Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 3 Waiver Wire Pickups, MNF Review, Mailbag

Well, he doesn't play until Monday night, which gives him an extra day of rest. It also makes the waivers. We'll talk about this in a minute, but it makes the waivers a little bit more strategic. You need to put some thought into the James Stark's grab. I expect, you know, for me to say I expect him to play or to not play is just a guess at this point. It's kind of pointless. I think there's a good chance of either, and you just got to watch practice. You know, we're still on a Tuesday right now. Watch as the week goes on. If you're an Eddie Lacey owner, and we'll talk about this in a second,

Pretty much got to pick up James Starks, although they have a bad matchup this week, right? They're going up against Kansas City, so either option is not the best. A hurt Eddie Lacey or a full James Starks against Kansas City. I'm not sure I'm in love with either of those. Mike, Marvin Lewis expressed confidence in Jeremy Hill, despite the fumbling. I think that's what we said on the show. We thought he'd be okay, but it's not a good sign when...

Gio comes in and dominates and Jeremy Hill stands on the sideline. So you're obviously starting Jeremy Hill? Yeah, if you have both and you have to make a decision on one to start, you're still going with Jeremy Hill until further notice. And I think he can recover from this. He had some fumbling issues last year and was benched in a very smart move by his head coach because he should always...

bench anybody who turns the ball over if you are a member of j cutler's family and you were starting him this weekend he will not be active for the bears he will miss at least a couple of weeks and then matthew stafford will uh we'll see if he plays this week according to jim caldwell so he's another guy you want to find a better option for tevin coleman has been diagnosed with the bruised rib will be sidelined a couple of weeks i think it's crack i'm sorry broken rib i don't yeah bruised he'd just be a baby

Oh, come on. Have you ever bruised a rib? Well, no, but I know that these... Where would he have bruised a rib? Of course not. Yeah. Sorry. My... He slips in the bathtub a lot. My MMA days, I bruised them all the time. Yeah. But so he's going to miss a couple of weeks, and it's a pain threshold thing. He'll probably have a flack jacket on which does hamper running backs. Yeah. If you remember, Trent Richardson, in his actual good year...

Well, by good, I mean, his fantasy production year, he wore a flack jacket, too, because he broke a rib. Just pointed out. Eric Decker last night had a great game, but he hurt his PCL, and they're wondering if he needs surgery. Yeah, the news is that he hopefully doesn't. It seems like he's not going to, but either way, when you hurt a PCL and your borderline surgery, that's normally, you're going to be missing a few weeks. How good is Brandon Marshall? The answer to that is very good. He's great.

He's great. He went from good to very good to great really quickly. In this conversation? Yeah. He's always been great. It's like we're the three bears. He's always been separation, huge. I mean, he just manhandled three guys into the end zone. Although that was, I mean, in defense of the Colts, that was also after Vante Davis went down and their other two cornerbacks were down. He was literally going against practice squad type guys, guys they just brought up. And he did what he should have done. Absolutely. Absolutely. So last bit of news.

Brashad Perryman, people want to know about him. He had a sprain PCL, which is what we were just talking about. A lot of PCL injuries going around. Yeah. That's the new hotness. Was that Andre Ellington? Yep. Yeah. Man. Every year there's something. I'm going to injure mind just so I can be on the list. All right. We'll talk about you. The cool kids. Blurting host, Mike, right. Spotted running routes. Brashad Perryman. I think that's the funniest report when it's like...

Is there like a reporter in the bushes that his head pops up with binoculars? Oh, there he is running routes over there. It's not his head. He has one of those full-on spy gear periscopes so no one can see him in the bushes. That's how Shephti gets all his news. All this says to me is it could be time to stash him. Keep rolling out Steve Smith until otherwise noted. Right, but I'm saying the Ravens really need him. Right, no, no doubt, no doubt.

Let me ask you guys, any other impressions from the game last night? The Jets are 2 and 0. The Colts are 0 and 2 along with the Seahawks. Those two teams might have been on a lot of people's Super Bowl list. Yeah. And 0 and 2, I think the probability is when you start 0 and 2 throughout the years, 11% to make the playoffs. They were talking about it. I think both those teams probably make the playoffs.

I think one of them at least will not make the playoffs. That would be interesting. Anybody else stand out from the game last night? Gore had an okay game in terms of yards per carry and actually the way he looked on the field, but he fumbled on the goal line and didn't score. And they were also using Josh Robinson way too much because every time Josh Robinson got the ball, he seemed to just do nothing with it. In addition to that, you have the what?

I just lost what I was going to say. Okay, well, this is what I was going to say. Frank Gore, if you're concerned about his yardage, he has 88 yards. Frank Gore currently has as many yards as DeMarco Murray is on pace for for the entire season. I would not use DeMarco Murray as it is kind of a benchmark for anything right now. I'm just saying that our friend Joe On who writes over at Numberfire, what did he tweet, that Arian Foster is currently only 11 yards off the pace of last year's leading rusher despite not playing?

That's funny. And a true story is all of us are only 11 yards behind the league's leading Russia last year. Chris Ivory is who I was going to bring up. Oh, okay. You know, he stole my brain away. Chris Ivory looked good as well. Did you see the play where he hurtled the man and ran a bunch? The man. He hurtled the man and ran a bunch. To grandma's house we go.

You know, but then Bilau Pal was used a lot in that game. You had Ivory kind of hurt this past week, and then they had a big lead. So I think it was an indication of game flow as to why Ivory didn't have an even bigger game. Ivory...

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Put me in, coach. Yeah. That's a cat. Thank you. All right. So waivers, there is a lot of waiver noise around a lot of guys. This is week two. You probably have a couple guys that have put a couple weeks together and you have injuries. And so let's go ahead and talk through some of these. So let's start with the wide receiver position. This is one of the hardest positions in terms of waiver wire value because...

Guys can have humongous games. And the question for us as fantasy owners, as fantasy team owners, is does it sustain and would you start him? That's the question I ask is, would I start this guy? Because just because he's, you know, had a good week, do I want to put him on my bench? I mean, wait and see sometimes. So Stevie Johnson has had another good week. If he's on your waiver wire, he has to be rostered, right? Absolutely. Has to be rostered because of exactly what you said. You would start him. If he was on my team, I would...

pretty much put him in as a flex over on many of my teams, he would actually be my flex. I have confidence in him. I have confidence in him in the red zone. Antonio Gates is still out, so I like Stevie Johnson a lot. I'm not sure how many waivers he's on, but he's got to be. Do you know his ownership percentage? Can you look at that? I can find that. I'm curious. In the meantime, a guy whose ownership percentage is about zero or close to it. No, he's on Travis Benjamin's team.

He's on his own team? Yes. And Johnny Mansell's team. Probably. Maybe. Travis Benjamin, I think he will likely be the most added guy. I would reason to bet that that's the case. He's probably the most added guy, at least of the wide receiver position. Benjamin came out last week and caught a long touchdown. This week he had two touchdowns with Johnny Mansell. And let me ask this.

in a way that favors a signing of Travis Benjamin. Okay. All right. That offense has produced top flight wide receiver play from Josh Gordon in the past. If you don't have other weapons there, because I hate Dwayne Bo. He does. He's not even playing. I don't think he has any talent whatsoever. He's got a lot of money, though. Sure, he does. And Heartline's not a big play guy. Hawkins is okay underneath. Do you sign Travis Benjamin and expect him to make these kind of plays?

All year? No. No. No. That's the best I can say is... No. No. No. I believe, and you can look this up, I believe he's...

caught three catches in each of his two games? Yeah, three a game, yes. Yeah, so three catches is not going to normally yield you good production. And the whole Josh Gordon thing, at some point, someday in the future, we've got to be able to get past, like every team, whenever there's a bad quarterback and a bad offense, but one good wide receiver, it's always Josh Gordon did it. And it's like, Travis Benjamin is not Josh Gordon. No, because he's Travis Benjamin.

Right. That's a silly comment. I'm just saying now it's a different offense. It's a different quarterback. It's a different team, even though it's, I mean, it's, I guess technically the same team, but a different team of guys. And I just think, you know, if that's the best we can do, the game plan of the Browns is not going to be to air it out. And I expect that he gets three catches a week or something like that. And maybe he'll have those big weeks, but going to Andy's first point.

Would you start him? Would you grab him, put him on your bench, and then say, you know, I'm going to roll him this week. If you have to do that in a deep league, maybe, maybe that's all right. But I feel like he's a little bit more of a waste, especially if he's going number one on waivers. It reminds me a little bit of Alan Hearns last year, who had a couple big games for Jacksonville, but had limited target numbers. Travis Benjamin smells a little ogle tree-esque. Stevie Johnson is owned in 54% of leagues. You need to add Stevie Johnson immediately.