0:00This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Grainger.com or stop by.
0:04Grainger, for the ones who get it done. Overarching, high-level, just general trade strategy advice.
0:08How you're approaching the trade market in Week 4.
0:11If you're 0-3 right now, hope is not a strategy, right?
0:14It's time to make a move. So although you may like the depth on your roster, maybe you've been eviscerated by injuries,
0:21either way, it doesn't matter how you got to 0-3, it's a matter of digging out of your 0-3.
0:26And I think that making trades right now is integral because you got nothing to lose, right?
0:31At this point, I am willing to be a little bit more aggressive in terms of going after some players that you
0:38could see are maybe more boom or bust. A lot of that ties back to guys that are coming off of injuries, right?
0:44Where, how does the Puka Nakua manager feel about Puka right now?
0:48Done absolutely nothing. Maybe you're only three and you have Puka.
0:51Now, we obviously know that some players are attached to teams that have losing records versus players that have winning records.
0:57But I think right now, if you are sitting at 0-3, it's just, you got to be active on the trade streets
1:04this week, specifically going after big upside type of players or also looking just to find ways to stack wins.
1:09So if that's taking one of your stud players and breaking them down into multiple starting assets, you got to find ways
1:16to push the needle in your favor to try to stack up some wins.
1:20Because we all know at the end of the day with fantasy, it's, you just got to make the playoffs, right?
1:26You find a way to get into the postseason and then anybody can make some noise.
1:31So that's what I would echo this week for those looking to make trades.
1:35If you're 0-3, you can't just sit on the sidelines and watch other people make trades.
1:39You got to make some moves. Last year was a really great year for like the five or six seed in your playoffs, making the championship and winning.
1:48A lot of teams, like the ones and two seeds last year, it was, we have the data from the Sinked Leagues at fantasypros.com.
1:54And it was like remarkable how few of the best teams across the regular season won.
1:59And I say that to say, you just got to make the dance, right?
2:03So like do whatever you can to get into the playoffs.
2:06And, you know, you can't take the long-term view.
2:09You can't be looking at, oh, what's this guy's schedule look like in December?
2:13Because then I can kind of build for the future.
2:16Like if you're one and two or especially 0-3, you can't go to 0-4.
2:20And you can't go to one and three. It's really got to be the goal.
2:25So yeah, like you have to take the win now approach and then figure out the league will change.
2:30Defenses and matchups will change. Like the players will change between now and December.
2:34You got to take the short-term view. So I'm with you on this one.
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3:17All right, Eric, let's start with the wide receivers.
3:20Who is your receiver to buy? Ted Roa McMillan, wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers.
3:24Now, Worm, you did mention on our other running backs show that Bryce Young is going through some imaging on his ankle.
3:30So that's something that you just wanted to be, you know, aware of before you send out any godfather deals for T-Mac
3:37because quarterback is a little bit banged up. But that being said, what does the process usually say when it comes to buying receivers?
3:44Once the quarterback goes down, you go scoop him up.
3:47So not to say Bryce Young is going to miss any time, but I think that just what T-Mac has done throughout
3:53the first three weeks of the season, I think that he's being undervalued versus the market.
3:58So he is top of the NFL in terms of total end zone targets without a touchdown yet this season.
4:04So every other player that has as many end zone targets as T-Mac does so far this year has at least three touchdowns.
4:10So I think that he's a strong positive touchdown regression candidate.
4:13You factor in the fact that Jalen Coker is probably going to miss one or two weeks with his quad injury that he's dealing with.
4:21And T-Mac is facing the Lions this week. This is the most smashed spot for a player like him who's clear cut
4:27alpha number one wide receiver on his team, especially if Coker is going to miss some time.
4:32Even when Coker is available in the offense, they had both basically been splitting as the number one receiver in terms of
4:39just raw target volume coming their way. So he's coming off his worst game of the year against the Cleveland Browns, which
4:45was a tougher matchup just based on how they defend perimeter cornerbacks.
4:48Two catches for 17 yards on five targets. But like I said, a lot of two more end zone targets did not score.
4:55Leads all wide receivers and end zone targets without a touchdown yet this season.
4:59So I think that he's just a screaming positive regression candidate across multiple facets and you get the Lions this week.
5:05So that's why he's going to be my buy low.
5:08One thing I would say, he does it the Lions this week.
5:12There is a buy in week five for the Panthers.
5:15So if you are one of these teams who's like 0-3 and like really needs to do well soon, like it's really helpful for week four.
5:22He won't be on your team for week five.
5:25I'm not even saying that that means you shouldn't trade for him.
5:28I just wanted to throw it out so people were aware if they are kind of in an early season hole.
5:34I mean, everybody will have a buy eventually. But from some perspective, it's nice to get out of the way early.
5:41But like I said, I just want to kind of throw that out there.
5:45I was really expecting a big year of touchdowns from McMillan.
5:48You know, he had seven last season, but it felt like – I mean, it took a while for him to get
5:54into the end zone in 2025 as a rookie.
5:57I was like, okay, he kind of figured it out in the second half, like scoring more touchdowns.
6:02And I was really expecting like double digits this year.
6:05And like that to be a big part of how he was used was like in the end zone.
6:11It just hasn't quite landed yet. It's because this guy named frigging Darren Waller.
6:15He gets all the touchdowns. Does it – like I know it was a tougher matchup.
6:19Does it make you nervous at all that like even with Coker going down, he only had two catches for 17 yards?
6:26Like he had been – it had been such a clear 1A and 1B situation.
6:30The 1B was gone. And yet the 1A had his worst game of the season.
6:34Does that make you nervous at all? No, not really.
6:37I think this is a blip on the radar.
6:40He's still running all the routes. They're still talking about how the entire passing game goes through Tedderoa McMillan.
6:46And we knew going in that the matchup against Cleveland on the road, which was the toughest spot that the Panthers had
6:52faced up to this point, was going to be tougher on the perimeter wide receivers.
6:56They are much weaker against the slot, which is why Jalen Coker, if he had not gotten injured, would have probably been
7:03more productive in that matchup last week. And also, too, we talked about it.
7:07Bryce Young dealing with an injury, right? How did that influence how he was able to push the ball down the field
7:13to the perimeter, to the outside the numbers, where T-Mac runs a lot of his routes?
7:18So if Coker's also not playing, I would expect you could see a scenario where T-Mac is going more inside in the slot.
7:25So I just think that he's such a really good player.
7:28Second-year guy, reigning offensive rookie of the year. And I just think that this spot here in Week 4 is going to
7:34be a potential blow-up spot for him. On Sunday night football, the whole world is watching.
7:39Carolina doesn't play a lot of primetime games. I think this is a spot where it's a reminder of, yeah, who's the
7:45guy that won offensive rookie of the year last season?
7:48Ted Aroa. I cannot remember the last time Carolina hosted a Sunday night football game.
7:53It's going to feel weird watching it, honestly. Yeah, you're going to be like, how is this game?
7:58It's like, when I first looked at the matchup, I automatically assumed it was in Detroit, right?
8:03Because, again, four field, of course for the NFL, shootout.
8:06But no, on the road, Bank of America Stadium.
8:08So, yeah, it should be fun. Yeah. Wide receiver 20, by the way, in rest of the season rankings.
8:14Is that too high, too low, or just right?
8:16I think that feels a little low for me.
8:19I would be curious to see. Coker's probably right in a similar range, too.
8:23I know it's a little bit more fluid because he's dealing with his injury right now.
8:28So he actually might have fallen a little bit.
8:30But I have him at wide receiver 17. So I'm curious, where is him versus Malik Nabors?
8:35Nabors is wide receiver 15. Okay. He is five spots higher than Teddero McMillan.
8:39Yeah. Okay. By the way, Jalen Coker is wide receiver 31 the rest of the season.
8:44Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Injury related, possibly. But yeah. Yeah.
8:47Teddero McMillan, wide receiver 20. So if you have him in the teens, that's a guy that's undervalued, in your opinion.
8:53My wide receiver to buy is valued a lot more highly than this.
8:57But I still think it's worth going out and getting Parker Washington.
9:00And I don't know if this is technically a buy high.
9:03It is relative to where he was going in draft season.
9:07I don't think it's a buy high relative to what his value will be across the course of the rest of the season.
9:13And, you know, you look at his game log.
9:16Five for 83 and a touchdown. Seven for 98.
9:18Three for 40 and a touchdown. So he's coming off his worst game.
9:22He did have a touchdown, though. Wide receiver 28 this last week.
9:26He had been inside the top 16 the first two weeks.
9:29He has not topped 17 half PPR points in a game yet this season.
9:33And the usage is just phenomenal. I mean, really, it could even be better.
9:37But, like, it's been enough that we're excited about it.
9:40It's what we kind of wanted to see him as the number one in this offense over the summer.
9:46He's had a couple of touchdowns. He had another awesome touchdown catch that got called back on penalty in the game against New England.
9:53He did still catch a touchdown on that drive.
9:55So, like, it's not like he missed out on his whole other drive worth of touchdown.
10:00But just to say, like, he's making multiple great catches in the end zone for Trevor Lawrence.
10:05It's only going to have him throw to him more often.
10:08And really the reason I bring this up is I think that the industry we're in, Erickson, there was so much talk about Parker Washington this summer.
10:16We couldn't do a show without Washington getting mentioned, right?
10:19I went to the live Scott Fishbowl draft. A bunch of people in the industry there.
10:23You couldn't walk around without hearing people talk about Parker Washington.
10:27He was just, like, such a big name this summer for fantasy analysts that I really want to try to step back
10:33and remind myself that the vast majority of people are not in these conversations every day and might not have had this
10:39high level of hype for Parker Washington. They might not be on fantasy Twitter 24-7 and on Sunday seeing everybody taking their
10:46victory laps and celebrating that Parker Washington looks good.
10:49They might not know that you, the last time we talked, I don't know where he is now, but the last time
10:55we talked, you had him as wide receiver 8 in your rest of season rankings.
10:59They might just be looking at, hey, he's been pretty good.
11:02He's been like a wide receiver 2 and, you know, kind of a nice find if you got him in rounds 5 or 6.
11:09But that's just kind of okay. We have a much higher level of expectation and hype for Parker Washington going forward that
11:16I don't know if every single, you know, kind of more casual league has.
11:20So I really wanted to highlight him to say, like, he has been good.
11:24This isn't a buy low, but we think the ceiling is even better than this.
11:28When I put together the sheet, he was wide receiver 12.
11:32He's actually already bumped up to wide receiver 11 in the consensus rest of season rankings.
11:36But like I said, you had him inside the top 10 last time we talked about it.
11:41I think him versus a guy like Devontae Smith is a really interesting conversation.
11:45I think him versus a guy like Puka is an interesting conversation.
11:49If you just want to say, I don't want to deal with the injury stuff and everything going on with Puka, you could make that trade.
11:56I think Parker Washington is worth spending up for because as good as he has been this season, Erickson, I think we
12:03have still only been seeing the floor, not the ceiling.
12:06And that should be really exciting to people because if this is the floor, what could the ceiling actually be for this rising star?
12:13Just scratching the surface, I think, is a really great way to summarize the Parker Washington 2026 because in the end of
12:192025, he was on an absolute heater. And there's nothing about what we've seen for the first three weeks of the season
12:26that suggests that that production is not going to eventually come to fruition here for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
12:31And this offense, we want parts of this offense.
12:33This offense is a wagon with Liam Cohen. So I think that this is a really sharp buy high type of scenario.
12:40It's very interesting because of where he gets baked into with the other receivers.
12:44I don't think that the receiver for receiver way for Washington, besides like you mentioned with the Puka Nakua thing, just depending
12:50on how a certain manager feels about Puka when he's going to come back, how productive is he going to be?
12:56It's about risk tolerance for that. It's about risk tolerance, of course.
13:00Person, do you want to wait or do you want to take the production now?
13:04Because we know Parker Washington, he still produces at a very high level, even if there's a little bit more meat on
13:11the bone with what he can do. So I still have my wide receiver eight.
13:15I could definitely shift him around because he's around guys like London, Collins, Pickens, Zay Flowers.
13:20So some guys that I was kind of waiting to see, okay, well, they're coming back from injuries.
13:25How are they going to do when they come back from their injury?
13:29I think that's the right conversation, but I think that the angle for Washington is trading a running back to get Parker Washington.
13:35Teams need running backs because of more injuries to the position.
13:39Find the HN manager, find the Brees Hall manager.
13:41Maybe if they have Parker Washington too, something along those lines, I think is the best way to approach it because it's
13:48a lot easier for people to kind of gauge wide receiver versus wide receiver.
13:52And a lot of the times, if you're just moving between tiers of players without like the risk associated with a player
13:58like a Puka, I don't really recommend doing those types of trades because it's a lateral trade, right?
14:03It's like trade Drake London for Parker Washington. Great.
14:06It's a challenge trade. Yeah. Like we both got wide receiver ones.
14:10Like, okay, like you may like one guy more than the other, but if they're ranked back to back in rest of
14:16season rankings or wherever they're ranked, I don't really feel like your team is getting that much better.
14:21It's just, well, I think this guy's going to be better rest of season or et cetera.
14:26Whereas running back wide receiver trades, okay, you can actually make your team better for where you actually need the most help
14:33at wide receiver by going out and getting a guy like Parker Washington if you were running back situation is a little bit better.
14:40So he's a good name that we brought up.
14:42Yeah. It's one of those where like when you do this show or if you've been listening to this show like every
14:49day and you're one of those types of listeners who are with us all the time, we really appreciate you.
14:54You might roll your eyes at this and be like, okay, yeah, duh, everybody knows about Parker Washington.
15:00I don't think that's the case for everybody though.
15:02So I really wanted to make sure I mentioned him in that framing.
15:06Like George Pickens was ahead of him when I put together this sheet and I was going to be like, I would
15:12trade Pickens for Parker Washington pretty happily. He's now one spot lower.
15:16So that is one where I would actually be interested in like a challenge trade in terms of the rankings.
15:22But I think it's a fair point that like so many people need running backs.
15:26And if you took Parker Washington, he's probably like your wide receiver two or maybe even three.
15:31And therefore you could say like, oh, well, like I'm in such a dire straight shit running back that I can now kind of make that trade.
15:39So he's also just an awesome player. Like I just, I just want to have as much Parker Washington as I can.
15:45Is Parker Washington behind Zay Flowers and Drake London now?
15:48He's behind both. Zay Flowers is wide receiver eight.
15:51Drake London is wide receiver 10. And then Washington is wide receiver 11.
15:55Yeah. So I've just updated my, so I'm moving Parker Washington behind those two guys as well.
16:00I mentioned that I was still kind of figuring out how those guys were going to come back from their injuries.
16:06And they both look really, really good or not Drake London's injury, but Michael Penick's playing his first game, obviously.
16:12Super smash. I think you could make a really interesting case of Justin Jefferson versus Parker Washington.
16:17Like Jefferson is ranked higher and I think probably correctly so.
16:20I have a degree of certainty with Parker Washington that I don't feel like I really have with Justin Jefferson.
16:26Ankle injury, Kyler of it all. Like, you know, we will see what that actually ends up looking like long term.
16:32But I think there is a very realistic possibility that Parker Washington outscores Justin Jefferson the rest of the season.
16:38We haven't really seen it with Kyler yet, right?
16:40Exactly. It's really weird that we've already played three games.
16:43Imagine saying this, right, where the Vikings are 3-0 and we still have no idea how Kyler and Jefferson gel together.
16:49Like, we literally have no idea how these guys play together.
16:52And we still might not know if Jefferson doesn't play against Miami, which this would be the spot, right?
16:58Where he should just absolutely smash. But assuming his ankle is okay, that should be the expectation.
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17:54Thanks to Geico and our listeners. Erickson, give me a wide receiver to sell.
17:58So the theme with our running back trio to sell was selling the Buccaneers, right?
18:02You listed Bucky Irving as one of those options.
18:05And I said sell because I want to sell this Buccaneers offense.
18:08And that includes Emeka Egbuka. So this one I really toyed with for a long time.
18:13My wide receiver to sell. And I didn't want to just cop out and say, guys, just sell DK Metcalf.
18:19Like, we know exactly what we're doing here. I didn't want to do that.
18:23I know he's coming off a game where he caught a touchdown.
18:26But with Egbuka, through three games, he has been outside the top 30 wide receivers in fantasy scoring.
18:31So that was with Baker Mayfield in this offense that has just been really underwhelming under new offensive coordinator Zach Robinson.
18:38They are seventh worst passing yards per game, fifth words yards per play, sixth worst in total yards per game, and dead last in EPA per play.
18:45This is what the 2026 Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense has been with its starting quarterback.
18:50Now you're throwing in an undrafted rookie free agent, Jalen Daniels, to be the starter for the next month or so for the season.
18:57I don't know if we even see Todd Bowles as the head coach by the time Baker Mayfield comes back to this team.
19:03We don't know if Zach Robinson's going to keep his job as the offensive coordinator.
19:08So I know that we were saying it tongue in cheek about how this boat is taking on water.
19:13The ship has sailed on the Buccaneers. All the puns you can think about.
19:17It's all true, though. Like, this offense is a disaster.
19:20So I don't want any part of it, and I'm willing to sell a player like Ibuka, who has just been meh
19:27to start the season, has not really commanded this elite level amount of targets in the offense like we thought we would from a ascending second year player.
19:35And really, it's been more of what we saw in the second half of last year with Ibuka and nothing like his
19:41hot start to his rookie year where he was a borderline fantasy wide receiver one.
19:46That guy has not returned or shown up in 2026.
19:49There are still other pass catchers in this offense that command targets.
19:52Ted Hurst is making plays. Chris Godwin is still out there.
19:55So for me, Ibuka, I just he's a wide receiver three.
19:59Like, that's where I think he should be appropriately valued.
20:01And there's a scenario where it gets even worse because of how this offense might shake out without Baker Mayfield, who was already playing really, really bad.
20:09So I know that my process is always about buying the elite talents when their quarterbacks go down.
20:15And I still think that is the right way to approach these situations most of the time.
20:20However, where is the elite Ibuka? That is my main concern.
20:23I don't know if he is elite because we've seen it now for this year, second half of last season.
20:29We haven't seen that elite guy. And that's what concerns me, that he is not good enough to overcome the situation that
20:35is just getting worse and worse as the weeks go on in Tampa Bay.
20:39If this is a fire sale scenario where the fire of the coach, the fire of the OC, are the Bucs going
20:45to be drafting quarterback next year because they have a top five draft pick?
20:50Because that's how the story looks like it's shaping up.
20:52So Ibuka, is this just so obvious that Ericson can't sell Ibuka for anything?
20:57Like, what are you doing? Or is there a name brand cachet with him where you can move him for something or package him?
21:04Well, what's interesting with Ibuka is it is a pretty encouraging schedule coming up.
21:08Green Bay and Dallas are the next two games.
21:10Those are two defense. And again, we talked about in the running back show, like Dallas' secondary is a non-starter right now.
21:17So maybe they get healthier by then. But right now that looks really appealing.
21:21Week six is Pittsburgh, possibly with still no Joey Porter Jr.
21:24You get to Carolina who's giving up a big game, usually on the ground, but they have had an up and down defense this year.
21:31Chicago and Detroit are coming up shortly after that.
21:34Like, the schedule is pretty encouraging. So maybe that, again, I talk about this a lot, maybe that's a selling point in
21:40trying to move him and say, Hey, like it's been tough, but look at the schedule coming up.
21:45Or maybe that's a reason to hold. I kind of lean more on the hold side than the sell.
21:51I wouldn't be buying. I am nervous enough. And again, you said like you usually like to go buy receivers after the quarterback goes down.
21:58I wouldn't do that here. So I'm with you in that regard.
22:02I do think it's hard for me to forget about the first impression, right, that we saw from him last year.
22:08And I also had high hopes for Zach Robinson.
22:11So it's also hard for me to get rid of those entirely after three weeks.
22:15And, you know, the Vikings are a defense that are going to make a lot of teams look pretty bad.
22:21And he still had nine targets, five catches, 62 yards.
22:24Like it wasn't this big breakout game, but, you know, he led the team in receiving yards and all that.
22:29So like, I don't know, like there's enough there that I can't quite bring myself to give up on it.
22:35But having said all that, that might be true of other managers in your league.
22:40They might be saying, oh, there's enough there. This is a guy who before the toe injury this summer, like I was
22:46going to take in like the third round of drafts.
22:49Like I was super excited about. And they have this really nice schedule coming up.
22:53So there might be somebody in your league who would pay more than I'm expecting you to get, in which case I am on board with it.
23:01So that was really, again, long-winded way of me saying like I'm holding based on how I am valuing Ibuka.
23:07But I think there's a chance that managers in your league are valuing him more than I'm valuing him.
23:13In which case, yes, I would be willing to sell in that scenario.
23:16And it's good to just communicate with your league and say, hey, guys, like I'm open to moving Ibuka.
23:22I'm also open to holding him. I still do like him.
23:25But I wanted to throw it out there in case anybody is really buying into, you know, a nice kind of recovery
23:31of this season with Jalen Daniels or with the schedule coming up.
23:35So I think it's worth communicating to your league that he's available, but that you're not desperate and just like trying to
23:41sell no matter what, if that distinction makes sense.
23:44Yeah. I mean, all of this requires that nuanced context because it's the price, right?
23:48What can you get for Ibuka? Where is he in the rest of season rankings?
23:53He is at, I had his player card up.
23:55Why does he were 24? So that's, that's pretty hot.
23:58It was high. It was 19 a week ago.
24:01It has dropped five spots in the last week.
24:04I mean, he has not finished as a top 24 receiver any week this season.
24:08Yeah. And that was with his starting quarterback. So is that more?
24:11Has he been inside the top 30? No, he's wide receiver 32 is his best finish.
24:16Yeah. So that's what I mean. Like, that's what really kind of stood out to me where it's like the week that
24:22he scored the touchdown, he didn't have the yardage or the catches to go along with it.
24:27So he hasn't really put together a complete week.
24:30We're seeing more of the bad version of Ibuka like we saw at the end of last year, his rookie season.
24:36And that's where I get concerned. And the fact that he's still being valued as a top 24 guy when he has
24:43not been that guy with his starting quarterback. Unless you want to spin it as Jalen Daniels and upgrade over Baker Mayfield.
24:49And I mean, the way Baker Mayfield has been playing, I don't necessarily disagree.
24:53That's tough. But yes, to your point, like I that's why I just think that this is going to get worse for Tampa Bay.
25:00Like when we're talking about next week, it's going to be a home man.
25:04They're facing the Dallas Cowboys. But oh, man, this offense was so bad in week four against Green Bay.
25:10Like that's the concern where then what are you doing with Ibuka?
25:13So you held him versus. That. Yeah, that's why I'm like, I think I just don't want box, man.
25:19Like, would you rather him or Lad McConkie? They're back to back.
25:22Oh, I would easy much. I'd have a lad easy.
25:25That's easy for me. Oh, really? OK, I'm surprised.
25:28You'd rather have Ibuka than Lad? No, no, no, no.
25:31I would rather have Lad. I just I thought it was close.
25:34I didn't think it was easy. Lad has been two bad weeks in a row.
25:39We just we talked about that defense that Herbert has coming up when we talk about the quarterbacks.
25:44Like Lad has his last two weeks were five fantasy points, 8.6 fantasy points.
25:48That's wide receiver 61 and wide receiver 43, respectively.
25:50And now he gets at Seattle, Denver, at Kansas City by at Rams.
25:54Houston at Baltimore. So like I agree. I would prefer Lad, but I think it's closer than than your reaction, at least.
26:01Lad did hurt his rib. So that's one thing that at least I would give him that excuse.
26:06And there was that first drive in the first Chargers game where Lad and Herbert looked unstoppable, which has never been a
26:12case for anything with the Bucket Nears offense this year.
26:15So so like that itself would be the reason why I would gravitate towards Lad as the option there, because he's like what about Ibuka or Rice?
26:23Rice, who was getting terrible usage early on. Debro was all over this.
26:27Got better usage in week three. Would you rather have Rice?
26:30Rice. Is that one also easy? Yeah, Rice definitely as well.
26:33Yeah, I agree on Rice. Okay. One more. Jameson Williams or Emeka Ibuka.
26:37He's two spots behind in consensus. Jamo has been not good to say the least.
26:41The first week. Would you say buns or cheeks?
26:44He doesn't deserve that. It's been so bad. The Sam Laporta splits have been bad for him in terms of how his
26:50targets, receptions yards have all dipped when Laporta has been healthy.
26:54And that has been the case. But going back to which offenses do you want to attach yourselves to?
26:59Do you want the Buccaneers offense that is declining out their quarterback?
27:03Or do you want Jared Goff who plays in a dome with a terrible defense that plays in shootouts?
27:08Jameson Williams could bust. But the games that he has monster performances, I'm willing to buy that.
27:13So I would actually also take Jamo here. I've got a wide receiver to sell for you.
27:18Jordan Addison. He's wide receiver 43 in the rest of season consensus rankings.
27:22Obviously coming off of a nice game. Five catches, 90 yards, and a touchdown.
27:26I just kind of feel like Addison is such an up and down.
27:30He's such an up and down receiver already who's now playing with an up and down quarterback.
27:35And I just kind of want to take the opportunity.
27:38Coming off a really good game. I think there might be managers out there who say, okay, like seeing him really with Kyler.
27:44Maybe there's a nice connection here. I just kind of want to take advantage of that and trade him.
27:50This might look really dumb because they play Miami this week.
27:53And maybe the correct answer is wait one more week.
27:56And then, oh, he's coming off of two really big games.
27:59And then you try to trade him. And I'm not opposed to that being the path that you choose to take.
28:05But for me, I just think it's such a roller coaster that I don't want to ride that coming off of a
28:12wide receiver 10 finish in a really nice game.
28:14I just want to kind of snap at the opportunity and see what I can sell him for.
28:20Because I don't think this is going to be a consistent thing with him given the offense he's in and the player he is.
28:27And I like the player just like, you know, this ankle injury doesn't seem that concerning for Justin Jefferson.
28:32So when he's back, what do the targets look like?
28:35All of that. And, you know, he is not ranked that highly, which I think is worth noting.
28:40Again, some of the names around him, Brian Thomas Jr., who has been buns slash cheeks.
28:45Romeo Dobbs has been terrible. Casey Concepcion, like he's not ranked amongst a bunch of receivers that are super appealing.
28:51So it might be that you actually can't get that much for him.
28:55But I think if you can find a manager in your league who's like, oh, look at the connection with Kyler.
29:01Jefferson's banged up. I want this guy on my team.
29:04I think you take advantage of it. I agree.
29:06These boomer bus wide receivers that you can flip after they pop off.
29:10It's the same reason why you buy Jameson Williams after he has turd games and then you sell him after he has a lot of performance.
29:18I had Jameson Williams in mind when I mentioned this in the sheet because I knew you would bring him up.
29:24Yeah. And I think, too, the fact that Jefferson is banged up a little bit, I think, and they're facing the Dolphins.
29:30Like, there's a chance that Addison still has another really productive game in week four.
29:34I bet he does. I bet he has a big game this week.
29:38Yeah. But that's also a reason why, OK, I don't need this type of production because nobody started him last week.
29:44Right. So this is something I always think about with trades.
29:48Right. Where someone blows up on your bench and you're super frustrated.
29:51Trade that guy. Because clearly you didn't have the confidence to start him anyway.
29:55Number one. And it's just going to it's going to be a player that brings you more pain than success or joy
30:02because you never know when to start them. Trade those guys like those guys have no reason to be on your roster
30:08because all they do is just make you tilt your face off.
30:11So Addison, definitely one of those players. Move them.
30:14Let's do some tight ends. You've got one to buy and one to sell.
30:18Can go through these a little quickly. Who do you have for us?
30:22So Travis Kelsey is going to be the guy for me to sell because I just don't think that his production is going to sustain here.
30:30So if you look at yards after the catch, Travis Kelsey leads the entire NFL and yards after the catch.
30:35And to me, that just seems very unsustainable for the soon to be 37 year old Chiefs tight end.
30:41And the big thing and you actually kind of alluded this to when talking about Rashi Rice, Rashi Rice had one of
30:47his biggest games of the year in week three, caught seven of a team high, nine targets for 88 yards.
30:53He did not score, but his target share tripled from week two up to nearly 35% while Travis Kelsey's target share fell
31:00by more than half, 23.4 to 11.5%. So Kelsey scored a touchdown.
31:03He got the first play of the game, a 48 yard catch and run.
31:07This is not going to sustain because we've seen in the past when Rashi Rice has been operating at a high level.
31:14He eats into Travis Kelsey's underneath targets. And that's not to say Rice is actually being used a little bit more downfield.
31:20I just don't think that Kelsey's production is going to sustain the way that it's been over the last three games where
31:26he's been ripping off like these monster plays so much yards out to the catch.
31:31And he had his age. I don't think that's going to sustain Rice's career high in terms of target share happened in this last game.
31:38Third highest area share ever in a game. So if Rice is now healthy and he's ready to go in this knee
31:44rehab injury thing is all past him. And that's why he was struggling in the first two weeks of the season to command targets.
31:51Then this is a rude awakening for those that have been riding Travis Kelsey.
31:56So the fact that he scored a touchdown last week, I think is the perfect time to wipe your hands clean of
32:02Kelsey cash out now because I don't think that it's going to get better if Rice continues to see this much involvement.
32:08Sorry, I was getting a call. Did you give your tight end to buy as well or just the sell?
32:14I got distracted. I didn't hear if you did that.
32:17Got distracted. See, this is why you're going to be you're going to be out buying Travis Kelsey.
32:2237 year old tight end in a 28 year old body.
32:26That's a word. Thanks. I paid attention to everything you said about Travis Kelsey.
32:30I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss.
32:32Did you also give him? No, I mean, it would not surprise me if I said Kyle Pitts is a buy in
32:39a win in one year, one year, not the other, because that's definitely what it feels like.
32:44And for starters, transparency, Kyle Pitts was someone I was not drafting, did not want any part of Kyle Pitts in terms of his draft stock.
32:51I cited a lot of the Drake London splits, the Kirk Cousins splits that he's much worse when Drake London is healthy in the lineup.
32:58And that has been apparent for three games. He's much worse with Michael Penix Jr.
33:03than Kirk Cousins. And Cousins is not walking through those doors anytime soon to take over as the Atlanta Falcons starting quarterback.
33:09But that all being said, I don't think what Kyle Pitts has done through the first three weeks of the season is
33:16going to be what it looks like for the rest of the year, right?
33:20He's basically done nothing. And I think it's fair to point to the first two weeks as, okay, Mulligans.
33:25We talked about how this offense was so horrible with Cooper Rush as the quarterback.
33:30So I kind of want to give him a clean slate for those first two games.
33:34And then this past week, okay, it's the first game with Michael Penix back.
33:38Penix is obviously going to lean on Drake London as his number one guy, which is what we've seen from in the past.
33:45Kyle Pitts, another nothing burger for him. But now that it's been three weeks in a row, Kyle Pitts is basically being
33:51dropped across leagues because he hasn't done absolutely nothing.
33:54But Stefanski, we've seen in the past operate with tight ends.
33:57And the thing with me, it's the price for Pitts where he's just dirt cheap, man.
34:02You're going to find him on waivers this week.
34:05People are going to be dropping him to pick up Kenyon Sadiq and these other tight ends.
34:10I actually looked at him versus Sadiq in my rest of season rankings for a long time, trying to figure out who
34:16I actually would want for the rest of the season.
34:19I don't know if I actually came to a strong conclusion on which guy I actually do want more, Kyle Pitts or Kenyon Sadiq.
34:26But that's like the territory that we're talking about with his price.
34:29So the route participation is still okay. 75%, I believe, in his two healthy games or the two games that were not
34:36played by the Cooper Rush, where Cooper Rush in week two, they took Kyle Pitts out of the game because it was a blowout.
34:43So that's my spiel on Pitts. Worm, thoughts? I couldn't agree with you more on selling Kelsey.
34:48I couldn't agree with you less on buying Pitts.
34:50And with Pitts, I am in total agreement with you on tossing out those first two games.
34:55But it's not just week three that he has not been on the same page with Michael Penix.
35:00It's been all the time. You just hit on this.
35:03So FantasyPros has the with or without you kind of splits tool.
35:07I would strongly encourage everybody to check out. Kyle Pitts with Michael Penix Jr.
35:11as the quarterback. He almost cuts his fantasy points in half that he scores.
35:15It goes from, on average, 13.18 with Penix not there to 7.79 with Penix in.
35:19You know, the targets are down by a couple.
35:22The receptions are obviously down. Receiving yards go from 57-ish a game to 35 a game.
35:27He just doesn't get the usage. Look, Penix loves throwing to Drake London.
35:31He does not throw to Kyle Pitts that much.
35:33And so while I'm okay to throw out weeks one and two, I'm not okay to throw out week three because I
35:40think that's more reflective of what Pitts has been with Penix as a quarterback in the future.
35:44So I, with Drake London healthy and performing and Michael Pitts healthy, I don't, I don't, excuse me, Michael Penix healthy, I
35:51don't think that there's going to be a lot there for Kyle Pitts.
35:55So I'm not interested in buying him. He's tied in 14 rest of season rankings.
35:59Like, I'd rather take an injured Terrence Ferguson right now and hope that when he's healthy, he's getting better, you know, the
36:05usage we were hoping for this week. Mark Andrews has looked good at times this year.
36:10He hasn't been that productive yet. I think I'd rather have him than Kyle Pitts.
36:14Jake Ferguson, I think, is not somebody that I want to be heavily investing in.
36:19But, like, I do think he'll be more productive than Pitts for as long as Penix is the quarterback here.
36:25On the Kelsey side, I, again, couldn't agree more.
36:27Or just given the age, early production, like, I just don't think it's going to last throughout the entire season.
36:33And, and I'd be really interested in selling. Would you sell Kelsey for Pitts straight up?
36:38Because there's a five spot gap in the rest of season rankings at tight end between them.
36:43No, I think I would definitely aim higher than Pitts.
36:46Because, like, that, that, again, I want to be clear, right?
36:49Because I agree with you in terms of Pitts as his production has fallen.
36:53That's why I didn't draft Pitts, right? Like, this isn't a problem that I'm really running into.
36:58It's because I did not like Pitts in the combination.
37:01But the fact of the matter is, the dude is now free, right?
37:05And he was a tight end that was drafted as a top 10 guy.
37:09Consensus, tight end during draft season. The two bad, and the fact that it's been three compounded bad games, I just think
37:15that there's an opportunity for, hey, see what happens, right?
37:18Is he going to have one catch every single week?
37:21No. Especially with the fact that it's such a concentrated target share between guys like London.
37:26And Jahan Dotson doesn't catch targets in this offense.
37:28So, and Kevin Stefanski, right? That was one of the big selling points for the Pitts stands was Stefanski likes to feature tight ends.
37:35And he continues to talk about how, okay, we got to get Pitts more involved.
37:40So, I do think that he's going to see more volume in future weeks.
37:44It feels crazy to think that you'd rather have Pitts than Kelsey.
37:47But I think when we have this conversation in a couple weeks, it may not seem as crazy.
37:52Pitts is far from bulletproof, right? As we've seen when he plays with London and also with Michael Penix.
37:58But man, I think I want more for Kelsey.
38:01Because Kelsey has been really, really good and really productive.
38:03I think you should definitely aim higher. I don't think I would do a tight end for tight end trade with Kelsey.
38:10I think it's tight end for best available running back and receiver.
38:13Whoever has the worst tight end situation, I am sending them Travis Kelsey with deals.
38:18Yeah, but you might need to get a tight end back.
38:21You might not have another one if you have Kelsey.
38:24Well, I mean, you can trade Kelsey and pick up Kyle Pitts after he gets dropped.
38:29Because I think that's the thing. I mean, people in Discord are asking me, can I drop Pitts?
38:34Can I drop Pitts? Can I drop Pitts? Yeah, I mean, that's a fair question, I think.
38:39He does owe us six touchdowns. Whatever year of the league he's in, he gets that many touchdowns.
38:44And this is year six of Yose's six at some point.
38:47So you know when they're coming, weeks four through 18.
38:50Yes. All right, let's do some Bicellar Holds on the receivers.
38:53Then we'll get out of here. I mentioned a couple, actually all three of these names have been mentioned over the course of this show.
39:01So we'll do the first one here. Lad McConkie, Jameson Williams, Rasheed Rice.
39:04Again, all of them have come up earlier on the episode, so I'm curious what direction you're going.
39:10Bicellar Hold, Lad, Jameson Williams, and Rasheed Rice. Yeah, you sly dog.
39:13Sliding all these names in so that I already give out takes and then I have to either stick to them or completely change my train of thought.
39:21Buy, Sell, Hold. Lad, Jamo, Rice. So Rice is definitely a hold.
39:25I think you're seeing the usage trend in the positive direction for him.
39:29He was someone that I was kind of on the fence with last week.
39:33And now after obviously seeing what happened in Miami, that's positive.
39:36So I want to hold Rasheed Rice. Because Jamison Williams is always just Lions offense, man.
39:40You just want to have parts of it. And if he can catch fire like he did in the second half of
39:47last year, he's a good buy low target. I feel like he's always a good buy low target.
39:52Like when in doubt, I'm just like, just buy Jamison Williams.
39:55I'm like, you know he's going to have a couple big games.
39:59So Jamo will be the buy and then Lad.
40:01I know I did talk about him over Ekbuka, but Ekbuka was also my sell.
40:06So unless I can sell Lad or sell Ekbuka to get Lad, I'd probably be selling Lad too.
40:11Okay. So yeah, so that easy choice of him was relative to Ekbuka, not a strong endorsement.
40:16Yes. Yeah, that's a good way to paint a picture of it.
40:20One other trio here. How about three rookie receivers, Erickson?
40:22Buy, sell, or hold? Denzel Boston, Carnell Tate, Casey Concepcion.
40:25You sick, sick fiend, putting these three rookies against each other.
40:29Hmm. I think you got to hold Denzel Boston.
40:31Maybe he's even the buy, honestly. Honestly, I think Denzel Boston might be the buy because he's coming off a game where
40:38not super productive, out targeted by Casey Concepcion. Concepcion was brutal though, in terms of his actual efficiency with the amount of
40:44volume that he got, which to me isn't a signal of, oh, this is a guy, this is time to buy low on a receiver.
40:51It's, okay, we gave Casey Concepcion a ton of volume and it was not good.
40:56Let's give the ball to somebody else. Unfortunately, I think that's how coaches think sometimes.
41:00By the way, just to give the stat line, Erickson, nine targets and he was wide receiver 102 on the week.
41:06Dude! Two catches for nine yards on those nine targets.
41:09Dude, that is brutal. So that's tough to obviously be like, yeah, you got to hold on to this guy.
41:15Boston has definitely been the better of the two Cleveland Browns rookies.
41:18So I think that he would be the buy.
41:21He did have another catch in this past game that got wiped out due to a penalty.
41:26So if that catch had counted, he would have been closer, I think, to around 64 receiving yards total, which is more
41:32in line with his first two weeks of actual production.
41:35So Boston, maybe there's a bit of a buying window with him after he was out targeted by Casey Concepcion, even though he was more productive again.
41:43So Boston will be my buy. Concepcion, unfortunately, probably is my sell.
41:47Even though I think both Browns receivers are kind of holds.
41:50I think the fact that Boston has just been so much better than Concepcion to start the year, just maybe too aggressive,
41:56assuming that Concepcion would be the number one receiver in this offense.
42:00So maybe he would be probably my sell again, if you can sell off the targets, that makes sense.
42:05And then no one's buying Carnell Tate anyway. So you can't really sell him.
42:09So he would probably be my hold because I do think that he has looked decent at times attached to Cam Ward
42:16is never fun, but that's why you can't really trade him for anything.
42:20So I will hold Carnell Tate, hold on to the top five talent, 25% target share back to back weeks.
42:25And I'm not afraid of Wanda Robinson being like a major thorn in his side for the majority of the season.
42:31So Carnell Tate, I feel very much like the Braveheart gif of just hold, hold.
42:36Like I've like tried to give it like, I know it's not been good.
42:40Top five rookie receivers. It just is a smart bet.
42:43Like even if it doesn't look good in the first three weeks of the season, it might not pan out.
42:49I'm not saying it's a 100% stone cold lead pipe lock.
42:52I am saying that it is a smart bet to hold on those types of players.
42:57Do, can you trade Concepcion to get Carnell Tate?
42:59So by the way, I was going to mention, these guys are all ranked very near each other in the consensus rest of season rankings.
43:06It's Boston wide receiver 39, Tate wide receiver 40, Concepcion wide receiver 42.
43:10So they are all right within each other. Yeah.
43:13So I'm actually higher on all of those receivers relative to the rest of season rankings, but I also have them in that order of Boston.
43:20Would you, would you trade Jordan Addison for any of these guys?
43:24I think I'd trade for Boston probably. Because Addison is behind, Addison is behind all four or all three of them in consensus the rest of season.
43:32Behind them or in front of them? Behind them.
43:34He's wide receiver 43. They're 39, 40, 42. He's right behind.
43:38He's one spot behind Concepcion. Yeah. So, yeah, I actually think I agree with holding Tate if you have him.
43:43I would be willing to buy him, honestly, again, just on principle because I don't think it would cost much.
43:49I would not spend up, but I would be willing to buy him at what I think is a low cost on
43:56principle and just blindly trust top 10, top five rookie receivers later in the season.
44:00Just blind, blind faith. Comments. Let Worm hear it.
44:03His week one sell is now by Carnell Tate.
44:05Wait, let him in. Let's go. I really do not think the Titans offense is any good.
44:10No, no. I mean, dude, you're not. I stand by that early stance.
44:14But again, on principle, like this is a smart thing to do.
44:18Yeah, dude, you can sell and buy players at different weeks and different times because again, the price has gone down.
44:24It's not going up. Also, like, man, he could have had a better game if him working here in the end zone.
44:30Like, but yeah, I don't know. Again, I don't think they're any good.
44:34They also do have a little bit of a nice schedule at the end of the season.
44:39I think you could pick between Boston and Tate and be fine.
44:42I wouldn't argue, but I agree with Concepcion as a sell there.
44:46We'll go ahead and wrap things up there. Thanks everybody for checking this out.
44:50If you missed part one, please go check out the running backs and quarterbacks version of this show that we did as well.
44:57For Erickson, I'm Ryan Warmly. We'll see you again next time.
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