Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 3 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Jason Survives! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/17
Episode Date: September 17, 2024Waiver wire pickups and strategy on today’s fantasy football podcast! Headed into Week 3, find out which available players can help fantasy managers! Plus, QB Streamers, NFL News, and reactions to M...onday Night Football! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for September 17th, 2024. (00:00) - Intro (14:40) - NFL News (23:30) - Waiver Wire (25:31) - RB Waivers (41:00) - WR Waivers (50:15) - TE Waivers (56:10) - DST Waivers (57:35) - QB Streamers Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Check out today's sponsors: Waiver Wire presented by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Visit youtube.com/fantasyfootballers News & Notes presented by USAA. Visit https://USAA.com/Insurance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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You know, every year you think, hey, maybe I'll just ease into fantasy football.
And every year it's like someone grabs you
and chucks you out of a plane.
You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah.
It's just it hits you right square in the face like full steam ahead.
Yeah.
Injuries.
I'm taking on.
Heartbreak.
Look, I'm in the finals.
I'm in the tournament.
Across from me is Daniel's son.
He's got a bum leg.
Yeah.
He's standing on one leg. This is the easiest thing in the tournament. Across from me is Daniel's son. He's got a bum leg. Yeah. He's standing on one leg.
This is the easiest thing in my life.
And then get crane kicked in the face.
Because no one does that.
Wait, so I'm Daniel's son in this story, right?
Yeah, you are.
Heck yeah, man.
Ka-ya!
I mean, we had what I thought was a boring, boring, boring first half of football last night.
Maybe the first three quarters.
The big story here in the studio was that Mike Wright and Jason Moore
were facing off against one another in the League of Records.
And Jason needed a mere four points from Dallas Goddard.
In fact, after the Sunday games, he needed six total points
from Tank Dell and Dallas Goddard.
Yeah, it was a done deal.
To get an easy win over Mike.
We get to last night's game, and it's week two of the fantasy season.
So I'm thinking to myself, Jason will be okay either way.
It's week two.
He's definitely not having a complete and utter mental breakdown to the jeopardy of his family and friends
in the middle of the fourth quarter of the Monday Night Football game week, too.
That wouldn't be happening.
Oh, man.
Oh, man, I feel bad for my wife.
Yeah, no, I was tilted off the planet.
So we get to the point of this game where Dallas Goddard is not going to get the job done.
In fact, he caught a 16-yard pass, Mike.
Now, this is great because I get to recite this to Mike.
Yeah.
Mike was at a concert last night pass, Mike. Now, this is great because I get to recite this to Mike. Mike was at a concert last night
with some friends, so he knew
he wasn't going to win
because you don't win in that situation.
Because Dallas Goddard
with A.J. Brown out of the game
against the Falcons needed
four points. So, essentially
what? Three catches
for 25 yards
or so?
Absolute nothingness.
No, A.J. Brown should be an easy win.
Jason is losing his mind five minutes left in the game.
He's down by two points.
Dallas Goddard catches a 16-yard pass.
We think it's the last pass of the game.
This brings Jason to within half a point.
Oh, man.
Jason, at this point, I think probably the neighbors called the police,
all of the things you do for fantasy football.
The Philadelphia Eagles go down the field.
They soak up all of the Atlanta Falcons' timeouts.
They're up by three points.
The Eagles bring it down inside the 20.
The Eagles proceed to decline a penalty that would have given them a first down in order to tush-push their way to a first down.
They accomplish the goal.
Nick Sirianni's shooting the fingers in the air.
He's being Nick Sirianni on the sideline.
I'm smarter than you, Nick Sirianni.
Yes, I am.
Yeah, at this point, Dallas Goddard, he can't score again
because all they're doing is running out the clock.
So this game looks all but over. Atlanta, there's a're doing is running out the clock. And so this game looks all but over.
Atlanta, there's a minute and 30 seconds on the clock.
Atlanta has no timeouts.
Yeah, I'm seeing the win.
The win probability chart.
Apparently the Eagles were at a 97.6%.
Game was over.
The game was over.
It's third down and three.
Okay?
Third down and three,
and Nick Sirianni pulls out another special magic card
from his pocket time was on the clock minute and 30 okay so your options here are i can run the
football on third down 40 seconds is going to be gone now keep in mind they've been running
they've been very successful for a chunk plus they have the tush push so it's like they have
an extra down is is that because they gave a superstar
running back a huge contract to pair with that offensive line for situations like this yeah the
one all right okay same offensive line that made deandre swift look like he's not a guy off the
street last year so i'm caught up so you're caught up and it's just let's run the ball with run it
with saquon 40 more seconds goes off if you want to run it on fourth down, which I'm sure Nick Siriano would have done,
boom, there you go.
You lose more time off the clock.
Atlanta would have to go down the length of the field with maybe 30 seconds left,
maybe less, no timeouts.
But no, we've got our magic deck of cards, Mike,
and we're going to throw a trick screen pass to Saquon Barkley.
The play call, it's perfect.
Saquon out of the backfield, nobody's covering him.
He's going to waltz into the end zone or he's going to just probably slide down
and they'll knee it out.
Drops the football.
So that superstar running back I was just talking about,
he dropped an easy catch, huh?
Dropped an easy catch.
But listen, Mike.
Thank you, Saquon.
You're going to be fine because there's no way that the Eagles,
like this point differential, six points.
So you'd have to score a touchdown kick, miss the extra point,
go to overtime for Goddard to even get a chance.
The Eagles proceed to play against what seems to be nobody for 85 yards.
It's like there's nobody on the field.
Philadelphia, it's like they put their helmets on backwards.
That's what the DBs played like.
Not only does Atlanta march down the field and score
after they looked like they couldn't do anything on offense,
they do it with 35 seconds left on the clock,
which means Philadelphia gets the ball back.
The table is now set for Jason Moore to –
One more chance to throw.
To maybe win this game.
He just needs one catch from Goddard.
Play number one, directly to Goddard.
Game, set, match.
Jason defeats Mike.
Play number two.
My voice being hard right now?
Yeah.
That's from that game.
Yeah, that's what your voice is.
And next pass, interception down the sideline, game's over.
So one pass on the final drive to defeat Mike.
Yeah.
So that's what happened, Mike.
I will tell you what, ladies and gentlemen,
it is in the best interest of everyone.
I was at the Midnight show. That's the band.
One of my favorite bands of all time.
Living my life to
the fullest. Had I
watched that,
had I actually sat down
and got to... Been a part of that
story? The last catch
where he was just short and be like,
that's it. That's it.
I would not be here. I mean's it. I would not be here.
I mean, Jason, I would not be here.
Jason posted in our company communications channel.
Two man show tomorrow because he had lost this game.
And then Jason text me.
No, he did not.
He sent me a text.
What did that text say?
I was tilting.
Was it readable for air?
Let me, let me peruse it real quick.
Sorry for the hard loss. My wife says I should text you and be a gracious winner i'm a loser
that was a millisecond for being a loser good slash bad game sorry i hope it somehow helps
your roster oh my gosh that means your wife experienced so much fantasy football madness
last night i was was. Your wife.
A text, guys.
This was not through the works. This was a man-to-man, one-on-one text.
A personal text.
What I did to you was unfair.
At one point, Jason's wife texted me asking why he's saying
that she should change the combination to the gun safe.
Oh, my.
Fantasy football.
Fantasy is fun, guys. Welcome into the fantasy footballers andy mike and jason we got a waiver
show today i am we really thrilled i didn't watch it we really wouldn't have survived care about
fantasy football oh my gosh oh my gosh i i love that this story is teasing out secret parts of texts. And man, great news, though.
Start sit decision that my team took to kick off on Sunday did, in fact, cost me the game.
Oh, no.
Was that your quarterback?
No, it was Wandale.
It was Wandale or Michael Pittman.
Nobody in one of those guys got a touchdown.
Nobody in their right mind would have gone wandale it was very very close
for all the in all the reasons i thought i'm not going to play pitman they happened so you just
didn't have the courage correct okay the name it was the name it was it was the name versus the
player who i thought was in a better script yeah i would have production. Yeah. Well, because one, here's the thing.
If you lose with Wandale and you would have won with Pittman,
you can't live with yourself.
If you lose with Pittman and you would have won with Wandale,
can you live with yourself?
Only because I didn't watch the game.
Okay.
Okay.
How are we doing in Deucer's Alley over there?
Al Borland, he was along for the ride last night.
Doing great. We're living our
best life back here. You get a W
in League of Records? I did. Okay.
Congratulations. You and Jason
both.
We have a Waver Wire episode today.
Very excited to get into these names.
A lot of decisions to be made because there's
been a lot of injuries. I counted my
leagues this morning.
I have five leagues where I was very Cooper Cup dependent.
That was a big bet.
I believed in Cooper Cup, put my money where my mouth was.
I mean, you were right.
And I'm broke.
Yeah, you were right.
21 targets.
Yeah, now he's hurt on the IR.
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I think we've recapped Monday night, but I'll get into the players real quick.
Big game for Jalen Hurts on the ground.
85 rushing yards and a touchdown.
The tush push worked well last night.
Bijan and Saquon were incredible.
Neither of them had a rushing touchdown.
So their games were efficiency on the ground but didn't score.
Darnell Mooney, you know, once again had a nice game.
That was all the end, right?
It was not all the end.
I mean, he had the big – I thought he had the big touchdown.
Correct.
But then on that final drive, wasn't he – two of those?
Yes.
Two of his three receptions were that final drive.
Yes.
That's what I mean.
Yes, yes.
He did have the touchdown earlier and then those two catches.
All of Drake London's fantasy value came in the final drive as well,
including the touchdown.
And so, you know, to me, Drake London,
this is a sell high for me on Drake London.
You could also make the opposite argument and say Kirk Cousins figured things out,
looked a lot better in game two, and maybe Drake London will be fine.
He did look a little bit better. We saw play action and actually had
him move around in the pocket a little bit. So having one week in the books from playing on that
back from the Achilles injury, I do expect Kirk Cousins will continue to get better each week
as we go along with the season. Kyle Pitts had two of his catches on the final drive, I believe,
three for 20.
That final drive was very important for fantasy football,
for Goddard, for London, for Jason.
Yeah, most of this game was a fart fest.
It got really exciting, though.
Yeah, it did.
You also had Devontae Smith, seven for 76 in a touchdown.
And there you go.
It was a fun game.
And the end of it was unbelievable, and now the Eagles are 1-1.
And the problem with the Eagles, maybe it's not a problem for fantasy.
This defense on the back end is a real issue.
Yeah, it really is.
You know, that's going to be the storyline as we go forward
is they're going to be a good matchup for opposing defense.
A Philly edge rusher has not recorded a sack in six games
going back to last year.
Can they just undo the Reddit trade and pay him?
Because that would help, right? Someone needs to last year. Can they just undo the Reddit trade and pay him? Because that would help, right?
Someone needs to pay him.
Yeah, yeah.
Anything else you guys want to talk about from the game,
or can we jump into the news?
Let's go.
News and notes from around the league.
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We found out right before the game
during an interview
that A.J. Brown says he is expecting to miss
a couple of weeks. Does he
include last night's game
in his description of a couple of weeks? That's a
great question. I would assume
so, but that means that this is
not over. It's not done.
We got news this morning
that Joe Mixon's injury is not considered long-'s not done. We got news this morning that Joe Mixon's injury
is not considered long-term or serious.
Damian
Pierce could be back.
Cam Akers
and Damian Pierce would be the
handleman in the backfield for Houston
in the game that
Mixon misses if he misses a game, which we don't
know yet. Yeah, so we don't know if Mixon is
going to be back. And then if he misses, we we don't know if Mixon is going to be back.
And then if he misses, we don't know if Damian Pierce is going to be back.
So Cam Akers could be a great pickup.
Yeah.
Or he could be a backup to the backup.
Yeah, so there you go.
Bryce Young is being benched.
Let that sit there.
Incredible.
Oh, man.
I mean. Go ahead. Hit the busted. That's what that fits here busted yeah he is he is he's broken i posted i posted a video after week one of all of his
worst plays and it was a very long video and so many people responded to that talking about how it wasn't his fault because the offensive
line was terrible and and to their credit in that video I posted from week one the offensive line
he was under he was under pressure a ton he was he was under so little pressure this last week
the offensive line held up great they were were graded awesome by Pro Football Focus.
This was solely 100% on Bryce Young, and Canales said,
look, my job's to win games, and I do not have my best quarterback
on the field right now.
The best quarterback on the roster is Andy Dalton, the red rifle,
and they're putting him in.
I approve the move.
I think that it is the right call for the team, the franchise, the players,
the future.
You can make the argument, oh, you play Bryce Young and you can just salt
away the year and just lose and get the first pick.
Is that going to work?
Does the first pick always work, Zach Wilson, Bryce Young?
I mean, you can mess up the pick and then you've got to acclimate.
I think you have to win ballgames for your fan base,
and it gives you the best chance to do that.
They are not this bad of a team.
It's a quarterback issue.
Andy Dalton can rebirth the offense.
He can bring Deontay Johnson to a place of fantasy relevance,
along with Adam Thielen or Xavier Leguette.
And this is so good for fantasy football this is incredible for fantasy football not only is it
good for you know the hope of Deontay Johnson or the hope of Xavier Leguette or um it's it's also good for opposing offenses.
We talked about last week, I said I'm benching Ladd-McConkie everywhere I have him
because you're not going to need to throw the ball much against the Panthers.
That's usually what happens.
But if the Panthers' offense can actually score points now,
because their defense isn't good you know
like the Raiders this week I mean that's so exciting for for Bowers and and Devante Adams
to be able to be like oh here's now an easy defense with an offense that might be able to
keep up and you can't just run the the ball out so big big move it's huge I mean we we tend to get
really zoomed
in on, well, the quarterback, you've got to let him play
through the thing, but there's
a ton of other players on that team.
There's a ton of coaches
that will be,
should you ride this out? Now they have
that scarlet letter on their
chest of, no, you were part of this team that
you couldn't get anything done.
For a lot of guys, you get one opportunity to be a coach of any kind.
And that's it.
If you fail that bad, you have to go.
And I believe for Bryce Young, it's a devastating blow to be benched.
But Bryce Young was not going to figure this out on the field.
If there is any way to save the pick of Bryce Young and let him be
and turn him into a franchise quarterback, this, to me,
is the only way it's possible.
I don't know if it is, but this, to me, is the only path
that it could actually happen.
I agree.
He needs to sit down, take some time, but I don't think it's going to –
I think this is a Zach Wilson situation.
It could be.
It didn't work.
He's not good enough on the NFL field.
He'll get more opportunities in the future
for this team or another team just because
of his history, but I don't
think it's going to work. Andy Dalton last year
in his one start,
361 yards and two
touchdowns. He threw the ball
58 times.
Bryce Young is not throwing the ball 58 times.
Debo Samuel, surprise injury. Going to miss
a few weeks with a calf strain.
So,
Kittle, who already had a good game last
week, going to be
involved. Juwan Jennings,
who will come up on the waiver show today.
And Brandon Ayuk's return
to glory? It better be.
I think so.
You didn't give him that shmoney for nothing.
John McVay confirms that Cooper Cup will miss an extended period of time and is a candidate for injured reserve.
An ankle injury for Cooper Cup.
They're running out, man.
They also have their guards gone.
They lost another offensive lineman.
I feel like they deserve to be allowed to wave the white flag.
They should be able to just be like, nah, dude, we need two more bye weeks.
We're taking losses.
They should be able to just say, we lose the next two games.
We're not playing football.
We don't want to lose more players in that time.
I mean, because you will.
You might lose Matthew Stanfordord with no offensive line
and no receiving weapons,
but we'll talk about their wide outs
on the waivers today as well.
We've got more news to talk about.
I want to take a quick break
and we'll come back and talk about
a big, big injury
that's going to have big, big implications.
Perhaps one of the reasons why Jason reacted so extremely last night was that he was right off the heels of losing Isaiah Pacheco,
who is expected to miss six to eight weeks, a fractured fibula.
The Chiefs are expected to bring in Kareem Hunt for a visit.
Carson Steele is there Samajay Pirine Clyde is still on IR for at least two more weeks so the backfield in Kansas City is another big
talking point on today's show yeah when we get to the waivers I we will talk about Carson Steele
and Samajay Pirine in both situations because we hopefully should know
later tonight after we're recording this but before waivers run whether it looks like the
Chiefs are going to sign Kareem Hunt so we you know we'll talk about it you know what do you do
if they do and what do you do if they don't which after obviously we can only share the news that we have, thefantasyfootballers.com.
We have free waiver rankings up there should you want to go check those out.
And if you want to support the show, Andy,
I think you mentioned the ultimate dashboard at the top of the show
that is a customized to your league look at the waivers based on our waiver rankings.
Yep, exactly.
So big week, lots of decisions to make on your team and how much fab you're going to drop or waiver rankings. Yep, exactly. So, big week. Lots of decisions to make on
your team and how much fab you're going to drop or waiver
priority. Jack
Ferguson is... Jack
Ferguson? Why did you say Jack Ferguson?
Jack Ferguson.
You Ron Burgundy'd that one.
I really did. To be fair, it says
Jack Ferguson in the doc.
Colby Jack Ferguson!
No one is frantically trying to change it either. Jake Ferguson in the dock. Colby Jack Ferguson. No one is frantically trying to change it either.
Jake Ferguson of the Dallas Cowboys.
Is expected to be back.
His brother Jack will not be playing in the game.
But Jake Ferguson.
I'm blaming Kyle.
I think that's fair, right?
Kyle, is that Betts?
Who's falling on the sword today?
Is this Brooks?
I'm falling on the sword. All right. Was it you, Kyle? Okay. This is when he's falling on the sword today? I'm falling on the sword.
Was it you, Kyle?
This is when he's like, no.
Kyle, don't be a good guy.
All right. Well, Jake Ferguson
expected back. That's good news for the Cowboys.
It's good news for their offense, although
they made use of the
Schoonman.
Evan Ingram, week to week
with the hamstring injury.
That sucks, man. That sucks, but... did you see the numbers that cole strange put up um do tell us while you look do you know who
cole yeah i know who cole no i know um brenton strange wait i uh it's brent i said nothing
because i did not know who cole strange brent Coles Strange stepped in and put up three receptions for 65 yards on six targets.
There was a Coles Strange, right?
Yeah, apparently a Patriots O-lineman.
Thank you.
Okay.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense.
Oh my gosh, I acted like you didn't.
Doug Peterson, though, did say Tank Bigsby should be good to go,
which is great news.
Nothing serious with the shoulder injury that might have been a head injury.
That's good.
Taysom Hill also checked out just fine.
I think he'll be back.
But that tight end room we're starting to see is like Foster Moreau is the starter.
And then Juwan Johnson is also part of it.
And then Taysom Hill is also part of it.
And then Taysom Hill is also part of it.
So like when, you know, with this news of Taysom Hill's injury, I was thinking if he misses time, Juwan Johnson looks interesting.
But Foster's been the starter.
And right now the way this offense is like playing,
like they're not throwing the ball close to the line of scrimmage.
Right now Derek Carr has the, like,
he's going downfield more than anybody in football.
And part of the issue is we still don't know what is the actual,
like what is a neutral offense for the New Orleans Saints?
They've blown two teams out.
Yep.
They won't blow a team out every single week.
I mean, I guess they're neutral at the beginning.
Yeah, but then they hit a big play right away, it seems like, to Rashid Shaheed.
So I don't think we know what this team in a regular game actually looks like.
What's the latest, Mike, on your boy T. Higgins?
Oh, guys, great news.
Head coach Zach Taylor says things are moving in a, quote,
positive direction for week three.
So very actionable.
Yeah, it's a positive direction.
Even more excellent news.
They play on Monday night.
Oh, perfect.
So who knows?
So we won't know.
Don't play T. Higgins.
Don't play T. Higgins even if he's active.
What if it's three full practices?
Because you won't know until then.
Oh, three full practices?
Yeah, if he's practicing in full the whole week.
What's the flow chart here?
Like limited, limited, full?
We play?
Oh, man.
Do we need at least one full?
Two fulls?
I think that's right.
I think you've got to have two full practices.
And I don't think you're going to have that this week.
And the saddest part is that it's against the Commanders.
This is a wonderful matchup.
I mean, T. Higgins will –
I think T. Higgins is going to score a lot of points on a lot of people's bench.
Yeah, I mean, the idea that you –
Sounds like you should play him.
The idea that you can't wait for him –
Well, no, if you play him, he won't score a lot of points.
This is T. Higgins. You know, it'd be easy to say start somebody else and don't should play him. The idea that you can't wait for him. Well, no, if you play him, he won't score a lot of points. This is Tee Higgins.
You know, it'd be easy to say start somebody else and don't wait on him,
but the matchup's so good,
and there's so many wide receiver injuries right now that you're going to –
like Juwan Jennings.
Are you playing Juwan?
Are you waiting for Tee if you could have Yoshi Voss
or Trenton Irwin waiting in the wings behind Tee?
Yeah, if you've – That would be the strategy.
100%.
If I've got T. Higgins, I'm picking – if Yoshi Voss is out there, absolutely.
I'm going to pick him up, and he will be my pivot in a great matchup
should T not play, and then I can play T if he's in.
Yeah.
Or if you had Zach Moss, who seems like a good play.
Or you had Chase Brown as a pivot option.
I would play Zach Moss over T if T is active, though.
Yeah.
So what about Chase Brown?
Yeah, I mean, you could use him as a pivot,
but I would go T over Brown.
Tomlin's preparing for Justin Fields to start again.
We'll see.
They said if they go 2-0,
it's probably going to be Fields for the foreseeable future.
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let's talk about the running back position.
Let's start with the injury-impacted options. So we're talking Pirine and Carson Steele with the potential addition of Kareem Hunt.
And then we'll talk about Cam Akers and Damian Pierce.
What approach are you taking, Jason?
I know you went.
I was looking over at you.
This is before you melted down into a puddle later in the evening.
I was watching you watch every Carson Steele snap and opportunity, looking over his collegiate profile, watching Samaj P. Ryan, who profiles more prototypically as a running back.
I mean, Carson Steele still is flagged as a fullback.
What was your takeaways from your review?
Yeah, the way that
they've used him so far on the season, he is primarily, him being Carson Steele, he's primarily
a special teams player. It was like almost every snap that I'm watching was just a kickoff or a
punt. And so they gave him some short yardage stuff. I think he's a quality short yardage back
in that fullback role. In college, he did have a lot of production as a running back,
but that was when he was playing in the MAAC.
It wasn't great competition.
His final year, he goes to UCLA.
He was okay.
Over five a carry, but was not like a workhorse type of running back.
It's my belief, and this is what I'm going to do on my waivers.
I think most people are going to run after Carson Steele.
He's going to be the number one fab dump player this week for people needing a running back. I prefer Pirine. I really do. I think this offense that wants to dump the ball
down and Patrick Mahomes is not throwing it far, the veteran presence, he is such a good veteran
pass catching option. He's frustrating for fantasy managers because
Pirine's never been special. He's never done a ton that you just have a great fantasy stat line,
but for NFL teams, he's been really solid. He knows where to go. He knows how to get his head
around quick. He knows how to pick up in protections. He has a route tree for a running
back. I think Pirine is the play here, and I expect him to get four receptions a game going forward. Now, this is all without Kareem Hunt there. This is
both of those. I'm P. Ryan ahead of Steele. That is under the imagination that Kareem Hunt is not
signed. If Kareem Hunt is signed, I like Kareem Hunt better than both of them, although I would doubt he starts this week.
So if you need a start immediately, then it would still be Pirine.
Pirine, looking over what he's capable of doing, reminded me a little bit of how we
were never big Damian Williams fans of the talent.
Right.
But in this offense, just being where you need to be is a pretty valuable trait.
Yeah. I mean, that role will have over the next, you know, I think Pacheco, you know,
it said six to eight weeks. So look at it as two months. You're going to, you're going to
miss them for two months. Over that time, there will be probably three or four receiving touchdowns
to the receiving back on this team.
And touchdowns are just about everything in fantasy.
Mike, do you have any disagreement with the strategy there?
I lean more on the side of Carson Steele,
but I think that the real high-value touches are going to be split.
I would expect P. Ryan will be the third-down guy
and worked in a little bit on first
and second down. He should catch more passes.
But when they get to the goal
line, that should be
Carson Steele. You prefer to have
the running back who has both of those things. That's how you
actually get fantasy production.
It's
more a question of what do you believe
the Kansas City Chiefs
do? Because they've been extremely run heavy.
Like, let me pull up Mahomes' actual.
That's why I love Pacheco.
Mahomes, in the first two games, has thrown the ball 28 times and 25 times.
Like, that's not elite volume.
That doesn't make sense for Patrick Mahomes.
It makes sense for, like, the last year or so of that. That's what the team has become Mahomes. It makes sense for the last year
or so of that's what the team has become, but that team
at Isaiah Pacheco, do they morph
back to the, we're going to try to be the
high flyers and then Samadji
Piran's on the field all the time?
It's a very tough
situation to gauge.
I feel like you do, you've got to make
a call. You should be going after
these guys. I just don't know what level of fab to put on them.
Do you burn a priority?
Samaj P. Ryan is on a few more rosters than Carson Steele.
Whatever.
Let's say they're both there, Jay.
You have the number one waiver priority.
Are you burning it for one of these guys?
Yeah, I am.
I'm taking a shot. I know for a fact that
their running back has gone for two months so I am this is not a one week asset this is a couple
month asset you burn your priority for it and the truth is Carson Steele is the much more explosive
athlete and if you want a home run if one of these picks ends up being a just an absolute home run
and the next two months we look back and we're like,
we should have dumped everything, that could only be Carson Steele.
P. Ryan can't be a superstar.
However, I really do believe P. Ryan is going to be an every week flex option
and will score more fantasy points than Steele.
And it is worth mentioning, again, we don't know how the breakdown is going to go,
but Carson Steele has pass catching in his profile as a college player.
His second year at Ball State, he got 29 passes.
At UCLA, the volume went way down, of course.
It was from 289 carries down to 167, still a great yards per carry,
and he caught 17 passes.
Catching 17 passes in college is at the running backs what
slash fullback whatever position that's not bad if you're he has the ability what i'm hearing
though is that if cream hunt signs today i mean it's it's quite a bet for your fab and maybe you'd
would you still want to dance with the kansas City roulette or would you want to turn your attention to Rico Doudle who got the start?
And it seems like the Cowboys are figuring out the fact that, like,
they need to move beyond, you know, Zeke because Deuce Vaughn got opportunities.
Sure.
Do you look at, you know, if you're in a one-week start,
do you save the fab and look to Cam Akers?
I'm not as concerned.
Or Ty Chandler?
I'm not as concerned about Kareem Hunt as Jason is because I think he's toast.
But they need depth at the position.
So even if Kareem Hunt is added, I don't think that he's the starter.
Having seen him play the last couple of years, it's been bad.
It's been very inefficient. So moving to that question, Rico Dowdle is so tough because over two weeks, he's not a playable guy. But from week one where he was the backup,
it was a timeshare. The opportunities were very split. It was very close between him and Zeke.
Then he gets the start, but now Deuce Vaughn has put himself into it.
The great news for Rico Dowdle at this point is maybe the arrow keeps going up.
43% of the snaps.
Five targets for Rico Dowdle.
The offseason was, hey, Rico Dowdle looks like he's going to be the pass-catching
running back for the Dallas Cowboys.
It looks like that part is true,
and he could keep earning more and more play time.
All right, so what are you doing with that roulette, Jason?
If Kareem Hunt signs, are you still making the Kansas City investment
over the other options?
I would probably pivot to other options if I'm talking about burning a priority.
On a fab system, I'm going to go after pretty much all of these guys like um you know you
brought up Ty Chandler Ty Chandler is a really good option like he he has looked very good he's
obviously the the second in the timeshare here uh but I think you could start him in a pinch
yes um and even um Deonta Foreman I don't think we've brought his name up. He had 14 carries
last week in a tough matchup
against Jacksville. He didn't do much with it.
Gets the Giants next week. But yeah, the Giants
this week, and he's widely available.
And he won't cost you anything. I mean,
he won't cost you much.
Yeah, Ty Chandler, 10 carries.
Deonta Foreman, 14 carries. Rico
Dottal had 7 with the targets.
Braylon Allen scored twice.
I feel like that stat line, he is the Quinton Johnston
of the running back position this week.
Yeah.
Two scores.
You know, having seven carries and four targets is not.
It's not nothing.
That's not nothing.
So, you know, when you think about long-term,
obviously he's never going to threaten Brees Hall in this offense, but if you have Brees Hall,
is this a high-priority add compared to what he used to be?
Yeah, looking around what is happening, the devastation that is raining down
on us with the injuries, I think at this point you should insure yourself.
As in, if Brees missed his time, Braylon Allen would be a full fab dump. He would be a full
priority burn, and he
would be very
good for fantasy. He looks
really good.
When you talk about how Trey Benson's looked
so far as a rookie
versus how Braylon Allen's looked,
there's been a pretty marked difference.
I could not believe what the NFL
said they thought of Braylon
Allen in the draft was shocking to me.
Me too.
The kid is
20 years old right now and he
is an absolute Mack truck.
Who had tons of production.
His fall in the draft was
strange. Youngest player to ever score
a touchdown. Now
the NFL looks stupid. Are you dropping
Chase Brown who's had only
10 opportunities in two weeks to pick up
one of these guys? To pick up one of these guys, yes.
If I need production right
now, Chase Brown's still
a fine stash, but you
gotta make moves if you need points. Blake Corum,
you're saying goodbye to Blake Corum?
Yeah, if I need points. I think so. I'm not even sure
that it would be Blake Corum if
Kyron went down now. It seems like it might be Rivers.
It's been Ronnie Rivers.
And how heavy do you want to be invested in that offense?
Zemir White has done nothing.
I'm not dropping Zemir White.
I'm not either.
They've got Carolina this week.
I believe he has a really good week this week.
And then one of the other drop candidates, which is a huge no way for me,
but Gus Edwards.
Gus Edwards is someone who might have been dropped in your league last week like he's he's mostly rostered but he he was dropped in our league um go look
for him because 29 carries yeah I mean no he he should he should 100 be rostered also I don't
think we really set our order here what to do with the Houston backfield we've got to you know
what is your pecking order your flow chart for the Joe Mixon situation?
I am probably not prioritizing Houston running backs unless I have Joe Mixon. And if I have Joe
Mixon, I'm probably just trying to pick up Cam Akers because he looked better than Damian Pierce
in the preseason. And I don't think Pierce coming off a hamstring injury is going to get all the
work. So I'll take the player that was on the field last week that looked better the preseason, and I don't think Pierce coming off a hamstring injury is going to get all the work.
So I'll take the player that was on the field last week that looked better in preseason
that I think the team trusts versus taking the shot on Pierce, who when he has had opportunities
in the last year, hasn't looked good.
So I would go Cam Akers.
I would go Cam Akers too.
I agree completely.
I'm Cam Akers.
However, I would not go hard. I would make a $0 bid on him because I'm go K-Makers. I agree completely. I'm K-Makers. However, I would not go hard.
I would make a $0 bid on him
because I'm fine losing out on him.
This appears to be a one-week rental that
might be a zero-week rental, and that
one week is against Minnesota, and that
Flores defense has looked awesome. I agree.
This is the Jeff Wilson
gamble of last week. If you want to see
the entire order of
our waiver rankings, including the addition of some higher rostered players that might be available in your league,
like Zach Charbonnet, go to the website, thefantasyfootballers.com and check that out.
And Isaac Garindo is another guy to, he should just be stashed. He's the new
next man up for the 49ers should Jordan Mason get injured.
All right. At wide receiver, if he's not on a roster,
please put Rasheed Shaheed on a roster.
We have a number of 56% as a roster percentage,
so he's been integral to the Saints offense.
But the big storyline is how much do you spend on Quentin Johnston
because he's kind of been the most available,
most popular pickup at wide receiver.
And is he that for you?
And what would you actually invest?
Yeah, I'm not going to invest a lot in any of these wide receivers this week.
There's like a dozen wide receivers that I think are all similar to each other
where I'm going to save my fab money.
I don't see Quentin Johnston as a great, you know, break it.
Like I have to have him.
He's going to make a huge difference.
He got the two touchdowns last week.
Now, Shahid, if he was out there, I would go a little harder after him.
But everyone else, I mean, there's, we talked about Yoshavas.
He could be great.
You still have the, you know have the Rams players lost cup,
so you can go back to the well of trying to go after
Demarcus Robinson or Tyler Johnson.
Those are the top two, right?
And then Tutu Atwell would be behind.
Whittington would be behind.
I would go Whittington as the third.
Whittington should be the replacement for cup.
He'll play in the slot.
Where Tyler Johnson took over the puka roll,
I think that's how it shakes out.
Now, Tutu will get on the field, and Stafford –
the Rams are so strange with Tutu Atwell
because whenever he's out there –
He's targeted.
Stafford throws in the ball, and then they don't give him playing time,
but Stafford seems to find him easily and loves throwing him the ball.
That's a very strange situation,
but the higher snaps I believe will go to Whittington.
Outside of Shahid being available, Robinson would be my biggest add.
Then probably –
So Robinson over Quinton?
For me, yeah, because I just think that it's anomalous.
I am not confident in any Chargers whiteout.
I mentioned it yesterday.
I could be proven wrong in the right matchup.
But I don't know who it's going to be.
I believe you're going to get a Palmer week.
You're going to get a Dizley week.
You're going to get a rotation, and it's not going to be consistent
because the passing volume is not going to be needed.
If you run the ball 35 times a game,
which I think their defense is good. I mean, what are they've, they've given up 13 points
on the year in two weeks. Like the recipe for them is, is going to be burning clock,
running the football and passing when you have to on third down, it feels like.
And so for me, Quentin Johnson, if he doesn't score, he's a bust.
McConkie, if he doesn't score for me, bust.
Palmer, same thing.
So for me, Quentin is the player everybody's going to go spin their fab on
that I'm probably not going to spin it on personally.
He's ranked near the top, but that's not meaning that I'm going to go
burn the waiver priority.
It's if I can get him for cheap or for free and have a pivot option, that works.
Robinson should be valuable for a team that doesn't, you know,
that's hurt on the defensive side, that gave up a ton of points,
should be throwing the football.
The schedule is brutal for the Rams.
Yeah, I mean, negative game scripts.
Throw the football.
San Francisco, Chicago, Green Bay are the next three.
Yeah, I mean, that's just the way that I break it down.
I do think that Yoshivas should be paid attention to in Cincinnati.
If Higgins misses another game, it could be good as soon as Monday night for Yoshivas.
Yeah, and sometimes you just need a week.
You just need to stream a flex type of wide receiver,
and you say who's got a good matchup and opportunity.
Juwan Jennings for the 49ers with Debo Samuel out.
He should step right into that role.
I love it.
He looks good out there this week.
He gets to play against the Rams who are beat up.
I would be fine picking him up and starting.
Do you see who got his first catch of the year for the 49ers last week, though?
After the, you know, I believe Chris Conley.
What?
I believe Chris Conley caught a pass.
Missed that one.
Am I?
I don't know.
I'm pretty sure he still plays football.
Yeah, he's a 49er.
All right.
Are you paying any attention to Jalen Tolbert's nine targets?
Six for 82.
It was interesting because Brandon Cooks only had two in that game.
Of the Dallas Cowboys.
That's where Tolbert is.
And Jalen Tolbert, you know, the game was weird.
They were being humiliated.
They were throwing the ball a ton unsuccessfully.
Do you, Meg?
I mean, what do you – I still like Cooks over Tolbert.
Yeah, I would still prioritize Cooks but it's a
it like Brandon Cooks was in that game that they were getting humiliated and
and he only ended up with uh you know two targets where Jalen Tolbert it's it has Tolbert figured
something out is is more of the question like in just stashing him I think it's a stash that if you
don't need a wide receiver help right now and you're gonna let everybody else fight for the
high profile players like are you gonna stash someone like he came in Tolbert or or Mike
Williams from the Jets oh Mike Williams Mike Williams as he gets healthier and healthier he
you know he didn't play much in week one I I think three weeks from now, Mike Williams will be
a guy you can start in your flex every week. I don't expect Tolbert to get there. He could,
but I have higher probabilities on Mike Williams personally.
They pulled Dak in that game as well. That game was just toast.
Another Jawan Jennings type of player is Josh Reynolds. Josh Reynolds is a quality NFL wide receiver, not special for fantasy,
but he's been really involved.
On the Denver Broncos now.
Yes, on the Denver Broncos.
He gets a matchup against Tampa Bay.
He had 93 yards last week.
I think he's fine for a spot start.
Khalil Shakir, if he's out there, is in the massively rostered
but should pick up
was 5 for 54 in this last week
Tyler Johnson is the
secondary guy I think to pick up in
Los Angeles way less
rostered
would you spend a priority on Tyler Johnson with the
window of opportunity or do you think
it's just going to be
too many targets? I wouldn't burn a priority on
Tyler Johnson with San Francisco and Chicago
as the next two matchups. I will mention a player
that has looked, he looked better than any
wide receiver on this team in the preseason.
Got hurt,
disrupted his start to the
regular season, but Josh
Downs will be back soon in Indianapolis.
And Josh Downs,
they could use a player like him
in this offense.
Right now everything's downfield, which has been literally hit and miss
for Anthony Richardson.
So Josh Downs, I think if they had a rapport in the preseason
and he looked good, he would be a deep league staff.
For sure.
And Darnell Mooney, we talked about him in the game breakdown,
but he is the wide receiver too.
If Kirk Cousins keeps getting better and healthier, being able to be more comfortable in the game breakdown but he is the wide receiver too if Kirk Cousins keeps getting better and healthier being able to be more comfortable in the pocket I think you know that's that's a guy
I would want on my roster for sure and Jerry Judy he's mostly rostered but he actually looked you
know we got to give him a little bit of credit because it's been a long time since we've spoken
positively about Jerry Judy but he looked good last week. He made a couple of good catches. I was made to feel very bad every time I took him
at the last pick of every draft.
So 5 for 73, and Amari Cooper is not on the same page
with Deshaun Watson the way Judy has been.
So what do you believe about Alec Pierce right now
who's playing a ton of snaps?
Just to circle back to
Indianapolis I know he's the wide receiver six on the year but you're just you know it's fool's gold
I I have a hard time grabbing Alec Pierce who has spent so much of his career running downfield
and not coming down with those catches that you know to put him in my lineup and start him is just
if I've got Anthony Richardson and I'm a super underdog, okay, sure.
I'm just going to try to, you know, go for the fire
and hope he catches a bomb touchdown.
But I have a really hard time buying into Alec Pierce.
All right, let's play.
Oh, and the Dorch is a good start this week against Detroit.
They give up so many slot points.
I wouldn't do it.
I would.
He was just useless
last week. Oh, yeah. I mean, Marv took
over. Well, I mean, Marv only had
four catches in the game. Yeah, but he took over
drives. He finished multiple
drives to start the game.
I was discouraged
with the dorts last week is all I'm saying.
Two for 11. If that's a range of outcomes,
that bugged me.
Yeah, it's really just a matchup play.
It's the fact that it's Detroit and they give up the most slot fantasy points
and that's kind of his role.
Are you saying goodbye to Christian Kirk?
I'm willing to, yeah.
Keon Coleman?
No.
No.
Josh Palmer?
Yes.
Michael Pittman?
No.
Cortland Sutton.
Sure.
I mean, he's fine.
You can...
DeAndre Hopkins.
He's just like all these players.
If he was out there, we could say the same thing.
No, Hopkins still coming back from injury.
I'd hold him.
Yeah, I would too.
Who do you believe in more after their big week at tight end?
Hunter Henry, Mike Gasicki, or Zach Ertz, long term?
Long term? If it's long term if it's long term it's not ertz or henry or gosicki i mean long term is just not how you i don't think
you can view the tight end position on waivers that way if i have i mean people that had dalton
schultz he's doing nothing people that have had you know these mean, people that had Dalton Schultz, he's doing nothing. People that have had, you know,
these spot start guys that are doing nothing, I mean, you've got
two weeks. Yeah, which I'm saying is
like, I'm going to just be trying to
stream the position, find matchups, so I'll
take Gasicki because he's got the commanders
this week. They're
at home, and he, you know,
nine targets last week. So Gasicki
would be your top picker? Yeah.
I think I'd
probably ride with Hunter Henry for this particular week.
Jets.
Yeah, but I mean, who's sauce going to take away?
Not Hunter Henry, I wouldn't think.
I don't know, man.
He was 75% of their yards.
Maybe that's what the Jets end up doing.
Zachary, the floor is safe.
The ceiling is non-existent.
And Mike Gesicki is like, we have not seen repeatedly Joe Burrow
force feed the tight end position.
And Jamar Chase was under 20% of the targets last week.
I expect a market correction for Jamar.
And if T is back, then it's even worse for Gesicki.
15%.
15% of the targets went to Jamar Chase.
What are you doing?
Gesicki was at 26%.
What are you doing there, man?
He's better than Jamar, obviously.
Okay, so those are the three big names for a streaming tight end candidate uh that are
probably worth mentioning i what i am intrigued at the fact that johnny smith has been used
in the miami offense the way that he has they don't really have a wide receiver three
they tried to throw the football to robbie chosen and Du Bois. John, who had seven targets. I don't want to ignore that, and I don't want to ignore it
when he provides an easy path for Skyler to get the ball out of his hands
early in the drive and swing it out to John, who's more of a wide receiver.
I am just going to flag his name as an emergency start.
All right, that's fine.
What about Cole Strange?
The offensive lineman for the Patriots, I think,
is not going to be a big play, but Brenton Strange
also probably shouldn't be picked up.
Defensively, favorite pickups
of the week, who do you have?
The Raiders?
I don't care that it's Andy Dalton.
Andy Dalton will throw interceptions.
I would say, I mean, the Browns
are one of my favorite plays.
They're not probably a pickup this week.
They're super rostered.
The Green Bay Packers have a pretty good defense.
Will Levis loves to just make boneheaded mistakes where the other team can make touchdowns.
Is his head coach in him right now?
Oh, my gosh.
He hates him.
It does seem like he hates Will Levis.
I mean, normally you go to bat for your quarterback,
and in week one you don't say it would have been better
that we just punted on first down.
And in week two he just literally is like.
He did it again.
He's like, he did it again.
The play's dumb.
It's stupid.
He's a big boy.
He knows what he did wrong.
I think that's what Will Levis needs.
He needs to be. Shame? He needs to be shamed out of – he needs to be like –
it's the quintessential spanking.
It's like you are going to remember your lesson because you didn't remember it.
Yeah, you didn't –
You don't spank in front of everybody, do you?
No, no.
But, I mean, this is how you spank verbally at the podium.
So Will Levis, yeah, that was frustrating.
So Tennessee, I mean, Will Levis with the mistakes.
They play Green Bay.
Green Bay could be picked up.
Inversely, Tennessee could be picked up.
They've been playing well on defense,
and Malik Willis is their current quarterback.
It will be interesting to see that version of the Green Bay Packers
not versus
the Colts. And not at
home, not at Lambeau. They're going to be in Tennessee.
I think the Titans defense might be
a better pickup than the Packers
defense. I want both, but
usually when I'm in the tiebreaker, I'm going to go with
the home crowd. The Colts
get to play at home against Chicago
who has no offensive line right now.
And without Keenan
Allen, if he's not back out there,
target Caleb Williams.
Seven sacks, I think,
last week, pressured on 27 of 28
dropbacks. The Colts can do that
a little bit this week and keep
targeting the Bears.
You know, Tampa?
Tampa's a tough one.
They play Denver, so you say, okay, it's Bo Nix.
But Tampa has not put up a lot of fantasy points on defense
through two weeks when I was looking at them.
That one is a good start.
It's fine.
If you want to mitigate against possible major problems against you,
you can go that direction.
I don't think Bo Nix is putting up big points.
Bo Nix.
How'd it feel?
Felt good, man.
All right.
And then Minnesota, Houston, they look great on defense.
They take on Minnesota.
Sam Darnold, I still think it's a target.
Yeah, I think that's fine.
I think that's fine.
Sam Darnold is playing very well. Looks good. He's got an offensive system and Justin Jefferson, but it is Sam Darnold. And, you know, if we look back a month from now and go, oh, yeah, it was, you know, it was not going to be a season long of greatness. You know, Sam Donald's had good stretches in the past. I think he started
one of the years in Carolina.
I think the first month of the season, he was like the
quarterback. Oh, yeah. He like had all the rushing
touchdowns. Yeah, it was like, I
think we were a month into the season and he was the
NFL leading leader in rushing touchdowns.
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all right i'm gonna go first here because i intentionally did not choose jason's player
okay because i didn't want to jinx him and and he's going to cost you this week.
The reaction, and spoiler alert, it's Derek Carr.
The reaction to Derek Carr, I'm already seeing it on Twitter.
I'm seeing it in messages to us.
They want to know if you dump full fab on Derek Carr.
They want to know how much fab you spent on Derek Carr, and is this for real?
The headline in the NFL for two weeks is the Saints offense.
They've scored 15 consecutive times when Derek Carr has been the quarterback.
Clint Kubiak, they're already chiseling him in stone.
Which, by the way, if you're Chicago's offense with Shane Waldron,
you interviewed Clint Kubiak, maybe you should have gone that direction.
No, they liked what they saw.
But I didn't want to jinx Carr because when you give Carr the limelight,
when you shine a light on him in the starts of the week or the streamers, and you hit that drop, I'm just saying, it's scary.
Well, hit it for me then.
It sounds like I'm going first.
We can do that.
Send in the Carr.
Send in the Carr.
I will absolutely send in the Carr.
He's been on fire, and the matchup is perfect.
The Eagles, right now through two games,
their defense is tied for 32nd in yards per play,
29th in EPA per play, 27th in sack rate,
23rd in quarterback pressures.
I told you they haven't had an edge sack in six games.
There's a branch over the trap.
There's a branch over the trap.
Let's lay another palm frond over the trap.
I remember I've been here before, so I'm scared. Let's lay another palm frond over the trap. I remember I've
been here before. So I'm scared. I'm in. Tell me why it's okay. It's okay because of Clint Kubiak's
system. You see the changes. Last year, they were last in play action. They're first in play action.
It's a completely modernized NFL system and they were playing. I mean, could we even handle watching the Saints offense last year?
It was the most putrid, boring, non-creative offense I've ever seen.
It was everyone stands still.
You guys run straight, and I'm going to dump it off to Kamara,
and it's completely revamped.
And the Eagles are in trouble defensively.
They haven't figured that out
yet the helmet thing they got to put them on forward forward look everything you're saying
about Derek Carr makes him an obvious pick this week I do think he's not going to be an option
for everybody because the cost on the waiver wire will be there yeah I'm going to spend like 10 fab
sure okay that that's a good good answer I'm going to go with Gardner against Carolina.
And I wanted to look for somebody that was completely undrafted that would be completely free on your waiver wire.
He has the highest completion percentage in the NFL.
He has arguably the best.
Gardner Minshew?
Yes.
Gardner Minshew.
Yes.
Yeah, because Devontae Adams and Brock Bowers have been unbelievable.
Yeah, I mean, you can make the argument that Adams is a top five easily wide receiver,
and then you've got Brock Bowers, who's a top five tight end receiver.
So those two options and no running game, to me,
and the fact that Dalton could keep the game more competitive,
I think it's actually a really sneaky spot start if you're hurting a quarterback.
I agree.
Yeah, I don't disagree.
The completion stat was shocking.
Most completions.
The most completions in the NFL of any player.
Look at you, Gardner.
I'm going to go with Justin Fields.
Justin Fields is actually playing pretty well, just in football terms.
Fantasy, it's kind of in the inverse
of the normal justin field situation of usually we get great fantasy football performances
and poor nfl performances but like he's playing he's playing well he you know that's the jamis
algorithm he like when jamis played worse it was better for fantasy right and like the gardener stat
that's shocking justin fields is completing 70 of his passes right now that is absolutely
mind-blowing he's still running uh a ton 14 attempts in week one eight in week two just
haven't hit the big play yet and if just Justin Fields keeps playing the way that he's playing,
it will happen.
So rushing yards, a better matchup for George Pickens here in week three.
Doesn't get Patrick Sertan.
I think that Fields should be picked up a play.
Dude, go trade for George Pickens.
If you're out there, if you're listening, he is the best buy low to me.
He had 3.9 fantasy points this last week.
Terrible, terrible week. He was
awesome. He was awesome last
week in that game. He had
two monstrous
awesome plays called back on penalties
against Sertan.
I think he has looked
great by low chance. He has looked
outstanding on film are you
dropping caleb williams if you drafted him yes oh yeah are you dropping justin herbert if you
drafted him yeah sure and are you dropping jared goff who went from the dominator to uh shout out
to the foot clan the domester fireester Fire. That is tremendous.
Jared Goff, he gets to play in another dome this week.
Good work, Foot Clan.
In Arizona.
I saw that this morning.
I was like, somebody wrote in and said, you need to call him the Domester Fire now.
And I said, I just wrote back instantly.
I said, yeah, we're probably using that.
Jared Goff, I, would you make the pivot from Jared Goff to Derek Carr?
This week I would, I wouldn't dump golf.
Probably.
I'd probably try to bounce those two guys back and forth based on matchup and performance.
Yeah.
It's just such a good matchup again against the Cardinals.
I think golf bounces back.
I'm not dropping golf.
Um, I, I, I think I might start car over him this week yeah but i'm not gonna drop him
yeah i can't wait to see what car has in store can he overcome being called the stream of the
week that is the important i the amount of times that we've hit that button because everything's
lined up for derrick car i'm so looking forward to a new future here and the fact that jason's
head will be shaved live on the air if Carr continues to win.
But I'm rooting for it.
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