Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 6 Waivers, Streams of the Week, Injury News

I think that's a really impactful thing that is going to hurt the value, the upside of Matt Jones. So I'd look to move Matt Jones in a package deal with this news. Yeah, sure. And he already has to deal with Chris Thompson as the passing downs running back. So if there is another guy who's eating into Matt Jones, I agree that that could be bad news. We'll have to wait and see. This could just be coach speak. We're not exactly sure yet. According to Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News continues to look like Des Bryant won't play the Packers in week 6th.

Dallas has a week seven by. So for him to miss another game, it makes complete sense to me. Yeah, I think that he should rest. And do you go after Des Bryant? Do you have confidence that Des Bryant's going to come back this year at a top level form? I'm not trading a great usable asset for him. I've had a lot of questions on Twitter. Hey, should I trade this guy to get Des and play for the future? Not with that injury.

So you're saying if you've got a Jarvis Landry type, a Julian Edelman, you're not trading any of those guys for Des. And I would agree with that. I'm just not all in on Des. The final piece of news. Yes, I threw this in as just the like. We're both MMA fans. We are. We like the U and the F and the C. Most mostly the C part, though. I like the championships. Have you ever wanted to watch Greg Hardy get beat up?

Because I think a lot of people out there have. They may have. He is saying he's going to pursue a career in mixed martial arts. Okay. Let the circus show begin. That's a hard thing to jump in too late, Greg. But he is, you know, freak athlete. So I'll be watching. See what happens. All right. Let's move to the waivers. Put me in, coach. I can see why Andy sometimes has a problem hitting the.

the button on the uh the iPad over here are you gaining compassion for for Andy well like the the my depth perception over here I was like I'm tapping it but I was I was not actually tapping the button I was tapping the air that's just a real that has nothing to do with this that's just a a real life problem if you don't know how far you can touch things like how far away something is maybe look into some glasses go to the eye doctor yeah all right let's talk the waiver wire

Wide receiver is the position of the week, certainly. My top pickups from this week are all in the wide receiver. We're going to start with the man on the top because he was on top of the charts last week. That is Sammy Coates, wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, coming off a monster performance, 6 for 139 and 2, 11 targets. He's getting major, major target volume.

This was the first time it paid off with some touchdowns. The yardage we know that has been increasing every single week, along with his workload. Pittsburgh has seemed to bury Marcus Wheaton. Darius Hayward Bay is not a threat to Sammy Coates and his position in the offense. So what are you doing with Sammy Coates?

Well, Wheaton has been coming off of a shoulder injury. He's coming off being terrible for years. Sure. Stop with Marcus Wheaton. You have seen what you alluded to, I think, is important to the targets, right? He starts the year, and I'm talking about Sammy Coates now with three targets. The last two weeks, eight targets and 11 targets. That's what you want to see as close to that double digit if you're going to have a confident start in a deep threat type of position.

You've got a huge road split for Ben Rothlisberger home in a way. And I expect that you're going to see that same. I mean, it makes sense, right? If Ben Rothlisberger's not tearing it up on the road, I don't think Sammy Coates is going to tear it up on the road. I think on the road you're going to have Antonio Brown getting a larger lion's share. Sammy Coates is certainly someone I would go out and sign because the upside here is... We've seen it now. Near Martavis Bryant.

He's just not as talented a player as Martavis Bryant. He's not as good at tracking the ball, certainly not as good at catching the ball. His hands are questionable. But the position, the role in that offense for years. I mean, you've got, you can go back to when Mike Wallace was tearing it up. And that number two wide receiver for Pittsburgh has always been important. Sammy Coates is clearly the most athletic, the guy that in the offseason, both of us.

We really loved when the injury came, or I'm sorry, the suspension came to Martavis Bryant, and we said, who does this impact the most? It was Coates. Got off to a slow start. And then you abandoned him. How do you feel? Well, I abandoned him because it looked like he was abandoned by the Steelers. But the injury to Marcus Wheaton has really given him that opportunity to shine, and he's taken a hold of it. So let's say you're in waiver. Let's say you are in a waiver system. Okay.

And you've got the number one or the number two waiver claim spot. Are you putting a claim in on Sammy Coates? Team dependent, but more than likely, yes. Sammy Coates, I think, is worth it. I think he is a weekly flex at the worst. And you know the upside is huge. And at home, he's a wide receiver too. With that wide receiver won't upside. I was asked, is it going to be crazy?

If you're, if you're playing Antonio Brown, would you also play Sammy Coates? Hmm. And my response was, if they're at home, heck yeah. Sure. I own Antonio Brown in our League of Record. I'm still going to be very aggressive trying to get Sammy Coates on my team because I think he's that good. I think he's a valuable asset. Even if I get to the point where I don't want to play both Steelers, I'm going to be able to trade Sammy Coates. If he has another monster game, yeah, I'll be able to trade him for pretty much whatever I want. Well.

Yeah, I mean, I think if you were able to trade them to yourself because you love Sammy Coates so much, you would give up a lot. I don't know that the average person would give up enough. I'm saying if there's another performance in the next two weeks that is over 100 yards with a touchdown, people will be, everyone will be bought in. Yeah, I can get behind that. And what you mean by it's team dependent, basically if you don't need a while, if you've got good wide receivers. Yeah, if you already have four.

studs and there's two guys who can't even crack your starting lineup. Keep that. And the reality is the teams that have that first and second waiver priority and a waiver priority system, usually they have a pretty solid team. They haven't been using that waiver. And if that's the case, I would probably hold off for one of these weeks where the running back, there's always that. The week that DeMarco Murray goes down and Derek Henry can be bought for that number one waiver claim or something like that, I would hold off. If you're in a...

fab system, which is our recommended system, you know, I'm, I'm willing to drop probably 15 on them. See, I'm in the low 20s, at least. Then I won't, I won't get them in our league. Yeah, I'm just saying, I'm, I'm being very aggressive. So just some, I'll throw out some quick names and then we'll come back and focus on guys that we want. We got Chris Hogan, who has emerged as the deep threat for, uh, for New England.

Cameron Meredith, who came on extremely strong in the replacement of Kevin White. Jeremy Curley has shown that he is, the targets are for real for Jeremy Curley. Michael Thomas, of course, is coming off of the by week. And Alan Hurons, we have him just as a name to remember where he's coming off the buy, and sometimes people just drop players who are on a buy week because they have to make a decision, and Alan Hurons is worth picking up if he happens to be on your wire. Yeah, any time that there's a team that's on by,

quarterbacks often dropped and good solid players. It would not be dropped normally, but you're just forced to. So we like to point those out. Yeah, like this weekend, someone had to drop Blake Bortles in our league. We only have five bench spots, so someone had to make a decision. So I was able to pull the sneaky maneuver of I had somebody else who was on, or oh, it was Charles Sims or Dwayne Washington got moved out. I moved him to my IR. I had an open spot.

Picked up Blake Bortles. So of these remaining wide receivers, you've got guys that are more owned like Chris Hogan, right? He's owned in 34% of leagues. So there's a, the two guys I want to bring up for me would be Cameron Meredith and Chris Hogan. Because those two guys are the guys I want the most.

I would say I would rather have Chris Hogan because of the upside of the offense, Tom Brady. Look, Chris Hogan, I've liked him for years. He's just never been in a system that will allow him to use his talents. Well, I don't know many systems better than the Tom Brady-led Patriots to use that. And you saw that in week one. You got 114 yards off of four receptions. And that was he had to go out twice for a concussion check. So he had to miss time in the game. He could have had an even bigger impact.

Yeah, so Chris Hogan definitely worth picking up. Cameron Meredith, the reason that I like Cameron Meredith, we saw him kind of as a spot start should Eddie Royal be out of the game. But what's happened is he has actually replaced the Kevin White role. Yes. And Eddie Royal played last week. He stayed in that spot and you just saw that same position, right? Sometimes a...

a quarterback locks into a position, the X or the Y or the Z on the field. And when Cameron Meredith comes into the Kevin White role, and you saw that that's the role that Brian Hoyer was targeting, I expect Cameron Meredith to continue seeing those targets. We talked about yesterday, while Hoyer has been the quarterback, Alshon Jeffrey, is the third or fourth highest targeted on his team. So Cameron Meredith is available in your league. He's owned in 1.6% of leagues.

I say, and while Hoyer has taken over, he's now the quarterback, he's been the quarterback three in that time period. That's nuts. I mean, depending on your scoring format, of course, but he's been spectacular for fantasy football. Chris Hogan is the guy behind Sammy Coates, who I'm most interested in. I want a piece of that New England offense, and we saw Brandon Lafell. We talked about the garbage can yesterday. Brandon Lafell, who's, even he succeeded in that role when he was given the chance.

Do you pick up Brandon LaPelle? After his big game? Uh, no. Yeah, you're kind of chasing the points there. Yeah, I wouldn't pick him up. So let's move over to running back. Actually, before we move over to running back, I want to thank today's sponsor, Nature Box. Look, we all talk about, we want to make healthier choices. We're tempted by the chips and the cookies and junk food. And then we eat it. We all want to make healthy decisions. You know what I've done, Jason? Tell me. I've worked out.

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