Week 13 Waivers + Playoff Prep, Difference Makers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/26

It's a bad matchup against Kansas City, but all those guys, I think, are at the top of the pickups to play this week. Mike, how do you order them? Look, I'm still putting Warren at the top, and then I'm going to go McNichols and then Gus. Yeah, it is, we need more news, to be honest, about Dobbins knee injury and how long term it is. That might flip Gus to the very tippy top. There is a... Yeah, if we heard that it was... There is a Gus trust by the coaching staff. If it turns out by the time waivers clear that this is a season-ending injury for Dobbins, then Gus is a must pick up in all leagues. Spend your fab. Burn your priorities.

Make them number one. A couple of the insurance backs coming back from buy I think are worth surfacing like Ray Davis and Braylon Allen in case people drop them for the buy week. Sure. Pay attention to those names because they're worth rostering in the event of injuries. They would be significant pickups. Why not have them ahead of time? Of course, it is insurance back season. And then we don't know where Tank Bigsby is on the injury. But I want to bring his name up one because he's, you know. pretty available here and was at least getting touches before the injury. But there was a blurb yesterday of Doug Peterson being so sneaky, getting so many advantages saying that he has changed a lot of stuff internally. Oh, right.

We're not going to say what it is. He was not willing to disclose what the changes were. Within his own body? Are you talking about within the organization? Oh, we have no idea. We don't know. How could you know? That feels like an advantage. If I was the opposing team, I didn't know whether he had had like an epidectomy or changed the coaching stuff. I would be confused. Yeah, you're going into that game plan saying, what's changed? Quote, he made some in-house changes during the buy, but he's keeping the details under wraps. Oh, that could have been like wallpaper and stuff. It could. We have no idea. It could have been furniture.

I'm guessing there is a chance that we never actually even find out. Once the game plan rolls out Sunday, but I'm bringing up Tank as in... You think maybe that's the change? I think there's... What if the change is... He's quarterback now? Tank Pigsby? Yeah. We've made a change. But what if he's going to start? Like, what if he's going to take on a bigger role? He didn't even play. He was hurt. Because he's hurt. That's what I'm saying. He's hurt. I don't know. I don't choose my hurt guys for my in-house changes. I do like, you know, I get the paint roller out. I change the paint color of a room or two. I don't take my injured guys and make them starters. That one doesn't make sense to me. Oh, okay. You just keep playing your guy who sucks. That being Travis. Travis CTN doesn't suck. The team sucks. The team is the least productive offense in football. The number one. In fact, the advice that I think that the Jaguars provide fancy players right now is they're the number one team I'm targeting. Sure.

from a defensive perspective. So, I mean, Travis Etienne is caught in the blender of doom. I think he's also not as good of a running back. So I'm just, that's my personal opinion. I think that there is a chance for that with the, with how wild things are going for the Jags. Yeah. Tank Bigsby's last two games playing were not impressive performances. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know if anybody can do anything in this offense right now. That's, you know. It's a quarterback issue as much as we know that Trevor Lawrence is not worthy of the contract he got being, you know, the highest paid player in history. He is still such a significant upgrade over Mack Jones. And maybe, you know, we don't have an update coming out of the buy on Trevor Lawrence's injury. Right. Yeah, yeah. That to me, Brian, you know, when you're talking about Brian Thomas, Travis E.T.N.

Tank Biggsby, everything relies on whether or not Trevor Lawrence is going to be the start of this week. The change that Doug Peterson made, for all we know, it's C.J. Bethard is going to be the quarterback over Mac Jones because they put Trevor Lawrence on IR. So we'll just have to keep our ears to the news. Seven points against Minnesota, six points against Detroit, and they have the privilege of Houston, Tennessee, and the Jets coming up. It's getting gross. Now, I am validated by the fact that it made no sense that people were reporting Peterson would be fired if he lost to the Lions, which he wasn't fired. It made no sense because there was no chance of them beating the Lions with a backup quarterback. The firing of a coach, like firing Peterson at this point is just, it's like it's the equivalent of a rage drop for fantasy football. It's not, I don't know that it's really going to help the Jags. You're still going to owe him money.

You're going to just cause more ruckus in your locker room. So I understand not firing him at this point. It would just, it's just a, okay, we're too angry. We can't even have you in the building. Yeah, just let him know. Be like, hey, dude, you're fired. But like, will you finish the season? You know what I mean? Like, we want to start our process and look. I don't even think you have to say that. You're like, hey, Doug, come into my office. Have a seat. Hey, oh, what's up? Why am I here? You know why you're here. You know why you're here. Finish.

Just finish the season. Yeah. But you might want to start cleaning some things out. Like shop around, you know, your resume. It's actually, it would be the most genuinely nice thing you could do. Yeah. Just say if he agreed to stay. You know. Wide receiver pickups, guys. What are the top names on your list? Because you saw Adam Thielen get involved and Bryce Young look better, even though the matchup was tough. Yeah. Three for 57 for Adam Thielen. I'm pretty proud of it. You had David Moore. David Moore had 10 targets, 6 for 81 and a touchdown. That would be Carolina Panthers wide receiver, David Moore, living his own Nelson Aguilar career. The Panthers. Seattle, Green Bay, Tampa Bay. The Panthers wide receivers are an interesting one for waiver wire pickups this week because Bryce Young has looked a little better. The matchup this week is Tampa Bay. So you expect Bryce Young to actually have.

a good amount of yards throwing the ball this week. And so, but it's a, it's a three-headed monster and you've got to decide, do you want to go with the, you know, first round rookie Xavier Legate? Do you want to go with the old man, Adam Thielen, or last week's, you know, leader in David Moore? But I do think there will be value from one of those three guys this week. I've also brought his name up now three straight weeks. Nick Westbrook Aquine, scored again. Again, every week. He plays every snap of the game, basically. They upset Houston. They get to take on Washington this week, which is, you know, Washington has been losing ball games. But it's, you can't play him. I don't understand, man. I want to, I want to read you the reception total since the bye week and week five. Okay, since week five. This is a long period of time. Here's his catches in the game. One, two, two, five. Yeah.

3-2-2. Total catches. But now I want to read you touchdowns. 1-1-1-0-1-1. All this dude does is catch a touchdown every game. You can't bank on that, though. You can't bank on it, but you can start it if you're in trouble in the event. You know, he's out there every snap. Since Hopkins has been out, he's been out there every snap. So you can you could do worse, is all I'm saying. If you got a guy that scored five or six of seven weeks now, you can at least take a shot there. How are you viewing the Green Bay situation? If Dobbs is going to miss and the opportunities for Christian Watson, Dantavian Wicks go up, even Jane Reed, obviously this isn't for waivers. He's he's rostered, but how do you view that wide receiver core this week? Reed Watson, Wicks.

Butterman. Butterman, bow melting. Yeah, that's how I would order it as well. Some craft mixed in. That's how I would order the wide receivers. We got butterman and grafts. It's delicious. Just need some milk in there. But the, but the, they're all playable. Like one, one or two of the three could end up having a really strong game. I mean, it's. Wix's biggest problem is the fact that he can't, he watches Quentin Johnson film to learn how to catch. I mean, his catch rate is 138 out of 139 wide receivers. He catches 38% of his passes. And so the times that we've had earlier in the year, this is not the first time Dante even Wix has come up on a waiver show. It's like the third. And there were chances he was out there every snap and it still didn't produce because.

You know, he gets the targets. He's targeted on 30% of the routes he runs, which is awesome. His athleticism is body control. He's so good at getting open. Yeah, he just doesn't catch the football. He just can't catch. So he's a risk. And that's why I would go Watson above him just because, you know. If Watson is on waivers, which he is in about 40% of leagues, I would go decently hard at him. I think that Christian Watson is a good play this week. And it's hard to want to play someone. coming off of such a bad game. But that's just how wide receivers are. I mean, wide receivers are, you know, they're inconsistent. And so if you only do whatever happened last week, you're almost always going to catch the bad weeks. Elijah Moore. Don't forget about Elijah Moore. They had a terrible snow game for Cleveland, but he's on the field and gets a ton of targets. Jason, if it's Westbrook Aquina and the touchdown dependency or Elijah Moore.

and the ugly targets, Elijah Moore's never struggled to get targets. He's always struggled to get yards and fantasy production. Which of those two would you spot start? If I'm in any kind of half PPR, full PPR, I would certainly go Elijah Moore. I believe that James Winston is going to continue throwing the ball a lot, even in these difficult matchups. And Elijah Moore will have enough receptions to have a good baseline. Dealing or Elijah Moore? Feeling. I'd go Elijah Moore. A reminder for a name, which he's. He is not going to play. Oh, no, I'm sorry. That was a report from last week. But Keon Coleman, I don't know where we are with the injury, but he has been, like, his roster percentage on Sleeper I'm seeing right now is 61%. So it is higher, but there's a chance that someone had to drop Keon Coleman to make a move. So this is almost like a get ahead of it. I don't know if he's going to play against the, where are we? Where are you up? Week 13. Sorry, San Francisco.

I don't know if he's playing this week or not, but he should be back. He was breaking out. Yes. The last two games before he got injured, he had seven targets in each of him, 125 yards and one, 70 in a touchdown, and then he got injured the next game, and we haven't seen him in a month now. He'll be back, but they'll also get Dalton Kincaid back this week. And Amari Cooper will be more and more involved working through his wrist injury. It's a name to pay attention to, but. hard to trust a starter there. Yeah, yeah. What about MVS? You go, you, you're chasing that dragon? He's worth, he's worth putting on a roster. They don't have anybody else to throw the football to you. I mean, he had, I mean, he's very. 87 yards and 109 yards. Yeah. Who would you rather start between Nick Westbrook, Aquina and MBS? I mean, you, there are so similar. They both have.

Last names that are hyphenated. I'd rather have NBA. Yeah, the hyphenation station. And they get a couple of deep targets. It's NBS for me because he's playing the Rams, Giants, Washington coming up. I would roll that out there, especially because he's got a buy week. He could have gotten more integrated as well. The fact that he did what he did with just arriving on the roster. I don't know. I lean that way. No, I do too. I think he's not a bad pickup. All right. We'll take a break and then we'll hit tight ends, defenses, and quarterbacks. Well, hopefully you stashed him last week. He was one of the top pickups, but he's still sitting at 64% rostered. So we'll mention him coming off the by, Tassum Hill and his 40-point performance, the tight-end wide receiver running back quarterback combo that is Taysam Hill, the weirdest player that ever existed, could be the weirdest player that's ever helped you win a title. I mean, he is probably the number one pickup of the week across all positions. You just have a chance at having someone that is.

um gaping other players at the position you know there's very rare that you can have any kind of tight end put up uh 30 points that's just impossible he does it he does it semi regularly and now they need him so much and they've just involved him in every aspect of their offense in ways that are you know wildly weird for a 34 year old yes but I mean, he's out there. He's catching passes. He's throwing passes. He's running. And when they get near the goal line, he is a, he is probably their best scoring threat. I mean, if I'm inside the five, and I had to bet who scores a touchdown between Alvin Camara and Taysam Hill, I'd push my chips towards Taysam Hill. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that probably got picked up last week after the 40-point performance. But if you look at this next guy,

Target-wise, he is lapping Terry McLaurin over the last handful of weeks. 8-7-8. Zach Ertz is the tight-end eight is likely out there and should be on your roster. So eight targets, seven targets, eight targets, incredible. 31 yards, 47 yards, 38 yards. With a touchdown in two of those games. I know. I'm just saying it's very, it's usually not valuable targets. They're very short fall down. That's why you started Scoot Man, though. You knew he'd be out there and getting targets. Yes. So let's talk between, you know, Zachertz and Cole Comet. Cole Comet now in the two weeks, the two weeks since Shane Waldron's firing. He wasn't great two weeks ago against Green Bay, but we talked about the behind the scenes metrics were really good. He was out there 97% of snaps. He was running all the routes. He was involved in the passing game.

script-wise, like planning that they made him their tight end. This last week, 10 targets, 7 for 64, I think he is a much better player. Like, when you watch what Zacherts can do on the field and you watch what Colquette can do on the field, Cole Commet is a, you know, an elite option, I believe right now. So, Sidebar, are we back into the Cliff Kingsbury offense fades in the second halfs of the season period of his career? I think we are. Last week you had some, you know, the nine points with five minutes left to go in the game against Dallas. Exactly. The inflation of the wacky circus show at the end of that Commander's Cowboys game, you know, where everybody basically stunk. Jaden Daniels had a bad game. Terry McLaurin had a bad game. Everybody was like,

didn't have a lot of fancy points until three minutes left to go in the game. So I do worry about the rest of season commander's offense. But can you trust, I guess getting back to Cole Comet, can you trust Caleb Williams? No. You can't really trust any like certain volume from, I mean like same conversation. Like Keenan Allen is rostered, but like also was cut by people. Do you trust that Keenan gets that level of targets? Do you trust the Dunezay? Do you trust. DJ Moore, at least DJ Moore's targets are now being manufactured in short area, letting him do his thing. Cole Komet, we've been here before many, many times he had weeks with 11 targets, dropped to three, right? Do I trust it? No, no, I don't. I'm terrified of it. Okay, and what about Schoonmaker? Should get one more opportunity on Thanksgiving. If you want a fun player to watch, you want to sing Schoon Man on Thanksgiving? Oh, it's fun every time he catches the ball.

So let's talk Zachert, Colquemette, Schoonmaker. Order those three for just a weekly start. So you got school. Colquemate, Zachertz, and Schoonmaker, those are the three? Yeah, just who you would start this week only. I would start Ertz, and then I'd probably start the Schoonman, and then I'd probably start Commit. I would go Commet Ertz Schoon Man. I think I go schooned man first. So we just did three different answers. Nice. Yeah. And then you be the judge. Make your own decisions at home. Interesting. Yeah. I'm just going to chase what I think the highest target share is. But who knows? I mean, who really knows? That is the second tier, third tier, tight end gamble that you're hoping you signed Tase of Hill last week. So defensive options this week. Who do you love?

Like of the low, trying to look at the low roster teams. You know, Arizona, 10 fantasy points last week, despite the loss, only give up 10 points on the road. Takes on a Minnesota offense that has been hit and miss. Do you like Arizona? Yeah, I would definitely start them against Minnesota. It's on the road. So that part I don't love. It's the, do you trust the, do you trust the Dallas Cowboys against. Yeah, this week I do. Tommy DeVito and, I mean, and Will Levis, just like, man. Yeah, I mean, the- Getting crushed in the pocket. It's up there of their favorite things to do. The Cowboys defense was significantly injured for a large chunk of this season. They now have Micah Parsons back. They've got digs back. Their defense has been playing better recently. And if you combine that with looking at Danny DeVito on the other side and not worrying about how short and bald he is,

It's also pretty old. I mean, Danny DeVito. 70s? He might be in the 80s now. Oh, I'm on it. Can we get this? We haven't been to Deuces Alley in a while, but they've been here. He is 80 years old. 80 years old. I reckon one shot, like one, one hit. Yeah, Michael Parsons can take that. Game over? Yeah. Life. The penguin goes down. We would be celebrating. Gotham is saved. Yeah, he wasn't very dangerous penguin. But no. Man, I liked Danny DeVito. Oh, that dude's awesome. He's the best. But it would take a few sacks. But, you know, I don't really like his Tommy Davido. No, I mean, New York is in big, big trouble. Dallas, the win last week, still playing hard. I'm with you on that. I obviously Kansas City's heavily rostered. They have one of the best matchups because they play Aiden O'Connell's return.

On Friday? What about the... Wait, so do we have football? We got Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday? Correct. Thursday. Don't worry. I think Saturday's coming up here is pretty soon. Would you play the Seahawks against Rogers? Yeah, I think they're an okay player. Targeting the Jets has worked for the last couple months. Yeah, all right. A reminder today's waiver while I was brought to you by NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. We're racing to the playoffs right now and race. And right now you can get the NFL Sunday ticket for the rest of the NFL season for only $89. Sign up now at YouTube.com slash fantasy footballers. The offer ends December 2nd. Terms and embargoes apply. No cancellations. Full stream ahead. I would think Danny DeVee does only 410 height-wise, so he's going to get some passes batted down too. Yeah, by a butt.

Full stream ahead. I'm going to go Gino Smith against those jets. The volume has been there. They're throwing it a ton. Gino's on pace for what did I say, like 650 plus passing attempts. So as a streaming option this week, going against a Jets defense that has kind of mailed it in since week six, they're dead last and schedule adjusted fantasy points to quarterbacks. Jackson Smith and Jigba breakout campaign. They're throwing the ball to Kenneth Walker. Yeah, I'm going, I'm going to take the volume there against the defense. It's just not been good. I like Gino a lot. My stream of the week is going to be Matthew Stafford. If you haven't been paying attention, he's been pretty darn good. Over the last five games, now that he's got his weapons back with Puka and Cooper out there, he's averaging basically 20 fantasy points per game, 37 pass attempts, two and a half touchdowns a game. Since week eight, he's the quarterback seven, and the Rams are at home in a dome.

with a 48.5 point over under against the Saints who aren't a great defense. You could do a lot worse than Stafford this week. And I'm going with the hat trick. It's Russell Wilson, which when I made in my stream last week, I was unaware that Thursday was going to turn into the snow game that it was. So hopefully you were able to bail out there at the last second. But now he gets the matchup with Cincinnati, who's 30th and schedule adjusted fantasy points to the quarterback. It wasn't the end of the world. Last week with Russ in that snow game. I think it's going to be much, much better this week. So these three guys, you know, their roster percentage is higher. And if you, I don't know, if stuff went crazy for you, I'm going to say it because the guy has literally been a top 12 quarterback in back-to-back weeks. It's Cooper Rush, who plays on Thursday. He plays against an awful, awful opponent. And he is just...

He is voluming his way into me. He is voluming his way into being a competent fantasy quarterback. Yeah, I don't mind it. I don't mind it. You know, last week was impressive, getting it done. I mean, the game was slow the week before. You know, you always have garbage time potential with him, too. But in this matchup, should be heavily favored. I wonder how much they lean on your boy, Rico. I think there's going to be a lot of Rico this week. Did he catch the football last week? Yeah. Nice. That's always up there, man. That's up there for him. He had a Stonehands week. Yeah, last week three, he caught all three targets for 12 yards. But, I mean, given that Rico got his season high or tied his season high in opportunities and just dominated the running back rush year, that means that Jerry Jones will be buzzing down to Mike McCarthy to play Zeke. Who is the original Stonehands?

Bears running back. Joe, uh, uh, his name is escaping me. It's, Jordan Howard Howard. Howard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He always tried to catch every pass like with his hands like an alligator. It was so weird. And every off season, he'd spend all those hours on the jugs machine. It's like in the NFL, given the right circumstances, any one of those players can catch a pass. And somehow short now, just it never worked. Despite being like a great on the ground, a one two down running pack. Did you catch? A couple things. One, if you haven't checked it out, go to join the foot.com. All of our waiver rankings along with a custom waiver rankings for your league. You can import your team into the ultimate dashboard. Get your lineup optimized based on our rankings. The matchup spot starts. But again, the custom waiver.

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