Week 3 Waivers + Someone to Blame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/22

I think has the clearest path right now with the other two tight-ins injured. He had the talent. He showed in his rookie season, and he's forced onto the field. If I knew that Puka was getting a hernia surgery, Terrence Ferguson would probably be my number one overall of all positions this week. I would take him over Boston over Jonah Coleman. He is, I believe, the filling. And so I would say this, the same way that you're saying, if you had J.K. Dobbins, you would go out and pay a little bit more for Jonah Coleman.

If I am the Puka manager, I know it doesn't fill in my wide receiver slot. But when Puka is gone, or for that matter, if I'm the Devante Adams manager, I might, you know, he's older. If he were to miss time, I feel like you have a tight end who will put up wide receiver numbers in the situation where he is the number two option on that team. Any other thoughts on tight ends, Mike? It's disgusting. It's nasty, but the muth, I mean. You can't trust the other.

players to catch the football there. Most drops, right? Most drops in football. Aaron Rogers is in the top five. Yeah. And the match. He's also in the top five of players I would drop if I had them on my team. The next four weeks, you know, Cincinnati, Cleveland, the Colts, Tampa Bay. You know, it's, you don't really have a ceiling case here like Darren Waller or Ferguson hitting and probably even Gadsden. But if you're, if you've just been getting no production out of your tight end, then the Muth could help you out.

defensively there are a couple of juggernauts available in a majority of rosters right uh are on the majority of leagues right now the vikings are playing great defense they play tampa miami back to back and the chiefs are playing great defense and play miami las vegas back to back you're going to start to there are teams i'm targeting right now like playing miami is one of them playing tennessee playing atlanta playing washington i think may turn into that i'm still fine targeting cleveland

Show me more than one week. Absolutely Cleveland. Yes, absolutely. So those are some targets, but the Giants have Tennessee this week. Green Bay has Atlanta on Thursday night football. Michael Pennix may be better than Cooper Rush, but he has no problem turning the ball over. So I think the Green Bay defense this week is a good one. And I think that's where I would probably leave it in terms of. Green Bay is a really nice pickup to me because right now they've got Atlanta and then they've got Baker.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers used to look like, you know, the first half of last year and the year prior, oh, I don't want to play against them. They have not been good. And then at that point, Micah Parsons will be able to come off of IR and that defense should get a boost. And they might have Chicago without Caleb. We'll see. And then, you know, it gets a little tougher after that. And, you know, generally we focus the waiver wire on the, you know, like your running backs and your wide receivers.

My number three pickup for the week is a quarterback. So who's going to be talked about here? Oh, I was going to ask. By not me. Okay. That was the waiver wire presented by Team Mobile when you're updating your roster right before kickoff. You've got coverage you can count on. Just another reason. Game days are better with Team Mobile. Check it out at team mobile.com slash membership. Full stream ahead. Well, we'll just let Jason talk first. In terms of streaming quarterbacks, 48% rostered.

Tyler Shuck. Yeah, Tyler Shuck is out there. He's available in way more leagues than he should be. They are, the Saints are number one in pace of play, which is what we, this is real tough. You can't get that one to do. Pace of play is a tough, is a tough one today. But that was what we expected with Kellan Moore. He's always done this. And they're three point home favorites. This is their home opener. Right now he has been on fire. Is he leading the league in?

Passing yards? Yeah. I mean, in NFL history, quarterbacks with 90 plus attempts, 600 plus passing yards, and a 68% completion percentage through the first two weeks, 2015 Tom Brady and 2026 Tyler Shuck. He's also running the ball. I think this could be a rest of season fantasy option. And that is not what usually the full stream ahead. I have my regrets.

On dropping him? Yeah, because I dropped him when I did that trade last week. And so I lost, you know, I picked up Emmett Johnson and Tucker Kraft. But by extension, if you trade two for one, you got to drop somebody. And I regret it. And I wish I dropped Pat Bryant. And I picked up Tyler Shuck. And I'm very happy about it. Two games on the road. He is currently the quarterback five. Yeah. I mean, it's been, and what's going to change? The, like.

What's going to change is? He's going to get Jordan Tyson back. That's exactly why I think Tyler Shuck is such an important pickup right now. Yes, in single QB, you can waver your way through. Like you can find guys off of the wire. But there is a chance with Jordan Tyson coming back that Tyler Shuck gives us a truly special season. I take it.

I wish I could disagree. This was a player for the Footland to be aware of that was on Mike's board for a long time as a my guy. And then when some of the injuries happen, then it was like, okay, he got moved to the fantasy MVP. He wasn't going to be a my guy, but he was going to be his fantasy MVP. And then Jordan Tyson re-agravated the hamstring. He's like, okay, I can't do that. But this is a not just a, oh, the last two weeks have been good. We didn't see this coming.

path was there. So I actually have my worries about him this week against Las Vegas. I've talked about the Las Vegas pass rush and I want to flag the fact that things are going to get harder for Tyler Shuck because Kelvin Banks Jr., their stellar tackle who had a fantastic rookie season. He just went out for, and he's going to IR. It's going to be a long-term injury. Short-term or rest of season. I don't know if it's been determined yet, but it's going to be a long. Do you have to do that still? I think, I,

So I thought post-COVID they got rid of that. Yeah. But then I saw a bunch of reporting that people were going on a short-term IR before the season. He has ankle surgery. This is not going to be short. This is going to be a long. He's going to be out indefinitely. This is a, it was a high ankle sprain, but he needs surgery for it. And so it's going to take some time. I'm just bringing it up because the one time that we saw Tyler Shuck. Tyler Shuck had a awful first half. Yes, he did. In week one.

And the reason he did was because he was under constant pressure in the first half of that game by Aidan Hutchinson. So when you had Max Crosby in there, look, he may overcome this week. I'm just saying the Raiders through two weeks. I've liked what I've seen on the defensive side of the football. And this week will be interesting. But Tyler Suck, hopefully he can overcome the offensive line. He's got good matchups for the most part until the bye week. So great pickup. Bryce Young, the other big name that's broken out so far. 42%.

roster plays Cleveland this week. Carolina is very, I mean, the story is very similar to the Tyler Shuck story. They are throwing the ball a ton. He's second and pass rate over expectation, 8.9 yards per attempt. Healthy Jalen Coker and Teterone McMillan and goal line weapon in Waller and Chuba Hubbard. Like they have some pieces. Legate down the field last week. And Cleveland's defense has struggled. So we'll talk more about Carolina in general tomorrow, but that is my stream of the week.

In my stream, I'm going with the Seattle quarterback. Yeah. I don't care who it is. If Sam Darnel is back from his butt injury, then fantastic. But Drew Locke is. He doesn't like that description. He's butt hurt. Okay. Nice. I mean, like, literally. It's a fact, Jack. By the way, Drew Locke, the highest rated pass for through two weeks in the NFL. That's exactly the point is Drew Locke is playing well. Drew Locke knows where to butter the bread.

He's like, hey, in Arizona. That JSN guy, I'm going to throw him the ball. I mean, what's, what is, what is Jackson's target share right now? Oh, it's got to be darn near 50. It's 100%. It is 44%. That's how. There is a wide receiver with a 44% target share. If you get to 30%, which is an outrageously high number, if you get to 30%, you are.

almost guaranteed to be a fantasy wide receiver one and 44%. And how does it change? It doesn't need to. And now he plays Washington. So that's good. It's going to be great. Yeah. It's wild. Would you drop Drake, May? Dude, man, that is tough. To pick up Tyler Shuck.

I know, I know, I know. That's really hard two weeks to let go of the preseason. Yeah, I mean, if I have to. I don't think I would do it. I don't think I'd do it. If I've got one roster spot and I have no one else to drop and I either have to start Drake May or drop him to play Tyler Shuck, I would make that transaction. Outside of that, I would roster two quarterbacks. Hopefully you've got another wide receiver, a backup running back or someone you could drop and roster both because I do think bright days are ahead for Drake May.

It might be a long time. It might be until AJ Brown is back, which I expect him to miss six weeks after the first. Drake May plays at Jacksonville this week, and then next week is at Buffalo. Does that alter your... I will say that I think both this week and next week, there will be 12 other quarterbacks. I would rather start than Drake May. They should trade for Kashan Booty. Oh.

By the way, just so the world knows how much the sentiment on a player changes with another week of validation, I tried to trade Tyler Shuck to people last week. I mean, you can go over to Deucer's Alley. Every person sitting in Deucer's Ellie got offers for Tyler Shuck. Any regrets over there? I do. Oh, sure do. Matt said Brock Purdy's on the waivers. We don't need Tyler Shuck. Well, Bernie's good. He is. He is.

Shuck's better right now. The way you guys operate your team, I'm telling you right now. It is just you do. Two brains, but no one's in charge. Someone to blame. That should be your team name. Someone to blame. Yeah, it wasn't me. Every trade that goes wrong, it's the other guy that did it. And by the way, a $1 fab offer is what I offered Chuck to Al over there. And he said, you offered it for five. I counted for two.

That's right. Which you then declined, but then offered it back for a dollar later, and I declined that. Yeah, yeah, I forgot that was the interaction. But, I mean, I offered him to Mike last week. But these offers were taking place midgame in week one. That's facts. I will say to the defense of the grumpy old trolls over there, I don't know that I would take Chuck over Brock Purdy. It's understandable. They didn't get Purdy either, though. Losers! Oh, no!

You missed that? Whose fault was that? Who's your quarterback? Neither of them. Well, it was Jaden Daniels. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. So who is it now, though? Baker. Is there a TBD? Oh, Baker? Yeah. Oh, you're totally fine. Yeah, what's to worry about? You're totally fine. You're just got paid. Yeah. It's great. You can't drop that. They're playing for next year anyway. Oh, you're doing a good job. You and everyone else. All right. You and everyone else. I hate you.

this is this is brutal folkland this year in the league of record it is brutal why is it brutal because you have i don't get it the most super team we've ever seen before and it's yeah there's a couple of us with some stones and we're not going to give up good oh look at you good i love to hear you can't see the path though can you

It's fuzzy. But we're going to get there. It's a long season. It's a long season. It's a long season. Four or five significant injuries to Andy's team. And next thing you know, he's got a chance to lose. This will be a fun ride. It's not the odds I feel are still, you know, against me because things can go wrong. But that's not the odds are against you. Yeah. Shut the show down. Push that button. Disgusting.

Just trying to hedge it a little bit. Imagine me talking about my dynasty team like that. That's ridiculous. I'm going to win. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers.