Week 8 Waivers & Streamers + Difference Makers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/22

Malik neighbors come out and dominate, and even Brian Thomas Jr. Most rookie wide receivers are better in the second half of the year than the first half of the year. So if the opportunities come around for both those players, I think they can be rostered and played. There's so many wide receivers. Jalen McMillan, McMillan, Rashad Bayman. That's why I'm saying this week is like, I want to take zero dollar bids on a, I like Troy Franklin. I'm going to put a zero dollar bid on him. If I don't get them, fine. There's, there's a handful. DeMario Douglas. He had a down week, but Drake May looked great, and the down week was because he had an illness. Yeah, and Bateman, four catches in three straight games, big play capability. Bob Means would get a start for the Norland Saints who signed MVS, so don't care about that. But Bob Means would get a start if Olavay was still out. And Jalen McMillan, not rostered, opportunity with Baker, who's playing great football.

and I don't want to under us, I don't want to just condemn the buccaneers who are a pretty good football team to, you know, to not being competent. Like there's a world where Evans comes back in a few weeks and McMillan's contributing and Ott and Rashad White, and they're okay on it off. And it's an important game. They're going to be at home against the Falcons for the division lead. Whoever wins that game will be in the lead. So I think zero dollar bids personally on McMillan and Sterling Shepard, if you want to put a little bit more fab on McMillan.

That makes sense because I think he will. Yeah, he's far ahead of Shepard to me. Yeah, that's fine. And he will go for more. Like, Shepard will go probably through your waivers without getting picked up. McMillan will be one of the heavier bid prices. The drop candidate names are wild guys, but it's Juju, who could miss multiple weeks. I'm fine with that. It's Christian Watson, who is irrelevant. I mean, if you're talking about Wicks and Dobbs and you've got Reed and Kraft. And Watson's not part of that. That's a tough one. You might have invested Fab last week on Christian Watson. Yeah, I don't think, I would be fine dropping Juju Smith-Schuster. I would be fine dropping Josh Downs without flacco. Tank Dell and Marvin Harrison's names were submitted to us. They are a lot of people are asking about those. And those are supremely easy don't drops for me. I mean, the list of people we're talking about today.

You know, how much fab are you going to spend on these players? If those guys were out there, I would go all in. I mean, Marvin Harrison has been struggling, but he is still a very talented rookie wide receiver who should be the one for his team. Tank Dell has been struggling. His targets were there. The red zone was there. The matchup this week is there. The hard one with Dell is like the targets, like him and Ridley are identical in fantasy production per game. And and three catches in the last two weeks. Dell hasn't made the most of his. Both of those players, where do they fit into the mold then, Mike, of all these different names? Are you adding Juan Jennings and dropping those two players? Joanne, I would. For the, for, for not Marv. Not Marv. I mean, that one's outrageous. Tank Dell or Juan, I think is, that one's really, really hard because you've got to manufacture wins right now. I think long, long term.

I would rather have Joanne Jennings. But this week, you might need Tank Dell. And Jason's right. Tank Dell process-wise is in a very good spot this way. At home against Indy, right? I believe so. So that is a really difficult team construction question. Do you have any comments on Calvin Ridley if he's sitting on a waiver wire? Because he's been dropped by a lot of people. I would not be aggressively adding him. At tight end? To me, Kate Otten and Hunter Henry topped the list. Yes. Both of them are going to be like Hunter Henry has an opportunity with Drake May in the yardage he's putting up to be an every week player. Kate Otten in the absence of those star wide receivers. I don't know how he survived the game. Kate Otton took so many hits at such high rate of speed that.

Like if I was like if I had to choose who needs a guardian cap more than Tua, it would be Kate Otten. Yeah, because it was Scott Sterling. It was always to the head, man. It was over and over. And rapidly. Like these were not like one in the first quarter. And then you get to the four. It was like they were moments apart. Four plays in a row. And then the, and then the, it was like the fourth play. He's running down the sideline. Guy comes out with a baseball bat right to the. right to the helmet. It was flag. They didn't call. Oh, they did call it. They have a rule against no baseball bets, but it just felt like they were. It was a fan or a player? It was a player. Wow. Yeah, player coach. Gotcha. Do you buy into the one week wonder of Johnny Smith now that two is back? No, I think Johnny Smith, who had a crazy like 30 plus percent target share. Seven for 96 and a touchdown. I will say that Johnu Smith is not a bad player as involved in the offense.

I don't think just evaporates, but he's not going to be the number one target in this offense with Tua. Would you spend up on KDot? I think I would if you're in need. Like how much fab? 10%? 10%? Yeah, I would say 10% be aggressive. Assuming I don't have a solution at the tight-in position. I'll just real quick for Joni. Would you move on from Dalton Kincaid to one of those players? Not yet. I want to see. Amari Cooper. Sam Laporta to one of those players? No. Not while Jameson's out. But for Janu, he's had seven targets and seven or more targets in three games this year. I know that everything's wonky for Miami, but during the buy. He had a good to a game. During the by week, the coaching staff was, I mean, I believe coach speak on Twitter had put it out that like they're talking about Johnny and then to be talking about it and then he's.

get seven targets. The production was like, that's the icing. It was just, will the opportunity actually show up? And it did. So he's on the radar. You will get tight in screens to Johnny Smith and whether he does something with him will change whether your week is good. Here's one of the cool perks of Johnny. I will add this in there. Every single time you throw him the football, you didn't throw it to Odell Beckham. Oh, that is. To be fair, Odell Beckham is not really playing football anymore. Like I've watched. He is not playing football. Defense is your keyed in on this week. I picked up Detroit in a few leagues last week knowing they played Tennessee and the Levis Rudolph Wolf Fest. Detroit's 10.5 point favorites, Tennessee will be putrid. Baltimore plays Cleveland. Dear goodness. Cleveland hasn't scored 20 all year. Yeah, that's a strong play. I'm perfectly fine with the Chargers.

against Spencer Rat Tail, as he's called. What? Spencer Rat Tail. I'm sharing Kyle's jokes. And I'm sure he's behind a video camera laughing hysterically right now. To add on to your chargers, not only do they play Spencer Rat Tail this week, but then they play the Cleveland Browns the next week. That's great. And then they play the Tennessee Titans. So you've got you're really looking when you're when you're. You're either looking at one of the chasing the rat tail? You're chasing the quarterback opponent. That's what you're going to get their carback. You want touchdowns. You want sacks and turnovers. Are you talking about the Chargers? Yeah, the Chargers defense. New Orleans, Cleveland, Tennessee. Exactly. Not who Spencer Rapp. No, no, no, no. Houston plays Indy and Anthony Richardson, who is both mistake prone and inept at scoring points. I know he had a good game against him earlier in the year. It was on the back of two bombs.

Can he sustain drives or do the Houston Texans give up big bomb plays? I don't know. And Green Bay. They're on the road, so don't necessarily love that. But Green Bay's defense is, they're like, it's an actually good defense and Jacksonville, I think, will struggle. All right. Let's talk quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. Well, this is fun. We're talking streaming quarterback options. And for the first time ever, I'm going to bring Patrick Mahomes name up. Wow. This is literally the first and only time he has ever been allowed to be a streaming. Oh, he is very much a, this is a, this is not a confident stream. I don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't play them. This is a, this is a maybe stream. He, this is a history stream. Like, he's a 302 guy, actually 300 and a half against the Raiders historically. He dominates them. And he's never been mentioned in this segment before.

But he just kills the Raiders. You know, this is just, you're not saying 403. You're saying 202. That is the streaming standard of our show. I think he can put up 200 yards and two touchdowns against the Raiders. That's all I'm saying. Well, that will be a feat he has, let me see, done in week one. So that's cool. Anyways, I'm going to go with Kirk Cousins. He had a down week this last week at home. Was it two straight down weeks after we chased the 500? I just feel like he's been on this segment for a while. Two weeks ago was a little bit mediocre. 23rd? Last week was worse. Yeah, was worse. But if you remember the week prior to that, who was his opponent when he put up the 509 yards and four touchdowns? It was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I looked up the weather just because whenever it's a game in Tampa or certain locations, I want to make sure.

That's not an issue. Looks like a nice 81 degrees and overcast. So we're fine. My concern would be that Tampa Bay team was able to put up 30 points. Can this Tampa Bay team put up that many points? I don't know. And I think, Kyle, correct me if I'm wrong, last year when these two teams played, we had the shootout in Atlanta. And then when they matched up in Tampa Bay, which shouldn't have an effect, but. That's what happened last year. So that would be, that's my only question. Obviously, this was in before losing both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. It certainly does hurt the ceiling. I think that he... 1613 in Tampa last year. Right. Obviously different quarterbacks and different teams. Yeah, of course. Yeah. I'm going with the rookie. I'm taking Bonix. Bonics. The Broncos rookie. He is playing the Carolina Panthers.

Hold on to your butts, everybody, because the Broncos team implied total this week is almost 26 points. Well, look in there. Look at the Broncos. Look at the little guys. Short fields. Eight point home favorites against the Carolina Panthers. And Bo Nix is a dual threat quarterback right now. He's averaging 36. Last two weeks, we've got 10 for 75, 6 for 61. Like, so he is, he's not. unwilling to do that and that is a that's a huge boost especially when you're looking at a streamer streamer at home stream at home with with a huge point total against a bad team so he's in play over the course of the season so this isn't like oh the last two weeks when he's had big runs or whatever this is the the seven games played he's on pace for 619 rushing yards that is that is a very dual threat quarterback and that's i don't think how i think people really need to

adjust their... You want to hear something? Yeah, I do. Who's got more fantasy points? Bo Nix starting quarterback of the Denver Broncos or back-to-back Super Bowl championship in Patrick Mahomes. That's an easy one. A lot of people have more fantasy points of Patrick Mahomes. Marcus Marriota, I believe, just had a three-quarter performance that was more fantasy points than Patrick Mahomes had in a game. The Marioita game was wild because... He was sixth on the week. He... 18 for 23, 205 and 2. Wait, who has more fantasy points? Patrick Mahomes or Daniel Jones, who has not thrown a passing touchdown at home in forever? In forever. I mean, I guess Daniel Jones? That is correct. Yeah, that's fun. But Mario, Mario looked so inept to start that game. He had a, but he got it. Oh, he got it together. Uh, somehow Kyler Murray's a drop candidate on here. Kyle Murray. No.

You know, I know it wasn't pretty at all times yesterday. He was still a top 10 quarterback this week. We did get a number of players that on Monday kind of lifted the bar for the quarterback. The top two quarterbacks of the week were Lamar and Baker in the game. I do want to throw out a name, you know, this is waivers. There's not a streaming candidate for this week. He plays on the road against San Francisco. But Dag Prescott's been bad. He has not been lighting up the box scores. He's. coming off a by and on the road in San Francisco. He's going to be on waivers. He's going to be dropped on waivers this week. The rest of season after that... You should do that, Jay. So he's on our waivers. So what you said was true. No, no, no, no. So what you said was true. I picked them up already for the stretch run. Atlanta, Philly, Houston, Washington, the Giants, Cincinnati Bengals. Then you get to the playoffs. Carolina, Tampa Bay, Philly. Like, it's just like last year, it is a golden goose of passing opponents on the second half of the season.

Yeah, I'll be very curious to see. I'd love to see the repeat for the sake of C.D. Lamb and Jake Ferguson and the offense. But I also feel like hanging in the balance slightly more this year is the collapse of the Cowboys because their defense has been so bad and because Jerry Jones is hanging over this team like a crypt keeping. What's one of those creatures in Harry Potter? The Dementors. Yeah, he's like a kind of a Dementor owner. Yeah, I get that. You know what I mean? Yeah, he's hovering around the hallways, and if you get too close, he will take your soul. Jerry Jones just recently, quote, the type of things that we all think we should be looking at is we're designing bad plays or we're designing bad concepts. Okay. But that's the whole thing? That's the, like this, Jerry Jones is. He's on a heater. Everybody is under this bus. Now he is. You know who's done a great job, though? Jerry Jones. I'm pretty sure.

He's just done of. No one could do a better job than Jerry Jones is done. What age do you think your cognitive and general manager abilities peak? Do you believe it is A, 30 years old, B, 40 years old, or C, 82 years old? B. If I had to go with those three numbers, I would put the cap at 40 then. So you're saying it's not C, 82 years old? I think that that is not in the best interest. He did just celebrate his 82nd birthday. Happy birthday, Jerry. You're doing a great job. Make the most of this one. All right. That is it for today's podcast. Hope you enjoyed it. We're back tomorrow. Hungry for More. TNF preview. Second half sleepers episode. Talk to you then. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter.

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