Week 4 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Clown Show - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/28

next week, myself. I'm a little too fearful. Really? Against Seattle? Yeah, I mean, it's, the embers are starting to crackle. This is not a, this is not saying I don't think he'll get there, but I'm not, look, you got to earn your fire in one week is not going to get me there yet. Yeah, I would say I'm, I'm hitting that super smoke button.

Because I, you know, I get what you're saying. He has not done enough really to say that there is fire. But, man, it's just, it's billowing smoke. This is going to be a nice brisket. But I would, I'm on the other side where I would be willing to start.

Ayyuk. What we've been waiting for, what I've been waiting for is him to actually be out there. Him and Debo, you know, essentially playing the same snaps, being that one and two. That wasn't what it was week one and week two. But, you know, in the beginning of that game, I think at halftime, all their... Trent Sherfield had zero snaps. Yeah, all of Ayyuk and Debo's snaps were identical on the field. If he's out there, you know, he's valuable. He's, he has...

right now two yards after the catch. And he is actually extremely talented at yards after the catch. He just hasn't broken anything off. And he really should have had two touchdowns last week. If you remember the, you know, there was a pass a little bit behind him in the end zone. Definitely think he should have caught the ball. Not a gimmie, but I would call it a drop. And so against Seattle, if he's out there the same as Debo, I'm picking the talent and I would start him.

Yeah, this is fire for me for the situation that this is, I think Iyuk is back to his full-time role. It's going to be a bit of a roulette between Iyuk Debo and George Kittle this week, week three, that was George Kittle game. And so moving forward, I don't, I'm not calling Brandon Ayuk a wide receiver one, but he has, the yards after catch that Jason mentioned, that will be unleashed.

at some point moving forward. So I think that he should go right into your flex position. Brandon Cooks. This guy. I mean, it's just fire. This guy. Well, it's NBA Jam's rules, right? We don't have any choice here. We, we would love to say smoke because look at the awful quarterback situation. I got a boom shockalaka here. Yeah. Do we still have one of those? I'm sure we can find it. Boom shockalaka. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, this dude.

Three weeks in a row, the wide receiver 23, wide receiver 11, wide receiver 13 on the on the back of seven targets, 14 targets, 11 targets. You are not going to get touchdowns from Brandon Cooks very often. That's the only thing I'll say. Like, we're all in agreement about the fight. You are not going to get touchdowns from the Texas very often, yes. Yes. But, you know, he wasn't a top 10 wide receiver any of those weeks, but he's going to be a must start for the rest of the season because.

You have to throw them the football. They don't have anybody. Yeah. And the egg is on my face for Brandon Cook's. I didn't want to draft him. But holy crap, this target volume, the air yard volume. I'm going to make you sad. Why is that? Because I'm going to ask you a man who drafted Alan Robinson very high whether you'd rather have Alan Robinson or Brandon Cook's rest of season. And you're going to answer Brandon Cook. I don't want to answer that question. That is.

That is sad. This is where, Fookland, listen up. This is where you get to the point in the season where draft capital doesn't matter. You have to move on from what happened in the draft. We do our best job to try to get it right. And I think we get it right at least 60% of the time. We have misses. We have hits, but it's about winning the bets more than we lose the bets.

we get so enthralled in what we believed that it just is irrelevant. Now we have enough on the field, real NFL games to where just throw out draft capital. Use it to your advantage because it's really hard for people to cut ties with that. Go look at ADP lists if you want and find the value on your team that was drafted high that you don't believe in and go get something for them from someone you do. Yeah, it's very important.

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If he was going to miss three games with certainty he would be on injured reserve. That is absolutely true. We will talk about our expectation for him more when we're in the waiver, we're talking about Chuba, but good news for now. So, yeah, exactly. Rob Grancowski expected to play Sunday after the X-rays. Everyone's excited about Gronk and Brady returning to Foxborough. I mean, well, Patriots fans are not. That's fair.

I wonder if that's true, Mike. Like, I get it. You're wanting to win. You're wanting, you know, it's a tough matchup. But if you're a Patriots fan, I can't imagine that many Patriots fans are not still Tom Brady fans. Oh, I know. That's not what I'm saying. They're excited for him. They're going to lose this week is what Mike's saying. Oh, yes. That is what I'm saying. They're trying to bill this as like a real, you know, juggernaut matchup. And Mac Jones can't.

score enough points to make this game competitive. I feel like Patriots fans are rooting for Brady in this game. Like maybe I'm wrong. Patriots fans let me know, but I, I, you know, probably not. No, yeah, maybe not. Probably rooting for his, uh, replacement to take a step forward, hopefully and give them another dynasty. Geo day to day. Kyle Shanahan said George Kittle has a sore calf day to day. Okay. Uh, AJ Brown. Oh.

Hamstring injury week to week, according to Adam Schaefter. I wouldn't expect him this week. No, very similar to Christian McCaffrey's situation. Jude Smith-Schuster, day-to-day after x-rays came back negative on his ribs. That sounds like there were some ribs. Ribs are getting beat up this year. It was a real bad week for ribs. It really was. So, you know, I'm going to go get.

some ribs cooking on my trigger. That's just like as like an honorary. This one's for you, juju. And I will sacrifice that meat while I eat it. And this is for everyone's ribs going forward. When Rob Grancast got got smashed, Jason walked outside and put a, put a rack on. Well, baby back. James White out indefinitely. This was, I don't know if we see him again this year, to be honest.

Yeah, you might not. I don't think he's been put on the IR yet, but he certainly will be. KJ. Hamler, ACL tear. He's done for the year. It could be longer than a year. It was not just a simple ACL additional ligaments were damaged. This is going to be a tough recovery. And really, that means like if you're in a dynasty league and you've got KJ Hamler, I would, I'm the type that I would view it as that player's gone.

I'm not saying he is, just view it that way for the roster construction moving forward. Don't rely on him. It's probably a buy window for Noah Fant after the bad week. They did go out and sign David Moore, but it's going to be Cortland Sutton. It's going to be Tim Patrick, and it's going to be Noah Fant for the majority of the past catching. I would add, I would add Cortland Sutton to that because he had the big week in week two.

As a buy low, you mean? Yeah, as a buy low. I thought you were adding him to the list of Andy already saying Cortland Sutton. To buy low? Did you say to buy Cortland Sutton low? No. Oh, okay. I'm confused by Mike as well. You said you're like, it's going to be Cortland Sutton, Tim Patrick. And then Jason said, I'm going to add Cortland Sutton to that list. Oh, I see. Yeah, I mean as a target like fan.

Got it. T.Y. Hilton is making great progress, not expected to come off of IR. T.Y. Take your time, man. Michael Pittman. Have some Margos. Just relax. Pitman is taking care of business, my friend. You know, the Colts have to be one of the most disappointing teams in football. Because they're sitting O and three. I don't believe that they, I think they have played from behind more than any team in the entire NFL. Oof. There are, there are different ways you could be three and O and three.

The Colts have looked bad in all situations. Yeah, I do believe their defense will be all right this week, though, and they've been middle of the road so far. Josh Gordon signing with the Chiefs practice squad. Come on, Josh. It doesn't matter for fantasy. No, it does not. It matters for Josh the person, but not for fantasy. And then, of course, Bears head coach Matt Nagy told reporters today that all three quarterbacks, Justin Fields, Nick Foles, and Andy Dalton.

are considered possible starts. I got the seven of diamonds over here. I knew you were going to get that card. Lucky number seven for Bears fans. This is so ridiculous. I don't care if in Matt Nagy's heart he is believing this. It was so bad for Justin Fields. I have to decide am I going to put a...

banged up Andy Dalton or I'm going to go to Nick Foles. You saw what Nick Foles can do for your team already, man. Why are you doing this? I have to imagine that's like Dalton can't play. And then it's like a, I guess a production. To me, this is this is passing the buck. This is the quarterback's fault again, not my fault. So I can, the narrative of, excuse me, that.

When Andy Dahl comes back, we firmly said he only lost his job because he was hurt. And when he comes back, he's the guy. Which is, I think it's going to happen. And it could happen. But the fact now after one horrifically bad game with your new franchise quarterback, you're already like, well, Nick Foles might be starting next week. You are a clown. You are a clown.

I don't have much to add to that. I mean, that's a good end of a sentence. Them fighting words. But, yeah, I think Nagy has, he has shown that he is not a great coach. I don't, I don't put him in the category of, you know, worst coaches, Adam Gase coaches. He did take Trubisky to the playoffs twice. But he's frustrating. And he certainly, and he passes the blame. He.

You know, it's like he's worried, I think, about his job. I believe coming into this season, he was the highest odds to be fired first of that, which surprised me because when you draft the, you know, a franchise rookie, you usually get some time. No, I mean, and the frustration is building for Bears fans, clearly pride seems to be an issue for Nagy, gave up play calling for a little while, then took it right back.

He's gone through these rotations of quarterbacks. He had no game plan in place. And worse than no game plan is you had no adjustment at halftime. So, you know, you come out and things go the wrong direction. All right. Well, going to the half and then come up with three or four things that can work, you know, to Siriani's credit last night. They did make some adjustments that got the ball down the field a little bit. I mean.

the yardage pot maybe it was all against prevent but still you you have to make adjustments and the adjustment was yeah again pride probably my game plan is the right game plan my quarterback's not executing it so it's his fault we won't make a change yeah it's frustration out get him on the move for those listening at uh at home not watching on youtube there are a lot of um magicians playing cards all over the table thanks to you're to i mean he gives you a lot look that wasn't my fault guys oh you have an obligation

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