Week 15 Fantasy Football Mailbag + Fantasy Cops | Start/Sit, Waivers & Questions Answered

Summary

Fantasy Football Today

Week 15 Fantasy Football Mailbag + Fantasy Cops | Start/Sit, Waivers & Questions Answered

Date: December 13, 2025
Host: Adam Aizer
Analysts: Jamey Eisenberg, Dan Schneier
Podcast Theme: Listener mailbag and league dispute resolution, with deep-dive start/sit advice, waiver advocacy, and league integrity talk

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Episode Overview

This episode brings together Adam, Jamey, and Dan for Fantasy Football Today's famed Friday Mailbag. They answer a barrage of start/sit, waiver, and trade questions from multiple channels (YouTube, email, and podcast comments), resolve listener disputes in "Fantasy Cops," and stir up entertaining debates—ranging from fantasy policy to movie hot takes. The show is sprinkled with spirited banter, pop culture arguments, and fantasy football integrity conversations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Listener Mailbag: Rapid-Fire Start/Sit & Waiver Questions

The crew responds to a large batch of lineup dilemmas, pivots, and roster strategy plays as fantasy playoffs approach.

• PPR and Non-PPR Dilemmas:

  • Breece Hall vs. Other Flexes: “I'd play Breece.” (Jamey, 06:23)
  • Stefon Diggs or Devin Neal? "I'll just play Diggs." (Adam, 07:00)
  • Pat Freiermuth or Darren Waller? “Waller for sure. Freiermuth’s role has grown but Waller's upside is higher.” (Dan/Jamey, 07:47)
  • Drake Maye or Brock Purdy? - Split, with Jamey on Purdy and Dan liking Maye. (08:03)

• DST Streaming:

  • Saints, Panthers, or Rams?
    “All close, but Saints get you two weeks, including the Jets next week.” (Jamey, 10:56)
  • Panthers are in consideration because "they've been good in four of their last five games." (Adam, 11:08)

• Playing Multiple RBs from Same Backfield:
  “Is it crazy to start both Giants RBs?” – Crew agrees: not crazy in deeper leagues or limited options, especially because backfield production can be predictable in run-heavy games. (59:41)

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2. League Management, Collusion, and Consolation Brackets

Waiver Eligibility for Consolation Brackets

• Consensus: Teams eliminated from playoff contention shouldn’t have access to waivers, or their moves should be delayed until after playoff teams.
  “Once you’re eliminated from the playoffs, you should be locked from free agency.” (Dan, 49:09)

Collusion and Anti-Competitive Behavior

• Discussion: Viral league story where two managers benched entire rosters to engineer a tie and both make playoffs, locking out a third team.
• The Crew’s Ruling:
  “This is textbook collusion—two managers impacting league balance together. If you’re working with another team, that’s the problem.” (Adam/Dan, 52:58)

Fantasy Cops: Chronic League Issues

• Long-standing, Unaccepted Trade:

  • Original complaint: Trade left up for 8 weeks, accepted later despite earlier rejection via text.
  • Commissioner’s response: Told parties to reverse on their own, as “you’re adults.”
  • Aaron (original complainer) refused reversal out of pride, demanding commissioner action.
  • Ruling: “Aaron, you’re so wrong here. Don’t let pride get in the way—just accept the reversal.” (Adam, 48:21)

• Dropping Star Players in Consolation Bracket:

  • Question: Is it fair for a team out of contention to drop Mike Evans, allowing a playoff team to claim him?
  • Ruling: If league rules allow consolation waivers, “it’s fair game, but it’s a bad rule to allow non-contenders access.” (Dan, 55:28)

• Bench Slot Rule Mishap:

  • Listener lost a matchup for not filling required bench spots due to personal tragedy.
  • Consensus: These settings exist to help but should not zero a lineup—a commissioner should always rectify if necessary.
    “I will never let anyone have a zero for it. I’ll fix that if I see it.” (Adam, 62:46)

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3. News & Injuries

• Critical Updates:
  • Marvin Harrison Jr. OUT but expected to return this season
  • T. Higgins OUT for this week
  • Chargers to use “hot hand” at RB vs. Chiefs
  • Josh Jacobs limited, Nick Chubb missed practice
  • TJ Watt likely OUT (injury severity and context discussed at [71:04])
• Follow Beat Writers: Several mentions of monitoring status for stars like McLaurin and Deebo Samuel

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4. Banter, Movie Debates & Personality

"Ross vs. Joey" and Mug-Grabbing Ridiculousness

• Who’s who from Friends, questions about mug-grabbing technique, and playful back-and-forth about hygiene quirks and living habits.
• “You’re weird too, dude. Let me just tell you that.” (Dan, 14:30)

Movie Hot Takes Segment (15:00–45:00 approx.)

• Spirited debate on movies, especially “Rocky” vs. “Seven” vs. “Usual Suspects” and “Goodfellas.”
• Notable Quotes:
  • “You can’t say that one is better than the other when you haven’t seen the other one.” (Jamey, 16:08)
  • “Rocky is better than Goodfellas! …That’s insane.” (Adam, 39:38)
• Chat explodes with accolades and laughter about Dan’s wild pop culture opinions:
  “Dan is the Skip Bayless of pop culture takes.” (Chat, 34:18)

“Fantasy Bet” Hijinks

• Bet suggestions for Adam and Dan, including Rocky-style footraces and performing scenes if they lose to one another.

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5. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Don’t let pride get in the way of winning in fantasy football.” (Adam, 48:44)
• “This is textbook collusion—two managers impacting league balance together.” (Dan, 52:14)
• “You just talked up yourself like you were Craig Hodges.” (Adam to Dan, 09:40)
• “If you’re eliminated from playoffs, you should be locked from waivers.” (Dan, 49:09)
• “Adam cutting off Dan when he’s pre-ranting: you need to continue to stay vigilant.” (Listener via chat, 76:18)
• “Rocky won Best Picture. It’s a great story. You’re going to realize it’s more than just a boxing movie.” (Adam, 32:44)
• “When it comes to bad takes, Dan is the usual suspect.” (Listener chat, 32:53)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment/Event | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------------|----------------| | Show Start/Post-ad Opening Banter | 02:10–05:50 | | YouTube & Listener Questions | 06:04–12:15 | | DST and Defensive Waiver Strategy | 10:41–11:20 | | PPR Flex Debates: Flowers/Hall/Watson | 11:32–12:00 | | Major Injury & Player News | 12:07–13:24 | | Run of High-Speed Start/Sit Mailbag | 22:06–35:10 | | Rocky vs. Seven Movie Debate | 15:00–45:00 | | Waivers/League Integrity (Collusion Case) | 49:09–53:00 | | Fantasy Cops: Trade Dispute 8-week acceptance | 45:02–48:44 | | Bench Slot Rule & Fantasy Cop | 60:54–63:02 | | Lightning Round Start/Sit from YouTube Chat | 71:34–77:30 |

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Episode Tone & Style

True to Fantasy Football Today’s vibe—expert-driven but relaxed and fraternal. Adam, Jamey, and Dan mix actionable fantasy wisdom with self-aware, often self-deprecating, humor. They’re transparent about their foibles, competitive quirks, and pop culture blind spots. The tone is conversational, warm, and relatable, with lots of inside jokes and real-time chat banter weaved in.

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Summary For New Listeners

This episode is a must-listen for fantasy footballers poised for playoff glory or in need of league management advice. The crew blitzes through dozens of specific lineup decisions, addresses the nuances of league policy (from waiver access to anti-collusion), and entertains with personality-driven detours—making the pod both educational and laugh-out-loud funny. For listeners, you’ll come away with both strong roster advice and new ammunition for arguing pop culture in your group chat.

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[A]

It'S mailbag time. Yeah, it is. Friday, December 12th. I am so excited for today's mailbag. Welcome to fantasy football today presented by BetMGM making legendary. Oh, what a lousy mailbag with no Jamie last week. Now he's back. What's up, Jamie?

[C]

What's up?

[A]

You missed a good. Another good week of fantasy cops. But listen, I've got a follow up to a fantasy cops from last week where I think I may have been lied to and betrayed by an audience member. And I've got a follow up to the follow up from the guy who may have lied to me and betrayed me. So it's great.

[B]

That's awesome.

[A]

I know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's getting complicated. We got your YouTube questions, your emails, fantasy footballbsi.com that is the letter I and Apple podcast questions, Spotify questions and more YouTube. All right. We're also going to talk about consolation brackets. Brackets. And what, what you should do in terms of waiver wire priorities for teams in the consolation bracket. There's been a.

[C]

There should be no waiver wire.

[A]

All right, well, there's been something going around on the Internet about teams that. That intentionally threw their matchup to keep someone out of the playoffs. So we'll address that. How we doing? How's happy Friday, Dan? How are we doing?

[B]

Good. I am excited to hear about your mouse in the wall. That's probably the first and most important thing I want to hear about today as we start the show.

[A]

It's not important. It's what happens when you have mice.

[C]

They.

[A]

They die in your walls. Sometimes. It sucks. Disgusting. But I already talked about it earlier today, so I won't bore people with that. The preface to that story have the.

[B]

Dead mice in the walls.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I feel like the exterminator who works in your area of the of New York is like, you are his best customer. We've got roaches. We've got.

[A]

No, I don't have roaches. That was the old house. Now I miss roaches.

[C]

You miss roaches?

[A]

Yeah. No, but Dan, what you missed. I told at the end of the. A lot of people I didn't hear. This was an hour and 15 minutes into the show this morning. My cat took a big crap on my carpet two, two feet away from where I'm sitting right now.

[C]

What.

[B]

So is your cat trained?

[A]

Yeah, she's.

[B]

I've never heard of cats not taking craps in their litter. Bowl, litter box.

[A]

She's 17, so she does clean it up.

[C]

Pre show.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, it was. It was stunk. Of course I did. I could have done the whole show.

[B]

You live in a zoo over there. I was like, honestly? Dead mice. Exterminator visits once a week.

[A]

Once a week. Come on.

[C]

All right.

[A]

Anyway.

[B]

Brushing your teeth in the kitchen sink.

[C]

Jamie paying attention. I haven't pay attention to this, but Fridays we get no Thomas. Right now we have no Johnny Airport.

[B]

No.

[A]

He shows up.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

From the golf course.

[B]

I've long tried to figure out I'm beyond the box score. This week, producer Emma was Johnny Airport and produce Amber. We're getting into it. We've been long trying to figure out who is this Johnny Airport. Yeah.

[C]

Johnny Airport's actually the 1 seed in the leftover leagues. Leftover league one. He had a great season.

[A]

And both of you guys are in the division finals of your FFT Open divisions.

[B]

Yes, sir.

[A]

Well done.

[C]

Great start with Kyle Pitts last night.

[A]

Let's go. All right, so we have a lot of news. A lot more news than usual, but we're going to start with your. Oh. Adam is the Mac Jones of fantasy football hosts. He's having a really nice year. So I'll take that. Thank you. I'm going to start with your YouTube comments.

[B]

Disrespectful. You're better. Much better. You're much higher level than the Mac Jones.

[A]

Adam needs to sing Smelly Cat. Of course, Dan doesn't know what Smelly Cat is.

[B]

What is it? No, I don't.

[A]

Some friends.

[B]

Yeah, No, I didn't watch much of friends.

[A]

All right, who would you flex over Breeze hall in a PPR league? Brenton Strange, Blake Corum, Keisha Booty, Darius Slayton, or Isaiah Likely.

[B]

Pbr. Kind of makes me want to lean toward Strange. What did you say? Jamie?

[C]

Jamie said I would not flex any of them over Bruce. I'd play Bruce.

[B]

Oh. Or we could just play Breeze Hall. Yeah, no, I'll just play Bruce Hall.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Neil, I don't know what. I don't know what this is, but I feel like it's not a compliment. Mr. Nice Guy says Dan is Ross 100.

[C]

No, it's not. It's not a derogatory thing. I think you are. I mean, if. If you were one of the friends characters, you would be Ross.

[B]

But I really. This is definitive thought.

[A]

Don't you think? I'm Ross. I think I'm Ross.

[C]

Oh. I mean, if. If there's the three of us that are being assigned Carries Then probably Dan is Joey.

[B]

But I'd like that. I like that.

[A]

Yeah, he's the dumbest one.

[B]

I'd much rather be going in Ross.

[A]

Stefan Diggs or Devin Neil? Ppr.

[B]

Who's Jamie Chandler?

[A]

Yeah. Could he be any more Chandler?

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

Literally.

[A]

Who is Johnny Airport? Yeah, we. We don't know. We're trying.

[B]

It is interesting though, this whole. Johnny. No Thomas. No Johnny. Very interesting.

[A]

Finkel is Einhorn 12 Team Super Flex. PPR point per first down. Jacoby. Jacoby Reset or Shadur Sanders.

[B]

Jacoby.

[A]

And by the way, Marvin Harrison Jr. Is out. A lot of news we'll get to in a minute.

[C]

And Paris Johnson.

[A]

Paris Pat Friarmuth or Darren Waller?

[C]

Waller.

[B]

Waller. Yeah, for sure, for sure. The Friarmouth's role has grown.

[A]

Brock.

[C]

I don't know if it's so slam dunk, but it's, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Darnell Washington most likely out. So keep an eye out too.

[A]

Darnell or sorry, Drake May or Brock Purdy.

[C]

Purdy. For me.

[B]

That's closer. I think I'm gonna go with Drake. Mag.

[A]

Have you heard of the golf style consolation bracket idea?

[B]

No. What is it?

[A]

I have no idea. Well, that's a no. Jordan.

[B]

Jordan. You gotta follow up with what it is. You can't just assume one of us has heard of it.

[A]

Dag or Drake. Dak or Drake.

[B]

Drake May for me.

[A]

Does it. Jamie, quick aside here. I'll make sure I throw a question up so we can get Dan's, you know, name not covering his shirt. Does it look like Dan is wearing an eagle shirt?

[C]

100.

[B]

No, no, this is not an Eagle shirt. This is actually a New York Urban Professionals Basketball League shirt from when I used to live in the city and play in urban league pick up basketball. It wasn't pickup basketballs. Organized basketball with refs and everything. I was a ninth man, if I'm being generous with myself. Yeah, but I would hit open. I can hit open jumpers. I have a nice range of like 11 to 19ft. You put me just inside the three point line and I'm open. And I will make it. I hustle on defense. I know how to box out.

[C]

With all this talent, you must have had a great eight players.

[B]

This is not. At five foot eight, that's not much of it. I'm not offering much to it.

[C]

Who would win if you guys played one on one in basketball?

[B]

Oh, I would definitely destroy Adam and basketball.

[C]

Of course.

[A]

Of course he would.

[B]

That's not even. Wait, you think you'd win that Adam.

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I mean, I'm not going to even bother arguing with you.

[B]

Why? Because.

[A]

No proof. You have no idea what kind of a basketball player I am. You were the ninth man on your team, and you just talked up yourself like you were Craig Hodges.

[B]

Nah, just describing my game.

[C]

My game is I can make open.

[B]

Shots, hustle on defense. I know how to box out. I played as a kid, you know, but I'm not big. But against you, I have a massive size advantage. I have, what, £30 on you?

[A]

You're shorter than I am.

[B]

That doesn't matter. I have about £30 on you. I'm just going to back, back, back you in. Bang, bang. Shoulder into body. Shoulder into your body. Shoulder, body, turn and put a layup on. And put. Throw a ball up against the backboard. It's not that hard.

[A]

You guys were Urban League champions with your bench. Could have started on most teams.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

All right. Quinton Judkins or. Or Tetero and McMillan and. Or Emmanuel Wilson. Jacobs is out.

[C]

Wilson would be my favorite. If Jacobs is out, I would go McMillan over Juggins.

[B]

All right, a few more here real quick. The easy must start if Jacob is.

[A]

Out, Slayton, Reed or Burden.

[C]

I would go with Burden if Odunze is out. And Slayton if Odunze is in.

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Slayton.

[A]

Panthers, Saints or Rams? Dst Saints.

[C]

The only reason I would say go with the Saints is because you get them for two weeks. So it's close between all three of these guys. And the Saints next week, have the Jets.

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You know, I don't know why the Panthers. DST isn't the answer here.

[C]

They.

[A]

Well, at least more in consideration. They've been good in four of their last five games. They forced turnovers. They do give up a lot of yards, but they're facing the Saints. I mean, the. The Panthers are a better offense than the Saints.

[C]

They should be in consideration, but I think they're all close.

[A]

All right, last one here. Christian Watson, Zay Flowers, Breeze Hall. Pick one.

[C]

I probably stick with Breeze, Timber Flowers.

[B]

Little PBR flowers for me.

[A]

Yeah, I think Breeze is definitely going to get the touches, but I'm going to roll the dice with Flowers because I really. I think I made a pretty compelling case that Breeze hall is bad. A, in tough matchups and B, when they lose by whatever it was more.

[B]

Than seven points, more than C, it's Brady Cook again. Like, this is going to be another disgusting 120, like, no offense game from the Jets.

[A]

And finally, Dan wears a nose strip and would definitely make guys chip in for an air purifier filter. He's Ross.

[B]

No, I'm not making people chip in.

[A]

All right, Sunday morning, 11am Eastern. Oh, T. Higgins has been ruled out. Sunday morning, 11am Eastern. Join us YouTube.com fantasy football today. It's the best way to get your starts to questions answered. So let's give you an update on the news and notes. Marvin Harrison Jr. Is out. Jonathan Gannon said he does expect him to return this season, however, so. But not this week. Devon Hn is expected to play. There was a report from the beat writer for the Athletic for the Commanders said that he didn't see Terry McLaurin or Debo Samuel in the open portion of practice. So we'll see if we get an update on that. T. Higgins is out. Jamie, the Chargers are going to ride the hot hand at running back. That sucks. They're at the Chiefs. What do you think? I'm actually regretful that I dropped Kamani Vidal, but what do you think here?

[C]

I would be surprised if it's, if it's Vidal who's the one you want to start, but it's not a bad idea to keep him on your team. I just think you gotta treat these guys kind of like the Bears and the Panthers and the Steelers like there's going to be one guy that's probably slightly better than the other and we're gonna be frustrated with who it is. But this is a tough matchup, so I wouldn't be, you know, so slam dunk on either one.

[A]

Josh Jacobs, did I mention him? He's limited in practice today. Starting to feel better. Nick Chubb missed practice. TJ Watt is likely out for that game against the Dolphins Monday. Mason Taylor is out. Brady Cook is starting for the Jets. Some very good Dan related comments here. I bet Dan is that one player who gets the ball and immediately passes to the guy next to him.

[B]

Yeah, I did do a lot of passing. Like I said, I'm not open. I'm not shooting. He's a great passer. That's part of the team ball. First of all, are you good at basketball at all?

[A]

No.

[B]

You'd beat me? Okay.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I just want. I would hoping you'd be like, yes, I'm pretty good. I would actually like to play you in one on one and see if I could win. But now it seems like it'd just be an absolute travesty for you.

[A]

And then did Dan just grab the mug without using the handle?

[B]

Psychopath wants to rub it in. You don't need to use what's so you want me to grab it like this?

[A]

Yes, stupid. That's what the handle's for.

[B]

Get your hand around it. You got a nice grip this way, too.

[A]

And just who does that?

[B]

All you gotta do.

[A]

You're so weird.

[B]

You're weird too, dude. You're weird too. Let me just tell you that. Do I need to remind everyone of that Giants game story with this hand sanitizer?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You shook the hands of one of our fans and immediately scrambled. Like scramble drilling hand sanitizer. Can I find any? Where do you have any? Do you have any? Do you have any? No. Nobody has hand sanitizer on them. I did. That's not true.

[A]

All right. Anyway, dad is Sydney from Along Came Polly. Make it rain, let it rain. R says rain dance.

[B]

Rain Man.

[A]

Rain dance. You ever seen Rain Man?

[B]

N. Actually, I have seen Rain Man.

[C]

Oh, good. Wow.

[B]

I have seen Rain man and I love. I finally saw it. Like, that's so some of those good, good movies I've seen. Like I said, like a lot of the top tier ones. Seven, like all those great ones I've seen. Seven's a great movie. Like, I would watch Seven.

[C]

It's not.

[B]

I would watch Seven in the Usual Suspects over Rocky a thousand out of a thousand times.

[C]

Oh, come on.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Come on.

[A]

It won best picture, Dan. It won best Guess what?

[B]

The Usual Suspect is a thousand times better. What more well done movie than Rocky?

[A]

And it's also. I haven't seen.

[C]

How do you know?

[B]

How do I know? Because one's about a story about some boxer coming up in Philly. The other is a really interesting story with a great twist.

[C]

But you can't say that with you. I'm not seeing it.

[B]

I don't need to see it to know that Seven and the Usual Suspects.

[A]

Are better than Rocky.

[C]

I don't need to see it.

[B]

I know that this is one of.

[A]

The worst takes you so bad. I. I mean, you're full of bad takes and I love that about you. But this is another level. Rocky is a great story. It's a great story.

[B]

It's better than Usual Suspects.

[A]

Rocky is much better than.

[C]

They're different. They're both great. But you can't say that one is better than the other one. You haven't seen the other one.

[A]

I know, right?

[B]

You're like insulting. Let's reel this in. One is something I'm much more interested in watching.

[A]

That's because you don't know what Rocky is. Rocky is not just a boxing movie. It's a great story. It Is it is like a per. It's great sports story.

[B]

Yeah. Personal. Yeah.

[A]

Not even something. It's.

[B]

That's great. That's all great. And I bet I'd like it a lot.

[A]

You would?

[C]

I would.

[B]

But I also bet after watching it, I would say, yes, seven was a much better movie.

[C]

But then you can say that, though, because you've seen them.

[A]

Rocky or 7.

[B]

I don't need to say it when I have this strong. This strong of an assumption.

[A]

They ever tell you, I know I've told this story before, but this guy I knew, and I don't mind insulting him. Such a schmuck. An idiot.

[B]

You talk about me when I'm not.

[A]

No, this guy I really don't like, but he. We were in the car in college. I was driving him, and he said something that was actually smart. He said, this is just. Reminds me of you talking Seven. One of the elite, you know, movies, whatever. It's a good movie.

[B]

It is.

[A]

Yeah. And he said, you know, I think the difference between a good song and a great song is that no matter how many times you hear a great song, you never get sick of it. And I was blown away. This was like the smartest thing this guy has ever said. And then he goes. Next breath, he goes like, I don't care how many times I hear drops of Jupiter by train, I'm never turning it off. I was like, dude, that's your example. Drops of Jupiter by trade. All right, we're gonna get out of here. We'll take a quick break.

[B]

It's a really good song, though, isn't it?

[A]

It's not a great song. It's. It's like seven. It's like seven. It'S not, you know, it's a. Dude.

[B]

The fact that you think seven is not an elite movie. It's not like that. You're like, oh, Rocky's better than seven. One best chick crazy that you think.

[C]

I think the fact that in the last two minutes, Adam shoulders have raised more than they have all week is pretty exciting.

[A]

I feel like Ross Geller is a shoulder razor, too. I feel like I could picture that.

[B]

This is insane.

[A]

All right.

[B]

I can't believe we're debating seven versus Rocky. And I'm on the. I'm the crazy one.

[C]

Seven is Seven is a great movie. Seven is a great movie. You can't sit here and say one is better than the other without having seen the other.

[B]

Okay. It's like, I can definitely sit here and say that. Yeah, you can do that. You can do that.

[A]

You can't.

[B]

You can, dude. Like, I don't need to see every movie in the world to know that one movie is better than another.

[C]

It's crazy to me. It's like.

[B]

It's like, oh. Like I'm just trying to think of an example.

[C]

Like there is none because it doesn't exist.

[B]

Okay, what's the movie? The series that Adam Sandler keeps doing that they just make money off of and collect money. The parents one or whatever. Parent trap or. No, what is it?

[A]

Grown Ups.

[B]

Yeah, Grown Ups. It's like if I. I can sit here, Jamie, and tell you, oh, yeah, the Usual Suspects is better than Grown Ups 4 without seeing Grown Ups 4.

[C]

Yeah. When you're talking about something that's not in the same realm of being good, that's not good.

[B]

Rocky is not in the same realm as seven.

[A]

Yeah. Okay. It won best picture. It launched one of the most successful movie franchises. You're insane. It's a great movie. It's gonna blow your mind. I cannot wait for you to watch that movie. We're gonna take a break. Come back with your emails. Oh, my gosh. He is on one today, people. We'll be back at Fantasy. The best jump shooter in Urban League history will be back with the answers to your emails after this.

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[C]

We have an Eagles fan as a producer today too.

[A]

Even better.

[B]

This is not an Eagle shirt. Urban league basketball, baby.

[C]

It's an Eagle shirt.

[B]

It's not my fault we had the Kelly green team, okay? We don't get to choose our colors.

[A]

You have a Kelly green team with wings on it. And you. And yet you won't see Rocky basketball.

[B]

Anyone who's lived in New York can attest to this and has played in these leagues. Take a look.

[A]

I see it, dad. It's looks like. All right, this is from Drew.

[C]

Eagles fly.

[B]

Oh, never.

[A]

No, that.

[B]

You can't do that. You can't do that, my friend. Two Giants fans made a huge, huge bet and the loser of the bet had to wear an Eagles jersey and all Eagles gear to a Giants Eagles game. How bad is that for a bet?

[A]

That's awesome. All right, here we go.

[B]

He gave him two chances emails.

[A]

Okay, let's go like kind of fast on these because we have a lot. I put a lot more in the notes today than usual so we can answer more of your questions. From Drew Pick two Flexes Manang, Guy Breton, Strange Odunze Burden Corum Adonai Mitchell, Jalen Wright, Kamani Vidal.

[C]

Oh, boy.

[A]

All right, we're going to eliminate Jalen Wright. We're going to eliminate Adonai Mitchell. We're going to eliminate Blake Corum. So let's go with pick two. Menangai Breton, Strange, Romo Dunes A Luther Burden, Kamani Vidal, half ppr.

[C]

I'm going to go with Strange and Burden if Odunze is out. Odunze? If he plays.

[A]

Okay, from Donovan, pick two.

[B]

Thomas is here. I mean, Johnny Airport is here.

[A]

Dan woke up today and chose hypocrisy. Oh, man. All right. From Donovan, pick two. Ken Walker, Christian Watson, Josh Jacobs or Emmanuel Wilson.

[B]

Walker, Watson, Jacobs, Wilson. Either one of Jacob Wilson if Jacobs isn't playing. Jacobs if Wilson or if he is playing. And then it's PBR or no.

[A]

I don't know. Okay, so it's Ken Walkers again.

[C]

Watson and who?

[A]

Ken Walker, Christian Watson and the packers.

[C]

Starting running back, pick two, Walker and Jacobs.

[B]

Yeah, that's fine.

[A]

Tighter. Tight end. Tyler Warren or Isaiah Likely from Thomas 10 team. Non PPR. League start. Two receivers. Nico Collins, George Pickens, Rasheed Rice. Non PPR.

[B]

Collins, Pickens, Rice.

[C]

Ooh, Rice and Collins. For me.

[B]

I'm definitely not benching Collins. He's the first one for me in there. Two bad matchups for the other two. I'll go with Rice. Higher chance volume.

[A]

Pick one running back in non ppr. Chase Brown or RJ Harvey.

[C]

Chase Brown, non ppr.

[A]

Yeah, man.

[C]

Harvey scored three touchdowns in his last two games. Yeah, I think I'll go chase Brownstone.

[A]

And then pick a flex RJ Harvey or Rasheed Rice or George Pickens or whichever receiver you benched.

[C]

Oh, Pickens.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Non PPR over Harvey.

[B]

Non ppr. I think I'll go Harvey in that. I don't like this Vikings matchup at all for Dallas offense from Kyle.

[A]

I'm currently flexing Isaiah likely over Cortland Sutton and Jacoby Myers. Am I too high on him?

[B]

Probably the highest ceiling. I can just play Myers.

[A]

I'd sit play Sutton.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Who would you play?

[C]

Myers too.

[A]

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[C]

All right.

[A]

From Reed start to Rico Dowdle, Travion Henderson, Devin Neal, Tetaro, McMillan, Devin Singletary. And he says Wilson. I'm guessing that's Emmanuel Wilson.

[B]

That's Michael. That's a big.

[A]

Oh, Michael Wilson. Yeah.

[B]

If it's Michael, that's obvious. First and foremost, you play him. He's one of two players this year to be wide receiver. One in multiple weeks. So he's obvious.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah, it's crazy. Him in London and then what were the other options again? Rico Henderson. Henderson, Henderson and him. Anderson, Michael Wilson.

[C]

I'll go Wilson and Rico.

[A]

Jim playing the number one team with a seven with. Oh, playing the number one team with a seven and seven team. And I want to get into the playoffs. I drafted in secret from my lap while out to dinner with my wife and my in laws. My wife was in on it and my in laws never knew. This is my dark horse team that I'm writing as long as possible. With that said, start two in ppr. Wanda Robinson, Jacobe Myers, DK Metcalf.

[C]

I'm benching Metcalf.

[B]

Wow, that is crazy. I'm gonna say gonna go against the grain here. I'm gonna bench Wandell Robinson. I just think the difference between Wandell Robinson with Jackson, Dart versus with Russell Wilson and Jamis is night and day. From a fantasy standpoint and an upside standpoint, I think I'm hoping the. The Steelers figured out something with regards to how to move the ball. And it has to go. That offense has to move through Metcalf.

[A]

Okay. From Jesse, I don't know.

[C]

Wanda's got 53 targets in his last four games. That's hard to overlook.

[B]

Yeah. But again, one of those is with.

[C]

Two or three of those.

[A]

No, two of them were James.

[B]

Two of them were Jamis.

[C]

Yeah, three with Art.

[A]

You said four.

[C]

You said four. Four games.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So two and two. Sorry.

[B]

Two and two. But again, a lot. It's like last week where those Wandell targets were different types of targets. Or the last game with Dart, I should say. Right. It's was back to the Jones type.

[C]

Well, one game was no Slayton also.

[A]

So look, you had. You had that Dallas game. That was ridiculous. Right?

[B]

The Lions game was ridiculous.

[A]

The Lions game was the flea flicker.

[C]

Right.

[A]

So.

[B]

But also a lot of other stuff with Jameis, like explosive intermediate in and outbreakers that he's not getting with dart. It's a different kind of target. Like, if you look at the last game with dart, he got a lot of targets, but it also has the.

[C]

Easiest matchup of almost anybody on paper.

[B]

Sure. But it's going to be 30 and snowing, but we'll see. And windy.

[A]

I don't think it's. No, I don't.

[C]

Oh, ask him your question, Adam.

[B]

Is it not snowing? I thought it was supposed. I thought I saw 30. Let's see. East Rutherford weather. I'm gonna be the weatherman on today's show. Sunday is 31 degrees with a chance of snow and wind.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Precipitation, 45, light snow, wind, 11 miles per hour. I don't think that game's going to be as offensive as people.

[A]

11 miles per hour is nothing.

[C]

11 hours, nothing.

[B]

And I think it actually is just going to be like a lot of Singletary. Tracy.

[A]

My question for you, Dan, was because. Because I really have been a. A big advocate of Darius Slayton as like, a number three receiver. I think because he had that game where he got called for the offensive pass interference on the long touchdown against the Eagles, which is a little questionable. Then the next game, he dropped a touchdown against the Niners.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

But your thoughts? My take has been he's basically splitting with Isaiah Hodgins as the number two receiver. Last game, they were in three receiver sets a ton. So they both played a lot. But if they're not in three receiver sets a ton, who's on the field more? Hodgins, Slayton. I think it's kind of an even split. You have playing time concerns?

[B]

No, I think it has played out that way because Slayton's been hurt in game multiple times and had to, like, come out of the game, come back in the game. He's supposedly healthy now. I think he'll be the guy over Hodgins if he's healthy. But there's not going to be every snap. Like, the Giants are going to mix in Hodges. He's a better blocker, so. And they want to play 12 personnel, so you're right about that. I think they had to play 11 last game because they were trailing so much by. So not to the Patriots.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

According to Kevin Roth, no real weather issues for this weekend.

[A]

Yeah, we have across the board in any game. Yeah, it's just them.

[C]

All yellows, no oranges.

[B]

Okay. So we have a poll minus 11 degrees. But I guess we'll just expect good passing in those games.

[A]

We have a poll up on YouTube. What's the better movie. Rocky 7. Or haven't seen Rocky. But it's 7.

[B]

No, it should. It should. Well, that's funny. But let me just tell you something. This is an unfair poll because a lot of people don't know or haven't heard of or haven't seen seven. But a lot of people have seen Rocky.

[C]

Jim Brown. Have you ever watched again?

[B]

None. None Live. I wasn't alive for Jim Brown.

[C]

Well, no, no, I understand that. Live. You weren't alive when Rocky was made either, but have you watched Tim Brown play football at all?

[B]

Yeah. Highlights.

[C]

Is he good or is he not good?

[B]

He's very good.

[C]

Okay, checking.

[B]

What does that have to do.

[A]

He's no Bucky Irving.

[B]

Like, it's crazy that, like. Okay, seven, this is a great comment from. From hockey. I don't know how to pronounce his name. P, A, H, Q, Y. This is one of my favorite people in the chat. He's always a guy. Seven is a Film school is film school material, not Rocky. Yeah, exactly. Because seven is a unique, interesting movie that's different. And it's not just a sports story about a guy. I don't know what Rocky's really about. The guy comes up with a boxer. He's counted out. Like, here he goes and he does it right.

[A]

Like, that's basically Rocky about so many things. I mean, it's about basically what it is. It's about this guy. He just has a horrible life. No one takes him seriously.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he. He gets an opportunity of a lifetime. It's about the American dream.

[B]

American dream. Yep. I get it. And it's great. I bet I'd freaking love Rocky. I honestly know that I would love it, but I would never come back and be like, yeah, that's a better movie than you would.

[C]

You might.

[B]

And I said Usual Suspects. That was the other one.

[A]

I was saying the Usual Suspect. I'm gonna. I'm gonna call the Usual Suspects. Overrated.

[B]

Once you know what it like, it's all about the first watch for usual.

[A]

That's true. I didn't really enjoy it, that I watched it even. I watched it somewhat recently and I was like, this movie is not as good as I remember it being, because.

[C]

You know, listen, all three movies are fantastic. My, my. Just. My gripe is that Dan is saying Rocky stinks without ever seeing it.

[A]

Yeah, it's a result. I didn't say it stinks.

[B]

That's my gripe. My gripe is I never said it stinks. I said, I base bet I would love it. But I'm also saying, no, it's not going to compare for like a good, true, interesting movie. Like Seven. This is like a new.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Like, this is something you don't see all the time. 7. You do see the story of the American dream a lot, right? We do get a lot.

[A]

Not in 1978 or whatever. I don't know.

[B]

Okay, we can say it's novel for its time.

[A]

Like 7.

[B]

7 is a great time. Another American dream story. Or a movie like Usual Suspects or Seven or any of these other great ones, I think. And I don't mean great.

[A]

Usual Suspects is definitively last for me on this list.

[B]

Well, I've only mentioned three movies.

[C]

Like.

[B]

Okay, like, we can talk about others.

[A]

I know, but trust me, like, Rocky is amazing. You're going to realize it's. It's more than just a boxing movie.

[B]

All right, I know it's. I know. I told you. I bet it's amazing. I just don't think.

[C]

There have been some amazing, amazing comments. When it comes to bad takes, Dan is the usual suspect. That is so true.

[A]

Oh, by the way, I have some good dad jokes for. For us coming up soon. We need to help Jesse out. Stafford or Burrow?

[C]

Stafford.

[A]

Stafford.

[B]

I mean, it's obviously Stafford on paper. Yeah, Stafford.

[A]

Pick two running backs. Jacobs, Judkins, Dowdle, Manangai.

[C]

Jacobs and Dowdle.

[A]

And if Jacobs is out.

[B]

No, wait, say it again.

[A]

Jacobs, Judkins, Dowdo, Manangai.

[B]

I'm gonna go Jacobs and Menungai. I love Manangai in this matchup. Yeah. Wow.

[A]

Okay, I'm gonna go Jacobs and Dowdle. And if Jacobs is out, I'm gonna go Judkins and Dowdle.

[B]

Just given what a little bit of what I saw, I just think it's going to be cold. Nobody's going to want to tackle Manangai.

[A]

I think you. I think you're overrating the cold weather effect.

[B]

I do. Very much so. I don't want to say overrate it because I think most people underrate it. I probably push the scale toward that direction, though. Too much. So, yes, I will say overrated, though I do believe most underrated.

[A]

How about Jefferson, Sutton, Abuka and McLaurin in PPR? Pick two. So not a buka. Jefferson, Sutton. McLaurin.

[C]

McLaurin.

[B]

I'm getting roasted in the chat right now. Rightfully so.

[C]

I'm sure McLaurin and I'll go Sutton over Jefferson.

[B]

See, this is just not true, though. Like, Dan is the Skip Bayless of pop culture. Takes. I feel like Skip just Has bad takes to have bad takes. These are just naturally me being an idiot. Like, I'm not, like, not forcing anything.

[A]

That's the scary part of it.

[B]

It is the scary part of it. But also, like, my favorite show ever is the Wire. That's Skip Bailey's. Wouldn't have that kind of take.

[A]

Bowers or Fanon?

[C]

Bowers. I know Heath would say Fanon, but I'll go Bowers, though.

[B]

That's interesting. I think I'm gonna go Fannin.

[A]

I'm going Bowers.

[B]

Crazy Bowers has more upside if you're looking for that. Fanon, I think, is the better floor from Quinn.

[A]

Pick two in ppr. Dowdle, Genti, Neil Fannin. That's tough.

[B]

Dowdle, Genti, Neil Fannin. And it's PPR or no.

[A]

Yeah, I'm gonna go Dowdle and Fannin. What'd you say, Jamie?

[B]

Jamie's just. Mike collapsed right there. I still can't hear him. He never know what happened there. That was weird. I've actually never seen that happen on the show. Like, it just down to that level. But Fanon, we'll go with AS. That's the first one that comes to mind. And I'm not as high on dowdle as Jamie is at all.

[A]

Neil, I don't know that Jamie's super high on doubt. I'll just.

[B]

Well, he's just been not super high. He's just answered him in a couple times.

[A]

Mel says. Dan, normally I have to talk to Alexa or Google to understand what the hell you're saying, but this time I'm rolling with you. Usual suspects is tops. All right, let's see. We got one from big Al in SoCal. Start two and just give me answers here, guys. Start two of these four. Brian Thomas Jr, Adonai Mitchell, Tyrone Tracy, Devin Singletary.

[C]

I don't think you want to go both Giants running backs.

[A]

Yeah, I'll go Brian Thomas Jr. And Tracy.

[C]

Yeah, those are your best bets.

[B]

Good signs of Thomas Jr. Coming forward a little. Still concerned with Singletary stealing red zone work, but I think they're going to lean on Tracy, so I like that from Sebastian.

[A]

I have three tight ends and I'm struggling with who to start. Tyler, Warren, Isaiah Likely, and Brenton Strange. Who's your favorite?

[C]

I'd go Warren.

[A]

I think I'm going to go Likely.

[B]

Give me those names again.

[A]

Likely. Warren Strange.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Strange.

[A]

Okay. This is from David in Huntsville. Says War Eagle. And he says if you're willing to. Oh, he's talking about. Remember, Jamie, you were talking about Having a backup on your bench that could replace an injured starter. He says in our league, if you're willing to put your quarterbacks, actual real life backup in a bench slot, you can get the backup points only for quarterbacks, though. And he has to be on your bench. So that's an interesting thing. Like late in the season to do that, you know, to lock. You don't need to stash guys anymore. You just want to. You're in the playoffs and you have, you know, whoever you get his backup, put him on your bench. It's not a bad idea. And from David, sit 1. Walker, Hampton, Neil or Charbonnet and non PPR Walker, Hampton, Neil, Charbonnet sit 1.

[C]

I would sit Charbonnet.

[B]

Yeah, Charbonnet for sure.

[A]

From Jeremy, start two Mahomes Brissette shook.

[B]

Shuck or Tua Mahomes Brissette shuck Tua for me.

[A]

All right. Eric says.

[C]

Did you say Jamie Mahomes and percent yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Eric says. What do you call an old snowman?

[C]

Melted water.

[A]

What is that?

[B]

That's up there for one of the worst.

[A]

What is the best Christmas.

[B]

I hate today. Eric, no disrespect to you. I think that's up there. From the worst we've heard.

[A]

What is the best Christmas present in the world? A broken drum. You just can't beat it.

[B]

That's not bad. Again, it's a dad joke. So it has is a high Zeno.

[A]

Okay. Okay. I got a lot of these. I got a lot of. Why couldn't the ponies sing Christmas carols? Because it was a little horse.

[B]

Yeah, that's pretty solid. Yep, that's good. Getting better and better.

[A]

What do gingerbread sleep on cookie sheets? This one's from Scott. I'm sad to say. I don't think Dan will get this. I changed all my passwords to Kenny. Now I have all. Kenny. Logging. All right, you got it.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Hey, Dan, did you hear that someone stole all of the toilets from the police station? The police are investigating, but they currently have nothing to go on.

[B]

By the way, let's bring this up in the chat because this is a good example. One of my favorite movies of all time, Shawshank Redemption. I can definitively say without having seen Rocky that Shawshank Redemption is a better movie than Rocky. And that's it.

[C]

Like that.

[B]

That's the argument right there. Like is like. Is anyone gonna argue with that? Yeah, here's another Reservoir Dog. Another better movie.

[A]

Oh, Rocky is 10 times better than fiction.

[B]

Another.

[A]

Rocky is better.

[B]

This is one of My favorite movies of all time.

[A]

Rocky is better than every Terry.

[B]

Godfather one, Godfather two.

[A]

Okay, Rocky's not.

[B]

Rocky's not better than the fellas. Much better. Don't have to see it to know.

[A]

Rocky is not better than the Godfather. It is better than Goodfellas. It is better than any.

[B]

Better than Goodfellows.

[A]

That's insane.

[C]

I just don't think you can keep saying this without seeing it. I'll see it.

[B]

Imagine what's going to happen.

[A]

Imagine a seven year. Imagine a seven year old is talking to you and says, I never saw Eli Manning play, but he is not better than Jackson Dart.

[B]

Well, that's a ridiculous thing.

[A]

Is it? I mean, his rookie season.

[B]

Okay, fine. Imagine a 7 year old is talking to you and said, I've never seen Matt Stafford play.

[C]

I've never. But.

[B]

Or I've never seen jamarcus Russell play. But Matt Stafford is a better quarterback.

[A]

If you compare Rock.

[B]

I'm not comparing. The point is not to compare. My point is to say that you can have not seen things to still know that they're better. Like, I don't need to see Matthew Stafford play to know he's better than jamarcus Russell.

[A]

Yeah, because jamarcus Russell wasn't a good NFL quarterback. Rocky won best picture. What's with you?

[B]

Rocky is not better than Shawshank Redemption. It's not even on the same team.

[A]

It is absolute. It is. What's with you? I can't have an argument with someone who only knows half of the argument.

[C]

This is.

[B]

Yeah, that's fair. That's how you guys see it. And I see it a little differently. I see you don't need to know everything to know something.

[A]

I see it with both eyes. You see with one eye closed. That's how we see it. We'll be right back with the Fan.

[B]

Not my best take. I won't. I'm not gonna lie. This is not my best take, but I stand by it.

[A]

Unfortunately, it's not your worst take part. That's the scary thing. It should be your worst take, but you've had worse. All right, we'll be right back.

[B]

This should not be my worst take. That Rocky's not like a top five top ten movie. Like what are we talking about?

[A]

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[C]

Now. I will say that you know to. To defend Dan here.

[A]

Jamie, let me interrupt you. Can you. Why don't you leave and come back in? We're having a little bit of issues with your mic and I'll wait for you to start to Fantasy cops here. Jamie will be right back.

[B]

Okay, we got good cops today. We got good fantasy cops today.

[A]

Unlike my Back to the Future or Indiana Jones.

[B]

Oh, that's okay. So, okay, here we go. So I've seen both, but problem is I saw Indiana Jones with my dad growing up and I was so young, so I do not remember any Indiana Jones. So I just have to default to Back to the Future, which again, I will take that better concept back to the future.

[A]

Jamie, what's your take? Better movie. Back to the future. Indiana Jones.

[C]

Better movie. Indiana Jones.

[A]

Yeah, I agree. It's a good question though. All right, Jamie's back. So I was going to say, like.

[C]

Defend Dan for a second.

[A]

Sorry.

[C]

I think if, if there was like a sequel to stuff. So like there was an eight or nine, you know, maybe that Adam would like a little better because there's so many sequels to Rocky.

[A]

Wait, what? A sequel to Shot to what, seven?

[C]

You know, so.

[A]

Yes, then we could rank them, but it'd be so hard to rank Them because you'd be like, okay, I'd go eight, seven, nine. You know, but it'd be, yeah, Yeah.

[B]

I can't believe you said Rocky was better than Goodfellows. Adam, that, to me, is the worst take that's been said on the show. Worse than any of my takes. And we'll use the. We'll. We'll allow the chat to opine on that, collect data. They really consider it, think about it, and then get back to us maybe a week later.

[C]

You know, I don't think Dan's wrong. Seven is amazing. Usual suspects is amazing. Goodfellas is amazing. But Rocky also is amazing.

[B]

Like, yeah, but. But Adam was definitive in saying, yeah.

[A]

I don't like the last 20 to 30 minutes of Goodfellas after. Well, I don't want to spoil it. After one of the main characters gets shot, they go to, like, the, you know, he's cooking in his kitchen.

[C]

The actual real life stuff.

[A]

Yeah, I. I thought the movie was, like, a little too long, and it got.

[C]

Stop talking. You're gonna. You're gonna go on. You're taking a path that only Dan could go on here.

[A]

But. But even still, you never want to take that path.

[C]

I.

[A]

No, I still would say Rocky's better. Rocky's incredible. And it's so. It's so likable. I don't know. I. You have to see it. It's. It's really that good. All right, here we go.

[B]

I'm sure I'll really like it. It's a great American story. I'm also sure I'll think, well, yeah.

[A]

When you predetermined your decision.

[B]

No, I don't need it. I'm not pretty. I will change a take. I do not have take lock. That's one thing about me. I am not a take lock guy. Change the take.

[A]

All right, so last week, we had a fantasy cops from Aaron, and Aaron said, this happened last year. Still a controversy in our league. Okay. He made a trade offer on Sleeper to a longtime friend. Eight weeks later, the trade was accepted. Oh, there was a. There was a text message where the manager said, I'm not interested in this trade. Eight weeks later, I wake up to a notification that the trade was accepted. The trade never went away. I immediately texted the commissioner that it was not a valid trade offer anymore. I showed him the screenshot of the text message of the other owner saying, no, but the commissioner said it was my fault for not removing the deal and refused to undo the trade. So.

[C]

Eight weeks.

[A]

Eight weeks. Right. So I said this is ridiculous. Obviously, it should have been reversed. Now I get an email from that commissioner and he says, last week on the mailbag, you mentioned an email from Aaron where he had a trade offer out there of Chase Brown for Addison for eight weeks. There's a dynasty league, by the way. Originally, the trade was text rejected, but left to sit out there eight weeks later accepted. I am the commissioner of this league and both guys involved are close friends. I instructed Aaron that this was indeed his fault for not knowing what's going on. He's very sharp and still I don't know how he didn't see it, but I told Thomas manager number two to fix it and send the trade back as it was obviously in bad taste. Thomas did that and Aaron wouldn't accept. His pride got in the way of the deal not getting fixed. We don't have a trade veto, period. Duh. Trades auto process. And I just told them, you two are adults. Fix it. Thomas tried multiple times only to be ghosted for a year by Aaron. Adam, you said in the last episode, quote, aaron wouldn't. Aaron wouldn't do something like that.

[C]

Does this happen last year?

[A]

Yes. Oh, Aaron wouldn't do something like that. But clearly you don't know this man. His pride and pettiness stood in the way. Now let's hear whose side you're on. Then I got another email from Aaron, the original fantasy cops complainer, and he says, adam, you are not betrayed. Don't fall for Josh's lies. It is true that Thomas did eventually offer the deal back to me, but there's context here. I wanted Josh, the commissioner, to undo the trade out of principle. It should not have been a legal trade because it was eight weeks later. But the commissioner, Josh, refused, so he would not intervene. Now, he is correct that I am very stubborn. So the important context here is I publicly declared that I won't make any more trades with Thomas going forward. I threw a big enough fit about it that he eventually felt bad and sent me a trade offer to reverse the trade. But I'm stubborn and I had just announced that I won't be making any more trades with Thomas. So I couldn't accept it out of principle. I wanted the commissioner to do his job and reverse the deal. He refused and thus the trade stood. Also, the commissioner has reversed trades before due to buyer's remorse. So it was ridiculous that he refused to do it here. All right, so whose side are you on? It was offered back to Aaron, but he was too proud to accept it. So I think Aaron is So wrong here. So wrong.

[B]

You think Aaron is so wrong.

[A]

The original guy who complained, I think he was right originally to not to be unhappy about the 8 weeks thing, but to not accept it when it's offered back to you because of pride.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That is wrong. Just accept the damn trade and reverse it.

[B]

Agreed.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Pretty cut and dry for me, Aaron.

[A]

Don't let your pride get in the way.

[B]

Let pride come in the way with your fan of the way of winning in fantasy football.

[A]

All right, so let's talk about consolation brackets, and let's say six teams make the playoffs and six teams are in the consolation bracket. Jamie, should the consolation bracket teams have any rights to add drops?

[C]

I don't think so, but if they are, it should be at the end of the week, after Wednesday, Thursday, whatever the playoff teams are looking at. For me, I would say no, though.

[B]

I say no. Once you're eliminated from the playoffs, you should be locked from free agency.

[A]

All right, you want to talk about the thing that circulated the Internet?

[B]

And this is, by the way, this is why, like, our league is not giving out prizes for consolation or not making it like you get a better draft pick because we don't want. You know what I mean? Like, you don't want that happening.

[A]

Yeah. So what. So, Jamie, what happened in the league that, you know, it's been circumstantial, circulating across the web, the.

[C]

From David Furonis. From the Sunset.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Is that what it was?

[B]

I got it. So basically what's happening is last week, going into the playoff, this past week, going this week's playoffs, two teams who, if one had won and the other had lost, the winner would go to the playoffs, the loser would go to the playoffs, but if both have tied, they both get into the playoffs. So they both agreed or you would assume. I don't know how else it would happen to intentionally bench their entire team. They both played enough. Nobody in their lineup scored zero points. Each tied and both got into the playoffs. Yeah.

[C]

This is. By the way, this is one of the Dolphins beat writers from the South Florida sunset.

[A]

So he tweeted this or he did it?

[B]

No, he tweeted it.

[C]

Well, no, I mean, he's the original tweet.

[B]

Wow. He's just outing himself as a colluder.

[C]

No, I don't know. I don't. I don't know if it's his league or this is his. His tweet. What are your thoughts on the fantasy football league where two owners bench their whole roster to assure a tie and secure playoff birth for Both teams while keeping someone else out.

[B]

You're.

[C]

You're referring to the one from Dove. Dove. Whatever his name is. Yeah, yeah, he. He copied this.

[B]

Oh, classic Dove.

[A]

Is that not classic Dove? I mean, that guy is the biggest thief.

[B]

He is the biggest thief in Internet history. But also I've heard that he's not even running the account anymore. He sold it. So it's just somebody who's like, oh.

[C]

You know, I don't know if this is, this is David's league or not. I don't know David personally, so I can't say. But he's the. It was the same tweet that that person did.

[B]

So I'm finding, I'm finding it too, if I can here. But yeah, I put it up to my league and there was a massive debate. Not massive. Most people agree, like this is. This should be textbook collusion. Right. It's two managers agreeing to do something together.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Now one person argued against that saying, I don't know, I might allow it. Just from the text, it's implying whoever lose the matchup is the playoff. Oh, oh. By the time they both guarantee they're make it, they're doing it out of their own best interest. So I guess the idea is like, is this collusion or not? And one guy says, I feel like collusion is more so when one team is clearly helping the other team at the expense of themselves. I don't know if I agree with that. I feel like collusion is just when two teams get together to impact, you know, upset the fair balance of the league.

[A]

That's a good question. Is collusion like a Ricky Bobby sort of situation where one of them is losing so Ricky Bobby can win every time? Or just when two teams are acting together in their, in their Right. In their collective selfish interests?

[B]

I guess because like that's like trade backs, like, you know, is trade.

[C]

They're two managers helping each other out by doing something that should not be allowed.

[B]

That's what I think.

[A]

Yeah. This is so anti competitive, but I. So I don't have an issue. And this has come up. I think this came up last week. If you've locked up a playoff seed and you know that by losing your Week 14 matchup, you're going to guarantee yourself an easier matchup in the playoffs.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Cause let's say there's two teams fighting for the six seed, you're going to be the three. And you know if you lose, this other team's going to get in and if you. And if you win, it's gonna hurt you. Whatever. I don't have a problem with you benching your guys and tanking.

[C]

And a lot of people think the Chiefs did that in week 18 last year.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Because they didn't want to see the Bengals in the playoffs.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

So I don't have a problem with that specifically. But it's not you working with another team.

[A]

Right.

[B]

That's the problem.

[A]

I agree.

[C]

I agree.

[B]

If it wasn't. Yeah. Like, I still believe you can and should do that. I mean, there's an easy fix for this, by the way.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Like the fix is what you have in. In. Or you don't have it actually in your dynasty league, Adam, because you're.

[C]

You're.

[B]

We know you're not a very good commission that league, but you're doing your best and you're trying hard, but you've just had a lot of mistakes over the years. But the. The easy solution is you have to set a legal lot. Like you have to put players in your lineup or. What is it? Just set a legal lineup.

[A]

I mean.

[B]

Right. As long as you set a lineup of players, it can't tie.

[A]

Yeah, no, I.

[C]

In.

[A]

In. You talking about in my dynasty league.

[B]

Yeah, in your dynasty. I keep seeing teams score like three.

[A]

Yeah, you can. You can play whoever you want. They just have to be specific to the position. You can't start a tight ended running.

[B]

Back, but you can start an inactive player.

[A]

Yeah, you can start whoever you want.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It came. It became too difficult to police that.

[B]

It is difficult to police. You have a lot of difficulties in that league.

[A]

All right, I got one more. This one is from Mike. One of our teams in our consolation team playoff bracket just dropped Mike Evans on Thursday morning. They had him on IR most of the year, and then we were given a friendly reminder. They needed to move him out of IR before the Thursday night game and they dropped him. I'm the commissioner and I thought they would have dropped someone else like Nick Chubb or Jerry Judy on their bench. I asked him if he meant to drop Evans and he replied that he did because he didn't think Evans would be too great when he returns and it could be a pickup for someone else. This player has been in our league for about seven years, but he's still one of the most inexperienced players. Because of the timing of the drop, Evans won't be available until next week when waivers run. We do not have a rule around undroppable players, but it doesn't seem fair that one team could get Mike Evans in the semifinals. The team who dropped Evans and the team with fab. With all the fab left, like, the guy was the most fab. Are close, but I don't think there's any collusion. Do we let it go and see who picks Evans up? Do we make the team who dropped him drop someone else? Do we just freeze Evans and not let anyone pick him up? For full disclosure, I will likely be in the semifinals and I could use the wide receiver help, but I don't have the most fab.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Now, this is the team that dropped.

[C]

Evans was out of playoff contention.

[A]

Yeah. I think there might be a consolation bracket.

[B]

Well, no, he said that. Oh, really?

[A]

He is in the consolation bracket.

[C]

Then that roster has to be frozen and Evans put back on it.

[B]

Well, if that's their rule.

[A]

It's not their rule.

[B]

I don't think that's their rule. I think their rule is the consolation teams are allowed to make moves and the consolation bracket is, like, worth something.

[C]

And this is why this shouldn't happen.

[B]

Oh, yeah, that's a terrible rule to have.

[A]

I agree. But it's in the. But it is their rule. So what do you do in this situation?

[B]

And if it is their rule, then I'm definitively say it's fair game. He goes to why you can't be managing someone's bad decisions.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, you dropped him over Nick Chubb?

[B]

Yeah, it's a terrible. I mean, he's been playing fantasy for seven years. Tell him to listen to our podcast. It can't get worse than what's going on for this guy.

[C]

There could be some collusion there if they think that the people are close. Like.

[B]

Yeah. Is. Yeah. Are you sure this guy's not colluding? That's the question.

[A]

Yeah. I don't know. It doesn't seem like it's. I. You know, the commissioner doesn't really think that's going on, but. All right, that's Fantasy Cops for you. Thank you. Let's go to our Apple podcast. Questions from. Hey, Inator. Dear Jonathan Swift, Zachary and Mick. Are those Taylors?

[B]

Jonathan Taylor.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

Taylor Swift, Zachary Taylor. And who was the last one? Jonathan Taylor.

[A]

Mick Taylor is a British guitarist for who? I guess he was in the Rolling Stones.

[B]

Oh, wow. That's bad for us to not know that.

[A]

Yeah, it's pretty bad question.

[B]

Coach Taylor.

[A]

Let's see.

[B]

Remember him? No.

[C]

Great show.

[B]

Friday Night Lights. A TV show. You never saw that?

[A]

I never saw that. Well, I never saw it, but I hear it's better than the Wire. It's definitely not as good as the Shield. Even though I never seen it, it's.

[B]

Not as good as the shield. You're 100 correct.

[A]

Hertz or Stafford.

[C]

Stafford.

[A]

And then.

[B]

Yeah, 38 point total on the Eagles game. I'll take Stafford.

[A]

Pick a flex. DJ Moore, Luther Burden, Brenton Strange, Chris Rodriguez, tbr.

[B]

I don't know in full ppr. It's. It's honestly strange for me, it's the volume I feel the strongest about, but I'm okay with Burden.

[A]

What'd you say?

[C]

Jamie Strange doesn't get a lot of volume at all.

[B]

Yeah, he was during his strong stretch before he got injured. Let's see where he's at right now.

[A]

I'm telling you, they're gonna throw 26 times.

[B]

Who, the Jags?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, the Bears might also not.

[B]

Drop by so much. I would go, still getting better. He still had six targets last week. It's not. It's not the most amazing volume in the world, but, like, what are we getting from Luther Burden?

[A]

I would play Burden. If Odunze's out in strangers.

[B]

Since returning, he's 5 for 93, 4 for 45 and a touchdown and 6 for 27.

[A]

Yeah, he's fine. I would go burden over him. If dunes a plays. I'd go strange, though.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

All right. This is from Ryan from Bourbon Country. How do you feel about the strategy of locking up a split running back room against a good matchup? So starting both Steelers or this week, Bourbon Country.

[B]

Kentucky, probably. Do you drink bourbon, Jamie?

[C]

No.

[B]

Do you drink, Jamie? I don't even know this about.

[C]

I'll just be a guy. Yeah.

[B]

Beer guy. Okay. I know Adam doesn't. I was curious what your spirit of choice was. What would you guess? My. I have one spirit. The only one I want to drink. The only one I do drink for the last five, six, seven years. What would you guess that would be?

[C]

Whiskey, Adam.

[A]

Vodka.

[B]

Both wrong. Not even close. It's tequila. Tequila is the best because once you get that acquired taste for it, it actually starts to taste good. Unlike the other ones, though, I would imagine whiskey is the same. It's the same for people who like whiskey, but I just never got into it. But what it does that whiskey doesn't do is no hangovers. Tequila's clear. You have a tequila soda, add a lime, you're done. You wake up feeling great. The next day, you're hydrating while drinking whiskey. Just so much sugar in it.

[A]

I feel like you're gonna hold up a bottle of tequila and try to Sell it to us right now, but.

[B]

Not unless it's a sponsor of the show.

[A]

It's that. Well, it wasn't. But you may have just opened up that avenue. I thought about that when we had the Devin Singletary, Tyrone Tracy, two other kind of lousy options. And I thought, yeah, is there some value of just starting both Giants running backs and getting, you know, probably good production? They're probably going to combine for close to 20 points. Right.

[B]

That's not. It's not a bad strategy given the state, like where we're at in fantasy across the board, specifically with wide receivers not holding up their end of the bargain as flex plays, which is a lot of the wide receiver position right now. So I don't hate it. It's the same like if you did Bears against the Browns or the Bear. Right. Like that's both Bears back Swift and Menung Guy.

[A]

Yeah, I think that's.

[C]

They.

[A]

They run. They run the ball a ton of. And you never know who's going to score the touchdown. Right. That's the problem. You could do both Seahawks running backs against Indianapolis. That's.

[B]

That's in good game scripts. Yeah.

[A]

And so the guy that we compared the Giants running backs to with Brian Thomas Jr. We decided to split up the Giants running backs and go with Tracy and Brian Thomas Jr. But he's not that good as an option. Right. He hasn't been. He's got one game all year with more than 12 fantasy points. So is it that crazy to start both Giants or if, let's say you had the Seahawks guys and Brian Thomas Jr. I think you could do it.

[C]

I mean, you can certainly make an argument for it, but like, I don't know, you get one guy that's just six, seven, eight points at most.

[B]

Six, seven.

[A]

Okay. I've got a fantasy Cops.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

All right. This is from. I don't have a name. I'm sorry. I'm in one of the leftover leagues with Jamie. A few weeks ago, I lost both of my grandparents within one week. Needless to say, that week I was not very focused on fantasy. I dropped Mason Taylor from my bench and I didn't pick someone else up. My starting lineup was full, but I did not get any points that week because apparently I had an illegal lineup. I would have won my matchup that week had I had a full bench. I noticed during the Monday night game and posted in the league chat one guy responded but was less than helpful. This is my first time in a CBS league and I've never had a problem in other leagues with not having enough bench players, I'm in contention for a top playoff spot, and that loss really hurts. Should I really be penalized for not having five bench guys on my roster? What say you fantasy cops?

[C]

I can't believe I didn't see that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Jamie's in so many leagues, and he.

[B]

Didn'T see it, so he manages a lot of.

[C]

Sorry.

[B]

I do think this is. I. I'll be honest. This is not going to be great. This is no shot at our product whatsoever.

[A]

I'm gonna stop you right there. I'm gonna stop. No, no, no. I'm gonna shot. I'm gonna. You're gonna talk about the bench thing. Not having enough.

[B]

I don't like this bench thing. Y.

[A]

In leagues.

[C]

Yeah. You could set this yourself.

[B]

Right. You need to find the commissioner. I'm out on the commissioners who have this option.

[A]

I tell you why I do it. I do it because I think it's very realistic for a person to have, let's say, five players on their bench and not even know that they're allowed to have six. And that's happened. That's happened to me before. So I make it illegal to have too few players as a way to notify you that you have an extra bench spot.

[B]

And.

[A]

And I will never let anyone have a zero because they didn't have enough players on their bench. I will fix that. I don't do it. I will never penalize you for it. I only use it as a mechanism to let you know that you may not have enough players on your bench.

[B]

As long as the consequence isn't you lose all points for that week because you didn't have an extra.

[C]

Yeah, I can't believe I didn't.

[A]

Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I'm very sorry for your losses. That is really tough. We. We certainly would have tried to rectify that if we. If we had been aware of it.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

All right. Thank you guys for the questions on Apple podcast. I'm looking for my Spotify comments. Here we go. Okay. It's from Blake Dalton, Kincaid or Tyrone Tracy, who is safer.

[B]

Oh, Tracy Safer.

[C]

Tracy Safer. But I like Kincaid better.

[B]

I would also go Kicade as well.

[A]

Justin Herbert, Jacoby Brissette or Trevor Lawrence.

[B]

D. Lawrence.

[A]

Christian Watts.

[B]

What I've seen from. Have you seen a little T law lately, Jamie? Well, starting to feel it.

[A]

I only watched last week. He had all day to throw, but he made three great throws downfield. I am, yes, getting quite excited about Lawrence. And also the only times that he hasn't had a good fantasy game is when he's had a really tough matchup, which is not the case here. The only thing is he. He rare. He pretty much never has a big game, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

No, no. He's the volume, the key.

[A]

Yeah, I'm glad you said that, Dan, because I watched some Trevor Lawrence and I was like, damn, he had a great game.

[B]

Good. Yeah.

[A]

All right.

[C]

Ryan says he can get hot. They're going to be a tough team.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I think they're pretenders. But it's such a weird playoff afc.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Like, we could have no burrow. No Mahomes.

[B]

Right.

[A]

I mean, is it possible the Bills. The Bills are probably going to make the playoffs, right?

[B]

Probably.

[C]

But last year, Bill's gonna get in the playoffs.

[A]

Yeah, they're like, pretty, pretty.

[B]

With last week's win. They're almost out. Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

The AFC is easier to get into.

[C]

No.

[A]

Lions, maybe.

[B]

Oh, no. Yeah. No. The Lions bear situation thing going on in the NFC is ridiculous. We're going to potentially have an 11 and 16. Miss the playoffs.

[A]

Oh, Lamar Jackson. Not likely, but potentially Lamar Jackson might not make it. I mean, it's going to be a very different year.

[B]

Top the AFC Broncos Patriots. Do either of you feel confident right now saying that's our super bowl team from the afc?

[A]

No, I think any team that has a great. Like a. Anything that has one of those great veteran quarterbacks people are gonna pick.

[B]

There will be no veteran quarterbacks, I don't think, in the afc.

[A]

Josh Allen.

[B]

Oh, besides Alan. Yeah, Alan will be in there. But that Bill's defense will probably let them down, I think.

[A]

Yeah, but like, let's say the Bills lose again to the Patriots.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Who's gonna. I think people are still gonna pick them to beat the Patriots in the playoffs.

[B]

I'm gonna pick the Patriots. I'm just gonna ride with Drake May. But it's probably too early for this.

[C]

See if Mahomes gets in or not.

[B]

He's not getting it. How are they getting in there?

[A]

Really long odds.

[C]

Well, it's tough, but still.

[A]

All right. Sorry. Christian Watson are in trouble.

[C]

And don't be surprised if the Chargers are in trouble.

[B]

Colts are done, in my opinion. Completely.

[A]

Probably Christian Watson or Jordan Addison.

[C]

I'd go Watson still.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Jacob this week, like, talked me off of the Watts in case, like, being as a. If you really look at it like the volume hasn't been so great for Watson. I guess he's just capitalized so well on those downfield targets that he's been such a good fantasy option, but over Addison. Yeah, sure, of course.

[A]

How about choose two this week? Jalen Warren, Kenneth Gainwell, Rico Dowdle, Omarion Hampton, Woody Marks, Cortland Sutton. So both Steelers, Rico Dowdle, Hampton, Mark Sutton. Pick two ppr.

[C]

Marks and Dowdle.

[B]

Wow. I I Marks feels like the the safest bet. I guess out of those I might go sudden Marks. It's full ppr.

[A]

I'm with Jamie Marks and Dowdle.

[B]

Yeah, I don't love doubt it like that.

[A]

I don't love him either. I don't love anyone.

[C]

I don't love either. But I mean the Steelers guys are tough. Sun's in a tough matchup. Who else was it?

[A]

It's Hampton.

[C]

And Hampton's in a tough spot.

[B]

Yeah. The Steelers guys produce though.

[C]

Both of them.

[B]

They really do.

[C]

So does that will prior to last.

[A]

Game, I really hope the Dolphins win. I do not want to see the Steelers in the playoffs. I have no issue with the Steelers. I just they're so boring and they have no chance.

[B]

I think that's fair.

[A]

No chance to win the Super Bowl. Whereas what are our other options if.

[B]

We don't get that it'd be the.

[A]

Bengals or the Ravens.

[C]

I saw noted. Noted Bengals homer. Understandably so. His father was a kicker for them. But John Breach did us something on HQ on the how the Bengals get to the playoffs and it's they went out. Okay, Steelers lose out and the Ravens only win one more game.

[B]

So that's possible. What's the Steelers? The Steelers have to lose out. They have Dolphins. That's possible. What are the other Steelers game? It's too bad. The Bengals could have won that pills game. They really screwed up with those pick sixes. They just got two unfortunate moments. But what is the Steelers rest of schedule? I know the Ravens that could easily.

[C]

Have Detroit next week.

[B]

That's not easy.

[A]

So it's Dolphins at the Lions at Cleveland home against Baltimore.

[B]

That's tough that stuff.

[A]

No, the Bengals are probably out, but the Ravens. I think the Ravens are going to win that division. All right, a few more from Spotify real quick. Choose a running back and a wide receiver. Rico Dowdle or Devin Neal.

[C]

Still daddle for me.

[A]

I'm gonna go Neil and Christian Watson or Nico Collins. We're gonna go Nico.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And start one. Cortland Sutton, Aaron Jones, Quinchon Judkins, Omarion Hampton, Blake Coram.

[B]

Is this ppr?

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

What are the names again?

[A]

Sutton, Aaron Jones, Judkins Hampton. Quorum. Pick one.

[C]

Judkins, by the way, Dylan, Santa has been ruled out.

[B]

Okay, I'm.

[A]

I'm going.

[B]

Yeah, I think I'm going.

[A]

Sutton and Corey says, would you rather have Wondale or Quentin Johnson in Dynasty?

[C]

Oh, Wanda.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

Wondale. I really regret not trying to make trade offers. And Dyn in our Dynasty league because trade deadline just passed. I would take a second round pick for Wandale. Yeah, yeah. Wandale, to me, is about to become. They're definitely drafting a wide receiver next year. A good one.

[B]

Yeah, but he's a free agent, Wanda.

[A]

Oh, is he?

[B]

Yeah. So he could be like one of those guys that gets a surprisingly huge contract from some team, not live up to it.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I'm not a Wando guy. I think we've just me.

[B]

Wanda's really interesting because he, like, he has no catch radius, but he's really explosive and he runs good routes. So I don't know what there's going to be value to that summer. He's kind of like a bet. A worse version of Josh Downs.

[C]

Here he goes to New England.

[B]

Yeah, right. I think he could be great. New England would be such a good fit like that. That. That Josh McDaniel system is so good for his skill set.

[A]

All right, let's get some questions from YouTube, everybody. Pitman or Slayton?

[B]

Slayton. No, no. Oh, you missed the Pitman music. Is that what he's mad about?

[A]

I go Pitman.

[B]

With. With Rivers.

[A]

Yeah, maybe I was a little.

[B]

What are we expecting is gonna happen?

[C]

I mean, again, to be fair, tough matchup. But how they both him and Pierce were still very productive last week with Riley Leonard.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

My only issue with that is that a lot of it came when the score was 36 to 13 and the Jaguars.

[C]

What do you think the score is going to be here?

[A]

I mean, you can't expect them to necessarily be playing against.

[B]

Even when the score is that. Though we've seen like last week, like, look at the difference between Cousins yesterday versus Cousins against McDonald's Seattle defense like we saw last week. Even when Seattle goes up, and this has been the case all year, they don't let up on D. They play their style. It's aggressive. It's.

[C]

They're not. Listen, I don't like Pittman, but it's not like Slayton's a slam dunk here.

[B]

No, no, of course not. I just think that this is going to be a total, absolute travesty for the Colts offense, for the most part.

[C]

Agreed.

[B]

And I don't think they're going to let Up Seahawks, they haven't really agreed.

[C]

But I don't know if. Again, Slayton. I know. It's not great either. I know Pim is getting his targets.

[A]

Oh, man. T.J. watt underwent successful surgery to stabilize and repair a partially collapsed lung suffered Wednesday after a dry needling treatment session at the facility.

[C]

Yikes.

[B]

Everything about that sounds crazy.

[C]

I mean, that's what knocked out to Rod Taylor for the season, right?

[A]

Yeah, I don't think it was a. I don't know if it was a.

[B]

Dry needling, but yeah, I think it was bad. Doctor. Something with the doctor.

[A]

Yeah, well, it was. Right. It was a long issue and then Justin Herbert and then the rest was history. I'm sorry to hear it for TJ Watt. I hope he's back soon. I got some questions here from the chat. Let's go through it and we've got Jacoby Myers or Michael Wilson.

[B]

Wilson.

[A]

Jacoby Brissette or Aaron Rodgers?

[C]

Brissette.

[B]

Brissette.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't know. Swift and Menangai or. So basically you're asking.

[C]

I go swept in. Rico.

[B]

Yeah, I know that. I. I knew that was coming. I'm going Swift and Manangai. I think it's going to be an absolute onslaught for the Bears run game.

[A]

Rico Dowdle or Juwan Jennings. Ppr.

[B]

Juan Jennings. Easy for me.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

Lamar Jackson or Jackson Dart?

[B]

I have this decision actually, in my guillotine league. I am going Lamar.

[C]

Lamar.

[A]

Lamar. Lawrence or Stroud? Lamar. Like Dart and Lamar combined?

[B]

Yeah. I don't get it. What was like, can I. Okay, I go Lauren Stroud. Lawrence out loud.

[A]

Lawrence or Stroud is buying two names.

[B]

And laugh at it like it's funny or straw.

[A]

And I go Lawrence here.

[C]

I'm going Shroud.

[B]

I'm gonna go Lawrence here.

[A]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Johnny Airport says my dying wish is to see Adam and Dan in a three legged potato sack race. But now I want the Rocky theme song to play while they stumble along. There we go.

[C]

So Dan in our text chain last night said that if we ever. If we're playing against each other in any leagues, we should do some crazy bets.

[B]

So in the playoffs.

[C]

In the playoffs. I'm trying to think of a way that this will work, but I think like it has to be Adam beating dan and Adam McGreen says, but like you guys recreate the. The beach scene between Rocky and Apollo where you run and then dance in the ocean together. Hugging the ocean together.

[B]

Hey, I've never seen it. So I don't know.

[A]

Gosh, what a ridiculous. See, that is Rico Dowdle. Cortland.

[B]

This is the movie you're saying is better?

[A]

That's Rocky III.

[C]

That's Rocky 3. Yeah.

[A]

Rico Dowdle or Cortland Sutton.

[C]

Rico.

[B]

Sudden. For PPR.

[A]

I'll go Rico. Choose two. Woody Marks, Rico Dowdle. Tyler Warren, Kyle Menangai. Kenneth Gainwell.

[B]

Full PPR too.

[C]

Marks and Rico.

[B]

For me, Marks and Menung guy. I'm big on Mananga this week.

[A]

Debo, go ahead, throw it up there. Look at how jacked those guys are.

[B]

Oh, my God. That doesn't look like either me or Harold.

[C]

I think we got to recreate this with the two of you.

[B]

Oh, my God. Oh, man.

[C]

So who's faster?

[B]

Much better shape.

[A]

So I have a question.

[C]

Do you think who's faster as a runner of the two?

[B]

Adam thinks it's him, but I think it's me. But with that said, I'm so. I'm so out of shape now. I, like, really let myself go this winter in a horrific way. I went on a scale yesterday at the gym. I was disgusted with the number. I, like, almost ballooned back to, like. Remember that picture that circulated around from when I was accepting our ward at the fsda? I was real big in that one. So I'm getting back to that level. So right now, be Adam. I mean, what a goal to myself to get in better shape for this summer's match.

[A]

What do they call. What do they call football season, Jamie?

[C]

Fatball season?

[A]

Yeah, it's tough. I gotta.

[B]

I gotta step up, though. Like, I'm letting it get out of control. I can't stop eating sugar. I'm addicted to sugar.

[A]

All right, all right. Sorry to disrupt the intervention here. Pick two in ppr.

[C]

We answered this already.

[A]

Okay. That's why.

[B]

Yeah, that's on.

[A]

You played Kyle Pitts last night. Does that mean you faced him or you started him? Pick one. Hopefully started running back Rico Neil or Aaron Jones or Tracy or Hampton.

[B]

Rico, I feel like if you are played Kyle Pitts, you need just to go nuts. And you got to go the highest upside. So Hampton, I think.

[A]

I think Rico has plenty of upside. I'm with Dan on the mug grasp.

[B]

Why, thank you. There's nothing wrong with grasping a mug. Like this occasion. I'll do this if I need to. Actually, I feel better with this. I feel more in control with the full grasp. There's anything wrong with this.

[A]

It's insane. This is worse.

[B]

I'm flimsy.

[C]

I could.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Or something.

[A]

Oh, sure. Yeah, it's very hazardous to hold the mug by its handle. Hertzer. May.

[B]

May.

[A]

Mariota or Herbert or Stroud?

[C]

Mario.

[B]

Oh, I'm Stroud on this one.

[C]

Mariota.

[A]

Let's see. Hug was epic. Jordan Mason or Kamani Vidal?

[B]

This was actually a great comment by Life with Fife. We'll go with Mace.

[A]

I'm gonna go by Dell. He has a chance to do.

[B]

That's a great comment right here. Oh, I missed it. Adam. Cutting off Dan when he's pre ranting. You need to. You do a great job that. Continue that. I need to be cut off on a lot of these rants. I'd say 93 of my rants need to be cut off before they start, so continue to stay vigilant.

[A]

Last one. Likely or Schultz?

[C]

Likely.

[B]

Yeah, likely. Better chance of score. Just better pass game.

[A]

And we also had Metcalf.

[C]

What?

[B]

I mean, they both stink. Those are two bad options.

[A]

Likely or Schultz? Yeah, no, those are not too bad options. Those are two good options. Especially against the Bengals.

[C]

He's been hot the last two weeks, and Schultz has been good in the last six games.

[A]

Schultz. I think you're off on Schultz. I mean, when he's had brutal matchups, he's been bad. When he hasn't had brutal matchups, he's been, at very least, startable. And he's got a great matchup this week.

[B]

Week. Let's take a look at Schultz with and without Stroud. Games. 3 for 22 last week.

[A]

Yeah, against the Chiefs. They're really, like I said, one for eight. Two weeks against the Bills. The hardest matchup in fantasy. Like I said, when he has a tough matchup, he struggled. He has a great matchup this week. Justin Jefferson or DK Metcalf. Last one, Jefferson.

[C]

Oh.

[A]

All right now.

[B]

Metcalf.

[A]

I'll go. Jefferson. Thanks for watching and listening, everybody. We'll talk to you with our Sunday morning show. See you then. Paramount Podcasts. Nationwide is so much more than a great insurance company. They're one of America's largest financial services companies. Like how I'm more than just Peyton Manning. I'm also motivating Manning. When I say insurance, you say financial services. Insurance. Financial services. Insurance. Financial services. Now, when I say nationwide, you say is both.

[B]

Nationwide.

[A]

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