Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 4 Waivers, Streams of the Week, Injury News

for your team can be the difference between winning the next three or four weeks and losing them it is a couple of moves you don't have to necessarily spend all day long overhauling your team with a thousand trades but a couple of small moves will make a big difference in these upcoming weeks and so i i'm excited to talk about these guys i think there are some must ads and i'd like to know what you guys think

Jason, Mike, about must ads in each position. And then there are some maybe ads, depending on your league size, depending on your circumstances with injuries, and things like that. So let's start with the aforementioned John Brown. Now, John Brown is owned in about 75% of leagues. But does he have the potential with or without the Floyd injury to be at two?

A wide receiver, too, Jason? Without a doubt. This was a really good week for my guys, right? I'm a late bloomer. And so my Kobe Fleener and John Brown, they came a little bit to life. But you mentioned he only had 57% of snaps.

But he had a good fantasy game, and he was productive without that. Those snaps are going to continue to go up. Geron Brown, look, I really like him, but he's not John Brown, and he's not going to be cutting into his snaps all season long, in my opinion. I don't see that happening. I think John Brown gets back up to that 90% snap count, especially right now with Michael Floyd out. You know, he missed the...

the whole, I mean, almost the entire preseason. And it takes a little time to, you know, get in sync with Carson Palmer and those things. We've seen it with plenty of other teams. And so now he's coming on. I feel like John Brown is one of those must-stones. If he's on your waiver, so many people dropped them, you know, and it was understandable. He wasn't doing anything. He wasn't getting the snaps he needed and people had injuries. He's on a lot of waivers.

And you need to pick him up. And I would start him this coming week personally. Mike, who's your must-add wide receiver this week? Ooh, I don't know if I have anyone who is, I would call an absolute 100. I'm going to slam my fist on the desk, must-add. But the closest to that would be our guy, Thorel Pryor. Our guy? Yeah, he is now. Wow. I didn't know that. Well, I mean, I drafted him and then I kind of let him go. And now I'm very sad about it. So I just have a, you know, the Wolverine Giff?

where he's sitting on the bed and looking at the picture frame and they put into. That's what you have. That's me and Cheryl Pryor. Pryor's in the picture frame. Yeah, and I'm saying I miss you, TP. Come back. Come back to me. It's kind of a trick question because if you pick Pryor, he might be the must add wide receiver running back and quarterback. Very, very fair. I agree with you. He's 27% owned. That's why he's the must add because I'd play this week. For the foreseeable future, while it's Cody Kessler.

The Browns are just going to piece it together, and that means Terrell Pryor is going to be involved in all parts of the offense. We saw him go eight for 144. He had 144 receiving yards with Cody Kessler as the quarterback. 14 targets. And I think that Pryor can be great even moving forward. Let's say we know that Josh Gordon is going to be back next week. Cory Coleman's still gone.

It's going to be Terrell Pryor and Josh Gordon. Josh McCallon comes back. Well, now you've upgraded the quarterback to a guy who throws it deep, and then we know that Terrell Pryor is great at that. So I think as of right now, the only guy who I love off of the waiver wire, there's a couple guys that I really like, but the one that I love is Terrell Pryor right now. Yeah, I completely agree that you should add him. I think I disagree on his season-long outlook. I think when Josh Gordon comes back. Right now, Terrell Pryor is easy.

I mean, it's him and what, Gary Barnage and Isaiah Crowell? Like, I mean, he is the guy. But when Josh Gordon gets back, I don't think the offense is going to produce enough to have multiple high value assets. So if he goes off again this week, I said it last episode, I would trade him. You guys are more buying in for the season long. But regardless, he needs to be picked up. The guy for me, other than John Brown and Terrell prior, that I want, if I am looking for a wide receiver, is Jameson Crowder.

James and Crowder has been quietly amazing. He's either tied for first or he's second so far on the year in red zone targets at the goal line or inside the 10. He's getting valuable targets. And this last week, I mean, he was four for 78 with a touchdown. He's on, you know, one of those offenses that you know is going to throw the ball a ton. And I think he's a talented second year wide receiver. Jameson Crowder is available in all of your leagues.

I mean, I think he's something like 11% owned. Yeah. So he's out there. He's available. And I think he's startable. And his upside is there. You know, if Josh Doxon comes on, I think, you know, maybe it could eat in a little bit. But I think he's worth grabbing on the cheap. One of the guys I was really high on this week paid off for you. Seven for 71 and a touchdown. Michael Thomas last night.

really looks like a good young wide receiver. He's long. He's willing to go into traffic. He's a guy that I think is going to outperform Willie Sneed from week to week here and there this season because Breeze is going to go with the guy that's open. And I don't think, you know, Willie Sneed, as great as he started the year, I don't think he's some transcendent talent. I think Michael Thomas, they invested a pick in him. And I think he's going to be involved. Now he's 56% owned. Do you guys buy it? Would you spin Fab on Thomas or do you think this is kind of like

the wrong time to do it with Sneed coming back and Fleen are getting involved. I would absolutely spend on Michael Thomas because we've seen even in the prior games that he's been valuable. This wasn't his first touchdown. And should Sneed or Cooks or any other weapon go down, you know the volume is going to be there. Since 2012, okay, listen to this. Since 2012, the New Orleans Saints, they have the most yards in the NFL. They have also given up the most yards in the NFL.

That's what you want for fantasy football. You know, every game. Guess, just take a guess next week. Vegas over underlines. Guess which team has the highest one again? Norlands. Yeah, and it's going to happen every single week. So Michael Thomas. Yeah, I was wrong on that under, on that under prediction, by the way. So just a bit outside. Michael Thomas is, I think there are several wide receivers that are great this week. Another one that is also worthy. I mean, I feel like,

This is the first week where, man, there's a handful of guys I actually want personally on my team. Another one is Steve Smith. Absolutely. Love Steve Smith. Each week, he has improved. Each week getting back into the equation. Eight for 87 this last week. And look, I mean, he's a Hall of Famer. He was fantastic on fire last year, a top 12 wide receiver before he went down to injury. And the question was, can he come back?

Yeah, he was a wide receiver three for Mike and I this past week. And for good reason, he's the go-to type of guy. Mike Wallace, for all of his attributes thus far, it's called scoring touchdowns. He's got three or four receptions. That's the most he's had. Steve Smith had eight. Right. He's going to be the go-to guy. I'm on board with you, Jay. And this week, he's at home where Joe Flacko is much better at home, and he's against the Oakland Raiders. Yeah, he's a good play this week.

All right, let's throw out a couple more names. The last name I wanted to throw up was Kevin White. We saw the backup quarterback and the number two wide receiver. It has struck again where Kevin White got 14 targets and he was getting showered with deep balls as well. Well, you got to know, I mean, Alton Jeffrey is not 100%. That makes a big difference. It does. It seems like this always happens to me when I'm paying attention. When the backup is in, they just seem to have more of a connection with.

the backup type guys. And so for Kevin White, six for 62, but the 14 targets was huge. And now he gets to play Detroit. So I think Kevin White is, he should be added. All right. Give me your, give me your must add running back for the waiver wire. And no, you may not select Kristen Michael. Oh, well, he's definitely it if he's out. Yes. Just saying public service. There are 25% of leagues in which Kristen Michael is sitting there. And you're getting a running back one for the time being if you go do that. So.

Yes, Kristen Michael is the headliner that we're not going to include in this must-add situation. But let's talk about the other guys, the 15, 20, 30-percent-owned players. Who's your must-ad guy? Well, it's Jordan Howard. I mean, Jeremy Langford went down. We talked about him earlier in the news. And Jordan Howard has looked very capable, 9 for 45 on the ground, and 4 for 47. That's fantastic. Receiving yards. If you can get me.

40 to 50 receiving yards, no matter what. No matter what you do on the ground, you're going to have a fine day because you're going to end up around 80 to 100 yards. And that's what you want out of a running back. A guy who's going to be available on your waiver, I would be pretty aggressive with my, if I have the number one priority, I'll blow it on Jordan Howard. If I'm going to put some good fab in on Howard, I want him on my team, four to six weeks of Langford.

And that's just the injury. That's not saying, hey, Lank, for when you get back, you get your starting job. We have a classic John Fox here who's saying, well, Jay Cutler might not get his job back. This is who we're dealing with as a head coach in Chicago. And Jordan Howard has been the superior running back. So that's who I'm picking up because he could turn into a lower end running back too for the rest of the season. Especially while Jekwiz Rogers is injured. I'm sorry, not.

He's gone. Magic Quiz Rogers. Kadim Carey. Yes. While Kadim Carey is still injured as well, I think that Howard is very good. And what you bring up in the passing game is spot on. He was great at it in college. So you already knew that coming in. And it's kind of like Mark Ingraham last year where maybe he only gets 50 yards on the ground because the bears don't have that great offensive line. But maybe he gets 50 yards through the air.

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Wow. They have Babe, they have Babe Rube balls on there for 50 cents. Those are a lot cheaper than the Babe Ruth ones are more expensive. I would not advise the Babe Rube ball. Hey, we also want to give a big shout out. We talked about them to open the show, but the draft app is a must add app. I mean, look, you're all fantasy football fans. You're listening because you enjoy the game. You enjoy Sundays. Did you catch me last night?

Oh, that's great. I'll check while you talk about it. Yeah, I mean, we play this every single week. We enjoy it. You get to draft and a snake draft. And you get to do it from... You get to draft, man. Yeah, you actually get to draft and you do it for money. You can win money and you could do it for $1, $5, for $10. There's all sorts of fun leagues. And it puts something on the line every single game. I beat you. Oh, I didn't get back. Brandon Cooks killed you. Yeah. Drew Brees, got you close, but I won. I'm the winner. I'm the best.

All right. Well, then why don't you tell them about draft, Andy? Yeah, well, I won last week. You draft five players every single week. You can do it in a big league. You can do it with your friends. It's a really fun thing. Once you set a league up, you can just redo that league every single week. And that's what we've been doing this week. You know, I took the cake. Mike had like half my points. It was not a good...

Not a good week for the hitman. Hey, if you want to grab it, go to playdraft.com slash ballers or go to the iOS or app store. And make sure put in the promo code ballers because then it'll put you in our two leagues so you can play with us. All right. Let's continue the waiver wire discussions here. Jordan Howard, the big ad. How much of your fab budget would you spend if you're in a $100 league on Jordan Howard? Assuming that you got to know your league. Yeah. That is so important, Mike. We didn't bring that up. I don't think on our previous waiver shows. But when we give a number,