Week 9 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, The Inconvenient Time Traveler

So Joe Flacco ending up on the I will not, on the IR won't be shocking. Well, amazingly, he could throw for the same amount of touchdowns on the IR as he's currently doing starting as a professional quarterback. That is true. Three consecutive games with no touchdowns. It's impressive work. And then he comes out in a press conference and, you know, criticizes the big fan, you know, for not going for it. And then, you know, it's like, well, there might be, you might be part of the reason we're not.

We're not pushing it down field. However, I do expect Brandon Allen to step right into his shoes and continue to throw for no touchdown. Yeah, it's a nice thing. Fair. Royce Freeman suffered a minor shoulder injury in week eight against the Colts. Couldn't miss some practice time. That might be why you don't see him out there this week. Kyle Allen will start again for the Panthers in week nine against the Titans. I love this. You love this because... I love this because he had such a bad game. And you...

And so the narrative is, okay, we can go back to Cam because he had a bad game. But they're not going back to Cam because Cam's not 100%. And what that says to me is that when Cam comes back, it's not going to be based on Kyle Allen's performance. It's going to be based on Cam Newton's health. And so you can rely on Cam when he gets back, but he's not ready yet. The Darius Geis News was interesting.

he is on track to suit up. Now, it's going to be until, it's not until week 11 that he can even come back from the torn minuscus he suffered early in the season, went on IR. But they expect Darius Geis back in week 11. It's interesting because this team's entire identity for the remainder of the season is going to be the running game. Yeah, and this is why we talked about that this is an investment, investment waiver period where, yeah, Geist is not able to play for a few weeks, but.

You can grab him for free right now. Okay. And then Mahomes has a chance to return in week 10 against the Titans. So monitoring, apparently he wants to play. Oh, yeah. But I mean, it's one thing to want to play and realize you're limited. He thinks he can play. He was practicing. He thinks he can play.

But this is not week 10. Exactly. I was going to say a lot of people thought based on him being at practice last week, he was going to be able to play this week. It's not happening. When he was at practice last week, it's not like he was, you know, participating. He was just there. All the first team reps was Matt Moore. Yeah, doing his rehab. Really weird. I mean, this is very rumorville, but it's coming from a verified source. Minish Mehta, who covers the Jets for the New York Daily News.

an ESPN sports reporter alum. Apparently the Jets are trying to trade levy on bail today. Interesting. What? Man, Adam Gase, he does what he won't. That's wild. This isn't just a random Twitter account. There's so much money tied up in him? Who would trade? Adam Gase didn't want him. Yeah, Adam Gase did not want him. I mean, he's even admitted that saying, well, yeah, I didn't want to sign him, but now we've got him. He's a great player. I'm going to play him.

He did not want to sign him for that money. Interesting. Well, the deadline for the NFL is today. Is today at what, for Eastern? Yeah. So just a matter of hours from now. I can't imagine there's a team with both the cap room to take that hit, the need and the record. You know, when I think about the teams that need a running back, they can't afford them and wouldn't do that with their current record. I'm just not sure if that could get done in a matter of hours. What if they trade him for Melvin?

I don't think that the chargers want to pay that much for a running back. I don't think it was just because it was mouth. This is wild, wild stuff. If somehow this happens, then Ty Montgomery shoots up the waiver charge. It's kind of a strange thing to talk about because the deadline is going to come and go. A lot of you probably won't hear this until the deadline's come and gone. Yeah, what people on here is react to it. We'll report, well, we won't know what the news is, is my point. We can't react to it. Let's react to each team trading for him.

Begin with Arizona. I don't think Arizona is going to make this move. It's a strange move after acquiring Kenyon Drake. They want all the running backs. They've also had interest in Melvin Gordon. Next. All right. The Baltimore Ravens have acquired. No, it's interesting. We'll find out what happens. We'll have all trade reaction tomorrow. Anything that happens at the deadline. Miles Sanders is not going to miss time with the shoulder injury. Deshaun Jackson. We'll return to practice this week. We'll monitor that because it's just a trepidacious.

place. It's really good news for Carson Wins if he's back out there. It's a huge swing for the Eagles and their fantasy value of Carson Wins if D Jax comes back. The Chargers have fired offensive coordinator Ken Wisenhunt. There's a lot being said about the fact that this team, Anthony Lynn, what he wants the identity of it to be, is in part a successful running game that they haven't been able to manifest under Wisenhunt. Wisenhunt's the fall guy for a team that's under 500 right now. But...

At the same time, this could mean a change in philosophy, strategy, offensive play calling. We saw what effect that had on Adrian Peterson. I'm bringing it up because maybe brighter to – look, something changing has to be good for Melvin Gordon. You're not going to go in a worse direction, I think, in the running game. So it's possible that this is a good thing. Maybe. So Marquis Brown on track to suit up.

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Who are the main pickups in your guys' mind? Wow. All right. Well, look, there's a lot of different players that are all to me in about the same tier. So I think primarily the first bit of strategy on waiver-wire wide receivers is lower priority. I would not burn a waiver priority for any of these guys personally. And when I'm going in, you know, when I'm going after one of these players in a fab, I'm probably.

ordering these guys in the order I prefer them and putting like $1 bids on most of these players because, so Devante Parker had a game like he's been having pretty much every single week. This coming week plays the Jets. And if Ryan Fitzpatrick is still the quarterback, as he should be, as he should be, there's no reason he wouldn't be. Devante Parker has pretty good upside, you know, but would you?

What about Danny Amandola against Oakland, who's, you know, coming off of 19 targets the last two weeks for Danny Amandola. His season has been very bizarre where he opened up week one, 13 targets looked like, okay, Matthew Stafford has his new Golden Tate best friend in the slot. And then Amadola just was Houdini for about a month. And then he's been extremely strong last two weeks. 105.

Two weeks ago against Minnesota, 95 this past week against the Giants. Amandola is interesting to me in a PPR if you're trying to fill a bye week. Yeah, I think those qualifiers really helped me at the end there, Mike. Because he's not, he offers you some things. You're already rolling the dice at times with somebody like Marvin Jones, right? Because if the wheel doesn't come up on Marvin, which is pretty much once every four weeks or three weeks, then you're disappointed. Same thing with Hawkinson.

And with Amandola, you don't get the upside of being kind of like, you know, at least Parker can find himself in the end zone. It seems like Amandola is not going to. Like, for example, my Money League, I've been rolling Julio Jones and Robert Woods. They're both gone this week. Right. They're in with the Saints in there, Michael Thomas, like there's big time wide receivers who are missing right now. Wouldn't you rather, I'm curious, would you rather start Kenny Stills? Hmm. Against Jacksonville? You know, Stills you've got.

The big play capability, you've got the nearly 100% of snaps. East over Amadola, you're saying? Yeah. Correct. Yeah. It depends on what my wide receiver 2 is that I'm trying to fill in. But Kenny Stills, I'm not out at all on him despite Kenny Bill's coming up bankrupt this past week. Oh, man. Yeah. I think he's going to hit, I mean, those that signed him, he's going to hit a lot of waiver wires this week.

Sure. I mean, Kenny Stills will. He will be when you do drop it like it's hot and you look at who's there and who, you know, people will pick up a Devante Parker or a Chris Conley and or Deshaun Hamilton and then Stills will be the guy that hits the waiver. Yeah, they will. And I would much rather have a free, you know, zero dollar bid on Kenny Stills the following day than I would pay up for one of these, one of these players. I think people are excited potentially about Josh Reynolds in the event that.

Brandon Cook's miss is an extended period of time. We've got the buy week. Yeah, if we're talking about this week, you can't do it because he's on buy. But Josh Reynolds, if you're investing in some potential for the next couple weeks, with Brandon Cook's concussion history, it will not be surprising for him to miss a couple weeks. Look at what it's going on with Sterling Shepard in New York. I think there's a pretty strong correlation between those two situations. So yet, if you're good this week, then...

Josh Reynolds is interesting, although his schedule, Pittsburgh and Chicago is not the greatest. And Andy, you mentioned Chris Conley in passing, but that's another name that is absolutely in play here with all the Devante Parker, Danny Amandola, Kenny Stills talk. I would say the only other two players that are very much in play that are widely available are Chris Conley and Darius Slayton. These two guys are, you know, situations have changed.

Chris Conley, I assumed if D.D. Westbrook is out. Yeah, I think he's out. He becomes against Houston, whose defense just lost. Sorry, I was looking at versus the Jets. J.J. Watt. He's, you know, he's a freak, a talented guy, and Gardner Minch who's been getting it done. They pulled Westbrook out of that game. He was already questionable heading into it, and the injury was actually...

a re-aggravation of the same injury. So we don't know how severe it really was because they pulled them out, not wanting it to progress. But Conley's interesting in that kind of big play capability. The message that I'm getting here from the names and from you guys is you're not going to spend, you don't want to invest a bunch of fab at the wide receiver position. You might want to just take the best of what's available, look at see if a guy like Stills gets dropped the next day. You're kind of throwing a dart in as far as, hey, well,

am I going to get a bigger game out of Conley versus Slayton versus, you know, Hardman is another player that, okay, well, you probably got another map more week. And maybe it's a big week for Hardman. You could do worse. So who's your, who would be your number one? Who would be your guys is, you're putting all these guys up, let's say zero dollar bids? Right. Who would you prefer to have first? Well, me, Kenny Stills. And then number two.

But it's based off of D.D. Westbrook. If D.D. Westbrook is out, I would say Chris Conley would be the number two for me against Houston. I really like that matchup for Gardner and the wide receivers. And then A.J. Brown would be number three for me. Dude, why is Tadjay Sharp on the field so much? I don't take. No. I mean, AJ Brown, his snap counts are hurt. They should be, his snap counts, he should be on the field all the time. I mean, the only thing he's shown.

as a rookie is that he can hang in this league, but they're not putting them on the field. It's infuriating. That's the reason I'm not totally in on AJ Brown yet. I get it. I think he had three targets this last week. To me, my number one claim would be Devante Parker. Okay. Devonte Parker has been quietly really good. Yes. He had three touchdowns and back-to-back-to-back games until this last week where he still had eight targets, 59 receptions, and that was against a really good Pittsburgh defense. So coming up against the Jets with Fitzpatrick, the air yards are there.