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Mailbag! Plus Injury Updates and Fantasy Cops (11/16 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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The latest updates on Jaylen Warren, Tee Higgins and more and then we read your emails (10:30) at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com, hear from the Fantasy Cops (26:40), read your Apple Podcast questions (41:30) and your YouTube comments (46:05)
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Jamie Eisenberg
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Adam Azer
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Jamie Eisenberg
What a play.
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Adam Azer
Can you believe this?
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Jamie Eisenberg
No, I can't.
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Adam Azer
It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races and he stays at his feet. This is gonna go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and Heath. It's mailbag time. What's up everybody and welcome to Fantas Fantasy Football Today presented by Fed mgm the sportsbook. Born in Vegas, it is Friday afternoon. Jamie Eisenberg here with me. I am Adam Azer and we are answering your questions via email@fantasy footballbsi.com via Apple Podcasts, via YouTube and via Fantasy Cops. A lot of trades.
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Jamie Eisenberg
What about the pigeons?
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Adam Azer
Carrier pigeon. No, no carrier pigeons for us today. Trades are going down that are breaking leagues. These people are pissed off about it.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Jamie, you got a great haircut by the way.
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Adam Azer
You think so? It's a little short. Let's go back. Thank you. And I would say you're very casual today. You're very Casual casual Friday for you.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yep. No, HQ can be casual.
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Adam Azer
I wasn't sure about the rules with HQ because now I'm on HQ on Fridays. Heath was pretty cash today. I had a collared shirt on. What's. What's your. What's your general HQ rule?
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Jamie Eisenberg
I usually go collar on hq but from home it's always a gamble.
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Adam Azer
The shirt I have, I just put a collared shirt on this and then you know, sweatpants. Sweatpants. Sweatpant life for this guy. All right, so I guess Roger Goodell's been talking about doing a 16 international games or something like that. 18 game season. 18 game season. If it's over 20 weeks, what do you think the fantasy playoffs are going to look like? You think it's going to. We're just do weeks 17, 18, 19.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Happy New Year.
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Adam Azer
It's crazy. The season's going to end like the Super. What are they going to put the super bowl like the last week of February or something like that?
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Jamie Eisenberg
They want it to be. I think a lot of people want it to be into President's Weekend. Right?
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Adam Azer
Yeah, whenever that is. I don't know when that is but yeah, that's fine. That we'd have a three day weekend. We'd have finally Super Bowl Monday off. That'd be good.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, it'll be. Sorry, honey, I can't go out for Valentine's Day. Why? It's a Super Bowl.
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Adam Azer
Oh, do you go out for Valentine's Day?
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Jamie Eisenberg
No.
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Adam Azer
Yeah. No. I also like think anniversary. I don't like do you go after your anniversary?
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Jamie Eisenberg
So our anniversary is right after the new year and so we just kind of depends on what what day it falls on. We try to do something together, you know, whether it's lunch.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I should probably. I mean we do but it's like whatever. It's anniversary. Not. Not a huge deal for me.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Adamas or Mr.
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Adam Azer
Romance. Yeah, we're going. We have a date tonight. I'm actually very excited about it. Wow.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Where you going?
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Adam Azer
This is a Mexican restaurant. Love like love a good burrito. All right, so let's get to the news and notes here. Tank Bigsby practiced. If he plays it just makes the backfield even more sittable. Right?
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, it's. It's a mess. I really don't. You know, to me this is a start.
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Adam Azer
All settle game and T. Higgins is expected to play. So I told you off the air while we were doing our CBS Sports network show. So seven times T. Higgins has come back after missing one or more games and he has never had 50 yards in a game coming back from injury or any other reason he's been inactive. Does that matter to you?
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I mean, trends. Trends are trends. It's not an easy matchup. So I don't think it's a slam dunk for him. But I know for me I have like three teams where I'm thrilled to death to get T. Higgins back, you know, so he's better than the junk I've been starting otherwise. So he's going to be a number two receiver, whereas prior to his injury he was basically, you know, creeping into number one territory without bye weeks.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I have a lot of T. Higgins, one of my most rostered players. I'm gonna. Yes, you told me to start him over. Jameson Williams.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, that I would do.
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Adam Azer
But I'm not starting him over. Cortland Sutton.
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Jamie Eisenberg
That I would not do.
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Adam Azer
And then how about this decision? Oh, great. I'm down by 34 points. I must have played Barkley in this league. Cedric Tillman or T. Higgins.
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Jamie Eisenberg
So that's the range I will put him in. I think we talked on.
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Adam Azer
Damn it.
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Jamie Eisenberg
On CBS Sports Network. It was Joanne Jennings. You asked me. I think it was for somebody else. Dave maybe. I don't think that's the rain season.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I did play against Barkley. I didn't check. I didn't have the guts to check. I just wanted. I didn't want to know. I didn't want to ruin my weekend by being in a Barkley hole. I didn't want that. All right, so T. Higgins expected to play Sunday night. Will they have Trey Hendrickson and BJ Hill on their defensive line? That's a big deal. Especially BJ Hill for JK Dobbins. They're both questionable. Hendrickson and you expect.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Can you do me a favor before scrolls up, Ramon Ray just asked a question. Is that you That's a picture of. Or is that him?
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Adam Azer
Oh, that is me with a. With my.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I thought it was you.
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Adam Azer
He has a good question here. Why do he's values vary from Jamie's and Dave's? Often on a substantial level.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I think Dave and I have a similar process about how we go about ranking our players. And Heath likes to use his projections in more season long. I was having this conversation with somebody now that. Oh, I know exactly what it was now that Heath is coaching my son in basketball. So I was sitting with the dads, you know, I'm just. Dad just gets hang out dads. And. And they asked one of the. One of the dads Asked like, what, what does he do? The guy asked that. The father asked, do you and Heath do the same exact thing? And I said, I said yes. You know, we do different columns, you know, but we're on similar shows and you know, we're both considered just analysts at CBS Sports. And he said, he said, yeah, you, I look at your rankings and stuff and you guys differ on, on how you go about. And I said, yeah, Heath is more of a season long. He takes a more season long approach, you know, as opposed, correct me if I'm wrong on that, but I think.
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Adam Azer
He'S less, less swayed by matchups and.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Less swayed by what just happened.
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Adam Azer
Yes.
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Jamie Eisenberg
So that's the way I explained it, you know.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, Heath, you know, I'll tell you what he's been right about Matthew Stafford. Now Stafford did I guess have a good game two weeks ago, but he got lucky with that overtime touchdown.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I spoke at a, I spoke at a high school the other day and they asked me like, what were some of my best breakout calls in my career, you know, and I try to remember a few. And I was trying to think like, what have been like our big calls for this year individually.
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Adam Azer
Well, you were very high on Drake. Drake London, George Pickens, Garrett Wilson. That was your thing. Yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
And Chase Brown. Those are probably my, the guys I felt the most confident and, and I did have a lot of shares of which because I liked them was Tyrone Tracy and Chris Godwin. And you know, when you just mentioned you have a lot of T. Higgins, like the Chris Godwin injury ruined so many of my teams.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I had a lot of Baker Mayfield. I would say my best call this year was Camara. So the whole camara. Ken Walker, Joe Mixon, running back. I talked about that all the time. All right, moving on. Rams right tackle Rob Havenstein is out and his backup's going to be out too. Jalen Warren missed practice. We're at the moment not expecting Jalen Warren. So Naji Harris, where's he going to end up in your rankings?
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Jamie Eisenberg
Naji will probably creep into like 22, 23 in the Ramondre Stevenson range. I still don't like him to the extent of must start running back, but I like him more, you know, so it's, it's still a tough matchup. You hope he's going to be involved in the passing game. You know, Arthur Smith will do something crazy and throw quarter of Patterson in there or something like that, you know, to take the, the Jalen Warren role, but he's not going to have a lot of success running and that's going to be the thing that's going to, I think make him tough to trust.
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Adam Azer
Let me just do this next. So Week three, I think Warren barely played and then he missed weeks four and five. So let me just take a look at Najee stats in those games. Sorry for doing this on the spot.
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Jamie Eisenberg
It was also Justin Fields, so.
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Adam Azer
Also Justin Fields, yes. But Najee did have five catches in week three. He had six targets and three catches in week four. He had two catches in week five. He had 18, 13 and 14 carries in those three games. And Cord Arrow Patterson, weeks three, four, five missed week five. I think he got hurt in week four. He played. He had six carries and two catches, seven touches in week three. So minimal role there, but that's encouraging. I guess that he had two games for Najee Harris with five or six targets with Fields, but with Warren either missing the game or getting hurt. Chicago will have its starting offensive tackles back for their game against Green Bay, but left guard Tevin Jenkins is out. Devonte Adams will play, but left tackle Tyron Smith is out for the Jets. Michael Pittman will play, but left tackle Bernard Raymond is out for the Colts in that game. Miami cornerback Jalen Ramsey is questionable and Dalton Kincaid is out. Jamie said, drop Mike Kosiki, pick up Dawson Knox. And I did that like 15 minutes before he even told me to say yes. You can get get away from Kosiki and go with Dawson Knox. If you're looking for the streamer Sunday, you know what to do. 10am on CBS Sports on CBS Sports HQ on the CBS Sports app. 10am until kickoff. Plenty of fantasy advice, football advice, gambling advice. And at 11:30am Eastern on YouTube.com fantasy football today we are answering all of your start sit questions. We do that for almost 90 minutes. We have a good time. Check it out. YouTube.com fantasy football today the best way to get your lineup set Emails at fantasy football that is the letter I from Scott Tyreek Hill or Cedric. He wrote Cedric Pittman, but he meant Cedric Tillman.
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Jamie Eisenberg
This is one of those. You know we had this conversation at beyond the Box Score on Thursday with, you know, I was a guest with Jacob and Dan and I encourage anybody to listen to that show and follow those guys. They do a great job, especially Jacob's newsletter about CD Lamb and I brought up Tyree Kill as the same example. Like we fall into this trap all the time as fantasy players, as fantasy analysts, as people that give advice. We could tell you 15 reasons why Cedric Tillman is better than Tyree Kill this week and no one will listen.
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Adam Azer
Well, this guy would listen.
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Jamie Eisenberg
And, and I still have Tyreek Hill ranked above Cedric Tillman for the exact reason that I'm going to say is there's more upside for him if he hits. But what have we seen the last three games for Cedric Tillman? 18 +PPR points. What have we seen the last three games for Tyree Kill? Barely producing, barely getting targets, barely getting opportunities. And so I can't bring myself to bench Tyree Kill in most scenarios unless it's such a guaranteed situation. And I just don't know if Tidal is there yet.
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Adam Azer
No, I mean, he's still Cedric Tillman, right? He's still.
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Jamie Eisenberg
He's got nine plus targets in three games in a row. He scored three touchdowns in two games with Jameis Winston. James has been great for receivers. You know, I mean, when we first fell in love with Chris Godwin, it was not Tom Brady, it was Jameis Winston.
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Adam Azer
That's a good point. Yeah, I'm going Tyree Kill too, but it's a great question. This is from Dean, so I'll get.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Just to give you examples, just to, you know, circle back. We were talking about CD Lamb and Jacob said like the list of players he's starting CD Lamb over starting overseas. So he said Juan Jennings, he said Cedric Tillman and he said Josh Downs, even with the quarterback change, you know, just because of the, the situation for the jets and how bad they've been.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I don't really get that, that logic with, for Jacob because I mean, it definitely I, he's used that logic before about the jets and they can't tackle anyone.
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Jamie Eisenberg
But there are other examples.
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Adam Azer
Well, that's for running backs. I don't really know that. I think it carries over to Josh Downs like I'm not starting Josh Downs again.
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Jamie Eisenberg
There were other, other examples of it.
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Adam Azer
I sent Jacob a pretty insulting trade offer yesterday and he responded with a very funny text message I sent him. Kareem Hunt for Mike Evans. Didn't work. I mean, it's not that insulting, but it's a little insulting. But he wasn't having it.
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Jamie Eisenberg
He's, he's, he's tried twice now to get George Pickens from me for CD Lamb. And I won't do that.
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Adam Azer
Oh, no.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I had to trade, offer, trade exchange with Robert Turbin, former NFL running back who does our show on CBS Sports Network on Wednesdays. He asked me for, for Gus Edwards because he's the J.K. dobbins manager. I picked up Gus Edwards the night before. And I looked at his roster, I was like, there's nobody on his bench that I want that has the upside of Gus if Gus hits, you know, so, like, I got to get something returning. So I countered with Brian Thomas Jr. And Gus Edwards from Mike Evans who was on his bench. And to me, that was fair. I think I'm getting a better player. That's fair. And he's like, no, okay, yeah, that's.
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Adam Azer
By the way, two, eight and two teams in first and second place, Jamie Eisenberg and Robert Turbin in the fantasy football today league, yours truly, six and four, fourth place, Dave Richard, five and five. He is in sixth place. And Dave and I are playing a huge, huge matchup today and or this week. And I started out with kind of a dud from Jalen Hurts and A.J. brown. All right, question from Dean. Hey, Gerard, Mike, Jeff and Sean Gerard.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Mike, Jeff and Sean young head coaches.
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Adam Azer
AFC east head coaches, I believe. Start or with the sit one. Metcalf St. Brown, Puka, London.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Metcalf St. Brown', Puka, London. Sit one is London.
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Adam Azer
I didn't see Falcons injury reported Mooney practice today.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Mooney is was limited. They ruled out like seven guys. And Greg Almond, who covers the NFC south for Fox Sports, used to cover the Bucks for the athletic guy went to college with. He said he's never seen an injury report where so many guys were ruled out on Friday.
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Adam Azer
But not Mooney. Oh, I just got. Oh, he's going to play. I just got a notification. He's going to play. There we go. How about that? Darnell Mooney is going to play. Okay, next up is Scott and Donna Martin graduates. What is that? Beverly Hills 902 and.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, yeah.
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Adam Azer
All right. I'm going to tell you something that blew by mind. Something that I found out yesterday that I tweeted. But in case you didn't see it, I'll tell you in a little bit. 12 team, three receiver, one flex league. I have CD Lamb and Tyreek Hill. I am benching them this week to have Khalil Shakir, Cedric Tillman and Juwan Jennings in my lineup and Nick Chubb as my flex. So he is benching. I don't think I have the format here. He's benching Hill and Lamb for Shakir, Tillman, Jennings and Chubb.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I don't mind most of those players given the upside for all of them except for Shakir. Like, you can make a strong case for Jennings, make a strong case for Tillman, make a strong case for Chubb. Shakir is tougher just because still a very good defense that he's facing. Cooper's expected to play. He doesn't score a lot of touchdowns. So what I would probably do is if you're concerned, whoever you're the least concerned about out of Tyreek and CD Lamb, play that one and then bench the other and bench here.
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Adam Azer
All right, we're gonna take a quick break. When we come back, I'll tell you the amazing factoid I learned yesterday. And then we'll read more emails and get into the Fantasy Cops, Apple Podcasts and YouTube. We'll be right back on Fantasy Football today, football fans, picture this. You bet on your favorite player to score the first touchdown and he throws a block and his teammate scores instead. With BET MGM's Second Chance promotion, you'll get your stake back if your first touchdown scorer scores Second, bet on any pro football player to score the first touchdown of the game. If you're right, you win. If your player scores second, you get your stake back in cash. BetMGM and Game Sense remind you to gamble responsibly. See betmgm.com 4 Terms 21 and over only this U.S. promotional offer not available in Ontario gambling problem call 1-800- GAMBLER available in the U.S. for New York, call 877-8-HOPE NY or text Hopeny 467369 for Arizona, call 1-800- NEXT STEP for Massachusetts, 1-800-327-5050 for Iowa, 1-800-Bets off for Puerto Rico, 1-800-981-0023. Subject to eligibility requirements in partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. Well, I just downloaded a new game on my phone and it is awesome. It's called Marvel Snap. Marvel Snap is an award winning collectible card game that combines deep strategy, a unique snapping mechanic, your favorite Marvel characters, and thousands of unique card art variants created by renowned artists to collect and use. And first of all, it's just visually appealing. It looks awesome, but the gameplay is what matters. So let's talk about why you're going to love Marvel Snap. The games are fast paced. Each game takes only three minutes. Your objective is to win two out of three locations by having higher total power than your opponent. And as you win, you earn cosmic cubes. I think my favorite part is the Snap mechanic. If you're feeling confident in your hand, or maybe you want to bluff, snap to double the cosmic cubes. Or if you're not feeling confident, you can retreat anytime to minimize cube losses. So this is where the strategy component really comes in. I love that. There are more than 270 cards in Marvel Snap with over 2000 unique art variants to collect from beloved artists. And new cards are released every week. They keep it fresh. Download Marvel Snap now on iOS, Android and Steam to start playing the award winning collectible card game. All right, everybody, we are back.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Before you start, there's no way. Because you said tweet something and I sent the. I made a joke about you with the Mission Impossible. You cannot watch that and not be excited about that. That was. That was a cool ass trailer.
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Adam Azer
I don't think I watched the trailer.
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Jamie Eisenberg
No, you saw.
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Adam Azer
Being honest with you, I'm sorry about that. I want to watch the rest of them. I just finished watching the Anna Kendrick Netflix movie about the serial killer. It was creepy, Very creepy, very sad. And I. I watched. I started watching Gangs of New York. You've seen that one?
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Jamie Eisenberg
I've seen parts of it. The Leo dinardo Caprio.
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Adam Azer
It's so long. I have a half hour left. It's taking me a week. I can't get. I can't finish it. I'm trying to finish it tonight, but yeah, I'd like to catch up on the Mission Impossibles. But did you watch TGIF or. You're too old, right? You weren't like an Urkel. Full House, Step By Step.
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Jamie Eisenberg
A little bit of Urkel was Family.
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Adam Azer
Family Matters.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, a little bit of that. Not. Not like consistently. I didn't watch what's the Savage Brother one.
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Adam Azer
Boy Meets World.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I didn't watch that.
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Adam Azer
I didn't really watch that one either. But the TGIF Friday night lineup, you had Full House, Family Matters and Step by Step. The theme songs were all written and performed by the same guy. It is unbelievable when you listen to it. You go, oh, yeah, okay, I see that now. But I listen to that every single week for years and I never picked up on that. And they're all like the same song, basically. Yeah, but they're all great.
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Jamie Eisenberg
No, I grew up Thursday night on NBC. That was like mine.
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Adam Azer
Oh, Must See tv. Yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Must See tv.
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Adam Azer
That was great. That was like when my whole family. Except my brother was in college or whatever, but my whole family would get together and watch Must See tv. Can you name some of the shows that were in between Friends and Seinfeld?
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Jamie Eisenberg
In between Friends and Seinfeld? Yeah.
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Adam Azer
Or in that eight to ten hour. I remember a few.
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Jamie Eisenberg
No, I think you had. I'm going back even further than that, though. Like when it was like it might not have been. It might not have been Thursday night though, like when it was. And it definitely wasn't always NBC. So like. But like Night Court Cheers.
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Adam Azer
That was before my time. No. So you had Caroline in the city.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Okay. That the single guy wasn't Frazier in there at some point too?
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Adam Azer
I don't know. That's a good question. I don't think so. Man, what a lineup that would have been. But. All right, let's get to football. Hey, if you haven't signed up yet for BetMGM, use the bonus code Fantasy and you'll get up to a fifteen hundred dollar first bet offer on your first wager with BetMGM. Here's how it works. Download the BetMGM app and sign up using the bonus code Fantasy. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game and you're going to receive up to fifteen hundred dollars in bonus bets if your bet loses. Just make sure you use the bonus code Fantasy when you sign up with like, Herman's head is not Howard. Someone said Howard's head. Herman said was on Fox after the Simpsons. I imagine that anybody in their 20s, the last few minutes of the show has just been absolutely horrible for you. You have no idea what we're talking about.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Are you watching the Tyson fight tonight?
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Adam Azer
What time is it going to start?
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Jamie Eisenberg
It's going to be one thing I have no idea.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I'm not going to like turn it on at 9 o'clock and watch two hours of Undercard crap, but yeah, I'd like to watch the fight if I can. John Cavalli has an email. I think we all agree that the quarterback has the greatest influence on the outcome of the game. But I don't like how a quarterback stats can be inflated during garbage time when they're behind. What are your thoughts on giving quarterbacks points for a win or negative points for a loss?
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Jamie Eisenberg
Did Pete Prisco send this one? This is, you know, one of those things where, you know, people who don't love fantasy get pissed off about fantasy, you know, so PPR, look at that. He got six catches for 20 yards. Why should he get eight points? You know, that's terrible. It's just the nature of football, you know. So I know for me, I'm a Jayden Daniels fantasy manager. I went up against Barkley in the, in the league where I have one of the leagues where I have Daniels and I'm like, please get a touchdown at the end. Please give me a touchdown at the end, you know, and look, you get a Touchdown. You get the, the two point conversion. They need an onsite kick to still have a chance, you know, so you could say garbage time. Obviously it was, it was, it was a mirror. It wouldn't be a miracle to, to win that game or to tie it, but that's still a competitive situation, you know.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I got no problem with it, but I think you could. I think it's interesting to do the win loss aspect. I've seen leagues where that have a head coach. We had draft a head coach and when that, when that team wins, his team wins. You get a point or whatever, whatever the scoring is. And if the team loses, you lose points. I don't mind that. I think that's kind of an interesting addition, but I don't really have any problem with garbage time points. I think in fact, as fantasy managers, as fantasy analysts, we sort of try to factor that in sometimes. So they're going to be playing from behind. You know, I like the situation.
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Jamie Eisenberg
The Blake Bortles year was fantastic.
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Adam Azer
Bortles. All right. Was Frazier in Must See tv? Because people are saying that it was. I'm not clear about that. I don't think it was on the Thursday night.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I don't remember.
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Adam Azer
All right, this question is from Ben. Hey, James. John Thomas and George.
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Jamie Eisenberg
James, John Thomas and George. Presidents.
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Adam Azer
Yes. They'll be watching the super bowl together on President's Day. First off, is it worse being a Cowboys fan or a Giants fan? Cowboys have had hope most years but never come through. Giants rarely have any hope, but they've won two Super Bowls since I've been alive. Yeah, it's worse being a Cowboys fan. Like being let down is worse than being apathetic and not caring.
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Jamie Eisenberg
So you'd rather give up, really, any hope of the season by week four as opposed to, we're going to make the playoffs, but we're probably going to lose in the first round.
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Adam Azer
Only because the giants have won two Super Bowls in the last 17 years. If not for that, then no, then it must be much better to be a Cowboys fan. The other question is week 12 is a terrible week for me with a lot of my starters on a buy. Would there be anyone on the waiver wire I should pick up now? That would be better than Jalen Waddle, Cade Otten. No. Or Jalen Warren in my flex, in my flex spots.
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Jamie Eisenberg
It's hard to say not knowing the size of your league. You know, I know you and Dave.
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Adam Azer
I can tell you a few players who are on his waiver wire. If you give me a minute. But Dave and I. Because he sent a screenshot. Dave and I just. We did a. Beyond. We did. I keep saying beyond the box score. Beat the waiver wire episode. It's on the FFT Express feed. You can also see it on YouTube.com fantasy football today. His league has.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I can just tell you they're not going to be a lot of running backs and receivers that you're going to say.
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Adam Azer
Gus Edwards, Adam Thielen, Demario Douglas, Christian Watson.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, that's, you know, hoping that Thielen plays. Douglas is not a bad call. Watson's not a bad call. There's not gonna be a lot. I mean, look, there's gonna be some.
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Adam Azer
No, it's. It's gonna be a tough week. All right, next up, we have Archer in Iowa. Grade the trade. I get George Pickens, Baker Mayfield and Brock Bowers. So I get Pickens, Mayfield and Bowers. I give up. Malik Neighbors, Sam Darnold and Isaiah Pacheco.
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Jamie Eisenberg
B minus.
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Adam Azer
I think he upgrades at every spot. I like Pickens better than Neighbors.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Do you agree?
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Adam Azer
I like Mayfield better than Darnold.
- [27:03]
Jamie Eisenberg
Agreed.
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Adam Azer
Bowers better than Pacheco.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Potentially depends on, you know, how you're looking at it.
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Adam Azer
So it's good trade either way. Pick a tight end and a flex from these players in ppr. Tight end is Andrews, Knox Gasicki. Andrews and a flex is Knox Kosiki. Mooney. Higgins.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Mooney. No Higgins.
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Adam Azer
I don't have a name on this one. I apologize. 12 team PPR. League. I traded James Cook, Cedric Tillman, Jameson Williams and Jordan Love. Okay. Gave up Cooks, Tillman, Jameson Williams and Jordan love for Christian McCaffrey and Cortland Sutton.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Cook, Tillman, Jameson love for McCaffrey and Sutton.
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Adam Azer
And I will say I do like it. But his quarterbacks now are Bo Nicks and Russell Wilson.
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Jamie Eisenberg
That's okay.
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Adam Azer
Okay. All right. This is Mike. Adam has the same taste in shirts as my son when he was six. Yeah, I could see that. I need RB2 help, Algier or Cam Acres.
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Jamie Eisenberg
So I probably take a chance on Acres with the hope of a little more work to make sure Aaron Jones is healthy. Plus, there's the chance that if they do their job, it's a blow up.
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Adam Azer
Yeah. Yeah, you're right. All right. From Lewis Gray, the trade. I traded Devonte Adams and Javante Williams for Mike Evans.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I mean, I probably like Evans more than Adams moving forward. Javante's just a guy you might be dropping in a week, so I'll say it's a B. Solid B. Yeah, I wish we knew.
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Adam Azer
That Evans was playing next week. If I knew Evans were playing next week, it'd be an easy trade to make.
- [29:08]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yep.
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Adam Azer
This is from. Hold on one second. This is from Eric Gray. The trade PPR trade Jonathan Taylor and Darnell Mooney for James Connor and Nico Collins. Yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Taylor and Mooney for Conor Nico. B. Solid B.
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Adam Azer
Those are some good trades, everybody. Way to go. Keep it going. Now we got some problems here, but it's nothing that the fantasy cops can't solve. Send your emails to fantasy football@cbsi.com, put fantasy cops at the subject line. All right, we've got a lot of these. Oh, this trade went through and everyone's mad about it. What do we do? So we gonna address that. But let's read this one from Derek or D as I call. Wait. There we go. Okay. I guess I can play two sound bites at once. I don't think I'll do a little.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Remix 16 years later. You figured it out.
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Adam Azer
Oh, Eric. Oh. All right. Derek says, I never thought I'd be the reason. I'm asking the fantasy cops a question, but here we are. I'm in a 10 team PPR league that has a rule against trading with eliminated teams. I just traded Brian Thomas and Bucky Irving for Mike Evans. The guy I traded with is three and seven and last in points scored. I am four and six with the most points scored. But the last playoff spot is five and five with three weeks left in the regular season. So no one's been eliminated. We've got a guy swearing up and down, I took advantage of the 3 and 7 guy and it's such a bad trade. My Brian Thomas Jr. And Bucky Irving for his Mike Essence Evans. I have two issues that are supported by a couple of league mates. One being the trade doesn't favor the Evans side. And two, how does he get to decide when people are eliminated? He already said he's going to quit the league over the trade. And if the reason it gets vetoed is him being eliminated, I think I'm going to quit. Who's overreacting here?
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Jamie Eisenberg
The other manager. This is a perfectly fair trade to two teams that are still alive and both in the same situation. One's two games back, one's one game back. Like there's no reason to be upset about this trade at all.
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Adam Azer
Yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Bucky Irving may be better than Mike Evans rest of season by himself.
- [31:26]
Adam Azer
Yep. Absolutely.
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Jamie Eisenberg
There's no guarantee that that's not going to happen.
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Adam Azer
All right, that's one down. So the next two trades are kind of similar. The next two emails are kind of similar. It's about it man. Like we hate vetoing trades but some of these trades are horrible. All right. This is from Daniel. I'm in a 12 team PPR league. The second place team gave up DJ Moore and Michael Pittman to the last place manager for Justin Jefferson. DJ Moore and Michael Pittman going from the second place team. Justin Jefferson going from the last place team to the second place team. This caused an uproar in the group chat in which the majority of the league was against the trade. While there is no evidence of collusion yet, the commissioner offered to take it to a vote. Some of the league wanted to vote on it until the conversation fizzled out leaving the trade complete and in the rearview mirror. What do you think about this trade? More in Pittman for Justin Jefferson.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I mean it's obviously horrible. If you can't prove collusion then it's, you know this is where you either can put it to a vote. If you're a league allow so and determines how you want to proceed. It just it this is when you hate clearly first or second place team trading with teams at the bottom.
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Adam Azer
Yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Without being able to prove anything. Like if you were to make this trade in week two, no one would say a word.
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Adam Azer
It's true. But oh yeah, this is such a bad trade. It's like really hard to justify. I think what you really need to do is you need to make the SEC the last place team like talk to the group chat or message board or whatever. Justify it. Give me your reasoning. Why on earth did you make this trade? And if it's, if you can believe their explanation then I guess just be fine with it. But it's tough. I don't have great advice. We are the fantasy cops but you know, we don't know everything.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Well we don't want to, we don't want to overreact and say collusion or kick the guy out of the league. You know that's at least you and I don't, Yeah I don't, I'm not.
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Adam Azer
A kicker outer of people but this.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Is, this is tough. Like I, I really appreciate the way I have with one of my leagues where we have a three person committee and everybody just understands okay it's got to be 2/3 vote and if it doesn't then we try to make, make the trade work. Like hey throw something else in to you know just make it so it's, it's close to Being even, you know, may not be 100 even, but close to being even.
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Adam Azer
All right, one more fantasy cops here. Actually two more. So it's the same. Same theme here from Jake. Help us resolve this dispute. We're in a 10 team money league without a veto vote on trades. Last night at 3am before waivers ran. So I guess this was Monday or Tuesday night. The commissioner of the league traded Brandon Aubrey, DeAndre Hopkins, Juju Smith, Schuster, Travis Etn and Khalil Shakir for Travis Kelsey and Joe Mixon.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
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Adam Azer
The whole league is up in arms, but since there's no veto option, the trade is processed and now we're trying to get the trade reversed. To make matters worse, the team who traded Mixon and Kelsey instantly dropped juju and Aubrey, but later resigned Aubrey once they were called out for the trade, possibly being collusion. The commissioner is trying to defend the trade, stating that it's a fair trade and it shouldn't be vetoed. I am firmly, firmly against vetoing trades. But this trade is so lopsided, it will change the competitive balance of the league. Should it stand or should it be reversed? It was Aubrey Hopkins, Juju Etn and Shakir for Kelsey and Mixon.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I hate it. I hate it. But there's really. There's nothing. There's nothing you do. This is just one of those things where you either vote the commissioner out for next year, you know, and somebody else volunteers to do it because you don't trust how this went down. You change the way that the trade policy is in your league where it's not vetoes, but you know, some sort of way to have it up, have it up for a discussion. And like you said, you know, the person giving up the two top players should probably have to defend why they made this deal and make it sound justified. But if there's no veto policy in place, and it is the commissioner, you know, you just have to deal with it and then, you know, try to adjust it for next season.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, it sucks. And I would. No, Jamie said everything. I'm good with that. Let's leave her that. Okay, last one. This one is from Matt from a town in central Jersey. You've spent some time in Jersey, Jamie.
- [35:47]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yep. Let's go with East Brunswick.
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Adam Azer
Is it in central Jersey? No one knows. Jersey is just a collection of towns. I have no idea where any of them are, but they're all like an hour away from me. Okay. So the question is, I need your help deciding the fate of one of our league members who committed a hyenas crime, the league member has Nico Collins leading up to. Leading up to the Sunday night game, he was under the impression that Nico Collins would play and he put him in his lineup. When Nico was declared out. Our commissioner messaged this league member in our group chat one and a half hours before kickoff to let him know that Nico was out and had to be removed from his lineup or he would be at risk of setting an illegal lineup. This league member chose to ignore this message and continue with Nico in his lineup. He claimed that he was too upset, both because of the Nico news and because his team is in last place. This resulted in his team losing by 15 points to the first place team, thus having ramifications across the league contenders. What should be his punishment for leaving Nico in his lineup? Should we take away fab dollars from him this year, next year, make him do something embarrassing in a public setting? Help.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I'm all for public embarrassment, but I don't know if this warrants it. You know, there. I don't understand. You're. You're get. He. He's setting an illegal lineup because I guess. Do we know Sunday night that he was ruled out?
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Adam Azer
Yeah, we did. We knew.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Monday. I'm sorry. Yes, I'm sorry. They played Sunday night.
- [37:22]
Adam Azer
They played Sunday night. We knew. Yeah. Now did he have someone on his bench that he could have started? I guess, right.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Like you're not dropping Nico Collins to go pick up John Mechi, right?
- [37:31]
Adam Azer
So, yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
At what point could he have made a switch? You know, did he have, you know, Jameson Williams on his bench and he could have swapped in, you know, Lions player or Dalton Schultz or something like that. So yeah, you can't punish anybody for this. This is crazy.
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Adam Azer
I think, yeah. If it's really a rule someone suggests, make him shave his head. I think that's a little harsh. If it's really a rule that you can't start an active players. And then he defied the rule because he was, he was upset about his fantasy team. That's pretty lame. And I think what you need to do is you need to put something in the constitution of what the penalty is. And I do think losing, you know, 10 fab dollars or whatever is a fair punishment. You can't do it this time. But put something in the rules because look, I think that it's unfortunate that Nico didn't play, but if he was.
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Jamie Eisenberg
What I mean, okay, so we're, we're going to go into Monday night now, right? Let's just say it's the same situation with Nico. Collins, is it your job as a fantasy manager? And it might be in the rules that if you have a questionable player for a prime time island game like this Sunday night, Monday night, you must roster someone on your bench to sub in for said player. And maybe if that's the case, then you need to have some roster flexibility where my. Hey, my gay commission my players. Going into Sunday night, I got Nico Collins. I'm not going to be around. I need to know if I could swap men. Okay, your. Your roster exemption is. I will allow you to have it to pick up and have a illegal bench, but you have to swap in that player on that same team. So you have to carry Robert Woods.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, but then what if Nico's out? Who gets dropped?
- [39:11]
Jamie Eisenberg
No one. That's what I'm saying. Like, you get a roster exemption.
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Adam Azer
Oh.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Because why would you penalize people for having this situation? Like.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I don't. I. Look, I don't. I think if you're trying to avoid people like quitting and just not setting their lineup, then you have this rule that you can't start inactive players.
- [39:30]
Jamie Eisenberg
Right.
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Adam Azer
I wouldn't. I think you got to give some leniency for a Sunday night or Monday night inactive like this. And I definitely don't think you can punish this person, but if you want to punish someone, then you put it in the bylaws. However, I don't. I agree with Jamie. Like, give him a roster exemption, but don't make it so that you've got to be able to have a contingency plan. I would hate to have to drop someone that I like to pick up Robert woods, you know, or even John Metchy, who had a surprisingly great game. I would hate to have to drop someone that I like long term instead of just taking a shot and hoping Nico plays. I got burned in one league. I started Scott. Scott Fishbowl. I started Nico Collins. I thought he was going to play. He didn't, and I had to live with the consequences, and that's my punishment. I lost. All right, that's it for the fantasy cops and for. And all the other sound bites that I can play while the fantasy cops are going. Like, how about that? It's just blowing your mind over here. We'll be right back with your Apple podcast questions on fantasy football. Today, Thursday Night Football is on, and it's only on Prime Video. This Thursday, the AFC's oldest rivalry is rekindled as the Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers visit the Cleveland Browns Join Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreet, and Kaylee Hartong for this exciting matchup coverage begins at 7pm Eastern with football's best party, TNF tonight presented by Verizon live from Cleveland. Not a Prime member? Not a problem. Simply sign up for a 30 day free trial and you can cancel at any time. It's the Steelers and Browns at 7pm Eastern on Thursday Night Football and it's on Prime Video restrictions apply. See Amazon.com Amazon prime for details. Listen, I don't care if your fantasy teams won. If your favorite team beat its arch rival, your football Sunday isn't going to be good enough if you don't nail the food aspect of it. If you're not using Hellman's Real Mayonnaise, what are you doing? Come on. Hellman's Real Mayonnaise is a rich, creamy mayonnaise made with real simple ingredients. Hellman's can be used to bring out the best rich, creamy, delicious flavor in a variety of dishes, dips, sandwiches, deviled eggs, sauces, salads, and more. Look, if you're having people over to watch the game or you just want to have good food by yourself, consider this little tip from me. My wife makes the best buffalo chicken dip. The key ingredient? Hellman's Mayonnaise. It brings it to another level. It's probably my favorite snack on game day. So let me finish by imploring you to step up your mayonnaise game with a series of puns. Mayo game day be delicious. Mayo dip be creamy, and your fantasy team be dreamy. And how about this for a fantasy team name Drake Mayo. You get the point. You can purchase Hellman's at your local Walmart, Kroger or grocery store and use it to add extra deliciousness and creamy flavor to your game day dishes this football season. We are back, folks.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Which side of this trade would you rather be on? I gave somebody advice and it obviously did not work out well. Thursday night. Saquon Barkley for Justin Jefferson and James Cook.
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Adam Azer
Jefferson and Cook.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah. So one of the radio shows I go on, the host texted me, what do you think? This trade? I was like, I like it. You know, you're getting two players, you know, two starters, you know, one guy that's somewhat on the level of Saquon, Barkley and Jefferson. And then he's like, so I did the show this morning. And he says, yeah, by the way, not only did Barkley have a monster game, we get this bonus for these long touchdowns and this bonus for that he scored 60 points.
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Adam Azer
Oh my gosh, 60 points.
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Jamie Eisenberg
60 points.
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Adam Azer
People are kind of forgetting that SAQUON Barkley scored 12 or fewer points. And how about this? Fewer than 14 points in 1, 2, 3, 4 of his last seven games. That's that happened because you know what, when A.J. brown plays, he doesn't really get that many targets. So he's obviously amazing and arguably the the best player in fantasy going forward, but he's not bus proof. He's had four games with fewer than 14 points in his last seven. In case you didn't hear me say that twice.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yep.
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Adam Azer
Okay. Moving. By the way, I was gonna, after that whole Sneed thing with Chase, I was gonna try to trade Chase for Jefferson straight up, but I'm getting the heebie jeebies on Sam Darnold. He's starting to freak me out with how, how poorly he's playing.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Well, it's also, look, we have 1, 2 game sample size, but Hawkinson back, you know, is going to take some opportunities away from Jefferson.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, I think Jefferson still had nine targets last week, but he actually has a somewhat difficult schedule upcoming. Tennessee. Tennessee is probably not that bad. Chicago in week 12. And in this league, I need wins now fighting for a spot. So I was just like, let's just roll with Chase. All right. Thank you so much for your Apple podcast questions. Let's see how many we can get to here. This one says, dear Jared, Jamir, David and Dan.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, Jared, Jameer, David and Dan. So it sounds like the Lions, but Jared is golf. Yeah, I was trying to think of Jared.
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Adam Azer
And who's Dan Campbell? Yeah, I have Jaden Reed, Chuba Hubbard, and Zay Flowers in my league. Flowers and Reed have been peeing me off. You could have just wrote, you know, whizzing me off. Should I try and trade those guys for something that's more reliable? Flowers and Jaden Reed and if so, what?
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Jamie Eisenberg
You're selling low, which we never want to do. Like you. If the, the time to sell Zay Flowers would have been after the Broncos game. You know, when he's coming off a game that, you know, some people expected him to have and some people didn't, you know, so reads probably not going to bring back the value that you're hoping for now, trading both of them to somebody that's, you know, maybe even starting one wide receiver and doesn't have the value of, you know, two quality guys because I still think they're too quality guys. The, the players you want to target in that case is like, can you, can you potentially turn those two guys, Jaden, like, would you do this trade if you need you're gonna win now situation. Right. Would you trade Jaden. Would you trade Mike Evans and Josh Downs for Flowers and Reed?
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Adam Azer
Mike Evans and Josh Downs? Yeah. Yeah, I think.
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Jamie Eisenberg
And would you be comfortable getting re getting Evans and Flower. Getting Evans and Downs back?
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Adam Azer
Only if I was like just going to start one of them because I think I'd rather have Evans.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Evans is the best receiver.
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Adam Azer
Yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
If healthy.
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Adam Azer
Healthy. I think there's a pretty big difference now that Richardson's back between Reed and Downs and flat reading.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I don't. But I was just trying to think of somebody that's, you know, somewhat tanked out, you know, whoever you want to throw in. Jerry Judy Evans and Jerry Judy for.
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Adam Azer
For.
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Jamie Eisenberg
For Flowers and Reed.
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Adam Azer
I don't know. I don't know.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I. I probably wouldn't do that just because I think Flowers is still gonna have a very good season. But I could see if you're frustrated like that's the type of player you want to get.
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Adam Azer
Yeah. I think like you look at what T. Higgins has been. Not. Not having blow up games, but pretty damn consistent. Would you rather have Higgins or Flowers or Reed?
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Jamie Eisenberg
I'd rather have Higgins.
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Adam Azer
I guess I Forgot about his 29 point game against Baltimore, but everyone has blow up games but against Baltimore. All right, next Apple podcast question is from Oops, sorry. Okay. It's from blank game. I'm looking to secure a more solid wide receiver 2 for the rest of season. And Mike Evans is on a team that may not make it to the playoffs. What is the best and most fair trade package for Evans? So he has Jefferson, but he has Tank dell, Marvin Harrison Jr. James Connor, Joe Mixon, Chase Brown, Tony Pollard. Wow. Nijoku and Mark Andrews. I would try Pollard. I would try Pollard for Evans straight up. If that doesn't work, I'd try Pollard and Dell for Evans.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Unless they need a tight end.
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Adam Azer
Yeah. Or I give up one of your tight ends.
- [47:40]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
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Adam Azer
You've got a great team. I think you could overpay a little bit if you have to. For Evans.
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Jamie Eisenberg
The thing. The thing. I mean, look, every Evans manager is going to be different. If you're struggling right now and know that you don't have him for this week and next week. Right. We don't know that for sure. But you don't know.
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Adam Azer
Yeah. This week this team's 9 and 1 for the record.
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Jamie Eisenberg
The team that's trying to get Evans.
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Adam Azer
Yeah.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Right. But the Evans manager 7 and 2.
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Adam Azer
Now he said the Evans managers on a team that may not make it to the playoffs. So you give him some help right now.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Right. That's the thing. That's. These are the type of trades you're looking for with Mike Evans.
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Adam Azer
Yeah. All right, don't. Yeah, like you got a loaded team. You're 9 and 1. You could overpay a little bit. All right, let's see. This one says. I think that's pretty much it. Love the show. Do not love Adam's self regard nor his takes on anything outside of sports. And his handle on sports is spotty at best. Great email, but we got five stars out of it, so thank you.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Love it. It's like that guy Chris that loves me on YouTube.
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Adam Azer
Is he a hater?
- [48:45]
Jamie Eisenberg
Chris?
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Adam Azer
He's a hater, Jamie. Hater.
- [48:46]
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, he hates me.
- [48:48]
Adam Azer
Yeah. Everyone's got one YouTube hater.
- [48:51]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah. Hey, you know, it keeps me in check.
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Adam Azer
There you go. YouTube. Let's. Let's see what you got. We got one from Anfo Downs. Swift or Jameson Williams? Half ppr.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Swift.
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Adam Azer
All right, grade this trade. Ppr. I gave up Tyree Kill and Chase Brown for James Connor and Drake London.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Did you make a case that Chase Brown's the best player in the deal right now?
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Adam Azer
Certainly could, yeah.
- [49:27]
Jamie Eisenberg
I think that's fair.
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Adam Azer
Okay. You like London or Hill better rest of season?
- [49:33]
Jamie Eisenberg
I like London better rest of season. But you know, as. As I said on our Tuesday show with buy low, sell high prior to who's got more, who has more, who has more, that this was a good time to try and sell London. Now I would probably look for better than Tyree Kill, which is strange to say because tough matchup this week, by next week, Chargers week after that, like not an easy three game stretch of missing him for once.
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Adam Azer
Drake London. Remember the issue I had with Drake London going into the year?
- [50:04]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yes. Couldn't separate.
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Adam Azer
No, no. It was the Yak. Is that his. His Yak per catch was super low. Yeah, I think it's even lower this year. And. And by the way, he was wide receiver 11 for me. I liked him right after Marvin Harrison, Chris Olave, I think he ended up at 11 right. Right around there. But he's just. I've just accepted the fact that he's just a unique wide receiver. He.
- [50:28]
Jamie Eisenberg
Well, he's also. Look, we don't know what, how long Cousins will be the starter there. Will he be this good with Michael Penck?
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Adam Azer
Well, I mean, that's the funny thing is like, I don't know the updated stats, but going into last week, Darnell Mooney had 14 plays of 20 or more yards and Drake London had two. Drake London is averaging 2.8 yards after the catch per reception and he doesn't have an extraordinarily high adot that is so bad. He doesn't make big plays. He doesn't do anything after the catch. But obviously he's good at running routes, getting open and he gets a ton of end zone targets. He'll just be an interesting player to evaluate next year because I can already see this narrative. Well, if he doesn't get the touchdowns then you know he's going to be a bust. But yeah, he's just. He's just a different kind of player. He doesn't fit the mold of what I like which is explosiveness but he still figures out a way to get it done.
- [51:22]
Jamie Eisenberg
It's. It's what we liked about Michael Pittman last year too. You know, volume, good player, uses his body, needs a quarterback that's going to give him opportunities and he's going to make plays when he gets those opportunities.
- [51:32]
Adam Azer
Just curious what his his 17 game pace is 1100 yards but that's with that one game that he barely played. So we take let's azer stat Drake London 622 yards in nine games. That is 1,175 receiving yards. It's really not anything special in a 17 game season. All right, would you start drop. Would you drop Ferguson for Dawson Knox?
- [52:00]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yep.
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Adam Azer
I need a wide receiver and a Flex and PPR. Jameson Williams, Brian Thomas Jr. Estimate Pierce all Gasicki, Jameson and Thomas Jr. Stafford or Aaron Rodgers? 4 point per passing touchdown. Stafford, Knox or Demarcus Robinson? Knox start Myers or Lamb Myers. Thoughts on MVS as a flex?
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Jamie Eisenberg
Not a bad desperation play Is he.
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Adam Azer
Your favorite Saints receiver?
- [52:35]
Jamie Eisenberg
I want to see what happens Cedric Wilson but yes, he's my favorite Saints receiver.
- [52:38]
Adam Azer
Brian Thomas Jr. Or Amari Cooper?
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Jamie Eisenberg
Amari Cooper.
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Adam Azer
Cooper's interesting. He's going to play with a cast if he's. If he plays he's going to play with a cast on his arm and he said it doesn't really affect him. He just has to learn how to catch with it.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Okay, I did not know that. I'll probably go Brian Thompson give J.K.
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Adam Azer
Dobbins and Devonte Adams get Derrick Henry and Xavier Worthy.
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Jamie Eisenberg
So Dobbins on for Henry? Yes, I would do that.
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Adam Azer
Yeah, that's fun. Cedric Tillman or Devante Adams?
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Jamie Eisenberg
Cedric Tillman. We had this conversation on sports network with Heath and Robert curious your take this point forward rest of season who's the best running back in fantasy? Henry okay, so Robert took Henry. Heath took Bijan.
- [53:25]
Adam Azer
Oh, yeah, I forgot about Bijan. For whatever reason I was going Bijan or I was doing Henry and Barkley. Still gonna take Henry.
- [53:35]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah, I took McCaffrey.
- [53:38]
Adam Azer
Yeah, I didn't think about him either. God, that's stupid. Sorry. I just had those two guys. Henry versus Barkley. They're all great because of the Achilles thing and the fact that they played him for almost 90% of the snaps, which I thought was reckless. I'm not going to go with McCaffrey because of the Algiers. Stupid, stupid thing. I mean, I. He had three carries from the one and didn't get in. And then they put Bijan in, and of course he scored. There's no guarantee that that stupid thing is not going to happen again. Drives me crazy. So I'm just.
- [54:10]
Jamie Eisenberg
He's been so involved in the passing game lately.
- [54:12]
Adam Azer
Yeah, it's awesome. He's finally arriving. Adam, did I. Did you chase Dan away? No, I wish Dan were here. Oh, by the way, Jamie, I have an announcement for you. We're doing the mailbag Thursday night. Next week?
- [54:28]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yes.
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Adam Azer
You in?
- [54:29]
Jamie Eisenberg
Of course.
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Adam Azer
We'll do it after the game.
- [54:31]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yes.
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Adam Azer
What?
- [54:32]
Jamie Eisenberg
Is the game next Thursday?
- [54:35]
Adam Azer
Yeah.
- [54:38]
Jamie Eisenberg
I don't know.
- [54:39]
Adam Azer
Let's find out. Let's see which game we're going to be recapping.
- [54:42]
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, my God.
- [54:43]
Adam Azer
Cleveland.
- [54:44]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yes.
- [54:45]
Adam Azer
All right, I grade the trade.
- [54:47]
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, after James.
- [54:48]
Adam Azer
Yes. Give Camara. Get Lamb and Eckler.
- [54:53]
Jamie Eisenberg
A plus. No, no, I'm sorry.
- [54:55]
Adam Azer
F plus. I have five buys next week. Who can I target for a Brian Thomas Jr. Trade in sync.
- [55:08]
Jamie Eisenberg
Who? Could you talk Brian Thomas? I don't know who's gonna want Brian Thomas right now. They're gonna buy next week, too.
- [55:16]
Adam Azer
Like, right, man. So someone. Do you need to start Brian Thomas this week? Because if not, maybe someone is on a buy right now. But who would that be? Like you're not going to get neighbors for him. I don't think you're going to settle for Wandale.
- [55:30]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yeah.
- [55:31]
Adam Azer
Or a Panthers receiver. Who's the fourth team on by this week? You got Evans.
- [55:34]
Jamie Eisenberg
You're not getting him.
- [55:35]
Adam Azer
Tampa Bay, Carolina, the Giants. And he's on by. Why can't we remember?
- [55:43]
Jamie Eisenberg
I don't know.
- [55:46]
Adam Azer
Is someone good? Oh, Arizona.
- [55:49]
Jamie Eisenberg
Arizona.
- [55:49]
Adam Azer
You're not getting either. I would.
- [55:53]
Jamie Eisenberg
You guys come up with a package?
- [55:55]
Adam Azer
Yeah. What about Hopkins?
- [56:02]
Jamie Eisenberg
I guess. I mean, the only. The only way I'm doing that with confidence, if I know Trevor Lawrence is shutting it down.
- [56:09]
Adam Azer
Okay. Oh. Oh, no, no. Sorry. I thought Cooper was declared Out. Nope. Kincaid and Coleman are out. Cooper's questionable. All right, next question here. Aloha from Hawaii. JSN Reed. Dobbins or Tillman in ppr, I would.
- [56:26]
Jamie Eisenberg
Go Tillman, Dobbins, Reed, Jason, Nick, Chubb or Chase Brown.
- [56:33]
Adam Azer
Ppr. Chase Brown, Mahomes or Love? Trade Jamar Chase for Debo and Montgomery.
- [56:42]
Jamie Eisenberg
No.
- [56:42]
Adam Azer
Yeah, I don't think I do that.
- [56:44]
Jamie Eisenberg
Non ppr. Maybe.
- [56:50]
Adam Azer
Someone says, well, low yak comes from not separating. That could be just. I don't know. London's just not like a run after the catch kind of guy. Just like. Five more questions here. Higgins or jsn?
- [57:03]
Jamie Eisenberg
Higgins.
- [57:03]
Adam Azer
Dobbins or Swift?
- [57:05]
Jamie Eisenberg
Swift.
- [57:06]
Adam Azer
How do you like Rico Dowdle's playoff schedule? Let's go ahead and pull that up. Rico dowdle, in weeks 15 through 17, has Carolina Love it. Tampa Bay.
- [57:18]
Jamie Eisenberg
Love it.
- [57:19]
Adam Azer
Philadelphia hate it. All right. Not bad.
- [57:22]
Jamie Eisenberg
Yep.
- [57:23]
Adam Azer
Nijoku or Hawkinson and Tyree Killer Juwan Jennings.
- [57:27]
Jamie Eisenberg
Nijoku and I would still go Tyreek, but I get it.
- [57:32]
Adam Azer
And Cook Downs or Shakir in the flex. Cook, Bowers or McBride rest of season. McBride, Kareem Hunt, Ken Walker or David Montgomery? Pick two.
- [57:49]
Jamie Eisenberg
The first two.
- [57:50]
Adam Azer
And update on Coach Heath, please.
- [57:53]
Jamie Eisenberg
We have our first tournament starting tomorrow, 2:00 and 4:00. My son informed me that the 2:00 game, we're gonna get killed. And then the 4:00 game, I don't think he knows who we're playing. So we shall see.
- [58:06]
Adam Azer
All right.
- [58:06]
Jamie Eisenberg
It'll be a fun Sunday morning for you. You know what will be really interesting? If our team plays Sunday morning, Heath is working. Oh, so a the father, slash, I guess, general manager of the team. Guy who put everything together for us will be one of the coaches, and Heath's son will be the other coach. And Heath son will be the technical coach. Because he knows all the plays the other dad does not. So he said, yeah, if we play Sunday morning, he will not be there. He'll be doing his job. So I'll be very curious to see how that goes.
- [58:38]
Adam Azer
Oh, he should do that. He should coach the game. We can do this show without him. Not that I want to, but, like, that's important. Go.
- [58:45]
Jamie Eisenberg
He's a responsible employee. Wants to make sure he's there for the people, not a big tournament.
- [58:51]
Adam Azer
All right, well, your son's playing, so you're obviously not going.
- [58:54]
Jamie Eisenberg
I will not be going, though.
- [58:55]
Adam Azer
Right? Okay. I guess I'm just the bad employee. Well, thanks, everybody.
- [59:00]
Jamie Eisenberg
We go watch your kid play. Does that work?
- [59:02]
Adam Azer
It Depends. Like I'm planning on missing a Sunday morning show for my daughter's dance recital.
- [59:09]
Jamie Eisenberg
Oh, wow.
- [59:10]
Adam Azer
Oh, is that not. I shouldn't.
- [59:12]
Jamie Eisenberg
I mean, I've missed so many games Sundays. But the answer side, Ollie, I would go.
- [59:20]
Adam Azer
Is that a joke?
- [59:22]
Jamie Eisenberg
No, I would go.
- [59:23]
Adam Azer
Okay. Yeah, it's her only one. It's not like she has one every week. Okay, I gotta go. All right. Jamie has to go. I have to go. Have a great weekend, everybody. We'll talk to you on Sunday. Good luck. Paramount Podcasts this Fall get game day ready with Amazon. Amazon is here to make things easier and more affordable. Take your budget further with low prices on tons of items for the whole squad. No matter who you're shopping for, Amazon has what you need from the latest tech to professional level sports gear and more. Amazon has everything you need for the whole game day crew. And if you'd rather stay in to watch your favorite team, trust Amazon for the best upgrades to your home entertainment setup for the next big match. Amazon makes it easy to have all your bases covered with low prices and the perfect items for everyone. Gear up with Amazon to find the lowest prices on the hottest gadgets, sports apparel and more. It's the one stop shop for all your holiday needs whether you're gifting or treating yourself. Make this football season stress free with Amazon's selection, value and convenience. Shop now and get everything you need for the big and beyond Amazon where joy meets savings all season long.