Week 7 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Super Yeti - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/19

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With your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's the week I hoped would never come. The Bipocalypse arrives. Oh, it's here. I don't want to make decisions. Those are the worst. But everyone has to this week.

I'll make them for you, not only on the show, but if you would like to give me your login information, I will take care of all your waiver needs. Yeah, just include your social and the last four digits. All life decisions? Are you my personal assistant? No, just do your way. I just need to make your waiver wire, and only in League of Record. I'll make it easy for you. I have almost no fab. Yeah, that does so. No worries.

Welcome in Tuesday, October 19th. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway, the fantasy footballer's back with you. Thank you so much for subscribing, following the show, reviewing the show, supporting the show in all the ways that you do. We appreciate it. You can find us on Twitter. Jason is at Jason FFL. Mike at FFF Hitman. I'm going to quote you on that. At Andy Holloway, if you want to follow me, and the show is at the FF Ballers.

We have a giveaway going on right now at footclane giveaway.com. I signed Darren Waller jersey if you want to check that out. Let's talk about that game last night. Oh, brother. Up and coming running back for the Titans. King Henry. Goodness gracious. You cannot stop him. It's so impressive. You can't even hope to contain him. You get out of the way or you die bravely. It is the, it's like the quintessential established the run.

dream, right, where you run traditional run plays, he follows his blockers, and he wins. And you don't get a say in the matter. Mike said before the show that Micah Hyde is the first. He's the bravest man on the face of the planet. I cannot imagine being on an island. You're all alone. You are the last resort for your team. Because if you don't, if you don't tackle Derek Henry, he's scoring a touchdown. Mm-hmm.

You're staring him down, and you have enough time to think. This wasn't, oh, here I am. I'm going to go after his legs. No, it was Michael Hyde had plenty of time to evaluate his life decisions, evaluate if his team would shame him, were he to get out of the way, try and figure out how am I possibly going to try and tackle him?

And he went low and he saw his parents. He saw his family. He saw all of it. He almost seemed like Henry tackled him though. Like he's like, oh, you're going to stand there. This is what you get. He just went right after him. He did not try to run around him. No, he just wanted to bring a little bit of pain. And I don't remember the specifics of that drive. But I just assume that Derek Henry still went down to score a touchdown. So Micah, maybe just let him go. 20 for 143, three touchdowns had a 76 yard run.

He has scored three or more touchdowns in 43% of his games this year. He is the number one running back by leaps and bounds. And it's just been impressive. And they won the game. Which is shocking. Congratulations, Tennessee. And I wonder why. Dawson Knox. I've heard some rumors. Yeah. Dawson Knox broke a bone in his hand in this game. Timeline to be determined.

Do you think Russell Wilson watched him throw that touchdown with a broken hand and went? I could do that. I can do that. Yeah, that was pretty crazy. Obviously, a huge game from Josh Allen. Emmanuel Sanders is out there for every single snap. So him and Stefan Diggs were both great. Again, Cole Beasley will be more relevant if Knox does miss time. They're going into the byweek. And so there's some optimism around Knox not missing a lot of time with the broken bone in his hand. Julio left with his weekly hamstring injury.

Sucks, man. Yeah, this one does, you know, there's a difference between, you know, saying, oh, it's a weekly hamstring injury or a reaggravation of something that you were missing games from. I mean, we just saw Christian McCaffrey go on the IR after reagravating his hamstring. So bad news for Julio. Juicy matchup next week against the Kansas City Chiefs, and now you're probably not going to have Julio. It was nice to see A.J. Brown come out and give you seven for 91, though. Michael Jordan? Yeah.

Yeah. And it was all second half, too. I mean, if you're watching that, A.J. Brown was a non-factor in the first half, but they got it going. Any other takeaways from the game you want to talk about Ryan Tannehill did not throw a touchdown pass again, but does have the nice matchup next week. Yeah, I think he's a solid play next week. The only thing I will say before moving on is more about Henry. He is on pace for 2,200 rushing yards and 28 touchdowns. That's excellent. Real quick.

The Buffalo back. It's not even winter yet. Oh, man. Yes. Once he fully transforms. I feel like he started the season as Yeti, and now he's going to go Super Yeti. That's very dangerous. Remember Super Shredder? Yes, I do. I mean, it's the same thing. He found the mutagen? Yeah. But the Buffalo, the Buffalo backfield was this a one-time thing? Because it was, like, that was a lot of Devon Singletary, at least to start the game.

Zach Moss did eventually have more carries than him, but Singletary had more receptions. And it looked like we were trending to a place that Zach Moss is a fine low-end running back too. He's going to, you know, he'll get enough work, get a possible goal line carry here or there. But now, Jason, now how are you feeling about the bills? I know it's just one game after a trend was building.

But how do you respond to this? Yeah, it was super weird because in the beginning of that game, it was all... Singletary looks good. Singletary. I mean, Singletary always looks good. Singletary's a solid running back. He doesn't get the utilization to be really, really successful for fantasy. I don't think he ever will while Zach...

Moss is there. It is interesting that in the end, Zach Moss had more carries, had more snaps, played more of the game. It's really, they take drives. They just give a drive to one guy, give a drive to the other, so it's kind of a crapshoot as to whether your drive goes better or not. But when you're talking about the bill's performance as a whole, they were very, very disappointing. And you're saying the running backs, not the team. Well, they lost. Oh, yeah, they two are 31 points. I mean.

Yeah. Biggs was great. Allen was great. Beasley was great. Sanders was great. A foot and a half from winning the game. The running game was not great. So if you're splitting that in half, it's what it's been all year. The difference is the touchdowns have been coming for them, right? You need a touchdown to be successful, which is why Zach Moss is probably the better running back to have because he's.

more likely to get the touchdown than Singletary. But if you don't get the touchdown, you're going to be super disappointed. I very rarely will read into snap counts in the first or second drive of a game because teams come out and they generally do something different with their scripted play sets as opposed to normal rotations. That's what I attributed that first series to. But I didn't really view these two guys very different from one another, which is exactly what Jason said. It's a crapshoot. And you hope for a touchdown. Otherwise, I mean, Josh Allen.

I mean, they gave the ball to Dots and Knox on a running play around the end zone. Josh Allen takes it all the time. But by apocalypse includes these two guys as well, so there are not options, even if you're missing a big player. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Presented by Trager Grills.

A couple players we'll look at for smoke or fire today, moving forward. Hunter Henry running routes. He's the tight end nine on this season, the tight in four over the past three weeks, scored in three straight games. I think he's a startable option. So I'm going to go fire here. And it's based on the realities that, you know, the...

Everything in his entire career. He's been a valuable pass-catching weapon. Nelson Aguilar has underwhelmed in terms of demanding targets in this offense. Henry's going to be involved around the goal line. And Matt Jones is, he's been very, very good as a rookie. I mean, he was, I think, number two this past week and passer rating of all quarterbacks. And Hunter Henry is proving to be the more valuable weapon than Johnny Smith.

So this is not a lot different than hype around Dawson Knox. I mean, Knox scored in three straight weeks, and the world got on board. So I'm in on Henry. I'd say the difference for Hunter Henry is that Johnny Smith is there, where Dawson Knox is the guy. And I think that Dawson Knox has leveled up and is becoming a, will become a stable. What about Sweeney? A staple at the, oh.

That's only funny because Jason and I had an argument about which budget DFS player to put in our lineups. And it was a shouting match. And I was screaming Sweeney and Jason had his champion. Yeah. And I was. Was your champion Gabe Davis? No, I did have Gabe Davis in a lot of lineups, but no. But anyway, so Hunter Henry, I mean, other than that week five game against Houston where his targets shot up to 29%.

He's still chilling in about the same spot and seeing about half of the tight-end targets. So while I don't disagree that this is a fire you should stay in, and Hunter Henry is playable as a low tight-in one to see if the trend continues, I would say it's more smoke that this could just be a dream, a whisper and vanish into the air.

at any given week, and all of a sudden it's Johnny who comes down with a touchdown. Yeah, I, so I'm kind of in between you guys where the, the reality that Hunter Henry has been good for fantasy, pretty much his whole career, and now he's been relevant. He's running more routes. He's, you know, three back to back to back top 12 tight-in weeks. That's all good. That being said, you know, last week he only had two targets. He happened to get a touchdown. The week before he was playing.