Week 4 Waivers & QB Streamers, Fitzmagic

For all of the agassness that you just showed, he's on our waiver wire in our League of Record. I mean, he's not a player that, you know, he's in that category where people were looking at him like, you know, Goladay, Stills, fringe, starving type of player. And no, that's the right question. Is he a wide receiver two in your mind right now? I don't know. I don't know if he is or not. What do you think?

Yeah, I'm not going away. While Ryan Fitzpatrick is the quarterback, I'm not going away from Godwin. Maybe, you know, in a bad matchup, then sure, I'll make sure I'm not just blindly starting someone. But Godwin is a player that coming out last year was highly rated that was one of Matt Harmon's favorite guys, a great contested catch type of player. We've seen that so far in the NFL. He's looked great.

And Mike Evans is going to get the number one coverage. So I think Godwin is a worthy start most weeks. How does Mike Evans feel right now about the quarterback situation? He wants Ryan Fitzpatrick. I mean, that's got to be so conflicting that your perceived franchise guy is scheduled to come back from his suspension. But Ryan, Mike Evans hasn't had numbers like this in years. It's confusing for all of them because.

you, you know, you're in a situation where, look, Deshaun Jackson didn't do anything last year. Right. And he's having success this year. I want to talk about one more piece of the puzzle. Jason and I were debating it this morning. O.G. Howard, his name needs to come up last year as a rookie. Snap count percentage between Howard and Brate was 55 to 53. Ooh. 55. This year, it's 65 to 30 right now.

In Howard's favor. They're going that five-wide action, and Howard's such an athletic freak. Last night he had a very good game. He dropped a couple of passes and still put up 6-4-72. Howard. So Jason was saying he's a top six tight end. That's what I believe Howard is right now. I mean, top six, when you say top six, you don't have to be great.

I'm not saying top three. You have to be great to be in that range. Elite to be top three. But then it just falls off. I mean, you've got a guy in O.J. Howard who was a generational talent coming out of the draft, right? I mean, a freak. You just go look at his spark scores and he, you know, set in the new standard. He was like Von Miller when it comes to athleticism. And now, so far on the season, he hasn't had a game with fewer than 50 yards from the tight-in position.

I mean, you just need to stay with O.J. Howard right now. Is this his career high in receptions last night? It's got to be. Oh, I'm sure. Because he had, I think I'd brought up he had never had more than three. Yeah, he was a three catch guy all of last year. Yeah. And the thing is, is you'll have, this isn't saying that every week, O.J. Howard's going to be great. But every single week.

every tight end outside of the top three can just garbage. But there are very few guys that can do what O.J. Howard can do. And like you said, he dropped a couple. Yeah. And I don't read too much in the snap percentage in respect to the fact Howard's an amazing blocker. But I was definitely impressed with him. And he's a much better talent than Cameron Bray. You're still going to have the painful realities like where Bray caught a touchdown last night.

Mike, do you, last point before we get into the news, do you fear the return of Winston for Howard versus Bray because of the rapport that Winston had with Brate last year? I... Does that go into your consideration or do you feel like this is just a level up for Howard? I'm going to go with the level up for Howard, but it certainly should be in the back of your mind. Okay, let's move on to the news. Oh, yeah. Super newsy. Oh, yeah. We're going back to.

The 80s? What on earth? I'm leaving this in. Oh, this is magical. ESPN's Adam Schuster reports. The MRI has confirmed Jimmy Garoppel's initial diagnosis of a torn left ACL. Someone call Axel F. Get Axel Foley in here immediately. So if you could see Brooks face, it's a gas. So a couple days ago, we lost our whole soundboard. That one come from. We lost their whole soundboard.

And Brooks rebuilt it. And we hadn't played news since then. Get back on. That is maybe my fit. Yeah. Cardinals coach Steve Wilkes announced Monday that rookie Josh Rosen will start a quarterback going forward. Oh, man. Dalvin Cook, day-to-day, unsure of his week four status. Jaguars, coach Doug Maroon, said running backs Leonard Fournette and T.J. Yeldon.

will be day to day this week. Speaking Monday, Titans coach Mike Brable said there are still throws Marcus Mario Yoda can't make. Hey, guess what? Alshan Jeffrey still hasn't been cleared for contact. The best news segment of all. We've never had a better news segment. There's one thing. It's like putting in the wrong drop is one thing. Putting in a drop none of us have ever heard is another thing. Where did you get it? I don't know what it is. Brooks, do you want to... You're welcome, I guess. Do you want to speak up here?

That is titled News or Somewhere in our Drop files. Look, we've done 650 shows. The surprise that came on all three of our ears when we heard out of nowhere. Bears wide receiver Anthony Miller is day to day with a dislocated left shoulder. Oh, sweet mercy. Akeep Taleb's going to need surgery. Adam Shepter has reported that.

He's going to miss at least a month with a high ankle sprain, but Marcus Featers, Marcus Feeters might play this week. And Michael. And Krista Michael has gone to bed released from the Colts. Well, that's our news for today. Why is the Kristen Michael part even in there? That's just, vindictive for you. I feel personally attacked for that one, Brooks. What's that all about? Oh, that was special, man. I did not expect that at all. Wow. Thanks, Brooks.

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I feel it's so funny because I mean, we had a full crash, lost all of our drops. It takes a long time to rebuild this thing. And he put in the effort and the time. And that's what we get. All right. Waver Wire. Let's start at the wide receiver position. I have a guy that I'm targeting this week on the Waver Wire, my favorite pickup. But we'll start with kind of the one probably owned but worth taking a peek at. And that's John Brown.

We have him down a 63% owned, but he went 5 for 86 again on nine targets. He is a reliable flex play. Yes, pick him up. But the main pickups this week. And I guess Chris Godwin, if you're saying, you know, probably owned, if he's available in our league of record, maybe he's out there and yours. Yeah, and I think there's just doubts when you have a two-three fringe situation. It's kind of like the, you know, I don't know, the Rams or something. Sure. It feels like that, but Godwin is the two. Look, there's a two-three situation.

That is my personal favorite pickup this week. The guy that I would be going after is in that two, three situation. And that's Geronimo Allison. I think Geronimo Allison has shown that he is probably the two. I mean, he could be the three, but when he's the three, he's still going to be fine. He plays for Aaron Rogers. And, I mean, so far on the season.

He's been great. He hasn't had fewer than 60 yards in a single game. He's had two touchdowns in three games. What more do you want from a waiver wire pickup? This is a guy that I think you could start in just about any matchup as well. So he's the guy I would be targeting if he's available on. He's playing on over 70% of snaps. And that's the key there. His targets have gone down in all three games, but he's saved for four targets. You hope he does something with him.

He only has a big play. He had two receptions, 76 yards in a touchdown this last week. I don't like chasing the low volume, but I don't think he is a guaranteed low volume either. I think he could have, you know, six, seven, eight receptions in a game. So I want to contrast him with a guy that's owned basically in the same percentage, at the same percentage, which is about 33% of leagues. My favorite target is actually Antonio Callaway. Wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, Baker Mayfield starting this week.

It changes the offense dramatically. Yes. And they also have the kind of, Mike's brought it up before on the show. When you have a backup, and he was a backup until Gordon was released, they had a rapport in the preseason. If you remember the final preseason game, Calloway was punished and had to play every snap, and there was a lot of Baker in Calloway. And he's an elite talent. He's an elite speed. He's the first round talent that ended up going later due to.

concerns about his, you know, character concerns. Yes. So Allison, 33% owned, Calloway, 33% owned. Eileen Calloway. I prefer that. Now, that's a very, I think that might be a hot take because you've got the whole situation with Aaron Rogers versus Baker Mayfield. But Calloway being locked in as the primary, he's, to me, he's the, I know he's the two outside of Landry, but he's the one on the outside. Right. He's not, Landry is a short yardage possession receiver.

So Calloway is their big point. I mean, 89% of snaps last week, and it's going to be that way the remainder of the year. He is the guy in Cleveland. So if you believe in Baker, I think you have to believe in Calloway. If you had to choose, Mike, which of those two would you take? That's a difficult choice. Man, I lean the Geronimo side, but just barely. I think that my love for Antonio Calloway has been professed.

several times on this show. Honestly, this is a, I feel like this is a really solid week for wide receivers on the waiver. Yeah, it's a wide receiver week. There's a lot of guys I want at wide receiver. And there are crickets at running back right now, which is why, as a fresh reminder, we tell you to draft so many running backs and have more running backs and wide receivers leaving the draft because.

It's hard on the waivers with running backs on a lot of weeks. Yeah, but clearly not that hard to pick up up a contributing wide-out. Yeah. Because these guys are all under 50% owned. I want to bring up two guys that we had fantasy film studies done this week by the writing staff here at the fantasy footballers. You can read the full film study articles on the fantasy footballers.com. But Tyler Boyd, only 17% owned. And then Calvin Ridley, both of them had monster, monster weeks. The interesting thing when you look at the film,

A guy like Tyler Boyd, now, AJ Green, I know he missed some time in this game, but the snap percentage for Tyler Boyd was up at 91% in this game. That was pretty, you know, significantly higher than even the week before when we were really impressed with him. He has two straight weeks with six plus catches. Last week, 132 yards in a touchdown, scored in two weeks. And then you have Ridley, who he's been at that 67% snap count percentage, but he had the monster week, six catches three touchdowns.