Fantasy Football 2017 - Halloween Special, Week 9 Waivers, Trade News

We have so much to talk about on the show. We need to transition to Miami. Your money is on Kenyon Drake or Damien Williams. Time share. But the leader? Time share is not an answer. I'm taking Kenyon Drake. I loved him coming out of college. Have not been proven right on that by any means yet. But a change in PPR versus Standard League. Who would you take? I would take Drake in a standard league. I'm undecided on the other. Yeah. I feel like I would pick up Williams and both.

I would pick up Drake in both. And that's not to say that I think he is for sure going to be the lead guy. He just, he's better. It's just if Damien Williams gets that job and he is all of a sudden a workhorse for the Dolphins, which is worthy of picking up. I'm not saying it's not. Even if you stink, which he does, you know, opportunity is king at the position, pick him up. But with his lack of talent, sorry Damien Williams' mother. And.

The lack of offensive production from Miami, I just don't, I think you want that home run option and Drake, that chance that maybe this guy is really electric can make his own plays happen. I don't see much from Damien Williams. And for the record, Drake is second on the depth chart. Gase has already said he's second on the depth chart. He'll have a good opportunity. But it's not been good for Ajai, so you're now splitting time, as Mike was alluding to. Yeah.

Uh, we'll, we'll talk more about that in the coming days and projecting this week's stats on Wednesday. All right. United States district judge, Catherine, uh, Fila has dissolved. Ezekiel Elliott's temporary restraining order and denied his motion. Oh, my goodness. Do what, do we know what is happening? Iszekiel Elliott now is suspended. Well, so Ezekiel Elliott, once the ruling came out, he had 24 hours to appeal, which it would apparently appeal to the second.

Is that the second district? I don't know. I don't speak legalese. But there is an opportunity for him to appeal. But if that doesn't happen or if that is shut down. And that's the court that shut down Tom Brady that basically said, you're, nope, you're suspended. So the suspension is coming regardless. If he files the appeal or not. So.

The Jerry Jones has already said that Alford Morris will get the bulk of the carries. However, Rod Smith, Darren McFadden, they will still be involved. But so you guys had trended towards Alf being the pickup for the impending Zeke suspension. It sounds like that is the right way to go. However, I think that, so you would rank the Morris McFadden. I don't, are you guys picking up Rod Smith?

I'm not picking up Rodtsmith, no. No. But you're picking up McFadden. I think it's still worth a flyer. Yeah. I mean, Morris is the one that I think from a flashing on the screen mixed with what these comments are has the best chance to surprise and help your team. But McFadden could very well, you know, be heavily involved. It's not a good situation. He can, yeah, it's Morris is going to get the first crack. But McFadden could hot hand his way into being.

the starter, and he's also a much better pass catcher. No doubt. Than Alfred Morris. Yeah, Alf has the... I'm a better pass catcher than Alfred Morris. He's got the Jordan Howard going on. NFL networks Ian Rappaport reports Chris Hogan does not need surgery, but we'll miss a few weeks. All right. Jimmy Garapolo. I mean, fantasy football, for everything the NFL has done to kind of, you know, they like fantasy football, but they don't. They try to distance...

themselves, all of a sudden, they're playing it. They're playing fantasy football with all these trades because I do not remember a situation like this ever happening. It's still happening, by the way. There could be trades that have taken place by the time you're listening to this that we don't even know about. Like I remember a few years ago, a many years ago when Brandon Marshall was traded and you were like, holy crap, an NFL wide receiver actually got traded?

A player of note? So this is madness. Jimmy Garoppolo is the future, or at least they're betting on him to be the future for the San Francisco 49ers. Brian Hoyer was released. It was, I heard the talks that Brian Hoyer was, they were initially working him into the deal, but then because of the way that the compensatory, did I say it right this time? Yep. Proud of you.

Thank you. Those picks, they had to take them out of it. And essentially, now the Patriots will sign Brian Hoyer to be the backup because once again, the Patriots are smarter than your team. T.Y. Hilton, Frank Gore, Dante Moncrief, all rumored to be traded or potentially traded by the Colts by the deadline, Vante Davis as well. And so I don't blame them. I imagine one of those four at least will be traded.

before the deadline, which is today at what time? I want to say four Eastern, yeah. So it's not far, not far. Jarvis Landry's been told he won't be traded. He was another rumored name that could have gone somewhere. I was wondering if New England would snag him in light of the injuries they've had at the wide receiver position. Looks like he's staying put. Jordan Reed's going to be out in week nine. Devante Freeman is limited with a shoulder injury. Greg Olson, Danny Woodhead could both come back to practice this week. We're not, we're hearing that.

Charles Clay is unlikely to play on Thursday for Buffalo. He'll be back with the team shortly, though. And then Jeremy Curley was suspended, not a lot of relevance. I want to go ahead and talk into the microphone. Take just a second to thank pristine auction for sponsoring today's ridiculous show. This is an extravaganza. Look, you want to get nuts. The prices at pristine auction are nuts. Evan Engram signed Giants jersey.

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will relate to their poor performances later. We're going to get into the waivers first. All right. I want to cover the waivers first. Also, I apologize, Mike, for not talking to the microphone. I'm having some... You look ridiculous. I'm having some memories. I know what this sounds like in my ears. This reminds me of the acoustics of the Batcave. Oh. You know what I mean? Like trying to jam out in the Batcave. It's hard to do a podcast. It's just very echoey inside of that dark, dreary cave.

By the way, that's where JJ was. He was with me. Oh, in the back cave? He was banished to the bat cave, which is very similar to the doghouse. Hey, you know what? If that's banishment, sign me up. Yeah, he got banished to a seven-win team. So pretty nice. Put me in, coach. And by the way, with this costume, the answer is trick. It's not a treat. It's trick. Teams on by this week, Chicago, Cleveland, the Chargers, Minnesota, New England.

Pittsburgh. Now, Jason, you said that you forgot your change of clothes. Oh, that is correct. I grabbed a change of clothes, put it by my door, and it is still by my door at home, which means today. Are we going out to lunch like this? You know? I will be ripping this off of my face the second this show ends, but I'm committed to you. Let's start at the wide receiver position on the waiver, on the waiver wire part of the show. Let's talk about some players that we think are worth picking up. I think the world wants to know.

You know, basically, you know, what are we doing with Juju Smith-Schuster Fab-wise? How much are we spending on him? Are we blowing the waiver wire spot on Juju Smith-Schuster? You know, there are several players in that kind of probably owned category that are worth mentioning Ted Ginn, Marvin Jones, Sterling Shepard. Definitely. He's the kind of under the radar guy. Would you rather have Shepard or Juju? Great question. If this is a, if this is not a, you know,

large keeper league. If I'm not keeping five or six guys. We're talking to half point redraft league. I'm on Sterling Shepard. And that's as a genuine juju believer. Yeah, I would agree, especially with the, you know, next week, by week for juju. Whereas Shepard comes back. He's passed his by. And he's the number one. And he's the number one wide receiver easily. If you look at easily, the number one wide receiver there. And if you look at his upcoming schedule.

The Los Angeles Rams have been, they've been okay. Then San Francisco, Kansas City, Washington, Oakland, Dallas. I mean, I think Sterling Shepard is going to be a wide receiver two from here on now. And you just don't usually find any position two on the waivers. And with Juju being on, like we said, he's on the buy week. I like the player, but you're the most hesitant amongst us in terms of value fantasy wise. Well, I mean.

What are they going to do with Martavis Bryant? Are they going to keep him out? And to go from what I mentioned, you know, three targets, three targets. Ten targets. I mean, it just, it certainly feels like it's just one of those games where the Ben just looked to go to juju in that particular. Maybe the coverage on Antonio Brown was too tight. I don't know. This is one of those things, Mike, where a fantasy owner has to. I know you have to make a choice between.

outlier and new trend. And with a rookie, I'm choosing trust in Juju being established instead of the fear. Like I would take Juju rest of the season, believe it or not, I would take him over Will Fuller. Rest the season with those touchdowns. Because I think the consistency of targets and volume is going to be there for Juju more than it is for Will Fuller. Will Fuller's touchdown track record is better than Juju's target track record.

I mean, but I still believe like every, every player in history has returned to the mean. Will Fuller's not scoring. Right. And that's, and that's what I fear for Juja. By the way, I'm giving him an automatic two touchdowns this week by saying he's not scoring. That's what I fear for Juju is that he'll just return to the mean of getting four or five targets. But that's not an established mean for him is my point. Oh. How is that an established mean for a rookie? I don't think it's, I, what I see as the established mean to look for is whoever the wide receiver two is.

for Pittsburgh. Because right now, my belief is that Juju has overtaken Martavis Bryant in the primary number two wide receiver outside role. Now, all that said, usually the number two wide receiver for Ben Rathlisberger is okay. Not great. He does not usually have two top 24 receivers. Because the number two option is Lev Bell. Sure. I mean, so this is one of those things where I think Juju is going to be fine, have some.

good games, but he is still playing with, you know, on a team where Big Ben on the road isn't usually the most reliable and you're going to have those games where Antonio Brown soaks up 20 targets and he's, you know, the number one, two and three wide receiver. So you're Will Fuller far and away over the, yeah, I would rather have Will Fuller. But so a question for you, Andy, you mentioned on the show you believe that Russell Wilson.

is likely, he's your number one fantasy quarterback moving forward. So would you rather have a guy like Juju, who's the number two for Big Ben, that can be okay? Or you got Paul Richardson, Tyler Lockett, who if Russell Wilson is the number one quarterback, that means there's goodness going around to more than just Doug Baldwin. Would you rather have a guy like Paul Richardson or Lockett over Juju? No, I would take Juju Smith-Schuster over both of those players. Really? Yeah, because you're playing roulette.

with the Seattle wide receivers. One week it might be Lockett, one week it might be Richardson, one week it might be Baldwin, one week Graham, one week Wilson, and whatever it might be. Wilson. If I had to start one moving forward, minus the buy week, which I would sit juju during the buy this week. I don't like him that much. But yeah, I would take the shot on him. Look, I've been a very big fan of Juju Smith-Suster. I thought the pick was great for Pittsburgh. Mike Tomlin's already come out and said he's not guaranteeing any role.