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

And you're claiming we did it on the Super Bowl goal. They have the division leaders, right? Of course they are. Four and two dominating. Yeah. Point differential of 38. They're back. They are back. That division is so exciting. Every year it seems like you get some, you know, the Falcons. It was the Panthers.

We all thought the Bucks would get involved. The Eagles defense has been great. They're available in over half of leagues and they're playing against San Francisco. Yes, absolutely. That's a definite pickup. Cincinnati, obviously, against Indianapolis at home is another great pickup. And both of those teams are available in the majority of leagues, which I think is a little bit silly. I mean, the Eagles and Bengals have legitimate defenses. The Bengals specifically.

You need to look at them because they played Pittsburgh this last week, which means they are available on most waivers. Nobody wanted to play the Cincinnati Bengals against, you know, what is perceived to be that high power offense. But their upcoming schedule at home against Indianapolis with a really good defense. Then they go to Jacksonville, who is not as scary. There might be a better team, but their offense does not scare you. Then Tennessee, Denver.

who's reeling. Oh, my. Cleveland. Two weeks later, the Bears. Oh. So pick up the Bengals. All right. Let's move on. I'm all about their life. Quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. Mike. Now, are you picking this man as your stream just because you don't know how many, how many more times you'll get a chance in his career? Uh, maybe. Or. By career, you mean life? Because he's actually playing pretty well.

And the Jets are surprising people. Josh McCown gets to play the Falcons 2, 2, 3. Those are his passing touchdowns over the last three weeks. The Falcons, it's not the worst matchup in the world. And these, I mean, these receivers where they just keep getting underestimated, Jermaine Curse, Curley, Austin Safarian Jenkins. I mean, it's, it doesn't, it's.

I think teams just look at them, their roster on paper and go, eh, this is going to be fine. We don't, we don't even need to prepare for this. And then the Jets come out and they have a pretty good game. It doesn't matter if Josh McCown lost the game for the Jets because he won the game for your fantasy teams. So he's, these are my stream this week. All right. So you're going Josh McCown. I'm going to take Tyrod Taylor. Yep. Liked him as a stream last week. He delivered for fantasy owners.

268 and 1, but didn't throw a pick, didn't fumble, and had 6 for 53 on the ground, ended up with about 25 fantasy points. And now he plays at home for a second week in a row, takes on Oakland, very beatable defense. Right now they're 20th in the league in terms of giving up points to the quarterback. And Alex Smith torched him last week. I think Taylor is a very safe streamer right now, and he's available in a lot of leagues. Yeah, I love Tyrod Taylor. I would certainly go with him over my stream of the week.

As gross as it is, and as much as I bashed him yesterday. It's not gross. Well, I'm just saying his game last week, and I'm speaking of Andy Dalton, quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, he was so bad last week. That throwaway that should have been a punt. Here, I have, maybe it's a little bit gross. Okay. But this, this match up here for Andy Dalton, this is the, this is the dark chocolate covered grasshopper. Explain yourself. Yeah. No, I get that. Because.

it's got protein it's got nutrients that you need people around the world can eat it but it's a little it when you see it at the front of the gas station and when you're driving over to californ you go oh it's i i don't know if i want a piece of that but then you go it's got some crunch it's got it's chocolate's good it's got some sustenance chocolate's good so i'm going in on this are you saying you've had one of those

No. No, of course not. No, because that's disgusting. The chocolate in this case would be the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah, one of the worst defenses. The grasshopper would be Andy Dalton. The grasshopper would be Andy Dalton. That is absolutely correct. I was just thinking this morning, we need a metaphor-related segment on this show. Yeah. They're too entertaining. So he's the grasshopper. Yeah, he's the grasshopper.

Look, last week he was horrifically bad. Still threw two touchdowns against a really good Pittsburgh defense against Green Bay a couple weeks earlier. He threw two touchdowns. Buffalo has a great defense, only one touchdown. But when he played the bad team in this last stretch, Cleveland, he threw four touchdowns, had 40 plus fantasy points. Andy Dalton can still get it done.

And this week at home against the Indianapolis Colts, I think is an example where he's going to throw two touchdowns, could possibly run one in. He's a streaming viable option this week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The red rifle. Look, there could be an antenna or a leg left in your teeth when it's all said and done. But hopefully you came out on top. But you're going to feel energized. Yeah. Or you're going to vomit all over yourself.

One of the two. Either one. All right. We're getting into the mailbag. Mailbag. Bag your bag. Oh, yeah. Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers. Covered in chocolate and the daughter. All right. Visit the website if you have a question for us. Get your egg burp. Submit a question on the site. The fancy footballers.com. Use our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. We'll take care of you. Quarterback question here. Arnold in Alaska.

New Foot Clan member. Bunch George says he loves the show. Is Kamara a good trade for Duke Johnson Jr. and Russell Wilson. I get Duke and Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. My team is 5 and 2. I have Shady Hunt, Crabtree, T.Y. Sanu, and Tomb Raider. I've been streaming quarterbacks each week. You know?

I think I would do that deal. I think I'd secure Russell Wilson. He's an upper echelon quarterback. You're pushing for the playoffs. You seem to have, you know, I don't know what you have at running back beyond there. But if I had Shady Hunt, Duke Johnson, I'd be all right. Shady and Hunt, I mean, they're going to start every week barring injury. So Camara is your third back. I like Camara significantly more than New Johnson. However, in a full PPR.

Duke Johnson still has enough value to be that third running back. I don't love the downgrade there. And usually I'm going to say, you know, the advice would be more along the lines of, look, you're five and two while streaming quarterbacks. You might not like it, but it's been working. You've been winning. Keep your team together. But in this situation, I think the downgrade from.

Duke to Camara because it's a full point PPR is not significant enough to avoid it. I would do the trade. I would grab Russell Wilson. He's a second half quarterback. He's been playing really hot, and they just Seattle can't run the ball. It's official. It's done. They stop trying. So every yard is going to be Russell's doing. All right. Ryan and Minneapolis wants to know what the quarterback changed? Does the Jai have a better outlook rest of the season? Is he a by low target?

It's possible. Is the shoe, is this going to happen eventually? Are we going to get that 200 and 200 yard game? The two touchdowns that we got last year? Nah. I would say no. Here's the thing. I do think that Matt Moore is better for this team, but clearly the team and the management did not. The fact that they went out and they picked up Jay Cutler. We don't know how long Cutler will be out.

We don't know if Jay Cutler will be reinserted. Can Matt Moore play himself into the starting job? There are just so many variables here that I'm not going to let the potential of the quarterback change affect how I feel about JHA. He is a buy low. There aren't many running backs who are getting 20-plus carries. Pop quiz. How many touchdowns does J-JI have on the season? Zero. That is correct. Yeah, 28 carries in the first week.

He's had the last three weeks 25, 26, 23. Yeah, you don't. And he has not scored and he has not put up more than 16 fantasy points in any week. And I'll say, is he a bust? No. Here's, uh, yeah, I don't think you can call him a bust. However, the Baltimore Ravens for running backs have been like the New England Patriots have been for quarterbacks recently. They are, they are the get right game for running back. So if you're going to buy a Jai low.

I think you have to do it before this Thursday's game because it's going to be like Cooper. There'll be a big game for a Jaii and then the value will be completely reset. Yeah. In the last five weeks, there's only one game where the Baltimore Ravens did not give up a rushing touchdown. In that game, they gave up 190 rushing yards. Are you out of your mind? Yeah, I mean, listen to the rushing yards given up by Baltimore. Over the last five weeks, 151, 171.

Only 93. Oh, that's a good game. That's a good game. 199, 160. So I agree. Jay Ajai, not because of the Jay Cutler, Matt Moore, but he is a by-low. You just can't continue to not ever get a touchdown while getting the ball 25 times a game. It's very similar. I mean, McCoy had a better fantasy season because of the pass catching. But McCoy hadn't scored until this last week.

He finally got in the end zone. Like there's the inevitability, like you said, of 20 plus touches. This is inevitable. In inevitable. Oh, that's good. Thank you. Mr. Max and Cedar Falls, would you drop Randolph-Comp to pick up Josh Doxon? In a standard league, yes, I would. As would I. Jason? Yeah. All right. That is it for today's show. Tune in tomorrow. We'll get through some keep trade cuts, some more mailbag. Do some special stuff on the show. And look, thanks for hanging out with us. This was fun.

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