Inferno

The GB defense looked bad last year due to a lot of injuries and they are presumably healthy right now. The recent Bears/Packers games have not shown well for the Bears offense. Before the game, the inside scoop was that the Packers would scheme so that the Bears would have to beat them with Kellen Davis, their virtually unknown tight end. If Greg Olsen was still on the team, maybe they could win with their TE, but not now. The game plan against the Bears offense has clearly worked well since GB will primarily play man-to-man since the receivers can't beat anyone (except maybe Marshall). Cutler then holds the ball way too long and gets sacked or throws and INT. It will happen again. Again, Cutler is a good start only if you have a favorable matchup and teams that play tight man-to-man are NOT good for him. He's not an every week start like Rodgers... you have to pick your places.

Here's some advice from a Chicago homer: 1. Forte is worth starting every week as long as he's healthy with Bush being a good handcuff. If you took Forte as your #1RB, you've got problems. He's basically the poor man's McCoy or Rice but with a worse O-line and receiving skills. 2. Bears D is also an every week start. 3. Cutler is a matchup play. If they defense looks vulnerable, he's a good start, but not an every week guy. No Bears homer in their right mind would have started him against Green Bay. 4. The super-sack and interception debacle will happen at least twice more this year. Find a good defense and start them against the Bears... perhaps GB? 5. Alshon Jeffrey is NOT worth a roster spot in any league. He's got big receiver potential but nothing else to show right now. Neither is Devin Hester.

Unfortunately, here's how "rate my team" threads usually go: 1. A third of the people think your team is too good and say that you must be competing against chimpanzees. 2. A third of the people think your team is awful and think YOU are the chimpanzee. 3. A third won't necessarily think your team is awful, but enjoy picking apart minor areas, such as who you drafted in round 13/15. 4. 50% of them won't make the playoffs in their respective league(s). 5. None of them will have any idea of who was left on the draft board when you picked, so any rating they could give wouldn't mean a whole lot anyway.

In my experience, you never get great value for trading a handcuff. If anyone values the handcuff, they probably would have taken him in the draft. I think the best value you can get from Jennings is to hold him and wait for MJD to get injured. He'll be a starting RB for you or good trade bait.

Agree. Rivers and Maclin.

I'd pick Chris Johnson, assuming all the others you mentioned were taken. CJ showed he can put up big numbers, his issue last year was a holdout. McFadden showed just a little spark and his issue was an injury. Given the two choices I'd take proven talent with a sub-par performance due to holdout rather than speculative talent and injury.

I think you're fine as long as your league doesn't have a heavily favored scoring system for QBs.

I honestly don't know. Your scoring system seems very unconventional so I would be guessing...

I like it. I'm in the same boat with Peterson... if he performs you got 2 high end RB. I'm not big on Roddy White because he'll have to split with the entire Atlanta offense and actually like Dez better.

12 team PPR draft, picking from the 5 spot. Here's my draft: 1. Lesean McCoy 2. Adrian Peterson 3. Jamal Charles 4. Dez Bryant 5. Torrey Smith 6. Reggie Wayne 7. Tony Gonzalez 8. Ben Roethlisberger 9. Randy Moss 10. NY Giants 11. Ronnie Brown 12. Stephan Gostowski 13. Alfred Morris (possible WAS starter?) 14. Felix Jones (maybe DeMarco gets hurt?) 15. Mark Sanchez I love my RBs and think that I'll get at least 2 healthy starters out of the three top choices. I was the last one to draft a QB because I figured that if I wasn't going to get one of the top three, then there's no point rushing. I don't think I have any gaping holes, feedback would be appreciated.

Nope. No beer kicking in.

12 team PPR draft, picking from the 5 spot. Here's my draft: 1. Lesean McCoy 2. Adrian Peterson 3. Jamal Charles 4. Dez Bryant 5. Torrey Smith 6. Reggie Wayne 7. Tony Gonzalez 8. Ben Roethlisberger 9. Randy Moss 10. NY Giants 11. Ronnie Brown 12. Stephan Gostowski 13. Alfred Morris (possible WAS starter?) 14. Felix Jones (maybe DeMarco gets hurt?) 15. Mark Sanchez I love my RBs and think that I'll get at least 2 healthy starters out of the three top choices. I was the last one to draft a QB because I figured that if I wasn't going to get one of the top three, then there's no point rushing. I don't think I have any gaping holes, feedback would be appreciated.

Three running backs with very favorable matchups: Matt Forte, Ryan Grant, Felix Jones. Assuming that Marion Barber is out for this coming week, which two do you start?

I may end up regretting it, but I took Grant over Westbrook. I seriously did consider Westbrook but took Grant for the following reasons: 1. Grant held out of training camp last year and came in unprepared. Lots of nagging injuries throughout the season. That shouldn't be the case this year 2. Packers will probably score more points than Eagles. 3. Drafting Westbrook would mean I would have to draft his handcuff, thus taking up 2 roster spots when I only have 12 spots available. It's practically guaranteed that Westbrook will miss some games. 4. Reliable info regarding Westbrook's playing status was lacking. As a result, last year's Westbrook owner had to guess if he should start him or not... and ended up guessing wrong most of the time. 5. Age

I grabbed him in round 9/12. He's my WR3 and I think I got great value for him. He's capable of big numbers and I think a number of factors already listed will contribute to a significantly better season than last.