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

Pay attention to Rashad Green. Yeah, Rashad Green, rookie, had a great week one. Seven catches in week one. Yeah, 10 targets. People are like, who's Rashad Green? Yeah, he's a rookie, and he was a fifth round pick, I believe. He had a good coming on party and then got injured. But... A coming on party? Well, I don't know. It's a coming out party. Coming out party. All right. He had a coming out party on week one.

I don't think that's the party we want to be talking about. Getting derailed here. But he is back. There's a chance he's not even activated this week. This is just the first week. He can be activated. So, Marquis Lee, if Helen Hearns is out, if you're a Hearns owner and you want a start for your Thursday night game, grab him. And I think I would be confident starting him if Harns was out.

You know, my biggest worry about Hearns being out is the impact it has on Bordals because obviously the touchdown numbers have been there for Hearns every week. Where do those go? You know, Julius Thomas hasn't been involved very much. Is it going to be Mark East Lee? It could be. You know, you're going to always put your best guy on Alan Robinson and let the chips fall where they may on that offense. And if Yeldon's gone as well. If you lose.

Yeldin, your wide receiver two, and your wide receiver three. I don't think you put your best guy on Alan Robinson. I think you put your best two guys on Alan Robinson. You just take him out of the game, in which case, Thursday night, which seems like a juicy matchup of, you know, Blake Bortles has been throwing a lot of yards. I think it could be a trap game where it's a really low-scoring affair on a short week, you know. This is Jaguar Talk Week. Yeah. Jag Talk with Jason and Andy. All right, you've got.

Another guy that I hope has a coming on party on Thursday. Doreal Green Beckham. Hey, I like that pick. He's a good pick. Here's why. Justin Hunter. Justin Hunter. Fractured ankle. Kendall Wright. He went, he was a limited participant in practice, so he might be back. But if he's still out, Dorio Green Beckham was hot this last week, and he put up zero catches for zero yards, and we'll be going back on the waivers.

to many a person. But people don't realize that was the Josh Norman effect against Carolina. He shuts down the best. And Doyle, Greenbeckham is not the best. So if those other two wide receivers are gone, I like DGB this week. I agree with you, but would you start him over Kamar Aiken? Yes. This week against, Aiken goes up against the Rams. He's got Jenkins. Yep, I would start DGB. Now that's interesting. That's assuming that Kendall Wright is not. I have that decision to make in one of my leagues.

Yeah, I just made it for you. All right, a couple other guys just want to mention them. If Golden Tate has slipped onto your waiver wire, I'd pay attention to him a little bit. He's got a good matchup this week against Oakland. Also, Lance Moore keeps scoring touchdowns, so I think I like Tate more than more, but... He gets more targets, and you just can't predict those touchdowns, so you've got to go with Tate. And then I want to mention the number two in Baltimore now, Chris Givens, who's building some rapport with Joe Flacco. This week, honestly, if Kamar Aiken gets...

the number one DB in St. Louis, Chris Givens might have some targets, but what we've seen from Flacco is that he tends to dump the ball to the running back or the fullback or the Crockett Gilmore's of the world, which we'll bring up. And at that point in time, I just don't know how much you could, but deeper leagues. Yeah. You want to talk of running backs? That's everyone's favorite position. Probably the most important position. All right. The forgotten guy is Sean Drone. Sean Drone. Because...

He had kind of a surprising good game. He was the used man. He was the guy that got the carries for the San Francisco 49ers. You didn't know who it was going to be with all the injuries there. Two weeks ago, though. Yeah, because they were on buy. Right. So they go to buy and you forget who Sean Drone is. So the real question for me in whether or not you like Sean Drone this week is Carlos Hyde. What is, you know, we got a...

monitor and see if Carlos Hyde is actually going to be practicing this week, if he's going to be playing this week, because obviously if he plays Sean Drones worthless. Yeah, I mean, that is completely the truth. If you're in a pinch and you know Hyde is out, they say he's feeling better, he's day to day. That's the reports, right? But we're coming through a by week and we need to see what he does this week. I don't think Carlos Hyde plays this week. And so let's pretend Carlos Hyde is rolled out.

You could kind of throw him out there or no? No. Because he's playing the Seahawks. Yeah, exactly. You know, Sean Drone is a guy that we should talk about just so you know who he is for the future. But I was going to have you ask me what kind of faith I had in Sean Drone. And what's, okay, what kind of faith do you have in? None. Next. Who else? Here's some guys that I don't have a lot of faith in despite their numbers this past week. The Matt Jones, Alfred Morris, dance. They're going to be on a lot of waivers. They get a lot of use.

And this last week, they put up a lot of yards, Andy. Tell me why you don't have faith in that combo. And if you had to have faith in one, who would it be? I guess if I had to have faith in one, it's going to be Matt Jones because he's going to be involved slightly more in the passing game. Okay, Chris Thompson's really the passing game back. Jones is younger. Jones showed a big playability this past week that you just don't have with Alfred Morris. Alfred Morris isn't going to catch a screen pass and go 70-something yards for a touchdown. The reason I don't have a lot of confidence in them is because we've seen...

Matt Jones flashed earlier in the year and just put up dud after dud after dud after dud after dud the running game hadn't been able to perform and they faced New Orleans who just fired Rob Ryan by the way. Farewell, you silverback gorilla. And he, that's not nice at all. That's not nice. It just came out. I'm sure he'll get a job somewhere because of his last name. Because he's Ryan. But anyway, I just don't have confidence in the running game going. If they have a game where they're

they're running super well, then you have a game like this. But it's happened once this year. Yeah, and you know when it's not going to happen? It's not going to happen this week against the Carolina Panthers. No. So, yeah, I agree. I'm not saying you don't sign them because there's not a lot of running backs that are available, but I dropped Matt Jones last week and I'm not resigning him. Yeah, Matt Jones, if you want to sign him, he is a worthy sign to have on your roster in case of injury or good matchup. He's a potential, here's what he is.

He's a guy that you can stash on your bench. And if you need a start in a week or in two weeks, let's say, you know, you've got an injury. And he's in a good matchup. And he's in a good matchup. He's a guy that when you put out, sure, he could put up two points, but he could also put up 20 on some breakaway run. So he's worth having. Yeah, he's a classic case of if you chase the points with Morris or Jones this week, you're going to be bummed.

You're going to go, oh my gosh, that's what the amateur fantasy football player is going to do, is they're going to sign Matt Jones and start him this week because he scored what he did last week. And no one that listens to our show is an amateur noob.

Fantasy football player, not by this point in season. So let the other guys in your league sign him and play him against you. If you want to sign him, no problem with that. Do not play him. All right, I want to bring up James White again. I know he didn't have a big week last week, but the truth is, is he was on the field. James White running back for the New England Patriots. He was on the field for 28 snaps. That should tell you something. James White is being involved a little bit more. He had a reception, very few touches. I think he had two touches in the game. That being said, you just lost Edelman.

My opinion is if this team has to start leaning on additional pieces, he's going to be involved. I think he's worth a flyer if you're running back, if you're in a deeper league with running back needs. I agree. I would take James White over Matt Jones, Alfred Morris, Sean Drone, all of those guys. James White would easily be my number one claim. Even if I'm just saying, who do I start this week? I would prefer James White over the other guys just this week and rest of season. So he's definitely the first.

All right, so what do we do with the T.J. Yelden situation in the waiver wire? Because if you're a Yelden owner, do you now handcuff him? I think you do. I think Dernard Robinson. We saw him get injured a little bit earlier this year. T.J. Yelden wasn't sure if he was going to play. And Dernard got, you know, like seven carries. Toby Gerhardt was used. But then what happened? Toby Gerhardt had his infamous four-time stuff on the goal line. Four stuff in a row on the goal line.

What happened after that? You had some coaching changes. What happened after that? You get two healthy scratches of Toby Gerhardt. I like a healthy scratch. Healthy scratches, not active for the game. They said, you know, Dernard Robinson is the backup here. So now, while I expect if Yeldon is out, Gerhardt's going to be active.

Gerhard will get some touches because they have to have, you know, another running back to spell him. But I think it's going to be Denard Robinson. He looked great in preseason. Last year when he came in, based on injury in front of him, he looked great. Jacksonville's not a great match. You think it is. You mean, you meant Tennessee? Yes, Tennessee. Tennessee, you think is a great matchup because they're not that good of a team overall. They're actually pretty tough against the run. So I'm not in love with Denard. However, I believe they play the Chargers.

the week after that. So this is a good time to sign him. If T.J. Yeldin's foot seems to be something that keeps him out for multiple weeks, I actually liked in our Robinson. I put him right behind James White for me. And if, you know, I... So quick, quick aside then, because we're talking handcuffs. This is the time of year. It's week number 11 coming up. Playoffs are about to begin. Playoffs. And we're really big on ensuring your roster to the sense that sign a handcuff.

that is relevant to your team. Okay, we're not really big on go try to figure out the handcuff or the Tavius Murray. Okay, that's not a very fun situation right now because you don't know if it's going to be Taiwan Jones one week or Marcel Reese or the guy's name I can't even pronounce, Oloale. And those are the bad situations. If you don't know who the handcuff is, don't worry about it.

There's no handcuffs. Yeah, there's no handcuffs. But there are a number of handcuffs that I want to bring up. So DeNard Robinson is attached to Yeldin. The basic philosophy here is you're going to head into the playoffs. A lot of people have fab budgets that are spent out, okay, or close to spent out at this point in the season. So if you can sign your handcuff now...

Just do it. Take a roster spot up. Before they're valuable. Before other teams are even looking at them. And so you guys know this if you're listening to the show with one of the big guys. You probably already have them. But Devante Freeman, you're handcuffing him with Tevin Coleman. No doubt. He's your biggest number one handcuff, right? Tevin Coleman is my number one handcuff. He is a good enough handcuff where I think... If Freeman went down. Yeah. If he's out there and you don't have Freeman, I would snake him if you've got an open roster spot for him. After that, I would go with...

Jay Ajai. I think Ajai has looked amazing. Now, the head coach came out and said, look, Lamar Miller is the guy. He is the starter. He is the workhorse. But the fact that conversation had to happen. Exactly. Yeah. It tells you a guy's performing well and that they don't need.

to necessarily put the workload on Lamar Miller to the end of degree. And if he gets hurt. Disclaimers are there for a reason. Every time you see a disclaimer, you go, I wonder what happened to make them have to say this. Well, that's what happened. Ajai looks as good as he did in college, which was incredible. He's just a handcuff. If Miller gets injured, you've got to have him. Here's a guy that might blow your mind. Tim Hightower. Eleven carries for 46 yards last week. And honestly, he must, he's the Mark Ingram handcuff. Andy? Uh-oh.

Yeah, I don't know who Tim Hightower is. That's not the voice of public opinion. That's the voice of ignorance. No, I think that most people, I think the voice of public opinion, you know, we, yeah, as a Cardinal fan, being in Arizona. We know who Tim Hightower is. Exactly. Because he rumbled into the end zone in the NFC title game to send us to the Super Bowl. Three weeks ago, Tim Hightower wasn't even on a team. But the fact that that, I mean, the Cardinals were not exactly in the Super Bowl last year. This was a long time ago. You know, Tim Hightower has fought back from injuries.

He was re-signed. For some reason, C.J. Spiller is just not the guy for that team. I wonder if Drew Brees hates him or if he got hurt because of some missed pass protection. Do you think the coaching staff had C.J. Spiller on their fantasy teams in recent years, and that's what is going on? Yeah, no. They wouldn't have signed him to New Orleans. But C.J. Spiller is clearly not the handcuff. Now, Ingram got hurt last game. I don't know if you realized that. He started the game on.

fire had like 98 yards and a couple of carries and they didn't play for a bunch of that game came in a little bit later in the fourth quarter which is great for just injury purposes he i don't expect him to miss any time but he does have a history of injuries and and he's had a lot of carries this year yeah so high tower might be worth someone now that being said i don't know who i'd rather have i would not between them i would rather if ingram goes down i think high tower is a worthy start and and and he will be fine but i'm not going to roster