Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 6 Waivers & QB Streamers, Breaking News

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast Summary Episode: Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 6 Waivers & QB Streamers, Breaking News
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright

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1. Introduction and Breaking News

00:56 – 01:54
The episode kicks off with an unexpected announcement as Mike Wright breaks the news:

Mike Wright [01:18]: "Saints trade Adrian Peterson to the Arizona Cardinals. What? Oh, my goodness."
This shocking trade marks the first time the show starts with breaking news, highlighting its significance in the fantasy football landscape. Jason Moore remarks on the long-anticipated move:
Jason Moore [01:28]: "Andy has been talking about this since the beginning of the season."

The hosts express their surprise and rapidly pivot to analyze the trade’s implications throughout the season.

2. Monday Night Football Recap

02:08 – 09:05
With Andy Holloway on vacation, the dynamic trio dives into the Monday Night Football highlights. They discuss Sam Bradford's underwhelming performance and injury concerns:

Jason Moore [03:08]: "It gives me no confidence in his ability rest of season."
The conversation shifts to Teddy Bridgewater’s potential return and his placement on the PUP list, debating his expected timeframe for rejoining the Saints lineup.

Stefan Diggs' groin injury is also addressed:

Mike Wright [04:53]: "Stefan Diggs exited the game with a groin injury."

The hosts evaluate how these injuries affect team dynamics and player performances in upcoming weeks.

3. Player Updates and Injuries

09:06 – 15:52
The hosts provide comprehensive updates on various players:

• Mitchell Trubisky's Debut:

Mike Wright [06:23]: "Mitchell Trubisky came out, he looked fantastic in that first quarter."
Initially impressive, Trubisky's performance falters in the second half, drawing comparisons to Tony Romo’s experience.

• Adrian Peterson’s Trade to Cardinals:
  Jason and Mike discuss its potential impact on the Cardinals' offense and Peterson’s fantasy value, considering the team's offensive line strength.

• Julio Jones vs. Jordy Nelson Trade Query:

Jason Moore [13:26]: "I would rather have Julio because you skipped that bye."
They ponder the trade-offs between acquiring Julio Jones for immediate impact versus retaining Jordy Nelson’s consistency.

• Injuries:
  Updates on players like Brandon Marshall and Odell Beckham's season-ending injuries, Sterling Shepard’s must-grab status despite a tough upcoming schedule, and the Cleveland Browns’ quarterback situation with Kevin Hogan and DeSean Kizer.

4. News and Notes from the League

15:54 – 22:22
The discussion broadens to include various league-wide news:

• Brandon Marshall’s Potential Career-Ending Injury:

Jason Moore [16:50]: "But things have escalated for Brandon Marshall who will undergo season-ending surgery."

• Sterling Shepard’s Value:
  Despite challenging matchups, Shepard remains a valuable pickup due to his talent and remaining season's potential:

Jason Moore [17:52]: "Sterling Shepard is a must grab now at this point."

• Kicker Updates:
  Recommendations to check for available kickers like Will Lutz and Matt Bryant, especially for teams with bye weeks.

5. Waiver Wire Recommendations

22:22 – 35:45
The hosts dive into actionable waiver wire pickups, emphasizing the importance of monitoring player availability:

• Wide Receivers:

  • Sterling Shepard [22:37]: Highlighted as a crucial pickup.
  • John Brown [24:03]: Praised for his versatility and health, making him a strong start option.
  • Mike Wallace [24:45]: Discussed with caution due to limited targets despite steady yardage.
  • Jeremy Maclin [25:19]: Encouraged as a valuable addition with high potential upside.
  • Taylor Gabriel [27:40]: Recommended for immediate start potential due to favorable matchups and increased targets.

• Running Backs:

  • Adrian Peterson [31:57]: Suggested as a high-value pickup contingent on increased carries.
  • Elijah McGuire [31:57]: Endorsed as a multiple-week rental with strong involvement in the Jets’ offense.
  • Marlon Mack [33:30]: Identified as a rising star with improving offensive opportunities.
  • Jerick McKinnon [33:30]: Voted as the number one running back pickup for the week, noted for his dual-threat capability.

• Tight Ends:

  • Ryan Griffin [44:09]: Recommended due to a favorable matchup against Cleveland.
  • Zach Miller [44:16]: Considered a solid option with season-long potential.
  • George Kittle [44:09]: Highlighted for his consistent performance despite recent inconsistencies.

6. Kicker Updates

46:00 – 46:29
While kickers are generally not a focus, the hosts advise:

Jason Moore [46:09]: "Whenever you've got those bi-week guys... pick them up."

They recommend checking for available kickers like Will Lutz and Matt Bryant, especially for teams undergoing bye weeks to ensure consistent point scoring.

7. Quarterback Streamers Advice

46:36 – 50:25
A segment dedicated to quarterback streamers, essential for navigating week-to-week matchups:

• Carson Palmer [47:05]:
  Encouraged for his favorable matchup against Tampa Bay and the return of John Brown enhancing his offense.

• Jacoby Brissette [48:26]:
  Highlighted for facing the Titans, who are vulnerable to quarterback performances.

• Josh McCown vs. Josh Norman:

Jason Moore [49:16]: "Brian Hoyer is a fine play... Washington without Josh Norman is a mediocre defense."

• Jared Goff [50:10]:
  Strongly advised against starting due to unfavorable matchups:

Jason Moore [50:15]: "Do not play Jared Goff against the Jaguars, who are destroying people right now."

The hosts emphasize the importance of selecting quarterbacks based on their weekly matchups to maximize fantasy points.

8. Conclusion

50:25 – End
The hosts wrap up the episode, reiterating the importance of active roster management and strategic pickups:

Mike Wright [50:38]: "See you tomorrow, Foot Clan. Goodbye."

They encourage listeners to join their community at jointhefoot.com and follow them on Twitter for continuous updates and advice.

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Notable Quotes

• Mike Wright [01:18]: "Saints trade Adrian Peterson to the Arizona Cardinals. What? Oh, my goodness."
• Jason Moore [03:08]: "It gives me no confidence in his ability rest of season."
• Mike Wright [06:23]: "Mitchell Trubisky came out, he looked fantastic in that first quarter."
• Jason Moore [07:57]: "Well, I don't think you're going to have him be someone that is completely and utterly matchup proof."
• Mike Wright [10:42]: "This is the absolute worst."
• Jason Moore [33:30]: "He is going to transform from being a really good player in a bad situation to a really good player in a pretty good situation on a great offense."
• Mike Wright [35:45]: "He's the starting running back who is also a pass-catching running back."
• Jason Moore [43:40]: "I want the touchdown. Upside. If all of these guys are going to suck, who cares if I get the 45 yards or the 0 yards?"

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Key Insights and Conclusions

• Adrian Peterson’s Trade: Adds depth to the Cardinals' RB position but hinges on his workload and health.
• Mitchell Trubisky’s Potential: While promising in early snaps, consistency remains a concern.
• Waiver Wire Strategy: Emphasizes the importance of securing versatile and matchup-friendly players like John Brown, Jerick McKinnon, and key tight ends.
• Quarterback Streaming: Critical for optimizing weekly performances by capitalizing on favorable matchups.
• Active Roster Management: Continuous monitoring of player statuses and matchups is vital for maintaining a competitive edge in fantasy leagues.

This episode underscores the importance of staying informed about league developments, leveraging waiver wire opportunities, and making strategic decisions based on matchup analyses to secure victories in fantasy football leagues.

Transcript

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast, coming to you from the Play Draft Studios with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

[Mike Wright]

Welcome into the podcast.

[Jason Moore]

Monday Night Football's over.

[Mike Wright]

Monday Night Football happened.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, man, that was so exciting. I really loved it when it was 2 to 3.

[Mike Wright]

Hey, guys. Hey, Brooks.

[Jason Moore]

Have we ever started the show with breaking news?

[Mike Wright]

Hold on, hold on. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

[Jason Moore]

Breaking news.

[Mike Wright]

Saints trade Adrian Peterson to the Arizona Cardinals. What? Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. What?

[Jason Moore]

Andy has been talking about this for.

[Mike Wright]

Since the beginning of the season.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Saying why? Like it's right there. Oh, man. Holy moly. Well, welcome to the show, everybody.

[Mike Wright]

Instant analysis says Chris Johnson will be removed from the team.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, well, Brooks, I'm all thrown off.

[Mike Wright]

I don't even know how to do this podcast anymore.

[Jason Moore]

Dare you, Brooks.

[Mike Wright]

Anyways, we'll start from the top.

[Jason Moore]

All right, let's do that. Starting way over.

[Mike Wright]

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. I am Mike the Fantasy Hitman. Right to my side, Jason Moore. He has not abandoned me.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Mike Wright]

Like our comrade Andy Holloway, who's enjoying a nice vacation.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Dad is away, so that's why the beginnings of these shows are going to be a little crazier, a little spicier.

[Mike Wright]

That was insane.

[Jason Moore]

I love it. This is the best intro to a show that's ever happened.

[Mike Wright]

You can follow the show on twitter @the ffballers, follow Jason @JasonFFL. And I am @ffhitman. You can find all of our articles. I mean, big shout out, Big shout out to the writing staff for the fantasy footballers. Find all that work atthe fantasy footballers.com. we're talking an injury recap, a defense recap, waiver wire. I mean, these. These guys, these fellas over there, they're doing excellent work. I highly suggest you go and check it out. The quick question of the day is simply a Monday Night Football recap. There was a lot of storylines.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Wright]

From last night's game. Sam Bradford went out and did his best Weekend at Bernie's impression for about the first half.

[Jason Moore]

I was gonna say it wasn't that good. You could tell he was dead.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I mean, that was. That, that guy's knee.

[Jason Moore]

I was, I was saying this yesterday at lunch. Rough. It just seemed like the type of injury when he, when he, when you took this long where he was going to come out, play a half and get pulled. It gives me no confidence in his ability rest of season. Like, you know, he's going to need to be back and look good for a game before. I will then think about streaming or starting him. Which means if you wait another two weeks and then he comes back and he looks okay, but still is off, you're still waiting. I mean, you're, you know who can.

[Mike Wright]

Be back in two weeks? Teddy Bridgewater.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, he can.

[Jason Moore]

Well, you're just saying because of IR rules.

[Mike Wright]

Pup. He wasn't ir. He was put on the pup.

[Jason Moore]

Have there been reports that he's actually for that? Because I haven't seen him.

[Mike Wright]

I haven't seen anything yet. But I'm just throwing the name out there that if they're relying on Case Keenum in Minnesota, who knows who in the next couple weeks, who knows? Because Sam Bradford looks like he's in trouble. I mean, like you're talking injury trouble for the foreseeable future. Stefan Diggs exited the game with a groin injury. Not before giving you one reception for four yards.

[Jason Moore]

He did return very, very late in the game. Didn't do anything once. He was my groin.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it was rough.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. A rough outing for him. And I think you're going to have, you know, a mixed bag going forward. If Case Keenum is your quarterback, you'll. You'll have those good matchups where he's fine and has a great game, but you don't have a quarterback that is going to be able to turn Stefan Diggs into, you know, that guy that.

[Mike Wright]

The leader at the yardage, the league leader and wide receiver yards.

[Jason Moore]

Yes. I don't think you're going to have him be someone that is completely and utterly matchup proof. If Case Keenum is the quarterback, the.

[Mike Wright]

Bump went to Kyle Rudolph, who Case Kingdom came in and heavily targeted. Rudolph had himself a fine game. And speaking of fine games, Jason Jerick McKinnon had an excellent fantasy game.

[Jason Moore]

Yes, he did. He looked far better than he has looked in the past. I will give him that. I still say that. You know, if you look at what he did, 95 yards on the ground, that's great. 58 of those came on a play that was. The defense was completely broken.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Like literally the Main guy had his back to the team and they snapped the ball early and he ran for.

[Mike Wright]

58 yards, six for 51 through the air.

[Jason Moore]

That's what I was going to bring up is his work in the passing game is what makes me go okay, he is the guy to have in that backfield because I'm not fully convinced despite the fact that he, he, as the game progressed and especially at the end of the game, he became, you know, the guy they were giving him, you know, first and second down work. I'm not convinced that that's going to be his role going forward. It didn't seem like his role in the beginning of the game and I think they were just using the hot hand. But he's clearly going to be involved in the passing game. Those help with game script and so yeah, we'll talk about McKinnon as a, as a pickup on the waiver wire.

[Mike Wright]

Segment and the big debut for the Chicago Bears, Mitch Trubisky. Mitchell Trubisky came out, he looked fantastic in that first quarter. I mean, hitting guys in the hands. Look, his athleticism, his mobility was incredible. I mean he just, he moves at a very, very quick pace. Looked fantastic to start. Things really fell apart after that. And as I'm watching a like a very strong start from Mitch Trubisky, I was reminded of Tony Romo in one of the games he was announcing for the Bengals.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it was the Bengals, the Bengals versus Green Bay.

[Mike Wright]

And they said, and Andy Dalton was looking okay and things were going well. And then Tony Romo said, okay, now that they're out of their pre scripted 20 games, let's see how they do 20 plays. Right, 20 plays. And then Green Bay shut them down.

[Jason Moore]

So you're saying that maybe Mitch looked great for those scripted plays that they had practiced all week, but then once they got out of that and into the wild. Yes, he fell apart.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. And the stats, he was, he was quite bad in the second half. His touchdown pass was pretty lucky there for Zach Miller.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I was going to say he had two. He only had two passes the entire game that I thought were, were bad passes. One was the pass at the end that was an interception. The other was the touchdown that should have been intercepted but was popped up into the air and then caught for a touchdown.

[Mike Wright]

Now he's dealing with a very, very poor wide receiver core in Chicago.

[Jason Moore]

That is really his main issue. There's just, I don't think you can have hardly any quarterback come in and make Kendall Wright and Marcus Wheaton relevant.

[Mike Wright]

Sure. And on top of that, the, the refs were not being very kind to the Chicago Bears.

[Jason Moore]

They got hosed. I feel so bad for Chicago fans. I mean, that, that call back on the, the holding call for Jordan Howard's touchdown.

[Mike Wright]

See, I, I thought it was a hold. I thought he. Yeah, I mean, it was the critical block that freed Jordan Howard to get the edge and he, he did pull him. Now it's. That happens a lot in football and does not get called. But it just, it looked like if the ref was right in front of that, I probably would have called it too. But there was plenty of calls in the game where I did feel like they were getting hosed. Still, I saw at least the glimpse, the glimmer from Trubisky that I don't think he fell on his face, despite the numbers indicating he really fell on his face. I thought that there's enough there.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I can.

[Mike Wright]

There should be hope. There should be hope in Chicago. Do you have any more takeaways from the game?

[Jason Moore]

Not really. The only takeaways worth mentioning are that he did target the tight end. A lot of them went to Deion Sims, not just to Zach Miller. But it does give me confidence in Zach Miller going forward, given the landscape of tight ends. And Tariq Cohen, they utilized him well, they got him the touches, but he looked like he was trying to do too much on every single play. He wanted to try to break something long and he was dancing around.

[Mike Wright]

But then he wasn't getting targets. I mean, you have one target.

[Jason Moore]

Well, he was. Yeah, one. One target. But he was getting carries at the end of the game. Yes, obviously also on every team.

[Mike Wright]

Cohen's real value came because he was getting these out of control target numbers from Mike Glennon. And now you have Benny Cunningham coming in and getting. Cunningham had four targets. I mean, he led the running backs. So do you have. Are you.

[Jason Moore]

But one of those targets was from a, from a punter, which was their best play of the year.

[Mike Wright]

What happened to John Fox? I mean, he was, he was slowly, just like a full Kafka metamorphosis into the new John or into the new Jeff Fisher. That's who he was going to be. And then he came out and said, no, I'm going to do a. I'm going to do a fake punt.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you know what? Jeff Fisher did a lot of fake punts as well.

[Mike Wright]

That's a good point.

[Jason Moore]

That was the one thing you could rely on.

[Mike Wright]

But that and then a two point conversion. Yeah, that was a college play.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, that play was amazing.

[Mike Wright]

All right, all right, all right. We're going to move into the news and notes.

[Jason Moore]

News and notes from around the league. The Arizona Cardinals have traded for Adrian Peterson. Yeah, immediate analysis. Without really diving deep. It doesn't change anything for me for the Saints, because I was already seeing Adrian Peterson as irrelevant. Someone that's going to come in and get the ball two or three times he was not used recently. Doesn't fit their scheme. So it doesn't really change anything there. The question is, does Adrian Peterson have value behind the Arizona offensive line? They can't open any holes. You know, it's one of those things where it's like, okay, you know, Paul Perkins looked terrible, but, you know, Wayne Gallman looked better and was a little bit relevant, but still not good enough behind that offensive line where it's like, okay, now I've got a running back, so what do you do with Adrian Peterson?

[Mike Wright]

But here's the thing. If they're giving Chris Johnson 10 carries or so a game, Adrian Peterson is the type of player you have to give him 10 plus touches, and that's when good things start to happen. I mean, you can have. Look at the game script for Kareem Hunt this past. This past Sunday night. Yeah, it was tough sledding to start, but when you commit to a running back like that, you wear defenses down. I believe it was. Marshawn lynch eloquently said, you run into an expletive face over and over and over and over and over and over.

[Jason Moore]

And over and over.

[Mike Wright]

That's when the running game actually works. So who knows? I mean, if.

[Jason Moore]

If.

[Mike Wright]

If they do toss Chris Johnson to the waiver wire, which he. That's. It's done for Chris Johnson. Chris Johnson had a great career, but I think it's over. Adrian Peterson, if you're going to give him 10 to 15 carries a game, something could happen. This. It's better than what was happening for him in New Orleans.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, you definitely want to pick him up off the off chance that he has, you know, a. A really good game. Tampa Bay does not have a healthy defense right now. This is going to be a home game. So if he comes out this week.

[Mike Wright]

Brooks, can you give me his ownership percentage, please?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, if. If he comes out this week and.

[Mike Wright]

Has a good game, that's a quick week. That'd be a quick turnaround to get him featured.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it, though. I mean, he's. He's Adrian Peterson. 37%.

[Mike Wright]

Really? Yeah. Okay, so Adrian Peterson becomes a Very interesting.

[Jason Moore]

And if he has a really good week, I would immediately trade him. I mean I just would. This is a. This is a. Andrew Luck will not.

[Mike Wright]

Play in week six. Derek Carr is expected to play. We will see.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I'll believe that.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, we'll. We'll see. Julio Jones is expected to play. He was in week six. He was back at practice.

[Jason Moore]

I've got a question with Julio Jones. I saw this on Twitter. I know my answer but I thought it was a really interesting question. They were. The question was should they trade their Jordy Nelson for Julio Jones?

[Mike Wright]

Oh, okay.

[Jason Moore]

Just a trade question. You know, if you've got, if you've got Jordy, would you rather have Julio? Would you rather have Julio? I man, I mean it's tough question because that is a very tough question with a couple.

[Mike Wright]

Julio is past the bye week.

[Jason Moore]

That was my. That was my big.

[Mike Wright]

So you get an extra game.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. When. When the question was asked it all came down to whether or not he's going to play this week. And it looks like he is. Now if that's the case, I would rather have Julio because you skipped that by. And you got to keep in mind Jordy had the hamstring issue that took him out of the second half of that game or the fourth quarter. So there you go.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it's very close. Those guys were actually very close to me in season long rankings.

[Jason Moore]

They were in the same tier.

[Mike Wright]

So that's a tough call. Blah. Powell, he injured his calf during last week's game and there's been a report that Elijah McGuire will see a heavy workload against the New England Patriots. Are you buying into that?

[Jason Moore]

100%. I'm buying into that. I don't think they have a choice. They're not going to have Matt Forte. They're not going to have Blow Powell. So Elijah McGuire will be the main guy. They'll, you know.

[Mike Wright]

Is he start worthy?

[Jason Moore]

Yes, I would. I would say he's start worthy.

[Mike Wright]

Titans coach Mike Malarkey said on Monday that Marcus Mariota could be a game time decision in week six. So fantasy owners, good luck. Good luck with that. The old GTD which is the absolute worst. The lines are optimistics that optimistic that Matthew Stafford will play. You saw him hobbling around. I would expect him to play. Do you have any reason to doubt Stafford?

[Jason Moore]

No, no. Stafford will play.

[Mike Wright]

Bill's coach Sean McDermott. Charles said. Charles Clay. He underwent knee surgery. It was a scope he's expected to miss multiple weeks. Should be back. But Mr. Necessary has now paved the way for Mr. Very Necessary we will talk about in the waiver wire. Speaking of Jordan Nelson, he says he's fine after missing the final drive. So Jordan straight from the source. He says he's fine.

[Jason Moore]

Everyone's fine until their hamstring is. Is not, is not fine. I mean the thing is is they were smart with what, what they did with him, resting him. You know, he kept his helmet on. I think he could have come back if he had to. But they realize how valuable Jordy is and I think they're going to rest him this week. He should really, truly be fine. But with a hamstring issue, you know, you just can't control that. You could do all the stretching in the world but if your hamstring is aggravated, it's very easy to re aggravate and if he pulls it and ends up missing a game or two, you know, you can't be shocked. You got to pay attention to hamstrings.

[Mike Wright]

News out of New York for the New York Football Giants it is grim. So we had Odo Beckham, we already knew he was getting ankle surgery out for the season. Now things have escalated for Brandon Marshall who will undergo season ending surgery. Season, season. Oh, as in career. You think this is a wrap for Brandon Marshall?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I think, I mean, I don't know, maybe he doesn't want to go out like that. He signed a two year.

[Mike Wright]

It was a two year. Yes.

[Jason Moore]

So maybe he'll be back next year. But it could be a career ending.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it wouldn't shock me. If this is it for Brandon Marshall, I think you're onto it. And they also lost Dwayne Harris.

[Jason Moore]

So Sterling Shepard, I mean here's the reality. I said last week or last week, I said yesterday that I don't want anything to do with basically any New York Giants right now. As depleted as their weapons on offense just became and how bad their offensive line is and their upcoming schedule for the next two weeks, just horrible all the way around. But Sterling Shepard is a, is a must grab now at this point because he is the wide receiver one rest of season and he is a talented wide receiver. So while I don't love his upcoming two matchups and I probably won't play him these next two weeks over the course, there's still a lot of season left in fantasy football and you're going to get a lot of value out of Sterling shepherd this year.

[Mike Wright]

The Browns have declined to name their starter. Are you expecting it to be Kevin Hogan or DeSean Kizer?

[Jason Moore]

Kevin Hogan, if you that's what I expected. You look at how they're talking about Kaiser and they're being like, well, you know, if we decide to sit him, it's going to be good for him, you know. Yeah, you're so, where you're just, you're preparing Kaiser and everybody for him to sit. But, you know, we haven't made a decision yet. But listen, if we're, if he's the backup, that's really good for him. Now I don't know what we're going to do, but it would be so great if he was the backup. But no promises.

[Mike Wright]

Sure. The Vikings did release Steven Ridley. It was to make way for Michael Floyd. Michael Floyd, who caught a pass, he got. Well, he got on the field because Stefan Diggs missed a whole bunch of the game. And the Bucks, we had an old yeller, Old yeller situation. They've released Nick Folk.

[Jason Moore]

They have signed Patrick Murray.

[Mike Wright]

So adjust your fantasy rosters.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. If you have a Tampa Bay kicker, adjust your fantasy roster, even if it is actually Patrick Murray, because he will now stink. The Tampa Bay kicker, by rule, there's not allowed to.

[Mike Wright]

There is a poltergeist for sure. I mean, there in Tampa Bay.

[Jason Moore]

I'll tell you what, if I was a kicker and like I'm on the streets and I need a job and Tampa Bay is like, hey, how about me?

[Mike Wright]

I'm good, man, I'm good.

[Jason Moore]

Safeway also offered me a job at my local grocery store. So I think I'm going to take that.

[Mike Wright]

Bloody Mary will not have anything to do with me if I'm working at Safeway.

[Jason Moore]

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[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

Ha ha.

[Mike Wright]

Look, this is the place that you want to dabble the feet into some DFS over the weekend. Up the ante. I mean make things more fun this weekend. And the best way to do that is you jump on draft. You download the draft app, you get in the.

[Jason Moore]

It's.

[Mike Wright]

It's a snake draft. You are, you already know how to play. You do a one week draft. We do, we do it on the show every single Friday. Speaking of that, Jason, you're going to pay the piper this week because I took you down.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I lost this last quarterback challenge.

[Mike Wright]

And but you've seen it or you've heard it on the show just how easy and how fun it is to play on draft with that 30 second timer when you are in crunch time. And just like I said, enhance the weekend and draft takes care of their players. Right? We've talked about this.

[Jason Moore]

If there's like the crazy bad beats of the week, it seems like once a week right now they're rolling out something where they say hey, if you lost this type of one of those, you know, gut wrenching like a couple.

[Mike Wright]

Weeks ago, you know the Josh Dachshund drop touchdown. They said if you missed a prize by less than four points and you had Kirk Cousins, your entry fee was refunded. Because they take care of their players. And listen to this, they for new players there is a money back guarantee on your first game up to 100 bucks because they know that you will enjoy it. They take care of you. Draft.com/ballers. That is draft.comballers. you ready for the waiver wire J?

[Jason Moore]

Put me in, coach. Put me in, coach.

[Mike Wright]

All right, we're going to start it off with some wide receivers. These are guys that they are probably owned. We know that their ownership is higher.

[Jason Moore]

These first guys we're going to talk.

[Mike Wright]

About but they could be there.

[Jason Moore]

You need to make sure you just take a look.

[Mike Wright]

Always take a little peek.

[Jason Moore]

First up, Sterling Shepard just mentioned him. Make sure he is not available in your league. He's you know, owned in 63% of leagues. But take a look. Danny Amendola, same ownership percentage. I mean he's just too important to that offense if he's out there to not be picked up and played.

[Mike Wright]

And the number one wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, is that Official.

[Mike Wright]

That is official.

[Jason Moore]

Devin Funches.

[Mike Wright]

Would you rather have Devin Funches or Kelvin Benjamin?

[Jason Moore]

I would rather have Kelvin Benjamin.

[Mike Wright]

I would rather have Devin Funches.

[Jason Moore]

Rest of season. Water bet.

[Mike Wright]

But I don't know where the button is for that.

[Jason Moore]

Well, then we can't do it.

[Mike Wright]

That means it's not official.

[Jason Moore]

No, it's not official if we don't have a button. It's a fetch hole waterbed.

[Mike Wright]

Put it on the board, Brooks. All right, so we'll get into the main pickups. John Brown smoke. He showed up a little bit. I mean, he cut a touchdown. So he had an okay fantasy day. The good news for John Brown was he out snapped Geron Brown. He out snapped JJ Nelson. They had eased him in for one game and then they went full near full snaps for John Brown. He is widely available. He gets to take on Tampa Bay and then the Rams. I mean, these two juicy matchups for John Brown.

[Jason Moore]

John Brown is beyond the best wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals right now. I mean, you know, no disrespect to Larry Fitzgerald, but when John Brown is.

[Mike Wright]

The most versatile because he can actually go deep and he can play those short, intermediate routes while Fitz is, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

For fantasy purposes, relegated for Bruce Arian's system, you have to have that speedy receiver that can go long and they just haven't had that without drawing, without John Brown. If he is truly healthy and, you know, he seems to be, I can't bank on him for the rest of season to not get re injured again because of his sickle cell trait. But while he's out there, you. Yeah, pick him up and start him.

[Mike Wright]

Mike Wallace has shown up now for two straight weeks.

[Jason Moore]

Are you picking him up?

[Mike Wright]

It was only three targets. I think if I am desperate, I may. And we're talking. I'm not spending hardly any fab on Mike Wallace. I'm putting up a one or a $2 bid if I need to add a wide receiver.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I mean, even still you're passing.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, Joe Flacco looked better the last couple of weeks.

[Jason Moore]

He has and that's worth noting. The Ravens offense, you know, I would much rather have still. I would much rather have Jeremy Macklin.

[Mike Wright]

Jerry Macklin is not in our waiver wire show, Jay.

[Jason Moore]

He is.

[Mike Wright]

Pick him up.

[Jason Moore]

If Jeremy Macklin is out there, pick him up.

[Mike Wright]

Go to the owner of Jeremy Macklin and say jason from the fantasy footballer said I can pick him up. So.

[Jason Moore]

So pick him. So please drop him.

[Mike Wright]

Just give him to me.

[Jason Moore]

I'm not super excited about either guy. Because of the offense. But the offense is getting better. The problem with Mike Wallace is. Yes. This is two weeks in a row where he's had over 100 yards, big plays, three targets. I mean, you just can't rely on three targets with that offense.

[Mike Wright]

Ricardo Lewis from the Cleveland Browns. I'll repeat that name because maybe you've never even heard that name. Ricardo Lewis, five for 71 on eight targets. Now, we kind of. We played this.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, we played this game. We played this game with Rashad Higgins.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, that's. That is very true. But Ricardo Lewis has been getting involved. There were all those reports during the off season from Cleveland beat reporters saying there is a slim chance that Ricardo Lewis passes Corey Coleman on the depth chart. So the team likes him.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he didn't, by the way. Yeah, I'm just saying. Yeah, he never got it done.

[Mike Wright]

But Corey Coleman is that he has actually. He has passed Corey Coleman on the depth chart right now.

[Jason Moore]

I would. I would. I would prefer to say Corey Coleman has taken himself off the tomato, tomato, potato, potato. Listen, you can chase Ricardo Lewis if you want, but here's why I'm not going to chase Ricardo Lewis. One is because it's the Cleveland Browns, okay?

[Mike Wright]

That's a strong point.

[Jason Moore]

That's the whole thing. I mean, that was the entire argument. Is it DeSean Kizer or is it Kevin Hogan? It doesn't matter.

[Mike Wright]

You went rock on because of. It doesn't matter.

[Jason Moore]

It doesn't matter because it's. I mean, it's just. Will he have a couple more good games? Yes. Could it be this week?

[Mike Wright]

Sure.

[Jason Moore]

I'm not chasing the Cleveland Browns number one wide receiver.

[Mike Wright]

All right.

[Jason Moore]

As a rule, here's the guy that I would. That I think I would be targeting, depending on whether you're looking this week or long term. If I'm looking this week, I really like Taylor Gabriel. Yes. Taylor Gabriel. He was goosed last time. He would not last week because they were on by, but he had five targets. And the week before that he had a monster game.

[Mike Wright]

Mohamed Sanu is going to miss a few weeks.

[Jason Moore]

Exactly. With Sanu out, coming off a bye playing Miami at home, Taylor Gabriel is available in the vast majority of leagues and he could end up being one of those starts where you start him and he ends up with 100 yards and a touchdown.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he's a great spot start this week. Roger Lewis from the New York Giants, he has elevated himself into a starting role.

[Jason Moore]

Again, I would say Brandon Marshall and Odell Beckham had de elevated and again.

[Mike Wright]

I will Say tomato tomorrow.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Half cup is half full.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

For Roger Lewis. Any issues?

[Jason Moore]

Can you trust Roger Lewis, do you think? Like, I know that. I know that the next couple weeks are really tough. I mean, again, just since we were talking Sterling Shepard this week, it's at Denver, which is the worst you could have.

[Mike Wright]

No, thank you.

[Jason Moore]

Then, oh, good, they come home. Oh, wait, it's the Seattle Seahawks. That's no good. And then it's a bye week. So the next three weeks.

[Mike Wright]

So pick Roger Lewis up in three to four weeks is what you're saying.

[Jason Moore]

In four weeks, maybe. And then juju Smith Schuster, he has shown, I know Big Ben, you know, failed, but he has been the guy who is been heavily targeted playing all the snaps. Eli Rogers is out of the way. I think juju Smith Schuster has both the talent and the role to be fantasy relevant here. I mean, they played Jacksonville, which is one of the most difficult matchups. I would pick up. I would pick up some juju.

[Mike Wright]

Can I interest you in a wide receiver from the Jets? Either Jermaine Curse or Robbie Anderson. Going up against the New England Patriots.

[Jason Moore]

Going up against the New England Patriots is always a good thing right now. Yeah, I mean, I guess if I.

[Mike Wright]

Sounds like one of them.

[Jason Moore]

If I had to take one of them, I would take Jermaine Curse. They are a startable asset. Much more so than a Roger Lewis or even a Ricardo Lewis for me. Sure.

[Mike Wright]

All right. Moving into the meat, the running back position, these guys are probably owned, but you need to check and find out if they are there. Buck Allen sub, 60% had another big game. They have to. Once again, Baltimore begrudgingly has to use Buck Allen. We need an update on Terrence West.

[Jason Moore]

Terrence west is out for several weeks. Is that what.

[Mike Wright]

That's the update?

[Jason Moore]

Yes. They actually signed Bobby Rainey. Terrence west is done. So Buck Allen and Alex Collins, you just got to check. I know we've said their names in the last couple of weeks, so you probably already have them if they were available in your league. But double check and pick them up if they're still out there. Same with, I mean, Aaron Jones. This is so upsetting. Oh, America, our league of records. So one of our top tips. Yes. On the fantasy footballers. We have tips and tricks that we try to give you to help you win at your league. And. Well, one of those tips is to.

[Mike Wright]

Drop it like it's hard.

[Jason Moore]

Drop it like it's hard. Drop it like it's hard to check the drops every day.

[Mike Wright]

Every day. You got to do it every day. Not just waiver day.

[Jason Moore]

Not just waiver day. You never know who gets dropped. And in our league of record, Aaron Jones this past week after he was picked up for a lot of fab was inexplicably dropped and none of us saw it.

[Mike Wright]

No, we did not.

[Jason Moore]

And then he got picked up for $0 in our league because one person saw it.

[Mike Wright]

We failed.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, we failed.

[Mike Wright]

We failed. Don't fail like. Like we did this week.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Look for Aaron Jones coming off a by Alvin Camara and Rob, Rob Kelly.

[Mike Wright]

Is only owned in 50% of leagues. I mean this is absolutely ridiculous. The starting running back for Washington now.

[Jason Moore]

That being said, he didn't practice Monday. This is a new injury with his ankle. So I'll throw Samaje P. Ryan in there too. Both of those guys need to be owned, need to be picked up. Samaj could be a great start this week if Rob Kelly is out.

[Mike Wright]

All right, moving into the main waiver wire pickups for running back. We already talked about Adrian Peterson and we briefly touched on Elijah McGuire.

[Jason Moore]

But Elijah McGuire, are you going to drop fab?

[Mike Wright]

Like are you going to fabsplode Elijah?

[Jason Moore]

I would spend $10 a fab on Elijah McGuire. I think you're going to have a multiple week rental. You know he's who could turn into a full season. I mean because this is a team despite the fact that are they on a three game winning.

[Mike Wright]

They are the New York Jets, I believe that they are leading the division.

[Jason Moore]

Oh my goodness gracious. What is this world? Maybe they're not playing for the future. Their future is now.

[Mike Wright]

Or what if they were just doing everything wrong when they were actually trying to win another trying to lose and.

[Jason Moore]

All they know how to do is do things wrong and so they're winning.

[Mike Wright]

This is we're on.

[Jason Moore]

But Elijah McGuire, he's looked good. He's got more and more involved and now he has the opportunity to be the pretty much every down back. I think you do spend money on that. You pick him up and you know, hope for the best.

[Mike Wright]

Wayne Gallman looks like he should be the starting running back for the Giants. The matchups are tough.

[Jason Moore]

Brutal.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, brutal really. But he's getting the work and the five receptions.

[Jason Moore]

I would make a zero dollar bid on Wayne Goleman because he is worth picking up.

[Mike Wright]

But I would put a few dollars on him at least.

[Jason Moore]

I'm just, I'm not going to play him these next two weeks and then a buy. That's where it's like if no one's going to pick him up. I'll pick him up for free. But I feel like he could be a landmine. One of those guys you pick up and you go, okay, I should be able to start him. He's a starter and then he craps your team.

[Mike Wright]

Marlon Mack, that's the guy. Jason's rising star this week.

[Jason Moore]

He's.

[Mike Wright]

He's available in nearly all leagues. And now we have Chuck Pagano saying, I think it would be wise to try and find more ways to get him touches.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, he's really good. I think he's going to move up, you know, ahead of Robert Turbin. He's going to be involved in the passing game. And when Andrew Luck gets back, which obviously is not this week, it'll probably be end of October or the first week in November. Marlon Mack is then going to transform from being a really good player in a bad situation to a really good player in a pretty good situation on a great offense.

[Mike Wright]

And he's at the bottom of the list just because he was a Monday night game or Monday night player. But Jerick McKinnon I think is the number one running back pickup this week. Would you agree or disagree?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I guess I would agree. I mean, you saw him utilized in the passing game in a way that says he'll be able to stick and you know, his situation isn't changing this.

[Mike Wright]

For the rest of it so much.

[Jason Moore]

It does. I just, I don't like.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, I mentioned to you that I have a comp for Jerick McKinnon that I think it's not perfect. There's a little. There's some discrepancies. But Jerick McKinnon is to you as Melvin Gordon is to me.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

No. Ridiculous.

[Mike Wright]

Athletic give you either huge splash plays or give you nothing. Heavily involved in the passing game. Now Gordon has less competition, theoretically, unless the the Vikings decide to bury Latavius Murray. But you just.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Mike Wright]

Yep.

[Jason Moore]

No. Yep.

[Mike Wright]

We see them the same way.

[Jason Moore]

Here's the difference. Here's. Here's the big difference. With unbelievable amounts of opportunity, we've now seen Jerick McKinnon get it done once we've.

[Mike Wright]

No, no, we've. We. He had basically three quarters of a year with a terrible offensive line and it was really bad. Melvin Gordon's rookie year, tons of opportunity, really bad. Sophomore year turned it on.

[Jason Moore]

All right, pick him up. What are you spending on Jerick McKinnon? A lot. Are you really?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. He's the starting running back who is also a pass catching, running.

[Jason Moore]

Are you talking like 20, 25.

[Mike Wright]

At least at this point in the season, you got to get a running back. I would pick up Jericho McKinnon, man.

[Jason Moore]

I'm going to put in a $0 bid just because I hate him.

[Mike Wright]

And America, I am not a McKinnon Schruther. I am not part of that group who has propped him up for years and years. But the opportunities there, the offense is good. They have, they have great pass catchers and the offensive line is much better than it was last year. I think you have to pick him up.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, no, you're right. And you know, we want people to succeed. I think you do pick up.

[Mike Wright]

Despite our own grudges.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I mean, despite our own grudges, you know, sometimes we're wrong and I'm holding out. I'm waiting a couple more weeks to see if I'm wrong on McKinnon. No apologies here yet. You know, deeper, deeper options. If you want to look at Shane Vereen, we talked about the terrible nature of the Giants schedule and they're all their weapons are gone. But their weapons being gone is actually why Shane Vereen, who has been utilized so well in the passing game. Think about week one. Odell Beckham wasn't there. He had nine receptions. Now Odell Beckham's gone. Brandon Marshall's gone. They're going to use Shane Marine in the passing game. He'll probably end up with 10 receptions for like 5 yards. But yeah, if you're in a PPR, pick them up. You get points.

[Mike Wright]

Foot clan. We are going into week six. That means it is time that you can start adding those handcuffs. So make sure you're paying attention to that.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I would say Matt Breda is another guy that is virtually a must pick up with what's been going on with Carlos Hyde.

[Mike Wright]

I still think that he's just a handcuff, though. I think he's the backup.

[Jason Moore]

I agree. But the difference in why I'm saying he's more of a must pickup is because Carlos Hyde is currently dealing with injury and is always dealing with injury. So his path towards relevance seems much easier and obvious than say, Austin Eckler, who is the new handcuff for Melvin Gordon. It's going to take a complete injury to Melvin Gordon, who we haven't, you know, I guess he got injured late last year, but he doesn't have that label as an injury, which is weird.

[Mike Wright]

Because he's never finished a season. Melvin Gordon.

[Jason Moore]

Melvin Gordon's never finished season.

[Mike Wright]

Correct.

[Jason Moore]

Going back in college, I'm talking about pros oh, well, he's in his, like, third year and just saying it's three games last year.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, but I'm just saying that it's weird that these running backs, they miss, they. They go season ending surgery with three or four games left, and they get labeled injury prone. But now Melvin Gordon somehow has escaped that, I guess because his fantasy production was so high.

[Jason Moore]

I think it's because of the injury. It depends on what the injury is, whether you're injury prone or what, you know, nobody can avoid, you know, tearing an acl.

[Mike Wright]

Whether, like, Keenan Allen has been. Was labeled injury prone. He got.

[Jason Moore]

Keenan Allen's been injured by like 30 different things. That. That's what I'm saying. It's like, all right, similar to Carlos Hyde. It's. Is it your. Is it your hamstring? Is it your knee? Is it your kidney?

[Mike Wright]

Kidney, like Keenan Allen? Well, and Jason, you're talking about Matt Bereta.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, he already out snapped Hyde last week. Yes. Right. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Because Hyde was dealing with the injury, allegedly that Brada had the hot hand moving to the tight end position. Make sure you check for Evan Ingram. He.

[Jason Moore]

But. But Mike.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, Voice of public opinion.

[Jason Moore]

Evan Ingram had all the opportunity in a great matchup last week, and he got a goose egg.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, he did.

[Jason Moore]

I played him.

[Mike Wright]

You know what? Voice of public opinion. I played him, too, and he cost me a matchup that was near and dear to my heart. I lost because of him, but I will continue to play him. His opportunity has to go up and I haven't. I have no explanation for the goose egg right now. Also, do a quick peek for Cameron Braid, but he's probably owned in your league.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I'm not as sold on Evan Ingram. I realized that the targets had been there and they need him. But again, with the bad schedule coming up, the fact that he is still a rookie, I don't want to, you know, take the few games that he put together where he had targets and somewhat, you know, he was relevant, but it wasn't like he was lighting the world on fire and became this must start tight end. Now he's got.

[Mike Wright]

Because there's. There's two of those guys.

[Jason Moore]

Sure. But my point is, you're playing matchups with him, right? The matchups aren't good.

[Mike Wright]

The Denver Broncos are a positive matchup for tight ends. I mean, they're giving up almost 10 points a game.

[Jason Moore]

All right, well, we'll agree to disagree on Ingram.

[Mike Wright]

I'm just telling what the actual numbers say. The Broncos will be a top 10 play for tight ends.

[Jason Moore]

All right.

[Mike Wright]

Because the corners are so good that they have.

[Jason Moore]

Here's a quarterback that's half available in the middle of the more. A tight end that's available more leagues. I would much rather have Austin Safari and Jake.

[Mike Wright]

You'd rather have him than Evan Ingram?

[Jason Moore]

Yes, I would rather have Austin Safari and Jake.

[Mike Wright]

Interesting. Please explain yourself.

[Jason Moore]

Austin Safari and Jenkins is basically the number one target for the Jets.

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

You've got a quarterback who has used the tight end before in Josh Count. While he's been out there, he's been getting more and more involved. Last week, five for 68 and a touchdown on nine. Oh, I'm sorry that you're looking at.

[Mike Wright]

The wrong stat line.

[Jason Moore]

Six for 29.

[Mike Wright]

There you go.

[Jason Moore]

And a touchdown on eight targets. Yeah, I mean, I. I trust him more and I. You know, you've got a better schedule coming up. I would rather have ASJ.

[Mike Wright]

All right. George Kittle, San Francisco 49ers. Put up a nice line. He's flashed a little bit. He's been inconsistent, but all tight ends have been inconsistent. Colby Fleener, available in over half of leagues. He's coming off of the bye week. I say you pick him up. I say you play him. I mean, maybe we're talking recency bias, but I saw Ed Dixon drop almost two bills on the Detroit Lions. And, oh, Kobe Fleener gets to play the Detroit Lions.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I mean, I don't. I don't hate that at all. Because like you said, the majority of tight ends, you're grabbing almost all of them. Their floor is zero. You know, it's like no one's assure of even two points. Exhibit Evan Ingram. Exhibit Hunter Henry. I mean, and your upside is really going to be, oh, good, he got six points or he got a touchdown. And if you're talking about a tight end that's got the opportunity to get touchdowns, Kobe Fleener with Drew Brees coming off a buy. Yeah, I don't. I don't mind that at all.

[Mike Wright]

The aforementioned Ed Dixon, are you buying in to the point that you're going to pick him? You're a Charles Clay owner. You're trying to grab some tight ends.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Stuck with Ed Dixon. You pick him up.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I think. I think you could pick him up, but he is far less likely to get a touchdown. I mean, you compare him to Kobe Fleener. I feel like what you're doing is you're saying, okay, Ed Dixon, he's probably going to get me five, six points. I mean, it's better than a lot of the tight ends out there, but it's irrelevant. I mean, so I guess, I guess I'm talking myself out of Ed Dixon. The more that I think about it because I want that.

[Mike Wright]

That's what we're here to do.

[Jason Moore]

I want the touchdown. Upside. If all of these guys are going to suck, who cares if I get the 45 yards or the 0 yards?

[Mike Wright]

I'm interested in 45 yards.

[Jason Moore]

Those points matter. I don't want to, you know, say, look, four and a half points, you're going to win or lose a game a lot of times on that. But I would much rather have the guy that I think has an opportunity this week for a touchdown. And so, you know, I agree. I think that Fleener would be a far better option.

[Mike Wright]

All right, let's say you have lost Clay. These are your options to pick up. You got George Kittle, Ed Dixon, Ryan Griffin or the new Mr. Very necessary, which I guess you kind of rule him out because he is on by this week. Nick O'Leary, the replacement for the Buffalo Bills. So I'll take him out even though he's worth taking a look at to possibly stash. So Ryan Griffin, Ed Dixon, George Kittle, because those are very low owned tight ends.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Ryan Griffin's got a great matchup against Cleveland.

[Mike Wright]

He does. Or you know what, I'm going to throw this name in there too. Zach Miller.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, I would probably go Zach Miller. I don't love the matchup against Baltimore so that if it's a one week thing, then I would actually probably go George Kittle. But I think Zach Miller is going to be pretty good the rest of the season. In the landscape of tight ends, he's probably like, you know, a top six or seven guy, which is gross because he's not that good.

[Mike Wright]

I actually think he's a talented tight end. He just has been very, very hurt. You talk about he's an injury prone player.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Hey, Brooks. Nick O'Leary, that, that is a name that we need to make sure we have in this show next week because he will be a great pickup. But you just don't need to pick him up now. Nobody's fighting for Nick O'Leary. Most people don't know who he is and he's on by. So don't pick them up now.

[Mike Wright]

But people need to know who Mr. Very Necessary is Very Necessary.

[Jason Moore]

Very. There's no one else to throw the ball to.

[Mike Wright]

Defensive streamers. Washington gets to take on the 49ers. The Rams taking on Jacksonville.

[Jason Moore]

I like that they get to take on the 49ers.

[Mike Wright]

Exactly. And my Christmas, my personal favorite this week, Atlanta taking on the Dolphins coming off of the bye week. Miami is just absolute flaming garbage. They are a flaming baby diaper at this moment.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I mean it's going to be. They are. They are one of my favorite this week as well. Falcons off the by at home. They get half of Jay Cutler and half of Matt Moore. So that's going to be great.

[Mike Wright]

Sure. And moving to kicker, which we don't usually recommend picking up a kicker, but check for Will Lutz and check for Matt Bryant.

[Jason Moore]

Whenever you've got those bi week guys, you know, you go through the waivers, you don't even look at kickers because you just don't care. Maybe you've got a decent one. You know, you've got a guy on your team that's been okay. So you stop looking at the weekly matchups. You don't realize that guys like Will Lutz and Matt Bryant were dropped because they were on bye week. Pick them up.

[Mike Wright]

All right, let's talk some quarterback streamers.

[Jason Moore]

Full stream ahead.

[Mike Wright]

I'll let you kick this one off.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Well, look, I hate it and I love it. I hate going back to the well. I feel like it's.

[Mike Wright]

Here's the thing about the well, though. The well is full of water. Life giving water. Why would you ever not want to go to the well?

[Jason Moore]

It's like I went to the well yesterday. Well, guess what? You want to stay alive.

[Mike Wright]

Your body, you want to win. Your body's like what, 70% water.

[Jason Moore]

You need water available in the majority of leagues. Despite the fact that the last four weeks, the last month of games in six point per passing touchdowns, he hasn't had less than 20 points in any of those matchups. In fact, the lowest yardage he's thrown was this past week with 291. It's Carson Palmer who's going to be at home against Tampa Bay, whose defense is just completely injured right now. They're missing all of their most relevant pieces and now they've got this awesome running game with a Hall of Famer.

[Mike Wright]

So big boost.

[Jason Moore]

I think Carson Palmer is absolutely.

[Mike Wright]

The return of John Brown.

[Jason Moore]

Brown being healthy makes a huge difference. In fact, all their weapons are starting to get a little bit healthier. I love Carson Palmer this week at.

[Mike Wright]

Home against Jason, I have a question for you.

[Jason Moore]

All right. Hey, where's the beef?

[Mike Wright]

Where's the beef, Jason?

[Jason Moore]

Where's the beef?

[Mike Wright]

Well, I'm going with Jacoby beef, brisket, Brissette coming off a strong game, he gets to take on the Tennessee Titans. They're giving up the third most fantasy points to the quarterback position. You saw new life for Ty Hill able to go deep. It will not shock me if we see a somewhat repeat performance from Ty Hilton this year.

[Jason Moore]

He's mobile this week. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

So this week he's mobile. He's a competent quarterback, especially when he's in a good matchup. And this is a great matchup.

[Jason Moore]

You got to play that drop one more time. Hey, where's. Wait, wait, wait. Hey, where's the. Beat the horn in the background is my favorite part. Hey, where's the beef? All right.

[Mike Wright]

There's some other options too available.

[Jason Moore]

There's a lot of really good options this week.

[Mike Wright]

Josh McCown versus the Patriots. Case Keenum gets to take on the Packers. Do you have interest in Kevin Hogan against the Texans?

[Jason Moore]

No. No. I realize the Texans defense is a little depleted right now, but they're still a well coached defense. And also Hogan plays for the Browns.

[Mike Wright]

This is your go to analysis.

[Jason Moore]

Look, it's. When. When it's right, it's right.

[Mike Wright]

Brian Hoyer coming off a strong game playing Washington. I don't know.

[Jason Moore]

I don't mind that one. Yeah, I don't. If Josh Norman is out.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I had forgot that.

[Jason Moore]

Which I believe he will probably be out then. I think Brian Hoyer is a fine play. I mean, look, he's. He's five weeks in. He's got three really bad games against three amazingly good defenses, and he's got two really good games against mediocre defenses. So Washington without Josh Norman is a mediocre defense. I think you could play Brian Hoyer and Andy. Andy brought his stream of.

[Mike Wright]

I thought you were going with Jay Grizz.

[Jason Moore]

Jay Grizz. Well, Jay Grizz's stream is going to be trubisky every week. Yeah, Andy's stream of the week is going to be. Jared Goff plays the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are, you know, terrible defense. No, I'm.

[Mike Wright]

Are you just bodying him right now?

[Jason Moore]

No, this is not real.

[Mike Wright]

Andy did not send that note.

[Jason Moore]

No, Andy did not send that in. Don't play Jared Goff this week. He's looking good. I was giving him some props around the studio this morning, but no, do not play Jared Goff against the Jaguars, who are destroying people right now.

[Mike Wright]

I'd rather take an ice bath than play Jared Goff right now.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Well, America, we did it. We made it through two shows without Andy Holloway.

[Jason Moore]

Tomorrow's mailbag. So get your questions in and we're gonna go crazy.

[Mike Wright]

Absolutely. Draft.com ballers for DFS this weekend. See you tomorrow, Book Clan. Goodbye.

[Jason Moore]

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