Week 7 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Big Herbs, Tua Time! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/20

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We got a couple of Monday night games to react to. And some breaking news that just came across the wire. Indeed. I think we're all flabbergasted. By the news? Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. Look, I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed. I think we all are. So we receive news moments before our fine producer, Judge Diamati, hit record, that the Miami Dolphins.

have decided that it is two-a-time. They're going to take this win streak and channel it into a quarterback change. They saw what the Bears did. They're like, oh, yeah, we should do that too. Well, you have to keep in mind when you're on back-to-back victories with six touchdowns in two weeks. That's when you say, hold up.

Wait a minute. I need to change quarterback from this guy who's been lighting it up and put in the rookie because the future. I don't know. I mean, I get it. You've got a buy week. I get it. He's the future. You're going to make a switch someday. So this is the time if you want to do it this year. This is the time on your schedule that allows you to pivot without a tragic mistake and collapse of Fitzpatrick causing it. So I get it.

And it's welcome to the NFL introducing Aaron Donald. He has to play the Rams! So Tua. What are you doing? Tua is, Mike, let me make the case for the switch. Two for two. 100% completion percentage on the year, nine yards so far for Tua. So it's just shocking. It's surprising. And what it does for fantasy players is the number one thing you lean on is predictability. It's an ability to say... Whatever happened to it. You can...

Right. And that's what we'll be saying. That is the second time just to let the fuck land. That is the second time today that that song has been referenced. Incredible. We're bringing you something very special here. So Devante Parker dealing with the injury gets the buy. Now it's Tua. Miles Gaskin. Workhorse running back. Pass catching from Fitzpatrick. What are Tua's tendencies when it comes to throwing the ball to the running back position?

So it is just, it's interesting because they're on a win streak. They're winning games and they're playing pretty good football compared to where we thought they'd be. Apparently too well. And the real saddest part about this, I would, you know, very close to my sadness for Devante Parker and the known, you know, it's not to say he's bad and can't be started with Tua, but you don't know, and I presume it will be a negative for Parker. But the biggest.

sadness for fantasy is Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah. I mean, you had a little cheat code there because nobody ever wanted to play him. He's on everybody's waivers. He's a top 12 quarterback every single week outside of week one. I guess he finished at 13 this past week. Yeah. We'll fudge the numbers there a little. But the reality was he was good for fantasy and now... He disappeared, a racer. Yeah. That stinks. So that was some breaking news. What was the reaction to these games last night? We had the...

the chiefs taking on the bills in a, just a rainy mess. This was the most rushing attempts in the history of Andy Reed. So 46 rushing attempts, 26 to Clyde Edwards-Alaire. Considering that every single time Clyde Edwards-Alair seemingly, he was ripping off a seven-yard run, I do not blame them. Yeah, and it was rainy. Josh Allen only passed for 122 yards. A lot of that came at the very end of the game.

Stefan Diggs scored. I couldn't help but be furious with him with his complete lack of care to get lined up. At the end of the game? It was unbelievable. That's the kind of play that makes me go. This is why Mike Zimmer and Stefan Diggs were not compatible players or coach player because he just casual walks back, gets a penalty. I thought it was pathetic. I can't imagine that Sean McDermott's

Two pleased. Head coach of Buffalo had some kind words for him after that play. But here's another headline from the game. McCall Hardman was not involved despite there being no Sammy Watkins for the second week in a row. He had exactly zero receptions while DeMarcus Robinson led the team with five for 69. And so McCall Hardman at this point, it seems like as a flyer, not worthwhile.

Yeah, I mean, you know, he was my unfortunate, taking up to 100 player because he only needs one touch. But, I mean, this is also what we said is in the cards. You hope for opportunity to allow him to have a big play, but also he could very easily goose. And we did not know. It was definitely shocking to me because I hadn't heard anything before putting the game on of weather conditions. And then it was a super rainy game.

Yeah, and so the chiefs came out on top, kind of throw some of the passing game out the window. Mahomes still ended up with two touchdowns. Josh Allen's had a couple of down weeks, but again, it was rainy, and he still gets it done a little bit on the ground. And the bill's running back committee is back to you don't want to play either of those players. No, no, this is a real gorblage situation in Buffalo. All right, the Cardinal game, however. We can just skip this one, right?

We have a lot of waivers to get to. No, we're not skipping this one. Brooks. Oh, okay. His cowboys are sad. So, greatest nine completion performance in the history of the NFL for Kyla Murray, we talk about the accuracy. It's not a taught thing. You know, you hear Troy Aikman talk about it, or that's been the consensus. You can't teach accuracy, right? Kyler's been a player that through his entire high school, collegiate, NFL.

This is a player who's an accurate quarterback. Josh Allen, inaccurate. Josh Allen's turned it around this year. And here's Kyler, nine for 24. Kyler's turned it around. Missing some really easy plays. I mean, just wide open receivers. He missed Larry on a touchdown. He threw the ball for 37% completion. Yeah. And yet. In a dominant victory. And he made big plays. And that's nice to see.

both for the Cardinals and for fantasy because he had a great fantasy game. He was dynamic on the ground once again. 10 carries, 74 yards. I mean, that says it all. He's running more than Lamar's running this year. And then one big play to Hopkins saved his day, Christian Kirk. They tried to get Isabella on some deep plays. But the fact that they're going downfield on those plays, you can get the type of Russell Wilson production from Kyler in the passing game.

Thoughts on Kenyon Drake Superstar? Yeah, I mean, Kenyon Drake this morning becomes a joke, a punchline for every league out there because he's a player that's been frustrating, but he's still started. He's had, you know, almost every league that I've seen. I can't imagine that you benched Kenyon Drake. He's getting too much volume. You're just angry at him, which means in every single league there was some matchup that had a...

super late, crazy change on the 69-yard touchdown run, which was completely unnecessary. I mean, he could have gone down at the one and the game would have been over instead. They had to go through the whole spiel. He took it to the house. Thank you. And I saw several. I mean, he has been tweeting a lot about fantasy football and fantasy football players would have lost their minds had he done the old Brian Westbrook go down and end the game.

The right thing, I mean, probably the right thing for the team. But I saw so many screenshots of, it blew my mind of people winning by a fraction of a point because they needed a 69-yard touchdown run at the end of a game when a team is simply killing the clock. I could not believe how many matchups swung by just a hair.

It is the dream scenario for a fantasy player where they're sitting there and the game is in hand and people are basically congratulating one another. And then you're like, yeah, I need like a 70 yarder from Drake here to win this matchup. Whoa! I mean, how many people turn the game off went to bed? The game was over. They're just going to kneel it out or whatever. It's not how you want to wake up. But yeah, it was crazy. If you take that out.

If you remove that, I, you know, he was 19 for 95 yards of carry and a touchdown. This is what. 95 of carry. Yeah, he is a great, great player. That's interesting. 90, 90 yards, five yards of carry. You missed the live part. It is 19 for 90, five yards of carry. Oh, you need to use punctuation. Yeah, there's no verbal comma in there. That's fair. Brooks, why don't you break the Cowboys down for us?

I don't have any appropriate sound effects. Here's one. Oh, the garbage man can. That's your Amari Cooper alert there. Amari Cooper got it done, 7 for 79 and a touchdown late. This was not what you wanted to see in any way, shape, or form. I know a lot will be made of the Elliott turnovers. Whatever. I mean, I don't think he fumbled twice in a game ever. This was like the first time. And then...

The headline here is Dalton. I mean, Dalton was, he was bad. This was backup Andy Dalton. Yeah, and starter Andy Dalton wasn't very special. He was bad, but this is, I will pump the brakes here for anyone. If you got Amar Cooper, if you got Lamb, Schultz, take a, take a breath. You got to take that, that whooping and just accept it and move on. If you have Michael Gallup, I wanted to hold on to him for one more week.

you could probably move on from Michael Gallup. But the other guys, this was Andy Dalton's first start of the year. He hasn't really had the time with the starters. So I'm actually going to give Andy Dalton a little bit of a pass here and say I expect him to be better moving forward. That's his go-to move, a little bit of a pass. Yeah. I like it. It's also, I mean, we speak tongue and cheek. We do that with Captain Kirk as well. But that is.

not as true as Andy Dalton in prime time. Andy Dalton's history in prime time has always been terrible. Has Dalton ever played cousins on primetime? Oh, man. The NFL wouldn't be over. Hey, cousins showed up in prime time. Oh, yeah. No, statistically, he's lost a lot in prime time. But fantasy-wise, he's actually been good in prime time. Dalton has always stunk in primetime games. People thought they could stream Andy Dalton. I don't advise it. Andy Dalton, regardless of how bad this defense is, the garbage time possibilities.

He's going to turn the ball over, and it's going to be ugly. He's going to get sacked, and he's going to fumble, and he's going to throw ugly interceptions. He had another one in this game that he threw directly to Jordan Hicks. No one was in the vicinity. Jordan Hicks dropped it inexplicably. The turnovers and the downside is going to remove Andy Dalton in almost all circumstances from the streaming consideration for me. There is a massive offensive line problem as well. I mean, they lost...

Zach Martin. Last night, we have to see what his condition is moving forward, but there's an offensive line problem. Yeah, yeah, they're already missing one of their other two. Yeah, yeah. And real quick, before we move on, I've seen a lot of tweets, one score update for me and Jason's dynasty match. Oh, sure you have. I just said, yeah. Wow. I got big shimmied. Oh, yeah, baby. You took care of business, Jason. Took care of business. I needed it. I mean, honestly. You played excellent.

Fantasy defense this week in all of your leagues. Yes, I did. Kelsey came through, Kyler came through, and Kenyon Drake came through. Other than that, you're probably... From the entirety of the Monday night games. For a lot of big names. That was probably the only one. Oh, Edward's Aller, who keeps getting his touchdown stolen. Stop referees. I can't wait. You owe me still many Edwards touchdowns. I can't wait for how many touchdowns left scores next week, Mike. No.