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

This rascal stealing all of our T.Y. Hilton points for the Indianapolis Colts the last couple of weeks. He has seen six targets in each. He has scored in each of those games, and he's taken on the Jacksville Jaguars, and the Colts need to win. So they're going to be playing to win, and if you're watching the game, Hilton is a part-time player. He's still important to their offense, but Pascal is on the field far more.

than T.Y. Hilton at this point. So I think that he is interesting. Kiki QT for the Texans is another option. Wasn't a great week, but five for 54 had a fumble. I agree. I think people will be too quick to say, oh, Kiki QT didn't get it done. I'm done with him. But the matchup should be good. And five for 54, his fantasy finish was horrific because of the fumble. Five for 54 is.

a good bad game. That's a bad game for fantasy, but that's a good version of that where it's not just no targets and disappeared completely. Yeah, and you bring up all the time. All wide receivers are inconsistent. If the best wide receivers have down games, it would be quite foolish to look at these fringe streaming wide receiver options and then throw them away after one bad game. That's just what's going to happen. Otherwise, they're not a fringe waiver show pickup. They are in every week auto start.

QT is somebody that you know the role is defined, and they're not being benched. They didn't win the division. They're not the one seed. And you know Tennessee has something to play for on the other side of the ball. And if you, did you guys see JJ Watts post game press conference? Oh, I sure did. Oh, boy. Let me just say this. The Texans have something to play for. It's called JJ Watt. Yeah. Because he put that team on blast. I mean, he.

That should be played for every high school football team for the rest of... He gave a little hoo-rah. He gave a little beatdown of whatever teammates aren't doing their job. And so I think people are going to come and do their job. It's worth of listen, actually. It's pretty... It was the leader stuff. Yeah. I would put Nelson Aguilor above Kiki. My concern with Kiki is... Nelson's at the top, I think. Yeah. My concern with Kiki...

is Deshawn Watson related. I know he's going to play or he says he's going to, you know, give it a go. There's no guarantee that Deshaun Watson finishes that game. And this is, you are picking these guys up to put into your lineup for one week. Yeah, that's, that, that's rough. I completely did forget about, you got to monitor practice. I heard what Mike said. He said Jordan Akins. You got to monitor practice with Watson because that, that was.

concerning. Yeah, Aguilar would be in that more rostered than the other names who brought up, but maybe not. And he's had some, like, he's a perfect championship shot because Nelson Aguilar has had, you know, a number of games where he's a top 10 receiver. I don't think we're going to get top 10 from QT. So last name I would throw out would be Manny Sanders. Again, more rostered out there. But the Saints are playing for seating. The matchup is great against Carolina.

He's been pretty solid. Had 80 plus yards this last week. Michael Thomas obviously out. And Kamara can't get all the touchdowns forever. That's what you think. No, that's actually factually correct because Tasum Hill wouldn't need to take some of them. Yeah, you got to let Tayson score. All right. Let's look at some main waiver-wire picks at the running back position. Darrell Williams, A.J. Dillon, both very, very interesting, especially Darrell Williams, if they.

slot him behind Lev Bell on the depth chart. It means that Williams could see a lot of play in the final week. Not a guarantee. You know, you'd probably have, if Lev's not active or something of that nature, you'd probably see Darwin active. Yeah, the matchup is what makes it interesting against the Chargers. I mean, the Chargers defense is not good. So, wow, you're not likely going to have Patrick Mahomes helming the Kansas City offense, or at least.

At least not the full game, you will not have Patrick Mahomes. I don't know if he's going to play a quarter, two quarters, one drive. But Daryl Williams is interesting. A.J. Dillon, they, they're talking about him more. Now the whispers are starting to pour out for A.J. Dylan. Yes. I feel like this year you've gotten to really enjoy fantasy football when it comes to your...

kind of darlings in the in the over the course of the year like Antonio Gibson right got flex weeks with Gibson chase Claypool even though he's not been great lately you got flex weeks with Claypool and then here's AJ Dylan hey week 16 I'm here my quads are here too coming to save the show it's just interesting it's been a good year for you Mike I look it's crazy because all these guys are on my dynasty team so right you put just looking a little brighter yeah yeah so Dylan

the matchup against Chicago, but with Green Bay, we're not really sure what they're going to do to handle their team. But AJ Dylan, I would expect to see more work than Aaron Jones. Yeah, I think he's going to get a lot of volume. I would be picking up Dylan either as keepaway or possibly even to play. AJ Dylan is going to be great this week. I watch Daria Gumbulli Wally run, have some big plays against the Chicago's defense.

Obviously, Chicago is playing for something. And I'll be honest, the Daryl Williams pick, that scares me. Sure. Because you don't, he could dominate that game for sure. But he could also be rested. He could, he could be determined that that's the guy they need for the playoffs. If Clyde Edwards Allaire's not coming along and Love Bell looks like he's looked. So he's just, he is very, very scary to me. Okay, so do you go Daryl Williams or would you go Gus Edwards?

The Ravens are playing for something, and they're taking on the Cincinnati Bengals. Would you rather play Gus Edwards? I play Gus over Daryl. Yeah, that's, I view them the same. Okay, let me throw a name out there that I play over both of them that I want to know if you two think is crazy. Just crazy. But it's Malcolm Brown, the aforementioned Malcolm Brown. I mean, I think right now it's a little too early in the week to know definitively, but right now it looks like there won't be Daryl Henderson. There won't be Cam Acres. If those two backs are gone,

And you've got a one-man show. I mean, obviously it's a divisional matchup. It's a backup quarterback. There's a lot. And it's a third string running back. So I totally understand that. But I also think if. So like, you know, like a third string quarterback, a backup running back against the Arizona Cardinals like last week, just like last week. They could never have a good game, Jeff Wilson. Never. Yeah, no, I would play Malcolm Brown over those.

other two guys because of the known volume. I would play. Malcolm Brown feels like Enito Smith play this week. I'd play Gus Edwards for bigger play potential, but I get it. It's a compelling argument. If you know you have all the work in the backfield, it's tough to argue with that as a potential start over Darrell Williams, which is completely speculative right now. Later in the week, we may have a clearer picture of what Kansas City is even going to do. It is wild, the amount of running backs who are looking at huge workloads this week.

Because Darya Gubublewale, he looked good. He looked pretty good for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He's taken on the Indianapolis Colts. Should see a lot of work again. The New York Jets, La Michael P. Rhine, the fourth round rookie for New York. Frank Gore is not going to play. And the team had, before P. Ryan went on the injured reserve, Adam Gase had already started to put his confidence in that we're going to get P. Ryan more involved. I think that P. Ryan can handle the workload type of a situation.

taking on the Patriots, get to beat up on a divisional rival. Adam Gase has, he's got to play for pride at least. So P-Rine's going to see a lot of touches. Or you could play P-Rine. Somage P-Rine. Impressive game last week. Yeah, he had a great game against, I mean, granted it was Houston. Houston. And that is a great matchup. But he looked great. 13 carries, two touchdowns, 95 rushing yards.

The pain bot, which ironically, Andy, to your point, that was one of Mike's, like Mike was all in on Somaget Piran. He believed in the talent. It just took a couple years. It just took a couple years, couple injuries. Great matchup. Great match up. And here we are. Samaji P. Ryan, you know what they say. He's the everything that Rodney Anderson was going to be. Oh, man, Rodney would have been so good last week. By the way, Al Borland did run. Of course, he did the math because he's winning in the picks. But you want to know what the percentage was? Oh, I saw and I love it.

55% against the spread. Not bad. Yeah. Sony Michelle was... Oh, man. I mean, there was no Damien Harris last night. Damien Harris was questionable going into the game, so he could be active in week 17. Kishon. Kishon Vaughn is one that I'm not looking at, though, because that game was so out of hand. He got all that work because...

of the game being out of hand, and they almost all came in the second half, and you're going to get Ronald Jones back this week, and it should be more competitive in division against Atlanta. I believe that Keishon Vaughn could do something, but with the amount of options who are more secured in their volume, I would go with them before I start looking at Vaughn. I feel like there's a chance Vaughn could have work or have no carries at all in this game. Yes, yes. All right, tight end options. Where are you looking? Big Irv keeps flashing. Six for 53 and two.

Big Irv was a big thorn in my butt cheeks this weekend as he kept stealing all of Dalvin Cook's touchdowns. Now, you won the title, though, right? I did. Okay. But look, doesn't it feel great afterwards when you're like, oh, man, I should have played the, I won anyway. Yeah, but as a fantasy player, I will still remember week 16, and I will be angry with Zimmer forever. Austin Hooper had 15 targets last week.

plays Pittsburgh this week. How do you have 15 targets? He caught almost half of them. And the game 7 for 71. Come on, Hooper. Yeah, it was, it was, it was really. He's not that athletic. I mean, that's the, the truth of Austin Hooper. He is pedestrian athleticism. Well, I need.

More athleticism in his hands. Yeah, I was going to say it wasn't the athleticism that really bit him last week. There were just so many catchable balls that he didn't. Got another baby hands. Yeah, he just didn't bring it in. It was so ironic. As a start of the week, as a smash play, he was good. Yeah. Like seven for 71 at tight end, he was good. You were happy. You picked him up happy. You played him. But also on the field, he was terrible. He also did almost all that.

work on the first drive. Yeah. And you were like, oh, this is going to be a huge game. He'll probably get 15 targets today. And then he did. And then it didn't matter much. And Jimmy Grandpa keeps getting it done in the end zone. Hard to argue with four for 69 and two touchdowns. He is a legitimate play as much as Gronkowski is. Yeah, it was a very nice game. He's the Titan 10 on the season. And he has, I mean, he missed multiple games.

With injury, right? That's such a tough play where, I mean, since the by week, he's on the field for like 45% of the snaps. If they're not in that sweet spot where they're within the 15 yard line and then they looked him in the end zone, it gets trickier. So it's tight end. Yeah. So the grandpa is a fun player to be able to dunk on your opponent with. That's true. I would go with.

Would you play Hooper over him? I'd still go with Hooper over. Would you two, Jason? Yeah, I would. Would you play Big Erv over them? I would play Big Erv over them. There's some other matchups this week that are really good. Jared Cook. I don't know that he's on waivers, but these are, you know, those are the guys that you have on the roster that you're saying, I've got Jared Cook.

He's maybe been disappointing. Do I look to Bigger? Do I look to Jimmy Grandpa? I would continue rolling with Q. Where do you find value at defense this week? Man, that's, that's tougher. Cardinals playing a backup quarterback, but Sean McVeigh is. Sean McVeigh has just had Cliff Kingsbury's number in the. It also feels like the Rams defense could give a short field to Arizona.

Yeah. To their offense. Right. I don't love that one. I want to play against the Lions. That would be the Vikings defense, a good, obviously defensive-minded head coach. The Vikings defense hasn't been great to play, but I would be willing to play. We don't have any update on Stafford, do we? No, not yet. I don't think he's going to play. I don't either. I mean, why bring him back for a last week that means nothing when you don't even have a head coach? Like, just.

Let the guy heal up, in which case I would play the Jets defense against the Lions. David Blow? Going to get another start. Oh, David Blow! He looked better than Chase Daniel when they brought him in for the fourth quarter. If the Texans don't have Deshawn Watson, if for some reason he isn't able to give it a go, then the Titans defense, which also is bad.