Strap in, folks! Bombo's serving up a spicy Trade Deadline Special on Fantasy Island Pod! He's schooling you on how to finesse those fantasy football trades like a Wall Street wizard. Get ready for trade secrets hotter than your Aunt Mildred's Thanksgiving stuffing! #FantasyFootball #TradeDeadlineMadness #SackUpAndTrade
Our fearless guide, Bombo, dishes out the fantasy gospel - who to snag, who to ditch, and why your backup quarterback is the real MVP. Forget polite trade talks; it's time for some savage negotiations! #TradeTacticsExposed #FantasyMastermind #TrashTalkYourWayToSuccess
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[00:00:18] Fantasy Island pod on whatever platform you are using to listen to this right now, let's go.
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[00:00:38] We're going to start off by just going through the whole idea of trading. If you're one of these guys that doesn't like trading, it's probably because you're scared that you're going to get the bad side of a deal. We tell you on the show all the time, stop being scared, sack up. Trading is a part of the fantasy experience.
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[00:01:15] Some apps will allow you to see how many moves a team has made. If you pay attention to the waiver wire, or if you pay attention to just moves made daily, you know, pretty much who the teams are that are actively doing everything they can to try to make a change. Teams that are actively doing what they can to make a change with their roster.
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[00:01:54] Hey, your team would do a lot better if you can do this. If you can do that, sometimes you have to set up a trade. That's not even with you to help that guy start to get into the flow and start to trust. The process in some of these trades. And just, like I said, just improve the overall fantasy experience by being a true manager and willing and dealing with other teams.
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[00:02:28] He has a great schedule. The Eagles usually will be playing with a positive game script. If they're going to be in shootouts, they're still going to go to DeAndre Swift. And if they are leading the game most of the time, they're going to go to DeAndre Swift to run out the clock. And he's more than capable to break a big play, even when he's just trying to kill time.
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[00:03:04] Just know it may cost you, especially coming off of a big game, but he's one of the few players that I'll say you might want to overpay for him, especially if there are question marks, with your running backs, DeAndre Swift will be a consistent high floor, high ceiling contributor to your lineup, make a move for him.
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[00:03:39] They are handing the keys over to Tim Boyle. And it's just one of those things where he may not be proven, but we've all been asking for a change of quarterback if you have any stock in Garrett Wilson. Well... We finally got it. Garrett Wilson gets the targets. He gets the receptions. He's yet to get multiple touchdowns or even sniff the end zone since week one.
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[00:04:33] I think everyone on the Jets can come together and have this new guy's back. All it takes is a game with a couple of touchdowns to Garrett Wilson. All of a sudden he's back in wide receiver one territory. Make a trade for Garrett Wilson and it may not tell.
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[00:04:51] And my next guy that you gotta trade for, Michael Pittman Jr., who is secretly a wide receiver 1. I mean, he's not giving you the most flashiest plays And there's not a lot of nationally televised Colts games, but Michael Pittman Jr is a wide receiver one top 12 and rest of season.
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[00:05:44] I'm pretty sure you can. And then you leave them in your lineup for the rest of the year. Go get Michael Pittman Jr.
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[00:06:11] Plus eventually Rico Dowdle is going to eat into this backfield where it may not happen this week, may not happen next week. But he's going to eat into this backfield. He's going to vulture some touches away from Pollard at the goal line. If not, Dak is going to take a goal line touches away from Pollard.
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[00:06:52] Saquon Barkley, Giants running back. Yes, he has the ability. He is a game changer. He can take a screen pass to the house at any time, but the reason why he's made my list of guys that you must trade away. I just fear at some point they got to shut it down. The Giants have nothing to play for.
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[00:07:32] If not shut him down, definitely limit his carries and no longer will we see Saquon getting 25 to 30 touches a game. But, if you are a Giants fan or you are a huge Saquon fan. I think right now for the exact same reason why I'm saying you can usually get rid of them. You could probably acquire them on the cheap, but you're still running that same risk.
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[00:08:10] Hear me out. I'm going to throw some names at you. And these are some guys that were either picked up off the way or wire or drafted on the back half of drafts just to back up a quarterback. And maybe that quarterback for you has been balling out. Maybe the quarterback that you drafted as your starter got hurt and you've been rolling with one of these guys or a combination of these guys, but Brock Purdy, Sam, how.
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[00:08:45] Basically, what I'm saying is if you got two good quarterbacks, choose which one you want to ride with for the rest of the year. Take that other one and try to get a haul from them. Because I guarantee you in your league, there's a guy that got none of those quarterbacks and he's out there starting Kenny Pickett, or he's out there starting Matthew Stafford. If you have a good high quality backup quarterback, trade him to the guy that's hurting, trade him to the guy that's fighting for a playoff spot and has a big hole in his lineup at the QB position.
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[00:09:27] And like we tell the listeners, it all comes down to how comfortable you are with the league, how comfortable you are with your league mates. And you know, At the trade deadline, you want to start rapid firing off proposals because you're going to miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.
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[00:09:59] You might want to open yourself up to an opportunity to add some players on your team that you wish you had all year. Hope I was able to help you out a little bit. Hope I was able to give you a little bit of courage to go out to your league mates and get a deal done. On behalf of Sweet Tea and Mr.
