Let's get it on. Get Sunday covered. It's week nine and it's in the books. NFL trade deadline is here.
Fantasy tread deadlines are quickly approaching and we've got a ton to talk about. My name is Cody. I'm excited to be joined once again by Brandon and Jordan and as well as this week, a very special guest. Welcome back.
Seven. How you doing? Let's go. Good to be back. Well, welcome back. Seven. Is your name.
Is your name seven because you're always in seventh place or what's up with the name seven. I've been ninth right now. Thank you very much. All right, I'm trying to give you credit.
Get it right. Hey man, as long as you give Whitney the back to back toilet bowl, I think you're all right. Yeah, that's all I'm trying to do.
You were in the toilet bowl last year, were you? I was. Two years in a row. So are we going to have a toilet bowl rematch this year?
Let's hope not. I'm hoping not. Oh man. Guys, I had a pretty decent week of fantasy football. Things got wild. Things got crazy. I enjoyed it. How did you guys feel about the week? I thought it went pretty well.
I went six and one. I lost one game this week. You did.
Yes, you did. Just one. That's it. What happened? What happened to that? Oh, yes, sir.
Goddamn overtime. I had it. I had it. Gave me hope. Gave me hope. I honestly didn't expect to win going into Monday night.
And then I checked at like half time and I was like, oh, I actually might have a chance. Yeah, that got ripped right away from me.
Jordan seven. Let me tell you guys. I was maybe perhaps glued to this game because I came into Monday night football down by what 11?
11 at three.
Something like that. Right.
The strikers gassing me up man. Since you're projected to win 6040. No problem. Did you got this? You got this and I'm watching the game and I'm like,
where is Karim? Huh, dude? He's not playing at all. I'm watching. I'm watching. I'm watching.
Two points. Three points. Man. And my projections are just like going down. Going down.
All right. You know what? I'm good. It's fine. Take the L. I'll have to talk about this tomorrow on the podcast. Brandon text me.
Says, how you feeling right now, brother?
Said, don't talk to me, bro.
And then overtime, bro. Over time. Like what a way to end that. This is a fantasy matchup that I love to watch.
It pans out. Baker take them down.
The Bucks score. Tie the game.
Everybody in the world. Everybody in America at least says Bucks go for two. You got to go for two.
I'm literally laying in bed watching this and I'm like, please just kick the field goal.
Just go over time. It's all you need to do. Just tie the game. Give yourself another shot. And they did.
And we also would happen, man. It was it was the cream hunt show in overtime. Brandon, I got you, buddy.
I'll admit it, man. This is where the 90% luck comes in. I thought it was an awesome game.
Oh, it was a great matchup. And honestly, I can't be I can't be mad because my team did throw up 150 points.
Like, I can't be mad at that.
That's what I mean, dude. Like this was a glorious matchup. Like it was for fantasy when we don't actually have to do anything like this matchup was pretty intense.
This matchup was probably one of the best matchups of the year so far within our league.
It was back and forth all week and long. And it was I mean, it came down to literally the last drive in that game.
Yeah, to win it. So yeah, like with cream hunt, Cody, I know you were sweating it out.
In my league, I was down by maybe like 12.3 points and I thought it was over. I could have started Hopkins, started shot wipe and all I put on the flex and it paid off.
Thank goodness for overtime and them getting the ball first and getting a chance. It was it was nice to get to win like that.
Like I just feel kind of grimy about it. But like it dubs a dub.
But like how you're talking about like what I've been talking about before the podcast even came out about cream hunt like going like dude there was one there was it might have been the third or fourth quarter.
I don't know if you guys remember what they they gave it to cream hunt like seven times straight like he just went down the field is like seven carries for like 48 yards and all I can think about like I don't know if you guys have ever seen the movie varsity blues with James Vanderbeek and
I can't remember John Voight, the head coach of the team on off guys ever seen that movie, but it's like stereotypical stuff. It's a black running back. They give him the ball all the way down the field.
They get to the end zone. They give it to a white player and it's like, damn, Kilmore runs me down the field the whole time and I never get the score. It's kind of how I felt about cream hunt.
Give the man the ball at the goal line like let him score once like that's all I really wanted.
So there was a couple of times he did get it on the goal line and he got stuffed and it's like, and the one time they threw it to the Andre Hopkins and I'm like good for him but I'm like, it's one yard give the man the ball one more time he's going to get your
touchdown so I was happy to get the the win from cream hunt.
I wish overtime rules were changed somehow some way shape or form because you don't get to see Baker mayfield and overtime.
You don't get to see the chiefs defense Chris Jones like I'm sure those guys want to play in overtime to and have an impact to to win the game for their team.
You don't think about that like the chiefs go down they score.
Baker gets the ball back. You don't get the pump. The only option is you got to go down and score. It's fourth and 29 you're going for it.
Like that's exciting football right like you have to go down and score. So it's like more entertainment for the NFL. I think maybe it was seven.
You even said something about just do regular overtime. You know where it's a 15 minute period. So I don't know it's good week for fantasy for me. Good money night game.
But yeah, it was a good week so see here moving forward. How was your week seven.
My week started with Garrett Wilson putting up 30 in my face and I was like, well, that's that's how this week's gonna go.
Awesome. My other league I have my gambit of running backs with Jonathan Taylor and Gibbs and James Cook and tank bigs be and Pollard and J. K. Dobbins and I still can't figure out which running backs to start consistently.
So I had Pollard and Dobbins on my bench again who both put up at 19 I was like, are you kidding me again. Last week does this week should have started them. I don't know what to say, but I still won barely.
It's a half point PPR there's bonuses for quarterbacks and some other stuff that goes on but I barely won I needed Baker to stay under 30 points and I got it thankfully.
So when is the win is a win. Yeah, and that I you know lost to Whitney in the Reaper League so there's that.
Who's she taking. I don't know if she hasn't told me yet so I was eagerly awaiting to see who she's taking off my roster that I'm not paying attention to.
What do you think she's going to take. Oh, probably Cup he's the best player that's on that team or maybe a clear I don't know.
There's a couple players but nobody really worth much.
She might take Mooney. I would take Mooney over Cup right now. She'd probably take me because of London. That's true.
Did Whitney is about to be relegated to like full time Reaper. She doesn't get her shit together in the main league.
Like any time I feel bad about my team I go and look at hers and I'm like alright I feel a little bit better.
Or James I go and like to watch his scores to.
Shamus was awfully quiet today huh. Oh yeah. It was quiet last week too. There wasn't all been by it on the podcast last week with his memes and gifts. Number two.
He's quiet. He's back to back losses and he's on the bubble now so he missed so confident being number two seed has dropped on the bubble at six.
This is 100% why the league needs people like Shamus right. Yes he gets you all fired up and he gets you all stirred up when he's doing well and then.
Couple back to back losses and it's just.
Alright, I'm not worried.
I'm not worried.
It's such good content man. Yes, the group chat is the best content.
But I agree.
Alright guys, let's move into our content for today.
We do have another listener question this week so I just want to bring it to your attention and see your guys thoughts on this this is not really a bad time to bring this up.
We're.
10 weeks in.
This is we 10 of the fantasy season already if you can believe it, but looking forward to next year. We're talking determining draft order man. This has been something for GSC main that we've struggled with for quite a while.
We've done a couple of different things, you know, the Spotify shuffle and, you know, then there was the, you know, the algorithm has something to do with it, which is true.
You know, the drawing the names out of the hat, which all reliable, but I think it's kind of boring.
One of our listeners wants to know.
What are your thoughts on doing a draft lottery, kind of like the NHL or the NBA does it.
You know, first overall pick, and that kind of avoids the tanking aspect, for example, we guys think about that.
I don't know. I always think it's interesting. Like I get why they put it in there so you can't just take and you're getting automatic number one.
Obviously you've seen it in every league throughout history of drafts. The number one pick doesn't always mean it's going to turn your franchise around or it's going to be overwhelming.
I think I'm for it. Like I like it because it, yeah, it means literally if you have the worst record, it doesn't mean you're getting the first pick. Like some people say the lottery is rigged with weighted balls and especially in the NHL that it only goes to big market teams.
Like, which yeah, there is a history of it doing that going to original six teams or big market teams to get them the first pick to get them back in relevance.
I don't know. I'd say I'm for it. Like I think it has more pros than it does cons to help out, I think overall.
Yeah, I would agree with Jordan. I would be all for it. I think it would definitely help with some integrity with the NFL, especially looking at, you know, everyone's criticizing the chiefs left and right.
Because they do get, you know, quite a bit of calls go in their way, whether it's, you know, player jumping off sides and there's no flag or whatever like last night.
Oh, I was just a false start.
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't even consider this as like an actual NFL thing.
No, this is definitely this question is in regards to NFL. No, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I took this as.
Yeah, doing like legitimate like yeah, in the actual NFL is how I took it.
Fantasy. I mean, I think it's irrelevant for us because we don't have any system in place where it's last to first.
That's why I phrased the question the way I did. So maybe I sound like an idiot, but I was wondering.
I'm good.
Seven. I think the lottery is a good idea too, but I honestly think it should be whoever wins the Super Bowl gets the number one overall pick and you flip the whole thing over.
I think that creates more of an incentive to go out there and actually win it rather than, oh, I won. Cool. Now I get the last pick of the draft.
Great. You know, I don't think it's earned to get the first overall pick and then just stuck to get it. That doesn't really sit well with me and never has.
I mean, the Saints are in prime position right now to get a terrible or a good pick up at the top, but we're not going to do anything with it.
Why would why should we earn that right to have a top pick when our team is awful?
Seven, I'm going to say something now and it might be out of completely out of the blue, but I have a weird feeling.
You guys just fired your head coach. You got Shadoor Sanders coming to the Saints and then coach prime coming in.
I don't know how I feel about that quite yet.
They're already going with gold sunglasses. It's going to blend in with their colors like.
The colors.
They just roll right over.
Hatches over the CU stuff.
Putting Saints logos and then Shadoor can play his rap album in the in war months every day just like he does right now.
In the Superdome.
Yeah, I think they would love it there, but I want a legacy to continue. I don't want to take a quarterback this year. I'd rather wait till next year.
I'd rather see Archmand and come over to the Saints.
We'll get into that a little bit later about the Saints and more about your team talking about them.
Cody, you want to talk about that?
I'll just jump in briefly here with this debate. I think the lottery works for the NHL and the NBA because their rosters are considerably smaller.
So when you look at.
You know, mixing it up as far as.
You know, like the lottery system, you know, the ping pong balls that go into the roller, like, I don't think it has as much of an impact as it does.
For a 50 plus person roster to get that.
Marquis player that is legitimately going to make a difference, you know, for example, if you're a team. Like the Saints that are looking for a quarterback and you have the number one pick.
You can go whatever best quarterback you think that, you know, you need or whatever on a smaller roster.
I just feel like maybe it's a little bit easier to like.
I don't know.
I guess shop around a little bit, you know what I'm saying.
Like when you've got 50 roster spots to fill, it's easier to do that with fifth and sixth round picks. Whereas.
It's not really like that with the NHL and the NBA.
That's all.
I agree.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I think we're going to move into the hot topic of the week here. I think Cody brought this up about Jason Kelsey.
If anyone saw the video of him smashing the fans foam, I don't know if anything was actually ever put out about what the fan was actually saying.
Like, I don't know. I put a lot of thought in this. Like I was pretty heated with Cody. I'm still like, I to me it's like, as far as Jason Kelsey goes, I know your guys opinions, several ones opinion.
To me, it's like super mature and it's like, dude, you played in Philadelphia. You mean you didn't hear anything worse than the crowd.
Like people not calling your brother like how many times throughout his career, Jason, your brother's better than you.
Sure, you heard that every day of his life probably motivated the dude.
Like, why go out of line to smash someone's phone because they're talking crap about your brother and Taylor Swift.
Like, all that is is jealousy. Like always, like told people, especially it happens in the NHL, the biggest form of flattery is when the opposing fans boo you when you have the puck.
That just means they know you. Everyone knows you. They want to be you. They're jealous. They want, they want the attention.
People are just going to be clowns to be clowns. Like, I don't know. I look at it as he crossed the line. Like, you don't need to break someone's phone over that.
Like you can say something back to the person, but you know, one of those things actions are louder than words.
I don't know. Violence is the solution here. I don't know what the solution is. I don't get me wrong because I probably would have fought someone in that situation, but I've never been a professional and paid millions of dollars to.
To hear this every day in an opposing crowd, people talking crap about me or my family like you're a professional dude.
Like I'm sure he's heard worse playing on the road and stadiums or from other fans.
So I don't know. Maybe him and his wife had a bad morning. Like something just set him off in a bad way to get started on the day.
And that was the path he was on. Like he was ready to break something.
Limp biscuit break stuff. Like just one of those days.
One of those days.
So like who knows. So he put out the apology. I think he's genuinely, I think he's like, like, I don't think he means any harm.
I think he's a good guy. I just sometimes like, come on, man, grow up like you're professional.
Like you're not a player now. You're an analyst and work for a studio and you have a job.
He's lucky you didn't get rewrites by this, but I'll let you guys jump in.
Anybody else want to jump in before I mean, so for me, I think I watched the video.
The kid was antagonizing him and just trailing behind him. And at one point, bro, like I understand, dude, if you're going to follow right on my ass and be there, your actions are going to have consequences.
Fuck around and find out.
Yep.
Guess what? You want to you want to start talking shit? Guess what? Talk shit, get hit.
So wait in the day.
You can't say that.
Like I'm a similar size.
But I am not going to go up and try to antagonize that man because I'm pretty sure he could fold me in half still, you know, like, that's that's stupid.
Now, if you're trying to chase the paycheck, maybe, maybe that goes a little bit of a different way and try and get a little bit money in your pocket too.
You know, that's like as the kid that has the phone, you're saying, yeah, I can get assaulted by Jason Kelsey.
Absolutely.
I'll take a punch for a million.
Yeah, like, sign me up.
Like, what's doing about that?
Here's my thing. This is what I don't understand about the situation. Brandon, I gotta be honest, I'm on your side with this.
Like, there's only so much like celebrity or not. There's still people.
They're humans, bro. I don't care if you're talking shit to a regular person or you're talking shit to a celebrity when you're yelling slurs and being an asshole like that.
That's all that you are is an asshole.
Yeah.
Did you deserve to get a cell phone smash?
I don't know, man. That like that's that's whatever. But like you said, play with fire. You might get burned. Here's my biggest thing.
The situation.
What is Jason Kelsey doing? Walking down a regular ass sidewalk with all these students and all of these fans and all of these phones and all of these cameras.
What are you even doing there? Don't be there. Don't put yourself in that situation. If you're going to have the status, if you're going to be that guy, take a golf cart to wherever you're going like Taylor Swift.
Yes.
I don't know. I don't know how to say that. Like, why are you there?
So who's the original antagonizer then?
I'm saying like, are you just going down there to like fire these kids up and like.
He was down there for a charity kick with Pat Mac.
Sure. But you see Pat McAfee walking through the crowd with those kids without security around him.
And what Pat said was he thought Jason was going in with them, but he didn't.
Either way, I'm not blaming this situation. Jason Kelsey, it's a stupid situation and it shouldn't happen.
You know, you think about going to a games just as a fan and getting into fights with people in the stands and people, you know, getting beat up and stabbed or whatever it is.
It's ridiculous. There's no place for it, in my opinion.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Yeah, like, don't put yourself in that situation, dude. You're a public figure at this point. You're on TV at least once a week.
You got your podcast that's up there in the top at least five of podcasts.
Anywhere right now. Don't do it, dude. Just don't be around there.
And if you do, you better make sure that you can handle people talking shit to you.
That's how I feel about it.
I agree.
Seven.
Yeah, I mean, like I said, two wrongs don't make a right in this situation. I think he obviously should have avoided it.
I think it's dumb that he doesn't have somebody with him that can help push people away from him at this point.
Yeah, there was a security.
Yeah, like, I know you think you're a big guy. You can take care of yourself, but obviously you show that you don't have the maturity to do that.
Oh, you know, these are college kids. They're rowdy. They're they're drinking more than Jason Kelsey is right now.
You know, like, I'll be real honest with you, man. If I was walking through a crowd like that and these guys were talking shit about you guys the way that they were, I might have the same reaction.
So I don't blame it at all.
No.
You want the business, man.
Yeah, you're gonna get it to you.
I feel the fans just lucky that it was just his phone that got broken, you know, easily could have just been hit in the face and that was the end of the story.
I think it was like maybe earlier this year or sometime last year, but you guys see the video of when Jason Kelsey and his wife were out and there was some drunk broad that was heckling them.
Yeah, his wife handled the business.
I loved it. I loved it, man. Like, you're embarrassing yourself like, yeah, I wouldn't talk with them, dude.
Just leave them alone. Yeah.
All right, seven. Well, we're really excited to have you back man and because you are back, we're going to kind of let you take the reins here.
And I'm gonna pass this off to you to give us some of your insight and some of your opinions as our resident Saints fan. We're gonna move into seven talks. The Saints. What do you got for us, my guy?
Man, so we're gonna start off with the best thing that could ever happen on a Monday to your terrible team, which is the head coach gets fired.
That is the absolute greatest thing. I know I was looking at my phone and just checking it real quick and I saw Dennis Allen has been fired. I was like, yes, I go in the group check.
I'm like, your prayers have been answered. It's now been fired. I was like, let's go. Like, I was always hyped up. It's a Monday. I don't want to be at work. Nobody wants to be awake.
And that just made my whole day.
To your credit, to your credit seven. Yeah, to your credit, you were, you're kind of praising for him to be fired for at least four weeks, I'd say, three, four weeks.
That's season. Oh, yeah, I'm in this season. But yeah, every week someone's getting fired or some bad's happening. You're like, well, I wish that was the Dennis Allen.
Yes. So that's why the prayers were finally answered for seven.
You know, he's got one of the worst records as a head coach. He's like 26 and 51. Can't have that. Shouldn't have been left that long to have him just sitting there letting the team suck.
You know, defensive coordinator, not a head coach.
Josh McDaniels. I love him as RDC before he took over the team did great. Not so much as a head coach. Go somewhere else.
What do you think, like, is the reason for that though? Like, I kind of feel like this situation, you know, he was kind of gifted this position when Sean Payton left and it was one of those, like,
I don't know, he kind of like hold a fast one on the team and the fans of like, I'm the guy for the job when reality like a fake it till you make it type of scenario and he just never made it.
Like, no, definitely. I think what happened is, hey, Sean Payton endorsed this guy.
Got to take it. You know, Sean Payton was our coach for so long and he did so much great things for that team with so many wasn't winning seasons. We won a Super Bowl and everything.
And they trusted Sean Payton. You know, our owner inherited the team from her husband whenever he passed away and the team was kind of handed over to the GM and they're like, hey, you guys can make the decisions.
Sean Payton leaves. It's not your turn, Dennis Allen. You can do this. You should know enough from working under Sean Payton.
Well, then he has the first year. Hey, you know what? First year without, he doesn't have breeze. We're in a transition year. Cut him some slack.
So they go and get Derek Carr. Okay. Well, it's Derek Carr's first season.
Or use Corolla as you refer to him.
Use Corolla. The best. Give him a year. Hey, you know, he's got to learn the system. It's a new system for him. And I'm glad we finally ran out of excuses because this I could not deal with another year of, oh, well, it's Cubiak's first year as an offensive coordinator.
And I was just going to just rage quit and start burdened stage jerseys. You know, what that point? Like it was about to get real ugly if I had to hear another year of excuses. So, but fun fact, this is the second time Dennis Allen has been fired in the middle of the season.
And it was because Derek Carr was his quarterback.
With the Raiders.
Yeah.
Yep.
So it's great. I'm just glad. Let's go get a good head coach. I would personally like the Lions OC as a head coach, you know, that's, that's my big up in stars wish for a head coach right now.
You don't want Bill.
No, I don't really want Bill. I saw what happened with Bill at the end of his Patriots run and we don't have nearly a good enough roster for him, you know,
the Jew. I don't know if you had this on your agenda seven. Did you see that? I don't know what they call it now since it's not Twitter. Did you see the X comment by Michael Thomas about Derek Carr?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
I mean, he roasted him and I feel like, and I feel like that's how a lot of people feel. And I always like, I thought, I thought Derek like, Derek Carr, I remember this kid coming out of Fresno State like he was good, like, supposed to be like better than his brother, this and that.
I always tell people Derek Carr, I think it was 2017, that MVP run he was on and then he broke his leg and there's the famous audio of my leg. It's broken. My legs, it's broken and you know, his legs broken.
And Michael Thomas said it like perfectly last night, like someone that played with him and like knows him like came out and said like, I've always felt ever since he broke his leg, he just looked scared.
Anytime there's pressure, he just like it hurdle, hurdle, like insta just going in like scared. So I don't know.
You know, I feel like everyone's struggling for a, getting a quarterback and getting a franchise quarterback, you know, every, every team like look at the Broncos since Sean L. Way they haven't maybe bowed next, you know, the Steelers since Rothesburg has been gone.
Like every team goes through it, man. It's just getting that franchise quarterback is few and far between. So I don't believe in Carr. I don't think he's your, he's your future.
Like you guys are firing the coach. Like let's get Carr out of here. I thought your boy from South Carolina, I liked him in college. I thought he was going to do better.
Yeah, Spencer Rattler. He didn't look very good. So I don't know. We'll see what you guys do. I'm sure you'll.
Um, great value Patrick, my homes. Yeah.
I don't know as far as quarterback goes, I have a firm belief that the Packers have the right system in place.
Draft a quarterback two, three years before you need one in the first round and let them sit. You know, that way they can develop and they can get used to the NFL speed by watching it.
They have a great mentor that can teach them how to keep up with it and they should have done that with breeze before breeze had a noodle arm.
That's how that should have happened. They keep making issues. Oh, we were going to get Patrick Mahomes, but then the chiefs traded up in front of us and got him.
Okay. And then you did what afterwards? You know, you drafted. I mean, we had one great, you know, good couple years where we drafted Michael Thomas and then we drafted Lattimore and Kamara.
And then after that, terrible, terrible picks until a lot of a who then got a hospital ball from car and should be in the same conversation as to as you should retire at this point.
Yeah, knocked out. Yeah, that's an interesting one.
Two concussions, real bad concussions this season alone.
Like it's, it's not looking good. And then he can join our 13 other players that are on IR right now with Shahid and Ram check and Paulson adebo.
We've got so many great players that are just sitting on IR right now. That's part of the reason why we're doing bad, but it's not the sole reason.
So I don't know. I think Derek Carr should last the rest of his contract. Let's drop the quarterback. Let him sit under car for at least a year and then move on.
We've got to eat the cap anyways.
Not bad choice.
Yeah.
I mean, we're just going to continue to suck might as well and get some pigs out of it while we're at it.
So with that, yeah.
With that a larvae situation, you think he plays again this year?
I think he will. We have to have him on the field. We don't have any other wide receivers.
We drafted Bob means this year and he's on IR to she heeds on IR out for the rest of the season. We don't have anybody to throw the ball to.
We don't have anybody on defense.
I'm going to practice squad.
Yeah, since we were talking about varsity blues, you guys ever seen the movie not another team movie?
Yeah, of course.
They kind of they kind of make fun of the football stuff.
Yeah. Well, he's like that the first football he's like, can he breathe? Put him out there. I don't care if he's hurt.
They put him out there and then the next year, the football one where player gets split in half. That's where the Saints are.
Just care if the students injured and you might die on the field. We need them out there this year. Get him out there.
They got a Wain concussion counter.
Yeah, that's it.
I think I posted that for two at one point.
Oh, you did. That was good.
That was good.
You know, but hey, at least we made the right move so far. We traded away.
Any time a Saints player leaves, I still root for them. I appreciate everything that Lattimore did with shutting down Evans and, you know, making Evans his son for the longest time.
Oh, yeah.
Great, great football. Always loved watching them fight.
And hopefully he'll go off and win a Super Bowl with the commanders. That would be fantastic. And I'd love that for him on top of, you know, like Trey Hendrickson, whenever he, him and Vaughn Bell used to be with the Saints as well.
When they were in the Super Bowl with the Bengals, I rooted for the Bengals just for them, you know, I still root for them. I was afraid Camero was going to leave, but he stayed.
And hopefully he'll retire, say with Cam Jordan and DeMario Davis, you know, and but it's, it's time to rebuild that team.
Our, our GM has been kicking the can down the road long enough and I'm ready to kick him down the road too. And it's time to really rebuild that.
I agree.
I can't argue that much at all. But I do think it's, I don't know, it's interesting that you brought it up there falling apart on both sides of the ball. Like you said, let him or leave in town.
That may have been one of the biggest moves of today and that'll bring us into this next segment, the trade deadline.
Guys, I don't know. I didn't really feel like outside of like defensive moves. Did anything really exciting happen for the trade deadline? I mean, Mingo went to the Cowboys, Mike Williams to the Steelers, Smith to the Lions like
your biggest upside there is definitely Mike Williams and the Steelers. I was shocked by this as a Steelers fan. I saw they were going after Adam Theland also.
I honestly felt the Steelers were just fine with Pickens and Calvin Austin and Bob Jefferson. Like, I was fine with the way things were going. Maybe this will help Mike Williams.
I don't know. Maybe that he's not getting yelled at by Aaron Rodgers now. He's got praise job by Russell Wilson there. So maybe that'll get his game mojo back up a little bit. I don't, I mean, it can't hurt us.
It doesn't matter if you catch the ball as long as you're having fun.
Yeah. As long as you're my teammate and you got a smile on your face. That's, that's all we're here to do today.
So, yeah, I mean, I think Mike Williams has the biggest upside out. I'm sure if you go look at sleep right now, like he probably got added a bunch because people are like, I don't, people get excited for no reason on stuff like this before anyone's done anything.
But yeah, I don't think there's, I don't know why the Cowboys are buying anybody they need to sell because they can't afford anything except for CD lamb and overpaid Dak Prescott.
But I don't know. Yeah, I don't think anything is fantasy relevant. I don't know how you guys feel.
Yeah, I mean, I, I would agree. Not really anything fantasy relevant. It might be interesting to keep an eye on Williams.
See what he does. But for the most part, Herbert, he won't do much.
Everything else was really defensive. I mean, you saw a couple of rumors that maybe feeling would go somewhere, but nothing really happened there.
So not really anything exciting. I think majority of the offensive trades were all the wide receivers that were already traded, you know, that already happened.
Like Mingo is not going to do anything for the Cowboys. Dax, like Cooper Rush, who gives like, I work with a bunch of Cowboys fans and I was like, Hey, you guys made a trade today.
And they're like, what for who? And I was like, Jonathan Mingo. They're like, who? And I was like, yeah, Jonathan Mingo.
It's, it's, it was just a waste of a fourth round pick for them. Like that was, they got fleeced in that one.
They overpaid for him. Oh, 100%.
But I thought that the fantasy footballers made a really good point in their episode today when they were talking about the Jonathan Mingo trade that maybe just maybe he was drafted by a team that has no development process.
And if he gets into the right situation, he could blossom.
And to be honest with you, that's, that's an outcome I could see with Cooper Rush. I don't know if I believe that.
But I don't know, put the kid in the right situation.
It's Tray Lance. You gotta let him fly. Yeah.
I don't think they should assign Dax that big contract. They should have let him walk, make it the Tray Lance show. And then that would have been a lot better. Cowboys isn't the right situation for him either.
I mean, that's, that's the Jerry Jones show over there. And until he dies that they won't want a Super Bowl. Thank you. I was about to say until Jerry Jones dies, they will never win another Super Bowl.
I honestly think you're right, man.
He brings that he brings them down. Did you can't be the owner, the GM controlling the team. So like you own the team, you're the one giving these guys money to pay these guys.
Like being, you know, being owner like Mark Cuban, like super involved with the team. Like you're there. You want to, you want to be there to support the team. Like you're pumped for these guys.
Like they're you, you know, they're your employees. Like you want them to win. But like that's why you hire people that know more knowledge than you.
Like, you know, obviously it's hard for us to sit here and talk when this dude's got billions of dollars.
But it's just like, obviously there's something change when you haven't won anything in 30 years, you know, so it's like, something's got to change.
Well, I mean, there's that old saying, right? Like if you feel like you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. Like maybe take a step back a little bit.
I mean, if you want to continue to be the owner, that's fine. But like this whole all in nonsense last year and then they didn't do anything this year and then dumped all that money into two players that are both now hurt.
And they have no other options. Like, yeah, that's what I mean. Like, I don't know, man.
Well, the thing is, is Jerry Jones wants to credit. That's it. If they went a Super Bowl, he wants it to be, I did it. I built this team. I controlled it.
And my dad is the lifelong Cowboys fed just hates Jerry Jones. He won't go to any games. He doesn't buy any jerseys or anything like that because he doesn't want to support them at all at this point.
He just thinks because Jerry Jones runs that team, that he's doing an awful job and that anybody he gives it to that organization just lines his puck. He wants to know part of it.
Quick, quick note on the Cowboys. I don't know if you guys knew this. I saw on the Pat McAfee show they were talking about it about the Cowboys. How they're one of the few teams that run a year long tour of their of their ability AT&T stadium there.
And they said they make like $10.1 million on it. And they talked about how there's like clear group class in the workout room. So dudes are just lifting weights and like people are just walking by like JJ.
Yeah, exactly. JJ Watt talked about it how they practice there after Hurricane Ian Isaac, I don't whatever hit Houston and it forced Houston to move and they were practicing that Dallas and he said, you know, state of the art facility was the best work out of equipment.
And he was like, people would literally be walking by like, he's like people would bang on the glass like, and that's what they said like, want you to lift weights like you're in a zoo like, and he's like I get it he's like, he's in it he's a businessman he's making money he's making over $10 million and he's like, this is the pay your players and Dallas so I thought that was interesting.
I hate that. I'd hate that. I mean, I work disconnected from customers and whenever they come back there I hate it. They're like, go away.
Yeah, you're just trying to work out and do your own thing and there's just.
Yeah.
Now I do want to do it towards just just to do it.
As I walk by.
Seriously. All right, well with that being said, we'll jump into the club.
A lot of updates coming this week. So keep an eye on socials between all 10 leagues. I know there's been a shake up in a couple of the leagues overall.
Who's a hot on top.
College basketball starting boys started.
Yeah, so that means March Madness is right around the corner. So GSC bracket pool will be out.
But your time to pay attention and start to prep for that time.
Yeah, we had a we had a good one last year man. What do we have like 24 25 people.
Yeah, we had last year.
We had 20 something mid 20s I want to say.
Yeah, so if you guys are interested in seriously, we're going to start posting, you know, stuff about March Madness and you know, things of that nature but keep an eye out for stuff like that because last year's March Madness got wild.
I mean, it wasn't until literally the final four, where we knew like who was going to be in it. And it was fun.
Do you guys let me ask you this. Do you guys watch college basketball at all.
Yes, I watch some, but like only at an opportune time when I'm actually there's nothing else on.
But like marquee games right like Duke versus North Carolina. Yes, and you know shit like that.
Yes, I'll watch those.
Yeah, I there's so many teams to
368.
Do you want us most schools.
You would know that.
I know it's I know it is the most D one schools like for sports because they talked about how it's like you need the least amount of players like technically you could have eight guys and you know you could have a team for the one but yeah there's so many schools like it's and that's why I think
352.
352. So yeah, I guess the price is right. So I lost. I was over. You weren't bad. I believed you.
I knew it was high and I know it's like the highest one, but I think that's why March Madness is cool to all these schools like I always tell people like same thing as in college hockey or, you know, football is trying to get to that point kind of where if you win your like your
you have an automatic bid into the playoffs like into the tournament so like basketball has always done that so I always feel like even if you're garbage team going into your your own conference tournament if you win that you get an automatic bid into the tournament and who knows anything
can happen at that point you know you could beat anyone so I think that's what draws people to college basketball is just Cinderella beaten these top teams and stuff like that.
Speaking of Cinderella's and stuff I don't know if there's going to be any Cinderella's when winning this week in football.
I don't know if there's any big upsets per se but talking about games of the week.
I don't know what you guys got on the agenda for games of the week but I'll start off with mine for Steelers and Commanders.
I think this is a pretty big game for both teams. I think it's a big game for Russ against a kind of a top quality team out there in the NFL this year kind of a surprise.
I think it's a big game for Jaden Daniels playing against that Steelers defense with TJ Watt.
I don't know I think it's going to be an interesting game. I don't expect it to be a high scoring game but usually in these type of games where it's supposed to be low scoring it's going to be like a 38 35 type game or something crazy so I'm expecting a fun
entertaining game but I'm going to I think the Steelers are going to come out ahead on this one.
Man that was going to be my question for you when you when you put this up here is like Steelers win this man they're
talks.
When does the bubble burst is my question for you as the Steelers fan like do you think they can keep it up because they're looking nice right now man honestly like
it just upgraded their defense too didn't they.
They got somebody from Green Bay. Yeah I someone I've never never heard of.
Think it was just a depth signing or depth trade I think that's all it really was.
Yeah.
Better in past Russia Preston Smith.
Yeah.
It's older.
Like we had this question on the show last week. Do Steelers make the playoffs and do they win the division like I don't know man.
They look nice.
I don't know about the division but I definitely they'll definitely make the playoffs.
We'll see obviously when they play the Ravens.
I mean this is that'll be this is a huge game for the Steelers like they win this game going into the divisional play here for like their they play all their
divisional games in the second half of the season so it's going to be pretty tough sledding for them.
Getting Russ and like Mike Tomlin said getting Russ in before these divisional games and I think you know this will be his third game back and he's
look good we've already talked about I think he looks good like I think Pickens is only going to get better out of with him.
This is Pickens by far best quarterback he's ever had throwing the ball to him.
I'm excited for a man as a Steelers fan like I think I put a I think I put a dollar on Justin Fields to be steel to be the MVP of the league for some crazy odds but I had zero expectations like I if we came in and we were 500 record team again cool like
but I don't think the expectations were high and like no one really knew with Fields and Wilson and I don't know.
I mean you know hats off to Mike Tomlin he's an awesome coach and knows what the hell he's doing.
I feel like this is also giving me.
I feel like this is going to be Daniels toughest defense he's gone up against to like he went down to the wire with the Bears and that came down to a Hail Mary.
You know I feel like TJ Watts going to give him some business and that's going to really be like this is grow man football you know so we'll see but I definitely feel like if if Russell Wilson can keep up with the offense for the Steelers and I think they could easily win that with just that defense alone shutting them down.
I agree.
Yeah I think I'll jump in here and I'll take the Steelers also it's in Washington which I think is maybe not as big of an impact as people in other states and teams might have but I agree with what both of you guys said I'll take the Steelers here.
I'm going to agree as well I think so that's a clean sweep on the Steelers for all of us.
I'll jump into my game but before I do I do want to mention last week I just ran the numbers I went three for three Cody and Jordan you both went.
Cody you went one for three and Jordan you went two for three.
So I know wait sorry you both went two for three so Cody you and I are now tied at 15 out of 22 and Jordan you're just that one game back at 14.
So my game of the week this week is going to be Lions versus the Texans down in Houston.
Texans really do need Nico back.
It'd be interesting to see kind of if there's any update on him this week.
I haven't seen anything as of yet.
Last I heard that they were going to.
I saw he was his progress throughout the week.
I saw he was good to me.
Yeah I saw he was planning on being back this weekend which yeah they need him.
I hope so man.
This would be a huge win for Texans at home they won this game this kid.
Change the momentum right back in their favor CJ shroud did not look good.
Last week he hasn't obviously looked that great this year compared to his rookie season.
People are calling it that sophomore slump.
I'd still take him over a lot of quarterbacks in the league right now so I think they'll get it figured out.
They got a good team good defense just good all around team.
Good head coach.
I don't.
I still don't they beat the Lions.
It's hard.
It's kind of like that thing like I don't know if I'm another Pat McAfee show reference at the SEC championship game last year.
Pat McAfee is getting the whole crowd round up the Georgia chant the Georgia song and he's like after all that he's like.
Alabama.
So.
So kind of after all that yeah I like the Texans they were my pick for the Super Bowl this year.
I think the line I think the Lions are going to I don't know how you I mean at this point I think I don't think anyone would turn down a lions versus Baltimore Super Bowl.
I think that'd be pretty incredible.
I would love that.
So I think that'd be a good guy.
I have the Lions.
I don't I don't know how they they lose this game realistically.
Yeah, I agree.
It's all Lions and it's not even just with Nico Collins out if they still had stuff on digs they would still have a chance to but him going out is just a huge thing and when you don't have a good passing game you can't set up a run either.
So why would you why would you run out when all they have is tanked out there.
You're just going to stack the box and all right run it.
Throw it if you want we're going to stop it you know you're not going to get very far with just tanked out there so I don't know it's it's lions and until anything happens that NSC North Division just in general is probably the toughest in football right now and it's hard to pick against anybody.
So, lions Texans whenever they start getting healthy should make a good playoff run, but they have to get healthy first.
I agreed.
I agree with everything that both of you guys said, and I'm just going to follow suit I got to go lions here.
I love the vibe and the energy behind this team right now. I may not pick against them for the rest of the season to be honest with you. I think they're rolling.
I think they made a statement last week in Green Bay in the rain on the road like they're not first game of the season like first out outside game of the season for the Lions.
Every game has been inside.
Yeah, I think they're really well coached and I think he has the, the knowledge and the weapons to put together a game plan to win in whatever situation that he is in. And I am on board the Detroit bandwagon and I really am so give me an alliance.
Goff should be MVP.
He's got more touchdowns than incompletions on the season. That's, that's something else.
Yeah, yeah. That's bad.
Impressive.
Yeah.
I'll go ahead and jump in here guys before I hand it over to you seven I'm going to take the Jetson Cardinals this week guys.
So, I think kind of a surprising game from the Jets this last week against the aforementioned Texans.
They looked all right, you know, I mean it was a good game, starting to put it together. And I'm excited to see if, you know, a long week can give them enough time to keep this momentum going.
Cardinals to me are a 50 team.
I think this is going to be a great game.
I'm excited to see, you know, if Garrett Wilson can keep stepping up the way that he did last week.
Give me
I'm thinking about it. Cardinals are at home right. Let's, yeah, let's
I'm going to take the Jets dude.
Take the Jetson Cardinals.
I'm doing the same.
I like the Jets. I think they got.
Take the Jetson Cardinals on the road.
I think they're starting to put the pieces together. I think things will start to go their way, but I'm like in the Jets right now.
You boys, wow, I guess this is where I make up my game on both of you.
Because I'm taking the Cardinals.
I think the Jets are good when they play like they did in that second.
Like someone was saying on a show I was watching there, they went from the first half talking about sell the team to super excited in the second half, you know, after what they did.
Like, yeah, obviously if you did that all year, like you should be eight and oh at this point, right?
Like, I don't know, you know, so I don't, I'm taking the Cardinals dude.
I mean that defense and J. I think James Conner is going to put up 150 yards on this defense.
You know, plow all over these dudes.
Plow real good.
Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
Like the Jets were already talking about two weeks ago.
Jets were already talking about what three weeks ago now we can start or we can start and turn this season around Rogers.
Look at our schedule with search with the Steelers.
We got rolled by the Steelers.
We're going to go to in New England, roll them.
No, you got rolled by New England.
Now you're going to go in Arizona and get they've won one game.
How excited were they after that one game?
They probably celebrate that locker room like they just fucking made it to the SC championship game.
But it wasn't against a nobody team though.
That's the thing.
Primetime game.
Decent team, you know, you just, you just hyped up the Texans.
They just beat them.
I agree with that.
Texans are bad.
Texans are super injured right now.
But no, I'm just taking the Cardinals.
I'll end it up there.
I'm taking the Cardinals.
I don't know how to feel about it, to be honest.
It's, it's almost like a coin toss game to me because yes, the Jets have the momentum right now.
Roger's just got his best friend and D'Avans back.
That's great.
But their run game has been awful lately.
Like past three weeks, Breeze Hall hasn't really been doing much.
That Braylon Allen kick.
Past few weeks, this season, dog.
He's got a couple of good games as, as somebody that has him in fantasy.
He's got a couple of good games on the season.
Oh, 90 receiving yards in the game helps.
Yeah, exactly.
But that's cause all they had was Garrett Wilson to throw the ball.
Now that that's gone, who knows what's going to happen with Breeze Hall.
But I think unfortunately Kyler Murray's got more weapons to use with, with also McBride on the, on the team.
Marvin Harrison, if he could stay consistent, which he usually isn't, you know, he's a great target.
I don't know how to really feel.
I think it's going to be whoever's quarterback makes the least amount of errors.
Rogers is starting to look pretty washed and Tyler Murray can't see over his offensive line half the time.
So I don't know.
I would probably have to flip a coin, but I would have to say I'm going to go with the home team and take Arizona as well.
Perfect.
Seven being our guest this week.
Give us a game of the week.
My game of the week is Niners and Bucks.
The biggest reason why is this is the closest we've seen CMC to play in this year.
You know, I think that's a huge, huge thing that they've been needing.
They don't have a running back anymore.
Jordan Madison has just been.
Yeah, good.
Yeah, amazing.
First couple weeks, he was great and then injured.
Yeah.
And then he got injured.
And I don't know, I think what they're really missing is CMC.
I use being out doesn't help either, but he wasn't much help on the field regardless.
Except drawing coverage.
Yeah.
Debo and Kittle were always, you know, the prime targets.
And I always felt like I use wanted number one money for being the fourth option on the team.
It felt real weird to me, but I don't, you know, I've never understood it.
But I think it's a good bounce back game, but the Bucks are going to be pissed after an overtime loss that they fought hard to get to.
You lose because of a coin toss.
I think they're going to come in pretty hot, even without Mike Evans and God when they're still a great team.
Kudos to Baker on having a great comeback.
Thanks to, you know, having a good team around him.
Imagine that Browns.
There is a badass.
I like Baker. I felt bad whenever he was drafted to the Browns in that moment.
I thought, well, that's his career.
He's pretty much screwed, but he's bounced back pretty good.
And I root for him, even though, you know, he's with the Bucks.
I like him as a player.
So, but easily give me the Niners on that.
Give me the Niners.
The CMC plays.
Give me the Niners.
If CSC doesn't play.
Give me the Bucks.
I think that's really, yeah.
If CMC does not make it in the Bucks.
That's the deciding factor.
Yeah.
I think, I think even if CMC does play, like, I don't think he's going to play that much just because they will use Jordan.
I don't think they want to get him hurt again.
Put him on a map count.
Yeah.
Save him.
I'll keep mine short and sweet.
Everything you said, seven, I agree with all that.
I honestly, I don't, I don't know a person that like isn't happy for Baker and has come back to like, I root for the dude.
Like, I think it's, I think it's awesome.
I think he got screwed over in Cleveland.
I'm glad Sean McBae, a huge shout out to him for giving him a chance with the Rams and giving him that shot and him balling out that Thursday night game.
He got his contract with the Bucks.
I mean, he's second in the league really behind everything with the Marjaxon.
So he's, he's put up a hell of a season.
So I'm taking the Bucks at home in this one.
I'm going to go right behind Jordan and say the exact same thing.
I'm taking the Bucks.
I like the Bucks at home.
And I think that this is their get back game.
They're pissed after losing to KC and OT.
Agreed.
And boys, I would love to follow suit here, but honestly,
if they were going to win one, it was going to be the one at Kansas City. I think the fact that they are down the weapons that they're down.
I love Baker. I love the team. I wish they would win it, but I, I'm going to take the Niners. I have to.
All right.
All right, guys, seven. Thank you so much.
I'm really glad you joined us, man.
We had a really good interview with you last year with the player exclusive.
So it's, it's really awesome to have you back on the show guys that if you're listening, watching whatever run back, check that interview out.
It was super fun to have him on.
But before we close this out seven, I just want to, you know, take a couple of minutes to ask you how you're feeling.
You know, I know in our league specifically, it's a, it's a rough.
It's a rough time, but how's fantasy going for you?
Rough couple of years.
Yeah.
Give us some thoughts.
Man, I like to say that I'm just on a skid right now, but it's been a couple of years of the skid.
Like I think of my first year when I did fantasy and I ended third and I was like, great. I'm on a roll.
Like I figured out what I'm doing here.
And it ever since then I've just been awful.
I don't know what I'm doing after time, you know, but I make moves like, you know,
picking up D hop. Thanks to Sheamus for dropping him onto the waivers.
Thanks to me for dropping him, bro.
Geez.
A lot of people dropped him. I was looking at his history.
Potato.
On and off.
He was on and off rosters all season so far.
So I'll take him.
I'll pick up use trash.
Tracy is the same way. Nobody wanted him.
And I expected everybody to jump on him whenever he had that first game with the Giants as the number one back.
And honestly, I wish I would have.
Yeah, he looks good.
He's got a lot of potential, but it's the Giants. I was very hesitant on him.
So we'll see what happens.
Maybe I could squeak into playoffs. I'll feel a little bit better, but I'm just here for a good time. That's it.
Well, no, I love it, man.
And it's, you know, it is what it is. Like,
Jordan said it best 90% luck, 10% skill, man. There's not a lot you can do. I mean,
we all read the same articles. We all listen to the same podcast.
Sometimes that's just the way it goes.
But regardless, love your energy. Love that you're still here to keep playing.
Play spoiler if you have to, if that's what it comes down to. I hope that it doesn't.
But super excited that you wanted to join us again tonight, man. It was a pleasure to have you on.
Of course. And like I told you, whatever asked about coming on, somebody's got to be first from the league to come on here.
And I'm glad to do it again. So hopefully everybody else will feel a little bit more confident in coming on.
Hey, I'm going to take this moment to call out Stephen. Mr. Cortland Slutton.
It's time, man. It's time. We got to get you on here. We got to get you talking about your team. We got to talk about your fantasy world.
Come on, buddy. It's time to go.
Boo.
All right, guys.
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