. And I pe I understand people's rebuttal is going to be like, well, he played the Titans and they were Molly Wing them. Like I understand that, but we also do have the press conference from De Mo going into the game, I believe, that said like if we can get him involved and he keeps playing well, we're not we don't feel we don't feel pessimistic. We don't feel hesitant in upping his workload basically is what it summed up to.
Well, yeah, like I said in the
Let me see the exact tweet. Sorry.
Yeah. Like like I said in the video today, like Woody Marks is a receiving back. Like
it would have made it would have made more sense if the Texans lost 26 nothing and Woody Marks out carried and out snapped Nick Chub because you'd think, okay, he's a receiving back. They were down like look at the Ravens this week. They were down the whole game. Justice Hill has a monster game. That's what happens when you're receiving back typically. But Woody Marks won the job in a game environment in which it would have probably been better for Nick Chub to be the guy that was mainly the ball carrier.
Yeah. So, uh, this is the exact quote. Demetica Ryan on Woody Marks. It was exciting to see Woody show up the way he showed up. He sparked a lot of excitement for us and we're excited to see how much more he can handle moving forward.
Yeah. Like and they that's all positive.
Have absolutely no hope right now for Joe Mixon coming back by the sounds.
Did you see the report that came out today? They're like they don't know when or if he's coming back. better for you.
The last report that they said about him too about a month and a half ago.
So, the fact that there's no real optimism around Joe Mixon is probably making my dumbass taking some of the discounts that I took on him in baseball look pretty stupid. I wish I took more more Woody Marks. I took some Nick Chub at the end, but yeah, me too. Taking more Marks. I I actually liked Marks a lot more than you in the in the prospect cycle. Like I I thought Markx was like like again my accomp was Gio Bernard. I didn't think he was like a long-term starting running back, but Joe Bernard like was a legitimate, you know, RB2 and fantasy passcatching guy for a few few years there really before they drafted Mixon. It's funny how uh Mixon replaced Gio Bernard and now the reincarnated Gio Bernard is replacing Mixon.
Yeah, I just um Yeah, Mixon was uh Mixon was dumb in July. Yeah, I wasn't drafting Mixon for like the longest time. like when he was still going in the 80s and 90s, people were still taking him. But then he started falling at the very very end of my baseball drafts to like the 110 120 area and then I was like, ah, maybe I'll take some shares here and I wish I would have just full faded the guy um because that definitely wasn't uh in great shape there.
Uh do we think Bucky will be out for a week or two? Um Bucky, we maybe should talk about this a little bit because um he popped up like Todd Bull said he's going to get an MRI. There wasn't really anything that came out in regards to like what the injury is. Like no one said, "Oh, it's an ankle or oh, it's a hamstring or something." Like I still to this day don't know what the injury is on Bucky Irving right now. But all I know for sure is that if Rashad White's available and you know on waiverss, um, definitely add him this week because I think there's a good chance that he has an opportunity to be the starting back for the week. And he's actually looked really, really good this year. And I I could argue that Rashad White is the best backup running back in football, legitimately, at least the way that he's played so far this year.
He's been more efficient than Bucky this year. Also, I feel kind of vindicated cuz I I mean, you're the Bucks fan. Maybe you you think that Buckyy's going to take the entire workload, but I tend to think like Buck like he's not just going to take the Bucky Irving 25 touch role. Like realistically, he'd probably be like Rashad White is a lead back what 17 18 touches and you see more Shawn Tucker.
Um, I mean I to be honest with you, I think his 20 rework workload is exactly what he gets. Like when he was a 80% snapshare back like I I I Shawn hasn't looked as good as I thought he would look this year and they haven't really. Did he touch the ball though? Well, I mean he plays on special teams and when he's gotten touches like it's I don't know, man. I I just don't think that uh Shawn will be a major part of the backfield. definitely get some carries and whatnot, but I I I think it would be just basically 2023 Rashad White, which was him as a top 12 running back that year.
I mean, he he's played 3% 1% 0% 0% snaps in the last four. He hasn't been involved at all. Um, it does suck though cuz I mean, he saw the efficiency last year. I would I would love it suck for us cuz he's our third back and I would argue that if we had to play him, he's good enough to play. Well, but that's what I'm saying. It's like I'm just saying it sucks to like not see him get more volume because obviously you guys are in a good spot, right?
Yeah. Our um it's weird our uh so our special teams has been a huge problem this year. Um like we've had like a kick blocked and returned for a touchdown against the Jets, a punt blocked return for a touchdown against the Eagles. But the one area of our special teams that's usually a big problem is our return game. Like we usually have like the worst return game in the league. Um but uh Johnston, the returner against the Eagles, had like two really nice returns where he got it over midfield, got like a 40 yard return on one of them. And Sean Tucker is usually our kickoff returner, and he's he's done a good job of that this year. So the big issue for us has been [ __ ] punt coverage.
TZ Johnson. No. Uh Cameron Johnston, I believe, is his name. That's the punter. huh? Cameron Johnson. Isn't that the punter? Oh, is that the guy that looks like Bill Burr on the Bills? Yeah. Sorry. We have a guy on our team that's named something and I can't. His last name is Johnston, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. [ __ ] Bill Burr. That's such a good comp here. [ __ ] For those of you that are curious, Cameron Johnston. Yeah, he looks like Bill Burr, dude. No, our Okay. Our Cameron John Johnson. Johnson. Cameron Johnson is his name. Sorry. That's our punt returner, but he's he he's looked really good this year.
Yeah, that's what's up. But yeah, looking at this team, getting back to the topic at hand here before kickoff happens, the trade that he has on the table, like he said, would be Nico Collins for Javvante, Cam Scataboo, and Ricky Pieraw. We're both kind of in agreement that you make that move if he can throw in Dobbins. If he doesn't want to throw in Dobbins, are you still doing that? Cuz to me, I would actually rather consolidate for a running back hammer as opposed to Nico Collins given that you already have London Lamb and Brian Thomas.
I I don't mind that move because I mean, Ricky Paw, yeah, he's a little banged up right now, but realistically, you're banging on him to be a needle mover. Brian Thomas Jr., He's devalued right now. I don't quite have him where you do. Um I have him higher than that just because I mean you're betting on the elite player to bounce back. It's not like they aren't using their wide receivers. Like to me I I know you disagree with this, but I I'm much more worried about AJ Brown specifically because we've seen the Eagles passing tendencies. At least with Jacksonville, they're using their wide receivers. It's just ETJ's not making the plays. It's really that simple.
Yeah. Uh so I mean overall there if he bounces back there CD Lamb um by the reports right now very more optimistic side of his high ankle sprain. I mean initially the report is he going to be on IR? Is it going to be four to six weeks? And it's like now it doesn't sound like the team is even remotely thinking about putting him on IR which is good. Like every reporter we hate Shane Waldron. I don't actually think Shane Waldron's really doing anything. I think we're all just looking to blame somebody. He's not even the pass game coordinator. Grant Udinsky is. Yeah. I don't think he's actually responsible for [ __ ] Everything that guy touches turns to [ __ ] So, I guess maybe we can blame Shane Waldron again.
Uh, all that summed up to say I hope that means that CD Lamb week six, week seven. Uh, that'd be great. I would love that because I need it for my exposure sake. Yeah. No, he's the P he's what? Not even the pass game coordinator and Liam Cohen's calling the plays. So, I can't really think that we're um we're feeling too too uh mad at Shane Waldron for doing what he's doing. But yeah, I would say uh AJB. Um, the thing that I would look to do is is try and consolidate at running back. Like this guy is Jonathan Taylor and Saquon Barkley and Amarian Hampton. Is he willing to move off of one of those guys for a wide receiver upgrade like that you can offer him. Like if you offer him Javvante Williams and Ricky Pierce given the state of his wide receiver core, would he be willing to part with Amari and Hampton in that situation because he already has JT and Saquon Barkley? So look for a guy in your league that has a lot of running back hammers to give and maybe try and go out after some of those uh types of players because Bree Hallvante Williams are every week starters in a start seven. And even though you're going to probably be flexing a receiver most of the time, going out and getting Nico doesn't really upgrade your starting lineup as much as going out and getting a starting running back would. So appreciate you for sending in that team review. We did have I think one more come in under the gun here that I can just quickly refresh until I mean the game is officially like started here.
Skiddy, any other offers I could do if he declines this? Josh Jacob, Stefon Diggs, Kenneth Walker, Chris Lave. I'm making the move. This is like is Mason making this move because he has both face players. Um but like I it's understandable in my opinion. Um I don't think I would do it. But I think the gap is smaller between Walker and Jacobs than Alav and Diggs. But I wouldn't shock me if after a week or two we're back in that kind of Diggs is up there. I just I'm I'm nervous about a 31y old receiver. Man.
For me it's more so like again unless you're in a sharp league that like understands that, you know, Jacob's maybe a sell high right now. Um I think a lot of leagues are going to look at Jacob say, "Oh my god, look at the receiving, the touchdown equity, big game, isolated game." Like to me, I think Jacob's value in like a public league is more so like a mid-second, which is why I would make this deal because I think ultimately as good as a l is right now, like Diggs, if he lives up to his upside, could be like, you know, I'm not going to say one for one with a L, but maybe he can give you a wide receiver 35.
I think it's actually not outrageous to say he could be one for one with a L. So yeah, actually I think I'm on page. I think I'm on the same page as you because Jacobs does have a lot of value like you said. And then like worst case scenario, if you really want to flip Jacobs, like I I honestly think you can get Bucky Irving plus for him in some leagues, especially like if you're three and 0 and the person who has or three and 0, four-0 or three and one and the person who has Bucky maybe is in a hole right now, they might be worried about the MRI news.
Yeah, exactly. What should I do for my running back positions? I mean, yeah, if Gainwell gets another start next week, you're obviously going to start him probably over by um Yes, you're right. He is on a by-week. I mean, Woody Marks can go into your starting lineup over Isaiah Pacheco next week. I mean, neighbors, you just lost to injury, but I would rather flex Woody Marks and then throw Christian Kirk in your flex as opposed to have to play Isaiah Pacheco at this point in time. So, that's probably what I would be looking to do. Um, for this upcoming week, this is probably how I would personally set things. Like DJ, really sucks that you lost Malik Neighbors, though, because Malik is obviously your best player or one of your best players. So, your starting roster just took a major major hit, unfortunately. Yeah. Who' the Chiefs play next week? Uh the Chiefs play against Jacksonville.
Yeah, nice little matchup for them. Um but the game is on so we are going to pop out of here. Appreciate you guys for tuning in. I saw a bunch of people hyping up Darren Waller's receiving yardage total. So um I believe he just got it on one catch in the first quarter already. So yeah, some people his total was set at like 10 and a half receiving yards and he just caught like a [ __ ] 12 yard pass. I um I picked them up in the listener reddraft league. Oh yeah, you just Sorry. Just snagged one there. Oh well well uh I who did I drop? I dropped someone I was going to drop anyways after the slate. So I just said [ __ ] it. This is a tight end premium league. Let me kind of see what I got. Um because I'm also going to be dropping Isaiah likely.
Um yeah, it sucks. I I like the upside, but I mean he got he got no [ __ ] looks. Got 46% of the snaps. Like I'm sure he'll beat up, but I just heable right now. I don't think so until we see him, you know, maybe overtake Andrews in some regard or Andrews get banged up or something. He's probably not rosterable at this point in time. It's It's so hard to trust somebody who's the tight end too on their team. Like the Browns tight ends. It's unfortunate that Fannon went to the Browns because he kind of nuked Injoku because imagine if if Fannon had gone to I don't know what a team that could have used Fannon um that's like a good offense or whatever. Let's say Fannon had gone to the uh I don't know what is a team that needs a tight end. I'm blanking. Every team uh the Texans or something. The Texans drafted Harold Fannon in the second or third round and David and Jojoku is the starting tight end in Cleveland right now. I feel like we'd have a couple more tight ends on the open market that we'd feel pretty good about. Um but yeah, game's on so we're going to head out of here. Appreciate you guys for tuning in. Um but yeah, with that being said, peace out. Talk to you soon. Monday night miracles, here we come. Let's go. O Knicks, don't screw me. Neither Tyreek Hill.