Week 5 Waiver Wire recap, and who should I trade?

You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy best Friends Forever. Do to to Do Din Do to to Do? Dinit do to do? Do? Didnit do? Yeah? This is the Fantasy Best Friends Forever here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Standfall. I am Greg. So what's going on money? Greg? Week five? Getting ready? Obviously got some news that just came out in the past hours. Will go over that. Oh nothing crazy? Something you said

that we talked about. I don't remember us talking about Okay, No, I was editing. Ah, you are right anyway, Well we'll talk a lot about trades today too, by low so Hi. If you have trades call in four four, four, three, six, seven nine. It's a very pivotal time in the fantasy season, because if you're one in three and oh and four, you might not have any choice but to try and

make trades. But before we get into all that, I want to ask you a fantasy philosophy question, just a life philosophy question, but it kind of ties into fantasy. Do you think I'm a bad person? That's a little question. I think you're a bad person. On Wednesday at noon, you're even a bad person, Greg, No, the fact that you have to think that long, I wasn't. I was back by the question why why do you? Why were you?

Do you think you could be a bad person? Well, then why do bad things keep happening to me in fantasy football? You want to flex those things tied together? You want to flex last year? You have the last year, So we're live in the past. I'm not. I'm not like those Yankee fans quarter seven, not like Tallas Cowboys fans. Just call that Corey now. No, I mean that's what a lot of Yankee fans and Tallas Cowboy fans saying.

I'm not living in the past, Greg, I'm trying to win this year, right, I don't care about last year anymore? What did bad things keep happening to me? What's happening, Frank? I lost Kiki Kuta in my home league where my team is bad. We just went through it's bad like I'm one in three. My three best players are Kareem Hunt, Mike Evans, and Zach Ertz. I basically need to trade two of those guys this week to try and get death because as of now, I'm starting guys like Kenny Stills,

Chris Hogan. How do you think he wanted for Mike Williams? Can you drinking my lineup? It's a it's a bad team. I needed Kiki Kote. Yesterday I said on the show, I'm gonna be thirteen dollars in my home league on Kiki right. I started bumping it up pretty much every hour. Last night, I bumped it up a dollar, like, you know what, someone might have been listening to this show. They might put thirteen, I'll put fourteen. And I was like, you know what, someone who was listening might also have

that logic and put fourteen. I'm gonna put fifteen, And I was like, I don't want a round number. You don't bet on a five, so I'm gonna put sixteen. That was the final bid was there midnight, ready to go. I'm like, I'm gonna get Kiki sixteen bucks. I didn't get Kiki. He went for seventeen bucks. You know who. He went to, Michael Floria, Michael F. Ben Florio, and I text him this morning. You know what he says, Sorry, my starting bid was twelve dollars. I bumped it up

all throughout the days. I'm like, are you serious? Are you serious? I don't deserve this Greek. I'm sorry, Frankie. From the look of your face, it looks like something bad just happened your waivers. So my waivers just went. And you know, I have been kind of pounding the table, but that thirteen dollars bid for Kiki and this league. I got Brandon Marshall with eleven dollars in week one, and I realized, I'm sorry. I feel like I helped

influence that you did, for sure. But but this league in general, it tends to be conservative with their fab Like I found like one league that I'm in is pretty loose with the fab and one league is pretty conservative. This one happens to be conservative. So for Kiki, I've been nine dollars rather than my normal thirteen, and we're talking downstairs, like, you know, what should I up that bid? I think we're gonna leave it at nine. Do you know what he went for? Thirteen, same exact number we said.

He went to the first place team, So I would have been thirteen. I would have gotten There's one thing that I do with bids. Once I put my first bid in or have a bit idea, I'll never lower it. My first bid was thirteen, because if you do and this happens, you just can't do that. Greg, you can't lower the fab bids like I did. And I's got screwed. I'm sorry about that stink spam. Oh I want this player for sure. Well I'm putting waivers of tomorrow now.

Lenny four Net already ruled out Week five. Done, Oh and even get that guy anyway. Leonard Fournett has been ruled out for week five already. We have people on Twitter saying, very knowledgeable people, sports medicine, sports doctor ish people saying that he could be out through the week nine. By Greg, Week five, week six, week seven, week eight. In week nine, you potentially will not have him back.

So week ten Leonard Fournett because apparently him returning this week. Okay, he should have set out another week and then instead he actually injured himself. Now he re injured himself and it's more severe than it was before. So before when it was like a two to three week injury, it's now like a three to four week injury. And again, the Jaguars have Super Bowl aspirations, So why are you

rush them back? That's reminds me email a doctor right right now, because we're giving the players to pick two players we want to talk about. Letter for Nett certainly will be on this list. It's as should DeVonta Freeman. Quinn expects to play this week coming to really, I mean I know that he leaves kind of set it, yeah, coming. I saw Inside Injuries tweeting today that they also expected DeVonta Freeman to be back this week. This is his

optimal recovery time healthy to perform in week five. So this, uh, this seems like the week that that makes sense. And I was actually on I was on the Angle of Pursuit podcast last night. Gree with Kyle Robert was very nice and we were kind of talking about what do we expect the breakdown to be moving full in terms of touches for DeVonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman. He's a great question. I don't know that it's the sixty five split that were used to seeing. I still think that

red zone job is locked up for DeVante Freeman. I just might be true, but I think overall we might be closer to people realize in GST we should trade Devon Freeman today. There's no trading in that league. Just tine, there's no trade in her car and there's no trading. Oh, that's right, they get rid of trading disaster. Wow. So so you're saying drafting DeVonta Freeman in the second round was not a good idea, Greg seems like a mistake

at this point. But it's crazy because the guy I wired, Keenan Allen was the guy I wanted, and he hasn't been Grady And the other guy that I really wanted was Kareem Hunt, who you hate in the first round, don't hate him, you do in a full point PPR league. He hasn't been. He He was touchdown dependent coming into this week, and he had a great week this week. He absolutely did, no doubt about it. She is on a trade show. Why you should sell him. I disagree,

it's why you should buy him. Would you really have the rest of the way Kareem Hunter? David Johnson still Kareem Hunt because he plays and a much more explosive offense. Who would you rather have going forward? Freeman? David Johnson just because I don't think Chase Edmonds is going to do as much as Tevin Coleman does. We just saw David Johnson have his highest carry total of the year at twenty two UM, so he's actually had two very

solid games in a row. He scored two games in a row, and I like the fact that his usage is increasing. So I'll take David Johnson. He doesn't really have a thorn in the side like devonsa Freeman does. Who would you rather have? Do? Do a bunch of these? I think these are popular trade jargets. You don't if you don't mind, No, I have David Johnson as a

cell right now. If you look on the rundown, danaging three point three yards for carry this I looked at the run now, which is how I got to David Johnson, who appreciate it. Of course, Who would you rather have David Johnson or Jordan Howard? This might be schedule dependent. I'm gonna pull up Jordan Howard's upcoming schedules as a seat on the by this week. Remember, I know David Johnson I wrote in he has San Frand this week, which is probably okay, uh, and then Minnesota and Denver

the two weeks after that. So those are not great matchups. So this could be especially the Minnesota game could be a game where you know, they just actually get destroyed and he doesn't get much work upcoming schedule four Jordan Howard coming out of the break, Miami Patriots, Jets, Bills, Allions later on season. That helps. It's fine, it's schedule. Yeah, that's a good question, man. I think I would take Jordan Howard's interesting. I was gonna say, David Johnson, maybe

that's reactionary. That's close. Yeah, because again, like David Johnson is trending in the right direction, getting more carries, saying more usage, Jordan Howard in that department is actually training downwards. He had fifteen carries in fourteen twenty four and week three were like, all right, the big game is coming, which is what we all expected against Tampa Bay. Then eleven carries. You know he It's twenty five yards in a game where the Bear score for already eight points.

So I understand the trepidation here, Greg, but you have to look at it like this is bye week is already now out of the way. He has a pretty good schedule coming out of the bye I expect to touch his too, bounce back, and he plays in a much better offense overall with the Chicago Bears UM and a better offensive line too, So it's very close. I think for those reasons though, the offensive line, the offense overall, the fact that his boy is gonna be behind him, UM,

and just the upcoming schedule is not that scary. Elean Jordan Howard, that's a great question. Ultimately, maybe I'm being reactionary when it comes to this, but I'll tell you I want David Johnson, and it's just what you mentioned earlier. With Chase Evans not being a major factor the season twenty two carries your touches as week for David Johnson carries carries. He also had an additional like three or four receptions, So I think touches that's what you need

and want from David Johnson. Terek Cohen was too good in my opinion in this past week to not be a factor. They saw the electricity that he brought to this offense. Jordan Howard in a thirty eight nothing game couldn't do anything and that was that gainela dependent. Well it's weird, but maybe is that opponent dependent potentially in that scenario, give me David Johnson over Jordan Howard do you worry about? Obviously, the offense overall is going to

be better with Josh Rosen. I think we all saw that. Like Josh Rosen was pretty damn impressive. While I know he didn't put up huge numbers, just his ability to you know, fit balls into tight windows and push the ball down the field just obviously better than Sam Bradford. Uh, you have to feel a little bit better about the

Cardinals offense. But I worry about the games where because I still feel like this is gonna happen where the Cardinals are just getting blown out and he just has to abandon the run, and those are you know what is David Johnson can give you in those matchups. I don't know that the Bears are ever going to be getting blown out in games because their defense is so good, so they're gonna be in a lot of games, a lot of you know, solid game script games for Jordan Howard.

And I know, you know, we're saying that after a game where they were blowing them out and it was a good game to perform and he didn't do anything. But while you maybe two reactionary the other way for David Johnson, I'm reacting in Jordan Howard in that I'm not. I don't think this like I don't want to react too far the other way from Jordan Howard. Will you try to buy low this week on Jordan Howard? Sure,

I think that makes sense. Um, if I own David Johnson, I think he might be people to get Jordan Howard in like another piece, like another complimentary peale, because I think Jordan Howard owners are like really on him now because you look at the yards per carry, it's at three points too. They were expecting that monster game. Like a lot of Fantasy owners are frustrated with Jordan Howard right now. It's the same way that they viewed David

Johnson after week. To remember, you have to have a terrible game and everyone's like, oh my god, you know, trade David Johnson for whatever you can get. I have a feeling that Jordan Howard owners might be feeling that way about him right now. Okay, so there you go. That's the Jordan Howard and David Johnson, especially if you're like three and one or four and oh, and you can afford to get him on the bye week because you have that luxury because you're sitting pretty I think

that makes sense. Obviously, we talked about LEVI four and now with David Johnson, that's probably tough. No. I just meant in general, if you're trying to acquire Jordan Howard, like not if you're not just being a David Johnson owner, like you can be a whatever owner and just try and acquire Jordan Howard because I think better days are ahead. Would you rather have DeVante Freeman or Joe Mixon? Wow?

Um a'leen, And you know what, I'm not a DeVante Freeman guy, but I'm I'm worried about Joe Mixon too. I'll go with the youth. I'll go with the youth and Joe Mixon. Obviously, both offenses look very very good right now. Both offenses are clicking. I think the Falcons are gonna be in a lot of shootouts that might lend them more so towards passing the ball. Uh, it's a very good question. Honestly, I wouldn't want to actively acquire either one right now, and you know that about me, Greg,

I don't like trading for injured players. I don't have injury optimism, especially when it comes to running backs who are coming off injuries with involving their knees. And DeVante Freeman, you know, he's another guy who he had multiple concussions

last year. So I would lean Joe Mixon, but I'll say this, I think Jioe Bernard what he's done in Joe Mixon's absence, I don't know that Joe Mixon comes back and is instantly getting ad plus percent of the snaps again and is seeing the majority of the work. I think Giovanni Bernard has earned himself a role in this offense again. So to answer your question, I would lean Joe Mixon over Devon Freeman. But honestly, I don't

want to actively trade for either one. So neither one is a Bye low high whatever is a BY, I wouldn't want to buy either one. Do you agree that you think Giovanni Bernard is worked in more with Joe Mixon throw as the season goes on. UM, I think Giovanni More's interesting word. He wasn't being used at all the first two weeks of the season, like it is all Joe Mixon, like he was getting twenty plus touches

per game. I don't think it's gonna happen anymore. I think for the reason of Jeo looking as good as he has and wanting to preserve Joe Mixon like he can't. He's not gonna come back and just instantly get that big workload again. At least that's how I feel. I think. I think I would think the shot on Joe Mixon. They they said in the preseason and early on they showed it they want him to be the man that they absolutely want it, and yes they need to keep

him healthy, and yes, Giovanni Bernard has looked good. But I thought what we saw at times a couple of weeks ago was electric Joe Mixon, and I think that can come back. Ultimately, I would buy Joe Mixon right now, like this is a guy that's gonna have fresh legs a second half of the year. I don't know what it costs, obviously, UM, the owner of Joe Mixon, it's going to cost in his mind, he doesn't want to

sell him low. He doesn't want to He's not gonna sell him for the discount that you probably want to pay. It's tough. Again. The only way that I could trade for Joe Mixon, if I were going to try too, I have to be three and one or four O, because you're two and two or less. You're trading for a guy that is absolutely going to help you this week. And there's still a chance that Joe Mixon plays this week.

I just don't know how useful he's going to be for fantasy because again, even if he plays, remember the timetable that Dr A gave us was more like four to six weeks for Joe Mixon, which pushes him more so towards like week six weeks seven. And if he's back this week again, that would be a week early because the chance for ree injury. I don't think he gets the full workload right away out of the gate.

So if I'm trading him, I have to be over five D and fantasy I agree that two or two or less because I don't think that he contributes all that much this week. I completely agree with you I'm not training for him for this week. I'm trading him for that second half of the year. We talked yesterday about a championship move, a lady on Belt everything. That's what I think Joe Mixon can be. I don't know

what his playoff schedule is. Like that in my head is obviously I mean, maybe this isn't the obvious sense, Like I would rather trade for Levy on Belt if I were three and one to four. There's risking all with both. I would agree with that. Well, het you some of the running backs you're buying high, selling low on and vice versa. When we come back, I want to do the same with the wide receivers. That's cool

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All right, Frankie's get back to ours or trade show, right, So we're going over some of these players that we want you to sell, and certainly the players that we want you to buy. Let me get today's Saturday before we continue on. What is Today's State of the day, the Tyler Boyd stat. Yeah, that was yesterday's stat of

the day. Give it me again because we're talking about Tyler would Tyler Boyd's last six gamest seven targets, thirty six receptions, seventy six point six catch rate four nine yards. It's thirteen point six yards per catch, three touchdowns, a hundred and thirty point five quarterback rating when being targeted over a full season, that would be ninety six catches

and four yards and eight touchdowns. Greggy first two hundred yard games of his career back to back weeks for Cincinnati this I understand the matchup was great for Cincinnati over the past couple of weeks, so he wanted to use Andy Dalton. It's the same this week. It's a very good matchup for Cincinnati this week, I believe. Is that direct Frank. It's against the Miami It's a pretty good rushing matchup. I know they have some injuries in

the secondary right now. Xavier Howard has been very, very good this year, but he's probably going to be shadowing a Green. So with Tyler Boyd in the slot, I think he should be just just fine. The the Tyler Boyd thing is is real in my opinion, and we've spoken about him and he's the one guy Frank I believe has been the waiver wire pick up that matter thus far. But how long will continue? Is this something we should sell high? Is this or is this something

we should buy high? Is what Tyler Boyd's doing sustainable? Yeah, I'm absolutely in on Tyler Boyd. Um just the way he's being used, the targets. He's playing the slot basically all the time now for the Cincinnati Bengals, and I'm going to continue to talk about this. Slot receivers in the NFL are the ones that you want to target, especially for fantasy purposes. We're seeing this now, Adam feeling

guys like Tyler Boyd. Even Sterling Shepherd has, you know, kind of turned a new page in the fantasy season for this season. So Tyler Boyd, I absolutely think that it's sustainable. And look, I'm buying high Parsley due to the schedule, Like if someone is not ranking him the way that I view him right now, because I view him as like a low end wide receiver two, which

might be crazy. The guy that we just picked up he is a week ago, but he faces my Emmy this week and then he gets Pittsburgh Casey and Tampa Bay. Are there better matchups that you can have your wide receiver then that threesome of Pittsburgh, Casey and Tampa Bay after this weekend, I'm not I'm not scared of Miami. And you know, he just played Atlanta last week, so

that's partially why he was so good. But the way that the targets are trending, I mean double digit targets, uh, the two hundred yard games back to back, Like even if the guy is not scoring touchdowns, he is clearly being used. And oh, by the way, Tyler Eiffort nearly lost his legs, so that that could just lead to even more targets for Tyler Boyd. Yeah, they'll probably work Tyler Croft and c j Uzoma, whoever it might be. But is that person gonna get as many targets as

Tyler Iffort was getting. Probably not. We might even see more from Tyler Boyd, which is absolutely crazy. So yeah, and Tyler Croft, they're kind of whatevers. If there's more targets to go around, they probably go to Tyler Boyde. You know what's a crazy trade out with out there. I would trade a Marity Cooper for Tyler Boyd right now, No way, yes, wow, Why wouldn't you? With their complete opposites totally. Tyler board is consistent weekend and week out.

Ma Cooper, you don't know what you're gonna get out of the guy. We can more, dude, if they're Mark Cooper Tyler Boyd, you can get more. So you're saying a Mark Cooper for Tyler Boyd in another piece, Yes, I think the perception is that you can get more. I wouldn't you. That's crazy. I love it. I hate him, you know, you know I hate a Mark Cooper. That's awesome. And in one leekue right now, I'm trying to get

both of them. It seems like a mistaken Well, you know, I get the consistency of Tyler Boyd to balance out the inconsistency of Marity Cooper. So the third consecutive week, you're telling me he's telling the fans to go out and buy Odell Beckham Jr. As As you know, we've talked a lot of the giants in the Jets downstairs.

But when it comes to the giants, they don't throw the ball down Field's very tough for O'Dell Beckham Jr. To do anything when they don't target, and he's been I believe on Sunday there are six pass attempts inside the red zone and Odell Becka wasn't even looked at for five of them. And I don't'm not exaggerating with that. He's been basically use this decoy. Pat Shermer said after the game, Well, if he's double covered like somebody else is open, we're not forcing it. Burero Dowuckham Jr. You

want the ball forced to you. If you're a fantasy owner, you want the ball forced him. Clearly, the Giants have not made any efforts to go down the field and and nor forced their ball the ball to their best player. Yet you're still buying high at Odell. At what point do you believe that you're just gonna be like, hey, giants are not doing what they need to do here.

I'm looking at the targets chair, I'm looking at the fact that he hasn't scored any touchdounds yet this season, and I'm looking at the fact that he has four hundred and thirty one air yards on the season, greg which is eleventh most among wide receivers, so I think at some point those long touchdowns are going to come. I know that we've spoken a lot about opposing defenses playing um kind of a zone defense and not letting

anyone beat them. But Odell Beckham is good enough where and we've seen this many times where you know he could just take a quick slant and go to the house like it's certainly possible, or you know he can get behind the defense to like even if they're playing his own Like, I think better days are coming and the Odell Beckham, oh, especially if they're under five hundred or if they're struggling this year, they're probably looking at it like I haven't gotten what I expected out of

Odell Beckham. So if there if there's an owner in your league that has him and is struggling is two and two or worse, they're saying, look, I probably need to turn Odell Beckham into like two high end wide receiver twos or two wide receiver twos overall. They might need depth. And that's the kind of owner that I'm trying to pray on right now, because I do think that there are better days ahead for Odell Beckham and you tying to sound like you're on the opposite end,

like you so obviously, like you're closer to it. You see, like how posing defenses are playing to them like you you have the patch Shermer quotes like they're not gonna for It's kind of like the Julio Jones effect, right, Like they're not going to force feed him in the red zone if someone else is open and he's being double team correct. But I think more touchdowns are going to come from outside the red zone. He's not gonna

finish the year with zero touchdowns. And in the game where he gets a hundred yards and gets a touchdown, now on top of him, those are the games where he's the top five, top three wide receiver for the week. We know the tallenges there, we know that he's healthy, so I completely understand wanting to buy him again as the Giants fan, as the Odell Beck Coum owner. It's frustrating and has been quite frustrating thus far during the season.

Who it hasn't been frustrating for is the Rams wide receivers. We opened last Friday up talking about how good these guys are all at least wide receiver uose, but it's a trade show, So I have to ask when it comes to Brandon Cooks, Robert Woods and Cooper Cup are

you buying them, selling them, or holding them? I'm holding them. Uh. It never hurts to try and shop your players just to see what you can get, because obviously all three of these guys are performing right now, as you know in a lead, I own two of them, so I you know, this is actually the personal question because I don't really know what to do with them. Do I do, I look to improve? Do I hold? And that's why

I bring it up. And I know you know, Corey obviously went on a rant about this on Friday, and I understand it might be frustrating again if you own two of these guys to try and get both of

them in your lineup on a weekly basis. But with the Rams offenses playing right now, especially last week against the Vikings defense, which okay, maybe we overrated coming into the year, but really I think they were at a quickly rated because they have a lot of talent on the defensive side of the football the Minnesota Vikings do, and the Rams still wiped the floor with them. What Sean McVeigh is able to do in terms of scheming like Cooper Cup. Physically, he's not like a top ten

physical talent in the league right now. But the way that Sean McVeigh is able to scheme these guys and get them open, uh. And the way that he you know, is they're basically wide open down the field with nobody around them scoring touchdowns. Um, and he's using all three of them kind of in a similar fashion. All three can scream passes, all three can run all the routes that you want. I'm holding, I mean, unless you're getting

blown away. Let And that's why I say, like, it never hurts to shop guys just to seek because you know someone in your league might value Cooper Cup, or especially after what he did last week, they might value Cooper Cup in the top twelve wide receiver. I don't know that so much, Like people react hard one way, and and people, you know, view these guys as higher than what they actually are, because I think all three

are kind of like wide RECEIPR two's right now. If anyone ranks them higher than that, and yeah, you obviously try and shop. Let me use some of the names that we've thrown out there already, A Maori Cooper and Tyler Boyd. How would you rate those guys in comparison to the Rams. I wouldn't want a Maori Cooper over any of the Rams wide receivers, not even Robert Woods, just because I know Robert Woods might not get the target share that Amari Cooper can get on a given week.

He's gonna be much more consistent than Tea yeah overall. And you know, look, that's not toooper with the Raiders offense because they've been putting up yards definitely, they just haven't scored touchdowns. And this week is the week where we really saw that positive touchdown regression come for the Raiders because they were moving the football, they just weren't able to score a touchdown. So we saw that happen

this week. So I'm not going to completely bury the Raiders offense because I think it's better than we realized. But it's just the Rams offense is just on a completely So I wouldn't trade any of the Rams wide receivers to get um to get a Marii Cooper. If you can turn Robert Woods into Tyler Boyd right now, I might do that. I think you can, just because I think Tyler Tyler Boyd might even be more consistent then Robert Woods, just because he's going to see more targets.

And I trust the Bengals offense a lot right now. That's something that I ever thought that I would say. But the other two Cooks and Cooper Cup, I feel I feel stronger about those two than I do Tyler Boyd. But if you could turn Woods into Boyd, that's something I would consider doing again. Wide receiver. For wide receiver trades,

it feels like they don't happen all that often. Well, again, a lot of it does depend on desperation, Like it's only a Robert Woods, was Tyler Bold probably not happening, but it could depend on by weeks for certain players like Mike Evans is a player that if you're still own four, you're probably gonna trade away this week because I'm trying to because so here's the situation that I'm in, and I know we've talked about this off the air.

I don't remember if we've talked about it on the air this week, but I'm one of three I have Mike Evans right now. He's on a by my starting three wide receivers this week and my flex and he stills Chris Hogan, Mike Williams, and Sammy Watkins, wh I don't even know he's gonna play. So I'm trying to move Mike Evans in my league this week, and that's the league where I might have to trade him to

get Amari Cooper and Tyler Boyd. Again, you don't want to, but if you're one in three and you need to win this week, like because if you go one in four, it's not impossible, but it's pretty damn hard to come back from that deficit, at least if I have Cooper guys that can help more so than like Kenny Stills and are hoping to get to one in four. If you had to guess, let's play a game. I love games. Where does Cooper Cup rank among wide receivers this season? Nine?

And I'll turn on the half PPR ranking. You said nine, Yes, he's wide receiver four. Okay, what do you think Brandon Cooks ranks this season? He's wide receiver eleven? Where do you think Robert Woods ranks is here? He's number seventeen, will go seventeen, fourteen. All three are top top fifteen wide receivers right now. So again, somebody might look at that and say, if you know, if you can get back wide receiver one value for like any of these guys.

I'm not saying like in the set and the more savvy leagues that that's going to happen, but like all three of these wide receivers have more Fantasy points than Judu Smith, Suster, Vante Adams, Tyler boyd Antonio Brown, John Brown, Kenny Golladay, t Y Hilton, Jarvis Landry. Like, would you trade Robert Woods for Jarvis Landry? I would do that

because I trust the targets more for Jarvis Landry. But somebody who's reactionary and sees what the Rams are doing right now might say, all right, look they're gonna score this many points weekend in week out, So if you can turn Robert Wood into Jarvis Landry, somebody I would look into. I just asked Beckham right now, why did receiver he has point one more fantasy point than Jordy Nelson. To put that in perspective for you, great Marty Cooper, why did Steve thirty three? Do you want to keep

that guy on your team? I hate him. I didn't draft him anyway. Well, that's why I said I would trade him for Tyler Boyd. I get it, man, I get where you are. Am I am I buying Tyler Boyd too high? Might be it's just scary. It just is a couple of weeks ago, I said after that first big game for will Fuller, I said, I'm buying high. What is will Fuller done? Since then? He scored a touchdown in the next two games. Now he's banged up.

I couldn't predict injuries or re injuries rather, but you know, if I have a feeling on one of these guys and I think that they're gonna keep it up, and other people are not as much buying into them, Tyler Boyd, man, I'm just I buy it. You've spoken a lot about buying Tyler Boyd, loving Tyler Boyd, Calvin Ridley, So Calvin Ridley.

I have him as a hold right now, just because I feel like the consensus the obvious thing to do is sell him based on his target chair because he's converting not a massive amount of targets, because Julio Jones is always going to control the targets, and he's going to demand the most targets on this team, Like he's a double digit target monster, there's no doubt about that. And what Calvin Ridley is doing right now. Let's see

where Calvin Ridley ranks. Calvin Ridley is wide receiver six right now and he's done that on twenty one targets, So that has a lot of that feels a lot like Will Fuller from last year when we were like, all right, regression is coming. He's not going to score touchdowns at this rate in terms of, you know, every three or four receptions he's scoring a touchdown, Like that's not going to continue to happen. So the obvious reaction

might be to sell high on Calvin Ridley. And I just think based on how bad the Falcons defense is now and how injured they are, they're gonna be in so many shootouts, um where I'm just gonna continue riding out with Calvin Ridley. So unless you're getting wide receiver to value for him right now, because I value him more so it's like a high end wide receiver three, which might be a little bit boom or bust ee later on in the season, but I'm buying this offense

right now. I'm buying how bad their defense is, They're gonna be in a lot of shootouts. Uh, And I think Calvin Ridley, as a season goes on, gonna play more. I think the target share might start to swing his way in terms of he's number two on the team, not Mohammed Sanu. So I'm just gonna hold unless I'm kind of getting fair value for Calvin Realle in return.

I honestly agree with that. Um, it's very, very tough to buy him right now because you're buying the peak right Like you're buying him thinking he's obviously not scoring two touchdowns or three touchdowns every single game, So what are you gonna offer? Like, what can you receive for that? And I get it, but selling him, as Frank mentioned, the Falcon Stevens is bad, Like they're going to being

shootout after shootout after shootout. And yes, you could point to snap percentage and you could point a touchdown percentage and I get it, right, I I totally totally get it. He's going to regress, Like is the offer that you get going and be good enough? I don't know, And that's something we we can't probably figure out. But there's something to be said for riding the way. There's something

to be said for that trust factor. There's clearly a trust factor between Matt Ryan and Calvin Realley that has grown over the past couple of weeks. They look for him in the red zone and it's the Odell that coind of thing we just talked about, and you compared to Hulia Jones, and you're right. When Hulia Jones is double and triple covered in the red zone, Steve Sarkisian is not making he's not getting the ball there, he's not designing places to get the ball there. And they've

been extremely efficient in the red zone this year too. Yeah, that's the crazy part. They haven't been any time they get into the red zone. They're scoring touchdowns. So while us this fantasy owners, we're freaking out, why isn't Julio Jones scoring touchdowns every single year? It's the same thing. They're not scoring He's not scoring touchdowns. You have to think about this from an NFL perspective. They don't care

about fantasy football. They're scoring points. They might not be winning games of falcons, but that's not the offense is fault. Because the offense is putting up points. It's their defense, which is terrible now because they have so many injuries and that's not their fault either. In football a battle of attrition. But the Falcons are scoring points and that's coming with Calvin Ridley scoring touchdowns, so he's going to

continue to get those looks. I completely agree. I completely He's the fifth was traded player on Yahoo right now? Would you like to hear the four ahead of him? Is just? Would you? Would you have some trades like Howard Lee's been in? I can, I can pull that up for you. Okay, what the top five most traded players right now? And Yahoo? Levian Bell again, like get it? I understand just when people ask us to levon belt

trade questions, they're hard to answer. Leonard four net number two, which based on this news, I hope you traded him away while you could have Dalvin Cook number three, Lordon Howard number four, a guy that we spoke about, baffle Man. Baffle Man. It makes sense. Undard Fournett though, It's like either way, how how can you trade him away? What are you getting for him in return? And why are you buying him? Regardless even if you're four and oh are you buying Letter Fournett? I'm not I get it.

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That's Daily Rotor dot com, the industry website when millionaires are made literally eight four four eight four three seven or opening up the phone lines right now for you to get your trade questions and maybe got some interesting ones in our YouTube chat, Frank, Yeah, So we had a question where someone asked do I treat Calvin Realley to get Odell Beckham? And that's what I'm talking about, like people being reactionary, and that's obviously an easy no

for me. Like if I were if I were the Calvin really owner, if I can get Odell Beckham, like absolutely I would try to do that, but I would not trade Calvin Realley away to get Odell Beckham. Another question we got was Cooper Cup for Keenan Allen. God bless you drinks us. And that's another one where like, just like I said before, if you can turn one of these rams wide receivers into a wide receiver one.

And I know like people might have trepidation on Keenan Allen right now because he has not played like a wide receiver one. But if you remember last year, yeah, I think it was around the week five or weeks six point we were worried about Keenan Allen last year too, and then he just turned it on keen And now let's see where he ranks right now. He's wide receiver thirty seven's two eight two yards and one touchdown. Are you worried about Keenan Allen? Maybe I don't own him anywhere.

I'm not. I have to look into it. More like he's still on the field a ton. The offense is still very good. Why why is Keenan Allen doing this? I think it's because the running backs honestly are dominating targets right Like, Keenan Allen is not getting as many targets this year as he's used to. He's got seven targets in all four games. He had ten targets in San Francisco seven over sixty three. It's not a bad game. Six or sixty seven, eight for one of eight and

a Touchdine, I'm not worried about Keenan Allen. Dude. Ian Allen had a hundred and fifty nine targets last year, so so right around ten targets per game on average. And you're saying he's getting about seven targets over the past what three weeks? Is that? What it is? He hasn't had double digit Oh yeah, yeah, yeah this past week. Okay, and they're scoring points, right like this team scoring points. He's gonna be a better days had at least seven

targets in every game. He's had double digit targets in two of four games. I'm with you. Yeah, if you get Keenan Allen on the cheap right now, Keenan Allen and Odell Beckham those were two Allen, What do you think of that? Yeah, if you can. Again, like someone in the YouTube chat asked, should they trade Cooper cup away for Keenan Allen or vice versa? And I would rather would you rather have Cooper cover keen Dowen? Though Keenan Allen. You'd still rather have Keena down. I'm with you,

oh my with you any of them WI. So he's really part of the problem, right, Like I'm looking at the Keenan Allen owner in one of my leagues. Keenan now was his wide receiver one obviously right, he drafted them in the second round. His other wide receivers is or Michael Crabtree, Jamison Crowder. Those are bad. He needs he needs, he needs me. But is he the trade Keenan Allen four? He needs me. He's not gonna trade Keenan out of a Cooper Cup straight up. He's not

gonna do that. So who are your other wide receivers? Because that guy needs depth. So if you give him Cooper Cup and like another solid wide receiver three, that probably helps his team. Well that's the problem. Like you don't have good depth. I I have a really good story, lad, like my wide receivers or Cooper Cup, Damante Adams, Robert Woods and Calvar Ridley. Like that's good. I don't want

to I don't want to add in Ridley. I wouldn't give me that deal to any two of those to get kids, right, So I would give him, have any other wide receivers on your bench at all, you know, thinking even John Him Allison. That's good. That's it doesn't hurt to try. That's not a bad one. Offer Cup and Allison four or Keen Allen, and then your weekly wide receivers are Vante Adams, Keen, Robert Woods, and Calvim Ridley.

That's great. I like that. All right, I'm gonna go out there and do it just texting them eight four, eight, three, six seven nine if you have trade questions, three questions, not start sick questions, because admittedly I've done like quarters. Here's my layout of schedule what I normally do. Right Monday nights, I'm doing a lot of recap, definitely, like

very very early prep for the week. Tuesday's I'm doing a lot of like waivers, putting waivers in motal recap and kind of like starting to do my quarterback and tight end rankings and the week. And then Wednesday is where I really dive into like wide wide receivers and running backs. Got it, And like from the time I get home until I go to sleep, I'm just like wide receivers and running back So it's easier for me to answer to start two questions on Thursdays and Fridays

rather than Wednesdays. I want to let you know this is a true story that Frank once told me. We were having a conversation in the hallway downstairs. He said, Greg like, do you know what I do when I get home? And I don't know, watch baking shows like I do? And he was no, Seriously, I'm like what he's like, I just pour over stats from the time I get home. That's how I get on the train, the time I get home, the time I go to sleep. I'm just pouring over stats and listen to podcast on

the trains. And I'm like, what, what does king you think of this? And she's like, whatever, She's gonna leave me. That's that's again we're getting a little deep here, probably Like I'm like, we're getting loaded here. You're gonna leave me. You're gonna leave me one day, because I can tell that she's like kind of craze attention, Like obviously, why wouldn't she, no doubt? You know, I'm the man um Well, yes,

something bad's probably gonna happen. Eventually. It's not great, we'll give it a new career, you know, like you gotta watch the Kardashians every once in a while. They just not care as much. I don't know. You know you should care. No, not care about fantasies. No, you should. It means your job, you love it, do you know? At some point? But for me, like I gotta just turn off and watch what's making? Yeah, where the marvelous Mrs Maisiel I watched. I was watching the baseball game

last night. I tried to stay up as long as I could. I it was up until like twelve thirty. I think it was the eleven after the after the hour after the same thing. A few things. You don't mess with the life. You don't miss my sleep. Right, I gotta go to sleep. So I did what I did was smart last night? So I had dinner. Do you ever watched TV in your bedroom? Yesterday? I was because you was watching the Kardashians outside, So I was watching. You never go into the bedroom while she's sleeping and

like watch TV. I have on silent though, because the sound on then, but for last night it was it was great. So I we went inside. Right, I was watching TV um in my room and she was wating TV outside. And then we had dinner. After dinner, I wound out what we watched two episodes of the Mrs Masil. We finished the finished the season is Mrs It's a bunch of Emmys, don't I have his own Prime? You hit it, but it's a very me show. How do

you spell it? The marvelous Mrs Masiel? And Ai s e l But it's about a about the fifties and it's a common Mrs Greg's miss it's marvelous, Mrs Maisl it is well, Google auto corrected me anyway. So so I did that, watched two episodes while Junie and I both put in our waivers because we're both at least we're going over our waivers together. And then after that she's like, I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Perfect, I got two hours of the baseball game in working out great?

That did work out very well for you, Perfect, She's I'm tired. You care if I go to bed? I absolutely not. I watched the baseball game? And do you care if I go to bed? Which she wants to make sure. I don't want her to hang out like tonight, like if she hasked me to go to bed during the Yankee game. And be like, no, you gotta stay. So what would you say, Like, what's the fair thing that I should do? I should probably give us some TV time. You give her some time just hang out

and watch whatever she wants to watch. Not the whole night, but some time. I quoted ash catch him last night when I was talking to her, so I could tell that she was like annoyed. She was visibly like, we should, you know, spend some time together. I'm like, I want to be the very best. So here's the thing I think when you when you know one ever, was when you get home from work? To catch them? Is my real question? Right when you get home from work, like

maybe not go right back into the staff. We're spending time tonight together because we're watching the Yankees together, which is probably not her idea of let's go, let's let's go to Marvelous in Chicago, marvelous. What's out now? We're taking your calls right now? Four four seven nine, what's up? A good afternoon? I had to trade questions. I was wondering if I could bank amount. If not, that's fine, yeah,

let's do it. Okay. So the first one is I have Leonard Fournette, who I lost last week, and I dropped the yelding like an idiot getting greedy. I picked up Lindsay. So I was wondering, I have a trade offer right now for uh for Lynch for carry On Johnson. She should I Should I hit that trade? Or should I try to get like a yelled In or James White. Wait, so you're getting Lynch for carry On or you're getting one of those players for Leonard Fournette. No, I'm getting Carrie.

I'm getting Lynch for carry On Johnson. I would yes, yeah, yeah, I'm hearting that, Like I think, I think it's kind of a wash. I trust Marshall Lynch more because of the workload that he's getting. Right now, what's your record? My record in this league is embarrassing, dude. I'm like going for and then it happens the best of us.

You need to make trades. I'm all right doing this because carry On Johnson is more of like I was gonna say, if you're three and one are better carry on john I would keep carry On because it's more of like a forward looking move where I think over maybe like the second half of the season, we start to like see carry On Johnson get unleased, even though that idiot Matt Patricia said that carry on Johnson. He's fine with his workload right now, getting nine carries a

game or whatever it is. You're an idiot, Mat Patricia. But if you need help now Marshaw Lynch, based on his workload and frankly what he's done behind that Raiders offensive line, yeah, I'm all right doing that. I'll take Marshall Lynch. What was your other trade question? My other one is, um, I heard you guys talking about Freeman yesterday. I was thinking about trading Freeman for Howard, but then

I thought that's kind of a wash. But then you mentioned Mixing and seeing that I have Giovanni Bernard, I think that's that might be a good pick up for me. So what were you? So you have Howard a Freeman, is it DeVonta Freeman and Royce I have? I have DeVante Freeman, and uh I have Giovanni Bernard and I was looking maybe move Freeman for Mixing and lock up that. So that's so that's something I would do if I

were you. I mean, I think you're own four, just tough, but you need to win now like so, and we just we gotta league this league here, I'm two and two, okay, if that lead I would do for you. I would do Freeman for Mixing. I would do that if I was Yeah, because you have Giovanni Bernard exactly, exactly exactly, and Melvin Gordon is my RB one. So that that, I mean, that's really that's a really good tend on them. A four four eight four three seven nts to our

buddy Constantina New York. What's so Constantine? Hey? Everybody got stage for it? Yeah? Cos, hey, you know what's Hey? Guys, how are you guys doing? Great? Man? What's going on? Nothing? I gotta trade. I really want to get in, and I don't know if I want to accept it or not. I was twelve in the wave the order and I got Peki uh, and I've got an offer for Mike Williams for TK. I don't know if I want to do it though. All right, Mike Williams for Kiki key

crude at that? Why is that a thing? That's why you're saying his name like that? Mike Williams for Kiki um Man. Yeah. I still think Mike Williams has more upside for the season, but it's close. I mean the fact that I had to think about it. Yeah, like PPR, Keki might have more upside, you know, so much dependent on will Fler, like if Willfuler is healthier, not like if he misses a significant time. Then yeah, Keiki has

more upset than Mike Williams. But I think for the entirety of the season, I would still rather have Mike Williams. But it is a closer discussion than it should be. Mike Williams, Well, the usage is there, Yeah, like it wasn't necessarily there last week because it's targets have been trending in the right direction and then he just didn't

last week, Like it just didn't happen. Um, but I expect just because I expect, this doesn't mean the Chargers are going to do it, but um, I would expect his targets to consistently go up as the season goes on.

Like I in my opinion, what it should be is it should be a lot of Keenan Allen, Melvin Gordon, yep, Austin Neck was still gonna get some targets, but Mike Williams should be getting like five to seven targets per game, like we we want Tyrone Williams and like Travis Benjamin and those guys kind of just like to get phased out because we wanted to happen. Doesn't mean it's going to.

But I think that Mike Williams has flash enough talent this year where like at some point the Chargers realized, and maybe it takes them, like losing a couple of games to realize, like, all right, we have to stop fan around. We have to get Mike Williams more involved. I think that's gonna be the case. Eight four four eight four three six seven nine. You're on the line. When you get to your call in the next five minutes,

we are gonna sign off YouTube now. Of course we go to the top of the hour with our podcast and live on the radio to mission you subscribe. Rate us five stars. Please please please, it's super super important. We want to rise up those charts in the podcast on iTunes. Thank you very very much. Without hit Francisco in San Diego. What's up Francisco? You know what's going

on for others? What's up man Chill? And I just have a quick question because uh, last week you guys were on the show with Dr A and uh, I've seen in Allen, so I'm like worried, you know, but I'm sitting decently and this is the Work League, so it's, you know, a lot of pride on the line. I'm three and one, Um, I have a decent death. But I was wondering if I should pair up keen and Allen with mark Ingram and try to shoot for like Christian McCaffrey or like you know, shoot for the sky

and get like try to get taught Gurley. Like if if mark Ingram does good this week, yeah, I mean I'm fine with that. I don't know that's how girly

owners going to do that. But like, the only way I can make a trade like this is if you have really good depth, like you meet death all around, Like if you have a ton of running backs and you have you have strong wide receivers, especially if you're trading away Keenan Allen to get a running back in return, Like your wide receivers outside of Keenan Allen better be pretty damn good if you're gonna trade him away to

try to improve your running backs. They're Steff Digs. I have step Digs, Cooper cub Um, Tyler, Boyd, Kenny goll Day and Geronimo Allison because I listened to why you Know all day because I worked all side, So I just pop in my headphone appreciate and you guys like through the draft season, Man, I'm chilling it because of you guys like, let's just dried. Yeah, I get it, man, And I know what. I honestly really like your wide

receivers outside of Keenan Allen. So yeah, if you can make that happen, if you can understand Keenan Allen and mark ingram into like a top five workhorse running back, if you need help there, I don't have a problem with it. Totally agree with him. Let's hit up Wesley in Northern California. Let's going to Wesley. What's happening, Fellas? What's your question? Man? Um? Well, I got a couple of trade offers this morning, but I also proposed one. I just want to get your quick thoughts on a

real quick um, all right, whenever you're ready, all right, quick? No, I don't really have time to hold on that one minute left on the show. I have other callers, all right, So he's not ready, man, I don't tell you pressed he's not ready. Scared him off. He's not ready. Are gonna do that? I've mena love on the show. I want to get to other guys like you're scared. When he hung up, thank on, Nathan, New Jersey's gonna thank us up, Nate, Nathan you there, man? Oh well, you

couldn't have been more wrong about that one. Yeah. Oh thanks Greg, thanks for answer my call. I hate to see that. All right, we'll try well. The last one. Julian in Miami. What's up? Jules? Al Right, guys, what's up of these causers not being unbelievable? Man? I had a minute last and then I asked me a damn thing. I stay on the phone line. I'm trying to talk to you, guys. I have a trade offer that I made, and I know that I can get it if I

wanted Geronimo Allison and I give away Michael Crabtree. No no, no, no no no no no no no no no no give away Michael Crabtree to get Geronimo Allison. No no, no, no, no no no. Why wouldn't you though, Because Geronimo Allison's can cust and Michael Crabtree is better. Michael Crabtree hasn't been that good touchdown. But he's no, he doesn't doesn't. He's been a borderline he's a borderline drop double player at this point. Really, yes, he hasn't been good like

as you own Michael Crabtree. You don't realize how good he's been because Geronimo Allison is can cust I probably wouldn't make the trade. Here's the thing. You're still getting targets to ten ten targets and two or four games. Eight targets last week targets the scored touchdowns this week one target touch touched. There keep keep microcraft could cost Frenzies up next Corey Venture Jim Day. My name is Greg Sausman. Thinking so much for watching the Fantasy vffs.

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