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Buy Low & Sell High Trade Targets Ahead of Week 7! (10/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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 Buy Low & Sell High Trade Targets Ahead of Week 7! (10/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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Right now, you can get up to $200 off Square hardware at square.com slash go slash fft. That's S-Q-U-A-R-E dot com slash G-O slash F-F-T. Run your business smarter with Square. Get started today. This is Fantasy Football Today. CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? No, I can't. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races, and he stays on his feet. It's just going to go the distance. Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Welcome to the show. Happy Hump Day. It is Wednesday, October 21st. We're getting so close to Halloween. Everyone's super excited. I'm Adam Azer with Heath Cummings. Jamie Isenberg will be joining us shortly. We've got a lot of trade talk today. Buy low, sell high. Of course, we're going to preview the Thursday night game, Chicago and New England, which we've already declared the game of the week. But Dave won't be here today, so we won't. Someone's going to have to help me out with the na-na-na-na-na-na-nas. But a lot of stats to throw at you right now. I hope you're all ready for a stat attack and target per outrun rates and ADOTs and all these things. You know who leads all players in route participation rate? He's basically running. He's running around every single route this year. D.K. Metcalf. Yeah, but he's really bad in yards per outrun, which isn't good. He's been super inefficient. And do you know who's second in route participation rate? Amongst wide receivers? Or tight ends. But, okay, so he's got the same amount of initials as D.K. Metcalf in both the first name and the last name. And he's in the same division as D.K. Metcalf. The same amount of initials? Two initials and two initials in the first name and last name. D.K. Metcalf. Okay, that Metcalf is not two initials. I mean, syllables. Jeez, for God's sake. For God's sake. He's got two initials in his name. He threw me off. Metcalf does. So it's two syllables. He's in the AFC North. He's got a D. First name starts with a D. Okay. Denzel Boss. Denzel Boss. Denzel Boss. Denzel Boss. Denzel Boss. So it's got two initials. It's supposed to be. You didn't hear me? I have no idea. Denzel Boss. Denzel Boss. Okay. All right. Before we get into the buy lows and sell highs, let's just. For those of you who are running fab tonight, I looked at eight random FFT Open Leagues. Here's what Omar Cooper Jr. went for. $11 out of $100 original budget. $11, $35, $18, $3, $32, $13, and $12. I looked at one of the leagues where he had a $32 bid, and the second bid was like $12 or something. So I. I think generally speaking, it was around the $11, $12 range for Omar Cooper, but some people are going to go nuts. If you saw Omar Cooper and Jordan Tyson on the waiver wire, which one would you add? Yeah. This was a great topic on yesterday's show. I think we all agreed Jordan Tyson has the most rest of season upside of anyone. So it really just mattered who you were going to. who you needed now. Because Tyson's probably not playing this week, and not. They have a buy next week. So, you know, hopefully it's Tyson, because hopefully I don't need the receiver. Demario Douglas. Demario Douglas was $12, $4, $6, and he was rostered in a lot of the FFT Open Leagues. I saw him for like $8, $10, and some of the other ones. Tyrone Tracy Jr. In the eight leagues I saw him, I looked at, he didn't get picked up in one of them. And in the other seven, he went for anywhere from $5 to $20. But usually it was in the $5 to $8 range. There was a $12 bid, and there was a $20 bid on Tyrone Tracy Jr. There was a $15 bid on Jamie Eisenberg, and we got him. Hey, he's here. What's up? Good morning. And the second highest bid was only $1. We were the only ones who wanted Jamie Eisenberg. Good morning, Jamie. Wow. I thought you were going to say it was a $50 bid. Oh, his birthday's been a three-day celebration now. I think we're ready to move on. So, I said to Heath before the show, I like the show today. We're going to talk about a lot of guys, but it's missing something. It's missing. 100% not what you said to me before the show. What did I say? I'm not going to say it. Okay. I don't like the show today. It's missing something. It's missing an element of fun. And I think it's very clear our audience is much more fun than we are. So, I'm going to be looking for fun comments today, whatever it is. You know, like you're just thinking things off the top of your head. For example, Pukunuku is going to be the number one player in fantasy football, number two behind Jameer Gibbs while Devontae Adams is out. Anything. Anything that comes to mind. Just throw it at us. We're going to star the good ones. We're going to star the good ones here in the chat, and we'll read them. All right. News and notes. Terrence Ferguson is not going to come off IR when he's first eligible. That's fun. Yeah. I saw that. I lowered my bids a little bit for Terrence Ferguson. Yay. Great news, everyone. He's not going to be ready when he's first eligible. He has to miss at least one more game, but won't be back immediately after that. The Rams are signing kicker Brandon McManus. Terry McLaurin out for the season. Eagles sign running back Elijah Mitchell. A.J. Brown was limited, but we expect him to play Thursday. Patriots are going to be likely going to be without at least two of those starting offensive linemen who left with injuries. They could get cornerback Carlton Davis back. Kyle Menongai missed practice for those of you who added Roshon Johnson. See if Menongai gets in a practice today. Alec Pierce is not going to practice this week. Green Bay's offensive coordinator said that Josh Jacobs looks great, so I would say he's trending in the right direction, and the Giants released Najee Harris. Let's do some buy low and sell high. All right, Heath. Who are we buying low? I would like to buy low on Bucky Irving. He has been fantastic as a rusher. I think he has the second highest avoid rate and yards after contact for rush behind like maybe third behind Kenneth Walker and B. John Robinson. The targets have completely disappeared with Jalen Daniels. I think as soon as Baker comes back, they start throwing to Bucky again. He's been. He's been pretty bad for fantasy the last couple of weeks, but I still think he's going to be a borderline top 12 running back in the second half of the season and has a pretty great schedule. Cool. And, you know, we have a question about Bejel Tutin. Is he a buy low? And I think these guys are super similar. What do you think about Bucky versus Tutin? Would you rather? I think Bucky is Tutin with six target upside when Baker's back. So I'd rather have Bucky. One thing, Jamie, how about you? Bucky or Tutin? It's a great question. I think I'd probably lean Bucky if I know that Baker's coming back soon. Yeah, seems optimistic. It doesn't seem like he's going to be back this week, but it seems like not too long. Maybe next week for Baker. Chance he plays this week. It is. It is funny that Bucky's best game, though, came without Baker. Yeah, I think, you know, Jacob, if you were here, would make the argument that Tutin's in a better office. Offensive environment than Bucky. I think that's true. Nobody would disagree with that. And one thing I noticed about Tutin is that his route participation rate has gone up three straight weeks. You know, that could easily go back down next week, right? It's not set in stone, but the Jaguars. OK, this is all stemming from a question we got from TBJN. Should I trade Jalen Coker for Bajel Tutin? What do you think about that? It's a fair trade if somebody needs a running back versus a receiver. Yeah, there's more upset, I think, for Coker, but we know finding running backs and trading for running backs is difficult. So you probably have to overpay. And I think Tutin's in a good spot. It's funny because, you know, Jacob, obviously. And he said, we agree, like the offensive environment for the Jaguars is better. It doesn't feel like they have. An identity of who they are. The Jaguars. Yeah, because, I mean, you think about all the moving parts that have gone on with the team this season. You know, Brian Thomas has been phased out. Now we got Travis Hunter playing. There was a there's a thing still in there. stretch of Brent and Strange getting more involved. Jacoby Myers has been up and down all over the place this season. Obviously, Parker Washington has been sort of a mainstay. You mentioned that their route participation has changed a little bit for Basial Tootin. They still use Laquan Allen too much, from my take. In my taste, it's just like there's a lot of confusion, I guess. Uncertainty, to some degree, with the Jaguars. And it is like, I think we should be careful not to overstate. It's a big difference between the two teams. But Jacksonville hasn't really quite been an elite offense. And Tampa hasn't quite really been, they're not bottom five in yards or points. So it's kind of like a top third offense against a bottom third offense. I brought this up yesterday, Heath, on Tuesday's show, that Baker has not looked good. But he also has not looked good against Minnesota and Cleveland in two of the first three games. So, we don't, I think, know what this Tampa Bay offense is going to look like when they're playing a little bit more of a lighter schedule. And so, you know, Baker's missed some good opponents in the stretch that Jalen Daniels has played. So, hopefully he's healthy and we can see what the best of, what Zach Robinson's maybe vision of this team looks like. I didn't mean to get this into a Basial Tootin conversation, but I think he's a really interesting player, especially because he's on a bye. So, if you're looking at a Jalen Tootin manager, Basial Tootin manager, who's two and four? And one of his top running backs is on a bye? This is who you target, right? You go after Tootin if you want him here, because that manager's desperate for a win. So, I want to talk about the Jaguars offense in general. You talk about Baker Mayfield having faced a tough schedule. The Jaguars, they're four and two. And they faced a bad schedule for their offense for two reasons. One, they faced Cleveland, Denver, New England, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Houston. They faced a lot of good defenses. But they've also faced a lot of bad offenses. So, one of those things is about to change. The Jaguars are going to face the Colts, the Titans twice, and the Giants in their next five games, also with Baltimore in there. First place Giants, say it right. Yeah, first place Giants. So, they're facing some bad defenses. Even if they're not bad, certainly not good defenses, but they're also facing some questionable offenses here with the Colts and the Titans twice. So, I don't know if they're going to have to throw that much. They're very slow-paced. They're 23rd in plays per game, which isn't that bad, but they're 31st in pace. They're 23rd in pass rate. My whole point is that they've played a really tough schedule, and things could get a lot better for them in terms of efficiency. And they're 8th in points per game, which is really good. But Tootin could have a much better. He's only averaging 4.1 yards per carry, but I think he could do much better than that. However, I don't know how much they're going to have to throw from a Lawrence perspective, facing these crappy offenses. But then it gets. Then you've got Chicago and Pittsburgh and Houston and Dallas and Washington. I think it's a much better schedule, just to put a blanket statement on it, over the last 11 games, or 10 games in fantasy, than it was over the first six games for the Jaguars. So, just something to note here. I think it just. And not to just limit it to Basil Tootin, like Parker Washington has slowed down a little bit. He's another buy-low target, if you're looking at his fantasy manager that needs help during the buy week. Yeah, you don't know what to expect from Jacoby Myers, but finally, he just wasn't getting targeted like he normally does, and he finally did in week 6. He also is leading the team with six end-zone targets, and I think he only has two catches on those end-zone targets. And so, six. I think no one has more than nine end-zone targets, so six end-zone targets for Jacoby Myers is pretty impressive. I talked about him last week as a guy to get his throw-in in a trade. I don't know if he can do that anymore, but he could have a decent rest of season. All right, that was the Jaguars. Let's go to Jamie's buy-low. Similar situation. DJ Moore on a buy. Clearly has been struggling. And I think, you know, when we talk about targeting injured players, right, you get a little bit more concerned, at least I do, when it's lower leg injuries, obviously spraining, high ankle sprains, hamstring injuries, things like that. You should still be aggressive in trying to get those type of players if you think that they're going to be healthy and have strong finishes. And shoulder injuries are clearly nothing to overlook, but he's been dealing with a shoulder injury. I'm sure part of it has been managing it, knowing that they're going to be in playoff contention at the end of the season, not to try and rush DJ Moore back. Clearly, they would like to have him on the field, but you get the point. Coming off the buy, he should be healthy. And look, Keon Coleman has played very well. He might still have a role, a significant role moving forward. It feels, though, as if Keon Coleman's just kind of been a replacement for DJ Moore, because when both guys have been healthy, we haven't seen this from Coleman. I think there's still a huge ceiling for Moore moving forward. Hopefully, again, he'll be healthy. If you can get him from the fantasy manager that might be struggling and needs help during the buy week or has been missing Moore, he's an easy one to go get for me. So, DJ Moore, the good thing on DJ Moore is that he is among the leaders in target per route run rate. He's ninth. His target per route run rate is in between Malik Neighbors and Keenan Allen, who's obviously crazy high. Jalen Coker, Drake London, it's very high. But let me just bring this up, Jamie, with DJ Moore. He's got to buy this week. It's Baltimore. That's fine. His remaining schedule includes games at Minnesota in week nine. Miami is third best against receivers because only two receivers have more than six targets against them. They're so bad. They get run on all the time. The Chiefs are number one against receivers at New England with Christian Gonzalez, presumably at Denver in week 16. Just throwing it out there. Does that matter at all? I mean, yeah, of course it matters. But I don't think you're paying the draft price for DJ Moore. You're buying him at such a reduced cost. Would you rather have Coker or DJ Moore? Coker. Would you rather have Luther Burden or DJ Moore? Burden. And I would have said Burden the entire draft process if he didn't have the injury during training camp. So we're getting some good questions from the chat. Is this true? Why do flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? Interesting. Okay. All right. How about some sell high? So it's Bucky Irving and DJ Moore is by Lowe's. Sell high, Heath. What we got? I'm going to go Devante Smith. And the more I've thought about this Eagles game and kind of watching Tanner McKee throw the football is one thing, but also he had 48 dropbacks in that game. That's four more than Dak Prescott, who leads the NFL at 44 dropbacks per game. It's about 25% higher than what you would expect from a normal quarterback. And he was really bad on those dropbacks. 4.8 yards per attempt to 16% off target rate, which is awful. And with all of that happening, Devante Smith is basically one catch away from a kind of mediocre game. And he's worth nine points on that touchdown catch. So I think it's probably going to be more like 10 targets instead of 14. He had a 50% catch rate with Tanner McKee. I think he's probably more of a number three wide receiver. And I'd like to see if I can sell off of one good game with Tanner McKee. Would you try to sell Devante Smith for Zay Flowers? I mean, I'm just kidding. I don't think you can get that done, but it's a joke about our stupid bet. Yeah, you're in contention. You could get that deal done if you knew that Lamar Jackson was going to miss, let's say, in a month or another month. I would take Zay Flowers at a second, but it's, you know, this bet has messed with my head because I want to believe in Devante Smith, but I see exactly what you see. Did you agree? I said on yesterday's show, I think I thought Tanner McKee was like the worst. I thought he was. I think I said I said that Sunday night. Okay. Yeah. So yes, I agree. Okay. I thought he was just horrible. Here's the thing about Devante Smith. I think you could argue, though, that until the fantasy playoffs, he might have the best schedule of any wide receiver Dallas, Washington Giants by Pittsburgh, Dallas, Arizona, Indianapolis. Holy cow. It's so good. Then the fantasy playoffs, Seattle, Houston, San Francisco. That's not good. But yeah, that's the only thing that's making me a little optimistic here. But okay, Heath, I love the call. Not for my purposes, but for fantasy managers purposes. Jamie, who's your so high? Josh Jacobs. We have no idea what he's going to look like when he comes back, and hopefully he's still a quality fantasy running back for the people that have stashed him, and we'll see what happens in terms of sharing touches or not sharing touches, but this offensive line is still very much a work in progress, and I'm going to guess, just knowing how this typically goes, there's going to be a little bit of a ramp-up period for him. Now, he does walk into a pretty favorable matchup against Detroit. I know their run defense is much better than the pass defense. But look, we just don't know what you're getting, and anytime you get a player of his name recognition, people get excited about the opportunity to start him. Everybody needs running backs in most fantasy leagues. If you could trade him now for something of significance, I would do it before maybe he doesn't look so good in his first game. We've got a trade offer in our inbox, Heath. Yeah, and I ignored you because I don't know what I want to do with it. Well, can we just let Jamie decide? And we blame him if it goes wrong. I know exactly what Jamie's going to say, so you can go ahead and accept if you would like to. All right, Jamie. Heath and I have Josh Jacobs. We're 4-2. We've gotten to 4-2 without Josh Jacobs. I don't think we have a great team, to be honest, but it's fine. We would give up Jacobs for Jadarian Price Emanuel Wills Wilson, and Saquon Barkley. Jacobs for Price, Wilson, and Barkley? Essentially, Jacobs for Barkley. I think you have to do that. I think we probably should. I know every trade chart value and everything would say yes. I'm accepting it. Okay. Well, you could stash Price on IR, right? Yes. And we don't know what Charbonnet is going to look like. He could be the best running back in Seattle, so it could just be a junk. For the purposes of this show, would you rather have Barkley or Jacobs the rest of the season? So, from what it seems like, based on everything that Philadelphia did yesterday, it sounds like Barkley is getting close to return. They just basically discarded every other running back that they have. They only have two on the roster right now. Yeah. Pierce and Barkley. I thought that, wait, didn't I say that they signed someone? Yeah, they signed Elijah Mitchell. To their practice squad, right? I don't know. Yes. Yeah, okay. Okay. All right, yeah, he's getting close to return. And the other thing is, I don't know if you mentioned it, but Josh Jacobs, he could get suspended if the video comes out. You know, he's not necessarily in the clear here. All right, so we just made a trade. I also have another trade that I'm really excited to propose to Heath. I don't know if I want to do it, so I didn't propose it in the league, but I'm going to propose it on the air. We're going to come back just to recap. You're trading with Heath or your team? No, in the Eliminator League. 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I'd rather have Walker. - I'd rather have Chase. - I think it's extremely fair, right, though? I mean- - Yes, yes. - Okay, then the second question was, "Would you sell high on Isaiah Likely "with the quarterback situation moving forward, "and would you buy low on A.J. Brown?" We'll come back to A.J. Brown, but I did think Likely was super interesting. He's the number one tight end in fantasy. He's number two per game behind Brock Bowers. He's averaging 10 targets per game. He has five touchdowns in six games. The last three games, Giants quarterbacks are averaging 324 yards with eight touchdowns, five interceptions in those games. They're averaging 43.3 pass attempts per game. And I knew it. I mean, we all saw it and said it. This was a great, great game. This was a great portion of their schedule that's about to get much harder with Houston and then a bye and then Philadelphia, then Washington, Jacksonville. Like, it's not so bad after that, although you do have San Francisco and Seattle and Cleveland. It is bad, but there's also some good ones along the way. Anywho, I have Likely. I was thinking of making this trade to Heath, this trade offer. My Likely and Brees Hall for your Bajel Tootin and Sam Laporta. Likely and Brees for Tootin and Laporta. It's interesting. It is, right? Great trade for both sides. I'm worried about Brees Hall. I will say that. I think Braylon Allen has done really well. Yeah. But also, there is right now a massive downgrade from Likely to Laporta, if you just look at points so far. So am I giving up too much? What do you think about that trade? I'm not going to comment on it unless you actually offer it. Because I've been down this road with you too many times before, where I thought I had a trade offer, and then Adam decided he wanted to do something else. I mean, what's both of your records? Seven and five. We're both seven and five, and we're like five points apart in total points. Both seven and five, five points apart in total points. So Heath would be benefiting from Brees Hall. I would take him over Tootin if you tell me both are healthy right now. Adam would be benefiting. You're right. You're getting Tootin, Adam? Yeah. Yeah. Tootin and Laporta. You're getting the short-term upside. Heath is getting arguably the short-term upside. Yeah. Heath is getting arguably the best player in the deal right now, just in terms of production in Likely. I don't think Likely's going to fall off. That's the thing. I do. I think there's a chance. Oh, I definitely think he's going to fall off. I'm not sure if he's going to fall. Like Laporta's at 15 points per game, which is kind of about what I expect. I'm not sure if Likely's going to fall past 15 points per game. Yeah, that's what I meant. Like fall off might be bad. I don't think, yeah. Right. Yeah. I think there's a chance the Giants, in the fantasy playoffs, Likely gets Detroit and Dallas. It's a good comment from Mr. Nice Guy. I don't know what Detroit's schedule is. They don't face Detroit, unfortunately. But I know they- But if I know if, I know if they likely faces the Lions, then Sam Laporta gets to face the Giants. That's true. So I think just in general, I am worried about the Giants' offense cratering. And to trust JJ McCarthy, I think there's a decent chance he's going to be the guy. Or to trust Jameis Winston when they don't have the best matchups is, it's making me a little bit nervous here. So the, you know, back, forget about our trade here, but back to the question, is Isaiah Likely, how good of a sell high is Isaiah Likely? There are just some other things about Likely though, like target per out run rate, target share. He's rivaling the best wide receivers in football right now. He and Malik Nabors get every single target basically. So yeah. Heath, what do you think about Likely? I think, like I said, he is going to lose at least 10% of his current fantasy point per game average. I wouldn't be surprised if he loses 20% of his fantasy point per game. But I also think like, I know the Giants are, have a winning record right now. So this seems like a strange comparison, but they're basically last year's Cardinals where they just like play absolutely awful. Don't watch the game in the first half. And then we're going to throw 35 passes in the second half and everybody's going to score 20 fantasy points and it's going to be so much fun. So yeah, I, I, but I felt the way you feel about the Giants offense right now about Eric, in Arizona and it just never happened. they always had garbage time and they just kept throwing and kept throwing so i i think they can do that i don't think they're going to win very many games um i but they may not need to like six more wins they may or i mean six total wins might win the nfc's trade now i made the trade offer i think it might be a big mistake but part of this is my nervousness about breeze hall are you gonna accept it um i i will evaluate okay a little later i i don't i mean it would probably be good because i have so much sam laporta just to diversify a little bit i have a couple of isaiah likely teams i am i i'm a little i have no idea on tootin versus breeze hall okay uh and then i mean just in in general i'm not trying to talk heath out of this trade but do you want to trade for for you know good offenses right like isn't it more appealing i'm trading a giant and a jet for a jaguar and a lion do you ever think about those types of things i don't no you don't care okay all right next question is oh it's by low on aj brown you guys are you in on that yeah i mean you hope he shook the rust off in in the game sunday and they just lost romeo dobbs so you know full game healthy hopefully he has a better connection with with drake may get a questionable secondary thursday night against the bears so your window's going to be closing soon if he has a big game nobody's going to trade him you're not getting you're not getting him cheap after just had 10 targets in his first game back so right i think if you're you're looking at it you're looking for the novice fantasy manager that just saw three for 27 and says okay he just may not be that good jaylen coker or aj brown rest of season i still go brown yeah i go brown yeah i'd probably go coker but i was low on brown coming into the year so you haven't been given a lot of reason to adjust my priors yet your prior what my priors yet oh the two words did anyone think he just cursed was that the only one no okay it's your priors yet it sounded like prior okay uh rob thomas says what word do you think he said i thought he said the s word i thought he said my prior oh prior s yeah yeah uh kick heath off the show all right rob thomas says by low or sell high i would have to rephrase this by low or buy high on christian watson and matthew golden christian watson right now is the number three wide receiver in fantasy number depending on the format he's top five per game matthew golden is oh damn it i didn't put it what he is for the season he's not quite as good as watson because of the touchdowns but he's like a top 10 receiver so um jamie how would you value what do you do with uh the packers receivers here there could there there is a change coming because the backfield just got better you know josh jacobs is a significant upgrade over what they have so do they revert back to a little bit more of a running team or run heavy team i think that would be silly given how jordan love has played and how these guys are operating uh they could lose some touchdowns because i think if they get you know in in scoring opportunities we see a little bit more josh jacobs a little bit more faith in in the running game i'm not looking to trade them unless i'm getting absolute superstars they've just been so good so you get concentrated targets for these guys you get great opportunities from the way love is just challenging down the field like this is this is a throwback offense essentially like they no teams do this to the same level that they do and hopefully it continues i i just don't think josh jacobs returning dramatically shifts the offense so i'm i'm gonna try and stick with these guys unless somebody's just saying here's some package and you're getting one of the elite running backs or one of the elite wide receivers because i just don't think you're doing that one for one i think they're probably both top 12 wide receivers believe it or not golden's only wide receiver 14 per game he's uh averaging 16 and a half ppr fantasy points per game which would have made him wide receiver nine last year it's really really strong uh you could obviously value him as a top 12 you know if you want to get into the nitty-gritty on them they're both high a dot guys but not super high but like matthew golden 14.3 yards he's 13th in a dot christian watson 13.6 yards he's 15th in a dot and i only found two wide receivers in the last three years that finished top 12 per game with a dots that high that's because you don't generally see players with a dots this high get this many targets golden leads the nfl including jsn in air targeted air yards this season okay like he's maybe the rule i guess like jamie said josh jacobs could change things a little bit but the way they're playing football right now sure yeah and i think be encouraged if you're jordan if you have jordan love first of all he set out a huge game on sunday three to drop touchdowns for 92 yards but you know it's not like he's doing anything crazy he's just throwing more he's his efficiency is a little bit worse than usual uh but if he actually throws more he's good we know that so updated stat he's now have 31 games his career with 30 more pass temps he is now at 20 points per game and he's got a game in 20 of those games 20 of 31 two-thirds of the time if he throws 30 or more passes he scores 20 or more points yeah all right hipster doofus says sell high on george pickens and buy low on brian thomas jr sell high on george pickens so you got those backwards well so i think the theory is like he's george pickens he still has the name value and and this is just like a get get what you can for george i'll just i'll just editorialize get what you can for george pickens buy low on brian thomas jr what do you think about these i would not no the only way you're buying low on brian thomas jr is if you think he's going to get traded and if he does get traded there's there's obviously a boost because of play uh first and foremost but you know the the landing spot would determine how good he could be at this point i mean he's just been phased out of the offense he's droppable you know so i don't know what you would be wanting to trade for him unless you're just trading backups for backups with like the hope that that he gets moved get what you can get for pickens is probably not the smartest way to approach it because at some point there's going to have a he's going to have a stretch of games where he performs close to what his value should be his draft value should be um it just hasn't happened yet so uh you know you don't want to say hey wait for a cd lam injury for him to be amazing that's just not a smart way to approach it but i think yeah i don't think it's even a cd lam injury i think like if things are if this is george pickens there's worst case scenario he's jameson williams and so there's still a boom game coming and wait and sell after that and would you rather pickens or aj brown pickens all right and next up we have ben says buy lad mcconkey and after the buy he has the rams and the texans just to let you know but would you buy lad mcconkey chad mcduffie may be out in the defense hasn't been the same so i don't really think mcduff i mean he might be out but i mean mcduff is groin injuries you know we day to day okay fair enough um is he a buy though he was my buy low last week i'll stick with it it should be even cheaper now yeah um look this team's a mess there might be a coordinator change before we see them play again he as he said last week you know the one game where he's actually been healthy he performed well you know so rib injury concussion whatever he's been dealing with it's been been very frustrating for for lab mcconkey i just saw him dropped in a 12 team league last night for a team that's just been miserable and needs healthy bodies so i'm gonna put in a claim to try and pick him up um you know he's he's still got the potential i think to be a top 30 receiver you know you covered those type of players and we know that his upside is is top 15 so yeah if you can get him cheap why not someone's asking mcconkey or cooper rest of season mcconkey yeah mcconkey mcconkey or tyson rest of season all right yeah i watched his uh seven routes that he ran because remember i talked about like i don't like the way they're using him they don't use him in the slot as much and he's he's running too far downfield for a team that they don't have time to let these pass plays develop so he ran seven routes he played eight snaps he was in the slot on two of them which is very low he had a 12.2 yard average route depth with just a month which would basically i mean it's not a lot of time but it's a lot of time and it's a lot of time i mean it was only seven routes but it would basically come close to leading all receivers it's super high and he had one target and that one target was a short route it was a seven yard route depth a 10 yard a dot he made a great move and got open and i think it was out of the slot and that's how you have to use like please go back to using mcconkey differently or get your line healthy and pass protect but until then i just i don't it doesn't make any freaking sense to me and it's pissing me off quite frankly it's like it just seems like it just seems so obvious you want to get your best player of the ball well don't make him run so far downfield when you can't drop back and throw the ball it doesn't make any damn sense all right sorry um fantastic wants to know if we should sell deandre swift it's not a bad call just knowing that my non guy's been banged up with the toe injury and you know we don't know when he's going to return but at some point he'll still be a factor and i think he's more of a factor than roshan and then swift has been playing through the with these minor injuries. I know he was off the injury report last week, but It feels as if, and I think there was a report yesterday that said they're trying to just manage his touches at this point. So not a bad move. You can turn Swift into maybe Basial Tootin and or Bucky Irving and. You need a receiver. There's probably a lot of fantasy managers that would give up something significant for Swift. So it's certainly worth exploring. I tweeted this out yesterday just to kind of make the point that if Mnangai's out again, Roshan's a very good flex. Um, Mnangai, the first four games of the season played 41% of the offensive snaps. And there was the one game where he played 54 because Swift got benched for fumbling. Roshan's played 40 the last two weeks. So I think the Swift role is the Swift role, but he's been probably a little better than you can expect him to be. So yeah, if you can turn him, if that Jamie was talking about Bucky or Basial Tootin plus, I said, buy low on Bucky Irving. The plus for me, for those guys needs to, to be another starter, not bench depth, but if you can get Basial or Bucky and another starter for Swift, I would do that. Yeah. One thing I do like about Swift, the role, just like a change in the role is that they're throwing to him a lot. Now he has seven screen pass catches so far in, in six games. He had 14 last year. So it's not like so much more, but you know, you see two straight games with four catches. You got a five catch game in week two and he's really good out in space. So, um, that's going to help him a little bit, but, but yeah, there's, there's some things that, uh, the guys mentioned that makes sense. Um, where am I? Uh, what's our next one here? Sorry. I'm lost in my notes. Um, all right. We actually have to get to the Thursday night game. So let's do one more here. Would you sell high? We've got a whole list here from Ben. I, uh, Brock Bowers. No. Wouldn't sell on him. He's having basically, I don't know if there's ever been a tight end season. This good. So he's averaging more fantasy points than Travis Kelsey's ever averaged. I think my concern would be like this offense. Finally, you know, the wheels fall off. They go to Mendoza. It's just not as good. And you get, you get number one tight end, but you don't get like top five overall player kind of, kind of Bowers. If you're selling him for superstars, like, you know, he's just said Bucky and a suit and a, and a starter, uh, uh, tootin and a starter. Like you got to sell him for two or three. Starters and like top 15 starters. Would you sell him for Amon Ross? St. Brown and what? No, just straight up. Yeah. I mean, that's the type of player that you got to make that trade for. I probably wouldn't. I don't know if I would either, but that's the, the range that we're talking about here. We're talking about first round caliber player or two second round caliber players. Like, you know, if, and, and I think you should, you know, if you believe that Zay Flowers is going to perform like he did with Lamar Jackson and Jackson, it's coming back soon and you can get Zay Flowers and Sam Laporta or flowers. You know what I'm saying? Like that's the type of trade you're making. Okay. And do you think someone mentioned the Falcons? Do you think Drake London is a, is anything? I mean, he does not have a touchdown this year. Is he a buy low? Is he a sell high or is he just Drake? Like, does he fall into a category? He's a, he's a top 12 wide receiver. I think if he falls into any category, it's a buy low. Just because like you said, it hasn't been a, uh, an unbelievable year yet for him, but you have to sell the Drake London manager on, on getting rid of him, you know? So, yeah. Yeah. I, I said, I said yesterday that I'd rather have, um, Drake London than Malik neighbors. I think that was yesterday. You guys did not agree. When was that? It was yesterday. It was yesterday. Yeah. I would probably agree, but I don't feel comfortable with it. But the thing is, if it's close, like think about if you trade Malik neighbors for Drake London, what can you get? Yeah. There's a throw in. Can you get a, a number two receiver with that? You know? Um, can you get like Tucker craft and, and Drake London for Malik neighbors or something like that? It might be, might be worth a look. Cause the guy's got 10, six, 11, and 10 targets in four games with Pennix. He has 96 or more yards and three of them. He was open for a big play. They just missed it against the bears in week six. The touchdowns will come. And he was a top five wide receiver with Pennix last year. So, all right. Um, all right. We got ready to preview the game. Yeah. Well, I'm not, let's take a break. We'll be right back with new England at Chicago after this on FFT. I'll be honest with you. I've never really enjoyed shopping for clothes. 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I just mentioned London had a chunk play downfield that, that they missed on. So he would have had a good game, but not an amazing game. Um, also the bears had the second highest pressure rate in the NFL in week six. They like to blitz. This is an offensive line that is missing, you know, one starter for the year and two to three more probably for this game. So, uh, Jamie, just your thoughts on, on Drake may and AJ Brown and tomorrow Douglas and Hunter Henry and the Patriots passing game in general. Yeah. I think Drake may still top three quarterback this week. You know, hopefully he continues to play like he's been playing. I think we'll use his legs a little bit in this game. Uh, look, it's, it's a very much, it's a very much receiving core. That's a work in progress because you lose Matt Collins, you lose Romeo Dobbs, you get a jam Brown back. He didn't look like he was right. Uh, Hunter Henry's playing well. Then our dog was playing well. I think you're going to get the running backs involved in the passing game to extent. So may should be okay. I think AJ Brown, given the injuries that receiver, the four teams on a buy, if you have AJ Brown, you're most likely starting him. Like he said, 20, I think there's probably going to be the low ranking that you'll see on our site and probably close to the lowest that you'll see across the industry. So at worst case, a number two fantasy receiver, you just hope that he's a little bit better performs a little bit, you know, more consistently to what AJ Brown has typically done. Um, and then I think Douglas is a, is a, I don't want to say boom, bust number three receiver, but he's just a number three receiver. And Henry's a borderline starter. Uh, for me, he's a top 10 guy this week. I just think he's going to continue to be involved. This bears defense is also banged up as well. You know, so it's an opportunity here for hopefully the offensive line to hold up well enough that Drake may, we'll still be able to get his guys involved. Man, a lot of tricky calls in this game. All right. So Drake may is not that tricky of a call. You guys are starting. Um, let's see, Jamie, you've Drake may one, or is that going to change? You have them one Heath. You have them one. Okay. So start Drake. May Dave has him forth behind Jordan. Love at Detroit, Jared golf and CJ Stroud. Interesting against the giants. And I would say love and golf for me. Um, or like that's close enough to where if one of those, like game lines moves a little bit, one of those guys might be ahead of him. I absolutely hate my life. I have a Drake major golf team and a Jared golf, Jordan love team, the Drake, the Drake major golf team. I have picked right twice all year. And one of those was Jared golf spy. So yeah, that's, it's frustrating. All right. So start AJ Brown. How about DeMario Douglas versus, Oh man, it's tough. Like, you know, we'll get some bark, some practice reports. It's unlike Saquon Barkley. Barkley and whatever, but. Over Daylon Waddle. I think that's an easy one. I was going to say, what about a Damian Pierce against Dallas? But we won't know necessarily about Barkley, so. If Barkley misses practice today and Thursday, I would start Douglas. Agreed. Okay, how about with Jordan Mason potentially back? Would you start a Vikings running back against the Colts or DeMario Douglas? Aaron Jones still. I think Aaron Jones still, yeah. Josh Jacobs or DeMario Douglas? Or. Jacobs. Yep. It's very close, but yeah. You guys have Devon Vele. The consensus has Vele back-to-back with Douglas, but Heath likes Vele much better. Jamie likes Douglas a little bit better. Denzel Boston or DeMario Douglas? It's close. I'd probably go Boston. I have. So, I think it's Douglas, barely, for me. And then Hunter Henry, Jamie said he's top 12. You both have him ninth right now. Dave has him 12th. He's not getting a lot of targets. It's a little nerve-wracking here. Oh, he is absolutely. And he just always is. Like, we've done this with Hunter Henry for a few years now. Yes, yes. You should never feel like he has a good floor. I think he has four or five targets in his last three games. He scored a touchdown in all of them. Or in two of them. And so, if he scores a touchdown, he's going to be top 10. And if he doesn't, he's going to be on the fool-dew. Yeah, yeah. He's running about two-thirds of the routes most weeks. He's had a target share above 17% once. So, this is Hunter Henry we're talking about. I think it's a true two-tight-end set when Eli Reardon's healthy. Yeah. Those guys are both. Like, there's eight tight-end targets. He's just only getting a little more than half of them. I think when you start to look at him versus the tight-ends around him. Because the guys that are getting a lot of targets are easy, I think, to gravitate toward. The Juwan Johnsons, the. Gutter? Huh? Goddard? Goddard. I think Goddard's going to get a lot of targets. But that's a fair comp, just given the quarterback situation. But those are the. Like, that's where he kind of is right now. Like, I think it's easy to start Tucker Kraft over him, even though he's been more productive than Kraft, just because of who Kraft is playing. Well, what about Loveland? So, I would start Loveland and Pitts ahead of him. And that's probably risky, just given the sample size for each. But when those guys are right, and they're. You know, Loveland two of the last three games, and Pitts the last two. There's just much more upside. Well, Heath, are you going to update your Loveland ranking, or are you leaving him at 23? He should be at, like, 16. Okay. But, listen, he's one, and that's fudging the math a little bit. But he's one where you just have to decide whether you're willing to bet on the upside or not. I said Hunter Henry doesn't have much of a floor. I think his floor is probably still better than Loveland's. But Loveland does have more upside. How have the. Patriots been against Titans this year? I know, historically, Ravel's teams are exceptional. Excellent, except for Brock Bowers. Bowers had 110 yards and a touchdown. But in that same game, Michael Mayer had two yards on one target. Brock Bowers is a wide receiver. Yeah, I mean, he is. He's not. He lines up out wide. I think Gonzalez didn't play in that game. 50% of the time, not 90% of the time or anything. But he is the closest. Well, no, wide receivers line up in the slot, too. That's true. He's the closest thing to a wide receiver. Yes. I think Michael Mayer. Michael Mayer is a better representation of tight ends against New England. Pat Frymuth, four catches for 32 yards. Dalton Kincaid, one catch for seven yards. I can't say it's a good matchup. It might be a bad matchup. Good. So, yeah. One thing to note is that this is not a downfield passing game right now. Caleb Williams has the fourth lowest ADOT in football among qualified passers. And Colson Loveland, first two games of the year, very, very much downfield, which scared me a little bit. But that has changed. So, he's getting some easier targets. We think Gonzalez is on Rome. Makes the most sense. I think Gonzalez stays on one side of the field, personally. I don't think he shadows, but maybe. Especially if they get Carlton Davis back this week. What do you think, Jamie? You think he's going to shadow Odunze? I just think where they're going to both line up, that's who's going to see the most. Burdens in the slot looks like just over 50% of his snaps. So, he's probably not going. I don't think he's going to see Burden much. Yeah. But this is a good defense. I mean, that's the thing. It's, you know, the Patriots are good. And what are they? They're 17th against wide receivers. They've done well against Metcalf, Parker Washington, Garrett Wilson. But, you know, they're not unbeatable, obviously. So, you have high expectations for the Bears passing game? Moderate. Yeah, I think I've got Caleb as a low-end QB1 right around. 10. Luther Burden's a low-end wide receiver, too. I have zero expectations for Roman Odunze. So, better expectations for the run game than I do the pass game. Rank the wide receivers. The top three. No one's starting. Cleve Raymond. In this game? Oh, no. The top four. I forgot about A.J. Brown. All right. The top four. Brown, Burden, Douglas, Odunze. Agreed. And, yeah, the Odunze thing. I think that's why I brought up the average depth of target. It's just he's sacrificial X-ing big time right now. Luther Burden ran like 40% of the routes last week. You guys are confident in him this week? Yeah. Okay. Is he top 24 guy? Yep. I think he's 24 exactly. Okay. For me. All right. Josh Jacobs or Luther Burden? Burden. Burden. Caleb Williams or C.J. Stroud? Stroud. Stroud. Caleb Williams. Or Matthew Stafford against the Raiders at the Raiders? I've got Stafford. Stafford. Caleb Williams or Aaron Rodgers at the Saints? Caleb. Caleb. I think we have a lot of chat questions here, so let's get to them. Did we talk about the Patriots running recs? Nope. We didn't talk about any of the running backs, so we will do that. Loveland or Kittle? PPR. Oh, Kittle. That's not close. Laporta or Loveland? That's not close. Laporta. Laporta. Loveland or Goddard? Non-PPR. Non-PPR is interesting. I might go Loveland there. That would be the only. I've got Goddard ahead in both. Burden or Abuka? Burden. Burden. Burden, Boston, Christian Kirk, or Cooper? Burden. Burden. DeMario Douglas, Michael Wilson, or R.J. Harvey? PPR. Wilson. I've got Wilson. Wilson barely ahead of Douglas. Very close. Purdy or May? May. May. Caleb or Goff? Goff. Goff. A.J. Brown or Coker? Coker. Coker. Heath, which running backs do you like in this game? DeAndre Swift. That's it. Why not Stevenson? Because I'm kind of afraid this has turned into a three-headed monster in the Patriots. Backfield. He is not, for the most part, Ramondre Stevenson has not played well this year. And now Corey Kiner's getting fourth-quarter carries. And I think, like, part of that was Travion got benched. And I think part of it was they don't trust Ramondre not to fumble either. If it's one of those run-out-the-clock situations. So, I've got Ramondre, I think, right now. He's just inside the top 23, but he is much closer to Roshan. Roshan Johnson than he is to DeAndre Swift for me. And, Jamie, you've got Ramondre 19th. Dave has him 16th. So, a little more confidence in Ramondre. Yeah, I still think he's the early guy. You know, and the Henderson fumble should only help him and not necessarily make Corey Kiner a significant enough piece that they're taking Ramondre off the field for significant stretches. As I said Sunday, my take on it was they probably were prepping Kiner to play with the idea that Henderson was not going to go. So, they had some. You know, play is designed for him. And then you have the Henderson fumble. And I don't know what Stevenson was at in that game, why they gave Kiner all those opportunities. As soon as they got down to the goal line, I know Kiner had one chance, or at least one chance. Stevenson came in and didn't score. But I still view him as the lead running back here and still going to get the majority of touches. So, looking at some of the defensive line issues for the Bears, I think there's an opportunity for Stevenson. You just downgrade him. So, he's a low-end number two running back as opposed to a mid-to-high-end number two guy. Okay. Stevenson, yeah? No, go ahead. Stevenson or Braylon Allen we have in the chat? Braylon. Braylon Allen started the week, so. Oh. Yeah. How about Vikings running back or this guy, Ramondre? I think I have Jones one spot ahead of Ramondre right now. That may change if Jordan Mason, if there's any reports that he's just going to be the lead guy and Jones is going to go back to what he was at the start of the season. But I think Jones. It's just safer. I'd go Jones, Ramondre, Mason. Okay. How about Tony Pollard or Ramondre? Ramondre. Yeah. I may have that wrong in the projections because Pollard always projects higher than he should, but I'll go Ramondre. How about R.J. Harvey or Roshan Johnson? Harvey. It's Roshan for me. I'm very optimistic. It's basically been 12 touches per game. game if you take out the 30 touch menongai game 12 touches per game for the one b back for the bears and one fantasy point per touch for the one b back again for the bears so i think like it may be 10 points but i think you can i think you're going to get around 12 points from roshan johnson yeah i just i don't know what this was about but he kind of cory kindred last week because he had 13 carries but five of them were in the last three minutes of the game but they were important carries i mean salting the game away i well i think it may be a very exactly what happened with cory kiner what's the one concern ben johnson has with the andre swift right now yeah yeah fumbles okay i think that's it for this game enjoy the game i think it's gonna be a great game with a lot of tough calls so uh i can't do it with full conviction all right let's get see what the chat are there are there holes in your sleeves by your wrist oh yeah oh damn it you saw that yeah i didn't think that's gonna show up is it like you know to cover your hands like for when you're cold or is that just like ripped i've had this shirt for so long that like now you gotta show the audience so it'll show where you're looking no way it's so embarrassing no more or less embarrassing than the beard's going to be in march look at that oh my gosh it's a it's a wear around the house when it's cold kind of shirt you know oh it's a schmata whatever that means dude whatever um okay jordan says the eagles will tank saquon will get traded and damian pierce will be a sustainable flex no um if he gets traded yeah then i think pierce is sustainable flex but it's gonna have to be a big trade there's there's two running backs that aren't necessarily on the trade market but that you know nfl fans talk about like barkley and jonathan taylor yeah could they get traded well taylor's i mean it's realistic to talk about them at this point because their their team is in trouble man franchise in trouble that sauce gardener trade was horrible just so bad yeah uh contract uh yeah well daniel jones does that to everyone you know he whenever he needs a contract he has a good year nats fan 500 says drake may will pan out as a better quarterback than patrick mahomes and all is said and done it's bold could be you never know long way to go he needs to get going nailed it what do you say that you just need to get rid of that and just go back to stitch fix yeah i know emphasize uh fix um what are the odds that brian thomas jr gets traded 30 i was gonna say 35 so yeah um m corrado jordan mason will be a top 18 running back rest of season so it's so funny to say that with the report that we got of the vikings potentially shopping for a running back yeah yeah that's weird gamer eric says big news is that the vikings are going to be a top 18 running back for the rest of the season that adams eye is 80 healed if he gets good news from the doc today so i actually went yesterday no i went monday i went monday it's not all great news and i'm a little nervous about something and if anybody has experience with this i'd love to know i might have to get my eyelid drained and that sounds i had the well the sty on my eyelid just pull it out it sounds really pulled out i don't know if it is i can't pull it out i have to use a i'm using these antibiotic eye drops and um i have to do like a hot compress on my eye or warm compress three times a day eye drops four times a day it's really annoying but i don't want to have to get it drained because that sounds super painful uh jonah coleman will be the rb1 when he returns and caleb williams or drake may may and it could be fun if coleman's number one but it probably needs an injury to i think if if jk dobbins gets hurt before jonah coleman returns that will be true that's a question by the way from christian ramirez and this one is oh another one from nats fan is chase brown high on the worryometer at this point yeah yeah he really is uh do we have anything else we'd like to grade the trade i get jamar chase for jefferson and and uh jaylen warren it was tyler warren could be tyler warren jefferson uh damn good and pretty damn targeted i'd rather have chase i think i'd rather have chase jamar chase actually has some very encouraging target per outrun rate 30 or higher three straight games target share over 30 in all three of his healthy games exciting stuff like yes and that's the thing is like he had the week one thing where it was just like the typical bingles week one and then he had the game where he left with a concussion and so like if you look at his for the season stats did jefferson leave a game early too yeah okay uh so week three against tampa bay yeah um rj harvey rj harvey or rashad white rest of season ppr white white all right would you drop mcconkey for omar cooper no no would you rather start roshan that's exactly what happened in the league i referenced by the way mcconkey was dropped for cooper roshan bam knight or zamario douglas douglas yeah and adam puts the sty in style thank you come on show one more time i see what the sty the wrist the wrist yeah and the other one is ripped too so i don't know if you could i don't like just throw the shirt away it's a very look it's a this is another embarrassing admission i did sleep in this shirt this is a great sleep shirt you don't want to sleep in your nice shirts right you want to sleep in your warm ripped shirts you don't even know you're in florida you don't even know i don't i just don't need to i don't sleep in shirts well i oh you can't do that in the winter well it's not winter yet you can't do that in the fall you have a furnace don't you yeah but it's still cold like you still got a butt i slept in this shirt and a hoodie last night it's cold man it's really cold i don't i'm not gonna put the heat up that high you know how expensive that stuff is now crazy um there was one other one other stat i want to leave you with michael wilson has eight end zone targets and zero catches on those eight end zone targets only christian watson has more end zone targets than michael wilson he does have a 16 yard a dot on his eight end zone targets but eight end zone targets zero catches for michael wilson i'm looking forward to the ai image of adam bundled up in bed on social media later today if you uh if you found out michael if you found out patrick zertan was playing there's no way you're starting michael wilson this week i don't want to start michael wilson to begin with i don't think you i mean look in a two receiver league i would try to get away from him in three receiver league it's hard to get away from him just because of all those targets he's getting but if zertan is playing i think that's easy yeah okay adam would rather freeze to death and pay a few extra bucks for heat extra buck you can't even imagine i mean i don't even want to get into it but i i paid for oil last year and paid for oil this year to heat my house it's so much more expensive it's crazy y'all know it y'all know it but um it's not a fit but it has nothing to do with it even if like the heat i just don't use like i don't want to be sweating so you know i'm not gonna put the there's a there's a there's a there's this area in between sweating and wearing three layers to go to bed i'm cold no matter what like i'm just i run cold i run cold you know so so you don't probably don't have to worry about sweating we put the heat on 68 that's what we sleep at that's that's reasonable it's not like it's 62 degrees in my room i i i'm ashamed to admit this but we set the ac on 70 at night yeah it's a nice temperature right i don't need to i don't need to wear but at 68 you would uh all right let's talk to you let's talk to you tomorrow with starter symphony amc see you later paramount podcasts college football season is modello season there's nothing quite like a college football saturday the fight songs the rivalries 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  1. Year Up United offers tuition-free, skills-first job training for young adults without a bachelor’s degree, focusing on passion-driven industries.
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  6. The show emphasizes fun audience engagement, encouraging real-time comments and jokes to add levity to the analysis.
  7. A key trade-off is explored between high-upside players like Isaiah Likely and safer, more stable options like Bucky Irving or DeMario Douglas.
  8. The Thursday night preview of the New England vs. Chicago game includes matchup insights, injury updates, and fantasy player rankings based on current stats and schedules.

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Year Up United provides a tuition-free career pathway for young adults without a bachelor’s degree, offering skills-based training, weekly stipends, internships with major corporations, and tailored coaching to build confidence and job readiness. The program is designed to help individuals transition into fulfilling careers in industries they’re passionate about. In parallel, a fantasy football segment analyzes player value, injuries, and trade opportunities, focusing on targets like Bucky Irving, AJ Brown, and Drake London.

Analysts discuss buy-low and sell-high strategies, emphasizing player performance, schedules, and injury risks. Engagement is boosted through audience-driven humor and real-time comments. The episode also features promotional content from Square, Whatnot, and Factor, highlighting business tools, live shopping, and healthy meal solutions.

A key theme is the importance of strategic decision-making in fantasy football, where market dynamics and player health influence trade value. The preview of the New England vs. Chicago game provides detailed matchup analysis, injury reports, and fantasy rankings, reinforcing the importance of situational awareness in player selection.

Overall, the content blends career development with engaging, data-driven fantasy football insights to serve a diverse audience.

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Participants receive a weekly educational stipend to help cover basic living expenses during the training program.

Students gain hands-on experience through internships with Fortune 500 companies, helping them build practical skills and professional connections.

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