Week 14 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, HUGE Decisions!

The stash is back. I'm really sad I don't have a button I can push over here, Mike, that has the beginning of a Savage Garden song on it. Ooh, like just the... Chick-Cherry-Coleon. Just the beginning of that song. That's what we really need with Gardner back out there. But he's going to start. This could be... I mean, DJ Chart was great with Gardner. He was. So, D.D.D.D. Not as great. D. D.D. had a few games there once... They started getting the connection later on.

News and notes is always brought to you by the sleeper ab. Get it now. Get the latest news. Get ready for your playoffs. Let's get into the waivers. Put me in, coach. All right. Let's talk waivers. What do we have at the top here, Brooks? We got a mailbag question to start waivers. What is this? It's for those people who are fortunate enough to get a buy week going into the playoffs. Any.

Any special tips from you guys on bi-week strategy if you're one of those lucky people out there? I mean, we kind of are in our league one matchup. We know we're going to be faced with Adam Rank in the week 15 playoffs. And so we have done everything that we can to, I mean, you just don't care about matchups this week. You care about matchups in week 15 and 16. It just allows you to pick up the defense that.

And the quarterback. And the quarterback. Exactly. And just make moves based on those weeks. Pretty straightforward, really. Yeah, it gives you a little bit of freedom with your roster in terms of, like, holding players. You know, if you're in a three-week span, you might have to hold a quarterback, you know, to bounce back and forth. Now you know you only have two games to worry about. Maybe that frees up a roster spot for some of these cursory. You know, if Madison was out there, Darwin Thompson, or somebody of that nature, you could always take a shot and see what you got for the championship weeks.

Also be planning for the championship week. I mean, you want, don't just be grabbing your defense for week 15. Grab your defense for week 16 at the same time. And you might as well get ahead on your matchups as well. Look at who, you know, the odds on favorite to that you're going to play in weeks 15 and then say, oh, he has no tight in for that week or no quarterback or, you know, she or no, you know, he's going to pick up this defense. Exactly. And so, you know, you can play keep away a week early. All right.

wide receiver waiver wire chatter let's do it the probably own players but worth looking at two guys um you know if they're out there they need to be on your roster robbie anderson coming off a seven for one-on-one week has miami this week i mean he's probably a one week play yes he is with baltimore baltimore and pittsburgh after that i'm not very excited to play robbie but this week against miami i'll take it yeah i mean this is the playoffs you're you're you need to win now

as opposed to just grabbing a guy who will be better for three. I would rather grab a guy who's going to be awesome this week than a guy who's going to be pretty good for the next three weeks. Right. You know, and every week just because you're facing great competition. You need. Get a win. Worry about the week after if you have to at that point. So move on. So you can move on. Sterling Shepard has Philly, Miami, Washington over the next three weeks. He was three for 40 with a touchdown on seven targets this past week.

If he's out there, if he's been dropped because of the concussion problems, you've got to look his way. Yeah, I mean, Philadelphia, they've gotten a lot healthier the matchup this week, but we just saw Miami torch them still. Sterling Shepard is a good wide receiver. Both those guys, Anderson and Shepard, would be the top of my list. But now let's talk about guys that are very widely available that you can plug in and play in the scary playoffs.

Yeah, and I would say that at the top of that list for me, two players, Anthony Miller and James Washington. Those would be the two that I'm the biggest fans of. Arizona is the matchup for James Washington. So that by default inflates his value tremendously, coming off a 4-4-11 with one touchdown. Duck Hodges and James Washington have a connection. He's got the majority of the work when Duck has found somebody to target.

Do you like Washington more or do you like Anthony Miller? He's got the Thursday game. Anthony Miller, his target sure is insane right now. He's been great. 30-something percent this past week after a couple of weeks at over 20 percent. Yeah, no, he's been a phenomenal play the last several weeks.

My worry, I brought this up, I believe, yesterday is the splits for Trubisky when he's playing a bottom 10 passing defense versus the top 10 passing defense are night and day. They are 10 points to 26 points. The last couple weeks, I mean, I was, Trubisky grossly, was my stream of the week. And, you know, it worked out because he was facing one of those matchups. Now against Dallas, they are a top 10 passing defense.

Let me ask you a question then based on that, because obviously that's Trubisky makes the whole thing work. Yep. But when you look at that, are you benching Alan Robinson? I'm not benching Alan Robinson because in those tough matchups, you tend to see him lead the way with targets.

And I totally get it. And part of this does come down to Taylor Gabriel, right? Because it's not just the last few games that there's been good matchups, but Taylor Gabriel hasn't been there. So Anthony Miller comes into the wide receiver two and three role. You know, when Alan Robinson isn't open, you're looking Anthony Miller's way. Now, as of right now, Gabriel is in the concussion protocol. You know, when you're comparing Anthony Miller versus James Washington, Juju Smith-Schuster could come back. I'm not sure how much that matters.

I definitely prefer the matchup against Arizona. To me, though, there are two other guys that I have ahead of these two guys. So when you said you have two guys at top of your list at wide receiver, I thought, oh, maybe they're the same. But they're different. That's fair. I like AJ Brown at Oakland. We've seen some monstrous big games from AJ Brown. And this is a matchup that I think will be good for him.

the aforementioned Zach Pascal, you know, look, he's Chester Rogers, T.Y. Hilton, Eric E. Braun, they're all gone. This is a great matchup at Tampa Bay. You know, he has, he can disappear, but I think he has the potential to have a monstrous game. All right, Mike, who's your favorite this week? My favorite from the waiver wire from picking them up to play this week, and I'm also thinking about next week, it would be A.J. Brown.

He's got Oakland, like Jason said. But then he also has Houston the following week, championship week. He's got the Saints. I don't really like that. But you got two matchups here that are very interesting for him. And then I wanted to bring up the name. If you're talking about a one-week player, Auden Tate, as we've seen him be a target machine, very frequently throughout the season. He has his starting quarterback back in Andy Dalton.

Four for 66 on seven targets. He gets to play the Cleveland Browns. You think Auden Tate is worth a look. I like these other guys we're talking about more, but is Auden Tate worth a look as a wide receiver three? Or are you concerned with John Ross potentially coming back? Yeah, I was going to bring up the John Ross activation. They're expecting him to be active in the lineup this week. Activate. You know, Cleveland's defense was much worse. The first half the year, they've gotten healthier and a little bit better. So I'm not.

thrilled. I like Auden Tate as a player. I like the fact that Andy Dalton is there. So there are reasons to say Auden Tate could have a good week. But with John Ross coming back, you know, how many ways do you want to split Andy Dalton and then get the leftovers? And that's kind of how I feel. Sounds like you just insinuated that we should quarter Andy Dalton. But then there's not enough. There's not, I want a half, I want the, at least half chicken.

The half rotisserie, if I'm going Andy Dalton. This is getting really weird. Yeah, it is. He's rotisserie and Andy Dalton now. Cole Beasley, you probably expected his name to be brought up, but the truth is, trusting Cole Beasley is difficult. You're going to be banking on probably low-yardish totals, and if he can get a touchdown against Baltimore this week, that's a tough matchup. He has been very, very good. He has. But Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New England.

It's going to be tough sledding for passing the passing game in general. Josh Allen, Cole Beasley, John Brown. I'm not expecting a lot from those three players over the remainder of the season. So Cole Beasley is not at the top of my list. I'm chasing some of the targets. That's why I like Anthony Miller, 33 over the last three weeks. I like what you brought up about Zach Pascal because they don't have a lot of options right now.

He's necessary. Ten targets this past week. And I brought up yesterday, like, when you look at what Tampa Bay is doing, right, they're winning over the past couple of weeks. And they had been a juicy matchup for a combination of quarterback wide receiver. Well, if you look over the last two weeks, I brought it up, like Matt Ryan stunk, right? And then last week, Tampa Bay managed to once again shut down the quarterback. But the wide receivers for both of those teams, so Atlanta.

When Matt Ryan was behind center, you know, you still had production. They still gave up top 10 weeks of fantasy point production at the wide receiver position. The biggest fears for me around Indianapolis is just that they get into that, you know, running game, but that's what Tampa takes away. So I don't think it's a bad play when you look at 10 targets from Zach Pascal last week.

Looks like an opportunity there. He would be my number one over A.J. Brown. I brought up the two. But I think Zach Pascal, if I'm looking for a play this week. Over James Washington, over Anthony Miller, over A.J. Brown. I think, you know, if I've got a roster and I've got Terry McLaren on it and I'm in the playoffs. You're pivoting. I'm going to play Zach Pascal over Terry McLaren. And that's going to feel weird. But I just care about getting the guy that scores more points this week. And I think it's Pascal.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. You got to win now. And then if you need to know whether you can drop these guys, I mean, get rid of Sammy Watkins. Yes. Get rid of Brandon Cooks if you need a start. Yeah. T.Y. Hilton, let him go. You can drop him. Terry McLaurin. Jason brought him up. It stinks. He's a great player. It don't matter. And then what about Tyrell Williams after last week? I would be willing to drop him. I'm still holding Tyrell. Against Tennessee?

Yeah, I mean, I think that, I mean, we'll talk about this a little bit later, but Ryan Tannahill looks like he's a great play, and Tennessee is good, but Tyrol Williams, I'm not going to drop him. That's how I view it. All right, before we get to running backs, want to think.

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All right, let's talk about some running back pickups. We've got the situation in Kansas City. This is wild this week, I think. At running back? Or do you mean specifically with Kansas City? No, just at running back of the big of Alexander Madison, Rashad Penny, Darwin Thompson. How do you possibly prioritize these three guys? Well, I mean, I prioritize it with the team that ran the ball 38 times in a victory, you know, 37 points. And that's Rashad Penny.