Eric Samulski

Fantasy Football Week 6 Defense (DST) Rankings and Streamers Eric Samulski breaks down his fantasy football defense rankings for Week 6 of the NFL season

Are the Titans and Raiders DSTs both playable? Can the Packers rebound against the Bengals? Can we trust the Rams after their letdown on Thursday night?

I answer all of those questions in my Week 6 DST rankings, which are LIVE @rotoworld-fb.bsky.social www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/foot...

Everybody talking about “set an alarm” for the NFL London game. That sounds lovely. That game is at 930am. I live on the East Coast and have a toddler

Fantasy Football Week 5 Defense (DST) Rankings and Streamers Eric Samulski breaks down his fantasy football defense rankings for Week 5 of the NFL season

Week 5 Fantasy Football DST rankings are LIVE.

Cardinals and Texans are in the top 10. Bills are not. See who else might be a surprise start/sit @rotoworld-fb.bsky.social

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Giants and Mets fans waking up today trying to manifest some hope but knowing they’ll be miserable by about 4:30pm

Fantasy Baseball Streaming Starting Pitchers: Let Jameson Taillon, Will Warren take you to a title We've made it to the final week of the fantasy baseball season!

Need a streaming starting pitcher for the final few days of the MLB season? I've got you covered @rotoworld-bb.bsky.social www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/base...

I can't wait for our first "Chris Weber" ABS challenge, when a player angrily calls for a challenge that everybody else knows he's gonna lose, and his team only has one challenge left in the 5th inning.

Attack this tier of WRs in fantasy drafts, we said, and get two guys and flourish:

Calvin Ridley, Jaylen Waddle,
Jameson Williams, Travis Hunter, Chris Olave, Jerry Jeudy, Jakobi Meyers, Matthew Golden.

Was Egbuka/Flowers or bust so far

It’s week 3, and we’re already facing some desperate times in deeper fantasy leagues. Here are a few of my favorite low-rostered players you can start this week. Who is your most desperate play today?

Imagine drafting Rashee Rice in fantasy and holding on him on your bench for six weeks since he can’t be put on the IR and then, before he takes the field, the Chiefs trade for Tyreek Hill

Had James Cook over Omarion Hampton in my rankings. In my home league draft, I thought “Ah, F it. I’ve gotta get a Hampton share.” Yeaaaahhhhhh, about that

If you want a sneaky stash before Thursday Night Football kicks off, add Malik Washington. He has looked dynamic with the ball in his hands, and if Miami falls to 0-3, you have to wonder how long until Tyreek is traded away

He’s potentially their second most talented WR

Lions vs Ravens has the highest O/U this week at 52.5 points. Which low-rostered players could provide you fantasy goodness?

- DeAndre Hopkins: unlikely to get many targets but could score
- Tylan Wallace: played 51% of snaps in Wk 2 & scored
- Isaac TeSlaa: low snaps but a TD threat

I guess don’t try and see if anybody is interested in trading for your rookie RBs. Somebody just offered me Stefon Diggs for my Ashton Jeanty

Hi, I’m Eric. In my home fantasy football league, I rostered two “high-upside” rookie RBs and my team is hot garbage

It’s been just two weeks but is anybody happy they drafted a rookie RB in fantasy right now?

Also, we're never going to agree on this part about the GM. He's not in charge of managing the team. He's in charge of building it. Managing personalities is a secondary component. You can say "it's a leadership position," but the CEO doesn't manage the personalities of people 2-3 rungs below them

At the end of the day, I think he’s done a fine but not great job. We’ll see how they build on this in the off-season. It’s been A LOT of reliance on prospects but that was always their plan. They likely need a big SP this offseason and maybe a 1B depending on Casas.

I think we both agree it’s PART of the job. We disagree that is foundational for the GM to manage personalities of players. It’s something he needs to be better at, but it’s not the main part of being a GM. He has one HUGE strike against him and (a bad deadline) but a few really good marks for him

Sure but, again, him botching that is a different argument than saying a GM’s job is to manage the personalities of players

I think you’ll see how bad he screwed it up this offseason. If people still want to sign with Boston then Breslow’s lack of people skills isn’t as big of an issue as others want to believe. If they don’t sign then we can more clearly say his demeanor or personality is hurting the team

Part of your job, yes. I don’t think managing players is the most important part of a GM’s job. That’s what the manager is for. If they work together, the GM builds a team that the manager can manage. Breslow and Cora didn’t work together this offseason. They botched it

But the discussion then needs to focus on the other things too. Not continually keep coming back to one part. Nobody discusses how he revamped pitching development. Or Narvaez/Chapman/Toro. No, they’re not HUGE moves but they’re shrewd and good ones. Pitching development might also be a HUGE move.

Also, not to argue semantics, but I think managing people is the most fundamental part of being a MANAGER. A GM is a business role. You don’t have to be friends with the players. Your job is to build the best roster and build a contender. It’s best to do it without pissing off your stars though

I just don’t see the point in re-litigating this. I don’t think anybody has said Breslow handled the offseason discussions with Devers well. It’s one strike against him - and a big one. But that also shouldn’t mean he doesn’t get credit for other moves or aspects of the job.

But you should also be criticizing the player for how he acted in response to all of that and how he put himself over his teammates

To me, they’re both to blame. Breslow has poor people skills and botched the offseason communication. Devers acted like a child and dug his feet in the sand selfishly during the season. The situation could have also maybe been repaired if he didn’t hold a grudge

Also, he’s a bad 3B! Singing Bregman was the right move. So the issue is that Breslow was too cagey about it and wasn’t upfront with Devers. Fine, let’s properly criticize him for that part of it. But let’s not forget all of the other parts that came after that others could have handled better

You literally just pointed out why there would be a clubhouse issue. His refusal to play first base was clearly just an FU to the front office. He chose himself and his personal agenda over the success of the team. You can be upset with your boss and still help your teammates

No, I’m sorry. That’s not true. Breslow messed up the handling in the offseason. We agree on that. But when your teammate has a major injury, and you refuse to step up and help the team in his place, that’s on you. That’s putting yourself and your beef before the rest of your teammates.