Strategies. Never too early to talk strategies. Let's do it right now on fantasy football today in five.

I'm Adam Azor. I'm joined by Jamie Eisenberg. Thank you for filling in last week, Jamie.

I missed you, buddy. It's glad to have you back. I don't want to talk so much anymore.

Well, you're going to talk a lot on this show. I'll tell you that. I want to ask you about your strategies here. We've done a lot of mock drafts. How have things changed, I guess, overall through the years strategy-wise? You know, I found myself being a big fan of Hero R.B. Or I don don't know what else they called it, you know,

taking one running back early and then, you know, loading up on receivers and then just kind

of back filling running back. I felt it was, you know, very successful. It's kind, you know,

I don't want to say that's kind of the way I was drafting to begin with or heading that way,

but it kind of felt

like just the smart way to, you know, build your teams. You know, I think we had, we had a mock draft

while you were gone and Joe P. Sapia of Fantasy Pros, and Heath, I don't want to say they got into

a little bit, but Joe brought up the notion of that Zero RB was a little bit of a lazy approach

and he kind of qualified that, but he took offense to was a little bit of a lazy approach and he kind of

qualified that but he took offense to just him saying it was a lazy approach because you know

his counter that was it's almost like it's a harder approach to build your team that way.

I've never really been a huge fan of Zero RB personally.

Not that I haven't tried it and had success with it,

but I don't like to necessarily not know that I have at least one running back that I can

somewhat trust, whether it's somebody I'm taking in the first round or two,

depending on where I'm picking,

or somebody I'm taking maybe in round three or round four.

I think the mobile quarterbacks have changed the way I have drafted for sure, because I remember a few years ago, I don't know, let's say approximately four or five years ago, I asked you guys, how many quarterbacks do you feel comfortable as your starting quarterback? I think the consensus between you, Dave and Heath was somewhere around 18 when it was mostly just pocket passers and the mobile quarterbacks weren't really that good. And that's the difference now. The mobile quarterbacks are really good passers now. It's not like that anymore. You've got to have a good quarterback. There might be 12 of them, so maybe you can wait. But yeah, I'm much more likely. I don't think you are. But I am much more likely to grab a top six, seven quarterback. however I see it falling where there's a tier drop off. I like Jalen Hertz, for example, and I like Justin Fields. I like the idea of getting them. I'm not unhappy if I end up with them, but I probably set out to get somebody in the top five or six at my draft. So I don't think you follow that. I kind of, you know, jump around a little bit because I play in so many leagues. So, you know, some I will, you know, buy in a little bit early, especially in some of our analyst drafts where quarterbacks just free fall. But in most of my personal leagues, I tend to wait a little bit longer because, you know, people take quarterbacks a little bit too soon for me. this year in particular, you know, not that we're going to get into a lot of player-specific stuff, but I do think that you're going to find some amazing value on two guys in particular. One, Derek Carr, the other being Kirk Cousins. And I think those guys are headed for huge seasons. We know about Carr, clearly, with the upgrade of Demonte Adams. but Cousins, I think, just with the new coach and coaching staff, I think he's going to have a, you know, top 10 caliber type of season. So for me, I'm probably still going to wait again. But I don't disagree that if, you know, you want to get in on one of the quarterbacks, most likely, you know, it's probably somebody of Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson for me.

Those are my top two guys.

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