Fantasy Football - Week 14 Waivers & Streamers + Boom/Bust Pickups - Podcast for 12/2

I just feel like having the starter is pretty valuable. But I put him behind Rodriguez and Mason ahead of the quorum Algier tier myself. I'm okay with that. Any other names you want to mention there? We want to talk wide outs. I mean, keep your eye on Chuba that he's on by this week. He gets the Saints after that. Yeah, he ran well. The thing is Chuba is good. Chuba is a good player. Rico Doudal. went nuclear and you had to keep him on the field. Now that that seemingly has worn off that little couple games stretch, it's going to be hot hand. I don't know for sure in that New Orleans game if it will be a RICO or a Chuba game, but Chuba is worth picking up. It's a good mention and a quick update for the Blake Quorum situation because Kyron had left hurt, came back, and then the most recent comments moments ago from McVeigh.

Nothing that we expect to restrict guys from being available this week regarding both Kyrant and then there was a Devante Adams concern, and neither guy looks to be limited. And put your insurance backs on your bench. For sure. Please. Or your opponents. Yes, that's true. If you don't need any. Wide receiver options this week, help me sort through Tampa Bay. Because I feel like I could see a world where picking up and playing Tampa Bay wide receivers like Godwin. who I thought was, you know, he looked involved. He was three for 78 and he dropped the touchdown. That was an easy one. You know, Mike Evans coming back. Where does that put a book on the start, sit decision list? Like, it's all good for Baker. Like, if you need Baker to have a resurgence to close the year, his opportunity is right in front of him. Yeah. But I do worry about consistency and snap counts from guys coming back. I mean, Evans had the concussion collarbone combo. Not recommended.

No. 10 out of 10 doctors. Do not recommend that. Not even 9 out of 10. It's a full 10. So I personally, I like Godwin much more than picking up Evans. I do too, especially if you're looking at the timeline of the season. Mike Evans is he's eligible to return right now. His normal timeline that we were looking at when the injury first happened would put him at like a somewhere week 14, which is this week we're going into all the way to week 16. I don't think that he's going to come back and dominate right off the bat. So let's say he misses this week and then plays next week, but then he's getting kind of back in the midst slowly. Godwin did the same thing. When he got back, they didn't just say, oh, go out there and play 100% of snaps. But he is further along. So if you need someone right now as we're in the playoffs, I would rather have Godwin than Evans. The schedule is New Orleans, Atlanta, Carolina the next three weeks for Tampa Bay wide receivers.

There are exciting names to talk about a wide receiver. In particular, if you want to hit the button, this would be your time to do it. Yeah, that does to me what the red light did to you yesterday. Yeah, I get it. Isaac to Slah played on 94% of routes or 94% route participation last week for the Lions. If Amunrah misses the Dallas game, goodness gracious. Yeah, what does that look like? It looks like Jaymo and Tuslaw having huge opportunities. Yeah. I was, and we'll get into it later with my streamer, so I'll spoil it. But it's insane to look at the season-long fantasy points given up to the quarterback position by the Dallas Cowboys. They don't take a week off when it comes to points above expectation for that other quarterback. They're fighting the good fight. They don't care who you are, where you've been. Max Brasmer, go find yourself the Cowboys to play.

You'll have yourself a better game. Let's not get out of control. So Tislaw is interesting. Yeah, I mean, there's a one week rental. As a one week start. I think I think it could be multiple weeks. If it takes I just don't like the Rams on the road the next week. That's that's fine. Certainly not to run against them, but that might be even more reason why you think you're going to have to pass against the Rams. But Tislaw is a guy they, they trade it up for a third round. rookie wide receiver, big body, and so far he has flashed so many times from training camp to preseason to small opportunities in the season. And now a big opportunity is here. I think this could be a multi-week absence for Amin Ra. I don't expect them to play this week, considering it's a short week. The matchup is just so delicious. He is a great pick up and plug in. If you are struggling, and you need to.

have a big performance. Like the floor for Tesla is zero. Yes, it is. This is a volatile pick. But if you want to say who is 100% available on waiver or 95% available on waivers, they could go out there and get 80 yards and two touchdowns. It feels like a waiver Alec Pierce availability. Exactly. That's how it feels with this law. So he is very high for me if you need a start right now. And a rookie. I mean, There's always potential here that he is better than even we hope. Sure. Yeah, he will need to up those total touches. But man, he's got three touchdowns on six catches. Yeah. That's his current situation. Ridiculous. Dantavian Wix last week, six for 94 and 2, only 3% rostered. Spotstar potential for Wix for sure against Chicago.

Jaden Reed, we don't know if he'll be back this week. He's also on the list, but 42% rostered tucked away in a lot of people's IR spots. Jaden Higgins, rookie wide receiver for the Houston Texans. He's been very good over the last, you know, a while. Feels like he's establishing. Yeah, I mean, and honestly, I think he has played better than even his box score says. His box score's been pretty good. He's getting, you know, 60 yards a game right now, being very involved, making big plays in big moments. I don't love the matchup against Kansas City. But this is a second round wide receiver who is coming on. Get Arizona and Vegas after that. Exactly. You like Tesla more, though, as a pickup? If I've got to play someone this week, I would rather throw Tesla in there. But if I'm looking like, hey, I need someone for the playoff run, I think I would lean on the Higgins side. I did laugh at the ping pong situation with the Jets where everyone was chasing Metchie. And then the weather news comes out and it's not good weather.

And so people run away from METI. Mitchell has 12 targets for 8 for 102. And, you know, I posted his... Metschie still had eight targets. Yeah, I posted the Adnoy Mitchell film today. 12 targets, 8 for 102 and 1. Most of the routes were the same thing. It's, you know, out routes. He had the deep play. He had another deep opportunity that didn't work out. You know, Mitchell is much more explosive. You're going to get the higher upside situation. The PPR play is METI. Both of them, they play Miami this week, you could probably do worse. You probably get some production. And then did you buy into Devon Valet's performance, 8 for 93 and 1? It felt kind of out of nowhere. Johnson ended up not doing anything. No, well, I've got to, you had a really high target share. It just didn't turn into what we needed from, from Joanson. I want the reception share. Yeah, I know. That's the one I want. The valet thing seems out of nowhere, but do remember the long-term story of,

The Saints shocked everyone when they traded, I think, a four and a seven, if I'm remembering it right, like two picks outright to go get Devon Vele from the Broncos. It felt super random, very strange. Where does he fit in on this team? They trade away Shaheed about a month ago or so. So it's not completely out of nowhere. And Velae, for his credit, on the Broncos, his rookie year, he had a couple flash moments where like, okay, maybe. Maybe he belongs in the league. I think valet and a full PPR is, yeah, no, it's not completely out of nowhere. And coming out of the buy, which was, I think, you know, that was now Chuck's second game. He had seven targets, eight targets this last week. So this could, I mean, they need him. Yeah. It can't be Chris Olave and no one. So Velae is certainly a worthy PPR pickup. And Chuck's playing all right. Yeah. I.

I'm still shocked that Kashon Booty is only 49% rostered. He scored again last night. He's always a threat to score. He's one of the favorite targets of the league MVP potentially. I don't, I think he belongs on rosters, unquestionably. Yeah, he's just tough of he's going on by. So it's the, do you need something right now or do you need? He's a good stash for later. If you're pretty set, I think Booty would be, would rank very high for me. If you throw out his, the game he got injured in, right? And then he missed two games. He wide receiver 42011, then 72, and then 22 last night. It's been pretty good. Yep. And then speaking of rookies coming out of a by week, Pat Bryant of the Denver Broncos. Yeah, he's in the same Higgins to Slav. Pay attention to the rookie in the back half. Where it was, there was a noticeable jump. He had been trending in a positive direction while Troy Franklin.

off of the extremely hot start. He had been fading. You go, so before the buy week, six targets, five for 82 against the chiefs, goes to the biweek, has by far his highest snapshot. He ran around on 77% of the dropbacks. He looks like he's turning into the wide receiver two for this team. Now that's not necessarily like the greatest thing because Bo Nix in the office is so all over the place. He is a, he looks like an ascending player that might help a spot starter in the playoffs. It feels like Sean Payton, if you, if you brought that up to him, he would like bench him just to, just to stick it to you. Probably. Drop candidates. People want to know, would you drop these players to get a defense for a playoff matchup or these, or drop them for an insurance running back? Xavier worthy. Yes, I would drop Xavier worthy. He is, is.

Mahomes was playing well, but even in this last week when he had eight targets, which was more than he's had in forever, he still was irrelevant. We talked a lot about... He was at six. He was at eight against the goals. Oh, the week before. Yeah. We talk a lot about landmines. There are players with big names that you could drop to waivers. Somebody might pick them up and play them. Because if you saw worthy on the waivers, you'd be like, ooh. Same with Pearsall. Yeah, for sure. I feel like Pearsall is a player you should drop. I... Yeah. Because the defense and the insurance backs are more valuable.

And it seems like Jennings is the one. He's established himself. I've got two tough names to finish this out, drop candidates. Brought up by the Fookland. D.K. Metcalfe. No. I wouldn't. My feelings on D.K. Metcalfe are documented. I wouldn't drop him because he is a player that could have a big game on just any given week. And then Brian Thomas Jr. Definitely not. No idea what to do there. No, I mean, Jacobi Myers there. With Brenton Strangeback, I'm not saying that Brian Thomas Jr. somebody I would have the guts to drop, but I could see a world where he has pure landmine. That could happen. That's pretty much been the entire year. Yeah, he's had a lot of bad games. I certainly would not drop him. I think he's a fantastic play this week. If you look at him last week, the Jacobi Myers touchdown this past week, the deep shot that was awesome. I don't know if you guys have seen that play.

Watch Brian Thomas on that play. I mean, that dude is the reason that touchdown happened. He ran down that field and blocked like a madman and opened things up for him. He looks healthy. He's on the field. And again, that game against Jacksonville, it got the Jacksonville's game this last week, got out of hand so quick that all the offense did basically nothing for the second half. So I discount that first game back for Brian Thomas Jr. I think he's. a good, he's got a good matchup this week. I would play him. My biggest worry with him is that they have learned how to win without him quite capably. They have learned a different way to play. They got two good running backs, the tight end, Myers. Now Parker Washington going out, frees up some targets, so you could be right. Let's take a break and talk tight ends, defenses, quarterbacks. All right. We are in the heart of the fantasy season and the injuries are already piling up. ACLs, stingers, and turf toes, oh my.

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And the schedule, Jets, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cincinnati for the, what is that, second week of the playoffs. Britain's Strange, 47% rostered, been heavily involved. I almost said evolved. He's also heavily evolved. He's a Pokemon. Are we at two or three? Stage three? Yeah. Yeah, for playoffs. Waller and Strange. Who do you like more? I like Waller. I think that he is, you know, when we saw him earlier this season. He was really involved. Four touchdowns in three games. And then he got injured. He was the tight end two, the tight end six in his first two games as they ramped him up. I think they're going to ramp him up more. And I brought this up yesterday. The playoff schedule for him is the best. For weeks 15, 16, 17, he has the best matchups for tight in. You look at Tua. Tua looks his way around the end zone. He did again this last week. They didn't connect on the touchdown.

But he's shown enough where I want to take the shot at, you know, Brenton Strange involved, but just like you were talking about with Brian Thomas, they've got a lot of different ways to go. It feels like with Darren Waller, they really need Darren Waller to step up. It's like Waddle, A. Chan, and then they need Waller. I think Fanon might be an interesting ad. I think, you know, we talked about three wide receiver rookies. I think Harold Fanon, you saw the big play with Soudoir Sanders this past week. Tennessee this upcoming week, then Chicago and Buffalo. I think Fanon might be interesting. Colston Loveland is also there in the mix. His schedule is kind of stinky doo-doo, but he's rough. He's a good player. Those are the only four names I care about at Titan. Yeah, I agree. Loveland to me has very, very much impressed me. His rookie season, you know, now that he's gotten healthy.

He has impressed me on a per play basis. I don't think I can really rely on him at all to actually go out there and have enough total yards and touchdown opportunities with the way that the bears are spreading the ball around. The matchups coming up. I am excited for his future. This is next year thing. Yeah. But I am not, you know, I would take everyone else we named over him. Even fanning? Yeah. Okay. If you had a flex spot and you had to play like a Dunes A or Loveland, what would you do? Oh, man. Gross. I'd play a dunes A and I'd hate myself. All right. Defensive opportunities here, players, teams to pick up, you know, weeks 14 through 17. They all matter right now. They all matter right now. I think there's a lot of screaming in the more house last night. There was some vocal warmups needed that did not happen. Yeah, I mean, this is, did you.

Eat a bonfire? I got a little charcoal in there. This is the time of year where you need to be 100%. I would much rather roster a defense I know I'm going to play two weeks from now in the playoffs that is going to be in my starting lineup than even some of these insurance running backs. Like I know I have to score points two weeks from now. If I don't have, look at your defense on your roster and say, look at their schedule. Can I start them or do I need to pick someone else up? So we need to look at a couple of weeks here. I mean, my favorite pick up by far when you look at relative to availability, right? You've got big teams like the Broncos and Browns that are number one and two on my defensive rankings this week that play amazing teams. And they're just in any competitive league, they're pretty much not going to be there. But I said this three weeks ago, two weeks ago, Tampa Bay is my favorite one to pick up. Tampa Bay plays New Orleans, Atlanta, Carolina, Miami.

Those are four really plus matchups. They're the only team that I can see with four plus matchups in a row. I love Tampa Bay. I think Miami is interesting because you're playing New York. They're playing hard still. And then Pittsburgh has a quarterback conundrum situation going on. Those two are sub 30% roster. Yeah. I agree completely. If the Bucks are out there, they would probably be my number one pickup. Would you take the Bucks or the Saints? So the Saints, to me, are... Who we brought up last week. Yeah, I mean, I really like the Saints. I think that the Saints defense and their schedule is... I guess I would go to the Saints there, because I'm looking at the playoffs specifically. Carolina, New York, Tennessee. The Carolina matchup scares me a little bit because they just...

Every once in a while, they go crazy. Carolina's in that Tampa Bay lineup as well. Yep. No, no, no. It's been a plus matchup most of the time. The Saints, they've been pretty good even of late. Yeah, they really have it. Fantasy points wise, I have them as 12, 11, and 6 against Carolina, Atlanta, and Miami, and the schedule's good. So they're definitely on that list, and your opponent probably sees them, and it's like, cool. I'm glad you're doing that. Yeah. And it might. Really working your advantage. Watching them this past week, I guess my, I mean, you said, Waller led the team. Yeah, with 47 yards. The Saints defense is, especially at home. They get, like, the shadow kind of comes over the team because the offense isn't the strongest, but Tyler Shuck is playing, he's playing okay. Let me, but you would need, you need Chuck to play at least okay.

for the Saints defense. Because if an offense goes so bad, even an elite defense can't overcome it. There is no need to lock in on one defense for these weeks, though. So if you look at week 15, Carolina plays New Orleans, Chicago plays Cleveland, Dallas plays the Minnesota offense. Yeah. Dallas is a great target. Yeah, they're available in every league because their defense has been so bad on the course of the year, but they play Minnesota. Yeah, you're going to face nine or Brosmer. Oh, which, uh, Washington plays Minnesota this week. Yeah, absolutely. And they are widely available. Then in week 16, targets the Chiefs, only 28% roster, they play Tennessee. That is going to be an unbelievable opportunity for them. Buffalo plays Shadour and the Browns. The Falcons play the Cardinals who are turnover prone, and the Jets face New Orleans. So both sides of that matchup might work out. Giants play Minnesota that week. So these are Week 16 highlights. You can save this whole part of the show and reference it again.

And then in week 17, championship week, you know, we mentioned the Giants, the Saints have good matchups against the Raiders and the Titans. And then, yeah, I think those are the main ones. Tampa Bay, you know, has Miami that week. That one's on the road. And we'll get into it as the playoffs progress as well. So let's get into streaming quarterback options. Full stream ahead. It is rare to get to this segment, and I was the last person to put a name in and not have. this one taken, but to me, Jared Goff is the unbelievable stream of the week. It really can't go wrong for Jared Goff. He's at home facing Dallas. The last two weeks, Dallas gave an extra nine points above expectation, an extra six above expectation. Like I said, no games this year, zero in which they did not give up more than the expected points for the quarterback.

It's the highest over under the week. 53 and a half. You know Dallas is going to score a bunch of points. Games at Ford Field are averaging 53 combined points. This is amazing. Derek Gop is the easiest stream I've had to pick all year. Do, because none of us officially have. Oh, is that Duval? And then he said Duval. I see what you did there. The ultimate. Streamer, who's not an official pick from us this week. Ultimate streamer. Jacoby Verset plays the Rams. Are we... I'm still fine? I'm fine with that. Mostly because Bryce Young went crazy again some last week. Because Jacobi is still... I was so confident last week. I'm like, this is the week. The roster percentage is going to change. He's going to be... He's still not roster? 53% on sleeper. Well, this matchup's not going to help. I'm going to write his line. Okay. 46 pass attempts.

Wow. Nice. 296 yards passing. Okay. Three fumbles. No, not three. I'll give you two fumbles in this game. Both lost? One lost, one recovered, and one pick. How many touchdowns? Two. Yeah. That feels right. 296. I'm still fine with it. We're giving you some options here, but don't forget about Jacoby. He's out there. I don't mind Jason's picture either. Jason's, I think, is of a guy who, what's his percentage? Trevor Lawrence, he's available out there in some. Yeah, he's sub 50s. Yeah, he's available out there in half of leagues. He's quietly been a top 12 quarterback in four of the last five weeks. He's looking better and better. The Jaguars are looking better and better. I found it a little insulting on the broadcast last night when they were talking about the...

who's playing for the number one seed, and it was, they listed the Colts. It was like, wait, they're not even number one in their division. I have to cut you off for just two seconds. No. All right, go on. All right. Okay, I'll allow it. I just, since Jacoby became the starter, he's on pace. Oh, Jacoby percent? Yeah, for 731 past attempts, 5,313 yards. Yeah. 32 touchdown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. and a nice 300 rushing year. And somehow his EPA is terrible. I don't really understand that, but. Sorry, sorry. You were talking Trevor Lawrence. They are playing good football. They're going on the road to Indy. This is a monstrous game where both teams are going to have to show up. Games 48 and a half point over under. That's the third highest of the week. And the Colts pass defense is beatable. 28th in passing yards allowed. 27th in pressure rate.

You got Sauce Gardner is not going to be there. You know, they saw a need to add an elite corner. They did, and they have lost him for this week. Yeah. Which is part of why I like Brian Thomas Jr. this week. And hopefully, we're giving you advice. Hopefully you don't have to roll with this one. Steel under hands. You can shake your head. No, no, no, no. That's not like to demean. I'm shaking my head because last week on this show, Jason brought up maybe playing to Rod Taylor, and you and I shamed him. I did not. I did not shame him. I believe you did. I think I can find the receipt. Okay, look for him. Let me know. But nevertheless, we sort of, well, maybe it wasn't you. Maybe it was Kyle persuading him to go with someone else. It was more like, that's a tough thing to say out loud. Go on. Talk about Tyler Shuck. It's on the road against Tampa Bay. You guys are talking up to the Tampa Bay DST. I'm a little more hesitant about them.

as they are 29th and passing yards per game allowed. They're dead last and scheduled just at points to quarterback since week nine. Tyler Shuck is averaging four rushing attempts per game. We like that for a nice little baseline, and it's been 50-50. He's been red-light green light, and this would be the red light week if you buy into that type of ridiculous analysis. But 50% of his starts, his true starts, he's been solid. I mean, 19 points against Carolina, 17.4. against Miami just outside of the top 12 quarterbacks. Like I said, these are not saying, put this guy in over your starter, but maybe a situation has risen in your league where you're like, crap, I need to, I'm Brock Purdy and I have no one else. Tyler Shuck is on your way for wire. I, you know, I think I've been very impressed with Shuck. He hasn't been perfect, but he's completing 68% of his passes. Caleb Williams dreams of that. He's on pace for.

4,000 passing yards. And that's through his first four starts. You know, you look at the first four starts of Bo Nix's career. It was way worse than that. This is a rookie who should be getting better as the season finishes and hasn't been bad to start. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Drop candidates Lamar Jackson. Oh my, no. Don't do that. Dude. Lamar will be okay. I'll say it again. I do not envy anyone. with lamar if you're winning in this week and you have lamar don't ask me because here's the answer you're on your own i will not be the scapegoat for that decision no that i don't i don't know what i would do knows yeah i answered somebody's question a couple weeks ago lamar instead of jacobe and then i was held accountable for everything they what are you doing man i said lamar just played jacobi goodness gracious all right