Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streaming Options, News

If you're an Eddie Lacey owner, are you signing Michael over Starks? No. I'm not. I'm signing Starks. Yeah, I think if you're an, you know, you try to sign both. There's no rule that says you can't. But I would go Starks over Michael because that's a need and potential. Chris and Michael is potential, but...

but not necessarily a need. And if you've got Lacey, then, you know, so that would be my, me personally. And speaking personally, what I'm going to be looking for on my waivers is probably going to be Ahmad Bradshaw. Ahmad Bradshaw, we saw he came right in. And man, is he a crowd favorite? That crowd rooted and hollered for him? Because he was great last year. Yes, he was. He was actually when he was playing. He was a top five back. Now, he's...

He's a handcuff, and I'm saying this to the Gore owners. If you've got a Frank Gore on your team, then you've got to have an Ahmad Bradshaw on your team. That has to happen. I don't think he has standalone value, but you have to have him. And the reason that my number one claim is not Christine Michael is because all of the leagues I play in, so does Mike. But otherwise he would absolutely be my number one claim. So I will shoot out some information about Mr. Theo. Theo Riddick.

Snap counts at the highest they've been past two games that he's played. Zach Zinner is out for the season. Oh, man. Very sorry for him. He's not actually dead, but he's seriously injured. And for a young undrafted guy that is tough. So Joach Bell's been unproductive. Amir Abdullah keeps putting the ball on the turf and can't be necessarily trusted. And honestly, in open field, when you watch Theoretic catch a pass, he's been as good, if not better than Amir Abdullah.

make somebody miss almost every time he catches the ball in the passing game. And he actually got a few carries last week. Riddick is kind of like, it sounds crazy, but he's kind of like a higher floor flex type play where you're probably going to get eight points out of Riddick, worst case scenario, and maybe he catches a touchdown. He's not a superstar, but opportunity mixed with talent, I think he's a really good sign this week. Somebody played him against me last week, and it wasn't the end of the world, 10 points. To go back, sorry.

Someone had asked me back to the Green Bay Dallas discussion. Somebody had sent me a Twitter question of this. Who do you like more? This is a trait. Would you rather have the Green Bay backfield, so Lacey and Starks, or would you rather have Joey Randall and Kristen Michael? I would rather have the Green Bay backseat. That's what I said. And the reason is because Aaron Rogers versus dead Tony Romo. Again, he's not dead.

We have to really specify here. Apparently everybody's dead if they're not playing. If you're not playing, you're dead to me. Another running back I really like is Charles Sims. And Charles Sims is... Trust me, it's kind of gross for me to say that. He's one of those names where he... What, really? Charles Sims, but Doug Martin is playing out of his mind right now. Well, Charles Sims is doing quite well. If you look at his numbers, he's catching a lot of passes. He's even... He's running the ball decently. He just...

I believe in our scoring system, he's basically running back too, which is extremely unexpected for a guy like Sims. And he may be on your wire. Yep. He's in the Riddick Chris Thompson category of players. But yeah, he's had some opportunity, and he's performed even when Martin's done well because he's on the field quite a bit. So obviously James Starks, big pickup. We gave you the news at the top of the show. Hot-hand approach. Starks has played better. Starks had a big game last week. And, you know, if they have to sit down.

Lacey for a couple games to get him healthy. You're talking about big impact from James Starks. Also, pay attention to Nile Davis. You know, if he's just sitting out there because West, you know, was the guy everyone went after. You can sign Nile Davis. He might get some goal line carries from him. And Chris Thompson is involved as well and would have had a better game last week had he not been a little pinged up. So tight-ins, if you're signing somebody at the tight-in position, you know, Julius Thomas got scooped up last week. I need somebody to start, Mike. Who do I start?

From your waiver wire? Yeah, man, I got to start one. Then there's really no reason to not take a chance on Ben Watson. Take a chance on. Yeah? Because we saw the trust there. He started his career in 1988. Is that correct? Actually, 1985. 85. Oh, okay. You were a little bit off. All right. Is that Hill Valley? Is that where he went to high school? Yeah. But Ben, well, I, from the sound of his post-game interview.

I don't think even Ben Watson was expecting that game. But there was a ton of Josh Hill hype coming into the season because of the hole that Jimmy Graham had left. And we were hoping. Yeah, we tried to mitigate that. But I'm saying back before even the Ben Watson stuff was coming in over the summer, it was just.

We feel like there should be a tight end who can succeed in the New Orleans system. And Ben Watson, he's slowly been creeping up. And he's never been a bad player. He's always been very solid. And he's on the field. He can block. He can catch. And do I expect another game anywhere similar to the last Thursday game? No.

But if you can get a tight end who's getting you four for 60, then you are succeeding in your tight end category. And Ben Watson is a guy who may be able to do that depending on a matchup. You know, 12 targets says a few things about the trust level that you're building with the quarterback. Like Mike said, we don't expect him to get 12 targets and 10 catches for 127 yards probably ever again. That was his career best game.

But it means something. And Mike said he's had an okay career. He's had a 68 reception season. He's had 102 target season. And by the way, he started his career in 2004. What? Yeah. But...

But yeah, I mean, he's somebody you could fly on in a good matchup. Obviously, they play better at home. I'd be wanting to roll him out there at home. Anybody else? I mean, Zach Ertz is a guy that's dependent on some performance from Bradford, which we haven't seen. Crockett Gilmore was back. He caught a few passes. I would throw out. He's owned in most leagues, but Julius Thomas, if he's not owned in your league because he's been injured. He will be now, yeah. Yeah, he should be. And he would be the guy that I would grab first if he's available,

probably not available. I wonder, I'm going to look that. Apparently, Crockett Gilmore had a majestic lion's mane of hair when he was in college to go along with his goatee. He has since trimmed it up, but I highly suggest people go look at Crockett Gilmore in college. Thank you, Mike. We'll be back out to you for the hair update later in the week. It is a treat.

All right. At the quarterback position, there's not a lot of guys that would say, you know, you've got to go roster if you're not streaming. But Blake Bortles is the one guy that we have down on our list because he's, what is he in our league? I'm curious. Is he six, five or six? I'm going to go to all leagues. News alert. Blake Bortles is the number five quarterback? Yeah. Jason and I were talking about this at dinner last night. The fact that somebody texted me and they said, is Blake Bortles for real?

maybe and and how funny it's just funny to mean what fantasy does because for real what do you mean I mean like for real for real in real life or for fantasy football the fact that this disparity I mean the fact that question has to be asked is just humorous to me because we he's got the Jay Cutler going on now where it's like throwing picks losing games

Putting up numbers. Exactly. So he's great in fantasy, but he's not a real good quarterback. So everybody loves him, but I mean, he's still got a long way to go as a pro. And that being said from a fantasy perspective, Blake Bortles is definitely a great streaming option when it comes to matchups. But he's not matchup proof by any means. He has actually had a run of pretty good matchups. We've picked him as our stream of the week because of some of those matchups. And again, this week has a pretty good matchup. But if he's going up against, you know, a really top flight defense.

I wouldn't trust it even though he could, but I would probably go with someone else. Am I starting Blake Bortles against, you know, Buffalo this week? You better believe it. You are? Yeah, I think that's. We're going to talk about that a little bit later. Yeah, I would. Are you kidding me? No, not at all. Buffalo's past defense has not been. I realize that. I realize that they've been bad against fantasy defenses, but I don't like Bortles traveling to London to play Buffalo coming off a loss. We're going to have a water bet later. I can promise you that.

defensive streamers this week. Who do you like to play this week? So there's a couple teams that I like. I like the Steelers against the Chiefs. The Steelers defense has really transformed into a team that you can kind of depend on. They've been a joke basically the last couple years, but they've got... Harrison's back? Yeah, Harrison's back with the new D-Corpsinator. His name is Butler. His name is escaping me. Keith Butler.

Yeah, I kind of like the Browns against the Rams. Now, see, what's funny about those two matchups, Steelers and Chiefs, I like the Chiefs against the Steelers. Their defense? Yeah, and I like the Rams against the Browns at home. So both of those sides of things, I mean, I'd rather start the Rams at home against the Browns than the Browns on the road against the Rams. Yeah, I can see that. But the Chiefs, really? Big Ben is supposed to be back this week.

Actually, they're moving forward. That would change everything. Yes, that would change a lot. I would not recommend it. They are moving forward right now as Landry Jones is the starter. They're going to test Ben on Wednesday and see how that goes. Yeah, I would completely withdraw all Chiefs recommendations with prejudice. Miami. You like Miami against Houston? Yeah, it's not, it's, we're reaching here. You know, you got to find some good matchups. Falcons.

Defense against the Titans, Titans likely to be what, Mettenberger? Yes, and that's exactly why. And for Miami, it's their defense, I mean, they spent a whole lot of money, and their defense coming into the year was supposed to be great. Personnel-wise, they have what it takes. They were supposed to be great. They were clearly terrible under the Philbin regime. They looked rejuvenated. Now, maybe that's only a one game thing because that kind of situation can happen. Brand new coach, rah, rah, rah.

We're going to give it all for the one game and then everything falls apart again. But with the talent that they had, I just, I want to believe that Miami can get it done against Houston. It's not bad. They're at home. You know, that's a big piece of it. They're at home against Houston. You know, Brian Hoyer, I do not trust. Giants, the Giants play the Cowboys. The Giants are coming off a loss. Their defense has been okay, but they're at home and Dallas has got problems on the offensive side of the ball. Yes. But obviously,

Mike wouldn't start him because Mike, Christine Michael's going to go off for like four or five touchdowns. At least. Minimum. You guys want to talk streamers? Streaming quarterback options? All right, let's do it. Full stream ahead. Well, let's just get right into it, Mr. Mike. Last week, by the way, we had, Jason and I had Colin Kaepernick and Brian Hoyer as a streams of the week. And those guys worked out big time. Sammy Biscuits let me down. Number five was Brian Hoyer. Number seven was Colin Kaepernick. Both.

Quarterback ones that you grab off of waivers and play. It can be done except for this week. Oh, you don't just play them. You play them and you're afraid. Oh, yeah. It's kind of like a horror movie. Yeah, I've never said that you feel great putting Josh McCown into your lineup, but you do it because it works. Oh, man, McCown, Hoyer, Cabernet. This is why you don't draft quarterbacks early, people. All right. Mike, you got Blake Bortles. I got Blake Bortles. You're talking about a guy who the last three weeks.

has essentially thrown for 300 yards each of the weeks. The running game just doesn't work that well for Buffalo. Yeah, Yeldon's having some success, but just not a great amount. And Blake Bortles, he's got weapons. He does. Alan Robinson, now we have to check on Alan Robinson's injury report, but from what I hear, he's going to be fine. Alan Robinson is a...

dominant emerging talent. The same for Alan Hurd's. Alan Hurd is really coming on in his second year. Julius Thomas is a huge boost for the passing game of that offense. I think there's too many weapons. Blake Bortle is having to throw a ton and combine it. I don't like to count on garbage time, but Blake Bortles is the king. He is the reigning champion of garbage time. So I'd be remiss to not make a Bortles bet if I don't really believe in him this week. Yeah, let's hear it.

Where do you think he finishes? I'm putting him as a QB1. I give you a top 10 bet. QB1. I'm streaming a QB1. Yeah, but he's five. He's five right now. Yeah. Why would you not take a top 12 bet? Because I think he might end up in the top 12. Tomorrow is back to the future day. So maybe you should call Mike chicken. Yeah, are you yellow, Mike? Fine. I'll take a top 10 bet. Water bet.