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Adam Azer
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Dave Richard
Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.
Adam Azer
It's mailbag time. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Fantasy football today, presented by BetMGM, the sportsbook. Born in Vegas. Oh, we got a fun one tonight. It is Thursday night. You know, we get a little goofy at night. Like, Dan's got. Dan doesn't even really seem to have the lights on in his room.
Jamie Eisenberg
I've got some. I've got as much lights on as I can get in this room.
Dan Schneier
Is the window open?
Jamie Eisenberg
The window is closed. There will be no wind gusts that take over this podcast. Just happy to have the band back together. Okay. It's been a few weeks. We've had the crew.
Dan Schneier
Well, it's nice that you're working again.
Jamie Eisenberg
No, no, no, don't pull that on me. Don't pull that.
Adam Azer
There's a 24 hour putt putt near you if you want to hit the links.
Dan Schneier
Why are you stealing my jokes?
Adam Azer
Why? You said that.
Dan Schneier
I said he's probably a 24 hour Topgolf.
Adam Azer
Oh, you did say topgolf. I don't think you said 24 hours, but you said topgolf. But yeah, all right. Changed the putt putt. I made it better. Anyway, we got real good fantasy cops for you on this episode. We got some real good fantasy cops. It makes me almost want to start with fantasy cops. I almost want to hit the button on the mixer right now, but I'm not going to. We're going to go through some emails. Fantasy football@cbsi.com that's the letter I.
Jamie Eisenberg
Quick spoiler question. Quick spoiler question. Okay, when we get the fantasy cop.
Dan Schneier
Dan's back.
Jamie Eisenberg
When we get the fantasy cops. Will there be another situation where I may refer to someone as a menace to society?
Adam Azer
I don't think so, but maybe. Maybe I did.
Dan Schneier
I did. Beyond the box score with Dan and Jacob last week, and I think the show started and Jacob didn't talk for 14 minutes.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, that's how he likes it. He said, I want to just be in the background of this episode.
Adam Azer
I'm sure he said that. Okay, Apple podcast questions and all of you joining us, to be fair, it.
Jamie Eisenberg
Was about Jamie's startup. In his career, there was a lot of. It was not me. It was not me.
Adam Azer
All right, all right, let's get to the. To the emails here again. Fantasy football. Ooh. Right out of the gate, we get one from Eric. Eric says, can someone really be ranked first in his position group most weeks when he's never finished as the number one receiver in a given week hasn't gone over 25 points all season. Sure consistently good, but has never gone off like Chase or St. Brown. Do you know who Eric is referring to?
Dan Schneier
Justin Jefferson.
Adam Azer
Justin Jefferson.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Adam Azer
Justin Jefferson for the season is the number three wide receiver in fantasy but he's sixth per game in non PPR, eighth per game in full PPR. And here's where he's finished by week. 17th, 9th, 12th, 11th, 22nd, 4th, 11th, 9th, 32nd and 27th. And it is weird to say those numbers and for him to be the number to be a top eight wide receiver per game when he's only been top eight once. He's higher than ninth one time all season on a, you know, on a week to week basis. I just thought that was a really cool topic and interesting view on Justin Jefferson. Jamie.
Dan Schneier
You know, I wonder how many times I'm trying to think like the guys this week. So you got A.J. brown, Amaro St. Brown's done it a couple times. He's been, he's been. He's. I shouldn't say he has done a company it feels like he's done a couple times. I don't usually look at week to week like finishes so that's probably a mistake on my part to factor that in. You know, I usually just look ahead and what I think is going to happen for the week as opposed to what's happened previously again from a week to week basis. I know Justin Jefferson's having a fantastic season so it's, it's not an easy week. You know, when you look at the those guys at the top, I think.
Jamie Eisenberg
It speaks a little bit. Go ahead Adam, what do you got for me?
Adam Azer
This guy Chase in the chat says I hate you dad. And dad replies it's mutual. Chad Chase. You look like a Chad. He called him Chad accidentally.
Jamie Eisenberg
I said, yeah, sorry, it's Chase but you look like a chatter. I'm sure he is a Chad. But back to this analysis. I will say this. I think it speaks a little bit to the state of position we went. We did re ranking positions rest of season and the top eight players overall. And I wonder if it would be different for you guys were all running backs 1 through 10 and then when you get to this stat, guess who the wide receiver for overall is this season. It makes no sense when you hear this name.
Adam Azer
It's Garrett Wilson.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, it's Garrett Wilson. Does Garrett Wilson feel like a wide receiver 4 overall in any world?
Dan Schneier
No.
Jamie Eisenberg
And it just shows how much the landscape is flipped. And listen to this stat. One Last crazy stat. Out of all the running backs drafted in the top 32, there's only actually if Pacheco plays this week, all of them will be healthy and playing in this week.
Adam Azer
Amazing. That is amazing.
Jamie Eisenberg
That's insane. Like we would have normally. 8, 9 in running back injuries at minimum by now.
Dan Schneier
Well, do you see who the top. The top four running backs are in points per game?
Adam Azer
All the old guys.
Jamie Eisenberg
Henry. I thought Kyra. No.
Dan Schneier
Not getting number Saguan. Henry Camaro.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Adam Azer
Wow.
Dan Schneier
They're all 27 years.
Jamie Eisenberg
What a year for fantasy.
Adam Azer
All right, next up, Jack from Brazil. When I'm deciding which quarterback to play in a given week, I always look at defenses versus the position. Often there are significant differences in the ranking of a defense's success against quarterbacks and wide receivers. Since a quarterback success is based mostly on passing yards and touchdowns, I don't understand why the same defense ranks high against quarterbacks but not receivers or vice versa. Am I overlooking something? Should I still consider how a defense ranks against wide receivers when defy. When deciding which quarterback to start?
Dan Schneier
It's like Detroit's a good example of this. They're terrible against receivers, but they're great against quarterbacks because they don't get a lot of touchdowns. Yeah.
Adam Azer
So because ppr, you know, those catches count for so much. And then, and then you also have to look at, well, is this maybe team is. Are they bad against mobile quarterbacks? Which could mean they're. They're, you know, they face a lot of guys who have rushing touchdowns. So they give up points to quarterbacks, but not wide receivers. Just. Yeah, just look at, look at the fantasy points allowed at quarterbacks. Don't worry about wide receivers and. But then take a look and see if it's a lot of rushing touchdowns because that's one thing that could skew it. Tim, I was offered Nico Collins for Kyron Williams in PPR. I'm 9 and 2. I've clinched a playoff birth, but I'd like a buy give up Kyron Williams. He still has Breeze Camara and Nick Chubb and get Nico Collins so he could use the wide receiver.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's a yes for me. Easy in full pbr. I know it's a risky play cause I like Kyron. He's one of the what, eight, ten guys who get every snap it feels like, but full ppr? The upside, Houston schedule could be some shootouts coming up potentially. I mean, that's hard to believe right now with the way that offense is playing, but it's possible. I think you take this chance in ppr.
Dan Schneier
Yeah. You have the running back core to make this deal, you know, So I think, you know, to go back to your point, Dan, like our. If we're redrafting right now, I wouldn't be surprised if Nico goes ahead of Kyron.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah. And that might be the break point. Right. For like, a couple receivers that. That get into that top 10.
Dan Schneier
One. One thing that, you know, we. We need to reevaluate for next year. Robert Turbin, who's on our Wednesday show on CBS Sports Network, he brought this up that we're getting more Bell Cow running backs this year. You know, we're not getting as many committees. You know, to your point, Dan, about, you know, Kyron, would you say eight running backs that. That are getting, you know, the majority of everything?
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Dan Schneier
I wonder if it's more. You know, I think it is more.
Jamie Eisenberg
I just. Yeah.
Dan Schneier
You know, you just look at what the. What the league has turned into and. And this is what it used to be, you know, this is what. What used to make running back such a dominant position for fantasy managers is that you got not tandems, not these split backfields, you know, and it'd be great if that continues.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's a combo of that. Plus with all the defenses playing so much too high and so much inviting the run. We're getting so many teams being like, all right, you want me to.
Adam Azer
You daring me to run it?
Jamie Eisenberg
I will run it and I'll build my offense off of it. But you know what's funny? You're talking about how it used to be like we used to. I remember the days. It's early for me. And this is probably mid range for you, Jamie, where it was just the first two rounds are all running backs. We didn't stray off running back for so many picks. It was almost like you're not taking a running back. And it was crazy to not take.
Dan Schneier
A running back in that range, no matter the format.
Adam Azer
Yeah.
Dan Schneier
I mean, yeah, take a look over Adam's shoulder. That. That was Dave's strategy for years.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Adam Azer
All right. This is from Jack. Jack says grade the trade, dear. Vince Weeb and Hank.
Jamie Eisenberg
Vincent. Hank. Vince Vaughn. No, Weeb.
Adam Azer
Weeb should really give it away.
Jamie Eisenberg
Weeb. This is a movie reference.
Adam Azer
I assume this is a coach reference.
Jamie Eisenberg
Coach Eubanks.
Adam Azer
Weeb. Eubanks. Is it Eubanks or Eubanks? He's a Jets. Old jets coach.
Jamie Eisenberg
Wow. When was that party?
Adam Azer
And strong Heck Stram.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I've heard of the other two. I had never heard of that Jets. I can't believe I didn't know a Jets Coach. It's sad.
Adam Azer
10 team PPR. I receive Breeze, Hall, Marvin Harrison and the Vikings DST. So he gets Breeze Hall, Marvin Harrison and the Vikings dst. He gives up a lot. Pacheco Higgins and Chase Brown.
Dan Schneier
No freeze. Hall, Marvin Harrison and the Vikings DST.
Adam Azer
For Pacheco Higgins and Chase Brown. He's giving up Pacheco Higgins and Chase Brown.
Dan Schneier
I guess. I mean it doesn't even make sense like a bye week situation because Briesol's on a buy so it's not like you'd be trading away, you know those guys to get points now. I don't like it.
Adam Azer
I think, I think I'm going to say it. I think I'd rather have Chase Brown than Breeze Hall.
Dan Schneier
Oh, that schedule is beautiful though for the Jets.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Adam Azer
They'Re so bad. The defenses that are playing the jets are like ooh, our schedule is great. Coming up we have the Jets.
Dan Schneier
Yeah, but you say that and he's coming off in a monster game now.
Adam Azer
Yeah, I know but. I know but. But like the jets gave him like.
Jamie Eisenberg
38 carries last year in week 18 or whatever. Like they proved they will play him in a lost season. All right, one thing I will add to that. I don't agree with you guys. It's probably a no. But just look be on the lookout for Marvin Harrison coming out of the bye week. I think Arizona put because we've been looking at kind of the route tree for Harrison. It's evolved a lot over the course of the season leading into the buy. They're giving him more of those layup routes underneath, more horizontal. I think coming out of the buy they'll you. They'll utilize him even more and he'll be a better PPR place. I'm actually high on him rest of season.
Dan Schneier
Yeah, I. I totally agree but you just too much. He can he get and this is going to sound funny just given how we drafted these guys, but can he get to T Higgins level?
Jamie Eisenberg
Good point. Yeah, I don't does that.
Dan Schneier
That's really what we need to see because Higgins have been great.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, still Kyler for me. Baker's going to have a good game though, with Evans coming back. And one quick thing, we only have 30 likes right now going. Please click the like button if you're watching. It's our best. It's your best way to help us grow the show. It's free. Takes you 3 seconds to hover over the mouse. Just think about this every time you watch. Hit that like button. Thank you.
Adam Azer
Kareem Hunt if Pacheco plays or Amir Abdullah.
Dan Schneier
Kareem Hunt. Either way.
Adam Azer
Yeah, Kareem Hunt, Quentin Johnston or Deandre.
Dan Schneier
Hopkins, Quentin Johnson for me.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'll go Hopkins. I think this could be a get right game for the Chiefs offense. At least I'm hoping for that.
Adam Azer
Next email is from Scott. Hey, Joe Bob. Ow. And Seth.
Jamie Eisenberg
Joe Bob Owens.
Dan Schneier
No idea.
Adam Azer
North Dallas. North Dallas 49.
Dan Schneier
One of the best football movies ever.
Adam Azer
I've never, never seen it. I have AJ Brown, Nico Collins, Cooper Cup, Terry McLaurin and Romo Dunesay. Two of them sit Romo Dunze and one more. AJ Brown, Nico Collins, Cooper cup, Terry McLaurin.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'll sit McLaren.
Dan Schneier
It's between McLaren and cup for me. Just because the matchup against Philly is not going to be easy for them. I'll be consensus with Dan. So we're on the same page.
Adam Azer
So sit McCormick and sit two of these running backs. Kyron Pollard, Chuba Hubbard, Bucky Irving.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'll set Hubbard and Irving.
Dan Schneier
I'm gonna say Hubbard and Pollard.
Adam Azer
P.S. is Adam related to Joe Flacco? I think I look a little like Joe Flacco.
Jamie Eisenberg
You look a little like Joe Flacco, but you're like 7 inches smaller and 140 pounds lighter.
Dan Schneier
I would say the only thing that you guys have in common is you shave at 9am and you have a.
Adam Azer
Beard by 5pm David from Chattanooga says, grade the trade. 10 team PPR league. 10 team, full PBR league trade Anthony Richardson. Get Quentin Johnston. Zero context, by the way.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, this is a tough one with no context.
Adam Azer
No idea who's out of state.
Jamie Eisenberg
I assume without context that this is a 10 team league. You can get quarterbacks pretty easily that are startable. So I would do the trade.
Dan Schneier
Yeah, I'll say. B minus.
Adam Azer
All right.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's a bad take. Jeremy Wilson says Adam looks like Sandler.
Adam Azer
I don't look like Adam Sandler.
Jamie Eisenberg
No, you don't look like Adam Sandler at all.
Adam Azer
I mean, I like. We have a lot in common.
Jamie Eisenberg
I feel like it's a stereotype, to be honest with you.
Adam Azer
I did feel that way. I'm just gonna call it out that way.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I felt that way.
Dan Schneier
All you gotta do is just make something and you're good.
Jamie Eisenberg
And I'm just gonna throw his name. It's Jeremy Wilson. Okay.
Adam Azer
Okay. Yeah. All right. Bench what? Bo wants us to bench a wide receiver. Very similar question here. Cup. AJ Brown, Nico Collins or Juwan Jennings.
Dan Schneier
Oh, wow. Cup for me.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's cup for me. I can't bench Joan Jennings. Adam, we're at the point now where we can clearly say Joanne Jennings is eight every week started.
Adam Azer
You know it's Thursday night for us. By the time you're hearing this, you already have a Friday practice report and all that stuff. But as we sit here today, we don't know if Brock Purdy's playing.
Jamie Eisenberg
True. There was that weird Grant Cohen report where he's like, can't even throw the ball.
Adam Azer
Yeah. So I'm a little nervous about that. In fact, there's no chance. Even if Brock Purdy plays, I'm not starting Juwan Jennings over Nico, AJ or Cup.
Dan Schneier
Are we gonna get the the past or not?
Jamie Eisenberg
What's that?
Adam Azer
Who's the pastor?
Dan Schneier
Not what, their backup.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, Josh. Josh.
Adam Azer
No, it's not going to be Dobbs. I thought who would. It's going to be the other guy. Oh, I saw a report that said it's going to be. What's his name? Hold on a second. But. But like the last two, it's going to be. It's going to be. Not Brandon Allen. Really? I don't know. I'll look into it.
Jamie Eisenberg
I put this comment up for Jamie, but he's not even paying attention.
Adam Azer
Okay. No, but seriously, like, the last two weeks, we've had Juwan Jennings against Tampa Bay, and without George Kittle, we're really going to start him over. Cooper Cup. I'm not doing that.
Jamie Eisenberg
I am. So team Juwan Jennings, running back.
Dan Schneier
Do we know the Thursday practice report for Jerry Alexander?
Adam Azer
Oh, he's out. He said he can gonna miss. He could miss a lot of time with his like, he has like a torn something. So there you go. I would not expect Jair Alexander to play, but he was vague about it. Bench one running back. James Connor, David Montgomery.
Dan Schneier
All right.
Adam Azer
Sorry. Okay. Bench a running back. Montgomery. James Connor, Brian Robinson Jr. What's the format?
Jamie Eisenberg
We know it's not going to be Brian Robinson Jr. That's Jamie Star Week.
Dan Schneier
If it's non PPR, it's your bench. And Connor, if it's full PPR, I'm probably benching Montgomery.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's so hard for me to bench Montgomery. I'll bench Connor.
Adam Azer
Okay, and then the last question is if you're benching Connor or Montgomery and you're benching Cooper cup, you get to pick one of them as your flex.
Jamie Eisenberg
Wow. And it was non pbr, right? Is that what you said?
Adam Azer
No, I. We don't. I don't know.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, another. No context. Guys, let's get the context, please. We need to know the format.
Dan Schneier
But yeah, scoring is. Is very important. I guess I'll start Cup over.
Jamie Eisenberg
Connor, same.
Adam Azer
This is from Chris Half PPR Start. Rico Dowdle or Romo Dunesay?
Dan Schneier
Oh, Dunes.
Jamie Eisenberg
Sorry. I was reading a comment about Adam that made me laugh. Odunze I had him read it. But we can't read that one on there. That's for the chat only.
Adam Azer
Okay. From Anthony. Hey. Hi. Derek, TJ and jj. I'm facing my twin brother this week, so I really need this win. 4 point per passing touchdown league. Baker Mayfield or Justin Herbert?
Jamie Eisenberg
Herbert. Yeah.
Adam Azer
From Rob. Would you rather have Acres, Roshan or Singletary rest a year? I see. This week. This week.
Dan Schneier
Oh, Acres, Roshan or Singletary? Roshan.
Jamie Eisenberg
Not thrilled, but Roshan from Rob Gray.
Adam Azer
The trade. Good morning. He says good morning. Steve, Carl and Eddie.
Jamie Eisenberg
You know this one? Adam?
Adam Azer
Of course.
Jamie Eisenberg
Is it a movie?
Adam Azer
Did I do that?
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, Family Matters.
Adam Azer
There you go.
Jamie Eisenberg
You see, Carl's the dad. Steve Urkel and then who's Eddie?
Adam Azer
Eddie?
Jamie Eisenberg
That brother.
Adam Azer
Brother, yeah.
Jamie Eisenberg
What a forgettable character.
Adam Azer
Steve, Carl and Eddie. That is such a.
Jamie Eisenberg
Is he not. Is the brother like. I mean the Eddie?
Adam Azer
He's a pretty forgettable like.
Jamie Eisenberg
Right.
Adam Azer
So much more people who make that.
Jamie Eisenberg
Show are the two I named.
Adam Azer
Who? Carl. What about Laura?
Jamie Eisenberg
Which one's Laura?
Adam Azer
Which one's Laura? That's the girl that. That Urkel's obsessed with.
Jamie Eisenberg
I have seen so few episodes of this show.
Adam Azer
Okay, so I just did three. The ones I've seen, Steve Urkel stood.
Jamie Eisenberg
Out as funn and obviously the dad was the funniest.
Adam Azer
Okay, great. Love the mailbag. Oh, this is so appropriate. Love the mailbag show. But have been missing Dan's random and weird takes and trying to tell something quick, but then takes 5 minutes. Can you grade the following trade in a 12 team half PPR keeper league? Give Malik Neighbors and Ken Walker. Get George Pickens and Jameer Gibbs.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, I think it's like a B. Like a straight fair trade.
Dan Schneier
You're getting Pickens and Gibson. Yeah, that's an A for me.
Jamie Eisenberg
But you're giving up neighbors. You're losing a little bit there, right?
Adam Azer
I don't know what the independent of the keeper value. I love the trade. I like Pickens better than Neighbors and I like Gibbs better than Walker. I don't know what the Keeper values. Are you laughing at this comment? This could be really funny. Dan, thoughts on pickleball?
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I have some thoughts on it. Should I get to it?
Adam Azer
Yes, you should.
Jamie Eisenberg
This one could go a little long. This one I'll warn the.
Adam Azer
I've given you a bit. I've given you one minute.
Jamie Eisenberg
Okay, one minute played. Probably Six, seven times. A lot of people tell me how much they love it. My uncle, my aunt, my friend who moved down to Florida played with him. He's been playing for months. I beat him 11 0. He couldn't get a point off me in singles. I find it to be lazy. A very lazy sport is how I would describe pickleball. I would never play it over tennis if I had the opportunity to play both. I don't really understand the hype behind it. Again, a very lazy sport. Not much movement. You come to net. Actually hurt my knees because there's a lot of dumb stop and start to get to net. I have to rush to net every play. Lazy sport.
Adam Azer
Okay, that was good. That was good. Let's stay in on pickleball. Thank you. Let's go to our next.
Dan Schneier
By the way, Dan, we were having a discussion of what sports you could beat. Heathen.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, that. When was that on the show? And I missed it?
Adam Azer
Yeah, it was today, I think.
Jamie Eisenberg
And what did you come up with?
Adam Azer
Tennis.
Dan Schneier
No, it was yesterday.
Jamie Eisenberg
Tennis is.
Adam Azer
That's all. That's. That's the only one. I thought.
Jamie Eisenberg
We assume. I'm not gonna. First of all, let's just keep things in mind. How old is he right now?
Adam Azer
45, I think is.
Dan Schneier
42. I think 41.
Jamie Eisenberg
He's really. He is young. I would think that, like, my youth could help me win some stuff. Is that not very tall?
Adam Azer
Like, he's.
Jamie Eisenberg
He's so tall. I. I don't want to throw basketball out there because he's a coach.
Adam Azer
No, don't. Don't.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, don't want to throw that. I know he used to be a good golfer, so I'm definitely not beating him. That.
Adam Azer
So here's the thing. Heath really, like, Heath is sure that he can beat me in tennis.
Jamie Eisenberg
That shouldn't be the case.
Adam Azer
Right. Like, I feel like I crushed play.
Jamie Eisenberg
At all or not.
Adam Azer
I don't think so. He just.
Jamie Eisenberg
He basing it on athleticism.
Adam Azer
He saw us play on the live stream, and he thinks he's going to kill me. But the live stream looked like it was in half speed.
Jamie Eisenberg
Like, the live stream looked like it was in half speed. Thank you for saying that. We got so screwed on that live stream, Adam. Like, it looked like we were playing such bad. Dennis, the fall was. The pace was much better than that live stream showed. That live stream was not a good representation. Next year, we bring in the big guns. We bring in the real cameras. We're gonna have commentators. We need, like, we need something to make that. That was not as bad as it looked.
Adam Azer
Let me get back to the emails here from Aaron. Grade the trade, 12 team PPR. Oh, oh, wait. But he also thinks, based on the live stream, he thinks he can beat you in tennis. And you'd know.
Dan Schneier
He didn't. No, he did not.
Adam Azer
Yes, he did.
Dan Schneier
No, he didn't.
Adam Azer
What? Yes, he did.
Dan Schneier
No, he said Dan would beat him in tennis.
Adam Azer
Are you sure?
Dan Schneier
Yes.
Adam Azer
Maybe I had to convince him of that. All right, Aaron says grade the trade 12 team PPR. Give Dobbins and Hubbard, get Camara and Purdy.
Jamie Eisenberg
I mean, we need to know context. Like, does this guy have the.
Adam Azer
Okay, all right, all right. Give Dobbins and Hubbard. Get Camara and Purdy. He has Bucky Irving, Saquon Barkley, and Kareem Hunt.
Jamie Eisenberg
Well, Hunt's about to die off for fantasy purposes, so he's two backs.
Adam Azer
I would do this trade.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah. You're at the point where you're getting.
Dan Schneier
The best player, three backs, and you're.
Adam Azer
Gonna roll out Saquon and Camara in the playoffs.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I'm good with it. You can. You can go three backs, rest season.
Adam Azer
This is yo. Tom from Israel. He says, hey, dear. Leroy, Tony, Timothy and Abby.
Jamie Eisenberg
Leroy, Tony, Timothy and Abby.
Adam Azer
Ncis. Yeah, I wouldn't.
Jamie Eisenberg
No shot. No shot.
Dan Schneier
Okay.
Adam Azer
How many of those are 12 team, full PPR league. I need to pick a running back. James Connor or Tyrone Tracy.
Dan Schneier
Tracy for me.
Jamie Eisenberg
Tracy.
Adam Azer
There's a lot of James Conner disrespect.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Dan Schneier
Respect. I mean, there's great players that you're comparing them to, and. And Tracy's been having a nice season so far.
Adam Azer
Isn't Connor having a nice season? Am I missing?
Dan Schneier
Yeah, but I just like the matchup better for him.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Adam Azer
All right. I just want to kind of see how things go with DeVito the first week.
Jamie Eisenberg
There might not be a lot of offense.
Adam Azer
Like, I'm looking at James Connor's targets. 3, 5, 4, 3, 3, 5 in his last six games. That's enough to put him over the edge for me because Tracy hasn't really gotten them other than the game. Neighbors was out, and I have no idea if DeVito is going to throw to him or not. DeVito did have a very high running back target rate last year for what? That.
Dan Schneier
That's what I'm counting on.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Dan Schneier
Yeah.
Adam Azer
I just don't know because he didn't have neighbors last year. But. But he did. He didn't throw a lot. He only threw like 26 passes per game. But he had A very high running back target rate. All right, we're gonna take a break here. Well now we're not gonna take a break. We just took a break. Right? We should keep it going. So let's get to the fantasy cops. Here we go. We got a bunch of them today. Hey, and the first one is from Brandon. Brandon says for the first time ever I am seeing cross league collusion. Two trades took place in different leagues yesterday that were completely one sided in one league. And out of playoff, 4 and 7 team traded Amon Ross, St. Brown and Jared goff to an 8 and 3 team for Xavier Worthy, CJ Stroud and Mark Andrews. It's a bad one. Then in another league, the 4 and 7 manager who traded St. Brown in golf, he's 5 and 6 in this other league and he has the last playoff spot. The 8 and 3 team that he traded with in league A is also in league B and he's three and eight. And he traded James Cook and Lad Makake for MVS and Brian Thomas.
Jamie Eisenberg
No way.
Adam Azer
So they both legitimately just like as.
Jamie Eisenberg
Clear cut collusion as it gets.
Dan Schneier
How many of the other similar, similar managers are in both leagues?
Adam Azer
Wait, it gets worse. These trades happen within five minutes of each other.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's so funny. They tried to like make it look like it was okay because like they only ripped them off with like one player in each deal. Like they threw back one piece that mattered, Brian Thomas or whatever. But then they didn't even do it right because they did it within five minutes of each other.
Adam Azer
Luckily both myself and the other commissioner are in both of these leagues. And reverse the trades in each league. They are denying the collusion, but the evidence seems obvious. What should their evidence be if anything?
Dan Schneier
What should their evidence be or their consequence?
Adam Azer
It says evidence, but I guess whatever you want it to be.
Dan Schneier
I mean you don't want to kick people out of leagues.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yes you do.
Adam Azer
No, no.
Jamie Eisenberg
If two people are colluding, you kick them out of elite. I don't understand this. Take that you guys always have. Like I'm so confused by it.
Dan Schneier
If you play golf with. If you have no more friends since you're not kicking people out of all these things.
Adam Azer
Exactly.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'm not kicking people out of fantasy leagues. No one in my leagues is cheating. Collusion is cheating. Like I'm very concerned and confused by these takes.
Adam Azer
Like you were in your lane. You would not.
Jamie Eisenberg
And then you just like say like, ah, it's all right.
Dan Schneier
Do you commission any leagues, Dan?
Jamie Eisenberg
Yes, my home.
Dan Schneier
And you would you would legitimately kick.
Jamie Eisenberg
Your friends out of fancy league if they were cheating. If they were caught cheating, they're your friends.
Dan Schneier
You would just kick them out immediately.
Jamie Eisenberg
Well, I have like friends with integrity so they wouldn't cheat no one.
Dan Schneier
Okay.
Jamie Eisenberg
But if they did, then they wouldn't, probably wouldn't be my friends. Like this is a serious league. It's our, it's our 8 17th year and we started in 2007. Like no one's cheated, no one's thought of cheating.
Adam Azer
Right. But you wouldn't do it. You wouldn't take that drastic step or like there are no consequences here. Just reverse the trade.
Jamie Eisenberg
You know, if that's it, I think the whole league would.
Dan Schneier
No, I think you got to punish them in some way. You, you reverse the trade must punishment at least either, you know, you, you dock them fab. I don't know if you don't allow them make it to more trade this year or next year, you know, there's got to be some sort of penalty for it.
Jamie Eisenberg
This is probably a buy in league too. So like it's, it's dirty to me. Like you just can't just cheat and then get away and get caught and then get reversed and be like, yeah, it's all right. You, hopefully you guys just won't do it again. Nothing. Just forget about it for a little while.
Adam Azer
All right. This is very.
Dan Schneier
Yeah, maybe, maybe you dock them a draft pick next year at least.
Adam Azer
All right. From Melissa. Okay, so my husband and I are in a league together. My team has no chance of making the playoffs and my husband has a mild chance of making the playoffs. We decided I should trade him. Isaiah Pacheco for Tyler Algier. We didn't think it was that egregious of a trade. Apparently everyone in our league thought it, it was horrible. So the trade's been reversed. I just want your opinion. Was the trade that bad? Should it have been reversed? My Pacheco for his Tyler Alger when she's out of the playoffs, he's on the, on the cusp. Also to note, no one in this league ever trades. So if we don't trade with each other, no one will trade with us or anyone.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, see this is, this is how it's supposed to go. This is the type of situation where you don't kick somebody out because it's like an honest error. She's being like, you know, it sounds like she understands. Like, okay, this, this is, this is.
Dan Schneier
The definition of collusion.
Jamie Eisenberg
This is collusion.
Adam Azer
Right.
Jamie Eisenberg
I don't Mean it like that. It's obviously collusion. But she's saying it like, look, the.
Dan Schneier
Guy out of league commissioner.
Jamie Eisenberg
Hold on, hold on. Let me explain myself. It's obviously collusion. You can't let it go through it. To answer her question, it's a terrible trade. It should not go through. But at least she's saying, like, is there something wrong with this? If there is, I really don't want it to happen. Because that's not fair. The other people are just like, no, the trade wasn't collusion. Let it go through. Even though we did it five minutes within the other one. That is like bad intention to me. Time out here.
Adam Azer
Time out. Is it really that bad of a trade? Pacheco, Pacheco for Algier? Are you out of your mind?
Jamie Eisenberg
With how good Kareem Hunt has been and how conservative they've been in the red zone and how much they're running the ball?
Adam Azer
Yeah, that's exactly. Well, yeah, because I'm saying that Pacheco could be useless and Alger is. Is the top handcuffs. Okay, I agree, Adam. All right.
Jamie Eisenberg
What's the trade you did the other time, like McCaffrey for someone like the week McCaffrey came back, who did that end up being?
Adam Azer
It was Aaron Jones and Wanda Robinson for McCaffrey. Oh, it was proposed to be. I accepted it. I didn't do anything wrong.
Jamie Eisenberg
I forgot about that until just now.
Adam Azer
But here, the big problem here, honestly, is that you have no chance, Melissa. You have no chance of making the playoffs. That's why it's so bad. I don't think I would overturn it.
Jamie Eisenberg
The only reason it's so bad.
Adam Azer
Look, look, it is so easy. Like, if Bijan gets hurt, Isaiah Pacheco is ten times better than. Than. I mean, sorry. Algiers is better than Pacheco.
Jamie Eisenberg
That's not even a guarantee. I'll check them right back into the role that Cream Hunt has right now.
Adam Azer
Maybe we've been talking all. All week. We don't expect it, but. All right, all right, all right. I'm not saying it's gonna happen.
Jamie Eisenberg
More possible than a random Bijan injury.
Adam Azer
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Adam Azer
And we're back on fantasy football today. Let's go right back to the police Drew from a town south of Philly. Dan, you gotta know that town south of Philly.
Jamie Eisenberg
South Philly. I only know north Philly. I don't go down there.
Adam Azer
I forget you then. Good morning. I love the show. I need some dad advice. My son is constantly looking at his fantasy team. The other night he fell asleep with the app open and accidentally dropped Jacoby Myers his sleep. He realized as soon as he woke up and asked the commissioner to put him back on his team. The commissioner claimed he didn't have the capability to fix it. We told him how or it says when told how he admitted that he wasn't going to do it because he had the first waiver wire priority. My son is pretty non confrontational, so I'm sure he'll just leave it alone, which is probably the best thing to do, but it doesn't sit well. Thoughts?
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I don't think this is a good move by the commissioner. He's cheating, he's using his power.
Adam Azer
Yeah, listen, you don't get this is a dad, this is a dad problem here. You don't get to weigh it. It's only Jamie.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, you're right about that. You're right about that. Let's turn it over to father of the year, Mr. Adam Mazer. Go ahead.
Adam Azer
You know, I don't have a son old enough to have this problem, so in a few years. Sure, but Jamie, your kids play fantasy football. What would you do in this situation?
Dan Schneier
I mean, you know, if, if it's genuinely an honest mistake and you know, this has never happened before, you know where, where, you know, trust me, I see my, my kids leagues and their father son league. So the, the parents are involved, but they're as my 12 year old, it mostly the kids are doing a lot of the moves now, so. But I still see all the trade offers that are being sent back and forth and they're terrible. They're so, they're so bad because these, they're just trying to rip each other off left and right and you know, they're all smart enough thankfully to say no. But I think if, if it's, you know, he, he genuinely fell asleep. He genuinely hit the button by mistake, you know, rolled over.
Adam Azer
You got the issue wrong here. Right. We agree that, that he should get Jacoby Myers back. The problem is the commissioner is not doing it right and the son is just gonna. Okay, so you got it. Sorry. But just in case we were confused, the son who's getting screwed here is non confrontational and is just gonna let it slide. The dad wants to be like, no, dude, you should get Jacoby Myers back. So what would you do if you were the dad here?
Dan Schneier
I mean, it depends on what the relationship is. You know, if it's just like, if it's a school friend and you don't know the kid or the family, then you got to let the kid. You got to encourage your son to step up and do it himself. If it's like family friends, you know, we don't know the context of who the other person is, who the commissioners could be cousin, you know, it could be, you know, neighborhood kid that, you know, the parents know for a long time. Then you could. You could, you know, nudge the other. Other side of it and say, come on, man, you know, he didn't mean to do this.
Jamie Eisenberg
You know, like, Adam's almost. Adam's almost hinting, like, you show up to the guy's door with a baseball bat.
Adam Azer
No, I wouldn't risk, like, a friendship over it, but I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want my kid to be friends with. With a shady commissioner like this. But Drew, I would.
Dan Schneier
Dan would. Dan would certainly end the friendship.
Jamie Eisenberg
This is not a real friendship now. I'm kidding.
Adam Azer
Drew, why don't you. Why don't you talk to the dad. Why don't you talk to the kid's dad, be like, listen, you're so.
Jamie Eisenberg
That's what I thought you were getting.
Adam Azer
Yeah. All right, next up, next up from Jason. I am commissioner of my work league, and we have no vetoes on trades. We used to, but people just voted down all the trades, even if they were fair. There aren't many trades in this league, and as of now, there have only been three trades, and I've been part of all of them. Today a trade went through with a manager in first place trading Tank Bigsby and Alex Piercz and Alec Pierce to a manager who's eliminated from Mike Evans. We don't have a rule that eliminated teams can't trade because it's a keeper league. We don't have vetoes. But my process is to ask both managers why they want this deal. I haven't heard from the eliminated manager, but I can't see a good reason for this trade. If I don't hear back from the eliminated manager, what should I do?
Dan Schneier
The fact that it's a keeper league, Bigsby does have some keeper value. That is. That is somewhat long standing where Mike Evans may not.
Jamie Eisenberg
Who was the other guy? Bigsby.
Adam Azer
And what Big and Alec Pierce for Mike Evans. Right.
Dan Schneier
It's not. It's not a great trade, but the fact that there is some keep. Like, if you. If you were to say right now Tank Bigsby, the starting running back for the Jaguars next year under Ben Johnson, that's not horrible.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's not horrible.
Adam Azer
So if he can keep. If the trade makes sense from a keeper standpoint, that you should let it go, if it's ridiculous, then if.
Dan Schneier
And when was this trademate recently? So it's also. Look, this week. So this week's a little tough because if you were to say it was two weeks ago when Flacco's still the quarterback and Pittman had the back injury. And then you're talking about Pierce getting you through two weeks potentially as, as a, as a guy we were saying was a hot waiver wire pickup. The fact that is this week, you know, Pittman was back and Richard's a quarterback, then it's a little tough. But I do think that if you're just talking keeper value there, there's some keeper value to tank Bigsby. That's, that's should not be overlooked.
Adam Azer
We got a comment here from, from Greg says, Dan, ask about green stripe. Jamie, you remember Greg.
Jamie Eisenberg
That's green stripe.
Dan Schneier
Oh, yeah.
Adam Azer
So this is one of my favorite colleagues and he's in the chat right now. Hi. Greg doesn't work with us anymore.
Jamie Eisenberg
Okay. I didn't get to work with Greg.
Adam Azer
That's disappoint. Giants fan from Jersey, I believe.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, nice.
Adam Azer
He, he was maybe my funniest colleague. I had this collared shirt, this polo shirt, like, you know, short sleeve collared shirt.
Jamie Eisenberg
Okay.
Adam Azer
That had like a bunch of blue stripes across horizontal blue stripes and just had this one random green stripe across this chest. And he was fascinated by the shirt. So he called me green stripe forever and he still calls me green stripe. I'm gonna try to find a picture of the shirt.
Jamie Eisenberg
It is amazing how many pieces of items of clothing you have in your wardrobe that really catch our attention. Take over shows, like single handedly take over shows.
Adam Azer
If I can get on Greg's like.
Dan Schneier
One of those guys like you'll just, you'll talk to him for like a minute and you walk away something. He made you laugh.
Adam Azer
Oh, he's so.
Jamie Eisenberg
We need a guy like that. Come back, Greg.
Adam Azer
Yeah, he's so funny. All right, last one here.
Jamie Eisenberg
What happened to your Spock shirt? Did you retire that?
Adam Azer
I wear it with pride now.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'm not pride now you wear it with pride.
Adam Azer
This one, let's see. Is this one my favorite one? We've had some good ones before. Oh, this is, this is great. All right. From Marcus. In one of my fantasy leagues, the most openly egregious things just happened. It's an eight team, four point per passing touchdown, full PPR league. I'm five and six. I'm fourth place. The commissioner is five and six and in fifth place because I have more points than him. Remember, it's an eight team league this week. He really needs to win to stay alive and is playing the last place 2 and 9 team. Technically not eliminated yet. The 2 and 9 team. The last place team has Evan Ingram on a buy and Jake Ferguson hurt. He's been stressing how much he really wanted TJ Hawkinson and has talked to me about him before. He offered me Najee Harris for TJ Hawkinson and Nick Chubb. I accepted the trade. The commissioner vetoed the trade. And when I called him to ask about it, he said, quote, I really need to win this week, and I normally would let this type of trade go through, but I'm playing him this week. I don't want him to beat me, so I'm not letting it go through, end quote. I've never had a commissioner openly admit to abusing his powers like that. What say you guys? P.S. i will not be back in the league next. Next year. Yeah.
Jamie Eisenberg
I mean, good for you for taking a stand and getting out of a stupid league like this. And I say it's a stupid league like this because a commissioner is doing something so ridiculous. I mean, Jamie, this. Can we kick this guy out? Like, is this worth losing a friendship over? Like, where do we draw the line with the shenanigans here? Like, guys can just do something as openly ridiculous cheating like this. I. I don't get it. These league people playing. Like, who are these people who make these decisions?
Adam Azer
That's so funny, though.
Dan Schneier
So you got to obviously bring this to light with the rest of your league, and you got to make it aware that the commissioner is really abusing his powers or her powers to. To a degree that is just not even. You can't come back for that. So, yes, you can kick the commissioner out of the league or remove them or her from commissioner powers and penalize them in some way, shape or form if you're not going to kick them out.
Adam Azer
Okay. I found the picture of the green striped shirt, but I can't. Like, there's other. There's another person in it. So I. I'm gonna see if I can download it and then edit it. All right. Thank you for your fantasy cop submission. Just a friend of mine. But, like, I'm not gonna put.
Dan Schneier
Oh, I thought it was another core.
Adam Azer
I know. All right. Apple podcast questions. Great fantasy.
Jamie Eisenberg
You still have it at home? The green stripe or.
Adam Azer
No, no, no.
Jamie Eisenberg
You know, it fits, though.
Dan Schneier
No, because his wife has taste and she probably made him throw it up.
Jamie Eisenberg
She let him buy this box shirt.
Dan Schneier
No, he did that on his own. He told us that.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, he did it on his own. Did she criticize you when you got back?
Dan Schneier
I think she said Nice pajamas.
Adam Azer
Yeah, I think she said it looked like pajamas, which it does.
Jamie Eisenberg
And that wasn't a compliment.
Adam Azer
No, it was not. She was right. Okay, Apple podcast from now for not nal. Currently sitting in first place in my league, thanks to you guys, My trade deadline has been extended. I've been offered Justin Jefferson and Raheem Mostert for Josh Jacobs and Terry McLaurin. What say you, gents?
Dan Schneier
Jefferson and Most are for Jacobs and McLaren. I'd rather have Jacobs and McLaren.
Jamie Eisenberg
Me too. I'm on Jacob's corn side.
Adam Azer
Okay, just. Just talk about that briefly so I can try to get this picture up.
Dan Schneier
So, you know, you always want to be on the side where you're getting the best player, but I think at this point, Raheem Mostert is such a non factor, and I wonder what would happen even if Devon Hn got hurt. You know, what they would do in terms of probably splitting the touches between Mostert and Jalen Wright as opposed to just all the work going to Mostert. Jacobs has been beyond serviceable. He's. He's a borderline number one running back, certainly a high end number two running back. And McLaren, as we've seen with Jane Daniels more times than not, has been pretty solid. So I think you're getting two starters for one, and that's a good, good side to be on.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, for me, it comes down to the Jacobs aspect of this. If you look at it, last year, Green Bay's offense, Jordan Love, caught fire in the second half. Jordan Love could get healthier down the stretch. The schedule looks really good for Green Bay for potential shootouts. It's good start this week if Purdy's healthy. So I think that Jacobs could be potentially a league winner down the stretch. All he has to do is score a little bit more. He just hasn't been scoring a lot.
Adam Azer
All right, next question is From APP State Dynasty 12 team, half PPR.
Jamie Eisenberg
Was that not enough time for you to edit the picture?
Adam Azer
I don't think I can edit. Busted.
Jamie Eisenberg
Real well there. I feel like we did a great job.
Adam Azer
Very good job. You actually gave like a real answer. That must be difficult. So just blow the picture up and just show the shirt saying in the.
Jamie Eisenberg
Chat, show that shirt. Show that shirt.
Adam Azer
I don't think they're saying that.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, they are. There's two show that shirts comment.
Adam Azer
Where's my Can I crop? Why can't I crop? I can't crop with this.
Jamie Eisenberg
You are just not technically sound.
Adam Azer
Nah. Can you crop? I'll send you the picture.
Jamie Eisenberg
You can Be put on the spot like that.
Dan Schneier
All right, I'll do it for you.
Adam Azer
Dynasty League 12 team half PPR kick and punt return yards count start. Two running backs and one flex. Bijan Robinson is on a buy and these are my only options. All right, we need two running backs and a flex. Holy cow. Jonathan Brooks, Roshan Johnson, Zach. Taj Spears is probably not going to play. Zach Charbonnet, Keaton Mitchell. Remember, punt and kick return yards count Amir Abdullah. So let's get two running backs first. Jonathan Brooks, Roshan Johnson, Zach Charbonnet, Keaton.
Dan Schneier
Mitchell, Amir Abdullah, Abdullah right now is the easy one because both guys didn't practice again on Thursday.
Jamie Eisenberg
Crazy as it sounds, I'm with it.
Dan Schneier
So you got Abdullah and then, I mean, it's not like Keaton Mitchell's getting a ton of return yards that you're going to factor him that highly. I would probably go with Roshan.
Jamie Eisenberg
Who was the guy before Roshan? I don't know. Someone. Yeah. No, I can't do that yet. It's got to be Roshan.
Adam Azer
All right. And then a flex from the remaining running backs like Charbonnet or Jonathan Brooks. Jalen Coker. Jalen Polk, Jordan Whittington. Whittington.
Dan Schneier
There's no way it's Whittington. He's done.
Jamie Eisenberg
I might go Coker.
Adam Azer
I think Coker is gonna get benched if Thielen plays.
Jamie Eisenberg
That's such a good point. Damn it. I can't do Coker then.
Dan Schneier
Man, you're a really tough spot.
Adam Azer
Jonathan Brooks. Oh, sharp. I just take a shot on Charbonne?
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
Dan Schneier
Yeah, I guess.
Adam Azer
All right, next up, Josh 3x guys. Hardest decision I've had to make all season. Do I start Bo Nick. So I picked up for Kyler's bye week or do I put Kyler back in my lineup?
Jamie Eisenberg
Kyler?
Dan Schneier
Yeah, Kyler. You know, he's been good more times than not. You know, you throw out the Bears game, he's would have been an amazing stretch. You know, three of his last four, he's been fantastic. So I don't think the Seattle defense is going to slow him down. I know they're getting healthier coming off the bye week. He's got a pretty solid track record. His last six games against the Seahawks, he's averaging 24 fantasy points per game. It's been some spike games and there's a 43 point game in there for example. But yeah, I'm gonna stick with Kyler. I like both a lot this week though.
Adam Azer
Okay, I'm in photoshop oh, my God, this is unbelievable. I don't know how to use photo.
Jamie Eisenberg
Adam is like the. Adam's like the grandparent you have. You put Netflix on their TV and all the smart ads, and they can't still give you Netflix. And then go, Jamie.
Dan Schneier
Yeah, just text me. I'll text right back to you having two seconds.
Jamie Eisenberg
This is.
Adam Azer
Yeah, no, I need it on my computer.
Dan Schneier
I'll email to you.
Adam Azer
I'm gonna.
Jamie Eisenberg
If Jamie can do all that, can.
Adam Azer
I email you the picture?
Dan Schneier
Sure.
Adam Azer
Okay.
Jamie Eisenberg
Embarrassing. Adam, this really is.
Adam Azer
It's not that I'm hosting a show. If I didn't have to host a show right now, I'd have this figured out.
Jamie Eisenberg
All right, Excuse.
Adam Azer
Picture is sent. And. Okay, let's go to our YouTube comments. YouTubers, what's going on? Send fire away and let me just timecode this. Okay, YouTube, here we go. Adam Thielen. Christian Watson. Romeo Dobbs.
Jamie Eisenberg
Watson.
Adam Azer
Better TV series. Goosebumps or are you afraid of the dark?
Jamie Eisenberg
I was a massive. And I mean massive are you afraid of the dark Fan growing up to the point where at one point in my childhood, I went online to ebay and ordered all these bootleg DVDs that they, like, created. It was like a 36 pack. It was missing episodes. It was supposed to be all the episodes, but I got a lot of them. And what a show. That was some of the best writing in, you know, in Nickelodeon history.
Adam Azer
I've never even seen Goosebumps, though. You.
Dan Schneier
I can't believe you didn't know how to do this.
Adam Azer
You know what? I didn't think to do it on my phone. I could have easily done it on my phone. I was trying to do it on my computer.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, my God, Adam.
Adam Azer
All right, this might be your word.
Jamie Eisenberg
This is. This is up there.
Adam Azer
By the way, Dan, Trivia, what's the name of the group in the. In the Are youe Afraid of the Dark? What's their group name?
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, the Midnight Society.
Adam Azer
Oh, very good.
Jamie Eisenberg
Told you I was a huge fan. It's like a weird fan of the show. I watch all of Snick, and I never got to see your brother. It was such a disappointment. He was on Slime Time Live. I don't even know when that was. It's like a midday show.
Adam Azer
Dan is the guy that excitedly tells you about a rom com he watched recently.
Jamie Eisenberg
No Shot King. I excitedly tell people about a lot of things, but not rom coms.
Adam Azer
Ray. The trade. Half ppr. I traded Kareem Hunt for Bucky Irving.
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I love this Trade.
Dan Schneier
Yeah.
Jamie Eisenberg
Cream hunt days are over.
Adam Azer
A minus. Lions or Broncos? DST Knicks or Jaden Daniels?
Dan Schneier
Broncos. And Daniels.
Jamie Eisenberg
Definitely Daniels. For me. I would never bench him. Broncos.
Adam Azer
Kyler Murray or Justin Herbert?
Jamie Eisenberg
Herbert.
Dan Schneier
Herbert.
Adam Azer
Gray. The trade, did you send it back to me? Jamie?
Dan Schneier
Yes.
Jamie Eisenberg
Now he can't even get it. You've done all the work for him and it's still not on the screen.
Adam Azer
Okay. All right, so wait. Dan, take over while I need to share the screen.
Jamie Eisenberg
Okay. Robert Thomas says, Dan, a riddle. What is it that has no weight, can be seen by the naked eye, and if you put it in a barrel. Barrel. It would make the barrel lighter. That is the easiest riddle I've ever been asked. The answer is Adam Azer.
Adam Azer
What?
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, anything that if you put in the barrel, it'll make it lighter.
Adam Azer
What the hell are you talking about? I don't get this joke.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'm talking about you, adam. You. You. 135 pounds soaking wet. You.
Adam Azer
No, this. That is not the answer. This is an actual riddle.
Jamie Eisenberg
I think I'm gonna actually look at a riddle and answer a riddle right now.
Adam Azer
15Am Seen by the naked eye.
Jamie Eisenberg
No, don't give this any more time.
Adam Azer
I love riddles.
Jamie Eisenberg
Sorry. I like you, Robert, but we're not doing riddles on the show.
Adam Azer
I put you in charge of doing.
Jamie Eisenberg
The question and I put up a riddle and now we'll get to an actual question. And the actual question is Drake may Anthony Richardson or TUA in a six point passing td. Jamie Eisenberg is my answer as well. We're going rapid fire because Adam is still struggling to get this even though Jamie has done all the work for him. And as the rapid fire rolls on, we clicked on that we already had. So now we're going to grade A trade. 0.5 ppr. It's Breeze hall for Kenneth Walker straight up.
Dan Schneier
So I think I like hall better rest of season. But if you need to win now, Hall's on a buy. Walker's not. So depends on the circumstance.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's a fair point. I would not trade Hall. That. That schedule is getting real nice for him. Pull ppr. You got a bench one. It's Jaden Reed. It's Marvin Harrison Jr. Coming out of the by. It's lad McConkey building that rapport with Herbert. Or it's JK. I kind of locked my way into two touchdowns, otherwise I would have had a bad game. Dobbins.
Dan Schneier
I'm going to bench Jaden Reed.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'm going to bench Reed, but I kind of want to bench Dobbins here. And Adam has finally done it.
Adam Azer
All right, ready? Here we go.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, my God. No wonder he's saying that. It's such a good point. Why is there that green stripe there?
Adam Azer
And he would look at me every day. I'd come in regardless of whether or not I was wearing the shirt, and he would go like. Like. Like a baseball coach swiping his chest. He'd be like, stripe. Every time he saw me stripe.
Jamie Eisenberg
I mean, you've just been. You picked this one out, too, it seems like.
Adam Azer
Actually, I believe my mommy bought that for me. This.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, my God. You said the word mommy.
Adam Azer
I was making a joke, but yes.
Jamie Eisenberg
We don't know if that's for sure, But I will say this. You somehow managed to be even skinnier looking in that photo than you are right now.
Adam Azer
That was a long time ago.
Dan Schneier
One thing about it is, now that I see the shirt, I mean, you wear the same clothes.
Jamie Eisenberg
I know.
Adam Azer
I don't have any shirts like that.
Dan Schneier
Yeah, no, no. At the time. Like, you'd wear that shirt all the time.
Adam Azer
Oh, yeah, Probably. All right. Actually, I think once.
Jamie Eisenberg
It wasn't even a good shirt, though.
Adam Azer
He shamed me out of wearing that shirt. Just like j. Well, he and your wife was like, when you move.
Jamie Eisenberg
When you did your move, your wife was like, you're not breaking that with you.
Adam Azer
That was way before I met her. Grade the trade. Pacheco for puka Nakua. That's an A. There's.
Dan Schneier
There's a probably 60 chance you wore that on one of your first dates with her, though.
Adam Azer
I did not. Good point. It was. It was out of the rotation by.
Jamie Eisenberg
So much confidence in it.
Adam Azer
Baker or Purdy?
Dan Schneier
Baker.
Jamie Eisenberg
Baker.
Adam Azer
Fine birdies are McBride or Johnny Smith.
Jamie Eisenberg
This shirt broke me. One of my favorite things.
Adam Azer
We've had McBride over John.
Jamie Eisenberg
When Jamie said that, now that he.
Adam Azer
Saw it, he noticed he used to wear it all the time. That's not even true. He's lying.
Jamie Eisenberg
It's definitely true.
Dan Schneier
Like a six shirt rotation. It was the Vanderbilt shirt.
Adam Azer
It was the Vanderbilt shirt I wore all the time. Yeah. Okay. Looking for. Looking for some questions.
Dan Schneier
I don't think Dan. I don't think Dan could have survived in the old days when I would steal your wallet all the time.
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, I wish I was there. You used to bully and prank Azer. Oh, I miss.
Adam Azer
I miss starts. No, bully is the wrong word.
Jamie Eisenberg
Prank. Prank. Prank.
Adam Azer
No, bully is the right word. Start. Two of these. Three D. Rashad, White, Josh down.
Dan Schneier
The wallet was this thick and he walk out of the room. What am I supposed to do?
Adam Azer
I still have.
Jamie Eisenberg
What is he doing with the Costanza?
Adam Azer
All right, I'm gonna start Debo Samuel.
Jamie Eisenberg
And why was the wallet so thick?
Dan Schneier
What was in that one?
Adam Azer
Let's say Rashad White over Josh Downs.
Dan Schneier
I'm actually benching Debo Samuel. I go Rashad White and Josh Downs.
Adam Azer
Okay, that's fine.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'd bench Debo in that situation. Now, Adam, you need to tell us why that wallet was so thick. What was in.
Adam Azer
I don't really understand. My wallet's still that thick. Not like it's very.
Jamie Eisenberg
You don't know why?
Adam Azer
No, I don't have. I really never carry. I have a lot of, like, cards, you know, I have like, my Target card and my Stop and Shop card and what? You know, my credit card.
Jamie Eisenberg
Those cards for. Do you shop there often?
Adam Azer
Yeah, I scan them.
Jamie Eisenberg
You know, if cards are there, like cards.
Adam Azer
I think you can just use your.
Dan Schneier
Phone number now, right?
Adam Azer
I'm not punching in the phone number every time. Come on.
Jamie Eisenberg
You think it's better to have a wallet this. This thick that's sitting in your pocket?
Dan Schneier
Adam drives like this.
Adam Azer
I take my wallet out, I never sit everywhere.
Jamie Eisenberg
Every store that he shops, put it in the door of my car.
Adam Azer
Trade Devante. Yes. I would trade Devonte Smith for Debo Samuel. Yeah. Hawkinson Andrews or Kate Otten Kaden. Josh Downs or Ramandre Stevenson. Esteban or Trey Benson.
Jamie Eisenberg
Half PPR estimate Ensign coming out of the buy. I'm gonna go Benson.
Adam Azer
If this is an insult. Ricola's cage. I'm not insulted. Adam still shops at Old Navy. It's not an insult that often, but yes, I have. No, because it's not near me.
Jamie Eisenberg
Otherwise I go there time to time as well. It's cheap and good.
Adam Azer
Good.
Jamie Eisenberg
Solid.
Adam Azer
Exactly. Let's see.
Jamie Eisenberg
Aren't worried about brands, okay? You. You worry about your brands. We don't need to be wearing brands that are expensive.
Adam Azer
That's right. Christian Watson or Wandale Robbins?
Dan Schneier
Watson.
Jamie Eisenberg
Watson. Love. Watson. Second half.
Adam Azer
That shirt is like the shirt you wear once and something good happens when you're wearing it, so you keep wearing it forever.
Dan Schneier
That sounds like Adam.
Jamie Eisenberg
That is such that. Adam to a T right there.
Adam Azer
Jordan Love or Justin Herbert.
Jamie Eisenberg
Herbert.
Dan Schneier
Herbert.
Adam Azer
Dan can't not agree with Jamie. Yep, that I agree with.
Jamie Eisenberg
We're talking about Adam's fat wallet. You're damn right we can't not agree.
Adam Azer
Adam has his library cards still that I don't have. What else I think I have? I Might have a Blockbuster card just for nostalgia.
Jamie Eisenberg
You do me a favor and, like, audit your wallet a little bit. Like, clean it out. I never had to say this to anybody, but you need to clean your wallet out.
Adam Azer
Kind of a big wallet. Just like a chunk wallet. I don't know. I traded. We traded Pacheco for Juwan Jennings. Like that.
Dan Schneier
Yes, I do.
Jamie Eisenberg
I've never heard anybody refer to a wallet.
Dan Schneier
I used to get so excited when he would just leave that thing on the table and leave. And. And Dave was like, oh, here we go.
Adam Azer
Big. I had to take it out of my. Out of my pockets. All right, Start three of these four.
Dan Schneier
You would always leave the room.
Jamie Eisenberg
You would have struggled to get it out.
Adam Azer
Ken Walker, Austin Eckler, Tony Pollard, Kareem Hunt. Sit 1. Walker, Eckler, Pollard, Hunt.
Dan Schneier
I'm gonna sit Pollard.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'll sit. And Pollard.
Adam Azer
Oh, I got a cool stat on Eckler, but I was.
Jamie Eisenberg
I'm thinking I might want to sit Eckler, but I'll sit Pollard.
Adam Azer
Yeah, I would sit Eckler, but he's facing a team that gives up a lot of receiving yards to running backs. He's actually faced five teams that give up a lot of receiving yards to running backs, and he's had 41 or more yards receiving in four of those five games. So that bodes well. Dallas is really bad at that. However, I am sitting Eckler.
Jamie Eisenberg
This is an interesting conspiracy theory. Adam has used the heavy wallet so he could weigh more. That's not a bad theory.
Adam Azer
Acres or Roshan. Ppr.
Dan Schneier
I think he just would use it so he wouldn't fly away.
Jamie Eisenberg
Roshan.
Dan Schneier
Roshan, for me.
Adam Azer
Okay. And let me ask you something.
Jamie Eisenberg
When you. When Adam would leave the wallet out and you would. You wouldn't prank him, did he, like, freak out when it wasn't?
Dan Schneier
Oh, my God. Every time. Depending on the day it would be. And it was even better when Nando was there.
Adam Azer
Oh, so good.
Jamie Eisenberg
Because he blamed Nando, obviously.
Dan Schneier
No, no, no. It was totally Mystic.
Jamie Eisenberg
Okay. He knew.
Adam Azer
I'm gonna go now. All right. It's been a great show. Thanks for watching. Listening, everybody. Good luck this week. We'll talk to you on Sunday with YouTube Fantasy Football Today and YouTube.com fantasy football today at 11:30am Eastern. And Jamie's on CBS Sports HQ at 10am Eastern. You can watch that on Sunday. We'll talk to you then. Have a good one.
Jamie Eisenberg
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Fantasy Football Today
Episode: Mailbag! (11/24 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Release Date: November 24, 2024
Hosts: Adam Aizer, Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings, Dan Schneier
In this engaging episode of Fantasy Football Today, host Adam Aizer reunites with analysts Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings, and Dan Schneier to tackle listener questions, grade trades, and address concerns within fantasy leagues. The episode, titled "Mailbag!", delves deep into player performances, trade evaluations, and ethical dilemmas faced by fantasy managers.
Timestamp: [04:55]
Listener Eric questions the ranking system, specifically how a player like Justin Jefferson can consistently be ranked first in his position despite never having a standout game exceeding 25 fantasy points.
Adam Azer:
"Justin Jefferson for the season is the number three wide receiver in fantasy but he's sixth per game in non-PPR, eighth per game in full PPR."
The hosts analyze Jefferson's week-to-week performance, highlighting his steady but unspectacular statistics.
Dan Schneier:
"I usually just look ahead and what I think is going to happen for the week as opposed to what's happened previously."
This analysis sparks a discussion on the balance between consistency and explosive performances in fantasy rankings.
Timestamp: [07:15]
Jack from Brazil raises a pertinent question about evaluating defenses based on their performance against quarterbacks versus wide receivers.
Jack:
"Since a quarterback's success is based mostly on passing yards and touchdowns, I don't understand why the same defense ranks high against quarterbacks but not receivers or vice versa. Should I still consider how a defense ranks against wide receivers when deciding which quarterback to start?"
Adam Azer:
"Look at the fantasy points allowed at quarterbacks. Don't worry about wide receivers, but check if the defense gives up a lot of rushing touchdowns, which could skew the stats."
The team agrees that focusing primarily on defenses' effectiveness against QBs, while also considering rushing touchdowns, provides a clearer strategy for weekly matchups.
Timestamp: [10:50]
Listener Jack requests an evaluation of a specific trade within a 10-team PPR league.
Jamie Eisenberg:
"Vince Weeb should really give it away."
Adam Azer:
"He’s giving up Pacheco Higgins and Chase Brown. I’d rather have Chase Brown than Breeze Hall."
The analysts critique the imbalance in the trade, concluding that it disproportionately favors one side, leading to a negative grade.
Timestamp: [23:30]
Jamie Eisenberg:
"I think it's like a B. Like a straight fair trade."
Dan Schneier:
"You're getting Pickens and Gibbs. That's an A for me."
The hosts debate the merits of acquiring high-potential wide receivers versus established running backs, ultimately leaning towards favoring the trade based on team needs and player potential.
Timestamp: [29:24]
Listener Brandon reports suspicious trading patterns across two separate leagues, suggesting deliberate manipulation to benefit specific teams.
Brandon:
"Two trades took place in different leagues yesterday that were completely one-sided."
Jamie Eisenberg:
"Clear cut collusion as it gets."
Dan Schneier:
"If two people are colluding, you kick them out of elite."
The hosts emphatically condemn the behavior, emphasizing the importance of maintaining integrity within fantasy leagues. They discuss potential consequences, such as reversing trades and imposing penalties to deter future misconduct.
Timestamp: [43:59]
Another listener, Melissa, shares her experience with a league commissioner who outright rejected a trade to prevent personal loss.
Melissa:
"The commissioner vetoed the trade and admitted it was to prevent me from losing."
Jamie Eisenberg:
"This is collusion."
The team agrees that such actions undermine fair play and recommends taking a stand by either removing the commissioner or exiting the league to preserve its integrity.
Timestamp: [15:55]
Listener John from Cleveland seeks advice on whether to rest Kyler Murray or Baker Mayfield for the week.
Jamie Eisenberg:
"Still Kyler for me."
Dan Schneier:
"Kyler has been fantastic in his last six games."
The analysts endorse starting Kyler Murray, citing his consistent performance and favorable matchups.
Timestamp: [08:58]
Jamie Eisenberg:
"It's a yes for me. Easy in full PPR."
The discussion centers around the benefits of acquiring wide receivers over running backs in PPR formats, highlighting the potential for increased points from high-target players.
Timestamp: [37:11]
Listener Drew faces a situation where the commissioner unfairly removed a player from his team.
Jamie Eisenberg:
"You don’t get to weigh it. It’s only Jamie."
Dan Schneier:
"Encourage your son to step up and do it himself."
The hosts provide guidance on addressing unfair practices by commissioners, advocating for transparency and fairness. They emphasize the importance of communication and, if necessary, removing those who abuse their authority to maintain a healthy league environment.
Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in playful banter, share personal anecdotes, and tackle humorous questions from listeners. Notably, Adam Aizer's struggle with photo editing and the inside joke about his "green stripe" shirt add a relatable and entertaining dimension to the discussion.
Jamie Eisenberg:
"I put this comment up for Jamie, but he’s not even paying attention."
Adam Azer:
"You look like Joe Flacco."
These moments of levity balance the more serious topics, creating an enjoyable listening experience for both seasoned fantasy players and newcomers alike.
In this comprehensive "Mailbag!" episode, Fantasy Football Today delivers valuable insights into player performance analysis, trade evaluations, and ethical considerations within fantasy leagues. The hosts provide actionable advice, foster fair play, and maintain an engaging atmosphere through their dynamic interactions and listener-centric discussions. Whether you're grappling with complex trade decisions or navigating league politics, this episode equips you with the knowledge and strategies to excel in your fantasy football endeavors.
Notable Quotes:
Adam Azer [04:55]:
"Justin Jefferson for the season is the number three wide receiver in fantasy but he's sixth per game in non-PPR, eighth per game in full PPR."
Jamie Eisenberg [29:30]:
"Clear cut collusion as it gets."
Dan Schneier [37:17]:
"If two people are colluding, you kick them out of elite."
Stay tuned for more expert advice and spirited discussions on your favorite fantasy football podcast, ensuring you stay ahead in your league come playoff time!