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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy Best Friends Forever. M Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Yo is the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. I am Frank Snaffle alongside the sweet vocals of Mike blew It Everybody Special guest hosts Greg Susman is out today. Filling in for him is Mike Blewett. Mike, how's reything going? Then? I'm gonna try and do so ably. I'm excited to

be here. I've never I think I've been on BFFs before, and maybe more than a phone call or a minute or two. So excited to do it and excited to work with Frank. Frank and I have talked for a while about maybe doing a show together. So here's our inaugural effort, making his debut, not only his BFF debut, his his singing debut. Have you ever sang on the

air before today? No? No, no, no no. I occasionally get people saying, hey, you have a voice for radio, that kind of stuff, but never has anybody said, you know, you should try and bust out your vocal skills via a song. So I've never been able to do it before. I'm a terrible singer. I'm a verse, I'm a very I'm a verse to karaoke, like, I just don't want to do it. I feel like it would embarrass myself.

You know, I understand the point of it is to embarrass yourself, but I'm out my voice is that bad. Do you have a go to karaoke song if you had to do it? Honestly, no, I don't. I can't even think of one that I would try to do. Maybe the Boston College Fight song. That would probably be the only one that I would know the words too and be able to pull off. Are you Are you a fan of the nineties alternative pop rock scenes semi

charm kind of life genre? Ish? I can't say I'm big on Third Eye Blind, but uh, it's not terrible. I mean it's sort of in my wheelhouse. As far as music that I listened to, I'm a little older, so my sweet spot for college music is grunge and alternative music. I was a hip hop fan growing up, so I listened to a lot of hip hop and all through the eighties and nineties, but it mixed with the nineties rock of Pearl Jam and Nirvana and Sound Garden and those types of groups. Who Fighters is one

of my favorite bands of all time. I like that. That's a solid call. Um. I'm not going to ask you your age or try and expose that by any means here, but I've always said that I wish I was the age I am now growing up in the eighties and nineties, just because I mean, from everything I've heard, it was an absolutely wild time. And plus, you know a lot of things that I love, Metallica, Michael Jordan's I would have been able to see the inception of

those things. Yea, the ninth like like early nineties in particular music and cinema were fantastic. When you look at the early the first half of the nineties movies. They're pretty incredible, from Usual Suspects to UH seven to pulp fiction and Shawshank Redemption and Good Fellas. All that kind of stuff came out in that five year spam. So there's your topic to your discussion today on film Music Movies. Um, Mike Blewett's genre of singing the balls in college fight songs.

But on today's show, we'll be doing a trade special. Mike, I think this is really interesting. It's very early in the season still, but teams that get off to slow starrs oh and two might be panicking looking to make trades. I have people, you know, tweeting me NonStop telling me all these trades that they're making, you know, buying low on David Johnson will get into him a little bit later on. But there's a lot of guys who have

either underperformed overperformed. So we'll talk a lot about those guys UH players who might want to target as a bylow, a cell high, or you know, maybe guys that you don't really know how to feel about their value right now and maybe he's just hold and we need a couple more weeks to see what their value really is. So We'll get into that a little bit later on

in the show. I want to start off with some news. Obviously, the big news yesterday UM in both the NFL landscape and the fantasy landscape, and I'm intrigued to get your thoughts on it because you are a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Is this whole situation going on with Antonio Brown? Now he's expected to be at the facility today. They've already talked about that, so that is a positive. But I spoke about Greg with this yesterday, and I was a

little embarrassed by the way Antonio Brown was acting. And look, he's not the first diva wide receiver that's ever been around UM. But you know, they say you learned a lot about people when they get punched in the mouth. You see how they react. Right, And obviously this wasn't the start to the season that the Steelers thought they would get off to their oh one and one to start. UM really a must win game on Monday night against the Tampa Bay Bucks on the road, so I thought

it was. But it was a little sad the way that Antonio Brown acted that you know, he's not getting the ball. The team got off to a slow start um and this is kind of his reaction. How do you feel about it overall the Steelers fan and doesn't affect fantasy Yeah, so, Dan Martinez and I we host Fantasy Sports Today together each and every morning, and you get your reruns in the afternoon. But you talked about

it a little bit too. I am a Steelish fan, and I think to Frank's point, you do see a little bit of somebody's character, but I think it's a little underplayed. How much of diva behavior we've seen from Antonio Brown the last couple of years. There's people talking about Mike Tomlin losing the locker room. I don't think that's the case yet. The letting on belt thing is a real distraction. Antonio Brown can't keep doing this, and

him missing work is extremely unprofessional. Right now, I've gotta be on Mike Tomlin's side without hearing any other information, because he says he didn't know that Antonio Brown was missing work. Drew Rosenhouse says Antonio Brown had a personal matter and he was excused. I would think that the head coach would not in a press conference say that he didn't know about it if he did. Mike Tomlin seems to be a stand up guy on that front, but we saw him facebook live a private locker room

conversation after a playoff win. We've seen him throw tantrums on the sidelines, through garbage cans, yelling matches with Todd Haley, now reeling matches with Randy Fitchner and the wide receiver's coaches and name escapes me at the moment, but this type of behavior has happened. Ben has taken shots at Antonio Brown via the media. He's an extremely high paid wide receiver. Can you tell me who the highest targeted player in the NFL is so far this year? Antonio

Brown by three over Michael Thomas. So it isn't a workload issue. It isn't a money shoe I can get. I can understand and being frustrated because they're oh one and one, But let's just not turn the ball over. Let's just play better defense and it will take care of itself. It's still a really talented team. I don't think they're a super Bowl team because of the loss of Ryan Shazier. I think that really impacted their defense

in a way that they can't get it back. But they should be in the mix top four to eight teams in the league. I think that's where they should be. They're just not playing like it right now real quick. Does this open up the door for more opportunity for one James Washington, who we saw a scory touchdown last week?

Or do you think it's just clearly Antonio Brown, juju Um and James Conner and kind of a little bit of sprinkle of James James Washington and the positive for James Washington's he played of the snaps his past weekend. They had to go to three wide receiver set a lot, obviously because they were trailing my homes through six touchdowns. But I think you want to be aware that James Washington is a guy in deeper leagues that he should

be on your bench. I drafted him in one league, caught him after one week, maybe regretting it now, but I cut him for Philip Lindsay, so maybe I'll be in better shape. That's keeper league too, So you know, James Washington was a consideration long term, but I think you'll see a lot of three wide receiver sets out of them. But it would be hard for me to believe that he could crack the top three in targets

this year. And plus, I mean Jesse James had a good game too, so you still have him hanging out there. But James Washington somebody to consider it. I just don't want you to think you're gonna get it every week. His role may look similar to Calvin Ridley's role looks right now in Atlanta. Moving on to the Philadelphia Eagles running back situation, we had some clarity come out today, Mike, in terms of j Ji and Darren's browles are both

day to day. Yesterday there was a report that they would be surprised if j j I actually played this week. We saw last week he left the game. He did return and scored a touchdown which ultimately saved his day. But if it weren't for that, I mean, he really did not look great. Corey Clement actually looked pretty good in terms of total yards in that game. And I think you know, if j j I didn't go, Darren Spearles seems a little bit more doubtful this week in

Week three against Indianapolis Colts. If j D doesn't go, Corey Clement is easily a high end flex maybe low end RB two. Even with the fact that Doug Peterson likes to, you know, spread the ball around was running next. I think, so I have to give Corey Parson credit. He like Corey Clement this past weekend guy gets in the end zone. So a pretty good call out of Corey Parson. I think you're right. I think Clement immediately is going to shoot up rankings and he'll be an

extremely popular DFS play. He just will be. It's the way we saw last week when Freeman was declared out, Tevin Coleman became a really good DFS option. I think you'll see the same for Corey Clement. Who is this Corey Parson you talk about? I only know the fancy exam is the executive. Sorry. I sometimes I forget to use the nicknames that have been given to us or have been self proclaimed. I know. I know Craig likes to say Scott Angel is self proclaimed, but he's arguing

that point. I don't. Tony Sankata and I used to talk about this a lot, where everybody around us seems to be scooping up nicknames, and I was like, all right, I was like, I wear a blazer a lot. Should I be the fantasy CEO? And he was like, somebody's got that. I was like, all right, Fantasy CEO. He's like, somebody's got that too. Gory's the Fantasy executive. So I just passed. Yeah, I don't really have anything that's stuck with me either. I went to Frank, is your handle though?

That's all right? I had I was the Fantasy Salad. Last Twitter handle is literally my name. That's It. Doesn't get more straightforward than that. When your last name is Blewett, you learn over the years that that is how you're going to be identified, whether you like it or not.

When you come up with some sort of clever nickname regarding my red hair or what how I look or whatever, your last name is blue Ittt, people just gravitate and start calling you blew It in work settings, in friends scenarios. That's just how I'm referred. Makes sense. Yeah, Blue is what some of my friends call me for short. But that's it, alright, alright, So all right, we'll have to figure out a nickname for you. I still don't have one. I kind of called myself the Fantasy superhero last week.

Long story. Go back and listen to the tapes. I think Boona has a terrible has a promo somewhere if you want to play that during the break so people know what I'm talking about, Mike. We know football has been referred to as the battle of attrition. It's kind of cliche, but it seems that the Falcons are currently

losing that battle. Uh. They've now lost left guard Andy leavitri as well to go along with the you know the players that they've lost on defense, Dion Jones, Kian O'Neil, and now a pretty big part of their offensive line. I know that you do a lot um with the offensive line rankings for rotal experts before the season, so you obviously worked very closely with offensive line um with offensive lines overall for fantasy football. How badly does this

affect them? I think it's a bad one because it is just another log on the fire of this Atlanta season. I'll be full disclosure. I had Atlanta going to the Super Bowl taking out Tennessee. I just like the way that they lined up. I thought they'd have a nice bounce back season. So far, not so good. I mean,

they're one on one. It's not the end of the world, but they lost their two best defenders Kian O'Neill, and Dion Jones, one of their running backs is out, although I think Keevin Coleman can sustain them for a long period of time time. But now we have an injury to Andy Levitra. They still have their tackles there and Schrader and Matthews and Alex Mack in the middle and Brandon Fusco starting, but now they're gonna be bringing somebody

off the bench. It remains to be seen here that is gonna Ben Garland, Tyson, Brio West, Schweitzer are all possible backups there. But Levitra has been rated really well by Pro Football Focus and a guy that you know knocks on the door of the Pro Bowl. So I think it's it's a loss just the same way that the Giants lose their starting center. Is a bad loss for Atlanta. Yeah, it absolutely is. And we know, you know, DeVonta Freeman is also out right now. But Keevin Coleman

filled in quite admirably last week. And again, if you were DeVonta Freeman owner, you probably go out there and make sure that you own Edo Smith to just in case, because he looked pretty good last week. He kind of filled in that Keevin Coleman role. That DeVonta Freeman role for the Atlanta Falcons a week ago, So we'll see what happens with them. I know we were talking a little bit downstairs about you know, what might the Falcons

do in the off season. They have an opportunity, a chance that they maybe they let DeVonta Freeman go and choose to sign Tevin Coleman. Now it's a long term deal. I think there are ways that they can make that work. So that'll be interesting to see. But if you own Tevin Coleman in a keeper or dynasty league, I think you're pretty excited. There are two guys that I banged on the table about during the preseason to make sure

that people were drafting appropriately in there keeper leagues. One was James Conner and the other one was Tevin Coleman. At Tevin Coleman's gonna be starting running back in the NFL next year. It could be Atlanta based on the things that you're talking about, but if not, it will be somewhere else, whether it's the Jets or somebody else

that feels like they just need one more piece. Devin Coleman is going to be a guy that can command some money in the free agency market, as you aptly compared, it will be next year's Derrick McKinnon, although I think he's a better player than McKinnon. Yeah, i'd agree with that.

I thought it made sense in terms of fantasy. He's gonna be the guy that either becomes a starter for his team with Atlanta due to getting rid of Davanta Freeman, or he will leave go somewhere else, become a starter and he'll move up into that second round of fantasy purposes. But I do agree with you. I think he's better all around running back then Jerick McKinnon. I had to see the parallels for fantasy football heading into next year,

but that's a long ways away. We've still got a lot going on in Week three and what has just happened with the Eaglers. Since this is a trade, this trade discussion, I don't want to jump the gun, but Tevin Coleman is a guy that maybe you could be angling for that has a lot more value beyond this next month. While Freeman is out, clearly his value for this year has gone up, so it could hurt you, But Tevin Coleman is a guy in a keeper league that you need to look at. He's a starter in

the league beyond this year. Yeah. Absolutely. And something I'm gonna bring up later on the show. Something we don't really hear a lot about when you're discussing trades is trying to buy players high, which seems like a weird concept.

But if you trust that something a player is doing right now is going to be sustainable, but the owner who has him right now doesn't believe that it's sustainable, then maybe you do buy that player high, even if they're coming off with a week Like we'll talk about Kenny Golladay a little bit later on and how he might be a buy high because if his owner doesn't trust that, then maybe you could still get him add a discount to where he's not being valued correctly now.

Tevin Coleman. If DeVonta Freeman, I mean he's dealing with a knee injury, he can easily come back and reinju this and Tevin Coleman is easily a top twenty running back for the rest of the season, So it's not just for the future, but I think that makes sense if you do play in a keeper or dynasty league, if you wanted to try and get Tevin Coleman, and by high a concept you don't really hear. I think that there's a possibility that you can do that, Mike.

For the Eagles, they've signed Jordan's Matthews will run mainly in the slot. Now, I wanted to ask you this worries me a little bit, just because Nelson Aghilar we know, has typically done a lot of his damage out of the slot. Now they've been moving him all over the field and they typically do do that in Doug Peterson's offense. They can run him inside, they can run him on the outside. We've seen that consistently so far this year. But he is clearly clearly better as a slot receiver.

Does this effect Nelson are negatively that Jordan Matthews is coming in and Alston Jeffrey is still on his way back as well. It's a good question something to consider. I just I think Ala is playing so well right now, and he's literally the most reliable receiving options not named zach Ertz that I think they just have to keep doing what they're doing with whether it's Wentz or you have to consider is there any potential chemistry change with Wins coming in from Folds? But I think Al's worst

days are behind him. I think he's really developing well as a receiver. We saw it last year, and I think they're gonna want to continue to use him in that role, and I don't think they'll try to mess with the mojo that he has going on right now. I actually agree with you. He's wide receiver nineteen overall right now in Fantasy football, and we saw last year regardless of the quarterback, Carson Wentz likes to target Nelson

a ton as well. They already have good chemistry together as well, So I'm not really worried about Jordan Matthews. I mean, the guy has had an extensive injury US three himself, so who knows how long he even stays healthy. The same thing goes for alshon Jeffrey, I'm not really worried about Nelson Aglor still a high end wide receiver three for me. But Mike, when we come back, we'll talk more about trade targets, potential buy lows, cell highs. You can call in later on the show eight four

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Do a quick exercise with you. What's Kevin Coleman landing spots cap space. We're gonna go from the most camp space all the way down. Tell me, stop me, stop me. On the teams where you think it's an option for them to sign him, Let's give me the exact Jerk McKinnon deal. What was like six for forty one millions something like that, something like that. I think you might get more, but ye know, plts makes sense. They got

like a poopoo platyer of running backs right now. All three guys are drafted in the last twenty months or so. I don't know if they want to go out and pay somebody and get rid of the three guys that they just drafted. I think a lot depends, obviously on what happens for the rest of this season. Jordan Wilkins looked better than Marlon Mack last week, and that's something I expected coming into the year. I don't think Marlon

Mack is really all that great. I think he's a guy who tries to break every run to the house. I think he tries to do too much of times. Jordan Wilkins more of that north south runner. I think he makes sense for them on early downs and then Niheem Hinds more of the passing down back as the season goes on. If they learned that they can trust that tandem. I think Wilkins and Nihim Hinds is kind of like that duo of the future. But if they don't work out, then Tevin Colin can be an option

in the off season. Uh your team, The n Y J E T S J S S Jets makes a lot of sense. Paul Powell an aging pass catching running back. They can choose to let him go or you know, just bring him down as like a third bring him back as a third down guy. Isaiah Crowell. They didn't. They don't have a lot of money investing in him, So if they just wanted to cut him after the year, I think that's something they can look into. They have a lot of money. I think the Jets make a

lot of sense. They could roll with Coleman and crow L and Pale. That would be their three. They can go with it. If they weren't heavily money committed to the other two. Um, the Texans they got offensive line issues. The Jets do too, and the Colts do too. So the Jets also need a pass rusher, but the money, there's not gonna be a guy out there for the Jets to buy pass rusher. They can buy it running back. Yeah, and you have to imagine they'll have a top ten pixel.

They likely use that on a pass rusher and then maybe they go out and try and sign offensive line and maybe some offensive weapons like a Tevin Coleman. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, So you know, it's like they did Truemayin Johnson. They took one shot this offseason. They took one shot at the guy Texans have offensive line issues. They did Miller already. They already did this with Lamar Miller. You can think what you want about

Lamar Miller. It's really not on him completely. This offensive line is problematic. It's terrible, It's god awful. And that's why I think, you know, that game between the Giants and Texans is gonna be an absolute crapshoot this week. I think both defenses are in play. Yeah, Bills, why would Buffalo McCoy would be out right, don't I wouldn't even take the meeting. Uh McCoy. McCoy will be gone after this year, so they will have somebody to fill

any one million dollars cap space. Browns they're good, Cowboys are good. Niners. Just did this Raiders. Maybe it could make sense. I could see them tires like. The thing is, he's not old enough for John Gruden. It's a fair point. You gotta be thirty plus a sign with John Gruden, and it wouldn't be a good signing for them, which means that will probably happen. The Bengals all good with Joe Mixon. The Hawks just drafted somebody. The Lions can't run,

doesn't matter who's there. Plus they have a guy that they just drafted, and carry on Johnson Cardinals obviously our money committed. Chiefs are good packers. I think they'll probably hold with what they have with the two younger guys. Titans are good, Rams are good like this is. This is like the top fifteen teams that only a couple of spots that really even need a running backs, like three or four that really set up I'm drawing the line to the Jets. It's the one that actually makes

the most sense. Mike blew it music to my ears, Yeah, because it goes Ravens. They got Collins and then the Falcons all the way down to them. They're like right

in the middle of the league. So Jets, it's Jets, Colts and Texans and Bills and Browns have a lot of money next year at absolutely so again, you know, if you're in a Keeper of Dynasty league and no one else is really thinking that far ahead right now, if you wanted to go out there and try and get Sevin Coleman, I think that makes a lot of sense. But Mike, we're here today talked about, you know, trades for this season, guys that can help you more so

this season. And you know, I provided a link in the rundown which I thought was really interesting. It's Yahoo's

most Traded list. It's a pretty cool function that they have where they you know, you can pull up the players who are being traded for most and I'll read off some names on this list right now, and then we'll kind of go into you know, who we like to trade from this list, who's a good bielow, who might be a nice candidates target here, Joe Mixon, Levian Bell, James Conner, A J. Green, Alex Collins, Lashawn McCoy, Josh Gordon,

Adrian Peterson, A Marii Cooper, Devonte Freeman. Those are the top two, four, six, eight ten players who are being most traded right now on Yahoo. Before we get into any specific player, how do you feel about trading away four injured players? Because a lot of people are coming to me with questions about trying to acquire Joe Mixon, and really my answer is the same every time. If you can afford to wait a couple of weeks on him,

I think it makes sense to do. But you need to be rock solid at RB one and r B two. You can't go out there trading your r B two or your flex running back and then putting yourself at a disadvantage hoping to get Joe Mixon back in three weeks where you know he's coming back from a knee injury. So that in itself makes the move risky in my opinion, Yeah, you don't want to trade out of it pose stion

of weakness. If you've got a guy that you know, it's hurt your depth chart and you're trading away mixing to get somebody back, that's different. But if you're if you have a solid running back corps and you're bringing mixing in and making weakening it, you have to be honest with yourself about it. It's like Scott Engel has often says, people aren't really honest about the trades. They don't look at it from the other guy's perspective. People are trying to win the trade. That's not how it works.

I'd say in general, if your strategy on the whole is to fade injured players, you're gonna come out on top. Particularly it happened we talked about a lot in baseball, the guys like dealing with chronic injuries. If you don't roster those guys on the whole, you're gonna win those decisions more often than you lose them. So I don't consider to be a great strategy. And I had an instance last year where I had to really take it

was a super tight league. It was an industry league, like a serious XM invitation or something like that, with Evan Silva and Scott Pianowski and some other big names, and it was an extremely tight league. Ten eleven teams all within a hundred points. Kind of thing, exaggerating stately, but it was that close. Nobody was better than eight and four or it worse than six, and uh, what would be at that? Yeah, six and six, Like it

was really tight. So I had to take a big swing and I traded four Levian Bell and in that swap, I got back Pierre Garsan. And it was the day, it was the week that he had come out with a neck injury, but he had come out and said, I'm good to go. It's not gonna be a problem at all. Within twenty four hours after we solidified the trade, we had both blown up our own teams because the guy gave my h Ingram and DeVonta Freeman too or

something like that. His quarterback to Shaun Watson tours a c L and practice, uh, and Pierre Grosan was put on injured reserve and it ruined both our teams. So, uh, I'm telling you that anecdote because I traded for an injured player and went horribly wrong. You don't know the medicals on these guys, so you have to be know that what you're getting is an extremely high risk. What Joe Mixon has is virtually the same injury that sony

Michelle has had and is suspecting it. It's going to be two weeks is not the right call because Michelle is dealing with it five weeks after we first heard about it. So I would I would imagine you're without Joe Mixon for one month. And I really liked the way things were looking for the Bengals, for Joe Mixon in all of this, so I would like to have him for But now there's a huge cloud over it, and I think you have to assume a big amount of risk when you're getting him back. Yeah. I couldn't

agree more. And that's why yesterday on the Waiver Wire show, I said I'm willing to go as high ast thirty percent on Giovanni Bernard And you know, at first glance that sounds like a lot, But you're getting a top twenty four running back, so the next you know, two to four weeks. I mean again, if you know, obviously, if you lost show mixing, you're going to want to

go out and spend that money on it. But even if you didn't, if you need help at running back, if you start owing too, this is an easy top twenty four running back for maybe the next month of the season. Yeah, absolutely, could you go up to on that you should be able spend of your budget on a starting running back for one month, ten percent of your budget each week, you would you would do that for ten weeks to guarantee an RB two um a starting running back. I think you absolutely have to do

something like that. Yeah. And he played eight seven percent of the offensive snaps last year in the two games that Joe Mixon missed, and we saw the usage the way that Joe Mixon was being used this year as the team's workhorse running back. Now they have Mark Walton and Trey Carson behind Giovanni Bernard, and it's come out today that Tray Carson is likely going to be the guy that's backing him up, the guy who's going to

see a few touches per game here. But it seems like Giovanni Bernard is going to be that work horse running back. So that's why I was aggressive and bullish on picking him up yesterday in our waiver wire piece. But a few other names here that very recent news just published. Bengals ad Thomas Rawls wave injured Trey Carson, So he was waved injured after suffering a hamstring in Monday's practice. Yes, he was expected expected to be GIOE. Bernard's backup. With Joe Mixon out that to likely now

be rookie Mark Walton's job while Rawls catches up. So that's the depth chart now, Jeo Bernard, Mark Walton, and Thomas Rawls. I guess they wanted a veteran player in there along with Jio Bernard. I've always been an advocate for Jeer Bernard. I think he's a very good football player. I think, um he's versatile. He actually I'll produced Joe Mixing last year. But um, I think his only negative is that he can't really hold up over the course of a season. But for one month, I'll take him.

That is. It must be really recent because, um, Paul Denner Jr. Of The Cincinnati Inquired just quote tweeted earlier and said that Ray Carson will be the next man up. So that's why that was the most recent news that I had. But based on what you just said, UM, it looks like it is going to be Mark Walton. So it was less than an hour ago, so that that's more recent than this tweet which he tweeted out two hours ago. Um, A few more names here. We

spoke a lot about the Steelers. I mean, I'm still getting a lot of questions on Levian Bell and James Conner? Do I trade this guy away to a trade four? It's like nothing has changed, And I don't know how what information do we have to expect Levian Bell to be here before we tend I just I'd say no evidence at all anymore. Every move it's extremely risky. It's

a high risk, high reward move. But I don't see how you could give up something of value right now to get Levan Bell unless you also own James Conner And what kind of return are you gonna get now a guy that's managing his career for the next year. Which I'm not really that critical of Levian Bell for all of this, I do find it somewhat distasteful that he's throwing EP parties and on jet skis and that kind of stuff. It is a little bit videos on CMC.

It's a little bit in their face. And also, why are you scheduling an EP party during the football season? How long was this scheduled in advance? You would have never done an EP party if you were in the building, right, Like if you're playing a week to week, would you do use your off day to go to Miami to jet ski and do an EP party? Probably new back in whatever August that he was not the Only problem I have with Levian Bell and all of this is that it seems to me as a complete outsider, and

I don't know this. So this is speculation that he seems to have maybe hinted to teammates that he would be there on time, and that is why they got upset. But if he did not actually hint that to them, then they shouldn't be critical of him trying to protect himself. The thing is, why would they make that up though, right, because it seems like everything that they've indicated to this

point and they being the offensive lineman. Those are the guys who really reacted strongly to leving On Bell not showing up, talking about, oh, he makes seven times what I make do his job for him. Why would they react that way unless he did tell them that he was going to be there or give them some kind of indication. So I'm with you that guy I could have thrown out. He told me he was going to be here. Nobody ever said that specifically from what I read, so I don't know he It is a little bit

of he's being coy and not saying that. I never said that I wasn't gonna be there. Well, you said he was gonna have the best season yet, and the best season yet isn't isn't going out there half ast for six games six weeks sample size. The only way I could trade for Levyan Bell or James Conner is if I own the other one. But with each passing week, LEVI on Bell's value does decrease. I guess until we get closer to week ten, then it will start to

increase again, assuming that he's there. But a few other names on this list Alex Collins. A. J. Green mentioned those guys. I wanted to bring up Alex Collins. It seems like I've I don't know, become the truther for Alex Collins. I mean, I didn't even mean for this to happen, But you and I are on board with Alex Collins going into the year. I'm on board with you on Alex Collins. Yeah, I have him as a bilow right now. I thought the first two games were

extremely weird, kind of wonky. The first game he scored the touchdown, then he fumbled, he got bench for a series, and by the time you know, he was able to come back into the second half, they were blowing out the Bills, so that they didn't really need him to do much more in that game. And then last week game script showed, you know, they were down early in that game times and they're gonna lose every game they

throw fifty five times just about yeah. And then he was actually targeted in that game and he turned three receptions into fifty five yards, So he showed, was you his explosiveness, what he can do as a receiver. So maybe that's something that they start to implement in his game more so moving forward. But I looked a little bit deeper into the stats. He's seen the second highest percentage of eight plus defenders in the box already this year, Mike.

He also has more carries inside the twenty yard line and inside the ten yard line than Buck Allen, So it seems like they trust him in the red zone. It's just once they get specifically down on the go line, that's where they choose to go with Buck Allen. And it's probably because John Harbaugh is worried about the fumbling issues of Alex Collins um fair concern and according to PFF, he has forced ten miss tackles on just twenty touches

just the eye test. If you watch the guy play, I mean Last Thursdays of Young Marshall Lynch, he's the hard runner. He's the type of guy that people don't want to tackle, so he runs high knees. He's sort of a violent runner. So in that respect, I totally understand. You know how Levy on Bell is sort of that uh stop it go, uh smooth runner. Alex Collins is all bull. He's straight ahead, dread's lying and a really good player. I'm not saying that he's not agile also

and quick, but he's a violent runner. He's going to run into people with high knees. He reminds me a little bit in some ways of guys like Mary and Barber Michael Bennett from years past that guys don't really want to tackle because they're coming downhill full speed. Yeah.

Who also has this function where you can look at trades that have already been made, so if you want to give yourself kind of an idea of what the market is for this player, Like I think an interesting play which might be a kind of a sell high ish type for Alex Collins right now. It's one of these trades on Yahoo, trading away Carlos High to get Alex Collins back in return. Is that something that you would try to do if you were a Carlos side owner, I would get I would I would prefer Alex Collins.

Agree with you? Yeah, Uh? And I actually like both guys. I own both guys on various teams. I probably own more shares of Hide, but I think Collins is the guy I want long term because I have reservations about Carlos Hide seeding some or more or more carries to Chub over the course of the year. Uh. And that worries me because that that offense is broken. It will continue to be broken as long as you Jackson is around, and they might just try things because this isn't working.

Let's let's put Mayfield and Chub in and see what they can do. Great, we went to and fourteen. None of it really worked, But I don't want to be subject to that, So I think Collins has actually has more solid value, even with you noting the fact that he could see some goal line carries. I think it

was gonna see two fifty touches easy this year. And there was an article that actually came out yesterday that they realized, they being Baltimore, that they need to get the ball more in Alex Collins's hand and use him and not have as close to a fifty fifty split in terms of touches right now between Buck Allen and Alex Collins. So I think more is coming. Thursday Night game is the ultimate game script check. You have to

have watched the game to know what happened. If you're down twenty one, thing, you can't just start running the ball to try to get back into it. And they did get back into it. It ended up being a relatively close game. Like a few more players I'm gonna talk to you about when we come back, a few more bylow options, obviously first round running backs that have not performed at a level we expected them to this point. That's right, go DJ, that's my DJ, David Johnson. A

lot of people are worried about him right now. We'll find out how you feel about him, whether you're worried about him. And then Dalvin Cook, you know a guy who hasn't necessarily done it in terms of efficiency on the ground this year. Hasn't scored a touchdown yet, but he's doing a lot in the receiving game. So we'll talk about Dalvin Cook David Johnson when we come back. We'll also take your calls over the final ten fifteen

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located near a bar So Cardano. We're gonna need a um. You know, we've had that. We've hosted The Power Hour before. But the next show that we do is going to be We'll answer your fantasy football questions while Mike blew Ittt does keke stands one every ten minutes. That's that's gonna be a tough one. What day of the week are we gonna do that? I mean, I think Friday, all right. I do shows on Sunday mornings for like five hours, so not Saturday. No, impossible to do it

on a Saturday. We probably do Thursday. I'm at an age now where I need a few days recovery times, so I might take a Friday off and then I have Saturday recover and then by Sunday mornings. Are we good to go and give me an egg sandwich and thirty gatorades and kegs and eggs Mike blew it. But before we get into the by low segment, some of those first round running backs you might want to target.

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a little bit of it. And it's some language. We have some syntax problems, card How can you get on that too? Insurance? Yeah, and we need a new uh, a new daily rodo read work on those things. But Mike, Dalvin Cook the snaps right now to let's say, of the snaps showing off health, ten tackles avoided. Um, the team had to scored a rushing touchdown yet, So it's not him, It's not what Tavis Murray. It's not like with Tervie's Murray is vulturing his goal line carries. They

haven't had any. Uh. The team actually has two red zone two carries inside the ten yard line. Both of those have been to Dalvin Cook. On the other side, there's David Johnson, who were getting a lot of panic about right now, and I understand because the Cardinals offense is absolutely brutal. They've scored six points total in two games. They're averaging one seventy five total yards of offense per game.

And David Johnson is not being used in the same capacity he was under Bruce Arians in that more vertical style passing offense. Now with Mike McCoy. They did come out this week and say that they want to be more creative with David Johnson. They're gonna start using him in the slot. Um, I'm not really all that worried. Yeah, I'm not really all that worried about David Johnson. Like, yeah, he's on a bad team, but at some point they're gonna go to Josh Rosen and the only way, the

only places offense could go is up and um. Yeah. But to be like a Girly twenty sixteen scenario, the same year that David Johnson had his really good year, that that is your concern. Curly. Girly wasn't a total waste in He was just pulled back because they are offensive line issues. There's three. There's a few guys this year in fantasy football who I avoided actually due to offensive line issues. It was anybody in on the Texans. Mill Hopkins is really only guy I was gonna be

looking at it. I didn't even really want any shares of Deshaun Watson because of this. Um, I faded see Kwon Barkley. Actually I had opportunities to take him in the first round. I did not take advantage of any of them, and I went against David Johnson. I took there was two scenarios conceivably where I took him at full maya culpa. I took Levy on Bell in one of those, I had to back him up with James Conner. Uh. And the other one was I took Zeke over him.

I guess in scott Fish Bowl too, I took Alvin Kamara over him. So that was the decision. So in all three of those I faded David Johnson because I was worried about the offensive line. Now, I'm not here to tell you that I think it's a waste to pick or he's gonna bought them out. I just do think it could look a little bit like girls looked. Uh. But him moving to this lot will help. He's caught

eighty passes before. That's gonna be a huge help, and which is more than Girly will probably ever catch in a season in his career. The reason why I wasn't so worried about David Johnson. As bad as the offense has been, um, he was still targeted. I believe it was nine times in Week one he caught five of those four thirty yards, So, yes, one game, he's been good. In Week one week he also scored a touchdown. He averaged four yards of carry, Like that's fine. He's never

been a high yard like to carry running back. But he was targeted nine times in a Week two I mean they lost thirty four zip. Nobody was good for the Arizona Cardinals in that game. Um, so I'm taking a little bit more of an optimistic approach. If you could get David Johnson four you know, seventy five cents on the dollar right now, it's something that I would

look into. I'm not saying I'm I'm definitely gonna give up a you know, top twelve starting running back for him, but if you get him at a fair discount, I think that's something worth looking into. Twelve and running back targets right now. The fact that he only had two targets last week is a coaching issue, but you, like you said, he had nine in Week one. So I would imagine over the course of the year he's gonna be right near the top of targets for running backs.

He won't beat out McCaffrey, and now it looks like he won't beat out Barkley. The whether the Giants can't play offense, So but I would expect him to finish top five in targets for running backs. How do you feel about Dalvin Cook because he's being used more in the passing game and you know, there are a lot of weapons in Minnesota, so there's kind of there's a lot of mounts of feed between Stefon Diggs, Adam Feeling,

even Kylrudolf got involved last week. But given how potent this offense is, I think there's going to be opportunities for you know, touchdowns eventually. They just haven't necessarily worked out. I mean, I think ultimately it's encouraging for Cook because that's his skill set. He does have the ability to do that. I want them to utilize him like that. I don't want it to be carry concentrated. I want him to see touches via the passing game as well.

And if they can get him out in space, I think it leaves more opportunity of ease for him to break off bigger place. Uh. Not everybody has the offensive line issues that the Giants have. Minnesota's offensive line isn't great, but obviously they're proving to be It's not even good, but they're proving to be capable because they have so many weapons to move it around the field. I mean they are. You could argue right now that top to bottom skill set that the Vikings are are the best

in the league. You can make that argument right with the two wide receivers are really capable, uh tight end and two running backs that are capable, one of whom could be a fantasy superstar at Cousins. I'll be honest, like, I'm not a huge believer, but with this, with this set of guys around him, it's looking really good. But ultimately, I like Cook because of the touches. I think that's

a positive that they're getting in the ball more. The only other person who might rival the Minnesota Vikings in terms of weapons they have Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs right like they have Sammy Watkins, Travis Kelsey and Kareem Hunt. I know, it's crazy to think about what we're talking by low on the other side of that cell high. I mean, Patrick Mahomes has ten touchdounds in its first

you know, two starts of the season this year. We don't quote me, but I think if he goes on to throw eighty touchdowns, it might be a record that is true on pace for eight touchdounds right now. Do at least shop him to see what you'd get in return. Yeah, I'd say so, but I'd be more likely to hang onto him because I do have him in one league. I actually didn't play him the other day and benched

him for Garoppolo. It didn't matter, I would have lost anyway, but um, I like Garoppolo's spot a little bit better, and assuming I mean home my homes on the road, I was like Garoppolo's at home, I'll take it, and the daily Roado projections were very close. I was down to the wire on it. I probably just shoot it gone with a higher total there with my homes. So

that's my bad. But um, yeah, I think you could shop it, especially if your week at running back right now, maybe you lost DeVante Freeman, or you're entered four net owner, or you could have both guys conceivably, um which happened in some leagues. But um, I think he's gonna keep throwing it. I think they're gonna sling it a lot this year. You know what's crazy is I also bench Patrick Mahomes last week, but I benched him for Ben Roethlisberger.

There in the Flex league, I have Big Ben and Patrick Mahomes, so I'm gonna try to chop one of those guys. But I had Roethlisberger in one league that went against Mahomes, so it was like canceled out completely. I don't remember if I won that number one and number two quarterbacks last week. I assume, um, well, you know how these expert leagues are. I don't know that anyone's gonna want to trade me for a quarterback because

that's just kind of expert for quarterbacks. I tried it last year when I picked up Alex Smith when I had Drew Brees, and I tried to shop it for like a month and nobody took it. Eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. We'll go to the phone lines here to round out the show. Christian in Cali, Christian, what's going on? Hey, good morning, guys, doing doing well? How are you do? Good? Thanks? Hey, guys have two questions. So, uh, in one of my leagues,

it's a ten team PPR. I have been offered Gronk, Robbie Anderson, and Jordan Howard for my James Connor, Trey Burton, and Matt Brida, and I wasn't too sure about that trade. But I was thinking of countering with just Brita and Bertin for Gronk, but I haven't said that yet. Al Right, So it's Gronk, Robbie Anderson and Jordan's Howard for his, James Connor, Trey Burton and Matt Brita. What do you think about this one? Mm hmm. It's actually a fair

it's a fair trade. You're you're you're giving, You're getting rid of Gronk and getting Connor. Is that right? No? No, I wouldn't be receiving the Grounk tree uh, Gronk Robbie really close. I think I want the two running backs, so I'd stick with Connor and Brita. Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, as long as love Bell is out, James Conner is a top ten, maybe maybe top five running back. Um.

Trey Burton has been serviceable. He scored a touchdown last week, and Matt Brida wouldn't be surprised if he gets more touches um this week and moving forward. He just looks much more explosive than Alfred Morris. But it is very very close. I'm with you that'll take the Connor breed of Burton side. But I think that's a fair counter Is Burton Breeda for Gronk. I think that's a try and sell high on Breeda if you wanted to do that, I think, yeah, try and throw it out there, see

what you can do. Yes, because he has Alfred Morris. That's what I was thinking of countering with Matt Brida and Burton for Gronk. Did you have another question? Yes? The other question is in my twelve team PPR. So I have Uh, I was, I'm well, I am a Baldwin owner, but I'm just statching him now, of course. But my receivers now as they are, is Hogan Holiday. I just picked up Callaway, but I also have Josh Gordon. But I was thinking I'm not playing Josh Gordon this week.

But I was thinking of already trying to sell on Hogan. We want to know. We spoke about this a little bit yesterday, Josh Gordon versus Chris Hogan. Look, it's gonna take a few weeks for Josh Gordon to not only get healthy, but to get acclimated in this Patriots offense. So Chris Hogan for at least the next couple of weeks to three weeks, whatever it is, he's still going to be the guy, especially until Julian Edelman comes back. So I agree with Blewett. I'm not going to go

out and trade Chris Hogan yet. But against the Detroit Lion secondary, he could have a big game, and if that happens, then maybe that's where you try and trade him. Um, as Corey Parson walks right in front of the camera. Um. But but for Chris Hogan, I'm not necessarily trading him yet. I think I wait for him to have maybe one or two more big games until Josh Gordon is really acclimated, and then maybe you try and sellble it in general

and Josh Gordon thing. I think it's a really unique scenario that he gets to play with Tom Brady, but the return on wide receivers switching teams even during the off season on the whole isn't great in that first year. So EXI this guy with his background, he's played eleven games since season to come in in the middle of the season and acclimate to the Patriots where Edelman, Hogan, Gronk are all fully acclimated and they got Rex burke

Head and James Jimmy White. As Corey likes to call him and a rookie and Sony Michelle like, there's a lot of mouse. There's a lot of mouse to feed, and why would Josh Gordon take control of all of that in the wide receiving corps. I think you're gonna have a few good games out of Josh Gordon, but on the whole, it's gonna be tough to know when to start him. Yeah, thanks a lot, Thank you guys.

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Bob and Vermont dropped the first time ever. I'm Bob and Vermont. I was on the Sunday We Do uh Fantasy Sports Today in the Morning with Jim Day, Scott England. Then I host with Corey Parson and Gave Moran. See we do line up block Live and Bob called in the other day and um got a little weird. I'm gonna lie, he's complimenting my my look my blazer, he said. He's like, do you do Are you an announcer? He asked me if I was an announcer. I was like, well, Bob,

what do you think this is? It's like, no, do you radio? Not the same thing? Yeah, he's he's asking if I called games. I don't do play by play. But have you ever you regret? Yeah, I probably missed opportunity. I think it's probably in my wheelhouse is something I could have done. But it's all right. I like to perfectly find a fantasy sports radio makes money. I appreciate the appreciate the voted confidence. Yeah this, I had to throw that out there. A few of the names that

we just didn't get to. I'll just ask you quickly to round out the show here. Jarvis Landry, I think is an interesting by low right now. Um, I had the stat of the day. Of course I didn't get to it until the final three minutes of the show, but he's currently fifth among wide receiver in wide receivers in air yards this year, after finishing thirty three at the position last year. So he's being used completely different

in Todd Haley's offense. And he was in Miami. It was a lot of you know, short close to the line of scrimmage passages, passes in Miami where he would make a lot happen after the catch. We know that he was you know, top ten in yards after the catch last season. Now he's getting used kind of in that Antonio Brown mold for Todd Haley in his offense. He also has thirty two percent of his team's tarred chair,

which is sixth among wide receivers. He hasn't scored a touchdown yet, he hasn't really had a monster game yet. I think that Jarvis Landry has the upside to be a high end wide receiver too, and I'm not touch that he's being valued like that right now. Unless I'm mistaken. He's one of the few. No, I think he's one of the few guys that I'm really bombed that in and have more shares of Tevin Coleman and Jarvis Landry, two guys I really liked this year, and I just

never got him in drafts. It doesn't say anything about how I felt about him, I just the way my draft's broke. I didn't. I didn't get him. But in Week one I think his average depth of target was over thirteen yards from the line of scrimmage, So that's a positive. So I think you're moving the ball down the field a little bit more with Jarvis Landry. We'll

see when the touchdowns come. But my approach on a hole with wide receivers and PPR leagues draft the guys that have the ball in their hands a lot, Adam feeling Jarvis Landry obviously the elite wide receivers. Those are the types of guys that I target, even in Edelman a little bit later in drafts via the suspension. So those are the guys I look for. In Jarvis Landry, I think is gonna be potentially wide receiver one by

the end of the year. My Blue, you want to try and help me make a trade real quick, Let's do it in one of my home leagues to a T that needs wide receiver depth. I have a ton of wide receiver threes and I can use a wide receiver two, and I want to try and acquire Jarvis Landry from this person. I have Chris Hogan, Sammy Watkins, Kenny Stills, Chris Godwin and Mike Williams and Keelan Cole. Would you give up any two of those? Yeah? Like about a Hogan and Godwin for Landry? Is that a

fair trade? Is that something you would throw out there? I would probably say no if I'm the Landry owner, so I'd have to upgrade. That would probably Hogan and have to be Hogan and Watkins to get it him. Yeah, I can get it done. I would want Jarvis Landry. Yeah right, I'm gonna think about that today. Might send it out. You have rather good depth there. That's pretty good depth have. The thing is trying to figure out start. It's like it's so annoying. Simplify it, Watkins, do it.

A few players that we didn't get to today might be tempting to buy lo one, but don't do it. Larry Fitzgerald, Derrick Henry Royce, Freeman, Hi high On, Kenny Golladay and Will full are very intrigued by Wilf. There's usage in Week one four Special guests Mike blew It myself, Frank Stamford, thank you so much for watching and listening to the Fantasy best Friends Forever We'll be back tomorrow, we hope.