Week 5 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Tilting PSA

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P-R-I-S-T-I-N-E-Oction.com. To the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Another day, another week of fantasy football. Excited to be with you. The best.

Annie Mike and Jason, the fantasy footballers podcast. Back with you Tuesday, October 1st. We are into October. It's Halloween month. No, I get it. Yeah, yeah. It's on the way. Jokes are always best when you explain them. That's what I've been told. Yeah, yeah. No, they're funnier. I'm still not tracking. Okay. So here's the deal. About 30 days. That's true in exactly, even exactly 30 days. Exactly about both are true.

Welcome in. We had a Monday night football game last night or something like it. We had the Steelers Bengals. We'll talk about that. Today's The Waiver Show. I teased on Twitter. I have a favorite pickup that nobody expects. I saw that. Yeah. I went and I looked. I saw who it was. Ironically, it was someone that I was, Brooks can attest to this. I talked about picking up last week and playing because I had two last minute injuries in our double flex.

I like it, but he certainly wouldn't be my number one. He's not, he's in that category for me. There are a couple players that I think are mostly owned that if they're not, I think win the prize over this guy, but I saw hundreds of replies to my tease and no one got it, which was funny. I didn't see anybody get it. So we'll bring him up and I will say, I will confirm. Jason has mentioned him before. The reason he's my favorite has to do with a couple of things that have taken place.

But that's at the wide receiver position. So I think there are a lot of very interesting things to talk about today. We'll get into the waivers. We have full stream ahead, which is our quarterback streaming picks for week five. We have defense versus offense, our defensive streaming picks for the upcoming week. We're finally at the point in the season where you have four games in the books and you, oh, okay, Carolina. Wow, they can put pressure on the quarterback. We know that now. San Francisco, this defense, obviously you missed a week, but they're looking okay.

And obviously the Steelers look like a very improved defense over the last two weeks as well. A little bit of a fantasy football PSA to start the show. Well, I guess let me mention this first of all because my Twitter could not be more filled. The bet we had yesterday, it really took the world by storm. Now, the result was that I lost the bet. What I didn't know is that it was almost impossible to win the bet when we made it.

Now, that's on me. And I knew. You did know. You were more confident than a person could ever be. If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode.

The actual bet was this, they were talking about flying on drones and hanging on. And so Andy thought he could hang on to a bar for a, just for a pretty long period of time. Five minutes. And Mike said, if you do that, I will give you $100. It was a one way bet. We went, we filmed it. You could see it on YouTube. But here's a thing.

You actually are great at hanging from a bar. Like there's all these videos out there talking about like you'll get $100 if you can hang for one minute or for 100 seconds and nobody gets those. You, you, you crushed that. I got over two minutes. That's fantastic. Apparently I could be touring carnivals winning $100 here and $100 there. Honestly, I don't know why we are here.

and not trying to find these carnivals. That's what I actually got more on Twitter. I had people sending me contests that they find all over the country where people are trying to do this. I just made the wrong bet. Had I had any context for this? I mean, I just believed. Now, part of my contention was that if your life's on the line, you can go a little farther. And we saw videos of a person.

who was on a hang glider that didn't get strapped in. They had to hang on for a little while. I do not recommend you watching it. That was terrifying. So I feel like I had a good showing, a horrible loss in the bet. And you can see that at YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. It was fun. It was a good time. All right. Here's the PSA that I have. And Jason, Mike, you guys can add to it. But the big message here heading into week five is don't panic. Don't give up. If you're...

Oh and four. If you're one and three, I made the comment years ago. Anything that has happened can happen in reverse. You can just as easily go four and oh over the next four weeks and be right in the thick of it. And what happens is fantasy owners, other fantasy owners in your league that are one and three and oh and four, start throwing in the town. Yes, every single year. That's the, that's the thing. There's easy wins coming for you if you're not the quitter.

If you're the quitter, you're giving easy wins to someone else. But those come. And also keep in mind, you've played teams that have beat you. There's a good chance that you've played good teams, which means you're about to play the bad teams. There's always, you know, the whole league can't be good. Right. That's just because of the way that fantasy football works. The way that life works, there's a balance. Exactly. When we say this, it almost sounds like too obvious. But it's important because.

You're blinded by the pain of your defeats right now. Don't tilt trade. Don't give up. All you got to do is make the playoffs and you can win the championship. All right. So big takeaway from last night's game. That's our quick question for the day. The Steelers spank the Bengals. The Bengals are 0 and 4. Here's my. Go ahead, Jay. I'm getting milked. That's my takeaway. No, context here. Can we just get that quote, Brooke, separately?

So here's the thing. I have nipples, Greg. Yeah. Not like that, but we do water bets. And our manager, Damon, was big into Amari Cooper this year. The Foot Clan knows I am, I was giant into Juju Smith-Schuster. I think he was going to have a monster year this year. And I was so sure he was going to beat Amari Cooper that we changed our water, our water bet into a milk bet. Disgusting. Disgusting. Awful. But I'm not going to be wearing the milk. He is. Except.

Big Ben Raffles Burger is out for the year after a game, and it's not looking good for Juju. Juju look good. Juju is open 25 yards down the field. That's fine. He's doing great. But they don't throw the ball but two feet because I hear that three feet is a yard, and they're like, I don't want that. Mason Rudolph is not throwing the ball down the field, but once or twice. I believe two times he has thrown the ball over 10 yards, both of his last two starts.

Mason Rudolph was 16 for 16 when targeting his running backs in this game, which was also all of the time he threw the ball, minus yet another almost instant replay. Deontay Johnson touchdown as he had last week. Whatever play call that is, let's keep doing it, Pittsburgh, because it works every time. Here's what I'm going to say. Now, it was a bounceback week for some players that we've liked. James Connor.

He's been handed a difficult situation with Big Ben being out as well. Chris Carson, Robert Woods. These were big bounceback weeks, big finishes. Carson had a great week. Connor had a great week. My takeaway from last night's game is genuinely, and he was my start of the week. So I want you to understand that and biases and things like that. I believe that you should sell James Connor right here right now as fast as humanly possible. He had equal amount of touches as Jalen Samuels.

You're not facing the Bengals every week. The Bengals are the second worst team in football when it comes to stopping the running back position. They had no ability to adjust to the short passing game and these underneath routes for the running back. They looked atrocious. And I don't think you're going to have an easy road forward for James Connor. He had 10 rushing attempts in a game that they won by three touchdowns. He also got banged up, came back in. I'm not saying he's a bad player. I'm not saying that you have to sell him.

I think you should sell him. If you could capitalize on the value of an RB1. Yes. If you can sell the narrative of here he is, here's the guy that I, here's the guy that you expect to coming into the year, sell that narrative. And I will say this. And it pains me to say it, but you have to stay water in this league or in fantasy. I will throw Chris Carson into that category.

If you want to sell Chris Carson, he's not going to play Arizona every week, and he's not going to get whatever it was, 85% of the rushing attempts every week. He's not going to have penny on inactive every week. Yes. So if you, again, it's not a must sell. It's saying this is the time of year where you can go, try to take advantage of a situation. If you are a winning team, go look at players that are going into the buy. There are different ways to acquire players strategically.

And if you are a winning team with a nice record and you can go acquire a player in the buy and give another team somebody that can play this week, there are different ways to do it. And you can also take advantage of someone being passed by. If you put James Connor plus someone, you know, a decent wide receiver that's kind of on your bench or something, and you could convert that to Lev Bell who's passed his buy. You're stealing a week. Absolutely. Absolutely. And it's all about leverage like Andy was talking about where Carry on Johnson.

His workload has shot through the roof, and I expected to stay that way. Carry on Johnson's on buy week right now. Perhaps the team that has Carry on Johnson could really use James Connor this week, who just had eight targets in 83 receiving yards and a passing or receiving touchdown. Maybe they're into Connor. And you can say, well, let's let's do a little Swapski here. I'll absorb the by week of Carry on Johnson. So that's a perfect set up. Absolutely.

I would rather have carry-on straight up. Even though you're losing a week outright. 100%. I mean, yeah. Context of your team, but if I'm a winning team, heck yes, I would do that. Yeah, if you're one and three, you can't do that. The workload for Carryon Johnson from weeks one and two with C.G. Anderson was on that team to weeks three and four. It's been an astronomical difference. Yeah. And he's had, I think it was five goal line carries in the last two weeks. Mind you, he made a little mistake scheme.

But, but yes, carry on in the workload, the guarantee. Jalen Samisle is going to be involved. That's another thing that. Yeah, we'll talk about that on the waiver. Because he has to play quarterback. Goodness. How much. Look. Is that you, you haven't given your takeaway, Mike. Here we go. We're, we fully support Mason Rudolph. We are behind him. He can lead this team. Yeah, we're going to need our running back to come in here and play quarterback for a whole bunch of snaps. There's a lot of.