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

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It is Tuesday, November 17th. And we are the fantasy footballers minus one. It's Andy Holloway and Jason Moore in the house this morning. If we got rid of one more of us, we could just be the fantasy footballer. I know. The plural would be gone. I'd have to register new domains, and it would be so complicated. It'd be like Survivor. One of us will be left standing. But thanks for being here this morning. Thanks for having me.

A little later show today, but we are here. We're ready to go. We had week tens in the books. It's over. Shoo, went out with a crash. I can't believe that my hunch was kind of right. Oh, your hunch was on point. You said it'd be closer than we thought. It was closer than the Texans thought. It just didn't seem possible. It was in Cincinnati. They'd been playing so well.

And then as JJ Watt put it, the red rifle became the Red Rider BB gun. And they got it done. And no touchdowns. That's, I believe, the first time in an extremely long time or ever that an undefeated team at 8-0 didn't score a touchdown like on the game they lost. Some stat were...

It just highlighted how ridiculous it was. How bad the Bengals were. Just terrible. And it was part Dalton, but it was a team effort. It was a real, well, it was an offensive effort. Their defense played just fine. Well, they needed to score, what, 11 points to win the game? Mm-hmm. That's pretty. Maybe less if Yates hadn't come in. Yeah. So, disappointment abounds for all fantasy owners of Cincinnati Bengals without question, right? Oh, yeah.

Hopkins owners, they finally got on track. The game was freaking them out for a while because he wasn't on the stat sheet until I think four minutes left in the second quarter or something like that. T.J. Yates, you come in as the backup and you just know, I just got to throw it to Hopkins every play. I, you know, that's what Hoyer started doing. When Hoyer came in after Mallet, he was throwing it to Hopkins every play. Because Hopkins is good. Yeah, he's, that touchdown catch. That was incredible.

And he's made a bunch of them this year. So there's a reason he's at the top of the fantasy leaderboards at the wide receiver position. Today's show, we got our review ofsaurus, our news and notes. We've got our waiver wire today. We're going to be talking about the pickups this week. And we got a good show. I think a very good show. People love the Tuesday shows with the waiver wire and the stream of the week. Are you kidding me? Yes. The streams of the week. It's just beautiful. And tomorrow's show is going to be great little.

Yeah, we're going to mix it up a little bit. Going to have some new stuff in tomorrow. Yeah, so stay tuned for that. It'll be mailbag. Plus, extra bonus. Bonus. All right. So if you want to get a hold of the show, you know how to do it. It's at the fantasy footballers.com on Twitter at the FFF Ballers. We are on YouTube. You can watch the show. We put them up every day. We put up segments every day. And you can check out our community at join thefoot.com. Join the Foot clan.

Quick question for the day. Will Carlos Williams score a touchdown this week? Wow. I'm going to go way out on a limb and predict no. He can't do that every game of his entire career. He cannot continue to score touchdown every game of his career, which he has... Oh yeah, you know what he says to that? Yes, I can. Thus far, yes, I can. One of us will be right, but he would be only the fourth...

touchdown scored from the running back position against the Patriots on the year. So they are third best in fantasy against the run. I'm going to say Carlos Williams does not get it done this week. All right. So rest of season, Carlos Williams is a running back number. Number handcuff. I would say he's a... Really?

Would you flex him? Deeper league flex? Absolutely. He scores enough to merit a deeper league flex in a bad situation. But if I've got a guy who has the ball, has a little bit of workload, I'm not going to chase that touchdown over a guy that I know is going to touch the ball more. It's interesting, though. He is getting a little bit more involved in the passing game. You saw that last game. From an efficiency standpoint, I think he's one of the best in the league.

in terms of just like yards per carry. He's out rushing McCoy on a per carry basis. Obviously, not sustainable if he was between the tackles of every game, but pretty impressive rookie. Yeah, yeah, he's looking really good. And he's a big, strapping young lad. I mean, when you watch him, he's a big dude. Yeah, yeah, he is. And he gets down field quick. So, all right, let's go ahead. And once a week, we like to read a review from the listeners.

These reviews come from, most of the time they come from iTunes on the podcast app because those really help the show out. We really appreciate you guys. That's one of the ways that you can give back to what we're doing here is just to go leave a simple review. Tell people why you like the show. And so we like to read those. Sometimes they're pretty funny. So we're going to read one right now. Review Osores Regs. This one comes in from Awesome Ducky Tie. He says, do not.

Tell your league mates about this podcast thing. Thanks, awesome, Ducky Ty. Good advertisement. Yes. I found these guys when searching for things to listen to on my one hour commute. I've been a middle of the road fantasy player before this year, but this year I'm at the top of my league and having more fun playing than ever before. I'm withstanding victories left and right. These guys are hilarious and informative and are absolutely worth a subscribe. And by his example, I would say a review.

as well. So thank you, awesome, Ducky Tye. Awesome, Ducky Tye setting a good example for the rest of the world here with standing victories left and right. Thank you for that review. We really appreciate it. We love our... I am completely convinced this year. I've just been blown away by our listeners, by the Foot Clan. They're so supportive, so engaged. They help each other out. It would have been nice had they forgotten.

The water bet we just lost, though. Yeah. Yeah, just be a little less engaged with the show when we lose bets. I don't know. I will continue to take ridiculous bets like that. Every week we should have. Mike's not here, and I guess we should say that if you missed yesterday's show. Mike is out this week. He's at Disneyland with his family and the grandparents and doing the whole. Not just being very silent. Right. Yeah, he's not just quiet today as a Bengal fan. Yeah, but, but yeah, we.

We super appreciate everybody that's listening to the show contributing. All the tweets on Twitter are great. We definitely want to do right by you with the predictions that we make because we don't want to hear about it. Yeah, that's the reason. Yeah, this is the only reason. No. I lost my train of thought, though. I was going to say something else about Mike. About Mike? It was probably bad. There you go. You got a lot of praise, by the way, for your mailbag yesterday. So I'm expecting...

Big things today on this. Oh, it's not on. Yeah, tune in tomorrow for my next attempt at the Mike Mailbag. Oh, man. Yeah, let's get everybody caught up on what's going on. News and notes from around the league. All right, Peyton Manning. No longer a starter. He's been ruled out. Already. I guess not no longer a starter. He's injured. Yeah. And it could be, you know, we said yesterday it would be, you know, he's going to miss at least a week. And it seemed like a week.

But this could linger a little while longer. Does that depend on how Brock Osweiler performs? Of course not. Andy, they would never admit that. But yes, if Brock Osweiler comes in and does what I expect him to do, which is Target to Marius Thomas a lot and go from his height to D.T.'s height and performs well, and they go out and maybe score more than the teens.

then, you know, hey. Peyton needs another week off. Yeah, you need to really rest that thing. I pushed you in too quick. That was my fault. As the coach, I'm not going to let you repeat a mistake. So the matchup this week for Osweiler is the Bears. Do you have any solid opinions on how it affects position players in Denver? Are they going to lean on the run more? No, I don't think they can. Exactly the problem. I don't think you can. I expect to see a lot more of the same. The only difference is,

that I would expect would be, I think, some of Emmanuel Sanders targets, he is super hurt right now. He had the concussion midway through the game, a finger problem, and that has nothing to do with the two injuries that were supposed to keep him out last week. So I expect some of those targets that Peyton goes as a safety valve to Sanders to go Demeris Thomas's route. We saw that, right? When Osweiler came in the game, he was really targeting DT. So I expect that to continue. And then you always wonder, who's that?

Who's that, you know, B-level wide receiver that when the backup quarterback comes in, just, you know, that practice squad guy who's got the rapport with him? What about Vernon Davis? It's probably not Vernon Davis. No, I mean, what did he have? Four catches last week or two? I thought he had a few catches. I mean... I thought he was mostly worthless, but perhaps I am. He said he was very surprised that he wasn't used more because he's supposed to be involved more and more in the game. He had two catches for 19 yards on four targets.

Yeah, all right. No fantasy relevance yet. Yeah, none there. Should he be owned and stashed or just ignore him? I would completely ignore him personally. I mean, you could, here's a thing. I mean, Osweiler could maybe use him as a safety valve, but I just don't see that happening. And today we're going to talk about waiver wires, so there's probably guys on there that you'd rather have than burn it. Exactly, yes. All right, big news, T.J. Yeldman in a walking boot for an injury to his foot. He is highly questionable for Thursday's game.

Yeah, and I think as we get to the waiver wire, we'll talk about the backfield situation there and who we should have. I don't believe they have a good matchup this week, so that kind of hurts the value of, you know, a Dernard Robinson or a Toby Garrett. Yeah, but man, a starting running back. If you can get one. Absolutely. They're valuable. It's worth a shot. Got to spend for him. Unless it's out for blue. All right, the Rams have benched Nick Foles for Kays Keenum. Good for you. You go out and trade for a guy and then you

pay him and sign an extension for him and you have to swallow pride. Face palm. You have to swallow pride to do the right thing. And the truth is... Eight straight games with under 200 yards. Foot Clan, can I just give a little soapbox, you know... Yeah, I wish I had the drop for you. I'm gonna make that one. Well, it's not a fantasy soapbox. It's a human soapbox. Okay. Pride is a killer. Pride is gonna kill you. You swallow your pride whenever you can and you eat it.

and you will be better off for it. And so I believe that Case Keenham will be a far better option than Nick Foles, and it should be good for the Rams offense. Now, by far better, I mean, he'll be, you know, the quarterback 26, 25. I'm not saying start Case Keenum, but I am definitely saying better than Nick Foles. And isn't there a bit of irony in the fact that now T.J. Yates and Case Keenom. Yeah.

are getting starts this week, and somewhere Matt Schaub is remembering his backups. You know, I don't want to go too far in what I say, but I like Case Keenham as a quarterback. I mean, I never thought he was, he just never got the respect that I believe he deserved with his play. Somewhere he's recording this. Yeah. And going to play it back over and over again. There you go. Well, Hakeem Nix has shown his face once more.