Week 8 Waivers + Trade Talk, Full Stream Ahead - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/25

of professional action, and he is averaging nearly 50 yards a game. I've been a top 12 tight end, both of his appearances of his career. So his hit rate is currently 100% of the time that Greg D plays. He's a top 12 tight end, and you're putting him third. I'm putting him third. Here's why. Your first few words were a rookie tight end. And yes, he has been great for his two first performances. We have a lot of history on rookie tight ends. His snap percentage went way up again. On rookie tight ends not being great. Also, you're talking about Brett Ripian here. They might trade Jude. They might. Trade Jerry Judy. Sure. I'm not anti Greg Dulcich. I'm saying why he's my number three is because it's, I don't think he's going to continue averaging over 50 receiving yards the rest of the year. So I feel like you're chasing a little bit. I like him. I'm picking him up.

But to me, he's behind. If you've got an injury to David and Joku or a biweek going on, and I know we'll disagree on this name, Irv Smith Jr. for a one week rental. That's it. That's all I'm talking about, not a rest of season. If you need a rest of season, it's clearly Dulcich ahead of Irv. But the Arizona Cardinals have been torched. by every tight end they have faced. And, you know, Irv Smith has been schemed for certain matchups. He's been in the passing game and then not in the passing game. If there's a matchup to scheme him in the passing game, it's against the Arizona Cardinals. And the other name that I just want to bring up, he's far more rostered. He's available in only half your leagues. But we talked last week about whether you chase Mike Gassicki or not. Yeah. And he did not have a great game. That being said, he had seven targets and was super involved in routes run. He is.

talented. So what I saw last week says, yeah, it's ironic because he had three for 27. He had a very bad game. But the metrics you look at behind the scenes were actually surprisingly good. So I would put him near the top of the list as well. Yeah, I'm fine with Gisicki as well. It does seem like they have made an about face from the beginning of the year where he was not involved. He was being a blocker. They're getting him out there. They're letting him run. He has the athletic profile that. You want in a tight end. He's also listed in some of these trade rumors that either way, like Gisicki's, the role is increasing for him right now. If he gets traded, it's for a team that needs to use him. Other options. Evan Ingram was four for 67 last week on seven targets, plays Denver. You could kick the tires with the Hayden Hurst experience again, who has been involved. You talk about high passing volume situation. Seems like he has a floor.

Yeah, the last couple weeks, the Bengals have gone to a plus 20% of Passover expectation, as in the first month of the season, they were very neutral, just run heavy, but now they're opening it up again. Let's play a quick game. I'm going to go really fast. And this is, would you drop pits and play? Would you drop pits and play Dulcich? Yes. Would you drop pits and play herb? I would play Irv overpitz, but I wouldn't drop pits for it. Well, that's your choice. You're not going to probably roster two tight hands. Would you drop pits and play Evan Ingram? Yeah. No. Would you drop them and play Gisicki? Yes. Yeah, yeah, probably. Would you seek counseling after you did any of these? Oh, yes. I'm already in it, man. Yeah. Yeah. And then the last name, did we mention Harrison Bryant?

We didn't, but that's a good name, especially even in Dynasty. He could be on waivers in Dynasty and now has an opportunity with the injuries, Cleveland Brown's tight end. All right, on the defensive side of things, best offense or best these that you can pick up and play. You could look at the Rams against San Francisco. It makes me a little nervous, to be honest with you. I love picking them up just because they were dropped on, you know, because of their last matchups. They're available in 50% of leagues. The matchup isn't perfect, but they're one of the rare defenses that are great.

I don't see them on this list that we've written down, but I like Tennessee's defense a ton this week. That's the match of. Houston. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And they put up 17 fantasy points last week against the Colts. You also have the Dolphins against Detroit. You have the commanders against Sam Ellinger. If you want to shoot your shot on a young, probably turnover prone. debut. You could play both sides of that game. The commanders or the Colts are really great against each other with two backup quarterbacks going at it. Apparently Heineke had, I think, five turnover worthy throws that the Packers just, they did not capital. He was doing the same old thing. This was Nick Ful's magic. I mean, Heineke's one of his first throws of this game was like triple coverage, Terry McLaren. It was just, I'm going to chuck it because what have I got to lose? I mean.

I was already benched. I think they had two defensive touchdowns. The Green Bay Packers did. They were called back on penalty. Yeah. So I prefer the Colts over the banders. All right. And Jacksonville plays Denver and the Russell Wilson experience. If you want a shot at that. But Greg D, obviously going to be a big impact player. Yeah, three, four, five touchdowns. You can see the Waverwire rankings, Jason, on the site. Yes, sir. You can go there. Thank you. You're welcome. It's under the regular rankings. I will pass the ball back to you, sir. I see you. Alleyoop. No, yeah, the waiver wire rankings are available. So if you want to look at everybody we said and pull it up, you know, right there, have the waiver wire rankings. There it is. This is good. I should have taken the ball back. Very difficult to say, yeah. I mean.

It's a really, really valuable tool. I've been using it. People have been saying it makes their waivers much easier to just look at the list of everybody we've been talking about. You ever seen a play where, like, Jason Kidd, like, threw up an L.U. And then the guy was like, he grabbed it at the top of the rim and he threw it right back to Jason Kidd. I have not. You ever seen that before? No. I mean, now. No, my favorite is jump up, grab the ball, but come down with it. Three dribbles, take that assist away, dunk. Oh, yeah. This is a self-stat steeler. Stats stealer.

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moving another streaming option I like this week, not as much. I don't mind Jimmy G with the Christian McCaffrey experience. It's funny because Jimmy Garoppolo, you're 100% looking for cheap points. I am not expecting Jimmy Garoppel to do something special on his own. I live in this world where it's like, you dump it to McCaffrey, you get the points. You dump it to Debo, you get the points. You dump it to kettle, you get the points. Yep. It's just... You benefit. So Jimmy G was my streamer. He's not rostered in a lot of leagues. So if you're looking for him, I traded him and a late round pick in one league to get two against Detroit because I like that a little bit more with the Tyreek Hill experience. Jimmy Garapolo has three back to back to back weeks of being a top 10 fantasy quarterback. But he has not been in the top eight ever. That's what you get. I mean, that's just fun. Quarterback nine, quarterback nine, quarterback nine. That's fine from a streamer.

Survive your week. Yeah, don't look at that upside down, am I right? My streaming option this week is widely available because we don't know if he's the starter. It's James Winston. And you can throw Andy Dalton in here. Yes, you can. Just call it the... The New Orleans Saints quarterback is who I am starting, taking a feather out of the cap of Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright, who started Davis Mills last week because of the matchup against the Las Vegas Raiders. He, hand him the underpants. Oh, no, you know, I don't think against Vegas going with the Saints quarterback. I don't think that's steel underpants. You don't need steel underpants for that? I mean, good, good wicking material.

Yeah, something's going to keep you fresh. You might get a little sweaty. Well, certainly if you got steel underpants on, I'd be super sweat. The steel underpants is more to protect your loins and hold in the poo. Yeah. So no one knows. Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Raiders are the 32nd best team and schedule adjusted fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. There's no chance that the Saints do not throw. for a bunch of yards and a couple touchdowns in this game. So whoever the Saints quarterback is, right now, if I'm picking one up, I'm picking up James. You better hope it's not both of them. I, yeah, certainly don't. I hope it's not both of them. And I'm going with Daniel Jones against Seattle. It's the 26th best matchup if you adjust for points. He has the second most rushing quarterback yards, and he's averaged a robust 8.3 rushing yards per attempt. Daniel Jones, been running a ton.

low-key usable for fantasy football here. And he also has some other pretty good matchups coming up down the street that I mentioned for Wondale. Yeah, he was in the consideration as well looking for that Herbert pivot. You're hoping he runs the football. I mean, he's good at it. Yeah, what, 100 yards last week? Most of the season, he's been, you know, in the teens or 20s for quarterback finish, but you saw it last week. He was the quarterback three. He can absolutely have big performance. And I looked at Kirk Cousins as an option in a trade going up against Arizona, and I didn't like it. Oh, really? I just didn't. Cousins has done, he's just been, the team has been good.

But I think he's like 20 fancy points of a game. Like he has not had a big blowup game, one of those explosive ones. So I wasn't sure if it would happen against Arizona. And I got a little nervous. I'd be happy to play. All right. Tomorrow we have ride or die, the Thursday night football preview and a special segment. Second half sleepers on the show tomorrow. Check out the community at join the foot.com. Support the show. Join thousands of like-minded fantasy players. It's a good time. See you tomorrow, everybody. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers.