Fantasy Football Podcast for Week 5/6

Believe in it. I think he had the most snaps of any wide receiver in Tennessee. News kind of broke out before the weekend that he was going to take the starting spot. Yeah. Which the draft Nick community was very high on Justin Hunter. I can't say. Had a little Alshan Jeffrey Field too. Yeah, I can't say I was. But now that he's starting, if he maintains that starting spot, he could turn into what people thought he was. Problem is is that quarterback position. Yeah, there is a.

Big problem. And there's talk of going to Mettenburg the next couple weeks. Yep. Welcome back. Welcome back. Oh, my. I had to play that because we had multiple players that were killing fantasy teams. Yes. That are now back. They are back. Eddie, Lacey. Welcome back to Fantasy Relevance. Demarius Thomas. Welcome back. Welcome back, buddy. Yeah, Demarius Thomas in a huge way.

Absolutely humongous games. Demarius Thomas put up two touchdowns, Denver Bronco record of receiving yards, 226, I think. And he got a 77-yarder called back. And then Eddie Lacey came out and just really, literally put his foot in the ground. Yeah, he gouged. And now I will say this about both of them. Thomas, there was...

For me, you were not actually really concerned. There was that, I guess, that mild doubt growing of maybe there's just too much going on for Demarius to get his comeuppance. But that squelch. Lacey, I actually still have a decent amount of concern. Well, I was going to ask you about him. Eddie Lacey or Lashon McCoy rest of the way. Lacey. Lacey. Okay. I think. Okay. Eddie Lacey.

Because, so, but let me go ahead and, yeah. What I was, of the game, the Minnesota game, which was another fantastic Thursday night edition of football. Can we please get rid of Thursday football? You hate that. I love it. Well, here's, I love football. I would watch football every day of the week, too. I just don't think it's, the product is not good. And I'm, I'm all for. I think Minnesota and Lambo is losing that game on Sunday.

It's losing it on Sunday night. It's losing it on Monday night. Well, if they had played Sunday, Teddy Bridgewater was going to play. That's a pretty good point. It's going to be different. My point is, let's just go doubleheaders on Monday. It's more fair to the teams. I like doubleheader Monday. It might not be fair to the East Coast people, but I live on the West Coast, so I really don't care. Yeah, who cares about them? They're still. But anyway, so Lacey, he started the game with...

Two back, not I don't know, they're back to back, but the same drive. 50 yards. But they were a 30-yard run and 20-yard run. And then he did nothing for a very long time. And Green Bay was, Rogers was carving them up. He was destroying them. And you could tell that with the way that Christian Ponder, former first-run pick, Christian Ponder was playing, it was, he was awful. He was playing so poorly.

I like how one of our friends said that they were looking for Kirk Cousins to come in and play in the middle of that game. But the defense quit. And you could tell the defense quit when, and that's when, and Lacey really got his damage done. So that would be my only concern about Lacey. I think that's okay, but I think the reality is the rub on Lacey so far as he was just getting what.

People gave him or not, not even that. And I think that's still what he got for the most part. Well, at least he got it. So I was really happy to see what that means for Lacey going forward versus Starks because they said they wanted Starks involved. Starks had as many carries as Lacey in this game, but it was obvious Lacey was the guy that was moving the chains, the guy that was getting in the end zone. So a couple other big weeks. You had Peyton back at the top of the quarterback. Yep, yeah.

Austin Davis. Austin Davis. He's been fantasy relevant. I don't have the guts to start him. But bye weeks coming up, I mean, maybe you grab a guy like that if he has a matchup. Although his schedule is brutal. I'm sure you've read that. The RAM schedule does not look good coming up. So let's, and the last one was Russell Wilson. Oh, he's such a good player. How do they ever lose? We're Cardinal fans. What would you trade for him? Couple firsts, it would be a lot.

Yeah, I mean, he's just so good, so smart that last the pass to Lynch. The past the Lynch where he's scrambling for his life. We thought he was just throwing it out of bounds, which would have been huge for Washington at the moment. He'd killed the clock. And no, it was a perfect pass to Lynch, and he got about 30 yards. Yeah.

All right, let's move on to everybody's favorite segment. Everybody's favorite. Poopped in his big boy pants. Oh, my goodness. So let's go through and talk about some players that pooped their big boy pants this week and whether you have any long-term concerns over them. Let's do it. Alfred Morris. Oh, man, he squelched this week. He squelched his drawers. Well, do we expect much different from him going up against him? That's no concern. No long-term concern there. No, Seattle's just so good.

I don't know. They, what about, okay, what about C.J. Spiller? He had his first non-double-digit week as a Buffalo running back this year. I am concerned, actually, about Spiller. A little bit of a mirage with the return touchdown a couple weeks ago. Yeah, and he just, Fred Jackson's playing great. Fred Jackson, he has sprained his ankle. He sprained his ankle, but I think he's good to go. And the, it's, and that's a similar situation.

That's all about pass protection. Fred Jackson is a much better pass protector than Spiller. He's also the short yardage back, and he's the two-minute back. Jackson is. So you are limiting what Spiller can do on a week-to-week basis, so you're more reliant on the big play. Yeah, when you play him, you're just hoping for a home run, and that's not how I like to rely on my running backs.

How about, let me give you some wide receivers here, and you tell me, worried or not, okay? Calvin Benjamin. Is he still a wide receiver two? Yeah, I'm not really worried about him. Calvin. You have to be concerned with the injury for sure. Are you bailing on him? No, you can't bail. What are you going to? What if you're a team sitting at three and... You're three and two? Three and two, two, and three, and you need...

You know, maybe you're two and three. How about this? Would you trade Calvin Johnson for LaShawn McCoy? I would trade. Oh, man, that's brutal. No. No, you'd keep Calvin? Well, yeah, I would do that. I mean, because running back value, I think I would do that trade right now and just buy low on McCoy because both those guys being healthy, you can't do that deal, right? I mean, the deal is not that.

bad because, I mean, if you're looking at draft position, Shady's a top three back, but then Calvin's a top seven pick usually. Yeah. So it's... Would you do that as far as value? I'm a running back guy where I think you can find wide receivers, where there's people who think the exact opposite of me, or they think you can find running backs, which is, I guess, somewhat true because running backs could hurt so much, but...

I prefer to have the running back. Okay. So you're, yeah, that's another interesting question because he's not on our list of guys that pooped their big boy pants this week, but he has been all year long and shady. Right. And he had, you know, he had an okay week this week, no touchdowns, about 80 yards rushing. He barely made it to the bathroom. He made it. Yeah, but just barely. Yeah, that was a, he was prepping while running. Yeah, that was really close. He was tempted.

Long-term concern over Brandon Marshall and his low numbers last few weeks? No. Okay. I don't think so. They did say they wanted to target him more. Michael Crabtree. I have Crabtree stock, and I'm concerned about. Is he a panic alarm guy? Because he is to me. For where he was drafted, I think Crabtree cannot be somebody you rely on. Because he's borderline wide receiver one, right? When he's fully healthy.

I mean, not, let's see where, I think I got him in the fourth or fifth round. But I, so he's not drafted, he's not drafted as a one, but he's, this foot problem, he's had bad feet. I just hate the 49ers too. Yeah, I hate that too. But when, when they're clicking, Kaepernick to Crabtree is really unstoppable. But there's, this foot thing is a, I'm very concerned for his foot.

Well, let's, I'm going to go through these real quick so we can get to our waiver wire segment, but worried or not, ready? I'm ready for this. Pierre Garsohn. I'm worried? No, no. Roddy White? Yes. I have concern for that entire. Kenan Allen. Keenan Allen, yes. Worried. Percy Harvin. No. I'm not worried for it because of what.

I think he is where he's a low-end wide receiver two, wide receiver three. All right, last one for you. Larry Danelle, put up a gooser. This is brutal, right? The goose. The goose is loose. This is what happens when Titans break out. They break out and then they break back in. And I'm not worried about him, but that was... That's brutal. You think you got a guy that's just out of this world and then...

Because he was. I know. But then the defense adjusts, and he only got one target. That was the other thing. He got one target and he dropped it. So let's move on here. Put me in, coach. I was going to say, real quick. He doesn't seem to, Danelle does not seem to have the best hands. If you watched the Washington game where he scored three times. He missed a couple? No, it wasn't that he missed him, but they're not like, he doesn't go up and snatch the ball. It's, I kind of pat the ball.

juggle it a couple times and then I catch it. So his hands don't seem to be great. We have not seen enough of him to put him into that top tier category. No, for sure not. So put me in coach. Let's talk about waiver wire pickups. It is your number one waiver. It is a huge waiver. Yeah, this is where we want to really help you out. I mean, we want to give you guys that are worth signing and not just, you know, blow the waiver wire smoke up your butt. So we have grabbed the waiver priority as

Brought to us by Fantasy Pros, and we will evaluate to see if we agree. We personally agree or not. So the consensus number one player from Fantasyprose.com is Ronnie Helman. It is. Do you agree with that? Here's what I will say is of any of these guys, because I think ball is out for a long time. And even when he comes back, he wasn't playing great.

Do the Broncos really say, okay, hey, Monty Ball, you're back, you're the full-time running back again, even though you were not doing that well. And we know the running back in Denver is going to produce some sort of relevance. So Ronnie Hillman of any of the guys available is a long-term solution. I think that's why he has to be the number one guy. Okay. That makes sense. It could be a long term. He's not a Band-Aid. He is a potential roster-changing.

acquire. Does that make sense? It does. Do you feel like that's not the case with someone like Brandon Oliver? No, it can't be. Is that just based on Ryan Matthews going to come back? Or do you think that? Yeah, Ryan Matthews will come back. Donald Brown has been highly ineffective, but he's going to come back. Oliver has, I don't know if he can be that full-time guy.

He put up huge numbers on the Jets who are known for their run defense, but the Jets had some injuries on their line, which I think contributed to all over his success. I still like him because I think for... He's my number one waiver. He's... And that's because I think... I'm looking...

I'm not looking at any of these guys as long-term fixes. Right. And so because of that, I think I like Oliver a little bit more than Hillman over the next three or four games. Right. And we, both of us do have that, the win now mentality. But if you're going to blow a waiver wire position. Right, but it's, Brandon Oliver is playing Oakland next week. Right, exactly. So if you're talking about just next week, and I mean, depending, unless you're,

Five and O, I mean, you've got to win next week, and then guess what? There's going to be more guys in the waiver, likely. So I can agree with Oliver. I think my number one guy would be Andre Williams if he's available for the Giants. Okay. I love Andre Williams. I love that they trust giving him the ball. I have been a big proponent of him all year, so I can't back off now.