Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Waivers, Streams of the Week, Injury News

I'm super excited about either of those, to be honest with you. I would like New England Patriots. They probably are out there in a lot of leagues because they had a week one matchup against Arizona. They take on the dolphins, right? They take on the dolphins. They're a large favorite in a low-scoring Vegas over under game. Ravens-D against the Browns, even if McCown moves the ball a little bit. There still be turnovers. Turnovers are probably going to be there. So let's move on to the streamers. Full stream ahead. All right. I'm going to kick it off. My streaming quarterback of the week.

It hurts me to say it. It shouldn't. It's, um, it's Maddie Ice. Matt Ryan. I don't like him. I have an angry, anger issue about, you know, Matt Ryan's performances. But I got to move past it 3.34 and 2 faces Oakland. Oakland just gave up, uh, I did the math 10 million points to New Orleans this past week. Accurate. And Drew Bree's, you know, leading the way. I think Matt Ryan can do enough this week.

Look, he racks up production out of the backfield with Coleman and Freeman. You've got Julio Jones. I'm going to withdraw my stream of the week if Julio sits for whatever reason, but I don't expect him to be. That was something we should have said in the news. Julio thinks he'll be fine for this week. Breaking news. Julio has an ankle tweak all season long. Yeah, just keep repeating that. If Sunu turns into a legitimate second wide receiver weapon.

for the Falcons. I mean, that's big news for Matt Ryan. It's important for Matt Ryan to have different options to overthrow Indians. You know what I mean? You don't want to just overthrow Julio. It's not consistency. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't talk. We barely mentioned. I like I said that, and Matt Ryan is my start. We barely mentioned Sunu's name in the waivers. I would monitor his foot or ankle. He was seen limping heavily. But if he plays, he's actually a really good spot start against New Orleans for the same reason you picked. The Raiders. The Raiders.

Oh, yeah, against the Raiders. Correct. I was thinking the Raiders New Orleans Saint matchup of last week, which was great. I'm going to go next because we've already alluded to this stream of the week. But I'm going with James Winston. And the reason is because...

of what Andy said. He's got a very tough matchup. On the road against Arizona, a team that has been a very good past defense. They're coming off of a loss, and they don't lose two in a row very often. So that's a game where I think you're going to be afraid of starting James Winston. And for me, I've got him on two of my main leagues, and I'm going to be starting him this week.

The reason why is because he looks good. He has the weapons. Mike Evans is legit. Austin Safarian Jenkins was used and is a good pass-catching tight end. Even Humphreys. And I think you were a week early on Vincent Jackson, who I think is going to eat this week. Even Charles Sims out of the backfield. But more importantly than that, Arizona has a guy named Brandon Williams. And let me just say this. Bruce Ariens, head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, if you're out there, if you're listening.

As a Cardinals fan, please do something about that. You cannot leave Brandon Williams out there. And you can't leave him out there and not scheme to help protect him. Your pride is getting in the way. That being said, I think he's prideful this week. And I think he says, no, Brandon Williams is going to bounce back and he's going to be great. And if he's there and they're not scheming to protect him, he is not ready to guard against a guy like Vincent Jackson. So I think that that's... Well, I got a water bit for you.

Oh. Because, I mean, if you're going to throw out James Winston, what's the, where does he have to finish for this water bet? Top 15. Top 15. There you go. Water bet. Oh, my. Yeah. I don't think he finishes in the top 15. This is also just to let you know, this game is the second highest scoring game of the week predicted by Vegas. I love that when I look at streaming. When you're looking at guys off waivers. Not the same Vegas that had the Seahawks winning by 10? It was the same Vegas that predicted the two highest scoring games to be the New Orleans Saints.

against Oakland and the Detroit Lions against Indianapolis. My grandma picked that too. Well, there you go. All right, Mike. Who's your full stream ahead? Streaming quarterback of the week. I can't believe you get this one. Well, I'm giving two, actually, because the numbers I'm fudging them just a little bit. Dalton is slightly over the threshold we like to go with, but he's available in nearly 40% of leagues. He gets to take on Pittsburgh. And like we had talked about, even though these guys thought cousins looked bad.

he still had over 300 yards. And Andy Dalton... Oh, the garbage land can. That's perfectly fine. And Andy Dalton had a great week one. A.J. Green looks ready to go. I just think that that passing attack, Andy Dalton, for whatever reason, he is the vegetable of the quarterback position that people just don't want to play. And so, like I said, my numbers are slightly over for Dalton. So I'll also throw out...

Joe Flacco, he gets to take on the Browns. We saw the rookie quarterback who was, by all accounts, not ready to be a starter. That's what the, the rumors in the bushes were Carson Wentz is just not ready. They moved Sam Bradford, so he had to be ready. And what did he do? Put up almost 300 and two touchdowns, and more importantly, a 101 passer rating. Carson Wentz looked great.

So I think Joe Flacco with his new weapons of another week for Steve Smith to come back. And Mike Wallace, as a burner, I think Joe Flacco is a great stream. How about a shout out to Victor Cruz and Dennis Pitta this week? I loved. And Lance Dunbar. Yeah. That salsa, Danbar. Lance Dunbar, you are an amazing human being. Look, I mean, Peta was in a lot. We didn't mention him because the weapons are just so numerous and.

I think week to week is going to be tough in Baltimore, but props to pit if we're getting back on the field. And Victor Cruz, congratulations. Victor Cruz. If he's semi-healthy as a three there, Victor Cruz changes the whole team. I don't have the number in front of me. It was something like 50-55 or 55 of 60. It was like 95% of snaps Victor Cruz played. Oh, man, I love it. I love to see Cruz back. So, all right. So those are our streamers, Dalton, Matt Ryan.

And James Winston this week. Make sure you visit the website, the fancy footballers.com. Get your questions in for tomorrow's mailbag episode. We've also got some other exciting stuff going on tomorrow. And stay tuned through the week. We'll have our starts of the week. We'll have some DFS content. We'll get into all of the matchups. And it's going to be fun week. It's week one, guys. It's over. Week one is done. Week two is here. We're into the season. And for goodness sakes, the Cardinals better win this week. All right.

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