Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Bad Beats, Week 14 Waivers, Streams of the Week

Yeah. I think he's still worth... Well, to me, he's worth the pick. If you have Julio dealing with the toe. And Muhammad Sunu also got banged up in that game. We don't have an update on his status yet. But Taylor Gabriel could see an increase of snaps. And he's that big play guy where it just takes one. And he even had several almost situations last week. Only ended up with five for 44.

Lafell and Boyd. Yeah, I was going to say, let's talk about the, let's talk about Dalton's targets. They're, they're interesting, especially because they get Cleveland this week and you get Pittsburgh the following week. So you have two decent matchups here. Brandon Lafell was the guy with the big game, five for 95 with a hush down. It's not like Boyd had a bad game. No, you know, he had four for 66. But this is, this is what I had talked about where I think Lafell is the big play guy. Right. And Boyd is the possession PPR guy.

Now, is Hayden playing for the Browns? It doesn't. He's been so bad. So you hope. Who do you want this week is my point, because usually you'd have, against the Browns, you're going to be able to exploit them for the big play potential, you know. So that would be Brandon Lafell usually. Yeah. I still, I prefer Brandon Lafell because I want the big play. I mean, that's just, that's how I go. Sure. Other guys.

Here's a sneaky snart. I'll throw one out that's very deep. He's certainly available. If everybody we're talking about is not available. Now, granted, this is playoffs, and you probably have a better roster than these caliber of guys. But Russell Shepard is interesting to me. We've seen, he's the Tampa Bay wide receiver that originally stepped up when Menza Jackson went down, and he looked pretty good. And he got injured. He didn't have a big game last week, but he's back now. He's healthy.

You're going up against the New Orleans Saints. And Adam Humphreys. Pronounced with an Omfries. Thank you. Is currently in the concussion protocol. So if Adam Humphreys is out and you're playing against. Cecil shorts, man. Did you hear what having him? No, what was the? Dislocated knee torn ACL, MCL, PCL. What? Yeah. Did he get hit by a truck? He's done. That's so sad. That is, that is no good. But, yeah, I think.

You know, if you want a one week spot start and, you know, you don't have other options. Russell, Russell Shepard could, in that situation, with no Cecil Shorts, no Adam Humphreys, up against New Orleans, he could have a decent game. And the last one I'll throw out, Adam Thielen. Yeah. Adam Thielen's been pretty solid. He's been just, I mean, that's the best possible word you could use for him. Pretty solid. He's just like a solid guy. He's, he's a water. We're almost there. We've almost turned into ice. Yeah.

Almost formed that solid, but we're not quite there. He doesn't really give you... He's like a melty ice cream cone. You've lost me. All right, tight-ins. Tide-ins, my number one waiver wire pickup this week is Lidarius Green. I'm across the board. I'm on board with this. Not mine. Oh, okay. Okay, that's fine. And I'm going to ask you yours, but I'm going to talk about Laderius B first. As it's not even your top tight end? Right. That's the only thing I was saying. He's not my top tight end, but green is... He's my top overall waiver pickup.

And it may seem, you know, you had a monster game, obviously, six for one, ten, and one. Jay, I thought Mike on yesterday's show made a great point. Look, they need him to be what they paid for. They don't have Sammy Coates. They don't have Marcus Whedon. They don't have the Heath Miller of old. And Jesse James doesn't play that role. This guy was brought in to be the secondary pass catcher for this team and a goal line type of.

weapon for them. And he looked apart. Six or one, ten, and one. So they signed him. I don't know if people recall this during the offseason, the progression. They signed him right before the Martavis Bryant News was announced. So they knew. They knew it was coming. It was already done in house. And they said, oh, crap, we got to make a move. And they paid green right away. The one thing I love about green. And please, while he might not be my number one pickup this week at tight end, I love green. He is.

He is one B for me. And the thing that I love the most is that he goes down field more than you see. You know, normally those tight-in routes, you know, they leak out. It just depends who you are, but he has the ability. He has the ability. But we've seen it in back-to-back games where you're talking about, you know, 30-yard the ball traveling in the air. And to a tight end, that's great, who has the ability to catch that. We've seen.

huge games from Ladarius Green in the past when he was in San Diego, has the talent. If he's healthy and he's in that role, I mean, I agree with you guys that he could warrant the number one pickup. I don't have any problem with that. The guy I like slightly more, and it's only because of what's happened already this year, and it blows my mind that he's still available in half of leagues. Cameron Bray, look, I know we talk about him every week. I said last week I was kind of sick of talking about him.

To be fair, you said you were tired of talking about Adam Brate. That is true. Thank you for being fair to me. Cameron Brate right now, and this might surprise people. He's the number six tight end. I think it's hard to call Camper. Like, I'm with you, but Brate is 73% owned in Yahoo and 51% owned in ESPN. Green just seems like that. Unowned. He's readily available. He's completely available.

But look, you're right. Cameron Brayt has New Orleans, Dallas, and Orleans on the rest of the schedule. That's the reason. I mean, I like Green's talent better. I like Green's offense better. So Green is fine. The reason that I'm playing playoffs one week matchup. No, you should. And I think Cameron Brate against New Orleans, you know, we just, I just talked about the fact that Adam Humphreys is gone. Cecil Shorts is gone. I think Brate's going to need to be used. I think there's going to be points on the clock. Well, they...

push comes to shove, then you're starting braid over green this week. Yes. Because that's the only way that that would make sense, right? That is exactly right. Now that... Happy to start both guys, though. That's what you have to be doing right now. I had to step out for a second, but what I was going to ask you about wide receivers was, is the tiebreaker for some of these guys just this week's matchup? It has to be, right? Absolutely. Yes. Because there's nobody that's, you know, going to overwhelm over three weeks. I mean, these are not names that will do that. Ladarius Green?

Cameron Bray, if they're available, they could win you a championship. Yeah, Lederis Green, certainly. You know, Fleener. Kobe Fleener is owned in 65% of leagues, but he might have sneaked under your waiver wire, and Josh Hill suffered a broken fibula. He's another streaming, tight end option. CJ Fedorowitz, we've been talking about him. Look, he didn't have a monster week, but he did exactly what we said he'd do. Six catches. Led the team in targets and catches.

44 yards, solid, right? You don't get goosed by C.J. Fedorowitz. It's not going to happen. No butt pinches. No butt pinches. There's going to be a lot of people out there as they plan their next week, their tight-in pickup. They're going to want to know if a lot of the tight ends are gone. A guy like C.J. Fedorowitz might be there, and Dwayne Allen might be there. And they're going to have that question of, do I want the targets that have been coming consistently from?

CJ Fedorowitz. Yep. He's been getting the receptions or the upside. Or the upside from I just saw last night, Duane Allen scored three touchdowns against a team that did not show up to play football. He was so two, one of them was an amazing catch. The other two was, I mean, Jason, you could have been out there. You could have done it. You could have been a pro. There wasn't anybody within five yards of them. And I think one of those times he did like a little hop skipping a jump into the end. Yeah. Yep. I want to talk about.

Jermaine Gresham. You do? I do. Nobody said that for years. I know. And we kind of talked about him last week in the waiver show of that things were trending in an upward situation for Jermaine Gresham. But it was just, there was so much historical data on tight ends in the Bruce Arian system on Jermaine Gresham since he's been with the Cardinals of not being involved. However, you have the whole John Brown situation. You have Michael Floyd.

Not performing. They have to throw the ball to someone. And Jermaine Gresham, the last three to four weeks has been a very usable fantasy tie-in. So on a one week, looking at this week, we've got to decide, well, we start him over other guys. Now, I will say this. He plays the Dolphins who are 25th against the tight-in this week. They just gave up two touchdowns and a bunch of yards to Dennis Pinnett? The answer for me is, yes. There's a lot of guys. Okay, so C.J. Fedorowitz or Dennis Pitta this week.

Or Dennis Pitta? I'm sorry, C.J. Or Jermaine Gresham. Tricky, tricky guy. I would play Fadorowitz. Germain Gresham or eat a banana. Germain Gresham. So Gresham or Fadourowitz? I go Fadourowitz. And that's a pretty easy one for me. It's not easy for me. I lean Fedorowitz, but. Germain Gresham or Dwayne Allen? I'd go. I'm going to go with Gresh. I think I'd go Gresham. And last one I'll give you.

Okay, I'm going to go back to Gresham or Pitta. I'd play Pitta. I would, I think I'd play Gresham. I think I would play Gresham. Here was the one thing about Gresham that is kind of, you know, everybody remembers. He had a fantasy time in the sun, so to speak, or at least as a relevant player with Cincinnati. When he came to Arizona, the one thing that was mesmerizing to me is his age. He was only 27 years old when he came to Arizona. I felt like he was 35. He's 28 right now. Yeah, he looks. He's got some Greg Oden in him.

He looks older than he is. But he's a solid player. He truck stick Josh Norman this past week. He's making big first downs for the Cardinals. So he needs to be on the radar. Deeper leagues to me. I would still play all these other guys, maybe other than Dwayne Allen because I think Dwayne Allen just people are going to chase Dwayne and Pitta this week when I think they should probably be starting Fedorowitz, Flean, or Bright and Green. Yeah. Because Pitt is going to get, if he's available, he's going to get signed and played this week. Since the run. So since week 10.

Jermaine Gresham is a tight end one. He's the 10th tight end. So just... What was this top game? I can pull that. Or I guess how many touchdowns? Yeah. There's two in the last four games. So you're talking... Yeah, I mean, that's a good run. He's just, he's trending up. So it's not, this isn't to be ignored. I'll say that. As important as anything else, defensive streaming starts this week for your team heading into the playoffs or continuing in the playoffs. The Bengals take on Cleveland.

This week. Yes, please. Hugh Jackson has yet to name a starting quarterback for. So they may be playing no quarterback. Who really knows? Bengals are great. Bengals are awesome. The Bills? Well, I put these guys in here. They've got Cleveland next week. Yeah, I put these teams are in here not for this week. Bengals is the chalk play. Bengals is all of my efforts are going towards the Bengals. But I put in a reminder for people. Bengals.

Bill's Chargers. These defenses are available. This is not, these guys are owned in 80% of leagues. We're talking in generally more than 40% of leagues. I'll give you a defense that is. They all play the Browns the next three weeks. Yes, that's nice. I'll give you a defense that is we, you talked about yesterday. You talked about yesterday, Mike. You said we got to stop calling them a bad defense. The lions. Yeah. Because they're not a bad defense. And if you look at the last three points in our scoring format, 20 points.

five and nine points, which is really good for a defense. This week, they're up against Chicago with Matt Barkley. They've given up less than 20 points for consecutive weeks. Now, Minnesota was two of those weeks. You can say, okay, it's Minnesota. But okay, it's Chicago. And it was New Orleans last week. Yeah.

With three interceptions, and now you've got Chicago and Matt Barkley Express and Josh Bellamy's Droposaurus Rex. I mean, that's a great call, Jay. Okay, so here's a scarier one. Okay. Do you play the hapless, lifeless, lifeless, not showing up New York Jets who have the ability, but they are against San Francisco? No. No. No.

You're staying clear. I'm staying as far away. You can't. I agree because I don't care if Colin Kaepernick's sisters playing in that game. I'm not playing. The upside is certainly there, right? I mean, they're the type of team that could just get decimated. San Francisco, yes. But the downside is there for a big negative game. Oh, yeah. I mean, Kaepernick two weeks ago scored 43 points. The Jets just aren't playing. They're just lifeless. All right. Let's talk quarterbacks. Full stream ahead.

All right, streaming quarterbacks, guys owned in generally about 60% or less of leagues. Did I say that right? Correct. Sounded strange. That was right. So what are the options that we have this week? Well, I'll start us off. Mine's the most readily available guy. Carson Wentz, I'm going to... You're going to roll them out. You're going to roll out the rookie. Look, I'm putting on my garlic necklace.

I'm carrying my bottle of holy water. Uh-huh. And I'm traveling to Carson Wensylvania. Uh-huh. Because he's at home and he's taken on Washington. Apparently some sort of vampire as well. Transylvania? Oh, yeah. Do you do not know? Yeah, I guess I totally did not catch that. I got it. I got it. The Winslvania. All right. So this is a team, the Washington team. They allowed 300 yards and two touchdowns to Samuel Biscuits. Sammy Biscuits.