Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, December fifth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your Man, MG,
Speaker 1: Marcus Grant joined by Michael f. Florio. We got a
Speaker 1: fun show for you today. Matt Ocatta is going to
Speaker 1: drop by with his top waiver wire targets for the week,
Speaker 1: but first answering fan questions as we get closer to
Speaker 1: the start of the fantasy playoffs. Let's get to some
Speaker 1: of your questions real quick. You send them to us
Speaker 1: on Twitter x at Fantasy NFL Fantasy Rather. Kouba wants
Speaker 1: to know what do we do with Adam Thielen.
Speaker 2: You bench him and maybe even drop him. Like the
Speaker 2: numbers when Frank Reich isn't calling the plays are vastly
Speaker 2: different than what they are when he calls them.
Speaker 1: Plus, you didn't draft him to do all this much
Speaker 1: for you, so you could probably move on from him.
Speaker 1: Alexandra wants to know Cup or Puoka. But at this point,
Speaker 1: I think it's Pooka six straight games with less than
Speaker 1: fifty receiving yards for Cooper Cup. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's fully healthy or what the deal is, but Pouka
Speaker 1: Nakua really has taken over as the wide receiver one
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. This one for you from Dale is DK.
Speaker 1: I must start each week.
Speaker 2: I'll say yes to appease you guys, but no, like
Speaker 2: I know he went off this past week. Coming into
Speaker 2: this game, he was a wide receiver three, averaging less
Speaker 2: Fantasy points per game than Gabe Davis. Like, yeah, you're
Speaker 2: gonna start DK, metcalf, I get it. But all the
Speaker 2: people being like you never sit a wide receiver one
Speaker 2: clearly weren't paying attention to the output that DK had
Speaker 2: been giving you the first twelve weeks.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks passing game hadn't been that great before Thursday
Speaker 1: night last one. Bryce wants to know who do I
Speaker 1: start rest's schedule full PPR McBride or Ken Kaid. These
Speaker 1: are first world problems here, Bryce. I'm gonna say Trey McBride,
Speaker 1: but this feels like there's no real wrong answer here.
Speaker 1: But Trey McBride has been lights out in the last
Speaker 1: month or so, so that's the guy that I would
Speaker 1: go with. Let's get some of the top Waiver one
Speaker 1: targets for the week are pal Matt o'cott has put
Speaker 1: together his list for Week fourteen. Quarterbacks got Josh Dobbs, Baker,
Speaker 1: Mayfield Gardner, Minshew Joe Flacco. Welcome back Joe Flacco at
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old, the Desmond Ritter and Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: Moving on to some running backs, Chuba Hubbard, Ti j Spears,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott going on Thursday night against the Stevens, Antonio
Speaker 1: Gibson Commanders on a bye, but worth stashing there, Keaton
Speaker 1: Mitchell as the Ravens come back off there by Roshawn Johnson,
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell because you should be handcuffing your elite players
Speaker 1: at this point the season, and Michael Carter again the
Speaker 1: Cardinals also on a bye this week. Some pass catchers
Speaker 1: at wide receiver Curtis Samuel, Elijah Moore, Greg Dertsch, Noah Brown,
Speaker 1: and John Metchi with Tank Dell out for the season,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Mingo, who's put together a couple of decent games
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, Isaiah Likely Jarled Everett, and
Speaker 1: Kate Atten. As we talk about the tight ends. Time
Speaker 1: now to bring in the one and only Matt o'catta,
Speaker 1: who writes the Waiver Wire column. You can find it
Speaker 1: at NFL dot com slash waiver wire. Two teams on
Speaker 1: a bye, which is not optimal considering it's the last
Speaker 1: week of the fantasy regular season. But I guess if
Speaker 1: there's a silver lining, it's Arizona and Washington. So maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of guys of not missing, but not an
Speaker 1: overwhelming number. Matt So, but let's start at quarterback because
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco thirty eight years old. I will say he
Speaker 1: comes directly off the couch and throws the ball well,
Speaker 1: but look, he hasn't been playing for a while and
Speaker 1: actually looked decent this past week for the Browns.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know where he's been throwing. Maybe it
Speaker 3: wasn't the couch, maybe was his backyard, it wasn't on
Speaker 3: an NFL field, but you wouldn't know it the way
Speaker 3: he came out and slung it this past week. And
Speaker 3: the same thing happened last year with the Jets, and
Speaker 3: this year we said, well, no, he can't do it again.
Speaker 3: He's another year older and he's been out of the
Speaker 3: league for even longer, and this team's not good. He
Speaker 3: threw for two hundred and fifty four yards a pair
Speaker 3: of touchdown passes, sixteen fantasy points with a pick and
Speaker 3: he just looked to good, like maybe the best we've
Speaker 3: seen from a Browns quarterback all year or in recent years.
Speaker 3: So I know this sounds crazy, but I'm not opposed
Speaker 3: to looking at Joe Flacco if you were relying on
Speaker 3: Kyler or Sam Howell, who are two of those somewhat
Speaker 3: usable guys that are out this week. Next week he
Speaker 3: gets to Jaguars. They've actually been pretty soft to fantasy
Speaker 3: quarterbacks over the last five weeks, and they have allowed
Speaker 3: several big performances and a few surprising streams throughout this season.
Speaker 3: It would help a lot if Amari Cooper is active.
Speaker 3: He should be in the concussion protocol after last Sunday,
Speaker 3: so keep an eye on that because that will be
Speaker 3: his number one weapon, obviously. But there's a lot of
Speaker 3: holes at QB these days, and a lot of streamers
Speaker 3: who could project in this range. I think Flacco is
Speaker 3: one of them, and probably the most easily acquired.
Speaker 2: And oh Kotta, you do this every week, and for
Speaker 2: weeks now you have been telling people to pick up
Speaker 2: Chuba Hubbard. It feels like more than half the year
Speaker 2: you've been saying this. This feels like people's last chance
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it is almost certainly the last chance because
Speaker 3: he's pretty heavily rostered finally, and he just had another
Speaker 3: big game, So I think this is your last shot
Speaker 3: to pick him up. And forty percent of NFL dot
Speaker 3: com players started him last week, So congratulations to all
Speaker 3: of you who got his twenty two point four fantasy
Speaker 3: points against the Bucks. To the rest of you, go
Speaker 3: and pick him up. That marks two straight games for
Speaker 3: Hubbard with twenty plus fantasy points, and this past Sunday
Speaker 3: was his best on the ground by far, twenty five
Speaker 3: carries for one hundred and four yards in what was
Speaker 3: this first game of the post Frank Reich era, So
Speaker 3: I'm optimistic we could see more of that moving forward.
Speaker 3: Miles Sanders once again looked incredibly inefficient and should honestly
Speaker 3: not be seeing anything more than a couple change of
Speaker 3: pace touches moving forward in my opinion, and this is
Speaker 3: important to note. The Panthers were able to stay in
Speaker 3: that game. I think that's why we saw so much
Speaker 3: from Hubbard. I think they can do that again next
Speaker 3: week against the Sinks, and the week after that to
Speaker 3: get that against the Falcons. Both the visional games against
Speaker 3: opponents there kind of middle of the road, and the
Speaker 3: Saints Rundy is not what it was for many years
Speaker 3: that vaunted d that you could not start anyone against.
Speaker 1: So I'm willing.
Speaker 3: To roll Hubbard out there this week and I think
Speaker 3: rest of season.
Speaker 1: Speaking of running backs that play in a Southern division,
Speaker 1: ty J. Spears as a guy who's had a decent
Speaker 1: role all year long. Now, look, we thought maybe Derek
Speaker 1: Henry is going to be a concussion protocol, then Mike
Speaker 1: Rabel said he's not. But it does feel like people
Speaker 1: should still be adding Spears just because he seems to
Speaker 1: be carving out a decent role in Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, it's a little bit of calum in a
Speaker 3: little bit of column B there. One. We don't know
Speaker 3: exactly what's going on with Henry. Well, we're going to
Speaker 3: have to keep our ear to the beat reporters in
Speaker 3: Tennessee to see what happens with him, whether he's limited anyway.
Speaker 3: But like you said, Spears has looked decent in various
Speaker 3: opportunities that he's gotten. And if anything, if this particular
Speaker 3: injury pans out poorly for Henry, or if anything else
Speaker 3: happens over the next couple of weeks, which we've seen
Speaker 3: and happened recently with other big running backs. Spears would
Speaker 3: be an absolute locked and loaded starter. He was unsurprisingly
Speaker 3: excellent in relief on Sunday, took twenty two opportunities for
Speaker 3: eighty eight yards. That's the kind of thing we've seen
Speaker 3: from him when he's gotten chances. They're also the rest
Speaker 3: of the season's schedule for them, Miami, Houston, Seattle, and Houston.
Speaker 3: I think those were already looking intriguing for Spears because
Speaker 3: they're likely to be high scoring affairs where the Titans
Speaker 3: are heavy underdogs and they have to look to the
Speaker 3: pass game more often, where Spears has been more used.
Speaker 3: So again, if Henry misses any time or is limited
Speaker 3: any way, Spears becomes a locked and loaded starter. If not,
Speaker 3: he's a potential pinch hit flex and you want him
Speaker 3: on your bench anyways, just in case.
Speaker 2: I think I'm getting the pinch hit references in there
Speaker 2: with the Angels memorabilia behind him. Yeah, speaking of backs,
Speaker 2: who are gonna, you know, kind of be in fill
Speaker 2: in duty right now, Zeke Elliott, it looks like Rimandre
Speaker 2: Stevenson times against him this week with them playing on
Speaker 2: Thursday night. What do you think of Zeke if he
Speaker 2: gets to start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Unlike with Henry, this looks to me like we're
Speaker 3: not going to see Ramandre certainly this week, maybe again
Speaker 3: this season. It depends, of course, on the nature of
Speaker 3: the spring he's got. It's also worth noting the Patriots
Speaker 3: that don't have anything at all to compete for except
Speaker 3: the number one pick right now, though it doesn't really
Speaker 3: make sense to rush Stevenson back in any way. So
Speaker 3: Zeke is the maybe the hottest commodity at the position.
Speaker 3: This week. He's looked surprisingly good given his age, in
Speaker 3: recent inefficiencies with the Cowboys, and how bad this offense is.
Speaker 3: But I think he's going to be the undisputed lead
Speaker 3: and likely bell cow back for this team down the stretch.
Speaker 3: And he put up ninety two scrimmage yards once again
Speaker 3: in that kind of relief position for when Stevenson went
Speaker 3: out last week. That included forty yards through the air
Speaker 3: on four catches, which is big and it is a
Speaker 3: lot of how Ramandre Stevenson has been fantasy relevant in
Speaker 3: this terrible offense. You have to be able to to
Speaker 3: do that because they're not going to put up a
Speaker 3: lot of points. They're not going to be able to
Speaker 3: run on teams much, but if you can catch the ball,
Speaker 3: you can put up fantasy points. So I think we
Speaker 3: see that from Zeke. I think he has low mid
Speaker 3: low to mid RB three floor because of the volume
Speaker 3: with an RB two ceiling win Stevenson's out.
Speaker 1: You know, when we talk about great fantasy QB duos
Speaker 1: this year, I mean we got to talk about Dak
Speaker 1: and CD, Jalen and AJ Brown two and Tyreek. We
Speaker 1: got to talk about Joe Flacco and Elijah Moore because
Speaker 1: apparently that's a thing now that they're together in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: It is, and it's been a thing before, so maybe
Speaker 3: we shouldn't be surprised about this. But yeah, Amari Cooper
Speaker 3: left Sunday's game in the concussion protocol, and now Elijah
Speaker 3: Moore's old flame, Joe Flacco is back in a quarterback
Speaker 3: for the Browns as a result of that combination of circumstances.
Speaker 3: Most likely, Moore had twelve targets for eighty three yards,
Speaker 3: both season highs. It was his third game with twelve
Speaker 3: plus fantasy points in the last four weeks, so he's
Speaker 3: kind of been creeping in on waiver interest regardless. But now. Listen,
Speaker 3: he's flashed talent all year. He's flashed talent throughout his
Speaker 3: whole career, but for some reason, he just doesn't seem
Speaker 3: to get used the way that we all think he should.
Speaker 3: The one guy who seems willing to do that is
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco. He's in a quarterback whether or not Cooper
Speaker 3: suits up this next week against the Jaguars. I think
Speaker 3: you're rolling More out there as a fringe starter in PPR,
Speaker 3: and if Cooper does miss time, I think More becomes
Speaker 3: a fringe must start with legitimate eight ten catch upside,
Speaker 3: and it's worth noting that he had those twelve fantasy
Speaker 3: points and those eighty three yards on just four catches
Speaker 3: on Sunday because of a really low catch rate. I
Speaker 3: think if Flacco gets another week to work in and
Speaker 3: the two of them get another week to work together,
Speaker 3: we could see that come up, which means his fantasy
Speaker 3: points come.
Speaker 2: Up, moving to tight ends. We've only seen one game
Speaker 2: of Isaiah Likely without Mark Andrews. It was more of
Speaker 2: a floor game, but there's probably a lot more up,
Speaker 2: so I Lely's think there is. How do you feel
Speaker 2: about Isaiah Likely o'cata.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like him a lot, and I think to
Speaker 3: your point, we saw six targets and eight fantasy points
Speaker 3: in that game, the first game with Al Andrews, and
Speaker 3: those did feel like floors, and those are great floors
Speaker 3: for a tight end. We say this often in the
Speaker 3: waiver segment. I say it off in the waiver column.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna get six catches five catches and put
Speaker 3: up eight to ten fantasy points as a floor, that
Speaker 3: is going to be solid enough as a streamer tight end.
Speaker 3: And we absolutely have seen Likely Likely put up higher
Speaker 3: ceilings himself, and Andrews of course put up higher ceilings,
Speaker 3: which means the opportunities there for Likely to do the same.
Speaker 3: Baltimore was on bye week last week, so he may
Speaker 3: be heavily available. Go take a look. They get the
Speaker 3: Rams defense next week, who's been soft against tight ends
Speaker 3: all year. I think Likely is as good a bed
Speaker 3: as nearly anyone for five catches and fifty yards in
Speaker 3: the position. And if you throws in a touchdown, you
Speaker 3: have a great start.
Speaker 1: One last one. We all talk a lot about defenses,
Speaker 1: we talk about the waiver wire here, but the Colts,
Speaker 1: you look at the next four games for them, and
Speaker 1: it lines up pretty well. If you're talking about streaming
Speaker 1: defenses are playing matchups. The Colts have about as good
Speaker 1: as schedule as you could imagine right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I begged our producer to let me throw this
Speaker 3: defense in here, which we don't do that often because
Speaker 3: of how crazy this is. This is what I wrote
Speaker 3: in the column this week. If you have the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: the Ravens, or maybe the Steelers, you can move on
Speaker 3: and ignore what I'm saying. If you do not have
Speaker 3: one of those three defenses, drop whoever you have and
Speaker 3: pick up the Colts. They have scored double digit fantasy
Speaker 3: points in four straight games, totaled sixty nine fantasy points
Speaker 3: over that span, four plus sacks in each, nine takeaways,
Speaker 3: three touchdowns in total in those games. And here is
Speaker 3: that rest of the season's schedule you mentioned Marcus, the Jake
Speaker 3: Browning Bengals, the Kenny Pickett slash Mitcheubisky Steelers don't even know,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter. The desmon Ridder Falcons and the
Speaker 3: Aiden O'Connell Raiders. I would not be surprised if they're
Speaker 3: the number one DST rest of season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we were always trying to find great
Speaker 1: matchups and this one, just four excellent matchups handed to
Speaker 1: you on a silver platter. If you want more out
Speaker 1: of silver platter, go to nfl dot com slash Waiver
Speaker 1: Wire get Matt's Waiver Wire picks for the week. Also,
Speaker 1: go check him out on Twitter at Matt o'cotta. Matt
Speaker 1: as always appreciated man. We'll talk to you soon. There
Speaker 1: it goes Matt o'cott I'll be sure to check him out,
Speaker 1: and be sure to hang around check us out too,
Speaker 1: because we'll be back with you later on in the week,
Speaker 1: keeping our fingers crossed about any injury news. Hopefully we
Speaker 1: get some of these guys back, because final week of
Speaker 1: the fantasy regular season is now upon us. In the meantime,
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