Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streaming Options, News

were red zone scores from about, you know, 10 or 15 out. Like, they drew up plays with him as the main read in the red zone, which is not what you see with small guys all the time, but he got separation, made two good plays, scored two touchdowns, got a couple carries. Yeah, he's worthy of consideration. He's really fast. He is super fast.

He actually, him and Landry have some things in common to me where, you know, they kind of get separation underneath and then they fight for every single yard possible. So Hankerson, again, Jr. had two touchdowns on two catches for 18 yards. Yeah. So you can count on that, right? That's sustainable. Super sustainable. And then Willie Sneed. Hey. Came out of nowhere. Six for 89.

He's got the trust of Drew Breeze. The problem is I think he was only on the field for like 50 something. Yeah. In the 50s maybe 60%. I could go up. Got to try a guy out. Yeah. Got to give him a shot. I want to play for the. He's fun to watch though. I enjoy watching him. And he gave a solid bucket. Oh, he booked it. Yeah. That was Sneep? Yeah. Oh. He gave the bucket sign. All right.

Running backs, Duke Johnson, if he's on your waiver wire, he should be rostered immediately. Yeah, I think Duke is my number one priority this week. Yeah, I agree with that one. And then Ronnie Hillman, if for some reason he's still out there, he has a chance to really, you know, take the lion's share of carries if he continues to succeed with big plays like that. He was 11 for 103 this past week with a touchdown. What do we think about Antonio Andrews? Because a lot of people might have snagged him last week on waivers. He does not have a good matchup this week against the Bill's front line.

Do we think Andrews has the potential to, could he give you a spot start on a bi-week? Yeah, oh, absolutely. Right now it looks like he will be the main ball carrier in Tennessee. We talked about Terence West, who was traded for, has already become a healthy scratch, and Bishop Sankey, his snap count plummeted, and clearly the improvement just has not been there for Sankey, so they got to do something. And so Antonio Andrews was a guy who,

kind of flashed here in the off season and it was talked about a little bit, not a very ton, a big amount, but he got a lot of preseason carries and he looked good in the preseason. But he's worth rostering at this point. I'm not sure I would start him this week, but I was going to ask you, would you start him over, let me see here. Matt Jones? Yes, I think so, yeah. What about Amir Abdullah? Oh, man, no. What about Ryan Matthews?

Yeah, Brian Matthews, that whole situation is really interesting in Philadelphia. We're a little, I'll sidetrack a little bit, but we have no idea what's going on. Murray is being a pain in the, in the buttocks up there, jawing off to the media. Give me more carries. On the sideline. Give me more carries. And it's, do you, do you really feed into that? Like, if you're Chip Kelly, do you let him push you into that?

A guy who seems to want to always be in control and he does everything his way, is he going to let a player earn more carries going that route? It's pretty frustrating because obviously Bradford and Kelly recruited him heavily to come there and be the lead doc. And so if he doesn't feel he's getting the opportunity, he's expressing that he wants to win. I don't think Murray's a bad guy.

But it seems like a distraction when you're one and three, and your priority is give me more carries versus let's win. Let's find a way to win the game. And also when you're running so terribly. I mean, that's the real hardship. If he was running well, you know, he's breaking off five yards of carry and say, get me the ball more. But it's like, why should we be giving you the ball more every time we give you the ball? We're three and out. Right. And so last week, DeMarcom Murray was eight for 36. That included a 30-yard run. Also known as 7 for 8.

The rest of those. That would be seven for six. Ledany and Tomlinson came out and said he thought Matthews was a better fit. And Ryan Matthews, I don't know what his longest one. I'm looking it up right now, but I believe he was four for 20. And he had a great week when DeMarco Murray was out. How long can that situation continue before somebody really emerges? All right. Booby Dixon.

Anthony Dixon could get the start this week. If he's out there, would you rather start him or Andrews? Like if someone had to make a waiver-wire decision between the two. A hundred percent for me, Booby Dixon, over Andrews this week, assuming that Carlos and LaShawn are out. I am not personally buying into Antonio Andrews. It's a tough week-one matchup. We've only had one week where he's actually received the carries. So we just don't know. He's worth rostering. I would almost start anyone over. I just...

I don't have the Cajonis to start Andrews up against the bills when you don't even know that he's going to get the lion's share. Yeah, I'd go with Dixon. Well, you have a situation too this week where, you know, Chris Ivory's out, Lamar Miller's out, AP's out. So you do have... Has Lamar Miller really been in?

No, he's still out. This is a mercy week for the dolphins. This is like the NFL saying, we knew this was going to come. Please. Take a week. More on your loss. I agree with you, Jason. I mean, Andrews was not on the field a ton. You know, he still rotated with Sank. He just was the better performing back in terms of fantasy production. So is there any other running backs you guys want to mention? We got Charles Sims having a good week for the second week in a row. He's doing it in the passing game a little bit.

Yeah, Sims is a nice spot start option, I think, just because of the way Tampa is playing right now, getting him on the field because of trailing in games, which Doug Martin had a pretty good game. So I'm not completely gung-ho on Charles Sim, but Chris Thompson, I think, is another name. I want to talk about him in that backfield. Because they...

The snap count seemed to swing more to... Washington Redskins, obviously, yeah. Yeah, sorry. It swung more towards Alfred Morris after the Matt Jones fumble in the end zone. They won again. Yeah, but Thompson is still getting a large snap count. He had one less carry than Matt Jones. He averaged 8.8 a carry in the last game, and he also catches passes out of the backfield. He was two for 24 the game before he caught like eight balls. He...

Let me ask this. Matt Jones seems like he's falling off quite a bit. I think it's the fumble. If they're down, Chris Thompson's involved, and apparently when they're competitive, he's gotten involved this week. So he starts to look a little bit safer than he's looked in weeks past, but you still got three guys in that backfield. Yeah, it's a mess. I mean, you're rolling the dice when you go with the Washington running back. But Chris Thompson, he looks better and better.

All right, let's talk tight ends because we've had some tight ends go down. We just talked about Iber and went down. You've had some injuries. So who do we like on the waiver wire? You're going to need to come in and stream a tight end. Charles Clay is probably not there anymore. After last week's, you know, we talked about him and his ownership. He could be, though. Yeah, I think he's definitely there to be picked up in a lot of waivers. I love Owen Daniels this week. He's available. You got to.

Almost every league, I mean, the majority of leagues he's available. And his matchup, we've been saying now for the last two weeks, play whoever is going up against Oakland. They did it again. And here you have Peyton Manning coming up against Oakland, who, Peyton Manning is a very intellectual guy. He knows the weaknesses and exploits the weaknesses of a defense. So I think it's a good bet that Owen Daniels could find pay dirt again this week. So he's one of my favorite streamers, Antonio Gates, if he is on waivers.

Right. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You pick up Gates. Yeah. Because then in a couple weeks, Antonio Gates gets to play the Raiders. I wonder how many teams he's on because he was suspended so he didn't get to go into an IR spot. So this might be the week people actually pick him up. Larry Donnell had five catches. And Fells is out. Yes. So he's a guy worth picking up. And then anybody else stand out for you? No, there's no more.

Jordan Reed went out this week, too. So there are going to be people looking for... Maybe if Kobe Fleener, if Dwayne Allen is still out on Thursday, he's a guy worth throwing out. All right, let's talk about quarterbacks. Marcus Mariotta comes off the by this week. He might be available in your league. Derek Carr, if he's still there. Oh, you hit the... Send in the car. Send in the car. Did you see the Twitter video that was made? No. Oh, someone made a video with that clip.

And then Derek Carr's picture comes in right over it. So shout out to you unnamed Twitter. That's amazing. Yeah, Carr's still about a 50% owned quarterback. So if you need somebody to play this week, I don't mind that, although he's playing the Broncos. Yeah. Yeah. I would not. I would definitely not want Carr against the Broncos. I still like Tyrod Taylor. He had a down game, but there was... I just don't think he's available in many leagues. Yeah, or just...

These are quarterbacks that we think should be picked up and owned and played regularly. You're going to see Tyrod Taylor dropped here. As waivers come today and people need buy weeks, you're not going to maybe see him on waivers right now today, but in the morning, you'll find him having been dropped for other options, I think, by several people. You think that Tyra Taylor's going to get dropped? I think if someone picked him up and played him this week and he had a down week,

There is some vengeful fantasy owners who will cut him immediately. Sam Bradford's only owned a 50% of the leagues right now, and he had a good week last week. So he's a great streaming option. He has a great match. Hint. Hint. Jay Cutler, what do we think of him if he gets Alshon Jeffrey back? If he gets Alshan Jeffrey back, he's going up against the 32nd out of 32 teams ranked fantasy.

defense against the quarterback. So they're giving up a lot of points. Granted, one week was against Aaron Rogers, inflated. But it's not as inflated as you'd think. They've consistently given up touchdowns through the air. So I like Jay Cutler this week. Andy Dalton is, you know, I talked about him earlier. He has a terrible matchup against Seattle this week, but he's still available in over a quarter of the leagues. And if you want to talk about a guy where in a good matchup can put up 30 plus points, it's a guy like Andy Dalton.

All right, and defenses to pay attention to this week, the Chiefs are facing the Bears, depending on what weapons Cutler has, and they just haven't been a good offense. The Packers are facing the Rams. The Rams seem to have a ceiling on what they can score outside of the defensive side of the ball. The Patriots are facing the Cowboys and Brandon Whedon. The Falcons are facing the Redskins and had a really good game defensively last week. The Cardinals are facing Detroit.

And that's in Detroit, but the Cardinals have been pretty good. And then the Bucks are facing the Jaguars. And what do we think about that matchup? Are the Bucks worthy of starting against the Jags? Yeah. I don't love it, but it's worth it. It's worth it if you don't have a better option. Blake Bortles is, he's going to Bortles because that's what he does. Occasionally. A lot. And so there's just do, what's the over under on interceptions in that game? Blake Bortle's versus James Winston.

Uh, five. I'll say four. Four. Four. Take the over. Winston had four last week. Yeah. Pretty bad. Pretty bad. So, I mean, does that make the Jaguars a start too? I think it does. I think they might both be a start. Can you flex the one of those defenses? Can you flex one? All right. Let's go ahead and get into our streams at the quarterback position. Full stream ahead. Okay.

All right, so we like to get into the streaming section here on Tuesday before your waiver wires go through. Last week, pretty good. We did okay. Yeah, Dalton and Carr had a pretty good week. Tyrod Taylor kind of, he wasn't that bad, to be honest. He still put up an okay number by the end of it all, but he didn't have the week we expect. Tyrod actually finished higher than Carr. Yeah? Yeah, slightly. Okay. So this week...

Who do we like as streaming quarterback options? If you are drafted, if you drafted quarterback late, you need to put somebody in there. You got to buy a week. Who do we like? So these are kind of the options that we laid out. We got Marcus, Marriota, Josh McCown, Alex Smith, Blake Bortles, Sammy Biscuits, rides again, Joe Flacco and Jay Cutler. I think those are the kind of the considerations. Yes, where they're very low-owned. And...

I'm going to need the foot clan. Plug your nose. Hold your breath. If you're standing up, please sit down. If you're eating something, please finish chewing. I'll give you a moment before I announce my... They can just pause it. Yeah, before I announce my stream of the week. Josh McCown. We're going. We're going with Josh McCowan. In the last couple games, he's averaged 350 yards and two touchdowns. Pretty good.