Week 15 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Good Bad Luck - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/14

It's different. They really should rebrand that. I mean, can you see that there's some confusion between the two? I will, yeah, I do see that the initials are the same. It was originally I'm good, but then Instagram became too popular and they were like, we can't use IG. Yeah, okay. Now it's I'm ready. Yeah. For what it's worth, last week we thought T.J. Hockinson was going to play at this point in the week. Oh, yeah. All the way up. Oh, yeah, he's ready. He's going to play. All the way up past our Thursday show was like, yeah, there's no worries whatsoever.

So they'll probably both miss. Is that what we're saying? I guess. Stay tuned. If I'm a lion. Something to monitor. If, like, genuinely, if I am part of the lion's organization, if I'm a lion, hear me roar, I would sit Hawkinson and Swift. If they're worried, I'm just saying, like, you've got nothing to play for. You've got your win. Go get the number one pick. They don't.

do this i know they don't they want to win games and dan campbell's man how did i not get the how did we not get the um the lion from uh uh you thank you thank you that's why i was surprised all right rexed day to day with a hip injury david johnson's been activated from the covid list foster morrow day to day with the muscle strain darrell warler will follow that news see if he's back

And you did jump over the Mike McCarthy's feeling a lot better about running back Tony Pollard. That is true. So he may be back. The ficasha is put back together. Yeah, great. Malcolm Brown will resume practicing for the dolphins. That is a very important. He could be the guy. That is a very important piece of news because Malcolm Brown is certainly on your way for wire. And as of right now, that entire running back room.

is on the COVID-I-R, except for Duke Johnson, who was called up from the practice squad. But you have to presume that if Malcolm Brown is back and healthy, he would receive more reps than... Would you play him over Mike Davis? Malcolm Brown? If the other fellas are out and Malcolm Brown is back and it's Malcolm Brown, Duke Johnson, yes, I would play Malcolm Brown against the Jets.

Other players on the COVID list, Cadarius, Tony, Cedric Wilson, Cues Watkins, Josh Gordon, and Tyler Higbee last night as well. So that'll do it for news and notes. Presented by Sleeper, the Leader, and Breaking News Alerts. Download the Sleeper app, join the Breaking Alerts channel and get all of the news, and you're going to need it over the next three weeks. And Foot Clan, before we get into the waivers, want to thank today's sponsor, Manscaped. It's holiday season.

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Whoa. I will say this. Brains and brawn, huh? That's right, Jason. I did not miss a game over his final three seasons at Iowa State. I will reserve, like I guess it's waiver day, so you've got to pick somebody up, but I want to see what the team does about Wayne Galman because the special team's value of Wangu is.

Significant. So maybe it's Goldman. The team is going to come out and do something this week at practice to let us know. So if you're ensuring, I doubt either one's going to get picked up on Waver Day. If you're the Dalvin Cook manager, just wait and see what happens and then pick up who you can. So they play Chicago on Monday night. That will be very exciting if I don't have my games put away by then. All right, waiver time. I'm nervous, Jason.

See, this is the fantasy playoffs, right? Win or go home? Yeah, and I, you know, I've got Al over there talking up a big game because he's got a buy week. And you know how Al gets. Oh, he's very talk. He's mouthy, that one. He's been hooting all week. He hasn't done nothing in the playoffs yet, but he's been hooting like he has. Well, technically, I won't do anything next week either. Yeah, I know. Technically, he's already won the first round. Yeah, that's how I view it. You got a free W. Yeah, there is. Thank you.

Thank you. You got anything to say about your Packers taking the one seed from the Cardinals? Yeah. Okay. Things are going good in your life, even though you're unemployed. All right. Buy weeks are over. It is time for the fantasy playoffs. Wide receivers, if you're looking for an option, look, Terry McLaren could miss this week. Could be limited. Could be a player you don't want to play anyways. If he's out there with a risk of the hamstring and then Jerry Judy,

might be on your roster and you're like, I don't want to do that to myself because I... I would not. Or you have any Giants wide receiver and you've been tortured in any myriad of ways. It's time to find somebody else. Now, Russell Gage, is he an option for you if he's out there? Yeah, I mean, he had six targets again against Carolina. His line, if you're watching the game, 4-4-64 actually was very disappointing considering, I think it was...

Three of his receptions were like right away. And it seemed like Russell Gage was on his way to another massive volume game. But yes, he is an option as the number one wide receiver for Matt Ryan. Okay, he's in the likely rostered already, as is Devante Parker. But if they're both out there, Parker is a great pickup. How's the Jets? I'd prefer Parker. Oh, for sure. Got another week off.

And so there's a lot to like about his situation. He could win some league. He is not widely available, but there's at least a third of leagues out there where Devante Parker is available to pick up. And this week against the Jets, in fact, the entire playoff schedule, the Saints are a great matchup and the Titans are a great matchup for wide receiver. So Devante Parker is someone, you need to check for him first. And then if he's not available, you know, there's maybe.

One other guy I would put in that category. I have five names that I want to bring up in the widely available, and you tell me which one that is. K.J. Osborne. That's it. Rashad Bateman after the eight target seven for 103 game. Jameson Crowder, who's facing Miami. We know that you're not going to have any more Elijah Moore this year. Gabriel Davis, no Emmanuel Sanders. He's been scoring touchdowns, but not prolific yardage numbers.

And then Donovan People's Jones, who had seven targets, plays Las Vegas. So those are the five names that I wanted to throw out there. And there are more. But how do you prior, like, what do you believe about those guys? Yeah, those would.

be my top five guys as well. I think K.J. Osborne is a very good pickup. We saw nine targets. I know he only had three receptions, but nine targets with Adam Thielen gone. Adam Thielen's high ankle sprain, I expect he'll still be a couple of weeks.

against Chicago. I would have KJ. Osborne every single week that Thielen has gone. He would be in my fantasy lineup. I think he's worthy of that. And we've seen big plays from him. So you know that he can get down the field. Teams are just going to have to do more and more to stop Justin Jefferson. So he's in. Next up for me, I think is Jameson Crowder. Oh, baby. Yeah. It was a huge disappointment. I expected big things last week.

and six targets, three for 19. He played 9 to 1% of snaps, which was a season high. So he was out there. He just was out there with Zach Wilson, which is one of the worst ways to be out there. That was the biggest problem. That will continue this week. I don't know if you're aware. Does it have to? Yeah, it does. But Miami, their defense has been, you know, very strong as of recently, but they...

can be exploited by slot-wide receivers. Maybe that turns into Braxton Berrios again, who was the leader for the Jets with 10 targets, but he only played on 27 total snaps. And, yeah, sure, targets per route run. That was a tremendous number here, but I would still put my faith in Crowder if you're going with the Jets. It's so scary because Miami's coming off the by, and it's in Miami, and Crowder doesn't offer you a ceiling. He really doesn't. No.

So that's where, like, if you want ceiling, I think you're looking towards. Gabe Davis. Osborne, Bateman or Gabe Davis. And so if Osborne's already rostered, Bateman's rostered, that's half of leagues. Davis is only 10% of leagues. So he seems like the highest, upside, lowest roster percentage player. Are you still confident in Rashad Bateman if Lamar Jackson is not the quarterback? No. I feel like most of his targets were when Lamar Jackson wasn't the quarterback. I'm not confident in Bateman at all.

Okay. I don't have confidence. I just see the, I see upside with a young, highly drafted player that just put up a hundred yard game versus James and Crowder. But I'm, I mean, we literally just came off a Bateman goose. So I'm not going to prioritize like, I'd probably pick up Gabe Davis over a shot Bateman. Now, we don't have an update on it, but Sammy Watkins did get banged up on Sunday. And I think that, what? Yeah.

I know. They might surprise you. But the goose was related to other wide receivers being played ahead of Rashad Bateman. And if Watkins is not available. So do you like him more than Gabe Davis? No, I would go with Gabe Davis because I'm going to take the prolific passing attack. Do you like him more than People's Jones? So People's Jones gets to take on the Raiders.

92% of snaps, 23% target share. You mean, you called it early in the week. Yeah. They've had some injuries and Joku wasn't out there. No Schwartz. Man, I think I'd probably still play People's Jones over Bateman. Okay. And then how do you look at Crowder as a floor play? Yeah. The only way I'm playing Crowder is I'm in a full PPR where I can get.

six for 50, and then I'm happy with that output. I will throw Robbie Anderson's name out there because even though it's been painful, sometimes you win fantasy championships with forgiveness. Sometimes you look independently on the week, and here's what I see on the week. You have a Buffalo team that is going to score a lot of points, and they're hungry. You have...