Week 11 Waivers + Difference Makers, Awesomely Awful - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/12

The Jamest one is so weird to me. He started two games. He beat the Baltimore Ravens. And then he played terrible against the charges. Like it's been two games. Why are we asking? We're going to ask because it gives you really cool, like media things to talk about. Weird. Cooper Rush is going to stick with, or the Cowboys are sticking with Cooper Rush. That one's a fair question. But they're going with Cooper Rush. How bad is Trey Lance? Oh, so bad. I mean, they. I mean, genuinely, like, you traded a fourth round pick for him. He's a top three NFL draft pick who hasn't really got the opportunity to start. And you can't overcome Cooper Rush after not being able to throw for like 60 yards? How? What are they seeing in practice from Trey Lancel? It's like, dude, we can't do that. We can't go to him. I don't know. It blows my mind. I don't know.

Yeah, and because you could make the argument that T. Lance doesn't have to throw and he'd be better off than Cooper Rush. Yeah, yeah, that is the argument. T. Higgins, day to day. Hey, that's better than week to week. I think it's year to year, man. T. Higgins is. Kevin O'Connell feels good about having Aaron Jones for the week 11 game against the Titans. That's good. He says he's sore, but he's good. It was a ribs injury. D.K. McCaff expected to practice on Wednesday. Hopefully we see that and he'll be back. They had the buy. Sam Laporta, Dan Campbell's hopeful will play. We'll keep an eye on that. And then Keon Coleman's already out for week 11 against the chiefs where the bills are favored. Really? They are. Fantastic. That'll be a great, great game. I can't wait to see how the reps win it for the Chiefs. I can't wait to see how what weird thing happens. And the Bengals also signed Gary Brightwell to the practice squad.

Which means that they saw Lenny. Leonard Fornett at 29 was not not going to get onto the practice squad. I don't. The guy couldn't get on the field for the bills last year. Yeah, it's over. It's over. Yeah, you let Leonard for net had a pretty good career for the last time guys. I can see him getting a workout next year. We, we salute you. You get paid for the workout? Maybe. Maybe like, it's a good question. I'll bet they pay your flights at least. They better. Put you up somewhere? That would be so NFL. They're like, hey, if you could get here. You can get here by tomorrow at 4 p.m. You can work out. I'll bet that's what it is, man. Okay. Here's a couple hotel recommendations. Look them up. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. To the waiver wire presented by NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV.

Well, here we go. We got a playoff primer tomorrow. We're going to get you ready for the playoffs. Keep an eye on that trade deadline. And then remember this week the Browns, Packers, Raiders, and Seahawks come on back from the by. And the Bucks, Giants, Cardinals, and Panthers head out for a much needed rest. And then next week we've got five, no, six teams. Yeah, this is. On by week 12, Bipocalypse. You may be looking at your team, looking at you like, oh, I'm all good for this week. you should be planning for week 12 when six teams are gone. Yeah. Just saying like, don't look at your waiver. I'm like, oh, I don't have to do anything. No, you probably do have to do something. And then those are not just, not just like bad teams. You've got a lot of fantasy assets on the bills, bangles, falcons that you're going to be missing an incredible amount of normal starters.

We'll start at the running back position for the waiver wire. And the name at the top of my list right now is Auduc Estimate. Yeah, there's two guys this week. And Estimate is the number one name for a couple of reasons. Number one, he's available in about 93% of leagues. He had 14 carries last week in their near win over Kansas City. And more importantly, Giovante Williams, one carry. So. The team seems eager to make a transition away from Giovante and simply needed to get Estimate to the point where they had some confidence. So Estimate to me looks like a potential starter sitting out on the waiver wire, which. And it didn't take an injury ahead of them. That's so great. Like, you know, usually the running back waiver wire is, is it either stinks. There's nobody to pick up because everyone was healthy.

Or it stinks because someone got hurt and now there's a big pickup. But Odrick Estimate should be the starter ahead of Javante going forward rest of the season. This is a team playing for this season as well. But really, Peyton has come out and talked about it. This is a team that needs to get their young guys involved. Their young team playing for the future, Estimate will be around and Javante won't. So, yeah, get him work. The Javante still ran more routes than him. That's not like a... Just making sure you have all the information of like this. Estimate is going to be a grinder on the ground. I believe he has zero targets. Since the day they drafted him every time that Peyton has been asked what they think of him, first and second down back. That's just how he refers to him. This is not a guy that's going to catch a lot of passes. So this isn't a great ceiling play, a dump all your fab. This is if you are desperate for someone that can be a starter this week, Odrick Estimate should be.

startable against Atlanta. They are two and a half point home favorites. So that would, you know, the predicted game script would be that estimate will get a bunch of touches. Gus and Jalen Warren are other names on our list. Warren has been hanging out here. It looked like Najee Harris went down injured last week. And I was thinking, oh, boy, like all of the kind of maybe ads of Jalen Warren are going to pay off here. But he did have 14 carries for 66 yards last week. And two catches for 29. I mean, he was a top 24 play. Is he the second name you were going to mention? Yes. Okay. Yeah, it's estimated Jalen Warren of I had, you know, I've been kind of pushing Jalen Warren of he is, he's not an insurance back. He's the flex back who has benefits of should, like if Naji had gone down last week.

Unfortunately, it would have been, holy crap, you need to go spend everything on Jalen Warren. We're not there yet, but he is a usable player who is working his way back into shape, and especially the last two weeks has looked much, much better. It looked more like Jalen Warren. Yeah, and I would personally put Gus Edwards in the same tier. If you're looking for someone this week and both Jalen Warren and Gus Edwards were available, I would rather play Gus Edwards just because of matchup. Warren against Baltimore, Gus Edwards gets Cincinnati at home. I'd be way on the Warren side. Gus looked so good against the tough Tennessee run defense now that he's recovered from the injury. J.K. Dobbins looks like he's fading. He has not been very efficient. And there's a team that really wants to run the ball. If they have the opportunity to run the ball, they will. So touchdown opportunities for Gus Edwards, I think will be there more than Jalen Warren. If this is just a rest of season play,

There's a lot of tough matchups coming up for the chargers on the run deep, so I would go on the Warren side. Plus, I prefer pass catchers. But I have them in the same tier to me. It's estimate first, and then pick your poison and Jalen Warren and Gus Edwards. But Gus Edwards is widely available. Warren is probably gone in your league. Warren and Edwards in Alger are all players that if you needed a spot start on a given week, you could get lucky. You could get the week you wanted. Eckler was in that category when Robinson was healthy. Acres was near the top of the list. Now that I see that Aaron Jones is feeling a little better, he has a priority add for the Jones manager. He is the insurance back there. If you were still running with Ty, that's not the guy. Cam Acres is the number two back now. All right. Then you've got all the insurance backs like Braylin Allen, Blake Corum, Trey Benson. It's worth noting Trey Benson's name. They're going into the buy week. The last two weeks, he's been really, really good, which is.

surprising from what we saw to start his career, but the Arizona Cardinals back up, they're getting him more involved and he is, this team is running so well that should something happen to James Connor, Trey Benson will be like the priority ad of the week. And if you say, well, maybe nothing happens to James Connor the rest of the season. He's been a workhorse. This will be the first year of James Connor's career if he plays a full season. Right. And if we keep saying it every week, hopefully he will. Hopefully he finally will. I hope he does. No, Benson has been on my roster as a Connor manager when I desperately need flex options. I've prioritized him clogging a spot because I just can't be caught with my pants down. No, no, no. Heading into the playoffs. Don't want that. You should have Benson. And I want to throw out the name Taj Spears from the Tennessee Titans. It had.

You know, it had been the Tony Pollard show. It had been an awesome. Like he's this later round running back who's been an RB2 for your team. But he's been dealing with this injury now for multiple weeks while Taji Spears couldn't get back on the field. Spears got back on the field and Tony's snaps dropped from the high 80s down to 54% just nine carries for Tony Pollard and Tadier Speard had seven. So this is, and three catches, only four yards. But he got three passes. So. I think that Spears is in this weird nebulous range that you might want to stash him and see if that timeshare gets to be what they said it was going to be during the off season. With all of the injuries, I think there's a chance that they're more of a 50-50. Yeah, and we've got a lot more names on the website as well. And in the app, we've got our in-season app that's fully out there for iOS and Android now, all of the waiver wire pickups, deeper names.

Lots of names that you might forget, like Marshawn Lloyd that's like, oh, hey, he's eligible to return this week. His practice window has been open. He's coming off by. I think, you know, there are a lot of names, and you can look at it for your league specifically, because you might be listening and be like, oh, all these guys are talking about, they're taken. Well, you plug that in at join thefoot.com, and you can just take a look at your leagues and who's available. The number one drop candidate question, and it's important with all the names you brought up, Estima, Warren, Edwards, in particular, he received 5% of the snaps and one carry. His name is Jordan Mason. If you don't have Christian McCaffrey, are you more willing to go drop him to pick up Estimate Warner Edwards? Yes.

I mean, I was dead wrong that I thought this guy was going to get that care. The reporter from San Francisco that thought it would be 5540. Yeah, I told you, don't trust San Francisco beat reporters. Those, those guys, so they're not good. Too trustworthy. Yeah, 5% of snaps, one carry for Jordan Mason. Did you say yes to that question? Yeah, for those three I would. But I mean, Jordan Mason's, he's in line with like a Braille and Allen of if the starter misses time, then. Jordan Mason would be, again, the priority pickup. And we already know he can succeed. At wide receiver, there are four names that are heavily rostered that are near the top of our list. Quentin Johnston, 59% rostered, scored again. It was a tough matchup, but he got into the end zone. Juan Jennings, we mentioned. If he's out there somehow, go and make sure he'd be the priority of all of them. He would be for me too. Ricky Pearsall, four for 73.

56% rostered. Pierceall's out there. Are you making him a high priority? Would you, Pierceaw or Quentin? I would go Quentin over Pearsall. I've got Pearsall just a smidge behind Juan Jennings. Joanne should be better. But there's a first round rookie wide receiver who has looked good at a couple weeks. His opportunity should only grow. So he's a must add as well. But more than likely, all those guys are gone in your league. So give me some names that are in the lower roster percentage. And I want to tease. Adonai Mitchell, because Reggie Wayne, their wide receiver coach, came out and said that the snaps were going to come up a couple weeks ago. They hadn't. This past week, six target, six catches 71 yards. And you know Michael Pittman. Yeah. So is he of interest to you, Adonai Mitchell? I think so. The concern for me is simply, I mean, he's playing the Jets next week. It's was the... 94% of snaps after 9%. Right. Was that a...

Was that what the coach has said, or was that simply Michael Pittman was out? And now, like, all of a sudden, Pittman practices and he's good to go. That's the only, that's the hesitation there. Because if Pittman is out, then Adonai Mitchell, I think, is, he moves into a must add. But right now he's just kind of a speculation. When he's been on the field this year, he's been targeted on 30% of his rounds. That is, that's a great number. Give me some other names that are in the sub. 20% rostered category. Yeah, there's not a ton of guys that you're excited about, but I'll throw three names out there that they have pathways and teams to have a little bit of success. Mack Hollins with the injury to Keon Coleman. He's on the field. He gets some deep shots. John Mechie for the Houston Texans has been a little bit more involved. Five for 74 in a touchdown this last week and against Dallas.

this coming week is a pretty good matchup. And then, NBS. I don't know. I don't want to say it out loud. You got to say MBS because you do have Derek Carr who takes these deep shots from time to time. Has it? About the only good thing he's done all year. Yes. He even scored a not deep shot in this game, which was even more bewildering to arrive in New Orleans. That tells you exactly what we've been saying. They have no one. They have no one at wide receiver. You have to mention MBS because they have no one. Mason Tipton is not a thing. Bud Means is on IR. The fact I had that sentence. That sentence matters. It tells you everything. Like no Alabi, no Shahid. MVS will not get less playing time after what he did. Shaheed, you know, was good for every couple weeks a bomb touchdown, you know, and that's the role that MBS is going to be in. Now, he just got it.

So it's probably not going to happen. I mean, this isn't a player who hasn't been on the field. He has been on the field for, you know, 40% of snaps. And we've seen a career of him having a big game and then disappearing for half a season. So, you know, this is like if you're in a tough matchup, you have no one to play. You're taking a prayer on a bomb touchdown. Um. Okay, other names? Anybody else? I mean, it's been thin. Christian Watson. Okay. Christian Watson is a name that we should bring up because he's available in more than half of leagues. Obviously, it's been a very disappointing season. He's dealt with an injury. He's dealt with injuries to Jordan Love. But when he came back, he was getting more and more work back from the injury. And now they'll be off there by week. It's not a great matchup.

I mean, you could do worse than Christian Watson. Do you see him differently than Dantavian Wix? Because their snap count seems similar. Their performances seem similar. Neither of them have been. I think it's more of a just see if one of them actually takes the job. Yeah, I mean, the last week, it was pretty split between them. I see them very, very similar. Don Tavian Wicks has a real catching the ball problem. Christian Watson, I would put him ahead of Dantavian Wicks, but basically, you know, it's like a 1A, 1B. Or 3A3B. Are you dropping DJ Moore at this point? Or are you now renewed by the hope that the offense fixes? Because I'd be renewed to trade him. Yeah, you could always try to package. You would want to trade him or trade for him? Trade him away. He's a big name. So you put him in a package deal with another player and it sounds better than it really is. And you have, like you have something has happened for the bears that could potentially move the market, make someone interested in him. I'm just.

I mean, that DJ Moore was my trade away guy like a month ago. I mean, DJ Moore is someone that if there was a Juan Jennings out there, sure, I would drop him for that. I would rather have Juan Jennings. I'm confident I could put him in my lineup. DJ Moore, though, I'm, you know, we're bringing up names like MVS. DJ Moore can get a bomb touchdown just like MVS can. Oh yeah, I'd much rather play him than MBS. Yeah, and so he's not a must drop. a package trade is good, a drop for someone that is important, great. Otherwise, you're probably just holding on. Over the last two weeks, Xavier Worthy has one catch for 11 yards over the last two weeks. Are you saying goodbye to Xavier Worthy? I'd say goodbye for Adonai. Yeah, I would say goodbye. Jameson Williams. What's the story with Jameson Williams at this point in time? 3.453 last week. No, I'm not dropping him. Deontay Johnson, Jordan Addison, fine, saying goodbye to those guys.

I would be. Deontay is dropable, yeah. Yeah, there's just no, the path from here to greatness or even goodness? It's a weird expression. Goodness greatness. It's such a distance. Boston. And Bateman has been good. So I just don't know how Deontay gets to the point where you start them in a game. I don't either. What do you do at Tight-in this week? Who are your spot pickups for the, you know, Don Kincaid just went out hurt. Laporta, we don't know for sure if he'll be back. You do get Tucker Kraft back from the buy. Is it a Gassiki, Johnny Smith, Hunter, Henry World? I guess people are going to be real gun shy for Mike Gassicki. But he did have nine targets. So it wasn't like a... Nine? Yeah. That's a good number. He only caught four for 30. So production wasn't there, but involvement was. And that's, of course, if T. Higgins, it remains...

year to year like he has been yeah his route participation snap counts were through the roof it was it was in line with what we expected just didn't get the production uh i mean tasum hill you know we're we're talking about mvs tasem had a something like an 80 an 80 yard touchdown that got mostly called back on i think it was a holding it was a it was a it was a week holding yeah that that i mean that was it a reception yes so it was a reception that he took 80 yards for a touchdown at about halfway down the field there was a call on the offense for like a holding there that that brought it halfway back i mean so since all the injuries he's playing you know about mid 40s of the snaps for for the saints so he is he you can break the glass for and this is a week you've got injuries and you've got by weeks where you're going to need to pick up some of these players or trade for um

you know, a tight end. I'm going to throw Hunter Henry's name back out there. I know it was a very down week. He only had one reception for 14 yards and that stinks. It was Austin Hooper's week. We never, yeah. It was Tanner Hudson's week. For Gatsicki and Henry, it went the other direction. Exactly right. But Hunter Henry, I still think is the one or the two as far as target order in this offense. The matchup is good. 27th against tight ends coming up. So I think of most of the list, like if. If we knew that T. Higgins was out, I would still be rolling with sticky gisicky. And then, you know, Hunter Henry would probably be my next man up. Are you dropping Dalton Kincaid? Is that too emotional? I don't think I would drop Dalton Kincaid. He's still serviceable in a good office. It's tough, though, because you know you're not going to have him for two weeks. So this is because he's gone this week, I would imagine, and then by week. Yeah.

So maybe just put them in kind of a bigger trade deal where maybe some other guys are getting moved around and stuff. Yeah. Some people want a lot more than nothing out of their players, though. So. Yeah, no, that makes sense. We'll take a break. You got to hide him pretty good. Hit the trade. Yeah, no, I don't want them out front. All right. Let's get into the defensive options this week. There are actually quite a few. You've got Detroit against Jacksonville, but they're heavily rostered. You get Houston against Cooper Rush. Yes, you do. You get the Green Bay Packers against Caleb Williams, the sack machine. You get Cleveland against New Orleans, which seems nice. You get Minnesota against Tennessee, which seems nice. You get Miami who just had a big week against Las Vegas at home, needing a win. And then New England the following week. Miami's a good pickup for a couple of weeks. Even the Saints at home against Jamis coming back to New Orleans. That'll be a fun one. A revenge game.

Yeah, I mean, there are no shortage of good defenses this week. And I'll remind you if you happen to skip over the beginning, if you're looking for from now until the playoffs, the next three weeks after they're back from by, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are an important pickup. All right, we will talk quarterbacks momentarily. That was today's waiver, brought to you by NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. We're excited to announce that right now you can get NFL Sunday ticket for the rest of the regular season. For $209, visit YouTube.com slash fantasy footballers to sign up today. Terms and embargoes apply. No cancellations. Full stream ahead. My wife was out of town, so I was watching the kids this weekend. I was not down here on our 9 TV setup. So I did the build your own multi-view for the first time at the house. Spectacular. Watched the entire Sunday. The afternoon was just three games. Yeah, the afternoon is so nice to do that.

All right, streaming quarterback options. Oh, whoa. I didn't know what your pick was. I wasn't looking at the dock, but I saw you reach over to hit a button, and I was so afraid it was sitting in the car. No, no, no, no. Don't push it. It's Jared Goff. He was bad last week, five picks. He's at home. He's against Jacksonville. So check one, check two. Week winner. Who was? Jared Goff. You're saying, five one. Oh, you're saying, don't gloss over. The ridiculousness that is a five interception win. They have a 30 point implied point total. Jacksonville's not only been the worst team against quarterbacks on the year, but they're the second worst in the last five weeks. So they're not really fixing it. This is just a matchup play. Get him at home in the dome. It should be easy sledding. You just have to get the touchdowns early because you know that they will be up and running the ball easily successfully. Great news. Great news. They now play Jemir Gibbs on the second play.

Shut up, Mike. I need, I need Monty. I need Monty in there. No, I do think he's a good play. I'm going to say for my streaming candidate this week, and honestly, going forward, this is someone that should be rostered and should be in your weekly flex considerations is Bo Nix. Bo Nix has been very good for fantasy. He's averaging. I've been fun watching them play football. It's cool, man. He's averaging 29. rushing yards per game, which is a good baseline. In his last six starts, he's been a quarterback one in four of them. Now he plays Atlanta, their two and a half point home favorites. The Falcons are 25th in Schedule Adjusted Fantasy Points allowed to the quarterback position. And he's throwing touchdowns. So it's not just, I mean, at the beginning of the year, the first month, he was really struggling. Couldn't throw the ball downfield, couldn't connect around the end zone.

If you get rid of that last month, that's the last six games where he has been very good. He's been on pace for 25 touchdowns, which would be near the quarterback rookie record. 500 rushing yards, 3,700 passing yards, and a good matchup. I think he's just someone you can play in the right matchups. I'm going. with Mr. Unlimited, baby. I actually really, really like this dick. It's the time. Unlimited. It's Russell Wilson. He is taking on the Baltimore Ravens. He's been a top 10 quarterback in two or three starts. He's averaging 8.7 yards per attempt. This is, I mean, this is old school Russ is what we're getting, is an efficient quarterback who's giving us deep shots. The connection with.

with George Pickens seems like it's already there. And Baltimore is the pass funnel. They're 31st and schedule adjusted points to the quarterback. You love it. They're going to score on Pittsburgh. It's going to be a fun game. I think they will. I am, if you have Kyla Murray going on the buy. Target yourself from Russell Wilson this week. It's a good pickup. I love it. Are you saying goodbye to these two drop candidates, Tua and C.J. Stroud? No. I'm assuming, which you know what that means, I'm assuming that Nico is back next week, which that's a huge upgrade for Stroud. Tua is like, I don't know what in the world's going on. They're not throwing the ball down the field. They're just not. Yeah, I think both of these players are streaming options. Stroud has a pretty good matchup in Dallas, a good weather-controlled environment other than the sun. And so where's the sun?

Where's the moon? Dude, Mike, did you see the press conference yesterday in Dallas? Oh, yeah. Unbelievable. Do you already say about Mike McCarthy? Yes. Unbelievable. They have a beautiful room for their press conferences. These big glass windows at the building, but the sun was coming in directly. Just like a laser. So they set up a shade to give the podium. The ability to see it was like, are you kidding me right now? He's 82. He's confused. He's a confused 82 year old man. He refuses to admit he's wrong here when he doesn't know up from down. He has no idea. The moon from the sun. He has no idea he's being mocked.

And so I'm happy for him. He doesn't know that he's the butt of the jokes right now. Oh, gosh. That's a Monday night football game. We get Dallas on Monday night. We get camera throws to the box with Jerry Jones in them. So Monday night, the sun will not be a problem. Jerry Jones will celebrate and say, I told you so. He'll put up, he'll put up shades for the moon, okay? He'll put up moon shades. I guess Houston playing on Monday, hopefully you get the Nico news sooner than later. The Nico news is terrifying. Yeah, I do think that they were exercising extreme caution from my boots on the ground there. You got boots on the ground in Houston? A little bit of boots on the ground. He does. He told me about it early. He can't reveal his sources. Well, yeah, it's boots on the ground. But I also. It's a pair of boots. It is also like, regardless, extreme caution, the fact that that's necessary this many weeks removed from an injury you thought was week to week that became IR that became.