BlackPlague
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10 team typical Yahoo PPR scoring: QB Rodgers RB1 Bell (DWill while he was out) RB2 Murray WR1 M Thomas (ARob 1st half of season) WR2 Cooks Flex: Ware usually, Crabtree sometimes TE revolving trash. Ebron/Bennett most often. PK Gostkowski TD streamed
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RBs carried me to the title this year in one league. Bell, Murray, and Ware put in work all season and made up for some shaky WRs (ARob, Cooks) and a revolving door of trash at TE. DJ has to be fantasy MVP this year but Murray has to at least be in the discussion, especially considering his draft position. He propelled a ton of teams to the playoffs.
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I don't think it's retrospect - it's consensus. I did a quick flip through various week 15 rankings and most have Brees solidly ahead while a few had Rivers ahead. I can understand wanting to roll the dice but I'd say it was 70/30 that Brees would outscore Rivers. I wouldn't call that a wrong choice - you just got unlucky.
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I think you're going to see this more and more now that the seal is broken. Most of these bowl games are meaningless money grabs. If I was a top prospect, why would I focus on a meaningless game when the draft is coming up? Focus on that 40 time instead of possibly getting hurt and losing out on a big contract. IMO, the days of rah-rah fight for your school are over. If you're a pro prospect, your collegiate experience is a contract to showcase your abilities - nothing more. Basically, it's an unpaid internship in hopes of landing a fulltime gig.
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There was no choice to make there. Brees all day, every day. Cancel-out theory is bullshit. Always go with your best plays and Stephen Davis.
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Any advice? Still not sure about my final lineup for today's championship. QB and RB are locked in with Rodgers and L Bell/D Murray. What do yall think about my WR, TE, and Flex? Typical Yahoo PPR scoring. Start 2 WR: M Thomas, B Cooks, M Crabtree Start 1 TE: M Bennett, E Ebron, A Gates Start 1 Flex: One of the WRs above or Spenser Ware. Thinking of going Thomas/Cooks, Bennett, and Ware at Flex. It just makes me nervous having a lot of eggs in the NO basket. I'm also irrationally scared of the Denver defense with Ware (I know teams have run on them). Gates needs 3 TDs to get the TE record and with Cleveland this week and KC next week, with nothing to play for standings-wise, I can see Rivers feeding him heavy today to try and get him a couple TDs. I know Bennett is the smarter play but I just have a hard-on for the Gates record. Seems really dumb, I know.
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Championship Week 16 WR discussion starts now
BlackPlague replied to TennisMenace's topic in FFToday Board
Still not sure about my final lineup for today's championship. QB and RB are locked in with Rodgers and L Bell/D Murray. What do yall think about my WR, TE, and Flex? Typical Yahoo PPR scoring. Start 2 WR: M Thomas, B Cooks, M Crabtree Start 1 TE: M Bennett, E Ebron, A Gates Start 1 Flex: One of the WRs above or Spenser Ware. -
I'm down .2 and have Kelvin Benjamin against his Mike Evans. Not liking my odds.
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My first 3 picks in a 14 team league - ADP, Keenan Allen, Sammy Watkins. Guess there's always next year. Oh yeah, my 4th pick was Melvin Gordon. Y'all might want to move him ASAP.
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No, while the trade is "fair" in terms of points switching teams, I don't see how the guy would even consider this kind of a deal unless his team is literally Brown and nobody else. If I were him, I'd be asking for D Johnson and Cooper as a starting point.
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Good luck offering but I don't see him accepting. I offered his choice of ARob/Cooks/Benjamin from my WRs plus his choice of Lacy/D Murray/CMike from my RBs. He declined and countered wanting Cooks and Leveon Bell. I didn't want to lose Bell so I gave up. Brown is pretty much the surest thing going (and his twerk game is on point) so it's going to take a king's ransom to pry him away.
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Ignoring fantasy for a second, his value to the Jags is hot trash. Those sacks he was taking at the end of the game yesterday were inexcusable. As for fantasy, he's a total boom or bust player. If you start him, you're just hoping for those garbage time TDs. He's definitely got some weapons at his disposal.
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Desean Jackson - my gut tells me this is the year to own him
BlackPlague replied to handbanana's topic in FFToday Board
I think too much is made of his inconsistency. That's already built into his WR3 ranking. Dropping him further is just passing on value for no valid reason. Like Ray_T said, if you can get a guy that can get you 1100/8 or more as a low WR3 or 4, I'll take that gamble all day long. -
Desean Jackson - my gut tells me this is the year to own him
BlackPlague replied to handbanana's topic in FFToday Board
I'm not arguing DJax is going to challenge the top 5 WR ranks but where he's being drafted now as a WR3, and lower in many drafts, he represents a pretty good gamble compared to the guys around him. Cousins doesn't have a Jeff George arm but he seemed to markedly improve when DJax came back last season. Maybe it was weaker competition, but Cousins was doing damage the last 1/3 of the season when DJax was back. Doing some rough math, DJax last year stretched to 16 weeks was around 1100/8. Add health and a full off season with Cousins and I don't see why there's not a good chance that he can improve on that. Besides, you're not drafting DJax for consistent 8-10 points every week. You should know going in that his week-to-week scores will have high variance. Drafting him is a gamble that he'll have more than a couple monster weeks. I'm willing to take that on from a WR3.