Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 15 Waivers, Streams, Bad Beats + Close Wins

I just searched through while you guys were doing the reads, see if I could find any new information from beat reporters or any source out there. There's nothing yet as of the time we're recording on Matt Forte. The upside, I'll say this. I think Kenneth Farrow has a more secure shot to be the starter this coming week than below Powell because I... I would say they're probably... Maybe they're equal, but I...

I feel like with the double injury to Melvin Gordon, you know, a harder chance for him to get back out there. Maybe I'm wrong. But the upside of Belal Powell is much higher to me. He's going to be fine, catching the ball, running the ball. He's good at past protection. Great running back. Keep him out there. And he's very talented. He's always produced when given the opportunity. So Belal Powell...

For me, he is certainly my number one waiver claim. And if there's no news that Forte or Gordon are in or out, I'm stacking Powell at the top. This is playoffs. I want the highest upside. Now, let's just take this with a grain of salt, but on the ESPN fantasy football projections, they're usually optimistic with players. Right now they have Forte projected for zero. So even they agree that Matt Forte is not going to play this weekend, which...

That would mean Blopal is my number one pickup if you need running back help. And with their lack of depth there at that position, I mean, he got 34 touches last game, and he wasn't, he didn't start the game. Yeah, and then next on the list, you have Kenneth Farrow. He was, he was okay, 16 for 55, 6 for 23, but as Andy alluded to, his pass protection was highly suspect.

Ronnie Hillman was not active last week. He, of course, will be this week. I don't imagine they're going to say, hey, Kenneth Farrow, here's a Melvin Gordon-sized workload, but you know that he's going to get his probably around 12 to 15 touches guaranteed. T.J. Yeldon had 17 carries last week. Alfred Blue had 16. Dwayne Washington had 16 and Farrow had 16. Out of those four guys, who's your favorite pick up? Ooh. Yeldon, Blue, Washington, Farrow.

Man. Uh, probably. I don't know if I can buy into Yeldon because I don't know if Ivory, he's going to miss another game. Yeah. And he plays Houston this coming week, which is not. That's a tough start. I'm playing the Houston defense. I know that. Yeah. Uh, I think Farrow would be my top. Farrow would be my top as well. Interesting. Farrow was okay. He was okay. And then Charles Sims is back.

All the chatter of, hey, Jock Wiz Rogers, we're going to get him a bigger roll. When we said Jock Wiz, we mean Charles Sims. It sounds very similar. Charles. Jock Liz. Maybe there was some confusion, but he was activated off the IR Saturday, comes in immediately gets seven touches in the game. He is, he's a great pass catcher. He has dynamic skills. He has standalone value aside from being Doug Martin's handcuff. Who I...

At this point, so what do you guys think? Do you think that if Martin, something happened to Martin, is Joaquiz getting those early running down situations? Yeah, he will. I don't, I think he earned the spot where you wouldn't just have Charles Sims take over to the entire role. Charles Sims will retain. I'm not really feeling comfortable. The role he's in. With handcuffing Martin. That's fair. Should Lamar Miller owner spend on Alfred Blue? Yes.

I would. Yeah, I think so. Alfred Blue is back from his injury. He looked healthy. He ran well. Might as well have a handcuff to an important piece on your team. Kenneth Dixon, still available in over 50% of league. But, like, and I would pick him up, absolutely. Would you pick him up over a handcuff? Yes, absolutely. Over a gillessly, Henry, Dewell. Not if I'm the, if I'm the owner of the, of, if I make some of my handcuff, Mike. Yeah. I would say, so if it's my handcuff, no.

If I have Shady McCoy, I'm picking up Gillisly. If I have Murray, I'll pick up Henry. Daniel Williams is the bigger question mark. We keep, it sounds like he's going to be ready to play, but then he keeps being inactive. So maybe over DeWill, I would pick up Kenneth Dixon over all those guys. I think Kenneth Dixon could, I agree, it might.

have been game script this last game. It might have been the fact that they were playing the Patriots. Snap count wasn't. No, the snap count wasn't. You had 11 carries to, I believe, Terrence West, only got two carries in the game. So it could have been game script, and it could flip. But it also is just as likely that what we've been waiting to have happened with Kenneth Dixon has happened, and I'm going to take him because he could be a guy that these next two weeks wins some people some matchup. What about Paul Perkins in his 15 carries last week? It's...

Interesting, but you would have to be quite desperate to play Perkins. It seems like Perkins and Dixon are in the same boat where they're kind of doing enough to make you talk about them, but that's not enough to help you win your league. Yeah, I would prefer. I mean, Dixon last night obviously made an impact, but five fantasy points on 15 carries from Perkins isn't much. Tight ends to pick up. I'm going to tell you a guy that I'm signing in one of my leagues.

I think is very interesting. He has five catches in each of the last three weeks and played 72 of 76 offensive snaps. And now Michael Floyd may be out. Oh, yeah. You were joining me. Germaine Gresham with big Gresh. Five for 45 this past week on the field a ton, targeted a ton and has New Orleans at home this week. I'm, I am honestly thinking. You're finally in. I'm thinking about playing Germain Gresham over Antonio Gates. Very interesting.

Very interesting. Not saying I'm going to, but I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. Okay. I'm giving it some thought. Ladarius Green is still available in almost half of leagues. I'm not concerned about the two for 25 personally. No. I still think that he is a great pickup. He is a very solid play. Yeah. I mean, there's a reason I didn't have him as high as you guys this last week with Laderie's Green because.

The weather in that cold weather was frightful. I thought it was good. The weather outside was frightful. But, you know, Lev Bell took over that game. Lederia's scream, it wasn't, they weren't using him or they had him in a doghouse. It was the Lev Bell show. And, you know, I agree. I would like to have Lederia's Green as well, even over Big Gresh. Now, any other names for Titans? I'm going to throw this out. I want to get your opinion on this.

Trey Burton, Philadelphia Eagles. Seven for 65 had 10 targets. Now, they were running a lot of two tight-end sets. Well, Ertz had 10 catches. Yeah, 17 catches. I'm saying you had Greenbeckham inactive. There's no faith in Nelson Aguilar. Jordan Matthews is kind of their only known commodity. Besides Ertz, but is it an opportunity program? I can't fathom this having an impact on my fantasy team right now. Okay.

That's, I mean, middle of the season this happens, flyer. Right now, I can't imagine playing them in championship week. Fair. Because I can't play him this week after one game. So, um, just looking into, uh, I wanted to look and see since the, the week nine by with Gresham, how he's done fantasy wise. He's actually, yeah, he's the number nine tight end. So he's a tight end one over the last handful of games post their buy.

All right, defenses this week. Big time impact on your fantasy team. Let's talk about some defenses available in 50% or less of leagues. Bills versus the Browns, very attractive. Yes. Falcons. They take on the 49ers after last week's big performance. Yep. And I think there's still a good play. I'm not worried about the 49ers offense. Texans Jacks. Texans at home, I believe.

Yeah, that's juicy. That is juicy. Getting Blake Bortles get some turnovers. Dolphins take on the Jets. All right. Feeling pretty good about that. Yeah, not too shabby. Yeah, Bryce Petty's. It's the battle of the backups there. Packers and Bears? Do you play the Packers defense? It was dominant last week with Russell Wilson's five interceptions. I feel like the majority of those interceptions were not a...

product of the Green Bay defense more of a lack of catching and sending the ball flying into the air. So I'm okay with the Packers here if you can't get in one of these other options, but I would strongly prefer one of those other options. Let's talk about Week 16. If you want to stash a defense, you got one lined up this week already. What are some Week 16 defense's fantasy ownership stash? Chargers Browns. Yeah. Let's do it. Who plays the Browns? Yep. And the Chargers and they're available.

in Yahoo almost 70% of leagues and an ESPN almost 60%. So they're there. I would pick them up. Play. Play like you're going to the championship. What other ones for Week 60? You got the Bills versus the Dolphins. We'll see how that works out with Matt Moore. Yeah. The Patriots, if they're available, they're playing the New York Jets with Bryce Penny. And the Texans, if you pick up the Texans against the Jags, you might double stuff them. Might play them again against Andy Dalton and the Bengals.

in week 16? Good. Yeah, I don't mind that. All right, let's talk about some quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. Let's remind listeners what they're looking for in a streaming quarterback at this point in the season. If you don't have somebody you're playing, if you've been streaming, we're trying to give you some options off the waiver wire that you might be able to roll out there and aren't going to, they're not going to poop your team. I believe all three of our streamers were quarterback ones. Pretty solid last week. Wentz. Well, we probably go. Wins.

He was 12 going into Monday. He probably got Tom Brady knocked him out. Yeah, he probably got knocked out. And we had Simeon and Dalton last week. Yeah, they were great. All right, Mike, who's your streaming quarterback option for this week? I'm going with Samuel J. Biscuits. Wow. He's taken on the Colts last week, 292 and 1 versus the Jacksonville Jaguars. Two weeks ago, 247 and 1 versus Dallas. Look, these.

I want the two touchdowns, but the numbers are there for Sammy Biscuits. And before Brock Osweiler, who is just the worst, just the worst, against the Colts, they were giving up two or more passing touchdowns. Not at hanging wallpaper. It's the best. He's really good, changing light bulbs. Yeah, height. You got that shelf that you can't dust. Oh, he can get it on top of the fans. It's hard to get those. Oh, yeah.

You want them hand-white. You call Brock Osweiler. Kids gross up there. Brock knows. You want, but I'm going to stream Sammy Biscuits. It's like eight straight weeks of two or more passing touchdowns. If you dismiss Brock, who is, like I said, just the worst. Sammy Biscuits. And you're saying eight straight weeks from the Colts. They allowed that. And Biscuits was a quarterback won last week. He's getting it done. He just, the yardage is there.

You got to hope for one more touchdown, but I think he's an okay option if you are digging in the dumpster. Frightful. Yeah, that is frightful to me. That one. Do you, what's your confidence level on Biscuits? I'm pretty confident. I mean, if you need. And in case, Biscuits is Bradford. Oh, yeah. I guess we should clarify that for the, if there's any. You know what else? Now, let me just say this before we, we have, I have to pause because you guys realize you've been busting out, you've been busting this out. Moncrief.

nobody knows what it is what do you mean you guys did that on the join the foot show well they know we never we never talked about it never talked about it on slapping the base on the show if you had if you had Moncrief and you've watched him play football you know that when he's oh come on yeah every time we've had multiple people reach out and not know it in the world you're talking about watch Moncrief play football yeah every time the Moncrief grabs a touchdown which was basically every week except this last one

That's his touchdown celebration. He slaps the base. He slabs the bass. I'm just clarifying. Some people didn't know what was going on, including Jeremy, long time listener, had no idea what was going on. Watch the Colts play, Jeremy. He talked to somebody else. Grow up, Jerry. Jason, streaming quarterback option. All right. Yours is frightful too. Oh, mine is not frightful. Look, if you're going to take one of the three of ours, you're going to take mine because it's not frightful. It's the low-hanging fruit. I am playing Tyrod Taylor.

who is always has the opportunity and the skill set with his legs to be able to put up monster fantasy games. I don't see him putting up a complete stinker because he's playing the Browns. Out of 32 teams, the Browns give up the 32nd most points to the quarterback. There is only two times this entire season where they have not given up two or more touchdowns to the quarterback.

So running, passing, Tyrod Taylor to me, he's available in a lot of leagues. And the matchup says, if you need a streamer, you should be safe with a high ceiling. I don't necessarily know that he'll get that high ceiling because Shady could run wild. But I think... Five games this year with no touchdowns. Five games this year with no touchdowns. And let's talk about his games like against New York Jets where he was 297 and 3 and put up 36 fantasy points. And how many...