Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Marshall Faulk, Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streams

Yeah, I'm sure he doesn't. That's a little scary, though, if you're the DeMarco Murray owner. And I will say preseason, this is the exact reason why I said Ryan Matthews value is so much better than DeMarco Murray's. Just because you got him super late versus paying super early and you don't know how the split's going to end up at the end of the year. That being said, I think it's still going to be the DeMarco Murray show for now. What do you think, Andy? Who's getting the ball?

I still like Sproles if Murray's limited to just be involved. He had a good week one. He had a good week three. So I think Sproles is still a, you know, there are bi weeks coming up in one of my leagues. I believe in that league where I needed a sign a running back but couldn't because you changed the waiver wire earlier. I'm starting Darren Sproles because I have nobody else. Sweet. So Rex Ryan hasn't ruled out the idea of resting LaShawn McCoy. I am starting Carlos Williams in one of my leagues this week. Are you guys? If LaShawn McCoy sits, I'm starting.

Carlos Williams for sure. What if he does not? Then I'm probably not. I would flex him. There you go. Yeah. Yes. All right. Quick news for all your kicker leagues. Cody Parky to IR. Eagles will sign Caleb Sturgis, formerly of, I believe, the dolphins, right? Yeah. Yeah. We should confirm that. So let's, yeah, let's talk about the Monday night game.

Injury-wise, Lacey played, and he played into the second half. He was definitely being spelled by Starks, but he looked okay, and he was involved in the passing game. The bad news here, as I mentioned earlier, Devante Adams went out very early. The report is high ankle sprain, probably going to miss some time. So, biggest beneficiary is James Jones. The biggest under 40 years old beneficiary is? Ty Montgomery. Okay.

James Jones is the guy to own for sure. James, oh, he did it again. He's going to help. He's going to help teams. How bad are the Raiders? Oh, to cut him? Not that he's super talented. It's just like, it's amazing how your whole career as a wide receiver can change just on a quarterback. I mean, rapport quarterback play. I mean, Jones clearly hasn't lost everything, but I don't think he's that good. Well, they said it on the game last night, the fact that Randall Cobb, if he plays the rest of his career,

with Aaron Rogers, he could be a Hall of Famer, and he almost went to the Raiders, and you would have never heard of him again. That's a smart thing, but it was a lot of fun last night watching that game. I watched it, I tweeted this out, I was watching it with my six-year-old little man, and it was awesome. You...

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The merits of signing. I don't want Ruben Randall. Is that because Victor Cruz comes back this week? It's two parts, failure in week one and two, and it's one part, Victor Cruz, making three parts. You know who's working out for the New York Giants? Who? Hakeem Nix! Oh, I saw that, yeah.

Dude, James Jones and Hakeem Nix. Yeah, they go back home. They had someone else in. Who else did they bring in to work out? I don't know. Do you think this is a product of the older, you get the less new routes you can run, so you just go back and run the old ones at your old home stadium? Yep. I mean, it helps if you have a rapport. Here's why Ruben Randall is on the waiver wire for me, because I still like the offense, and there was one of these, the Giants were talking about we need to get Ruben Randall more involved, and they did. So it's,

kind of one of those just an A plus B type of thing where we want him to produce and he did. So he's going to add one more part to my consideration. That would be the shoulder bounce garbage time touchdown. Yeah, but even without the touchdown, he still had a productive day. Yeah, he was actually really productive through the entire game. My thing about Victor Cruz, I put Victor Cruz on this list as a possible waiver pickup because it's said that he's coming back. And I put that on there for other people.

I am not a Victor Cruz believer this year. I've said that many times. But I understand I could be wrong on that. Victor Cruz could come back and be fantastic. But the fact that they are working out right now, Hakeem Nix and Wes Welker. Oh. Wes Welker is also there working out for the Giants. Oh. Says to me that maybe Victor Cruz, I mean, maybe I'm reading too much into that, but I've never believed that Victor Cruz could come back this year and be Victor Cruz. He might.

I watched Victor Cruz run routes three months ago and looked great. He is being eased back in the way that he should be. He will be more productive than Ruben Randall the rest of the season, and he's a better guy to own for me. So we disagree. We obviously disagree. I'm not saying that as a fact. I'm saying that is my opinion versus yours. So I don't think Randall's a terrible player. I think he's a good player. I think he'll have his weeks. So who's the wide receiver pickup this week on waivers? For me, I think...

It is, you know, slim pickings. I think Ty Montgomery needs to be in the consideration, especially if we hear about this high ankle sprain with Devante Adams leaving him out for extended period of time, three or four weeks. You know, you go with the better quarterback. I think Marvin Jones needs to be in consideration. He's flashed very well. Dalton's having a very good season, fantasy and otherwise. And Devante Parker. Devante Parker got some time.

Eventually he has to emerge here. He's the first round pick. And people are asking about Richard Matthews. He had the huge game. A reminder that a big part of his game was because of so much garbage happening. And he only played, his snaps are coming down. He played just over 50% of the snaps. Devante Parker, like Andy said, is a first round pick. I'm guessing that people are getting frustrated because that's how it works through three weeks.

Parker's a guy who I'm stashing now. He's not a guy who can come in and play for you right away, but you want high upside guys on your bench. So for you...

Are you saying that you would rather have Devante Parker than Rashad Matthews? Rest of season, yes. If you need a guy right now, it's probably still Matthews, but the decline of his snap percentages is worrisome. Yeah, I hadn't seen that. You know, it's tough to look at a guy who got six catches for over 100 yards in back-to-back games with two total touchdowns and pick the rookie who's not doing anything over him. But I do agree in the second half of the year. Well, they're struggling.

They're a struggling offense, too. So par for the course isn't going to work for them getting back into the division. Agreed. All right. Let's talk about some running backs. Carlos Williams jumps off the page to me because he had another huge week despite McCoy starting. He was, I believe, I'm going to get the number slightly wrong, 10 for 110 and a touchdown, something like that. Also, Lance Dunbar had 10 catches. For 100 yards. Yeah, I mean, 10 for 100. I mean, a great PPR guy to sign while Whedon's there. I mean, there's no reason to believe.

Weedon's not going to repeat the type of success. They would have won that game if their defense could have stopped Atlanta. That's the truth. They scored enough points to win the game at home against Atlanta.

Thomas Rawls. Thomas Rawls is another great pickup. If you're the Marshawn Lynch owner, we said this yesterday, that's the guy to own. He looks really good running the ball. If Marshaun Lynch isn't able to go or tweak something and comes back, Thomas Rolls better be on your team. You're going to want him. I need to bring up some guys because there are a lot of decisions to be made right now in terms of who do you drop to sign these guys? You don't get to just sign anybody you want.

What are you doing with guys like, obviously you're not dropping Lamar Miller? Are you trading him? I'm holding on to Lamar Miller. I still think they're going to figure it out and get him the ball. I don't think I'm going to get anything of value for him in trading him, and I'm definitely not dropping. So, okay, do you drop Duke Johnson? Yeah, I think I would. For some of these guys, if I've got Marshawn Lynch, I would rather have Thomas Rawls. Okay, what if you don't? Then I would probably rather have Carlos Williams.

Or Lance Dunbar right now over Duke Johnson. What about Alfred Blue? He had a good week. No, Alfred Blue, to me, I would have no problem dropping. In fact, I did drop him in one of my leagues. I realized he had the big week, but it's good. What about touchdown superstar Joyke Bell? That's actually a really good question. We were talking about this off the air. Yeah, we were. And I think we both agreed it's time. Let me ask you some more. Do you drop Eddie Royal? Yes. Yep. Do you drop Roddy White?

Oh, man. The curious case of Roddy White, that is insanity. What is going on in Atlanta? I believe I said he is, his career is done. It's weird because he's a guy I would drop, and then he's also a guy I would look for on waivers. Like, how can he be both? But I mean, if he has the potential for one Gooser in a year, much less two in a row, do you really ever want to start a guy like that with the staple? I mean, I'd rather start Devante Parker every week right now than Roddy White. Yeah.

He's dropable. Yes, he is dropable. Nelson Aguilar. What do we do with Nelson Aguilar? I had him on my pickup list. I don't know how available he is on the waiver wire, but this is about the time. Like I said, people are starting to get frustrated. They're going to drop him. A true story about Nelson Aguilar was on the field for every pass attempt. Wow. He's just not getting the passes. And he's getting shut down.

Because he's still a rookie, and he's had to face some really, really tough DBs. Yeah, because he is essentially their number one guy on the outside. No Josh Huff this past week. Right. Normally the opposing best defensive player is not going to play against the slot guy who is their best wide receiver in Jordan Matthews. So, yeah, Aguilar has had some really tough rookie treatment by the defense. I would say the snaps and everything say this guy should break out. If Sam Bradford can get his head out of his