Week 11 Waivers & QB Streamers, McCoy Mathematics

Would you rather pick up Royce Freeman, though, or play a guy that has a guaranteed workload like Doug Martin taking on Arizona this week, 15 for 61 last week. Doug Martin is gross. I get it. I'm going to hide my children and I'm going to pick up Doug Martin. Yeah. Between the two, I would play Doug Martin. He's getting the- Can't let the kids around. No, no, crampus eats your kids. But, yeah, I mean. Where did, just refresh my memory for a moment. Yeah, Mike. Where did crampus come from? Correct.

This is like a... Where did it originate? I'm trying to remember the first... No. Like, why did Doug Martin become? No, I'm not looking for the real story of crampus. Oh, the footballers. I'm not looking for the movie plot, Mike. I'm talking about like, why did he originally get compared to crampus? Because he was coming back off of the, of an injury. I think it was last year where you guys were getting a little bit hot and bothered for Doug Martin. We thought Santa Claus was coming to town. And I said, no, Crampus is coming.

Yeah, so he didn't actually eat any children. Last year he'd certainly do. Okay. He is getting work, though. I mean, 15 carries. There's not a lot of waiver wire running backs you can get to get 15 carries. It's like him and Frank Gore. That's it. End of list. Jaylon Richard or crampus. They're both owned in 47%, 48% of leagues. Going against Arizona, do you play crampus over Jailen Rashar?

Yeah, I think you've got to go Doug Martin. I mean, the work has been there. And honestly, he hasn't looked terrible. No, he has not. There was a moment when we were watching the games and a Raider running bag had some juice. It ripped off a good run. Jason said, oh, wait, who was that? I said, Jason, that was Doug Martin. And Jason immediately ripped his face off. Yeah, I am faceless now. Don't go to YouTube. He ripped his beard back off.

If you're a Joe Mixon owner, a reminder, go get Gio Bernard. Joe Bernard is 25% owned. He snuck onto a lot of waiver wires simply because you can't, you couldn't hold him while he was hurt. But Joe Bernard is going to get all the work again if Joe Mixing goes down. And that's something that can happen. Yes. Joe Bernard, if you have Cream Hunt, please grab Spencer Ware. If you have Todd Gurley, please grab Malcolm Brown. And I know we talked about it earlier, but Rashad Penny would be a huge pickup for me this week.

Yes. He's available in almost every league. Would you rather pick up Penny or Davis at this point? Well, Davis is probably owned. I believe Carson plays. And if Carson plays, then if you have to pick one, if you're going to make me pick one, I'll take Penny because what if on Thursday Penny gets everything because he's a first round pick? I mean, at that point, if you told me Carson's out, it's a coin flip to me on who has a better Thursday night game against the Packers.

Let's talk tight-ins. I don't know what's more disgusting right now. Tight-ins or running backs on the waiver wire. I think it's tight-ins. Look, some of these guys that maybe you thought you could get by with, they kind of stunk last week. Herndon was terrible. Three for 34 going into the buy, I don't pick up Herndon. No. Watson had one for one. Almost had a touchdown. I don't care. He...

He's a risky play. CJ Usama hasn't capitalized on a lack of Tyler Eifert or Tyler Croft. He doesn't seem to be a core part of the offense, even without A.J. Green, and he has Baltimore coming up. The only one I'm looking at a little bit sideways is Jeff Hirman in Denver, but Jason made a pretty compelling argument as to why he was used the way he was used. Coming off of week 9, 10 for 83, and a touchdown looks really nice, but...

You're playing with fire there. I mean, who are your favorite pickups at the tight end position? I don't have any. To me, it's one. It's Vance McDonald if he's there. Right. Sure. But Jeff Hirman is interesting. He has the fourth most red zone targets among tight ends. He, it is only, if we only have the one game sample, that's, that's what's upsetting about this coming off the buy week. And what I mean by one game sample, I mean, after the trade of Demarius Thomas.

Hyerman was the man who picked up the slack and filled that target void. You had hoped Sutton would see this huge surge in targets, but I went to the tight end position. He's interesting. Nick Venet. Yeah, I was just going to bring him up. I hate to say it because I wanted it to be at Dixon, but Benet has been involved. He wasn't, you know, he didn't do much in his last game out, but he got a touchdown.

Green Bay who's second in the league against opposing tight ends. Yeah, I mean, in this landscape, I think you could do worse than Nick Vinette. Yeah, it's gross. I mean, maybe you take the... I want to say Jono Smith, but Jonah Smith doesn't run a lot of routes. If you have George Kittle, Rob Grankowski, or David and Joku, they're on by this week, so you're making this decision. Well, Ricky Seals-Jones is a name that should be brought up. Really? Yeah, nine targets.

five receptions for 51 yards, gets Oakland. You know, he run the 10th most tight-in routes. That's more than Ebronn or Reed or Howard. And the last two games with the offense of coordinator change, 36 and 37 routes. Which is a lot for a tight-in. So he would probably be ahead of some of those guys. I agree with you. Vance McDonald, if he's there, that's the pickup. Outside of him, it's probably Hireman and Ricky Seals-Jones. I'm feeling a lot of pain.

Talking through those names. Mike, are you Seals Jones or Hirman? Oh. I'll just start no one. Hiring. I'll take to zero, please. I think I would go Hirement. All right. We have a quarterback streaming options coming up here momentarily. I want to touch on defenses. Arizona. That's, yeah, Arizona is a great. Arizona at home versus the Oakland Raiders. And they are available nearly everywhere. They're going to be the.

the hot sought-after streamer this week. Are they? Yes. Yes. You think they wouldn't be? Well, I... They've been a good defense. They're at home. They're against the Raiders. I don't disagree with the pickup at all. I'm just saying I don't know how much buzz is going to surround an Arizona defense. Sure. Well, you can't play the bills this week. So you've got to play against the Raiders. At least that's the way I see it. So Arizona, very interesting.

Other than that, Brooks put in a Tom Selleck sneaky defense must stash of the week. I'll give credit. It's Kyle. Oh, okay. Kyle put that in there. Jacksonville against Buffalo next week. So he's saying if you want to stash a defense, you can stash Jacksonville. They're still on. You would think that would be the biggest home run on Earth. Yeah. And yet Matt Barkley. Josh Allen. We'll see. But other guys for this week.

Carolina against Detroit, are you, do you want to play Pittsburgh against Jacksonville? I am fine with that. I think Pittsburgh's defensive line this last week showed that they are, they are starting to click. And whenever you play against Blake Bortles, you have the chance for pick six. You have a chance for sacks. Now they're pick seven, pick ten, both of these defenses are owned in same percentage. Pittsburgh against Jacksonville or Baltimore against the Bengals. Because they're both owned in.

55% of the league. Oh. Oh, Sammy! I would probably go Baltimore. I think they've got a better defense. Brooks, we need to put that 55 drop on every sheet that I got. Like on every board, because I can't miss that, man. No, what we need is I need a... Well, Brooks needs to be able to hit it back there. I need a big button. Well, that could get out of hand. Like the Staples easy button? We could lose most of our subscribers in one episode. Or gain most of them. I would imagine we would lose about...

Per episode, if you had that kind of access. Anything else on defenses, guys? Can I move on? Yeah, we're good. Full stream ahead. Jason, did you come in here and try to disrupt me? Because my streaming... You don't get to take two? Well, it's not really a take two. I put DAC in there as my streamer, and then I said, well, if Lamar was to start...

I would pivot to Lamar. So it sounds like you're taking two. I'm taking 1.5. In the dock, it says your backup.

pivot was DAC, but DAC is a must stream this week. Absolutely. So we will hold hands. Let's go in together. And we'll say DAC. Dak against Atlanta is a great streaming option. Jason, I agree with you. Yeah, he's he's available in most leagues. He's been actually, if you look at the last five or six weeks, he's been fine rushing the ball now with Amari Cooper in tow and you play against Atlanta. And I love that it is.

in Atlanta, meaning that the Falcons aren't going to do what happened last week in Cleveland, which is just be a terrible team for some reason. Offensive problems for sure. Right. I think Atlanta will put up the points and DAC will have to come back. He'll get a lot of rushing yards and use his new weapon in Amari Cooper. I mean, there's a lot.

A lot of worse players you could grab than DAC this week. So we'll share DAC, and then I want to say if Lamar starts against Cincinnati, that defense has been atrocious. Yeah, go for it. Lamar Jackson is going to rush for 100 yards in that game. So no doubt about it. It's probably worse for the team, right? He's going to drop back in the pocket, and he's going to get opportunities to rush and he's going to take them. So we'll share both, though. How about that? There you go. I love it.

Now, if Lamar plays, do you play Lamar against Cincinnati over that? Because that's what I would do. I would as well. All right. We're better. Wow. Did we just become best for us happening? I don't like this love fest over here. Go away, Mike. Now, my backup to the backup was going to be Marcus Marriota against Indianapolis. But that's my guy. Oh, I had no idea. Marcus Marietta versus the Indianapolis Colts. I just want to read you a line real quick.

26 for 320 yards and two touchdowns. To be or not to be? That's a pretty, pretty awesome passing line. That was Blake Bortles people against the Indianapolis Colts. Quarterbacks are safe. If you're not Derek Anderson, you are safe against the Indianapolis Colts. On top of that, Mario, it finally looks healthy. The Corey Davis breakout possible breakout game last week against the New England Patriots. I think it.

It means a lot to me that Corey Davis had that game against Gilmore. So I think that Mario-Ota is a very safe top-table guy this week. We didn't bring up Corey Davis in the waivers. Maybe we should have. He's 68% owned. Here's the comedic. Oh, go pick them up. The perplexing thing about Cory Davis, right? Matchups that you would consider to be good matchups for Corey Davis. You know, six fancy points against Buffalo. Nine against Miami. Four, you know.

His great games, home games against Philadelphia and New England, 20 plus points. He placed a level of his competition. And someone accused me of being, which is amazing to me. They said, how come you guys keep trashing on Corey Davis? And I think to myself, does Corey Davis have a bigger fan than me? He was our consensus. All three of us put him in as a breakout in the UDK. The reason we have made.

jokes about Cory Davis is because he's a number one who before this past week had one relevant fantasy week. It just becomes kind of like smile through the pain situation with Corey Davis because he's so talented and we all like him. Well, part of the problem has been Marks Marriota. Mario, yeah. And Mariotas looked really good the last two weeks. I love your stream. You brought up how Blake Bortles had a great week against him. Last week, he was my stream of the week. The reason.

Was the Colts. The reason was the Colts because Derek Carr put up 244 and 3. Sam Darnold had a huge attack the Colts. Yes. And Mariotas, he's competent enough to get it done. Yeah. Yeah, no doubt about it. So, yeah, I think that's it. Brooks, you got anything else? You got anything going on? A George Kittle trade, perhaps? No. Come on. Brooks, I'll give you Rob. Listen to me. I'll give you Rob Grunkowski, Carlos Hyde,

And Marshawn Lynch. I'm fine. Come on. You realize, like, the trade started very strong, and then you made it worse by adding those two running backs into it. I will also include Equanimia St. Brown, Brooks. Less is more. Last chance. I'm going to need kid open in playoffs. I hope you don't make the playoffs. Hey, check out. Check out draft.com slash ballers for your daily fantasy needs, and we will see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Goodbye, Footclan.

you for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join the foot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers. We've been the trusted experts since 1960 because nobody knows tires better than we do. And with over 90 tire brands, we have an abundance of options in stock for your vehicle. Buy and drive today at discounttire.com. Let's get you taken care of.