Bad Beats, Game Respect Game, Megalabowl WINNER! (+ Week 17 Waivers) - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/29

This sucks, man. A former first round pick waived after their, I mean, this was his shot. And the team said, we don't think we can trade you. And Ron Rivera, a very well-respected head coach, is the one that waived him. So I think that those two things make it difficult. Now, there's always the egomaniac GM.

or head coach that believes that they can fix all the problems and make a player good. So that would be your shot. Yeah. Hopefully Haskins gets some things figured out, right? Oh, for sure. Pick them up, Jets. What if, what if Adam Gaze's powers is to make, like, a bad player good? Well, he makes everyone good as soon as they leave. Oh, that's true. So no Dwayne Haskins. That dynasty pick not looking great for anybody that thought they had a quarterback in Dwayne Haskins. Nope.

Alex Smith was very close to suiting up last week. He will suit up this week in play. Otherwise, it'll be Taylor Hineke. Yeah. Hineke. Hineke. Tyler, Taylor. Taylor. Hey, he's a backup. T. Heineke. T. Hineke. Washington plays Philadelphia, and they hold the inside track for the title. If they win, they win the division. If they lose.

Then the winner of the Giants Cowboys. Giants Cowboys makes the playoffs. Did you hear what we said? The Giants or the Cowboys? No, no, Jason. Not only do they make the playoffs. They will host a playoff game. I mean, congratulations. Well done. While in the AFC, you've got, you know, the dolphins and Colts and some of these teams. Philadelphia is eliminated, though.

Yes, yes. So we do have an it is possible to be eliminated in the NFC East. Yeah. Okay. You did it, Philly. Oh, man. All right. The Washington football team star wide receiver Terry McLaurin high ankle spring. Yeah, would not expect him to play. That's going to hurt the efforts out there. Kyler Murray is, Cliff Kingsbury is hopeful he can play in week 17.

To me, that means he's playing in week 17. Arizona is playing for a playoff berth against John Wolford, the backup quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams because Jared Gough had surgery to repair a broken and dislocated right throwing thumb. So there you go. Yeah. And they will also be, the Rams will be without Daryl Henderson. Yeah. High ankle spring. Boy, it's been kind of a roulette. Yeah.

Unless Brown is there. And Brown is just always there. If you're in week 17, I mean, Malcolm Brown. Yeah, he's shaping up to be the last man standing. Whenever you have enough injuries at running back where there's one guy left. Oh, it's just so great for fantasy. They're a strong play. All right. What else is going on? Brandon and I, you high ankle sprain as well. Christian McCaffrey, Matt Rul says he would lean towards him not playing.

You know, at this point, just don't play him. Yeah, wrap it up. Your season's done. Kevin Stefansky says all the receivers will be activated from the COVID list after, if they continued testing negative. So receivers will be helpful for Baker. Yeah, I mean, without them, it wasn't, it didn't go well. No. Ronald Jones on track to come off the COVID list in week 17 against the Falcons. So he could be back and in your lineup if you play in week 17.

Frank Gore won't play. Michael Pittman's in concussion protocol. Sammy Watkins suffered a calf injury, which fulfills his contractual requirement for three injuries this year. For Sammy? For Sammy. Yeah. Just collecting checks and pulling muscles. He's got to get ready because this is when he shows up. Any other news, Brooks? Am I forgetting anything? Any other high ankle sprains from either producer? Have either of you guys done anything dangerous lately? I'd never do anything dangerous. Oh, that's true.

That kind of reminds me of a story. Oh, there's a Brooks story? Yeah. Well, I want to hear this Brooks story. I was the one time Brooks tried to do something dangerous. Do you know where I'm going, Brooks? I don't. Did he wear like fingerless leather gloves? No, no, it was just. Trying to be a bad boy? Brooks moved here to become our producer. Oh, now I know. Now we're going to talk about basketball.

Oh, this was dangerous. Yeah, me getting dangerous. I mean, that was probably the most dangerous thing you've done in a while, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we had been playing some basketball in the mornings and we, you know, we, you know, Brooks just moving out here, you know, need some friends and wanted to kind of get him integrated. We invite him out. I mean, hey, you want to come along? Sure. He said, yeah. And Mike was there too, right? I was doing some two on two one time. And then Brooks retired. And he retired. I wouldn't say on top. He retired.

Look, Brooks is a man who, due to his massive amount of wealth, he stays inside, does not have what you would say, a tan. But that day at the end of basketball was like he was hit with chalk pillows over and over and over because he made Dracula look like he had a sudden. All blood had drained from his body. Now this is reminding me of the fact that Brooks actually did.

You did have one more dangerous moment in your life. Oh. And that was the famous beach race where you beat our other producer who was very slow. That was actually the beginning of his wealth. Yeah. That's right. He invested all that. Anyways, I need to move on now. But we're going to get into some waivers. But before we do that, I want to thank today's sponsor. Head and shoulders. Look, you know this. When you are confident.

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Put me in, coach. There is actually one other competition that's going through week 17 here in the studio amongst all of the employees. And Al Borland is actually winning it right now. I thought we were tied. We were until you picked last night wrong. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, fitting that Josh Allen narrative. Just perfect. Yeah, Al Borland is one pick ahead of me right now on the year long against the spread.

So I wonder what that makes our actual against the spread record. You should look that up. That'd be interesting. Pretty good. So I hope you'd lose because I don't want to pay you money. All right. Put me in coach waiver time. Week 17 waiver time. Oh boy. Yeah. You guys ready for this? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Take your Pepto. All right. Let's talk about wide receivers. Where are you looking in week 17 if you need a spot start at wide receiver? Obviously.

The storyline for Week 17 is there are teams that are going to rest players. There are also teams that are in a position that they may feel comfortable in, where they may play players for half a game, three quarters of a game, and then rest them. So the variables are plenty. So where are you looking? I am personally looking. If I need a wide receiver, I'm looking at a game that is the potential of a win and get in in a division match for a wide receiver who has been

A wide receiver won over the last month, surprisingly. It's Michael Gallup. I know it's hard because you've got a backup quarterback, and he could be the three on any given week. He is the third most talented wide receiver there, but that doesn't take...

his actual talent away. And you say, okay, well, the New York Giants, they're pretty good at defense. They're, you know, they've locked people down. But, you know, he had a wide receiver won against Baltimore a month ago. He played against San Francisco, got a touchdown. This last week, obviously, a monster game. I don't think Michael Gallup is someone that you have to pick up, have to start. But if you're out there and you're in week 17 and you've lost an important piece, and you're saying, I need someone.

that I could pick up and have a big game, I think Gallup provides a ceiling type of play. Any one of those, really, C.D. Lamb, I would very much include as well if he's available. He's probably more rostered than Michael Gallup, though, and Gallup's actually been better over the last month. Dallas, what do they need? They need to win, and they need Washington to lose. But Washington is the Sunday night game, if I'm remembering correctly.

Dallas won't know heading into their matchup. Perfect. They have to win. So the division winner is going to end up at 7 and 9. Unless. I don't think there's a way for that. What's Washington? Is it Washington already 7 and 9? If Philly beats Washington, no, Washington 6 and 9, if Philly beats them. Yeah, then you're right. And then Dallas loses to the Giants, then it will be a 6 and 10 division winner. Impressive.

What? And 6 and 10 really does seem much worse than 7 and 9. Well, because it is. And it's really embarrassing because there's going to be a 10 and 6 team that misses the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, is there any doubt that that team's just going to go lose in the first round? None whatsoever. Okay. So, you know, one of the things to think about there, though, is that in the NFC, East, you do have teams playing for something. Sterling Shepard?

Last week had 12 targets, went 9 for 77 in a touchdown. Golden Tate wasn't playing. It seemed like every target going Darius Shepard's way landed 10 feet away from him. So the shorter yardage, higher Daniel Jones completion percentage type of throws worked out for Sterling Shepard. Yeah, I agree. He's another great option with a better matchup in the same game. Out of those two players, would you rather have Shepard than Gallup? No.

No, I will actually say Gallup. I'd rather go with a better quarterback. A better quarterback that has shown me some, let's say, pizzazz over the last few weeks where Jones has frightened me. I want to talk. I mean, this is the waiver show for Week 17, so hopefully you aren't going after these guys, but we know that things happen. These are all kind of higher risk players, but Zach Pascal.