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

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Well, the people want to know. Can they drop Robbie Anderson? And the answer is no, you cannot. And here is a ridiculous statement, but I do think, you know, Dan Arnold has been traded. Yeah. He was getting some targets down field. That's got to open up a couple. And then you've got a couple week period here with no Christian McCaffrey. I don't think you, I don't think the team's going to prioritize Chuba Hubbard the way they would prioritize McCaffrey. So Anderson is the ultimate.

Uh, buy low. And buy, you can go trade nothing almost and get him from somebody that wants to drop him free up their roster and maybe it's your gain later on. Yeah. And I would, I would say that you can throw him in your flex right away. I know it's hard to play a player on the back of disappointment. You want to wait. You want to wait until, okay, it comes to fruition. But the reality is if you wait and he scores that big touchdown, the next game might be the one you play him and don't get it.

All right. Other drop candidates, Alan Robinson? No. No. Darnel Mooney. Yes. He's not a drop for me. You just got to throw that game out. Yeah, they get the Lions next week. If everything is terrible again against the Detroit Lions, then you can go to DefCon. Is it the higher number worse or lower number? Higher's worse. So you can go to DefCon, one, if they're terrible against the Lions. But I guess, I guess. Hires worse. Yeah, that's what, yeah. So why just DefCon one?

Chicago's got to be a DefCon 4. I did it backwards in my head. Just to the thing with Darnell Mooney is when I'm comparing him to the players we're talking about, like would you drop Darnell Mooney for Emmanuel Sanders or these options that are on the waiver, or Tim Patrick? I would much rather have Emmanuel Sanders or Tim Patrick on my roster right now. Yeah, I can agree with that. That's fine. Yeah, I mean, you got to, one of the things that I was talking about in the studio with Jason yesterday and at lunch was that.

I don't know if it's just because there's the extra game, or maybe the way offenses are changing, but I feel like more than ever, you know, fantasy players need to look at the season in very small segments. Yes. And you need to realize that there is no set and forget. You can't, like every single week is its own island of maneuvers and trades and waiver wire pickups. And you just try to pile up wins one week at a time. So.

No, I think you've persuaded me. If Sanders or Patrick are sitting there and I have to decide between what they showed people this past week and what's going on at quarterback in Chicago, you just need to move forward. And so you're right. And then, you know, more heavily rostered, but Cole Beasley had 13 targets. They have Houston this week. Yeah, go ahead. But Andy, you've got digs.

You're telling me to get Sanders and how can I do Cole Beasley as well? Oh, don't worry. We're going to tell you to pick up Dawson Knox, too. Yeah. You do that because, Mr. Voice of Public Opinion, the bills are the template that the Eagles were following of not needing a running game at all. And it was very successful this past week. Yeah, I mean, you want those.

outrageous offenses and fantasy. You want a team that can throw up 50 points and the bills are 50. The bills are the chiefs of Buffalo, as I call them. So they can put up a ton of points and you want all the bills you can handle. All the bills. I still prefer Sanders to Beasley because I want downfield targets and I want touchdowns. What if it's PPR?

still prefer Sanders. Okay. From what I've seen the last two weeks, I, you know, you've got a budding romance, bromance between Alan and Sanders downfield. In fact, I, it's to the point where you wonder if, like, Diggs was so ridiculously out of control last year that it was inevitable for him to come down a little bit in total targets and receptions. But like, Jason, you're nodding as a Diggs manager, are you seeing that ceiling come down?

Or is this just kind of a start to the season? No, I think that the ceiling has come down because there is another target deep that can get open, that can stress the defense. And if you're the bills and the defense on the other side is rolling towards digs,

I mean, it will cause, you know, some of the yards to go Sanders way. You were missing John Brown for the majority of last season when Stefan Diggs really went hamburger. And so I think that Diggs's ceiling comes down a little bit. He's still the clear one. He's still going to be amazing. I'm not worried about Diggs at all other than to say he's not that number one fantasy wide receiver.

You know, the rest of the season. You said he is or isn't? Is not the wide receiver one. Well, and with what you had to invest with him, I mean, you talked about Jamar Chase's draft cost and the apology you had yesterday and then the unapology and the re-apology. But like digs may not pay off on the draft cost if he doesn't start turning it up. Tim Patrick needs touchdown. Tim Patrick is extremely interesting. He should be very consistent. Yes. You will never feel.

excited to put him in your lineup, but you should put him in there and just expect points. He has the chance to score every week. He had 98 yards last week. And they didn't have to throw the ball very much at all. No, they did not. Yeah, Fireball Jones here is getting no respect. Tim Patrick should be rostered in.

85% of leagues. The data that we're looking at has him rostered in 37% of leagues. This is a guy who already has been good last year for fantasy. This isn't your wide receiver 1 or even your wide receiver 2, but this is a every week flex-worthy start. He's a big boy out there, can get the touchdowns, and we'll make an impact for fantasy. Should absolutely be rostered.

Christian Kirk is rostered in 58% of leagues. He was dropped in a lot last week after Rondale Moore had the big week. Him and A.J. Green put up about the same fantasy points. But through three weeks, Kirk has been solid. So, you know, if you don't want, if you've sworn off A.J. Green and you don't want to mess around with snap counts with Rondale, you can probably put Kirk out there, always have a chance at a touchdown.

It is going to be a tough matchup this week to compound the decision making in Arizona. They have the Rams on the road. I do expect them to be able to move the football, but it might be a little bit more of what you saw from the Buccaneers this past week, a great offense that was still underwhelming. Yeah, I think the Cardinals will be underwhelming. But when you add Jalen Ramsey to DeAndre Hopkins injury, I think Kirk.

probably has the best chance this week of being the, you know, the shot you want to take on an ancillary piece for the Cardinals. There's a chance if I end up picking him up off of waivers that I had to start.

Green, then more, and then Kirk. Oh, that's fun. In three straight weeks, and I just don't think it's going to end well. Hunter Renfro, six targets, five for 77 and a touchdown. It's more of a full PPR play because he's, you know, he's had over 70 yards twice, which is great, but he's not exactly the touchdown machine. But goodness gracious, I mean, he's a really good.

NFL wide receiver. So if he's going to have a baseline of, you know, six receptions, I like him. He's, he's basically like a Cole Beasley with slightly fewer receptions and greater touchdown opportunity. Okay. I like that comparison. Brian Edwards, five targets, three for 89. He just needs games to go into overtime. That's the key. That's when he gets into his final form. Yeah.

That's tough to do every week. Brian Edwards to me, so he is, he's available in most leagues. I have him in several leagues. Do you ever want to play him? No, every week I question it. Every week I'm like, eh, he's in consideration and I decide no. But he is like when we talk about drop candidates, I'm going, I'm not dropping him. But I can't play him. So he's like a purgatory player. Pergatory player. Yeah, I just feel that way. You're kind of, um,

You're praying when you put them in the lineup that you get a deep play. A deep, like would you play Renfro in the Flex or Brian Edwards in the Flex rest of season in a half PPR? What would you rather have locked in if you had to? I would rather have Renfro locked in as a known commodity. But I think I would probably play rugs ahead of both of them. That being said, he's probably not available on waivers. Other guys to be aware of that you want to bring up?

I mean, is it time to stash Curtis Samuel of Washington? And even then you can, if we're looking at that time period, because he was on, Curtis Samuel was put on the IR. He's eligible to come back this week. So he's eligible to come back. And we haven't seen, I mean, Logan Thomas has been fine. But there hasn't been like a real number two.

for Washington. Diami Brown hasn't stepped up into that role as a rookie yet. He's the one, you know, getting a bunch of snaps, but he's not seeing a ton of opportunity. And then I would just combo that because it's the same type of a situation. Rashad Bateman for the Baltimore Ravens, their first round rookie wide receiver selection, who unfortunately had an injury, had to get surgery over the offseason or in that training camp.

He should be coming back soon as well. Which one would you prefer to stash? Neither. No, I don't really want to mess around with Curtis Samuel, with Taylor Heineke and with what I've seen from Logan Thomas. He's slinging it, man. He gets after it. I mean, it's just me, just my opinion. Yeah, I worry about still the injury. It's worth bringing the name up to know that he is eligible. If you want to call your shot, he could play this week.