Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 5 Waivers, Streams of the Week, Injury News

wetness coming your way. So Ron Rivera says he has no idea about Cam Newton's week five status. He does have an extra day with Monday night football. That is a blessing and a curse for fantasy owners because he has an extra day to recover and you have less options of the quarterback position. So, you know, I would expect Cam Newton to play. He's a strong guy. He finds his way on the field. But if you don't pass the test, you don't pass the test. What are your kind of?

Possibilities as a Cam Newton owner this week with that matchup in the situation on Monday night. If worse comes to worse, I would just pick up Derek Anderson and play him against the Bucks. Would you rather play Derek Anderson against the Bucks or have James Winston at home against Carolina? Because I would rather have Winston. It's in Carolina. Yeah, I would still. Right? Am I right? Yes, no, it is in California. You're right. It is in Carolina. Both of those are good options, I think.

Derek Anderson has shown that he can be productive for fantasy when Cam is out. So he's a good backup plan. James Winston is owned in most leagues. I would say, look, if you are playing against the Cam Newton opponent and James Winston is owned already by a team, I would personally, I would go pick up Derek Anderson. Let me give you guys those listening in this situation because, you know, tons of Cam Newton owners. If you grab that...

quote-unquote quarterback handcuff, whether it's Winston or Derek Anderson, because you have to, right, in the waiver wire situation today and tomorrow. If you do that, bear in mind the fact that if you get good news about Cam, let's say Monday morning, you can still drop that guy and sign a Cameron Brate or somebody else in the game that night so that you can put somebody else on your roster and you're not stuck with a quarterback. It's good strategy. Zach Ertz's MRI has come back.

clear he plans to play he'll be in the lineup against the lions another weapon for wince yep um bruce arians is optimistic about palmer for thursday yeah we'll see he is the opposite situation though of cam if you don't get karsson palmer back on thursday then

well, you know ahead of time and you've got a lot of other options. You can just bench him and sign somebody else. That being said, the Cardinals did move up a guy from their practice squad and signed him to their roster at quarterback. That is a very, very telling sign. The optimism can be there, but the coach does not control the concussion protocol. They're being smart in having a backup there, but it says there is a real strong possibility he misses this week. So all the optimism in the world from Arians.

It doesn't do it for me. I don't believe that he plays this week. I hope he does. I'm a Carson Palmer owner and set to start him. We are just so opposite today. I think Carson Palmer definitely plays. And I think you have no choice but to bring up a practice squad guy because of the short week. Yeah, well, you have no choice. But the option is. Next thing you're going to tell me is that Charles Sims is healthy.

Charles Sims workload will decrease going forward. Well, it helps because he has a right knee injury. We agree. Charles. On something? Yeah, Charles Sims was not a practice today and is dealing with the right knee injury. Doug Martin is unlikely to play this week. And so I don't know if it's going to be the Jequiz Rogers show against Carolina and Carolina. But I think this is not good. I think this is a motivational thing. Dirk Cutter also came out and said he's very concerned about.

James Winston. He said Winston's going to throw less. So if Winston's going to throw less, Charles Sims isn't going to play running back. Basically, the Buccaneers are just going to play defense. Jason, take this next one. This next one here, the Baltimore Sun reports. Well, it's already official, by the way. Oh, it happened? Yes. The Ravens have moved on from Justin Foress. Now, I don't know why I'm doing the sad music because late in the year, I believe we flip-flopped on this position.

And so I'm really excited about Kenneth Dixon. You know what you didn't flip-flop on and the reason you're doing this? What? It's because you flip-flopped on his, like, the prognostication of him, but you spent half of your summer telling me how good Justin Forset is. And that's what you've never retracted. You've never told me. You've never retracted and said he stinks. No, here's the, here's the true apology. That is ridiculous. Here's the true apology. Andy. Andy. Andy. I apologize to you.

for fully convincing you and having you come on board. I came on board to the opportunity. I never came on board to the talent. We really are opposites today. We are. And we're not called Paul. It's not animus. This is a, I mean, just friends disagreeing. One person being right, one person being wrong. That's bananas. What's bananas? He has stunk this year. This year. Yeah. But I think what. To say that Justin Forset stinks, though, like he's been great his entire career this year's, but I mean, it's gone.

You could say he stinks. You could say he stunked. You could say he stunks. All of those are true for this year. He was just released after he was just paid. Four weeks ago, he got paid, re-signed, and paid. You have to stink bad to do that. Well, I mean, I don't know what the actual restructuring of the contract was. I'm sure it was very performance-based. Oh, I'm sure. All right. I think that does it for our news. You guys want to talk waivers? Yep. Jason, you want to argue waivers?

Apparently, I would just say this for people listening. I will say this. Please go with my advice. Put me in, coach. Not on grammar. I want a water bet on Carson Palmer. You take that too? Water bet. It's such a stupid bet. That whole play. It is a stupid bat because it's just random because we don't know. We don't know whether he's got past. Well, the nice thing about this is as Arizona locals, if he plays, I'm happy. Now if he doesn't play, I'd get some.

for it. Cardinals coach Bruce Ariens says that Carson Palmer will be cleared in time for Thursday's game against the 49ers. You're making that up. I am making that up. He said there's a chance he'll be cleared. Yeah, there's a chance that he'll be cleared, which means he's not going to be cleared. Well, wait, why does it mean that he won't be cleared if there's a chance? Well, when you say that there's a chance something happens, that means the expectation is the opposite of that. So if I say, yeah, there's a chance that she'll say yes.

When I ask, you're saying that the assumption there is she's probably not going to say yes. So like there's a chance Jason will win these water bets. Is that what you like that type of a? All right, waiver wire pickups this week. Week number five, we've got a number of guys to bring to your attention. What I'm going to try to do is give you scenarios and players that you would have to drop.

and make decisions about for these guys. You guys can start bringing them up with me as well, but let's start with kind of the headliners at the wide receiver position. There are a few guys that are owned in more than 50% of leagues that we still want to bring to your attention because of how well they performed and what we think of them going forward. Steve Smith is the headliner there, 61% owned, but that means, you know, 39% not owned. Yeah, he absolutely needs to be a 100% owned player.

I would also throw John Brown into the mix here because he's also available in about 35% of leagues. Those two guys have a track record of being proven fantasy assets. They're on teams that pass the ball. They're very talented wide receivers. And it's taken a couple weeks for both of them to get back because of their injuries. But now you saw from this last week, they're ready to go. I mean, there are.

Very few middle tier wide receivers I would want on my roster more than a Steve Smith or a John Brown going forward once Carson Palmer gets back. Steve Smith had 11 targets the last two weeks. And you go back last year through the first six weeks. He was eight in average fantasy points per game for the wide receiver position before going down with the Achilles. And everything on the old eyeballs watches Steve Smith says that he is returning to form.

Steve Smith, Mike Wallace, rest of the season. Smith. Oh, Smith, not close. Yeah, I just had to make sure. Michael Thomas takes on San Diego this week. He's owned a 57% of leagues. New Orleans, Mike Thomas. Yes. Yeah, I mean, that's the only one you're going to pick up. That's the only one anybody's aware of. You know, Michael Thomas needs to be considered. The big name to me, you know, only 40% owned right now, Quincy and Noonois. Eric Decker is up against it. Yeah.

With this shoulder injury, he's already come out and said that he's basically not going to be healthy this year. That the only scenario for him outside of surgery is to play through tremendous discomfort at some point. I don't think he'll play this week. I think Anunwa, you know, at Pittsburgh, the way Pittsburgh played at home this past week, a lot of passing opportunities for Anunwa. I think he's a great spot start. You already have your bye week starting this week, right? Seattle, Kansas City. So...

If you have a Macklin, if you have a Baldwin, I think a Noonois is a guy you can start. Yeah, I mean, Eric Decker, with Eric Decker playing so far in the majority of the games this year, Quincy Noonwa has, I mean, he's right behind Amari Cooper right now in fantasy production. Now you take Eric Decker out, and he's definitely a guy that can start and is available in most leagues. Hey, before we get to the rest of the wide receivers, I want to take today's sponsor, Grave Before Shave. Look, Gray Before Shave is getting it done for all.

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The vast majority of things. Yeah, he's only owned in like 9% of leagues right now. Right, exactly. So 91% of the leagues, you can have him. He has been great this season so far. He has put up double digit touchdowns in half point PPR format or touchdowns. Double digit fantasy points at three out of four weeks. I want double digit touchdown. Now you have.

At the very least, at the very least, you have a hobbled Alshon Jeffrey and a hobbled Kevin White. You might be missing one of those two guys, and they're going up against the Colts. Now, the Colts secondary, I mean, we joke about this on Sundays when we're watching the game this year.

How many times have we texted each other like there's another Colt DB down on the ground? Just unbelievable. So I believe, and the nice thing is with the Colts is that they put up a lot of points. Andrew Luck is going to be able to score on the Bears. And so Eddie Royal should be able to get it done. And if you're in any kind of return yardage league, it's just an extra bonus. The couple names I want to throw out, I've talked about him for a few weeks. Chris Hogan.