Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streaming Options, News

And it makes a difference because Castle will try to drive the ball down field a little bit more. Exactly. Castle will be better for a Terrence West. If Brandon Whedon comes back, then DMC is looking pretty good. I would say DMC is a hard guy to have right now because they're on by. So to stash a guy like DMC for a hopeful upside is really tough. There are so many more guys that I would rather have than Jeremy Fad. Yeah. That's fine. He's a PPR.

exclusive for me. If you've got Joseph Randall, I think that there's more value to having DMC there. Really? I don't know if I want to clog my bench with two Cowboys. Yeah, I'm kind of with Mike on that one. I thought about it for a second, but I mean, it's like, I just think that they cap each other's upside, and then if one of them ever went down, it's not going to be the other guy that benefits. And we all know what's happening after the biweek. We all know. The Christine Michael. Jason Garrett.

I need you to come through for me with this one, buddy. You guys, you drove me crazy yesterday. We were watching Christine Michael highlights in here. It's like one carry, and I'm getting this talk around the studio that says like, oh, oh, he looks so good. He looked so good on that one carry. Oh, yeah, six yards. It looks great. Oh, you guys are insufferable. And I put you both in the same category. Derek McFadden or Krista Michael on your bench.

But Darren McFadden. For sure, without a doubt, Darren McFadden. Well, because, you know, Kristen Michael has two carries on the year. That'd be one of the reasons. One of the top 20. I have like 25 reasons why I hate Kristen Michael. With Lance Dunbar out, with Lance Dunbar out, the reason both of us went with the Cowboys running back last week was because of that injury, someone's going to grab the passing down roll. And it looks to be McFadden. So he does have value. The most productive thing that Kristen Michael's done all year is waste time on our show. Fear.

Yeah, okay. All right. Duke Johnson, Buck Allen, Charles Sims, Theoretic. I know who I like the most from that list. Duke Johnson. Yes. I know who I like the second most from that list. You're going to say Theoretic. I am. Yep. Theoretic has been extremely trustworthy, especially in the passing game there. You know, they don't give them a lot of handoff. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. That's fair. But, I mean, at some point in time, if Abdullah gets the doghouse and, you know,

I guess Joig Bell is supposed to be back this week. Is that the report? Sure. You guys don't, Joach's on everybody's waiver wire. You would not sign Jake Bell? No, I would not. I thought about it. Okay. I did. I would take West Davis, Jeremy McFadden, Duke Johnson, Buck Allen, Charles Sims, Theoretic. I'd take all of these guys. All right, so let's talk about Buck Allen. If Forsette's Limited and Talley of Farrow...

miss last week i don't know if he's back or not do we like buck allen i mean he's a rookie he's got upside he has the opportunity potentially to come in and you know do more than just spell for set would you take a flyer on him if you don't have to pay much or if you don't have to spend much yeah i think you're not going to have to pay much if you're the for set owner it's worth having him as the backup i would go buck allen but this is a week where you really need to watch not what's being said but

Who's practicing? Are they practicing in full? Are they limited in practice? And, you know, adjust accordingly because one of these three guys, I think, is going to have a decent week this week. But I could see it being any of these three guys, and it's only because of injury. It's whoever's going to be playing. And two of the three are on the waiver. So, you know, grab them. All right. So tight ends. Tell me who you're excited about at the tight end position right now. Who would you sign? There is no one other. I use the word excited, very limited, you know.

Gary Barnage? Gary Barnage. Hey, Gary! So he keeps it going? I don't know. I don't know if he keeps it going, but he's got multiple... You're the expert, Mike. You're the Barnage expert. You should know, you should have insights. You should have sources connected to the Brown's facility, to Barnage's family, to his history, his high school coaches. Hold on up. Let me put in a text message to Gary Barnage. You can direct contact. Okay. Are you going to keep it up, Gary?

That's what you need to ask. You know what he just said? I don't know. He said the same thing. Okay, so obviously this offense, we talked about McCown. McCown's throwing the ball like a crazy person, 75% of the time. Yeah, but the matchup this week is Denver, and so that's tougher. Okay. But Gary Barn is just still a guy you need to add. Yeah, he's only owned in 37% of ESPN leagues, so definitely easy to pick him up.

All right, let's go ahead and talk about Derek Carrier, a guy we mentioned last week. Yeah, if Jordan Reed's still out? Yeah, if Jordan Reed's going to miss time, Kirk Cousins loves throwing to the tight end. Carrier scored, and he's a guy who is a, he's worth putting on the bench. I don't know if I'm going to play him right away, but he's a guy that if Reed's history says he'll probably be out for a while. And if that's the case, then go with Carrier.

All right. Anybody else who want to talk about it tied in that should be relevant for waiver situations right now? You're not worried about Charles Clay because he had a bad game. Right. And he's still pretty available. And the last name I have on here is Safarian Jenkins, who should be back soon from his injury. So if you're one of those people who likes to be ready a couple weeks in advance, and Safarian Jenkins had a great game to start the season.

Didn't really duplicate that in the second game, but he's just one of those guys. If you have a deep bench and you want to hold on to him, that's fine with me. If you need to snag a defense off your waiver wire, which is always a great thing to do on waiver day because you kind of, sometimes you beat everyone else to the punch because they kind of wait in the week to see who they're going to start at defense or they're not paying attention to it. But the Texans do face the Jaguars. Bortals will play. Bortals will be able to play through that shoulder injury.

The Texans D has been pretty disappointing, but they do have some big playability with Watt and Clowny. The Jets are facing Washington. Yeah.

This seems like a very safe defensive play. The Jets have been very good, and Washington kind of feels capped on the offensive side of the ball, so that's a good play. You've got the Jets and the Panthers that are coming off of bi-weeks, which means even though they've been great, they might be on waivers because people have to drop them. Look for those two guys, because I would love to have either one of those teams on my roster.

Also, the Packers are facing the Chargers. The Packers have been both a big play defense and a very solid fantasy performer. Do we like them against San Diego? I don't see why not. At home, they have been dominant. And the Bengals travel to Buffalo.

but the Bengals defense has been pretty good, and Buffalo's offense has kind of struggled the past couple weeks. Obviously pay attention. You know, Watkins could be back, Williams could be back. That could change the offense. It's going to make a big difference. We've seen the bills be very productive offensively, and we saw them struggle a lot last week, and I think it's just a matter of they're losing all their tools for offense. So if Watkins is back, if Carlos Williams is back, if Clay's on the field, then I still play the Bengals. But if they're off, I would.

Love the Bengals. All right, we're going to take a few minutes and get into our streaming quarterback section. We like to highlight guys that we feel like you can snag off the waiver wire tomorrow and essentially throw right into your lineup. Last week we had Josh McCown who ended up the number one quarterback. Toot your horn, Mike. That was your two? Yeah. All right, and so let's go ahead and get into that. Full stream ahead. All right, give it to me, Mike. Who's your...

fantasy quarterback stream of the week. So this week, I am going back to Sammy Biscuits. Oh, my goodness. He's been a stream. He's at three straight weeks we've streamed him. Because everyone keeps dropping him. And he's, the Philly offense is coming on last week. Sammy Biscuits, 32 for 33 yards and two touchdowns. He did have the two picks, which kind of sucks. But looking at the matchup last week, Colin Kaepernick.

took on the Giants and went 23 for 262 with two touchdowns. And the part that I like the most for San Bradford is the Eagles rushing attack over 170 yards last week. If they get that on track with the Marco Murray and Ryan Matthews and the crew, then the passing game is really going to open up. San Bradford now has multiple weeks to get firmly entrenched in the system to get used to playing.

We have to remember he's coming off of missing basically two years of football. So the time it takes for him to acclimate shouldn't be unexpected, but it looks like they're getting it going and just the whole entire offense is getting it going. Not that I especially like in-zone touchdowns, but I, you know, in one...

I was doing the same thing. Did I say end-zone touchdowns? Yeah. I'm sorry, in-zone interceptions from Sammy Biscuits. He threw two of them, but that means they were driving the field. They scored 38 points. He still threw two end-zone touchdowns. He still put up a giant fantasy game. That's not necessarily the worst sign in the world to me because you're not going to, you know, you mitigate those mistakes in the red zone. You got maybe another touchdown on his, you know, resume for the week. So I just was going to highlight the fact that that offense is moving, like you said. I'm going to go with Colin Kaepernet.

Now, Colin Kaeperning is, you have to be a premium selector of quarterbacks here because don't choose the wrong week with him. But he had a good week. Mike just mentioned it, 262 and 2 against the Giants. He looked more comfortable, and Baltimore cures a lot of ills for defenses. Baltimore. And Baltimore lost another DB. Yeah, and Josh McCown just put up 400-something yards on them. And I just think that this is one of the weeks. You can start Kaepernick with actually a good assurance of his...

his floor. Yeah. Because he's going to run the ball. And as long as he can get one touchdown against Baltimore's defense, which is like, I think they almost credit you one at the beginning of the game automatically. I think Kaepernick is an okay stream. You know, someone might look at you sideways, but it'll be all right. That tastes like, that tastes really bad. I almost made him my pick and I couldn't do it just because of the flavor in my mouth. But I see all of the reasons. And I see that you said, well, Colin Kaepernick, he tastes kind of bad.

But I'm going to go even further into the garbage game. Yes, I dove deeper. It doesn't get deeper. No, than my guy. This is deeper than McCown last week. Hey, let me just tell you something. If you want him, he is, my guy is available. And how many leagues? Well, he is owned in 1.1% of leagues on ESPN. So he is available. And if he's not on your team, he's not on anybody's team. Brian Hoyer. Brian Hoyer, my.

Stream of the week, and here's why. Well, he put up 232 yards, followed by 312 yards of passing offense through the air. Did he start? Was he the starter? No, he was not. He was not the starter. And he put up...

300 yards and two touchdowns in a game. He's actually looked good. Aryan Foster is back. That's going to help the whole offense move. He also is a great pass catcher. So, I mean, Aaron Foster could break one off for 60 in a touchdown. And he's going up against Jacksonville, a great matchup. They've been putting up tons of points, whether both on the ground or through the air. So I think Brian Hoyer is a guy that is clearly available, has a great matchup, has shown so far that he's...

decent as a quarterback, even though they keep going back to Ryan Mallet, and he has good weapons. You've got Hopkins, who is incredible, and Aaron and Foster, both those guys can... Very simply, look at the other side of the ball in that game. Would you start Bortles? Would you start Hoyer? Because you're saying Hoyer's the stream of the week. Are you saying you'd start him over Bortles? 100%. Bortles is dealing with a shoulder problem, so we have to see. You think that that is going to affect him very much? I'm just saying that he has a... They said he's going to be playing.

They said he's going to be going to. Okay. You just mean it could limit him? You see what Drew Brees. Drew Brees had to, you know, he had a shoulder injury. Same thing, but a little bit. When he came back after the week off, every pass he threw was a, you know, was a short little dump off. And that's not to say that, you know, T.J. Yeldon can't break something off for Blake Bortles. But I would much rather have Hoyer, who I think's going to be slinging the rock, who has a nuke to throw the ball to. Now, if you disagree, Andy, I smell a nice waterbed here.

What, like a Bortle's Hoyer? A Bortle's Hoyer? No, no, because I... You sure that's a waterbed or you smell just like a butt. Yeah, it's a butt bet. Yeah, it is in Jacksonville. I will say that. And Houston has given up a lot of points this year, but no, I'm not going to take that. All right. I'll probably take it tomorrow. All right, that's it for today's show. We've got the mailbag show tomorrow. We got Fred Jackson coming on the show, which is exciting. We love Fred Jackson. We do. Who doesn't love Fred Jackson?