Week 3 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Smoke/Fire - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/21

So what's hard there is like if you're looking at Dallas Goddard and saying, ooh, he could be a great start this week. Because Ertz will be out, you don't know going into Monday. At least I do. Goddard is probably one of those players. If you have them, there's most likely not a better option, even if Ertz is active. So you're probably just going to still be sticking with him. He was an inch away from a touchdown this last week. I have that situation, though. Oh, you do? I have no offense in Dallas Goddard.

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Wide receiver waiver pickups. We always put in the top drop candidates from Twitter and IG. So this is who you are thinking about dropping because obviously if you're going to pick somebody up off the waiver wire, you're going to have to make a decision on letting somebody go. And two weeks into the year, tomorrow we have an Unsolved Mysteries segment. We're going to look at some of the trends or could be trends that are forming in the NFL.

Week two, you've got two weeks in the book and you have to make some decisions. Yes, you do. Because some of these players you have hopes for, but can you, do you have the luxury of not starting somebody else? You know, a lot of it, you're wearing a two flex league. You got to put somebody in your lineup. You can't just wait. So one of the questions, do you drop Jacobi Myers or Nelson Aguilar? I looked at this game last week. New England dominated. Mack Jones scored eight fantasy points.

this offense is still going, we know it's a running game, Damian Harris, we know it's the defense. I would expect more often than not, Mac Jones is under 20 fantasy points. So if you take that and you distribute it amongst big signings like Nelson Aguilar and Kendrick Bourne and Jacoby Myers and Hunter Henry and Johnny Smith, like you're kind of getting passing game disappointment across the board there. Are you willing to let those guys go? I am 100% willing to let them go. I mean, if you look at what a big game from Mac Jones is going to be.

His big games are going to be 250 and 2. And at that point, you better hope the tight ends weren't involved. You know, it's just one of those things where next year, next year, maybe these guys are good. You want to keep an eye on them. But I don't think that there's upside in this offense in the passing game enough for me to roster and start these players over. Like, for instance, you know, KJ. Osborne, who I'm not too excited about, there is hope for some kind of a breakout there.

I just don't see that being able to be possible with rookie Mac Jones. Agreed. And that yard is told you threw out. You'd slot 30 plus yards to James White. That's true. It's an automatic thing that's going to happen every single week. Marquez Calloway. Drop. Yeah, you go home. Big names Brandon Ayyuk. This is a tough one. I'm not dropping him. I, so.

Man, I look, obviously, listen, I obviously love Brandon Ayuk's talent, his ability to break out, and I like the offense with Kyle Shanhan and all these superlatives. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in general I would not drop him because I just talked about KJ Osborne has the ability to break out. Ayuk still does. He was, you know, he's coming back from the hamstring issue. He's still only played 54% of the snaps. Now take that either way. That's just not enough.

to be involved, to get into this offense, to get into a rhythm and have enough targets, drop them. Or you could say, look, last year, even in his rookie season, even Windybo and Kiddleware Health, he never played fewer than 72% of the snaps. Most of the year he was playing 90% of the snaps. So it's just, is that going, if that changes, and all of a sudden, okay, now we're back to Iyuk playing and being a regular part of this offense, he's going to be more valuable than wide receivers on the waiver. I would hold him.

But I don't blame you if you think this is just how the offense is now, and I want to move on. Because sometimes holding on to a guy, if you think you're going to drop them in two weeks, then you wasted a roster spot for two weeks. Yeah, I guess part of the question is could he ever be above the third option for Jimmy G or Trey Lance? And you talked yesterday when you were watching the game about, because I know you went play-by-play through the entire 49er game. We watched some of that together.

Does Trey Lance represent a different upside for IUC? No. Or just a downside? Downside. Yeah. Because of volume. See, I could see upside from a standpoint of when Jimmy G. dropped back to drop. Drop back. Drop back. Drop like that. When the drop hit. When he dropped back to pass. I mean, it was just like, where's Debo? Where's Debo? Whereas someone coming in differently could target Iyuk as the number one guy.

And then you've got Kettle as well. That whole team dealing with the injuries, the potential transition at quarterback. I just don't know. They're 2-0. I mean, they're not transitioning the quarterback when they win. If you have IUC and you want out, you've got to trade him. That's probably the way to go. Someone out in your league will take Brandon Iyuk. Figure out who had them last year.

That's a good point. They know the sweetness. Elijah Moore, cut him, right? Yes, bye. I think you cut him. Redraft, you cut him. Robbie Anderson, you don't cut Robbie. No, no, you do not cut Robbie. He is someone that you could throw on a flex play. He had two deep targets this last game that just didn't connect. He's going to have his game. Absolutely. And the air yards were there this last week, even with...

It clearly being the DJ Moore show. All right. So some waiver wire pickups, a lot of these are higher rostered, at least with the numbers that we see. But please check your waiver wire. I have talked to enough people this week that have picked up Justin Herbert off the waiver wire that have picked up, you know, a lot of different options that you don't expect. So just check it. Marvin Jones, I had 11 targets. I believe he was the wide receiver 19, two straight weeks.

If you believe that Trevor Lawrence is going to continue to improve over the course of the year, has Arizona this week? Marvin Jones needs to be played. Do we have an update on Leviska-Schanalt? He's going to be all right. He's going to play this week. The likelihood, high likelihood. That didn't mean anything last week. They did lose O'Shaughnessy to a high ankle sprain. He was not good, but he was involved. Darnel Mooney.

Eight targets last week, six for 66, 11 catches in two weeks. He's being, you can see the difference in last year's role in this year's role through two games already. And if Justin Fields takes over, the offense starts moving, you could continue to see some success there. Sterling Shepard is 63% rostered, 10 targets, 9 for 94. Look, you should roster him. I think you should roster him and you should play him at the very least until Evan Ingram comes back.

It could be this week. Sure, yeah, it could be. This is the Gala Day week, by the way. Oh, get ready. Yeah, I think it's happening. He had so many targets that just went slightly awry, including end zone targets last week. I think you're going to see a Gulladay breakout week against Atlanta. I just, I mean, the matchup is right. I just wonder if you can because, like, he's not a separator. And Daniel Jones needs.

a separator. Whereas, you know, Sterling Shepard is a route runner get open and then Daniel Jones hits him open. I feel like every single pass that went to Goladay was like Goladay is grabbing that rebound. You know, it's like he's boxing out trying to, trying to grab it. Henry Ruggs, we talked about him. If you need to take a shot, you're taking a shot on a deep play. Some of the other names to bring up. What about, uh,

Denver, Zach Pascal, which is Tim Patrick. Hey, I'm talking about Fireball. Oh, Fireball Jones? Yeah. Tim Patrick is 34% rostered. Had a touchdown. 74% of snaps. I still think you should pick him up and you can flex him and hope. Yeah. They can't run. They can't run. They can't run. Teddy Bridgewater is my stream of the week. Love it. They can't run. He's having some success fantasy-wise because they're running through the air.

Yeah, I mean, he's clearly not the one. Cortland Sutton said all your passes belong to me. But he is a solid wide receiver who's been good for a year and a half now for fantasy. Zach Pascal scored three times over two weeks, six targets, five for 38 and a touchdown. It seems like you are super dependent on a touchdown for Zach Pascal. Yeah, and if it is in fact Jacob Easton this week,

The matchup is spectacular against Tennessee, but I would not be playing Pascal in that situation. I think I'm rising on this next guy, Rondale Moore. Oh, yeah. For fantasy purposes. Like, I already, you know, we all like Rondell Moore, what he represents for the Cardinals' offense. But watching back through some plays, watching some of these scramble drills, right? When Kyler gets out of the pocket.

And he starts looking down field. He found more, not just the big bomb. Right. But even the previous week, he had a couple ridiculous throws where he found more, which tells me more is getting to where he needs to get to. He's got so much shimmy, so much shake. And he can do even more.

Hey-oh! Week 1, 29% snap count. Week 2, 46% snap count. Goodness gracious. He still was not on the field half of the game, and he's becoming more and more important to the offense. So this is the number one. He's my priority at you. He is the number one. That makes three of us. Even including the running back position. Now, he's not.

available in half the leagues. He's available in half the leagues. Hopefully this was a pickup we talked about last week. Hopefully he's already on your roster. He was our stash alert. But the point is, not only does he look great as an electric rookie on a high-powered, fast-playing offense, but he has not, you can see the path to more work. Yes. Did you guys see that? More, more, more.