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

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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, I've got nothing. That was awesome. Oh, welcome in to the fantasy footballers podcast. Step aside, old man. I'm jumping in here. Mike, the fantasy hitman, right? Welcome to the podcast.

I'm joined by Jason Moore. See, that was all part of my Halloween costume. I went as a ghoul. Yes, we're joined by the rotting carcass of Andy Holloway, who sipped his tea. I'm fine. I'm totally fine. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen better. You know, I wouldn't have gone for it, except for yesterday I got so much flack for like, you know, it's Monday. I didn't do like a long.

intro and welcome people in that they get really emotional about it they were very mad at you they get very depressed and sad because i gave him a really short intro well i know now you know why you they gave you flak and then you gave them the flim yeah that wasn't that was a good even trade yeah yeah yeah i'm doing well doing well jason uh jason you got all of what september yes to be sick september was mine i was sick the entire month

We'll see how long you can go into November. I'm totally fine. I'm 100%. Welcome in Tuesday, October 29th. Got some reaction to the Monday night football game to share with you. It's a waiver show. And I think, you know, this is the time of year when it's so important to start to do some planning. Yes. And there's different things to plan for. One of them is streaming quarterback position for some of you, defense for many of you.

but also matchups. And what I mean is in your league, you know, wherever you're sitting record-wise right now, there's a handful of weeks left before the fantasy playoffs. We're going into what, week nine, right? Yep. And you know what the schedule looks like. You know what opponents you have on the docket. And you might have a really, really difficult matchup three weeks from now. Maybe you got a couple easier matchups. But...

You can start looking ahead on your schedule too when you consider things like streaming defenses, streaming the quarterback position. Even trades heading into the trade deadline, you can be looking at your buy weeks. One of my favorite things to do, and if your trade deadline is approaching, exactly what Andy is saying. Look at a difficult opponent and see if you've got a buy week in that week and see if you can trade him to that person. Flip the buy week.

in a matchup. Yeah. From your team to their team, it's glorious. Yeah, this waiver show is, there's not really a top super sexy pick this week. This is more of a- How dare you? You're forgetting about the Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver core. Oh, I applaud with Jason Moore. Yes. Oh, this waiver period's more about investing. You're...

You're looking at some penny stocks. You're looking at some things that are not real volatile. Nothing has broken out that you really have to grab this week. But Andy's right. You're looking for a couple weeks down the road. Maybe you are looking at your playoff matchups. I'm starting to peek at them. I'm starting to get my defenses ready. Yeah, and it depends a lot. And handcuffs. Yeah, handcuffs. It depends a lot on what your record is.

and you can turn a dial here. Turn a dial there. It might make the difference in winning a couple more matches, and that'll affect your seating for the playoffs and things like that. So it's going to be a fun show. We've got full stream ahead. We've got defensive streamers on the show. We've got the waiver pickups. Some news to get into. You can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers.com slash fantasy footballers. If you want to follow any of our individual handles. Oh, man. It's lit on the gram.

You've got Jason at Jason FFL. I'm at Andy Holloway. Mike is at FF Hitman on both Instagram and Twitter. I've had some people criticize me for not posting when I said. Yes. Just refresh. I'm sure it's there. So keep checking. It's going to be hot. It's going to be an awesome gram. You are just so into Instagram culture. It's who I am. Meanwhile, high fashion and Instagram culture. You're not posting. Meanwhile.

People ask, what does the FF stand for? And usually you think fantasy football, not on IG. It actually stands for fire follow. Because my feet is hot. Yeah, all right. It didn't really make me want to follow you anymore. Footclang giveaway.com. Two days left to win a sign, Sequin, Barkley, Jersey from pristine auction. No, your Instagram isn't just feet. It's feet and dogs. Yeah. Feet and daisy.

Your new puppy. That's right. I'm always in flip flops, so I won't do that to you, Foot Clan. Oh, please no. You're bringing a new, a new, uh, man, if you had an Instagram shoe of the day, but it's just your feet. It's just me wearing my same flip flops every day. Just with a comment, like,

Here I am again. Right. Ooh, got a little fungus today. It's getting cold outside. I mean, you don't... Still rocking the flip-flops. You don't do anything with your Instagram, so you might as well just have foot after foot after foot. Do you have flops on right now, Jay? You're darn right idea. It's 42 degrees outside. It's 45 degrees out. And what did he say right before the show started? It's freezing. It is very cold.

I'm in jeans and my shoes and Jason's over here probably in shorts and flip flops. You know it. Why is it so cold? You've never made the correlation between the temperature outside and what you wear affecting you. Because I am not outside. I'm inside. Okay. All right. Last night's game started hot for the dolphins and that was it. And they quickly. They took matters into their own hand. If you have ever played Madden.

If you've ever played any football game of any type, and it's third and long, third and 22, you don't send a run blitz where you're going into single-man coverage, everyone else is blitzing because that's a stupid thing to do. Do you know the Deontay Johnson play? Yeah. Yes. They knew what they were doing, and you will never convince me otherwise. They're like, I like, booger's reaction was, whoa, that's, that's,

Seems like the first bad move that Flores has made all day. No, that move was excellent for their long-term goals. There was only one way that they could screw that up. And it was blitz everybody. I lost an industry matchup last night because that Deonté Johnson play. Oh, brutal. I was, I had a nice lead in our CBS league. And all I had to do was play quote unquote defense against Deontay Johnson. And he puts up that play.

Benny Snell exited with the knee injury. James Connor was the story of the night. James Connor, I'm trying not to be partial because I love James Connor. He was a my guy. He looked fantastic to me last night. I know that it's versus the Dolphins so that often can happen. And the offensive line really was making things happen for him. But he just, he looked like he had his burst back. He looked like he had juice. But he ended the.

He ended the game the way he's ended the majority of them. Absolutely. Matt Berita fashion. But at least he put up the fantasy production first. 23 for 145 and 1.3 catches for a couple yards. Yeah. He had a fantastic game. But going forward, and this is a waiver wire show, we're going to talk about Jalen Samuels, who was back in full at practice this week, not active for this game, but should be active next week. James Connor, this is, you know, reminded to the world by Davis Maddock on Twitter.

He has left a game injured in week eight with a shoulder, in week seven with a quad, in week six with a quad slash ankle, in week four with an ankle injury, and week two with the knee injury. This dude, I mean, Matt Breed is a good comp. He's like the old Shady McCoy, except he doesn't come back in. Yeah, this is, I think. He runs violently. That's part of his makeup, because he runs really hard. I mean, so does Chris Carson, but Chris Carson's not leaving every game injured, so I would say.

You have to have Jalen Samuels owned because the time is coming. Well, Benny Snell as well. Well, Benny Snell left. Do we know how the severity of the knee injury? We don't. We don't know his injury. Well, to me, if Jalen Samuels is back, he leaf frogs Benny Snell instantly. But why didn't he on the depth chart last night? Because he was inactive.

Well, that's my point. Because he was still. Why was he inactive? Because he was still returning. Yes, he practiced in full, but we see this with guys where they, if they're beating their medical timeline, they still will be inactive. Like to me, Jalen Samuels will be active and will surpass Benny Snell again. However, for James Connor, who left with the shoulder injury, the reports so far by like pro football doc, our own Matthew Best, they're saying it, it.

There was a scare when it was floating around the interwebs that James Connor was worried he broke his clavicle. That didn't happen. We're looking at an AC-sprane joint, an AC-joint sprain as reported by Mike Tomlin, which means that James Connor should be able to play. That's what Josh Jacobs had. He missed practice. Get a shot in the shoulder. You're good to go. Six for 59, Devonte Parker. Not bad. Juju Smith-Schuster. Oh, yeah. Five for 103 and one.

He is. Deontay Johnson, 5 for 84 and 1. These two seem to have separated themselves from, you know, the Washington Moncrief category of receiver. Can you count on Deontay Johnson? I think it's very difficult to count on Deontay Johnson. That one giant big broken play was against the Dolphins. So in a matchup like this, I think you can throw him out there because he's had several good games. Three big plays that were all broken plays. Yes.

So I think it's a matter of playing the right matchup versus when you say, can you count on someone? I think that's someone you rely on week and week out. And Juju, Juju's had a good year. I mean, you know, you take away the Devlin Hodges game where everyone couldn't do anything. But also Mason Rudolph, what in the world? He sucked so bad in the beginning of that game. He was terrible. He looked like he didn't belong in an NFL field. Is it possible, though, that he was just really, really nervous?

The last time we saw Mason Rudolph, he was unconscious and leaving the field without a face mask on. Yeah, maybe, maybe. All right, let's get into the news. News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper. The latest in Arizona, Chase Edmonds, likely to miss a few weeks with a hamstring injury. Kingsbury said he's doubtful for Thursday night. David Johnson day to day, I don't think we're expecting him for Thursday night. I am not.

So, Kenyon Drake. Yeah, Drake and Zach Zenter. Drake will get a couple days of practice. Joe Flacco is out for week nine. Brandon Allen will make his first career start. He could be, Flacco could be out for a long time. This was, so he has the neck problem and this went from he's going to miss a week. We'll evaluate. Perhaps they'll put him on the IR. And it trended much faster to IR talk by the end of the day.