Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 8 Waivers & QB Streamers, Chocolate Grasshoppers

Sure. Fantasy-wise, though? Yeah, he's a drop. Okay. He's a drop. The offense hasn't been good enough. His role hasn't been secure enough. He, you know, some rumors about prior for Bryant. You could flip those two guys. Yeah. Flip them both to the waivers. Yeah. Dan Bailey's going to miss several weeks, so you've got to take him out as your kicker. Why is he missing? Uh, yeah. Got a groin issue. We are not sensitive to groin injuries. No.

In fairness, if you get a groin injury, usually it's accompanied by a sound. Yeah, that's everyone. I've injured my groin. That's what the sound I made. Right. Marshawn Lynch. Get well, Dan. His one game suspension has been upheld. Surprise, surprise. You're not allowed to run off of the side. And like shove a ref, yeah. Yeah. So any other news you guys want to get into anything else you want to talk about before we move on to the waivers? Waivers. Put me in, coach.

All right, Arizona, Green Bay, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, New York would be the Giants, and Tennessee are all on by this week. So you are, you're hunting for some options. Why does the NFL do this? You asked that last week. And I don't know. I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. Our goal here is because of what we view, we view the waiver where I think a little bit limited. There's not like a jump out, got to go get.

a superstar this week. So we want to take a very helpful, we think helpful approach to the waiver wire this week, which is, look, let's target some players that have good matchups for you this week. That you can actually start. For instance, here, we can start by the opposite, right? Here are a list of players that might be good waiver pickups that are not going to help you this week. They're all on by. So Marquis Lee, Cooper Cup, Alan Hearns,

Robert Woods, Corey Davis. Those are all fine pickups, but if you're in the bypocalypse, don't go grabbing those guys. They're all on by this week. We need to be looking for most players. Who can I start? Who is a good player for a weekly fill-in? And I want to know, you know, what you guys think for most players out there that are relatively open, who's that number one weekly start? Are we talking?

positionally or anybody wide receiver okay wide receiver wise i like the i like both of the jet wide receiver options curse or anderson if you need a flyer because they take on atlanta at home i like gin based on the production of the last few weeks and it's available in about 50% of leagues gin is probably my top wide receiver ad this week's because this week because it's chicago Tampa bay

that tough matchup against Buffalo and then Washington. So you're talking three out of four of the four next weeks are he's going to be a solid flex play. Yeah, we might need to shift our expectations a little bit on that Chicago defense. They're the only team in the league that has not given up an offensive touchdown for the last, I believe, two weeks. They're nine quarters in a row of not getting up an offensive touchdown. Obviously, Drew Brees, they're going to score a touchdown. But I'm not sure it's the.

the easy pickings that we want. You know, he's owned in most leagues, but I think Tyrell Williams is a guy that's out there in a lot of places. The New England Patriots, and he's not the one. He's not the one that's going to, you know, I think he's going to get the coverage that could, you know, have that New England broken play. Well, but he's like fourth. And he's got to be the fourth in the, in the read list now. I mean, with Alan, Henry.

showing up now as a big target. Melvin Gordon. I mean, what was he last week? He's one target. And he's the big play where you only need one target necessarily if it's a 68 yard touchdown. He's owned in a lot of leagues. And if I wanted to grab somebody that I think is a better play and barely own, I think Benny Fowler this week is somebody you should pay attention to. Great matchup. Not only is DeMarius Thomas going to be matched up on Peters for a lot of this game, but Benny Fowler last week, five for 45.

You won't have Emmanuel Sanders in there. It is a Monday night game. But I think Benny Fowler is a sneaky play this week. I wouldn't expect Denver's defense to be able to shut down Kansas City. So I think that they'll be throwing the ball. Mind you, Simeon's been pretty bad. I'd love to say that Kenny Galladay is a great pickup because of Golden Tate's absence, but I don't like the match of against Pittsburgh. Do you guys agree or do you pick him up because he has, you know,

A couple nice matchups after that with Green Bay and Cleveland. Yeah, the Lions, so we'll be taking on the Steelers this week on Packers and the Browns. If I'm picking up a receiver from the Lions, Gallaudet is actually, he's just kind of one of those nice upside players that's a decent stash on your bench regardless. But T.J. Jones would be the replacement, the slot wide receiver replacement for Golden Tate, who has been diagnosed. But it was a spring. Shoulder injury. Yeah, so.

So he's in a sling. Yeah. He's not going to play this week. So if you're trying to find that Tate replacement, I'd be looking at T.J. Jones. Yeah, I would agree with that. Or, I mean, obviously different position, but Theo Riddick will probably be more involved because of that golden Tate. Same game. Another guy that I think is going to be a good quality start this week. We talked about Martavis Bryant, the issues there, how he's been less and less involved. The guy who has been the benefactor from that is Juju Smith-Schuster. He's looked good.

He's getting more and more involved. A Detroit is not a defense that scares me. So he would be another guy that you could pick up and plug in your lineup if you've got buy problems. He is in the concussion protocol right now. Yeah. I mean, obviously if he doesn't play, that's worse. Less of an option. That's less. Yeah, that's less valuable. But I, you know, I expect that he's back. We were talking about this this morning. You know.

bringing Josh Doxon up now makes sense. So, I mean, Doxon and Juju Smith-Schuster, Jason thought that Schuster was a better pickup. I'm definitely on the Doxen side of that equation, and so we can kind of talk about the implications there. And, you know, a couple weeks ago we started talking about Doxon as, look, if there's anybody you want to own out of that wide receiver core, you go with the guy that has the pedigree, the guy that has the size, the guy that has the touchdown potential. All those reasons are why I like Doxon more.

And we've made arguments about quarterbacks. Like yesterday on the show with Sean Watson, you know, you talk about, okay, if Sean Watson is this, you know, point per game quarterback, there's X amount of points going out there. And it's going to go to Lamar Miller, it's going to go to Fuller, it's going to go to Hopkins. Cousins is the number six quarterback in points per game. And Cousins finds a way, yes, he distributes it to a lot of options, but I'm sure he would love that some of them would be his wide receivers. And it hasn't.

played out that way. It's not going to be Grant and it hasn't been Crowder. I still like the long-term upside short-term interest in Doxon. I do as well. And the arrow is pointing up not just, not just, not just narrative of him. I mean, look at the snaps and the targets. He was on the field for almost 85% of snaps this past week. He was out. He has dethroned Terrell Pryor. And I think that.

The arrow is pointing up for Doxon and the upside. If they get that going over the second half of the season, the connection between Kirk Cousins and Josh Doxon.

His upside is tremendous. Yeah, I'm certainly not against Josh Doxon by any stretch. I do think the way they spread the ball around, it's going to be hard to rely on him. But there are some people that think, okay, this was kind of a disciplinary tactic for Terrell Prior to give Josh Doxson to start. I disagree. Jump to fire! Yeah, I mean, the reality is Terrell Pryor is a second year wide receiver who's only on a one-year deal. Josh Doxon was drafted with first-round capital and first-round talent.

to be that guy. This was a divisional must-win game. They're not going to be like, well, we'll just teach them a lesson. They put their best book forward. I don't know if anyone's going to do that. Yeah, it would be Gruden. Here's a name that I think we kind of skip over. You might be a little bit afraid because the matchup. The matchup is not good. And you're always like, okay, if you're just getting this weekly start, you know, I'm looking for those juicy, you know, New England, New York Jet type matchups. But I still think.

Kenny Stills is one of the better plays this week. I mean, I know it's Baltimore, and they're, you know, very good corners, but you've got a history with Matt Moore and with Kenny Stills and a recency with Stills being more and more involved, especially if Parker is going to be out. I think you could do a lot worse than taking a high upside gamble on a player like Kenny Stills. The last wide receiver I want to throw up, because this is super deep.

DeMarcus Robinson, Kansas City Chiefs. I mean, when Conley went out, you saw his snaps skyrocket. I'm talking he was on the field, I believe it was 98% of the time last week, high 90s the week before. So he is getting play. He was five for 69 with eight targets. Gets Denver, not the most ideal matchup, but just saying that he could be worth the look for your bench. And, and.

Last one for me would be Mohamed Sanoo. He was so involved this last week. I was really impressed with his involvement against the New England Patriots. And Muhammad Sanoos, you know, that's the New York Jets as the matchup. I think he can do well there as well. All right. Well, before we talk, some running back waiver options. Like we like winning. And we want to thank today's sponsor, which is all about winning.

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Aaron Jones is most likely owned if he's not grab him, even though he's on the by week. Yes, he is an absolute top priority. Looks like he has taken over the starting running back position for the Packers. You have, you have to grab him. I would, I would burn my top priority to get Aaron Jones. And spend a lot of fab. And spend a lot of fab. Absolutely. This is one of those guys who has forgotten about wide receiver. Make sure Marvin Jones isn't just lurking around your waiver wire.

Yeah, with Golden Tate out. Yeah, so I apologize that I didn't bring that up earlier. Yeah, and, you know, look, people a lot of times want to know how much do I spend on certain players. We didn't even touch on that in the wide receivers. The reason is because there's very little difference between all of them. So spend next to nothing. If there's one guy you really want, then maybe $7. Hey, I was going to go five.