Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 10 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streaming Options, News

He is a physical freak. And coming out of high school, he was the number one highest rated football player in the nation. Okay, so this isn't just some guy that's like, oh, he's got an opportunity because Kendall writes down. Yes, that's true. But in addition, he is a physical freak that could perform in the NFL on a high level. So he also, I mean, he led the team in targets last week. That's what you want. Ten targets. So a very good sign for Green Beckham.

Put these four in order for our listeners. Nate Washington, Marvin Jones, Dorio Greenbeckham, and Funches. If they're all sitting there on a waiver wire, put them in order. Marvin Jones. Marvin Jones would be my first. DGB would be my second. I agree. Then Nasty Nate and Funches. Yep. I agree too. So running backs. Let's talk running backs, guys.

Right now, if James Starks is out there, you have to have him on your roster. Yes. I'd like to believe he's signed in most leagues, but he's not. I mean, I've talked to some people and talked about their leagues. That's the first waiver claim. But he was 6 for 83 for a touchdown through the air, 10 for 39 on the ground. And we really don't know what in the world is going on with Lacey. A report came out again saying, hey, we really got to get Lacey going. Well, duh. Tell us something we don't know.

fantasy world. It's killing people, especially this past week. So Starks is that kind of number one above the rest guy. So tell me some other guys that you are looking for on the waiver wire. Well, James White, like we talked about at the top of the show, he's one of my, I'm going to add him. I'm not blowing out my budget or things like that to get him, but I really want to speculative add him to my roster. And Carlos Williams, we talked about Shady McCoy, may or may not play.

But Carlos Williams is very solid. I mean, he was 9 for 110 and two touchdowns. He had a touchdown before Shady McCoy went down with the shoulder injury, and then after that, he exploded. So if Williams gets the opportunity, I think he can produce. Unfortunately, it's the Jets Thursday night, but I still would believe that Carlos Williams would be a...

a solid running back to play this week. Yeah, Carlos Williams is a great ad. I definitely think if he was on waivers in any league that I'm in, which I've checked. He's not. I would be putting a claim on him. I'll give you two guys that I'm looking for in some of my leagues. So you got Joyke Bell, but I actually... Gross. I know it's gross to say. It's a punchline, but the truth is he looks like he is the first in line, the starter on a team that...

wants to run the ball more. Now, of course, they're a bad team. So they're not always going to be in the games. I mean, I'm not sitting here saying that Joyc Bell is going to be a great RB1 or even an RB2 from a fantasy perspective. But he is going to be the RB1 on that team. They are going to try to run the ball more, and he's had success in the past. So he's a guy that you don't need an injury like Carlos Williams. He's just the guy, and he's probably on waivers. And then another guy that I'm adding not.

to kind of a different situation is Jay Ajai. Now, I've got Lamar Miller, so if you have Lamar Miller, I definitely think you have to go to waivers and add him because he looked. Very much a Forte Langford situation. Yeah, he looked great running the ball. They cut this morning Jonas Gray. Yep. So that says, hey.

I mean, J. Ajai in college was unfathomably good statistically and fell to the fifth round, got drafted by the dolphins. Just because of injury concerns. Right. Knee concerns, yeah. So he's a great runner. He's a great backup there, and he's a fantastic handcuff. The cutting of Jonas Gray to me says, we found our number two guy. And the last name I'm going to throw out is this is a, if Latavius Murray is out.

This weekend, and you are desperate and you're looking for a running back situation. I would grab Marcel Reese. He's been a solid fill-in guy. Now, Taiwan Jones is probably still the number two, but Marcel Reese, I imagine it's going to handle all the passing work. And he's been a success story for fantasy when he's had to fill in like this for the Raiders before.

I completely agree with you. He would be the guy in on third down every single time, probably, and he's going to have the reliability of just kind of catching a few passes at least. If you rolled Jones in there, you'd be hoping for a home run, and I wouldn't do it. So it's tough when you have a guy go out and then you have multiple choices behind them. Those are the hardest ones to pick. But Reese has been the guy before. All right, from the tight-in perspective, if you had to grab a guy this week, Mike, who would you grab? Safarian Jenkins.

It sounds like he's going to be back finally this week. He takes on Dallas, and there's not a whole lot to go on. I thought you might have a league where you get points for guys that are supposed to play this week and then get sat down. Yeah, I have a couple of those. Christine Michael is hot. He's always the top guy. He's the top big every week. Safarian Jenkins, week one, was a big part of the game plan.

Vincent Jackson's status is still unknown. So if it's Mike Evans and Safarian Jenkins, I feel confident in Jenkins. And we know that Austin Safarian Jenkins can catch the ball as well as Mike Evans. That's a guarantee. So... Did we even get into the Mike Evans ridiculous? Oh, we did. Yeah, we did. I shared it, I think just from my personal Twitter. Dropping it like it's hot. I feel like it was actually on fire. Yeah.

Eric Ebron's a guy that you can probably start this week. He's been pretty good this year. And then Crockett Gilmore is a guy whose targets might go up because of the absence of Steve Smith. So pay attention to him. Give me some defenses that you're okay with this week. I like the Steelers against the Browns. The Eagles like we had talked about last week, why we were mentioning them so highly is because they have a string of decent matchups. So the Eagles versus the Dolphins.

And, of course, the Bengals versus the Texans. The Bengals are probably not available, but those are three that stand out to me. Makes sense. All right, let's go ahead and spend some time talking about streaming quarterback options. Full stream ahead. All righty, Jason had Derek Carr last week, and it was mighty fine. It was nice. I, I'll be honest, when you guys got to our show doc before I did.

Both of your guys, I thought I might just say, forget it, I'm just jumping on with one of them because I'm not super confident in mine. So I'm going to have that disclaimer out there. But you guys, I like both of your options a ton. So let's go ahead and start with Mike. Oh, I thought you were going through last weeks. But so this week, I'm setting my phasers to kill. I've upgraded from Stun going with Captain Kurt Cousins at home against the New Orleans Saints. And that defense? I know.

It's pretty rough. They've given up 10 touchdowns in the last two weeks. Oh, man. And 300 yards, the last five weeks. And that's, I fudged Matt Ryan from 295 to 300. Pretty much, yeah. So 300, the last five weeks. And Kurt Cousins has actually been okay. If you look at a stat line from last week, it looks pretty bad. But that's not including seven drops. Ouch. Seven.

We got to get it together in Washington with the past catching. So I like Kurt Cousins a lot this week. I will probably be streaming him in a couple of my leagues. I don't see why not. One other thing about Washington that lends itself to this game is New Orleans' offense has been playing well. So it should be a higher scoring game. Yes. And they cannot, I mean, maybe against New Orleans, but they can't run the ball at all. I mean, Washington cannot run the ball. I mean, Matt Jones.

fumbled away his opportunities last week. And he has been, I mean, his two touchdown game in the beginning of the year is the biggest outlier of, that we've seen this season because people jumped on board. Oh, my good. No. And then Alfred Morris is a, I don't know. Remember when Alfred Morris was a hot fantasy commodity? He is like a car. That stinks, man. That stinks, man. I really hope he just does nothing. I hope that Morris goes somewhere and gets a chance next year.

I don't think it's going to happen. I remember preseason saying that Alfred Morris looked slow to me and looked different. I felt really stupid week one when he came out and did great, but then the rest of the season, he's kind of looked. He might be a goal line back. Yeah, I agree. So the guy that I'm going with, we've talked about a little bit at the beginning of the show in the Allen twins of Alan Robinson and Alan Hearns, but it is Mr. Beebe Blake Bortles.

So Blake Bortles just went to the New York Jets. He was in New York on their top-rated pass defense and threw... Not anymore. Yeah, not really. Well, sure. It was. It was. Now they're not because he threw for 381 yards and two touchdowns. And he's been doing that all season long. He's, you know, I think he's got to be averaging near 302 a game. And this week...

This week he's going to Baltimore, who is the 31st defense against the quarterback from a fantasy perspective. They have been giving up well more than 300 and probably averaging about three touchdowns a game. So I think this is a great stream. He's available in the majority of leagues. Pick them up. That's the thing. When I saw Blake Bortles was your stream in the week, all I thought was like cheater. Like how in the world is Blake Bortles?

available in 49% of leagues or whatever it is still. Yeah. And it's because his name's Blake Bortles. And he's not winning games. I mean, you know, if I'm a Jaguars fan, I guess I'm happy with... I'd be very excited. I'm happy with his improvement this year. But, you know, he's not the best NFL quarterback. Who has owned more? I'm checking this right now. Blake Bortles or Matt Stafford.

Matt Stafford is way more, I believe. So in ESPN, Stafford, as of right now, is owned in 59.4. Okay. So that's including a buy. People were holding Matt Stafford. Yeah. Through the buy. Over the buy. Hold on, I got to change my settings here. He's probably 51 or something for... And Bortles is 55%. That is... What is going on? This is why people who listen to our show win their leaks. Exactly. A hundred percent.

Because you hear five weeks ago which guy to own from those. And people still don't know. Let's take it up a notch with Peyton Manning. Oh. Peyton Manning is owned in 94% of leagues. He is ruining people's fantasy franchises. Hey, the last place team in our league is the Peyton Manning owner. There you go. Because... How do you not start him, right? He's Peyton Manning. He's Peyton Manning. This is, I think, the seventh week in a row we have said this.

package Peyton Manning with another player on your team and trade him away. And you'll be able to because 95% of the world still wants him. Exactly. All right, my stream of the week, I'm going to go with the same guy I went with last week, which is Ryan Fitzpatrick. Because Fitzpatrick's, he's got the Thursday night game. Yes, he's got the hand injury. But here's the three pieces. One, Eric Decker, Brandon Marshall. Yeah, they're good. Number two, they cannot run the ball right now.

Three weeks in a row, they can't really run the ball. They can run it on the goal line, but even with the two ivory touchdowns on the goal line last week, Fitzpatrick put up 25 fantasy points in our six-point league, and that's over 17 in a regular league. And Buffalo's middle of the pack when it comes to defending the pass. And it's in New York. So I'm going to just go with him. If you want a fourth guy at the bottom of the barrel that's sitting out there, Sam Bradford's got an okay matchup. Sammy Biscuits. Did you see what Rex Ryan did?

for this coming week. Oh, no. I've been waiting for it, though. So tell me. He made a new temporary one week captain on the team. He promoted one of the players to captain. Any guesses? Hold on, hold on. Who did he promote to the captain? It's not Percy Harvin. It might or might not have been the man who broke.

Gino Smith's jaw. No, he did not. Rex Ryan. Oh my goodness. I mean, come on. It's so ridiculous. You know, I like Rex Ryan just from an entertainment standpoint. I mean, he made him an honorary captain for the week. He's an honorary captain this week. I mean, ridiculous. What's funny about this is going back to New York. That's on Thursday night. That is classic.

Rex Ryan. Because he hurt, he, I mean, that hurts the Bill's chances of winning. Exactly. If Gino was in, you would have a better chance of beating the Jets. So foolish. Oh, my goodness. Oh, Rex Ryan. Yeah, well. Never leave the NFL, Rex. Never. Go from team to team, please. And then we got to get him in the booth. Yes. We're going to get Rex Ryan in the booth. Wow. That is a.