Week 5 Waivers & QB Streamers, Jason Gets Trolled

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This is D.D. Westbrook here with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, welcome in. Just one of us wearing hats today. Hat Week continues.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. It is Tuesday, October 2nd, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, back once more to gently guide you into week five to reflect on this past week of football, fantasy football implications, and get you ready for your waiver wire tomorrow. And we do have some, you know, there are some pretty interesting names. Yeah, this is the exact opposite of last week. Last week was like,

One of the mildest waiver weeks I can remember over the last few years. And this week, there are, I think, some significant pickups. Yeah. Yeah. So we also have our quarterback streams of the week. We just brought up on the show yesterday, if you listened in, how incredibly out of control scoring is, specifically, you know, total touchdown scored, the quarterbacks that are going out there and getting it done unexpectedly each and every week.

I'm, you know, Jared Goff, I'm sure people started. You know, there were several people to start a golf. Not many of that started Mitchell, Trubisky, the number one quarterback on the week. You know what is great news? Mitchell Trubisky cannot hurt me this week. He is on by, so there will be no, there will be no back to back. Not true. Oh, no. Three touchdowns. This week? This week. I thought you were going to have like a PTSD.

situation i mean if he got you if he came out is mitchell everywhere if he came out again in in back-to-back weeks dominated i feel real bad so i'm happy about the bye i can see him coming down the stairs and his wife is you know cooking something on the stove and then she turns around and instead of her it's mitch it's mitch it's mitchie's face have you tried saying his name three times in front of him here i would never do such a thing and we have some really really big news to get into as well um

You know what? I'm going to pull that out of the news, and I'm going to make it our quick question. Oh. Because it's too important. Oh. Levion Bell, maybe you've heard of him. According to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, he's expected to report to the Steelers during their week seven buy. ESPN's Adam Schefter still reporting that they are expected to be interested in listening to trade offers for Levion Bell.

What's the news? What do you expect? And how should fantasy owners approach this? Both the ones with him and the ones without and James Connor owners. Yeah, I mean, I think that you need to run with this news right now as what's going to happen. The Steelers want, they would prefer to trade him, but they're not going to be able to because a new team could not renegotiate a contract until after the season. So, I mean, they're literally, they want a two plus a good player.

for a rental. Nobody's going to give that up. So I think you're going to see that. Week 8, Leveon Bell is back. He will dominate as soon as he is instilled as the starting running back. That is my prediction here is that they will move away from James Connor. They will not punish Lev Bell anymore than him already missing the money checks for the games missed, and he'll be reinstalled. So I think if you're a James Connor owner,

I would be willing to shop him far more if someone wants to buy him. But why would somebody buy him now? Well, let's say you're the Leveon Bell owner. Okay. And now you know. You can ensure your investment. Right. But otherwise you're going to, you're going to need to get some replacement for James Connor because I was hopeful as a James Connor owner that Levy on Bell would not return to the Steelers this season. You'd have a full season at James Connor. It looks.

far less likely. Yeah, I had the exact same thought. I was, I just pulled up my money league where I have Levi-on-Bell and this was the, I pulled an Andy, as we called it at the beginning of the season. It should be, it should be called Pull the Mike because I had James Connor and I dropped him the Sunday night before Levy and Bell decided to take back all of his promises on showing up on Monday and I've been screwed.

I've been in a really, really bad running back situation ever since. So I'm taking a look over here. Should I, now with the news out there, the person who has James Connor knows these is an expiring asset, go out and try and get him on my team and patch up my running back hole for the time being. Okay. Well, we'll talk more about it later in the show. Reminder, find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Footclang giveaway.com. We're giving away a sign Corey Davis, Jersey.

and a championship belt for your league. The website is the fantasy footballers.com where you can find all sorts of good stuff, including a fantasy film study week five waiver article today and an injury recap by Matthew Betts. What else is going on, guys? You want to talk about Monday night? You want to talk about showtime Mahomes? Oh, showtime. Showtime! Showtime! Showtime! Hey, Travis Kelsey is my man.

It's got to be there. Oh. So wait, wait, wait. In this situation, which one of you gets to be booger? I'm booger. We all know that. You're in the boogmobile? Oh, I'm vanilla then. And you're, you're Jason Witten. Oh, come on. Sorry. I don't think anyone's happy with this. No, no, certainly. Well, I'm happy that I get that cart to ride around on on the sideline. If they put Jason Witten on the cart without a microphone, I'd be cool with that.

And you stay there. Listen. He's just flailing? He's just, he's confused about his role. He's been signed. He's in a suit. He's on the cart. No one ever hands him a mic. That's the plan. But look, bad announcing aside. Showtime. Patrick Mahomes, 28 for 45, 304, one rushing, one passing touchdown. And ultimately the victory here, the comeback victory. Case Keenum, rough game.

245, no touchdowns, one pick, took four sacks, and ultimately couldn't make the game-winning throwdown the sideline to Demarius Thomas that would have won the game. I mean, he was wide open. I went...

Back and washed it, I'm putting a lot of blame on Demarius Thomas. It looked like he pulled up to me. He definitely was slow starting the route. He sped up once Case through the ball. Uncatchable. But I think Case overthrew him. I think it's on both players, but more so on Case. And I was disappointed as a stream of the way. In fact, I would say that despite the great game, I mean, it was fantastic football. It was.

Most all owners are disappointed. I mean, you wanted more from Pat Mahomes, more from Tyree Kill. You hoped that Case Keenham and Demarius Thomas, these pieces would play well. I think it was disappointing for most. If you did not have Travis Kelsey or Kareem Hunt or Kareem Hunt, that was fantastic. I mean, you 19 for.

121, 6.4 a carry, one rushing touchdown, caught another three passes, which by the way, when I say another, I mean, three-fourths of his total pass catches on the season. I mean, this was, he had one target, one reception before this. It was interesting because Kareem Hunt's, I mean, he still is on and off the field, Spencer Ware and Company are getting on, but Kareem Hunt is clearly the main running back, but he was the, he was a focal point.

of this offense in a way that he has not been thus far. And do you think it was because the game script? The Denver Broncos made Patrick Mahomes mortal. Well, yeah, it was ultimately, look, they're on the road. The pass rush is so devastating with Chubb and Miller that, you know, they didn't take one deep shot, zero. I mean, Pat Mahomes did not attempt to go downfield to Tyree Kill for any over-the-top play because the pass rush was devastating. So, you know, Hunt provided them.

you know, an opportunity to keep the defense honest. And he did. I mean, he did it to the degree of, look, my own fantasy matchup came down to the final play of the game. I was facing Kareem Hunt. I had Pat Mahomes. I knew it. I said if he passes a touchdown here, I win. If he runs it in, I lose, and I lost. But fantasy owners were with Kareem Hunt won, and so did those with Travis Kelsey. Has this eased your Kareem Hunt?

concerns at all? Or are you saying big game, this is it? I'm going to try and move. I'm going to move Kareem Hunt for someone of equal value. It's all about the targets and the receptions. And the fact he was involved in all in that capacity gives me more comfort. I still think Andy Reid in a vacuum would love to ignore him. That's the problem. I don't want to be reactionary to Kareem Hunt's game to the degree that he's a top five guy. Because if Andy Reed had his way, he would have Pat Malm's run around.

By the way, that was the most yardage in the history of the NFL outside the pocket last night. Really? They'd have him run around and throw the ball deep and throw it all over the field. Sammy Watkins went out. You had to lean on him a little more. How do you weigh in on that, Jason? How do you feel about Cream Hunt moving forward? I think the rest of the season, he's a top what? He's a top 12 running back for sure. And I don't think you can move him unless you're just moving him for a somewhat sideways piece.

That's what I mean. That's what you would have to do. In general, I would not. Now, let's say, for some reason, Christian McCaffrey comes out, has this just horrible week, sucks, puts up six fantasy points. I would love to do that trade after this week because, you know, Chris McCaffrey's passed his by, and he's more involved in the passing game. That would be awesome. But outside of some fleecing like that, I would hold on to hunt. One last topic I want to bring up is the Denver running backs who are.

Great, and 66% of them are great. Use them. Philip Lindsay, 12 for 69 in a touchdown. Had a long of 19. Royce Freeman, 8 for 67 in a touchdown. Snap counts were this. Royce Freeman, 26%, Lindsay, 40%, Booker 33%. What? My concern. Booker in the two-minute drill, what are you doing? Here's a little prequel. What are you doing? You know how sometimes they have the movie, the trailers that give away too much? Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to make Philip Lindsay my pump after I made him. He was my start of the week and he delivered and I'm going to make him my pump the brakes because Royce Freeman's too good and Vance Joseph's too stupid. Yeah, no, I completely get it. We're in unity on Vance Joseph? Devante Booker. If Devante Booker owns two minute drills, he's too stupid. Yeah, Devante Booker has no business being out there. He whiffed on pass protection. He's not, he's just not a good player. And when you have two other.