Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 3 Waivers, QB Streamers, Giant Struggles

Houston? Yes. With Lamar Miller. So Deonti Foreman needs to get picked up. He's only owned in 5% of ESPN leagues right now. You also need to be picking up Chris Thompson in the event that Rob Kelly misses some time. Now, Jay Gruden said he has to be careful with Thompson. So he's not the biggest guy in the world. They don't want him to get 20, 25 carries. But they're going to try to expand his role a little bit because of the big plays that you've seen from Chris Thompson. The free name I want to just throw out is Alex Collins. He was.

He was brought up for the Ravens. Jeremy Langford was released. Alex Collins replaced him. And if Terrence was going to miss time, I mean, last week, Alex Collins got some play. I think eight carries, was it? I believe seven. But he's likely going to be completely under the radar in your league. I'm talking like a zero or two dollar bid, grab Collins. Maybe West is more injured than they've let on. And Alex Collins becomes a.

a two-down back for this team like West. So he's absolutely worth a free stash if you got the spot. Are you investing in P. Ryan or Thompson? P-Rine. P-Rine. One other name I need to bring up. Chris Johnson. Arizona Cardinals starting running back potentially now. Curvin Williams was terrible. Terrible. Chris Johnson was by far the best runner on that team last week, which isn't saying a lot. But look, if it's his job and this offense can get rolling a little bit,

Look, you're just talking goal line chances. You're talking starting running back. There's nothing that I can say about Chris Johnson that I wouldn't say about Terrence West if he were healthy. Agreed? Agreed. I mean, I think you'd rather have that opportunity than like, okay, Paul Perkins. Well, no, thanks. Like, I don't want. Thank you. You know, it's like some of these guys, it's like, do you, do you?

actually keep them on your roster. Are you guys on board with me? I would drop Paul Perkins. I'm packaged training him. Someone tried to trade him to me this morning for a third round pick.

And I said I wouldn't even trade an eight for him right now. There's no way you're able to trade Paul Perkins. I feel like I can't cut Paul Perkins. What about Smash Jackson? Can you trade Smash Jackson? But I don't want Paul Perkins on my team at all. Here's a complete waste of time. Shane is an actual ownable asset who catches the ball. He had six carries yesterday. Here's the problem with Paul Perkins on your bench. You're going to run into buy weeks and go, he's starting running back for the Giants. I can plug him in. No, you can't. And no, he's not.

That's not what he really is. Paul Perkins is living 100% on rosters right now because of the offseason. Hype, hope, and dreams. That's the only reason he's on a roster. If he were just out there accumulating statistics and in week two, you said, wow, this guy's getting some snaps, you would not sign him. Otherwise, Orleans Darkin would be signed. I was going to say Orleans Darkwell looked better to me than Paul Perkins last night. I'm dropping him. It's very nice that we now agree on one thing.

Drop public. I can promise I'm not trying to disagree with you guys on today's show. Just punt Paul Perkins. Titans. Lots to talk about. There are a lot of them. Ben Watson had a surprise week. Eight for 91. Austin Safarian Jenkins comes off of the suspended list in need of pass catchers in the New York Jets. Wide receiving core.

Yeah, like we said, Jermaine Curst is a pickup. Kobe Fleener did catch a touchdown, three for 33. Brooks, just to update you on the Kobe Fleener watch, currently tight-in number four. He's in that top five. On pace for 16 touchdowns. Hey, Evan Ingram right now, a top 10 tight-in. Four-for-49 in a touchdown. And the number one tight-in in all of fantasy football is still available on at least 20 to 35 percent of leagues, which is Jason Witten.

That is 20 nanas. Did you say 10 to 35% of leagues? No, I don't think. 25 to 30%. Oh, 25 to 3%. I thought you were giving me one of those, Sam Bradford is fine gaps. He's going to miss 1 to 60 games. He's available in 5 to 82% of leagues. So Jason Whitten is actually a target for me. I don't blame you. I mean, he is an integral piece to the offense. Dak looks his way and he says.

old reliable as it gets the nice thing let's say you're greg olson i'd kind of mention this there's a lot of guys but the best you're greg olson himself no no if you if you have lost greg olson from your fantasy team there are so many guys here and i don't know do you guys have one here who you're just like wow he he is the absolute standout guy

Of this list, of this tight end list. There's only one guy that is a standout guy to me, and that's Hunter Henry. Okay. Outside of Hunter Henry, and I know you hate Hunter Henry. He's ruined you emotionally. He has to be picked up. I'm bandaging the wounds and admitting that Hunter Henry has to be picked up, but I don't like him. Yeah. So he has personally offended me. Outside of him, though, I mean, there are so many guys I like. We've named, you know, most of them.

But they're all worthy. They're all good. So I would put free bids in all of them. That's where I was going. And just order them the way that I prefer this week's matchup, who I would want to start. And if you're out there and you go, man, I really have a good feeling about one of these guys, then pay a dollar or two, you know, bump it up. But you don't need to, you don't need to spend for most of these tight ends. You're right. 100% right. Okay. Do we list them all?

Because there was... So Fleener. Zach Miller had six catches. Jack Doyle had eight catches this week on eight targets. You had 13 targets for Witten, which we've just brought up. And then you have Ebron, five for 42 in a touchdown last night. This is kind of... The problem is, is if you chase points at tight end, you get burnt a lot of the time. This is true. That's why we like locking in on certain players. That's why I like Witten as my number one target, because I feel like...

You've got the track record. You've got the reliability. You have Des Bryant going up against a number of very talented cornerbacks this year. And when it's not working for Des, because even though Des produced for fantasy owners, he did not produce for the Cowboys. Seven catches on 15 targets. It wasn't efficient to pass it his way. It was very efficient to pass it Jason Witten's way. 10 catches on 13 targets. And if this defense cannot hold up, you may have what.

It looks like a lot of these game scripts that you saw this past week, mind you that was Denver. And you might be afraid of the Arizona Cardinals matchup because, you know, last year they were very good against tight end. Week one they were as well. But we just mentioned Jack Doyle had eight targets, eight receptions that, you know, that I think that shows that the Arizona Cardinals defense can be beat by the tight end position this year. Wasn't Doyle, wasn't that the staten from this past week, though?

Didn't Jack Doyle? What did he do in the first week against Arizona? No, no, no. They didn't. Oh, that was this week. I was ours already moving ahead. You already lost in the warp. I was trying not to remember that win for the Arizona Cardinals. Sorry about that. Oh, no worries. I just assumed that was wrong. I'm like, oh, what I do now? I have no idea who was wrong. All right. Carson wins is a potential target at the quarterback position after two great weeks.

We are going to talk about our quarterback streamers, so we'll get into some other names there. And then defenses. We want you to be aware of the impact of the defense. Some juicy ones. The Ravens are currently the number one defense in football, and they play Jacksonville, which is delicious. So in ESPN leagues, they're only owned in 50% based on our data. So I'd pick them up. The Rams, the son of bum himself, takes on the 49ers. Yeah, that's a good play. That's always good.

Dolphins take on the Jets. They're an auto start. I mean, and they're available everywhere. Patriots have Houston. That should be a monster play. Yeah, not so widely owned, though. That's why the Patriots are still owned. People are waiting for this week. Bucks, they take on the Vikings after a very, very good week against Chicago. This is the watch whether Sam Bradford's in there or not. Yeah, absolutely. But the Bucks are a strong defense. I mean, they finished last year very strong.

come out the gates smoking hot against Mike Glennon. So if it's Case Keenham, I expect multiple turnovers for the bucks. I played the Bucks this past week. That felt good. Chicago was marching down the field on the first drive. And I was like, oh, no, what did I do? And then I refreshed my phone, and it was a pick six from Mike Lennon. I was happy again. So I almost pulled off the shutout. All right, guys, do you want to talk a little streaming quarterbacks?

Um, yeah, let's do that. This is Andy stalling and trying to find a drop. I feel like it's disappeared. Hold! Hold! Full stream ahead. Now! Jason's voice can only get so high. You may need to stream a new host after that performance. Couldn't find it. Brooks, are you available? Nah. All right. We're sticking with the starter. Did you end up checking the score, Brooks, for our dynasty matchup, me versus you?

Did you end up checking it? I still haven't checked. If you need an update, just, uh, eyes wide shut. Just, let me know. All right. What are we looking for in a quarterback stream? So a quarterback stream, look, this is why we've talked about you don't have to spend up at the quarterback position. Yeah. I mean, you get Tom Brady's three. Tom Brady. Tom Brady. Tom Brady. Again, his touchdowns week to.

But, I mean, he also had a terrible week one. You have Aaron Rogers, who's been good. But, I mean, you had to draft him in the third round. Meanwhile, Alex Smith, the number one quarterback was likely not drafted. But we're just so, so we're saying the gap between those quarterbacks is smaller than you would imagine. So we're trying to get guys in positive matchups that are likely to get you 200 to 250 passing yards and a shot at multiple touchdowns.

I got him, fellas. I jumped in the dock and I grabbed smoking Jay Cuddy. Congratulations. He gets to take on the Jets. He is available in pretty much every single league format. So I think that he is a great play. The jets are terrible. They have a bad defense. They turn the ball over on offense. And Jay Cutler has some fantastic weapons in Jarvis Landry and Devante Parker.

I think Jay Culler is a fantastic stream this week. Yeah. Yeah, he's definitely good. I was surprised how available he was. He's pretty much almost entirely 100% not owned. My guy is available in 90% of leagues. And we're so far, so far on the year, he's outdone Tom Brady, including that great week. And he's ahead of Matthew Stafford and Drew Breeze and Aaron Rogers. He's on the road now. Yeah, he is on the road. I'm not saying he's going to be a world beter. But Trevor Simeon.

has looked very good. You just brought up that Jay Cutler has good weapons. Give me Emmanuel Sanders. Give me Demarius Thomas. You know, those two weapons are enough to get it done. Buffalo is not a great defense or a good team. So I think Trevor Simeon is going to be a fine play. And what I've seen from him is just like he looks really good.

I mean, he's been making moves with, you know, his arm with his legs, adding, you know, rushing touchdowns. Almost got another one this last week. So I really like what I've seen out of Trevor Simeon. I'm not scared and he's available everywhere. I think what also factors into Simeon in his game script, right? Because we're trying to find, you know, bad defenses that you can exploit. Well, part of Buffalo is that their offense is so anemic that the Broncos.

defense should be able to shut them down and put Simeon in very positive situations. I mean, like starting position. Field position should be very good. Starting on the 40 instead of the 20 or the 25. Right. The worry would just be that if they're able to completely shut them down, that it goes to this 100% run game. And so maybe the ceiling is a little bit capped with Simeon. But I do think he'll be valuable. Yeah, and I do agree with you, but I think there are those out there that.

Buffalo hasn't given up a single passing touchdown on the entire year. In fairness, they got Cam Newton. Yeah, they had Cam Newton and they had Josh McCown. So that's the perspective I was trying to give people was Simeon should be able to do something there, but you're probably going to be leaning more on the touchdowns than the total yardage for Simeon this week. I'm going to throw a crazy name out there. No, I like it. Only owned in 4% of leagues, and it's Deschon Kaiser.

Kaiser is going to, in every matchup he starts, have at least five rushing attempts. You get to place that on top of whatever he can do against Indianapolis this week, who has given up 300 plus yards to both of the passers that they have faced so far. And so I think that that puts you in a pretty high floor situation for Deschon Kaiser. He does have problems in the past catching weapons, but you saw the...