Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 13 Waivers & QB Streamers, Feelin’ Crabby

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in to this wonderful, fine, spectacular Tuesday. Well, thanks for having me, Andy. It's just you and I, my friend. Well, I guess it's us three. Yeah, you don't want to anger the bear. Show respect. Welcome in, Jay Gris. Welcome in. I'm Andy Holloway, joined by Jason Moore.

Brooks is manning the control panel and the levers and gears and gadgets back behind the camera. He's got gizmos of plenty. And the gavels. Oh, and the gavels, of course, the judge. Welcome into the show. It's going to be a good one today. We've got the quarterback streamer options on the show today. Very important if you listen to yesterday's show and the amount of quarterbacks that poop their big boy pants, big time quarterback. And so you'll want to hear our streaming quarterback picks.

I have a sneaking suspicion you won't want to listen to Jay Grizz's, but he will have his as well. And of course, today's The Waiver Show. Very important for a lot of people out there. Today is the start of playoffs. I would say the majority like ourselves start playoffs next week. So this is time to get in. Yeah, this is the playoff push. This is big time. And I have a great...

little game to play with the quick question with you, Jay. Oh, I didn't know this. We need to clear, we need to clear some room on our rosters. Okay. And this morning, while I was enjoying a bowl of cereal, I walked through some of the players that are over 50% owned, and I picked out all the guys I think you can drop. Hmm. And these are guys you can make room for some of these streaming options. So I want to bring this list up to you, and I want to see if you would.

Drop them or not? Yeah, whether you'll drop them. Let's see. James White. Oh, drop. Get out of here, James White. Your name should be Rex Burkhead. And it's not. Get off my team. Okay. James White, goodbye. Kelvin Benjamin, see you later. I'm dropping him. Yeah, I think that's fair. Now, if you need a roster spot this week, you cannot hold on and wait to see what you have maybe three weeks from now. No, no, no. You'll be eliminated. Yeah, time's up. C.J. Anderson.

Yeah, oh, get off my team. And I hope my opponent picks you up and starts you. Oh, Marcus Mariotta. No, I'm not dropping. I'm not dropping Marcus Mariotta yet. I actually think that his schedule coming up is okay. He's a hold to me. Okay. I'm dropping him. Unpredictable. Hasn't delivered. Schedule hasn't mattered. That's why I'm letting him go. I'd rather have Josh McCown this week. Let's put it that way. Chris Hogan.

I know he's been banged up and hurt, and maybe you think you want him? Would you drop Chris Hogan? If Chris Hogan was out there, I think I would pick him up. Sure. So that says I would, if you need a roster spot and we're not sure about his health, then you could drop him, but I would prefer to hold. I'm dropping Jeremy Macklin and Randall Cobb. Oh, Jeremy. Oh, Jeremy. Jeremy and C.J. Anderson, they're hanging out together in your...

Doghouse? Yeah, you know where they aren't hanging out together on the football field? Where was Jeremy Macklin? Well, he did fall down that one time he was targeted. I mean, I literally watched that game last night and thought, is Mike Wallace the only wide receiver they're lining up? It was unbelievable. Joe Flacko's not playing well, by the way. Oh, he's... I think he was one for 12 on his last, you know, 12 deep passes. He's not throwing the ball while. Yeah.

Doug Martin. Doug Martin is dropable. I agree. He's probably going to miss this week with a concussion. Hasn't looked good. Could be one of those landmine situations that is going to hurt you if you start him. How about let me throw a name out there for you. T.Y. Hilton. Yeah, that one's tough. And I was the next refrain out of my mouth was going to be, it's time to put the names aside for the sake of the playoffs.

Don't, it doesn't matter if their names are big, like Doug Martin or Calvin Benjamin, C.J. Anderson. You just drop him. Uh-huh. He's a big name. He's a big name. He's tempting. I would not drop him. No, I wouldn't. Would you ever play him? Yes. Okay. Yeah, I would. I would consider playing him, I think, in a week from now. He plays Buffalo. Yes. And T.Y. Hilton's the kind of player that can get you 30 points.

If you get it right. If you get it right, you can. And you could be a team that's playing a more challenging opponent in the playoffs. I guess the way I look at it. And I'm a T.Y. Hilton owner. This last week was one of those try to get it right moments where you start him and he only got you two and a half points. And three out of his next four, you're right. A week from next week in week 14, first week of the playoffs, you get Buffalo. That could be one of those games. You start them. But the other three weeks, do you know what those are?

Not good? Jacksonville, Denver, and Baltimore. So you have the chance to start him one out of the next four weeks, and he might still suck that week. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you can drop him. It's just you might not have better home run options on the waiver wire, but maybe you do. But maybe you do. How good is DeAndre Hopkins? Holy moly. Honestly, he is.

He's so good. He's won me over completely. I keep wanting to... Big games against Patrick Peterson and now Baltimore. I want to doubt Tom Savage because, of course, he's bad. But Hopkins is so good. That play where I think it was on Jimmy Smith where... The first play? Well, every play, but the one towards the end where he was passing... I mean, he was held. His jersey was tugged down to where his shoulder pad popped out. And it's like they...

put him in a straight jacket, and he caught the ball. If you want to understand the difference between an elite wide receiver and an average Joe, or an elite wide receiver and an elite athlete that isn't an elite wide receiver, all you have to do is watch DeAndre Hopkins run routes and how physical he is at the point. At the point of everything. At the point of everything. He's the most physical wide receiver. He is unrelenting.

He pushed Jimmy Smith around. He did that same thing to Patrick Peterson. And he is right now, at least in our league of record, the number one wide receiver on this season. And he has pushed through the Deshaun Watson injury. Yeah, he's pushed through Tom Savage, even in bad matchups. I mean, the last week and this week were two weeks where I did not believe beat.

prior to what we've seen happening. I didn't believe that you were going to get good weeks out of Hopkins. And he's like, no, I'm DeAndre Hopkins. I'm going to be just fine. All right. A couple of announcements for the Foot Clan. First of all, we've got a Megalodon winner. What was that? That was from the Megalodon episode. If you listened to the Megalodon episode, which of course you did because you're awesome.

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towards those efforts. And so that'll be today on Facebook Live at 4 p.m. Eastern. We're going to jump into the news. News and notes from around the league. All right. Let's talk about the big news. The hammer came down. The judge declared a verdict. Michael Crabtree, Akeed Talib, have both been suspended two games. Two more. So much for that ejection.

taking them out of the suspension category. And I read the letters individually that were sent to Michael Crabtree and to Akeep Taleb from the NFL describing why they were suspended. And it makes sense. Now, they're both going to appeal. They are both currently appealing the suspension. I expect that it's swiftly decided. I wouldn't be surprised if it got turned into one game. I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm...

guessing it's going to stick. That was a pretty intense on-the-field battle. I think you have a precedent being set by the NFL in that one. And reading through the letters, they highlighted everything that the players did. And when you read it, you go, oh, yeah, that was pretty terrible. I forgot that Akeep Taleb ripped off Crabtree's helmet and then threw it at him. I mean, that was so, yeah, not good. They're both out for two weeks. We don't yet know about Amari Cooper with his concussion.

And a sprained ankle. Yeah. So it's very possible Seth Roberts is a streaming wide receiver option this week. He basically would be the de facto number one wide out in Oakland if Amari Cooper sat because Crabtree is definitely sitting. Steelers don't know whether Juju Smith Schuster and his tiny hamstrings are going to play in week 13. Yeah, we need salty walti to do like a growth spell on those hamstrings so that Amari could get back out there.