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

Yeah, and then he won. All right, Lynn Bowden, or Bowden, Lynn Bowden, Jr. He is a sneaky play this week. He is extremely interesting. He's on the Miami Dolphins, if you're not familiar with who he is. And in a lot of leagues, he is running back and wide receiver eligible. He is not playing running back. Like, he is playing the slot for Miami.

And nine targets, seven for 82 last week, led the team, and they have nobody this week. They have no, Devante Parker is hurt. We're not expecting him to play. Mike Gisicki is hurt. We're not expecting him to play. Tekeem Grant, hurt. He is crazy sneaky if you have a running back problem or even a wider, a flex problem. I'd play him over the Houston options. Sure. Yeah, I get that. Now, here's a name that I.

I would play over the Houston options and over Lynn Bowden. It is Mr. Disrespected. It's Tim Patrick, who just keeps being good. I mean, every single week when he has a quarterback in there, he's a solid, reliable option. I know it's Drew Locke. It's Mr. Irresponsible. Irresponsible throwing to disrespect it. Yeah. And I think that's a really good combination. I just think Tim Patrick's a good wide receiver who's been getting...

utilization and getting it done for fantasy. I think you should be starting to bet. Do you disagree? Would you rather have Bowden? I think that Bowden might provide more flexibility for your team as you make decisions this week with the eligibility stuff. I think they're both good options. I think you have the top of the list. Ike and Hilton. If they're not available, you're moving into Aguilar.

Samuel, Patrick, and Bowden. Yeah, I like it. And then you can pivot to Hansen or QT if Cooks is out, which right now the team is reporting he's going to be back. So we'll see what happens. Running back wise, what's the headline here? Who are you looking for at running back? The running back headline to me isn't available. Lynn Bowdo. No, I mean.

It still says he's available in 25% of Yahoo Leagues and almost 50% of ESPN. But Cam Acres, to me, is an absolute league winner. He made the transition. The other two backs were barely involved, and it's been better for the Rams. They've been better for it. Cam Acres has looked outstanding, obviously has fresh legs since he wasn't used the majority of the season. They drafted to be this. I mean, he...

He got the role that Todd Gurley had this last week, and he dominated in it. So I don't think he's available because he had his breakout kind of the week before last. But if he is, he would be my number one priority, period. I do want to update people on the ever-changing during the show live Ronald Jones situation. Oh, thank you. He's undergoing the exact same procedure that Chris Godwin underwent. He's getting a pin put into his broken finger. Godwin missed a game with this.

So if Ronald Jones misses this week, you could see a committee, Fournette, McCoy, Vaughn. Yeah, I imagine they'd turn right back to him. I do too. I'm saying that that is going to feel really sketchy. Yeah. I don't know if you guys are aware, but the Atlanta Falcons are unfathomably good this season against running backs. It makes no sense.

They are one of the absolute best. So if you've got a broken fingered or missing Ronald Jones, along with a hodgepodge of you don't know who to start against a terrible matchup, maybe you just pivot. Maybe you just go Brady and assume he's going to throw the ball 45 times. Yeah, maybe. Other running backs that are widely available, DeAndre Washington for the Dolphins, it's a desperation play. This is a volume play.

He was the primary running back for the team until they kind of had to go into catch up mode. And then it turned to Patrick Laird because he's the past catcher. He's the third down guy. But DeAndy Washington would see the goal line. And this is, I'm assuming that Sullivan Ahmed is still going to be injured heading into the weekend. And then the most available guy and the biggest pickup to me is my name is Jeff. My name is Jeff Wilson for the 49ers.

In the one opportunity we saw for him where he was the starting guy, he just crushed. And his matchup this week is so delightful. The Dallas Cowboys, like, are you kidding me? I imagine he'll be in your lineup this week. He's already in there. Yeah. Yeah, you picked him up last week just in case. Yes. Let's say the news comes out tonight from Rahim Mostert's MRI.

It's a bad news. He guarantee he's not playing next week. And both Cam Acres and Jeff Wilson are available. I would take Cam Acres. Okay. Because those two guys... 29 carries. Right. The New York Jets and then the Seattle Seahawks to close the season for Acres, that's where I would go. But after that, after that it is Jeff Wilson, I would say... And this is the time of year. We probably don't need to say this. This is the time of year where...

Spend it all. Spend everything you've, there's no point. You don't, if you end the season with leftover fab money or a high waiver priority, you don't get anything for that. Get the best players now. And Wilson and Acres are worth spending up for. And just a quick note, I don't want to like focus on it. But if you aren't in a deep league, at this point, I would stash Trayvion Williams from the Cincinnati Bengals. I'm not playing him against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But they did turn to him this past week, the Bengals did. And if it turns out he's the guy, he gets to play Houston in the final week. Tight-ins, if you're in a Gassiki, Icky-Gas-Sikki situation. Nice. Where are you looking in week 15? I mean, the safest target option. To me, it's Cole come at. I was going to say Logan Thomas, but if it's not Alex Smith,

then I don't think I want to pull a look inside us. Now, Colquamette's been really, really good lately in terms of snap counts, target share going up. I'm interested, seven targets. Okay. I'm interested in the other side of the field, which is Irv Smith Jr. Big Irv. If Kyle Rudolph is gone, I mean, Andy, I know that Aitken's, fine. The Jordan Aiken's start last week was based on the Chicago matchup. Oh, my gosh, did we talk about that drop? No.

Oh, my goodness. Look, Andy, I've got to give it up to you. I know he had a bad game and it was, you know, it was like, shame on you. But the call was right. That is a true process over results. I have never in all my 38 years of being able to watch football. I have never seen a drop like what he did. He was, Jordan Akins was in the corner of the end zone. And there was not a defender within 10 yards of him. He was as open as I've ever seen a player.

The ball comes lobbed on, and this isn't thrown on a line. This is just right at you. His arms are open, wide open, and he's already celebrating as Jordan Aiken's touchdown. Somehow. I was literally up off the chair because I live for a Ufoot clan, and this pick was important to me. He already had three catches. This was going to be the exclamation point for Jordan Aiken. And as he stands there, arms out. The ball.

floats and hits him in his left bicep on the side of him. He doesn't even put his arms where the ball was. I've never seen anything like it. I don't know if he was. It was the son. He was the come on man on the show on Monday night football last night. They put some pretend sunglasses on him. People were tweeting he needs the shady race. I mean.

I couldn't believe it because I was jumping up for the Foot Clan. That's how long and easy the process of this play was. You're like, oh, he's open. I had time to celebrate on the pass. And when he just blatantly dropped it, it was unbelievable. So anyways.

But the point is they give up a lot of touchdowns. Chicago does to the tight-in position. Irv Smith has been utilized. They tried real hard to give one up there. Yeah. So I think if I was to pick someone up and play them off of waivers this week, it would be Big Irv. All right. Let's just live all the pain. Live all those memories this week. Defenses, important this week. Buffalo takes on Denver. The Drew Locke experience. Look, he was great last week.

Yeah, that's fine. Irresponsible people, they get things right every once in a while. Right. I would look at the Cleveland Browns. I realize they just gave up a billion points to the Ravens, but the New York Giants offense have been bad. A hobbled Daniel Jones that can't. I mean, we saw Hassan Redick this week get five sacks himself on Daniel Jones.

Did you not know that, Andy? Five? Five sacks set the franchise record by himself. He just made so much money. Yeah. So I do think that Cleveland against the Giants has a good play. I agree. Seattle against Washington is a home run. Washington's got nothing. That was the one I was going to throw out. We've been preparing for a month now to, at least I mean I have, to play Arizona against the Philadelphia Eagles because no.

That was a target matchup with Carson Wins. And now in our league of record, I'm like, oh, crap. I think it's too risky. I have to pivot. Arizona is not a great defense. What about the 49ers against Dallas? Yeah, I'd be willing to do that over the Arizona one. But I just wanted to echo that the Seattle against Washington, that's very intriguing. They've been a lot better. And if it is Dwayne Haskins.

You just keep rolling them. I mean, we talked about this a month ago, and you've been riding Seattle through this stretch of the NFC East. You just keep it up. If you want to not pay attention to this part of the show next week, then set yourself up for Week 16. Set yourself up for the title game. If Chicago's sitting out there, they take on Jacksonville. The Chargers are playing the aforementioned irresponsible Drew Locke.

led Denver Broncos. That's right. Houston will be playing some semblance of quarterback against Cincinnati. I mean, that's a tough defense to trust. Washington takes on Carolina. Washington's defense's been outstanding. I would play Washington about just about in any matchup. If you have them, they're in. You're going to play them against Seattle? This week. I said just about. Oh. But if they're dropped, pick them up. All right. Let's move on. Full stream ahead. I wish I had Brooks's wealth to fall back on when.

things go sideways. You know what I mean? If I've learned anything from Ducktails is that money is very soft and swimmable. Right. It's just a relaxing dive right in and it gets out of your way. I feel like in your anger you could just really destroy some Fabergette eggs. Have a good time doing that. Yeah. And if you know you can just replenish your Faberge egg collection with all of your wealth. Well, you know what he would have done with the PlayStation 5? He just would have smashed it.

I thought about it. Wouldn't that have been the greatest backfire? I was going to give this to you, Foot Clan, but instead I'm throwing it off my roof. I'm going to drop it out of my private plane. Oh, my goodness. All right. Full stream ahead. Again, quarterback streamers. Worth mentioning because we had the conversation on Monday, Monday, Punday, and talking through the studs. There were players like Tua. There were players like Drew Locke. There were some outliers.

And you could be in a situation where you're uncomfortable with your quarterback position. And if you are, there are options. Now, Mike has the headline. We need to put them in order, I think, this week. Yeah, I agree. Rather than just each present one. And Mike's got the big one because he's the cheat coat at the quarterback position. Yes, it is. It is Jalen Hertz. The matchup is good against the Arizona Cardinals. They're not a good defense. And 100 rushing yards against the New Orleans Saints.

Like, he was very judicious and picked his spots to run like a vet. This was not, oh crap, I'm out of control, scrambling, and he breaks a big play. He was picking his spots. He looked okay-ish as a passer. But again, that was against the Saints. The Arizona defense is not the New Orleans matchup. So I think that Jalen Hertz should be played as a top 12 quarterback this week. I agree.

And he gets the Dallas Cowboys in Championship Week. And I got to bring up P. River against the Texans. Yes, you do. T.Y. Hilton does, he's not going to throw to himself. And if he's going to have the kind of games he's having in the way that Philip Rivers is playing, I see the grimace on your face, Jason. I almost went Philip Rivers. I literally almost made him my stream of the week. He's a phenomenal start this week. He is. I mean, look, all of my personal.