Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 11 Waivers, Eric Dickerson, Streams of the Week

What's your Jeff Fisher confidence level? Oh, that's a great question. The next five years, I mean, if they don't change, if they don't get a true offensive coordinator in here, it's going to be rough. I mean, I'm just being honest. And we don't know what our young quarterback can do because we haven't seen him in the preseason. And, I mean, in the regular season, the preseason, he didn't look very good. I mean, Jeff Fisher gave him an A minus. I gave him a D minus at best. It is playing the preseason. I mean, I'm just being honest what I saw. I mean, and I'm like I say.

I mean, I'm not a quarterback guru, but I know when the quarterback position is clicking. I mean, it just wasn't clicking in the preseason. Yeah, I think. So, that's what I saw. Yeah, it's one of those things this year. We came into the season worried about that offensive line and hoped that somehow Gurley could completely overcome what took place there in the quarterback play, and it doesn't seem to have happened yet. Eric, we want to thank you so much for coming on the show. You can follow Eric Dickerson on Twitter at Eric Dickerson.

That's easy to remember. It's a good Twitter handle. You got it. Oh, and he's verified, too. Thank you, guys. All right, take care. All right, that was fun. Yeah, that was really cool. Thanks for coming on, Eric. Absolutely. So let's spend a couple minutes in the mailbag. Oh, mailbag. I didn't know what was happening. No, you didn't. I don't have the vocal golden cords. No, you're much better than I am. I can tell you that. All right.

If you have a question for the show, go to the website, the fancy footballers.com. Click the questions button. You can also dial our voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB. You're going to throw a mailbag on like every show this week, aren't you? I'm going to try. Here's a great question about the Vikings defense from Shawna in Florida. When is it time to quit starting the Vikings defense every week? I looked at this earlier today. I think at this point you need to just treat them like...

any defense because I don't love all of their playoff matchups. So if you can find somebody better to play this week, I know they have the Cardinals. That doesn't make me excited. I know they're at home. I don't think you have to drop them. I think you can start them. They're not going to be devastating to your team. But at this point, if I had the Vikings D, I'd be streaming them based on some of the matchups they have in the upcoming weeks. Do you agree or would you just start them? No, I do agree. They're...

You know, much has been made about their offensive struggles while they've lost four in a row. But their defense has waned a little bit as well. You know, I just talked about the fact that Rob Kelly almost got 100 yards against them. And the reality is, you know, two weeks ago, Jordan Howard went full ham on them. So maybe they're not the defense that they were for their five-game winning streak. I do still think they are a talented...

very above average defense. But I agree, they're not locked and loaded. I'm not playing them against Arizona. The next week in Detroit, I think that's iffy. You know, they've got Jacksonville to start the playoffs. You're just going to have to play the matchups with them.

All right, Colin Boston says, what's up, ballers? Thanks to the ultimate draft kit, my team is looking nice. I'm sitting seven and three and three days and three days. It's three days until the trade deadline. I've been offered a huge trade. I would be sending Melvin Gordon and DeAndre Hopkins for Amari Cooper, Jay Ajai, and Brandon Cooks. Would you do that trade? I think I would do that trade. I do. I do.

I will say this. If you haven't need a wide receiver at all, I would do that. Yeah. If you are going to be starting both of those wide receivers, both of those wide receivers are probably better than DeAndre Hopkins. Yes, they are. DeAndre Hopkins is a nice name and a bad fantasy option right now. He's just not getting it done because of Brock Osweiler. I would say 100% because of Brock Osweiler.

Yeah, but you should see the wallpaper at Hopkins House. Yeah, he got it. Brock has helped him with that. Up to the ceiling, 12-foot ceilings. Yeah, no, and, you know, look, I buy in a little bit more on Jayae every week. You know, I said when I went and watched film, he looked great when he could get ahead of steam, and he looked bad when he was met in the backfield. Their offensive line has been getting it done. Now, did they just lose an offensive lineman?

I'm going to have to look that up. I had very vivid dreams last night, and I'm thinking maybe that was in my dream. I'm going to bet that. It's been a while since you've had a dream that you've shared as a fantasy prognostication. Yeah, too long. Maybe you dreamed something about their offensive line? Yeah, I'll look it up. All right. Let's move on. Drew in Taos, New Mexico. I have Thomas Rawls on my IR spot. I need to drop a player to move him into my roster.

So do I drop Rolls? Derek Henry or Kristen Michael? Who gets the boot? Kristen Michael? Yeah. I'm going to boot him with confidence. A confident boot. Yeah, slip him the Ambien and the woke one can go back to sleep. Okay. Rich in Charlevoix, Missouri, should I drop Landry for Parker in non-PPR format leagues? Parker's coming off a 5-4-103 game against San Diego. Wait.

Wait, was the question dropped Landry for Parker? It was in non-PPR. Oh, okay. Well, in standard, then I would definitely not do that. In no format would I do that. Okay. Look, I agree with that, by the way. If Parker has a game or two better than Landry, whatever. That happens. I've got two seasons of Landry being a really quality, first read target, good fantasy option, good real life NFL wide receiver. I'm not dropping Landry under.

Any circumstance. Okay. So I think we're done. I think that's the show. We did it. We did it. Another week. Verified week. Look, reminder, there's a lot of watch brands out there. Definitely check out what we spoke about before. Original grain and the original grain watches. They are made from wood and steel. They're super unique. They're the most unique ones we've ever seen. So go to originalgrain.com slash footballers and you get 15% off. Originalgrain.com slash footballers. We've already had a lot of...

Listeners check them out. They really like them. So check them out. And what was not a dream, Brandon Albert, remember their tackle, he dislocated his wrist in the game, popped it back in, kept playing. He's visiting a specialist to check on that wrist, see if there's future damage done. This is something we'll monitor and make a note of to check back in with you on. We did see earlier in the year.

When the Dolphins had struggles with injuries on their offensive line, their offensive line looked horrific in those first three weeks. If they have lost Brandon Albert, I do think that matters for them. I don't think they have the depth at offensive line to really have starters lost. Some teams can lose.

a quality starting offensive line and shift people around, which the dolphins will have to do. I don't think the dolphins can withstand that easily. I'm not saying like kill Jay Ajai. No, but it seems like Albert's going to miss at least a week. Probably. They're evaluating that. Thanks for tuning into the show, for subscribing, for liking us, for being our friend. Yeah, and if you are a champ or you already know you're going to be, check out fantasy jocks.com for trophies. That's right. All right. We'll see you later.

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