Week 8 Waivers & QB Streamers, That's Amari

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry Jones. You did it again. You old so-and-so. Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers podcast for Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 waivers on the show today. News and notes, QB streamers. Yeah, that's Samari. Oh.

Mr. Cooper traveling, leaving the Bay Area, heading to Dallas. You know, I will say congratulations to all the Amari Cooper owners. Last week, yeah, I mean, I think that this is good news. If you actually own Amari Cooper, it's one of those things where he couldn't hurt you last week and he can't hurt you this week. You get the double buy. You get by week last week, buy week this week. He cannot be put in your roster.

And poop on your team. So congratulations. So, yeah, the system is sitting him for us at this point. Yeah. It is taken over. I find that's when he's best. Yeah, well, we'll talk about it. We had the big Monday night game last night. It ended up being a little closer than some expected. It started slow, but the fantasy point started rolling towards the end for some of the bigger names.

Did you guys have any takeaways from last night's ball game? Eli Manning, 399 yards, one touchdown. And it was a last seven touchdown. At the very end, after he had already made two buffoon decisions. One, to not spike the ball. Two, to, I don't know, quarterback's sneak right into a pile of 10,000 men. Twice. Twice. Yeah, I mean, back to back. It didn't work this time, but it's definitely going to work this time. But shocking that.

A man could throw 399 yards. So I guess it was like a one-yard touchdown, right? So he had thrown 398 yards without a touchdown. That's a feat. Well, they had gone, I believe, six or seven quarters without an offensive touchdown of any kind. So they seemed snake bit. Even on fourth down down there, I mean, they had multiple trips into the red zone. And I think Eli Manning at one point was like one for eight in the red zone last night. So look, it's a.

You're happy if you own Odell Beckham Jr. or San Juan Barkley. Sterling Shepard had a monster game. You're not happy with Evan Angram. No. But you had to make a decision this week to go right back to him off the injury. And I did. It was very disappointing. Yeah. Or wait, I guess. He did have one rush for 10 yards. But, look, Kevin Coleman, 11 for 50 in a touchdown.

Very disappointing performance for those expecting something out of Edo Smith this week. Edo Smith had seven carries for 16 total yards and two receptions. I thought he looked okay, but... The utilization was there. It wasn't the efficiency production. Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of what we said last week, which is he's not a special player, but he's in a good situation. And the Falcons didn't score as much as...

you would have hoped. I mean, this was, and I think that was a product of basically the Giants, not scoring on the Falcons, forcing the Falcons to be more aggressive. So it became a little bit conservative as the game went on. The Falcons were up. You know, they weren't pressured into throwing the ball deep. I feel like had the Giants been able to, you know, put a couple more touchdowns on the board, this would have been a great game, but it was exactly the fear we had going in. We talked about this.

Was it yesterday of just, will the Giants actually be able to score enough on the Falcons to make, to capitalize on the injured defense of Atlanta? To be fair, for, to Edo, Kevin Coleman was having an atrocious day until he ripped off the 30-yard touchdown. I mean, the Giants were completely stopping the run game. That's true. He would have been 11 for 20 outside of the 30-yard touchdown run, and Edo wasn't any better at 7 for 16. Amar, not Amari.

Uh, Mr. Hooper. Who? Not Cooper, but Hooper. Three for 48, just four targets in this game. You saw the return of Ridley and Sunoo. Are you, is this a return to Earth from Hooper? This was his chance to be full NBA jam on fire for fantasy owners. Yeah, he's cooled off.

I'm not saying you can't continue to start Hooper, but he's a low-end tight-in one, maybe even outside those top 12. You know, the Hooper or Brate rest of season? Hooper. I would go Hooper just because I think you'll get more volume. Touchdowns will probably still be bright, though. Yeah, it could be. The one target he did not catch was an in-zone target. Yeah. So what else from this game? Anything else? Matt Ryan, 31 for 39, 379, just one touchdown.

He looked great to me. I think adding Calvin Ridley to that offense just, you know, that's why we've seen the resurgence of Matt Ryan's fantasy value. I think that combined with the absence of Devante Freeman. They are having a problem. Tevin Coleman has been okay for fantasy. He's gotten it done, but he has not looked. Yeah, he's been inefficient. He has not looked great. And Edo is nothing super special. So I think that's forced them to throw the ball more. And Matt Ryan has, I agree. He's looked really good outside of week one.

A lot of fantasy owners were excited at the prospect of Tevin Coleman leaving this season. He's a free agent becoming the next big thing out there as a headliner. Has his lack of production this season with these opportunities? I mean, he's significantly worse this year than he's been previously. Is that dynasty-wise? If you're an owner of Tevin Coleman, do you have a little bit of concern here? Minimal. He'll still be the number two hotness.

behind only Levi-on-Bel as far as free agent running backs go. Yeah, but people don't pay for him very often to not be part of a timeshare that is. I mean, Jerry McKinnon had that perfect situation. Yeah, he would, I don't expect Coleman to get a, that, you know, 70% three-down roll from anywhere, but he can, he'll still be the leader of something. Maybe. I could see him getting a Dionne Lewis type of situation where in free agency, he's signed to a team that has another back and he just goes and he's,

A continual part of a running back by committee. He has not impressed anyone this year. Isaiah Crowell situation, too, where you're kind of... Could go to Houston. Yeah. Yeah. Where Lamar Miller went to... He would be very interesting in Houston. All right. Before we get into the news and notes, we have a few announcements. Oh, yes, we do. Oh! We got some exciting news yesterday. Jason can't even breathe. Jason's...

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It's still Camara for me. It's Sequin to me, and it's not that close. It's because the guaranteed workload, like he's getting nine catches a game, just like Camara is. It's a matter of the marking room situation where there's no one in, I mean, obviously. It's a matter of the box score. There's never. Looking at the Giants, zero in the first, three in the second, three in the third. But that's, and Barclay scored 20-something fantasy point. Right.

Well, because you got the touchdown at the very end of the game. But that's happened every week. I get what Jason's saying because there's never going to be a, it was a Wayne Goldman week. Right. You know, but you might say that with Alvin Camara. He cannot be game scripted out. If they're losing, he gets 10 receptions. If they're winning, he's the reason. He's doing everything we wish David Johnson was doing on a bad offense. All right, let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league.

Well, they did it. Congratulations, John. Yeah, what do you have to say about the Wheeling and Dealing John Gruden? This one is great. Yeah. This one is fantastic. It was floated out last week that the Raiders were going to want a first round draft pick for Amari Cooper. And the entire fantasy football Twitter laughed hysterically. Not bloody likely. But we forgot.

We forgot about Jerry Jones. I called it. Yeah, Brooks. Brooks is a diehard Dallas fan. How do you feel, Brooks? Are you excited about this opportunity with the Amari Cooper going into the fifth year option? Well, considering the Patriots got Josh Gordon for a fifth. Yeah. To be fair, Josh Gordon is not under contract next year.

Amari Cooper is, though, for $14 million. I saw Adam Schefter tweet out. For one year. Like the defense of the Cowboys, right? He's six months older than Calvin Ridley. He's only 24. He's a two-time pro baller or whatever. He's young. And they've got this. But when you actually look at what he said, it was, okay, so he's still older than a first round pick. He's far more, far more expensive than the actual pick.