Week 6 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Three Fiddles - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/13

I don't have a lot of interest outside of those names on the running back list. I mean... No, I agree. Tony, I would start looking at the insurance guys, the Tony Pollard and Latavius Murray. Those that we saw it with Alexander Madison. Those are the players that you need to check your waivers for, see if they're out there, and pick those guys up over getting a start out of Adrian Peterson. Yeah, I was able to grab Devonta Freeman the moment that...

Sequin went down ahead of time. And if you have one of these guys on your bench before the injury, you know, I would prioritize if I'm putting them in order, I would go Latavius Murray 1. And that's based on the injury history. I don't know if Ezekiel Elliott can be hurt. I don't know if he, I don't think he can be concussed. I genuinely do not believe he has the capability of being concussed because he has, he's got a helmet on a helmet. You know what I mean? That's a double helmet situation. I.

I agree so completely with you, Andy, that I feel like Tony Pollard is the most valuable insurance option that you will never, ever, ever be able to use. It's like a $10 million policy, but it's on the healthiest man that's ever existed. It's a life insurance policy. You're not going to see it. Right. Because what? Someone else is going to get it. Zeke went through COVID and then COVID was out indefinitely. Yeah, that's right. After going through it.

Yeah, otherwise, Brian Hill, okay, the Gurley injury. Am I even thrilled about Brian Hill when Gurley goes down? I'm not really thrilled. You're not thrilled about it, but you are thrilled that you have a running back who will see a lot of opportunity. That's true. Otherwise, if you need a spot start at running back this week, Adrian Peterson is a spot start against Jacksonville. Sure. Because he will get work, and that is...

Objective 1. At the running back position, see Jerrick McKinnon this past week. Work is worth more than no work. Tight-in position. This one's tougher because if you don't have one of the big three, and I'm talking about Travis Kelsey, Darren Waller, Mark Andrews. Oh, George Kittle's so angry. And George Kittle. I apologize. Thank you. He's not in the top rankings because he just hasn't have enough games. But Kittles in that group. But if you don't have one of them, it's been very, very shaky. Because he...

You can do the ping pong game of, ooh, I'm going to grab this guy this week because he had a good week last week. Oh, no, wait, crap, he had a bad week. I'm going to go to this guy this week because he had a good week last week. And that would have really hurts you. Drop candidates are relative to who you can pick up. So there is no absolute here. I'm not telling everybody, go drop Tyler Higby or Hayden Hurst or for goodness sake, Zach Ertz. It's all about what you can pick up. Now, the bigger question mark to me is,

It's Robert Tonian in what you believe about the tight-in position in Green Bay. If Robert Tonian is real, not a fabrication, not a ghost, if he's real, do you drop any of those three players to pick him up? The hard part about him being real is you won't know yet. Is it Devante Adams? Devante Adams has been missing, and Robert Tonian was there.

Look, opportunity was there. The talent came through for Robert Tanya to clean up, tight end four, tight end two, where his weekly finishes. But Devante Adams, who is an absolute target vacuum, was not there. So you can't say, with 100% certainty, yes, I'm dropping Zach Gertz for Robert Tanya and I'm riding that out. I lean that way.

Trust me, I lean that way of I don't want to play Zach Gertz and I'd rather take my shot on Robert Tanya, but it is not guaranteed by any stretch. Now, Mike, let me put you on the spot here because you have, this is a Mike Wright special. You have brought up players in the past that you have targeted and said they're a landmine and that you should drop them because other people will pick them up and play them. Yeah.

In our main league, why aren't you dropping Ertz if you believe he's washed? Because your opponents will play him. Yes. And also, to be clear, to be very, very clear, your opponents will play him is a way of saying, I will sign him, Mike, and I will play him. I know. I know that Zach Eris will be played. It was I wanted to go one more week. I wanted to see another week of evidence of please, please prove me wrong, Zach Ertz.

And he's just, I'm not dropping Zach Ertz. Not with the, the way that the tight end position is right now. Maybe he was binged up and now he's healthier. I don't know. I have no idea what's going on with Zachertz. I just have, I have to. Please. Yes, I need some, I need to look in the mirror with some self affirmation here on Zacherts. But like, I'm not dropping.

I'm not dropping him for Logan Thomas. I'm not dropping him for. I tell you somebody who I'll drop him for. A player that I am rising on. Is that Hooper? It is. It's Austin Hooper. From the Cleveland Browns. Absolutely. And he was 5'4.57 on 10 targets last week. I've watched a lot of Browns football this year very closely, just because I'm a Cream Hunt manager and an Odell Becker manager. The tendencies of Baker Mayfield.

The needs he has in terms of avoiding sacks and taking negative plays, Austin Hooper is a fix to that. And when I, J.J. Zacharyason this morning tweeted out a graph of the teams with the highest tight-in target tendencies in football. Cleveland is in the top two or three. He's going to mostly Hooper, some Harrison Bryant before it was in Djoku. And Joku's gone. Hooper is somebody that I think I can put in my lineup and not get Zach Ernst and not get Dalton Schultz and not get empty.

Zero points. It might not be spectacular. It probably won't be. But five for 57 at the tight end. If I don't want to the main four, give it to me. Yeah, 10 targets is a ton for a tight end. I would go, I believe that I would probably put Tanya first ahead of Hooper and then Hooper. The third option to me is Jimmy Grandpa. He's a thing. He's as good as any other option that you're going to find to grab a touchdown and 30 yards.

I agree. Any other thoughts on the tight-in position? We've got streaming quarterbacks and defenses we need to talk about. No, just that Dalton Schultz, if you're curious, what do you do with it? You just hold Dalton Schultz for now. He gets to play Arizona, see what Andy Dalton does. You do not move on after one bad game. I agree with you, in part because of what you brought up before the week. He actually had an injury. Right. He had some questions about whether he'd be active in that game, so there could have been a little bit of

you know, the disruption with DAC and that. So defensive streaming options this week, where are you targeting? So if you're looking for players or teams that are widely available, Miami gets to take on the New York Jets. That is just, it's a recipe for success. That would be my absolute top streaming option. And then if you want to, like if you want to.

Get down in that dumpster. The New York Giants will be taking on Washington. Washington gives up tons and tons of sacks. And the Giants are actually putting up a decent amount of pressure on opposing quarterback. So that would be my backup. That's funny. I was curious which side of the ball you want in that game. You can play Washington too. Absolutely. You can play Washington. You can play the Giants. Daniel Fumble Jones.

Yeah, I mean, who score, let me ask you this. Who scores more real points in this game? The Giants. The defenses or the offenses? Oh, okay. I got you. Because I'm not sure. Yeah, that's nasty. If for some reason New England's out there because, which they probably. Because of the by week. Yeah, they could have been because of the by week. If somebody needed to make like a roster sponsor.

Yes. Very, very important right now. So they could be out there. Arizona takes on Dallas, which is the Andy Dalton experience. I'm not that excited about that. The Andy Dalton's Monday night. Option is enticing, right? The bad defense inheriting, you know, what I said 75% of DAC is my expectation, which would be great. Be a lot of fantasy. But then week one is prime time for America's team. Dalton has not had the best history of.

big moments, we'll say. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's talk quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. All right, I'm going to let Mike kick it off with his streaming quarterback candidate that should not be eligible because people should have rostered him, but they super have not. I think he may, like,

Has he been, he's either been a stream or a start of the week now for the first five weeks it feels like. What's insane is that he will be for the next five weeks as well. People refuse to pick him up and play him. Look, it's Ryan Fitzpatrick, man. He gets a tick on the New York Jets. I love it. He is widely available. He is getting it done. He is playing.

with zero cares. There is, there's not a worry for the fifth year in a row. There's not a worry in the world for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah, Tua is there. He knows that Tua is the future of the Miami Dolphins. It doesn't matter. He has, he doesn't need to look over his shoulder. Eventually it's going to happen. But in the meantime, he's just going to keep balling out. Yeah. And putting up top 12 performances. He's got Devonte Parker and Mike Gisicki and Preston Williams. That's all he needs. And, and Miles Gaskin. Oh, I mean, he's, he's set up.

Here's his last four weeks. Quarterback 11, quarterback 6, quarterback 10, quarterback 2, also known as all top 12 performances. Man, if the Lamar Jackson manager's head, Ryan Fitzpatrick. I mean, it's also just so much fun to watch en route for Fitzpatrick. He's so joyful. Oftentimes infuriating because he will throw the picks and he'll look bad sometimes, but he'll get it back. I love it. And he runs. He doesn't care if he doesn't worry about getting hurt when he runs. No.

Nothing to lose, man. What's the worst that can happen? You retire? Yeah, I've never seen him slide. He's in his contract. His slide is always head first. My start of the week is weirdly, my stream of the week for.

Next week, even though that's not his next game, is weirdly playing tonight. Ryan Tannahill, I think against Houston. I expect that to be a high-scoring game next week. Hopefully he has some of his wide receiving options back next week in Adam Humphreys or Corey Davis. But the matchup is good. Tana Hill has been really great since he's been the starter of Tennessee. He should be available most places because you haven't been able to play any Titans lately.

I'm going with Kirk Cousins against Atlanta. Yeah. Reason number one, Atlanta. Reason number two, the Alvin Cook is out. Oh, I thought you were going. Reason number two is still Atlanta. That is, that's fair. But Justin Jefferson and Thielen, the ceiling has been raised by Jefferson for Kirk Cousins the way that Claypool may raise it for Big Ben. So I'm going to go with Cousins this week as a streaming option, only rostered in 16% of leagues. So, yeah. I do want to also, like.

If you had DAC and maybe things are tough for you, along with Ryan Tannenhill, Matthew Stafford is coming back off of the by week. Matthew Stafford has not been the quarterback that he was last year, but Jacksonville, Atlanta, if you're trying to get ahead of it and you're in quarterback trouble, I think he's a player you should look at too. And we should.

Toxins is a waiver show. A little bit more about Andy Dalton and his rest of season prognosis. Because you've got a matchup here against Arizona that could be, it could be really good for fantasy for him. Chandler Jones is not going to be there. The pass rush shouldn't be. Like on paper things look good for Andy Dalton this week. And I think if you want to pick him up and play him, that's fine. I have just kind of a fear of that.

narrative street of Andy Dalton in primetime games, but I think it's okay. But if you look at the rest of season, he is nice. He is a starting quarterback with a great wide receiving core, a terrible defense, and a phenomenal schedule. I would, you know, if I'm, if I'm really been struggling at quarterback, or I've had DAC and I've been fine at quarterback, and now all of a sudden I'm, I haven't been in the streaming mood, I would be absolutely willing to.

get Andy Dalton, even over to these other streaming options, just to see and put them in my lineup because you might have someone you can play week in and week out the rest of the way. I agree. All right, let's do a couple mailbag questions. Mailbag. Mailbag. If you have a question for the show, the Fantasy Footballers.com, click the submit a question button or dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. All right. Nicholas in Massachusetts. Should I trade Kenyon Drake for Darren Waller? Yes.