Week 10 Waivers & QB Streamers, Dopesters

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And Mike Ride. Ah, let's go. Woo. Woo. Woo. Woo. Another almost upset in the books, my friends. Each and every week, you can count on it. What? Okay. Just saying. That's for the matchup shows. I said I got, I nailed it. Oh. Which one was it? It was the Tennessee game. Ah, yes. It wasn't really an almost. Well, sure. Upset. I get credit if they almost upset or win. That's true.

That's how I choose to interpret it. Or crush them. I thought that game line was insane. Six points when we did the matchup show. Dallas favor by six. That was a crazy line. But Amari Cooper, man. Yeah. We'll talk about him. Moving game lines. You're going to force feed him. But I saw a breakdown by Brian Baldinger. Did you see that? I did not. He showed this single play with the offensive line for Dallas in slow motion.

And this was a play where they had their entire line. And it looked like you had blindfolded each lineman and told them to randomly block. And they all blocked random people and nobody blocked the linebacker. So the second that Zee got the ball, the linebacker was there and everybody else was busy just doing random things. It was basically just saying, what is happening in Dallas? Well, they did fire their offensive line coach last week. So maybe they replaced him with...

Nobody who just go out and block somebody. Well, welcome in to the fantasy footballers podcast, Andy Mike and Jason back again Tuesday, November 6th. Brooks is here. Brooks, how are you doing this fine morning after your team got eviscerated at home? I'm still doing great. That's what's so great about you, Brooks. Brooks also got beat in our dynasty league with the second most points in the league this week, which...

Has happened almost every single week. I mean, it's unreal. I feel so bad for you, Brooks. I was, you know, touting my own sad stories of having a super team that was struggling to begin the year. But your team in our dynasty league is just, are you the high, you're the second highest points scored on the season? He is the highest. Oh, the highest. Oh, fantastic. Congratulations on your sub 500 record. So Brooks is the highest, and he's four and five. He's just. I'm the second highest and I'm.

Six and three. Yeah, you need to up your defense, Brooks. You've got to play better defense. Of course. You're letting everybody score all over you. Twisting the knife. I'm glad you're always okay, Brooks. That's fantasy football. That's fantasy football, unfortunately. I'm sure it's our fault. Our advice. It's probably our fault because we beat you. That part's true. But we did have the Monday night game last night. We can recap that a little bit. Don't forget to follow us over on Twitter at the FF ballers.

And then YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Did you guys hear that they're going to get rid of the like button on Twitter? I've heard it's in the discussions. Mr. Jack, Jack Twitter. He does what he wants. And I won't like that. Oh. Well, he says it's because he wants to create more positive interaction and actual discussions. Yeah, he's going to replace it with an interesting button. Yes. Whatever it is, I'm going to get a lot of them. Yes, you are.

It's very special. I need them. Marcus Marietta, 21 for 29, 240, and 2. Ran the ball 10 times, even though it was only for 32 yards. He did run in a touchdown. Derek Henry was barely on the field, stole a touchdown, but Dionne Lewis had a career, or not a career, a season high in touches. Takeaways from both sides of the ball last night. Well, from the Tennessee side, and you just mentioned it.

Not usual. Frogman. Yeah. Clear your door off the microphone. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. There we go. I don't think the mic picked that up. Don't worry. Yeah. No. Did you take up smoking, though, recently? It's the Dion Lewis, Derek Henry split. That is the most interesting thing. Well, exactly. They said, hey, you know what? Dionne Lewis is our best running back. And we need to.

get better as an offense, and we're just going to use him. Derek Henry is going to become maybe a goal lineback, maybe a short, you know, if we need an inch powered up the middle with the big guy. Otherwise, it was completely Dionne Lewis. Reminds me a Lindale White. You remember him? Oh, yes. Who was actually valuable? He was on Tennessee and only the goal line back. Watching Derek Henry is, it's so painfully frustrated. But does this now say,

You have a true asset in Dionne Lewis. Because if Dionne Lewis is getting this kind of work, 19 carries, he's going to be great. He's a talented running back for fantasy. I would, look, he's start worthy. The past couple games has been good. I mean, I'd rather have Dionne Lewis than Elijah McGuire. Alex Collins? No, give me Collins. Yeah, give me Collins. I think I would rather have. Well, four for 60 through the air was solid. Dionne Lewis.

Corey Davis, 6 for 56, didn't score, should have scored, 10 targets. This was a better game for Tennessee all the way around. The offense looked like it could, you know, do something. And then Zeke on the other side, he fought against a defensive front focused on him, 17 for 61, Omari Cooper, 5 for 58 in a touchdown. So Zeke did have 4 for 51 through the air. Oh, the design screens to him this year have been fun. His fantasy day was fine regardless of the poor rushing output.

Yeah, I think owners wanted a little more. Well, they always want more. He was outside the top 12. So I don't think that, I mean, it was okay. It was all right. The Amari Cooper usage was expected. You knew he was going to be force fed when they gave up a first round pick for him. I thought it was okay. The offense is broken. Sure. Sure. I mean, well, every, I mean, even the Monday night crew.

got in on the, hey, Garrett, maybe throw the ball on first and ten, just every once in a while. It's terrible. It's disgusting to watch. Just make sure the defense has to actually think about things on first down. We're Cardinals fans. We know a thing or two about that offense. About running up the middle on first down. Yeah, the play calling is the biggest issue there. I think more so than Dax play, more so than talent, you know.

They have pieces. This team could win, and the coaching change needs to happen immediately. I forgot about, for a good part of the game, I forgot about how bad the announcing was. Yeah. And then I unmuted it. Oh, nice. I thought. It's true. It's genuinely true. I unmuted it. I go, oh, yeah, it's Monday night. I genuinely thought that Jason Witten was, this was by far his best. Really? I didn't like.

Like Booger was talking about Jason Whitten, as though he wasn't there. Yeah. He would refer to, he wouldn't say you. He would refer to him as Jason Whitten. So then Jason Witten was missing on this play. Jason Witten, I was like, just, aren't you talking? Aren't you next to him, basically? He's in the, in the Mobile. Yeah, all right. News and notes. News and notes from around the league. Well, I don't, would you say the AJ Green News is panic worthy?

No, because it's kind of good news. All right. Let's fill people in. Yeah, it's, we already knew that he was going to miss some games. The worry was he was going to need foot surgery, maybe miss the rest of the season if news went sour. And he does not need foot surgery, still going to miss at least two weeks. So it's, I mean, I don't know. Can you call it good news? Not really, but it could have been much worse. I would call it good news.

If you have AJ Green, you saw the alerts coming through. You were in a panic trying to figure out what you were going to do. And if he's only going to miss two games, you'll survive. That's not definitive, though. That is not the definitive report. The report is that after a couple of weeks, he'll evaluate. He's going to be re-evaluated. And I have some concerns about the long-term health of a guy that's missed prolonged stretches of his career with toe injuries. Yeah, that's fair. You know, depending on your situation, I'm not saying you're not going to be able to count on him for the fantasy playoffs.

But I made a decision in my dynasty league that I wasn't sure. And I had had a lot of injuries. So I moved AJ Green. We know at least it's going to miss a couple games. This week is a very good on-paper matchup for Andy Dalton and the Cincinnati Bengals. If he's missing AJ Green, but he's at home against New Orleans, are you okay with the other options there? I know we talked about it being a downgrade for the offense, but you do have other weapons.

How do you feel about AJ missing and Andy Dalton, Joe Mixing, and company? I'm still okay playing him. You have their first round pick of John Ross from last year. He's returned to practice. We'll see what he can do. Josh Reynolds, most people probably haven't heard about him, but he was a fourth round pick. He has some juice. I don't think Josh Reynolds is a complete bum. So I'm not.

I'm not going to just say, you know, I don't want anything to do with... Cincinnati? Yeah. I'm sorry. Josh Malone is who I was thinking of. Yeah, that makes more sense. Yeah, I was like, not Reynolds, but Josh Malone. Josh Malone. Jason? I don't like Andy Dalton, but I'm still fine with Boyd and mixing. Personal issues? Well, ever since you dressed up as him on Halloween, he's just soured to me, but no, I...

I think without A.J. Green, they will struggle. I looked at the matchup. I almost made Andy Dalton my streamer. And I went, yeah, not going to do that. Yeah, I thought about it, too, but the upside wasn't there for me without green. Sure. All right. More. Hooray! We've officially reached the point where the Levian Bell saga is as annoying or more annoying than the Zeke won last year. Agreed. Lev Bell tweets, farewell, Miami. That's all. And then there's this.

weirdness, it seems weird at first that Adam Schafter is saying, hey, he doesn't need to come back at all to be a free agent. Everyone was saying, oh, he's, Leveo Bell has to be here by whatever it is, the 10th in order to accrue free agent status. It's really the exact, nothing has changed. Basically what it is, is he's a free agent next year, but he can be franchised tagged if he doesn't come.

By then, then they can franchise tag him at the exact same tag cost. And deal with it a whole other time, which they try to trade him. It doesn't seem like they'd want to do that. I wouldn't imagine they would want to do that. That would be some digging in on both sides. If they did that, then it's like, okay, we'll just take your career away year by year. That would be unbelievable. That would be so stupid. I mean, would you want to be a free agent and go to Pittsburgh if Pittsburgh was doing something like that? I would think twice. I would at least go.

If I'm a superstar. But, I mean, well, money talks. If Pittsburgh's giving you the biggest contract, you're going to go take it. What's interesting is does the player sort of win? I know he missed an entire season and is going to miss out on a lot of money if he chooses to sit out. But if the Steelers don't retag him and now he's just a free agent and gets to go sign a contract, he won. He got exactly what he wanted. Yeah, I would agree with that.

I would agree with that. And they save a lot of money. And they have a backup that they just tried out a year early. So, Geronimo Allison, big news. Packers Whiteout may need core muscle surgery regardless of whether he does or not. When you listen to their head, Mike McCarthy talk about this injury, he calls it significant, big. He's missing time no matter what. We, you know, Matthew Bats, one of our writers says it carries a six-week recovery timeline.