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

Think about not playing a quarterback. After getting some drama means. What's amazing to me, and maybe this is just perfect for Halloween, is what if I told you guys before this season that, hey, Mike, Jason, week nine, it rolls around. You're going to, Mike, you're going to choose Jared Goff and Jason. You're going to go with Drew Stanton for your stream. Football. Yeah, that's why. I mean, the quarterback position is very replaceable when you only play one. Obviously, very different in two quarterback leagues, but.

Any of those onesie positions, they're just, you can play them off the wire. All right, without further ado. Halloween. All right. More news, by the way. Jason Lock and Forrestes says the Redskins are trying hard to land a wide receiver before the deadline. They still don't have one on the roster, right? Is that correct? Hey, Crowder had a decent game. That's true.

That's true. What is he like the wide receiver 60 on the air? Yeah. That's all they need. They need one more wide receiver to add to the mix to where we need to spread the ball so thin that you see nothing but bread. There's nothing on this bread. I don't understand any of that analogy. I don't either. I can't hear it. So it's okay. Because I am stuffed inside of a leather mask. Trick or treat. We're playing trick or cheat. So will these players be a trick?

Or a treat come fantasy playoff time. So which player? So these are good players. These are great players. Players you like right now. And we're saying, trick or treat for fantasy playoff time with the matchups. Oh, all right. You know, are they going to have, you know, they've been great, but can you count on them when it counts? So Russell. Russell? Russell. Russell. Russell. Russell has been great. He's second in fantasy in terms of points per game and four-point passing touchdown leagues.

Looking at his schedule, what do you think about Russell Wilson? Look, week 14, which is most league's first playoff week. He runs up against the number one pass defense in the Jacksonville Jaguars. Shut down just about everybody. Their defense is getting better. I am going to call Russell Wilson a treat, not a trick. Because there are some quarterbacks, and Russell Wilson to me,

is one of them that you are not going to overreact on the matchup. You're not going to say you can't play him in that week because they've been shutting people down. His ability to scramble, the fact that they just got a new left tackle, I don't think we brought that up in the trades. Right, yeah, we did not. For Dwayne Brown from the Houston, Texas, great tackle. That should improve their offensive line. I believe that the offense is good enough and Russell Wilson is good enough to get it done. Now, I'm not saying that in that week he's going to be.

awesome and spectacular. But he also gets to play Dallas in the championship week. He gets to play, you know, if your playoffs start earlier, it's not, I feel like Jacksonville is his only like, oh, no game. And it is week one of the playoffs, which stinks. But don't, don't overreact. If you have Russell Wilson as your quarterback for the rest of the way, you better be hoping you get that first round by. I disagree with Jason.

You think they're going to shut up down? In the first run of the playoffs against Jacksonville is a full on smell my feet. Trick? Yes. Interesting. All right. Tiebreaker, Andy. I don't think, you know, I just said he's my number one rest of the season. I think you're going to play him. Yeah, that's the thing is when you have Russell Wilson, you are playing him. Look, look at the matchup that just took place in Seattle. How many people sat to Sean Watson?

I think Russell Wilson is in the category of he's going to make something happen. They cannot run the ball. It's all. I mean, it's, so it's in Jacksonville, right? Yeah. Yeah. So you're talking the West Coast team flies over to the East Coast. So you make a move right now with Russell Wilson then? No. No, I'm riding him out. I'm going to get to the playoffs with him. And I also think if there's a trick or treat and you look at the Jaguars past defensive, which all credit, all credit due, the personnel is great. They still have not played that many good quarterbacks. I mean, you're talking.

Kobe Brissette, Jared Gough, Ben Rothesberger, easily the best, Josh McCown. Josh McCown's been good this year. Flacco. Sure, he's been good, but I'm saying, you know, they're a great D. It's not like they're shutting down Tom Brady and Drew Brees and Russell. Let's see him do it against Russell. Kurt Cousins may be with or without another passing option by days end. Right now he's seventh in fantasy points per game in four-point leagues. His playoff schedule is.

The Chargers, the Cardinals, and Denver in championship week. You cannot like that. If you have Kirk Cousins, I call that a trick. Yeah, I think he's a very matchup dependent quarterback despite his numbers. And I don't really want to line him up against those guys. I can definitely agree that that's with the Chargers, with the sandwich of, I mean, you got some delicious meats in the middle of that sandwich against Arizona.

But with the Chargers and Denver being the bread, that's a tricky sandwich. Yeah, it's certainly a tricky sandwich. Yeah, I'm not calling Kirk Cousins a treat here. He's a trickster. Also, Seattle, Minnesota the next two weeks. So if there's a time to move him at that seventh rate, right now it'd be the time to move and get somebody with a better playoff schedule. All right. We're in agreement there. Very frightening character just walked on scene.

The judge agreed. You see how I said that on scene. I'm in a movie right now. And I'm playing the part of a marshmallow stuffed inside of a leather jacket. Jerich McKinnon running back Minnesota Vikings. He's on by this week, but he's been sensational. A top five running back in half point three of the last four weeks. However, Carolina at Carolina, Cincinnati.

But championship week, he gets the Green Bay Packers. So the first two weeks of the playoffs are very difficult matchups. Carolina's fourth against the run right now. Cincinnati, they're 13th, but I think they're even better than that ranking. Right. Those are two tough defenses. Treat. I am 100% going treat. Pass catching ability makes him a treat. Yeah, he's kind of matchup proof with the fact that he can come out.

He may get 9, 10, 11 carries. May not be hyper efficient, but he's just putting up the receiving numbers right now, and the offense is better with him. Yeah, I mean, sometimes for those past catching receivers, tough matchups against good teams are actually when they can be more valuable, when they're more necessary. And the team can't just run Latavius Murray up the middle over and over to steal points away from McKinnon. So don't get tricked with this treat.

Great trade target. He's on a buy week. If you're sitting pretty and there's another team that needs a running back to play, go get Derek McKinnon, give him somebody to play this week. Yeah, I can agree with that. You can go for it. Doug Martin, Detroit, Atlanta, Carolina during his playoff weeks. Trick or treat, Mike. Mike, last year you traded for Doug Martin because of his juicy playoff schedule. Yeah, because he was supposed to be a treat. And he tricked. And the treat was sour. He tricked you. Except I like sour treats. So the treat was.

Rotten. Lemon. Lemon. You don't like lemon treats, do you? I like lemon candy. There's not lemon cookies. He's made by my wife. Yeah, that's, it's fair. It doesn't matter who makes lemon cookies. They're garbage. You got it. I assume he's a treat, but looking at his, the consistency of Doug Martin is very interesting as he came in. He went eight, 14, 24, 27. That's fantasy finishes. His rank. Yes, thank you. The eighth running back, then the 14th running back, then the 14th running back.

24th. If these trends continue, he'll be in the 50s by then. I believe for running backs, basically having all of your weeks as an RB2, I guess he was slightly outside of it this week, is absolutely fine. I'm going to call him a treat. I am not worried about his playoff schedule of Detroit, Atlanta, and then Carolina in the championship game. It's unfortunate, but you've got to write it out. Yeah, I'm going to say Doug Martin's a treat.

Todd Gurley. Yeah. First in the, in points per game right now at the running back position. Is he a trick or treat though with Philly, Seattle, Tennessee? Yes. To finish the year. That is tricky to determine. Yes. Yes, Mr. Todd Gurley. I want to hear your opinion on this. Well, he's certainly a delicious candy, but I'm worried about opening that rapper and finding something expired with Philadelphia, Seattle, and Tennessee. However.

I am going to say treat. You don't trade away or freak out. Well, we're not saying to trade him away. About the number one running back. I think he's going to be okay because he has the same past catching acumen involvement opportunity. But are you going to get a top five performance in those first two weeks? It seems very unlikely. At home against Seattle was the 49th running back on the week in that particular matchup.

Now, we did not discuss the definition of a trick-or-treat. So I guess you could say trick if you're expecting top five. Yeah, it's relative to the player. Is he going to let you down for who he is? And I definitely think, you know, I've said this from the get-go that his schedule was great to start the year, but, you know, it's not going to be great towards the end. And you've got Houston coming up, Minnesota coming up, and then in the playoffs, Philly, Seattle.

Those are two of the teams I'd like to run against the least. I am saying that he's going to be a trick and that this opening schedule where he was the sixth running back, the third running back, the first, the second is not going to last this entire season. Now, again, like Mike said, that doesn't mean you trade the guy. He is a workhorse back and those are rare. You hold on to him. He's still going to help your team.

but you have got to make sure that you're not thinking he's winning you those weeks the way that he has been so far this year is not going to happen. He's a trick. All right. Trick or treat real quick here at the wide receiver position before he closed the show out. Let's talk about DeAndre Hopkins. He is first and points per game right now. He plays a wonderful matchup against San Francisco in his first playoff week, but then Jacksonville and Pittsburgh.

What is what is going on with all these superstars in the crap fantasy playoff matchups? Yeah, that's not good. Get it together, Goodell. It's actually Hopkins is second and points per game because Will Fuller is first. Oh. He has not played enough to qualify in my rank. Oh, okay, okay. Swear to me. Only four games, but number one and two. Oh, man. Okay.

Yeah. Will Fuller could do nothing. What are you going to do in that situation with Jacksonville Pittsburgh? I guess you do what you did against Seattle. Yeah. You play him. Yeah. You grab a blanket. You sit on the couch. You hold the blanket up over your face so just your eyes can peek out like you're terrified watching a super scary movie. Ooh. Yeah. I can do that with my cape or you can do that without the cape. You're already can barely see. I mean, we.

At this point, I believe in Watson, and I believe in the Houston Texans offense enough that I'm not going to freak out about these matchups, even though they're really bad. Yeah, I think we all agree there. There's just no way that you can say after what Watson and Hopkins and Fuller did in Seattle that, you know, there's just no way after that performance, you could say,

Well, he's got Jacksonville coming up in the playoffs. You got to sit him. Here's a little tip. Here's a little tip for Andy Dalton. Go watch that game. Go watch Deshaun Watson and what he does. What he does is he takes the ball and he puts it in his right arm and then he throws it towards his best players. It's one of the most incredible coaching tips I've ever heard. And...

relied upon in my time as a professional flag football quarterback. Throw it at your best players. Is that why I never got targets? That is correct. The one time I threw it to you, Mike, you broke your thumb. That's true. Hey, to be fair, that was in warmups. To be fair, that was in warmups. Michael Crabtree and Amari Cooper. Oh, trick or treat. Yum, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, delicious. Is that the full-sized candy bar? Yeah. You have struck gold.

You rung the doorbell and they came out and they said, why is that? Because he gets to play the Kansas City Chiefs. 31st against the position. Which, and we, uh, if you had the concern, look, we've, we've talked about Derek Carr in division. However, Derek Carr was able to put on his big boy pants and dominate the chiefs last time. Then he gets Dallas. Then he gets the Philadelphia Eagle secondary. I think this is.

This is a, looks very good for both Crabtree and Cooper. You want to bring the pillowcase out when you go trick or treating with, uh, there's no, no time for the plastic jackalander bucket. You need to fill it up. You got to get a lot of candy in there. I, I agree. Michael Crabtree and Cooper going to be a treat this fantasy playoff season. Edward is talking about the fact that DeMarco Murray has heard rumblings that he could be traded. Ooh. Zeke is suspended. Oh, no.