Week 11 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Legal Cheating - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/17

I like that that's the quote. He has a bit of a knee sprain. What does that even mean? That says he's super optimistic, Mike, so he couldn't. That's the worst it gets. Yeah, it is a short week. So it's worth monitoring. If they had practice, he would not have practiced. Yeah, Thursday night game. Thursday night game. So you got to pay attention and at least be ready to pivot.

I mean, look, David Moore would be an actual streaming option at the wide receiver position. He's involved from time to time anyways. Patrick Peterson will be on D.K. McCaff again. And if Tyler Lockett is unable to go for whatever reason, the Cardinals, I believe, are the third worst team in terms of fancy points given up to the wide receiver position over the last five weeks. So you are looking at opportunities. You know, Wilson's going to get his and Kyler's going to score. So I, you know.

You could do worse. I know Swain will be an option as well. Swain would be who I would look at just because he projects more. I think they'll keep David Moore in the role he has, but yeah, hopefully you have Tyler Lockett and it's not an issue. Okay. Carlos Hyde will return for Thursday's game against the Cardinals unsure about Chris Carson. So continue to monitor. We'll have updates before the Thursday night game there. That's a Pete Carroll thinks Carlos Hyde will return. Just want to make sure.

Oh, he think. Okay, thank you, Brooks. Yes. So Carlos Hyde will not be returning. He has a bit of a chance to return is what the, no. Zach Ertz will, he's designated to return from injured reserve, but he's not been activated. Right. He has 21 days. That's the window where he can practice without coming off the IR. And so he'll be back in the next three weeks. Which I believe, Mike, you have a, what, 21 days to forgiveness plan in place for Zach Ertz? Can you get there?

This is, in fact, where I am intentionally dropping him so someone else could pick him up. Oh, okay. So 21 days to vindictiveness. Andy Dalton has been activated from the reserve COVID list. Do you guys know anything else about his potential? Is he starting this week? Yeah, he'll be starting. He's been practicing and now that he's activated, he's good to go.

I guess the only takeaway I would have there fantasy-wise was he tended to target Marty Cooper a little bit more than the backups did. Sam Darnold will not play in week 11. He's on a throwing program or something that I heard from Adam Gaze there. It puts Brasad Perryman in play. It really does because. Yeah, Flacco is throwing the ball down the field. So Jets. Maybe. There was a report. I don't know if we've mentioned it on the show.

And it was from a beat reporter in the New York area. But they also talked about La Michael P. Ryan. And the fact the team, much like DeAndre Swift with Detroit, he's supposed to be the featured back. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean a lot in New York. But P. Ryan is involved in the passing game a little bit. There have been the occasional start this year where he's been relevant. So if Michael P. Ryan, if you need somebody and you're desperate, he may be the premier back for the Jets this week.

Yay. Yeah, I wanted to get the reaction. And then Jordan Howard has been released by the Miami Dolphins. And this was probably a case of, look, if you're not going to use them now, you probably never will. So just let them go. Yes. Yeah, good night, sweet prince, Jordan Howard. Good night, sweet prince. All right, I do want to talk about our waiver picks of the week. Before we do that, let's thank our sponsors, Jason. Shall we do that? We shall.

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He was on the field 88% of the time. He was involved, but Carson Wentz had, oh, man, such a bad game. Certainly did not take it all the way to 100. He was like 88. 80. Sure. It's still a B. Alan Robinson, which is, yeah, Alan Robinson, not quite to 100. 106 passing yards. Not going to get it done.

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All right. We'll try to kick you in the face later with some breaking news. I will. I'll make you a promise, Mike. I will hit a random drop at some point in the waiver segment. Oh, man. Cool. Cool. All right. Returning from the by, Falcons, Cowboys, Chiefs, Jets. Heading to the buy, bills, bears, giants, 49ers. Are you feeling like? That's my digs Josh Allen stack wanted to buy. Are you going to miss them?

Yes, I am going to miss them desperately, and hopefully there's some good waiver wire pickups. I feel like I do not like the waiver wire pickups at wide receiver for the most part. There's a couple options out there, but I think that it's a week, week in my opinion. A week week. Yes. Yeah. Those were spelled different. A couple stacks. I mean, last week we lost Mahomes and the Chiefs and this week, the Bills, productive fantasy offense heading to the buy.

So let's talk a little bit about the kind of probably rostered worth checking on wide receivers to start this segment out. That would be Debo, Samuel, coming off of the buy. He's heading into the buy. Yeah, he's heading into the buy. I know Mike and I have talked about this this last week while you weren't here. We just disagree. I don't want Debo. Debo is not that appealing to me.

in the sense that so he's, you know, he was injured and then he's going to buy. Then he comes back against the Rams and he's been injured. Is this someone that should be taking up a roster spot? Yeah, I mean, I understand why. I mean, he's not an imminent help to your team, but it's the same case. I look at him the way we've looked at Iyuk the past couple weeks. You kind of grab him and you start him and you know that Kyle Shanahan builds the offense around him. So when Debo's back, I think he'll build the offense around Debo.

I'm not extremely excited about it. I mean, you have a problem at the quarterback position. Like you said, a couple bad matchups coming out. So, yeah, I mean, not juiced. And then Marvin Jones probably rostered, but he is actually the wide receiver seven over the last month. Yeah, he's been, it took him a while to get going. Yep. Yeah. So.

But no Kenny Gulladay lately, and that means Marvin Jones. You know, I'm starting him in a Dynasty League this week. I have confidence. It's a great matchup for Stafford this upcoming week. So if Marvin was out there, he's a plug-and-play instant start type of guy. He would be a great pickup. Now, Hollywood Brown is still the number one drop question for everybody. I mean, you've got to let go. Yeah, you have to drop them. I mean, we said even last week that you can move on, but now I feel like you have to. Yeah, it's too bad.

All right, main waiver wire pickups for the week. I want to hear what level of excitement you guys have for these players, because we've talked about a lot of them. And I kind of get what you're saying, Jason. There's a number of players that seem like they are interesting yet not exciting. And there are a number of players that you kind of have to make a judgment call on and whether or not it will continue. You know, MBS has had some good weeks, but Alan Lazzard could be back. It could be a pickup in his own right.

And that's the problem that I have with both of these players is that MVS has finally looked good. Alan Lazard would have been a pickup. But now you've got MVS and Lazard. You're not sure who you would really play and both guys have a bad matchup for two weeks. You've got Indianapolis and Chicago back-to-back weeks. So are you really picking those guys up and starting them with confidence? I'm not. No, neither am I. And I know that you might hit on one of them. But MVS, I mean.

He hangs out with Sammy Watkins. There's no question about it. These two guys, you can't put them in your lineup. When you want to put them in your lineup, you are disappointed. And then Lazard, I know he had a nice coming out party of sorts at the beginning of the year, but you have a variable of coming off the injury right now. And so I don't have any confidence in Lazard coming out of this injury. I don't.

I don't think that I turn to either of these players this week on the Waverware, but I want to let Mike weigh in because I think he might have a different opinion. I am not picking up MVS to play. I am picking up Lazard to bolster a roster. Lizard or Debo? Lizard. Assuming that Lazard is going to play this week. I'm with Jason. I don't, the matchups, they stink for the next couple weeks.

But there is still plenty of fantasy football weeks left, including a three-week playoffs where he gets to play Detroit, Carolina, and the Tennessee Titans. That's three-plus matches for Alan Lazard. If you pick him up right now and you see that he gets back to that he is the number two in the depth chart, then you could have a really good play for the fantasy playoffs. He isn't the quick fix patch player, though.

like a couple other of these wide receivers we're going to talk about. I'm more interested in a couple other names. Jacoby Myers is near the top of the list because you saw Nikiel Harry come back and then not be involved in the offense whatsoever. Myers, seven more targets in this game. It's a run-first offense, but the matchups over the next few weeks are nice, Houston, Arizona. And I'm kind of interested in Myers. If Cam is...

kind of locking in on a single target. You don't have Edelman. You don't have Harry with the connection. What's your interest level on Jacoby Myers as a spot start? He is probably my number one pickup. And I'm not thrilled about it. But he has been good for three weeks in a row. He's got two plus matchups coming back. And like you said, it was nice to see that Harry did not.

really affected. You know, he wouldn't have had a great game if he didn't throw a touchdown, but he did. He's involved. And Jacoby Myers, to me, is a player that is widely available with a good matchup where you can grab them, plug them, play him. He's seen 40% of the targets three straight weeks in a row. I mean, that's absurd. Yeah, I mean, a 30% market of targets is great. That's like, that's elite.

It's elite. So 40% is upset. However, we do know that from the Bears, percentage is not everything. I believe Alan Robinson had about 50% of the yards, but it didn't matter. Now, I want to throw two names out with that, though. Jacobi Myers and then Josh Reynolds and Michael Pittman. Michael Pittman has impressed me. Pittman is my favorite grab of the week.