FINAL Preseason Mailbag Q&A! Your Biggest Draft Questions Answered (09/05 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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2:04football. This is fantasy football today from CBS sports. Swap play. Can you believe this? It's a no again. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. It's the races. It stays on its feet. It's just got to go to the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie and he. It's now back time. It is Thursday night September 3rd, 1035 P.F. Eastern. It's FFT after dark and we've got Jay, Hey, Jamie. Hey, buddy, we've got a little bit of a sick dan Shneyer and he's belching a lot. I hate how much joy you take in me getting sick and a little bit karmic because I used to make fun of how often you were sick, but that's that's all it is. You know, I just wish I knew what was. I was going on. I was fine all day and then Jacob and I did a seven to nine 30 p.m. live stream and then I felt the headache, which is fine. I still have that.

3:04But that's fine. Then I ate a trader Joe's dinner that I guess had been in the freezer for too long, but it said 1026 or it said, um, November, yeah, October 26th and it's only all get or September. So I guess I caught it too close. No, it's not that. Come on. You cut it too close. It's not that. It's not the source. I think you think you ate something bad that says it goes bad by October and it's September 3rd. You have a migrate. You have a migrate. That's all I guess a little stressed out. You're all right. You're all right. He's okay folks. We're going to read your questions at fantasy football at CBSI.com. We're going to get some of Dan's favorite players to draft and we're not really going to talk news and notes because this show a lot of people are going to hear it on Saturday and we have a Friday morning show. So, um, you know, you got to get to the bear stuff though. I mean, the bears are fine. Swift and a doons day are fine. It seems and we're going to talk about it. I hope it wasn't swift was a cramp. A doons day was the foot. I don't know if that's fine. Well, that's the report is that he's fine.

4:05So we'll see what it says tomorrow and we'll go from there. Dan, you want to tell us some of your favorite players? Maybe, maybe Deandre Swift ate something that expires in December and he feels like, I mean, we're a month away. I'm concerned about it. I don't know. I've got a little bit of freezer burn on it. I didn't think anything of it and now I'm like, what the heck did I do to myself? Um, if you sent you something from August, I'd say, okay, maybe that's a, it's October. I mean, that's a long way. You just tried to figure out how he got sick. I get it. Well, actually, before we get to Dan's favorite players, I'm getting a lot of emails, like a lot of emails that are saying, hey, I drafted a team that I think you guys would really like, but my draft grade was terrible. I just want you all to know the draft grades don't mean anything, whether they're on CBS or any website, don't worry about the drafts grades. Um, yeah, they're just for fun and actually kind of a funny story if I get it. I don't know what other sites do. ours are just based on projections.

5:06It is totally an algorithm based on projections. Yeah, but we don't control. So I don't control it. Dave doesn't control it. He doesn't control it. Adam doesn't control it. We've got our sports line projections and it just fits out a number. Yeah, and there could be a lot of spitting out on tonight's podcast. They have been feeling bad. Dan, if you puke on air, we'll still keep the same thing like the tennis match. 100 bucks. If you puke on air, it's the same dude. So there's a team in one of our FFT open leagues where the manager never accepted the invitation and auto drafted from, I don't remember what spot in the draft. Like it's the best grade of all. Eighth. Well, here's the team. We have this starting line of auto pick, Lamar Jackson, George Kittle, Jonathan Taylor Derek Henry, Rishi Rice, Mike Evans, Cam Scatiboo, it flex. It's pretty good. The bench has the Bento. No receivers, but yeah, the bench has Rico Dotto and the bench has the following five players. All quarterbacks. Mark Andrews, Harold Fedger, Julia Dallas Goddard, Travis Kelsey and Brinson Strange.

6:11It's going to ruin the rest of the league. Six tight ends for this team and got an A plus, best grade of the draft. Like it just cracks me up. So I'll give you a little tip if you ever want to get an A grade on CBS. Can you figure it out? Sort by the projections. No. What? Draft the bunch of quarterbacks. No. Five tight ends, six tight ends. No. What? Draft Ravens. Oh, really? Okay, Stephen, does our projections. That's not fair. All right, Dan, who are some players you keep drafting? All right, so flag plan player for me this year, Maryampton. I've moved them all the way up to RB 5 just behind James Cook. It's just behind just ahead of Chase Brown unless it's full BPR. Then I'll put Brown ahead of him. Maryampton comes into a situation of the following last year. He was eighth in the NFL in 15 plus explosive yard runs despite playing behind. A injured and horrific offensive line with the chargers.

7:13He joins a scheme with Mike McDaniel that has produced the fourth most fantasy points in Mike McDaniel's tenure. Also the fifth most rushing touchdowns from his running backs. Let's remember, before last year, the Dolphins offense line was horrific last year. Ruger emerged and they had some good pieces and they were, what, mid-pack, a little above average from an offensive line standpoint. This offensive line for the chargers, sure, there's a couple in. There's an injury on the interior offensive line. Two of the best tackles in the NFL. They have a quarterback who's going to force teams to play and cover three, cover six, cover two, shell defenses. Hampton is going to eat on these outside runs. He's going to be a 14 to 16 touchdown type guy and see him coming off the field that often. He's my flag plan player for the year. You want to react or should I go for it? I just say one thing. Some of those teams, I actually two of them, that I got an email saying I got a bad draft grade and I have a team that started this way too. Chase Brown, round one, Amari and Hampton, round two. That's one of my favorite starts. I think we all would agree on that. Yeah, totally. It's a rare year where I like picking in the back end of a snake draft.

8:15A lot more than I like the four through six. Okay. Here's another one. Caleb Williams. I think he's going to be top three score and fantasy points at the quarterback position. Guess who had the three fastest times rushing last year? No. No. Not Lamar Jackson. That was from a quarterback. No, not Lamar Jackson. No, not Jackson Dart, who had nine rushing touchdowns himself. No, not Josh Allen. It was Caleb Williams. I don't think everybody realizes how fast he is and how big of a component that is his game. But we're really locking in on Caleb Williams is all the coach speak I've heard from Ben Johnson and Carmen Vitali who covers the Bears and the Fox Sports. And she was down at camp and she said, look, it's a totally different camp for Caleb Williams. Last year was trying to get the plays and just trying to figure out what was going on. Now he is full command of the offense. After his last two seasons at USC, he had a 72. That's right. 72 touchdown passes over his final two seasons of USC. I think people realize what the ceiling is for a player and a talent like Caleb Williams.

9:18If he's seeing the field well, if he's playing on time, if he's throwing from within the pocket. Last year when Jacob and I watched the Bears, we watched way too much bear state. More than the other team, there were so many missed opportunities because Caleb Williams did not see the field well. If he has commanded that offense, this is light out. And Ben Johnson says we're looking to score the most points in the NFL. It's possible with the talent like him, three amazing receivers and a great offensive line. So I think he'll finish as a top three fantasy score and be this year's Drake May. I love it. We can leave it at that. Let's answer some questions. And this is the type of insight you get on beyond the box score, which is really doing great. I mean, Jacob and Dan have taken that and really run with it. And I encourage everyone to listen. And it's got its own YouTube channel. If you search for Beyond the Box score, it's got its own podcast. It's a great speed. And it's great. And I pretty sure we're going to be doing the typical Monday, Monday morning recap show. Me, Jacob and Dan are doing our own little Beyond the Box score. So I'm looking forward to that. Okay. Draftathon questions from Travis.

10:20Ten teams superflex, League. Should I take Josh Allen or Jermior Gibbs with the first pick? Gibbs. I'm a Gibbs guy too. We went over this and our superflex Adam. You were shocked that somebody didn't take Gibbs first overall and you got him at three overall. I believe it was Alan. Alan Jackson Gibbs and I was doing cartwheels. I was so happy I had the third pick. I think Alan is probably the only quarterback I'd consider in that range though because he is so much like just the consistency he's put helps you so much in a superflex league. But I would still go Gibbs. So I saw Jack Appetoro who made the pick of Josh Allen and he's the only one that we Lamar Jackson pick. Jack made Lamar Jackson. Yeah. Oh, Marone. I'm sorry, Marone took. You're correct. But same thing applies. So they went quarterback quarterback. It went quarterback quarterback. I just want to make sure I see who Jack took in round two because it matters. For either one for Gibbs. Give me a second.

11:20Give me a second. I will pull up the draft board for you. Yeah. I'm trying to find it too. Are you going to put on? Yeah, I'll put it on the screen. I love this topic. It's awesome. It is awesome. All right. So he ended up in round two taking Trevor Lawrence. So what he said was that he would have taken Gibbs because and Dan even made mention of this. I quoted Dan in the story how weird it was that the quarterbacks did not come off the board to the same level that we saw in the past. And Dan was right because through the first three round countering at one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13 quarterbacks. Through the first four rounds. In the this same draft last year, 18 quarterbacks were drafted in the first four rounds. Oh, wow. So a pretty big difference in terms of how many quarterbacks were selected. And what Jack said picking to was had he known that he would have taken Gibbs and then probably come back and taken Lawrence and Caleb Williams or Lawrence and Purdy, whoever

12:23the case may be in terms of the second quarterback you would have drafted. And I think that's a better start. I think he did a great job because he ended up kind of walk around three, and a cocky round four to against like he built a really good team despite going quarterback quarterback or not despite but going quarterback quarterback. This was this was two very glaring approaches. Heath, if you look at this, went no quarterbacks until round seven when his quarterback, his first quarterback, a CJ Stroud, and he's going Stroud, Bryce Young, and then the Falcons duo. So he had his pen four picks for his quarterback. So I encourage you read the story. If you're in any superflex leagues this weekend or any drafts coming up and you can see a lot of different ways to go about building a team. And Rob Thomas who was in the draft and he's in the chat right now, he says, can we recap the superflex league draft and roast me for taking Puka over Jamar Chase. And no, I won't because Puka averaged 23.6 points per game last year. Jamar Chase is best season 23.7. I mean, obviously I would take chase, most people take chase, but you do you and there's

13:25no reason there's it's not a bad argument. Obviously you got the all field stuff, but Puka, if he's playing every game, he could easily be the best wide receiver again. All right, next question from the draft, the thoners. This is from Dan Catona. In my home league, I'm going against my fantasy arch nemesis Kevin in week one. So I need two running backs, two receivers and a flex. He's got cook, genty, Mike Washington, Harvey, and Gainwell. So we're going to go cook and genty. He needs two wide receivers out of Olave, Christian Watson, Parker Washington and Michael Wilson. Olave and Washington. So now I was going to say and then we need two flexes out of Watson, Wilson, Harvey, and Gainwell. Wow, that's that's Christian Watson, Mike Wilson, RJ Harvey, Kenneth Gainwell. It's PPR. Thanks, though. I think you go Watson, even though it's a tough match up against Minnesota. And I would probably lean toward Wilson, but Gainwell is very interesting because I do

14:29think he's going to be very involved in the past game. Okay. E-mails, fantasy football at CBS.com. Wilson, big contract to me. Michael Wilson, yes, congratulations from Jay and Joyzie. How do you feel about that spelling of Joyzie, Dan? I don't love it, but don't hate it. Any discussion of Jersey I'm good with, most underrated state in the nation. It is. It really is. I'm going to buy us the pin in there. Can you do a YouTube poll just after Dan? We know how that's going to go. It has a bad bias against it, but continuing to, Dan continued to bash Florida by every turn that he could when he was down here. I hated that state. Which state would you rather live in Florida under Jersey? I mean, look, you don't pay taxes right in Florida, so that's a good thing. But is there no income tax or something like that? No, you can't get any income tax. Yeah, stayed income tax. That's nice. But reality is in Jersey, you got the better food. You got beaches that are just as close. You got mountains. I don't think that's city. How long does it take beaches or just as close?

15:29That can't be true. I mean, for some people maybe, but not for most people. How long does it take you to get their beach? Two long 40 minutes. You got the beaches or just four. I'm probably shaping all five minutes, though. But obviously, I mean, this one, I mean, Ricky, let's not go crazy or better food. It's not even close, Jersey has better food than Florida. I think everyone, even Jamie would concur on that. I don't know. I got great pizza and self-flug. I did two. Pizza time. Stop, stop. No, they don't listen. This is from Jay. He says, hey, Pete. I think I'm still sick from that, to be honest. Hey, Pete. Well, I could see that. The mushrooms on their pizza expire in May of 2029. So I think you cut a little close there. Hey, Pete Andre and Andy, I think, oh, I think that's a, tennis players. Yeah, yeah. I know you guys are the sport you can never beat me up. Yeah, I know you guys are pretty high on James Cook this year, but I haven't heard much discussion on the negatives of Cook towards, you know, other backs with a smaller

16:31physical frame, a large workload last year and a quarterback who Vultures rushing touchdowns. Please discuss as I'm curious, is he maybe just another level of talent or the offense projects to be so good to overcome these potential negatives for James Cook? I think for starters, it's the talk and camp of him getting more involved in the passing game. Pete Carmichael coming over as a history of utilizing their running backs in the passing game. That's the start, I think, for any kind of hope to get, you know, for him to repeat what he did last year. I'm a little concerned just with the recent history of the rushing champion and losing 835 yards each of the last five rushing champions have lost 835 yards and six touchdowns. Two of those guys have been injured, so take that into consideration. So it's not the biggest sample size and injuries affected into it. The only thing that I think is the saving grace, like you said, and then on top of that, Ty Johnson's banged up, who would be their passing downs guy. And so I don't think that's Ray Davis stepping into that. I think it's just more of James Cook. So with an offense that should be on well in the best in the NFL and a running back that

17:32just accomplished what he accomplished, like there's a lot to love about James Cook's though. Yeah, I mean, look, the play calling could maybe hurt him a little bit in the stent, like the email or Jay and Joy Z asked about all the goal line carries that Josh Allen takes. And he does. But James Cook gets a ton of them too. Because when this team over the last couple of seasons, when they have gotten near the end zone, they are so incredibly run heavy. Their run rate, where have they right? Last year they were third in running back, running back rush attempts from the three yard line or closer. So rushing to rush attempts from the three yard line or closer, like, you know, they have a lot because there's Josh Allen. I'm sorry, I'm stumbling here because I'm looking for this stupid stat. But they get very, very run heavy near the end zone. And so they both of those guys can eat essentially. But I don't really see anything change. He's really good. And if you look at his total numbers from last year, you have to remember that he barely played in weekend team. So he averaged over 19 points per game with 12 rushing touchdowns in 16 games.

18:36He could do better. He's doing it. We had 18 the year before it. Yeah. Think so. Maybe that was 18 total touchdowns. He had 18 total touchdowns of year before in 16 games. So I agree. Like he doesn't really feel like a typical round one picket running back. But I think that's because there just aren't that many running backs that catch 50 balls anymore. It's not a prerequisite these days. All right. I've taken him like three times every time I do that. I take Ray Davis just to cover myself. There you go. Let's take a break and come back with more of your emails at fantasy football at CBZ.com. I'm going to talk to you right now about Omaha stakes. And this is a perfect time for me to do it because just last night, I cooked four Omaha stakes for my family and they were awesome. And we completely devoured them. And tonight Omaha stakes burgers and hot dogs for the family. They also have seafood and side dishes. They have so many things at Omaha stakes. If you want affordable, easy to make delicious food, Omaha stakes is honestly a no brainer.

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22:49The read says I was going to cook the burgers and the hot dogs. I only cook hot dogs. They were incredible. They were the best hot dogs I've had in a very long time. I still have the burgers. So I haven't made a good dog. You don't have dogs every now and then they're always good when you, when you're angry at the ramen, they're great. When you have kids who have hot dogs, there's the easy. I mean, nothing better than the hot dogs that are an expiring like two more hot dogs. That would expire. I feel proud. I mean, here's Aaron. He says, Hey, Jerome Levion and Willie. Jerome Levion and Willie. These are all Steelers running backs. Yeah. I'm doing great today. I hit two of these. That's more than I hit in like a month in the show. I feel like everyone is ignoring the Steelers running backs, especially Rico Dattle. They're going around RB 30 each. Last year, the two Steelers running backs were 16th and 17th and scoring because they combined for over 110 catches. Old man Rodgers is still there and we'll be checking down a ton. Why is everyone so low on an RB duo that is a lock for 100 plus combined catches? It's a great call.

23:51I wish that there was more clarity on who was going to do what and in theory, you should rationalize it. Rico Dattle makes more sense to be the running down guy and Jalen Moore makes more sense to be the passing down guy. But Jalen Moore is coming off a year where he was great as the running down guy and Rico Dattle has a history of being a passing down kind of option. So I think they're going to mix and match. I think it could be frustrating. I think they're appropriately priced. I've gone back and forth all off-season. I've settled on Moore and over Dattle just because I do think the pass catching role will be his and that was so good for Kenneth Gainwell last year. But really, it's about if you just want to take a chance on like in the eliminator league that we're in, I just took Rico Dattle. I think it was like round eight as a force running back. So, the floor is, I think, relatively safe for both of them. One of them may have an amazing ceiling and injury could clearly open the doorway to one of these guys being a top 15 running back. But you know, you hope they're just not cannibalizing each other on a week to week basis where

24:53one guy scores a touchdown, one guy catches four or five passes and the next week a flip and you just kind of frustrated. So not exactly the type of back foot I'd want to have both of them, but I think as a third or fourth running back, they make plenty of sense. Yeah, 84 receptions last year for Kenneth Gainwell from Aaron Rodgers to sit in third number. I can't even imagine. Do you have the number at him where he finished in full point BPR? Kenneth Gainwell had to be. I can tell you from, yeah, from six, one from week six through 18, because remember, like Game of the, not that much of a role. And then right for we had the inactive Warren game. Well has a big game. I'm pretty sure they had a by week five week six through 18. Jalen Warren was RB 21 per game and Kenneth Gainwell was RB 23 per game. For the full season, I do have it, but that's kind of like that's the sample size I would look at because that's when both guys had their role and it might be what we see from Doudal. He was RB 20 per game, Game of the full PPR 25 per game and half 30 per game and not. So almost all of his value came on the 73 catches and just just keep in mind, Michael Pittman

25:59is a much better second receiver, no matter what Aaron Rodgers seemed to indicate yesterday. Michael Pittman's a much better second receiver than they had last year. Sounds like Roman Wilson's going to have a bigger role than you had last year. So we have different parts in the passing game plus a different coordinator. So the Arthur Smith dump off passes that we saw last season will be a little bit more downfield throws. I know that doesn't speak to what Rodgers does best, but it'll still be part of what the game plan is. So they'll take a few more shots down the field to DK McCaff. I'm just expecting not as much of a robust role for them in the passing game, but still good enough that the floor should be there. Pretty sure in their last preseason game, Jalen Warren got the first series and Doudal got the second. I think maybe Warren came back for that I can't remember. It wasn't like running down passing down thing. All right, next one, there's no way Dan is getting this Chris from Milwaukee says, dear Ray Glenn Michael and Sam. These Ace Ventora Ace Ventora characters. Pretty sure they're Milwaukee bucks Ray Finkle.

27:00Raleigh Allen Glenn. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Michael Red who's saying hold on, let me try to wait. Who'd you say Glenn? Jim Kassel. Was it Glenn Rice? Sam Kassel Robinson. What's wrong with him? I don't know. Sam Kassel. Sam Kassel. Sam Kassel. Nice. Come on Adam. I think you should revisit your take on allowing suspended or out players to be put on the IR spot, particularly in deeper leagues where it matters way more. Over the past several years, the NFL landscape has dramatically changed. Fantasy football managers are trying to navigate a multitude of things that keep our players out, including things like concussion, soreness and other injuries where they don't wind up on IR, mental health issues, contract issues, off the field drama, legal issues, social mediations, personality conflicts, etc. Combine that with running back committees, tricky coaches, scheming up random players, and NFL politics affecting start sits, whatever that means. Playing time and how hard a team is trying, it has gotten tougher and tougher to feel the competitive team, particularly in deeper leagues. While I was once a purist and a stickler for the rules, I've made a complete 180 on the IR spot. This is supposed to be fun.

28:01This isn't supposed to be stressful. The IR spot being just a tad more versatile to help cover some of the aforementioned events that lead to players being suspended and out can only help. I don't care if you punish the NFL player for a crime or offense committed, but I don't see why we should punish a fantasy manager for rostring him. I don't know if that's how we meant that to come out, especially when it's a sudden occurrence as opposed to a known issue. I don't know, I feel about this. You make a good point. It makes it easier for fantasy managers, but I don't know, man. For example, it's not IR. It's not IR and it's like, okay, so then you're opening the door to possible fit. It becomes, I don't want to say it's objective, but for example, it makes a huge difference in where you draft Josh Jacobs. Because if you're in a five bench league right now or even a six bench league and you draft Josh Jacobs, he's just sitting on there the whole year. You can't put him in the IR, but now under this rule, you can.

29:01I think you're right also about which injured players do we get to put on IR? It just leads to complications, I think a lot of fantasy cops. I think you got to have a hard and fast rule. I've been in several leagues where you can place players who are out in IR spots to help you in this situation. Player gets ruled out Wednesday, Thursday, whatever the case may be. You get a next year player to pick up. It's going to help you during biolics, going to help you if you have multiple injuries. Typically, what happens in these type of leagues when you get to the following week and their status changes back before they're rolled out again, then you have to make a similar transaction to drop wherever you may have picked up or somebody else to sort of get your lineup. Right. Like Gamer Eric right now says, two IRs is just right. I don't disagree with that, but I do think that they have to be on IR. If you're making the conscious effort to draft Josh Jacobs, now there are a lot of people who have drafted Jacobs already, and then this news happened.

30:02You got a little bit of a tough scenario. That being said, it is your decision to carry Josh Jacobs. You can either be proactive about it and say, I don't expect them to play this season. I'm going to drop him. Somebody else wants to carry this headache, then they carry it. If that's what your league rules are, it should not be allowed to carry somebody who is not on an IR spot. If you're in dynasty right now, you're carrying Tyree Hill. You're not dropping him because of Hill's size of the team. Everybody's going to want to pick him up, even though he may not be the same guy. There's lots of different scenarios here. I think suspensions, non-IR injuries, like Alvin Camera. He's probably going to miss two or three games if he doesn't get to the fourth week. They decided not to place him on IR. It's just the nature of what your league is. If your league decides that it has to be an IR spot to be placed on IR, I don't think that you should be allowed to place a suspended player on it. You're making that decision to carry that player. It's not about a moral conversation that we're going to have is just what the rules are.

31:05I think just understanding that if I'm going to draft a player that is under a scenario that's not injured, that is suspended, I have to deal with the consequences of that. Next comment from the chat, from the beginning of the chat. Adam is for sure a holiday pajama guy. You really think I wear holiday pajamas? I don't even know what that means. It's more Christmas time. He wears Christmas pajamas. I'm surprised you call him pajamas. They're pajamas, as Amy just said. And Jamie just said, sorry, my mind just gone at this point. You know this is my fourth podcast today. One of them was a two and a half hour live stream. All for CBS. It was a good day. It was really unbelievable. I mean, I got sick at the end. This is the worst part. Everything was going great. And then I got a headache. And now I feel like I have to throw up at a no. Did you did your draft go well? The auction. So Jacob went nuts and drafted Gibbs for 70 bucks to start in a superflex to start the auction. And I was like, all right. I told you to go on to it.

32:06At a 200. You guys shared the team together? Yeah, we tried to see how that would go. And then we recovered. Like I feel like we got some good values. Jentie at 25. He gets at 17. I like both of those. Our quarterbacks are horrific. We have Stroud, Jordan Love is our one. Stroud is our two. That's good. That's not good. I guess, hopefully. All right. And then I think Bryce. Adam, do you know that Dan, how many years he worked there? You just said you're 10 year anniversary? I just said my 10. I saw your 22. I just got the email for that. Great. Was that not supposed to say that? Yeah, we were going to do something about that tomorrow. Oh, no. With him. But you need to do that. They call me an appendix twice. He's never commissioned a league before in CVS, Adam. Do you know that? Dan Chyre. Yes, I'm commissioning a league. I had to call Jamie and Panic, where the draft was about. I had one of my best jokes in a while. Dan said, what happens if you have to pause too many times, if you run out of pauses, apparently there's another.

33:08There's another way. No, no, this is a true thing, according to Dan, that there's another site that if you hit pause too many times, you time out on it. So he asked me that question. And I said, oh, it's easy. You just put a few more quarters in your computer. You can't pause it. Or you do up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right. There is another site that I've heard has amended it since, but there was a time in the past where you had a maximum amount of pauses. And once you ran out, one time we ran out during an auction, we had to go to Google Sheets to finish the auction. It was definitely. I've never heard that before. I was laughing my ass off when he said that. All right, listen, we got to go a little faster here. Here's a trade from Matt. Matt said he's been offered a trade and a 12 team full PPR league. I was offered Ashton Gentie for my Devante Smith and Marcian Lloyd. Is Dynancy said? Nope. Devante Smith and Marcian Lloyd for Gentie. Yeah. I would rather have Smith and Lloyd.

34:09Okay. All right, next up is an email from Ryan. Ryan thinks we're too low on Patrick Mahomes because he's optimistic about Eric Bianne me as the offensive coordinator instead of Matt Nagy. And Mahomes was QB1 and QB2 per game under Bianne me the last time he had him there. Was Tyree Kill on that roster? Yep. You know, the Homes had one. Tyree Kill. The Homes had one great season with Julius Mischuster as their leading receiver. And then since then, it has been all downhill the last three seasons, all the last year was pretty good too. But more so as a Russia. But I think that was the year they went to the Super Bowl. Juju was their leading receiver. Maybe not Kelsam, sure, was their leading receiver. But Juju was their leading wide receiver. And that was probably a Bianne me year, I'm not sure. But anyway, what do you think about that? I mean, I think most people have sort of made the case that Bianne me is better for the run game. We kind of give Andy Reed like the passing game, a role, I guess.

35:10We sort of find me. But what do you think? Bianne me was there when Mahomes had his best seasons. And a lot of that had to do with Dan just said. Had to do with peak Travis Kelsey, peak Tyree Kill. It's easy to sort of just roll the ball out and say go play. And those guys are going to be special because they are. So now you're walking in a situation where Mahomes coming off a devastating knee injury, think I he's back and it's going to be fun to see him play. But we'll see what version of Mahomes we get. I think if you look at the last three seasons, last year, big time fantasy bounce back, mostly because of the rushing. The two years prior, 20 points something, 20 points something under 21 fantasy points per game. That's not an elite fantasy quarterback. So when you start to compare him to a lot of guys. And so Caleb Williams is probably like QB 10 for a lot of people. I know Dan has a little bit higher, but like ADP like QB 10, I wouldn't even put him in that range of guys right now. You start to talk about him compared to Stafford and Goff and Nick's. And for me, it's Kyler Murray and Jared Jordan Love. Like I think he's outside the top 12.

36:12And for me, he's outside the top 15. Does he still have the range of possibility to get to 20 to 24 points? For sure, he's Patrick Mahomes. You have a 36 year old Travis Kelsey. We don't know what version of Rashi Rice we're going to get. And to I think your point about being in me with the run game, the run game should be significantly better because of Kenneth Walker. So if you want to be in on Mahomes, being on Mahomes as a backup, being on Mahomes as a guy that could still be a lead winner, if things go right. But I just don't want to trust them as a number one only quarterback that'll draft. Yeah, but one point I do want to make about Mahomes is that I've sort of sort of short changed him a little bit in saying that all of the improvements he made last year was rushing. He actually did have a better passing season. He was on pace for 4,356 yards, 27 touchdowns. The 17 game pace, the two years before that, well, the year before that was 4,174. So he increased his 17 game pace by about 200 yards, but it's still not quite enough. He's still nowhere near the 48,495,000,

37:1548,495,000. He's not getting back to that. Yeah, because he doesn't have the downfield thread, they're just not explosive offense anymore. And they don't have to be. He got a little bit better at that last year. I did want to say that, but it wasn't enough. Okay, this is from Andre. Fortunately for me, we had our 10 team PPR, two flex draft, prior to the Jacobs news and I snagged Marcian Lloyd in the last round. After the news broke, I traded David Montgomery, who was my RB4 and Marcian Lloyd for T Higgins to the Josh Jacobs manager. Montgomery and Lloyd for Higgins. So do you guys like that trade? I do, knowing that you still have three other guys that should be productive. Look, Montgomery and Lloyd could both be top 20 caliber running backs. The history of the Packers lead Russia has been great under the floor. And I think Montgomery has a chance to bounce back in a big way. I don't think he's gonna be Joe Mixon in the year that he went to Houston, but they've been waiting,

38:21hoping for a lead Russia. And once upon a time when he was in Chicago, he was a very good fantasy option. I think we kind of get lost in that because of what he did in Detroit as the second guy. But I think it'll surprise people as a past catcher, we'll see if he holds off what he marks. That being said, if T Higgins hits, you're talking about a top 10 caliber wide receiver. So you traded two top 20 ish running backs for one top 10 caliber receiver. I think that's the right way to win. I would have maybe looked for a little bit better than Higgins, but that's certainly good trade. Yeah, and neither of them were in on the Higgins though. I know it's, yeah. Like if you just think about it with Higgins, it's just some really interesting stats that could, if you pro-rated over a season, be really like over the last 16 games of Joe Barrow, he's what, Y receiver eight, I think I saw Y receiver four. I think I saw what was it the stat you had earlier? I was on the TV for the last 16 with Joe Barrow, I think it is. Okay. Yeah, either four eight, either way, it's top eight. And then Jamie stat, what was it, 21 touchdowns, the last 20? I was gonna say you love the touchdown guys, and he's among the best, 21 touchdowns in his last 27 games.

39:21And there's no reason to think about that. Stop, right? Jamie, like if he's healthy, like I don't see, like touchdown regression is a thing, I get it. But like in an offense like that, there's no, like Barrow is a clear cut guy we can count on for a certain amount of touchdowns. They have an easy schedule, and Jamar Chase gets double team and shaded coverage in the red zone. So Higgins is one on one all the time. That's a pretty easy path. We all like Higgins, but this is like why I wanna have the show tomorrow, the stream, because I never could mention these types of things. T Higgins was on pace for 109 targets with Joe Barrow last year. He's got one of the, he has the lowest target per out run rate of any wide receiver that we'd even consider taking in the first four rounds. And we take them, I'll take them in the third round, so I mean, he was able to be a top 15 receiver last year, 16th per game, with a very low target per out run rate. Two years ago, he had a pretty good target per out run rate and he was top five. So I think you could say if it gets back up to that level, he's gonna be awesome, but I don't really think that it will. I would say that Higgins might have 30 fewer targets than Garrett Wilson.

40:22He might even have fewer targets than Zay Flowers. You just have to be aware of it. He needs the touchdowns, but we are pretty confident that it will happen. Sorry, that's fair. That's your off-dem. No, that's totally fair. It's the same thing. If you don't, if you don't love Higgins at his cost, not that this is part of the conversation, because the trade, but if you don't love Higgins at his cost, there's Devote Adams. If you're chasing touchdowns, there's James and Williams. If you're looking at that profile, there's Christian Watson, like there were guys that go later. Mike Evans, round six. Mike Evans, round six. You want to try it? He's like consistently round six these days too. It's crazy. Yeah, if you want to buy the dip, there's a lot we're gonna get Stephens too, but he seems to be healthy and ready to go for week one. And when we come back, we'll find out why Dan Schneier said, I'm not your buddy, guy. I'm not your guy, buddy. Yeah, I think he messed up the South Park quote. We'll be right back on Fantasy Football today. Support for today's show comes from Square, the platform behind so many of the local businesses we all love. Whenever I go to my local sports bar on the weekend, it's packed.

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43:28We got some good ones. Good fans. It's the one we're long overdue for some good cops. We got some good ones here. And by the way, Andre in the previous email said that 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. is 100% the afternoon and it's not even a question. You're a little aggressive there, Andre. I think it starts at 11.30 but I do thank you for your support. Next email of support comes with Jesse. No wonder you read it. Somebody supports your stupid decision. Here's this. Jesse says to me, Dan might have beaten you in tennis but I'm afraid you edged him out trying to sing the fantasy cops theme. If Dan disputes my assertion, let him know. I'm a trained musician and can hear every note you guys got wrong or right. That's awesome. I told you I'm tone deaf. I mean, I felt in my head like I was doing a decent job but clearly that was not the case. Got to go again? No, never again. It's just funny that your tone deaf, you have this false sense of like self-esteem sometimes. Like your tone deaf, you were so sure. You know I play guitar. I have some musical ability. You're so sure you hadn't beat on that and so someone had to finally tell you know you're

44:30wrong. And also, let's go back to like three years ago. Dan Schneier looked at me in the eye across the camera and swore to me that he was really, really good at rock paper scissor. He was so sure and I whooped his ass in rock paper scissor. So like you just have to go. There was a delay on the camera. There was a small game sample size. Over a large sample size I will beat you in rock paper. So by the way, Jamie, I want to throw this to you now while we're going off track a little bit here. I may or may not be. It's not final as yet. I got to talk to Adam. But I think so. Drafting in his home auction league, which I'm very excited about for a lot of reasons. Mostly because I can be the guy that beat him up on, I say a bacheco after he gets before he gets to mere Gibbs. But we may be playing some tennis before him. Give me a quick prediction on what those two sets will look like. Are you getting pizza before? No, I will be. It's New Jersey. It's going to be cool out. It's New York, buddy. New York. New York, even better. It's going to be cool. I'm going to say six, one, six, four.

45:35Okay. I'm going to try to beat that. I want to beat that. I wanted to be under. Yeah. By the way, Dan's been going out of it with somebody in the chat today. He's just like today is not the day to best of dad. He's not today. He's not on hour six of podcasting today and I'm sick. This is not the day. If you're going to come in the chat and just spew negativity toward me, I'm just going off on you because I won't go too far on this. But like, I don't know, man. I just know I would never go to a chat if somebody's podcast and do that. So I don't know. I got a question for you to leave it at that from smak or smak, but smak. I have Ken Walker. You call it smak. No, it is. It's not smak. No, it's smak. Like, it's two different words, but I said smak. I have Ken Walker. I want to pick up Emmett Johnson. I also have Jonathan Taylor, Jordan Mason, and Marcia Lloyd. I'd have to drop either McCye Lemon or Mike Washington to get Emmett Johnson. If you had Ken Walker, because I know Dan, you're a big Emmett Johnson guy. Yes. You had Ken Walker. Would you drop McCye Lemon or Mike Washington to get Emmett Johnson?

46:36Great question. It was McCye Lemon and Who and Washington. Yeah. I'm so high on Emmett Johnson that I would. I don't know if that's the right strategy. I think we talked a lot about on this show about handcuffs. And generally, I think the advice that I give, and I think you're with me on this Jamie and you as well, Adam, is not to tart. Like, you're less so buying your own handcuffs. You're more so trying to buy other handcuffs. Is that right? That's how Jamie... My philosophy is that I drafted that running back early. I'm drafting him because I'm expecting him to be great, not because I'm expecting him to get hurt. I'm looking to Kat Cashin on somebody else's handcuffs. That being said, if you love the scenario so much and it makes sense, then it's okay to take your own half. You heard me say earlier, like, if I draft James Cook, the last pick I take an almost every draft is Ray Davis, just because he's almost always available. I think in this case, not to cut you off, Dan, this is probably tentingly I'm guessing, because if Emmett Johnson's on waivers and you're talking about dropping those players,

47:39your bench is probably pretty strong. Are you ever going to play McCye lemon? Maybe. Maybe. If Ken Walker gets hurt, are you ever going to play Emmett Johnson? Yeah. One billion percent. Yeah. I agree with you on that. I also feel really strongly about Emmett Johnson. You know that goes back to the Heathess Dynasty League debacle where I lost out on Emmett Johnson because I was too slow to the trigger to figure out the rules in the cut down day. Thank you Adam, by the way, for expanding our benches in Bakeburger. I really appreciate that. Doing the right thing there. You're very welcome. Oh, what a horrible trade I had to make tonight, by the way. What did you have today? What was that? Well, you see my quarterbacks? No. And bakeburger backs are just in Herbert to an Anthony Richardson. Well, you want to compete this year. So Jamie traded a second round pick in 2027. Okay. For Geno Smith. Oh, that's terrible. I'll tell you what, I'll give you the show. I respect it too. I'll give you the Sean Watson for a first round pick. It's very tough. Heath has a very good philosophy on quarterbacks.

48:42Quarterbacks in Super Flex leagues are never cheaper than they are in draft day. And so having to trade and I asked Heath and Dave, they didn't know which league I was trading in. Heath is in that league. I said, what would you think you have to give up to get Geno Smith? And without hesitation, he said at least a second, if not a package for it. And so I just looked at it as I thought I'd offer you for camorad. I thought you would say no. I was looking to the teams that are out of it, you know, and probably need draft picks. I thought about it out of it anymore. You're out of it. I thought about offering Dan for Daniel Jones, but Dan's a competitor. He wants to keep his third quarterback. Yeah. So like it's this is a league where there's not a lot of great third quarterbacks. Yeah. Fourth quarterbacks on rosters. So you have to overpay. And I like my roster a lot. I don't hate this move by the way. No, I don't. You don't use this is why you never compete in dynasty leagues. No, I know. You're with Jamie on that. Geno Smith is bad. The jets are terrible when they get off to a horrible start.

49:43They're going to bench Geno Smith. You're going to have no quarterback. And he's not going to be a starter for the rest of his career. For the rest of his career. Yeah, but you're again, you're not wrong in what you're saying. But the flip side of that is if he does stay the quarterback for the entire season to get a quarterback in that league, you have to give up either multiple first-round picks for somebody good or multiple picks in general. And so listen, this was that I was kicking around. I was kicking around potentially trading Jordan Tyson for a quarterback because again, competing now, essentially giving up a first-round pick for a quarterback. And I didn't want to do that. So I can sacrifice a second-round pick which I think is going to be late second and still be competitive and still keep the core of my roster. Right. All right. I don't hate this. And I also think like if you can we go to fantasy cops and I would run out of time. Okay. We were at time for. Yeah, I don't know why there's always a time with that. Because I don't want people to have to wait an hour to start hearing fantasy cops. Like they I get 15 emails a week for fantasy cops. They obviously want to hear. I love the cops.

50:43I'm in. All right. Here we go. Fantasy cops. Brooklyn Omar is here. This isn't a decision-based fantasy cops. More of a topic of discussion. Do you guys offer slow draft hostage negotiation services? I'm drafting at 11 and the 12 manager holds up the draft every evening until it is paused overnight from 11pm to 7am. He's essentially holding the draft hostage for 12 to 15 hours every time it's his turn to pick. I know the slow draft is to accommodate for people all over the world with different schedules. But it's like he's emailing you guys every night asking who to pick next. Which he isn't. It's ridiculous. What do we say to Brooklyn Omar? Brooklyn Omar. I'm with Brooklyn Omar here. This is really just like it's kind of like it's just bad etiquette. I guess it's the best way to describe it. It's not test technically against the rules. And this is the one problem you run into if you have a slow draft so close to start of the season.

51:43Really at any point once training camp starts. Let's say today it was like a season ender. Thank God it wasn't knock on wood for Swift. All the sudden this guy's sitting on his pick and he gets calm and unguy and that's not fair. So I don't know how you avoid this. It's such a great story for that by the way. Yeah, I don't know how you avoid this though. It's a bad etiquette. It's bad etiquette and just something to keep in mind when you're deciding if people want to, if you want to keep people in the league next year or to do slow drafts again next year. If someone's going to do this to you, you got to make it clear like, hey, the clock is there really for to move you along. It's not for you to use the entire clock and especially if you're ending up in a spot where you're going to be keeping everybody overnight. People who want to draft, I'm in four slow drafts right now. There's one that I commission and I just text everybody when they're up. I don't expect them to pick right away but I give them a notification. Just say, hey, you're up next person on the clock. I'm in a league where it's for my eight year olds baseball team and there's no clock on it. And it's just say if we get to the early part next week, I'll put a clock on it. It's not, you know, some of the kids are involved with this mostly the parents picking.

52:45And there's half the people in the league are like, you got to speed this up and they're half the people are like, oh, I forgot that I'm even in the league. It's just really casual for fun. So there's different ways to go about this. But to your point about what you just said with the Andre Swift thing. So we have this obviously, it's now down to 18 people. I think at one point it was up to like 24 people in the league. Dave used to be in the league. He's no longer in it. Dave was once on the clock and this goes this shows you how far it goes back. Brett Farr of announced he was coming out of retirement. Oh, that year. Dave picked Brett Farr of... If you recall, the starter at that point prior to Farr of getting the job was sage Rosenfeld. Yeah, sage Rosenfeld had already been picked. We are probably double digit rounds. So 24 teams, double digit rounds, you know, do the math. The manager who took sage Rosenfeld was so pissed. And publicly in the league, in the office, this is when we were in the office all the time,

53:46you got to give me Brett Farr of where I took sage Rosenfeld. And obviously, I'm with Dave on this point because it's just the nature of the league. No way. This is just how it broke. What would happen in the middle of the season if Farr got hurt and he had Rosenfeld. The flip side was that, would you say, oh, you owe me Farr to modify this? We've since gone to Team QB for this league. So that was the impetus of changing that rule. But this guy was so mad. I've never, like, a client mild manner guy, so mad. I don't understand what he's mad at. He was mad at that because it was a slow draft. Oh, and that, and that if it was a regular draft, I can understand being mad at that. I can't understand being mad at Dave's. He wasn't mad at Dave. He wasn't mad at this situation. But he basically was like, you guys have to give me Brett Farr and Commissioner. And you're like, no, we're not giving you anybody. That was rational. It was like, sorry, it just happened. It's just bad luck. All right, this is from Nathan.

54:46He says, hey, fantasy cops. I have an issue that just came up in the days following my home league draft. It's caused quite the stirr would really appreciate your guidance. Here's the story. During my home league draft this past Sunday, August 30th, Josh Jacobs was falling during the draft due to his recent ad on the Commissioner Exemplist. He ended up getting chosen in the fifth round by a manager who temporarily ended up on auto draft. Josh Jacobs status on our platform is NA, which based on our current league rules does not allow them to be stashed in an IR spot. Correct. The league voted in previous years to allow suspended players in the IR, but we've never voted on NA players. The manager immediately took to the league chats and asked for a rule change to allow NA players in the IR spot. Obviously beneficial to him. Another manager shot down the proposal since it was after the draft. The manager then messaged the commissioner, me, about wanting to have a vote to change the rules.

55:48Basically, I won't keep going on here. He says, what should I do? If you allow to suspended players to be putting in IR spots, Jacobs qualifies. You think so? He's not suspended. I don't care. That's just being stupid within the picking stuff. I don't know the reason I'm suspended players to be in the IR though. I totally agree with that. But again, as we go back to it, if you're allowing a rule to happen in an... You're laughing at Anna. Because you like to change the rules for... You know what? They already have a rule that says they're allowed suspended players and you're like, well, change a rule. Yeah. Make fantasy better. I don't know what to tell you. So there's change your rule. We'll put that in the box. Put it off the side. All right. There's not a rule that we're ruling on here. You would be such a terrible judge and maybe a worse lawyer. The thing we're discussing is their rule. We're not discussing change their rule. True. We're fixing their rule. Fine. They're a crappy rule. Okay. So let's fix the rule. So yes, you want to call a crappy rule. You were entitled to.

56:49You're entitled to whatever adjectives you want to put in front of their rule. Their bleep rule is suspended players are allowed to be placed in IR. That should be where Josh Jacobs qualifies. It shouldn't be this NA stuff. Exemplist. Exemplist and suspension should go hand in hand. Maybe judge Dan Schneider. We almost had that would be so bad. We almost had. So you committed robbery? No, no, no, you're going to jail for murder. Sorry. We almost had a nightmare scenario in my homely auction, which was also Sunday. We started our auction literally like minutes after the news broke. And no one was like on road world or whatever. It's really even a thing. Anyone who was on CBS sports.com. And so nobody saw the. Everybody saw the. Saw the news and like Jacob gets nominated. And we had everyone live at the drafts that for one manager. And the one manager was on the phone was like, you guys know he's put on the exam. And bliss, right? We're all like, what is like literally? Literally. You didn't work so like. None of us knew. We were like, no, because we were like locked into like auction mode.

57:52And it wasn't like we're checking phones and stuff like in for news. And so like if he hadn't said that and he was just like, I'll let them just bid like crazy. They would have we would have it would have been a normal Josh Jacobs bid. And then we would have found out like whenever we found out it would have been too late. Here's judge Schneider. I don't know if I could do the suppression without clapping. I thought you were not guilty. Then I found out you were from Florida, the worst date on earth. I don't know who the heck would want to live there. It's not the worst. It's not terrible food. Cold mushrooms on your pizza. I don't know who would want to live in this weather. It rains every single day. You are so guilty. All right. It just takes so long to get places. Everything's like 20 to 25 minute drive. It's crazy. Oh God. I'm going out to like close to Jersey. It's on Saturday. It's going to take me out like two hours, buddy. Yeah, from where you live in the Boondies. From Steven, fantasy cops. I need help. Auction keeper league where you can keep three players from the previous season at the dollar amount they were drafted.

58:52Our league decided this off season, not a unanimous vote, that we would change the roster construction from two running backs and three receivers to two running backs, two receivers and a flex. This actually not that important. This part is we also are going to remove kickers and DSTs from the auction and draft them. In a snake format. I am a Brandon Aubrey manager and I have him at one dollar and I had a terrible year and I was going to keep Brandon Aubrey for one dollar. But remember, they removed kickers from the auction and now they have to do that in a snake draft. I was informed by my commissioner that I could keep Aubrey but I, oh wait, no. He wants to keep him for zero dollars. He wants to keep him for zero dollars because they removed kickers from the auction. The commissioner said I can keep him but I have to pay the one dollar keeper fee for Aubrey. I argue that I should be allowed to keep him for zero since everyone else will get their kicker and DST in a snake format and I shouldn't be penalized for keeping a player from last year's draft under the roster construction of last year's season.

1:00:00I would love to hear Dan's take on this. Am I crazy? You don't want to hear my take on this buddy. I mean, what the heck are we doing for so many reasons? You're right, by the way. So I'll start by saying that you're right. There should be no scenario where you have to keep the kicker for more than what they're doing in this thing. But the problem I have and again, this is going to group mess with Jamie because he's not going to, and I respect it, Jamie. I'm just going to go again off track. But what kind of league doesn't have inflation for their keeper prices? What kind of league are we doing? Are we going to keep the player for the price you bid on? So you just nominate a kicker for a dollar. Nobody bids on them. I keep him for a dollar. Like are we just keeping players for the same price? I kind of feel like if you're keeping a kicker, you keep the player. But that's a lot of play. No, all keeper leagues have either percentage. It goes up by or it's a flat fee. Never do that. Never do what you won them for in the auction. You draw a third of the auction keeper leagues. You've never ever done the exact price you won them on.

1:01:00Anyway, if you're keeping a player, they're asking what he's something else. You don't have to pile per hour zone. What kind of a zone is it at least 30 miles per hour? You might say that to a cop if they pull me over and that type of thing. But that wouldn't work out well. But at least it'll be work better if I was a truck driver. But that's a throwback. I think for this season, it should be all keeper rules are the same no matter the position. But moving forward, if you're going to keep a kick, you can not allow to keep a kicker the SD after this since they changed it knowing that he's still at the opportunity. Any manager still at the opportunity to keep him for this year? Do you think you should be able to keep Aubrey for one or zero? I think if he was going to keep him for zero before this rule, then he should be allowed to keep him for zero. I don't think he was. No, he's going to keep him for one. He was going to keep him for one, but then he's going to keep him for one. It's either you keep him for one or you don't keep him. But what does he do in the snake draft? Then he has to draft a second kicker. So there's just get the pick. You just lose the track. I guess you're going to have to drive.

1:02:00Vikings, Vikings, 20, 2008 or whenever that was. Remember that year? I do remember that year. All right. Well, we can... Oh, man, people are just trash and Florida here. That's... Yeah, I mean, look, I don't hate Florida. I don't want to make it seem that way. There are great things about Florida. We had a great time down there. I love being in the office. I think the places we ate were all good with the exception of the one Adam suggested. No, it's true. I hate to say it, but the Gotham City Burger was amazing. Jamie, where'd you take us? Whatever your suggestion was about the city burger. Yes, about Charm City Burger. How about Charm City Burger? Charm City Burger. Charm City Burger was amazing. The place you took us, Jamie, was very good. Was it the cafe? The Jetton Way Cafe. That was very good. I had a great lunch there. Did not get sick after it. And then I think it was Dave gave me a suggestion for a dinner I had on my own. And then Adam takes me to the junk place and gets everybody sick. I got another fantasy cops here. It gets everybody sick. The one guy who got sick. That is so dead right there.

1:03:01I have fantasy cops from red. I just had a disaster draft. One week, member didn't show up and it auto drafted. Awful team. Four quarterbacks by the ninth round. Now that guy isn't answering anyone, so he's kicked out of the lead. We are thinking we make it an auto team throughout the year. Any suggestion on how to make this fair? Oh. It's either you just as the commissioner, I know you can do on CBS. You can do it, I think, on other sites. There's an optimal lineup button. You set the optimal lineup and just play it out as is. So the only problem with that is when you get to buy leaks and there's multiple players on a buy and you're not making ad drops for that team. So you can just do the easy thing, which is whoever plays that team that we get to win and just call it a day. I think that you should try to find a replacement. I think, you know, just like, but who would be willing to take that on if it's a pay? Don't make them pay. Don't make them pay. Don't make them pay.

1:04:01Just get someone to do it. Otherwise, whoever plays that team twice is going to have a huge advantage. I know. Are they eligible to win money if they take over that team but not pay? I think so. Yeah. I mean, that's going to be pretty hard for them to win money. I think I would prefer to just you got you got somebody in the chat that just said they'll do it. There you go. There you go. Next man in his name is next man up. I mean, you couldn't possibly be any. It couldn't be more keen. All right. Jamie, can you comment on this? I would take Dan to or I don't say that. It says take Dan to Abe and Louie's in Boca. Yep. Great restaurant. I would highly recommend. Why didn't we go? It's a little busy going to be the time or whatever the heck that regular lunch. Name of that place was kitchen time pizza go clock. It was a little far. Oh, Dave took you to a chicken kitchen. That was good. Oh, that was another good hit. Chicken kitchen was great. The curry mustard sauce was phenomenal. Yeah. Chicken kitchen is better. It's usually called mustard curry not curry mustard but yeah. The mustard curry sauce. That's what I was good at. I thought it was good. It was good.

1:05:01It's your arm city burger. That was the best meal we had by far. That was one of the better burgers I've had like anywhere. It's your arm city is one of the best burgers you can use. Somehow was like as good as anything I get around here in Jersey. That's tough to get to. Unbelievable. I mean, keep it really. It says a lot. It says a lot. Can you imagine? By the way, you're out of your bubble. Do you range to get food very far? Wherever I did a pizza tour once of all the best spots in New York. No, I'm not talking about like a special thing. Like when you want to go get your special sandwich or like you know. Well, I got a great, I got a great Italian deli that's 10 minutes away. Okay. So I don't need to go that far for that. I have some spots I hit. Actually, it just turns around and opens up his freezer to get an old. I can't. No, hold on. It's settled down and I feel so much better now, which is great. Let's see what's in the front. Yeah, let's see it. Let's see the. You can't complain about no, no, you got to do it now. The fridge or the freezer? Both. It's not good. Yeah, I give. Yeah, let's see the freezer here. I also have a comment to make.

1:06:01What do we got? It was the play by play. What's in there? I see some ice cream. We got ice cream. We got pineapple coconut frozen pops. We got some shredded hash browns. Why are you on me? Yeah, go to Dan. Some beef burgers, chicken, chile verde, traitor jose. Yeah. Nothing great, nothing great now. What's in the fridge? No, I use the door. What do you mean? Like this? The door is empty. No, open the door. You have all that space in the door. Why don't you use the door? Why are you talking? I open the freezer again. Open the freezer. Yeah, the side, you know, the door, like, I am not utilizing the side. There's really not that much in here in general, to be honest. The cold air feels really nice though when I'm feeling this stuff. I have a question. Don't you still have a minute? We're not going to go to the fridge. We'll save the fridge. No, we have another episode. No, you can't complain about what's going on. It doesn't want to go into the fridge. It's fine, but a question for you is, does your roommate care that you have completely taken over the fridge and freezer with your bumper stickers? Is it entirely your bumper sticker?

1:07:01No, actually, now nobody lives on this level. There's two people who live downstairs. Nobody lives on this level, so it's just me. This is your fridge. Yeah. I have everything in the whole room. Oh, that's awesome. It was nice. But I don't do anything with it, because I'm really lazy. And I used to cook, man. I don't know. I just stopped cooking at some point, and I got real lazy with it. Well, I had two things. I cooked today. I cooked amazing, great chicken thighs with couscous and corn on the coutons good. But I went to the Mount Kisco diner yesterday. And you would have killed me if you saw what I was doing. Don't tell me you did the chicken betariaki thing again. Did you ever, I ordered a egg white omelet with turkey, mushroom, tomato, broccoli? What time of day was it? One. Dude, that's only acceptable in the morning. That's brunch. One p.m. It's time to get lunch. It's time to get one of their good lunches. First of all, say that again, egg white. You couldn't even put the yolks, even the yolks are good for you. You're wrong about that. I need you to. Your tink, your yolks are bad for me.

1:08:02Thomas, take in the world, thinking egg yolks are bad for you. And the yolk is the best part of the egg by far. Look it up. Do some research. Now, what would you put in that? It was turkey, broccoli, tomato and mushrooms. It was like one of those turkey. What do you mean? Like cold cut turkey or like ground turkey? No, like, like, not cold cut turkey, not ground turkey. No, it wasn't ground turkey. It was like turkey. It was the Thanksgiving turkey. Things of that. Eating... Zic, thanks. You dry, Thanksgiving turkey. It would happen to be pretty good. That's... Is that chat? Help me out here. Is that not the worst sounding omelet you've ever heard of in your life? Egg whites know yolk. It's a protein omelet. Egg whites know yolk. It's a protein omelet. Egg whites know yolk. Turkey. Mystery turkey. We don't even know what it is. We don't even know what it is. It's like, it wasn't the dick kind, but it's kind of the thing. It's a good thing. It wasn't ground. It wasn't cold cut. Like, what was it? Nobody knows. And what else was in there? Mushrooms. You always have... Everything you order has mushrooms on it. It's too many mushrooms. It's insane how much things you order.

1:09:03It's the mushrooms on it. This is what else was on there. It's the anti-dave. It's crazy, man. He eats so healthy. And I need to eat healthier. I know that I see it in the chat. I got to do better. I'm not eating healthy these days. I put on 22 pounds this year. It's a scusky one. Yeah, I don't need... Food. I don't need advice from you. 22 pounds. That's terrible. But I had lost. It's because I had lost so much. I went from my mother's house. I had lost. It's because I had lost so much. I went from 184. No, I went from 190 to 168 last summer back to 184. You can't keep it off. You can't do it. All right. We're going to wrap up here. All right. Someone's in the meeting. It's 11.40 pm and we're going to play a game called... This is a great one right here. It's kids sleeping. We're going to go find out. Mr. Bowen Arrow. Let me go research eggs real quick. I'll be back. The ear insects. Egg yolks are good for you. All right. For those of you watching, please join me tomorrow on New Eastern. It's all 12.30 to answer some questions. And other than that, have an awesome weekend, everybody. The draft. The way we were showing the morning. We do have a show in the morning, but they all know that. Extra.

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