Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 8 Waivers, Streams of the Week, Goodbye Arian

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Hello, everybody. Oh, Jason's playing the guitar. Wow, you're a lefty. That's a lefty guitar you had there. Well, I sure am left-handed. Most geniuses are.

It's probably why you die earlier than everybody else. Yeah, you left. I think that's due to my fat in the heart region. Due to poor eating habits. Speaking of poor eating habits, hi, everybody. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Jason Moore. With me, our Andy Holloway. Well, I wanted to hop. I just wanted to hop into a story, and I realized I was cutting off you, the host. I thought if you're going to talk poor eating habits, I thought Lacey was coming up. No, I was actually bringing up the bet.

that I made last week. Oh, yes. That the Bears would be a terrible defense to play. And while I believe I said that they would not be top eight or nine and they weren't, look, they scored a touchdown and they were good enough to play. Double digits. I'm a man of honor, of valor. Sure you go. I am a man. This week, I am, I am.

At lunch, Mike is picking my meal every day. Yeah. So maybe I will eat healthy for once or maybe even worse than normal. It's really not my control. Yesterday, Mike started off slow. Yeah, went with hot wings because Jason doesn't normally get hot. But Jason likes the drumsticks. Yes, so I gave them all wings. All wings. So most people are like, well, that doesn't really matter. Oh, it matters. It matters because Mike got all drumsticks right next to him. The funny thing was, is like, I can't take too much heat.

Okay, I'm not the strongest toughest in the room. And so he orders the hot. And it was delicious. Thank you, Mike. Thank you. It was really good. You got to step it up today, Mike. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. It's Waver Day. Yeah. It's Waver Day. We're going through the big names. Look, this is the time of the year in which the strategic decisions you make start to become week-to-week-based.

a lot of the times where you're looking at these matchups and you're able to make maybe the way that you define a great waiver wire pickup now comes down to schedule more than it does just who scored a lot of points last week and so we're going to get into all the big names and tell you who we think you can buy into who's worth spinning your waiver wire spot on your fab dollars on we're going to get into all of that we also have full stream ahead on the show today

And so we're going to give you our streaming quarterback picks of the week. Very excited about that. And I have a good quick question for you guys today. I'm curious how many clues it will take for you to ascertain the fantasy player involved. But we're going to get into that. Let's do that right now. So this is a who am I question. All right. Okay. Andrew Holloway. Well, okay. We went. Nailed it. I love Michael. Yeah. So it's a who am I question. I'm going to give you.

A clue at a time. All right. So clue number one. I'm the, I'm the RB12 in half point per reception scoring. All right. RB12. Okay. All right. I'll give you, I'll give you two to start. Okay. And then number two, I have two less catches than Devanta Freeman. And one more than Tevin Coleman. Okay. I have a, that's funny. Formulating a guess. When you said.

When you said that you were the RB12, my first guess was Devanta Freeman. So you took that out of my brain when you said. So shot in the dark after two, just give me both of them. Giovanni Bernard. Okay, you got Gio. Do you have any guesses yet or do you may proceed? C.J. Anderson. You are both wrong. Okay. So so far we have, I'm RB12 in half point scoring. Two more catches in Devonta Freeman. One less.

I'm sorry, one more than Tevin Coleman. I've got my next question. I've got the clue out first. Number three, my team is second in our division, which isn't saying much. Oh, yeah, I got it. Because we have a losing record. And I'm going to give you the last one for fun. I'm often considered an old man. Yeah. But in fact, Jason and Mike are older than me. It is definitely Frank Gore. And the reason it is Frank Gore is because he is, this should have been my first guess. He is always for.

Ever running back 12. When you said I'm running back 12, I should have gone, oh, it's Frank Gore. He's always, no matter what, no matter if he's playing well, Frank Corley, he is the RB12. He's always so good. You guys are both older than him. I guess I must be the same age. Shut your mouth. Shut up. All right, if you want to follow the show, you can do so on Twitter at the F.F. Ballers. Also, you can check out our YouTube. Our YouTube channel. I reposted my farewell.

Oh, yes. To Aryan Foster. We're going to get into that in a minute in the news. Also, I found it somewhat ironic that this week Miami has a buy. And so when I pulled open ESPN, it just said Aryan Foster. Bye. Bye. Bye. Right next to him. It said it twice. It said Aaron Foster, bye, bye, bye. Yeah. So obviously we're going to talk about that here in the news. If you want to join our fantasy community, you can do so at join thefoot.com. Check out everything we got going on over there, including extra episodes, things like that.

And check out the website at the fancy footballers.com. My voice is on its last leg. Yeah, you sound good. Unlike Frank Gore. I caught whatever Jason had that caused him to miss a show. I'm a giving man. So let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. All use. Aryan, I'm going to miss you. Amen. You were my guy.

Through the good times and the injured times. A lot of injured times. I will never forget what you did to my team when I drafted you in the seventh or eighth round of your first breakout season. I'll never remember how you retired after Ajai stole your job. And Damien Williams ran in front of you. No, no, no. I'm injured. It's so hard to say goodbye. His body has betrayed him. Not for me. Goodbye.

Oh, you got to respect, Arian Foster. No, I do. I love Arian. I guess for me it was just one of those things where I have loved Arian for a long time. This season, I mean, we knew Andy and I were kind of head to head on this. I never believed that he would be able to stay healthy this season on a new team. It's too bad that never was answered. I mean, he just, he just left. He left before we could know the answer to that question. It's too bad. You got me on that one. Oh. So.

Oh, the hits just keep coming for Andy. Joyke Bell's been released by Chicago. All your favorite guys. Leave in the NFL. Yeah, it's been a rough day. A rough 24 hours. If breaking news pops out that Gus Bradley is fired. And Jeremy Macklin has it. Then you send the ambulance to the studio because Andy's going down. Joy, Bell's gone. Not a big story for fantasy owners. Dan Quinn said Monday the Falcons are bracing for Tevin Coleman's.

hamstring injury to cost him a decent amount of time. We know he will not play in week eight almost certainly. And so now you're talking about how long, how good does this make Devonta Freeman? Great. Top five. D-free. It's going to be beananas. Yeah. And just real quick, I wanted to throw out. Shout out to the Foot Clan. The Twitter was fantastic. As soon as the Arian Foster News broke, like my Twitter feed was just.

just full of people checking on Andy. They were very concerned about your well-being. I reposted my, this is a third time I was able to use that video about Goodbye My Lover with Arian Foster. The Footland's the best. You guys listening. It's ridiculous. Thank you. Bruce Arian expects John Brown back for week number eight. This is good news. If you watched the 6-6 tie, which we did, but maybe you didn't.

Look, the Cardinals had no downfield presence. John Brown tore his ACL. John Brown was missing in the game. Michael Floyd is hit and miss or hurt and miss. J.J. Nelson is a thimble. Yeah, I did describe him as a thimble. That's about his size. Ladarius Green's practicing. I don't know how interesting this really is. I think we all won it.

to be very interesting. I don't know if it is. I don't think Lederis Green comes in with Landry Jones and eventually Rothesberger and Jesse James and sets the world on fire. Well, it could be right to Big Ben. The Browns are on, or not the Browns, the Steelers are on by. I said the Browns because the Antonio Browns are on by. Sure. But the Pittsburgh's on by. So maybe you get that ridiculous Big Ben guy back. Yeah. Well, we'll see. I mean, I don't know if I would sign him.

If you couldn't throw him into an IR spot right now. Well, you probably cannot. No, I can tell you I would not sign him. Not that there's not potential there, but I'm more concerned with winning this week. At this point in the year, I want to win this week. I would almost rather grab someone to keep away from an opponent than grab a stash, wait and see Lederis Green, who I think is his upside?

is about what I'm going to get most week streaming the position. All right. Another tied in Hunter Henry in the concussion protocol. Only had one catch last week. Antonio Gates is back to being the guy. Yeah. That happened quickly. But it does. It so often does. It's, it's good news for the future, just that Hunter Henry next year. It should be fantastic. Delaney Walker suffered a bruised chest and Sunday's loss to the Colts. So pay attention to that. And the practice reports.

Rule 86 may be in full effect this week. Jordan Reed to resume practicing on Wednesday still needs clearance from an independent doctor. And this is the early game on Sunday. So even if you have a waiver wire that process is... The extra early game. Yeah, even if you have a waiver wire that process is only once during the day, like we do at like 9 in the morning, you will know about Reed before that process. And so you do have the ability to sign. If you didn't want to fill up a spot on your roster with a...

flyer tied in, you could always sign one in the morning. Well, depending on what time your waivers go through, for instance, in our league, if you're a West Coast person, this is really bad news that they're in the early London game, because your waivers might not process until after that game is already starting Sunday morning, so you're going to need this. That's good. How is that good? Because then you'll know about Jordan Reed when they're declared before the waivers process. That's good news. I think you're being a letter stray by that Jordan Reed will be locked.

You're saying. Yes. If Jordan Reed is locked, well, don't put him in your time. You're not going to drop Jordan Reed, though, off your team. All your other spots are open. And so as soon as the early game, they declare inactives, you can then sign a player, is what I'm saying. And so that gives you the ability to not sign one before Sunday morning if you need to. So it's more flexible for you if you're a West Coast person. Ian Rappaport said, based on the initial MRI, Gino Smith, Torres, ACL, welcome back, Ryan Fitzpatrick.

I'm going to talk about him later. Jake Cutler cleared for a return in week eight. Oh, this is Alshan Jeffrey. Jeffrey and Roy stopped by Chicago and just poof. All of a sudden, Jake Cutler's healthy and ready to play. Yeah, I mean, somebody brought, we didn't talk about the game last night. And, you know, I said a couple things on Twitter. One, I realized they really, really hate squirly quarterbacks.