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

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Oh, welcome in. It's Waver Day, Tuesday, September 28th. Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway. Welcome into the show. Which one of you two stopped at the Starbucks? Was it Al or was it Jason on the way in? It was I. Take it easy, not a sponsor. So you carried in a couple of drinks? I sure did. So you matched the Miles Sanders carry total?

of last night. That's right. He had one carry in his left. He had one carry in his right. And he did outstanding work. Yeah. What is the average 13 and a half a carry on his two carries, long of 24? Yeah. I mean, what a game for Miles Sanders. Looked brilliant. Way to go, Eagles. Well, I figured we just get into it with some Monday night. I love it. I mean, we have waivers today. We've got quarterback streamers. We've got where there's smoke, there's fire. But why not talk about the Cowboys and the Eagles?

I don't know, a game that probably had more garbage time in it than any game this year. It was a very strange game. I mean, starting with that, the two carries for Miles Sanders. There are three carries the running backs in the entire game for the Eagles. That is not how you win football games. What a bad game. I am firmly on the side of established the pass. Like, I, I'm not the old school high tea. Let's run it down their throat every single time. Let's be.

Show them that we have way more body hair than they do. We're real men on this side. I think that that's crap and doesn't win football games. But also, if you're only carrying the ball three times, like you have no balance and the other side, the defense is not scared of stopping the run at all? I would take it one step further and say, I don't care if you run the ball zero times, but you should do what's working.

You know what I mean? Like, just watch, watch the play, make adjustments because the passing game was not, you know, anything special. I mean, at the end of the game, the yardage numbers look okay, but that was not how the game went. This was a team that struggled.

on offense. The Eagles looked bad and Siriani not off to an impressive start. Well, I mean, would you like to see what it looks like when you establish the run and then unlock your passing game because you can just flip to the other side where Ezekio Elliott was 17 for 95 where Tony Pollard was 11 for 60 where the linebackers literally were cracking down to try to stop eight yard running plays and then any time they threw the football.

They had the opportunity to hit their tight ends, to hit C.D. Lamb, like, they unlocked the formerly pretty good-looking Eagles defense by running the football. Let me ask you this. In recent memory, can you think of a football game where 62 points were scored and almost all the fantasy players in this game were disappointing? Is that how you feel?

Like, who was? I feel like, I mean, Zeke was outstanding. Zeke and Deck. Like, that's it. Ironically, Zeke barely inched his way to the running back one on the week. We talked yesterday. Yeah. Where's the Dalton Schultz love? Come on now. Oh, that's true. Dalton Schultz. Six for 80 and two touchdown. Zach Ertz gets in the pay dirt. Are you not happy? Godertz was good last night. God.

Goddard's was like 60 for like 117. With the Eagles and the Cowboys, can we just all agree that you combine both of the players? Yeah, I mean, I don't even know how to feel about this Jalen Hurt situation because it was so disastrous, but they were into garbage time, you know, with seven minutes left in the third quarter. And then... That's a recipe for success. Now he threw for 326, had two touchdowns, two picks.

rushed for another 35 he was he was fine for fantasy even though yes he was he should have this there should be a penalty though absolutely like a 10 point penalty for just sucking for just like throwing yucky balls all around the field um yeah but i mean mike you couldn't have been i mean devontz smith three for 28 yeah that's a big time bummer uh we'll talk about shultz and the waiver part of today's show because he's been pretty darn good

And, yeah, it was, I mean, what was the, to close the book on this game? Obviously, the Miles Sanders concern, let's just stay with the running backs. But the fact that this can happen is disappointing. But Zeke and Pollard, you know, there was, it seemed like a stretch of like two series where Pollard was really involved, and then the rest was pretty much Zeke. Three catches for Zeke. Yeah, that was great to see. Zeke is the one on the field.

running more routes, more involved in the offense. Pollard is a very valuable weapon to this team and will be used. We talked about Pollard being someone that you could flex in who might be able to have good games like a poor man's cream hunt, and that's what he is. But that the winner of this backfield, all season, not necessarily fantasy results, but the actual clear-cut lead dog is Zeke. This is why we were saying to trade for him after week one, and he's...

I think people are so terrified of Tony Pollard that they aren't willing to have Ezekiel Elliott be a very good fantasy back. Like they're just terrified, which is why, I mean, maybe not after last night, but you could have still traded for him this whole week. Yeah, he was six inches from three touchdowns last night because they ended up getting completely stopped on that drive with the touchdown that wasn't a touchdown by Dak. So the other thing that we need to bring up before we.

before we leave is. Still need to put a chip in the football. I just don't understand why we can't do that. It's unbelievable. That seems really easy to like, we have the technology to say whether that crossed the line. Maybe it's, maybe it's money. Maybe they can't afford it. No, that's not it. No, that's not it. What about Amari Cooper? Huge disappointments back-to-back weeks. Obviously, he's playing out there with, I believe, cracked ribs is the, is what I saw. I mean, does that excuse it?

You know, three for 24 last week while he was kind of injured, left the field a little bit. And then this week, three for 26. I don't know if any excuses it completely, but 41 rushing attempts by the team and being ahead, playing from ahead, they didn't have to throw very often to the wide receivers. Yeah, that's what I was kind of referring to of. The game opens up with a 44-yard reception by C.D. Lamb. You thought he got in, but he was down short.

And then he ends the game with 66 yards. This was an explosion of points, but the fantasy players, I mean, it doesn't help things when the DST scores on both sides. I would throw this name out. We were asked this morning in our company Slack, if you're a contender, are you willing to go trade for Alan Robinson because it's been hard or are we scared? And I think we kind of came to the conclusion a little scared. That quarterback offensive situation is a little scary, but Amari Cooper is a name, I think,

If you want to target someone that maybe the manager is a little disappointed and he's going to have a better season. All right. Let's move on. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Presented by Trigger Grills. All right. Where there's smoke, there's fire for week three. We're looking at some performances this week that, you know, they're not necessarily in the waiver category. They're more in like outlier thus far.

or trends that are beginning and we want to know, is it going to hang around? Is this fire? Is this smoke? Odell Beckham Jr. Honestly, I was very impressed. He only played 64% of snaps. Ends up with nine targets. So I imagine your metric that you brought up earlier this year. Targets per route run. Targets per route run had to been great for Beckham. Ends up 5 for 77 in a game.

that the Browns just handed the ball off. And so I'm pretty encouraged. And they're going to be on the road in Minnesota where Kirk Cousins is going to put up 300 plus. And I'm.

I think it's fire. I think Beckham has some real flex to wide receiver two consistency come in his way. Yeah, I would say it has to be fire unless for some reason. I know, this is me. What? Speaking kindly of O'Dell Beckham, but the reality is Jarvis Landry's injury. I know Jarvis is a guy who's played through injuries forever. If he can get out there, he will, but I would expect him to miss another game. The matchup is great. Do I think that this will just be him being the alpha?

Every week the rest of the season, no. But I think he looks healthy. He looked good enough. And the matchup this week. I thought he looked really physically well. Yeah. I mean, so unless we hear something negative about the knee after this game. So he's definitely missing two more. Miss the game. Matt Nagy considers him questionable. You know how IRB is just crazy.

Yeah, so I think it's fire with O'Dell Beckham. He passed the eyeball test that we have been needing him to pass for a while. There's fire. He looked fantastic in nine targets immediately. When he's been on the field, Baker has gone to him. The connection has just strangely not been there for, I guess we don't really have a huge sample size because he missed so much of last year and was bad the first year. But Odo Beckham looks like.

he still has juice. And Baker looks like he has a command of this offense. So this is fired to me. When you brought up Matt Nagy, I thought you might have believed we were in the weather, smoke, there's fired. Oh, man, I'm giving that one an eight. All right, number two, number two. Brandon Ayuk. Ayukin.

I'll be darned. He was out there. He played 86% of snaps, had six targets, had a touchdown, just four for 37, but I don't care that much. What I care about is him being out there as much as Debo. They face Seattle this week in Arizona. I have to leave this in the smoke category. Because the way I look at this segment is, you know, what is the action you're taking with this player? And I don't think I'm willing to start Brandon Ayup.