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The Extra Point: Fix Your Fantasy Football Team Before Week 4 | Start/Sit, Trades & Roster Advice (Ep. 2237)

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The Extra Point: Fix Your Fantasy Football Team Before Week 4 | Start/Sit, Trades & Roster Advice (Ep. 2237)

This episode of the "Who's With Me" podcast features a dynamic, community-driven discussion on fantasy football strategy, centered around player matchups, trade decisions, and roster construction. Hosts Chris Welsh and Andrew Erickson engage fans through live questions on platforms like Discord, addressing key debates such as whether to start Jalen Waddle or Aaron Jones, and whether to prioritize high-impact players like Tucker Kraft or Darren Waller. Experts emphasize the importance of matchups, injury risks, and long-term value over short-term hype. A recurring theme is depth and consistency—fans are encouraged to avoid overcommitting to high-risk players and instead build balanced teams with reliable backups. The hosts also highlight the value of defensive streamers, especially in keeper leagues, and stress the need for flexibility in managing rosters across weeks. Specific trade suggestions include trading for depth at running back or tight end, such as using a high-upside player to acquire a more stable option like Tucker Kraft. The episode underscores the role of community input and real-time fan engagement, reinforcing the idea that fantasy success comes from thoughtful, data-informed decisions shaped by both analytics and real-world context. The discussion concludes with practical advice for managing team depth, balancing risk, and navigating injuries—all delivered in a conversational, accessible format that resonates with fantasy football enthusiasts.

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This is an "I Heart" podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hey, everybody, it's me, Debbie C'mon Bell. This season on my podcast "Who's With Me," I speak with Bruce Lee's daughter, Brandon Lee's sister, and my friend, Shannon Lee. Back to your initial point of stewarding my father's legacy and giving my energy to that, you're lending your life to stewarding somebody else's life. Listen to "Who's With Me" with Debbie C'mon Bell on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome into Fantasy Pros. This is the extra point. I am Chris Welsh. That is the Andrew Erickson. And we are the podcasts of the people, for the people, and with the people, because that is where we are today. We are on the Fantasy Pros discord live, as we are every Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern, and we have got a full audience, by the way. Maybe the most full I have ever seen for this show, week four is important for people, and we've got just everybody, it's like a classroom. Everybody's behaved, they've got their hand raised, and we're gonna get to questions. Whether it's start and sit, trade, roster construction, we wanna talk to you, you guys dictate everything we do in this episode, and we would love for you guys listening on the podcast. If you would like to join us, you can do that on the Fantasy Pros discord, 2 p.m. Eastern, every Thursday, we've got other offerings. Wormen fits, 5 p.m. Eastern, on the first Tuesday of every month. Bugs and fits, 5 p.m. Eastern, on the third Tuesday of each month. And guess what? An amazing community that you can be a part of. Join up with the Fantasy Pros discord at fantasyproz.com/chat. You can hang out, this show, you can get a day before it airs. You can talk with us, but the community is awesome. It's a like-minded community of all the fantasy football people doing all the fantasy football stuff. So come and hang out, fantasyproz.com/chat. Mr. Andrew Erickson, I missed you. I wasn't here for the rank show, very disappointed, but I'm very happy to see you again now. Likewise, we missed you on all the shows throughout this week, but we did have Terra Philan very abnormally. Just like a couple shows. Well, I had to do tailgate by myself. That's true, that's true. Actually three shows that you and I do together. I have my apologies, I forgot about that. We did the trade live, the tailgate live, and rank show. So that probably felt like a week's worth of shows. It really did. So I'm glad that you're back, buddy. Our Thursdays are jam-packed with shows between me and you. This is the second of our three total shows. I have four overall that we do, because we record our prop show after Thursday night football, a little after dark in terms of-- Little late night. And it's always interesting, because it depends on how the game was and did the props hit or not. Like, what kind of vibe is it? But usually it's been good so far. So looking forward to it, but also looking forward to the extra point questions. And I mean, also, too, like, check out my fit, dude. Fabletics, brother. Is that the Fabletics? Yeah, I see it. Disappoint, I didn't get that one here. Oh, yay. Our boys Fabletics hooked us fresh. I'm actually not to be too crazy about it, but I am wearing my Fabletics pants that I'm going to show everybody right now. I don't think they sponsored this episode, but shout out to Fabletics, dude. We are so comfy. Dude, it's like wearing a cloud, dude. It's so comfortable. You just feel so nice. And it's starting to get chillier here. It's fall. It's New England. It's been a little bit rainy here. I just throw my Fabletics. I'm walking the dog and my cool sweats, dude. Dude, are you making an extra plug for-- You want more stuff? I want more stuff. I love-- I do love it. My wife is super jealous. And we are actually looking like-- Do we have a-- My wife is peanut butter and jealous. Yeah. We don't even have a read for this, but definitely. We are both rocking the Fabletics here. And we're going to rock with you guys. All right, we got tons of questions. So let's get to it. Everybody knows the rules. If we sound rude because we kick someone, it's because they said something about Thursday night football. You can't do that on this show. But you can do everything else. You can't cost, though. You can talk about how great Erickson looks. You can talk about how red my face look. You do whatever you want. You can do anything under the sun. But let's get to it. And first up, it's salt. I think that broke Cornwallis's streak here. Salt's in the house. What's up? What's up, guys? I missed you last week. Unfortunately, I have a job that sometimes has 2 p.m. meetings, and then I know I'll go put my questions in the chat. But just to start for our full PPR, if you have to pick three between Lad and Mecha and TJ Moore. I don't know if Galsas playing Toshado or DJ Moore, but-- Yeah, let's start on that one. Oh, and that's for a chopped league, too, right? Yeah, that gets to don't worry about the floor. Oh, OK. Lad is your core here. You know what this comes down to, Erickson? Are you-- by the way, we've filled this room. This is insane. Are you worried about Jalen Daniels with the Mechaig Buka? Because I kind of am. Yeah, so just to clarify, like, my wide receiver won Streg London. So I'm playing two more of these guys in wide receiver two and flesh. OK. Yeah. I was going to play Agmuka. Like, he hasn't been good with Baker. He's been a wide receiver three to start the season. I guess it's possible that you could spin it to-- well, Jalen Daniels kind of lock him. I guess that's possible. But I think I'm cool missing an Agmuka bounce back game, because I think that the risk is he's just even worse with a rookie quarterback on her center, which is traditionally what happens when you get rookie quarterbacks on her center for wide receivers at usually nukes their fantasy values. So this is an easy bench for Agmuka. OK. We're on the same space thing. And also, Christian Gonzalez is kind of banged up right now. So-- and I think DJ Moore was in a limited practice. So yeah, I think we're going lad in DJ. And then second question. For tight ends, this is the lovelin' question. So I lovelin' Mark Andrews. Or just streamed Aaron Waller for the matchup? Waller. Yeah, you're so-- I'm lovelin' on this one. The back of quarterbacks are finding Lovelin. He'll score the touchdown this week. So we're not going to help you there. Did you have more? Because I see more names. Yeah, just one. Well, I did on a manual Wilson or Tendray Miller. You know, I'll play Manuel Wilson. I don't see where we're on. Yeah, he's really good. He's good for the red zone. Well, I think it's Tendray Miller. I think Tendray Miller is going to get the early down stuff against the Falcons who gave up how many yards on the ground to the backers. No, I'm just saying-- OK, the Packers' Backfield. That awesome backfield of awesome running back-- The Saints' Backfield. Kendra? The awesome Saints' Backfield. OK, his kit run the ball either. Stop it. Is Kendray Miller-- if you put Kendray Miller on the Green Bay Packers, is that the best running back on the Green Bay Packers? If you put a manual Wilson on the New Orleans Saints, is he the best running backer? Well, maybe. But Kendray Miller. I'm Kendray Miller. Kendray Miller here. So we're-- I'm going to go with Caleb Johnson on the best running back on the Packers even with Miller, but thank you guys. I really appreciate it. Yeah, that's-- actually that was a good point. I'm taking the running back who is competing with a rookie, who fumbles every time he touches the football, who two weeks ago had 20 carries, and a positive game script against the chargers. So what is his problem? That's the manual Wilson. What is his problem? Gidaring Price. I mean, this was a problem he had in college. And he barely touched the ball. And he was just fumbled more in the NFL than he has in all of the NCAA. This is why they didn't give him the ball more. It wasn't actually because your my love was really good. It was because they were afraid Price would keep fumbling. Lowkey, can we shout out Salt that we're sitting here screaming about these guys? And Salt's just like, by the way, Caleb Johnson. And it's like, oh, yeah, Caleb Johnson actually might be the best of all those, but-- You can't run on the Falcons. You can't do it. Well, especially when you have the worst collection of running backs in the NFL, kind of hard to also do. But they were good, not even before the Packers match at the Falcons were good. I guess the Falcons are good, but the Packers were never good. We can agree on that. Oh, yes. I mean, March on Lloyd under whatever his Russian guards was block of all locks. Yeah, 100%. All right, go ahead. I just clicked out of something here. This is Jail. Jeez. Go what happened? In the chat, some of them are James Spears. OK, let me say I got to go back. OK, we have so many people in here we've never had before. I'm getting all these things. It's like, do you want to boost more rooms and it made me click out of something? So shout out to you guys. I don't know what happened in week four, but y'all here for us. All right, Salt came in hot. Great first start here. Let's go to Joe. Premium member of the fantasy pros discord. What up? Hey, what's up? Well, Sean Andrew, how are you guys doing? Good, Mike. By the way, sound great. What's up, man? Yes, sir. So I got two questions for you guys. It's a start and sit and a trade question. I want to start off with the trade question. Should I trade Bay Show, Tutan, and Debo Samuel for Amari and Hampton and Jalen Coker? I'm extremely deep at Widersheever with JSN, Smith, and Collins, and have CMC as RB1 and Josh Allen. So I just want to see what you guys think about that. Oh, I love this one because Erickson, you're a hundred-- we're 100%. Can we slide rod that we want to over Hampton rest of season? I don't think-- yeah. Yeah, I got him ranked ahead of rest of the season. What? I won't say him. But Jalen Coker or Debo. So what side of this trade do you like? I like the Tutan's side, so I would say, because I think that he's the best piece of this entire deal. And because he plays running back, that moves the needle. So even though you're getting an upgrade with Coker over Debo, Coker is also currently her. again. Debo has some short-term value because of all the receivers that are hurt on the 49ers. We know Debo's, his production's not going to last all year and the fact that he got zero targets last week was kind of weird, even though he had an 80 yard lateral. Very good. Zero targets, but 80 yards. It was like his stat line, 80 receiving yards, no, no targets. Longest, much stat, longest. What was it? Most receiving yards without a reception, which by the way, is the Nadia stat and it's like, who's troll? What do you mean receiving yards? That wasn't receiving yards. It should be like, should not have been watching yards technically. If the ball was, I don't add a rolled. I think because it was a pass play, but then he threw it backwards. Like the idea, if a quarterback throws with a pass line of scrimmage, then that is considered like a run. Well, what was it in the game? What was the official stat line? It was receiving yards because it was an NFL record, the most receiving yards without a reception in the NFL history. Okay. That's the word. We like the two inside. I'll stay. Yeah, just for the start and say, so I have John Johnson and Tucker Kraft in a half PPR league. I want to know, do I continue to start Johnson for the foreseeable future? What are your guys' thoughts on Kraft? Is he just a hold for it? We're like, yeah, so I just want to see what you guys think about that. That's all I had for you guys. Thanks. I appreciate it. Good question on Kraft because it has been weird, like a big Tucker Kraft podcast here, but the Packers have just been kind of in general, except my only problem with being anti-craft at any point is what we talked about with salt. The running game is like the worst. Like, when is it going to get better? Josh Jacobs has never come back now at this point. They're just going to be throwing all season long and they're going to get him involved. So like, I don't want to give up on Kraft. And I think the long term, he's still the play, but for the foreseeable future, you have a tight as it might take. You have a tight as kind of like the mecha Bucke question. You have a tight end that is good. Like salt had a wide receiver that is good. And if you miss out on the craft breakout game for John Johnson, like we were saying DJ more of our mecha, I think I'm okay with that because I think that's and also he is ranked higher by the way this week. John Johnson is eight and Kraft is nine on the consensus. What say you though, Mr. Andrew Erickson? I think there's a good problem to have. I think that John Johnson can just be your guy that you start weekend and week now for the foreseeable future possible that his involvement changes when and if Jordan Tyson comes back to the New Orleans Saints, Jordan Tyson still a amazing stash considering how good the Saints offense has been, how productive they've been for fantasy. If that guy comes back and is healthy, you could potentially see a second half league winner in Jordan Tyson. So if he's out there on waivers, he was dropped, didn't get drafted because he's been hurt just something to kind of keep in mind. But with Kraft, we have to remember that the Packers told us that he was going to be slow to start the year because he's coming out of his ACL injury. And although the snaps have have gone up in weeks, you still can't expect the guy to be as explosive as he was last year when that was how he got his fantasy points. What it was all yards after the catch. That's what Tucker Kraft does that is best to be super efficient. Has not been super efficient so far this season. So I think that you just keep Kraft from the bench right now. I think his production will improve because the Packers don't have any underneath targets because they just put Jay and Reed on injury reserve. So when it comes to who's the first underneath guy, I think that's going to be Kraft and he's coming up such a bad game. I think they're going to be motivated to get him more involved after he had a couple drops called out the fans for booing the offense when they were playing poorly. So clearly, he's going to be motivated to play better in this matchup. And against the minute or excuse me, at the Minnesota Vikings, the Buccaneers, another very blitz happy defense, similar to when the Packers played the Minnesota Vikings earlier this season. Kraft can be that first read a lot of the time for Jordan Reed. If he's trying to get the ball out quick to mitigate the blitz from Todd Bowles. So I like Kraft this week now as much as Juan Johnson, but I think better days are ahead for the Packers tight end. Same as I was just looking. He was running route percentage or route run. It was like 47% week one for Kraft week two went up to 75%. And last week, it was just under 70%. So he's at a total of 62.9%. So like right there. So I think it is moving in a more positive direction. I think they're going to continue to have to pass. And I think you actually just said it better. Yeah. That's better days are ahead for Tucker. They can't run the ball. And that's not going to change. If it's you was talking about the Telegate show where they're signing guards off the street to try to salvage this offensive line that is a total disaster. And why they've been struggling so much to run the football. Jorge. The lefty premium member of the fitness spreads discord. What's up, Jorge? You two questions. One, I'm not doing great at tight end. I ended up picking up Waller for the matchup, but Sedique is also available. So trying to figure out, you know, if this is going to be my tight end going forward, like Schultz is also available, but you know, this is basically bottom of the barrel scraping. Would you go with Waller for the matchup this week? Hope Sedique doesn't break out and he's no longer available. Or would you just say screw it? Let's just get Sedique to have a potential or long term play. Erickson, I'm going to go to you. But before I do, Sedique is 11 in Fantasy Bros. Consensus ranks and Darren Waller is 16, but I know you are a big Darren Waller guy. Yes, but in terms of rest of season, Darren Waller is not your Yeah, it's what would you do you take the risk of picking Waller because you've got a great matchup though. Yeah, I would only I would only so I like Waller more than Sedique this week specifically, but that's only if I had both guys on my roster already, I would not pick up Darren Waller, hoping that he can be my tight end all year long because we doing this before. Like he's going to probably play like another month and then get hurt and then be on into reserve. I will say, what Darren Waller does. I will say it's very interesting that after Sedique's game, he's still available. Yeah, get already break out. Yeah, well, like to the point, if you want to make the argument of like, Oh, well, I hope he doesn't have a good week this week. Well, he had an amazing week last week. So what's going to be the impetus for him to be picked up? I think the safest thing is taking Sedique, but there is something to be said about your league that if they're not picking him up after he drops a hundo and a touchdown, then like maybe he sits one more if you like Waller, like Ericsson does over Sedique this week, but the ECR does have Sedique as a tight end one and Waller's not. So yeah, I mean, it's also close enough where it can score very similar and you'd rather have Sedique for the long term upside. I mean, I think that we're overthinking this probably, I mean, Sedique is a we're not supposed to be trying to sedique. It's yeah. Yeah. If there's any more context, I'm like a 10 point underdog based on fantasy pro projections this year, this week in this matchup. So like, is that too much of a gap? We're going to think Waller could potentially make it. So just take the L this week and get Sedique. Or do you think that's that upside potential is worth it to try to get a win? Am I not otherwise good? So wait, is that 10 point underdog with Waller in your lineup? Yeah, with Waller, my line. I mean, the funny thing is this like Waller could easily have it to touchdown game and he could pop back up, but I just I just think it's Sedique. Like also and I Mitchell is still like, they see with all that stuff. I just he's already tough. I mean, I mean, I look, I'm moving to dig ahead of Waller. Okay. So yeah, so that's just what we're doing. We're doing the long. I mean, Waller's a good waller is a good play too, but Sedique already broke out last week. Mason Taylor is probably not going to play again. There's no ad in I Mitchell again, a face in the bears. Yeah. Yeah. Just play Sedique. Cool. What was the other one? So the other one is I never typically have two QBs on the team for once to be league, but I've got T law and DAC right now and a and a league made of mine who's own three. He just lost his quarterback for the season. He's debating giving up cook. He's currently streaming Donald right now and he said he's he's potentially interested. My quarterback or sorry, my running backs are CMC and scatabo is cook worth crafting some kind of deal where I ship off DAC scatabo and say like Higgins for a cook in a golden situation or is Cook just getting voltage too many touchdowns and maybe it's that's not like the right play to ship off DAC at this point. I like it. The Higgins made me go, eh, but golden's a good solid return. I think I'm doing that. I think the upgrade of like that a lead of a running back. I'm you're taking a downgrade at the wide receiver to golden from wide receiver two to maybe more of a wide receiver three where Higgins has wide receiver at one upside golden probably has wide receiver two upside. I do not care about the quarterback. Cam, I'm lightning up a little bit on but James Cook is yeah, I'm working through that I'm doing that trade. Great. Also doing that trade. Okay. Or hey, it. So it is. Construct it. Let us know if you're able to pull that together. All right. Oh, rainman. Rainman, what up? It's going on. Gents come back to you the following week. Still dine out of vine due to long term injuries and a terrible star sit decision last week. So I had a quick what was the bad start sit? Oh, I don't even want to admit it, but I went played the matchup, which I never played the matchups and started May over Lawrence and woke up Monday morning. Well, I woke up Monday. I was down up. It doesn't matter, but I woke up Monday morning with a Broncos pick six touchdown that would have given me the win had I started Lawrence. You do not have to be ashamed about that that that hurts that absolutely hurts on that happens. Believe me, we have all been there. We've been there this season. You see the one move and you're like, "Fuckers, jerseys are freaking frackle." But no one's going to blame you there. I thought maybe it was going to bounce back last week. So that's, I thought you were going to be like, you know, you started some loser quarterback over like Brock Pretty or something like that. That's nothing to be ashamed of. Oh, I just started a loser quarterback. That's the problem. I set that up pretty much too true. Erickson, we were so high on May and I got AJ. So that was like, that's killing me. So, but anyways, the two quick questions. One, just a receiver outlook, not sexy names, but between Addison and Jacobi Myers. I just like that those guys don't leave the field. They're like 80% plus every week. And I do have Lawrence now. The guy that had ETN only has Gentie. So he's dying for some combination. So what's your thoughts with Addison and Kyler? He's only one of really two viable Vikings receivers with or without JJ Addison was scoring last weeks. Is he worth a hold or should I package him up? And same with Myers, he's getting VTJs irrelevant at this point as we've been talking about all year. So he might have some up and downs. But again, he doesn't leave the field either. So just curious on your outlook on those two and add one other quick one. Okay. Yeah. Good. I'll hold you there. I'll just say this. If I'm going to trade Addison, it's after this week, after he plays the dolphins. And he has 130 yards and two touchdowns from Kyler Murray. So I would consider the trade after they go against the worst secondary in the NFL. Erickson, any thoughts on either like maybe here's a better question. Which one do you want to hold more if you were to hold one? Myers. Easy. Yeah. I think that he is going to net you less in the trade anyway. So you're going to get more for Addison to your point. If you do it after the Miami Dolphins game, you may even have to do it because he's coming off a big game already and Jefferson's already banged up. And people know that the Miami Dolphins matchup is good. So it's one of these things where you can kind of almost grade him with the baked in production that he's going to get most likely against Miami. Jacobi Myers is so solid. I think he would also see a significant upgrade in terms of targets if Parker Washington were to get hurt. Something going along those lines because Myers always steps up. He's always productive. And Brian Thomas Jr. is not a focal point of his jack's passing games. So Myers is the clear cut number two and receiver. And in games where the Jaguars are pushed a little bit more, I think Myers is going to be more involved like you look at the last couple games that they've played. It's below out against the Browns. Denver Broncos on the road tough matchup. And then below it against the Patriots. And Jacobi Myers was really good against the Patriots. So I would rather keep Myers, especially because you already have Trevor Lawrence. I like that stack. And I think you get more for Addison. I like it. What was your other question? So I just listened to the ranking show. So this is ideal timing because Eric and I heard you talking about it's impossible to rank neighbors right now. I don't think JJ's any upgrade even James. And I could easily see, especially when it gets cold that neighbors' shoulder suddenly starts to hurt more and things like that. So between him or down. I like downs, but he's kind of just that low yarded below A dot. I did hear your guys's point that his A dot has went from like seven to 11 or something. So that's nice. But between those two, if you're going to target one of them, season long, what do you like? Yeah, man, neighbors is a tough cookie to crack because as even though you can paint the optimistic picture about maybe how it could be better with McCarthy. McCarthy also was so bad last year for Justin Jefferson that I just can't get that out of my mind. And how frustrated Jefferson was, imagine that being Malik name, like that's not far fetched, right? Well, to think this could be a complete disaster. So writings on the I'd rather just go with Josh down. So like if you were to be like in a vacuum, I want neighbors, he's more talented, but why Josh Downs is fun is I love the match of this week, by the way. It's graded out one of the better matchups. Josh, I was praying Josh down receptions. We're going to be at 4.5. They're they're juiced at 5.5, but I still might take them. You better not have them on the prop sheet this week. Do you have John? No, I have a different, I have a different receiver in that game. Okay. But Josh down the the cost, cost equity, Josh Downs is going to cost you so much less than neighbors that I, I co-sign like go trade for Downs because I think he just costs a bunch more and things are turning in a relatively positive direction. Good questions. Good questions. What's up, Cornwallis? What up? Hey, what's up guys? Got a real question and a silly fate question. Okay. Any question? What was the worst play? The Drake May blood fumble or the Mark Sanchez butt fumble? Okay, hold on. Let's hold on. Let's sit on that for a second. Blood fumble or butt? I don't know. Butt fumbles pretty bad. Butt fumble. Especially on Thanksgiving, the kids were watching. The whole family was watching. Everyone's talking about it for weeks. Yeah, exactly. It's a butt fumble, but it's a good question. Okay, so I was just being straight. No, it's important, but important things. The real question is Dalton Schultz or Brenton Strange, I just feel like Dalton Schultz is ranked higher, but his usage was completely bonkers last week and I don't really know what to make of it and I kind of like strangers match up. Yeah, that's funny. You say that. Bogman is massively big on Brenton Strange this week due to match up. So that might be the plan. I'm a little, I mean, Nico's back. Schultz just kind of goes by the wayside a little bit. I'm down playing the theoretical upside of Brenton Strange. What do you think? I agree. Clean sweep with Brenton Strange and by that, Bogs has talked about it, liking Strange. I've listened to a lot of different NFL shows this week and they've talked about the Bengals weakness on their defense and this doesn't come as a surprise to us fantasy players because we've been attacking tight ends at the Bengals for the last several years, but it's this spine of their defense, the middle of the field that you rip apart. And Liam Cohen knows that and they've actually been talking up Brenton Strange a decent amount about, hey, we still want to get this guy more involved. So squeaky wheel, positive match up, a player that they like to feature in the end zone in the red zone area and similar to the Jacoby Myers usage of how he's always on the field. Brent Strange has one of the highest route participations among tight ends. So plays every single snap targets haven't flowed his way because it's really just been the Parker Washington show, but the Bengals do have a couple decent corners. The Washington gets locked up a little bit more. 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I want to tell you guys before we get to more questions about polymarket. It's a stock exchange for sports, buying in, and selling out on your terms. When your team goes down to 20%, you can buy in and sell it off it. 40% when they come back to double your money. They're so confident that you'll never go back to the other guys. They're giving you a free $25 on your first trade when you deposit just 10 bucks. And now they've even launched this new feature called Squads. It's a group chat where you can see what everyone is trading on. So download the polymarket app today and use code FPPOD when you sign up. That's code FPPOD to get $25 free after you deposit just 10 bucks. All right, let's go to our boy. - Manliness. - What's up, man? - Hey guys, thanks for taking my question. I'm curious about full PPR. I'm deciding between starting Aaron Jones or Jalen Waddle. At least a little while ago I saw Andrew had Aaron Jones higher and well, she had Waddle higher. I was curious if you could maybe have that discussion a little bit. And if you have time, I'm also just wondering what you're thinking about Waddle sort of season long perspective. I felt like we had that first week where he wasn't involved and the second week was great. And then this third week, decent number of targets, but disappointing score. Do you see his trajectory kind of going up or down or just going back and forth over the course of the season? - Yeah, so the 49ers, their secondary has definitely played out. They grade out well, you know, Lenore and everything, but the thing that works well, I actually want to see this percentage before I talk too far out of one side of my mouth, is really about being able to tackle up to and stout. And like Waddle, I know Pat Bryan has been more of like a primary slot guy, but Waddle is going to move through and do that. And you can beat up to and stout. And coverage grades have stout more on him. So if he's playing on the outside, it doesn't work like the best situation because of like how Green and Lenore have played, but I'm confident they're going to play it more on the upside. You can pass against the 49ers. They're not going to be able to establish much of, I mean, I guess the running game has been disaster-ish and you can run against the Niners in some capacity, but the Niners give up big, deep plays. It's what they do. And Jalen Waddle is great after the catch. I think just Waddle's in a phenomenal situation here. So I think this is the start of him getting right. The long-term question is kind of interesting, but what do you think about, I mean, you can do Aaron Jones versus Waddle here, but I don't think you and I have talked about Jalen Waddle in a little while. - This is the Jalen Waddle experience, unfortunately. It's a lot of really high highs and then a lot of really low lows you're disappointed. So I'm in three weeks and we know the Broncos offense has not reached its full form. So the fact that he has at least had one good game is at least encouraging and that he's been more involved the last two weeks versus a week one, which I think definitely looks more like an anomaly than anything else, how little involvement he got. So Broncos still have really run the ball. - 52% out of the slap, by the way. I just wanted to throw that in 'cause Pat Bryant was there early. 52% out of the slap, which will be up to and stout. - Yeah, so I think Waddle is always going to be a boomer bust type of play most weeks. As if it's favorable, like you kind of outlined, but Aaron Jones seems like he's pretty secure with what his role is going to be as long as Jordan Mason is sideline. They have talked about getting Claymore a little bit more involved than eventually. They're not going to be able to give Aaron Jones 20 touches because, frankly, the guy can't handle that every single week. He's just going to break down and I don't think they hate Aaron Jones that much that they love Aaron Jones. I don't think they want to necessarily feature him in this much, but just based on their backfield, they're kind of forcing their hand a little bit and it's also the dolphins. And to talk about the ranks show how the dolphins defense against the runs actually not that terrible, they're just really, really bad against the past. And that's why teams just elect to throw on them because none of their guys can cover in any way, shape or form. When Rashi Rice is five yards open against all of your defensive backs, that just kind of tells you how bad the secondary is at covering their players because Rashi Rice is not an elite separator by any way, shape or form. So I think it's a floor ceiling conversation. I think Aaron Jones comes with a much higher floor and I think there is a little bit of ceiling too with him 'cause it is a dolphin's team that's going to allow the Vikings to have a lot of red zone opportunities. So I just see the path for Aaron Jones being pretty easy whereas Waddle I think just comes with a larger range of outcomes. So that's why I slightly have Jones ahead of Waddle. - Waddle is pretty favorable. Finish to pros projections around five catches for over 60 yards receiving, which is good. Do you have any take on the long-term thing? I mean, did you already kind of hit where you wanted with that? Like, do you think Waddle can be a top 20 Waddle received a rest of season? - Yeah, I think so. I think that's definitely in his range of outcomes as we like to say, it's just a matter of the Bonaix ride. He's a really close quarterback. - Would you make a bet that he was a top 20 Waddle received a rest of season? - Definitely had him my top 20 receivers entering draft season and he's got one good game, one really bad game, one so-so game. So I'm not willing to jump off the Waddle Bay and Wagon. So yeah, I would say top 20. Pick where, let's see, rest of season rankings. See if I can put my money where my health is. I have Jamel Waddle as my wide receiver 20. - Hey, look at that. Just like we planned it. Perfect, perfect. Love it. All right, Ko-Kwai, I think is what it is. This is our phenomenal picture of Nicholas Cage from Face Off. What up, dude? - Hey, what's going on, guys? - Did I say it right? I know he did that before. - Oh, it's a cookie. - No, I'm good. - That's all right. - That's all right, I'm stupid. - No, no, you're good, dude. - Make a note. All right, what do you got? - Well, actually, really quick. Ericsson, no Face Off yet. - No, I've seen Face Off. - That was the beginning of the season. He, yeah, we opened the season, actually the artwork. If people haven't seen it on Discord. - It's a shirt. - Yeah, there's actually, there's actually a shirt where our art guy, it's not AI. All right, man, I don't know, maybe they did. But it's me and Ericsson remaking the Face Off picture, like the artwork from the DVD. And it is on a shirt on the fantasy pro store right now. And that is our artwork because Ericsson finally committed to seeing it. - I'm not sure if a single human being has purchased said shirt, but it is available out there. - I completely missed that. All right, cool. I've looked at it more importantly. So I'm sitting here. Well, let me go straight to this team. It's my wife's team that I helped draft. And there, she's all in three. Put the team roster on the chat to look at. A lot of injuries just kind of piled up on this team, AJ Brown and Nico Collins especially. I know it's a broad question, man, but I mean, are we in panic mode? Should I start trying to help her make trades and get this get out of this funk? - Is this like an O and three team? - Yeah. - Oh, okay, I didn't hear that. Okay, very good question. I like how ScreenShot 2 has like a slight little picture of just me with my chest. That's attached to it. That's making me laugh. He's got burrow, James Cook, Henderson, Eguca Collins, Kittle. You got Tate at Flex on the bench. Guys like Coker, Lovelin. So I mean, in like a perfect world, ironically, it's weird you have Lovelin and Kittle. You had this great Lovelin pick. You would have Coker in Jordan Mason or Gedarian Price. Like a lot of things have not worked in your favor. Mecha has been down, Nico Collins has been hurt. It's still just like a strong team though. And AJ Brown, he's got on the IR. Like do you want to blow stuff up or do you want to make a big major change or do you want to be like, "Hey, this is the week. It's going to bounce back with some of these guys." 'Cause there's only so much on the week and wait. Or she can wait. - Yeah. I think too. It does really depend on the players and the context. 'Cause every, every O and three team has its own story. Right. We can kind of think about what a lot of O and three teams look like they look like. I draft a AJ Brown. I draft a Pugna Cua. I draft a Nico Collins. Like, that's the very common theme with these teams. But this week in particular week four, it looks like Pugna's going to come back and play. Looks like Nico's going to come back and play. So that's giving you an opportunity to, okay, I invested a lot of draft capital into these players. And now I get a chance to actually play them. And they are in good spots. Like Nico Collins is facing the Dallas Cowboys this week. So you haven't had in the last couple of weeks. That's probably been part of the reason why you haven't won any of your recent matchups because you're missing your cop receiver. You have an AJ Brown, but you have depth. So you have Jalen Coker. You have carnal Tate as an option that you can use. You have George Kittle as a tight end to fill the void that post on Loveland has not been able to produce in. So I don't look at this roster and think, oh, this roster is dead on arrival. I think it's a roster that you could see having more favorable production down the stretch. - Even a guy like. Joe Burrow. We know Joe Burrow traditionally doesn't play well to start the season. Now he's been weak forward. It's a good match up against the Jacksonville Jaguars. I love this one. So I think when I look at this roster, right, it's like Henderson is RB2. Okay, like you have a bunch of RB2s that have kind of engineering price. Jordan Mason got hurt. Okay, like RB2 is probably your biggest hole, but like throwing Henderson out there as like a flex play. I mean, it's not the worst thing in the world, right? Especially I assume that this is like a 12 team league. So there are much worse flex plays that you could have than a trade on Henderson. So I don't really think that you would blow it up. I mean, like Buka now with the quarterback injury, that makes him a tough click. Maybe why receiver depth said it was 10 team. Yeah. Oh, 10 team league. Okay. So yeah, so that does definitely make it. No, what I would do. I would, I would test the waters to try to do something at RB. And let me throw this at you. Like what if you could take you, you have a, cause here's a problem. You don't have a surplus of a lot of things. Be of a surplus of tight ends. I actually like level this week. What if you could take a kiddle who's ranked really high and then you could pair with a Giderian price and go get like a Jalen Warren, you know what I mean? Like something like that. Like you're not going high end on and obviously that team would need a tight end to want kiddle. But get a running back of that ilk and then try to get a more stable RB2 and trade from some of that depth. And you know, maybe you could do better than what I just laid out there. But that's I think what I would be trying to do that because it's like, what's your other strength? Niko Collins is back. They do you want to trade from that? You're still without AJ Brown. Like, but I don't want to blow anything up. I would just try to consolidate maybe a little bit from that strength and see it. See if somehow I could upgrade that RB2. Yeah. I think an interesting trade you can make is trying to get Aaron Jones knowing that a manager might want to try to offload him because his production is really high right now. But we all understand that his production is going to fall off when the other running backs get healthy. And you already have George Mason on your roster. So you get the Aaron Jones production now to help you win now. And then when Jordan Mason comes back, you can use him as your RB2. So you're just mixing and Vikings running back in that RB2 slot. And I think too, there's enough pieces here where Egg Buka plus something could probably get you a player like Aaron Jones, Jalen Coker could probably get you a player like Aaron. Like, again, I don't want to trade Coker, but you need an RB2. If they need it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So there you go. There you go. You got that Lama. What's up, Lama? Yeah. Well, it's my first time here. Thanks for taking my question. But I'm in a full PPR keeper league. And I had a trade question, put my current roster in the chat as well. I'd basically be sending Puka Nikuwa, Quinshaw and Judkinson Rashad Bayman. And I received safe flowers in Chuba Hubbard. Yep. Okay. Sorry. Hold on. Hold on. You just said yep, quick. You are you send Puka, Judkins and Bayman. So it's essentially Judkinson Puka to get flowers in Chuba. Yes. Yeah. And I put my current roster in the chat too. Okay. But Erickson, do it. It's a keeper league. You want safe flowers or Puka Nikuwa for the rest of their careers right now? I want Puka. Damn. Yeah. That's what I'm confused. Yeah. You're like, you're like, yes. Absolutely. And then Judkins versus Chuba, like, I mean, I don't want Chuba right now, but I'm also two young assets. I don't think you're I would not be keeping real quick. I would not be keeping Puka, because that took him first round, obviously. And this is the first year we're doing keeper. Oh, yeah. Peace out. Yeah. So that's super important context. Yeah. Yeah. Because if I I want, I mean, I guess it's interesting. I didn't realize that you would take flowers, Erickson over Puka, and I'm taking Puka for sure, regardless. I mean, I was nonsense. But well, I think that's that's when it plays me because he has, I mean, he's talked actively about wanting to retire early. Yes. That concerns me about someone that long term young isn't have the contract yet from the, I mean, the Rams have been kind of dragging their feet with signing him to a long term extension contract, which is still not happened. Whereas they flowers that do just locked up to Lamar Jackson for the long term. And he's only played like one and a half games. So dude, you've seen the thing with Z flowers and how many yards he's averaging this year? Per outrun. No, but it's probably like 27 or something. It's not nine. Oh, I'm your experience. Speaking of it, Nicholas, he has like a 50% target share when he's running around the first game helped a lot. So I don't know. And then Juddkins and Chew, but I want Juddkins and dynasty over. But getting to keep Z flower, I guess Lamar, we probably should have asked it would have just been fun to know. And by the way, thank you for the question. Like what round is a flowers? You know, because if you want to ask of like production rest of season, if that, if Z flowers is also really not key. I mean, he didn't say Z flowers isn't keepable, but if he's a second rounder, that's a little different. But yeah, I think you can do that trade. That's a fine trade. That's a good one. Important, super important context of knowing that you can't keep Puka. We got a lot of questions this week. And we'll probably try to go into lightning round. So everybody kind of keep that in mind as we move forward with these last ones. But as I look for my read here, manage all of your fantasy teams wherever you go with the free fantasy pros app, get experts certain sit advice. If Eric's not here for you, what are you going to do? Well, you download the app, you'll get that start and say advice. Find the best waiver ads and available players in every single league. And you can manage all of your teams from one convenient view. You can even set your best lineups automatically without a pilot. Download the free fantasy pros app today at fantasy pros dot com slash apps, danesy pros dot com slash apps that's fantasy pros dot com slash app. Do it. Don't just do it for don't do it for us. Don't do it for me. Do it for yourself. Or you can do it for Eric's and two. It's a nice gesture if you want to do that. Alright, Nick, what up, Nick? Hey guys, appreciate it. It was always I'm going to send my team in. I'm own three, but I feel like it's starting to come together. Just curious what your thoughts are on the construction. You were super helpful last week with like getting Kyler and Stafford onto the team. I think the Kyler thing I don't really trusted over Stafford anymore, but although the matchup this week is good, but anyway, just curious what you think of the construction at O and three again, like the question earlier. Do I try and blow it up? Do I try and make moves or do I just study the ship? Okay. I'm Kyler this week, by the way, over Stafford. I don't know where you sit on that. Yes, but well, just making sure everybody's dicey. Bogman was like dicey about it too. And it's just like it's it's not my matchup. The dolphins are just so bad. They're so bad. Like Kyler, like he can miss five throws against them and then he just get five throws that he would hit. No, they just can't cover or no one's open. I'll just run for 50 on a percent. That's also true. I mean, he was running around last week, even after the concussion. So I think that he's the matchup's too good. I think what he's talking about here with his roster is like, burden finally got involved again. And then Jeremiah love is training in the right direction. So that's why this team is moving through. So he's got Stafford, Beijon love, burden, McConkey, Laporta, Addison. Your bench stinks though. I don't remember how big this team is like, why is conception and lemon like only it? But you're in a great spot for this week. I am blowing anything up this week. You got love versus the giants. Addison is in your flex versus Miami. You could I mean, I'm I'm I'm all I'm all games these here with this. I don't think I want to blow anything up here. But I do want some other wider receivers, please. I think I would probably not keep two defenses. I saw that. Yeah, I would. Yeah, unless your lead requires you to do that. I don't think it's worth holding onto the Bengals defense to stream the Bears defense. Add more depth, right? We just talked about it. I get that lemon and conception on our rookies that we're holding out hope for. But he said that he's going to try to stream since the day next week. So I mean, if that's what you want to do, that's fine. If there's no depth and waivers, then that that's fine too. But I would say like I like prioritizing defensive streamers for the following week. If there really is nothing on waivers, yeah, that's really because whenever you prioritize defensive, a lot of times you get burned because defenses are some of the most have the utmost variance a lot of the time when it comes to what they do on a week by week basis, because it's so turnover based. So if there is anything else available, he says keen ins on waivers. You want keen and Alan or on your roster. I mean, that doesn't really move the needle for me. So I think it's fine. Good spot. Don't blow it up quite yet. And then you might have some trade chips. Who did I just bring up next week? And we'll see if we want to blow it up next week. But I think that's bad for this week. What's up, devil? Kind of a tough question for a line around. But I'll try to keep it quick. I'm one and two, mainly because Drake May. So I made a trade that kind of got me in a good spot. So I got rid of AJ Brown, Bucky and Karnel Tate. I got my homes pukka and tune. Feels like a major steal, but he had Brock Pretty. So I don't think he really cared about homes too much. No, no, you in that trade. But you did a good job. Yeah, that's not what we got excited about. But great job. Yeah. Well, yeah. So the issue is and I'll post my team in a chat. My tight end one is likely who I'm obviously not very excited to run rest the season. And there's not really much options out there. Wide receiver deaths also not the best. So I'm curious if I'm either getting greedy. But should I maybe try to shop kooka to get a better tight end in a wide receiver too? Or do you just kind of lock in, not be greedy, stick with kind of the two stud wide receivers? Nope, don't be greedy. I don't think so. all that you're getting bowers or any. I mean, I guess if you're trading to Puka, you could get into that range, but you got chase and Puka right now and Josh down. So I don't think I personally am putting Puka out there. The only thing I'm listening to is me getting McBride or Bowers and I would still want more. So that's why I don't think I'm doing it. I think I'd send trade at least to see what like you for hours. You want to go Puka straight up for, I mean, what's the difference between Puka and Bowers? This planks up one place tight end and then they're both injury risks. Puka's going off of his injury. Yeah, you're not worried about Bowers biting anybody too, which is decent, but I don't know though, but okay. So here's my problem with that trade though, Andrew Erickson. Then your Widers number two is Josh Downs on his team. The depth of his Widers number two, the rest of season, then he's got me and Jay and Mitchell rest of season. I want him as a flex. Josh Downs is the number one wide receiver on his team. Rest of season. No. I don't like it. We're in different. Where's Josh Downs in the rest of season or any games? He's just not the Widers here too. I want when you start two wide receivers, I don't want to start Josh Downs. I want to like find awesome matchups like this week to put him in. He has Jamar Chase and Puka Nakua right now. Okay, but then he's going to have rock bower as a tight end instead of Isaiah likely who has a chance to just be a nothing burger with this rotating carousel of tight end. So he's basically just taking L's every single week. Right. You got to sacrifice something. So would you rather punt tight end or make Josh Downs your Widers here or two punt tight ends. You know what I would want to do too. I would see if I can push like a hair and wall are available. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe or Cedique is going out there, but also like maybe I could try to acquire Tucker Kraft. We were just talking about like I think that is to come. Maybe you can go get him on the cheap for something a lot less. So that's Josh Downs for Tucker Kraft. I mean, do you think I almost say could you go less? He has Blake Corum. Could you trade like Corum for Cratt and Pratt maybe not. Yeah. I like I like that Canara. Yeah. It's like a touchdown and stuff and someone them some running back debt. Like that's okay. Yes. We're likely to go get some craft them. Do likely or what's his face for Kraft? Like Corum in like you craft. I mean, do you just go for the ultimate buy a love and call us love and I'm totally down with that. I love that. I'm still loving almost court. Dude, love land people forget coming off this best game of the year. Dude, three cats for 41 yards, like court of touch and almost court of touch down, likely and Corum for love and right now go do that. Who says no? Who says no except the guy who owns them? All right. Ten minute warning lightening around as best as you can or we won't get to all of these, which is definitely a possibility. How many do we have? We have like 12 more questions and we have 10 minutes. So all right, let's wrap it up. Fire around it as best as possible. You got to keep one question, one question. Yes. One question. One question buzzard unmute yourself. Unmute, please. So we can get you to beautiful picture of a cat too, by the way. Unmute. Someone a whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Going once, going twice, buzzard figured out and then let us know and we'll try to get you back up or run in question lighting around. What up? And it's always like that. What up, dude? And a half PPR, where did you go with Cedig or JCM in your finals flex spot? Ooh, tight end or running back at PPR. I'll go with JCM. I'll go with JCM too. I wanted to say Cedig though. But I did jam on hill. You must unmute. What up? Hey guys, what's up? What up, dude? Hey, I'm in a tight end bind. I got Kyle Fitz, thought he'd be a monster and he's a dud. And it's, I had it down in a wall or I don't have any other tight ends, not much available to pick up. Do I try to trade for like craft? What do you guys suggest? Yeah. The way we both just advocated for trying to trade for craft. If you can, I think craft and leveling are the two guys that they are really interesting, tight end by loads I would go for. Well, you get, I mean, Waller's a good play this week at least. Yeah. I think I'd ride Waller and just kind of wait and see a little bit with pits, right? One game with Penex. Obviously didn't do anything. Is he going to have three targets every single week? I don't think so. Play Waller this week for the position that's like Eric's once and then see if it happens with pits. Yeah. Yeah. Get pizza, get pits another week. Just kind of see if it's the same thing. Then, okay, let's try to get a long term answer. But in the short term, just roll with Waller. Yeah. I'm down with that. Sir buckets. Your majesty, come down. Hey, what's up, guys? What up? I said, through the chat. I'll tell you my team real quick. I got a Josh Allen, Amton, Hall, Amon Ra, Pickens, Kelsey. I'm wondering if I should trade for RB or just ride out Hampton or Breeze. What do you think? I don't want to ride out Hampton. I would just trade Hampton for Bay shell tune. Yep. I'm 100% cosine on that. I love that. That's the trade. I would even trade. I mean, if you need wins now, I mean, Breeze Hall for Bay shell tune feels gross. But Breeze also injured. He's not going to help you. Yeah. That's not a bad movie. I'm not bad. I'll try buzzer one more time. Buzzard unmute. You're still mute. Hey, thank you, guys, for the second opportunity. So what do you guys trade, Bucky for two in? Yes. And Kittle or Jawan rest of season. Who do you trade? Full PPR. Well, I want Kittle. So I would trade Jawan because Tyson comes back and ruins it. So Jawan, but he doesn't get what Kittle gets. And then I'm fine. I think Tuton and Bucky are pretty like the same. Right? Think Bucky is way bigger rest of season. Is what you want? Is why what? Shake it. Shake here. Shake here. Do you want Bucky? Do you want? Do you think having a Buccaneer's offensive player is going to be good rest of season? Yeah, I think it's a fair question to ask in week three when they've been this bad. But like, unless you are sold on, they are going to continuously be this bad the entire year. I kind of think they won't be. But it's first is attaching yourself to the Jaguars. Yeah, but that have only been good. I think they're, it's a fine trade. Like, I'm not against your trade at all. Like, I think Tuton's a freaking beast. So I'm totally cool with doing that trade. What's that moment? Come on. Hey, what up? Well, thank you. Thanks for having me first time coming. I'll make this quick. Yeah. I noticed that sharpener is coming off of injury soon. I was looking to trade to get him to add some running back depth. I'm looking to trade either maybe Michael Wilson or Denzel Boston. What do you think? Do you hate me for not wanting to trade either one of those guys? I mean, if he needs running back depth, like clearly he doesn't, it seems like he's not playing either as receivers. Are you worried at all that there's four? I mean, you were like, oh, Wilson, whoa. Like, are you worried they're going to have all these guys in Charbonne is not going to be able to do what he even did last year and also his health and how long it takes. Like, I think both of those guys are pretty productive right now. If I had to choose, I do think I'm keeping Wilson over Boston. I think Boston's super fun and is a brand new shiny toy and stuff. But like Marvin Harrison doesn't exist. Michael Wilson's just going to keep rolling out. Why they're not going to throw it to him ten times a game? I guess I'm just not too keen on trading away a rookie wide receiver that is shown out in his first three games. I got you. That's the only reason I would be hesitant to do that. But I kind of agree with you. Like, I'd rather just keep those guys on. I keep those guys over Charbonne. I mean, unless you're running back situation is so dire and these are like your fifth and sixth guy. I mean, I would rather just trade for Jordan Mason. Can you do that? Yeah, I mean, I think those guys should be able to get you like Quorum or something, you know, or even maybe a Bill Croskey. Like, I don't think the value is equated. That's a good point. I think I would aim higher than Charbonne. Yeah, I would 100% aim higher. Otherwise, I'm not doing it. R-A-J-P-7-7. That's his screen name. Premium member of the financial spreads discord. You must unmute going once. Sorry, I thought I muted. All right, long time this is their first time caller. I'm going to quickly send my team. Well, chain keeper. You start two QBs, two RBs, three wide receivers, one wide targeted flex. My concern is why do I need to maybe make a change? I'm three and no, by the way. We need to make a change or just kind of sit back and don't just wait a week or so to see if there's any moves to make. Yeah, and I think his quarterbacks really stink, but they've been performing well in Kirk Cousins, but it's because Jayden Daniels is down. I think I'm holding tight because Daniels comes back, but I will say, I think, you know, it's a strong team, but it was a keeper though. So it's like, I don't want to trade. He's got guys like neighbors and McMillan and stuff. Maybe there's something to be said that you consolidate off of neighbors in a keeper league, which is going to have a ton of value and he could put Luther Burton or he's got Braylon. I mean, I'm going to play Braylon Allen over neighbors this week alone. Maybe neighbors is the guy you try to see if you can make a big quarterback swing trade for. Oh, yeah, I like that idea, especially because it's a keeper league. So even though his production has been lackluster and the projection this year is still kind of up in the air, you'll still get a really strong return for him because I think that I look at this team, right? Like you're kind of like one elite quarterback away getting James Daniels back from like making a legit run here. So I would use neighbors, package him with I would package him with Kirk. I would package him with Kirk cousins who's playing really, really well. Right now for for Nana Mendoza's the farthest away from ever playing a snap for the Las Vegas Raiders because everything's going great for the Raiders. Put those two guys together and see what upgraded core. I mean, you should go get your right man. I And just say like this is. This is the time to buy Drake, man, dude. When I was updating my dynasty rankings, it took everything in my power to refuse from dropping Drake May significantly 'cause of how bad he's looked. But it's like Dynasty, it's keeper like. So Drake May, he would be a screaming buy, yeah. - Love it, love it, love it. Catalyst, what up? - Hey guys, so I posted my team of chats. I'm doing Dynasty Rebuild right now and I just wanna know if there's anything else that I should be selling or just hold everything. Where is, okay, so 12 teams, super flex, tight and premium. Preset, genty, alave, hold. I think these are all holds, Ericsson. Do you feel anything to do? It's not the full team that I'm seeing here. I'm seeing Herbert Preset of the two. I mean, Solid Running Back Solid Widers. Do you have any you need more wide receivers? You're building, you're playing into next year. The question would be what to sell off. I don't think I'm selling anything here. - Catalyst, just looking as roster. Sell off. - Yeah, I mean, it's a rebuild hold type of team. Like he's the type of team. - I mean, the only team is Lovelin. - I mean, I mean, Preset, I guess, he's an older quarterback. - It probably got some. - It's an older background. - Yeah. - I mean, he has, I mean, he has value right now 'cause he puts up points and super flexing. So if you train to a team that needs production from a quarterback, Preset would be the guy to deal 'cause his long term value is probably not super high. All right, let's get two more. Juanito, what up Juanito? - Hey guys, thank you for taking my question. FPPR 12 team league, Kyler's current make my quarterback because Caleb Williams has hurt. Would you guys try and create Caleb and Javonte Williams for Baro and Love, the manager who has Baro also has golf. So I'm trying to hit him up because his buy situation. - I'm sorry, I'm done. Did you say this is two quarterback league? - No. - So you want to train Baro and Love you want? - No, no, no. I want to trade Caleb Williams and Javonte for Baro and Love. - Jeremiah Love. - For Jeremiah Love. - Gotcha. - 'Cause this is the quarterback love which I was getting confused with. I think Jeremiah Love is kind of a cool buy. Yeah, I'm done. I really don't care about like the quarterback consolidating. - Well, you got a quarterback that's not injured. - Yeah, and I get, I mean that matters. Jeremiah Love, which I think is on the ascend. So yeah, I'm done with that. - Yeah, I think there's a good trade. - Okay, that's a good trade. All right, silly, last one up. And then we always have overtime here on the extra point which we'll try to get to, but what's up, silly? - Hey guys, just a quick question. I get 14 team DPR league drop in God when for Chris Bill a good idea at this point in season. Thanks. - God, I don't want to do that. You want to do that? You hate the box. - I do. - Oh, look at that. - I really do hate the box. - I guess for me, it's like I don't want to miss the boat potentially on Chris Bell holding on to God win. When what's, what's the point? - That's fair. - I just want to point out your tweet though about where it was like, you're like, look at what was it? Bust in your fab for a running back on one of the worst offenses. What's the upside? I love Chris Bell and all, but like do you think that dolphins like receiving upside with what Malik does in passing is better than their running, but you know, I'm getting out here like versus Godwin. Like I get what you're saying, but do you really think we're going to miss the boat on a dolphins wide receiver for this year? - No, that's a very valid point. Nick is also bringing up in the chat that Godwin did have that sick touchdown last week. That was called back to the pathway. That is, that is very fair. So yeah, I think, I guess maybe give it a week then. I guess for me, it's like, what's Chris Bell going to do against the Vikings? That you're like, oh man, I got to have this guy on my roster. But again, we need to revisit this question next week. At the top of the show, Chris Bell or Chris Bell. - Yeah, let's put a pin in that. All right, perfect. You guys, the most ridiculous episode we've had on this from our standpoint, because this room was full at times. People could not get in. We have not had that happen before. So hopefully more of you decide to come and hang out with us great time, great questions. You guys rock finisuppros.com/chat. You guys can come and hang out with us every single week, 2 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, except I'm not here next week. So I have no idea who's with Ericsson. - I should have not here next week either. - Oh my God, who's gonna man the ship? I don't know, it's a surprise. I'm in LA. I'm gonna be in LA next week. So I will be driving as the show is in. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast features a live discussion with fantasy football experts, including Andrew Erickson and Chris Welsh, addressing player matchups, trade strategies, and roster construction.
  2. Key debates center on starting players like Jalen Waddle, Tucker Kraft, and Darren Waller, with experts weighing risk, upside, and matchup value.
  3. A recurring theme is the importance of depth and injury concerns, especially with players like Nico Collins, AJ Brown, and wide receiver depth.
  4. The hosts emphasize the value of community input, with fans shaping the conversation through real-time questions on Discord.
  5. Tactical advice includes prioritizing safe, matchup-friendly players over high-risk, high-upside options, especially in keeper leagues.
  6. There is strong consensus that tight ends like Tucker Kraft and Sedique are better long-term bets due to increasing targets and defensive matchups.
  7. The conversation highlights the volatility of rookie players and the need for patience, especially in fantasy leagues with limited depth.
  8. A major takeaway is the value of defensive streamers and flex options in balancing roster construction across multiple weeks.

Summary:

This episode of the "Who's With Me" podcast features a dynamic, community-driven discussion on fantasy football strategy, centered around player matchups, trade decisions, and roster construction. Hosts Chris Welsh and Andrew Erickson engage fans through live questions on platforms like Discord, addressing key debates such as whether to start Jalen Waddle or Aaron Jones, and whether to prioritize high-impact players like Tucker Kraft or Darren Waller. Experts emphasize the importance of matchups, injury risks, and long-term value over short-term hype.

A recurring theme is depth and consistency—fans are encouraged to avoid overcommitting to high-risk players and instead build balanced teams with reliable backups. The hosts also highlight the value of defensive streamers, especially in keeper leagues, and stress the need for flexibility in managing rosters across weeks. Specific trade suggestions include trading for depth at running back or tight end, such as using a high-upside player to acquire a more stable option like Tucker Kraft.

The episode underscores the role of community input and real-time fan engagement, reinforcing the idea that fantasy success comes from thoughtful, data-informed decisions shaped by both analytics and real-world context. The discussion concludes with practical advice for managing team depth, balancing risk, and navigating injuries—all delivered in a conversational, accessible format that resonates with fantasy football enthusiasts.

FAQs

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Fantasy Pros hosts live shows every Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern on Discord. Additional events include 'Wormen Fits' on the first Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. Eastern and 'Bugs and Fits' on the third Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. Eastern.

Tucker Kraft is a viable option, especially in a league with a weak running game. While his production may not be explosive, his route running and increased involvement against blitz-happy defenses like the Vikings make him a strong bench or flex choice.

Jalen Waddle has shown inconsistent performance with high highs and low lows. However, his matchup against the 49ers and strong after-catch ability suggest he could be a top-20 wide receiver for the rest of the season, especially if he continues to get involved.

In a team with limited WR depth, focus on matchups and prioritize players with high upside. Consider trades or flex options like Josh Downs or Kyler Murray to balance your roster, especially in matchups where defenses are weak.

Aaron Jones has a higher floor and more stability than Jalen Waddle, especially given the Dolphins' weak defense. He is a safer, more consistent option in a full PPR league, particularly with the potential for red-zone opportunities.

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