Week 10 Waivers & More W9 Game Film Review

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I want to remind you that Wednesday's podcast is for the yacht club, the NFL trade deadline has not passed as of my recording this right now, but tomorrow if you want the full rundown on what happens and a dig into what we think it means, Andy Barrens and I will do that on Wednesday's show. If you've considered the yacht club in the past, it's a great time to subscribe $5 a month or $50 a year, that also gets you live streams with me on Sundays at noon eastern. This coming Sunday you get to watch me as I watch the fourth quarter of a footy pajama patriots game that probably is not going to go very well, I'm usually not that much of a basket case, but in this case we will see. I alluded yesterday on the show to Pukka Nakua, potentially being injured in the Rams frustrating win over the commanders and now just 24 hours later we know that he's heading to IR, which takes that Rams super team that was anointed in August and pretty much fires it into the trash bucket. They have no receivers now. Matthew Stafford has nobody to throw it to. If I'm the Rams, I think I'm looking at this and saying what would the point of Brian Thomas even be at this point? They're not going to stink, but they are not going to be a wagon or an aerial show and I'm going to be doing ranks later today and Matthew Stafford is not going to be in the top 12 even against Arizona, whose defense to be honest has been frisky lately, and speaking of the Cardinals suddenly Michael Wilson is out for the season with a neck injury brutal and it seems like we're getting the Carson Beck experience immediately in that Rams game because Gardner Minshue, as I mentioned it looked like when I did that film review yesterday seemed to hurt something wasn't throwing right and his elbow is hurt and apparently he might be done for the season as well, doom and gloom for some important injuries and doom and gloom Monday night for the Vikings. When does a 6 and 2 team feel utterly hopeless when you just watched head wound farve Carson Wentz start the final game of his NFL career, a truly unbelievable performance. One that I certainly didn't see coming, Wentz threw three touchdowns in relief of Kyler Murray back in that Packers game in September when they rallied to win unexpectedly. He at least held it together starting the next week against Chicago, but oh my word. You and I were not the only ones surprised by what Wentz pooped out there on the field on Monday night against the bills. There's no earthly way Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings knew Wentz was capable of that, just a soil yourself kind of performance from the very beginning. The interceptions and the terrible decisions would come as the game went along but from the very first moment. It was obvious something was horribly wrong. Wentz is out there with like open check down receivers, five yards away and couldn't throw it to them. He threw that insane backwards pass over Justin Jefferson's head for a fumble. He should throw a pick six directly to Bradley Chubb, but Chubb drops it. The Vikings go three and out on four of their first five series, but because the defense was playing so well, it was somehow three to three and then it was ten to three and with like 30 seconds left in the half, Wentz did actually grip it and rip it a couple of times. Jefferson for 24 yards for his first catch to get them around midfield. Then Jordan Addison on the other side of the field with a catch. Then Jefferson got them in field goal range. So they're down ten to six at the half to start the second half, Aaron Jones draws a long pass interference up the right sideline. It feels like maybe like he has went settled down a little bit. He throws it directly to a defender standing right in front of TJ Hockinson for an interception. And then the very next drive, I think, another throw directly to Terrell Bernard who drops it. An ESPN did show that Wentz's elbow got hit on that throw, but Troy Acman rightly was just muttering under his breath. But if his elbow doesn't get hit, that guy is still standing in front of the person he was trying to throw it to. You could actually see Kyler Murray's hamstring injury healing before our very eyes. Max Brazmer, who basically looked like Wentz when he played last year, he came in in garbage time and just was refreshingly through passes. And the Vikings cannot use Carson Wentz ever again. That's obvious. The problem is that Murray, while better than that, is not good enough. And who are you going to go get? Daniel Jones? He's not playing well. And the cult said they're not trading him. The team say things, but you know, we'll see. Mac Jones? It's kind of a flyer, maybe, I guess. I don't know. My point is there is nobody who's going to save these guys at quarterback. There's this dude who plays for the Giants now, who might have been a good fit. Can't remember his name, JJ, something. But of course, the real answer would have been Sam Darnold, just pay Sam Darnold. The money is fake. You have all the money in the world. It doesn't matter. You can always get rid of the contract if he's not good. But I don't know. I guess you could go like begging to the Raiders for Kirk Cousins. But for the moment, just a mess. And we will see if the Vikings make any moves today. For the bills, you know, I don't always get to talk at length about them in film review. And believe me, Bill's fans will tell me about it. It's usually the guest picks the bills to talk about on Monday show. So it's usually the guest who is the one who does the talking. This was a hard matchup. The Vikings defense came out on fire. Josh Allen was under siege in the first half. The good version of a Bill's drive early on was 11 plays for 31 yards, followed by a Josh Allen deep ball interception. And that's no shade at Allen. The Vikings defense is just a very difficult puzzle to try to put together. Because whence was so bad, the bills basically had the ball for three drives. And the entire first quarter can only build a three to nothing lead, obviously, with Josh Allen. That is not common. And it could have been worse. Allen had that near fumble at his own goal line that initially was called a fumble. And the Vikings would have had the ball at the Buffalo one. It was rightly overturned on replay. And the two minute drill at the end of the first half, the bills went hurry up with some quick hitters. They started to work a little bit. And then Allen just a lightning strike. One of his just magical moments, a scramble drill throws a deep late shot to some dude named Latu that I'd never heard of. That would be the first touchdown of the game. A third and long in the third quarter, just an absolutely all world throw by Allen to drop one in the bucket to tie Johnson for 36 yards and another field goal that made it 13 to 6. And then from there, the story for the bills offense was the same as it was for the Lions offense the week before they just decided to run. They sacrificed James Cook's body for the benefit of the team. For much of the game, that running was hopeless. Cook was stuffed because the Vikings D is awesome and terrifying. But the Vikings offense is so bad that they just can't take advantage on the scoreboard. And very clearly, Lions and bills in back-to-back weeks, the idea had been like body blows. Do it in the first quarter. Do it in the second quarter and the third quarter and it won't work. Punt if you have to because eventually even the best defense can't take that many body blows. The Vikings D got tired in the fourth for the second straight week through no fault of their own, strictly speaking Carson Wentz's fault. And James Cook started to have success. He's a really good running back and you know, he hits it hard and eventually started to find creases and scores his touchdown. He has 30 carries. Somebody get that man an IV drip. Nobody on the bills other than Cook posted a massive fantasy day and yet they earned a lot of respect for how tough they played and how well they hung in there. If the Vikings had a quarterback, it would have been more interesting to see how well Alan might have chased on the scoreboard and I don't think it's a sure thing that he couldn't have put up bigger numbers if he'd had to because he's fantastic, but they didn't need to do that. So they ran Cook like crazy and took away some real bonafides that they are a tough team. week, they're at the judge. That will not be as difficult. And meanwhile, the Vikings were lick their wounds, but they will presumably need to score because they visit Lambo to visit the Packers. - Today's kickoff. - Okay, on today's show, we've still got five more games from the Sunday action in week nine to get to, so that's what I will do. If you don't hear me talk about the game, you were interested in hear me talk about. It means that I talked about it on Monday's show, and I recommend giving that one a listen to. Today, I will discuss Lyons Dolphins, Broncos Panthers, Raiders 49ers, Brown Saints, and Texans Chargers. And then it's time to start thinking about week 10 to help me begin that process, John Dagle. From establish the run, we'll join the show. We will do our best to cobble together a waiver wire segment for week 10. I think you have a good time. I thank you again so much for listening today. We are sponsored by Ridge. They've been a fun new sponsor this year. I've talked about Ridge wallets, phone cases, their tracker card. 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Check out all the great gift ideas and show this new sponsor some love Ridge.com/Harris. - He put on 10 pounds of muscle. - Indeed, good point robot tell ya. All these guys incredible off seasons. They all put on 10 pounds of muscle. Let's go back to Sunday. Let's talk about the Lions having a tough time in Miami with the Dolphins. Not because of heat, wasn't that hot? Certainly was not raining. The game announcers made a big deal of the fact that Dolphins head coach Jeff Hathley coordinated the Packers defense. And so he knows the Lions scheme well. Given what the Miami defense has looked like most of the year, I don't really find that particularly compelling. But the Dolphins did throw zone after zone at Jared Goff and Goff did not like his unclean looks and certainly did struggle. The interception not Goff's fault. Second drive, he gets hit as he throws. It's a flutter ball directly to a defender. But largely Goff was frustrated as I watched this game. That's what it felt like anyway. Through a million check downs, dirted the ball some and the Lions had to punt. Late third quarter, when it was nine-six, the first deep connection of the day was a corner route to Jamison Williams for 30. Next play was a deep dig to Amun Ross St. Brown. They have a fourth and one. In close in the red zone, they pitch it right. Two Jamir Gibbs. Gibbs had been headed for a little bit of a frustrating day after early in the game. He took a Wildcat snap, anyone around the left edge and probably should have scored, but stepped out of bounds on his way in the end zone. Fortunately, on that third quarter drive, on the fourth and one, he did not step out of bounds and scored and saved his day. But Miami's defense, they bottled him up. It was a very good performance by a defense that we don't, or at least I don't expect very much of. And this is a one-score game until there's four minutes and 30 seconds left. Goff was a little disappointing. Amun Ross had been questionable, but caught two passes on the first drive. Obviously was fine right away. Can't have too many days like that from one of the NFL's supposedly trustable offenses. Last week against the Vikings, we forgive it 'cause we just talked about how good that Vikings defense is. Lions go to Germany for week 10, take on the Patriots defense that just got eviscerated by Green Bay. We're gonna rank the Lions components again, like they are no-brainer fantasy starters, but we need to see them get back to taking advantage. For Miami's offense, one thing that I think, I've read a couple places, but is it getting propagated out there? Malik Willis is obviously not right. He had ample opportunities against the Lions to run and scramble in this game. He did get a few important runs that moved the chains, but the game announcers Kevin Harlan, Trent Green, they had obviously been told that Malik Willis' groin injury is a real problem and he certainly ran like it. Very gingerly, not very escapable, never really hitting the accelerator. And that obviously removes much of any streamer fantasy appeal that Willis might have. He's considered one of the right answer streamers for week nine because of a presumptive shootout or because they'll be losing big the entire game, which is why predicting game flow isn't always a profitable enterprise. Miami kept it close and I grant you, if folks had known that Willis wasn't really able to be able to run, they would not have been recommending him last week as a streamer, even if the dolphins had gotten down big on a scoreboard, but with no running. Now we know, I think you probably got to stay away. I hated how conservative Miami was. There were several like second and third and long where you did a gun run and kind of gave up on a draw where okay, you're trying to hope to catch the Lions defense napping, but they never were really napping and it never really worked. Like in the first half, there's a third and 11 in the red zone, third and 11. You gun run a draw. Like what are the odds that the Lions are gonna fall asleep within 20 yards of their end zone and it did not work. And they kicked a field goal and obviously all they did was kick field goals. There was a beautiful bomb throw from Willis to the ham and mustard on Rye, Kevin Coleman, a great drop in the bucket, but it was called back for holding. Olly Gordon in the first half, nine carries 45 yards with some tough interior runs. First play of the third quarter, he got hit in the head with shaking his noggin a little bit and came out for the rest of that series. He would return until he got a red zone carry on a second and 16. That was with 11 minutes to play and Gordon was done for the day after that. I haven't yet heard of anyone calling it an injury or calling it a concussion. And so like I don't know, we at least need to make sure that he's practicing this week. You're gonna see in the box score a big reception by Ketron Allen that was on a fake punt. But in the hurry up at the end of the game, Miami had in some dude named Carlos Washington getting snaps. So maybe we're gonna hear something about an Olly Gordon problem. The thing, I guess I wanted to come away from this film emphasizing with the dolphins. Obviously not anything close to an environment that you wanna trust, but Caleb Douglas, I'm watching that film yesterday. I was so impressed that I kind of wanted him to stop producing, stop making catches. He did a blodge in garbage time with a truly horrible drop on a fourth and 12 that ended the game. But before that, the rookie Caleb Douglas, dynasty owners take note, he is impressive. There has usually been maybe like one or two plays a week even in bad dolphins performances that make you go, huh, like there was more than that against the Lions Sunday. The second drive, he saves Willis an interception with a wow grab to go up and sky and get an overthrown ball that was headed directly to a defensive backs hands. He can't teach six foot four, but he was just also really coordinated. Second half, Douglas had a comeback or route on a third and long, just really nasty. The kid can sink his hips and make you think he's gonna blast by you on any route and then break it off. A big dude who can route like that. I know we were really told to look out for Chris Bell back from his torn ACL and who knows? Maybe eventually we'll learn that Bell wasn't right all year, but Douglas is the one who if we wake up in three seasons and one of the young Miami receivers has become the alpha and earned a big contract. It's very believable to me right now that it's Caleb Douglas. In week 10, the dolphins will host the Colts. Let's talk about the Broncos win on the road at Carolinas, really good game and a tough win for the Broncos who've made a habit of winning tough games. They're losing this game, 14-13 in the fourth quarter and put together a couple of drives with an offense that obviously a lot of stories have been written about. It's janky, it's probably not gonna not be janky this season. It started really well for Denver in this game. It looked like maybe they wanted to pick on Carolinas back up corner backs with deep throws. First play of the game is a bomb to Courtland Sutton. He catches it, but he's barely out of bounds. Second play, a deep shot to Troy Franklin. He draws along interference, but then in the red zone, Bonyx runs around like a dingbat and they kick a field goal. Jalen Waddle on the second drive gets open on a deep dig for 20 yards. They get in the red zone, Nick's throws a little slant, a bit behind Sutton, but he reaches behind it, grabs it, it's 10-nothing, pretty quick. felt like this would be easy for the Broncos. It certainly would not wind up being easy. Third drive, late first quarter, Waddle got absolutely lit up on a deep ball. He got held before the ball got there, so it was a penalty, so it doesn't actually count, but the safety smashed him. Waddle popped right up and ran off in the moment, watching it seemed like he'd be okay. He was not okay, did not return. He was ruled out at halftime with a concussion. Denver is fortunately off next week, so here's hoping he doesn't miss any more time. The Broncos had eight different receivers make catches in the first 20 minutes of this game in the second quarter. You know, Nick throws a red zone interception. I don't think you really blame him too much. He was a really great play by a sagging cover two corner to make that catch. At 10-7 Broncos, the Carolina kicker kicks the ball out of bounds, giving Denver enough field position to manage a field goal and be up 13-7 at the half. But the offense was a mess for a long stretch. Nick did avoid the big mistakes, but he was stuck on about 120 yards passing after three quarters. The Broncos had about 30 yards rushing as a team at that point to start the fourth. What cracked the ice a little bit was Jonah Coleman, early fourth quarter, catching one in the flat, getting a first down. Sutton wins a contested catch on a third and sixth down the left side line. They're in the red zone. Pat Franklin has a catch inside the 10 and Coleman pays it off. Finally, with a short touchdown run to retake the lead at 19-14. And the last touchdown was a fully blown coverage with Pat Bryant totally uncovered. But then trying to kill the clock up six, they pitch it back to Coleman. And it goes off his face and goes backwards. If he doesn't fall on it, they probably lose, but he does. Carolina would have the ball at midfield after the punt with plenty of time to go win it, which they did not do. JK Dobbins got the second series in this game. He played a little is nine offensive snaps for Dobbins. You very much get the idea. Denver has found their running back. His name is Jonah Coleman. This was supposed to be a pretty easy matchup. Ross Tucker doing this game pointed out several times where it felt like the Panthers had made some defensive changes to plug up some rush lanes with the new defensive coordinator. Coleman fortunately scores the touchdown. And I do think you are very locked in on him for week 11 home Raiders in a couple of weeks. The Panthers started very slow. Bryce Young had Tedero a Macmillan for a long game on the second drive and just overthrew him. They started the second quarter with a good drive. Ted Macmillan and Chuba Hubbard with chunk gains. Jalen Koker, a deep shot thought it should have been a touchdown is against Riley Moss in man. He thought the play was supposed to be a deep fade or he expected like an over the top ball. And if it had been, he would have scored a long touchdown. But I don't think that was the play. So the ball was thrown too flat and was incomplete. And then they miss a chip shot field goal. So it's still 10 nothing. But I will admit, after that ridiculous performance Thursday, a couple of Thursdays ago against Green Bay, this was much better blocking. Maybe not great, but certainly like that was a non-functioning blocking scheme at Lambo. And Denver's defense is real. There's a pretty good effort, a better effort from the O-line. And Young certainly got hot in the second and third quarters. There was a third and 17 stick throw to Ted. And that was a great throw. Darren Waller started to get involved late second quarter. I wasn't that impressed at first. Everything pretty much a check down. They had a fourth and one kind of high Denver territory. And Chuba Hubbard, that's a great run. The whole is like totally plugged. It should be a loss. It should be a turnover on downs. He sees it. He teleports sideways to get the first down. The touchdown goes to Tommy Tremble. Caroline had a ridiculous 101 penalty yards in the first half alone here. First play of the third quarter. Who are you and what have you done with Darren Waller? They send him deep over the, over like, I guess it's an over route for a big gain. And then Darren Waller, the touchdown. I hope you take a look at that touchdown. Just young through it, like high and hard as possible. And Waller somehow snagged it. That is a great touchdown catch. That's eight for 90 with a touchdown for Waller. I wish we could rely on it because that is amazing. Waller has mostly pulled the disappearing act anytime he's scored or done anything. The next week he does nothing. But those third quarter catches in that touchdown in this game. You wonder why they don't use him more. Carolina was now up one. And they drove it late third quarter. Waller draws interference in the end zone. They're on the one yard line. Two clever by half. The Panthers play action. And they look for Tremble again. It gets deflected and snagged off the turf in the end zone. And you can imagine if they just handed to Chuba there, momentum never changes. And Carolina may be wins. And yet they still had to come back in them. When young isn't completely under siege, he's still playing well in emergency mode. On a fourth and 18, he sticks a laser throw to John Meche to get them inside the 10 McMillan scores on a slant from in close with three minutes to go. It's 26-21 Broncos. Carolina gets it back. But young gets pressured from his blind side around midfield. Fumbles. The game is lost. As I say, Coker was very close to a long score. It is nevertheless a frustrating four for 29. Then he is certainly well submerged in the sadness. 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It was 28 to 17 at that point, and the Niners would connect on a bomb touchdown soon thereafter, which ended the competitive portion of the program. What can we say about what we saw in this one? I had some possums in the Yacht Club live stream on Sunday asking, what about DeMarcus Robinson? I'm not saying that anyone in there is super insistent about it, but understandable. No Mike Evans, still no Debo Samuel. An easy defense to play against. Couldn't some 49er wide receiver be good? And Shannie Jr. had a message for all of us. No. Robinson was the first receiver who was targeted on the first drive did make a catch. Jacob Cowing also a catch on the first drive. On the second drive, they go right down again and Cowing gets an end zone target, gets interfered with. Third drive in the second quarter. Jordan Watkins gains 25 on a scramble drill. Very next play, a completion to Caderral Hodge. All of which is a way of saying the 49ers are just spinning the dial. They had four different wide receivers make one catch before anybody made two. It would wind up being Watkins in the third quarter who makes the touchdown catch on a 50 yard, 50/50 ball that made it 35/17. But I just think watching how this went, I don't know how you can rely on any of them, including Watkins or anybody else in the San Francisco Whiteout Corps. You got Party, McCaffrey, Kittle. The first three drives were a hot knife through butter. And then things weren't as good after that. Party got stuffed on a push push around midfield. He under threw a ball in the third quarter that got picked. But he also scrambled in a rushing touchdown from the one. It's those three guys very unimpeachable. And then we just have to see about the health of the other receivers. This includes next week in Dallas against the Cowboys. The Raiders part of this equation. Well, Clint Cubiak, Thanos, snap. mapped week 8 out of existence. If you didn't know the craziness that happened in the Vegas backfield against the Jets, you wouldn't think anything of it. This job was once again, Ashton Gentys. I did rank him that way, you'll recall for week 9. I had a feeling that this was more punishment than demotion. Sometimes my feelings are wrong. In this case, Gentys started. He was targeted on the Raiders first play. He had a carry on the second play. Like Washington did get a carry on Vegas's second drive, but then after catches consecutively by Jack Besh, Brock Bowers, Jalen Naylor, and Trey Tucker. They're in the red zone, Gentys back in there, gets a carry inside the five. Mike Washington did come in at that point, but Kirk Cousins snuck in a touchdown that made it 14-7-9ers. First half, the Raiders just didn't have the ball very much. San Francisco was marching up and down the field. Vinci played 10 snaps, Washington played 6. Second half, though, much more genty. He was sacrificed at the altar of 1,000 Kirk Cousins check downs. And it didn't look great. It looked a lot like last year, where you remember, in 2025, the workload really wasn't the problem. Having anywhere to run was the problem. The offensive line certainly could not handle the 49ers front on Sunday. Only one carry for Genty in the second half, while Washington in the second half had four carries for minus three yards. And Genty had all five of his catches for minus five yards, but certainly played a bunch more, seemed much more again to be a 2/3, 1/3 kind of arrangement that it had been most of the year. It's not worth very much in an offense that never really is going to run that well. It doesn't seem like. Of course, the receiving was pretty garbage on Sunday as well. Brock Bowers, a great touchdown where he goes up and gets it kind of like that Darren Waller catch, although the Waller one was maybe even a little better on the top shelf down the middle, also a fumble on a tight end screen in Niners territory, not great. Early fourth quarter, I think I got to go rewatch it again. It sure looked to me like Bowers got into the end zone, extending the ball over the pylon, the Raiders didn't challenge and just accepted that they had the ball at the San Francisco one. Cousins tried a QB sneak again, got absolutely blown up. Then Mayor commits offensive pass interference, catching a touchdown pass, so it backs them way up. And Cousins throws his second smelly pick of the second half and ended all pretense that had any comeback potential in that game. Next week, the Raiders host the Seahawks, it's Bowers, it's probably nobody else if you can get away with it. And some genty owners might not be able to get away with it, but I don't think that's going to go very well. We got the overtime game. You want to make something question your life choices. Five quarters of Brown Saints will do it. Certainly no lack of events in this game, but I can't tell you there's so much to learn for your fantasy lineup, the Saints used Audric Estimae as their lead back. I'm sure we'll mention him in waivers coming up here. And it was an Audric Estimae revenge game, because he was on the Browns last week. The first three plays of the game, Estimae got carries. The third one went for like 20 yards. This is a mere white, also got a carry in the first quarter. Estimae had multiple chances to get touchdowns. He was stuffed in the second quarter, but fourth quarter, the second lightning strike play the Saints had in this game. Crystal Lave was double covered. He flashed late hands. Tyler Schuck made a great tight window throw that got New Orleans in the red zone. Alvin Camera had done nothing to that point, but he got them down to the two. And Estimae did finally pay it off with a short touchdown. I think we all thought Travis Steve would be back by now. ETN is still on engine reserve, and the Saints still haven't opened his practice window. So I don't know, you know, I don't really want any Saints running back. I think if you watch this game, you know that in overtime, it actually was Camera that suddenly got some room and got hot. That feels really hard to rely on and certainly could have been the result of the Browns defense wearing down after five quarters. But Estimae in regulation does 30 snaps to Camera's 29 and outtouches him 15 to 6. I guess in Saints land, for the moment that means Estimae is the lead back given that the team cut Kendra Miller last week, I'll let you be the judge of whether your fantasy team needs to rely on Audric Estimae who is a big slow unidirectional banger who's been in the league for three years on three teams. The other question is Jordan Tyson. And we said on the show last week that you were probably best off waiting to use him. That certainly was correct after a bombshot complete to Barry and Brown. That was the first Saints chunk play that gained like 50 some odd yards. Tyson got in there, got a catch in the red zone, ran it down to the one and promptly fumbled. And he played only three snaps in the first half. As Kellyn Moore had clearly told the CBS broadcasters that Tyson would be on a pitch count. He had a few very short second half catches. Certainly, looks like a good mover, hard to tell anything beyond that at this point. I think you're probably still for fantasy waiting for a good game before actually using him in a lineup. And meanwhile, Devon Veile ran the most routes of any Saints receiver, didn't catch a pass until over time where upon Johan Johnson, who had caught a ball, I don't believe on the first drive. And not again, in over time, he runs a corner out scores what would be the winning touchdown, but very, very difficult to chase that as well. Shock ran well, got several first down scrambling, but Olave is your only sure starter on the Saints. The Browns, how in the world should or centers got near 300 passing yards is a miracle of modern astrophysics. That was a tough watch. I think the fact that he was able to make bigger plays when there was no longer any choice on the scoreboard is probably an indication that there's some actual talent buried somewhere in there, but my goodness, watching this game for three quarters, it was Sanders checking everything down even more than that. It's him running around and just not throwing the ball, taking sacks throwing it at a bounce, trying to think it's a college and he has forever. He just doesn't. So conservative and the Saints defense just kept creeping up closer and closer. The Browns were in it because a doofus Saints punt returner ran backwards and fumbled. Not really even because on that position, Quinch on Judkins did have a tough carry against the five. Sanders ran a quarterback draw stuffed at the one fourth down. Sanders ran into Judkins trying to hand it to him on the goal line and they were stopped. So this game was three to three for a very long time. If you want another representative sequence, the Browns had a fourth and seven and they punted, but the Saints were off sides. So the Browns decided to undo the punt. We're going to go for it on fourth and two around midfield and Sanders just ran around and threw that a bounce to turn it over on downs. There was, however, a backfield shift. There came a point where Judkins sat a bunch and Dylan Samson was playing, not just on third downs and not just in passing situations, Samson wasn't good and didn't have any more success than Judkins did. But remember, the Saints' defense is supposed to be this extreme soft touch for running games. My theory from having watched it was that Norland's just was not scared of anything downfield and plugged up every rushing lane. And in the end, maybe they should have been a little more scared of stuff downfield because they utterly blew a coverage on Casey Concepcion with five minutes left in the game. He's by himself down the right side line, makes the catch. He gets going, he juke the safety, then he's gone to somehow have Cleveland winning that game. And from there, Sanders did look a lot more like a pro quarterback with some downfield accuracy because he had to. He took a huge hit at the end of regulation to drill a throw to Jerry, Judy of all people. His first target and catch of the game, they tie it with a field goal, then down seven in overtime, Denzel Boston, a tight window catch over the middle. And the walk, Harold Fanon needed all 70 minutes, didn't have a catch in regulation. First he grabs like a three yarder over the middle, but then another one where he stiff arms, two defenders to the fiery depths of hell and scores to save your fantasy team. The Browns go for the win. You'll be shocked to hear this. Sanders runs around and throws it helplessly to end it. I assume to Sean Watson will be back for week 10 home Texans while the Saints, as I mentioned, will be home Carolina. And finally, two and five at 0 and seven, Texans chargers. I feel bad for cousin Josh. I did believe he was on the wise guy side of that spread, picking the chargers. The wise guys were no match for the chargers. I talked yesterday with Matt Harman about how Packers Patriots was worse than an 18 point slaughter. This was way worse than a 22 point slaughter, an entire fourth quarter of garbage time. We can do away with the chargers very quickly. Lad Makonky has back spasms pregame and doesn't even play. And one day we may look back on the lad young lad and just shake our heads at how this really tough dude just had some bad injury luck. But right now he is not beating the allegations that he is S-O-F-T. Harrison Herbert, under siege, sacked seven times in the first three quarters. Also just miss. reading the Texans defense regularly. He comes out of this game after breaking his left hand, which he did last year as well. So far says he'll keep playing. When Quentin Johnston scored on a long run after catch, it was 38 to 9 in the fourth quarter. That was LA's first offensive touchdown since week five. We are not starting any chargers. Keep Mitchell after like an okay run losing by 22. Spins the ball to talk about how great he is and talks crap to the defense. Very next play he fumbles. Get out of here with this entire team. The Texans. CJ Stroud played awesome and I still say shares a lot in common for good and for sometimes not great with Jordan Love. When Stroud can keep it under control and not do too much, he can really spend the ball. He did get intercepted mid-second quarter trying to squeeze one in against Cover 2, which is typical of his kind of over aggressive mistake, but it was basically the only one he made. And if you just want the counterpoint to that play right before half time, he squeezed one into the Cover 2 turkey hole on the sideline by a whisker, landed it in the waiting arms of Tank Dell. Great story. Dell back. His second game. He goes six to three yards for a touchdown. You'll see Keishan Booty in the box score. He had yet another Stroud deep laser right before half time and a long touchdown in the second half uncovered. Xavier Hutchinson had a crazy catch on a third and long in the first quarter one handed and another chance to make a deep play in the second quarter just barely off his hands. Marvin Harrison was the quiet one but he had a catch on an out route up the right sideline at the end of the half. And we didn't even mention Nico Collins, kind of sometimes the forgotten man. He clearly gets help coverage over the top anytime he's doing anything other than like running a screen. He was the target on the very first play of the game and then he was hushed silent until his touchdown third quarter right after Booty marks drops one in the red zone next play. Just an outrageous one handed grab at the pylon where Collins somehow scores to make it 31 to nine. But our issue here is really the same as when Jalen Noel was healthy and occasionally popping and even back Jaden Higgins before he got hurt very early on and he was popping up in September. It's still just a lot of guys and in a week where everybody goes off. Cool. Everybody has a chance to go off. That's just not going to be every week. Hutchinson and Collins are the two receiver set guys but they play three and four a good amount. Booty I don't know he came fifth in this rotation this week. I've had enough occasion on Booty going off one week and doing nothing the next I'm not biting on that one with with Harrison and Dell. I think you can view them similarly but not really start them. This is affecting Nico Collins as much as we don't want it to and we think he's really good. It's an equal opportunity offense and it makes it tough to trust anyone though I think mostly if you have Collins you have to use him in week 10 Texans host the Browns and then it says here that on Monday night next week we're forced to watch chargers at Ravens somebody please call ESPN flex that game. I know you're not a lot of flex that game. 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players it's a pretty interesting week for the waiver wire with one guy who's like technically eligible for this list but owned in most competitive leagues and then otherwise a bunch of names that i am interested in but nobody that i can like definitively say he's gold we need to be throwing all our fab at him i completely agree i think we're going to get a couple of stopgaps a couple of weeks of a player we can all use here on this week's waiver wire but beyond that i question the long term viability of some of these but it's one of those rare weeks where some of the guys i'm going to mention or even single digit rostered so no matter the league you're in you can go ahead and find them yeah they're going to be some guys you can churn there's some good churn this week it's not a terrible waiver wire that's for sure as always john you know you're a veteran of this show when you add someone you have to drop somebody and when you drop somebody you give them the thursday boot because the segment continues to be sponsored by thursday boots dot com because they are wonderful it's funny i did a live stream for my subscribers on sunday and somebody said hey show me some thursday boots and like a little train seal i ran over the door and grabbed a pair of thursday boots i felt like 10 years and then a new pair of sneakers that just got i scurry back to the camera see see they're great they really are great it's a great gift idea thursday boots dot com we want to always plant that bug in your ear so we're going to count down five through one and we'll talk about fab and stuff like that as we go john who's your number five waiver ed for week 10 my number five is the player that popped out of nowhere in calib johnson for the packers we know exactly what happened josh Jacobs injured his finger and now i'll miss the next next three to four weeks depending if he lands on injured reserve marsh on Lloyd was enacted with his knee injury he did close the week last week practicing so i have to see and if he's available or not christ books also eligible to return from injured reserve very soon but i'm at least trying to set everyone up that hey just like a couple other guys will talk about uh if all these players are injured then calib johnson you can sure start it was the best start that he's made probably in his career to be honest so will that continue not sure but again all we're looking for especially with landscape now running backs is if you're an every touch guy even if you end up like devin singletary tolerate your woody marks last week for example hey the johnson can at least match that production uh because that production was horrible so bye because just pretty much an every touch starter assuming everyone is out this week he would be number eight on my list so i'm not mad at it i get it um it's the Vikings this week that's just yeah i don't really want to do that but understood i'm going to just put a word in for canate mum field at number five uh i am going to assume maybe he didn't make your list he did not honorable mention and it's only because i'm a little bit wary the rams make a deal at the trade deadline for another water seaver sure but you should be wary anyway i mean they don't use these these how many times we've been through it where ram receivers get hurt and we're like okay someone's going to inherit it and it's it's davis allen or whatever you know so i should be wary that he's cannot in bungfield i agree yeah the thing is he's better than two two at well i having watched that game closely, you know, two to out. Well, as a disaster, at least Mumfields goes where he's supposed to go. I don't know if he's great, but there's a couple throws there in the second half to get them on track to Mumfield. I'm not, he's 2% rostered. I'm not excited about it, but I wanted to talk about the Rams potential fill-ins. And you're right, we're talking before the trade deadline. To be honest, if Brian Thomas is there, probably doesn't change Kanate Mumfield's fortunes. Like, he's the one who knows the offense. He can be a possession guy. There could be some volume there. Probably not. Am I going to rank him in some of my top 50? Well, it's going to be close. But he probably the highest Rams receiver for me. Who's number four on your list? Sticking with a low rostered running back in Audric Estimae, now, remember, after the Saints claimed Estimae off waivers midweek and just kind of thrust him into their lineup, he is familiar with Kelly Morse playbooks since he closed the year with the Saints too. And now in three consecutive games with New Orleans, he's surprisingly been a top 14 running back for fantasy. This is only the first game he played with him this year, and yet basically split touches with Alvin Camara, even running nearly as many routes as Camara too. And so if that's what we're getting with Travis ETN, his 21-day window, not even opened, I would imagine Estimae's role continues to grow larger. It also looked surprisingly spry on tape. It was a Cleveland rushing defense that has allowed numerous explosive plays every single week to running backs. But Estimae look good. So Estimae is my fourth pickup. He'd be six on my list. I've just been through this a lot with Audric Estimae, with the Broncos, with the Browns, with the Saints. I guess I just say with the Broncos, with the Saints, with the Browns, now with the Saints again, he's had moments. People get excited about him. He then flops the next week. I assume that's what's coming. But sure, he's number six on my list. And I agree, as far as churn goes, I'm not excited to use him, but 5% rostered fair. Absolutely. My number four, I still put Antonio Williams keeping the faith a little bit. I don't know if that I have that much faith in the player, but 31% rostered, so still technically eligible for this list. There are probably a lot of competitive leagues out there where people are like Harris. What are you talking about? He's owned. But he is still eligible for the list, so I'm still going to mention him. The schedule is really nice. I don't tend to be a schedule merchant, but I look at Giants, Bengals, Cardinals, Titans, the next four weeks. If Antonio Williams is going to turn it into anything for Ezorooki, it needs to happen right away. 31% rostered. Did he wind up on your list? He's an honorable mention. He's one of those guys in the labor rider status to run, where I've talked about for three weeks in a row, and so we're nearing the point to where I just don't even write about anymore. I just put him at the top of the list, say this guy should be rostered, but you haven't rostered him yet, thus you don't want to. So I'm just going to vary my own content. I'm just going to keep talking about other people. But obviously, yes, Antonio Williams should definitely be rostered everywhere. I'm just tired of talking about him. Who's number three on your list? I'm going to another running back here in Corey Kiner, and it's very similar to the other two options where Ramandri Stevenson will reportedly avoid surgery, but at least miss the next game for the Patriots in Munich against the Lions. And then the Patriots going by, and then we'll see if he returns Stevenson against the Chargers in week 12. But for right now, it's all Corey Kiner considered traviant Henderson is away from the team for what it sounds like mental health reasons. So Kiner has also popped. He's look explosive whenever he plays. I think Kiner's going to be in every touch running back. So that's my third option. You know, every touch, obviously, we don't overstate the case to make the case. If it even if it's 80% and then I feel standards, that's great. He's my number two. So we agree. 5% rostered. Yeah, I think he's looked pretty good. There have been times in these games where I'm like, Stevenson needs a blow. He's tired, put Kiner back in, and they mess around with like Lan Larrison. I'm like, dude, why, like, why is Lan Larrison on the active roster? He's a special team's player, put Corey Kiner back in. I agree. He's looks like a nice combination of pretty physical, not sluggish, can make a cut, okay, acceleration. He doesn't look like a star. But like compared to Audric Estimate, he looks like a star. Audric Estimate slow and Corey Kiner's not slow. And so I would, if I was choosing between the two, as you just said, I also would pick Corey Kiner. He was my two. Number three, it might be just another name that you've been mentioning a bunch in your waiver column, but Caleb Douglas is still technically now dropped back down to 30%. And I will just, I just did the film review on Caleb Douglas earlier in the show. And I'll just say that if there's a future star, maybe on that entire roster, I think it's Caleb Douglas. He's super impressive. This was a super impressive few catches against the Lions and a hilarious drop on 4th and 12 that ended the game. But like, I don't love the environment. And I suspect there's not a lot of pop games out there for him. But if he's available in your league, that's who I would add at wide receiver. Yeah, one of those names where I was on Chris Bell early, thinking that whenever the dolphins return from their buy, he'll be at full strength. But clearly the three, four full games that Caleb Douglas has played around his injury mid-year, he's been the dolphin's best wide receiver. So I agree with you. So one that I want to pick up, I also consider him like the list of Antonio Wumes guys that I'm tired of talking about, Adrian Mitchell and Ryan Flanoi, right? And it's like, you can definitely use these individuals if you want to pick them up. Otherwise, for content, I'm going to keep talking about new guys. That's cool. And those two guys aren't available. Aren't eligible for this list. They're both two. Oh, yes. Yeah. For the Chris Harris threshold, you're right. Those guys aren't available. For the 33%. All right. Who's number two? Another guy I keep talking about, but I am really high on this one, and that's Dylan Samson for the Browns. Since he returned from injury three weeks ago, only Ashton Gentile Chase Brown, Chuba Hubbard, have recorded more receptions among running backs. And Samson's not only his snap rate has increased in three consecutive games, but his share of the team's backfield touches has increased too. And that's because, as you watched Quinch on Juckins, he's really really had one explosive game. And that was a couple of weeks ago. Other than that, Samson actually has been more explosive. I think there's a real chance where this receiving floor, that's what continues offering him points weekly. But I believe there's a chance that he actually just eats into at least half of Quinch on Juckins carries down the road too. So Dylan Samson is someone I have stashed everywhere. He's already a biweek filler that you can start to, but I think there's a lot of meat on the bone here. So I'm going to keep talking about Dylan Samson. Heavy pause, like I laughed at Brandon Funston for bringing him up on the way we were show a couple weeks ago. You know, so I just did that film like 10 minutes ago on the show. And there is no question, as the game wore on against the Saints, it was more Samson in non-receiving back situations. It was non-third. He was being treated more like the main guy, really, to be honest, at parts in that game. The problem was that he stunk. The problem was that there was nowhere to run. And in the end, it probably was neither Samson nor Juckins stinking. It was the Saints being like, "Shirterstanders doesn't want to do anything, but check it down. We're just going to throw everything at the defensive line of scrimmage." So hard to know what any of it really meant. And I mean, you say he looks more explosive. I don't think I agree, but you know, that's a qualitative thing. So you have your opinion. I have mine like it's cool. I am more intrigued by him after this, after what this rotation looked like than I certainly was in the previous two games when Samson had come back because it did feel like you got to the third quarter of that game and the Browns were just frustrated that it was they at three points and were like, "Let's just try something else." My problem with Samson as like, for example, I would use Kiner over Samson, but my problem with him was that something else didn't work. But you know, I might just have this totally wrong, so I'm really glad to have had the conversation again about him because then I can. And I can. Yeah, go ahead. I completely agree with you that I would use Kiner this week with Stevenson assumed out over Samson, but also if we're talking about longevity and trying to find a sailing for the fantasy playoffs and rest of the year, I would expect both Stevenson and Henderson to be back here in like three, four weeks. And so then we just kind of lose the lust of Kiner and Estime. And so I'm still. There's obviously some projecting here. And even the second half of the game, if I can play Devil's Advocate with you, Samson was most likely in because that is not Quinch on Juckin's role because we know like the Browns offense couldn't get anything going really until the fourth quarter on. And that's when they're trailing, that's when Samson's in. But we disagree in that. Go ahead. No, they weren't trailing by much. They were less than a score down. I think they just frustrated. It felt like. Yeah, it felt like a lot. And then, you know, one 40 yard play to Harold Fanon later and suddenly even his production looks good when he wasn't targeted at all throughout the game. Where we just agree though is that yes, I do believe Dylan Samson has legs. Like, I think he can take over for Quinch on Juckin's, since Juckin's has given them really nothing except for inside the five. But that's projecting on my part, so totally can see how that would go wrong. My number one is Seth McGowan, who's only available by a technicality. He's 33% rostered. Is he your number one? Or did you did you do the same thing where you like everybody knows about him? Let's pick someone else. It's not even that everyone knows about him. If Jonathan Taylor stays today, I don't think there's much interest. So we're waiting at the trade deadline. Right. Right. But I guess, you know, I'll just put in the vote then, therefore, with McGowan, that you're going to know whether Jonathan Taylor got traded by the time you have to make your waiver claim on Tuesday. So if he gets traded, make sure you get McGowan. Who's your number one? My number one is I'm chasing the tank Dell dragon is what's happening here because I didn't, I didn't expect honestly the routes to increase this significantly. Like they are happy for him. They were clapping for him after he ran a couple before the buy. The tech sends go on buy. He returns. He's on a route on over 50% of their dropbacks. He leads the team in targets. This is the team that, you know, is continues getting really nothing from Keishan booty, Marvin Harrison Jr. These guys sprinkle in, but they can't earn targets as the Texan second wide receiver behind Nico Collins. Tank Dell, if his usage is going to continue, if he's going to continue to stay healthy, outcomes like Sunday are what's possible with CJ Straub playing so well. So if you need a wide receiver as opposed to these running backs that we said have legs, have deadlines in your lineup, I like tank Dell this week a lot. Okay. I would probably disagree based on what it looked like. It was one kind of, it was a great throw. It was a cover to Turkey whole shot down the field, but if that gets knocked away, it's three catches for 17 yards or something and I'm not that excited. But would you say that you're adding Dell to use him in week 10 or would you say you're adding him to stash him and think about it if I keep seeing production? You can use Dell and week 10 in my opinion. Okay. Where I mean is, you know, I probably not, but I mean, my problem is probably not, but I, you know, we don't know what's going to happen beforehand. That's it's predicting sports. That's why it's fun. It's hard to know. Yeah. And also like I just have a, I have a hard time. It's like how I talked about Tyler Algier last week. There's this thing that happens where, you know, and, you know, it's a fool me once shame on me. But when every running back has a career high run against the Cowboys, my new thing every Monday morning is to go into the office and remind myself, hey, like I can't keep chasing this thing. I had to have to say conversation with, you know, ETR subscribers and everyone with Tyler Algier last week. It's like, hey, this guy has never had a 50 yard run in his career. He had two against Dallas. And it's the same thing for Seth McGowan for me where it's like, hey, this guy, he had a career high 36 yard run. He scored his touchdown because Jonathan Taylor lost his shoe on the goal line on the Kerry prior. Now, of course, everyone's going to know by Tuesday night when they put their waiver claims. And like you said, Jonathan Taylor, if he's dealt, and I kind of have my doubts, but if he's dealt, then obviously Seth McGowan, that's the number one running back you should pick up. Otherwise, though, I feel like it's really hard. And this is a guy we've all you yourself included have talked about for the last month. And so he's probably stashed in a lot of places already. But it's just really hard to get there for for this offense, you know, without anyone to get down field with Daniel Jones under center trading their offensive line. It's really hard offense to find success in. I mean, I don't know why you're giving all these disclaimers because you just said it. If Taylor gets traded, McGowan is a starting running back in fantasy. You're going to compare him to Dylan Samson. I mean, come on. You're going to start McGowan over Samson. If there's no Jonathan Taylor there. Yes, this week, but we should have a little a state dinner in LA bet that Dylan Samson outperforms Seth McGowan rest of season. If Jonathan Taylor's traded vegetarian, but I take your point. Oh, not me, but yeah. Honourable mentions. I mentioned Estimae, Bam Knight might be back. Caleb Johnson, Emmett Johnson and Chris Rodriguez are just two under 33% handcuffs. And frankly, they can be stashed nonhand cuff because you, but you'll too it and got an injury scare like, be, you know, Emmett Johnson looks great. And then the Cardinals are totally out of receivers. So Reggie Virgil and Zay Jones as like you could turn him if you wanted to. How about a streaming quarterback? Well, not Carson Wentz. That's your last night. I'll tell you that if Shudder Sanders is still out there, they're conflicting reports right now regarding whether Sanders will start over to Sean Watson. I believe you can start either against the Texans who outside have Justin Herbert really haven't stopped anyone this year. And then Geno Smith against this Bill's defense that looked like the Vikings defense, but we could easily step back and say that's only because they play Carson Wentz. Yeah, Geno Smith would be my choice with Drew Locke against the Raiders even banged up. Yeah, how about a streaming defense? I do want to preface that you should not drop the bears over there by week since they have been a top 12 defense with Jeffrey Simmons and back-to-back games. I am personally trying to hold on to them, but beyond that, you know, if Baltimore Ravens are out there, if Green Bay Packers are out there and the 49ers against Dallas even, that's going to be a shootout, but volume wins itself to turnovers. Packers, I mean, go get the Packers. Whoever's playing quarterback, it doesn't matter. It's the Vikings. It could be Daniel Jones and you're still starting the Packers. Yeah, you want the Packers. All right, John. Well, great job. I am very interested to see what happens with these dudes going forward. You can find John on social media. Just look them up, John Dagle, and we always encourage you to go check out EstablishTheRun.com as well. A pleasure to talk to you, my friend. Thank you for doing it. Of course, and I'm very happy we disagreed today, by the way. A lot of time I come on, and we have a very similar list. I feel like we gave everyone a wide range of discussion and pickups for this week. And thank you so much for listening. Agreed. Very, very fun. A little dissonance is good. There'll be some certain subset of people who will hear us disagree, and we'll send an email telling me how uncomfortable it was. We're just friends. We just have different opinions on a couple of these things. It's great. We like each other very, very much. John's great. Thank you so much for listening. Let me also thank today's sponsors, because without sponsors, there's no show. We had Ridge and Hungry Root and Draft Kings. If you were interested, like check out that five and one power bank. It's really great. It's in my laptop bag right now. I grant you they sent it to me so I could try it out, but I've tried it out and I use it a lot. It is really great. Anyway, all the current sponsors are listed at HarrisfulBall.com. Today's sponsors are in the show notes when you're able to use a promo code for something that you are interested in. It really helps the show. I appreciate how much you do support the show. 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