Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 7 Waivers, Streams of the Week, Injury News

Big guys. JHA is one. The guy I want to target. We've been talking about him for weeks now, and he's still owned in only 49% of leagues, and that is James White. For sure. Look, James White is the perfect running back for Tom Brady. He doesn't get it done on the ground, but eight for 47 with two touchdowns, nine targets. These are, you're talking high level wide receiver amounts of targets for James White at the running back position.

These guys do not grow on trees. And James White is where I would spend my money, my fat money. So one name that isn't written here that needs to be, I mean, Dionne Lewis isn't going to practice this week, but he might be sitting on your waiver wire. Why don't you package deal those guys? Yes. Grab them both and then throw Dion Lewis on your IR. But would even if you don't. Yes. Even if you don't. Yes. A lot of people don't have my bench. I would stash him on my bench. I don't know, man. I would if I have James White. Because here's what. Yes. If you have James White. Here's what you know.

you have a weekly starter for the rest of the season on a high-powered offense. Because James White is getting it done. Look, I didn't say James White because he is still owned in about half of leagues. It's nonsense that half of leagues he's on waivers. If all three of those guys that we've talked about, J. H.I. Quiz Rogers, James White, are available. James White is the guy I'm picking up, especially if Dionne Lewis is also available. And I'm guessing if James White is, as Dionne Lewis is. Right.

Because if I could pick up both those guys, I feel like I've locked in a starting running back role rest of season. Let's talk about a couple of other guys. Look, let's talk about the situation. I don't think Mike hadn't even really heard about this today. And nothing may come of it. But Carlos Hyde went out with a shoulder injury. And after the game, Chip Kelly said it's uncertain what it looks like for Hyde moving for it. He could be completely fine. But you need to watch the practice report today.

If Hyde misses, spot start at the running back position, are you signing Mike Davis who ran ahead of Chondrone this week? Are you signing Big Salad? I would be signing Mike Davis. I think that he will be the primary ball carrier. Chondrone, we've seen him be great, especially when he's the only guy, but Mike Davis is a guy who's more comparable to the skill set of Carlos Hyde. That's where I would go. Some handcuffs to consider. Derek Henry, Alfred Morris, Devante Booker, Mike Gillisley. How would you rate those four guys?

In order of, let's say you own none of their lead backs, the guys ahead of them on the depth chart. So how would you rank those four just in grabbing a guy this week? I would go. A stash and prey. I'll go Booker number one. There was also the report today that Kubiak, Coobes wants Booker more involved. So maybe Booker can be standalone value. That's what you love is a handcuff that you can actually play in a pinch. Then I would go, my number two would.

B. Alfred Morris here, but he's on by. So I'm going to move Derek Henry up for this week just because of you've got to be ready if something happens to the starter. And the starter's not going to get hurt on the by week. So Morris, Henry, then I'll go, or sorry, Booker, Morris, Henry, Gillisley. I completely agree. You literally.

Just read my brain script on everything. I love Al. You read it. Read his brain script. I love Alf, but you... That was going in the poll. Much better to have a guy whose starter in front of him could get injured this week. Across the board, you nailed it. The only question I have at all is Henry versus Booker, but I agree because Booker is getting more involved. You might be able to have him...

fill in in a flex roll without C.J. Anderson getting injured. All right, tight ends. Tight ends on the waiver wire that we're looking at here. We talked about Jack Doyle. He's only owned in 6% of leagues. He went four for 53 in a touchdown this past week. And Dwayne Allen might be missing a week. This is also a matchup that I think, you know, he can do enough in. So pay attention to Jack Doyle. Cameron, break coming off the buy, only owned in 23% of leagues.

Playing San Francisco. Yeah. That is a, I mean, there are three teams that are really bad against the tight end who have waiver wire pickup candidates. San Francisco, Atlanta, and Detroit, I look at those three teams and I usually try to find a tight end against them. And that's Cameron Brate. That's Vernon Davis, if Jordan Reed is out. And then what do you do with the San Diego tight end? Who is it?

Who are they? I'm in on Henry. I mean, Gates says he's not 100% healthy. And even if he is, they're fools to not use Henry after you've lost Woodhead and you've lost Keenan Allen and you have kind of a plethora of maybe they'll be good this week, wide receivers. Henry, I'd rather start Henry. Let me put it this way. I'd rather flex Henry over the wide receivers in San Diego right now. I don't blame you there because you know the tight end is going to get involved. And while the wide receiver is going to get involved, you don't know which one.

And, you know, there's three wide receivers splitting. There's only two tight ends. And really, Gates doesn't get involved that much until down near the red zone. So let me ask you this. You pick them up. Who are you starting this week if you have to start Cameron, Brate, or Hunter Henry? I probably stay in the flames with Hunter Henry. I think I go Brate, especially with the Vincent Jackson knee injury. Brate's going to be more involved. Mike, tiebreak this for our listeners.

I'm going to go Hunter Henry. I'm with Andy. I think the concern I have is I'm not as confident as Andy with. You have the wide receiver roulette. You feel like the tight end safe. I think the tight end is part of that. I'm just calling it pass catcher roulette for San Diego. Where we saw Henry was the one who had the monster game last Thursday. It could be Tyrell Williams this week. But the nice thing about Henry is you could still, you have that.

You have that high touchdown potential. Philip Rivers loves throwing touchdowns to the tight end. And if Hunter Henry is the healthy, physically gifted one right now, that's his role. Yeah. And the one thing, if I recall correctly, and I could be wrong here, but I think I'm not. Okay. Philip Rivers on the road has been great. Philip Rivers on the road has been throwing touchdowns. And this week, he's at Atlanta.

You know, Atlanta's a 30th ranked passing defense right now. And on the road this year, you know, he started in Kansas City. He only had one touchdown. But then he went to Oakland, four touchdowns. I guess I guess it's a mix. He's just been good. Yeah, overall. He's just been good because his other four touchdown game wasn't home. But he's, you know, the seventh ranked quarterback right now and somebody to pay attention to. I think what you're remembering, and this is Philip Rivers.

over his career has a better split on the road out of games. He averages two more fantasy points per game on the road than at home. It's not to say he's always going to do better, but it is to say he's not one of those quarterbacks that struggle when he goes on the road. All right. We're going to talk about quarterbacks in the context of our streaming quarterback segments. So I'm going to give us, let's give some defenses out there before we move on to the quarterbacks. You know, the Bengals this week are great. They take on the Browns.

You know. The Patriots, I think you love it. You worry about the Steelers usually. But whenever you've got a Landry Jones lead team and a good defense cross, I would play them. I agree. I would rather have Cincinnati. I'm going to throw out the Buccaneers versus the 49ers because you know the Bucks will be available. They were on buy. And there's nobody who held the Bucks over the by week. If you did, you're not listening to this podcast. Yeah, there are a possibility. I always get a little bit shaky when you start.

Not a great defense. I'm going to give you two words. Kaepernick did. Colin Kaepernick. He did enough against the bills last week to score some points. I mean, he did put points on the board. But yeah. Okay. Well, let's, you guys get any other defenses or anything else to talk about that? Those are the big guns. Full stream ahead. All right. We're going to kick off the full stream ahead section here. We're going to pass it to Jason first. Look, there.

There's a thing at the top that says what you're looking for in a stream, Jason. Yeah, what you're looking for in a stream usually, we're looking for 250 yards and two touchdowns. That's always going to get it done for fantasy. It's easy to find guys on the waiver wire that can do that. You know, sometimes you get locked into playing your...

quote unquote stud quarterback when he's got kind of a bad matchup and you end up not getting 250 and two whereas there's guys on the waiver you could do that from um i you know i struggled with mine this week mostly because there are two guys that i love right as streaming candidates this week and you both picked them first so i'm just throwing this out there for our listeners because what matters to me is that people get it right

If either Mike or Andy Stream is available, go with theirs over mine. I would have done the same. I picked it, but I'm going to go with Alex Smith. Alex Smith is still available in most leagues. He plays the New Orleans Saints this week. We've seen all year that people do great against the New Orleans Saints, whether that's passing, whether that's running. We can see Spencer Ware and Jamal Charles have great games against New Orleans, but we can see some of that come.

You know, through the air. Both of those are good pass-catching backs. New Orleans gives up a lot of points. Vegas has this as only one of two games that are over 50 points on the over-under. You know, I would love this if Alex Smith was doing what he usually does, which is run the ball. You know, he runs, you know, 400 yards in a season. And I asked you guys a couple days ago. This is crazy. I was like, how many yards do you think Alex Smith has so far?

And you guys were like, I don't know, 150, 200. Well, you know, I don't remember your guesses, but it was up around there. And it was like, no, 19. And then I think this last week he ran for negative three. So Alex, if you're listening, you can run the ball on the Saints. It's okay. It's okay if you want to run. By the way, if the pass catchers for Kansas City, so I'm talking about Macklin and I'm talking about Kelsey, if they don't get it done this week against New Orleans, I'm going to be really out fantasy-wise on that passing game.

That's fine. Before I throw out my streamer, we want to honorably mention Kurt Cousins against the Lions and Andy Dalton against the Browns. For sure. They're both above the threshold we like to go with, but there are in terms of ownership. In terms of ownership percentage, but they're both, they're available.

In certain leagues. Yeah, they're both available in over 30% of leagues. So take a look at them. I believe they're both sitting on the waiver wire in our league. Yes. And I would grab either one. So take a look at those guys. I'm going to throw out James Winston. He's coming off of the buy. This is the moment that we have been waiting for. And I'm talking specifically. Mike, just specifically. No, no, no, no, me as well. I'm talking to the people who've been holding on James Winston who. Or any buck. Or it's not like he said book.

Any buck. Any buck. Look, San Francisco, Oakland, Atlanta, Chicago. Those are the next four matchups for the Buccaneers. James Winston is set up for success. I know it's a cross-country trip. At least it's the easier of the trips. And San Francisco has allowed two passing touchdowns every game for the last month. For the last month, at least two passing touchdowns. Are you starting it?

I in our league he is currently set to start I like how you're like he's at they've allowed at least two passing touchdowns for last month what that makes me think is like oh okay so what did they do you know just before that you got this arbitrary cutoff it was four it was like yes I'm just saying at least two so James Winston is a spectacular play um all right I like that take I'm going to give you the guy that look last week I said it and I said it over and over again

Marcus Marioata, or as Goodell would say, Muriatu. Your stream of the week. What a great pick by you. Thank you. Look, just you come back to the well with my picks. And look, it's Marcus Mariotta. 39 points two weeks ago, 38 last week. And then he gets that Indianapolis Colts. I don't know. What's the?

Is it a tertiary? What's after a secondary? It's the tertiary. It's their tertiary back there. They have, you know, suddenly Marcus Marriota's the eighth rank. They're the eighth rank, he's the eighth ranked quarterback. And he's only owned in 41% of leagues. He's a great stream. I'm thinking about playing him. You put up two games in a row with almost 40 fantasy points, and that's going to propel you up high. But the thing that I like about it. Seven for seven.

rushes in each of the last two weeks. Yeah, he's run for, I believe, over 60 yards, two weeks in a row. And when you do the math on, you know, I think this last week, it ran for like 68, 69 yards, you do the math and you extrapolate. It's basically like giving him an extra 160 yards passing. And so it's like, oh, he only threw for, you know, 280. It's like, no, he threw for over 400 if you consider his running yards.