Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 2 Waivers, QB Streamers, MNF Reactions

That last Dalvin Cook carry where everyone on the field knew they were going to run. And he bounced it to the outside and ripped off like a 30-yard carry. So Hunter Henry obviously did not get his reception. But it's not just that. It was not creative. It was run, run, pass punt from the Chargers. And then they finally changed it up in the second half. And then they started having some success. It just was.

And then the two minute, the two minute drill at the end of the game was an abomination. I tweeted out of my said, Andy Reid thinks that they're doing a bad job at this. And so don't want to just stay super, super negative about it. What I thought, which goes to kind of what you're saying, the play calling and all that, the reason I liked Melvin Gordon was Anthony Lynn. He's a running back, then he's a running back coach, then he's an offensive coordinator that runs the ball more than anybody. Now he's a head coach.

He's clearly going to run the ball. This is what he wants to do. Philip Rivers didn't start passing until they were down to touchdowns with, you know, 10 minutes left and there was just no other choice. So in a normal game against an easier defense, because the Broncos are hashtag elite. Yeah. They're going to be running like crazy. Yeah. Is there any Broncos dickways? Oh, no. I just hit that. When I hit that button.

Mike, you jumped. I was trying to talk and it freaked me out. I thought we were done. I apologize. The Broncos take away. I thought C.J. Anderson looked good. I would much rather have him than Jamal Charles, just based on what I saw, especially with how the carries broke down the first half and the first, you know, maybe even three quarters of the game. That was my takeaway. And don't sign Benny Fowler. No. That was incidental. No, that was.

Well, yeah, I'll bring up Benny Fowler in a little bit. Yeah, well, I will just say you got two elite cornerbacks there for the Chargers. And so your two main, you know, targets in Emmanuel Sanders and Demarius Thomas, they were covered a whole lot better than Benny Fowler. Which is why I thought Hunter Henry was going to have an okay game. You turd. Solid analysis. Brooks, do you think it's okay if I hit the news drop now? Go for it. News and notes from around the league.

Let's start with the big one. David Johnson, wrist surgery, expected to miss two to three months. It seems like the Cardinals were essentially looking around to find somebody that said he didn't have to go on IR, wouldn't have to go get surgery. Now you're a fantasy owner. You have David Johnson. You're in a redraft league. If you have an IR spot, that's easy. You throw David Johnson on the IR spot. If you don't, you've got a tough decision to make because...

The earliest he could possibly return if he goes to IR is week 10 against the Seahawks. That would be the earliest possible return. But you have to ask yourself some questions for the Cardinals. One, do you rush him back if they're not in contention? So if Arizona isn't fighting for a playoff spot. Now, if they are, the reason to bring David Johnson back is clear. But if they're not, do they shelf him and just look to next year? And what do you do as a redraft owner? What would you advise? Because he could be a valuable playoff run.

player if for some reason he came back but that's a you know short bench spots yeah that if you only have five bench spots that's going to be a really tough hold in two to three months he could be back week 10 he could also not come back at all and you could be hamstringing and play what would you do though what would you do if you're in that situation i would probably i like what you're talking about where if they're in contention they're far more likely to bring him back and accelerate the

the pace of return. So hold on to him for a couple weeks, see if they start out 0 and 3, and then at that point, reevaluate and possibly drop him. He is officially put on IR and Jason Lockham 4 is reporting the Cardinals intend to re-sign Chris Johnson. This is good news before the waiver wire. Yeah, it is. Yeah, so it's good we had that. They signed DJ Foster off of the New England practice squad as a depth.

signing, but Kerwin Williams, Andre Ellington, and potentially Chris Johnson could form a very unfavorable RBBC on a suddenly bad-looking Arizona offense as David Johnson goes down. If that happens, I would assume that Chris Johnson would be the lead back in a not pretty situation. I'm not sure that you would want him, but he will be worth picking up because usually when you look at the waiver wires, you've got running backs that you couldn't possibly start in a pinch.

Chris Johnson and or Kerwin Williams of Chris Johnson. He'll at least touch the ball. Will be a spot flex in a nightmare. Spot flex in a nightmare. That is a good summary. Andrew Luck ruled out for week two against those Arizona Cardinals. Pete Carroll said Thomas Rawls will play week two against the 49ers. I think we saw based on the splits in terms of the snap count carries. Thomas Rawls will have every chance to be the workhorse for this office. Do we agree?

Would you start him against San Francisco in week two? Yes. Not a work. Oh, I would start him, but not a workhorse because ProSites will still get the passing down work. And Carson showed enough. I don't think anyone there will become a workhorse, but I would start Thomas Rawls because San Francisco 49ers. All right. Alfred Morris got the surprise start.

As the handcuff for Ezekiel Elliott, Darren McFadden was inactive, what do we make at that situation? A lot of people drafted McFadden. Yeah. Some because, look, Ezekiel Elliott, it looked like he would be suspended. He still could be. So if Zeke's injunction is overturned, all of a sudden, Alfred Morris is the starting running back? Not necessarily. Does that make him a potential waiver wire pickup this week? No. Not for me. In this, I know it looks weird, but teams.

do this sometimes where the actual, because they're saying, Alfred Morris, he's our change of pace, which I guess the change of pace is they want to get, they want to slow things way down from Zeke. It's like it's a real change. It's the change up. I said all, all preseason, Alvin Morris does not look slow. I'm really fast to me. I can be on that Alfred Morris Island. It's a lonely island. I remember Alfred Morris.

doing this exact same thing last year, though. He looked much better preseason. And then the time the regular season rolled around, he looked like he did on Sunday night. So just because Darren McFadden was inactive, that doesn't mean he won't be the actual starting running back if Zika suspended. It was something I wanted to bring up because we didn't address it yesterday. Yeah, and I would still be focused much more on the Darren McFadden than the Alfredman side as a handcuff, although I would.

Pretty much what this says now is I don't want either for now. But if Zeeke goes down, if that happened, I think it would be McFeddon. I mean, Alfred Morris, he had one yard on four carries and looked every bit that part. All right. Before we move on to the waivers, I want to thank Seat Geek for sponsoring today's show for supporting this podcast. If you haven't heard of Seat Geek, if you don't have the Seat Geek app on your phone, you're making a mistake. I'm about to take my six-year-old.

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You may have $100 to spend on the year. You may have $200. We'll try to give you a little bit of a percentage gauge for some of these players. If you're in a waiver priority system, we'll try to tell you whether we believe these players are worthwhile to kind of blow your waiver priority and grab them. Yeah, based on what we're saying, you're going to have to make the decision on the waiver priority because you just get so limited opportunity in a waiver priority system. That's why we say switched fap. Let's start at the wide receiver position. Who are you targeting?

which players are ignorable for their kind of outlandish week one performances, which ones are targets. So there's a handful of guys who are at least interesting. The top ad for me is Cooper Cup. I know that people are probably, well, Kenny Gallaudet is my top ad. And what I alluded to earlier was if you're interested in Kenny Gallaudet, and look, the smooth routes. I mean, he's impressive. He's good.

But if you're interested in Kenny Gallaudet, you better be interested in Benny Fowler because he's the three on his team and he happened to score two touchdowns. I think people are surprised to hear you say that. I like Goladay moving forward, but he just... Is he the Fowler, though, as a rookie that could ascend to that wide receiver two spot? Fowler has no chance of taking over for Sanders or for... Right.

And I don't think Ghaladies has a chance to take over for Jones or Tate this year. I do think one problem with that analogy is that you've seen now for multiple years that with Kansas City they had thrown exclusively basically to those two wide receivers, barely using tight ends. Denver? Yes, sorry, Denver. And, you know, barely throwing to their tight ends, rarely using their third wide receiver. Whereas Matthew Stafford has always spread the ball around. You just had Anquam Bolden leave as a touchdown guy. And Tate's on the inside.

I think there's some, I'm just, I'm not trying to argue with, I like it when you're not being reactionary, Mike. It's a very comforting thing. Well, here I am. But here I am trying to counterpoint here where you have to take a shot. If you want to take a shot, what percentage of your fab would you spend? Would you spend 5% of your fab on Kenny Gallaudet? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would gladly spend 5 to 10%. I mean, you're going to probably have to be in the 15% if you really want to secure him. But Cooper Cup is the, is the guy that I would be.

targeting Washington, San Francisco, Dallas. I mean, that's three pretty solid matchups for a wide receiver. Meanwhile, Kenny Gallaudet, Giants, Falcons, Vikings. Yeah, that's not. Cooper Cup is a guy you can put in your flex immediately. And I'm talking probably, you know, at least 15% for Cooper Cup. Okay. If you're wanting to get a wide receiver. One player that I think.