Week 7 Waivers + Rookie WR Rundown - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/20

Jump into the mailbag for some questions from the footling. Mailbag. You psyched me out, man. Yeah, Andy's going rogue over here. What are you doing? I was like, I'm looking at my quarterback for the streamers, and I'm like, okay, I got to get ready. Oh, that's the mailbag. You want to know the truth? We built out this new waiver wire system for the show. When I popped back in, I just was passed.

I was past the streaming quarterback. You got the worst mailbag I've ever done. Here's the first mailbag question. Do you guys have... What are your streamers for this week? That's what I was saying. I stole your jokes. Sorry. Full stream ahead. I apologize. That's okay. It was a funny joke. You'd love to talk on the show. I know. I know what the narrative is. Streaming quarterback options this week. Josh Allen's on by. Trevor Lawrence is on by.

Jason, I know you're starting Herbert everywhere. He's on buy. Kyler Murray is my streaming quarterback pick this week against Indianapolis. I like the buy week for Kyler. I think every week that he's been more and more acclimated had opportunities to play in this system. He's looked a little bit better. I don't think he's looked good. I think he's looked a little bit better. But Indianapolis looks very, very opposite of good. Kyler's available in more than 50% of leagues.

there's an opportunity here this week. Yeah, I think there is. I think Kyler's actually a really good play. You want to target Indianapolis. You don't have to worry about weather in this game. So that's great. I'm going to go with CJ Stroud. Yours is the one. This is not just a good stream. Thank you. He's been awesome. I mean, in the four games with Nico Collins active, he's averaging 71% completion percentage, basically 300.

passing yards a game and over 20 fantasy points a game. That's like what you, when you're looking for a really good fantasy quarterback, you're wanting him to score more than 20 fantasy points a game. He's averaging that with Nico. Now you add future first ballot Hall of Fame wide receiver to the team in Tank Dell. And then they also trade for Marvin Harrison Jr. But it's you said this at the news, Mike. It's like all of a sudden this team who seemed like they had no one to throw the ball to is like, well, now you've got.

You know, Hutchinson's like, okay, well, he's fine in this role. And you've got Marv running a few routes. You get Tank Dell Beck. The doctor's doing what he needs to do, which is underneath. You got booty. You've got, I mean, this is a crazy amount of capable receivers there. And so against New York Giants, their 10-point home favorites. It's a great match. CJ Stroud should be started. He's the start of the week. Yes. For like.

independent of the streaming category. Yeah, he's going to have a great week. And this one, I guess the news, I hadn't seen the Jadelin news, but I like Baker Mayfield immediately off of your waiver wire against the Carolina Panthers. Should he be the one who actually started? Whoa, the lasers got me. That scared me. Carolina's 24th and scheduled adjusted points to the position. Baker, and Baker was dropped in a lot of places, 27% rostered.

So he's, what's that over there, Mike? What's behind you? Mailbag. Nothing. That one is better. You guys want to do some mailbag for the foot clan? Oh, I love to. It's ironic that the second I said it's for the foot clan, you're like, let's not do that segment. It's really weird. You guys have kind of turned.

on them website question from nick what's up ballers brand new member of the foot clan just wondering if i should trade devante smith for t higgins straight up oh interesting i will i'm gonna go to the two the devante smith truther for this one yeah i i would um i love seeing 14 targets um in the first game without jalen hertz devante smith i think is a better wide receiver than t higgins but i'm gonna take i'm i'm gonna take not tanner mckee not tanner mckee i mean 45 pass attempts for tanner mckee last week

unremarkable was the commentary my week is gone it's certainly not impossible that devante smith is fine with tanner mckee shoot maybe even better slash joe milton yeah but zooka joe's waiting uh but yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna take the cincinnati bangles joe burrow t higgins is fine i would do that um okay joll in coloradole in colorado should i pick up trade tucker and drop devante smith no no no no no no no no i wouldn't do that a rob in london

Bonjour from London. Bonjour. Football this week. Would you trade George Pickin straight up for Matthew Golden? Oh my gosh. Yeah, I would. I think I would. I have watched every route of Matthew Golden this year. Matthew Golden looks fantastic. He looks great. And he looks like somebody that Jordan loved trust tremendously is looking for when plays breakdown down down the field. He was our trade for a candidate weeks ago, kind of highlighting, hey, he's doing everything Christian Watts is doing, except for he's not.

scoring. Now he's had a touchdown three of the last four weeks. Yeah, and I mean, look at three of the last four weeks, wide receiver four, ten, and three. He's the wide receiver seven on the season right now. So, yeah, I think I would, man, that is so tough to take someone as proven as George Pickens who's struggling. Yeah, I look. Yeah, I think you, I think you should do it. It's a tough one. And it is one of those trades where you're like, how is this happening? But do you accept it?

I mean, do you accept that this is what's happening at this point? I think I do. I think you can have two things to be true here. You can do this trade. George Pickens can get better and you can still have the better. Like Pickens getting better might not equal what Golden will be. Correct. That's the part will make the trade that'll make the trade okay. Is there a world? Because we saw this a couple years ago. Jordan Love balling out is the top. Quarterback. The Jacob's question. Yeah. Quarterback five in fantasy football.

they get Jacobs on this team and really are able to run the ball more around the goal line. Are they? No, no, no. I'm saying in the past. Oh, okay. What happened was a shift in mentality, personality, personality. Then in a week or two, you're going to add Micah Parsons or at some point. Defense, run the ball, that type of thing. And so this, you know, I talked a lot the last month about getting Jordan Love, picking him up, making him my start of the week.

the last couple weeks and this coming week and just like staying in the flames of this matchups. But I do believe, you know, going forward, you could have a shift from who the Packers are as this high-flying, deep passing offense. Did they trade for five new offensive linemen? No, but they did sign several extra offensive linemen, you know, a couple weeks ago. I think that's been the biggest problem. Yeah. I think that problem will remain. And so I think Jacobs will help because Jacobs will do infinitely more than Marshall and Lloyd.

But I think he could get like six yards on five carries. I think we knew balance was coming in part this year. And, you know, Tucker Kraft getting healthier, Golden looking good, Watson being a dominator. Matthew Golden is a huge part of it because last year. I mean, it's a good question to ask because that has been their philosophy before. Like even if they wanted to be high flyers last year, Matthew Golden was terrible. Like he was not a functional part. He got no targets, yeah.

And we say that's earned. Yes. So they gave it to Dobbs. Perhaps if they had decided to target Matthew Golden, this would have happened last year. But it didn't. And you had injuries this year too. So, Jaden Reed went out. I think it's a little bit different with the way that Watson and Golden are playing to to look at that and be like, we need to shift back to what we were doing before. They compliment each other so well because they are such fast athletic wide receivers on the outside that like you can't really scheme.

Both of them. They honestly, they're very similar. To Dallas? No, no, no. I think you're saying to each other. No, to each other. I just think that Golden and Watson are very similar. Watson gets the red zone deep play advantage because he is a better, he's bigger. And so he can go high point of ball. But Golden's been able to do that. They target Golden on like goal line plays. They're just very, like I agree with you. I think that they are very complimentary because you have a hard time defending two speedsters like that.

So I think it is, I would do it. I would trade. Like right now, if you played Ryan Flanoy over Pickens for this year, you're probably about even. Caleb Williams on Thursday night football or wait for Stroud against the Giants. I'd play Stroud. I mean, last week you were better off playing Aaron Rogers than Caleb Williams, production wise. Which seems crazy, but I looked into it and I started Caleb and it was a fact. Yeah, I certainly, I don't view Caleb Williams as someone that I'm.

needing to bench or wanting. Kyle, do we have the over under for those games? It's the New England part that is. Yeah, that's where like the over under I think is 50.5 for Thursday? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's a high over under. The environment of the bears versus the Patriots seems more likely to get at, to spiral out of control in the second half and people are having to put up points where the tech, the Texans are going to manhandle the giants.

Like it's either Jamis and you're getting a bagelion picks or it's McCarthy and you're getting a bagelian picks. So I think it's, I love Stroud this week. Oh, man. That's a tough. That's a really, really tough question. I think maybe you just take the for sure, like Stroud for a half is probably enough fantasy points. I'm taking Stroud because I think the, I'm going to go with Stroud there. It's tough though.

Jerry in California, who do I drop and keep rest of season? Fanon or Joan Johnson? Which would you drop? Which would keep rest of season? Wow. Good question. I'd keep Fanon. Fanon's been terrible the last couple weeks. John's coming off of a goose. Juan was better. And then you do have Jordan Tyson coming back. They are, they're in Paris this week. Then a bye week for Juan Johnson.

And then I would expect to have Jordan Tyson back. So, yeah, I would keep fanning. I'm not, like, convicted to the degree that, like, if you like one guy more, just don't feel stress over which one you keep. Adam in Cincinnati, last question. Hey, ballers, listen to your round. Thank you. Is it okay to drop Cyrus Allen in a Dynasty League? No. Well, he had two catches last week. Who's there? Drop him for who? That's always the question, is drop for who? If you're...

Somehow there is in someone's for sure locked in RB2. Somehow Seth McGowan is out there. Yeah, I'd probably go back. Is that a meow? Meow? No, I don't. I will not make any animal indictments on Mr. McGowan yet. Like, that's a move I could see happening, but. What about Traylon Burks? I'd rather. Is he okay? If I was playing to win now, he'd want Burks. He got absolutely Undertaker chokeslammed into the ground. Yeah, I think that was more of a.

Pain, not injured. Ouch. It was pain. It looked pain. Yeah, he was standing up on the sideline. Okay, was it good. Yeah, Berks is going to score more points this year. Yeah, I would depend on, like, I would try not to cut him just to see if something develops over the year. Yeah. But, I mean, there are some shoes to drop in the wide receiver depth charts. Like, you could sign or play some of these guys, and then the next week, Tyree Kill is on the Chiefs or Tyree Kill is on, you know, one of these contenders. I don't know if Tyree Kill is going to be on a team. Yeah, he might not.

Well, John Jennings trade. Brian Thomas Jr. trade. Other opportunities. I mean, some moves are going to get made. They've been made the last few years. I think something's going to happen. But yeah, I don't hold out. My percentage chance that Cyrus works out for the Chiefs is like very low. It's like 4%. Yeah, very, very low. All right, that is going to do it for today's show. We did all the segments, right? All the ones I was supposed to do. In whatever order we wanted. Whatever order we wanted. Mailbag, Thursday night preview tomorrow.

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