Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streaming Options, News

Yeah, Brian Matthews, it's possible he's on your wire. He is a must pick up and stash for the place. What was the number of ownership you saw yesterday? 55% ownership for Ryan Matthews. That number should be 100%. I mean, he should be on the benches of every team because he has the potential to be a RB1 here. I mean, we saw Darren, if he got the work that Darren Sproles got, he's an RB1. Let's hypothesize because that's what we do. Ryan Matthews is healthy and cleared.

Would you rather run out DeMarco Murray this week because he complained about it and his workload might come back to him? Or would you rather run out Ryan Matthews? So you're saying in your situation you have both of those guys? There's got to be a lot of people that handcuffed him. And they just got that poo-poo game from DeMarco. And it's playoff time. So I'm trying to mentally put myself there. It'd be really, really hard for me to put Matthews in. It's...

Even though everything is pointing to the direction of that might actually be the smarter call, it would be such a barrier to sit down Murray, who has been the guy who's getting the carries. He didn't last week, and he's been bad the last few weeks, but that's just a mental hurdle of taking some risk. There's an assumed risk by playing Matthews over Murray at this point. The number of double-digit fantasy games that Ryan Matthews has put up

as a backup would help alleviate that worry of starting him. Because even if you play the game and DeMarco ends up out touching him 15 to 10, I think Ryan Matthews might end with the Better Fantasy Day. The one thing I'll say about that is in this hypothetical situation, it would require for me a full week of practice. Absolutely. He's got to be a full participant on Tuesday.

throughout the week. And then I have confidence starting Ryan Matthews. All right. Last bit of news before we get into the waiver wire, the Miami Herald said that Richard Matthews is expected to miss week 14 again. We know he broke his ribs, but he was still in the, you know, questionable category until late in the week. This is good for Devante Parker owners, Monday night football game against the Giants. Ooh. And if he keeps getting 60% of the yardage from Ryan Tannehill.

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yes I'd love to have the hot new thing that's great in three weeks but who knows if I'm playing in three weeks so I'm focusing on winning this week it's kind of how the NFL players treat each week to week you're going to put somebody out there because you're not taking for granted you're going to be there the next week so part of what you do is maybe stop your opponent

That's part of what I'm going to do this week. Go to play some defense. 100%. I mean, this is where waiver wires change and expert fantasy players, which are all of the foot clan out there, there are tips and tricks to succeeding in fantasy playoffs. You know, you're playing a different game now. You're playing a game where you're not playing against 12 teams. Nope. You're not worried about the pickups of other guys. Who's going to pick up this guy if I drop them, right? Look at the rosters that are still in there.

You know, for instance, on my team, it sounds ludicrous to drop Randall Cobb. I mean, he hasn't been that great, but he's still Randall Cobb and we're a keeper league. But the two teams in my bracket and the other team, there is no chance that he could start.

on your guys' behemoth roster. So if I want to keep a quarterback away from you, if I want to keep a tight end away from you, if I need that defense that plays the exceptional matchup against you guys next week, obviously it's a little different for me since I'm not worried about this current week. But I'm willing to make different moves that I would never make in week eight because there is a specific game we're playing and it has beat the guys in the playoffs. That's it.

Yeah, I completely agree. So let's talk some wide receivers. Devante Parker, we just mentioned him. He should be starting again. He had that monster touchdown where he elevated to the moon to catch that ball. Touched the moon, came back. He gave it a little high five. Yep. So Devante Parker to me is...

How good will he be this week, Monday Night Football, at home against the Giants? He could be as good as Ryan Tannahill will let him be. And the answer to that is, I don't know, because Ryan Tannehill has been very disappointing the last couple weeks. Well, not the last couple weeks. Last week in particular. Did they try to turn him into a game manager last week to win that game? It's so strange.

Because they won. There was all the notes of when the O.C. was being fired down in Miami. Part of it was because they had such constraints on Ryan Tannenhill. He wasn't allowed to audible out allegedly. These are the notes coming out of Miami. So you would have thought that part of the new play calling system is now Ryan Tannenhill has some audible authority on top of wanting to run the ball more, but then he only threw the ball 19 times.

So that's an interesting thing, but Parker, I think, is a great pickup for a wide receiver needy team if you happen to be in that situation. You were talking this morning, Andy, and I think it was mostly in jest, but I know it's tickling your heart. The idea of... It's happening right now. Of starting Devante Parker over Chris Ivory on your own team. How much of that is because he plays on Monday Night Football? You just want that last second chance. No, no, no, no. That...

He's at home against a really bad pass defense. He's the future of the team. He has the skill to go up and make a huge... He's got a little bit of what we saw from Odell Beckham Jr. last year, potentially, right? Like, he could have a three-touchdown game. He's big. He's strong. That kind of thing could happen. And Ivory represents, okay, to me, this week against Tennessee, a baseline. Okay, he'll score 10 points. Tennessee hasn't really given up over 20 to anybody all year. The third against the run.

So it starts to go through your mind that depending on what you need for your team, that's another thought process. For me, I'm going, do I need 10 points or will I need 25? Because I don't think Ivory gives me the chance of 25 the way that Devante Parker might. Right. Are you the one seed or are you the sixth seed playing the one seed? Well, yeah, and in this case, I'm playing Mike. And, you know, unfortunately, Ivory doesn't play like later in the day because that would be a decision I'd make based on what the score is halfway through the day.

So, yeah, it was kind of set in just because I don't know if I have what it takes to sit down kind of, you know, a top 10 running back that I've had all year long in the final game. But I don't know if it's the worst decision. So stay tuned for that because I'm not going to rule it out. Not going to rule it out. So you need to start this week. Parker was picked up last week. And these three guys are out there. I want to know who do you pick up and you need the win this week? Brian Hartline, Doug Baldwin.

Or Doriel Green Beckham. Out of those three? Out of those three guys, you've got to pick one up and start him this week. Out of those three, I'm going to go with Baldwin. Yep. Because he is officially on fire and has a great matchup. I can't remember who they're playing. I just know it's the Ravens. Let me ask you this. Doug Baldwin or Devonte Parker. You've got a great matchup with a guy who's been doing it longer against Baltimore. Who would you feel more confident in? Baldwin. Yeah, me too. Baldwin. Baldwin.

More confident in Baldwin, but I would still take the upside of Parker, although Baldwin's provided it. So I guess Baldwin's the right answer. I guess Devante Parker is the flashier answer, but Baldwin's the right answer. Now, Brian Hartline, you heard us mention him if you said, huh? Maybe you didn't realize. The guys had 10 targets, nine targets, 12 targets, 11 targets the last four weeks, eight catches in two straight games. He is plain and simple, PPR.

Uh, you know, produce. Okay. Yeah, I love it. He's PBR produce because he's, he's basically eight for 80 or eight for 65, eight for, you know, he's just going to produce for you. You know, you want to be healthy. You walk in that grocery store, you head to the produce section. And this is what you do in fantasy. You head to the, you head to your produce.

Well, but then you're like, what have we become? Brian Hartline means you dig past about five or six heads of lettuce that you'd rather have and you have to take him. So the question mark for Brian Hartland will be one, who is the quarterback? Yeah, yeah. We think it's going to be Johnny Mansell. So Will Mansell continue that trend of getting monster targets to Heartline? And there's been some other injuries the Cleveland Brown's wide receivers have been dealing with. So yeah, what's the latest on Travis Benjamin? Do we know? I mean, he says he'll be okay.

Okay. I think he'll practice this week. I think he'll play. Yeah, that makes a big difference, right? Because even though he had eight catches the week before, he can do with Travis Benjamin. Yeah. But you're right. Before we get to running backs, I do want to talk about Doriel Greenbackin because you're going to see a big stat line from him. And so I wanted to do a little research this morning. This is only the second time. Last week was only, he caught five or six targets last week. It's only the second time in the entire year he's caught more than 50% of his targets.