Week 15 Waivers & QB Streamers + It’s Playoff Time! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/12

Playoffs are here. I hope you are in them. And look, waivers, today is the day. And you need to not only care about who you're picking up, but you need to care about who you're blocking your opponents picking up today. So make sure you subscribe, like, and enjoy the show. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in.

Tuesday episode of the show, Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway. Back with you. Yeah. Yeah. Doubleheader for Monday night football turned into pretty wild night, actually. And I've got lots of thoughts on the games last night, starting with the fact that I hate to do this, Mike. And I don't know if I'm alone here. Okay. What are we doing? But I love the simultaneous games. Ah, okay. And that's mostly because of YouTube TV and the fact that you could watch them both on the screen at the same time. Okay. Did you do it that way? I had one on the big screen and then one on the iPad. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I did what Andy said where you watched the two simultaneous where you can, you know, just push to the right or the left and change the audio. It was awesome. That was like really cool. It was like you were controlling your own.

You know, I was Hansen. You know, I was just changed. You know, I was the producer, but the actual, like, the watching of the football sucked. Enough of you, Jason. I know. I know. It's fine. I mean, people wanted to come into the show and listen to what happened. Andy and I are the example of the life of fantasy football because for every. Exactly. You fit together. Every single game has two people watching rooting for opposite things. Like, you know, if Sequin has a good game, that means someone is really happy. And that means someone is really not happy usually. And so, Andy, this was getting into the playoffs. I don't think any possible thing in any one of your leagues could have fallen more perfectly for you. You got bye weeks. You got matchups you wanted. You got into the playoffs. I beat Al after I said I lost to him yesterday. In shocking fashion. You suck, Al. And on the flip side.

You were, you had a tough night. I lost two by weeks. Two by weeks. I was given, I was given glimmers of hope. Oh, yeah, you were. The league of record, I was actually still going to make it just to be dashed. You know, and, and then our champ champ champ champ team lost the buy. Doesn't, yeah, but that's by a point. But yeah, but I mean. Destiny. Yeah, destiny. Congrats to everybody who's playoff bound as last night concluded. We're a year-round show. Just so you know, like our schedule, we've got five days a week through the end of the regular season, and then we are down to, what is it, two shows a week, plus the Footcast. So if you want an extra episode during that time of the year, go over to join thefoot.com, plus the Dynasty show keeps coming out. So you'll have content in the off season because some of you are crazy like we are. That's why we made the show to begin with is we literally launched this show.

like right after the Super Bowl back in 15 prime time for fantasy football because we don't want football to go away and neither do you no and we have control of that because we have these microphones right and so it really you could still get us five five times a week if you're listening to our two shows the footcast the dynasty podcast and our spitballers podcast so we're still recording five a week in the off season um so yeah congrats if you're if you're going to the playoffs if you've got to buy Rest up. Unfortunately, your players will probably still play. They will. And do not. Stay healthy. Do not rest on your laurels, though. No, just look at your bye week and be like, I'm just going to, I'm going to take the week up. Don't do that. That is great advice. Do not do that. Look at your matchups. Yeah. The week out, you get to play. You know, everyone's going to be scrambling for what they need this week with this week's matchups. You can look at your opponents.

and say, okay, who do I think is going to win? Or if either one wins, what are they going to need that following week? And you can go get the defense that matches up that they would want to get then or the, you know, the backup running back. Yeah, say their insurance running back if they are riding dirty right now. You can look at your bracket. You know which two teams you're going to play unless you're, unless you do reseeding. If you are facing the Justin Herbert manager, you should go out and block them for picking up a good quarterback. Yes.

Or if you're facing the Josh Jacobs manager, you should block them. Or the Alexander Madison manager, you should block them. Or maybe things just worked out so well for you that you're facing the team that has those three players. Andrew. Congrats. Mike and the judge face one another in our Dynasty League this week. We certainly do. It's a mortal enemies, I'm sure. A lot of angry words to be exchanged this week. There will be much silence. Are you going to do what Jason's done in the past and buy him a preemptive congratulatory pizza? It did work. It did work. I mean, look, the way to kill Brooks, and I've learned this, is absolutely with kindness. You don't want to talk trash to Brooks. You just want to pamper him, treat him like the special. Make him a cup of tea. Beautiful man he is. Make him a cup of tea. I mean, he has been looking more and more handsome every day.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I see what you're saying. I still love pizza. Okay. Brooks is willing to accept the pizza. If I got to get a loss, I might as well get a pizza out of this. Yeah, I did squeak into those playoffs. You did? Your team's looking okay. I think Diggs is going to bounce back. I also beat him last night, too. I beat most of our staff last night. Last night was a good day. It's not a championship day, but it was a good day for fantasy. Monday night football, the Titans beat the Dolphins 2827. Wait, wait, wait, hold, no. That's wrong.

I know. The dolphins, they were up by 14 points with three minutes. I went to the other game. You really did. Yes. And then your son said, wait a minute, go back. I mean. Do you want to know why you went to the other game? Because it was over. Because the last 767 times that teams were down 14 points in the last three minutes, it was over. The game was close. Then the Titans fumbled consecutive plays. And the dolphin scored two Rahimoster touchdowns. And the game seemed over. I mean, this was going to be Will Levis coming back against that Dolphins pass rush. And then he did. Like DeAndre Hopkins went full vintage last night. He torched Jalen Ramsey repeatedly, seven for one, 24 in a touchdown. Tage Spears six for eight and nine through the air. Derek Henry, two touchdowns on the ground. Will Levis, 327 yards. Levis had some big, big boy throws last night. Yeah, I was going to say he started the game with an ugly pick six. But from that point on.

was 23 for 37 for 327 and was very pumped up. The testosterone banana ramma. Someone said we need to give him credit today. Yeah. Yeah. He helped win the game. It was awesome. He has he has traits and skills that you hope he can develop. He's looked like what we kind of thought where he doesn't see pressure well over the course of the season. But he played very well last night. And honestly, if you told me the Titans win this game, they score 28 points, they, you know, he throws for 327 yards. The player I would be most excited to be like, okay, well, so what happened with Traylon Burks? Did he finally get healthy step up? Was he involved? This is a first round draft pick. They basically traded A.J. Brown for an important dynasty asset. I mean, goodness gracious, three targets, one reception for a yard. You can't even polarize his yards.

No, not part of the offense. And by the way, this is what we're talking about with flashing as a quarterback. Right. Bryce. No flashy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is not the first time Will Levis has shown made big boy throws, as you said, Mike. On the other side, the dolphins lost Tyreek Hill to injury. He came back and then he left again. And that was devastating to the, I mean, they couldn't move the football. You want to make the argument for MVP. Seriously. I mean, Tyreek Hill's in the game. The dolphins are crushing. Tyree Kill goes out. They can't move the ball. They can't score. He comes, he limps back in the game. Boom, bam. They're moving the ball. He goes out. They can't do any. I mean, Tyree Kill is the engine here. It's it's not Moster or Achan or Tua or Waddle. It's Tyree. When they get to the end zone, though, it is moistered. And it was absurd watching like multiple drives of failure right next to the end zone.

not giving Mostert the ball. And then they get the two fumbles and they go to Moster and they score it easily. It was a good sign for Mostert. It was, but it was maddening to see those couple drives where they didn't give him multiple opportunities. 21 carries for Mostert, seven for A. Chan, five catches for A. Chan. But, you know, we'll see if, look, it's going to be tough. Like you got to the playoffs a lot of you with the MVP season of Tyreek Hill. But I'm telling you right now, next week, the dolphins play the New York Jets. Yeah. And Tyree Kill is going to be dealing with an injury. He talked about it after the game. He said it was a lot of pain, been dealing with ankle injuries. I mean, I expect him to play. Now, do you think? I did leave out the part where he texted his wife how much it was hurting. Yeah. And she said, get your blank back into the game. That's quality stuff. But also, uh,

I guess he was trying to pump up his team. I get it because he was, I mean, it was a, it looked like a horse collar or a version of a horse collar tackle. Oh, it was a double horse collar plus hip drop. It looked like, oh, crap. Like this is the end for Tyreek Hill. I mean, he's down. His teammates are trying to get him up. He's trying, he can't get up. He's got. And then he finally gets to his feet. He's hobbling. And then he sprints off the field. Tyreek, what are you doing, baby? Like, do you think?

Do you think part of the pain was that right after the injury you said, I'm going to run full speed? He doesn't have any other speed, Mike. You've never seen Tyree Kill walk. He can't. He can't walk. That, like, two minutes of events of Tyree Kills out for the season. Okay, no, maybe he's just kind of, no, he's perfectly healthy. Oh, no, he's not going back. It was. Trevor Lawrence didn't have the decency to sprint off the field. Right. Tyree Killed did his best. job to pull a Jalen Waddle, which Jalen Waddle pulled as well. Yeah, he did. Yeah, knocked out, them back. Yeah, got smooth. The line in the Miami Jets game moved from minus 12 to minus 8 this morning. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Is that a Tyreek? A Tyreek reaction. The other Monday night football game. Very surprising.

The New York Giants. Oh, man. What Tommy Cutlets? Tommy Cutlets. Why is this? What did I miss? Oh, really? Yeah, I missed the, why did he become Tommy Cuttless? So he, this was like when he first was getting the job, he was interviewed and talking about how he lives in his mom's house. Yeah, I got that part. And the reason that he loves it. She does, she does the laundry. And when he comes home, she's, she's made chicken cutlets. Like. Every day he comes home. And she's made him cutlets. They're talking controversy with Daniel Jones now. Well, yeah, because Tommy DeVito has looked good in his winning football games. What's crazy about this, again, if you want to look fantasy-wise, it's very good for Sequin Barclay that this team can move the football unlike the, this was, I looked at this. Sequin scored twice last night. He fumbled inexplicably. Should have been once.

Should have been what. Because of the Tommy. Yeah, Davido. Was he in? Oh, it looked very much to me. They reviewed it, though. No, they didn't challenge. Oh, I thought on the field they called it a touchdown. They reviewed it. No, they called him short. He did not challenge. But this is the like, I'm pretty sure your guy is, and I know, Sequin scored on the next play, but it would have had a buy week. Oh, this is why you're. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. You needed Seekwon not to do stuff. Yeah, them not throwing me the challenge. Rewarding. Tommy Cutlets with his touchdown. Sequin Barclay had how many rushing touchdowns on the year before those two? Answer that question. I'm going to guess two. Mike? Oh, man. I'm setting you up. Yeah, you are. One. He had one rushing. Good answer. You just got to wait. You didn't guess quick enough. Oh, I did. One touchdown seven weeks ago. He hadn't scored on the ground since then. The Giants are winning some games.

and it's very good for Sequin to have those opportunities. On the other side of the 50, which is something he didn't have for the first half of the year. On the other side, heavily involved was Jaden Reed out of the backfield. Four for 38. Like an inexplicable amount. No, it makes sense. It's the Curtis Samuel approach to an injury, which is you get the Debo approach. Like, we all know the truth. A.J. Dillan is A. J. Dillon. He begins and ends as A.J. Dillon. He never becomes something else. And his night was okay. Three and a half, hard fought, slow yards. It was, I expected bigger things from Dylan. It was frustrating. I think he had like 50 plus yards from scrimmage at the half. So he was, I mean, he was on his way to a decent game. But Jaden Reed, 10 targets, 8 for 27 somehow.

But that was because a lot of that was out of the backfield. It was very much Curtis Samuel, into rounds. It was. Touchdown. But he is not a big beef boy. No. Like Debo. He was, he looked very small on those screens. He's, he's a gamer though. He's a good player. Yeah, he's a good player. Disappointed night from Romeo Dobbs, considering seven targets is four for 32. And Jordan Love, you know, I feel like the whole earth wanted to like, this is what we said. You can't make a conclusion either direction just because a good game doesn't mean he's the best player of all time. And a bad game does not mean he's the worst. Tommy D. Getting it done. Any other thoughts from that game? A little bit disappointing in Jalen. Jalen Hyatt. You know, you were hoping that he would have that breakout towards the second half of the year. He's looked great in flashes. But the Giants receiving court is completely 100% unreliable. Wondale had a good game, but you could never guess who it's going to be every single week. Is it going to be Hodgins?

Is it going to be Darius Slayton? Is it going to be Hyatt? Darren Waller's coming back next week. Yeah. So, I mean, not that anybody was already relying on a giant, but I think there was hope that Hyatt would start to establish, you know, that rookie late season bump. This is a waiver show. We're going to get into all the names you need to be paying attention to. Jason made a good point. If you have a buy, you get a discount on some players that maybe they look like they have a bad matchup this week. But next week it's really soft. Or those defenses especially, put them on your roster. That's part of your advantage. I promise you you won't get eliminated this week. And that's one of the gifts. So let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Well, I said it. Darren Waller expected to return to practice this week. Okay. Josh Palmer, 21-day window was activated.

Full participant, but I don't care anymore. Yeah. I don't have any confidence in playing him. I was really excited to get Palmer back for the combo because Herbert was okay when he still at least had Palmer. And Palmer was good when he had Herbert. The second time I spent Fab on Joshua Palmer to get what my brain told me was about to be really good opportunities to have him be injured or now his quarterback's injured. Easton Stick. will be the quarterback, which I find to be a delightful name. It's insane. Did you guys have an Eastern hockey stick as a we led? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. No. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I didn't. I'm saying, yes, those existed. Yeah. Did he get named after a hockey stick? I mean, it does seem like that seems likely. At the very least, there is a sponsorship opportunity of Bruin.

He should be the face of Easton sticks. They should just put his face on the stick. I mean, it is him. So, yeah, not a lot of excitement there. And I'm nervous about Keenan Allen. Easton Stick was good in the second half of the game. I think, you know, he's five years of sitting behind other quarterbacks. He's going to have to throw. Yeah. I mean, what do you have, 179 second half yards? Brooks really hoping his middle name is hockey. Come on. Easton H. Stick. Brooks, you're a funny guy. Well, man. The funniest. Really hilarious today, Brooks. Good stuff. Getting pretty hungry, though. I'm on it. I'm on it. Get him that pizza. All right. What else do we have? We have Justin Defferson Day to Day with the chest injury. Could play Saturday game. Nerve-racking.

It is nerve-wracking. My understanding before the MRI was that what they were going to find out was either something that would keep him out for weeks or would probably allow him to play this week. Given that it's positive and optimistic, I lean towards him playing, but you'll have to pay attention. It's a Saturday game, so we'll have information sooner in the week than usual. Will we know who the quarterback is by then? I think we know now. Who? You're just going Mullins? Yeah, I believe it'll be Mullins. I can't imagine that you could stick with Dobbs. It's not going to be Dobbs. Yeah, and Mullins was the guy that I think originally before they had Dobbs on the roster, they were waiting for him to be able to come back off of IR as the Kirk Cousins. I would be surprised. I mean, obviously this is not a guarantee. We don't know, but that is, it would be very surprising to me if it's not Mullins. Chargers quarterback, Justin Herbert, expected to undergo surgery.

The surgery will determine if he can return that year. I hope that is mid-surgery. Yeah. Oh, shoot. We found this season-ending ligament. I broke it in another place. He's out. Let him know he's out for the year. Like, guys, we haven't even started the surgery yet. No, I'm not coming back. Mike Tomlin ruled out, can he picket already? Sean McDermott said Dalton Kincaid is day-to-day with a shoulder injury. CJ Stroud, 2-2 Outwell, both in concussion protocol. It's worth noting with the concussion protocol. You know, when guys are in, they're going to miss a week because like the first like 10 weeks of the season or maybe it was like nine, no one had played without missing a week from concussion. I don't know if the NFL is like, hey, guys, we got to speed this along. Now all of a sudden people are clearing in week one. So you got to pay close attention. Either one could possibly play. Cooper and Carr all came back after one week. Correct. And although man, that that C.J. Stroud smash on the ground. That was a hard looking hit.

So, and if Stroud's out, you got Davis Mills trying to supply Noah Brown with fantasy value. Noah thinks. Hollywood Brown, the heel. Now, just let him have it, Mike. He had a tough week in fantasy. Let him have it. Okay. We don't get no crickets this week. All right. His great joke, Jay. Thank you, man. The crickets are for all of his brackets. Yeah. Oh, wow. Cardinals wide receiver, Hollywood Brown, and Michael Wilson, both of them are turning from. The buy will monitor their injuries. Yeah, Wilson was doing some practicing. And this was kind of interesting news. Ron Rivera said the team is planning on having Brian Robinson Jr. back. Wait, why is that a boo? I believe my opponent in Dynasty has him on the bench. Oh, my opponent in League of Record has Antonio Gibson, so that makes sense. There's the, there's the, this is your year, Andy. Yeah, what?

What do you have dealt with no injuries all year? It's the Papa Josh, the betrayer, man. Yeah, maybe. Goodness. I mean, you're, you are the golden boy right now. I have only pain ahead of me. Yeah. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com. Quick break back of the waiver wire. Be sure to let me know if anything else bad happens to you, Jason, because I will be. It will be great for you. Like if you lose money on some sort of, I mean, in your regular life. If you lose money, if you have an accident, I will be somehow reaping the benefits. Yeah, I don't know what's going to happen. But it's fantasy football is wild. You dealt with a ton of major injuries.

in our League of Record team that you fought to the very end with. I did. I thought I was going to scratch a claw my way in and make some noise. But he did not scratch a claw his way in. Put me in, coach. Waiver wire time. And boy, there are some teams that are going to need it. At the running back position, that's where we'll get started. We don't have, as far as I know, and the deusers, Kyle, you guys can let me know any updates you have heard. Josh Jacobs. That was one of the big running back stories from the weekend, limped off the field. Big implications. If you had Josh Jacobs, you need a running back potentially. And there are running backs from that exact team that could step in. And there are other running backs on the wire. So who's at the top of your list? Yeah, I mean, there are, I think, three injuries here that are going to.

create the opportunities, right? That's one of them with Josh Jacobs. The other is Alexander Madison, which we don't know yet, whether his ankle is a high ankle sprain if he's going to miss time or not. That would affect Ty Chandler. And then you have Isaiah Pacheco and whether he's going to miss multiple weeks with the McKinnon-C-EH. So really, to me, I mean, some of this is going to be availability on your waivers, right? Derek McKinnon, probably not available. Clyde Edwards Allaire. About the same. Both those guys available in about half-year leagues. Ty Chandler is much more widely available for the Minnesota Vikings. And then Zemir White is the most available along with Amir Abdullah for the Raiders. So I'm approaching it more of let's look at the injuries and say which situation is most probable to keep these guys out. Well, let's.

Start with the Jacobs injury because the Raiders play Thursday night football. So it seems like if anything significant, of any sort happened to Josh Jacobs. Now, he's a pretty tough dude. We've been through this before, right? We thought he wasn't playing and then he goes out. That was when he had the Seattle game. But let's pretend for a second. He was a non-participant. That's what he was listed as for Monday. If he's out, do you really have interest in the white Abdullah combo? I don't have a lot. They would be my least... If all three of those starting running backs were gone, this would be my least favorite start. Because I'm not sure how talented Zemir White is. He's not usually the past catcher. Amir Abdullah would... I would imagine that these two guys would split. 100%. You know, Josh Jacobs is valuable because of workload. He gets...

85% of the snaps. He gets, you know, 100% of the touches. That team scored zero points less than week. Right. So this isn't a super exciting situation. They play the Chargers this coming week. They're 21st in fantasy points given up to running backs. If you're in a pinch or if you're the Josh Jacobs manager, you might have to dig deep for Zemir White as one of the only regularly widely available running backs, but I would not expect big things from Zemir White. I'm more optimistic, not that I'm expecting a This, Zemir White carries me this week. But I think that, you know, it looked, we saw Zemir White in the preseason, you know, when Jacobs was not around. And Zemir White was, looked like he was going to be a kind of a featured running back. Abdullah, I think he'll, I don't know that he gets a huge bump. I think that he'll stick more than like his, you know, 30% of snaps. Maybe he gets a little bit more. The matchup is not scary.

And the matchup is even better because now you don't have Justin Herbert. I mean, you're playing against Easton Stick. This is a, not that, again, they didn't put up points against the Minnesota Vikings, but the Vikings defense over the last, you know, month or so has really turned it on. They've been a defense that's holding people down. So they're favored. Game script should be in Zemir White's favor of just, let's just run and run and run. So I think that. He is, he's better than a desperation play. I think he's like an average to below good type of play. My number one pickup would be Ty Chandler. I agree with that. My expectation as of now without knowledge of the MRI is that you're going to have three games missed here for Alexander Madison. That's just my early. We've got to make a call based on what we've seen what's been reported on a Tuesday. Obviously, pay attention.