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

This is not the normal efficiency of Doreal Green Beckham. He scored, but I'm worried about a mirage here because he played Jacksonville and that game was a shootout. His team put up 42 points. Right. And he caught, you know, he had a big game. But I don't think it's something that I'm counting on. He's at the bottom of this list for me. I'd rather start heartline than I would. Doreal Green Beckham. 100%. So, all right, running backs. This guy is owned.

in most leagues, but it's still in the 80 percentile. So we just want to reemphasize, and it's a very important point. I'm going to let Mike. David Johnson. Thank you. David Johnson is at the top of the list. If he's available by some strange anomaly, like all the planets aligned in some weird way to where people were blinded from him, pick him up 22 for 99 last week, two for 21 in the air and a touchdown. However, here's the real question. Do you sign Andre Ellington if you own David Johnson?

If he's on waiver wire. Sure. I'm not... Because what if he fumbles a couple more times? Yeah, if he fumbles again in... Let's say Ellington is active, which he may or may not be with that turf toe. If David Johnson gets benched, to me, it's a very committee thing between Ellington and Kerwin Williams. They're not going to give Ellington a full workload.

Yeah, it's a handcuff. I think the playoffs are a decent time to make sure you've got your handcuff of, you know, your studs. So, you know, an injury handcuff is how I see him, but not much more important. Now, you're going to be there to watch him live, right? Absolutely. Will you try to sing that audibly to where he could possibly be? Oh, you better believe I will. Now, do we want to tell, we should tell the people what we got on Twitter.

Because obviously, okay, first of all, we got a lot of David Johnson's with like musical notes. And that was surrounding them. Appropriate. That was the right thing to do. However, we got a video. Oh, yes. It's a beautiful video. It should be spoken up. We retweeted it. It was the tweet. And I replied, so this is the tweet of the century. It was. It was a member of the Foot Clan is their daughter age two to three or so. And she's singing David Johnson. It is just, it is magic.

It is magic. Wasn't she next to a Christmas tree? She was next to Christmas. It was just perfect. And he was like a present to owners on WaverWire. So I loved it. It was beautiful. All right. Ryan Matthews, we talked about him. He should be picked up, right? Absolutely. And he's available in half of your league. So go get them. I wrote one note. And it said, impossible to trust to Marco Murray. And that's just the truth. We talked about that at length, though. So let me mention some other names.

Ownership percentage is vary. Most of these guys are handcuffs that we think are somewhat important. Okay, before we get to that, then let me talk about James White, because he's really not a handcuff. Yeah, that's fair. James White had a couple touchdowns on limited work two weeks ago. Did pretty much nothing a week ago. Then this past week, I guess I might have messed my weeks up there. All right, this past week, though, he was back. 13 targets, 10 catches.

So the question is, would you roll James White out there? That's the question we need to know. Would you start him over Charles Sims? Another guy on this list. Yes, I would start him over Charles Sims. I think he's in that Dionne Lewis roll enough to where he could have work through the air. What do you catch? Like 10 of 13. 10 of 13. 10 of 13.

You know, that's a good baseline. And a touchdown. Yeah, so I would rather have him over Sims, yes. I don't think the baseline is 13 targets. No. So it's flex at most for me. Well, they were in a situation of major comeback role again, too. There were a lot of like, let's pick up five, six, seven, eight, nine yards, stop the blitz, throw it out to white. And of note, Amandola, who played and had a pretty good game. He did. He was limited all week.

So in practice, they could have been going heavily to James White. So if Amadola is practicing back in full, then those targets in the game plan might be to Amidola. Really, really good point. All right. Another guy I want to mention that might be just outside of the handcuff realm now is very similar. Bilal Pal. Yes. Bilal had 13 targets, just like James White did. He caught eight of them, and he makes his money in those PPR leagues the same way James White does. But he had a better week, statistically.

than Chris Ivory did in most leagues. And the same thing, the Jets were in more of a comeback mode so that put Powell on the field because of passing situations. But I agree that Powell has standalone value on top of being the handcuff that you want to own for the Jets. Okay. And we'll, obviously, we're going to put out our rankings later tonight, I believe, tomorrow. Tomorrow. It'll be late tonight or it'll be tomorrow.

It'll be before the Thursday night game. That's right. Yeah, it depends. Sometimes it takes some time. So pay attention to where we have Powell in relation to some of the other guys in the PPR rankings. That'll help you make some decisions there. Powell or White? Ooh, man. So Powell this week takes on the Titans and White takes on the Texans. Because of that, I think I would go. White? Or are you going to say Powell? I was going to say Powell, but then I'm thinking, you know. Titans rush defense is great.

So there's an argument that could be made that Powell would be more involved. I would start out of these two guys this week. I would probably start James White over him because I think there's just a higher scoring offense there. And so more chance for a touchdown. That would be my only reason. I'm not confident that White's going to outproduce Powell by any means. All right. Some quick handcuff discussion. Joanne Thompson, Charles Sims, Robert Turbin, Terrence West, boom Heron,

Jay Ajay Fitzgerald Toussaint. Maybe people need to be introduced to him. Yeah, Fitzgerald Toussaint is backing up DeAngelo Williams now for the Steelers. There was the assumption it would be Jordan Todman. But when DeAngelo was out, Fitzgerald was the guy who got a couple of carries, which we don't have a ton of, ton to go on of news out there. But remember, DeAngelo Williams is 32 years old.

You have to be prepared, right? Yeah, I mean, at this point you have to be prepared for sure, just in case something happens in your playoff, huh? Yes. I don't know how excited I'd be about it. I'm curious. I completely agree. I'm curious, though, if, let's say this game DeAngelo goes down, would you then trust just starting Fitzgerald-Rusant? That's where I said. I would not be excited about it. But at least you'd have that option in an emergency situation. And the truth is, I mean,

We've seen DeAngelo Williams, who clearly does not have the same skill set as Levy on Bell, succeed because the offense is overpowering. So it's really funny. I got a ridiculous text, like a notification from one of my sports scores app. You know, they break news. Here's the news that they broke. NFL power rankings. Steelers could beat any playoff team if they got in. Cool story, bro. Yeah. Breaking news.

Wow, they could win if they were in the playoffs. Wow. I will say this, in their defense, I texted you guys after that Steelers game and said, I do not want to play the Steelers in the Super Bowl as a Cardinals fan. If we get there, please don't let, I would rather face the Patriots than the Steelers. If the Cardinals lose to the Steelers for a second time in the Super Bowl, we're not even going to go there. This show will be over. I was going to ask you, would Mike and I, I mean.

Big Ben, Big Ben owes this one. Yep. Next. Hey, sorry, I'm lingering on thinking about the last Super Bowl. I've got a good segue back to the waiver wire. So normally waiver wire is really made in like the running backs or getting that great wide receiver. In the playoffs, I find that the tight ends, quarterbacks, and defenses, because you generally have one of those positions started on each team, they become more important because you're playing both your teams.

needs and your opponent's team's needs. You can't do that in week five, but here you can. And so if you've got a guy across the way that's got a terrible tight-in problem or an awful matchup for their quarterback or something like that, then you can play keep away, which I know you're doing, right, right, Andy? I am going to do that with Mike, yeah. He knows it. I'm going to take one of his quarterbacks away. Yes. And so to speak to Jason's point,

Quarterbacks is kind of harder to play keepaway because there's generally at least a few solid streaming options. Tight end, I think it's easier to keep away because this week, it's really between Safarian Jenkins for people who are paying attention. Austin Safarian Jenkins played very limited snaps and saw a decent amount of the targets, including an end zone target, which he unfortunately dropped. Richard Rogers.

is coming off that huge game. So he will be a... He will draw all the attention. He will be a hot pickup, whether or not that's the right move, because he's really not produced at a high level. I mean, he's great if you need two catches for 30 or 40 yards. I think 40-something was his career high, or was his year high. That's what he does, and then occasionally scores. So he's not a terrible play, but between those two guys, those, I mean, those will be the...

the bigger pickups so let's say you're you're matched up against a gronkowski owner who didn't make a move to get one of these guys or they you see that maybe they have crocky gilmore who went down uh you pick up safarian jenkins put him on your bench and just and hide him away put him in the in the dark in the shadows where the other team cannot play him

What are you guys thoughts on Will Ty at the tight-end position? For Giants? Because he was in consideration for me to sign last week with Larry Donnell's probably not even going to come back this season. Will Ty was three for 70 again last week. He had 74 yards the week before. He's kind of interesting, isn't he? Yeah. He's a name that most people haven't even thought of or considered because they just haven't. He hasn't been around long enough. Kind of below the radar, yeah. The name recognition. But I do think Will Ty is.

He's a decent flyer for a tight end if you're really struggling. The main problem I have with him at the tight end is what I look for in a tight end is I look for a guy that has a baseline of receptions and that's used in the red zone. Because really a tight end, whether or not they had a good game, is generally comes down to whether they got a touchdown. I don't think he's used that much in that role. Maybe he fills into the Donnell role, but he hasn't had a touchdown on the year yet.

You know, that's just, maybe that just means it's coming. Yeah, maybe he's due. Yeah, well, and, you know, we just spoke. Larry Dinell was the starting tight end. So, I mean, he has limited, you know, five for 56, six for 74, three for 70 the last three weeks. That seems like a baseline as the tight end. I agree with you. He hasn't scored, but maybe, you know, maybe it's time. We'll see. Maybe it's tie. Ooh. Yeah. Zach Ertz finally got in the end zone. Hooray. Good transition. He's been in the end zone.

and open many times this year. Okay, I should stipulate he caught a pass. Yeah, one of the balls reached him in the end zone this week, so that was great. But yeah, okay, so if you're choosing between Austin Sferian Jenkins and Richard Rogers this week, I know my pick. Jenkins. Jenkins all the way. Targets. And the matchup. Yeah, exactly. I was going to say that not only is it great for Ossefarian Jenkins, but it's also bad for Richard Rogers. The cowboys are not, I mean, you sat.

Rule 86. You sat Jordan Reed against the Cowboys for Just Cause. So, yeah, I would take Austin Safarian Jenkins. All right. So quarterback time. Quarterbacks to pick up in the playoffs and stream to grab them before someone grabs them from you. Who are guys that you personally like a lot for the playoff run? Jason. I mean, we're going to get into this. I mean...

in a moment too in our streaming section so it's kind of redundant it's not that redundant because in the waivers this isn't necessarily this is the week right now where it's like okay i made the playoffs i'm in i have to focus on the playoffs and so it's not it's not always just this week in the sense that if you're a streamer and you know you can look at your matchups and you can carry multiple quarterbacks so you might have your guy for this week but he might have a terrible matchup in you know in in week

Or let's say you're the Big Ben owner. Are you going to play Big Ben against the Broncos in week 15? And you've got an extra roster spot. So you're looking at a guy in week 15 you can grab. Matthew Stafford. He's probably owned, but he's a great option. He's at 79%. So mostly owned. Blake Bortles has probably the best, in my opinion.

set of matchups throughout the playoffs. He's got the week 16 against New Orleans. I really like that. An interesting fact about Blake Bortles and Matthew Stafford. Blake Bortles in our scoring format currently sits as the number six quarterback. Matthew Staffordes is owned in a higher percentage of leagues in the ESPN than Blake Bortles. People. Blake Bortles. What does he have to do?