Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 12 Waivers & QB Streamers + Smooches!

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to the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from the Playdraft Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Woo! Welcome! I am so happy to be here this fine Tuesday morning, November 22nd. I feel like you had to look up what day of the week it was there. You're like this fine...

I was looking up what day of the month it was. Oh. I knew it was a Tuesday. I just wanted to confirm the November part. Okay. Yeah. You wanted to make sure it's still November? Look, man. I got kids. I don't sleep. It's also Christmas inside of all of our homes. It's Christmas time. We just need to merge them to. Look, I got smooches on the mind. Oh. Wow, that's disturbing on an audio level.

Talking about Jady McKissick. We had a fun play-by-play adventure last night. We have a team in the Fantasy Pro's Invitational Dynasty League that we all, we own together, the Fantasy Footballers franchise, and we were facing off against a good friend of the show. Good friend Mike Taglier of Fantasy Pros. Yes, and we were head-to-head, and he had Julio Jones, and we had Kevin Coleman and Jady McKissick.

Who I, we now call smooches. And it came, it went right down to the wire. They took away that Tevin Coleman touched down at the end of the game. And then we needed like one point, you know, two point something points. And McKissick ends up with a final catch and we win by point four. So eat it. There was a lot of me shouting.

Dang it Smooches. Yeah. And the kids were on break, so they were, I let them stay up. Oh, you were screaming that in your house? Yeah, and the kids thought that was the funniest thing they had ever heard. So every play you're just saying, dang it smooches? Yes, J.D. McKissick came through with the final catch, full point PPR league, and we won and we're the best and Mike's the worst. Boom! Taglier, that is. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the other mic. Thanks, smooches.

Welcome to the show, Waverwire episode. A lot of good articles on the website. If you want to catch up on injuries, team defense recap, great writers over there, great articles. Don't miss it, the fantasy footballers.com. We're on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Do you guys have any big takeaways from the game last night? Obviously, the defense for Seattle at home without Richard Sherman. It's a problem. Matt Ryan looked a lot.

to Richard Sherman's side of the field. Former side of the field. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. And Shaq Griffin, he had also left that game with an injury. I mean, they were beat up all over the place. Yeah, you're not going to be able to count on the Seattle defense the way that you have the last few years if you're playing them as a DST. And then, you know, if you have offensive pieces going up against them, I don't think you need to be.

as afraid, especially in the passing game. I can't, I don't know the answer to this. Maybe you guys know it already, but when's the last time the Seahawks gave up 34 points at home? I was just going to bring that up. So it played to what we expect. Like, good players when they go out, it kind of hurts. Camp Chancellor and Richard Sherman, that team is going to need, now this could be good for Russell Wilson, right? Yeah, fantasy-wise. He has to, I mean, his ability to come back in these games, they were about what?

four feet from tying this game going to overtime. All the momentum at home. They could have won this game. Russell Wilson. Russell? Taking care of business. Jimmy Graham. Jimmy Graham is the new running back for the Seattle Seahawks because they can't run the ball. And Jimmy Graham is becoming more and more of a go-to target. I think he had 11 targets last night. Yeah, and they're not going to pound it in at the one. You get on that goal line and it's going to be the Russell Wilson running.

running it out or going to Jimmy Graham. Going to Jimmy Graham. He could have had a much bigger night. He should have. He should have had a much bigger night. It's funny you bring up the running back because it was. Mike Davis. Of course. Was the starting running back for the Seahawks. Former practice squad. Mike Davis. Did not realize this was going to happen. Thomas Rawls was a late healthy scratch. I think that the end or the era of Thomas Rawls is.

I guess I don't know if you can officially call it over because Mike Davis, while he looks like the best running back Seattle has seen since Chris Carson, he left the game with my groin. He left with a groin injury. And then J.D. McKissick, Mr. Smooch's, he came in and he was getting all the snaps and all the touches at the running back position. So who knows what's going to happen now? Eddie Lacey was used very sparingly, mostly just short yardage situations, only three carries. I actually think.

The defensive struggles that Seattle will probably experience the rest of the season lends itself for smooches. Yeah. McKissick will be on the field. He'll be on there at a minimum. Third downs. If you have to bet on somebody being on the field, McKissick is at least going to be there. He lines up wide.

Those inside slants. C.J. Procise is done for the year. So if you're in a PPR league, I think McKissick has a really nice baseline. He's relatively safe going forward. And he's got that speed to where he can have those big blow-up games. If, you know, he takes one of those screens, 30 yards to the house. I really like him. This is a waiver-wired day. So definitely look for McKissick.

if you're in a PPR league. And would you guys put in a claim on Mike Davis hoping that he comes? Because Eddie Lacey, Thomas Rawls, done. Don't pick him up, drop them. They're not going to do anything. I might put a claim in on Davis, but I'm not going to burn a priority for Mike Davis. And I would put maybe one or two dollars at the most. I imagine McKissick is nearly as unowned.

We can check that out for you. So, I mean, obviously he's more owned than Davis, but if I had to make a choice there, I'd definitely be choosing the McKissick side. He's 9% owned, so he is absolutely available in most leagues. So that's the way I would go. Do you think you lean that way to? Oh, 100%. I don't know that I would put in a claim on Davis at all. Smooches. Yes, it was smooches for this guy. Okay. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league.

All right, well, look, this is the time of year where your depth starts to pay off because these injuries, the ones that bang, you know, your team gets banged up and you're trying to make the playoffs, you're trying to win in the playoffs. Now we're heading into week 12. Robert Woods, he's going to miss a couple weeks. Do you, I mean, are we going to talk Cooper Cup today? Yep. Yeah, he's the replacements, if you're talking what I perceive as the majority of those Woods targets will go to Cooper Cup. It seems like it's impossible for.

target share to really expand for Sammy Watkins in general. I don't think that it's an injury that's going to help that. So those have to go somewhere, Cooper Cup. Kelvin Benjamin, he's not dealing with ligament damage. His status is uncertain for week 12. I'd be staying away from him regardless because you don't know who the quarterback is, and he hasn't shown you much in Buffalo yet. Speaking of just, sorry, real quick, back to the game, Matt Ryan, since the beginning of the year, his...

He has turned things around. He hasn't given you any of those, like, explosive games that you got last year. But every game for the last four weeks, he's thrown basically at least 200 yards and two touchdowns. He's playing much, much better. Yeah, he is. And not making as many mistakes. Right. And Julio, always involved. Need some more touchdowns from Julio Jones. Yeah, five for 71. You'll take it. But.

Andre Ellington was waived by the Cardinals. There you go. It was surprising, but I think they've just dealt with, they've dealt with too long of a history of just not being able to rely on him, him not being healthy. They wanted to just bring someone else up that they can work in and know he's going to be out there on the field. It'll be interesting to see if anyone claims him on waivers. He's got a reasonably cheap contract. I think it was a fifth round pick, and he's still on that contract. I saw the name Washington.

floated out there as a possible team that could look to pick him up. They just lost Chris Thompson. Sure. And Rob Kelly. You need a scatback who's proven in the passing game. And Ellington is. If he's healthy. Yeah, if he's healthy. Greg Olson, we talked about it yesterday, was practicing. He's going to play in week 12, barring a setback. That's exciting. Yeah, he's another one of those must-grab waiver guys if he's still out there in your league this week. Okay, let's take a look here. Blaine Gabbardt. Blaine Gabbard's going to start again.

in week 12. Doesn't matter. Revenge game. Yeah, the Jacksonville Jaguars will be the ones getting the revenge. Did you follow? That's really what I meant. Did you hear, so Bruce Ariens came out, Arizona Cardinals head coach, and after the game on Sunday where they lost to the Texans, he took the blame for the loss, that it's all on him, you know, basically going for it on fourth down. That was the play where Adrian Peterson got stuffed. Completely Aryan's fault.

I lost the game. He came out and this was the confession on Sunday. You hear his Monday confession? No. You guys didn't hear it. It's great that you didn't hear it. He said, I take it all back. Oh! He says I take every bit of it back. He said, every single thing I said yesterday I take back, it was a blown assignment by one of the offensive linemen who blocked the wrong guy. It was a great play call.

and it's 100%. I take everything back, I said. So he put it on his specific guy? Yes. Bruce. Blown. Bruce. Blown assignment. Unnecessary. Look, you can, in the team meeting, you say that. You say, guys, do you see what I just did for you in the public? I took that loss, and it was you. And just point the finger and burn a hole in his soul with your eyes. But you don't need to go public with that. Yeah.

Nothing to gain. It was very funny to me. It made me laugh. Chuck Pagano said Jacoby Brissette is going to be in the concussion protocol, or he still is, but they expect him to play this week against the Titans. I sure hope so. Jake Cutler's still in the protocol. Can he stills? John Brown's been diagnosed with turf toe. He could miss time. I would bet that he will. He's very good at missing time in practices or in the game. Yeah.

Trall Pryor's on IR. This season's over. Some seasons don't go the way you want them to go. No. Troll Pryor, one of the bigger busts of the entire fantasy. He bet on himself with that one-year contract. Snake eyes. Yeah. Hey, I bet on him on himself. Yeah? Yeah? Not good. Dan Bailey has a chance to play on Thanksgiving. So if you were starting a Cowboys kicker, it might not be, I mean, it might be Bailey. And then Aaron Jones. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Arrested.