Mailbag! Thoughts on De'Von Achane, the Browns Offense and More (08/09 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Summary

Fantasy Football Today: Mailbag! Thoughts on De'Von Achane, the Browns Offense and More (08/09 Fantasy Football Podcast) Summary

Release Date: August 9, 2025

In this episode of Fantasy Football Today presented by CBS Sports, host Adam Azer, alongside analysts Jamie Eisenberg and Dan Schneier, delves into listener mailbag questions, providing insights on key players, team strategies, and draft tactics to help you dominate your fantasy leagues. Skipping the advertisements and intros, the trio focuses on pressing topics relevant to the upcoming NFL season, including De'Von Achane's prospects, the Cleveland Browns' offensive outlook, and much more.

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1. Opening Remarks and Setting the Stage [01:33–03:09]

Adam Azer kicks off the Mailbag segment by acknowledging the timing of the recording: "Late night Thursday, August 7th, 10:38pm Eastern Time," ensuring listeners understand that some of the discussed news might be slightly outdated if accessed later.

2. Player Insights: Rashawn Slater and Anthony Richardson [03:09–07:21]

Rashawn Slater's Injury Impact on the Chargers Offense

• Adam Azer highlights the shocking news of Rashawn Slater's season-ending injury: "With left tackle Rashawn Slater out for the season with a ruptured patellar tendon..."
• Dan Schneier discusses the potential adjustments the Chargers might make, mentioning players like Joe Alt and Trey Pipkins: "We’ve got three weeks before the season starts so they can put a plan in place."
• Jamie Eisenberg emphasizes the offensive line's importance: "Slater stayed on his feet. This is going to go the distance."

Anthony Richardson's Dislocated Finger and the Colts' Quarterback Situation

• Adam Azer shares his thoughts on Richardson's injury and its implications: "Anthony Richardson has a dislocated finger. So we’re going to talk more about this on Friday."
• Dan Schneier provides a cautious outlook on Richardson's recovery and Daniel Jones' performance: "Daniel Jones... looked horrible out there. It’s an ugly situation."
• Jamie Eisenberg adds context about the Colts' offensive line and potential quarterback outcomes: "Their offensive line is projected to be a top 10 unit... but it's hard to project with the quarterback play being that bad."

Notable Quote:

"The coaching staff there is smart enough to overcome some of these things." — Dan Schneier [07:21]

3. Draft Strategies and Mock Draft Critique [07:21–22:57]

Listener Feedback on Mock Drafts

• Adam Azer addresses a listener's concern about the podcast's mock drafts not reflecting typical drafts: "We do drafts that are just listeners. We use average draft position for a reason."
• He experiments with a live ESPN mock draft: "I am in a waiting room 4 minutes and 22 seconds away from joining an ESPN PPR 12 team mock draft..."

Team Structure and Strategies

• Discussion revolves around different drafting strategies, including the "hero RB" approach versus balanced drafting.
• Dan Schneier emphasizes the importance of balancing risk and reward, especially concerning injured players like McCaffrey and Achane.

Notable Quote:

"It's more flexible to draft the best possible players without adhering strictly to positions early on." — Jamie Eisenberg [36:16]

4. League Formats and Strategies: Guillotine Leagues [22:57–43:37]

Understanding Guillotine League Settings

• Adam Azer explains the guillotine league format: "The lowest scoring team each week is out, eliminated from the league and that team's players become free agents."
• Dan Schneier and Jamie Eisenberg discuss optimal settings, such as waiver processes and roster limits, suggesting:
  • Dan Schneier: "Waiver wire should be fab for sure because you don't have to have people policing it..."
  • Jamie Eisenberg: "I definitely like fewer starting positions. I am curious how it would go."

Notable Quote:

"It's a more competitive way to do it with the spread." — Jamie Eisenberg [13:13]

5. Listener Questions and Detailed Analysis [43:37–76:34]

Draft Strategy Queries

• Zach's Question: Strategies for drafting heavy on running backs early and trading for wide receivers later.
  • Dan Schneier counters by suggesting a balanced approach: "I would just take the two best available players."

Keeper League Dilemmas

• Daniel's Mailbag: Choosing between Chigo Conko and George Pickens in a keeper league.
  • Jamie Eisenberg: Advocates for versatility and potential upside.

Per Game Stats vs. Total Stats

• Charles' Question: Reliance on per-game stats versus total season stats.
  • Adam Azer: "I believe in game data more so than overall data." [40:21]
  • Dan Schneier: Agrees, stating that per-game stats offer a better representation: "Like the Evans numbers… well, the top players have consistent performances." [41:05]

Notable Quotes:

"We have so much talent around those quarterbacks." — Dan Schneier [07:21]

"It's a better representation of what they did throughout the course of the season versus the total points." — Dan Schneier [40:21]

6. Mock Draft Experiences and Strategies [76:34–85:00]

Adam Azer's Mock Draft Journey

• Adam Azer shares his personal experience with mock drafting: "I have no idea who's in it. But I will be mocking and we'll take a look at it throughout our show today." [01:33]

Team Evaluations and Critiques

• Listener Ruben's Team: Evaluated by the hosts, highlighting strengths and weaknesses, especially in PPR formats.
  • Jamie Eisenberg gives a C minus rating, pointing out issues with wide receiver depth: "In this PPR format, it’s a C-minus." [46:35]

Notable Quote:

"It's better to take two tight ends or quarterbacks if the league demands." — Jamie Eisenberg [43:37]

7. Additional Listener Feedback and Final Thoughts [85:00–78:50]

Feedback on Draft Strategies

• Listener Suggestions: Discussing optimal drafting in different league settings (e.g., super flex, keeper leagues).
  • Dan Schneier emphasizes taking the best available players regardless of position: "I would still take the two best available players." [65:55]

Engaging Discussions and Humor

• The hosts engage in light-hearted banter about personal anecdotes, roommate issues, and humorous interactions, maintaining an engaging and relatable atmosphere for listeners.

Final Takeaways

• Emphasis on flexibility in draft strategies, understanding league-specific settings, and leveraging player performance data are crucial for fantasy football success.
• Adam Azer reinforces the importance of focusing on strong wide receivers in PPR leagues due to the depth available on waivers: "You can be a wide receiver three or a flex." [74:25]

Notable Quote:

"Running back is a barren waste unless there's a waiver wire breakout." — Adam Azer [74:16]

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Conclusion

This episode of Fantasy Football Today provides a comprehensive exploration of current fantasy football dynamics, from player injuries and their impact on team strategies to nuanced draft approaches tailored to various league formats. By addressing listener mailbag questions with expert analysis and fostering an interactive discussion, Adam Azer, Jamie Eisenberg, and Dan Schneier equip fantasy managers with the knowledge and strategies needed to excel in their leagues. Whether you're adjusting to new league settings, evaluating keeper options, or fine-tuning your draft strategy, this episode offers valuable insights to help you secure those coveted fantasy football bragging rights.

For more detailed discussions and strategies, be sure to listen to the full episode and engage with Fantasy Football Today on CBS Sports.

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[Adam Azer]

Jamie and Hey, what's up? It's mailbag time. Late night Thursday, August 7th, 10:38pm Eastern Time. Welcome to the show, everybody. And if you're hearing this on Saturday, there's going to be some news and notes that are a little outdated. So we won't spend too much time on that. We'll talk about Rashawn Slater, a little bit about Anthony Richardson and that's about it. 49ers wide receivers updates as well. This is FFT Fantasy Football Today presented by BetMGM, the sportsbook born in Vegas, Adam Azer here with Jamie Eisenberg. Good evening, Jamie. What time you think he'll be going to sleep tonight?

[Dan Schneier]

Oh, going to try and catch up on a few of the first couple of drives at least for the preseason games. Just to make sure I saw everything. I just hope you, you keep things, you know, PC related, G rated. You know, we have some issues with people using some foul language on our shows.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

One time, one word.

[Dan Schneier]

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

Family related programming. I had a slip up. I was a little frazzled. I had a shot of espresso just before the show. A lot going on. But if I do remember correctly, Adam had a slip up or two. That document. No. Yes, he did. You claim you didn't say it, but everyone who knows you did. And I don't think you were the only one. So you know what? Everybody has mistakes in this world.

[Adam Azer]

Everybody.

[Dan Schneier]

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

It's finally back. Where? City Field. And let me say this, Adam. It's a late night bag. It's the last bag before the match. How are you feeling?

[Adam Azer]

I played a little today. Yeah, I'm not feeling great about it, but I'm feeling. I'm feeling okay about it, actually. You know, I feel like I have a 10 chance to win and, and I feel like we need to, we need to raise some money here for, for St. Jude. So listen, this is Mailbag. I got some good questions about, you know, structuring your roster. A couple of Devon Hn questions. Why are we not, why are we not worried about his injury history? How. Where would we rank him if we knew TUA was going to miss at least four games? That kind of stuff. Guillotine League question. I've got some really good stuff. I got some Apple podcast stuff. And if you're watching on YouTube, we'll get to your questions at the end of the show. Also, someone said to me, someone wrote us an email and said, hey, your mock drafts that you guys talk about or the drafts that you guys do, they're not representative of what's going on, you know, in most people's drafts. So I think you guys should do just like, pop into a random ESPN draft. So I said, I wrote back to the guy and I said, yeah, listen, we do drafts that are just listeners. We do those most the Tuesday night that maybe one of us is in there. But we've had other drafts that are just listeners. And we mostly use average draft position. We use 80. We don't, we don't say, well, this guy's going here based on our drafts. We use adp, which I, which we do that for a reason, obviously, but I thought there was some merit to it. So I am in a waiting room 4 minutes and 22 seconds away from joining an ESPN PPR 12 team mock draft. I have absolutely no, absolutely no idea who's in it. But I will be mocking and we'll take a look at it throughout our show today. Let's do some quick notes and then why don't we jump into the draft a thon stuff the ways you can join the podcast league, the ways you can appear on the FFT show on an episode and the way you can co manage a team with me or Dan and also kind of bet on the tennis match that's happening next Thursday. But first, Jamie Rashawn. Well, Anthony Richardson has a dislocated finger. So I think we're going to talk more about this on Friday. If you're listening on Saturday. I know this is weird, but this is Thursday night right now. So Wide Receiver Preview part two. Hopefully we have more information. But we all watched the Colts game today. Richardson really, I mean, you know, nearly threw an interception. Didn't see that he didn't call out the right protection. It seems on the play that in which he got hurt so wasn't great for him. I don't know your quick thoughts on the Colts quarterback situation.

[Dan Schneier]

We're going to find out if he needs surgery and that will probably determine who's going to be the Colt starter in week one. You know, the fact that he's trying to grip the ball on the sideline and you know, throwing a couple passes. I think he threw a couple passes. I know he's trying to grip the ball. It's clearly a positive. But you never know until they, you know, reset it if it's dislocated and how everything goes there. So if he's going to have surgery, he's obviously not going to most likely start week one. We've already had a dislocation for quarterback Justin Fields with his foot, his toe and you know, he was able to practice later that week. So you never know how these things work out, you know, once they put it back in place and everything is, is hopefully on par for for Richardson to continue in the quarterback competition. But like you said, did not look great in the start of the game. It looked like he was playing scared, you know, I mean some of the throws, like he was short arming it, you know, not necessarily let it rip. Especially on the one you referenced where it looked like it could have been interception. I was hoping to see more, you know, I was hoping to see, you know, however long they're gonna let him go. But Daniel Jones didn't look great either. I think the one positive for the Colts passing game because they seem to make an effort was Tyler Warren. And you know, if Daniel does start, that I think will be a benefit for Warren.

[Adam Azer]

Josh Downs didn't play right?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No.

[Adam Azer]

Right. Okay.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Jeff Schwartz, former offensive lineman, NFL player, tweeted about it and was like, this is a day one empty production install. So it's kind of crazy that Richardson wasn't able to process that. At the same time, Jones completed less than 50% of his passes against backups. Looked horrible out there. I thought as well, that is an ugly situation. And they have so much talent around those quarterbacks. Their offensive line is projected to be a top 10 unit by Brandon Thorne and people I trust with the offensive line evaluations, great receivers, Mitchell's cooking in camp, great running backs, Giddens and even Khalil Herbert. Just kind of hard to project when the quarterback play could be that bad.

[Adam Azer]

So let's talk about the Chargers now. With left tackle Rashawn Slater out for the season with a ruptured patellar tendon, they just gave him a huge contract. I believe he's on average annual salary, the highest paid offensive lineman in the NFL. So they've got Joe Walt, who plays right tackle. They could move him to left tackle. They have Trey Pipkins, who's got a lot of experience. He'll be the new starting tackle, whether that's right or left side. But, you know, last year Slater missed three games and they were awful in two of them. They scored 10 points in both games, but they were against Pittsburgh and Kansas City. Week 18, he missed and they scored 34 points at the Raiders, but they struggled to run the ball in all three of those games. Anyway, Jamie, your reaction to the Rashawn Slater news? And also, I completely. I meant to look up how they did in 2023 because he only played. He only played a handful of games that year. So I'm going to look into that in a second. I forgot about that. But give me your thoughts on Slater and the Chargers offense.

[Dan Schneier]

Yeah, obviously not great. You know, anytime you lose a standout offensive lineman, we know how that impacts teams across the board. So the only silver lining is there's still, you know, three weeks before the season starts so they can put a plan in place. Like you mentioned, you know, Joe Alt has been already talked about maybe moving to the left side. I wonder if they consider maybe putting Becton back at one of the tackle spots. I hope not. But possibility just for a guy that's, that's played there before, maybe Alt goes to the left tackle, Becton goes to right tackle and they, you know, find another player to play guard. But I, I'm gonna trust that it's going to be manageable and I'm going to trust that the talent. You know, Dan just referenced the talent for the Colts without a quarterback. The Chargers have a lot of talent that they put in place now with a quarterback. And I think the coaching staff there is smart enough to overcome some of these things. Obviously, Greg Roman's had situations where he's lost his left tackle or offensive lineman throughout the course of his history. So not ideal. Obviously not what you'd like to see for Herbert, for Hampton, for Naji, all these guys there. But I'm not going to adjust my rankings to a point where I'm panicking yet. Unless, of course, you know, we see something in the preseason where they play those guys and it just looks absolutely abysmal.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. So Slater played three games in 2022, and Justin Herbert only threw for 4,791 yards. Now, I should. He only averaged 6.7 yards. He averaged 6.8 yards per attempt. They threw 711 times. So what Wasn't the most efficient? Keenan out on average?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It's such a different offense with Kellen Moore, though.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, but one of the reasons they threw for so many yards is they. They must have led the NFL. And past attempts, they had to be up there at least. Austin Eckler average 4.5 yards per carry. He was probably the number one running back in fantasy. He had 107 catches. He had 13 rushing touchdowns. So they were very good for fantasy, even without Slater.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

For all the things this hurts Hampton and Najee the most, to be honest, in the run game, Just the cohesiveness of it. And Slater was really good at getting to the second level in the run game.

[Adam Azer]

All right, let's go through the rest of the news. You know what? I'm going to leave the rest of the news for tomorrow. For Friday's show? Yeah, for yesterday or tomorrow, depending on what you're watching or listening.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'm traveling on today on fantasy football.

[Adam Azer]

Today, but those are the big items right there. All right. Draftathon tinyurl.com 2025fft Very important. Go there and help raise money for St. Jude. We still have some things that you can purchase, but what you really should be doing is scrolling down a little bit and clicking on View Auction House. And here. Oh, crap, I forgot about my mock draft. Oh, gosh. I probably auto pick.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

This is the worst idea ever.

[Dan Schneier]

Adam came up with this like two minutes before.

[Adam Azer]

This is gonna be a struggle. I'm already late. I'm late to the party. Oh, gosh.

[Dan Schneier]

Did you get auto picked?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I don't Definitely got auto.

[Adam Azer]

Now I can't even get in. I can't even get in.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You can go to the auction house and see the single worst headshot of any person that was ever taken of me for my, for my individual call.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. So listen, we have zoom calls with, with, with me. Dave, Jamie Heath, Jacob Gibbs, Dan Schneier.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Jacob, can I make a suggestion? Adam, hold on.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, you can do it. But maybe, maybe when I'm done speaking, you can join our podcast league. You can join Heath's Dynasty league. We're almost up to $2,000 for a spot in that Dynasty League. Podcast league. We got a spot for $633. We have another spot that doesn't even have a bid yet. So there's two different podcast leagues you can join here. We have three spots that don't have bids yet, so get in there. Four spots that don't have bids yet. Wow. There are six spots in the podcast league that you can join. There are two spots in the Dynasty League. There's the draft a thon league with a bunch of industry experts. And then there's the tennis match. All right, so there's the rematch. Dan beat me 6260 last year. I'm back for vengeance. It's going to happen Thursday, August 14, 4pm we're going to live stream it on YouTube. We're going to have Jamie and I hope Dave and Heath commentating. I'm going to invite my tennis captain of my tennis team to. To join you guys so he can actually drop some tennis knowledge and we.

[Dan Schneier]

Have some surprise guests too.

[Adam Azer]

All right, I'm sure. But the way to maybe even in.

[Dan Schneier]

Person at the tennis match.

[Adam Azer]

No, but the way you, the way you can donate to St. Jude and be a part of this is to join Team Dan or Team Adam if you're on Team Adam and I win. If you're on Team Adam and you have the highest bid, you're a co manager with me in the FFT league. Same thing with Team Schneier. But the winner of the match gets to swap draft spots, right?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Adam Azer]

And then swap picks in the third round.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yes.

[Adam Azer]

Okay. All right.

[Dan Schneier]

So anyway, you guys are randomly back.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

To back, which could be huge. Last year didn't matter as much because we were pretty close drafting, but it could be huge. My suggestion, Adam, is we let. Because last year Heath set a really good line on the match. He set the line that you would have two and a half games total at two and a half over under, and you won two games. I think you should be bidding. If you bid on team Adam, you get it with the spread.

[Adam Azer]

Get it with the spread?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah. Instead of just picking you to win, you get it with the spread.

[Adam Azer]

Just to make it a little more. What's the spread?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

We have to have Heath set the spread again. I can't believe you put this picture up. I hate this picture. This was taken when I first joined the company, and it's the only edge that I guess that is available. But again, I think that we should do it with the spread. I think it's a. It's a more competitive way to do it. No offense, Adam. I just don't think you're gonna beat me.

[Adam Azer]

No, I don't think I'm gonna beat you either. But I'm curious.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You should feel confident. Don't go in thinking you're gonna lose. That's terrible, dude.

[Adam Azer]

Why can't I get into this stupid mock draft room?

[Dan Schneier]

It's starting to really piss me off now. I think there's a. There's a better mug shot of you if Thomas can pull it up. Of when you dropped your air conditioner. Oh, last week. That's definitely.

[Adam Azer]

All right, we'll come. Yeah, let's read. Let's read an email here. This is from Zach.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

What a mess of a human being I am. But I will beat Adam in the match.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, but, you know, maybe you won't. All right, question.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I won't. It'll be the greatest upset of all time.

[Adam Azer]

Question from Zach.

[Dan Schneier]

We're gonna have a heckler live in person.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh, I love that. That'll impact Adam way more than me.

[Adam Azer]

You're not going to.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You're not gonna. Last time we played at your private courts, and those guys are screaming on, like, three chords away. And then. I mean, I would prefer this headshot, honestly, to the one that I. That's up there right now. I like this picture of myself better, but if you're watching on YouTube. But, Matt. But, Adam, don't you remember this?

[Adam Azer]

I remember. I remember. Can I read this?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yelling. And then I said, like, one thing, and you were like, be quiet. It's my private club. I'm like, dude, these guys are screaming.

[Dan Schneier]

Okay, that was your private club last year.

[Adam Azer]

No, it's not a private. I mean, it's kind of a private club, I guess. Yeah, we were at my tennis club.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That place. Adam is bougie. That place is real.

[Adam Azer]

No, that's not. We're not going to the same place this year.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, I know. We're going indoors this year.

[Adam Azer]

I don't belong to this place.

[Dan Schneier]

All right, he's definitely coming.

[Adam Azer]

Question from Zach. Oh, I love that I'm picking second in a half PPR league. One quarterback, two wide receivers, two running backs, one flex. It doesn't say there's a tight end. I have the second pick and one one will be Chase. I'm locked in on Bijan Robinson after Bijan Robinson. I don't love any of the wide receivers at the 2, 3 turn or even at the 4, 5 turn. My best mocks in my opinion, I've taken Robinson, Kyron Williams and then I'm reaching for either Hampton or Chuba Hubbard at the 2, 3 turn, then at 4 or 5. I love taking Laporta and reaching for Travion Henderson and having a stranglehold of running backs and having a top five tight end. I know it sounds crazy to take four running backs with my first five picks and by the way, he can only start three of them. But I know my league and I'll be able to trade one of those backs for a stud wide receiver later in the year. I've never tried this strategy and I know come draft time it's going to be hard for me to do this, but when I finish most of my mocks, I'm in love with my team. So I'm asking for help from you guys and your input. And I usually come away with the likes of Chris Godwin, Calvin Ridley, Brandon Aiyuk and Kyler Murray to fill out my roster in those mocks. Love what you guys do for St. Jude and I would be supporting if I didn't have a wedding coming up in October. Well, congratulations, Zach, and that's awesome for you and I hope nothing but love and happiness for you and your future. All right, so what do you think about this, Jamie? He goes Bijan Robinson, then running back, running back, then tight end and Travion Henderson. Four running backs with his first five picks and he is Sam Laporta and.

[Dan Schneier]

He can only start three of them.

[Adam Azer]

Yep, and his idea is I'm going to trade one of them for a stud wide receiver.

[Dan Schneier]

I just think it's a little overkill knowing that there's still going to be guys you can target a little bit later. So it's almost the reverse of hero RB strategy where you load up on wide receivers and then sometimes you find yourself not necessarily able to draft some of those mid round, mid to late round wide receivers because you need to get some a little too much running back capital. It's the same way in reverse here I think I would just probably take. If you want to go with the running back, heavy approach, you know, the robust running back, I think is what we call it. Just don't take the fourth one, you know, I mean, obviously don't reach for a wide receiver there, but sort of play the board a little bit with. If you want to take three running backs in a row, because the value is great. Because especially if you're picking at the front of the draft and you can get, I don't know, the names they listed, but you get Robinson and some combination of Jacobs, Taylor, Bucky, Chase Brown, Kyron Williams, if you like. Two of those guys. I mean, that's a hell of a start. And then you come back in round four and you could be looking at a dk, Metcalf, Courtland, Sutton, maybe Marvin Harrison. You know, those type of receivers, like, I like that build a little bit better and you can still take a tight end and just wait. You know, Kyler's a perfect quarterback, so that's the way I would go.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I think this is. I wouldn't call it overkill.

[Adam Azer]

I just.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So the idea here is you're drafting these running backs to trade them. At least that's his perception of what will happen. But you're taking two rookies and you. And he describes them as reaching for these two rookies. I don't know if the timeline works out. So if you're looking to trade these guys, these rookies typically tend to. I mean, not always, but tend to hit their stride later in the season. By that point, you'll have lost the opportunity to trade them for your wide receivers. And you say you still come away with the likes of God, Godwin, Ridley, Ayuk. That doesn't make me feel confident at all.

[Dan Schneier]

Those guys.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

What did you say?

[Adam Azer]

Not two of those.

[Dan Schneier]

You might not have a wide receiver in week one.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Right, Right.

[Adam Azer]

So, yeah, look, we talked about there's good wide receivers. You know, you could get Calvin Ridley and Pierce Hall. Ricky, Brian. I was going to say Ricky Pierce. I'll just always default to him. But who are the other guys in that? You know, Jacoby Myers. No, it was Cooper Cup. It was like, same as Matthew Golden. Yeah, but, yeah, it's overkill. All right, next question here, and we'll take a break in a moment. This is from Ethan. I'm writing in because I'm confused about your take on Devon HN vs other running backs today or on Thursday, maybe probably Wednesday. You mentioned that you have pushed McCaffrey down in the rankings. Due to injury concern. But with Achan, you have to worry about his injuries and Tua's. Why is that not more of a concern? Isn't HN too risky to take him so early? And then the next question. Dan was from Scott and he said, if you knew Tua would miss at least 4 games, where would you draft a CHAN? P.S. if you're playing Dan in tennis, kick his butt.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That's not written in there.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, it was 100%.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh, I do see that. If you're playing Dan. Well, he is playing me in tennis. Not only will he not kick my butt, he doesn't believe in himself. He's like, I gave myself a 10% chance to win. I don't even want to spread. It's just like, dude, have some confidence in your own self. I'm really worried about you getting heckled, to be honest. I don't know if you can withstand a hat. I really don't. I don't know if you're building.

[Adam Azer]

No, I'm not. I'm definitely not.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah. Mentally, I'm not. Not quite sure. When you had to go for that, like, mid set bathroom break, it totally rattled you. You, like, couldn't find the bathroom. You're, like walking for five minutes and everyone watching the stream last year was like, dude, why don't you just go in the woods? Like, there was literally a woods right next to the court. But that's neither here or there. To answer the question, it's different because, like, there is some hope that Zach Wilson can be a little bit better with Mike McDaniel than that slew of quarterbacks that he threw out there last year to totally stymied the offense. Maybe he can get the ball to HN in those passing situations where HN is really dominated as a receiver out of the backfield. But I would think that without Tua on the field, he definitely drops into the RP2 range and maybe back end.

[Dan Schneier]

Okay, Jamie's gonna miss four games. I don't know if he would drop to the RB2 range. I think he would certainly fall behind Genti and Henry for me and probably Jacobs. And so in that Taylor Brown, Kyron Chase Brown mix, just because I think obviously those other guys have a chance to be pretty special too. But again, I wouldn't necessarily want to overreact to four games. But if you say he's already going in missing four games, like, let's just say he got hurt now in camp and you know he's missing four games, there's a chance of him missing more than that. But if we're just limiting it to four games, like, I wouldn't want to panic. I think the the question was really posed to Heath because he has McCaffrey concerns. You and I don't Adam, I don't know where you come out on it, Dan. I don't think you do.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No.

[Dan Schneier]

So Heath was the one that was saying that he's pushed McCaffrey down because of injury concerns. Maybe it was in regard to your very illustrious poll question on X, where you just phrased it perfectly.

[Adam Azer]

It was who's a Do you think that Saquon Barkley is safer just in terms of injury risks than Christian?

[Dan Schneier]

I I mean, I don't know exactly where the the question's coming from from the Wednesday conversation, but I think just in terms of a Chan's injury concerns with himself and his quarterback versus McCaffrey's injury concerns with himself as a quarterback, I think at this point you have to just factor in like what's your risk reward level? You know. So for me, if McCaffrey plays the majority of the season, he's going to be in the RB1 conversation. If HN plays the majority of the season with Tua, he's going to be in the RB1 conversation. That's why those guys are top seven overall picks for me. So I'm just excited about the upside for them. I'll deal with the the risk of it. If it's going to cost me, then I I swung for the fences and I missed. And if I can't, you know, recover in some way, shape or form, I mean I had a lot of McCaffrey shares last year and I want to feel those leagues regardless. So hopefully the waiver wire can still be your friend.

[Adam Azer]

All right, we're going to take a break and when we come back we have more of your emails@fantasy footballbsi.com we also have Apple podcast questions, YouTube questions, and of course Draftathon questions. For those of you who are kind enough to donate to St. Jude, we will certainly read your questions. We'll be right back on fft.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

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[Adam Azer]

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

We should do some kind of stats on that at some point. I don't think we have any numbers on that.

[Dan Schneier]

I can certainly go back and look. So if you want to remind me during the season, because it's obviously.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, let's do that at some point. I'm curious.

[Dan Schneier]

Yeah, I would. You know, it's. It's a round robin of, you know, rotating people who've won. You know, there's obviously not just the. We don't play in six man leagues, so.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Right.

[Dan Schneier]

You know, we have other co workers that have won these leagues. So who's had the most success rate? I'm trying to think like of fft. Our FFT league. Dan's only been in these leagues, you know, a handful of years, so.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Right.

[Dan Schneier]

To factor him in. But like our magazine league, which we're no longer doing, our IDP league, which stands out. You know, like there's, there's not a lot at this point.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Count the dynasty either because that's just like I took over like an orphan team.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah.

[Dan Schneier]

But that's even like the dynasty league. Dave's not in Big Burger. Adam yolo. You know, so there's.

[Adam Azer]

I can answer this question and I just don't. I'm sure there is an answer, but it's not obvious because I. We all have some success. We all have some teams that don't do so well. You know, you could be better than someone at fantasy football and not necessarily do better in your leagues because obviously there's injuries and just bad luck.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

There's a ton of variants in fantasy football.

[Adam Azer]

There's, there's really. I only read that because we get that question a decent amount. And I really don't think any of us. It's not like any of us go out there and just dominate the leagues that we're in.

[Dan Schneier]

So yeah, no, nor would I think anybody expects one of us to do that because we're all in some way shape or form pretty much along the same wavelength, you know, so there's, there, there's little variants. Obviously he's a little bit different than, than Dave and I. Dave and I have a lot of similar rankings from time, from, from year to year.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Different strategies though.

[Dan Schneier]

I think just from. Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

How we get there, you build. Yeah.

[Dan Schneier]

I think the, the one thing, I'll say this all the time, it takes skill to make the playoffs. It take luck to win championships, you know, So I think that's fair. You could be very smart at what you do. You could be smart at playing the waiver wire. You're still going to need luck to, to get that title.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

There are enough weeks, I would love some team, some leagues do the two week playoff matchups. It's just. There's not enough weeks for it. But it really does take some of the luck out of it.

[Adam Azer]

All right, if you haven't signed up for BETMGM yet, please use the bonus code fantasy on BetMGM and you're gonna get up to a fifteen hundred dollar first bet offer on your first wager with BetMGM. Download the BetMGM app and sign up and use that bonus code Fantasy. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game. You'll receive up to 1500 dollars in bonus bets if your bet loses. Just make sure you use the bonus code fantasy when you sign up. Jason from somewhere in Ontario, Canada. Dave's not here so we have no idea. Long time listener. Love the show. I still laugh when I think about the spider episode. Lol. Do you remember the spider episode, Jamie, where a spider. He's. Apparently I saw a spider and it scared the crap out of me like right in front of me.

[Dan Schneier]

I don't. I remember the spider that happened to us on fantasy football today on hq.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You're scared of spiders, Adam.

[Adam Azer]

There are so many in my house that I've stopped being scared of them for the most part.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Spiders don't get me. There's a kid. They did. I don't know what happened.

[Dan Schneier]

I think I remember that one. The one that happened to me on FFT was I was. I'm hosting the show and it's crawling on the desk and it was a big one and so like I'm kind of like maneuvering my chair so I'm like not to. It was, it was like. It didn't jump on my lap because it was like right around the edge of the desk. And Dave and Heath are like, what are you doing live on the air? I'm like, there's a spider right there.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, I'm. I'm on deck, by the way, with my second pick.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I didn't know you're back. You're finally not getting auto drafted.

[Adam Azer]

Well, you joined a yahoo league. Because I couldn't figure out how to get into ESPN. All right. Oh, look at this. I'm 19th overall. Drake, London and Jonathan Taylor just went. So wait, who am I missing here? It's AJ Brown.

[Dan Schneier]

What was your first pick?

[Adam Azer]

Bijan Robinson had second overall. All right, there's got to be someone. I'm just gonna. I think I'm just gonna take A.J. brown.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Take A.J. brown. He's good value there.

[Dan Schneier]

That's great.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, A.J. brown, but I usually take him 18. He's going 19th here. But Taylor and London. So I'm. No, I'm just wondering who the other player that I'm missing. Someone in my top 18, maybe. I only have a top 17. Yeah, okay. I have a top 17. Eight running backs, nine receivers.

[Dan Schneier]

Okay.

[Adam Azer]

A.J. brown, second round. Okay. I'll show the draft later if anyone's curious, but I just wanted to see how things looked. It looks pretty normal so far. So the question from Jason is what are your favorite guillotine league settings? Optimal roster position, scoring, waiver process, trades versus no trades. Any other tidbits you have for guillotine leagues?

[Dan Schneier]

No trades. Definitely waiver wire is too good. You don't think you need to. Waiver process should be fab for sure because you don't have to have people policing it in some way. Shape or form should not be first come, first serve until Sunday morning or Saturday night, depending on how you do it. But should definitely be a full waivers process multiple days to give people time to spend whatever they want to spend on what's going to be a very good waiver wire. I think it's, you know, any, any roster and position limits are, you know, totally personal preference. The ones that I played in are two running backs, two receiver, two flex. So with tight end, so you're just, you know, a couple. An additional flex spot to give a little bit more flexibility. No pun intended. It should be 18 teams, you know, so everybody plays till the end and yeah, I don't know what else to say about it.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I definitely like fewer starting positions. As Jamie mentioned, one thing I've never tried for Guillotine, I'm in A few guillotine leagues now. I really like the format. I am curious how it would go. Guillotine auction league. I think that would be a lot of fun and interesting and change so much of like you would have so many different options strategically. How do you want to spend your budget knowing that you have free agency to work with. So I would be curious if anyone's running one of those leagues. If anyone's done one of those leagues, let me know how that's gone because I think that'd be a lot of fun.

[Adam Azer]

Next email. Thank you very much, Jason. This comes from Steeler 3275. Our league changed our scoring format.

[Dan Schneier]

We got a roommate.

[Adam Azer]

Well, we got a roommate.

[Dan Schneier]

Saw someone lurking in the shadows there.

[Adam Azer]

Our league changed the scoring format from 6 point to passing touchdown to 4 point passing touchdown. How does this impact your top 12 quarterback rankings? I understand that this will push up the quarterbacks who run a lot, but how many make your top 12? Jamie, I missed it again.

[Dan Schneier]

Adjusted his camera.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

There'll be no more of that. No more insight into my personal life. There's way too much on this show.

[Adam Azer]

I can't figure out what that picture is like off the fridge.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Don't worry about what that. Enough, enough. Okay, I need to change once again I have background.

[Dan Schneier]

What's on top of your refrigerator? It looks like baseball cards or something.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It's a. It's a Giant's card set.

[Dan Schneier]

Nice. See how many things I have going for here. What, what was the question again? I'm sorry.

[Adam Azer]

Top 12 quarterbacks in 4 point per passing touchdown leagues.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh yeah, you move up Fields, Drake, May, those types.

[Dan Schneier]

The. The top three stay the same, you know and for me hertz goes above burrow so I have burrow 4hz 5 so hertz will be 4. Fields gets pushed up to QB 7 for me behind Mahomes ahead of Baker and Drake May is in the top 10.

[Adam Azer]

Kyler Murray.

[Dan Schneier]

Kyler Murray would be after so I would go top five same my home still 6, field 7, Kyler 8, Baker 9, Knicks 10, May 10 Knicks 11.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

And.

[Dan Schneier]

Probably Purdy 12.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh, I just did my rankings for the first time like my quarterback rankings for six. Lamar Jackson. This will be for four point Jax, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jaden Daniels, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow tear break. Mahomes Murray, Purdy Fields, tear break. Then I got Mayfield, Herbert May, Lawrence, Dakota. I really like Dak Lawrence and May. It looks like above adp. Nick's is down for me.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, this one is from. Oh actually hold on one second. I don't know who this one's from. Just kidding. It's from Eric. There it is. Good morning.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

A little late.

[Adam Azer]

I know. Peter, Michael, Jack and Mary.

[Dan Schneier]

Peter. Peter.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, I know. I googled it.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh, you googled it. That doesn't mean you know, it means you looked it up. But what was the answer?

[Adam Azer]

Three Men and a Baby or Three Men and a Little Lady, I assume.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

What is that?

[Dan Schneier]

Don't you know somebody who was in that.

[Adam Azer]

Yes, my friend, pretty good friend of mine in high school, Robin. She was the little lady and Three Men and a Little Lady. Yeah. Listen to this all star cast. It's Ted Danson, Steve Gutenberg and who was the third guy?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Goot.

[Dan Schneier]

Oh, my God. Tom Selleck.

[Adam Azer]

Tom Selleck. Duh. Yeah, the main guy. And. And I can't remember the name of the. Of the. The woman. Like the love interest.

[Dan Schneier]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Azer]

But anyway, where the hell were we? Okay. Three minutes of the baby. When do you. When do you decide your draft strategy? I've gone into mocks thinking I'm going hero or zero rb, but then I end up taking two or three, two out of my first three picks being running backs, I feel like I'm going best available in all drafts. And if I do that, what round do I start focusing on my open positions? And how does this change in 2 receiver versus 3 receiver? Dan.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So I like to go in with no set strategy as far as drafting positions. I want to have the flexibility to draft the best possible players. With that said, I play in a lot of PPR leagues and half PPR leagues and in those formats, I do believe that it is a race to building your flex out with wide receivers. I think you have an advantage to having a receiver in the flex. In recent years, it hasn't played out that way. And I am open to the idea that with the NFL changing and so many teams playing that fic Fangio offshoot of his defense with two safeties high, cover three, cover six, cover two, some variation of that. We are going to see running backs have more value in fantasy. But I also think we had a historically healthy year for running backs last year that is very unlikely to repeat itself this year. And we're already seeing some of those guys injured, Joe Mixon, for example, already dealing with injuries and who knows what that situation is going to be. So I think I do lean toward receivers and filling that out early. One thing I always have strategically in my drafts is I really don't. I prioritize filling my flex before my quarterback or my tight end. And that's just something I've always done. This year, maybe I'll take Bowers. Maybe I'll take McBride because I like them both a lot. But if not, I'm passing on the laportas of the world, the Kittles of the world. I just don't like the opportunity cost that I lose out from a receiver standpoint there or running back.

[Dan Schneier]

I wish sometimes people could see our private chat because this is very funny about. So Thomas writes, to be fair to Dan's roommate, he's blocking the refrigerator.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It is true. It's really unbearable.

[Dan Schneier]

So Dan says I have no options. It's either here. It's either here. Record from my toilet.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, God.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I mean, my room is shaped like a toilet and so. So much so that it was referred to as a toilet. And I got sick of that. So I was like, all right, let's bring it out here. And this room isn't going to be done for. They started working on this room in January. It's August. I don't know when this construction will be done. The guy came by like last week. He's like, oh, yeah, I'm so sorry. It's been really stressful. But, like, we'll get back on it next week.

[Dan Schneier]

This is next week.

[Adam Azer]

Guys. Can I tell you something? I have no idea what the scoring format is in this draft.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

This has gone off the rail. This late night. We can't do late night mailbags. We are deleting.

[Dan Schneier]

No, we should do them all the time.

[Adam Azer]

Late night bag. Late night bag. This is from Charles.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'll never call that again.

[Adam Azer]

Please, Charles. It's a very long and good email. If I had time, I'd read it all.

[Dan Schneier]

I can't hear what you just said. What did you just say?

[Adam Azer]

This comment. Poor guy is starving. Dancing. Goodbye. All right, the question from Charles is, are we relying too much on per game stats? And one of the things he brings up is. Is like Mike Evans and Chris Godwin per game stats. And when one of them gets hurt, it's going to help the other ones. You know, per game stats. But that's why I always azer stat, Charles. That's why I always tell you that Mike Evans was wide receiver 26 or something like that per game during the six games he played with Chris Godwin. Now, I do have more to say about that. Three of those games were horrible games. One of them was against Patrick Certain and one of them was against New Orleans. And he never does well against New Orleans. And in three of those games he scored more than 20 fantasy points. So I, you know, we'll talk about that extensively on the Wide Receivers Preview part two, or if you're listening on Saturday. We already talked about that extensively on the Wide Receivers Preview Part 2. But I believe in game data more so than overall data because I don't think I'm going to sit here and act like Drake London was a top five receiver and Garrett Wilson was a top five receiver because both of them. Were they both? Yeah, Garrett Wilson. No, he was ninth. Sorry. But Drake London was wide receiver four and I'm not going to sit here and act like he was wide receiver 4. He was wide receiver 14 per game. So I will stick with the per game stuff. It's not perfect. I do think you need to mention both. I should probably do a better job mentioning both. But Jamie, where you at on that?

[Dan Schneier]

I tend to go to per game data as well. I think it's just a better representation of what they did throughout the course of the season versus the total points because, you know, you can have a, you know, it's almost like the career thing. You know, Frank Gore had a great career and had a lot of great seasons, but he cobbled together like a lot of numbers, you know, So I don't know if that's the best example, but you know what I mean? Like it's, you can have some, some solid games, but I want to see what you did most, for the most part on a per game basis. And that's why we know when we break break apart season like we were Talking about lad McConkey for example, the other day with Keenan Allen signing and his end of season, his final nine games, including the playoffs, he was over 20 PPR points per game.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, pretty good stuff.

[Dan Schneier]

Okay, like, you know, to your point, like the Evans numbers, like. And again it goes the other way, like the Evan stuff, you know, he wasn't great in those first six games, but there's reasons for it.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, so question in the chat real quick, just so I don't miss it. Adam, can we get a definition of a guillotine league? We're all wondering. Yeah, Guillotine league is usually 18 teams draft and then the lowest scoring, you don't play head to head. The lowest scoring team each week is out, eliminated from the league and that team's players become free agents. Well, they go on waivers. So if you're still, if you're alive and the Bijan Robinson team lost in week one, everyone's got a chance. Usually do an Auction or they usually do. Fab. Everyone's got a chance and you just keep going and just try not to be the lowest scoring team every week.

[Dan Schneier]

All right.

[Adam Azer]

I got to take one more ability.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I used to have the function and ability to highlight a good chat that I liked. Who took that away from me? Is that you, Thomas, behind the scenes? Did Adam take that away from me?

[Adam Azer]

I didn't. Don't think so. I think you just used to be.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Able to put it.

[Adam Azer]

You may have lost that when you curse on this show.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh my God. I can't believe everybody knows about this already.

[Adam Azer]

Are you. Real quick. I'm gonna read two more real quick here and then we're gonna take a break. Okay. The strategy with going late at the onesie positions is getting two guys. This is from. Oh, this is from another Eric talk about how you have. You're wasting two. You're using two roster spots on quarterbacks or tight ends instead of, you know, wide receivers or running backs. That it could be lottery tickets or flex plays. Aren't you more likely to win that way? So late round picks in the drafts are cheap but season long bench spots are expensive, especially in bye weeks. So something to think about, Dan, with drafting two of the onesie positions.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, I. When it comes to the onesie positions, I feel like the whole value of taking the guys up top is that you don't have to like part of the value should say is that you don't have to have a bench player at that position though. Quarterback has proven that wrong. Like over the last three years these elite quarterbacks have really outscored the competition. So I don't know, I, I don't know where I stand on that one.

[Dan Schneier]

So I'll give you a couple examples. I think you're headed down the path I would have gone. Which is if you're spending an early round pick on a quarterback, you are trusting that player to be.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Dan Schneier]

Elite and to spend another pick on. And. And the guy that's going to come up a lot in these conversations, the example is going to be somebody like Jared Goff who has the chance to be 20 to 22 points per game, which will be in the top 10 conversation and they're obviously going to be a lot of spike weeks for him. But are you ever going to play Jared Goff no matter how well he's performing over a Jaden Daniels? Unless he stinks or Josh Allen or. Or Lamar Jackson, you know, again those guys have to probably get injured for you to play Jared Goff. I Think it's better to take two quarterbacks or two tight ends if you wait on the position because now you've invested the first 10 to 11 to 12, 13, however deep your draft is on those lottery ticket type players and then you're waiting on quarterback. So to take two of a Drake May and Justin Herbert or Trevor Lawrence and Kyler Murray, you know, two guys that are going to go late ish at quarterback, that's the way I would approach it. If you take a guy in the middle of the, the position, middle of the rankings, it might be a little bit different tight ends the same way I, I tend to. And then the other thing I would say is you have to know your league because we did a draft Tuesday night with and this is not knowing your league or reading the board. So both ways. We did a draft Tuesday night with the, the St. Jude draft and I waited until of a 13 round draft round 11 to take Drake May and Adam said are you going to take another quarterback? And I said I'm going to see the way the next two rounds unfold and who could potentially be available on waivers. And so if I know my league and I know everybody's going to take two quarterbacks, I probably will make the investment in the second quarterback and see how Drake May does the first couple weeks and obviously then I'll be a little bit, you know, secure knowing that my quarterback situation is fine. But if I know that there's going to be a golf, a Herbert, a Tua, you know, guys that'll be in that 19, 20, 21 point range but not a lot of upside. Most likely C.J. stroud, Jordan. There's so many guys at the position like why waste the pick and just maybe play it on waivers now again the counter that would be. Well, somebody else might pick them up. I get it, it's the risk you have to take but I would rather take a chance on a, on a Jacori Crosky merit type player or right a running back wide receiver that may pop in the beginning part of the season and now I have that guy.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, last one before a break before we get to our draftathon questions. This is from Ruben. Rate my team.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

All right.

[Adam Azer]

We don't rate a lot of teams but we'll rate yours. Ruben 12 team PPR. I had the 11th pick. Devon HN, Josh Jacobs, Garrett Wilson, Omarion Hampton, Rasheed Rice, Travis Hunter, Evan Ingram, Roma Dunes A Tank Bigsby, Justin Fields, Ray Davis, Jake Ferguson, Braylon Allen to a tongue of iloa. So starting lineup would be Fields, Achan and Jacobs, Garrett Wilson and Rasheed Rice. But for now, Travis Hunter as we expect Rice to be suspended. Omarion Hampton at flex and it's full PPR by the way. And Evan Ingram at tight end with a good bench.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I mean, look, I'll rip the band aid off. For me, this is not a good draft for my strategy. I'd probably give it a C minus. My issue with it is I like I'm fine with HN because he has so much upside in this PPR format. Josh Jacobs in this PPR format to just not come away with any of those receivers in those first two picks. Brian Thomas Jr. Neighbors, those types of players. Even Amon Ra falls at sometimes in a full PBR form format. And then to get Garrett Wilson who I think could have low reception possibility in that offense. Like I'm really low on Fields as passing upside this this season. Then you come back and you have a Marion Hampton who I do like his upside. But in a full PPR league here you're just pouring a lot of assets into players I'm worried about from reception standpoint, Rice and Hunter have upside for sure. It's just even Ingram is a player I'm not so sure. As sold as others are on the roll from a target and reception standpoint. Same thing, bro. Dunesay. So unfortunately for me, in this PPR format, it's a C minus.

[Dan Schneier]

I don't, I don't hate the roster as much, but I do agree with the Jacobs pick or the critique of the Jacobs pick because if that's a top 10 wide receiver, which it should have been and then you're talking about your starting A Chan and Hampton and instead of Hampton as your flex, it's Hunter as your flex or you know, you're. Oh, I'm sorry, it's. It's now Rice Hunter as your flex, you know, until Rice comes back. So let's say it's Thomas and Wilson and then Rice Hunter like I love that much better. So I like Jacob's a lot. I, I do think he's still very good in ppr, especially with Marshawn Lloyd once again banged up. And this packers offense may be awesome based on all accounts. So I just think it's just too soon for Jacobs.

[Adam Azer]

Yep. And somehow I'm drafting a 10 team in a 10 team league with a bunch of strangers and I kind of hate my team. And the reason is I don't have good enough wide receivers. So make sure you have good wide receivers. Okay? We're going to Be right back after this. On Fantasy Football today, Need contract help for those workload peaks and backlogged projects?

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[Jamie Eisenberg]

That ad just got me so hyped up. We're so close to real football.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah baby.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So excited.

[Dan Schneier]

By the way, I think is it tofu Tomo. How do you pronounce it?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Tofu Tomo. Oh, the what?

[Dan Schneier]

In the chat, how do you pronounce.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh, I don't see this.

[Adam Azer]

I love how Dan was acting like he knew that that was like some player or something like that. Tofu Tomo.

[Dan Schneier]

It's our late night Johnny Airport.

[Adam Azer]

Tofu Tobo says hurry throw the roommate roommate a frozen waffle. That's excellent. Yeah. So I'll just tell you what this team I'm working at from the, working on from the number two pick.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

How many picks were auto selected by you?

[Adam Azer]

None. So I went Bijan Robinson, second overall, A.J. brown, 19th, third round. I was gonna take Tyreek Hill, but I thought I was in a non PPR league. I really don't see anything about format. So I thought okay, I gotta take some running backs. I took Bucky Irving but if I known I think I now starting to think it's ppr. I would have taken Tyreek Hill. So I have Bijan, A.J. brown, Bucky Irving's 10 team league fourth round. I took Omarion Hampton.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Okay.

[Adam Azer]

And then I took Marvin Harrison Jr. As my wide receiver two. So it's Bijan Bucky Hampton, A.J. brown, Marvin Harrison Jr. Since I didn't love the Marvin Harrison Jr. Pick I mean really, he was the best player available. Just, just I didn't really like the pick. Xavier Worthy and Ted Rolloa McMillan are now on my bench.

[Dan Schneier]

This is fine.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, it's fine. I don't have a quarterback or a tight end in a 10 team league so I'm not going to be elite at either of those onesie positions and I'd like to be.

[Dan Schneier]

But you might have running back group in the league.

[Adam Azer]

I should have the best running backs.

[Dan Schneier]

Yeah.

[Adam Azer]

All right. To the draftathon questions. Thank you all so much for your generous donations. This is from Riley. Who are some of your favorite values of players who play for a bad fantasy offense?

[Dan Schneier]

Bad fantasy offense.

[Adam Azer]

Well, I think he means bad offense in general, but yeah, bad. Who are your favorite values in that regard?

[Dan Schneier]

Any Browns player.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Not, not me. I think Shahid is probably comes to mind first for me. I really like Shaheed's value and he's in a terrible offense. Let's see neighbors. I think he could be wide receiver one and despite it being projected to be a terrible offense, what other terrible. I'm trying to run through my head of all the terrible offenses, the Saints, the Giants, the Browns, you got to think value.

[Dan Schneier]

That's part of it.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So yeah, but those guys, I still think neighbors.

[Adam Azer]

Right. This is the thing about players on bad offenses is like you don't, you don't look for great values here because these are not the offenses that typically give you great values. You want to try to find great value on good offenses.

[Dan Schneier]

I, I again I would say like the that's why I always default to the Browns or something like this. Like Joe Flacco starts may be good for the players.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Dan Schneier]

But not necessarily great for the team. Now that could be wrong because he was great for the team in 2023. But you're looking at what Judy did last year, what Najoku's done with non Watson quarterbacks, what Tillman might be and then the running backs are so wide open right now.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I say like Ford to me is an insane.

[Dan Schneier]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I don't know what's going on with the Brown situation. People are just thinking that oh Dylan Sampson, big sleeper. I don't know about that. Dylan. Sam's a pretty raw prospect and I'm not so sure they're turning over him. Juggins doesn't look like he's even going to play this season.

[Dan Schneier]

Yeah, there was there they, there was a legal Thing that happened on Thursday where I think they deferred, he waived.

[Adam Azer]

His right to a speedy trial. It's gonna take bad news, though, for.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

His chances of playing.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. Yep. I thought we were going to talk about that on the Friday show.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

We don't have to push through it. I'm just saying it's, like, wildly undervalued.

[Adam Azer]

My answer here is David Najoku.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'll go. Jerome Ford.

[Dan Schneier]

I. And, you know, just your Malik neighbors, Tyrone, Tracy, as long as Scatter.

[Adam Azer]

And I kind of like Chris Olave.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Chris Ridley. I'm sorry. Calvin Ridley in there, too.

[Dan Schneier]

Yep.

[Adam Azer]

Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay. This is from Dumpville. Whoa.

[Dan Schneier]

By the way, Ayoma Nor is apparently having a great camp.

[Adam Azer]

That would be Eric Ellick. IO Manor IO, Man.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I definitely don't think that's how you pronounce his first name.

[Adam Azer]

It is 100. Dude, you on beyond the box score today. What was the name of your guest?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Which one? We had multiple Garfield. Graham Barfield.

[Adam Azer]

You go, Graham Barfield. I hope I'm pronouncing that right.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'm just happy you listen to the show. I'll be honest. That's an interesting thing.

[Adam Azer]

Graham Barfield. You thought you were pronouncing that wrong. What did you think it was? Graham?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I just don't know, you know, Like, I don't want to get someone's name wrong. Like, I grew up with. I told you about this. I grew up with a friend who had a last name similar to yours, and I thought your last name was not. I mispronounced your last name.

[Adam Azer]

Graham Barfield. How do you get that wrong?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Airfield. It could have been Barefield. You don't know. You just don't.

[Dan Schneier]

When somebody pointed out to me that you, you know, use some foul language, I just kept waiting for it. And. And so when you got to that part about. I thought you're gonna be like, is it Graham bleeping Barfield or is it Graham Barfield? Oh, bleep.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That was part of what tripped me up. I just. I got tripped up. I had two espresso shots this morning. I.

[Dan Schneier]

Now it's two. You went from two to one.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I had two. One earlier, and then I stupidly had one just before the show and then Racked.

[Adam Azer]

Your story's not checking out here. All right, question here. The question here. Or this actually might be from Sean. I'm sorry. I think this might be from Sean. I'm locked into keeping two wide receivers for my PPR league. Would you rather keep three consensus top 12 wide receivers for a salary cap draft or pivot your third keeper to a middle RB2. So he's specifically looking at Chuba Hubbard and T. Higgins when he's already keeping Brian Thomas Jr. And Tyree kill Jamie.

[Dan Schneier]

If the choice is Chuba Hubbard and T. Higgins, it's T. Higgins all day.

[Adam Azer]

Yes. Okay, next question is from Dan Fox. We're gonna let Dan answer this. Dear Manny, Mike, David and Steve.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Manny, Mike, David and Steve. Manny Ramirez First Manny. That comes to mind.

[Adam Azer]

And then I do think you're on the right track.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I ran out of Red Sox players. Manny, Mike, David and Steve. I don't know.

[Dan Schneier]

It's like this is Manny Ramirez, Mike.

[Adam Azer]

Florida Marlins.

[Dan Schneier]

Oh, Mike Lowell.

[Adam Azer]

What? Big Poppy.

[Dan Schneier]

Big Poppy. What was the last one?

[Adam Azer]

David Ortiz and Steve Pierce.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

What is the connection?

[Adam Azer]

I think these. This was. They're all there. One of their World Series teams.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh, God.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan Schneier]

Mike Lowell's Red sox.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Azer]

10 team PPR keeper league. You keep two players at the round. They're drafted with a cap in the eighth round. For anyone drafted after the eighth or waiver wire. Can you name a few running backs and wide receivers going in the seventh round or later that while you agree with their ADP for this year, you feel the strongest that next year they'll be vaulted up to a top three round adp. So in other words going around seven or later and he thinks they'll be. Or you think they'll be round three or earlier next year.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Just running backs Adam or receivers. Is the idea here to pinpoint essentially just keepers.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Okay. So Rounds. Igbuka is a great call. Matthew golden is somebody I'd really highlight really like what I've seen from Luther Burton's gonna have a big role in that offense and Jamie's on something they'll probably move on from more at that point next season. I would throw Basil Tootin in there from the Jaguars. Travis etn's hitting free agency. Most likely not going to be back with the team. Facial Tootin's a really good one to pinpoint. RJ Harvey's probably going too early to qualify for that, so I won't throw him in there. Even non rookies. Keon Coleman is a good one I think for sure. I'm trying to think who else non Rookie wise, maybe A.D. mitchell if they move on for someone like Pittman in the next season. But they would need to upgrade quarterback in a big way for me to feel confident there. Jaden Blue potentially there. Those are probably the guys that come to mind first for me.

[Adam Azer]

Okay. I just took David.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Even Taji Spears. Let me throw Taji Spears in there for next season.

[Adam Azer]

I just took David Ninjoku, 99th overall, by the way.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, you like in joke. I don't like him at all.

[Adam Azer]

I like 99th.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I don't. @ all.

[Adam Azer]

And, you know, it's just like burning.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

A draft pick, actually.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, I disagree with that.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Unless Flacco plays well.

[Adam Azer]

He is gonna play.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah. For a while, I'm saying.

[Adam Azer]

All right, now I'm gonna take Kyler Murray, 102nd overall. So I got my starting lineup. I took. I took Travion HENDERSON, I think 80. 80 first or something like that. And then I took Travis Hunter. They both went after pick 80. All right, next question is from. Oh. Dan also says, P.S. the Yankees are hot garbage. And I love all that you do for St. Jude. I agree on both accounts.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yankees are hot garbage right now.

[Adam Azer]

They suck.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I don't even understand them. How could these guys be as bad as they are in the bullpen?

[Adam Azer]

Oh, it's like they get to New.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

York and they just, like, lose their mind.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. It's ridiculous. All right, this is from Ken Goldstein. Not Ken Gorelik, the saxophonist affectionately known by friends as Kenny G. He's the real Kenny G. Okay.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

This guy's the real Kenny G. Yeah, Kenny.

[Adam Azer]

Ken Goldstein.

[Dan Schneier]

Okay.

[Adam Azer]

He was the grunge guy from last week's Mailbag, and he wants to know Dan's take on Pearl Jam because it sounded like he said, what do you say? I also got the sense that Dan had a terrible take about Pearl Jam.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

He's right.

[Adam Azer]

I would like to hear his full opinion so I can disabuse him of his likely awful take and perhaps provide him with a playlist to see if I can change his mind. Pearl Jam is arguably the best band of the last 35 years. If you have had or have the chance to see them live, you would most certainly agree. My bet is Dan has only heard the mainstream radio songs, and I think he would actually love their deeper cuts.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

So this was really a great job by him to just dissect this situation. Understand that I had a really awful and strong, opinionated take on Pearl Jam, but it's not that they're a bad band. I actually really like listening to Pearl. Jamie. My take on Pearl Jam is. I think that Eddie Vedder's voice is. Is annoying, fake, and exaggerated, and I wonder. I really do. I think it's annoying, fake, and exaggerated, and I wonder if I met him.

[Adam Azer]

In person, he'd Be like, hey, veteran.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Like, is that how he talks to people or is that just what he throws in songs? It's like, Jeremy's an amazing song. It's well written, it's got a great topic. And then in the middle, it just like, at the end of the song, it's like. Just starts making noises. I don't need those noises. I just don't.

[Adam Azer]

I like it. Dude, that's. That's grunge rock. Exaggerated voice.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That's grun biggest issue with Pearl Jam. So great music, great guitar, great writing. Everything's good. Just the exaggerated vetter voice I could do without.

[Adam Azer]

All right, here's the rest of the question from Kenny G. Last year I was in Adams FFT Open League. I was proud of my team name, which was Azer. Stats are my love language. This year I'm in Dan's FFT Open League.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Nice.

[Adam Azer]

Below are the names I've come up with and I'm considering. Please vote on it. Here are the four choices. Dan and the Terrible, horrible no good, Very bad takes. The Schneier shout outs. Dan.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Adam Azer]

Dan and the, if I'm being honest, All Stars. Yeah.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, I have a problem with that.

[Adam Azer]

And cold peanut butter and hot takes.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, no, peanut butter is great in the fridge and I want to make that clear.

[Dan Schneier]

And I.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Other people.

[Dan Schneier]

Other people have followed up.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

By the way, after that podcast and said, I do refrigerate my peanut butter and it is a good decision. So I'm not alone in that.

[Dan Schneier]

I just want what's in the photo next to the fridge.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

We gotta know the photo next to the fridge.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. What's that photo?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'm not gonna tell you every little detail of my personal life. You have to look, zoom in if you're after the show and see that. By the way, I have a quick piece of if you guys are interested.

[Dan Schneier]

There's never anything quick about what you're about.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Speaking of Schneier shout outs, a friend of mine has dove in like full face into fantasy football today. He's listened to every episode from you guys. Basically just like because he has a draft coming up. And one thing he said, which I kind of agree with him on, he loves the show. The only criticism he has is a lot of the times. And I have guilty of this as well. We talk about players, like, I like him in round six, I like him in round seven, I like him round five. And he's an exclusively auction drafter. So he thinks. And I think this is a good take. If we framed it As I like him as my wide receiver 18 or I like him as my RB13, it's a better way to kind of communicate it to people who are playing in all sorts of different leagues where even for people playing in 12 team or 10 team or 14 team leagues, like the round six doesn't add up as well.

[Adam Azer]

It's interesting.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I don't know if we'll ever get to that because we're very ingrained in saying, like, he's my round five. I like him as a value around five, but I thought it was a good take by him. Just gonna throw it out there.

[Dan Schneier]

I think it's fair. I would push back a little bit. And this is a credit to Adam because he tries to frame it usually in a way of like comparing players to players and also not just the same position, but also like today we've spent time talking about wide receiver strategy and we were talking about a range of players at that position, for example, you know, so like we talk about wide receivers 20 through 40 and I like him better than this guy. I like him in the range of this guy. I think, you know. Yeah, do it all the time, clearly. But, you know, I, I do think that. I wouldn't say it's a blind statement of we just say rounds for players. I think we do. And Adam does try to steer us in that direction more times than not.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, well, there's always things we can get better on. I'm actually going to have one of my friends start listening to your podcast and I'll let you know what he says in a few weeks.

[Dan Schneier]

I hope it's somebody over 18.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Did you not hear when I said he loves the show? He's delving full in, he's listening to every episode and he had one little.

[Adam Azer]

It's a good criticism, by the way.

[Dan Schneier]

I think maybe to that audience we could probably say just as a tag to the player I would spend between this and this amount.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Right.

[Dan Schneier]

Because that could help that, I think.

[Adam Azer]

No, I do think, like, I like him as my, as my wide receiver too. I'm comfortable with him as my wide receiver 3. That could be very helpful too.

[Dan Schneier]

It helps, sure. But I mean, it could also, you know, you asked us today, like how much would we spend on certain players? So we did discuss a little bit. I think in the case of, Yeah, I, I, the, the players that we're looking for good values on or good players on bad teams. I think a couple, I think a good dollar bid or two dollar bid would be Cedric Tillman or a Good, Right? Dollar to three dollar bid on Jerome Ford. You know, would. Would make sense. You know, we could say stuff like that. Okay.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

With all that said, though, I did see Adam's recent poll on Twitter and it was really disappointing and really appalling in a lot of ways. How many people preferred Snake drafts to auction drafts? I was just my head in disgust as I read that.

[Dan Schneier]

But before you piss off our audience, I, I think you gotta realize that a lot of people do this casually. Like, yeah, our audience is dedicated. We appreciate that. They're with us at 11:38 Eastern on.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Right.

[Dan Schneier]

On a Thursday night. So they would probably love to do a lot more auction drafts. Most casual people have, you know, an hour to make a draft, to do a draft for, you know, two hours. And they're taking time away from their kids or their job or whatever.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Fair enough.

[Dan Schneier]

You know, so Snake drafts are a lot easier.

[Adam Azer]

Okay, can we move on, please, to the next question? I've been trying to read this for five minutes from Chris got to go to bed.

[Dan Schneier]

He's getting cranky.

[Adam Azer]

I have to edit this thing when we're done here. I have the 12th pick in a 12 team league.

[Dan Schneier]

I have dance punishment for his bad language.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. I have Bucky Irving as a keeper in the ninth round and the 12th pick overall. So he's got Bucky Irving and he's picking 12th. So is the move to hammer wide receiver at the 1, 2 turn, take the best player regardless of position. Jamie, how does your strategy change there? Because usually I think we'd say maybe take a running back and a receiver at 12 and 13, but you've already keeping Bucky Irving. Has that changed anything for you?

[Dan Schneier]

I would still take the two best players. You know, I mean, if, if you want to go receiver, receiver, that's, that's not a bad route to go. But again, we don't know the keepers that are off the board. So I would just take the two best available players. Not quarterback for me.

[Adam Azer]

Okay. And let's go to our Apple podcast. Questions. This is from Chucky Buckle. He has two questions. Number one, why doesn't Jamie compete in an event against either Dave or Heath in something like the tennis match?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Oh, I like that idea.

[Dan Schneier]

Yeah, we can.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I mean, more competitions.

[Dan Schneier]

Kind of just been a natural rival. I. I don't know if there's anything that, like Heath would kill me in basketball because he's much taller than me and plays a lot more.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You know, it could be interesting. No, no, I was thinking, I've always.

[Dan Schneier]

Suggested that we should do a decathlon, but like a weird stuff like, you know, bowling and dart throwing.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, yeah. We can't do too much with decathlon. We don't want to kill ourselves out there. I think maybe next year we can organize me versus Heath in golf. Keith hasn't golfed in like 10 years, but used to be good and I golf all the time and I see.

[Dan Schneier]

No the U versus Thomas in golf.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, I would never even come close to competing with Thomas.

[Dan Schneier]

Well, I mean, that's the same thing as you versus Adam in tennis.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I guess that's true. And we could play with the handicap system.

[Adam Azer]

All right, that's the second part of this.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You would smoke me with the handicap system.

[Adam Azer]

Regardless.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Regardless of the handicap system. I mean, do you keep an honest cap, Thomas? Do you keep an honest cap?

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, I'm 11.5.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

11. Unreal. I, I get, I would get like eight strokes. I could do.

[Dan Schneier]

What is it when you do best ball golf? Like the best you play the ball?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

We can do scramble. We can have all of us out there and play scramble.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, I would be, I could single handedly beat all you guys if you guys played best shot and I played my own ball.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Are you kidding me?

[Adam Azer]

No, I'm not.

[Dan Schneier]

I, I, I, that includes.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I, I would, that includes Heath. So we get me Jamie Heath. Heath used to play golf and he was actually good to play golf.

[Dan Schneier]

No, Thomas, we're not. But I think that's the, I think.

[Adam Azer]

That'S the stop playing golf for like three months and oh no, you're horrible.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

When you come back. But we would have five different putts every time we got on the green times.

[Dan Schneier]

We'd have five chances to putt.

[Adam Azer]

So you're putting for double bogey. I'm putting through.

[Dan Schneier]

Thomas would kill us.

[Adam Azer]

All right, the next question is in a three player PPR keeper league, would I be crazy to keep Chigo conquo over George Pickens in the third round? So I think it's Chico Conko like in the last round over George Pickens in the third round.

[Dan Schneier]

It's a league that they have to keep someone.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, it looks like they have to keep three.

[Dan Schneier]

I would keep then I would not want to throw away my third round pick on pick. Well, I guess it depends. If there's, you know, everybody. There's 36 players off the board. Then I might want to keep picking.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The comments are so good tonight.

[Dan Schneier]

If Dan just lifted his camera up a bit, his roommate could crawl into the kitchen. Quick.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Selfish.

[Adam Azer]

All right, all right. I've Lost complete control tonight from Raul. I got to keep two in this league. Nico in the 14th, Brian Thomas Jr. In the 15th. Yes, I'm, I'm going to read the rest. Go with those two. And P.S. i'm rooting for Adam in the tennis match. Thank you, Raul. This is from the Real Big Blue 26. Bring back the alternative intro. Yes, I will start getting that one. The ah intro back in the mix. And this is from Jabroni for fantasy. Jamie, how is your strategy different in a 3 wide receiver league with 1 flex compared to a 2 wide receiver league with 2 flexes?

[Dan Schneier]

3 wide receiver league with 1 flex. 2 wide receiver league with 2 flexhes. I'm still trying to get receivers if it's PPR.

[Adam Azer]

Okay.

[Dan Schneier]

Receivers in those spots.

[Adam Azer]

I am on the clock with my last pick which I think is going to be Tajie Spears. Kyler Murray, Bijan Robinson, Bucky Irving, A.J. brown, Marvin Harrison, Flex Ontario Hampton, Omarion Hampton also. And David Najoku at tight end. At receiver. On the bench I have Worthy and McMillan and Hunter. I have Trayvon Henderson. On the bench I have Tyler Warren and Tajie Spears. Good team?

[Dan Schneier]

Not bad. You're not great for a 10 team league.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'm good.

[Adam Azer]

I mean look, I got Travis Hunter, Tede Roa, McMillan, Xavier Worthy, Travion Henderson, Tyler Warren on my bench.

[Dan Schneier]

Everybody has a great bench to take.

[Adam Azer]

Not really. Like I'm getting these guys in the 80s, some of them.

[Dan Schneier]

You know, you might have the best bench, but I would venture to guess everybody's got a good bench.

[Adam Azer]

I would have liked to have at least one stud at quarterback or tight end.

[Dan Schneier]

That's the problem.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, didn't work out that way. Like when I took Marvin Harrison Jr. At 42nd overall, all five quarterbacks and all three tight ends were gone.

[Dan Schneier]

So did you have the opportunity when you took A.J. brown because you're questioning it to get Bowers or McBride?

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, yes, I did. But I still would go A.J. brown there.

[Dan Schneier]

Huh?

[Adam Azer]

I still go A.J.

[Dan Schneier]

Brown there in a 10 team league with two receivers, two flex. Two receivers, one flex. Yeah, I would have gone 10.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. I don't know. I mean, Brown is so good. But I get where you're coming from. All right, YouTube, let's go. What do you got for us? Questions from YouTube.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The comments are better than the questions.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah. Dan. Dan could get a standing desk to give the roommate that lower shelf access. Dan on the stand.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It's unbelievable that I might have. I may have to relocate and I'll be recording from the basement before we're all done here.

[Dan Schneier]

I would just love to see all of a sudden like the refrigerator just open like is crawling underneath on the floor.

[Adam Azer]

All right, what do we got here? 10 team keeper league. 10, 10 keepers. 10 keepers in a 12 team super flex league. I got offered Justin Fields and Isaiah Pacheco for 108. My other quarterbacks are hertz and maybe.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Super flat. It's super flex Pacheco. It's just so hard to understand if. If we don't know I would do it. Context of where the. But he has hertz in May already.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah.

[Dan Schneier]

Yes.

[Adam Azer]

But who's 108 gonna be? They gotta be so many.

[Dan Schneier]

I don't know.108 right now with judging out of the first round it may be Matthew Golden.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, no, no. This is not a rookie draft.

[Dan Schneier]

Oh no, no, no.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

108 overall.

[Dan Schneier]

Well, you're basically a rookie draft because you keep. Everybody's keeping 10 players.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

10.

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, 10. Make this trade.

[Dan Schneier]

Make the trade.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, no, you have to make this 10 team keeper league.

[Dan Schneier]

That's what I'm saying. Like you're getting those two guys for what offer? This makes what could be Jackson dart.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah, yeah. This is a weird offer. I don't even understand that.

[Adam Azer]

There's probably a secret brick on Dan's wall that if you pull it, you get a deli sandwich.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

If you did, it would be a chicken cut outlet with prosciutto, arugula, sharp provolone balsamic glaze.

[Adam Azer]

Jason says what's Adam's take on one off positions in larger leagues? Well, let's get everybody's take here. That's. I don't know. I don't really have a set position on that. My take in deeper leagues, I fear having bad running backs because I know in deeper leagues and I don't play in anything deeper than a 14 team league. But I know in deeper leagues the running backs are garbage unless there is on the waiver wire, unless there's an injury and then everyone in the league wants the guy who's stepping up. You are not getting running backs on waivers that you can plug into your lineup and feel confident about. So I like to come out of a deeper league with running back depth to get me through the season. Take advantage of the depth at the quarterback position. But I'm certainly not opposed to taking Josh Allen or whatever. But I don't set out to do it. Tight ends a little bit different. I do think there's a little bit of more. There's more value at tight End I think in deeper leagues to grab an elite one because now you have an advantage over even more teams in your leagues. There's not depth at that position. But yeah, my take, and I don't hear a lot of people say this is. I very much fear having bad running backs in a deep league because you cannot rely on the waiver wire to get you through the weeks these days.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

You can't really rely on the waiver wire for receivers though, either.

[Adam Azer]

I think you can. I think you want to get somebody who can score you 10, 12 PPR fantasy points and just, just, you know, be a wide receiver three or a flex. I think those, they're out there usually more so than running back. Running back is a barren waste.

[Dan Schneier]

Also depends on. On how deep your benches are too, you know, so if you're. If you're limiting the amount of players that can be available on waivers, you know, because people are hoarding them, you know, so that factors into it also. But I, I think you're on the right path there, Adam. Certainly the one off positions you want to prioritize less. I think you want to get a little bit more depth at both positions. Running back a wide receiver, but yes, running back a little bit more.

[Adam Azer]

All right. Dan's roommate has an electric fence. 14 team PPR keep one.

[Dan Schneier]

Jaden Daniels still the best avatar.

[Adam Azer]

Jaden Daniels of the fifth. Brian Thomas Jr. In the sixth or Bucky Irving in the eighth.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Is that you in that avatar?

[Adam Azer]

Yeah, that's Jamie scaring the crap out of me.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That's awesome.

[Dan Schneier]

I'm keeping Bucky.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'll go BTJ in the sixth. Yeah, BTJ in the sixth for me.

[Adam Azer]

I've never seen anyone podcast in front of the refrigerator. There are no other places.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Reckless Cage. You've been on my case all night. No, I actually love the comments. You've made me laugh on a bunch of them. But as far as this goes, like, listen, I don't have options here. My house is under construction. I used to record out of my room but my room is shaped weirdly and it looked like I was recording out of bathroom. I couldn't take the heat anymore so I moved it out in here. Then for a while I was doing the green screen. But you know, the people don't like the green screen. It doesn't work well. It doesn't look good. So it's a real screen now. But what are my options? We're going to move it tomorrow. We're going to find something new. But everywhere else in this room is under Construction. So I just don't know what to do at this point. Okay. I don't.

[Dan Schneier]

I think you just lean into it, buddy. It's good, I think.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I don't think it looks that bad.

[Adam Azer]

I'm fine with it. I just want to know what that. I just want to know what that picture is. That's all.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I'm going to throw up a bunch of magnets on that refrigerator and then it'll look cool.

[Adam Azer]

Things I like Turtle Smurf says in a 10 team or 12 team league, it'll look cool.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It'll look cool.

[Adam Azer]

Okay. Oh, dude, did you guys see FFT today? Dan has refrigerator magnets.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Yeah.

[Dan Schneier]

How cool is that?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

It's racket on the refrigerator as a magnet.

[Adam Azer]

I don't know.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

He likes channels.

[Adam Azer]

What is this? What does this mean? Pre. Is that supposed to say primo in the first three rounds?

[Jamie Eisenberg]

The 10 team or 12 team league? What positions are primo or priority in the first team round?

[Dan Schneier]

No.

[Adam Azer]

Priority. Yeah, I mean, look, you get a wide. Get at least one wide receiver in the first two rounds. Try, try.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Go ahead.

[Dan Schneier]

Thomas League, though, again. Quarterback and tight end. If you can get an elite one.

[Adam Azer]

Do it, Thomas.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

What do we got?

[Adam Azer]

What do we got for the same.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

Thing to troll me with. I feel so distracted by him thinking that he would beat us in a scramble. It's crazy.

[Adam Azer]

Of course he would beat us.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

No, he wouldn't. How did AI do this? What the heck? This is real. How does AI come up with this stuff? That looks so legitimate.

[Adam Azer]

I know. It's really scary.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

I hate this. That is really bad.

[Dan Schneier]

This is so crazy.

[Adam Azer]

Dude, that is amazing.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

That is wild. AI is gonna. Wow.

[Adam Azer]

I know. I can't tell what's real. Like I said the other day, I was watching a clip on YouTube of Mike McDaniel talking about Tyreek Hill, and I honestly, because Mike McDaniel's, like, a little weird in his press conference. Yeah, I couldn't tell if it was real or not or if it was an AI fake. I still don't know. I think it was, but I have no idea. All right, thank you, everybody. Awaken the neighbors. We gots to go. We'll talk to you in 10 hours on fantasy Football today with wide receiver preview part 2 so I can stay awake. All right, thank you so much. Thanks for your donations. And if you're listening, have a wonderful weekend. See you Monday.

[Dan Schneier]

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[Adam Azer]

I've been through hell, but now I'm.

[Dan Schneier]

Back for my curtain call.

[Adam Azer]

And what better place to hide than New York City.

[Dan Schneier]

There may be a new area code.

[Adam Azer]

But my code never changes.

[Jamie Eisenberg]

In a city full of monsters, my dark urges will feel right at home.

[Adam Azer]

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