Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November twenty first, 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 episode for you today. We're hitting up the mailbag
Speaker 1: to answer all your fantasy questions. After week eleven plus,
Speaker 1: Matt o'cotta is gonna drop by it with his top
Speaker 1: waiver wire targets for the week. But let's get started
Speaker 1: by giving the folks what they want and answering some
Speaker 1: of their Twitter questions. All right, time to get to
Speaker 1: some of your fantasy questions, you send them to us
Speaker 1: on Twitter dot com. I know that's not what the
Speaker 1: label of it says, but when you type that early
Speaker 1: and that's where you go to. So we got your
Speaker 1: questions there. We're gonna go through them real quick. Tim
Speaker 1: wants to know me a quarterback and someone has offered
Speaker 1: Purdy to me. I have Kamara AJ Brown, Amon Ross,
Speaker 1: Saint Brown, and Austin Eckler. Who should I give up?
Speaker 2: I've been advocating to trade for brock Perdy. I do
Speaker 2: not think I would trade any of those four players
Speaker 2: for him. AJ Brown is untouchable, a'man Ross Saint Brown
Speaker 2: is untouchable. Alvian Kamara is giving up too much. Eckler
Speaker 2: might be the one of the four, but I don't
Speaker 2: think I pulled the trigger and give him that back.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had to give it one, I
Speaker 1: guess it's Kamara. But even that feels like an overpay.
Speaker 1: I would be curious to see who else is on
Speaker 1: your roster that that maybe you can part ways with. Uh.
Speaker 1: But those any one of those four, aj Brown and
Speaker 1: am On Roth are non starters, Like that's not even
Speaker 1: a question. Maybe it's it's Camara. I don't know. King
Speaker 1: Savage once in my QB situation is horrible. I got
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett, Stafford, and Fields. Who do I start down
Speaker 1: the stretch? It's a two QB league Fields, for sure
Speaker 1: you're starting. Uh. I guess it's effort of the other
Speaker 1: two options. But even that isn't particularly great.
Speaker 2: No to me, it's that I can't you pick it
Speaker 2: as one touchdown this last month? Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: he's even in two quarterback. He's not someone i'd want tom.
Speaker 2: I'd play like if it was a super flex, I'd
Speaker 2: play like a fourth string running back over him.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing to mention, like is it a
Speaker 1: straight to QB league or is it a super flex league,
Speaker 1: because I think sometimes in super flex we get hung
Speaker 1: up on the idea of having to start a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Depending on how far down the quarterback list you're going,
Speaker 1: you might be better off starting another running back or
Speaker 1: a wide receiver in your superflex, So that's something keep
Speaker 1: in mind as well. Corbyn seventy one, how do you
Speaker 1: recover from losing Joe Burrow and having three of your
Speaker 1: four running backs get hurt in the same week? Yikes?
Speaker 2: I don't know. If look, you got a stream quarterback,
Speaker 2: you could try to make trades. It depends on who
Speaker 2: your running backs are and how long. I'm guessing Aaron
Speaker 2: Jones is one of them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna have to make moves, be aggressive on the waiver wire,
Speaker 2: and just hope you no boy's next week. Makes it
Speaker 2: a little bit easier to set your line up.
Speaker 1: Yeah it does. But yeah, man, that that hurts. There's
Speaker 1: no easy answers for that one. Just you just got
Speaker 1: to kind of gut through and see how creative you
Speaker 1: can get setting lineups. This one from chi etn has
Speaker 1: been costing my matchups recently. Should I start Rashad over
Speaker 1: Etn for now? So Rashad White over Travis Etn? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've liked, I like, I like both those guys.
Speaker 1: I've liked et in all year long. I've liked Rashad
Speaker 1: White recently, Maybe I would. I would want to know
Speaker 1: if you have any other running backs? Like who else
Speaker 1: are you potentially starting right now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I say, if you're just debating between those two, you
Speaker 2: must have, like you have somebody else CMC or something.
Speaker 2: I will take the l this week on Rashad White,
Speaker 2: the yardage was bad, but it was, like you said,
Speaker 2: like six catches a touchdown. That that right there is
Speaker 2: twelve points before you add in any of the yards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So That's why I think people like Rashad White. Scott
Speaker 1: wants to know, is it time to bench Cooper Cup?
Speaker 2: It depends on your options, Like I in a vacuum,
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 1: Because the upside is so high. Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Like thee I think is really
Speaker 1: really high. I mean unless somehow you're rolling out there
Speaker 1: with I don't know, Tank Dell and AJ Brown or
Speaker 1: something like that. Then maybe, but right now I have
Speaker 1: a hard time saying yes to that. Last one. Is
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard a buy sell or? It says gold. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that means hold. I'm guessing this is a typo here,
Speaker 1: So Rohan, is Tony Pollard a buy sell or? Hold?
Speaker 2: You could try to sell high now because he's coming
Speaker 2: off of a big game. I kind of view him
Speaker 2: as more of a hold. He's definitely not a buye.
Speaker 2: But if you're trying to sell him now would be
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: Now, it's the time to do it, although I understand
Speaker 1: that people also probably going to be onto your game.
Speaker 1: They're staying what you do see, you maybe better off
Speaker 1: holding him more than anything else. So good luck to
Speaker 1: all of you out there. As we get closer to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Let's get some of the top waiver wire
Speaker 1: targets are pal Matt o'cattas put together his list for
Speaker 1: Week twelve. Or quarterbacks Baker Mayfield, one of these Saints
Speaker 1: quarterbacks whoever is healthy and starting, be a Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston, Gardner Minshew with the Colts off of bye
Speaker 1: running backs, pretty deep there, Devin Singletary, Herbert Zach Sharbonay,
Speaker 1: Keton Mitchell, and one of the two of Royce Freeman
Speaker 1: or Darryl Henderson deping on which one Sean McVay likes
Speaker 1: this week. Ty Chandler in Minnesota also in play for
Speaker 1: waiver options this week over to some pass catchers, Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior along with Josh Downs, Jahan or Johann Dotson
Speaker 1: if you prefer, Jaden Reed and Rashid Shahed I feel
Speaker 1: the need the need for Shahed, Greg Dortch getting some
Speaker 1: work in Arizona as well, Elijah more Khalil Shakir Jackson
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba starting to heat up. And Noah Brown
Speaker 1: hopefully he's back and healthy again this week going against
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, tight ends, Tayso Hill, Logan Thomas Isaiah likely
Speaker 1: with Mark andrews odd for the season. And then a
Speaker 1: lot of defenses to stream the Lions, the Dolphins, the Bengals,
Speaker 1: the Broncos, the Saints, the Giants, the Patriots. Oh my,
Speaker 1: so many defenses that you can possibly stream this week. Now.
Speaker 1: To help us wade through some of this, it is
Speaker 1: our friend Matt o'catta who writes the Waiver Wire columns.
Speaker 1: You can check it out every single week at NFL
Speaker 1: dot Com slash Waiver Wired. No team's on a buy
Speaker 1: this week's so everybody's rosters in theory are fully available
Speaker 1: to them this week. But Gardner Minshew also back off
Speaker 1: the buy. I know he's been sort of up and
Speaker 1: down this week, but this feels like a matchup Bass
Speaker 1: play with Minshew here now it is.
Speaker 3: Indeed, we haven't seen really that much Minshew magic this season.
Speaker 3: He had a crazy, fluky good game against the Browns
Speaker 3: and he rushed for two touchdowns in that game. But
Speaker 3: we know that he can put up fantasy performances through
Speaker 3: the air as well. He's got good weapons with Michael Pittman,
Speaker 3: Josh Downs, even Jonathan Taylor out of the backfield, so
Speaker 3: we can stream him if we get the right matchup,
Speaker 3: and Holy mackerel, are the Buccaneers the right matchup. Tampa
Speaker 3: Bay has been absolutely torched over the last month. They've
Speaker 3: allowed twenty six fantasy points per game to quarterbacks, and
Speaker 3: that includes a six point dud from Will Levis that
Speaker 3: Levis game. Aside, they allowed twenty seven to Brock Purty,
Speaker 3: twenty nine to Josh Allen, and forty two to c. J. Stroud.
Speaker 3: All in the last four weeks. I'm not predicting that
Speaker 3: kind of ceiling for Minshew, but twenty plus points is
Speaker 3: extremely viable and a QB one performance feels like a lock.
Speaker 3: So if you need to stream for some reason this
Speaker 3: week and having known on by helps avoid that problem,
Speaker 3: but the injuries kind of cancel that out. Minshew is
Speaker 3: your guy.
Speaker 1: Thirty points for Minshew.
Speaker 2: You heard it here first. Someone that we've talked of
Speaker 2: a lot on this show is Zach Sharbonay and Kenneth
Speaker 2: Walker leaves early this week. Okat a hard schedule coming up,
Speaker 2: but what are your expectations for ZC Yeah.
Speaker 3: If for some reason you just joined, this is the
Speaker 3: first time you're hearing of Zach Sharbonay. The important thing
Speaker 3: to know is the Seahawks spent up in big draft
Speaker 3: capital to add him in the second round this year,
Speaker 3: despite the fact they had just done that with Kenneth Walker,
Speaker 3: and so we kind of thought, well, does I mean
Speaker 3: he's going to eat into Walker's workload this year? They're
Speaker 3: going to run a committee of some kind. And he's
Speaker 3: really just been more of a light change of pace
Speaker 3: roll guy for these first couple months, but he was
Speaker 3: just starting to flash before Waffers for this oblique injury
Speaker 3: this past Sunday, and now he has the opportunity potentially
Speaker 3: to show out in a lead role. From what I've heard,
Speaker 3: and this is somewhat speculative. For now, Walker will likely
Speaker 3: miss one to three weeks, and the next three matchups
Speaker 3: are not great. It's forty nine Ers, Cowboys and forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers again, so the upside may not be huge,
Speaker 3: but Sharboney has sixty plus scrimmage yards in three of
Speaker 3: his last four games, running primarily as the backup. I
Speaker 3: do think he will be a flex play in those games,
Speaker 3: and given his upside and the chance that there may
Speaker 3: be lingering injury for Walker, I think Charboney could be
Speaker 3: one of those league winning ads that we always get
Speaker 3: around this time of year.
Speaker 1: So trying to again he was, He's definitely starting to
Speaker 1: close the gap a little bit there in Seattle. Gotta
Speaker 1: take a break. We'll be right back, Ty Chandler, I
Speaker 1: know we have loved him, and it just seems like
Speaker 1: the Vikings aren't ready to commit to Alexander Madison. So
Speaker 1: maybe this is Chandler's time finally coming along.
Speaker 3: Skull Listen, They've done their best not to commit Alexander Madison,
Speaker 3: So I do believe you there now he was. Chandler
Speaker 3: was out carried by Madison eighteen to ten on Sunday,
Speaker 3: and it's worth noting that three point one of his
Speaker 3: fantasy points came on a fake punt, which it maybe
Speaker 3: a little fluky, but I just say those things to
Speaker 3: set the expectations. I do think Chandler is still a
Speaker 3: really strong pickup. On the ten carries he did get,
Speaker 3: he had seventy three rushing yards. More importantly, perhaps he
Speaker 3: caught all four of his targets for thirty seven yards
Speaker 3: on Sunday Night Football. Madison caught one of his two
Speaker 3: targets for negative yardage, and he's just not passing the
Speaker 3: eye test the way that Chandler is. I think Chandler
Speaker 3: looks much more explosive, and you really want to have
Speaker 3: that aspect in the run game. We saw what it
Speaker 3: did for Kirk Cousins when it was Dalvin Cook in Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I think Chandler is much more in that kind of mold,
Speaker 3: and Madison can go back to being what he was
Speaker 3: with Dalvin Cook, which is a really good change of pace. Guys.
Speaker 3: So hope the Vikings watch this tape, look at this
Speaker 3: production and start to make the switch. If they do,
Speaker 3: I think you're looking at like the new version of
Speaker 3: Devin singletary supplanting Damien Pierce phenomenon, which we've seen work
Speaker 3: out really well. So pick up Chandler if he's available.
Speaker 2: Every time I hear the name Todd Chandler, I think
Speaker 2: of the old Knicks Center. And speaking of New York legends,
Speaker 2: Odell Beckham Junior over one hundred yards this past week
Speaker 2: for the first time, maybe since he's been in New York. No,
Speaker 2: Mark andrews, Now, what are you expecting from Odell?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is honestly wild that this is a thing.
Speaker 3: There was a long time ago we never thought Odell
Speaker 3: would be on a waiver wire. Then recently we didn't
Speaker 3: know if he'd be on a football field again. Now,
Speaker 3: since Week ten, he scored a touchdown twice. Then he
Speaker 3: took those four catches for one hundred and sixteen yards
Speaker 3: on T andF this past week. That's double digit Fantasy
Speaker 3: points in three straight games. He looks good. And while
Speaker 3: we haven't seen an incredible ceiling, I like the fact
Speaker 3: that the tape is showing more of the Odell of old.
Speaker 3: He looks explosive. He's taking slants on for long gains,
Speaker 3: and most importantly and unfortunately, Mark Andrews out for the season,
Speaker 3: which means Lamar Jackson is going to need a new
Speaker 3: alpha and a new go to target in the red zone.
Speaker 3: I think Zay Flowers will be great, maybe the one
Speaker 3: A between the twenties and downfield, but as possible, Odell
Speaker 3: becomes the one B possession receiver and the biggest threat
Speaker 3: to score if he steps up anywhere close to the
Speaker 3: talent level he's had in his past, I think we're
Speaker 3: looking at a highly startable wide receiver down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Speaking of startable wide receivers, Josh Downs has been playing
Speaker 1: well all year long. People haven't really seemed to get
Speaker 1: on board. But maybe after the buye people will jump in.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it takes at this point, Matt, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: what it took was his October when he was absolutely
Speaker 1: red hot and was averaging sixteen point six Fantasy points
Speaker 1: per game and hit seventy plus yards or the end
Speaker 1: zone in all four of those games. Then the problem
Speaker 1: and the reason he's available again is he scored a
Speaker 1: combined eight Fantasy points in weeks nine through ten and
Speaker 1: then hit his buy. Weeks nine through ten were matchups
Speaker 1: against the Panthers and the Patriots spoiler old hurt. Neither
Speaker 1: of those opponents are friendly to fantasy wideouts or good
Speaker 1: game scripts for Downs. Coming off his buy, you already
Speaker 1: know who he faces in week twelve because we hit
Speaker 1: at the top with Gardner Minshew. No team is allowing
Speaker 1: more schedule adjusted Fantasy points to the wide receiver position
Speaker 1: than the Buccaneers over the last five weeks. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love Downs as a start this week, and he gets
Speaker 1: the Titans in week thirteen, who are also a top
Speaker 1: tier matchup for wide receivers. And I just like Downs
Speaker 1: despite the two down performances against those bad matchups. So
Speaker 1: I think he's in for a bounce back, will be
Speaker 1: good down the stretch. You're gonna want him on your
Speaker 1: roster for the fantasy playoffs. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And speaking of rookie wide receivers, Jayden Reed just continues
Speaker 2: to produce by air, by land, by sea.
Speaker 3: Maybe who knows?
Speaker 2: Like he just he's finding different ways to be productive.
Speaker 2: So what he think think about the rookie going forward?
Speaker 3: Yeah? If we put the Packers on a ship in
Speaker 3: the ocean, Jayden Reid would still produce. I'm pretty sure. Listen,
Speaker 3: if Jordan Love was Patrick Mahomes or apparently CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 3: this annoyingly even distribution of targets in Green Bay might
Speaker 3: not be as frustrating because maybe he could support several
Speaker 3: of them. Unfortunately he is not, which means it's been
Speaker 3: very hard to zero in on any single Packers wide
Speaker 3: out as a reliable fantasy option. But I do think
Speaker 3: Jayden Reed is nearing the point where he is that guy.
Speaker 3: Over the last month, he leads the crew in touches
Speaker 3: with twenty and scrimmage yards with two hundred and ninety nine,
Speaker 3: and he's playing essentially on par with Christian Watson and
Speaker 3: Romeo Dobbs in snaps and routes. And the fact that
Speaker 3: I used touches and scrimmage yards and the way Florio
Speaker 3: injured him is worth noting because it's a nod to
Speaker 3: his creative usage in the run game. He tallied forty
Speaker 3: six yards and a touchdown on three carries this past
Speaker 3: Sunday against IT Chargers. He also just looks the most
Speaker 3: explosive on tape. Christian Watson has not looked consistently good.
Speaker 3: Reid has sixty plus scrimmage yards and or a touchdown
Speaker 3: in four of the Packers' last five games. That's as
Speaker 3: consistent as we're getting from this crew. I think he's
Speaker 3: an excellent stash. And he gets to Buccaneers in week fifteen,
Speaker 3: so that's a quarterfinals win right there. Thirty points there.
Speaker 1: Is is lock it in. Yeah, and like you know,
Speaker 1: he's running the ball, he's catching the ball. So no,
Speaker 1: obviously that means he's Deebo Samuel, because that's how it
Speaker 1: works nowadays in Fantasy. Taysom Hill, we know you love
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. I'm just gonna I'm gonna stand back and
Speaker 1: let you gush about Taysom Hill here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we amazingly. I think by now even the pod
Speaker 3: listeners all know that I love Taysom Hill because this
Speaker 3: is maybe what the third or fourth time we mentioned him.
Speaker 3: And the problem is that we have to keep mentioning him.
Speaker 3: So here we go back to the lab again. He
Speaker 3: had a dud in week ten. I told you these
Speaker 3: would come. He will have duds. Every fantasy tight end
Speaker 3: has them, but certainly Taysom Hill is a little more
Speaker 3: suspect to them. But that was the only one in
Speaker 3: the last several weeks of action from Taysom Hill, and
Speaker 3: then he had his buy in week eleven, so once
Speaker 3: again he's available in more than half of NFL dot
Speaker 3: com leagues. We need to fix that. You must pick
Speaker 3: Taysom Hill back up if you're in need at tight end.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking at you, Mark Andrews. Managers, here's your
Speaker 3: reassurance if you need it. If you take that single
Speaker 3: digit outing in week ten and you take the week
Speaker 3: off for the bye, Taysom Hill still has seventy two
Speaker 3: Fantasy points since week six. That ranks six among tight
Speaker 3: ends over that span in total, and fifth if you
Speaker 3: remove Mark Andrews from the picture, which obviously we have
Speaker 3: to do moving forward. So I think Taysom Hill is
Speaker 3: a locked and loaded tight end one. You will have
Speaker 3: some down weeks, but you will have ceilings that very
Speaker 3: few other tight ends can hit. And whether Derek Carr
Speaker 3: plays banged up or Jameis Winston gets to start in
Speaker 3: the near future, we could see increase snaps for Taysom
Speaker 3: given his wonky rolls. The alternative QB and snaps for
Speaker 3: Taysom equals fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely they do. And I do think having Carr
Speaker 1: quarterback probably helps them because Jamis is probably gonna take
Speaker 1: some shots down the field that may not include Taysom Hill,
Speaker 1: but definitely worth adding. Matt is always good stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon. And that it
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