Week 4 Waivers + Tough Drop Decisions - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/29

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Back again. Football is the best. Freaking. Case Keenum. Case Keenum. Like, not just winning, but looking very competent. Do we not? It was awesome. Do we not see my point?

From a few shows ago. The parody? No, just there's guys that are veteran quarterback. Yes, yes, yes. That get thrown to the garbage heap and apparently are capable of playing so much better than Cam Ward. Yeah, because, yes. Case Keenum, like, in his time. I know. Was like, he was. He was efficient. Yeah, I mean, he was a guy who was starting. But his time was 2019. He's been doing over half a decade ago. I was shocked he was still in the league. I really was.

Well, he was, he was, he said that he has, he retired. Yeah, that's right. Okay. And then, mentally. Well, he hadn't put it in paperwork, but he had to have I. He decided that he was going to retire and walk away. And then Ben Johnson called him. And the only reason he came back was for Ben Johnson. Yeah. And then he wins on Monday night football. Yeah. In front of his family. It was 27 to seven. It was awesome. Ben Johnson is very good. He was in the back. And, like, Keenan was seriously.

On point. So much stuff was just short timing and Keenham was like the ball placement. It had to be precise and he was. He got it done. Yeah, this was not a good night for the Eagles. No. No, it was not. I would say year. I don't think I would. I don't think I would relegate. They almost lost to the Titans with Cam Ward. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which seems impossible. I mean, genuinely, like.

This feels like an 0-and-3 team. Well, they could have lost the commanders in week one as well. They're not, you know, they're feeling the absence of A.J. Brown. They're feeling the age of Saquan Barkley, the explosive plays on the team. We're not using Mackay Lemon. Eli Stowers was a terrible draft pick. We don't have Dallas Goddard, who had a really good week one and two.

Dante Vinwicks, two for 32. Devante Smith, six for 65. Seacon was 15 for 82, no touchdown. Jalen Hertz, I mean, hugely disappointing fantasy night. I was shocked they didn't run more. Like, Barkley to the outside was working fantastic. And then they're like, no, we're going to, let's have Jalen Hertz take this offense on. It's like, unnecessary.

Barclay is destroying these people. You could kill them on the ground. It's the Bears. So the Bears won 27 to 7. They won with 59 points in week one. And here we are with Colston, Loveland, Roma, Dunez. Oh, Loveland. Just stretch your arms, man. That was the, yeah, you say that, but also Rome, just, just open your hands. He caught it with his fingers closed and therefore did not catch the ball. I don't expect more. Caught it with his fingers closed. That's what happened. His fingers were like.

too closed already and it hit the outside of his fingertips. Like, what are you doing? Which he's second in the league in drops, I think, over the last couple of years. Well, I don't know if he's huge. It was a hardest was pointing out that people destroy Quentin Johnston for his drops. And Rome is one drop behind him. I was, except Quinn, Kew has like a ton of volume. I was unwilling to acknowledge Jason's recommendation of Kleefe Raymond two weeks ago because.

I was not capable of believing that this person in the face of a Dunesay-Levelin burden could have any sort of meaningful long-term role. Look, when you're 32 years old. In year 11. In year 11 as an undrafted free agent. Journeyman that's hit different teams. You've got to you got to make your mark. I mean, I give so much credit to somebody like Ben Johnson for like.

just being player agnostic and just taking the best player, the best route, and prioritizing. I don't know if you guys have seen the play. Benjamin Sulloch on Twitter shared it. There was a play schemed up where two wide receivers ran through the C gap. Like the play is wild. You watch this one. So they run up through the C gap. Yeah, I mean, so you've got like.

Like a couple of running backs? No cornerbacks essentially on two different wide receivers going to different directions. It is mastermind level stuff. Well, and the QB sneak for Case Keenum to get a rushing touchdown was we're going to have the guards fake. Like we sent, they did the complete opposite of what is a big man football. We're stronger. We're going right. No, we're going to act like the guards are going to pull out. And then Case Keenham. Case Keenom scores a rushing touchdown.

I feel like in Philadelphia, you got to walk home. There's no buses allowed. If Case King gets a rushing touchdown, you walk. I know, I hope it's raining. I know a couple of things. I know that the, now, Burden got into the end zone on a play that was basically a running play and he got pushed in from eight yards away. Adun's a three for 44. However, four for 31. Eleven targets for Luther Burden. Yes. We will take that. Yes, we will. Feed the burden. Yes.

But I will say this. Is that Mary Poppins you're going with? You know what? Sure. Toppins. I know what you're saying? Feed the birds. Topins. Topins. I just know this from 12 years of fantasy football. If Khalif Raymond's roster percentage surpasses like 50%, this dude will never do it again. You can't look at him. I mean, is there any of you? Let's say we've just put all four of these.

bears on your team there's nobody that's starting caliph raymond over adunes day or lovelin it feels impossible to do that it i mean he played 75% of the snaps he's been over 60% of the snaps in all three weeks and so therefore on a good offense where he's very involved and knows the system well and is being used well you feel like you should be able to start him but how how do you start a year 11th like we know who caliph rayman is

Yeah, Ben Johnson knows who he is, which is a superstar. He's the next Parker Washington. Oh, my God. Yeah, no, remember we were doing the, like, who's the next Michael Wilson? I think we did that time machine. Yeah. We found him. We might have, I mean, at least through three weeks. And here we are. Three weeks into the fantasy season, it is a moment in time where we can say, hey, if it hasn't gone your way, do not give up. Correct. We have been.

here for 12 years and we have seen literally hundreds, maybe thousands of people right in at 04, 05, make the playoffs win a championship. Have you seen the injuries this year? Yeah. Everything that's terrible that has happened to you and your bad luck, because there is. There's bountiful bad luck this year. That bad luck, that cloud, it might move over to your opponent next week. Also,

In every league, there are, you know, as the weeks go on, you get into week four, week five, you've got, you know, half the league is on the bottom half of their league and they start giving up, folding, not trying to start, not going on the way. And the league gets a little easier as well. You know, so stay the course and you'll be fine. Yeah, it's been wild so far. But don't be the one to give up first. When those other teams start to give up. Right.

You can take advantage. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. All right. James Winston remains the team starting quarterback for now. How many weeks you give it? Two. One. Yeah. Maybe one. You think they'll have McCarthy up to speed in one week? Well, let's put it this way. The Cardinals beat them this week. And Winston commits turnovers. It's possible. The Cardinals are the entire reason. It'll be one or more because either the Cardinals are bad.

And James Winston wins, and they're not going to pull him after a victory. And he might look fine. Or the Arizona Cardinals beat you. And then you're like, we've got to make a change. I hear what you're saying. Let's just see how one week goes. But genuinely, it is one week at a time with James. He's the starter this week. He will not be the starter rest of season. He's just not playing well enough. No, he's playing. He's the worst statistical quarterback in the league.

Cam Ward. We have. I don't, like, I do think that J.J. McCarthy will eventually take over, but in terms of James, being thrown in against the Rams, when you're not, when you haven't been getting the started reps, and then playing in that, in the storm game, I'll give him at least one more week against the Cardinals. That is, that is fair. We got to remember that that.

Titans game was a storm and you can't hold anything against him against the Rams. So maybe is there a chance we see famous James? It feels slim, but that would be awesome. That would be awesome for neighbors to have someone that is just airing it out. Jaden Daniels will travel with the team to London and practice in some capacity this week. So Jaden Daniels should be back sooner than later. What a game by Marioita last week. Yes.

Good news here, Justin Jefferson, ankle injury, not anything long term and could play in week four against the dolphins. Wow. So avoided, you know, the dreaded high ankle scenario. That's exciting news. That is. I hadn't seen that. I was contemplating Kyler as my stream of the week. I think he's a fine enough pickup. But then I was like, yeah, without Justin Jefferson, I don't know how long he's going to be out. But if Jefferson's back soon, even if it's not necessarily playing this week, Kyler's outlook is.

Much better. Mike Evans is day to day with his rib injury. That changed quick. I thought he died. He didn't. I mean, the way he went to his knees. His face was that of a man who took three arrows in the chest. Yes. And was reaching out to the scenic landscape. It was like, this is it. This is how I go. And I didn't feel like it was, you know, this is a tough dude.

Mike Evans, you know, has taken plenty of shots. He's tough. It really seemed like he took three arrows in the chest from Buda Baker. And, well, I'm shocked that he's day to day. Yeah, they'll manage him through the week before deciding on his week for availability. Travis H.N. Jr. will miss some time for the Saints with the hamstring. Timeline not determined. It was a re-aggravationist reminder. It's like he was on, he was maybe going to miss with a hamstring, went in, gave us the.

As we've seen many, many times, the retweak of the hamstring. So I would imagine it's multiple weeks. Travis A. Chan Jr. will miss some time. I said that one. Breece Hall considered week to week with a quad injury. I'm run burgundy. I'm pretty sure that Travis A. Chan Jr. will miss a few weeks. So it's a hamstring. It's a reaggravation of the same hand. All right. All right. Breeze Hall.

Considered week to week with his quad injury. Yeah, that makes the signing of like Braylon Allen if he's not on your team like he is for Mike in League of Record. What? How'd he get there? It makes that signing for like kind of difficult. I did not realize that, Mike. Yeah. I was going to go pretty hard after Braylon Allen. Oh, you can't. Dick. You can't. So, yeah, I mean, Braylon Allen will get them.

bulk of the work he's looked okay this year it's just a matter of do you get it for a week do you get it for two weeks somewhere in that department we'll be talking about all these all these running backs here in the waiver segment he's like braylin allen gets chicago and you can run on the bears the yeah i'm playing i'm playing mike this week we got the week to week update but aaron glenn was saying i'm not we're not going to give a full update until wednesday terence ferguson unlikely to play in week four

They also lost Colby Parkinson to an AC joint. Maybe Higbee is a one week. I mean, they don't sound like Pook is going to be back for this week. They said that they've said more because last week. Yeah, there was another comment about the fact that like he should be back soon, but it might not be this week. Okay, because we had McVeigh, who is a liar McLeier face about injuries. Can't lie if you don't show up to the press conference. Oh, thank you, McVeigh. Well, I mean, he showed up. He just left early. He dipped out. Yeah.

And, oh, nobody's here yet? I was here. Goodbye. Wow. Not happy. But, yeah, there you go. We'll monitor more throughout the week. We got waivers on today's show. So much to talk about. So let's jump right in. Let's take a quick break. And we'll hop into the waivers. Waiver Wire, presented by T-Mobile.

Okay, well, it's been kind of slow on the waiver wire for the past few weeks in terms of like high investment waiver priority burning situations, but this week is different. We do have some players that I think could be significant. It's tough. It's tough. Yeah, I mean, let's start it running back. That's where the story is. We talked about Braylon Allen. He's going to get an opportunity to start if Breece Hall is out. Let's talk about Ollie Gordon.