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

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Welcome back to the Tuesday edition. Tuesday edition, it's going to be a hot one. Oh, yeah. October 11th. This is my favorite show of the week. Every week, I think waivers, you know, I say all the time, look, you don't win your championship at the draft. And not every league trades nonstop. You know, you can't always get something to go. But you have waivers in almost every league. And this is where you win the championship is making these moves the right way. Andy loves the Thursday show.

starts of the week. I'm putting my claim on on the Tuesdays. Absolutely. So welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. My name is Mike Wright. I'm joined by my co-host, my lovely co-host, Jason Moore. Andy Holloway is out of town. He will be back tomorrow. But until then, we will hold down the fort. You can follow the show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Jason at Jason FFL, myself at FF Hitman. And if you want to follow Andy, he is at

Andy Holloway. The Fantasy Footballers.com is our website, and we have some fantastic articles going up there today. We got our fan dual studs and duds trying to recap in, as well as a team defense recap, and stay tuned because I know that the Snap article is coming. People love that. Everyone's favorite. It gives you a good look at what are the trends. What are teams doing right now with their players?

So before we get into the news, I just want to kind of talk through the Monday game. Did you catch that one? Did I catch the game? Yeah. I caught the game. My man, Devin Funches, was nowhere to be found. That was so strange. I was expecting a huge blowout game from Devin Funches. No, yeah, we watched the game. I think the big story there from the game clearly has to be to Quiz Rogers.

Right before the game, the very surprising news came out that Charles Sims, who we knew he was injured. Yes. But we never heard anything about it being serious. All of a sudden was on IR. Yeah, I talked about this on the show of, I saw Charles Sims get hurt during that game, and he had to crawl off. But no one was talking about it. And then he went back in the game. Everything seemed to be at least okay enough to play.

Then he's missing practice. And now he's missing a minimum of eight weeks. He's on the IR. So I guess that's a little news tidbit or jumping ahead. I would say the other big takeaway for me from the game is now people have a taste. Greg Olson owners have the taste of Derek Anderson throwing him the ball. We talked about this at length that.

If you're a Greg Olson owner, do not worry because Derek Anderson is going to feed him the ball. Yeah, that is the reason I moved him up to my number one tight in this week. Granted, he did not get the three touchdowns like Martellus Bennett. Sure. I'll take the 180 plus yards. Man, how the mighty have fallen in Carolina. That was one of my bold predictions before the season was they would return to that form. That's true. And looking good. Better than my bold prediction of Ezekiel Elliott.

I imagine all, so the people who play Greg Olson, they're now in the corner scratching. It's like, come on baby. Give me some more of that Derek Anderson. Oh, and Derek Anderson just missed him on that wide open touchdown. Greg Olson should have had a touchdown added. Are you talking about the, not the interception? No, no, no. I'm talking when they're on the goal line. Right. And he goes across the formation from the right to left, and he just throws it behind him. And so Greg Olson has to like reach back and still almost caught it.

And it was also very interesting. We had talked about Dirt Cutter hating his offense. All the news trickling out was he's disappointed in Winston. He's disappointed in Sims. And he kind of showed that with, you talked about Jock Quiz Rogers coming from the street. The guy was not signed by a team. Gets picked up. And then he gets 35 touches in a Monday night football game. Absolutely. And he was okay.

To start the game, you really saw him wear down, though, towards the end. You know, I think you saw him wear down towards the middle, but actually at the end of the game, he looked like he was running well again. Got it back. He got it back, got his second win, was important, picked up that important third down. We'll talk about him probably more at length in the waiver wire section because he's going to be one of the waivers that might need to be picked up this week. What else from that game? Anything, I will say this. My wife, I brought my wife into watch that final field goal.

Oh, my goodness, of course. The drama, the drama. Oh, Aguayo, second round pick. My goodness. They moved up to draft him. Would he be missing these field goals if he was drafted in the fifth round? I don't know, because I will say this. I'm not a kicking expert. But when I watch him kick the ball, he does not look like the other kickers that I'm watching. He does not look like Gaskowski. His mechanics.

Remind me, it's like the Charles Barkley golf swing. Right. There is a herky and jerkiness to this kick. It is not smooth. He looks very strange compared to the other kickers. And he's missing a lot. Yeah, that was, uh, that was an intense moment. I've never been more excited for a one and four team facing off with a 20 yard field goal. I was like, I don't know.

if I was rooting for him to make it or rooting for him to miss it. I don't know what I was. I think my words said, come on, you got to make this kid. Like, do yourself a favor? But I think there was a part of me that wanted to see the complete collapse. It was reminding me of the, do you remember the Steelers kicker debacle from last year where they just kept cycling through? And then it got to the point where Tomlin was like, I'm not kicking any more field goals. Yeah. Two point conversions, everything going forward on fourth. All right. Well, let's move into the nudes.

The newts? The noots. The noots and nose. News and notes from around the league. The newts and nose. The newts and nose. It's a new segment coming next week. All right. We talked about it. The box of place Charles Sims on the injured reserve. Jock Quiz was very decent for fantasy production in a fill and roll. Would you consider him a high level handcuff, a handcuff, or just, you know, a...

The backup now to Doug Martin, who we expect to be ready after the bye week. No, I think that he would be more towards a handcuff because... It's a mini one. I'd meet it. Yeah, it's a... It's a handker. More of a whisper. He's a whisper, but it's still a deep voice. He's a handcuff. The reason is because he is, you know, more of that early down runner capable than Sims. He is not nearly...

the past catching back that Charles Sims is. So when Doug Martin comes back, I don't expect to quiz Rogers to be as involved as Charles Sims. Maybe he'll be as involved, I guess. I shouldn't say that, but I don't think he'll be as successful. When I watch how he catches the ball, how he moves with it right after the catch, he doesn't have as quick a first move when he gets the ball in his hands. But he looked, you know who he reminded me of a lot? Like a whole game, he looked like a slightly slower version.

of Devons of Freeman. That's what he looked like. That's fair. He has the Atlanta pedigree. There you go in his background. And so I think he's good. I'm going to bid pretty heavy on him. I don't think there's a lot of great options this week. Sure. We'll get more into that a little bit later. Broncos coach, Gary Kubiak, will not make the trip to Thursday's night game in San Diego. He is said to be dealing with a complex migraine condition. Gary Kubiak was also the coach that back when he was.

in Houston had that situation where... Stroke, man. Yeah, I can't remember if it was a stroke of heart attack. I think he had a mini stroke during the game. Yeah, he went down and it was a serious thing. I'm happy to hear he is not going with the team. Yeah, exactly. This is, I mean, when you got something serious like that, look, get well, Gary. Does this affect the offense? I don't think so. I think that business is normal. Gary, did Gary call the place? I don't believe so.

So, yeah, we'll have to look that up. I think that if he, if he's the one calling the plays normally, then, then of course it would affect you anytime you have a change in play caller, but we'll vet that. Well, it could be a situation like the old show coach. Did you watch coach? Did I watch the best old show of all time? Yeah, there was, uh, I can't remember if it was actual coach or his assistant coach. He was in the hospital and he's watching the game on TV. And he, he gets a tell from an offensive lineman.

And he can't get it into the coach, into the game because he's in the hospital. And so it's, I think I remember that. That's good stuff. If he like shakes his butt once, they're going to run it. Yeah, very, very funny stuff. Carson Palmer expected to clear the concussion protocol today. They, they, the Cardinals have waived the, the kid they brought up from the practice squad. So that, that's always the, that is always the most telling sign. When they signed the kid off of the practice squad to the team, that was, that was just, you knew Carson wasn't going to play. Now they cut him.

He's playing. Yeah, I would completely agree. Julius Thomas expects to return for week six. So does Virgil Green. So we get a couple tight-in options back. Jeremy Hill, who left the game on Sunday in a heap, is expected to practice on Wednesday, but monitor his situation. This could be a guy that you want to avoid an injury that he could easily re-aggravate. Cody Kessler has a good chance to play in week six. However, the gladiator.

Josh McCowan says that he's going to practice and he believes it is, quote, realistic he could play in week six against the Titans. Man, that guy, I was telling you at lunch yesterday. There's, there's an old comedy movie where there's the police officer who gets like a, you've only got six days to live. And he needs to die in the line of duty in order for his family to get taken care of. If he dies from this disease, they get nothing. So he's just trying, trying to kill himself.

as an active duty police officer. And that's what Josh McCown's like, look, I might have to retire in a year or two. I've got a couple games left to murder myself on the field. I have to do it. He is, he is a monster. He's great. He's a monster of a man that I, the abuse that he can take and continues to go back in. I'll tell you what. I don't know, I don't know if he's just, is he a warrior or is that or a fool? Not the smartest thing to do. I think that those are not mutually exclusive.

I think you could be a very strong warrior who is not making the best decisions. Sure. Eddie Lacey's sprained ankle on the week six status is a we will see. Coach Mike McCarthy confirmed that as well. Randall Cobb has the questionable tag. He took that shot at the end of the game from Landon Collins. It sounds like he'll be fine. That's what Coach Mike McCarthy has said. And in Matt Jones news.

Washington coach Jay Gruden has said Rob Kelly has shown he deserves some more carry. So the Rob Kelly preseason hype, maybe it's coming to full fruition here. It only took five weeks for the team to say, okay, maybe Matt Jones is not as good as we had hoped. We need to get him some help. Yeah, this is really bad news for Matt Jones. It's not like as a Matt Jones owner, you were happy with him already. Now you throw in another running back to have to split carries, share the load. I mean, Matt Jones, the reason he was drafted highly this year,

was 95% opportunity and 5% something else and then 0% talent. And so, well, all right, I'll give them 4% talent and 1% it's got to be something else. But this, this is bad news. I would look, you know, look, a lot of people in your league, they don't follow the news as well. They won't know that, you know, there's an expectation to get Rob Kelly a little bit involved. If he just steals five touches a game.