Week 15 Waivers + Mike Dumps Andy, Full Stream Ahead - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/15

two to four yard range. Yeah, I just like that. I feel like Alex Smith throws them all the time. I don't know if Haskins would or not. Mike Gisicki's undergoing more tests for his shoulder injury. This is a big deal for your fantasy team. Gisiki's been reliable, but you're probably going to have to find somebody else. Yeah, from what I heard, I don't think Gassiki is even in the realm of being startable this week or playable. I don't think he's on the field.

David Johnson is supposed to be back from injured or from the COVID list this week. According to head coach Romeo Cornell, Brandon Cooks is expected to return against the Colts. John Brown expected to return to practice. To me, that feels more like a potential confidence reduction for Beasley than it does a, you're not going to probably roll John Brown out in week one when he returns, will you? No. No, and you're right. When John Brown is back, the Beasley PPR bump will go away.

If you're playing the stallion, Josh Allen, you are really hoping John Brown gets back on the field. Ronald Jones may have fractured his pinky in Sunday's win. Really? Shouldn't affect his ability to carry the ball or catch it. Yeah, because he never had that ability. It could only enhance. This could be more of a rookie of the year. Rookie of the year style thing. Super strong pinky. Well, it lets him, you know. It's like when you lose one of your senses, if you lose your pinky, the other four fingers, they step up. They step up, yeah.

It can't hurt, honestly. I like that it may have fractured. We have the technology, Bruce. We do. We can figure this out. We can go from May to yes. I might have broken my leg last night. That's true statement. All right. Sitting injury? Sure. Maybe it was while sitting. It might be my foot. I mean, if you just put May in front of or might, it's like you could say whatever you want.

Christian McCaffrey. I said no offense. Christian McCaffrey may play again in 2020. Matt Ruhl says he plans on him playing again, but talk about a high stakes gamble. Will he be back this week? I don't think he'll be back this week. We have more news. Do we have breaking news? Sure. Breaking news. Ronald Jones having surgery on broken finger. Okay. It's confirmed. So we do have the technology. I'm impressed. The timing of that sleeper alert.

Yeah, that was spectacular. Okay, well, we'll monitor that. Prior to the surgery, they didn't think it would affect him. Obviously, Godwin went through a similar thing and played. So we'll see. That's a pretty big deal. Ronald Jones is kind of important to fantasy teams right now, which is not something that many people thought we'd say. Or one or two. Do you think Christian McCaffrey plays this week? I do not. I do not. I do think that,

they want to get him back out to finish the year, even though they're playing for nothing. I think they want to have that experience. He wants to do it. But, I mean, if you've got an injury that is keeping you out, you have to wait until it's over. And usually the injury he has is more of a two-week timeline. All right. We've got waivers coming up. We do. And before that, Fookland.

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Did I really? I said I wanted more suspense in our matchup, but did I really? I don't know. More suspense is more hope. Shattered, right? Yes. I hope you were at least able to take solace in the you didn't have to play any if I had done this. Right. I know what you're saying. Yep. Yep. Because we all made pivots on Sunday. Well, not all of us.

Well, yeah. Well, I mean, the absence of a move is still a move. Yeah. You don't, yeah, you're not that guy. I'm not Jason. I'm not the dead weight. You're not the one that's the fault. Your team did great. Yeah. You lost. I would rather lose with a great performance than a loss saying, I screwed up. I should have put this guy in. I knew I should have put him in. I didn't. I would have won. I lost. It's my. My loss is my fault. Your loss is Mike's fault. And I apologize.

For nothing. Yeah. Brandon Ayyuk, if he's out there, he's going to help you win your fantasy leagues. Let's start with wide receiver pickups. Brandon Ayuk, rostered in 69% of ESPN league, 78% in Yahoo. He's probably rostered. Probably. Same with T.Y. Hilton. But both of those players. T.Y. Houston. Sorry, T. Y. Houston this week. Taking on Houston, it's like a cheat coat. He really loves playing Houston.

Without Houston, he's been on fire the last three games. Only one of those was Houston. Yeah, if he's available, you absolutely pick him up and play him. All of the gifts, the resurrection gifts that come out of the Undertaker. They're always very funny. T.Y. Hilton, in my dynasty league, on my roster, felt like a wasted spot. Like, do you just let this player evaporate? And here he is for your fantasy playoffs, reminding you.

that he exists. It's unbelievable. It's crazy. All right. Let's move beyond the probably rostered names, however, and try to find some value. If you're in a pickle, if you're dealing with injuries, if Debo Samuel was going to be locked and loaded for your fancy playoffs and now he's gone. What are some names, Jason Aguilar? That's the name that I wanted to bring up. Nelson Aguilar has, look, he's just been good. He's not a super reliable option. People from Philadelphia can tell you that.

but he has several games this year that have been good for fantasy. This last week, he had, you know, nine targets after 11 targets. He is involved in the offense, and he is always the guy looked to around the end zone. Seven touchdowns on the season already. You add all of that with a really good matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers, and I think he is someone that you could take from your waiver wire.

put into your lineup in a pinch if you lost a Debo Samuel or someone like that, and you have a little bit of upside there. Yeah, I mean, for him to be the primary target and have the big playability, that's huge. Now, I'm going to ask a really important fantasy question because that's what we do here. If you had to choose, let's say, you know, the burning building situation, you got to toss your kid from the second story. Right. It's Nelson Aguilar, it's Marquez Valdez Scanling, and it's Deonté Johnson. Who do you want? Who do you want?

Oh, man. I'd include Ebron, but I know we're not picking him. No, goodness. I love my children. But who's catching your kid, man? I think Deontes is in his head. It's too important right now, so that's why he's missing. He's going to be. Is Tomlin within the vicinity? Is Tomlin saying, catch that kid? Catch that kid. He doesn't need to be. He knows it's a kid. You have to catch this one. That's when Deontay doesn't. He's out. He's out for me. I think I'm going Mark was. The.

Really? He makes the unexpected ones. He makes the difficult catches. Yeah, but this would be considered a big play. No, but yeah, but he drops like easy pass. Yeah, every time I think. So try to throw the kid a little bit. Yeah, a little bit over his head. Yeah, absolutely. Go get him. Yeah, it's NBS. Wow. Okay. All right. Congratulations. Congrats NBS. Yeah. It's not regular. You are the baby catcher for the fantasy footballers.

Right. I mean, like last resort still. Like we're going Hopkins before we're going NBS, right? Larry's not down there. Larry Fitzgerald's not available. Sure. Other options that are worth looking at, you know, Curtis Samuel is going to be heavily involved and potentially not rostered. And if DJ Moore's not back again, it's going to be Curtis Samuel and Robbie Anderson.

Kiki QT? Yeah, I was going to say, what do you think about the Texans? The Texans wide receivers, Kiki QT and Chad Hansen. They would both be great pickups in general. They're being hyper-targeted. They've got a great quarterback. Indianapolis is tough. But that's the matchup. That's the conundrum. Can you pick them up and start them against Indianapolis? Obviously, Chicago was a difficult matchup. Also, the Indianapolis matchup.

Two weeks ago where Chad Hanson was five for a hundo? Same one. Not that I'm saying it's going to happen again. And Kiki also had a big game against the Colts. It's tough to choose between them because Kiki had one touchdown, but he only had three targets in last week's game. He played fewer snaps than Hansen. Hansen has two more reliable target weeks in consecutive order. I feel like Hansen's a better play. I would go Hansen over QT. And.

And you got to, regardless of if you're picking them up for this week, maybe you're looking ahead of your roster's secured for week 15, but you want to look ahead for week 16, or you want to play some keepaway. They play the Bengals in championship weekend. Houston does. So that's, they will be a much better play that week. And you may want to make sure that your opponent does not have.

Hanson available. Now, I guess this all is under the presumption that Brandon Cooks is not going to play. If Cooks is back out there, do you still, I probably don't mess around with these, right? Yeah, and I don't think. It's too risky against Indianapolis to go second and third options. I agree. But I don't expect, I don't expect Cooks to be back out there. You don't, even though the team does. I think it's a, I, I just worry about his head, man. I really do.

You know, I know it wasn't reported as a head injury. No, I know that. It's neck injury. I know it wasn't reported as a concussion or head injury. If it was, then he's got to go in protocol and you don't see him again because of his history. So I just, I mean, that's just, you know, that's not anything that I have inside knowledge of. That's just the worry, I guess. But I will say this.

And we have done this at the studio this last week. It was incredible. If you do roll with Chad Hansen every single time he catches the ball. You just hit it with a m-bop. And it's a lot of fun. It was a good time because Mike had thought about playing him. So every time it was a bit of a taunting. Well, it was great because it was Chad Hansen or Miles Sanders. And he felt like an idiot because Hansen kept getting targeted. And we loved rubbing it in by going m-bop. And he'd hate it every time. Yeah, it was really great.