Week 4 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Don’t Tilt! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/29

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The fantasy footballers, Tuesday, September 29th, fresh off a Monday night performance from one Patrick Mahomes that, while did not, it did not give me a victory over my arch rival, nemesis, evil villain Jason Moore. It did put the fear of God into him for the majority of the evening.

Jason, you came out on top. I needed like 900 million points to catch you, and I got within 15. You got 800 million. Yeah. It was one of those things where we had said, because you've got the Kelsey Mahomes stack, I need to be up by 40 going into Monday night to feel like, okay, this is a fair fight. And then I was up 80.

And I'm like, okay, this thing's over. There's no chance. And then all of a sudden, my home's going nuclear. And I'm like, what's happening? Thank goodness. Thank goodness the Ravens couldn't compete because I would have been in trouble. It was a fun game unless you were the Lamar Jackson, Hollywood Brown, Mark Andrews fantasy manager because this was arguably the worst game of Lamar's young career in quite some time.

Mike, I mean, he just was not competitive. Well, then to, this wasn't just Lamar who had a tough game. I mean, you had Mark Andrews dropping passes that he normally catches. I know that they were tougher, but you're Mark Andrews. Yeah. You want to be labeled as one of the top tight ends in the NFL. You come down with that touchdown. But man, Lamar looked, he looked very, very tilted. That was.

I think that's what stuck out to me the most is Lamar tilted the way that I would if I were playing that game and he wasn't able to shake that. Like snap out of it. Let's go. Let's get one big play in here. Get back in. He just, he spiraled out of control. And then like the culmination was that last throw to Hollywood Brown, which was Hollywood was like five yards separated. All he has to do is give it just a little bit of loft.

And Hollywood just walks in for a touchdown. And the game is, I can't remember if it was tied or just, it's a one score game if they come through with that. But he was so tilted that he just chucked the ball.

He'll bounce back. This is certainly not bailing on it. Lamar by any stretch, but that was a bad, bad game through. Lamar does not have a lot of experience being down. I mean, that's just the truth. You know, I saw a stat where I believe the stat was he's 20 and O when leading a half and 0 and 6 went down at the half. Usually they're just...

you know, way up on people and the run game works and he doesn't have to come back. So, you know, I think as he gets more experience with that, hopefully he'll be better. Yeah, it's hard for it not to be mental for him against the Chiefs, too, because he just hasn't beaten Patrick Mahomes. And through three weeks of the fantasy season, Joe Burrow is a better fantasy quarterback than Lamar Jackson. So that's tough. Now, now.

I would say don't hear what we're not saying. No one here is starting Joe Burrow over Lamar Jackson. No. No, it's just. Yeah, you're right. I saw your tweet, Andy, and so many responses were I have both. Should I make the switch? And the answer is no. No, no, no. You are not making this switch. Other aspects of the game I thought worth mentioning. Clyde Edwards-Alaherd, rookie running back for Kansas City. He didn't come through with like a huge game. But.

If this is the floor that we're going to see for Clyde, I believe he was, in half point, was the number 12 running back on the week, and he would 20 carries, ends up with five receptions here. He's just, he's safe. Unfortunately, he got gadgetted out of the end zone with that play to, what was Anthony Sherman? I mean, it was a beautiful design play, but I, look, you can't be disappointed if your running back is out there.

giving you an absolute floor game, and they're still a top 12 guy. Yeah, it was, you know, Kelsey was not spectacular, but got you into double digits. I just missed my more call on Kelsey by one catch. Tyree Kill, McCole Hardman, both scored. I mean, Mahomes accounted for five touchdowns. It was a great game for him. He's currently the number three fantasy quarterback.

You can find us on Twitter at the FFBallers. The Fantasy Footballers.com is the website. Appreciate everybody listening, reviewing, supporting the show on Apple Podcasts, listening on Spotify, ad-free on Stitcher Premium. Wherever you listen, thank you for tuning in. Do you have any takeaways on the Baltimore backfield? Well, stay away. I mean, through three weeks, I mean, the touches, Gus Edwards is out touching J.K. Dobbins through three weeks. Ingram's touches are not.

seemingly very high value right now. The offense is not, they weren't put in a position where they had to do a lot for the first two weeks and then they couldn't do a lot last night. So Ingram's still the back to start if you're forced to start one of them, but it's not been pretty. Yeah, that's how I'm handling it to. It's a wild world to be here going into week four. And generally speaking, no backfield.

is off limits. Like somebody there will, it's worth stashing on your bench, evaluating, seeing what's going on. But we have Tampa Bay, Detroit, and Baltimore. And it's like, I don't want any of these guys just clogging, clogging my bench, because I don't see anyone emerging from either of these backfields. It seems like Daryl Henderson's a better start to Mark Ingram right now. Oh, yes, 100%. 100%. All right. I think.

If that does it for the Monday night breakdown, let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. All right, we have to talk the headline news first here. Sure. This is breaking news this morning, and more information, more news could come along after this show is recorded. But the Titans are dealing with three players and five personnel testing positive for COVID-19.

They played the Vikings this past week. Both teams have suspended in-person activities. And the latest report this morning for multiple sources is that the Titans facilities in-person work is not going to happen through Saturday at least. They're shutting it down. So unfortunately, we're kind of staring down our first significant COVID disruption.

for the 2020 season. We do not know whether the Vikings who played the Titans have any ramifications from the Titans positive tests. But for fantasy purposes, you need to, I mean, this is the waiver show. We're getting into waiver names today. You should start your planning today for the possibility that the Titans and Vikings don't play this weekend. And I've seen some people speculate about maneuvering by weeks around.

that could facilitate this game because it's the Titans and the Steelers playing this week. So if the Titans don't play, the Steelers don't play. So if you have Titans or Steelers, right now you need to be thinking along those lines beyond the waiver names. Yeah, that's absolutely correct. I mean, I don't have much to add on there. I mean, it stinks for like Justin Jefferson. It was going to be one of the probably the hottest waiver claim of the week, a wide receiver, rookie wide receiver for.

the Minnesota Vikings, but this is what we were talking about in preparing for the season, get those IR spots ready so that people are not punished for this circumstances. One minute ago, Chad Graff, verified reporter out of Minnesota, the Viking statement includes the line as of this morning. We have not received any positive results from the Vikings testing following Sunday's game. Okay.

Right now, it seems like the riskiest situation would be the Titans Steelers matchup. So Ju-Ju, Deontay, Henry, Tanahill, Brown, that whole group of players. You could see, you know, them having a buy this week. Those two teams having a buy and then playing through their buy in week seven or eight. Jason, did you have any other information for us? Is that a...

Fair summation this morning? Yeah, I think that's a fair summation. That breaking news obviously changes the waiver's outlook for Justin Jefferson. So that's great. You would expect nothing to get in the way of the Minnesota Vikings. And we'll know far more information as the week goes along. Just keep listening and we'll let you know as soon as we know when it comes to what's going to happen. Would they move the game back? Is the game just going to keep playing? The NFL has said they are a next man up.

Yeah. Whatever, it doesn't matter your circumstances. It doesn't matter if you're missing 10 players. If you can feel the roster on game day, you're playing. So, you know, we don't have the information, but based on, you know, that type of an attitude, I think it's not out of the realm of possibility that they just, they can't get in the facility this week, and then they're playing. I agree with you. And if there's three players that are on the COVID list and everybody else is available, they will play. The NFL will do that.

All right, Chris Carson, minor knee sprain, one to two week injury. Some reports think he'll play in week four. I think Pete Carroll said we'll see. Yeah. I think he probably won't. I think he probably won't play as well, which we will be talking about. Carlos Hyde. Yeah. All right, Chris Godwin, could miss multiple games with a hamstring injury. I don't know how he won't miss multiple games. Everybody misses multiple games with...

a real hamstring injury. He got an MRI for it. This is what took him out of the season at the end of last year. It's not good. No, you can normally play with a fake hamstring injury, but you cannot play with a real one. Is that just like declaring you have a hamstring injury? Well, if you're, say you're a kicker and you miss a field goal or you have a bad kick. My hamstring is a little tight. Both of them. I'm going to play through it, though. I'm tough. Both hamstrings. Oh.

Philip Lindsay trending in the right direction might be able to play on Thursday night versus the Jets. Will that get you to tune in? No, but I wanted nothing to do it. Like Phil Lindsay was a drop because we knew he was going to miss multiple games. But if he's on your waiver wire right now and you're hurting at running back and he's going to play the Jets, it could be worse. Not much, but you're right. Dallas Goddard.

Oh, my. I did not see this news. High ankle sprain was the initial report. Now they're saying a fracture? It's rare when it turns out it's not a high ankle sprain and it's bad news. It's worse? Yeah. So there's no official timetable yet. But Doug Peterson said he's going to miss some time. All right. Jordan Reed went from not a serious injury to maybe a couple weeks to now injured reserve and could miss six to eight weeks.

This is the Jordan Reed story for his entire career, unfortunately. And I feel bad for him. Yeah, it stinks. But if he's, if he's injured, I'm happy it's a lower body issue. Not a concussion. Sure. Yeah. Michael Pittman, this was surprise news yesterday. Surgery to repair compartment leg syndrome in his calf. Expected to return after the week eight by that'll have waiver wire considerations today. Mm-hmm.