Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streaming Options, News

In the classic James Jones fashion, he is now signed by the Giants. Yeah, probably meaningless. Just taking the roster spot of Victor Cruz, no fantasy relevance. Yep. All right, Alan Hearns, there's been a lot of reports you've been following on various apps or Rotow World, any of those places. Hearns had visited a specialist about his abdomen, and there was concerns about sports hernia surgery, those type of things.

What's the latest on Hearns? The latest on Hearns is that he is actually expected to play. It was looking highly doubtful. But the truth is all year, Hearns has been injured. All year he has missed practice. All year, as the weeks have gone on, every week, it's more and more likely that he's going to sit. And he hasn't sat.

And he hasn't not been in the end zone the entire time. It's seven straight games with a touchdown. So Alan Hearns is a guy that you do need to monitor. You need to make sure he's active. But if he's active, he's in your lineup. And so another public service announcement, when you have injured guys, you are so much more weary to put them in your wide receiver spot. You want them in your flex spot because you feel like it gives you more flexibility. This is a Thursday night game.

Put him, if you're going to start him, do not start him in your flex spot. Because then that takes, come Sunday, and some other injury happens during the week. Oh, no, I can't put a running back in there, which I needed to do. Put him in your wide receiver spot. Leave your flex open. Never start Thursday guys in that flex. Yeah, completely a great tip. Alan Hearns or Eric Decker this week? Eric Decker. Okay. Every week.

He's your favorite player. I love him so much. And he has a, actually, both of these guys have a really good rest of season and a good fantasy playoff schedule. You know, there's so many questions. Who are you guys targeting in the playoffs? Both of those guys, Hearn scares me a little bit more because it's hard in the NFL to withstand that many injuries all year long and never actually missed the game.

Decker is healthier, so I would prefer Decker, but both of these guys are guys that I would target, because you can still somehow get them cheap. People don't always believe in those wide receiver 2s. Now, last bit of news that I have here, they're on by this week, but the Browns have come out and said Johnny Mansell will be starting ahead of Josh McCown. I'm not sure what to make of it. Mansell has looked okay, and he offers fantasy owners his legs.

He just offers them to you. He says you can have them. You can shave them. You can do whatever you want with him. With Harry's. But yes. So Manzell last week is a pretty good example. He threw for some yardage, but he only had one touchdown pass. He had a pick and a fumble. And he still, but he ran for, you know. Like 20 yards, something like that. Yeah. So I don't know. They're trying to keep him in the pocket. He's playing okay.

I don't have big expectations. I guess there's a chance he's a streamer one of these weeks. Yep, I expect that as the year goes on, we will pick him to be a streaming candidate and he will perform great in certain matchups, but he's not going to be a guy that you want to go out and sign other than for that single week to play him. So don't worry about picking him up right now, especially.

on the buy. So before we get into the everyone's favorite section of the waiver wire and who to start, I want to take a second and thank our sponsor, FanDuel. Finally, it can pay to be a fan. We have the best fans here. You love fantasy football. How's your team doing? Is it doing bad and you want an important game? Well, every week can be an important game on Fan Duel. You get to draft the best players you want, set your lineup based on a salary-based system. Are you doing great?

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Put me in, coach. All right. Where do you want to start? You want to start with wide receivers? Let's start with wide receivers. I feel like they're the most juicy pickups this week. They often are, unless there's a major injury at the running back position. Speaking of major injuries, though, Julian Edelman is gone. Poof. Poof. And he was kind of a running back through the air. Runs through the air with Bill Belichick. On that team, you're right. So Danny and Dola.

thrust into the spotlight, showed us a little of what to expect last week when Edelman went out because he went out early. And Amandola was 10 for 79. And he's 21% owned in leagues right now. I am shooting myself for not signing him last week when I lost Dion Lewis. Because my head told me Amandola is the guy to grab. And wait, was that my heart? I think your roster position requirements told you it need to be...

James White. I felt like I had to substitute running back for running back, and I kind of regret it because I'd rather have Emondola. And I did not foresee an injury coming, obviously, but this is a big deal. So would you sign him, A, and how high of a priority, and then B, is he start worthy this week? A, yes, I would sign him. I would put him as my first priority, depending on situation, right? And that's something everyone listening, you know, we give the best advice we can, but everybody listening, you need to

Take what we say and then look at your team and make the right decisions. Yeah, filter it through your league, your matchups, your roster. Do you need a guy for this week or do you need a guy for long term? Because even in wide receiver, that changes. So that goes to question B. I think he has a great week this week against Buffalo. I would play him. I would start him. I wouldn't worry about this. Here's a little bit of Danny Amandola. Okay. He scores 1.6 fantasy points. This is a half point PPR. 1.6 fantasy points. Is that good or bad? Poor.

Okay, Dionne Lewis was there for that game. Then the next game, he scores 14. Good or bad? Good. Good. Dionne Lewis wasn't there. Oh, Dionne Lewis comes back. He gets 1.6. Yep. Then 5.3. Yeah. Oh, Dionne Lewis goes down. 10. 12.9. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's like... There's a correlation because that short, quick passing game...

What Brady needs to do, I mean, he cannot, much to my own fantasy team chagrin, he cannot throw to Gronkowski on every single player. Yeah, and so, you know, Amandola, great guy to have. He's going to have his bad games, but he can be one of those guys you get off of waivers that could put up a 25-point game and really win you a week. So he's got to be, for me, I would have him as my top waiver priority this week.

I agree with you completely. He's on a powerful offense, an offense on an undefeated team that has to kind of remake itself a little bit without Edelman and Lewis. And he's going to be a key cog. Brady loves him. He said he always makes big plays, which has been the case. And now he's going to have to do it more consistently. So I look for Amandola to fill in the gap mostly there. Lafell's target should increase, if not be fairly consistent. So Kamar Aiken is on our Waverwire pickup list because he's only owned in 45% of leagues. Yeah, still the majority of leagues.

have him on waivers. Seven catches last week is season high. No Steve Smith. Yep. And that's what's going to happen. He's going to average 10 targets a game from here on out the rest of the season, which is just unheard of of finding that on the waivers because you don't really get wide receiver ones for an NFL team on the waivers. You can get him. So here's the difference between Danny Amadola and Kamar Aiken. Do you need a guy for this week and you need a spot start?

then I would go with Danny Amandola. He can be plugged in your lineup. Much better matchup. Much better matchup. In fact, Kamar Aiken might be involved in a new segment tomorrow. Ooh. Just a little spoiler for our Wednesday show, our revamped Wednesday show. Yes. But Kamar Aiken, rest of season, if you need a wide receiver that you can rely on from here on out, I would put.

Aiken actually above Amandola. Would you? I was going to ask that. Just because I expect more targets and more consistency. Amidola, I still think, is going to have his up games and his down games. And it's going to be really hard to predict, as it always is with the Patriots, because you just don't know what Uncle Billy's going to do. Uncle Billy? I am Bill Belichick's nephew. Uncle Billy's always got new ideas up in their head. Yeah. And that is also a lie. Okay. So...

All right. Michael Floyd flashed on Sunday night football in a big way. Huge way. But then it was marred by a hamstring injury. Yeah, he would have gone for, you know. He would have two or three more catches at least because Jerome Brown came in and took those. Floyd, seven for one, 13, two touchdowns on the radar. And just to make it more obvious, his relevance, John Brown decided to go zero.

Yeah, just goose egg. That's what I was going to bring up. It seems to me that Michael Floyd has overtaken that number two spot. Bruce Ariens actually said that that would happen. Well, and John Brown has been banged up. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, even before Floyd got back, he basically said that Floyd was going to take that spot and that John Brown would go to that wide receiver three. We weren't sure if that was true, but it seemed to happen. So if he's healthy, definitely a valuable ad.

I would grab him on the waivers behind those guys. Yeah, yeah, and you need to monitor his injury situation for the upcoming game because he's a Sunday night game against Cincinnati this week. And so starting him, you need to watch practice reports and listen to the show. Yeah, so let's go deeper. Let's say you're in a league that's super competitive. Those guys have been on my teams for weeks. Yeah, and that's your voice. Only those people. Yeah, I'm competitive fattest football player. You think they're going to be crazy.

It's a 16-team league. Yeah. All right. So, going deeper. Dwayne Harris is somebody I want to bring up on the show. Because I don't want to ignore production. You might ignore depth chart, spot. You might ignore, you know, different things about his target numbers and consistency of catches. But Andy. Uh-oh, voice of public opinion. But, by Andy. Hakeem Nix was just signed.

Won't that hurt from Dwayne Harris? No, voice of public opinion, it won't hurt. Hakeem Nix has been retired in physical form for four years. I think Hakeem Nix plays as good or better than Victor Cruz did this year. I completely agree. That's a water bet you want to... But Dwayne Harris, let me give you some numbers, all right? He's had games this year, five receptions, six receptions, against New England last week, six for 82 and a touchdown. Three weeks ago against New Orleans, two touchdowns.

Okay, he's being involved. Now, he's got a couple games in there that make you really not want to start him. You know, over the last seven weeks, he's had five double-digit games and then two games that were basically goose eggs. So you're playing with fire a little bit, but I don't want to ignore production. He's got to buy, so maybe you wait. I don't think you've got to go, he'll be ignored in a lot of leagues. So if you need a start in the future in the right matchup, just keep on your radar. That's all I wanted to say. Yeah.

Yeah, good one, Andy. Do you think Dwain Harris available in my league? Go deeper. Whoa. Go deeper. Boyd Harris been taken for three weeks. All right. I guess we have to talk about Jacksonville's wide receivers if something goes on with Alan Hearns. Yeah, and then we can go real deep. Yeah, you got Marquis Lee activated last week. He had a bad game last week, but, you know, that was his first game back for a while and...

he was the third wide receiver, right? So if Alan Hernes is gone and he is out of this game, you also have, what's his face, is Brian Walters? What's his face is his actual name? What's his face is his actual name? You do? You have Brian Walter? He has been in that third spot. He has a concussion. So you literally might not have your second and your third. So if you're looking for a spot start. The guy's Markisly. Yeah, Markisly is the guy. And with a background of, you know,