Worst trades this season | FFSK

Matt Harmon makes fun of all the trades he's too afraid to make in this special Week 11 edition of the Fantasy Football Survival Kit.

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MATT HARMON: I am rubber. You are glue. Whatever you say to me bounces off and sticks to you.

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I'm going to be honest with you people. I don't make very many fantasy football trades because I'm a [BLEEP] coward. I don't even know that I've made a single trade this year. So that's why I love this week's topic. Because I get to ask you people, the people, my people, what's the worst fantasy trade that you've seen go down this year?

And this way, whether it's you, whether it's someone you know, someone you hate, we get to laugh at your misery while I get to avoid the fact that I'm just too paralyzed by my own fear to do any trading on my own. So that's enough of me. Let's get right into it.

This one comes in from @malman2. DeAndre Hopkins and Leonard Fournette for Tim Patrick and Latavius Murray in a 12-team league. What? OK, hang on a second. DeAndre Hopkins-- you mean the DeAndre Hopkins of that incredible Hail Mary catch and also, by the way, being a clear top-five receiver every single step of the way here in 2020 for Alvin Kamara's backup.

And Tim Patrick, he's been a surprise this year. But what the hell? I don't understand what you people are thinking about here. The fact that Leonard Fournette is involved in this, that doesn't really matter. I have no more words to say about this. That's disgusting. Next.

This one comes in from Shan Rene. Some clown in my league offered me Jared Goff and Brandon Aiyuk for Dalvin Cook. Yeah, come on, son, indeed.

Dalvin Cook is one of the five best players in fantasy football this year. Jared Goff's the guy that you maybe start at your quarterback position. He's certainly isn't like a top-10 option at the position. And then you got Brandon Aiyuk in there. He's been fine. Whatever. Who cares?

What do people think out there? This gets on my radar so much. The people who offer these trades, number one, they must think that you're just [BLEEP] wasted. It's either that or they just think that you're so stupid that you're gonna look at that and be like, well, two players equals better than one player. I'll accept. Give me a frickin' break, man. Next.

This next one comes in from @basedjagged. Davante Adams for Kenyan Drake. I was on the winning end of that so far. Yeah, actually I don't think you have to be worried about so far. I don't think there's a scenario that exists, unless Davante Adams is like kidnapped or something or decides to hang up the cleats to go-- I don't know-- decide to be a farmer in the middle of nowhere Iowa or something. I think you're fine.

I don't think there's a scenario where Davante Adams is not gonna be the better fantasy player than Kenyan Drake the rest of the way. That's the first thing. The second thing, what lunatic thought it was a good idea to take Kenyan Drake? Did they just maybe see him rip off a random run against the damn Cowboys on Monday Night Football that one time and they thought he was gonna be great the rest of the way?

You're out of your mind. Davante Adams is like the best receiver in fantasy football. This is the perfect example of a God-awful trade. Next.

This next one comes in from @Crook_At_Me_Now. This trade is almost as bad as that Twitter handle. Keenan Allen for Chase Edmonds. What? I don't understand this one at all. Keenan Allen has turned into a clear top-10 receiver in fantasy, and Chase Edmonds has been nothing but a broken dream.

Sure, we could keep visualizing in our heads what it would look like if Chase Edmonds was gonna overtake the starting job from Kenyan Drake. That ain't gonna happen. I actually don't think there's one single justifiable reason, unless Keenan Allen like beat you up when you were in elementary school and stole your lunch money, why you would rather have Chase Edmonds on your team. Something's going on here. I don't know what it is, but someone needs to investigate this situation. Next.

This one comes in from @EthanCho18. They traded James Robinson for Zach Ertz. Yikes. OK, you chose names over game. I don't understand how you could sit there and watch the first three to four weeks of football games-- and perhaps this was like in week two when you thought James Robinson might be a fluke. I mean, you were dead wrong about that.

But you traded a guy that was an unknown coming into the year for a, quote, established, good fantasy tight end in Zach Ertz. Zach Ertz has been nothing that even resembles close to good. So, yes, you chose someone that you had heard of over someone in James Robinson that was clearly gonna be one of the biggest difference-makers in fantasy football this year given where you got him, either off the waiver wire or late in your draft. So, yikes. Let that be a lesson to you, it's game over names. Next.

This next one comes in from @helpdesk601. They saw someone trade AJ Green for Terry McLaurin. Hey, well, Help Desk, come here and sit at my help desk. Let me give you a little customer service assistance here. Again, game over names. There was no scenario where AJ Green-- I'm sorry-- was gonna be a better option at wide receiver this year than Terry McLaurin because it's 2020, not 2015.

This is nutso. When even at any point this year did it look like you should trade for AJ Green? And you know what, Help Desk, maybe you didn't do it. Maybe you're just ratting on someone else. In that case, direct this message, take this from the help desk to them. Have them open it up, and it's gonna read you're an idiot.

That is gonna do it for the week 11 edition of the Fantasy Football Survival Kit where I, a horrible, garbo trade-maker in fantasy and a self-proclaimed coward, ragged on all of your guys' trades. And the best part is, since I haven't made any trades and I'm still doing all right in my leagues, you can't make fun of me. If there was ever a year where you needed to feel good about something, it's this year, it's 2020.

You want to take that damn title home. You want to pile up stacks of cash in daily fantasy. So let's go get it. Let's be serious. Let's go win.