Week 2 Waivers & QB Streamers, Mooses

This was... Blah plow plow. Blah. Blah. And yes, Isaiah Crowell was the big winner. He had the 60-yard touchdown run. I'm not taking away from him. What I will say about Blah, pal. He started. He was getting carries in a blowout. He was time sharing with Isaiah Crowell. So if that continues, and he's going to be involved no matter what. If they're winning, then he's in. He's going to get carries. If they are losing, he will be the guy who is in as they pass the ball.

to try and catch up. So this was very encouraging for Bilal Powell's usage. I'm not calling him a high-end running back one or anything of that stretch, but he will be absolutely a usable running back. How are you feeling, Jay? I feel like I need to cry some more. Look, I mean, anybody that watches the game can tell who their best running back is. I don't think that's up for debate. He was the best on the ground.

I mean, that one-handed catch on the poor pass by Stafford is what I'm talking about. He is a well-rounded back that if they were to just put him on the field and leave him there, which I do think by the end of the season will happen.

Talent, I believe, here will win out. Amir Abdullah was inactive, but this game became nuts. I mean, this game just got completely out of control, thanks to all of the interceptions from Stafford. And then Theo Riddick was in there, and they completely abandoned the run. My issue was before that happened, early in the game, it was like when Carion was on the field, they're moving, and then they take them out.

and they stop and it's like, ugh, just it was frustrating. Ligarra Blunt did leave with a knee injury. Yeah. We don't know the severity. Not yet. And so that could lead to some early carry-on opportunity next week. And he is involved in the passing game. That's the nice thing. Carry-on had a nice long session of getting consecutive snaps as well. Even before the Lagerie Blunt's injury, I think that it was the game got out of control and they had to go to, or they chose to go. This is the time to go grabber.

I mean, 15 total carries for Detroit. The game script was not conducive to the running back other than, you know, theoretic being in the game for garbage time. 15 carries, 52 passes. Yeah. All right. We got to talk about this other game. The Rams, the Raiders. Oh, no. All right, guys. Amari Cooper. Three targets in a game in which Derek Carr threw the ball 40 times. He caught one pass for nine yards. And...

There may not be hair on the heads of anybody who drafted them anymore because they have pulled it all out. They are in a sea of their own tiers. And should they be? Maybe. I'm not on a definite yes yet. The Los Angeles Rams have one of the best defenses in the entire league. And then B, their secondary is incredibly strong. And you saw a game plan of Derek Carr was going to go to the

what he felt was the better option. It was Jared Cook, who just torched last night. Nine for 180 on 12 targets. It's unbelievable what Jared Cook did last night. So if you're Amari Cooper, or if you have a Mari Cooper on your team, that's the narrative I'm spinning to myself right now is they had to go to Jared Cook and there's brighter days coming for Mari Cooper.

They do face the Broncos next week, so very similar. Jared Cook will be heavily involved. Light up your Jared Cook next week. The Jared Cook concerns are that he does this once a year and then burns you, but the next three matchups are against the three of the worst teams against the tight-in position. The targets are few now that Michael Crabtree is gone. You don't have the options, the past catching options you had before. I think Jared Cook is playable.

Clearly in a tight-in landscape that is atrocious, but you can't expect a game like this every week. And Jared Cook has a specialty. And his specialty is to take your hype and hope and generally deflate you. He is awesome at coming out week one looking like a stud. And then it's like, wait, what happened? But for Amari Cooper, the defense of Amari Cooper. And this was finally the year for me that I was.

on board with the draft price and the upside. Do you target him on, you know, with the tilt that you're feeling for Amari Cooper, other owners are going to let him go for almost nothing. I mean, I just saw Adrian Peterson get traded for Kareem Hunt in a league. I'm not even joking you. What? Because of Kareem Hunt. What? Yes. Good for you. Tilt is real. Tilt is real. And what I want to say is, do you go target Amari Cooper because there are brighter days ahead and there are limited pass catching options?

I doubt John Gruden is very happy with what happened there. And it was Talib and Peters. Whenever you can get a player for pennies on the dollar, it's just a wise decision to do that if you got the roster room. So I'm willing to go poke around and see if the guy is completely off board with the player. But I'm not going to pay fair value for Mari Cooper because we have to come to the realization that he might just not be that good.

I mean, that is one of the possible outcomes here is that Cooper is just, he's not a wide receiver won. Let me ask you this. I'll make it easy from the Detroit Lions wide receivers. Golden Tate, monster game. Would you trade Golden Tate for Amari Cooper? I would rather have Golden Tate right now. I would probably make the trade. Marvin Jones. No, I would not trade Marvin Jones. I'd rather have Marvin Jones. Okay. Right now, yeah.

What about Kenny Gawaday who? No, I would take Cooper. We can talk about Galdet in a little bit here. No, it's interesting. All right. By the way, the one saving grace that you might say about Robbie Anderson from earlier is that he did face Darius slay in this game. Sure. Maybe they worked away from him. What I was going to say is I think Sam Darnold eventually will start opening it up, but I'm with Andy that if I have Robbie Anderson and I can trade him off of the double-digit fantasy point game right now,

I would likely try to do that. Good game from Jared Goff. Todd Gurley, 20 for 108. Todd Gurley's great. He was so great. Brandon Cooks, 5 for 87. Cooper Cup, 5 for 52 in a touchdown. Robert Woods, 3 for 37. And missed just by a couple inches. A bomb. A few different plays, but yes, one long bomb. 899. That's the target count between the three guys. My projection for this team is that Brandon Cooks will do very well. He will likely lead this team in Yardage.

He'll be up over 1,000 yards. It's just going to be a matter of – I mean, I loved what he looked like last night. I thought it was great. I'm confident that Cooks is the leader of that pack. Are you guys of the mentality that you want the least expensive option of that group? No, I want Cooper Cup. You want Cooper Cup specifically because you think he's the red zone target. That makes sense. I mean, I want any of the three of them, but I'm not going to pay up because while I do agree, Andy, I think Brandon Cooks leads them in yardage by the end of the season.

I don't feel like this is a, you know, a wide receiver one versus a wide receiver two for a team. These three guys are all going to be so involved and they're going to eat into each other. And there's plenty of production to go around where you can start all three of them. Yeah. But you have to keep in mind that those three guys are not going to be.

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They're trying to figure out how much time he's going to miss. It's going to probably be two to three weeks for Doug Baldwin. Patriots sign Corey Coleman. People probably want to know. Do you go sign Corey Coleman? I say no. No. No. It just gives you a slight little glimmer of hope for your dynasty team. Right. Dynasty, if he's on waivers, absolutely pick him up. Sure. All right. Without further ado. Put me in, coach.

All right, it's time to talk. Week 1 waiver wire pickups. I'll be getting all my bids in today for all of our leagues. I will be putting you $1 higher bids in on all of those same players. Yeah, okay. All right. You know what I'm going to bid? Yeah, I'm going to log into your account. Oh, okay. Well, we know because you're going to tell us right now. That's true. Dang it. That's the bad part of this business. Dang it.

All right, so let's start at the wide receiver position. So let's go into a couple of guys that are probably owned but worth checking on. Who are those names for you?

Randall Cobb and Kenny Stilts. Those are the two big ones. Scott Barrett does great work if you're not following him on Twitter. Give him a follow. He pointed out that Randall Cobb's success in his targets over the last several seasons have come when Aaron Rogers is in shotgun, which he hasn't been in that much. But after he got injured, he was almost exclusively in the shotgun formation. So I think that that is one of those things helping, you know, look, it's a tough matchup.

I believe coming up. But, yeah, Randall Cobb is definitely a must pick up if he's on the waivers. And you guys both feel strongly about Kenny Stills following this four for 106 and two performance? Yeah, I do. You know, I brought up yesterday that he only had five targets. But the reality is he's still the number one guy on the team. And he was on the field, I think, 94% of snaps. So he should be owned and played. Let's ask this follow up. If Cobb and Stills are sitting there on your waivers,

How much Fab are you investing in either of those guys? Because you're buying high on both, in a sense, right? You've got this great week-one performance. Kenny Stills is not going to score 32 touchdowns this season. So what is the investment that you're willing to make? Cobb faces Washington this week. Stills faces the Jets. Cobb is actually, I think, faces the Vikings, right? Yes, that is correct. Yeah, this early on, I am not.

I'm not going to blow a huge amount on my budget on one of these wide receivers. You got to manage those funds save up for when the big running back becomes available. But for a Randall Cobb or Kenny Stills, 10 to 15% would be the most I'd be willing to bid. This is where philosophically you have to ask yourself, how do you spend your budget? And I just don't spend.