Week 12 Waivers & QB Streamers, Machine Gun Mike

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Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. We're still doing the show. I'm still looking for my pants after that game last night. You took your pants off? No, they were. They combusted. Just straight fire.

I've never seen anything. I was... I never seen nothing like that before. All my days. Here's how crazy last night's game was. I brought my wife in to see it. Yeah. And if you don't know, now you know, that my wife, she's not the football fanatic. I'm like, Tiff, you got to come. She's like, I'm like, you got to check this out. Did she appreciate?

What you had told her? She lovingly pretended to. Oh, that's a good wife. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty crazy. And the game was so long. I'll say my story is... My wife was not happy with how long it was. I had an event last night. My wife and I went and watched the speaker, so I was... I taped delayed the game.

I went completely dark, though. I noticed it was depressing. I had no one to talk to. I turned on the D&D. Other than Jason. I was there, bro. I had no one to talk to. We were talking all night. Wow. You're on nobody. You were really rooting against me, though. So let's move on. Let's hear the rest of the story. Whenever you set up the game to tape, it always asks you, it's a live event. Do you want to add 30 minutes? Of course. I don't want to miss the end of this game. As far as I know,

The Kansas City Chiefs won the game because the Rams were driving and then it just caught out. Well, you're, first of all, learn to DVR, bro. If you're, learn to sports DVR. I'm an hour and a half on every sporting event. You add an hour and a half to everyone I've ever done. No joke. Mr. Big Bucks has like a thousand terabyte DVR. It's 2018, Mike. Here's a thing. Yeah, and mine's conserving your DVR for. No, it's 95% for. Dora and friends? Not Dora.

If you ever needed the hour and a half, you're going to be real upset if it didn't, you know, if you lost that recording. Did you enjoy the game? Oh, it's unbelievable. I genuinely had a blast watching that game from the get-go. You know, there's crazier endings to football games more memorable. But I can't remember a game where from.

The first drive on. It was nonstop entertainment. Pure greatness. Is that what you, genuine question, is that what you would want every week? Or would you prefer 35, 31, some defense being played? There was defense played. But there was defensive scores. Yeah, I don't settle for garbage. There were defensive scores. 30 to 30 is garbage now. When you give up, when there's over a thousand yards.

There's not a lot of defense being played. Would we agree with that? I saw people playing defense every snap. Highest scoring game in Monday Night Football history over 773 games. Look, this better be the Super Bowl. We need a rematch. Do you think it will be, though? No, I think the Saints is really going to be very, very tough to go through New Orleans. But that's still going to be a great...

Saints versus Chiefs if it happened? And the Chiefs, I mean, they lost in Foxborough. So if they don't have the one seed and they have to go back there, that's going to be a tough game too. Andy Reed will definitely mismanage the game in the playoffs. So it'll be. I was so impressed that he got to the two-minute warning with three timeouts. And it worked to his advantage. He did it. He gave Mahomes a chance. But I believe I went into last night's game in our League of Record down by 20 with the Tyreek Mahomes stack in...

One by 80 points? Something like that? It was against me. That is correct. Yeah, that worked out. Real quick, actual fantasy analysis on this game. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, the big players, of course, they're great. Todd Gurley is a top story from this game. We saw a lot of Malcolm Brown. Now, I was watching the game on Skip 30 seconds. So, I mean...

Unfortunately, I missed a lot of that stunning Jason Witten analysis. You are so fortunate, but go on. But what my point is, I didn't hear anything about Todd Gurley of why is he not on the field? But you noticed it in passing, which is I think the point. Like there's something, there was something banged up wrong about Todd Gurley last night. Only 12 carries in a game where, look, it was one of the highest scoring games in NFL history. He put up his lowest scoring fantasy game of the year. People were.

freaking out about it and for good reason because you had multiple red zone carries by Malcolm Brown. You had very few carries by Todd Gurley. And even from the design screen standpoint, they ran a few things to him. But it wasn't like a staple of what the offense was doing, despite Brandon Cook's going out for a brief period of time, despite no Cooper Cup. And yeah, he seems banged up, but you got the buy week. You got two weeks and, you know, he'll be okay. We haven't heard anything. The other takeaway is.

Josh Reynolds, six for 80 with a hose down. He was very involved, eight targets compared to the other, the big two guys cooks had 12. Robert Woods had 11. I mean, Josh Reynolds. Yeah, I mean, this is the waiver wire show. We'll get into that in a little bit. But in my view, he is a 100% must pick up. You're on potentially the best offense in the league. You're on the field at all times. The opportunity for fantasy production will be there.

And he's a good player. I believe he's a good player. I think we'll talk about it when he comes up. And I think he's obviously a pickup depending on, we'll see what expectations are. Also, Gerald Everett had two more touchdowns. Are we going to climb? He's officially. Mount Everett. Oh, okay. I see that. Yeah. It's back. I'm adding him to my stream team. I don't think it was ever there yet. It's coming. It was, it was there. It was never there. But he's officially on the stream team when it comes to.

tight ends in terms of, look, you can take a shot with him. He was probably, you know, in a game with this kind of over under, which, by the way, Vegas took a major bath. 69% of people. I hope they're clean now. Bet on the over. They're cleaned out. Oh, yes. We got there. He saved it. Sometimes you should pause to make sure you got the right joke. Never. Because you could get, like, it's good or better, Mike. Like, they're all good, but you could be better. I could, but you just, I'm like a machine gun. I got to fire them out.

I agree. You are. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Machine gun Mike. Machine gun Mike. That's what my grandpa used to call me. You get better with age. Most like a machine gun. I don't think that's true. Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Machine Gun Mike at FF Hitman. You can follow Jason at Jason FFFL. I'm at Andy Holloway.

I was live tweeting the whole game long. Oh, jealous. 50% of them were Jason Whitten related. Yeah, Jason, Jason Whitten has a, I tweeted this last night. He has a random analysis button that he pushes. And then just like, it's like one of those dolls where you pull the string in the back and then some sentence comes out. And like 50% of those sentences are tied in related. But my favorite, my favorite. And Booger did it too. My favorite was negative plays. Like girly.

He took a little outside zone run. He lost the yard. And literally, he goes, that's what I love about Todd Gurley. My favorite of the broadcast group is how they're emphatically in the middle of a point. And they're saying this is really good. And then they just stop. And it's like, I was done with that sentence. It's like, what? There's a big. Where did your analysis go? It just stopped. Imagine the chemistry problems we would have if we'd put Jason.

Like out in the front room on like a ladder. And then we were like, we just hook up his headphones. Like the chemistry problem of having him down on the field, he jumps in and he feels like he has to just scream one big sentence to you. And then go back to Blade Hands Witten. I'm sorry. People, every few people are like, I'm being too hard on him. No, it was bad. It is bad. They're all gone.

This show's about fantasy football, though. So let's get into it. News and notes. Packers coach Mike McCarthy said that Jimmy Graham will try to play through his broken thumb in week 12. Yeah. Do you need your thumbs? Wait, what? Do you need your thumbs for the old catching? Yeah. For the catching, it helps. I mean, he's not a blocker. No, the thing is, is he has been disappointing in general. You put him out there with a broken thumb. He's someone you need to stay away from for fantasy in my view until he proves that he can play with a broken thumb.

Right now. Would you drop Graham to pick up Everett today? I mean, it's the waiver show. Yeah, I mean, if you have to have a start next week, I'm not starting Jimmy Graham. Well, you can't start Everett next week. That is also true. But I don't think I'm dropping Jimmy Graham. He's one of those situations where because of how bad the tight-in landscape is, I think you still need to hold on to an Aaron Rogers lead tight-in.

Uh, so Lance Kendricks is what you're saying? Pick up, pick up. Yeah, I would rather play Lance Kendricks this week. Not Tanya and Harding. Yeah. Carry on Johnson, not expected to play on Thanksgiving. So fantasy football platforms, if you could just go ahead and mark him out. That would be convenient for you. Before the waivers run tonight, I would appreciate it. So if he's not expected to play, do you turn to Theoretic in this, you know, in this game?

Yeah, Theoretic is a fine flex. So maybe he's a, we'll talk about him soon then. The bucks are going to go back to James Winston as they're starting quarterback. The ping pong ball keeps going back and forth. At least for the first half. And yeah, exactly. It's like we do our projections every week. We always have to factor in the second quarterback in Tampa. And we're like, is this second quarterback in Tampa going to outperform Brock Ostweiler this week? Yeah, it's basically who's higher, Tassum Hill, who we know will get work.

or the backup quarterback for Tampa Bay who might start half the game. Because did you guys realize that on the week, James Winston was quarterback 15? Yeah, I did realize that. Playing half of a game. He finished ahead of Matt Ryan. It's such a... I mean, I think the number a few weeks ago was the quarterback. They still are. The quarterback for Tampa is in the top five. No, it's QB2. Oh, okay. In the top two. And yet,

You can be buried by starting them because they get swapped out. O.J. Howard, getting a second opinion on the ankle. Initial testing revealed good news. This is good news for fantasy owners, but we don't know what his chance to play is this week. He got good news, so he wants a second opinion? He likes positive reinforcement. No, he's, I don't think he plays this week. Probably not. It was projected to be a high ankle sprain. Although, didn't he have a high ankle sprain earlier?

this season and played that week. No, he didn't play that week. He took some time off. It was coming off of the buy. I think it was the buy. He missed some time. That's why everybody went and freaked out about Cameron Bray for a week with O.J. Howard, but Brady didn't really deliver. Maybe he did come back that same week, though. He surprised everyone. I don't remember when. He has not missed a, well, he missed week four, but I think that's the week he went out. So we'll see. Correct. We'll see.