Week 5 Waivers & QB Streamers, Jason Gets Trolled

It's fair. Yeah, I agree that I'm like, I don't think I'm interested, but the numbers are there. 11 carries two receptions. He got three targets. Kenyon Drake has been miserable and it seems like his coach just does not like him. Would you drop Drake for Gore? No. I'm not dropping Drake. Here's the problem with Gore. But you can't play it. If Gore comes out and they give him 16 carries and three receptions, a great workload.

I don't think you're going to be happy with that game. I think he's going to end up with 60 all-purpose yards and stink. You said you can't play Drake. I see Drake in so many screenshot lineups this week because everybody started Drake. They drafted Drake to start him. He was a great opportunity for. If you have Kenyon Drake and you have to start somebody, you wouldn't drop Drake for Gore and start Gore. Correct.

You would start Drake. I would start Drake. In that case, I would start Drake. That's all I'm asking. And I would as well. Because I think that Drake could come out and still drop 15, 20 points if he gets the work. If he doesn't and it goes to Gore, great, you got five or six points. I mean, and maybe Drake only gets you two points, but so what? The ceiling isn't there with Gore. That's how I see it. It's similar. I'll comp him to this. Like Derek Henry. I've had Derek Henry on my team all year. And I'm sorry.

Thank you. I appreciate that. But I don't feel like I can play Derek Henry, but I'm not going to drop him because things can turn around in one single week for a running back. Okay. That's my own. Tight ends. People are hurting. Yeah. Who are the pickups for tight ends right now, Mike? Vance dance, baby. It's time.

It is time for Vance McDonald. He's getting involved. The snaps are going up. He's increased every single week since he's been active. And then he played nearly 63% of the snaps. Jesse James is not running routes at nearly at the rate of Vance McDonald. And Vance produces. He's always been a sensational pass catching tight end. And now he gets to play Atlanta. The Vance Dance is back on. We're at the discotheque.

I think an injury report on Rob Gonkowski would be valuable here because people not only on top of all the other injuries, they probably want to know what they're going to do with Gronk. As of this morning, this is a short week, but Interfell Network reported this morning that his ankle injury is, quote, not that big a deal. He didn't practice on Monday. That doesn't mean he's going to play. But monitor that. They're expecting him to give it a go on Thursday night against the Colts. He was taken off the field early.

They were blowing them out, so we don't know how severe the injury really was. I still would, you know, if Gronk's active, you play him. Yeah, I completely agree. If Gronk's active, I play him. Last week, I said he was a trade-for target, and I, I mean, I really believe if I could trade for Gronk right now, I would do it in a heartbeat. If I, in fact, let me look this up. I got to go find Gronk. I have Gronk everywhere, Jason. Dang, it, you do.

Here's a guy that I think, look. Not in dynasty. Fair point. He was a, here's a guy who's 1% owned was a tight end one last season. Tyler Croft is now the starting tight end. Tyler Eifert with the unfortunate ankle injury is done for the season.

The Cincinnati Bengals defense has disappointed. Andy Dalton has looked good. I realize that C.J. Usama is there, but he is, you know, he's not really utilized in a way that impacts. Usama has run three times as many routes as Tyler Croft. So would you rather have Usama than Croft? Because I feel like Croft has been the backup to Eiffert. And when Eifert goes down, right? And I have that. The first initial thought was, okay, Tyler Croft. And Eiffert left the game.

You know, with plenty of time, Tyler Croft still only had 27% of the snaps. Meanwhile, Usma jumped up to nearly 70% of the offensive snaps. You might see a change there. That's, if I'm going in on a Bengals tied end, you certainly could be right. It could be Croft, but I'm going to follow the opportunity of Usma. I agree with you. That's where I would go. Is it Usma or Uzoma? I believe it's Usama. Usama. Usama.

And the thing is, for me, is... Would you use the Muzama? I would not use Muzima. I would put in my croft macaroni and cheese. Tyler Croft. Here's the thing. We have seen the Bengals with Andy Dalton, with Marvin Lewis, with Tyler Croft, with C.J. Usama for the last several years. Right. And it's always been cropped. So, yes, I realized that Uzama ran more routes in this game.

But I just don't know why they would go, well, you know what? I'm going to change now. Everything we've believed and done over the last several years, I'm not going to do that. I mean, it could happen. Maybe he's just better now. Yes. It does happen. It's his fourth NFL season. I mean, like Tyler Boyd is better now, right? Yes, Tyler Boyd is better. So let me put it, let's put this in perspective, though, because last year when Iver was out.

The snap percentage was like 85% Croft, and Usama was barely on the field, 22%. If they're on the field differently, then the result will be different. If we come into next week, and the snap counts are not like that, you can't expect that from Croft. If Croft is, what did you say? Usma had 75%. 70. Croft was below 30. That's a complete flip-flop of last year based on that one game. Now, maybe they reconfigure, and they go into it and say, man, let's go back to last year.

And that's definitely a possibility. Because Croft is good around the goal line. I believe that Tyler Eifert had his role. Usama had his role. And when they're going in now without Eifert at all, Kroft will, Usumah's going to stay in Usumah's role. And Croft is going to take Tyler Eifert's role plus Tyler Croft's role. So Miami gave up the second most fantasy points to tight ends last year.

We'll see what happens this week. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Cameron Bray, the big signing here. Mike, you talked about earlier, even though he's on the buy, you'd pick him up. Maybe you'd get him cheap because he's on the buy. You probably do because you can't start him, but then you can tuck him away, maybe get three good starts from him coming out of the buy. Maybe more than that. I mean, we don't know how healthy Howard's going to be, and Howard snap counts.

You know, they may be very limited on his return. So you could get more than three weeks from Bray. You can get four, five, six weeks from Brate. And I think Brate is even interesting. I brought it up before Winston came back. Winston and Brayt, they have a thing. Yep. They always have. I'm not going to toss that out just because Howard's having a good year. And now he's got the MCL. You have two tight ends with MCL sprains now. Yeah, yeah. On your team. Congratulations. They're like, hey, that looks good. I think I want some of that.

Nick Bennett. Any interest in Nick Vanette from Seattle with the limited pass catching options there? Mr. Vanette. And Will Disley off the field? Yeah. No. No. It hasn't materialized. What about the Dallas Goddard excitement? Two for 13? No, now that Alshan Jeffrey's back. They did not use him the same way snaps weren't the same. I mean, that was dependent upon Alshan being out. I do think over time.

They could see Goddard more and more involved, but he's still a rookie tight-in. I would rather have Austin Saffarian Jenkins in a matchup against Kansas City where a lot of passing, a lot of points could happen, more so than Jacksonville usually experiences because of their defense. All right, the defensive streams this week, you need to pay attention to before we get into the quarterbacks. Tennessee? Yes. I picked them up a week early because I was looking forward to the Buffalo matchup. Yep.

They're only 16% owned. Pay attention to Carolina coming off the buy. They get the Giants. The Giants have not scored 30 points in a game for, I believe, ever. It's some record. I mean, it's some franchise record. Yeah, and whenever you get a team coming off a buy. 30-something games. At home with a good defense. Yeah, I really like them. But they're a little bit more owned. If you want to go deeper, look, Arizona's defense has not really been bad this year. And because Rosen is able to move the ball,

That helps the defense a little bit. They're not always starting with bad field position. They're playing San Francisco and C.J. Bethard. You like Denver this week? Denver's on a lot of wire wires now because they did not start the year and fulfill the expectations people had for them. Denver versus Darnold is, I would be very interesting. You're all over Denver versus Darnel. All right. Full stream ahead. All right, full stream ahead. Who's your stream for week five?

What quarterback can you throw out there and get some points from? I'm targeting the Kansas City Chiefs defense. Got your sight set on stream against them? Yeah. It was a rough outing for Case Keenham because the touchdowns did not go to him. But Blake Bortles has been playing quite well. He's been a quarterback won at least two times this season already. And in a good matchup, Blake Bortles is able to get it done when Leonard Fournette is out.

The Jaguars air it out more, and they put more on Blake Bordle's shoulders. T.J. Eldon, excellent pass catching running back. So this is where I'm going. I got a snake. He and Blake. Oh, okay. Fair enough. I got a snake, man. Thank you. I'm going with Andy Dalton. He's been matchaproof this year. He's played Baltimore. He's played in Carolina. He hasn't given you a dud game. He's the number nine quarterback on this season, and his ownership percentage is still down there. I mean, he's a stream for.

weeks. I mean, he's a locked-in starter. Hopefully you pick him up to stream and then you just get to play him. Yeah, he takes on Miami this week. Tyler Boyd is making him dangerous. Mixing comes back. Most likely. We don't know that definitively. But either way, you have value out of the backfield, whether it's mixing or Bernard. You get those cheap yards, those cheap points. And I think Dalton is a great stream this week. I'm going to stay in those red flames. I am going to go with a pick that was one of my

preseason hype guys that really cooled off with poor preseason and then early injuries.

but exploded this last week and has a great matchup. This is Marcus Mariatu. Did he come back together, though? Yes, he has reassembled. His elbow looked fine. He was able to actually go deep with some passes, 69% completion percentage. We saw the big game from Corey Davis. Tewan Taylor is on the field. The offense is looking like it's starting to click a little bit, and that was against a great Philadelphia.

defense. Now you take on Buffalo, which, you know, they might not be the complete fodder trash of week one, but they are definitely an easier matchup than, you know, they're below average as a team. So you should be able to score. And the best part is what we saw last week from Marcus Mariotta was he rushed the ball.

as well. And that's the baseline that you want. In fact, the last 10, 10 attempts. 10 attempts, 46 yards, 51 yards the week prior. So with that baseline. No hesitancy that they're just going to be able to run and contain the Buffalo offense. And then, you know, you saw Aaron Rogers this past week. In a similar situation, Rogers only put up 17 fantasy points against them because they didn't need to.

Yeah, I mean, you can always have those hesitancies in general. I mean, when you're streaming a waiver wire pick, there's a reason they're on the wire. But I want an easier matchup in general. And I think Mario, Mario, with his rushing capability, with what Corey Davis has stepped up to this last week, Tewan Taylor. I think he has a good game. You can get him for 250 and two yards and two touchdowns. Fooklam, want to remind you.

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