Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 9 Waivers, Streams of the Week, MNF Madness

So it's not like, I mean, a lot of times people are out there saying, okay, my waivers are just empty, my running, you know, I have Lamar Miller and David Johnson, and they're on by. So I've got to plug in someone. Charzard would be probably our number one recommendation. There's other guys. We talked a little bit about Anton Smith and Peyton Barber. Those are startable assets. Here's a guy to pay attention to for me.

as a startable asset this week? Well, as a startable, I was actually going a different direction. So do you want to talk about a couple more of those guys first? Yeah, I think if we group together, because some players are really saying, I got to have someone to start. Who else? Duane Harris. Yes. Duon Harris for San Francisco. If Carlos I is out again. The kind of narrative had been Mike Davis. But Andy, it's Mike Davis and the big salad.

Uh, yeah, it's not. Voice of Public Opinion. Go look at last week. And it was DeWan Harris. Yeah, and he looked, he looked good. He looked like he gained the trust of Chip Kelly. Here's a guy that you can pick up and you can play him this week. I am not too proud to admit this, but Darren Sprouls is a great pickup. He's available nearly half of leagues. My love for Ryan Matthews is not carried on in Philadelphia. I like...

The breaking news yesterday was Doug Peterson is going to take a look at, and he might name Darren Sproul's the number one running back. Your face says exactly what I thought. He has been the number one running back on the team for weeks. Yeah, but his words didn't back that up. Every week, you two hooligans would be back on the Ryan Matthews train because of the words of Doug Peterson. I have not always been back on that train. How dare you?

All right, another startable guy. But just saying he takes on the Giants. And look, if Darren Sprouls is going to get the kind of work and the kind of snaps that he did last week, then he's a great starter. Okay. Another guy you can. You can grab. He's owned in about half of ESPN leagues more available in Yahoo. Belal Powell is a guy who should not be available. I don't think in most leagues. Agreed. He has.

done enough where most weeks he is serviceable. He's not going to go out there and get you a zero. He had 76 yards and a touchdown this last week on the ground. Usually he's been catching enough balls where if you're in a PPR league, he's valuable. He's out there. Let me ask you this. Third most touches in the league this past week belong to Tim Hightower. 26 rushes and a reception. He's going to be out there. And fantasy owners with Mark Ingram are freaking out.

What is it look like? What is the prognosis for Hightower and how do you feel like the few, specifically this week with a great matchup against San Francisco? Could you flex? Could you start Hightower? Could you play both players? Because they'll both be involved. How do you think that's going to break down? I have my thoughts, but I want to hear you guys. My thoughts are that it will be where you can play both players. The San Francisco 49ers have been.

so bad against running backs that I think you're going to see good production from both guys. Tim Hightower earned touches. This last week, according to Sean Payton, he liked what he liked what he saw. But he's liked what he's seen every time that Tim Hightower's had the opportunity, even going back to last year. According to Sean Payton, was the best.

proclamer in that sentence. You know, I know that he was under four yards of carry and that there was some stuff that you don't like, but he was also over 100 yards on the ground against Seattle's very tough run defense that hasn't made anyone look good. So I actually, I actually will put myself in Sean Payton's camp. I think if you need to start Tim Hightower this week, you're going to be fine. And, you know, honestly, if you look back a couple years. Is he the better sign than West if you're looking for something long term?

Yeah, yeah, because he's still a great handcuff should anything happen to Ingram. The interesting thing about Hightower and his quote unquote production last week, obviously the volume was there, the production was there. He had multiple opportunities on the goal line and couldn't get in. Eventually, Breeze got in on one of them on the other possession. I don't think they scored. So you have to imagine Ingram. If Peyton comes out, they spent money on Ingram. They have a large investment on Ingram.

and they've been very encouraging about what happened. What's amazing about the fumble, too, is it was not, I think Peyton even came out and said, this wasn't necessarily his fault. But he deserved to be benched the whole game.

No, he said he didn't plan to bench him the whole game, but he felt like he couldn't take Tim Hightower out. That's why I'm saying going forward, he's earned a workload. And if you look back at previous years, you've got Kyrie Robinson coming in as a touchdown vulture over and over and over. Mark Ingram gets you down to the goal line. And for some reason, oftentimes they took him out. Yeah, John Coon. Right. Here's something. You'll like this analogy, Mike. And I, if I could remember his name, I would say it.

Saw it on the Fantasy Sports Network interview this morning. These guys are not puppies being trained. Mark Ingram knows that fumbling is bad. Yeah. Oh, yes. Because that's kind of your mindset is you're like, these are not little puppies or kids that are getting trained to go potty. They understand the rules of football and the strategy of football that if I fumble, it's very bad for my team. Which.

We got to make sure he knows that you cannot fumble. Will they break the dunce cap out? If you get to... Put him in the corner? Because I think Stephen Ridley's the only one that's ever received the dunce cap and actually been in the corner. Here's some guys that are on by this week that you should pay attention to as well. Dionne Lewis with James White and his lack of production. I actually see the... I see a pathway now to Dionne Lewis being...

More valuable than I thought he would be because White hasn't been. It's all about his health, though. It is all about his health. Robert Kelly and his potential to kind of own the backfield in Washington, it's not necessarily a high probability, but the possibility of a running back, a starting running back needs to be paid attention to. They're on by this week as well. And if you can stash him, he's going to be cheaper this week than next week. I also think James Starks is a stash. I was going to say you must make. And two other stashes, Starks is definitely a good one.

Alfred Morris is available in most leagues still. He shouldn't be. Is that like a Robert, I mean, is that like a Tom Selleck stash? Like is that the level of staff? It's a, it's a real nice stash. I mean, he's a, he's an incredible handcuff. We have all just the, the weird stuff floating out there on Elliot with his, uh, domestic abuse. I don't expect anything's going to happen, but there are, there's things, there's rumblings in the bushes about.

Maybe a suspension. Without that, he's still a good guy to have on your team. Derek Henry somehow is still available in over 50% of leagues. Come on. I've checked every single league I'm in. He's not available in any of them. But according to ESPN and Yahoo, he's available in more than 50% of leagues. Grab him for sure. And then I'll throw out one other name. If you're listening, you're like, man, all these guys are gone. I have to play someone this week. And I'm going to the garbage dumpster. And I know you guys might disagree.

I'm going to throw out Damian Williams. Oh, yeah, I do disagree. From the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. Watching the last few games, J. Ajai is the guy. We didn't have to watch the whole game to see Williams. You just had to watch like four plays. But Damian Williams has been productive over the last month. And that was with Aaron Foster. That was with Aaron Foster. That was with Aaron Foster playing a quarter of their snaps. Aaron Foster is retired. I think Damien Williams will be used in. And if you have to, I mean, if you're going like, okay, who do, you know, would you were.

Taran Ward. Oh, come on. No, I'd start him over Taran Ward. Okay, well, there you go. I'd even start him over Taron Ward. I'm just saying there are people that need the deeper options. All right. Well, those are here for you. Then those people need to look at CJ Pro Seitz. Oh, absolutely. Over 100 yards total last week. I know a lot of it came on a trickeration. Spiller is gone. Yeah, C.J. Spiller is gone. Procyce is healthy. Thomas Rawls is still in neutral.

for the foreseeable future. And so a precise workload is going to go up. Absolutely. I agree with you guys. Let's talk about some wide receiver options. There were, you know, Dante Moncrief comes to mine right away because he's, even though he's owned in over 50% of leagues, we have to mention him at the headline there because he played on 89.4% of snaps 4-4-41 in a touchdown in a game where the Chiefs handled them pretty well. So it wasn't. And there was.

This, not in the box score, a 45-yard touchdown to Dante Moncrief that got called back on a hold. They don't put those in the box. No, I wish they would. Since last year, with Andrew Locke, Dante Moncrief averages over 13 PPR points a game. Yeah. Yeah, so he's probably not available, but look, and if he is, you must pick him up. Guys that are more available, Kendall Wright had his second good game out of the past three. He's certainly the guy that Mario to.

loves and prefers. I still think he's frightening to own. You can see that fantasy owners did not believe in that performance as he is owned in under 7%. Well, I'm sure it dropped right back down because he's like a yo-yo. I mean, two weeks ago, I almost bought him and started him. I didn't, thankfully. And he stunk. But, you know, he looked good this past week. He's on the waiver wire in almost every league. And with buy weeks and things like that, you could do worse than Kendall Wright. Quincy and Noonwa.

Showing me something in the absence of Decker in a consistency basis. All year he's been good. All year he has been a startable asset. And I expect at the end of the year, he's going to finish no lower than a wider receiver 3. And he might sneak up into that wider receiver 2 territory. So he should most certainly be picked up. You know another guy who's available in half leagues that we've forgotten about and should be picked up? I think that's Steve Smith. Signor.

He was rested. He was coming off of the buy week. Whenever guys are coming off of a buy who were injured going into the buy, you just forget about them. You're like, who? Right. So I would pick him up. If he plays this week, he's going to be a great start. Yeah, because he's somebody that if you wanted to sign him last week, you really couldn't because you needed to fill your roster out with somebody that was playing. So he's definitely somebody that sneaks up on you. You know, if for some reason Devante Adams is available.

I can't speak highly enough of his target share it right now. He's been great for, and who knows, with Montgomery and Cobb over the next few weeks, with what Aaron Rogers is doing. He seems to have earned the trust of Aaron Rogers with 12 catches on 14 targets. I mean, that's just an incredibly high efficiency rate. I know the passes were short, but pretty impressive. Some other guys worth mentioning Andrew Hawkins and Tyreek Hill were two of the biggest.

outperformers from their projections this past week? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Andrew Hawkins, eat it. Cory Coleman's back. Cory Coleman is at practice. And that's who I would pick up. Do you have a shirt, like a Cory Coleman's shirt or a tattoo or what in the world is getting into? I'm getting printed up. I got a box of 250. Why do you like Cory Coleman so much? Because I think he is an extremely talented guy. When he played with Josh McCown, the only game where basically both of them started and finished the game.

He was, I think, like, the third best wide receiver in the league. So one game, you're set up. He's been injured the whole year. Yeah, I mean. And he's not. And McCown's probably not going to be in there. And they're going to throw up. I'm just saying the talent is there. I agree with this. Here's the problem. Are you starting Cory Coleman over Torel Pryorier? No. Are you flexing Cory Coleman over Gary Barnage? Yeah. You would? You would play Cory Coleman first week back over Barnett? No, no, no, not first week back. I'm just saying eventually I think I will.

But if he has a big week, then he's going to cost you a buttload next week. I will agree that the potential for something to come for a Coleman is there. I just, it's tough with that offense and with Kessler and with what Pryor is doing in the offense. I would say a couple more names. A long-term, dynasty, anything like that, you have to own him. J.J. Nelson, the aforementioned into the starting role, he's on by this week, but Skeletor could be. That's normally how you can grab a guy, too. Yes. He could be great for your fantasy teams. And look.

Sammy Coates. He's had some time to rest that broken finger, the laceration. Big Ben is back in practice. That's the bigger news for Sammy Coates, in my opinion. And he was dropped in a lot of leagues. He's available in over 50% of them. So I think it's time to pick him back up and see what he can do. And there's a good spot start matchup here again for Mohammed Sunu. He went nine for 84 in a touchdown last week, plays Tampa Bay this week. I think you could do worse than having to throw him in.

I agree with that. And if Julio is limited by an ankle injury again, you could stumble into some great production. Yeah. At the tight-in position, give me some names. There are people with Rob Grankowski on by this week, Tyler Eifert on by this week after the big performance. So, you know, Zach Miller on by, Fedorowitz on by, Jordan Reed on by. This is a week where you need a tight-in. This is a problem. So give me your favorite. Eric Ebron is the headliner.