Halloween Show + Week 9 Waivers! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/31

It was a strange game. Still only played 40% of snaps. So James and Williams are now Quge, who with Joshua Palmer's knee. Well, if I. If they're both there. Yeah, I mean, I don't think Quge can do anything against the Jets this week. And then the following week it's Jameson Williams against the Chargers, which I like, or Quentin Johnson against the Lions. So they'll face each other. If I have Jameson Williams, I'm not dropping them to pick up Q's or spinning fab. Okay. If I have Quentin Johnston, I'm probably not going to do the opposite. Certainly not heading into the Lions by week. I would be looking at James and Williams as a drop it like it's hot candidate. Somebody that people are letting go of after last night's performance where they didn't need to throw the football. Thanks. I mean, Jason should be thrilled that they didn't need to throw the football. Oh, man, man. Because he was, I think he was on watch for six points in the second half for Momon Ra. Yeah, I was.

dead in the beginning of that game. The 44-yard reception super early from Amin Ra. I'm like, well, I'm toast. And then they just kept getting stopped over and over and over in the red zone. So, yeah, dodged a bullet, but yeah, that's my philosophy. Rashid Shahid, um, dart throw no fab. Pick him up, throw him on your bench. That's my view on him. Clear Shakir, I'm not chasing six for 92 for Shakir either. Yeah, I'm not, that was a game plan thing to start the game. He didn't really. get involved over the second half of the game. It was like the first quarter. I think if you're looking for a start, you know, some of these guys are different, right? Like Q's, you're not starting. James and Williams, you can't start. But if you need someone to start this week, to me I'm looking at the Cowboys wide receivers, both Brandon Cooks and Michael Gallup. The matchup against Philly, I expect a lot of points scored. I expected to be not on the ground for the Cowboys. And DAC has looked so good.

So to me, that's, that's a, I would much rather start Brandon Cooks this week than Rashid Shahid. Okay. I, uh, yeah, you, you need the bomb to succeed for Shahid. A lot of people want to know if they can drop Christian Watson and Tank Dell. Tank Dell sent the last three games since he had a breakout performance, which was, you know, a 68 yard touchdown. One for 16, three for 57, three for 16. Tampa, Since, Arizona on the docket. I'm holding on to Tank Del in the context of this waiver. I agree, yeah. It was a really, really down game for the Texans last week. C.J. Stroud didn't look like his early season self, and I'm going to hold for sure. And I'll throw one more name out there because we're transitioning to the tight end position because to me, Trey McBride is an absolute must pickup.

At this point, based off of what he did in his first game with Nozac-Eerts, my belief that, like, it might be a real crappy week against the Cleveland Browns with Clayton Tune. There is a chance that he's okay if Tune just locks in and gives him a bunch of volume. But my belief is that Kyler will be back the next week. And that makes Trey McBride an absolute must-pick-up. And I think that Michael Wilson is interesting as well. If you don't need someone right now and you just have that... A spot on your bench? Michael Wilson or Quentin Johnston? Who? Michael Wilson. Yeah, I think it might be Michael Wilson. James Michael Wilson. Michael Wilson. See, I'm James on that side. I think when they need to throw the football, you might see better things. But yeah, the team is. But Michael Wilson's already like a full-time player. I'm just not as convicted as you guys that Kyler Murray is out anytime soon. I get it. I think that there's a 30% chance that he just stays on the pop.

So, interesting. This team is weird. They are definitely weird. You made a decision to get rid of Colt McCoy and trade for Josh Dawes because you knew Clayton Toon was not remotely ready to be a professional quarterback. Sure. But he's now had, you know, what, eight weeks of in-season practice? I. Yeah, that's not going to do it for me. Miles Garrett, introduction to Clayton Toon. Yes, it's going to be a really bad way. Honestly, I'm thrilled as a Cleveland defensive manager. Thrilled. Because Dobbs has massive escapeability, massive intangibles to get outside the pocket of void sacks. Clayton Toon is going to memorize the Cleveland skyline. I mean, he is going to understand where every cloud is.

Yeah, I agree completely. But I'm very, I know we have disagreement here. I'm very confident that Kyler starts against Atlanta. Trey McBride, I echo everything Mike said, he might be my number one pickup of the week at all positions because this is a player who has been talented, hasn't been able to be on the field. Now Zach Ertz is on IR and just had a... Not just like a, hey, that was a nice game. That was a game that most tight ends can't do. And so there is a chance here that this is the beginning of Trey McBride's breakout at a tight end. There's so many needy tight end teams. Let me put it to the test. The world of disappointing tight ends versus Trey McBride. Okay. Are you exchanging Dallas Goddard for Trey McGrath? No, not Goddard. Are you exchanging Evan Engrell for Trey McBride?

I would, if I had Evan Ingram, I will pick up McBride, but I'm not dropping Ingram to get him. Are you exchanging call come at for train McBride? Yes. Kyle Pitts. Yes. Logan Thomas. Yes. Darren Waller. Yeah. Just because of the intro. You probably have to. Jake Ferguson. No. Jake Ferguson, I still have ahead of McBride right now. I think that what we've seen. the last couple weeks with him and Dak has been. So then if Ferguson is on waivers, you're picking him up over McBride? McBride's on pace for 150, 141 targets when you look at the last three weeks, which included two weeks with Earths. So McBride is tippy top of the list. Tassum Hill, Jake Ferguson, both not rostered in 100% of leagues or even close to it. David Najoku. Are we on to something? I don't think so. Maybe. It depends on who the quarterback is. Like if PJ Walker is the quarterback,

and you need a by-week replacement against Arizona, I think that's very fine. If Dorian Thompson Robinson is the quarterback, then no, then absolutely. Do you bent, are you laughing at my hair? Yes. I mean, I am eating this hair. It is just, yeah, Papa Josh, you like what you see? It's just ridiculous. If Dorian Thompson Robinson is the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, are you even starting Amari Cooper? No. No. No, I'm not starting. I'm not starting any past catchers. Could you go and cry if you had a Mari Cooper? Oh, for sure. I think you should. My two League of Record wide receivers are Devante Adams and Amari Cooper. Oh, goodness gracious. Isn't that just a real treat? That is a treat for me. I can't imagine that I get that. That was a really good combo last year. The Cleveland Browns, I know that they were talking about this because they said they're not committing yet to Walker being the quarterback.

Why? But that's what I'm saying is you saw the rookie play and it was not just like, oh man, there's some stuff there. He made some mistake. No, it was, it was awful. The only way you lose to Arizona is if you start Dorian Thompson. Correct. Now, that being said, he didn't get like that whole week of practice, right? He got some. He got some of it, yeah. But even with a full week of practice, he's just, he's not ready. He's been practicing now. Tray McBride, Ferguson, Hill, Najoku, who I think, you know, he's had big games in the past. I'm not chasing it. Logan Thomas, back into the end zone. I'm very comfortable with Logan Thomas. Sure. As a spot start. Thoughts on Michael Mayer, Mike. It was. On Halloween. Yeah, it was disappointing last night. I had a, I had a parlay where I just needed a little bit. And mayor was running like all the routes, all the routes for the tight-in position. And then.

Then a Hooper runs like a couple, and he's the one who gets a couple receptions quick. It was like, what are we doing here? Give me your defensive waiver order. What's your favorite matchup of the week if they're out there? Oh, Cleveland, for sure, if they're out there. They're pretty rare. I would love them. I would love the Saints against Chicago and against a Hobbit. That would be very nice. Those would be my like two Chargers. Number one pickups. The Chargers? against Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson's kind of got it together. The Chargers defense has been not that great. They can get beat on the ground. Breece should have a good game. So I wouldn't be as bullish on them as I would be a couple others. Maybe the Packers. We don't know if Stafford's playing or not, but if Stafford... He's got to be doubtful. If Stafford doesn't play, I think you can roll that way. The Vikings as well, the Vikings defense has been surprisingly really good.

I worry, I would have been much more bullish if Kirk Cousins was there because now you worry about like short fields and that stuff that their defense can't handle. But against the Atlanta Falcons, where right now we still don't know who's going to play quarterback, I think you could play them. My low rostered option this week would be the Giants on the road against the Las Vegas Raiders. Oh my gosh, that's a home run. It was not. And the number we have is 6% rostered. So they're. They should be available. Should be the 6% I told to pick them up last week. But it's like Jimmy Garoppolo was terrible. He took, I think six sacks had the interception. So the Raiders are broken right now. The Giants defense is really heating up. I was Devante Adams. Oh, man. I would bring in cash the rest of my salary and slam it on the desk and say, get me out of here. Well, he's got a couple hours.

Yeah. What is the time today? I think it's in the afternoon for us. Yeah, I think it's one o'clock our time. It's so brutal. Any new news? Nah. It's so brutal. Brutiful. Brutiful. Brutiful. Brutiful. Brutiful. Brutal for Adams. I think he did say brutal. I look brutal today. You look brawl. Because Adams wants, Adams wants to be a raider. He wants to win. Did you watch the interview with him and Rich Eisen last week? He was so candid about everything. But I thought I saw a clip of him saying like, no, I chose to come here. This is where I want to be. And I'm saying that he had personal feelings of this. This is the franchise. This is the shield I want to wear. He wanted to wear that shield. They're so bad. He wanted to wear that shield so he was close to his family. And he wanted to wear it so that he could play with Derek Carr. And he's not, he understands that he made that commitment to the team. But I'm telling you.

If you gave him a ticket and you just said it's a random NFL franchise, all you have to do is get on this plane. He might take the chance. He's getting on the plane, man. I would want out. I mean, Josh McDaniels, listen, you suck. He will be out. And that's the nicest thing I've ever said about him. He's not kind of good. He sucks. I started to think about this this morning. If you want to go take a nice gander. at the Belichick universe at this moment in time. You will find a jobless Patricia, a losing Belichick, a non-offensive genius in McDaniel, a Bill O'Brien that's been fired and not finding his way. The circle of Belichick right now is... Including Belichick. Including Belichick is very full of L's. The Raiders...

have not hit their implied total once? I believe they have something like two off. Sheesh. They've never hit two offensive touchdowns in a week or something. Bad times. Bad times. Oh, there will be a coaching change there very soon. Well, will this be the, this won't be the end of McDaniels though because the gaze is in the McDaniels. They get like tenure. I mean, Gaze is coaching again. Oh, sorry, not gays. Yeah. I was like, where? Gaze is not in the NFL. Why am I failing here? Bill O'Brien? No, he's the Office of Coordinator for the Chiefs again. Oh, Nagy? Nagy. Nagy who is the center of ire and he's back in business. Sure. McDaniels will be in New England. I don't know if Bill will take him back this time. Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. He disgusts me. Yeah, no. It's a really rough situation. He would have been a much easier costume today. He was pretty good when he was cheating. I know.

He cheated those first six games in Denver. Yeah, and they look really good. Full stream ahead. I'm going to let you to start this segment. We're looking at streaming quarterbacks. I far in a way like your two options. Way better than mine. Yep, for sure. So, Mike, why don't you lead off? I will jump in. And I will lead it off with saying, unfortunately, the best three streaming matchups this week are Zach Wilson against the Chargers. Mac Jones versus Washington and the third, which Andy is going to use, but it is, you're going to need some, some steel underpants for it. But I'm going with Derek Carr. Send in the car. Send in the car. That always works out. Yeah. It's, it's worked out for the last month. It's worked out for a little bit here. Maybe he can, I mean, him and Chris Oliva need to go have a fro, you sit down, hash it out and figure it out because they need to work together. But.

Over the last month, the floor has been there averaged the fourth most passing yards in the NFL, 287. He's been a top 15 quarterback for straight weeks. And the Bears, it's a good matchup. The fifth most fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. I'm going to go with Gardner Minshu this week. He is in a very winnable matchup against Carolina. Carolina has allowed the third most points per drive in the NFL. And we keep talking about what we are loving, what we are seeing from the Indianapolis Colts, the pace of play. They are destroying overs. They're six of eight weeks. They've hit the over, and the line keeps moving up every week, and they're still hitting the overs. So I think Gardner, you know, in his four full games, he's averaged 41 passing attempts.

You know he can run the ball. He's had a couple rushing touchdowns. Had 27 fantasy points two weeks ago. So against Carolina, I would be okay starting Gardner. Can I get one of those Halloween sound effects after I reveal my full stream ahead? Bryce Young. Yeah, yeah. Look, the matchup. It's all about the matchup. The Colts, the games hit the over in six of eight weeks. Jason is starting the other side of it in Gardner, Minshew or streaming the other side. Bryce Young's coming off his best game as a pro. Good pass rating, higher yards per attempt. higher completion percentage. And there was a change in their offensive play caller. So the fact that we knew that information and then we saw an improvement for Bryce Young, that's a positive thing. There you go. That is going to do it for today's show tomorrow. We have Hungry for more. The Thursday night preview, the midseason review. And I'll be paying the price for my decisions today. So you can tune in for that as well. For weeks. No, I don't know about weeks.

Look, any stubble. Have you just the small, I might paint it on. Yeah. I mean, even the smallest amount of stubble will save what is happening right now. I know a lot of people sleep at night. I'm going to be like clenching, trying to get the follicles to emerge. Have you purchased some kind of hair growth serum? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I bought it all. We got to fix this pronto. Thank you for tuning in. Have a happy Halloween, a safe Halloween. And we'll be back with you tomorrow. Farewell. Goodbye. I love you, Travis.