Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 3 Waivers, Streaming Options, Injury Updates

I'm just saying that if one of them was completely injured the other would be really good. Why can't you go with like he's, he had to take time off because he had to go, I don't know, you know, community service. Work on his degree. Yeah. Shot the leg. Yeah. Sometimes we go too far. Sometimes. All right. How do you transition out of that? Let's just talk tight ends. All right.

Jacob, Tammy, Dennis Pitta, both had big time weeks target-wise. Pitta had 12 targets. Very interesting. Very interesting. Dennis Pitta or Antonio Gates' rest of season. Antonio Gates. I think Gates would be too involved in the red zone versus Pitta. Pitta and Tammy are 10% owned. Who would you rather have? That is an interesting question. I think...

Both have good matches. New Orleans, Jacksonville. It's Tammy this week, definitely for me. But when you're talking long-term, you do have to factor Dennis Pitta's health into it. You can't ignore it for him. But when healthy, the guy is a beast. He is best friends with Joe Flacco. You have the Romo-Witton situation here with Dennis Pitta and Joe Flacco. And that's- Making up for a lost time. Dennis Pitta.

was heavily involved and this is a long time ago for fantasy players you're talking multiple years but dennis pitta was emerging as a great tight end for fantasy it really is important to remember that because sometimes you know look he's been so injured that i i don't give him the respect

and that he's due because he was really good. He was becoming a relevant weekly start in fantasy at the tight end. If he's healthy and he sure looked healthy this last week in a plus matchup, I think Pitta is worth grabbing. I mean, these are the type of guys that, you know, look, if you've had a bum the first two weeks, you know, Gary Barnage. Kobe Fleener and Gary Barnage, you know, you might hold on to them. This is the type of situation where.

I might actually roster two tight ends while you hold one and play a weekly start. I'm fine also just cutting. Well, Gary Barnard just especially stinks now that McCown is out. I mean, how does that impact Coleman and Josh Gordon when he returns? And I mean, the rotating quarterback thing, it looked like, oh, okay, RG3 is down. So now it's great with McCown. Now McCown's down. It's terrible. Very funny stat. With Kessler starting this Sunday, that will be five straight games.

where the Browns have a different starting quarterback. No. Yeah. Because they ended the year with two? Yep. Wow. Five straight games. That can't have ever happened before. I don't know. It reminds me of the old Cardinals when we would just be rotating quarterbacks. Oh, wow. That is terrible.

Terrible. So what is the latest on Virgil Green? If you're a Virgil Green owner, would you hold him or would you just let him go and go grab a, you know, Gary Barnage, if he gets dropped? I am the Virgil Green owner, and if I can get Dennis Pitta, I'll let him go. I'm going to drop green. Yeah, I would do that too. What about for Clive Walford, who had a career best game, six for 50 and a touchdown on seven targets, more involved, only 30% owned.

He's interesting. I like young guys that have upside like that, that were drafted high that want to be involved in the offense. Yeah, I want to see him solidify himself as the starter. That's where there's the worry for Clive Walford is I need to know that he's going to get the snaps. The targets were great, but you're also talking about a very high scoring game for Oakland, which maybe that's the new normal for Oakland. We've seen two weeks back to back. Well, we'll talk about that in just a minute. Sure, of the defense getting tore. So Clyde Wolford is.

Interesting. I would much rather have Pitt or Tammy or even Kyle Rudolph with Sam Bradford who throws to his tight end. Kyle Rudolph had eight targets. And we know that he can score touchdowns. So if Sam Bradford can.

continue what he looked like against Green Bay, then Rudolph could be a every week start too. Jason, can you give us a few defensive streaming starts this week before we get into the streaming quarterbacks? Yeah, we talked already about Miami, but I think Miami would be my number one waiver claim. They're going up against Cleveland at home in Miami. So, I mean, you've got a third string quarterback coming in to your house and your noise.

I mean, you want to talk about turnovers and pick six and that opportunity. Miami is the team that I'm looking at the most. Obviously, the Rams offense is hapless. So I think Tampa Bay would be another good start. And then, you know, look, the Giants D was not good last year. But this is why we tell you, you know, year after year defenses change. And so far, I think the Giants Ds looked great. They shut down Drew Brees this last week. They had a good week one. And they're going up against Washington who has,

you know, the thing about certain, certain offenses are really conducive to a defense scoring points, right? And Kirk Cousins and the Washington Redskins are the type that, you know, are, if you want to predict defensive teams scoring touchdowns, I think that's, that's a good match. Yeah, they'd be high on my list right now until Kurt Cousins, or not until, until slash if Cousins returns to second half form. Full stream ahead.

All right, it's time to give you our streaming quarterbacks. Jason, what are we looking for with a streaming quarterback? So with a streaming quarterback, and I don't think we've said this this year, but normally what we are trying to aim for is 250 yards and two touchdowns. We feel like if you drafted well and you, you know, we're in that streaming quarterback range, you're going to get enough production out of your other roster where if you find a guy off of waivers who can get you 250 yards in the air and two touchdowns through the air,

Well, no, I say that because sometimes, you know, you look at the Tyrod Taylor's where they can do even more. Maybe they only get one touchdown, but they're also running the ball and that touchdown came on the ground. If you're in a standard scoring league, it's even better. So if you get that, and obviously, hey, if you can get even more, we've had some of our- You're willing to accept it. But that's like the baseline. You want to make sure you get out of a streaming candidate. I'll give you my guy that I think I am happy rolling out there this week. He's only 20% owned.

And that's Ryan Tannahill. Apparently, I'm all on Miami. He's at home. He just came off of an incredible week coming back against, you know, he was on the road against Bill Belichick and the Patriots. They got down early and he threw and he threw almost 400 yards. They had a chance to win. Two touchdowns. You have Devante Parker back. And so he looked good. Maybe Kenny Stills drops fewer balls at home.

I mean, that's a hope. But you also have Arian Foster out this game, so the running game might not be able to get going as much. I still think they'll be able to get it going against Cleveland. I just think it's a plus matchup with a guy on the rise. Ryan Tanna Hill can, you know, he can go out there and put 30 yards on the ground as well with his legs, which you're just always shocked.

Every time a quarterback runs, you're just shocked how many points that scores you. 389 yards, two passing touchdown, six for 35 on the ground last week, 29 and a half fantasy points in our league format. Yeah, I mean that's great. Not too bad. I'm going with Matt Ryan, Manila ice. You mean the number two quarterback in fantasy football? That's only owned in 48% of leagues. I'm staying in the flames here. We've got two, so he's officially heating up.

Matt Ryan could be on fire. And you know what's a good mixture to getting on fire? Playing against the New Orleans Saints. I understand it did not work for Eli Manning last week, but I'm still on board with this tactic. Matt Ryan owned in 48% of leagues. Last year against New Orleans, Matt Ryan put up at least 302 or just a shade under 302 or even better in both matchups. Obviously, you've got to watch the health of Julio who's dealing with, I believe, a calf strain.

But right now, Matt Ryan is hot for fantasy purposes. Where it's kind of nice for Ryan is the defense isn't stopping anyone. I expect Drew Brees to put up a bunch of points and for Matt Ryan to have to keep pace. And Matt Ryan gives you those one or two mistakes. That makes him have to put up even more points on the board. So I'm going with Matt Ryan, who's widely available.

I'm going to go with Marcus Marietta. He's going to be at home against the Raiders defense that gave up 45 fantasy points to Drew Brees, 36 to the aforementioned Matt Ryan, and now takes on Marcus Marietta. Now, if I were to tell you, well, let me have you guess. Where do you think Marcus Mariotta is at the quarterback position thus far through two games? Through two games? I would guess 15th. He is 15th. Oh, nailed it. He is 15th. Now, he hasn't, you know, blown the doors off.

But he's been a 250 and two guy through two games. Now he gets Oakland who's given up 500 yards of offense in each of their two games. It is a perfect, a perfect matchup for Mario to have some success. And look, half that success might come bypassing to DeMarco Murray and Delaney Walker and finding his way down the field. But it doesn't matter. Can I ask you a question? No, sorry. All right. Moving on. No, what's up? Now that you've broken up with Gus Bradley. Yes.

And you obviously have Tennessee Titans love. I have Tennessee Titans love. I definitely think so. I think you always have had some Tennessee Titans love. You mean the almost upset of the week? The team that just beat the lions. Have you thought about writing like pin-pill letters to Malarkey? No, I don't think so. I know I couldn't email him because he probably doesn't have an email. He doesn't have email. No, he does not have email. No, I'm not a Malarkey fan. Oh, okay. I was just curious.

You liked Gus Bradley, so I figured maybe. You need to have at least one bad coach in your life. It's Hugh Jackson. Oh, that's sad. Hugh Jackson's a good coach. He's just had a bad organization. Sure, that's how it starts. Fair enough. That could have been Gus Bradley. That's the first thing that you say. No, I said that Gus. Gus doesn't have a chance. Rex doesn't have a chance. Hugh doesn't have a chance. Are you calling the bills a bad organization? Yeah. Hmm.

Yeah. Look, look, they want to win, but they can want to win. No, they want to win. Like, the organization isn't, look, in the NFL, we were, I would love to win. We were subject to the Cardinals ownership that wanted to make money. Yeah, they did not. Their goal was not to win. The bills want to win, but they're organizationally dysfunctional, is my point. I'm not convinced that Haslam and Cleveland really want to win sometimes. Oh, no, they want to make money. But.

I think the bills want to win, and I feel for their fans, and I think that they have pieces around them, but you're not going to succeed there right now, organizationally. I think that's the problem. Jacksonville hasn't been able to do it. You know, Jack Del Rio looks like a hot shot in Oakland. I love it, man. All these fourth and go. That is why. Because Jack Del Rio finally said, hey, I'm going to look at math. I'm going to look at a game script. I'm going to take advanced analytics into my game and not this.

Oh, well, it's fourth and one, so I have to punt or I have to kick the field. That's what the book of football says I have to do. What he does is he gets up in the morning. He looks in the mirror. And in the corner of the mirror is this little picture of Jeff Fisher. And he just says, I'm not Jeff Fisher. I'm not, because he could have been. He's a perfect candidate. He's very. Same aged, been around the league. But he says no. I feel like Jack Dale Real wakes up in the morning, puts on like a leather jacket like the fons, pops the collar up. He's like, hey, we're going for it. Well, it helps when you're in Oakland.

Raider coach I mean the black fence in black leather so just just a little bit I think it's important to as I realize back in I think it's important to make sure with all of these waiver claims all of these waiver claims keep following the injury updates on on everybody on Doug Martin on Aaron Foster and all of that I just saw this come through Aaron Foster is just a groin strain they're saying he is iffy for Sunday probably still won't play

but won't miss more than one or two games. With Arian Foster, you can count on nothing. So, I mean, if he played this Sunday, I would not be shocked. This is why I rostered Ajai and told people to roster Ajai. I'm not delusional. I'm a little delusional. But I'm not really delusional with Foster. I've told people just grab a Jai. Am I stupid? Let me ask you this. I think that I'm really smart for this, but I think that you guys would think I'm really stupid for this. Okay.

In our dynasty league, two weeks ago, I went and I picked up Isaiah Pete. That's fine. Because I think there is a world in which Aaron Foster, I know this is going to sound crazy, gets injured again and misses the season, and that Ajai is not the guy. Yeah, I would agree with that. So, you know, deep, deep leagues, maybe look at it. You're talking the deepest ocean of leagues, of course. I'm just saying. All right, all right. We need to move on.