0:00We've had one game and the injuries are already hell. Like the situation we had in Atlanta coming into this was one in
0:09which we were missing Michael Penn, who we were told in camp was the better quarterback between the two, but he just
0:18physically isn't available coming off the torn ACL. So they said, "All right, well, we're gonna have to go with Tua because we can't take Penn. We'll go
0:26with the backup." And then what happens?
0:29Oh. Uh, today in practice we have Tua go down grabbing his back. And maybe you say, "Oh, Mason, this doesn't matter.
0:38Tua was already bad, right? Tua was already not going to help this Atlanta Falcons offense." But you know who knows more than I do about this. you know who
0:48knows more than you do about this and two is impact and him going down and instead we are now looking at say
0:57Cooper Rush being the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons market makers and what happened um once we ended up getting
1:08two announced injured with the back and Cooper Rush looking like he's potentially going to be the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Oh,
1:16those market makers moved Atlanta from having a 37% chance of winning the game, dropping them down to a 32% chance.
1:25Going through and looking at the total that we have right now for the Atlanta Falcons, their implied team total is 19.5 points and you have more people
1:35taking the no on them hitting that.
1:39Atlanta's going to be a dumpster fire now. You still end up having to start Drake London. It sucks. even if they're
1:45on their third quarterback because Drake London is just a literal beast. But you have to lower your expectations with this Atlanta Falcons offense, even lower
1:54than it was. And again, I would say those market makers, they know more than you do. They know more than I do, and we
2:01want to use that information to try to help us make the best fantasy football decisions possible. Now, of course, if you want to check out any of those
2:08markets, um you can always find the link to Poly Market US in the description comment section. Use code flock, you'll get $50 added to your account after you
2:15deposit your first 10. It's available in 49 out of 50 states, available pretty much everywhere. But let's go through and let's look at the other news for the
2:24day. So Josh Jacobs pled no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property. The NFL said there is quote
2:35unquote no timetable as to when he could be disciplined. A league official said, "We have been closely monitoring all developments in the matter, which
2:43remains under review of the personal conduct policy. There is no change to his status as he remains on the commissioner's exempl list. So, if we're
2:52looking at this setup now with Josh Jacobs, I actually obviously this is not good.
2:58What would have been great is we get the trial today, they come through and they say that, oh, Jacobs is innocent. He's settled."
3:07Blah, blah, blah. all charges being dropped, Jacobs back playing say in week two. Looks like that's not going to be the case. I would expect that at this
3:15point Josh Jacobs is getting hit with a small suspension, but because they expedited this process, I think the probability that Josh Jacobs
3:25misses all season now, it's honestly lower. Like I think we probably see Josh Jacobs back at some point this year. Um,
3:34going over to the Seattle Seahawks and Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold quote unquote um received really, really good news regarding his hip injury. Mike McDaniel
3:44said Thursday, but the Seattle Seahawks starting quarterback is expected to miss next week's game at Arizona. This is phenomenal. Again, right when we had
3:54Darnold go down and I thought he was potentially out for the season, my gut reaction was crap. Um, I would rather
4:01have CD Lamb. I would rather have a Monroe St. Brown. I would rather have Justin Jefferson over JSN. Now, JSN's somebody I'm rooting for so damn much.
4:10One of my favorite players in the league. I have him in so many basketball drafts. And on top of that, obviously,
4:15Junko has him in the Flock League and I want Junko to beat S.
4:19So, I was very upset about it. But for us getting this news of Darnold only missing probably two 3 weeks cuz if
4:30they're already ruling him out 10 days before their game against the Arizona Cardinals next week, would it be shocking if he missed weeks three and
4:39four as well? So Darnold going to miss some time here. JSN in the meanwhile will probably be a mid to low and wide
4:46receiver one rather than elite like we typically would rank him at. Now, obviously JSN was able to overcome the quarterback play with Drew Lockach last
4:56week or yesterday, and obviously Drew Lock did look good, but we got to be real with ourselves. I don't think Drew
5:01Lock's good all of a sudden just because he had one strong performance. Now, we already talked about the Green Bay Packers stuff with Josh Jacobs. Already
5:10talked about that. So, those were um the big three. We also did get official word with the AJ Brown situation. So, it
5:18sounds like AJ Brown is going to be dealing with the high ankle sprain. We don't exactly know the severity of this.
5:24We don't exactly know when we are getting AJ Brown back, but I did nuke AJ Brown in my rest of season ranks. Like,
5:30I have AJ Brown now down next to like Jameson Williams because realistically, I have Jameson Williams on my own fantasy team. And if I had to go through
5:39and think about, oh, okay, would I trade him for AJ Brown now? I don't know if I would. Now, let's say if you're playing
5:45in a really shallow format where depth is easy to come by, right? 10 team, two receiver, one flex, then at that point,
5:51you would rather have the AJ Brown profile with an elite ceiling in the second half of the season over your wide
5:58receiver two prototype, like a low and wide receiver 2 like J Mo. But if you're in a deeper league like me where it's a
6:0512 team double flex, I don't know if I like I have AJ Brown now ranked as a lowend wide receiver too
6:11rest of year because what happens with me and how I rank these players rest of season after they have their injury is I
6:16want to drop them quite aggressively and then every week that goes by and they're closer to returning, they're going to move up our rankings slightly. So I
6:24think this will probably be the low point for AJ Brown in our rankings down near like the lowend wide receiver two
6:30range. high and wide receiver three.
6:32Like if we were to reddraft today, I think I would be looking at AJ Brown in like the fifth, maybe even sixth round
6:37of fantasy drafts. But every week that goes by, he will become a little bit more valuable. Now, I think that's all I
6:44got for the news that we have for today, but let's go ahead and let's move on with this. Langlass, I am sorry. You've
6:56been trying to look at your baseball portfolio for a while now, my friend, but for whatever reason, it's not loading in. So, you may have to
7:02resubmit. Now, let's look at TeamX. Um, typically I was going to do these um Dynasty teams on a Dynasty dedicated live stream, but um now we are to the
7:14point where I'm running out of time, right?
7:17Yesterday I live streamed for seven hours straight effectively across all the channels. Made a video as well. So, we're to the point where everything's
7:26just going to be done on this screen.
7:28Now, party strip clubs, the second year of the league. We lost the championship first year. I think I have a lot of
7:33value and I'm not sure who to move up to up tier and solidify my juggernaut status. Not a casual league, but trades
7:39have been hard even if the calculator says it's even. League mates are competent, just scared to make moves. I think very similar spot to a lot of
7:47people watching this, right? I will say if we are looking at this being a dynasty format 10 team start eight very
7:54very shallow very much reminiscent of like a reddraft league in a way now looking at our quarterback position it is a one QB format so QB not going to
8:05matter much the matchups between Caleb Lawrence Perie this week you play Caleb Williams um but yeah quarterback you're just fine running back we have the combo
8:13of Genty Bree Hall um if we're looking at like our week one lineup wide receiver we We have Jefferson, Z Flowers, tied in, we have Leaporta, and
8:21then in the flex bots, we have ETN and Inbuka. And if we go down to the bench here, what I want to primarily focus in
8:27on will be names that may decrease in value over the next 12 months that we don't necessarily need because we have
8:32plenty of depth. Like Casey Conception, I'm not going to say like, oh, he's on your bench, trade him. Um, because realistically, he could be worth a lot
8:39more next year and he could help your team next year even if he's on your bench right now. But like Ivante Adams
8:43play, like if you have this much depth, you don't necessarily need Adams on your squad. I would be very interested to see
8:48if you can leverage Devonte Adams with maybe another one of these running backs to see if you can get an upgrade at RB.
8:54Maybe if you can just pivot over to someone you're a little more excited about or maybe that's a little bit younger, right? Like if we were to go
8:59through and try to put together something here. Um maybe you could try to send say the combination of Dvonte Adams as well as Bashel Tutin. Um go
9:10over to the running back position and keep in mind for anybody watching this this is going to be Dynasty so it's
9:14going to be a little bit different in terms of how we price this out. And if you could go to like Jadarian Price in a
9:18Dynasty League, I think that'd make a ton of sense, especially after him looking pretty damn good yesterday. If you could take the combination of like
9:24Tuton and Devonte Adams, and if you wanted to go full-blown like can honestly, I would pivot it over to Quinchon Judkins, maybe somebody that
9:31I'm a little more confident with the profile of talent-wise long-term than Bay Shel Tutin. So, I think your leverage spot here if you wanted to make
9:38a trade is maybe trying to send that two for one deal where we use Devonte Adams as an upgrade piece to get an
9:44improvement somewhere else in the lineup.
9:48But I think that's all I got for you, my guy. I really appreciate you and I think you have a damn good team. Obviously,
9:52you are a contender right now. If we're going through and looking at the waiverwire Dynasty League, the waiverss are going to be incredibly thin and
9:59yeah, there's nothing that is too interesting there. But I really appreciate you and really hope that I was able to help you out in some way
10:07with this.
10:10Now, let's move this over to a baseball portfolio. It's going to be from Brad.
10:16Says, "Mason, I've been watching you for a while and appreciate your insight on the best portfolio. It's split between UD and DK. Keep up the great content
10:23rolling and may the best man win this flock league season." Well, I appreciate you, my guy, and the best man will win.
10:30You're looking at him here. But I'm gonna go through and I'm actually gonna get rid of the DK stuff just because I'm
10:35gonna be completely honest with you. Um I am not an expert with the 20 round best drafts. I just frankly never do
10:42them. I only do 18 round best drafts. So here this is going to be something I'm a little more comfortable looking in. I
10:47will say you got incredible incredible value with Mike Washington here as your most drafted player at an average pick of 170. Obviously with the genty injury
10:55that did vault him up quite dramatically. I'm going through and looking at the Algier um average pick of 160. That is insane as well. So like you
11:04actually hit on a couple of these handcuffed running backs that moved up in a big time way. The calculator I mean
11:11sorry you're getting a really low portfolio grade. I honestly think probably the mistake that you made here is I think you going through and you
11:22deciding to draft only two quarterback and only two tight end builds, man, you needed a lot more three QB, a lot more
11:30three tight end. Like here, KD and Andrews being your two tight ends, I would have taken a third. Kyle Pittz and
11:37Kelsey being your two tight ends, I would have taken a third.
11:40Um, Tucker Craft kid, I maybe would have taken a third there. I mean, Lawrence Baker, I maybe would have taken a third.
11:45I definitely would have taken a third with Dalton Schultz, Pat Fry. Um, I think really the only instance in which I'm taking two tight ends or two
11:53quarterbacks in baseball is if we get say Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, right, one of the true elite QBs or at tight
12:00end, we get one of the guys like Bowers who rip now, Trey McBride or Coulson Lovel. But if you weren't getting those
12:07names, I think you were probably better off taking three of those positions. And it looks like we almost never did. So
12:14that would be my main hold that I'd point out with the portfolio. But a couple of those backup running backs you
12:19hit on in a massive way. Now let's move this over to Stone the Cold says, "Feeling like there are too many roster
12:26spots being filled by guys who could but probably won't pop off. The taxi has Coleman Price Simpson offers more opium.
12:33What's the plan here after four losses?
12:35Does McAffrey have to go enjoy the fantasy insight? So, the first thing I want to point out here, man, is you are
12:40going up against a true Thanos level team in this league?
12:45You currently have to play against a team that has Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson. It's a superflex format, so
12:54they're in their lineup. Bejan, Aan, JSN, Jefferson, Nico, Brock Bowers.
13:02This team is a heavy heavy favor of winning this league. But you can't say like, "Oh, okay. Well, let's punt to
13:092027, right? This team's too strong. Um, let's look for 2027 and beyond." Because this team also has four 2027 first round
13:18picks.
13:20So, that absolutely sucks.
13:23Um, of course I'm not going to sit here and say that you're absolutely cooked because once you get to the playoffs, literally
13:33anything can happen. But let me go through and let's check out the team that we are rocking with. We are Stone
13:40Colt. We are down here. And what sucks, man, is you don't have the option to trade away CMC. At least not in my
13:47opinion because you traded away your 27 first. and the team you traded your 27 first to is this team that's at the very
13:54top that's just going to absolutely squash you like a bug. So if you all of a sudden pivot over to a rebuild,
14:02man, you're just giving that team that's already extremely strong in early 2027 first.
14:11Quarterback, we have Burrow, Cam Board.
14:13Obviously, we have some long-term upside with Tai Simpson. running back. We are currently sitting with Jadarian Price, Christian McAffrey, Trevian Henderson,
14:21Karen Williams. So, we have four startable running backs in the long term. Jerian Price, Trevian in the short term are a little rough. Wide receiver,
14:29we have plenty of depth with McMillan, Wilson, Alave, Addison, and Christian Watson. Tight end, you have Sam Leaporta and Isaiah Likely. I actually think I
14:37would make a deal with one of your league mates. I would go down and look at these teams that have no shot at
14:42contending and I would try sending them a trade for an upgrade at our quarterback two slot. Like this team has Jackson Dart. Is there a world in which
14:52you can move Cam Ward upgrade to Jackson Dart? Even if it means you have to pay Chadarian Price. Jarian Price looks
14:59really good long-term. Cam Lord, Jedarian Price may be the winning side.
15:03But since you traded away your 27 first, you need to go through and you need to try to think about how do we win this
15:08this week.
15:10So that's what I would be looking at here, my friend. I would be doing anything that I can to try to have a
15:18competitive roster where maybe we get lucky and we beat the god squad in the fantasy playoffs, but obviously it's going to be very tough. Now, let's
15:28move this over to Slim Reapers. I took over this team three months ago and flipped it from ranked eighth to second.
15:34Well, that's incredible that you did that in three months trying to compete with Thanos and I recently made a trade sending Chase Brown and Ibuka for
15:40Jefferson in a 27 first. Incredible deal. Incredible deal. I will say actually 16 team league that first is worth a little bit less but still really
15:48strong. Obviously thinner at running back. Do you think I target running back now or wait until mid-season for a CMC Henry level running back? Much love.
15:55Much love my friend. I will say it's incredibly impressive what you were able to do taking over this team. The second
16:01thing is I want to look at um where these 27 first round picks are coming from because we don't have our own 27
16:09first. We have the 27 first from this team that has JL as their username. So they're 27 first Jaylen. Um it's this squad here and
16:21their team's pretty damn bad. That looks like it re reasonably could be an early 271. The other one we have is the STAR,
16:30which if that's Straw Hats, if we have their 27 first, which we do, man, this could be the 101. Their wide receiver
16:36one's Terry Mccclure and their wide receiver two is Courtland Sutton. So, what I would really want to do if I were
16:41you is I would want to hold on to those 27 first and I would want to let them to acrue so much value on our roster. Now,
16:49the problem with this is we can't pivot to a full-blown rebuild or at least I want it if I were you because we are
16:56sitting in a situation in which we have um no 27 first of our own. So, it doesn't benefit us to hit the rebuild
17:05button. Our starting lineup in a superflex league is Allen Caleb. Running back, it's weak, but keep in mind it's a 16 team format. We have Raadre, Jonathan
17:14Brooks, Jefferson, AJ Brown, Tyler Warren, London, Diggs, and then down with our depth. We really have very, very little depth to speak of, which is
17:22standard in a 16 team league. Here's the deal, my friend. You did an incredible job this off seasonason.
17:31I love the team, and you're in an awkward spot. I would not trade those 27 picks for running backs until we get
17:39clarity on those picks being early and your league mates willing to treat them as they are. If your league mates wake
17:46up and smell smell the roses and they realize like, hey, those are going to be super early first round picks, then
17:52maybe at that point you can cash in and maybe at that point you can get really appealing prices.
17:58But until then, I think you're sitting on your hands, man. I think you're rolling with this team as is. I think
18:03you did an incredible job this off seasonason and I'm really excited to see it. Now, let's check this out for JBL.
18:10Says, "Just did the startup this week.
18:12We traded Tyson, Quinton Johnson, Dak, a 27 and a 28 first for JSN and Lawrence."
18:18So, Dak to Lawrence slight upgrade Tyson, Quinton Johnson, and two first for JSN. I probably want JSN there.
18:26Actually, it's a 10 team league, so it's a little tougher. Seemed like I needed to make a move to win now with the
18:31roster. Let me know how you think it turned out. Well, I'll say real quick, um, we are currently sitting with the
18:36most valuable team in this league. In terms of our week one starting lineup, we have Lawrence, Patrick Mahomes in there. Running back, we have Gibbs
18:45Hampton. Incredible wide receiver, JSN, Garrett Wilson. In the flex spots, Jeremiah Love, Cam Scatteron, we have George KD at tight end. Going down to
18:53our depth, we have Daniel Jones at quarterback. Um, we have Alec Pierce, Christian Watson at receiver, and then we have Terrence Ferguson at tight end.
19:01So across the board, man, you have a very good team to contend right now. And at the same time, you do have a
19:09tremendous amount of young talent with these guys like Jeremiah Love as a rookie, um Amari and Hampton going into year two, and then obviously JSN and
19:18Jamir Gibbs both drafted in 2023.
19:21But I mean, if we were to go through and if we were to try to map out a trade for you, I don't think you do anything
19:27because maybe you make an argument, oh, we have some expendable depth. we could go through and we could potentially try to sell like Christian Watson or Alec
19:34Pierce, one of these guys on our bench.
19:36I wouldn't do so if I were you though because you don't have a 27 first to back fill if you get an injury. You
19:42don't have a 28 first to back fill if you get an injury. So instead, you need to go ahead sit on your hands with this.
19:52I wouldn't look at doing anything. You built this team exactly how you would want it. And yeah, I think once you
19:58trade away your 27 first and your 28 first in Dynasty, um, a lot of the flexibility you had does kind of go out
20:04the window.
20:06Now, let's look at this from the JPC says, "Hey, brother. Big fan. I was the 24 champ, 25 unlucky early knockout. I
20:14feel your pain, my friend. Punting streaming quarterback tight end. I figured if one of my QBs get hurt, I can still limp along in Superflex. any
20:22glaring improvements or add drops I can make for the Dynasty team. Okay, let's go ahead. Is this the same exact team we
20:31just looked at or the same exact league?
20:33No, but funny enough, the team we looked at right before yours um had the exact same team name as the number one team in
20:40your league as well. But anyway, pulling this up, we are the third team according to the league analyzer here. And we did
20:46trade away R27 first. So, if we don't have R27 first, you are highly incentivized to push your chips in the middle and try to win right now. Now, I
20:56will say in terms of where we are standing with our week one starting lineup, we look like we're in a good
21:01spot. It's a start nine format, so very shallow. If we sort this by contending rankings, we have the number one team in
21:09this league. We have Bejon, Gibbs, JSN, Lamb, Pickins, Parker, Washington.
21:16Unbelievable. literally unreal.
21:20Now, I will say down on the bench, you have valuable guys. You have Rashad White, Jaylen Warren, quality running back depth pieces. We have Godwin, Brian
21:28Thomas, and we have Dallas Goddard. So, we do have plenty of depth across this team.
21:33So, if you wanted to go through and trade away a depth piece, right, where you wanted to try to send the
21:39combination of Lawrence and say Brian Thomas, you wanted to send away this stack of the Jacksonville Jaguars and you wanted to try to pivot over and get
21:48to an upgrade at QB. Obviously, if he could get to Josh Allen, you would do so in a heartbeat here with this being a
21:54superflex league. I mean, maybe a little more realistic of a deal, especially if we could buy low after last night's disaster class is going like Goff and
22:04Brian Thomas for Trevor Lawrence. That would be absolutely beautiful. Again, a lot of these deals much much easier said than done. And realistically, what that
22:11trade would actually probably look like is it would look closer to Lawrence, Brian Thomas for Drake May. But I think you could afford to sell one of your
22:20depth pieces to get an upgrade at QB, which would be interesting just cuz your team is already so damn strong here,
22:26man. And I think you're almost a lock to be a contender this year regardless. But yeah, phenomenal team and I think you
22:33can afford an upgrade IQB.
22:35Now, Ale Hunted says, "I did a ton of drafts over the summer and all the way up until the middle of August." Well,
22:41let me go ahead and let me trim out any of the weird drafts like the six team leagues, etc., etc. If y'all don't know,
22:49this is a basketball portfolio. I know.
22:51Oh, did y'all hear that?
22:55That was crazy. Oh my gosh, that scared the crap out of me. I thought our live stream was going down. My monitor just
23:01had a super loud pop and then it went black. It's back now, but dear God. I mean, we've been live. This computer
23:09screen has been on and I've been in this chair for like the past 48 hours.
23:14Um, this monitor is holding on for dear life right now, but this is a best ball portfolio. I know most people probably
23:20don't know what that is, but it's fine.
23:22We'll dive into it anyway. So, here anyway, Trevian Henderson being our most drafted player this year. We took him in 66 drafts. Brutal run out. Man, I'm
23:31going to be honest. Looking at a lot of your most drafted players, you got cooked.
23:37Trevon Hitter, average pick of 51.
23:40If we were to draft today, you'd be like a sixrounder.
23:44Jake Ferguson fell a bunch in drafts.
23:46Jacobe Myers fell a bunch in drafts with the wrist injury. Jawan Jennings fell. I mean, you have had an average pick of
23:52152, ADP of 184. I'm going to be honest with you, I think that you got unlucky with a lot of these top guys getting
23:59injured, whether it was with Jacobe with the wrist, Trevian with the ankle.
24:05going through and looking at your roster construction looks really sharp. You look like you knew what you were doing in drafts and
24:12at the same time we had a ton of stacks, but I think that honestly you maybe just got
24:20a little unlucky here and I think that it's not a great portfolio because of some of your most drafted players, but
24:29structurally you did exactly what you should have. It just sucks to see that you've had the injuries run out that way
24:34so far. Now, let's move over to Duncan Dinks. This is another Dynasty team.
24:40Says, "New to fantasy football and looking into how my team looks. Not sure if I should try to contend or rebuild
24:45again. This is going to be a dynasty team. You are labeled as a strong rebuilder on the site and there's a
24:51clear reason for this, right? Genty going into year two. Carnell Tates a rookie, Luther Burden going into year two, Lad going into year three, Worthy
24:59going into year three, Kenyan Sadik a rookie, Arande Gadston going into year two. Like so many of your guys are incredibly young and you have that 27
25:08first. If we sort this by the contender values as if this was a reddraft team, you'd be the second worst team in this
25:14league, man. So, I actually do think that if I were you, I potentially would look at pivoting this over to
25:24a rebuild. I think I may actually look at going through and seeing if some of these contenders would give us a
25:30tremendous amount of picks and long-term value. Like let's go through and let's see if we can find some young assets that we can pivot off of. Like maybe if
25:39you could down tier from like Josh Allen to Joe Burrow with this team that looks like they're going to contend this year,
25:46pick up their late 27 first and then also a young asset like Jadarian Price.
25:52Um, this would be a no nobrainer. Now, obviously, it's going to be much much easier said than done, but I would
25:58absolutely love to make that deal with a contending team. This is a Mahomes team.
26:02If there's a way that you could pivot from Allen to like Mahomes and just go through and pick up that additional
26:08asset of their late 27 first and see if they have another young player they can give us like Jordan Addison, this is
26:15also something else that I would look to do. Um, if we were looking at other down tiers, I think moving from Bree Hall and
26:22maybe picking up one of those rookie running backs like Jadarian Price. I think that would be very interesting. Or something else that you could look at
26:30doing here is you could try to get over to like a Jeremiah Love by sending Bree Hall plus a piece, right? What would the
26:37cost of Jeremiah Love be right now?
26:40Especially if this team is in their rebuilding, I'm sorry, in their contending mindset. and Dynasty, could you sell Bree Hall and lad Maconi to
26:48pick up Love?
26:50I think that would be a super super interesting pivot. So, for me, based on your team currently, I do think I would
26:58probably try to pivot to a rebuild. Now, if you can't get insane value for these studs, then honestly, you don't do it.
27:04But looking at the long-term value on your roster, you are near the top here.
27:09Um, I will say the players that if we do pivot over to a rebuild, I think I would look to throw on the block. Breeze Hall
27:16for sure and then Josh Allen if you could get some crazy [snorts] value for him. But really appreciate you and hope I was able to
27:26help you out in some way.
27:28Now Stein coming through with the best portfolio. Here we are looking at a portfolio that got nuked.
27:38Aronda Gadson, our most drafted player, 151 average ADP, I'm sorry, average pick. By the time contest ended, it looked like he wasn't even getting
27:48drafted because he may be the Titan three in Los Angeles, which is just crazy to say.
27:54Now, going over and looking at what we have of some of the other guys that got nuked, Josh Jacobs, one of our most
27:59drafted guys, average pick of 41, and closed the contest with an ADP of 77. Chuba Hubard, one of our most drafted guys, average pick of 80, gets
28:09the hamstring injury, gets nuked. Travis Hunter, average pick of 143, gets nuked playing defensive um back all training camp.
28:20So, I think that honestly you had a really tough run out here. I'm just going to be honest with you. I'm just
28:27going to keep it a buck, my guy. Looking at your draft structurally, I'm going to get rid of some of the weird ones. I
28:32just want to look at the 2026 season.
28:34Um, it looks like structurally we knew what we were doing. We autodrafted some teams, which also kind of kills the portfolio where like 2% of your teams
28:45you only had one tight end. 2% of your teams you had five tight ends.
28:492% of your teams you had one quarterback, 9% of your teams you had four QBs. So, I'm going to be honest,
28:53it's not my favorite portfolio. I think you got unlucky with some of your most drafted players. And on top of that, if
29:00we pivot over and we look at what we have with our construction, not the best year either, if I'm going to be honest.
29:07Now, let's go over to Fantasy Linebacker. We got another best ball portfolio that we are going to be looking at. Again, typically we hold
29:15these off for the Dynasty live streams, but we are streaming so much lately. We just kind of have to do everything here.
29:21I don't have time for the Dynasty ones.
29:23So, here we are going to get rid of the 20 round drafts. And I will say from a construction perspective, man, you know
29:28exactly what you're doing.
29:30Like love seeing this distribution of seven, eight wide receiver teams, but still mixing in six and nine. Um, primarily drafting three QBs, three
29:37tight ends, but obviously still taking two in certain spots. I think structurally phenomenal. Some of our most drafted guys we definitely reached
29:46on. Like Mai Limon, I'm right there with you. I drafted Mai Limmon in a ton of drafts. The hamstring injury did end up
29:52nuking him, which really hurts. Um, also you have another guy like at your top drafted with Kyle Manungai who got nuked
29:59with his hyperextended knee when it comes to like his average draft position. So you did lose a lot of closing line value. And in terms of what
30:08we have with some of our most drafted names, they don't look great now. But I will say from a structural perspective,
30:14like your portfolio does look really good. It's just like some of these top exposures maybe aren't ideal with the injuries that we saw in camp.
30:22Now going over to Gray Firewolf says, "Hey Mason, with the season starting, how do you think I'll do this year? And
30:29do you have any tips for next year? I know I tend to probably go a little bit overboard with the quote unquote my
30:34guys." Man, you crushed it. I'll say that right now. Also, um, did your partnership with UD and it won't let me
30:40sync my latest drafts? All you have to do is get the newest, um, extension.
30:45Google Chrome had an issue that had nothing to do with our partnership ending or underdog obviously um leaving some states with the drafts. But yes, we
30:54are no longer with UD. Instead, we are with Poly Market US. But you should still be able to use your draft
31:00assistant. No problem. You just probably have to get the latest version because Google Chrome was giving us some issues, my friend. But let me get rid of your 20
31:08round drafts. That way we can focus in on the 18 round roster construction, which I know a lot more of. And again, I
31:15do want to point out that you crushed your most drafted guys like Quinton Johnson, great closing line value.
31:22Terren Ferguson, you took in 36% of your drafts and you finished with an ADP of 150.
31:31You took Daltton Schultz with an average pick of 169. He finished with an ADP of 158. You have incredible closing round
31:39value with a lot of these guys. Now, Jaden Higgins, obviously, not so much, but um I think your draft strategy on
31:45the players you were going after, incredible. The only complaint that I have about your portfolio is I think you were probably a little too rangebound.
31:54Really, only drafting 3573 builds. I think you probably should have dispersed it a little bit differently based on just wanting to be flexible in the draft
32:03room that you're in and based on, oh, if I'm going with a top-end quarterback here, let me go with a 2QB build. If I'm
32:09going with the top end tight end, let me go with the two tight end build. So, from a roster construction perspective,
32:16I think we maybe played it a little too safe in my opinion, but obviously those most drafted players for you look
32:23incredible.
32:25Now, let's look at this from Lil Pop.
32:28Says, "I won last season, but just wanted to know if you think I should make any moves. I tried to move Nico,
32:32but no one's really interested in him."
32:34So, it's going to be a Dynasty Superflex league. We are currently sitting in these six spots. So, right in the middle
32:42of this league. So, here's the deal. You traded away your 27 first. So, when you trade away your 27 first, you need to be
32:49a contending team. You need to go through and you need to look to win right now, which honestly, it looks like
32:54you already know that. Quarterback, we have the combo of Drake May and Jackson Dart. It's a 10 team superflex league, so quarterback depth's not going to
33:00matter much. And we still do have startable QB3s with Gino and Cousins, so completely fine there. Going over to running back, we are currently sitting
33:09with the combo of James Cook, Derk Henry, and Devon Aan. So, three incredible RBs. We have quality depth pieces with Trevian, Marshon Lloyd as
33:18well. Wide receiver, we have JSN, Nico Wadd, we have depth of Sutton, and then tight end, not the strongest tight end
33:25room in the world, but it's a non-titend premium format, so who cares? So, my question that I need to ask you here, my
33:31guy, that I truly don't understand the answer to is why would you be trying to get rid of Nico Collins? This is the
33:37perfect kind of team to hold on to Nico with. You've already constructed your team in a really good spot for the
33:44ability to win this year. Now, do not, and I repeat, do not trade away your 28 first because there is a very real
33:53chance that 12 months from now, if Derrick Henry is absolute washed up, Jaylen Wadd's a little worse, James Cook's a little worse, Nico Collins a
34:00little worse, maybe next off season you decide, oh, okay, let me go ahead and pivot this over to a rebuild. That is a
34:08possibility. But when it is right now September 10th and we want to be contending based on the team that we have. You leave this exactly how you
34:19have it. Just leave yourself the 28 first. That way you have the flexibility if you need it later on. Now let's go
34:25over to our next one. This going to be from Tai Eager. Says eight keeper league took over a rough roster two offseasons
34:33ago. It made a ton of moves to get it here. I feel like where it's headed, but feel stuck with how thin running back is
34:40leaguewide. Is this a team good enough to push all in and win now, or should I step back and keep building for the
34:46future? So, I'll say typically in a keeper league like this, if it's a seven eight player keeper, I'd say I'll treat
34:54it maybe a little more like a redraft league than a dynasty league, but it is a 14 team format. So, really, every
35:01quality player is going to be kept year-over-year. So, um, definitely want to treat this as if it's a dynasty league, but some of those really deep
35:10names aren't going to matter nearly as much. The guys like, say, Jacobe Lane, because you probably will have to cut them next off season. So, let's go
35:17through and let's sort us by long-term values with the newer and cooler order.
35:23Um, we are currently sitting here.
35:27Quarterback, we have Bo Party. running back Gibbs Swift, wide receiver Thomas, JMO Conception, Jordan Addison, and Tyler Warren at tight end. If we short
35:37sort this by values for today, we are currently sitting in a very similar range, sixth best team in this league.
35:46So, with this lineup, man, I would say if it was a 10 team format, it would be very bad because your wide receiver room
35:52would be garbage. If it was a 12 team format, it would be average.
35:57But with this being a 14 team league, I want to keep this how you have it. I don't want you to make any trades. I
36:05don't think you're good enough to push your chips in the middle. Like, for the love of God, do not go out there and
36:12um do not trade away your 27 first, your 28 first.
36:23like you very much need to go ahead hold on to those I mean hold on to those picks just in case like Jir Gibbs goes
36:30down your team's garbage and you need to pivot over to a rebuild you can trade him away if we get to week six week
36:38seven and all of a sudden Brian Thomas has bounced back and you're like damn I'm golden I'm contending then maybe at
36:44that point if you wanted to go through and if you wanted to try to trade away like a 27 first and Blake Cororm to get
36:49a significant upgrade of the flex you can do it then. But as it stands right now, you leave this as is, man, and you
36:54wait to see if this team truly can contend. And we'll know that in a couple um weeks.
37:00Now, Ruiner of Things says mid-season rebuild last season sold off parts to reload at wide receiver
37:11and down tier at running back. Was previously the oldest team in the league. I think I have a shot to get
37:17back up on top this year if things go right. may need to add down the stretch.
37:21I think we're in a wait and see for now.
37:24Appreciate your thoughts. I appreciate you, my guy, and I'm excited to dive into this team. So, let's go through and let's pull this up. I will say that
37:35we have 27. We have two 27 first, right?
37:38We have our own and we have the 27 first of this team. Now, if we are looking at contender values, this team here pretty
37:47damn good, right? They have St. Brown Pickkins, Al Lad, Devonte Adams, like you most likely have two late 27 ones.
37:55Looking at our lineup with this being a superflex league, we are currently sitting with the combination of Joe Burrow and Matthew Stafford.
38:03Running back, we have DeAndre Swift, Trevian Henderson. Wide receiver, we are looking at the combo of Malik Neighbors, Drake Glenn, and Devont Smith. So
38:12really, I mean, tight end, you have Craft, two quality flexes with Flowers and Waddle. Really strong spot minus running back. Like obviously running
38:21back's a pretty big need, but we even have wide receiver depth with Diggs and Evans. Here's the deal, man. You have
38:28this extra 27 first and you have a strong contender team according to the league analyzer, which I personally would agree with. I would go through and
38:37I would try to push our chips in the middle.
38:44I would see if there's a way you could trade Trevon Hitter and a 27 first and get an upgrade.
38:50Like going through it and let's try to see if we can find some of these teams that are rebuilders. This team has Casey
38:57Conception as their wide receiver, too.
38:59There's no way this team doesn't view themselves as a rebuilder.
39:03Is there a way you could go like Trevian Henderson and that late 27 first that you have from that really good team and get back
39:12James Cook and maybe like another contending piece from them or just a second rounder? Like could you get back James Cook and an early second from
39:24them?
39:26Like I would be interested in making a move like this. Again, I don't think you want to trade your first round pick, but
39:31the first round pick of this teams that you have. Like, I think that's fair game to move off the team because it doesn't
39:38hurt your flexibility. And that first round pick looks like it's probably going to be late. So, I would attack those rebuilding teams and see if you
39:45can find a way to get to a pretty damn strong um spot at running back. Now, let's move this over to Brandon. Says, "This was my
39:54first year playing baseball and your tools very helpful. Sadly, my state prohibits using UD. Otherwise, I'd probably have more than 11 drafts. So,
40:03completely understand that, my friend.
40:05And I think more people are going to be in your situation going into the future.
40:10But going through and looking at a portfolio like this, if you only have 11 drafts, I don't want to look at like the
40:16big picture thing. I would honestly rather focus in on some of the recent drafts that you had done and see if
40:21there was anything that I personally would have done differently. I think with this team here, if you have Britain Strange and Hunter Henry as your two
40:28tight ends, I probably would have gone with a third tight end in that instance.
40:33Going over and looking at this team here, if Dart and Malik Willis were my two QBs, I probably would have gone with
40:38the third QB. And in both of those instances, I think you probably should have taken one fewer wide receiver. This team looks phenomenal from a
40:45construction perspective. This team looks really strong from a construction perspective.
40:50Um, this is a Superflex league, so obviously a little different. And I'll be honest with the Superflex basketball leagues. I've never had success. I don't
40:58think you want to listen to me. Um, I think this Frenchie team, um, I understand going double anchor running back, maybe it would open you up to go
41:04with the hyper fragile build if your running back three wasn't Tyrone Tracy.
41:08So, I would say more likely than not, what you should have done in that instance is you probably should have taken a fifth running back here. But
41:16overall, I don't think there are like any sweeping massive like horrible things that oh man, you're doing horrible job taking eight running backs
41:24on this team. But there are minor pivots I would have made with some of those drafts personally, but I'm really wishing you the best of luck, my guy.
41:31Now, Shoeach says, "First year Dynasty League. Just looking to see your thoughts on the team and if you see any roster moves that need to be made."
41:38Okay, first year Dynasty League, you have the best team in this league. Going through and looking at this from a contenders value perspective, we are at
41:45number three. Our lineup week one has Herz, Jared Goff, Bejan, Javvante, Neighbors, Pickings, Concaid, Rice, JMO.
41:53Phenomenal. Looking at the depth, you are sitting with Cam Ward and a superflex. Cam Ward anti- Simpson. Love the long-term value of Simpson there.
42:02Running back, we have Rodriguez, Shakori Crossing, Merit, quality depth, RBs. We have the long-term value of Jordan Tyson, and we have Michael Pitman Jr. as
42:09a depth piece. This is a phenomenal, and I mean a phenomenal room when it comes to contending now and with long-term value.
42:22You absolutely crushed this draft, man.
42:26You did an incredible job here. I don't think you need to make a single move before the season starts, but I will say
42:33that you have such a strong team. I wouldn't be opposed um
42:42to you going through and looking at potentially trading away your 27 first.
42:53I wouldn't do it now because again you also do have a very young team as well.
42:57But like if we're in week six and you're sitting at four and two and you're like I can go through and sell my 27 first
43:03and Daltton Concaid and somehow get to Trey McBride, I would be very interested in making a move like that then because I do think
43:09your team is strong enough where you can afford it, my friend.
43:13Now let's go over to Mash says, "I feel like this team is in between a rebuild and a minor contender. Other than
43:20selling quarterback, how would you continue to grow this team's value?"
43:23Okay, let's go ahead and let's pull this out. So right now we are in purgatory.
43:27We are kind of in the middle of this league. We do have our own 27 first. So you have the ability to rebuild if we
43:32want. If we look at our week one starting lineup here for this be a 10 team league. We have love Javvante Bucky
43:39Justin Jefferson Rice downs at wide receiver three. Harold Fannon at tight end and Tuton and RJ Harvey in your flex spots. So I'm going to be honest with
43:48you Chief this is a weak team. 12 team for bat. This would be a okay and I'd be completely fine with it. But in a 10
43:56teamer, like if you drafted this in a like a regular 2026 reddraft league, you would be behind the eight-ball. You'd have one of the worst teams in the
44:04league. So I wouldn't want you to plan on contending right now. I wouldn't want you to push your chips in the middle.
44:11Now, what you could decide to do is you could decide to wait a couple weeks, see what happens, and potentially re-evaluate when we get to week four,
44:21right? where if you're 4-0 or if you're 3 and one and you're like, damn, all I need to do is trade away my 27 first,
44:28bring in a significant upgrade here for wide receiver three, move Josh down and B shell Ton down to the flex spot. Then
44:34maybe at that point you can go through and you can look at making a move to push your chips in the middle. But I
44:40think the most likely outcome is you're going to wait through the first four weeks this season or first five weeks this season. There's a damn good chance
44:49that you're sitting at three and two.
44:51I'm sorry. You're sitting at one and four going into week five and you're like, "Damn, I gotta pivot over to a
44:57rebuild now and I need to go through and I need to sell Rasheed Rice. I need to sell Javvante Williams. I need to sell
45:05Justin Jefferson." Again, I don't think you throw in the towel right now because you definitely have upside, but I think long-term you potentially
45:15um would put yourself in a very compromising position if you were to sell any picks to try to contend.
45:22But let's go over to Mark Award or actually no, we're going to look at Jagger slop here. Says this is a 14 team
45:30half PPPR auction. We are the defending champ and got railroaded in many bits.
45:37Would love to improve my running back to and flex if possible. Willing to trade Puka, but straight up for a Monro has
45:43been the best offer and I don't like that. 100% agree, man. Here's the deal.
45:49When you got Puka on your team, the risk of something happening was probably higher than it is now, right?
45:57Because if we go through and if we look at where you stood with Pukanua initially,
46:08you add suspension risk and you add injury risk, but now at this point, man, the suspension risk for Puka is pretty much
46:18gone, as well as the injury risk. Like I'm way more confident in Puketua now than I was.
46:26Going over and looking at the team as it stands. It's a two receiver, one flex format. Quarterback, we have Dak. In
46:33terms of backups, we have Dart. Really strong and actually probably a necessity because if we were to go through and if
46:39we were to look at some matchups for Dak Prescott, I would like to bench him. So, will be nice to be able to play the
46:45matchups between these two guys.
46:48Going over to running back, we have Hampton, Jaylen Warren, Jordan Mason.
46:52So, we have an anchor running back one and we have depth here in a 14 team format.
46:58Wide receiver, we have Puka, Devont Smith, Brian Thomas Godwin, and tight end, we're in a little bit of an awkward spot. We have Jawan Johnson, and Michael
47:05Mayer. So, here's the deal.
47:09I think Michael Mayer is an intriguing pickup for those teams that lost Brock Bowers and need help at tight end.
47:18I don't know if you are ever going to be in a position in which you need Michael Bayer.
47:24Like realistic expectation. I think you're going to play Jawan Johnson over him early in the season before Jordan Tyson gets back. And then once Tyson is
47:33back and Jawan becomes less appealing, all of a sudden Michael Mayer will be a worse name to look at and he'll just be
47:41a waiverwire name regardless. So I don't think you need to do this right now. I think you can wait until Sunday and see
47:48what we end up getting from the Las Vegas Raiders, but I would probably probably be quick to go ahead and cut Michael Mayer and
48:00pick up Caleb Johnson, Brillin Allen, Ray Davis, another handcuff RP.
48:06If we were to get an injury to one of the quarterbacks, whether that was Dak Prescott, whether I'm sorry, another quarterback in our league and Dak/Dart
48:17are super appealing trade options for them. I would be interested in seeing if we could sell like Dart and Jaylen Warden for a better running back, too.
48:26But as of now, there haven't been one of those injuries that you could get any value out of selling one of the QBs. So,
48:33I wouldn't do anything today. I think you drafted a good team right now. I don't think you want to tra trade Puka
48:39with your construction. I would be quick to drop Michael Mayer for a backup running back. And on top of that, I
48:45would look at potentially going through and if you get the opportunity to sell a quarterback, I would. But for now, you
48:50have a damn good team.
48:53Now, let's go over and let's look at Mark. Another 14 team league here.
48:58Marker is a longtime member of the flock if y'all don't know. But here says, "Hope you're doing well, my friend. I
49:05love this team. I got in a half PPR 14 team format. Focused on running backs a lot early. Perfect for a half PPR
49:13league. Where do I improve or do I just ride out until Jacobs gets back in my opinion?" And again, you know,
49:22you've been around long enough to know that I'm stupid, right?
49:26In my opinion, which means not a lot. I think there's a damn good chance that
49:34Josh Jacobs plays this season knowing that he expedited the process of his court hearing and he probably gets suspended,
49:45but I don't think it's for the entire year.
49:48Again, this is just me guessing. Maybe it's an educated guess, but from what I've heard people talking about on Twitter that are lawyers and
49:57that are smarter than me, seems like that's what they are talking about.
50:03Now, looking at what we have for quarterback, we have Bo Nicks. Now, the options that we have at QB are like
50:11Malik Willis, Cam Ward, Bryce Young. So, the options on the waiverwire are pretty damn gross. But I'm going to be honest
50:18with you. I don't think it would be the most shock I don't think it would be the most shocking thing in the world if week
50:24one against the Raiders we actually end up getting Malik Willis outscoring Bo Knicks who's playing against the Kansas City Chiefs.
50:33So I think I'd be interested potentially for us to go through and for us to potentially pick out Malik Willis 14
50:42team format. Like I think Malik Willis is more likely to hit your starting lineup here than like Kalin Black. And you know typically I love rostering as
50:50many of those handcuffed running backs as we can. But I think I would cut Black, pick up Willis, and then I'm going to assume PCO's on
50:59the IR. Obviously if PCO's on the IR, we cut him, pick up Emit Johnson as well.
51:04And another thing that I think you absolutely have to do, I think you have to cut Malik Washington and pick up
51:10Wandale. And with this being a 14 team format where we may not have Jacobs early on and obviously we don't have
51:16Jordan Tyson early on um Wandell Robinson could very easily hit your lineup. So I would make those two or three waiverwire pivots and you have to
51:26you have to make the Wale one. Cut Malik Washington Washington for Well Robinson right this second. Even if you have to
51:31blow your fab budget on him in a 14 team league, he's worth it.
51:36And then afterwards in terms of what we would be looking at here, I don't necessarily think that there are many trades we would make
51:46right now. But if we do get Jacobs back and performing and Jordan Tyson comes back later and breaks out, then you may
51:53have some skill depth to upgrade quarterback. But obviously 14 team format, it is more important for us to build around that skill depth and go
52:00upgrade for a QB right now.
52:03Now let's look at this from Kyle. says, "What do you think of the team? Only thing I waited for was my running back
52:09depth and tight end. Any trades or Waverwire pickups you recommend?"
52:14Okay, let's pull this up. Appreciate you, my guy. Looking at the waiverwire quickly. Um, Waverwire is pretty damn bad. There's nothing I'd be interested
52:22in. Like best options are like those streaming quarterbacks like Jordan Love.
52:27So, I think you leave Waverwire as is.
52:30Looking at where we stand with QB, we have Jaylen Herz. With Jaylen Herz, if it's a four-point passing touchdown format, he's just going to crush given
52:41the rushing upside. Like I would have like I have Drake May on my own fantasy team and after the game we had last night and
52:51four-point passing touchdown formats, I would rather have Jaylen Herz over Drake May.
52:58Now going over to running back, we are currently sitting with Chase Brown, Jeremiah Love, Beel Tutin. So I would say here in the short term, we're going
53:06to be going with Chase Brown, Beel Tutin, but we have the long-term upside of Jeremiah Love, so that should improve over time. Wide receiver, we have Chase
53:16Smith, Wadd Terry. Brian Thomas is our wide receiver five. Godwin's our wide receiver six. Quinton Johnson is our wide receiver seven. And Jordan Tyson is
53:26our wide receiver eight.
53:30So, I think you need to sell a wide receiver for a tight end. In my opinion, Jawan Johnson's going to crush early.
53:37So, if you wanted to leave this as is for now, you can.
53:45But like I would be interested in seeing like L is there a world in which you can sell Wadd for Loveland
53:51which again I have Wadd ranked ahead of Lovelin but looking at your team you wouldn't skip a beat. You still have
53:57Terry, Brian Thomas, Chris Godwin on the bench.
54:01Is there a world in which you can sell Terry for Tyler Warren even if it means you got to throw in Jawan Johnson?
54:13Like that's really the only trade in my opinion that you could make. That would be the only thing that could possibly
54:18make sense for you here because you have an incredible team. You have the best team in this league. I wouldn't do any
54:23waiverwire pivots, but I think you could afford to sell a wide receiver for a tight end.
54:28Now, let's go over to this next one, which is Berg Melly.
54:34This running back situation's pretty bleak. Do we have any suggestions here?
54:39Okay, so let's go ahead and let's pull this up. We are pretty low in the league analyzer.
54:46And here's the deal, man. Running back week one's going to suck. It's going to be atrocious. It's going to be a train
54:51wreck.
54:52Like, we have Jeremiah Love currently listed as the running back two on his own depth chart. Now, do I actually think he's the running back, too? No.
55:02But at the same time, again, offense projects to be horrible. He's had a high ankle sprain pretty much all off seasonason. So, um, expectations for
55:11me are going to be quite low here for love.
55:18Going over to Beel Tutin, we don't have any guarantee whatsoever that Belle Tutin's going to be the guy in Jacksonville for for sure.
55:28Hoping he will be, but we don't know. We don't have any guarantee.
55:34our bench, Jonathan Brooks. No idea what that role is going to be.
55:40We have Calman Algier Caleb as premium handcuffs, but this running back room's only going to get better overtime. Every one of your running backs is like 23
55:50years old or younger. So, yes, I'd have low expectations right now. I don't think it's going to be the end of the
55:57world. I think it will get better.
56:01Going over to tight end, we have Mark Andrews.
56:06I would like to upgrade tight end if we can if this is our guy. It's a two receiver, one flex league. So, here's
56:11the deal, man. Very similar to the team that we looked at right before yours.
56:14Two receiver, one flex format.
56:17The wide receiver depth is meaningless.
56:18Like Luther Burton, Terry McLaren, Deshun's dribbling all on your bench right now. The very clear move in my mind is in a league like this, could I
56:25sell Rasheed Rice and Mark Andrews and get over to Trey McBride?
56:32Right. I would say at quarterback, could we get an upgrade to an elite QB? Could we sell the combination of like Matthew
56:38Stafford and Z Flowers to get to Josh Allen?
56:43Well, running back 2 again is incredibly weak. I'm on board. I understand that.
56:49You don't have to tell me.
56:59It doesn't matter because while week one it's going to be ugly, it's only going to get better in weeks two, three, four,
57:05or five. So, I don't want to stress about running back. My actual suggestion would be based on your league settings, is there a way we can upgrade one of the
57:15onesies by selling our wide receiver depth? Because again, wide receiver depth in a league like that, not super important.
57:22Okay, now let's move this over to our next one. is going to be from Kester Heisen says, "Mason, you're the absolute goat
57:31of the league this year." Appreciate that, my friend. The league dunce S stands no chance. I am very much hoping
57:38so. I am hoping that S gets absolutely stomped on this week. You have no idea.
57:46Like it sucks that I'm in put in this spot, but I am now clearly strongly rooting against Malikite neighbors.
57:58I'm rooting so hard against neighbors at this point. Okay, now anyway, really appreciate all the hard work you put into Flock Fantasy at show. Shout out to
58:07the devs. Shout out to the devs.
58:09Absolutely killing it with flockfantasy.com. Appreciate them so damn much. And appreciate you as well, my guy. But anyway, let's go through and
58:18let's look at this setup.
58:22So, right now, I think we maybe changed our team name. Yeah, we are the number one team in this league. Now, what is
58:30going to be extremely relevant here is this is a 12 team start eight format.
58:3912 team start eight format. you are in a spot in which running back depth and wide receiver depth matter. Having
58:50the elite QB, having the elite tight end is a little bit less important. Now, we do have the elite quarterback and we do
58:58have the elite tight end in this league.
58:59So, the big question is going to come down to do you have enough depth at wide receiver and running back to get by?
59:07Because if you look at your week one lineup, obviously Herdz, Trey McBride, we're chilling. We're super excited about it.
59:14But running back, DeAndre Swift, Tony Pard, disgusting, horrendous.
59:21Now, wide receiver, we're in a really comfortable position. We have Jamar Chase, Nico Collins, Jaylen Waddle.
59:26Absolutely love to see that. We have Mai Limitan dribbling here as well as upside cases. And then we have the elite tight
59:33end with Trey McBride. So, the team has a tremendous amount of value because you did go best player available, but you
59:41did just draft in a range where you weren't able to get running backs early.
59:45So, I think what we're going to need to do is we are going to need to reassess this team after week one.
59:56Like I think if you're in a spot in which Swift, Pard, Cororm, they're not going to get the job done for you. Like Kiran
60:06Williams is the clear lead back. And on top of that, we say like Tony Pard's unusable because he's splitting the backfield 5050.
60:39like with Spears, then at that point you're going to have to sell Trey McBride and you're just going to have to
60:43be a waiverwire warrior when it comes to the tight ends, but I don't see a trade that makes a ton
61:01of sense for you right now. Like I mean of course if you can rob a league mate, if you can sell McBride for Genty, sell
61:06him for Walker, sell him for Barkley, sell him for Achan, you do it in a heartbeat, but like this trade isn't getting done,
61:14right? Like the McBride and Pard for Barkley, no way in hell that's getting accepted. I would send it anyway. And then you would just pick up Andrews off
61:24the waiver wire.
61:38>> [sighs] >> But yeah, I think you're just going to have
61:56to wait and see what the running back room does. week one and then re-evaluate. There is a chance you have to trade away the elite tight end
62:02though, which does suck.
62:04Okay, let's move this over to our next one. This is goated stimulus says, "Obviously love Gibbs, but a team review critique on the
62:14running back room would be helpful." So, it's a start aid format, so running back depth does matter in a league like this,
62:20obviously.
62:22Now looking at the squad.
62:33We are currently the number one team in the league and it's not that close. And you're in a damn good spot, man.
62:42Okay.
62:54We have Herbert and Patrick Mahomes at quarterback.
62:59Running back we have Gibbs, Montgomery, Bucky. Wide receiver we have London Pickkins, Brian Thomas, and we have the depth with Juan Delbo, Trey Harris,
63:06Jaylen Naylor, and tight end we have Tucker Craft, Jake Ferg. This is an incredible team. I legitimately don't know how this happened. Like you got
63:13Gibbs at the 101, London 212, George Pickins 301, 401 McGomery, 501 Bucky. That was a massive fall for Bucky. 612 Brian
63:25Thomas, 712 Tucker Craft, I guess. Justin Herbert at the end of the eighth, the beginning of the ninth.
63:32This is an extremely well-balanced team where your weakest skilled positional group is quarterback ranking seventh in this.
63:42So, man, there's nothing to do at this point.
64:01Like, you have the best team in the league and it's incredibly well balanced. Your waiver wire is garbage.
64:05So, no man, your running back room is fine. Like, Bucky, low floor, high ceiling player. And then obviously if we go over to David McGomery, I'd say
64:12McGomery may be the opposite. So it's like a really strong RB um two RB3 combo. But I really appreciate you and
64:21hope that I was able to help you out in some way.
64:25Now moving over to Phil, long time member of the flock here says, "This is a 16 team league.
64:36I had the 16th pick in the draft. Any trade suggestions to help out would be incredibly helpful. Here's to another year. Let's go win championships. By the
64:46way, how can we follow the flock league through the site like last year? Um, I will figure it out and we will get
64:53something on the we'll get something on flockle league.com where you can follow it, my guy. As of right now, not possible, but I understand a lot of
65:01people want to be able to. So, we'll figure it out. There are just a ton of different things with like the new Flock
65:07um fantasy app that like is more important for the devs to be working on at the moment. But I promise you it is
65:14on the list to get something on flockle.com for people to be able to follow the league. But I appreciate you sticking with me for so damn long, my
65:21guy. And I am excited to look at this team for you. But we are Dragon Ball Z.
65:26Let me go through and let's see.
65:28Hopefully we changed our name because I don't see us near the top. No, we are here at sixth. It's a 16 team league. So
65:33being at the six spot does put us near the top of it. Keep in mind 16 team format. You have to change the way that
65:41you look at this 16 team league. Every team's going to be a little bit worse, right?
65:49Um and I will address this. I know I haven't said this in this live stream and I need to be better about talking
65:53about this. I'm so sorry. Sorry, Phil, to pivot over, but I know you would understand. Animal says, "How do we get
65:59our team reviewed by Mason?" So, typically it's through flockfantasy.com.
66:02Right now, the team reviews are turned off because we are too far behind. And for me, what I need to prioritize is I
66:11need to prioritize um getting the team reviews done for everybody that is an annual [ __ ]
66:24on flockfantasy.com and answering all the start set questions for everybody who got the flockfantasy.com season pass
66:32with code flock. So, um, in the long term, once we are through a bunch of these teams and we have more time, I
66:42will go ahead and I will, um, open team questions back up. But for now, I can only do them for the annual mother
66:50flockers that use code flock um, on the site and also the people who have the season pass who use code flock um, where
66:59they have the free start, sit, and trade questions. But I am sorry about that. We do have to just go ahead and
67:08um prioritize those first before we can open it up to everybody else because obviously um by joining the site with the expectations
67:18that they were going to get that free team review free start and free trade question.
67:24Now anyway going back to Phil's team 16 team league so lower your expectations going to be ugly. Jaylen Herz at quarterback, very strong quarterback for
67:32a 16 team format. We have Bryce Young in 16 team league. There are no starting quarterbacks on the waiverwire. So you
67:37absolutely have to hold on to somebody that we can rely upon. Right. Going over to where we stand at running back. We
67:44are currently sitting with Chase Brown, Saquon Barkley, Jordan Mason. So we have the stud RB1, stud RB2,
67:54wide receiver, Tedo McMillan, Brian Thomas, Quinton Johnson, Michael Pitman, and then tight end we have TJ Hawinson.
68:01So I would say obviously the weakest positions that we have are going to be wide receiver at the top end and then
68:08tight end period. Tight end is garbage.
68:10And I'll be honest with this as well. I am a little concerned about where we stand with this tight end room
68:17considering the fact that our waiverwire at tight end is garbage. Like Aronda Gatston, Eli Sters, Mike Gaseaki.
68:27So if TJ Hawinson repeats what he did last season, there is a very real world scenario in which like you are just
68:35absolutely screwed when it comes to the tight end spot.
68:40because you can't go to the waiver wire and you can't have an easy pivot.
68:44So, that's something that would worry me.
68:48But, oh, Phil's out here in the chat. But yeah, like in terms of making a trade for it, like you can't sell a running
68:59back, you can't sell a receiver. It's a 16 team league, so everybody's going to be weak somewhere, right? So, if you're
69:05going to be weak somewhere, the best place to be weak would be the tight end position. So, realistically, man, I'm going to leave this as is. I don't think
69:14we want to be doing anything with the squad trade-wise. I would be quick to cut Jerry Judy for Aronda Gaston, Eli
69:22Sters, Mike. If they show us anything and anything at all, I'd be quick to cut Jaylen Naylor for like Kron Allen, Malik
69:29Davis as well. Those handcuffed running backs that are potentially an injury away from actually making a difference, but um I think you did what you should have
69:41when it comes to prioritizing the topend running back production and getting startable wide receivers at the same time.
69:50But I really appreciate you and hope that I was able to help you out in some way with this.
69:58Okay, now let's move this over to Chris.
70:01Says, "Hey, brother. Longtime viewer.
70:02Always love the content. I seen I got second on the league rankings. Are there any moves or trades we should make?"
70:08Okay, I'm excited to check this out.
70:12Now, we are the second team. Not only are we the second team, but there's a pretty big drop off from us to like the
70:18mid teams as well.
70:21Um, here we do have Perty on the waiver wire. I'll say Brock Pery is significantly better than a lot of these
70:27other options that you would have on waiverss such as Jordan Love, Malik Willis, Cam Ward. So, what I would probably want to
70:38do here, to be honest, is I'd probably want to pick up Brock Party, like going through and seeing where we stand with our tight end position
70:48currently. I understand we have Jawan Johnson and then nothing behind it other than Chig and maybe Chig like could be playable over Jawan, but I have such low
70:59expectations for Chika Quano. I don't think that he is at any point really going to be somebody that we can be
71:05confident is going to outscore the other guys that we have on the waiverwire at the tight end position.
71:11So, what I would realistically want to do here is I would go through and I'd probably cut Chig and I'd pick up Brock
71:18Perie because there are certain matchups, not this week, but there are certain matchups in which I would just straight up rather have
71:29Pertie over Trevor Lawrence in our lineup. And I would never be able to say that about any of the other quarterbacks
71:34in the Waverwware. So, I make that pivot. And then it's a start eight format. So, running back, wide receiver depth's going to be really important
71:40here. Our lineup consists of Gibbs, Love, Pickings, Higgins, Wadd, Tutin, and then the depth beyond that we have like Godwin, Christian Watson, and
71:49Rashad White. So, if it was a single flex league, I would for sure be trying to go through and sell somebody like say
71:56T Higgins and Jawan Johnson to see if we can get to maybe like an elite tight end like McBride or trying to sell Wadd and
72:03Jawan for Loveland. But because it's a double flex league and it looks like we do need this depth here, um I would
72:10instead keep this as is. Man, I think you got a really good team for this format. I think it's structured incredibly well. I would literally only
72:18cut Chig and pick up Brock Party as I think you'd be more likely in my opinion to go through and start
72:33Brock Pury over Tig based on the construction of your
72:45roster. And then I also think that again if we are looking at what we have with the tight ends on the waiver wire like I
73:04don't think Chig's that much better than any of them. Now let me see from W deck says hey Mason hope everything's well.
73:12My team name is just give me my money.
73:16And I feel pretty good about my team, but I am a bit worried about my flex bots. The league is three wide
73:21receivers, two running backs, and double flex. Okay, so let's go ahead and let's pull this up. So start nine format. So,
73:29it's a little bit of an interesting situation here because if we're looking at where we typically stand in a 10 team
73:40league, I would say, "Oh, okay. Depth's not going to matter, right? Let's just go all in. Let's just go get the best
73:47players that we can at the very top and get yourself an elite quarterback. Get yourself an elite tight end. We're going
73:53to have easy backfield running backs and receivers on the waiverwire."
73:59not the case here because the setup here is it's a start nine format. You have to get three receivers and two flex bots
74:09in. Like right now our two flexes are the combination of Marshon Lloyd and Harold Fannon.
74:19So, like you're in a pretty tough spot when it comes to needing depth. And for
74:31that reason, like you can't push all in to get the elite tight end. You can't push all in to get the elite QB. Now, we
74:38do have Josh Allen. Obviously, we're happy with that. I think the main leverage point that your team is going to have is going to potentially be if
74:47you hit on both of your tight ends because if you do end up hitting on both of your tight ends with the combination
74:54of Craft and Fannon at that point I would very much be wanting to go through and see if we could sell like say Tucker
75:03Craft and Jaylen Warren to get to a significant upgrade at running back. see if you can get to like say Bree Hall,
75:10Javvante Williams, Kairen Williams.
75:13You're not going to be able to do that right now, of course, but um I think as it stands now, you need to
75:20hold on to your depth. But if you do hit on both tight ends, I'd very much be wanting to sell one of the tight ends
75:26for an upgrade at the running back position. But I really appreciate you and hope that I was able to help you out in some way
75:37with this.
75:40Now, let's go over to our next question.
75:41And it's going to be powerless sushi says, "Love the content. Do you have any suggestions on who we should try to
75:47trade for?" Okay, so we are the scatman in this league. We are currently fourth in the league analyzer. It is a two
75:55receiver, one flex format. So, my biggest gripe with your team at the moment, my friend, is going to be the fact that you're sitting in a spot in
76:05which you are rostering one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight wide receivers. I think if you have eight
76:13wide receivers on your team, like there's just no reason for rostering
76:25like Trey Tucker, Jacobe Lane down here at the very bottom. There's almost nothing that can happen for you to go through and put them ahead of Lamb,
76:33Devontto Smith, JMO in your starting lineup. You can only start three of these receivers at the very most. So, for me, I would prefer
76:44rostering the running backs at the very bottom end of our bench.
76:51Like, I think it would be more interesting for us to cut these bottom end wide receivers and see if we can get just backup
76:58Arby's. I would cut Jacobe Lane. I would pick I would cut Trey Tucker. I would pick up Katon Mitchell and Caleb
77:05Johnson. If we get another game in which Romeo Dobs is just a straight up complete dud, then maybe at that point I would also
77:14consider going through and cutting Romeo Dobs to pick up EMTT Johnson. The only reason I wouldn't cut
77:25Romeo Dobs after him giving us the straightup goose egg yesterday is the fact that Like the AJ Brown injury, it sucks. Like
77:40you would think AJ Brown goes down. If I would have told you, hey guys, AJ Brown's going down week one. If I would
77:47have said that before the game, where do you rank Romeo Dobs? You would move Dobs up dramatically your rankings, right?
77:55Like he would be a massive riser. He would be the biggest beneficiary of that.
78:01However, with how bad he looked yesterday, you can't. But anyway, again, I don't think we can cut him just yet because of
78:10the AJ Brown injury.
78:17It'd be damn close, though.
78:25I would just cut the bottom end wide receivers, pick up the top handcuff running backs, and call it a day. and
78:29you'd have a well balanced team, solid across all positions. I don't think you need to make any massive trades with that team. I think you have a good team
78:36here. Again, I would just be interested in potentially going through and probably making that swap
78:51with the construction for the bottom end of the team. But I hope I was able to help you out in some way.
78:59Now, Valiant Storm says, "First time watching Flock, second year of fantasy."
79:04Hell yeah, my guy. Pick sixth in this full PPR, six-point passing touchdown league. Looking forward to watching the Flock for the first time this year.
79:11Thank you so much, my guy. I'm super excited to have you as a member. I'm surprised that um it's awesome. I will
79:19say typically because I'm not advertising or telling people how they can submit their teams.
79:27Um, typically the only people's teams that I'm looking at in these live streams, at least as of right now, are not the new
79:36people because the new people haven't figured out how to submit their teams.
79:39It's only the old people who've been here for a while. So, I'm surprised to see that you've already figured out how
79:44to submit the team, my guy. But I appreciate it and I'm excited to go through and look at this for you.
79:50Now, anyway, this is a spot in which we have Lawrence and Bryce Young at QB. So, not in a great
80:01situation.
80:03We are down here near the bottom of the league when it comes to value. Man, this is a super flex league and quarterback's
80:09pretty damn weak.
80:11Again, we have the combo of Trevor Lawrence and Bryce Young, which in that setup specifically,
80:20like you're just going to be getting outgunned at QB1 most weeks and you're
80:30going to be getting outgunned at QB2 almost every week.
80:36And on top of this, you don't have a QB3 either. So, I'd be concerned here at quarterback running back. Your running back two is
80:47weak with JK Dobbins. Your your running back one's weak as well with Travis CTN.
80:54Here's actually how you got nuked. I'm sorry to say this, my guy. I just now realized it. This is why you have a bad
81:00team. And it's not your fault. You just got unlucky.
81:04But for you to draft Brock Bowers and then get the
81:15Bowowers injury right before the season starts, you were kind of doomed from the get-go.
81:26You just didn't have a chance here, man.
81:31I'm sorry to say that.
81:34And it does suck to say, but you just had a significant hit to your
81:45roster. It's a start 11 league, so the skill personal depth matters so damn much here, man.
81:54You just honestly have to turn into a waiverwire demon because whenever you lose Brock Bowers like this,
82:05you put yourself in a position where you just simply don't have the value to be able to go through and make a
82:11considerable amount of trades.
82:22Like you have to sit on your hands and you just have to hope Bowowers comes
82:37back and is 100% and then he can elevate your team. But man, it's a tough spot there without Bowers in that superflex league. Just because
82:49again, your quarterback positions weak, your running back positions weak when you take the elite tight end. And it may be okay if the elite tight end truly is
82:56elite, but when he's not, it puts you in a really difficult position.
83:03Now, let's move this over to our next one. Doyle no balls knows ball says 10 team full PPR single flex league with
83:10one IR slot. Hey Mason, pretty happy with how the draft turned out but a little nervous about my running backs.
83:16Please let me know your thoughts. Can't wait to see the weekly flock league punishments. I'm going to be honest I was so excited about the punishment idea
83:24that I had. But now that Drake May has absolutely crapped the bed as is, I am now way more concerned than I was.
83:35Okay.
83:39Um, but anyway, looking at this, nervous about our running backs. Let me
83:53know your thoughts. Milk Mile will be goated. It won't be. I mean, it will.
83:59I'm a little bit nervous now. Again, I'm fine doing the Milk Mile. I just don't want to be in a situation in which I'm
84:07having to do like a sing a song or a dance. I that that is honestly what scares me. Um but Okay.
84:42Now, looking at the setup, you do have the number one team in this league. I will say for me personally, I think the
84:50probability that Zack Charbanet makes a difference late in the season is higher than what we have with the probabil I mean sorry is
85:00lower than what we have with the probability of Jordan Tyson. So if we're looking at what player we want on our
85:06injured reserve, I would rather have Jordan Tyson in our injured reserve slot in comparison to Zack Charbanet. So, I
85:16would make that flop here even if you're a little bit shaky at running back. But with them taking Jadarian Price in the
85:22first round, even if Charbanet comes back and he's healthy in the second half of the season, Jarian Price is going to
85:28be the guy. Jerian Price looked good yesterday, too.
85:32Okay. Now, looking at quarterback here, we have the combo of Caleb and Goth. It is a two receiver, one flex format. So,
85:40two wide receiver, one flex. We are very much incentivized to try to build around an elite quarterback and elite tight end
85:46if we can because again the depth not going to matter much here at running back wide receiver. Running back we have
85:52Henry Eten Jerian Price man your running back room strong. I'm not the biggest Derrick Henry guy but I mean this is a
85:59completely fine position to be in at running back.
86:04Now wide receiver we have Jamar Chase Waddle Christian Watson Mike Evans and then we have Bowers at tight end. So, here's the deal.
86:14It sucks to say this. I mean, your team would have been much better before the Bowowers injury. And honestly, after talking with the other creators
86:20yesterday, I actually think I need to move Bowers even further down my ranks, which I'm going to do right now. I'm
86:26still going to have him at tight end, too.
86:29But I think I'm going to move Bowowers down to being like, if we were to draft again today, a third round pick. I think your
86:37team is kind of locked in as is outside of making the Zack Sharpet Jordan Tyson swap for your injured reserve slot.
86:47But what I would look to do is I would probably look at trying to sell like Mike Evans and Caleb
86:59Williams to get to an uptier at quarterback once we get Brock Bowers back in.
87:06And then that also gives us the certainty where we can wait to see if we do have enough depth at wide receiver
87:12and hopefully Mike Evans can acrew some value by that point. So I would eventually look to make a trade in this
87:19kind of format to potentially get an elite quarterback like Allen or Lamar, but I don't think that's something that you can look at doing right this second.
87:30But I really appreciate you and hope that I was able to help you out in some way with this.
87:38Now, let's pull this over to our next one.
87:43Okay, one second.
87:52Okay, this next one's from Sergeant Quail.
87:58says 10 team standard reddraft league.
88:04How does this roster look for a standard league format? Any specific trades I should look at or waiverwire moves I should prioritize. Again, assuming we
88:14are under the same assumption that a standard league is a nonPPR format, we want to be fading wide receiver, fading
88:26tight ends, and built around running backs and hopefully an elite QB just because they're going to be able to take advantage of that scoring format.
88:34Now, let me find our team. And right now, we are the number one team in the league analyzer at wide receiver, which
88:42does scare me.
88:43Quarterback, we are currently sitting with Lamar Jackson. I really like having Lamar Jackson. Again, specifically in a nonPPR format. It is also a 10 team, two
88:55receiver, one flex. So 10 team, two receiver, one flex. Lamar is going to make up a very high percentage of our
89:00starting lineup output.
89:02Going over to running back, we have Genty and Judkins. My concern is if this is a nonPPR format, what we need to try
89:10to optimize for is touchdown upside, touchdown upside, touchdown upside.
89:16And if we're looking at where we stand with these two running backs, they play for the Browns and the Raiders.
89:24I don't necessarily know if that is the most exciting pair to go after for touchdown upside touchdown upside touchdown upside.
89:36Now going over to what we have for wide receiver. We are currently sitting with Jamar Chase,
89:47Malik Neighbors, Garrett Wilson, Christian Watson.
89:56We have Casey Conception as well. Here's the thing. Again, in a nonPR format, I'm probably starting Jaylen Warren over Garrett Wilson. I would love to go
90:05through and try to sell like Wilson and one of our running backs for a significant upgrade.
90:11Like I know you have running back depth pieces which I love that you're building around and I think that is very smart
90:16but like is there a way you could go Jaylen Warren and Garrett Wilson and see if we can get up to say the combination
90:24like Javvante Williams. I think this would be an absolute no-brainer in this style league. Again, no brainer.
90:37But I like that we have the elite quarterback and you have a ton of value on this team as well. I would just try
90:43to maybe move a little of the wide receiver production over to a little more value across running back. I would say also QB, but
90:53you've already done a good job in this kind of league getting a quarterback there. But I really appreciate you and hope I was able to help you out. And
91:00again, if you were able to make that two for one deal, you could pick up Wandell for free. But obviously, we can safely
91:08say that Wandelle is just much less interesting in a non-PR format than he would be in a full PPR league.
91:16Okay, now let's go over to our next question here. This next one's going to be from Sinarius.
91:26Says, "Happy with my team. just looking for a better flex option since I don't trust Mike Evans. Okay, I'll say again,
91:33it isn't that big of a deal if we end up having to just wait and see what Mike Evans looks like, right?
91:42Like if we see Mike Evans look solid tonight, maybe all of a sudden you feel
91:52completely different about it. Now, we are currently in a setup in which I think there's a very easy waiverwire pivot for us to make.
92:01I mean, if we are currently sitting with Katon Mitchell on our roster, in my opinion, there is a 0% chance that Katon
92:11Mitchell ends up beating out say Amari and Hampton.
92:24I would personally probably want to go through and probably want to pivot from Katon Mitchell over instead to like Chris Rodriguez where maybe it's
92:35unlikely. But I do think that there is a chance in which Rodriguez is a better option
92:45if we needed a desperation start at running back and he could beat out Bashel too and that is in the range of
92:51outcomes. So, I would cut Katon Mitchell. I would pick up Rodriguez.
92:56Obviously, assuming Tank Dell's on the IR. If he's not on the IR, you cut him for Jacobe Myers in a heartbeat. And
93:03then in terms of our starting lineup after this, I would agree with you. Like maybe Mike Evans isn't the strongest flex play, but what would the deal be to
93:11get off of him? Like it's not like you have a name down there on your bench that has a tremendous amount of trade
93:17value that you'd easily be able to go through and trade with Evans to get to an upgrade.
93:39like nobody's sending you an elite receiver for Jonathan Brooks and Mike Evans or for Jordan Mason and Mike Evans. So, I think you may have to wait
93:47until after week one and maybe if you get a pop from one of those running backs, then at that point you could go
93:53through and you could look at making a move like that.
94:08But for now, I would make that one simple waiverwire pivot. Wait until after you get a running back pop. And then at that point, maybe you have a
94:15little bit more flexibility for you to go through and for you to actually make a trade there where we are upgrading at
94:21the flex. But until then, I don't think you can.
94:24Now, let's move this over to fantasy linebacker. Says, "Not listed rule. Must start a rookie in one flex spot." That is hilarious.
94:33So, obviously, if you have to start a rookie in one flex spot, um you are very much going to be in a position in which
94:41you are heavily incentivized to go through and get a top rookie on your team.
94:52We are 99 problems, but Bejon But a Bejon won.
94:59Let me see if I can find our team in the league analyzer. Does look like we changed our team name. We're the Justin
95:05Herbert team.
95:07We have Bejon and Bree. So yeah, I would expect us to be the number one team in the league with value in terms of
95:18the league analyzer, which does look to be the case.
95:23quarterback. We have the combo of Justin Herbert, Brock Party.
95:31So, we can just play the matchups here quite comfortably, right? Running back, we have Bejan Bree, Jeremiah Love. Man, the League Analyzer has you as the third
95:39best team in this league, but I would reiterate if this is a spot in which you have to start a rookie in your flex.
95:56Some of your league mates are going to be starting the grossest names possible and you are just going to have a
96:01significant advantage by having Jeremiah love there.
96:27So man, you got an incredible team. We have McGomery in our second flex spot.
96:31Wide receiver, we have Lad Watson, Evans, we have Concincaid. This is a perfect team. Literally unbelievable.
96:38This is best case scenario here.
96:41It's like even down there on the bench, we are optimizing for those running backs that could spike if you see an
96:47injury in front of them, man. Perfect team. I don't do a single thing.
96:54If you end up getting like say Ashen Genty reinjuring his ankle, then maybe at that point you could go
97:05through and you could decide, oh, all right, let me see if we can maybe m move Mike Washington and Dalton
97:17Concade and get a significant upgrade at tight end. Like maybe there becomes a trade available if one of our bench running backs spikes in value. But until
97:28then, this is again like best case scenario with the team. You are in a phenomenal spot here.
97:37But I wouldn't do a single thing. I freaking love it.
97:44Okay, now I have gotten through a lot of team reviews, but what we need to make sure we do before the games kick off
97:52today, right, is we need to make sure we answer all the start, set, and trade questions. So, I'm going to pull up the
97:57start, set it, and trade questions on the site, but I do also want to make sure that we are able to get to a lot of
98:03the people in the live chat right now.
98:06and send y'all over free questions as well. So, please, if you are in the live chat right now and you want to enter in
98:14to win some um free questions for these live streams, all you need to do is drop a like on the stream and then type your
98:24flockfantasy.com username into the live chat. You do those two things. you drop a like on the stream, you type your flockfantasy.com
98:32username into the chat. We will be able to go through and send over a couple free questions to people hanging out
98:37with us right now. So, let me pull up the sites where we can find your names.
98:46And also, after I updated my rankings here, I want to see who has the most valuable team.
98:59in the flock league. And who's gotten nuked?
99:03The editors, Staxs and Stone, Nathan.
99:05I'm surprised Zufa didn't fall harder with me nuking Brock Bowers in the ranks.
99:11But anyway, let's go through. Um, five merge says, "How many days behind are the reviews? One day. If you submitted a
99:19team review on flockfantasy.com today, most likely it should be reviewed tomorrow.
99:25If you submit a worst case scenario, it's reviewed on Saturday, but um good chance it is today. Now, let's send over
99:34some free questions to Zeboast who says his claims that his team is goated here, but let me go ahead and see if I can
99:43find you on the site, my friend.
99:44Appreciate you hanging out with us in the chat. Did I spell that correctly? I did spell that correctly. I cannot find
99:51you. I don't know if you use code flock when you signed up. If not, you should be able to add it to your account page.
99:57Um, and that way I can find you next time. Now, let me see if I can find KN.
100:04Just found you, my guy. Really appreciate you and excited to go through and check out your stuff. I see that you've been with us for a very long
100:12time, which I very much appreciate that, my guy. And I just went ahead and sent you over some free questions. Now, let's
100:18send this over to Seth 816 as well. we'll send you over some free questions.
100:25Just found you and just sent some stuff in your direction. Really appreciate you hanging out with us. I see that you've
100:31been um with us for a while as well.
100:34Thank you, my guy. Now, let's go over to Culio here for the flex. We need to look
100:42at starting one of Roma, Janelle, and Godwin. You're going to go ahead and probably play Godwin with this just being the perfect matchup for him.
100:53Fantasy Wizard trading Evans for Alec Pierce. It' be a horrendous trade. You want Mike Evans and it's not close. Prao trading Caleb to down tier to Goff. Bree
101:02to stay the same with Jeremiah Love and Concaid to go to Coulson Lovelin. For me, I would prefer the Caleb Williams
101:11side of this with this being a superflex format in particular. one quarterback format maybe a little bit different but um super flex give me Caleb.
101:22Okay, now J Shep here for the flex.
101:33Your best running back would be Rashad White which would be gross. Our best wide receiver which would be Mai Lemon would be gross as well. I actually
101:41probably play Mai Lemon that you are maybe the only person all week I'm going to tell to play Lemon. But here's the
101:48deal with Rashad White.
101:51The Commanders project to be one of the worst offenses in the league this year.
101:59And on top of that, you sprinkle in the fact that we don't even know if he is going to have a large role. Like, he could just
102:10be the full-blown backup running back in this backfield.
102:15So, yeah, very tough spot for me to ever go through and suggest that somebody plays Rashad White there. I would not.
102:24Um, now a zip here for the flex. We're looking at Hubard or Godwin. I'm going to go Godwin because Jonathan Brooks
102:32going to play. Brooks was going to miss.
102:33I'd go Hubard.
102:35Now, our next one from B. Hansen trading away Quinton Johnson to Alec Pierce.
102:40Slight down tier. Marshall Lloyd to Tucker Craft. Probably prefer Craft.
102:44Looking at tight end, we have Brock Bowers, though. So, man, I don't know.
102:48Like, I'll mark this as like kind of a win-win deal. But here's the situation.
102:55Do you need Tucker Craft if you have Bowers? What happens if Bowowers is back in three weeks? And that's how long it
103:01takes Tucker Craft to ramp up with his knee.
103:05If I have Brock Bowers, like definitely, don't get me wrong, I'm investing off in a tight end off the waiverwire. I'll go
103:12after one quite aggressively, but at the same time, I don't necessarily think that you need to go through and you need to trade for a
103:20tight end such as Tucker Craft. Again, I don't think that's a necessity here.
103:29Now, let's go over to our next question.
103:31This is going to be Dur Plan here. Our best name on the bench currently, if we were to swap somebody out, it' probably
103:37be Blake Cororm, but yeah, no way in hell you're getting Blake Cororm in that lineup. Good team. Leave it as is. Dude,
103:44it's Devin here. Currently, our best name on the bench if we were to get somebody in would be Quinton Johnston.
103:51And I actually would play Quinton Johnson over actually no you have to go Quinton Johnson in the um in wide receiver. And then the question is do we
104:00play Harold Fannon or one of these other names in the flex? I would play Jordan Addison over Harold Fannon personally.
104:07One, I never want to flex the tight ends.
104:11And two, on top of that, like the Cleveland Browns project to score 16
104:24points.
104:31So I think I would have to have lowered expectations.
104:41Okay.
104:47Now our next question is going to be coming out from Matt V here. double flex
105:00play Bucky for sure and then Christian Watson as well. Watson over Terry for me easily based on how bad the commanders
105:07offense projects like if you can avoid it bench all your commanders. I'm afraid the commanders are going to look like how the Patriots did yesterday.
105:16Now Lil Arurer starting Caleb at quarterback. Running back we have DeAndre Swift. Wide receiver London Tigens are our auto starts. Tight end
105:24Andrews with no Bowers. And then in the flex spots, we're gonna go Brian Thomas.
105:29Actually, damn. We're gonna go B shell Tutin over Brian Thomas. And then it kind of comes down to do we want the guy
105:37that we know what his role is going to look like with Terry McLuren or do instead we want to maybe go through and
105:43bank on the upside of the offense of Brian Thomas. Week one, I probably play Terry McLaren here. Again, I wouldn't be
105:52that excited to do so, but it is what it is. Now, Clover's trading away Pickkins to Nico Collins lateral move, but Jaylen
106:00Wadd to Crystal Lave is an uptier. So, yes, I would go ahead and I would make this trade.
106:08Now, our next question is going to be from Seahawks fan. Tight end, we're looking at Jawan Johnson or George KD.
106:14I'm going to go Jawan Johnson this week because I think Jawan is going to smash.
106:20Obviously, we need to be slightly hesitant with how we rank George KD as of right now. Um, I still like KD. I'm
106:29not gonna say that you can't go through and play him. Obviously, you can, but I don't know. Um, Jawan Johnson with no
106:40Jordan Tyson is going to have such a large role in this offense.
106:45Now, Valiant Storm here, it's a start 11 league. And in that last flex spot, we're looking at Dobbins, Algier, or Aaron Jones. I hate the match up for
106:56Dobbins. I hate the fact that he's also not going to catch the ball.
107:01But with that being said, like
107:11Tyler Algier is unstartable assuming that you do get Jeremiah Love playing and Jeremiah Love good to go. Like there's no way that you
107:22could go through and put Algier in your lineup.
107:26Okay, now our next question is going to be from CMC trading away ETN
107:35and Christian Watson for Nico Collins.
107:46Okay, for me I have ETN and Christian Watson on my own team and I would not make this
107:57trade, but that is because I am playing in a 12 team start eight format where the depth does indeed matter.
108:06Your situation's a little bit different.
108:08It's a 10 team league. Your running back room looks good. So, in a 10 team league where also your options on the
108:15waiverwire are going to be better as well. Yeah, let's go ahead and let's make this move.
108:21Okay.
108:24Now, and we just got official word AJ Brown four weeks. Let me see what the report is. Thank you for letting me know, chat.
108:32Um, if they're telling us four weeks right now, that's literally at the minimum four weeks. It could be a lot more.
108:44AJ Brown from Rapaort expected to miss at least four weeks.
108:52Let me see if I can find a video of Rapaort talking about this. Okay, perfect. Let me get this ready for
108:59y'all.
109:03I need to Twitter's become unusable on Safari. I can only use it on Chrome and I haven't gotten used to that yet. Okay,
109:10so let's watch this. This is the Ian Rapaort statement regarding um these guys and I don't know if we can watch it
109:18if there is gameplay, but y'all can hear this.
109:21>> Yeah, certainly a scary situation. Went from the field to the blue tent to the hospital to get a CT scan because after
109:28the X-ray there's no CT scan in the stadium. Also had an MRI today. A battery of tests for Sam Darnold. My
109:34understanding is this is as good as anyone could have possibly expected.
109:39Dodged a bullet in the words of one source. So Darnold, who is dealing with what is described as a hip injury, did
109:45not suffer a fracture. That is one thing that the test ruled out. That is a good thing. Is expected to miss next week's
109:52game. So Drew Lock going to get the start. But after that, actually from last night's game has 17 days until week
109:58three against the Commanders. At least there is a shot at that one. Either way, just a couple weeks for Darnold. And
110:03then for AJ Brown, the Patriots star receiver. He had an MRI earlier today to confirm the initial diagnosis, which was a high ankle sprain. MRI, I'm told, did
110:10in fact confirm that. AJ Brown expected to be out at least four weeks. So, at least four weeks for the New England
110:14Patriots. Ankle sprains are generally four to six. It depends on how he is healing, but the Patriots moving forward are not going to have their star
110:19receiver.
110:20>> God, that sucks.
110:24Let me go through and let me update. Let me show y'all where I had AJ Brown in my rankings as of this morning.
110:36And I think I get to play the AJ Brown owner, which is the dev team in week four. So, I think I get to play them
110:46with no AJ Brown. So, let me I'll pull this up, but I need to make a clip for the Flock League.
110:53Absolutely devastating injury news. Sam Darnold is going to be missing week two.
110:57So, what I did is I ran over, looked at my week two opponent, and went, "Oh, he has JSN." Check, please. Then I heard,
111:04"Oh, AJ Brown's going to be out at least four weeks." Naturally, what did I do? I went, "Oh, um, let me scurry the
111:10schedule, figure out when I'm playing the AJ Brown owner." So, it's in week four.
111:16Yeah, Drake May fumbled the bag for us.
111:19Not going to lie. But it does look like our defense is coming to fruition yet again.
111:28Okay. Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry you had to see that.
111:31Sorry you had to see me acting a fool, but it had to be done. Had to be done. Let me go ahead and send that clip
111:40in the Flock League chat.
111:47Okay.
111:52And I just pulled up my rankings of where we had AG Brown before this. Let me go ahead and scroll. AJ Brown, what I
112:00had updated him for is I had updated him to wide receiver 21 in my rankings.
112:12Now, after we get the word that he is officially out at least four weeks, keep in mind that's weeks 2, three,
112:21four, five, he probably misses week six, seven if they're telling us already today that it's at least four. When's
112:29the AG When's the Patriots by week?
112:36Patriots have a week 11 buy. I don't want to extrapolate too far, but I was going to say maybe it sucks that
112:44they don't have like a week five buy where obviously he was going to miss that week regardless this point. Who would y'all rather have,
112:56AJ Brown or DJ Moore? Spam the chat.
113:01AJ Brown or DJ Moore, who would you rather have in your fantasy league?
113:11Please let me know.
113:23We got more AJ Brown. More more Brown.
113:26More uh more Brown.
113:29More more more Brown. More more more.
113:34What about Agy? Which again, I agree with that. I just moved AJ Brown below DJ Moore. What about AJ Brown versus
113:42Christian Watson?
113:45AJ Brown or Christian Watson? Who would you rather have in your league?
113:56And God, this freaking nukes Zua Zufa's team.
114:01I'm sorry. Yeah, I I actually need to delete that. I no this manukes the devs team. Zufad Brock Bowers. It's getting a
114:10little confused. Okay, we got Brown.
114:12Brown. Brown. Brown. Brown. Brown.
114:13Brown. Okay. Looks like everybody is on the AJ Brown side. So, I'm going to leave AJ Brown pencled out there at like
114:18wide receiver 26. The thing with these injured guys is every week that goes on, I'm going to move him up my rankings a
114:25little bit higher whenever he is closer to returning from his injury. So, like next week he'll probably be at wide receiver 24, I mean 23ish. The week
114:34after he'll probably move up to wide receiver 20-ish. The week after wide receiver 18. The week after wide receiver 15 to the point where when he
114:43is back, he'll probably be back around wide receiver 12. So, when these guys first get injured, I'm nuking them in my
114:49rankings. And then slowly but surely, every week that goes by and they get closer to playing, we move them up.
114:58But let me go ahead and update that and let's move over to the start sit question here. We need a tight end
115:08between Craft and Jawan Johnson. Jawan Johnson for me is pro like again the more we look at it the more I get
115:15excited about the ability to start Jawan Johnson this week.
115:24Okay.
115:28Now Lil Gupta trading away Reed and Harold Fannon for DK Mechaf.
115:36We have Lovelin so we don't need Fannon.
115:38So I'm fine if you wanted to do this but I would assume that you could probably get more value.
115:45Okay.
115:46Now our next one's from no Instagram.
115:49longtime member of the flock here says, "Hey, Mason, I'm trying to get the wide receiver down to either JO or Burden,
115:55but should I just take JT and run 10 team league wide receiver?"
116:00Afterwards, you'd have JSN, Burden, JMO, and Brian Thomas as your wide receiver.
116:06Four, and you have three startable running backs. So, here's the deal. This trade, the valuewise is definitely on the Amari and Hampton. Again, like you
116:15were mentioning, if you could keep Devont Smith and instead it's Jameson Williams, then it flips to the Taylor side. But I am fine with you making this
116:24trade regardless if they're playing hard ball and they won't go through and send you
116:42JT for Hampton and JO.
116:50you can't accept the other one. It's a 10 team format, so it is close. But I will say for like a 12 team league, like
116:58if it was the flock league, I have Jonathan Taylor and I would sell him for Jonathan Taylor and Devont Smith in a
117:03heartbeat.
117:05Now Dut with our next start set. This is Jawan Johnson or Michael Mayer and Dalton Schultz. It's Jawan Johnson easily. Jawan Johnson set up the smash.
117:14This team's going to have to throw the ball a ton and at the same time they have no Jordan Tyson.
117:19Now Jace with our next question. Um this is Genty Price AJ Brown for Bree Scat and
117:29Jefferson. Jefferson best player in the deal. And now that I've nuked AJ Brown in my ranks, yes, I would go ahead and
117:36do this. I wouldn't have done this yesterday morning. I'll tell you that much. But now very very different setup.
117:44Okay. Now, our next one's also from Jace. Start sit. Right now, our best player down here on the bench is gonna
117:53be Jordan Addison. If you were to get Addison in your lineup, you'd have to take out like Bay Shell Tutin, which
117:58we're not going to do. So, leave that as is.
118:01Now, our next question coming out from Retro Trading Higgins and DJ Moore for Drake London and Tua. This is a superflex format
118:12where quarterback you are garbage. I would have said easily the Tua and Drake London side in the superflex league
118:21before the Tua injury today.
118:26Now that we had that Tua injury, it's much tougher for me to go through and tell you to make that deal. So again,
118:34this is now going to be up to you.
118:38But I think a lot of it is going to come down to what ends up happening with Tua.
118:55Okay.
118:58And I wouldn't make a trade until we know that two is healthy and two is playing this week. Let me go ahead. And
119:03honestly, I know this annoys y'all, but I'm going to do it anyway because this is legitimately what I would do if I was
119:11sponsored or not. I wouldn't show it on the live stream if I wasn't sponsored, but I promise you I would do this if I
119:17was sponsored or not. Trying to figure out like the injury stuff on if a quarterback like that's going to be playing.
119:26The easiest way to go about it is seeing what where is the money going, right?
119:34Where do the prediction markets have it?
119:37Because that's where the sharpest money is going to be and that's where we can actually see changes over time. So, here's my read with the TUA stuff. And I
119:46know y'all gonna roll your eyes, but before we got the report of Tua being injured,
119:55we had Atlanta Pittsburgh 64% chance for Pittsburgh, 37% chance for Atlanta to win this game. The second we got the word that Tua may be missing, I know
120:06y'all don't like Tua, but the percent chance that Atlanta wins did drop considerably down to 32%. So, this tells me this Tua
120:16injury is something.
120:19It's definitely not nothing. So, and again, every time I show this, I do have to say this for regulations, but of
120:26course, we are sponsored by Poly Market US. If y'all wanted to check out any of this stuff on Poly Market US, it's
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120:39$50 added to your account after you play your first I'm sorry after you deposit your first 10.
120:46But anyway, let's go over to starving Marvin quarterback. I'm going to go with between Perty and Baker. It's incredibly difficult. Baker has the much better
120:56matchup between the two of these guys.
121:00If we are looking at Pury going up against the Rams defense, he's also playing on the other side of the planet.
121:05Baker gets to go up against a really soft Cincinnati team where the overunder is 50 and a half points.
121:13So, it's damn close. I have them like three spots apart. I still probably go pretty, but I wouldn't fault you at all
121:19for going Baker. And then in this flex spot, we have to play Chris Godwin most likely, unless they tell us, "Hey, Roman
121:28Dun is 100% with no hold up at all."
121:31Now, moving over to Fantasy Wizard again, Mike Evans over Alec Pierce, and it's not even remotely close for me.
121:37Salty trading away James Cook upgrading to Bejon. Rasheed Rice downgrading to AJ Brown. Based on the latest word we have with AJ Brown, it is a tough trade to
121:48make.
121:50It depends on what you'd be starting at receiver. This would be your wide receiver room after.
121:57I would hold on to James Cook and Rasheed Rice right now because you not only have the injury question mark regarding AJ Brown himself, but if Tua
122:06and Michael Penn are both injured, it does negatively impact Bon.
122:13Now Sam says for the tight end spot, Mayor Ferg Schultz and Jooku or Waller.
122:18Well, first for quarterback, Kyler over Mahomes this week based on matchup. Wide receiver play neighbors for sure. Tight end, I will go Michael Mayer over the
122:27Actually, no. Michael Mayer, Jake Ferg, incredibly close. Like I am maybe very excited to see Michael Mayer. Really good prospect. I want to believe he's a
122:36really good player. I probably play Michael Mayer to be honest because the thing is as well, this team has Cousins has nobody else to throw the ball to.
122:43And then in the flex, I'm going to go Christian Watson over DJ Moore this week with DJ Moore having a really tough
122:48match up against Houston.
122:51Now, let's move this over to Monk trading away Brian Thomas for Parker Washington. 99% of people will tell you to go Parker Washington here. I have
123:00them ranked backtoback. I personally still prefer Brian Thomas, but I want to be very clear and very honest with you.
123:10I am on an island. I am one of the very few people that would prefer Brian Thomas, which most likely means that I
123:18am wrong. So, I'm going to mark both sides as a winner because it is up to your personal preference. Now, Lakey
123:24Flush, you start quarterback. Running back, you're going to go with the combo of Chase Brown as well as um a probably
123:30Bree Hall here. That spread on that game is only a point and a half. Wide receiver and Puka your auto starts tight
123:37end KD over Hawinson. And then in the flex we're going to go with Nico Collins quite comfortably.
123:44Now our next question that we have is going to be from Kim says, "Am I trading Gibbs and Flowers for JT and Hampton?"
123:53Gibbs to JT clear downgrade. Flowers to Hampton clear upgrade. Depends um how bad you need a you need a running back.
124:00Your wide receiver room's loaded and your running back room is very weak.
124:03though. Um, hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate trading away Jamir Gibbs, but yeah, I probably do so in this
124:12instance.
124:13Now CK here for the flex. We have Wadd, Christian Watson, Godwin, and Wandale.
124:24I'm going to go Waddle. I don't like it though because Wadd has a tougher matchup than Watson.
124:30But I think I would be very like if I told you to go Watson there, I don't think you can trust me given the
124:38fact I have Watson on my own team.
124:41Okay, now Purple Cow with our next one.
124:44Trading away Raadre and Jaylen Wadd for Kairen Williams and AJ Brown.
124:53Okay.
124:58Raadre to Kirn, clear upgrade. Waddle to Brown, clear downgrade. Here's the deal with this man.
125:07You have to make it because it's such a shallow format that you're going to easily be able to backfill the depth of
125:14AJ Brown with no problem here.
125:17So, you have to go ahead and do this where maybe in another spot it wouldn't make sense for somebody else.
125:25Now, Lee Fantasy with our next one.
125:31Okay, real quick. Let me refresh this.
125:34Um, Titans, we go KD over Schultz pretty easily. And then Flexbot, I'm going Watson over Thomas and Brooks pretty easily as well.
125:44Okay, now lick my Tate here for the flex.
125:51You play either Pitman or Quinton Johnson. I'm probably going to go with Quinton Johnston. I know this is such they're like right next to each other in
125:59my rankings and I know this is such a minor tier break between them but I will say that
126:07um if we are looking at say Michael Pitman I almost think it's worse and again I know this is such a small
126:19thing and you shouldn't do your deal based on this but I do think that if Tua misses, the Pittsburgh Steelers
126:32may not have to throw the ball very often. They may be able to just run the ball consistently in the second half.
126:37Like it may just be the ugliest game ever if the Atlanta Falcons are really rolling out with a third string quarterback,
126:44which I will say it is a crazy thing for you to be rolling out with a third string quarterback week one.
126:54Week one going with the third string is ludicrous.
126:58Now Gifty here at quarterback between Lamar and Mahomes, you go Lamar easily this week. running back Walker, Chase Brown, your auto starts. Going over to
127:07wide receiver, we are going to have the combo of Puka, Flowers, Wilson. Tight ends, we go KD or Jawan
127:18Johnson. I may go Jawan Johnson to be honest. And then in the flex spot, you are going to go Mike Evans. I'd actually
127:23put Evans where Wilson is though and put Wilson in the flex just because anybody who plays early, we would rather not put
127:30them in the flex spot just in case something happens with one of our other players later.
127:36But let me go ahead and look at this for GMOD trading away Walker
127:44Neighbors for James Cook and Josh Allen.
127:49Quarterback, we have Dart and Kyler.
127:51Here's the deal. If this was a really shallow format, I'd probably want to make this move.
127:58If this was a really shallow league, I think you would go through. I think you would.
128:05Just take the best running back in the deal and the elite quarterback. But this is a double flex 12 team league, so the
128:11depth is going to matter. And you're just fine playing the matchups between Dart and Kyler. So, I would not do it in
128:19your league settings here. I think you hold on to Kenneth Walker and Malik Neighbors. Now, Reyes, um, didn't submit a trade question here, at least not
128:27properly. I'm going to send you over another free trade question voucher so you can resubmit whenever you want.
128:31Beto, always happy to see you. My guest says, "Hey, Mason, I am devastated with the AJ Brown injury. Bad punishment if I
128:37come in." Oh, I'm sorry, man.
128:42AJ Brown injury. Not only bad punishment if we come in last, but I just realized we are frozen. Let me switch that
128:50around. But on top of this, you are in a situation in which do you have Drake May and AJ Brown?
129:02If you have May and AJ Brown, man, like Breeze Tudin at running back, wide
129:12receiver, AJ Brown, St. Brown, tight ends, you have Lovelind Flex.
129:18I mean, I guess you're starting like Quinton Johnson and R.J. Harvey. Here's the deal, man. It absolutely sucks.
129:27I think you honestly may need to go through and you may need to dear God.
129:38You may need to sell Coulson Lovel to backfill running back wide receiver depth. running back wide receiver depth in that league matters and you are in a
129:46horrible spot.
129:49Now Gstack says Adams for Swift straight up thin at running back. Yes, if you're thin at running back, go ahead and make
129:54that move. Big Mo here for the flex between Cardinal Tate or Chuba Hubard.
129:59Um I'm probably going to go with Hubard here. Good game environment against the Bears.
130:05Um obviously if they tell us before that game gets kicked off, hey just heads up, Jonathan Brooks, good to Jonathan Brooks
130:12is the starter, yada yada yada, then I will reserve the ability to change my mind on that, but I would look to avoid
130:20starting Cardell Tate if we can. Of course, easier said than done in a lot of spots. Now, Flock Nasty says, "What
130:27do you think about this trade? Us down tiering from Higgins to Devonte Adams and us up tiering from Montgomery to Breeze Hall.
130:41I'm not the biggest breeze guy, but I do like the value here. I'm fine with you making this. I'll say you may end up
130:48looking like an idiot this week, though, because specifically this week, I mean, you are truly just going to have I mean, a T. Higgins master class. T.
131:01Higgins is about to go insane.
131:08Now thin blue line with our next team here. Trading away Cardell Tate for David McGomery. I would do this
131:18Ryan going AJ Brown and Chig to Luther Burden Tucker Craft. I would rather have Luther Burden over AJ Brown right now.
131:27So yes, go ahead and make this move.
131:31Yes, I think you should.
131:33Okay, now our next one's T-Benz tight end between KD and Jawan Johnson.
131:41I'm going to go Jawan Johnson this week.
131:43And then you go Waddle down here in the flex over like Marshon Lloyd. Um Waddle, tough matchup, but you're pretty damn
131:48confident he's going to be used as the wide receiver one there. Now Nick 444.
131:53Real quick, I need to text um the editors. We're going to do another um watch party for tonight's game on the
132:01Flock League YouTube channel.
132:14Okay.
132:16Kairen and JMO two Justin Jefferson.
132:18It's Jefferson. It's not close. 10 team, two receiver, one flex league. You get the best player and you run. Massive remark here in the flex. We are looking
132:27at Jonathan Brooks or Tyler Algier. Very clear for me. It is Jonathan Brooks if Jeremiah Love plays. If Jeremiah Love misses, it's Tyler Algier. Very, very
132:37clear move. Now, Aaron Whale here for the flex.
132:43We're going to go ahead and we are going to play most likely between Chris Godwin, Brian Thomas. I have them ranked
132:48effectively backtoback. I think you can flip a coin. If you ask me this question a hundred times, I may give you 50
132:54answers one way, 50 answers the other way. But and yeah, we just got an additional update with AJ Brown that he could miss
133:02up to six weeks, which again is the expectations there.
133:06There's discussions on if short-term IR stint will be required. Um I bet he probably finds himself on the short-term IR.
133:15Okay. Yeah. So, we're going to do the watch party um on the Flock League channel, which I'm super excited about to be honest with y'all. I mean, now it
133:23means that I'm live streaming like eight hours a day, which my health is gonna take a massive hit this football season. It's just like
133:34it's just going to there's no getting around it.
133:38Um like I'm not working out at all anymore at this point, which is the first time in my life I can say that since I was 16
133:49years old.
133:51But I'm not working out at all. I'm eating bad. I'm sitting at a desk for 16 hours a day.
134:02I'm going to be looking rough by the end of this football season. I'm going to be looking rough.
134:10Okay. But FJ trading Swift Lloyd Washington for Neighbors. Man, it's a nine team league.
134:19Go get the best player. Go get Malik Neighbors.
134:23Now, South Florida Doug, I'm sorry, South Florida dog. You play Hampton. Hampton's like the smash running back of the week playing against
134:31the Cardinals. Wide receiver Neighbors seems like he's a mustart name as well.
134:35And I'm going to go Travis ETN down here in the flex with a super highscoring game environment. But Neighbors has a
134:39great matchup. And correct me if I'm wrong, chat, but everything that I've been told is that Malik Neighbors is going to be a-ok. Okay. And he's going
134:50to be playing tomorrow. I mean, Sunday night.
134:56Okay.
135:03Now, our next one from Banana Blaster is Gainwell London for Hampton Tyson.
135:10London to Hampton. Give me Hampton.
135:12Gainwell to Tyson. Tyson's a zero if you don't have an Irish slot, but I really like him in the second half of the year.
135:17So I would go ahead and I would take the Amari and Hampton side of this especially if Tua is now injured.
135:26Balln knower trading away Dvont Smith and Tyler Warren for Bashel Tutin and Brock Bowers.
135:34Warren de Bowers is still an upgrade.
135:36Devont Smith to Tutin is such a downgrade though I would not do if Bowowers was really only going to miss two weeks then it's the Bower side here
135:44pretty clearly. But if you're trading for Bowers, I think you need the deal to make sense even if he misses a month.
135:59So I again I like the stones of somebody
136:18coming through and saying, "Hey, I'm going to go and get Brock Bowers right now, but if you're doing it, we need a
136:24big discount."
136:27Now, retro with our next question. We need help with our superflex spot between Cousins and Penn. I mean, PennX just simply isn't going to play. So,
136:37obviously, you have Cousins here. And then down in the flex, oh, we need to I guess we just kind of filled this out
136:43wrong. Go Bejian Robinson here at running back. And then down in the flex, we're looking at like Christian Watson, Brian Thomas, or Quinton Johnson, or one
136:50of the running backs. You go Christian Watson here. Again, no Jonathan Brooks.
136:54Week one, my expectations are Christian Watson rocks it.
136:59I am very biased and honestly I am I would have I'm gonna look this up off the stream. So I'm just gonna do it on
137:06the stream with y'all as well anyway because I want to see what do the market makers have Christian Watson at right now on Poly Market US. They have
137:23obviously it close to being a 50-50 coin flip. Who wins the game? I mainly want to see the Christian Watson stuff.
137:32God dang, my monitor keeps going out.
137:36But anyway, right now receiving yards, Christian Watson, they have a 58% chance he has 50 or more. 36% chance for 60 or
137:44more.
137:50I I like them. I'm going to start them.
137:52And obviously, I have to put this disclaimer on the screen every time I pull that up. Um, sponsored by Poly Market US, obviously. Now, let me go
138:02over to our next one.
138:05Next batch of questions going to be led off with Eric here trading away Henry and Diggs for Genty and Ibuka. Henry to
138:12Genty upgrade. Digs to Eggbuka upgrade.
138:16Nob brainer. You do this in a heartbeat.
138:19Dubzilla here for the flex.
138:24Luther Burton.
138:26Like here's the deal. Luther Burton I think you have to start. DJ Moore has a tough matchup. And then obviously if we
138:33go ahead and we look at Jeremiah Love, Cardinals project out to be horrendous.
138:38Jeremiah Love coming off a high ankle sprain. Like it would be nice to avoid Jeremiah Love if you can.
138:51Let me look at where I put Love versus DJ Moore in my flex rankings. this week.
138:55This is why I literally had to look up where they are. I have Love at 51, DJ Moore at 50 in my flex rankings this
139:04week. It's so damn close. I think it's close to the point where you really need to be just listening to what's coming out of Arizona because
139:12Jeremiah Love very easily could be the right call. But I think here we probably go DJ Moore.
139:20Okay, now our next one's gonna be from Dana.
139:30And real quick, let me give a shout out.
139:31I see Derek out in the chat. If you all don't know, Dererick has been a member of the flock for um ever since I've been
139:37alive pretty much. It's been so long.
139:39But anyway, Dana, play KD over Michael Mayer today. Wide receiver, we're going to go ahead. We're going to take Godwin over Brian Thomas and Well given the
139:47match up against Cincy. But Ibuka did practice in full. So with Ibuka practicing in full, I'm pumped. Now Devin P here for the flex. It's either
139:59Quinton Johnson. We're going to go Bay Shalt Tutin. I think you play the running back where his team's an eight and a half point favorite. They're going
140:04to be able to run over and over again.
140:06Okay.
140:09Toast with the most with Kamar coming back apparently. Should I be concerned with ETN? Here's the deal. I have Travis ETN on my team and Dalvin Kamar coming
140:17back very much does concern me.
140:20So, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna pull up what we have here. Um because what's the latest Alvin Kamara update?
140:31If Kamara plays this week, I'm pissed.
140:34Running back Alvin Kamar is quote unquote two weeks ahead of schedule and expects him to play on Sunday. What the hell?
140:48Kamar's playing this week.
140:59God dang. I'm gonna have to freaking move ETN down my rankings.
141:08Oh my gosh, that sucks.
141:13Literally sucks for me, not for Kamara and sucks for ETN. Now Jay Hindo scat to Hampton. Massive upgrade. Ala Flowers
141:23downgrade. Quinton Johnson a Watson upgrade and we're paying Brock Bowers to get it done.
141:28Let me see what tight end we have.
141:31If you have no other tight ends, I would be afraid of making this deal.
141:37However, if you add another tight end like Craft, then of course then at that point, sure, a little bit of a different
141:42setup. But if you have no tight end, I probably don't want to. Now here, BBO, please play Sam Leaporta over Michael
141:50Mayer. I think you have to do that. And god dang, my computer monitor keeps on going in and out of black.
141:59Gavin trading Jarian Price and T.
142:00Higgins for Justin Jefferson. It is a deeper format, but running back, you're chilling. You got three guys. So yeah, I think you can afford to do this.
142:09Drip with D sauce quarterback between Mahomes and Kyler. This week it's Kyler easily. And then in the flex, we're going to go ahead and we are going to
142:17most likely play between Bucky and Burden. It is close. A lot of it does come down to what we end up seeing with the
142:27um Roma stuff, but I think for now we're going to assume that you want to go with Bucky Irving. Now, Riggoni here tight
142:35end between Jawan Johnson and Goddard.
142:37I'm gonna go Jawan Johnson this week.
142:39He's gonna smash. And then in the flex spot, I think we are gonna play DJ Moore despite a really tough matchup. Now 40
142:47says, "My home league and flock league fan for three years now." Hell yeah, my guy. I have AJ Brown and not sure what
142:51to do. Thanks. I really appreciate you, my guy. I'm going to send you over a couple free trade questions, but this is
142:56more like a team review and right now I kind of got to run through these trade question style videos. I send you over
143:02multiple free trade questions. That way whenever you have a trade question in mind, I'd be happy to look at it for
143:07you. But macho man quarterback between Bick's party and Stafford this week.
143:11We're going to go Stafford. Running back, we're going to go ahead and we are going to play Jonathan Brooks here and
143:17feel horrible about it. And then in the flex, we are going to go with Jordan Addison. I'm expecting a big bounceback
143:24starting week one for this Vikings offense.
143:28Now, Bo here for the flex. Um, I would go Jameson Williams. The overunder of that game's like 50 and a half points.
143:36It's going to be so damn high scoring.
143:38You got to put him in. Now, Nog for the flex.
143:45Um, I would play Roma Dunce. If Rome does miss, I think you could pivot over to Jordan Mason or Carnell Tate. Rise
143:52has got Toutin and we gave a fourth in 2027 in Pard. Um if this is like a dynasty league and that fourth round
144:01picks a fourth round rookie pick that's incredible. If you're playing in a weirdass reraft format where you can sell a fourthround reddraft pick
144:12um then maybe I'm a little bit more nervous about it there. But yeah, if you sold a
144:23fourth round dynasty pick, I mean, dynasty rookie pick and Tony Pard to get to Bashel too. Incredible. I mean, you literally robbed the man. Should have
144:31been a second. Now Elias with our next one, trading away Higgins for Rashid Rice. I would prefer this. I may actually have Higgins ranked higher in
144:39my week one rankings, but long-term give me Rice. Grand Puma here for the flex.
144:47Um, you're gonna go ahead and play either Carnell, Tate, or Dobbins. It's a full PBR format, so I probably go Tate
144:53here because I really hate the matchup for Dobbins, and he's not going to catch the ball either. Jay Smitty between Tyler Shuck, Bode Knicks, giving me
144:59Tyler Shuck. Much better matchup.
145:01Running back, play Hampton, and Chase Brown. Wide receiver, we're going to go with T. Higgins and Wadd. For tight end, Jawan Johnson. And then in the flex,
145:10we're going to go Marvin Harrison. But it does scare me. Now, Admir trading Higgins and Craft for Brock Bowers.
145:16can't do this. If Bowers was going to be back in a week, sure, but we have no idea if that'll be the case. Boot said,
145:22"Worry about the AJ injury. My team is okay, but I'd still have to slot in Dobs or Mason. Do we do this?" Most leagues, no.
145:32Your league is very deep. And if you're having to start Romeo Dos, yes, you trade AJ Brown for Terry McLaren and
145:39Marvin Harrison. It was a 10 team, two receiver, one flex league. No, you hold on to AJ Brown. But no, here you do it.
145:46Now going over to Jay Hacks at wide receiver, you're going to play Wilson and Luther Burden. Actually, I'm sorry.
145:52You're going to be going with Tedaroa over Burden Bower. We have to stream at tight end. I'm assuming it's going to be
145:57like Michael Mayer. And then in the flex spots, we're going to go with Luther Burton and Amari and Hampton. Hampton's literally going to crush. I'm sorry. I'm
146:05about to pee myself, ladies and gentlemen. Tight end between KD and Kelsey. Um a very, very close obviously.
146:12um KD this first game coming back from the torn Achilles I still go with them but they are backtoback in my rankings
146:21and then in the flex spot I'm going to go ahead and most likely put Parker Washington I'm Jaylen War and I want to
146:27start after we see what his role looks like week one not Oliver here at running back we're going to go ahead we are
146:33going to play it's either JK Dobbins or Jordan Mason I actually like the matchup more for Jordan Mason I have them ranked No, I'm
146:43sorry. Yeah, Marshall Lloyd. Play Marshall Lloyd for the flex going through and looking at this.
146:50Your wide receivers are garbage. It's a non-tighten premium format. So, you actually play Dobbins and Jordan Mason and your flex spots. Now, David trading
146:59away. Jaylen Herz to upgrade to Josh Allen. Han lateral move to Chase Brown.
147:03We're paying Cardell Tate and Jordan Addison to do it. I think you do this because it's a two receiver one flex
147:10format. So the wide receiver depth doesn't matter. Valiant Storm trading Parker Washington and Bowers for Achan Booty and Goff and a super flex league.
147:19Yes. Um I know we talked about your team getting nuked at the beginning of this live stream because you drafted Bowers
147:25and obviously he got hurt. No fault to you, but yes, I would go ahead and do this. Now Dertree trading away Bowowers
147:31for Christian Watson and George KD. Um wide receiver right now you don't have it. you actually have a fine depth. So,
147:41I wouldn't do this because I think you could end up losing it in a big time way. But, if y'all can't tell, I'm about
147:45to piss myself. So, I got to go. I'm going to be live on the Flock League YouTube channel doing a watch party. It
147:52was so much fun yesterday. I really hope to see y'all there. We're setting up that live stream and we'll be live on
147:58the Flock League YouTube channel in about 10 minutes. Just look up Flock League on YouTube. I would send the leak I mean link but I'm about to pee myself