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

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome to the show. Yeah, we've got to wake people up after that. Oh, the debacle of Monday night that just kept going and going and going. Welcome. Yeah, you know, it's too much. I think it's too much on Monday night when one of the games ends up like that. And here's the thing. I have, honestly, I have never complained about a football game about having to watch a game.

Even when they're bad, I'm still entertained. I love them. That was the worst thing I've ever seen. I was entertained by Twitter. Twitter. If you were not on Twitter, if you didn't follow our tips and tricks of getting on Twitter, that made the game bearable. It was incredible. A poetry about the game. It was so inspiring. Got some hate because of that. What was your poem, Andy? It went like this. Roses are red. Violets are blue. Neither of these teams has a shot at making the playoffs.

Wow. That's deep. Masterful, huh? But Andy, I'm a fan of those teams. Yeah, I got some hate. Look, somebody asked me, how do I know? And I told him, Case and Blaine told me. Yeah. I mean, it was not good football. If you want to know, let's say you missed the game last night. That's the quick question, by the way. Quick question is last night, the two games, some fantasy feedback. I want to give...

the people out there. I want to give you a rundown. Here's what the Rams drive chart finished at. The results. This is good. This is good stuff. We are stat-based show, so break it down. Punt, punt, punt, punt, interception, punt, punt, punt, punt, interception, punt, turnover on downs. That's not a joke. There was nothing else been there. The Rams offense from last night. So, I tweeted out, you know, this just proves how bad Jared Gough is. And people are like, what?

He's not even playing. That's the point. Correct me if I'm wrong. He wasn't even the backup. Yeah, that was atrocious. I will say this. Jared Goff could do better. I don't know why you would. I could do better. Why would you not just play him? Well, the good news is for Rams fans, they have the Seahawks next week. That's very, very nice. And they have Jeff Fisher. Now, I did get, there are some highlights in this game. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's true. I want to play.

The audio, the radio call of one of the biggest highlights in the game. From Kevin Harlan, correct? Now, this is Kevin Harlan. Now, keep in mind, this is a player you haven't heard of that ran onto the field. Third and four looks into the nickel of San Francisco in the secondary. Hey, somebody has run out on the field. Some goofball in a hat and a red shirt.

Now he takes off the shirt. He's running down the middle by the 50. He's at the 30. He's bare-chested and banging his chest. Now he runs the opposite way. He runs at the 50. He runs in the 40. The guy is drunk. But there he goes. The 20. They're chasing him. They're not going to get him. Waving his arms, bare-chested. Somebody stop that man. Here comes the blue coat. Oh, they got him. They're coming from the left. Oh, and they tackle him at the 40-yard line. Oh, man.

It was the most exciting thing to happen tonight. That was Kevin Harlan. Pretty special. And what was great is during the actual coverage of this, you know, they don't give the camera, they don't put it on the guy that was running under the field. By the way, that was not Jason. It was not Jason, bare-chested, banging his chest. He can't run that fast. But the camera, in somewhat perfect irony to me, the camera was just on a stone face Jeff Fisher the entire time.

Yes, but there's also videos of people, they have mashed the radio call into video where you can see what the fan is doing. It's delightful. It's one of the best things you'll see today. All right. Fantasy football questions from the game. Is Jeremy Curley the best wide receiver to own on the San Francisco 49ers? Yes. And probably not all that worthy of owning. Are you concerned about Todd Gurley's performance? Yes.

Yeah, I think I'm concerned with the Rams performance, which was always the hang-up with Todd Gurley. I expect that they'll get some things figured out. Yeah, the defense gave up. The defense realized Keenham was not going to get them anything. And we've seen this before with teams. Eventually the defense said, okay, we can't do it. I mean, we can't come back from 14-21 down. Good night. I will say, and then it's the offense of the Rams is concerning for Gurley.

And what else is concerning right at the start of the game on their first drive, two third downs. Both times was Benny Cunningham. All game long. Third down, there was one drive. Todd Gurley's a two-down banger on a terrible offense. There was one drive where I saw Gurley in there on third down. Let's be careful. Yeah, okay. Let's be careful because he's very good, very, very good two-down banger. Okay, but as a fantasy owner, there are people going to be freaking out the same way.

They overreact to Adrian Peterson or Brandon Marshall or any of these guys that had struggles week one. Would you be trying, I mean, would you just sit on Gurley, right? Yes. At this time. Sit on Gurley or, in my opinion, trade for Gurley if you can buy him at half the value. Sure, because people are freaking out. He's going to have great games, but I've also seen people have said, I've been offered David Johnson for Todd Gurley. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I would do it. Well, no, no, no. I'm saying, yes. Take the David Johnson side of that. But that's because I would have drafted Johnson head or girly, regardless of this performance. David Johnson is a three-downback. Correct. David Johnson's in there to pass-protect. He's in there to catch the ball, and he's in there to run the ball. Let's talk about the other game. Yes. The more entertaining game. How good are the Steelers? We're going to get into the – today's a waiver show.

Okay, we're going through all the waiver wire pickups. We've got our full stream ahead where we give you our streaming quarterbacks. Fantasy takeaways from that game, obviously Cousins fell flat on his face, was not accurate. They moved the ball between the 20s. Jason's giving me the two guns, and he actually finished just a shade under 70% and with over 300 yards. He didn't score any touchdowns. Wow. Eyeballs.

What did the eyeballs tell you? Sure. The eyeballs said that he was... Bad decision making. Yes. Inaccurate. I agree that he did not look... He didn't look like the end of season Kurt Cousins. I will agree with that. But the final... If he had scored... It doesn't matter. Okay. But the fantasy numbers would have been fine. If he had scored a touchdown, then yeah, fantasy-wise, he would have been fine. Obviously, he didn't score. They played... Pittsburgh decided this. We're going to play a soft zone.

and let Kurt Cousins be 100% from the field as long as he throws it four yards to the outside. I mean, that's what it was to me. Not impressive. I do think they'll write the ship. I mean, I like Deshaun Jackson's involvement. I'd be trying to buy Deshaun Jackson. That's my personal opinion. I would be trying to buy Deshaunge. He looked very active, looked all over the field, missed a deep throw. Always going to get that shot. But obviously, the Steelers dominated this game. DiAngelo Williams delivered for fantasy owners in a humongous way. Antonio Brown was...

par for his course, which is like better than anybody he's ever played. And the scoge your boots. That was penalized. That 15 yard was worth every single yard. Some kinds of dances are penalized. Well, he went, if you're familiar with the key and peel sketch, you can't go with three thrusts over. That's when the penalty comes. All right. One thing we did not discuss.

Before we get into the news. Well, from the Washington game, you got to talk about Matt Jones. What about him? He did not look very good, and you thought Matt Jones looked okay? I did. I thought Matt Jones looked good. They were destroyed. I mean, they were behind. Matt Jones, to me, looked like he had a handle on the job. They had very little opportunity to me. It looked like he was. We didn't see the same thing. Yeah, I guess not. And I also saw that Chris Thompson was getting a bunch of snaps.

Very close to 50-50. Jason? Yeah, I mean, I think Matt Jones concerns me for fantasy. I'm not in love with starting him. You know, he got seven carries, worked for 24 yards. I mean, I didn't see anything that made me think positively for Matt Jones, but I will obviously concede that they were down the entire game, and it wasn't a good game script for Matt Jones.

But, I mean, you need a guy, I mean, where you drafted Matt Jones, you need him to be able to produce more than, you know, four fantasy points in a, in a difficult game script. All right, we're going to get it. I was going to say the Rob, you can drop Rob Kelly. He didn't get on the field. We're going to get into the news and notes. We're going to get into the waiver wire and the streaming quarterbacks and talk about a few other things. I want to do a quick shout out.

um we don't know who it who it was i don't know the name of uh the gentleman that sent us a signed david johnson ball but i wanted to give a brief shout out and say thank you for that yeah he did awesome because he contacted us through twitter it was very gracious we appreciate it very much but finding dms on twitter as you know is nearly impossible and you didn't put a note in the box but we we are very appreciative thank you

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We have so much to discuss on this show. I want to try to get through the news as quickly as I can without missing anything. Zach Ertz looks like he's going to miss at least this week, probably more. Displacement, rib displacement. How quickly he was ruled out this week says he'll miss more than one week. To me, it was like, okay, this is serious. We cannot act like he's in. You know, whether that's two weeks or four weeks, more news will come out.

When we get into the waiver section, we'll talk about some tight-ins. You can pick up to replace Zach or it's on your roster. All right. It was a long glorious road for Robert Griffin the 3rd. He's on injured reserve with a broken bone and his non-throwing shoulder. The short-term I-R. I know. But that's eight weeks minimum. Yeah, it's a long term. So he's not coming back. Many reports said that the odds of him coming back are very, very low this season because he could need surgery in three or four weeks from now if it doesn't heal right. This is...