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Welcome your hosts five Bay from your 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:19.320 co host, by guy from Saint Practic, Prike Stanfall, your 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:29.000 co host, and five eleven from All Why ladies and gentlemen, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:39.240 your with that? We want you inside of Studio thirty four. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.120 This is the b f S. He is Frank Stamford, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.560 I am Greg sauceman e y all the way in 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.480 just a few moments, Frankie, what's happening man Reggae? Happy 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.720 hump day to you, Bud. Lots to talk about getting 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.800 a lot of news here. Teams opening up their practices 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.520 for the weeks, so we're getting a lot of relevant 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.960 injury information before we do that. Hid you sleep last night, buddy? 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.720 It felt so good. It's good to sleep and not 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.800 be hungover when you woke up. It was a fantastic feeling. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.240 I did wind up taking more Adeville when I got home. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.040 Um it was I bought Thailand all for the office yesterday. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.960 I don't know, not even the longest hangover I've ever 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.280 had in my life. I mean, they only get worse, healer, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.440 you get, that's the problem. I guess I haven't drank 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.480 that well, I haven't drank that much being that old, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.840 and we've been old for a long time. Well, yesterday 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.680 was older than I ever before. I hear that marriage 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.400 ages you Greg, maybe it did, but it was bad, man. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.800 I did not get right until I woke up this morning. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.000 I was like, wow, this is awesome. Yeah. Likewise, man, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.639 it was a rough day yesterday, trying to get through it. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.480 But again, lots of fun on Monday night for the 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.480 holiday party. But now we are well rested and we 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.639 are good to go. Here on a hump. Take one 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.280 thing I was able to do last night, Frank, was late? 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.079 Was I I watched check out raw mat e y 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.720 Like that wasn't some two minutes like you were legit 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.520 on the show on Monday night. Yeah, yeah, I kind 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.800 of made a little bit of an appearance there, me 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.680 and Andrade going one on one in my hometown. Uh, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.560 that changed during the day. So it was it was fun. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.000 It was fun to be in there. It's a it's 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.560 always cool when I get a chance to perform, and 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.080 especially in my hometown. So it was, it was, it was. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.160 It was a good experience. That was awesome. It was 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.880 it was fun to watch and I was like, I 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.600 was really into it. It was cool. So that was 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.079 really awesome to see. And of course be able to 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.960 talk to you again here with a clearheaded mind is 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.600 also fantastic to see. Let me get into some news 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.000 and notes. We're gonna the whole hodgepodge of stuff today. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.880 We have some strategy conversations. We're gonna get to some 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:44.320 strategy conversations, but we're like overall league rule type of things. Yes, yes, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.920 we're gonna get to that. Um, we're got the news 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.040 and notes. Like I said, we'll hit on what's going 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.160 on in Carolina. I want to start with my hometown team, Frankie. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.520 That's the New York Giants, where what back, what's old 0:03:55.920 --> 0:04:01.640 is new? Again Danny Dimes hurts the ankle, which means 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:08.040 the final times in New York Giant, Eli Manning is back. Baby, 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.120 Let's go. Let's go Eli Manning. Yeah, just in time 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.920 for a divisional matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles. An Eagle 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.640 secondary that got destroyed last week against Ryan Fitzpatrick as well, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.240 but over the past couple of weeks before that, they 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.920 were actually playing really well. It'll be interesting to see, 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.360 you know, how this affects everything from a betting perspective. 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:28.880 I'm sure the line is going to change. The Eagles 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.239 were already eight and a half point favorites in that game. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.599 I looked into the target shares from earlier on in 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.279 the season Greg where Eli Manning did start for the 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.520 first two games for the Giants, and that was without 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.800 Golden Tate. We saw Evan Ingram in those two games, 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.320 Greg with a twenty four percent target share, Benny Fowler 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.200 with a sixteen percent target share, Say Kwan Barkley third 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.640 on the team with a fourteen percent target share. Stilling 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.039 Shepherd only played in Week one. If I had to say, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.880 you know, how does this affect their offense? I would 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.359 imagine more checkdowns, more dump offs, for Sae Kwon Barkley. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.920 So someone tweeting earlier today we're back to fourteen receptions 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.680 for fifty yards for se Kwan, which if you're playing 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.359 the PPR League, I'm sure that that is welcomed. But 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.880 we also got a report earlier today that Evan Ingram 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.640 should be good to go, and I think based on 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.520 the targets here he had in those first two games 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.960 with Eli Manning, Evan Ingram will make for another really 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.360 good play in week fourteen. Alrighty, Evan Ingram, if he's back, well, 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:25.960 we're putting your a lot of gold and should be 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.080 back for the Giants. We'll see how Eli Manning manages 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.479 to utilize these weapons. And e y you pulped for 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:37.479 the Eli Manning swan song, I think pomp would probably 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.040 not be the right word for it. Um. For me, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.960 what just comes down to for the Giants is se 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.680 Kwan Barkley has been a massive disappointment. This is his 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.960 second year UM lit the league on fire last year, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.600 was pretty much the consensus number one pick this year. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.839 Uh And I was reading a thing yesterday that David 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.520 Johnson actually has more top ten finishes this year than 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.039 say Kwan Barkley. David Johnson has barely played uh and 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.400 Sagan Barkley. Yeah, I know he was hurt there for 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.240 a bit um, but he came back and was supposed 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:10.919 to be back up to speed and he just hasn't 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.200 been the running back that everyone thought he was getting. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:15.960 And I don't think Eli Manning is going to help. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.880 So there you have it. He's definitely not going to 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.880 help him from a rushing perspective, that's exactly right, e y. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.320 And look just in terms of getting them down the 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.719 field to present scoring opportunities for se Kuan, probably not 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.240 going to help him there either. But we have seen 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.919 that whenever Eli is still back their quarterbacking for the 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.360 New York Giants, Greg all he does is checkdown, checkdown, 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.480 check down, Same thing with Joe Flacco when he was 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.640 starting for the Broncos. So I think this helps the 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.880 target share for se Kwan Barkley, It'll help the receptions, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.159 but ultimately does not help his rushing efficiency, does not 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.120 help his ability to score touch since all right, yeah, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.320 probably not. We saw the Giants with Eli Manning or 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.560 speaking of touchdown, Sakwe has not scored since Week eight, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.960 and it is bad. It's not good Marklyn What does 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.440 he goes? He? Where does he go next year? In drafts? 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.360 I saw someone tweeting this out yesterday. Actual might have 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.800 been Davis Maddick shout out to Davi's Maddock Awesome podcast. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.960 So listen. If you're not listening to Sports Screen Podcast Network, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.960 you make a mistake. Obviously we're on it, clearly because 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.600 you can hear this show. And maybe that is where 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.840 you listen to the show. The els in the take casts, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.800 and I know a lot of people doing where you 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.960 listen to take as anything else. The Dominator, the Intern, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.320 Patrick Laird, Baby, Patrick Laird was on the Take cast 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.320 with Davis Maddick. Really good conversation between Davis, Patrick Laird, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.520 and Pete Overzette of Rhodo Grinders, And they've basically created 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.480 a cult DFS following for Patrick Laird, so that's how 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.840 they were able to get him on the podcast. Again, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:41.320 Laird only has like eighteen Twitter followers now with the 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.080 three thousand, I'm sure Davis has a little bit of 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.200 something to do with that. But yeah, they talk about 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.160 how he got the nicknamed the Intern, so that was 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.240 a lot of fun. They just talk about their love 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.200 for Patrick Laird in general. Uh. They created a rodal 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.240 Ware rotal Ware shirt out of Patrick Lair now as well. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.000 So it's fun times in the fantasy industry. That's awesome. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.960 It's talking for about Patrick Laird. A whole lot to 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.960 do today on the program Dalvin Cook Update as well 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:07.800 to stick around, a whole lot more to come. It's 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.320 your BFFs, e Y, Frank and Greg here on Sports Grade. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.000 Are you ready for the nation's first and only free, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.080 twenty four hour network dedicated to you, the betting and 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.240 fantasy sports enthusiast. Sports Grade will provide you with a 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.920 real time content, statistics and gaming intelligence unlike anything you've 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.880 ever seen before. Located both in the heart of New 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.559 York City and inside the FanDuel Sports book at the 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.600 meadow Lands, sports Crade is live eighteen hours a day 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.960 here to serve you the fanatic. This is Sports Grade. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:54.760 Get all the grid. I'm just watching this this peloton 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.640 ad from Thanking Stating weekend. I remember watching seeing on 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.319 TV maybe during um to the Games. This is kind 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.120 of weird and everything. There's a new sexist uproar about this. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.040 Either of you guys see this? I did not? What 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.600 about you? Uh? No, uh, there's an uproar. I feel 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.480 like every five minute of course. Yeah. So basically this 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.280 is this woman like with doing all those selfy videos 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.800 like wow, alright, I'm a little nervous my first peloton class. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.480 So we're doing it five days later. Oh my god, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.040 I love it. This is great. And the end of 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.040 the commercial is she's watching the um is since watching 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.480 the commercial on TV and she goes over to her 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.400 boyfriend or husband. I really needed this thank you, And 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.960 it was just like, it's sexist because the man made 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:40.880 like the man got her, this president of a peloton 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.679 like made her to do this. And I was like, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.719 people are people are really showing you, Like, all right, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.559 this guy got his wife a gift, Like that's awesome story. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.320 It's got him mighty here. What a world. I hope 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.600 we're not considered sexist for for for bringing for bringing 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.480 this up and and choosing to feel the way that 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.720 we do it. We're not sexist. I just I would 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.240 say that we are very far from sexist. I like 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:14.480 to think so, yeah, bike, but isn't that the way 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.240 that everything is going nowadays? Guys like just in general 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.559 look like there are things that are wrong, for sure, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.840 like there are things that can an uproar that deserve too, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.160 but it seems like everybody's just trying to find something 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.160 to be angry about or to cause an uproar about, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.360 or two, I don't know, just lash out against it. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.280 It just seems like people are really really reaching at 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.280 this point. It's that's why you know, Look, play fantasy, 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.120 have fun. I don't think we have much controversy here 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.880 do we? Greg well play controversy. You can tell people, 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.400 say Ryan Dannel, you know, I'll tell you again to 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.080 start him this week? The top ten quarterbacks Matt Ryan, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:55.640 that would be Frank Let's go, Let's go Titans. You 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.360 mentioned during the break like do I know where saying 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.480 on Barkley's been the last since he's been back. He 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.320 returned in weeks seven. So from weeks seven through thirteen, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.880 where do you think Sae Kwon Barkley ranks at the 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.160 running back position in Fantasy points per game in a 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.760 PPR format, knowing that he had as you reveal tofore break, 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.199 he has not scored since week eight, is not scored 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.280 since week eight and E Y will give you a 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.480 shot to uh guess this as well, or RB fifteen 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.040 and fantasy points for game e y, what would you say? 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:34.760 I'm gonna go, um eight, RB eleven. It wasn't far off, 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.600 but doesn't feel like he's been worse. Well, that's the thing. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.960 He's still in RB one since he has returned in 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.800 PPR League. He's catching passes, he's not scoring, he's not 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.319 doing Sa Kwon things, I guess is the way to 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.839 put it. But he's still in RB one. Well that's 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.480 the thing, right, So we're gonna like Sklon Barkley, you're 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.559 underwhelmed by what he's giving her one for sure. The 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.320 same thing about Avin Kamara. Well, sure, another really good? 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.600 Where's he ranking that start? The same time periods here? 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.280 He's hurt during that time too, remember no, but that's 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.240 why fantasy points per game. Okay, so you look that up. 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.400 But the other name that he's RB six. But the 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.240 other name that it really came to mind was Odell Beckham, right, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.560 because like ode beck has been underwhelming. People don't want 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.400 it anymore. We talked at Benji ode Beckham name on 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:17.839 him off the back of the jersey, the whole deal. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:19.640 But if you look, he's on page for you stiff 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.600 on paste for the eighty catches over a thousand yards, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.559 a bunch of touchdowns. But it's not like the Odell 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.200 Beckham that you expect when you drafted at the end 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:27.760 of the first round. So if you want to get 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.559 fanasy points per game in the same time, aread for Odell? 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.400 What do you got? I've already I already exit Outreig 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.120 You kidding me? Were you looking at while I was 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:41.240 doing from weeks seven through thirteen fantasy points per game? 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.240 Odell Becka, He's gonna be far down the list here. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.280 You can't like control f Odell? Yeah, but yeah, this 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.760 website's weird. Man, He's RB. He's wide receiver thirty seven 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.760 in fantasy points accumulative fantasy points during that time. What's 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.280 not the question? Though? Well, once you sort it by 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.920 fantasy points per game, it doesn't use the right numbers anymore. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.720 It's tough. But I mean still, from weeks seven through thirteen, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.920 Odell Beckham is wide receiver thirty seven in PPR leagues accumulatively, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.360 are not? I mean seven? What are we doing? Absolutely? Okay? 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:23.359 Um Ode Beckham saging Barkley notwithstanding, like those are superstars? 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.080 Who Joe is a superstar? He were trying to practice 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.319 limited fashion. I expect he will play on Sunday. But 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.520 before we move on some of the other news and notes, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.839 I wanted to make sure we hit on something that 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.600 you're very passionate Franky. Last night, the waiver wire ran 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.439 for many of us, including the Pit League, where we 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.160 are trying to advance to the next round to play 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.559 Y for the third time. As you can't lose someone 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.040 three times in a row. You'd think, we hope, we hope, 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.160 we hope, But it atally this wasn't an issue. In 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.400 some leagues. You got people of consolation black consolation bracket 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.599 going out of the waiver wire and taking guys like 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:05.040 oh Man Patrick Laird from us. You have an issue, alright. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.200 So I'm gonna give you a nuanced answer here, Greg, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.640 because you know what else would you expect. I think 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.520 if you play in a league where the consolation bracket 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.240 counts for absolutely nothing, then people should not be able 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.840 to make waiver wire pickups. It just shouldn't be able to. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.280 But if you play in a league where I don't know, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.360 there's some kind of money that goes into the pot 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.800 for a consolation bracket or the constellation bracket, means something 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.040 for the next year. So I think in the flex league, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.840 if you win the consolation bracket, you get to choose 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.760 your draft pick for the next season. And that's how 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.960 we play in my home keeper league, where in order 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.720 to kind of mitigate people fire sailing their whole team 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.440 away at the trade deadline, to offer some kind of 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.560 incentive for continuing to play out the rest of the 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.600 season because it is a keeper league, if you win 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.160 the consolation bracket, you get to choose your draft spot 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.480 the next season. So we are playing for something. And 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.480 in leagues where the constellation bracket counts for or something, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.960 I have proposed to you Greg that okay, the normal 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.880 waiver run, whether you do it on Tuesday or Wednesday, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.600 the first waiver run in your league, the people who 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:15.400 are playing in the playoff bracket have the first go 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.640 at that waiver run. So if you play, if you're 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.680 in the constellation bracket, whether you're playing for something or not, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:24.800 you cannot make a waiver wire pickup in the first run. Now, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.120 when you have the second run normally, whether it's Saturday, Sunday, Friday, 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.760 however you want to do it, that's where everybody can 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.920 be involved. But I think that for the people that 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.520 are still playing in the playoffs that actually matter, that 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.680 are competing for the championship, they should get there shake 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.240 at the waiver wire first and foremost, without anybody in 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.160 the constellation bracket affecting that. And that's how I feel 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.080 about it. Now, if your league just has a constellation 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.080 bracket that you're just playing out for fun and it 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.680 doesn't have any involvement, but no, you shouldn't be able 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.080 to make any waiver wire pickups. That's dumb, like you're 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.760 already out of it. It doesn't mean anything. What if 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.760 you played for money or if there's something at stake 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.600 in your consolation bracket, you should have an opportunity to 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.880 make waiver wire pickups later on in the week, not 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.360 during the first waiver wire run. And that's how I 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.320 feel about that. When it comes to like obviously, when 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.360 there's a thing on the line there, their line up 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.320 should be locked, right, there's no reason, no trades, no 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.560 waiver WI pickups. No you can't drop your players, and 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.360 you know, funago the league. But here's my issue. Constellation bracket. 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.040 Should it never mean something because though they are losers, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.000 do not get do not get rewarded for being a loser. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.480 So you have two waiver wire runs, or you want 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.320 to have two waiver wire runs in your lead one 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.640 for the uh the playoff bracket, for the Constellation bracket. Well, no, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:41.840 I wouldn't be changing things because that's how my league 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.560 is now. We have two waiver runs throughout the week, Tuesday, Wednesday, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.000 and then overnight from Saturday into Sunday. Sunday is then 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.320 open waivers all morning. Got it? So? All right, So 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.840 Tuesdays for the playoff teams. Yeah, Wednesday is for the 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.120 non playoff teams. No, the Tuesday Wednesday, the first waiver run, 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.680 whether you do it on Tuesday or Wednesday, is for 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.960 just the people that are playing in the playoff, competing 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:03.920 for the championship. Got it? So? Then the Saturday one 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:09.040 is for everybody. Okay, here's my issue. What if, as 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.320 we've seen plenty of times before, the guy gets hurt 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.920 in practice tomorrow. Right now, you don't necessarily get this 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.720 guy on Saturday daring every one someone who it doesn't 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.240 matter for. I don't give a crap, but your draft 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:22.440 stock next year, I'm not. You're trying to win a 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.280 championship this year. You're the playoffs somebody may get that 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.520 player that benefits from that because of the day of 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.159 the week. That's ridiculous. Okay, but there are a lot 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.280 of things that happen in fantasy that are not necessarily 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:39.200 fair greg that are out of our control. This is 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.920 it you, I would say, if your Constellation bracket means something, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.680 I mean, there are a lot of people that will 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.920 pick up players in their Constellation bracket just to screw 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.720 over other teams, and that's ridiculous. It should Your Constelation 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:54.400 bracket shouldn't mean something. These six teams lost in Keeper 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.320 League League, why are they? Okay, we're trying to find 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.879 a way to keep people active throughout the course of 0:17:59.920 --> 0:18:03.880 the entire seat. It's screwing you over. It has potential, 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.680 it's not necessarily going to screw people. The other answer 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.080 is just locking the waiver wire for the entire playoffs. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.000 Look at that a second. Why what do you think 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.520 of this? If you're a Constellation bracket, should you continue 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.159 to play? Yeah? I'm kind of one with frank Is 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.480 in like, look, if you're a GM and the Constellation 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.480 bracket is for nothing, that there shouldn't be a Constellation bracket, 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.320 and those those teams should be locked from getting players. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.159 I made a mistake of of picking guy up. Uh. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.680 I thought that I had made the playoffs and was confused. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.200 And I have been so many leagues. Uh, this is 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.320 not the face of an organized person. Uh. So I 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.359 accidentally picked a guy up. I dropped him today and 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.040 then they'll run another waiver thing tomorrow to see who 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.240 gets that player. Uh. For me, like I mean up 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.440 until the point where the playoffs are on the line, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.080 be competitive play all the way through. At this point, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.200 if you're out of the playoffs and the Constellation bracket 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.720 means nothing to you, it's just to play, then you 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.840 shouldn't be picking up players where we come back to 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:03.960 one that means we win GREG and you lose. 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Should 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.920 there be weavers at all in the NFC the expensive 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:57.400 leagues that professionals play, our GST league waivers are non existent. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.560 After Week thirteen, your team is is what it is. 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:07.080 So all these handcuffs, a backup kicker just in case, 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.040 no streaming defenses, backup quarterback, just in case you gotta 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.000 do that all before the season the regular season ends. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.520 Do you like that model? Frank, I don't mind it. 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:20.320 I don't know that I would say I like it 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.359 because it does limit the player pool for you. And 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.600 there are going to be players that emerge in weeks fourteen, fifteen, 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.200 and sixteen, like somebody's gonna get hurt knock on wood, 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.960 hopefully you know, no big names. But again, you know, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.240 we referenced a lot c J. Anderson end up winning 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.879 people fantasy championships last year, Greg, So they're gonna be 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.680 players that emerged throughout the fantasy playoffs that need to 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:41.880 be added. And you know, for the teams that still 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.280 have fab remaining, they should be able to access those players. 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.919 So I don't mind it. Is it my preferred way 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.280 to play. Probably not, but I do play in leads 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.440