Week 14 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, HUGE Decisions!

And Penny is 55% owned. I mean, this is not the best. If he's less owned, you can get him. But 15 carries 74 yards, a touchdown, 4 for 33 and 1 through the air. And what was interesting about the rotation, because I'm not terrified or worried for Chris Carson. But what was interesting about the rotation, it just seemed like these were players that were very complimentary.

for the offense and to one another. I mean, Carson took himself off the field at the end of a 25-year run. Give me a play here. Same thing for Penny. And they were willing to put both guys in around the goal line. You had a goal line carry for each player and a goal line touchdown for each player. And you saw Penny involved in the passing game. So, you know, confidence-wise, you know, I'd rather be flexing Rashad Penny than I would Tyler Lockett moving forward.

Yeah. And speaking of playoffs, Rashad Penny plays the Rams this week and not, it's, it's an okay match. Medium, medium match. But then Carolina and Arizona. Oh, 15 and 16. Like that's, that's about as good as it gets for a running back. Yeah. I mean, Carolina has just been terrible against running backs. And of course, Arizona is Arizona. Arizona. Yeah. So he, I mean.

He's at the top of the list for me, but you have a lot of interesting names, like you said. I mean, you have to bring up Rahim Moster. Rahim Moster had the largest percentage of carries of any running back in the San Francisco backfield of the entire season in terms of, you know, this has been a committee situation, some weeks has been Breed in Coleman, some weeks has been, you know, three of these guys.

But Moster went out for, you know, 19 for 146 and 1. He was a beast, but now they play the Saints. They play the Saints and they might get Matt Breda back. But what if they don't? Let's say you make the decisions a day to pick up Rahim Mosterd is available in a lot of leagues, the majority of leagues, and Breed is not back for another week. I mean, how do you not, it's hard to find running backs. In that case, then he is a...

flex option because he's still splitting the load and the Saints are great against running backs. I'm not thrilled to play Moster even if Breda is out. Obviously if Bria comes back and now you've got Coleman Breda Moster in a tough matchup. That's where I, you know, I'd rather focus on getting the player this week in an Alexander Madison or a Rashad Penny. And, you know, we need to throw Darius Geis out there too. Only 10 carries, but he looked healthy. He looked.

Yeah, and yeah. I'm concerned about Geis where it's, they're just, they're not giving him the touches. I mean, he was explosive. He's the best running back on the team in my opinion, but he's splitting, talking about splitting. He's three ways with Peterson, who was on the field more, Chris Thompson, and his first game back from injury was on the field more. I'm a Darius Geis truther. You already have everything you need to know about Darius Geis in his three games played. First week?

caught that reception, went down the sideline on his one limited and got the touchdown, ended up at 16. The next week against Detroit, the number one matchup for running backs, didn't get enough work. Ended up 38th on the week. And then last week, 10 carries, but scored twice. He can hit the home run. You have that upside of Darius Geis, the matchup with Green Bay. They've kind of been all over the place when it comes to defense against the running back. But I think we need to pivot back here.

Back to Darwin Thompson and Alexander Madison. Are we all agreeing that Penny is our number one pickup of the week if he's there? Yeah. Yeah, I think Penny would be my number one because he's a flex option right now even with Chris Carson. And he's a handcuff. Okay. So Alexander Madison, Darwin Thompson, how are you prioritizing those two guys? Well, I just me personally, I'd pick up Rahim mustard over both of those players. Wow, really? Over Penny?

No. No, I said on Madison and Darwin. On the basis of potentially needing a smash play this week for my playoffs this week. Madison, I'm expecting Cook back out there. Now, if you don't, then Madison's the best play of all these guys, right? If you think Cook's going to miss a game, Madison should be far and away the number one pick up for anybody. But that's part of the risk of...

of Alexander Madison of like he's he's either the top play and it'll be a top five running back this week against Detroit or he's the backup. Well, are you going to, that's the question then. Are you going to flex Alexander Madison this week even if Cook is out there? Because if you're there's two situations here, right? You're basically saying you can go after Madison, but you have to be, if you need a guy this week, you have to be willing to flex him even with Cook because you're sacrificing a Thompson or a penny or a mustard.

I am willing to flex Alexander Madison this week. You brought up Detroit is the matchup. Exactly. You know, you have a bunch of ways Madison could be involved. Let's say they just split. Okay, great. Madison could have a great game. Let's say Minnesota's up by a bunch. You think they're going to run Dalvin Cook into the ground with a shoulder issue? No. Let's say Dalvin Cook reagravates the shoulder. There are just, there are a lot of ways where Madison, if he gets.

Ten touches. He's going to have a good game, and I think he does. So I flex Alexander Madison this week, and I'm fine. You know, I see him and Penny. I would rather have Madison than Darwin Thompson against the Patriots. Yeah, I think that the Chiefs, like I said at the top of the show, I think they're a bit of a trap this week on the Waver Wire personally. Okay. And I'm a Darwin Thompson fan. Like, I think he's a very talented player. But, you know, you got Shady, who could be a pickup if he's out there in your league, probably owned.

And then you've got Darwin. And you've got the Patriots in New England. They're not going to do a lot. McCoy is so bizarre because you have the two weeks ago, which against the game against the charges, that's where Damien Williams got hurt. And McCoy came out seven carries. He did have six targets, which is pretty nice. And this week, it's only him and Darrell Williams and Darwin's there, of course, but five carries.

in a game that Daryl Williams went out pretty early, three targets for Shady McCoy. He's just lost a step, man. I think that Reid knows that. I mean, obviously. I don't think they're looking to get him the ball involved a ton. Now he's been okay because he scored a touchdown, you know, but you want more work than that. Well, that's where I'm saying, like, are you willing to play some of these waiverware? You're right, Mike. Running back is the mess here.

Are you willing to play a Penny Madison, Geiser-Mostert over McCoy? McCoy's got the starting job. Wink, wink, wink, not that good, New England. So Kansas City, the super offense, New England. That's the, you know, do you let go of McCoy to get those guys?

I wouldn't pivot off of McGuroy and let him go. I mean, if he was the last option and Penny was out there, sure. But I think usually you've got another wide receiver or someone a little lower you can drop. I, you know, again, I brought him up. We went back. But I just want to say again, I am a Geist believer for this week. You know, Andy, you said we've seen all we need to know about Geis in the sense that.

I just met range of outcomes. Sure. Range of outcomes. But he has the range of outcome against Green Bay, who's susceptible on the ground to being gashed of having a big game. I mean, you look, he's had three weeks back. And in those three weeks, he's the running back six. That's pretty good. I mean, 38 being his bad week, obviously two weeks ago was not great.

I think Geis is a guy that should be picked up, and I'd be fine playing him against Green Bay. Yeah, and the three games that he's back, just to give context to it, he's had, what is it? Seven carries, ten carries, and ten carries. So he hasn't passed that. You know, the team wants to run the ball a lot. I think those are the main options here at running back. I mean, when you look down at the bottom, you're looking at. Benny Snell. I think Benny Snell is still an option to me. He plays Arizona, but this is, of course,

On the basis of Connor missing. If James Conner's out, then Benny Snell is in a great situation. He 16 carries for 63Rs on a touchdown versus Cleveland. He's the primary running back now with James Connor out. Now, if Connor tells you, that all goes out the window. But it's so similar to Madison, looking at one week. Last three weeks, Arizona has given up the number two, number four, and number 10 in terms of fancy points given up to running backs. So they are.

Yeah, I think Snell deserves to be mentioned in that breath as well. Yeah, and he's great. The only reason he's not in the same class as Alexander Madison. Well, there's two. One, he's not nearly as good as Alexander Madison. But two, if Cook plays, you could play Madison still. But if Connor plays, you would never put Snell in your lineup. He's only valuable if Connor's gone. That's 100% right. That's 100% right. All right. Will you drop? Tavin Coleman.

Oh my gosh. No. I would not. I would not drop Tevin Coleman. Would you drop Sony Michelle? Probably not. Kansas City, Cincinnati, Buffalo? Probably not. I don't think so. He's always the option of a multi-touchdown game. And with some of those matchups like Cincinnati, I'm going to hold on to him. Would you hold on to Ronald Jones? Did you hear the quote? Yeah. So this is, I had missed this quote when we were, when I was furiously tilting about how to Peyton Barber.

take the glory of my Ronald Jones start of the week. And it was Bruce Ariens in a press conference said he missed. Ronald Jones missed a blitz pickup and you don't get to play anymore. When you do that, that's at the beginning of the year, why I was not in on Ronald Jones was Bruce Ariens says there's, I mean, you have to be able to catch the ball and you have to be able to pick up the blitz. Like if you can't do those things for Bruce Ariens.

Then you're not going to be on the field that this is going back to when Bruce Arons was in Arizona and David Johnson was clearly the best running back on the team as a rookie. David Johnson couldn't get on the field because of those issues of blitz pickup. It's so tough. There's no way you can possibly trust Ronald Jones. No, none at all. I mean, I'm just looking at the schedule. Two weeks from now, you've got Detroit followed by Houston. That sucks. But I feel like you can cut Ronald Jones, even though he's going to start this week and be fantastic. He might be.

He, how do you start him? How do you start? Like, I feel like you could cut Peyton Barber. He just had a monster game. But are you playing Peyton Barber? Is he the starter? Like, this is a guy, I want no part of Tampa Bay. That's just, this is a user choice. I'm making the choice as a fantasy owner. I don't want to take the gamble because I feel like no matter which decision I make is going to be wrong with Tampa Bay. I would rather play all these other waiver guys over.

You know, whoever the starter is for Tampa Bay might have a higher ceiling than a lot of these guys, but I have no idea who the starter is. When you have no idea, they have, Ronald Jones has no idea. When your player can make one mistake and then be benched for the rest of the game, and he's already a lower tier option, there's just no way I'm rolling forward with that in the playoffs. Here's a difficult question. If you are in a playoff matchup and you need to start a running back and you have Damien Williams on your team.

Are you willing to let Damien go for these free agents? Because he plays New England, then he's got Denver and Chicago. Those are not ideal matchups. Seems like if he does come back, he's going to be part of a committee. So is it time to move on from Damien Williams, just acknowledging you need a win this week? Yeah, I would be willing to cut Damien Williams and grab, if there's any of these good options out there on the waivers, yes, I would be willing to pivot to them now.

All right, let's look at tight ends. What's the latest on Austin Hooper? Our fantasy owner is going to be able to get him back in the lineup. He did resume practicing on Monday, and the news on him, while it came out, it was extremely bleak back when he had the injury of, you know, he's going to miss possibly four weeks. It did trend in a much more positive direction since that moment. Practicing on Monday, it is limited. There's no guarantee that he's going to play.

I guess the biggest question for Austin Hooper is if he plays, do you put him right back in your lineup because he is the number one tight end in points per game? I think you have to. I don't think you have a choice. I don't think you can count. There's one thing to identify a streaming tight-in candidate. It's another thing to have any confidence that they're going to be the right one that week. And Austin Hooper has been the best, most consistent tight-in when he's been out there.

I imagine that they didn't throw him out there on Thursday because there was trending like it was possible. Obviously, you got ruled out pretty quick. But you get another 10 days after that Thanksgiving Day game. If he's playing, I trust that he's healthy. And so I'm going to put him back into the lineup. I agree completely. There's, you know, very few options that you could have pivoted to where you feel good enough about that player. And by very few, I mean, basically none. The only question mark that I can think of that maybe you picked up.