Week 10 Waivers & QB Streamers, Dopesters

And when you look at the target counts that the whiteouts are getting, Doug Baldwin, it's like four targets. Tyler Lockett is like four targets. Nick Vanette had eight targets. So I think he's interesting. Those are Red Dead's targets. Russell? Come on. Okay, so this week you can play Nick Venet against the Rams, Chris Herndon against Buffalo, or Ben Watson against the Bengals, which of those three? How would you prioritize? I would genuinely order them Ben Watson.

Chris Herndon, Nick Bennett. I actually would as well. I'm going to go with the best offense. Ben Watson looked nice. Chris Herndon on the upward trajectory and then Nick Bennett. I would go, Watson is my number one of those three. I'm concerned for Herndon because the Buffalo's defense is not terrible. And Sam Darnel has been a turnover machine. This game is going to be, it's going to be special. Yeah, the nice thing about Herndon is,

they will, because of Buffalo and more so because of Buffalo's offense, there will be short fields. So I think that's really valuable for a guy like Donald. For him to get touchdowns, he needs a shorter field right now at this point in his rookie career. And Hernan's looked at near the goal line. So I think they'll have a couple more red zone opportunities than they had last week for sure. Hernan's been eight or more fantasy points for four straight weeks. Sure. He's interesting.

Yeah. It's interesting. But if you're looking for a long-term value, he's playing Buffalo this week, and then he's on buy. Right. So you, if you're saying, oh, crap, I need a guy for a few weeks, I would prioritize the other guys. With Uzama, Doyle, Ben Watson, all ahead of him. Hopefully you don't need Herndon. What defenses are you looking to stream the team? The Jets. Yeah. The Jets and even Buffalo. They play each other. Yep. That's going to.

There's going to be defensive scoring, but if they are not available, the Jets have forced 21 sacks and 15 turnovers on the season, which is great. Yes. And they go up against a team that says, you don't have to force us. We'll do it ourselves. Right. Then the Chargers get to play the Raiders. That's going to be a very solid play. The Eagles coming off of the buy week. Maybe you can snatch them up and play them against Dallas. And then.

Green Bay versus Miami. I'm okay with that as well. All right. Let's get to the quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. All right. Who's your streamer this week, Mike? I'm going with Baker if he is available and we've got him down as a 38% owned guy. He gets to play Atlanta. I know that the Atlanta defense, they showed up.

so to speak, against Washington. Alex Smith did have over 300 yards. He just didn't come through with that second touchdown. That would have put him over the top to be a great quarterback play. So I like Baker against the Falcons. Jason? I'm going with the guy that was... I'm terrified of yours. Oh, I think it's... I like it. I might overtly oppose it. Oh, we'll see. By all means, try. I'm going with a guy that was benched two weeks ago, and he's got...

A snake. I got a snake, man. Blake the snake. Blake is overtly rooted against by everyone every single week. Including his own team. Yeah, it's really true. So you're out there going, Jason, what are you doing? This guy's bench mid game put up two fantasy points two weeks ago. How in the world can you stream Blake the snake? Here's how. It's a combination of a couple of... You click the button. A couple of great things. You put him in your lineup and you click save.

He's on pace for 522 rushing yards. He, and that's with being benched and basically not playing two weeks ago. He's coming off the by. I think the rushing baseline helps him enough. He's actually had several games this year where he's been very good. For fantasy, look, he's never been a great real world quarterback, but in fantasy, he's always been fine. He's playing. He has not always been fine.

Oh, yes, he has. Since his, since his, I'm not, as a streamer. In the season rankings, he's averaged the quarterback eight over the last three years with last year being his worst year as quarterback 13. It's official. I'm going to overtly oppose it this week. Eight turnovers over the last four weeks. What do you think? Three touchdowns over the last four weeks. What do you think of Derek Carr? What do you think of Derek Carr? What do you think of Derek Carr? Andy, what do you think of Derek Carr? Uh, good or bad? That Raiders offense, good or bad? Bad.

Okay. How about 244 yards of three touchdowns? That's what Derek Carr did against the Indianapolis defense. I understand. It's not a question of whether he could do it. It's a question of whether it's a why question. Why stream a guy who's struggling this immensely? Eight turnovers to three touchdowns over a four-week span. As a great question. Desperate times. No, not desperate times. That's a great question. The reason I chose because.

We have to do that in fantasy. Go, why? Because we're going to get things wrong. But what is the reason for the decision? I'm going with Blake the Snake specifically over Andy Dalton because not because he's safer, but because he has the ability, I think, to have that 30-point game. If Andrew Luck is scoring and they've got to use him and he's running the ball, we just see big fantasy games from time to time out of Blake.

Bortles and... I will water bet you, Andy Dalton versus Blake Bortles if you want. Let's do it. Waterbet. Look, we're not... We're not Yesman on this show. We don't always agree with each other. I don't... I think the upside of Andy Dalton's higher at home. This game's on the road. Derek Har was at home against Indianapolis. I like it. I also think there's a massive, massive difference between the Raiders defense and the Jaguars defense. So...

The logic of Andrew Lux putting up a bunch of points against them doesn't make sense to me. Nothing makes sense to me. Also, we're talking about streamers here. Andy Dalton is not available to stream. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. He'll be dropped. He was almost my streamer this week. He's available in 40% less than 40% of leagues. Okay. To me, that's not a streaming candidate. All right.

All right. So you're firmly in the let's go with the guy, eight turnovers, three touchdowns in the last four weeks. Yeah, let's go against the defense that just allows top quarterback performances. Unless your name is Nathan, or not Nathan Peterman, Derek Anderson. That's over-emphasizing the matchup to me. But that's what it's all about, man. It hasn't worked out for Blake for four straight weeks. Why jump in that fire? All right. I'm with it, though. I'm with it. Okay.

My streamer this week is actually Marcus Mariotta. He had 30 fancy points last night, 10 rushing attempts. He faces New England at home. The offense looked like it had a little bit of life to it. And New England is actually 27th against opposing quarterbacks in terms of fancy points against. So there's a lot of upside for Marioita. There's also a pretty high floor with New England giving up that many points to opposing quarterbacks. And ultimately, I wouldn't be going there if they were on the road, despite those numbers up in New England.

At home, Mario da after the win, put up 28 points last night. I'm going to go with Marioita as a streaming option. And the nice thing about Marioita is probably available in your league. So I don't know. You know, Kirk Cousins, Deshaun Watson, if you're an owner of those two guys on Buy, you can look at Mariotta Baker, Blake the Snake. There are some other guys out there, but those are kind of the ones we picked out for this week. Yes. Before we close out the show, I want to give a shout out to Tim.

On Twitter, he sent me the Dictionary.com Word of the Day. I've never heard this. The Dictionary.com Word of the Day is dopster. Dopster. Dopster who, a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sporting events, or other contests that hold public interest. You're telling me I'm a do ptoaster? So, by definition, we are doepsters. Oh, that's pretty dopster. Wow. I feel...

Thanks, Tim. So in other words, when we introduce our profession to our, like our grandmother and like those people that don't understand what we do, we should just go. Professional doepster. Just go with dobsters. I'm a dopster. Yeah. Well, especially grandma, mom. She would, she'd get it. I'm a dopster fire. Dopester fire. Yeah. All right. That is it, guys. We've got, well, we've got an exciting week 10 coming up.

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