Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Hyatton.

I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Coralbeck.

And today it is Power Hour, where every Wednesday we power rank something.

And today we are going to power rank the players.

We are thinking about benching or maybe even cutting because we hate them so much.

Well, it's true.

I'm sorry, it's true.

They say there are five stages of grief.

And I don't know if that's actually true in real life.

But it is absolutely true in fantasy football because the five stages of grief completely aligned with a player who is disappointing you in the first five weeks of a fantasy football season, right, Craig? They really do. Like, week five is when you start to get fed up and ready to make, do I get rid of them? Do I bench them? Do I cut them or do I stick with them? Well, it's like, week one, guy sucks. And you're like, it's denial. It's week one, who cares?

Week two, guys suck your anger. You're like, hey, Jillyn Hertz, throw AJ Brown the ball.

Week three, you're like, whatever. Maybe I could trade Ashton Gentie or whatever. week four you're just depressed you're like oh week four is like nobody wants esh and gentio

week five these actually works so well yeah it's two week four you're like damn no one wants

jay brown Week four is like nobody wants Session Gentiles. He actually works so well.

Yeah, so week four, you're like, damn, no one wants AJ Brown. Week five is acceptance. You're like, oh, okay, I'm just not going to play him anymore. Not my year. Don't need to play Ladd McConnor. I'm just a guy who has AJ Brown on his bench. That's just my season. That is who I am. So we're going to go through the five stages of grief.

I know we're going to move in and five stages of grief. I know we're

going to move in and out because on one hand, nobody's cutting A.G. Brown. We understand that. So, like, really talking about benching A.J. Brown. And the flip side is, it's not controversial to say you're going to bench like R.J. Harvey. But people might be thinking about cutting R.J. Harvey. And we're going to go through whether we're going to acknowledge your feelings to give people a space to feel these emotions,

while also perhaps advising whether you actually should act on your feelings, which, you know, sometimes it's going with your gut, and sometimes that's a huge mistake. So with that said, we're going to go through all that. But first, we do have to hit news because there was a pretty, I don't know, fun's the word, but the most shocking late pick swap trade I can remember, which was the Browns traded Joe Flacco to the end, sixth round pick, to the Cincinnati Bengals for a fifth round pick.

They pick swapped to send a quarterback inside their own division, D.K.

What was your first reaction to this trade that the Browns sent Joe Flacco to the Bengals? I laughed. I think I laughed first. And then I was like, that's kind of interesting. Number one, it's an intra-division trade. You don't hardly ever see two teams in the same division trade with each other, especially quarterbacks. And my first thought

was like, oh, the Browns are fucking with the Bengals because Joe Flacco has been absolutely

trocious the last couple of seasons. But I do think he's better than Jake Browning. So I don't

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