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

High Tower. Right. I don't think he's a handcuffed. The way we're talking about, you're not sure, then he's not one. Okay. So another situation then, Adrian Peterson, do you handcuff him with McKinnon? I don't, but that would be the guy if you were to handcuff him. McKinnon. I think it's going to be McKinnon and Ozziata in a split. Yeah, we saw that before. It wasn't great. McKinnon is the better talent. Justin Forsett, you got to have him handcuffed. You got to have Buck Allen. Javarius Allen.

On your roster. He's another guy. I think Charles Sims is a guy you have to have if you've got Doug Martin. Doug Martin goes down. Charles Sims is going to be great. That's a hard one, though, because Sims has been startable in a lot of leagues, and he's probably signed by somebody else if you don't have them. You got Thomas Rawls from Archon Lynch. He's obviously shown that he can, I mean, I think Rawls is a guy in Dynasty leagues you need to look at because Lynch is going to move on from this team eventually. And Rawls has just shown a ferocity and an ability to kind of be a mini Lynch out there with some breakaway speed. I'm really impressed with him.

Gore, Frank Gore in Indianapolis, it's going to be tough sledding on that offense, but you've got to have him handcuffed, don't you? Yeah, Amad Bradshaw is the clear guy that cut Josh Robinson because Ahmad Bradshaw is a fully capable workhorseback should Gore go down. So that being said, I would try to hold off a couple weeks if you need that roster spot just because Andrew Luck's not there, so it's going to hurt the whole offense.

All right, Shady McCoy, we've talked about him already. You know, Carlos Williams is probably signed in your league, hopefully by you, but he really ensures that backfield. If you have McCoy and Carlos Williams, you probably are very confident moving forward into the playoff. Yeah, one of your running back slots is just guaranteed you're solid there. Unless they both get hurt like happened in the very beginning of the year, and we're talking about Boobie. There you go, Boobie Dixon. All right, let's move on to the waiver wire at the tight-in position. One guy that...

kind of stands out to me that we got to see a little bit more of this week was Crockett Gilmore. He's been brought up on the show before, but now Steve Smith is gone. There's a reliance on Crockett Gilmore in the offense. I love Crockett Gilmore, and not just because his name is Crockett. But mostly. But mostly. You know, he gets targets. Joe Flacco. What are his odds on a coming on party this week? I think they're decent. Crockett Gilmore.

Now, he goes up against the Rams. The Rams are usually pretty good against the tight end. Obviously, Zach Miller ate them alive this last week, but that was on some broken plays. So Crockett Gilmore is a guy. You can sign. You could start. For me, you want to know who I would sign over him would be Eric Ebron. Absolutely. Ebron had a terrible game, had a case of the butterfingers like crazy. They call those the Mike Evans now. You know, I wanted to bring this up.

Tyler Eiffert last night. You talk about drops. I mean, disgusting, super drops. He had three of them. Oh, and they were crucial. They were like third down drops going down the field. Three of them. Do you realize how many six is in a game from Mike Evans? Oh, you're talking about Owen Evans. He had double that egregious amount of drops.

Anyways, that was just amazing back. Eric Ebron, here's the deal. He still gets a lot of targets. He had eight targets last game. He's heavily used in the passing game. And this week, he goes up against the Oakland Raiders, who minus one week have been a sieve to the tight end position. So I love Eric Ebron this week. As a waiver signing and as a streaming option. I probably have them as a top five tight end this week. Really?

Probably. Really? I haven't done my rankings yet, but I'm guessing. That is bold, my friend. I don't think it's that bold. He's been good on the year, and he's going up against the worst defense against tight ends. How do you not give him a touchdown? Yeah, yeah. So it's more matchup and enough usage. So let's talk about quarterbacks. The guy that's standing out to me, obviously, is Jay Cutler is available in a lot of leagues, and he's just been very, very consistent. He's found another weapon in Zach Miller. He's got Bennett. He's got Jeffrey that's been back and mostly healthy. And Langford is obviously given him points.

out of the backfield on the passing game, and you're going to get that from Forte when he comes back. I'm surprised, I'll be honest with you. This team seemed like it was in crash and burn mode. Yeah, I thought they were going to be playing for a new quarterback, and now it seems like they've got theirs. He's certainly playing well. He's got the Broncos this week. Ouch. But his playoff schedule is Washington, Minnesota, Tampa Bay. It's not the end of the world. That's far from the end of the world. That's gorgeous. Minnesota's not that great, but Washington and Tampa Bay in weeks 14 and 16, feast.

So Cutler this week against the Broncos, the keep to leave his back. Are you sitting him or are you staying in the flames? Because this is a perfect example of... Perfect example of staying in the flames. He's been playing so well that maybe, you know, maybe Oswaldi gives him a short field a couple times with some mistakes. You bench him against the Rams and you did and you got burned because he was continuing to play great. The difference to me is that... It's in Chicago.

that it was broken plays, a lot of what happened. So if you watch the game, he looks great from an NFL quarterback standpoint. I am really liking what I see from Jay Cutler this year. But I grab him, I sign him off of waivers as a stash for the playoffs and as a streaming going forward. But I don't play him this week. You know who I do play this week? You'll find out in just a second on our streams of the week. So let's talk. Yeah, we'll skip that. Defenses, the Bravers, the Bears. The Bears have the Broncos at home without Peyton.

You know, when there's a new guy coming in, there's always opportunity for a mistake or a fumble, those type of things. Their offense obviously was very bad last week, so I think that the Bears are a really great streaming play. I really am on board with that. Jacksonville plays Tennessee on Thursday night football. I don't know how I feel about that one. Well, I mean, you've got a lot of missing weapons for the Titans. I'm not in love with that, but, you know, you've seen the Titans give up a lot to fantasy Ds.

That's a high risk, high reward type of game because they could score negative or they could end up with 15. Thursday night games, you get a lot of bad offense. Bad offense leads to mistakes to turnovers. So, you know, how about the Falcons against the luckless Colts? What do you think? I'm okay with it. I like that they're at home. If this game was flipped, if it was in Indianapolis, I would not probably want to stream them. But it's okay.

I mean, Hasselbeck has shown some ability to get things done in that offense. But I doubt high scoring is involved. So I think you got a baseline with Atlanta. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right, let's go ahead and take a few minutes, tell you which quarterback streamers that we are on board with this week. And, you know, there are some interesting names, especially Jason's. Full stream ahead. I like one of the reasons that you like this guy this week. The last reason you have listed on our show doc.

Yeah. So talk to us about your stream of the week. Okay. I'm amazed that he's allowed to be your stream of the week. Let's put it that way. But I mean, it is what it is. But it is really true. He is available in the majority of leagues. He is available in almost 60% of leagues. You can go right now on your waivers and sign Tony Romo. He is a streaming candidate because in most leagues you can stream him.

Now, once you have him, you will probably keep him and probably play him. But grab him. He should be one of the highest waiver claims this week. If he's on your waivers, you should be checking him out. If you've got a great quarterback, I mean, we talked about handcuffing your running back position. Let's say you've got Aaron Rogers and you like him. Normally, we don't say, well, go get Jay Cutler and put him on your bench just in case. But Tony Romo is, you know, a...

When he's playing and he's healthy and he's got Des healthy, which he does now, you know, he's a top fantasy option. What's the reason you put in there? So here's what I got. I got, he needs to win. The Dallas Cowboys need to win. He has Des back. And the final one, which I think is what you're talking about, is he's Tony Romo. Yeah. Now, he's also playing against Miami, a winnable defense. So hopefully he can be the Kirk Cousins pick of last week this week. Yeah, and just to highlight the kind of situation for Romo, he is.

eligible to return this week from injury. And it is expected he'll be back this week. We don't have confirmation yet. Is that correct? Yeah. I mean, I guess he's not been marked active, but he was leading the practice squad last week, the scouting squad as a quarterback. They say the bone is completely healed. Everything says, I mean, I don't see him not playing so much so that I made him my stream of the week. Yeah, and I believe Edwarder reported that he will play on Sunday against the Dolphins.

Yeah, stream of the week. Tony Romo from Jason. I've got, I'm cheating, okay? I felt like I was cheating. I know. I'm cheating a little bit too.

My technical stream of the week is Matt Stafford, which is a painful thing to even say a lot. There wasn't a lot of options I love this week, but I do like him at home. He had a pretty good week last week. I like Golden Tate coming back this week. I think that game's going to be more prolific, and he was competent last week. So Matt Stafford is at home against Oakland. I don't mind that. They're coming off a big win, and obviously you've got Calvin Johnson involved in that. However, I want to mention Russell Wilson, okay? Because he is owned in more leagues that made him...

He wasn't eligible for the stream of the week, but he's not started in very many. He was started in 39% of leagues. And so Russell Wilson is sitting on your bench. And so if he's sitting on your bench. Put him in the lineup. And he's a stream, you know, you're streaming quarterbacks. This is a week. I love him. He's at home. They came off a tough loss against the Cardinals. He is facing San Francisco in Seattle. They give up the 11th most points to fantasy quarterbacks.

I just think he has a baseline for you with his rushing attack. You know, his legs. Very safe play with a high ceiling. Exactly. What do you want more than that? And we have a stream of the week from Mike. We do. We do. Did you reach out? No, but he put it in the dock. And that's for this week. Oh, we do have one. Mike coming through with the. Mike's saying Ryan. The Disneyland pick. Fitzpatrick says Houston could have an emotional letdown.

And Fitz has been a steady but low-end number one quarterback. I love this. In fact, he mentions another guy, Fitzpatrick and this other guy were both in consideration when I chose Tony Romo. But the other guy is Mark Sanchez. Mark Sanchez is going to be at home. He gets Tampa Bay, a winnable matchup. I don't mind it. I don't mind it. You know, he could put up points. So if you're, you know, a lot of these things, if you're in a two-quarterback league, you know, Mark Sanchez is definitely going to be on the wire. So let's put these guys in order for the front of it.

Romo, Stafford, Fitzpatrick, Sanchez. How would you rank them? Stafford? I would go Romo. Yeah. Fitzpatrick. Okay. Stafford, Sanchez. All right. Yeah, I guess I have to go, uh, I still think Romo's the better pick there. So I'd go Romo, Stafford, Sanchez, Fitzpatrick myself. So, uh, some different streaming options for you. Obviously, last week was a big week with Kirk Cousins. Poo! Poo! Poo!

Those were his phasers. His phasers, yes. Unfortunately for the world of the fantasy football world, the Saints aren't playing this week. I know. And so you can't just pick the opposing quarterback to the Saints. That was our cheat code. Yeah, that was a fun cheat code. It was for Kirk Cousins. But you know who you look to after that? Who's playing the New York Giants?

Oh, they're on by. What about the guy playing the Browns? I know, seriously. Oh, they're on by too. All right. So that's our streams of the week. Like Jason mentioned earlier, tomorrow we have a really good show. We got some new segments we're introducing. We got our mailbag show. We're going to break down a ton of questions. This is crucial time right now for you and your fantasy team and for me and mine. And by the way, I won again, and my one and four team is now six and four. I love that you started one and four.

Because you have shown our listeners what we said all draft season, which is you don't win championships at the draft. You win them through the year, making good moves, playing to win. And you've really been an inspiration.

You've really lifted me up. I mean, not really because I'm 8 and 2, and I don't care about your foolishness. Yeah, yeah, I'm 6 and 4. I'll take it, though. I'm in the playoff hunt. Also, we want to mention join the foot.com. Come hang out with us on our fantasy football community. Jason, you had said earlier you wanted to mention something in conjunction with Join the Foot. Yes, I did because we get...

questions asked all the time through the offseason and through the season of like how do I how do you guys recommend getting in a fun league where people care where people you know want to play and like the one you talk about oh yeah exactly the leagues that make fantasy football fantasy football well this off season this coming you know once once the season starts we are going to start putting together with our foot clan listeners