Am I Crazy To Bench Rivers?

[Bigunreal1 0]

Philip Rivers has been a stud for me this season, but with the brutal matchup at Pittsburgh, combined with the pleasantly suprising option of Tyler Thigpen, with a creampuff matchup at home vs. the Saints, I'm seriously thinking of benching him.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

[whitey2876 0]

As much as I hear what you're saying...................NEVER bench your studs!!!

 

Good luck!

 

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[LeBron 0]

Gotta go with Rivers. The only way to beat Pittsburgh, especially on the road, is to throw over the top at them the way that Manning just did. I expect 2 tds and around 240-280 yards from him. LJ is back for KC and they may to try to run a lot more to keep the ball out of NO hands. Thanks for answering mine.

[matt27 0]

Id stick with Rivers. He has been a top fantasy quaterback in most leagues. As it was stated earlier Manning torched that pass defense River should have just as productive of a day.

[Djurynk 0]

I am benching him this week in favor of hopefully healed ROMO. I actually will be at the Steelers Chargers game this weekend and hope I made the right decision. I do agree with above however that the Chargers will ahve to throw to win but I see the weather forcecast for the game being difficult for those Chargers to air it out with temps in the low 30's forecasted 75% chance of snow showers and wind. I would go Thigpen and be glad you found him. IMO

[rlb 0]

i would actually go against the grain here and start thigpen in what should be a very high scoring game. its hard to bench a guy like rivers but there are very few teams like pittsburgh on defense as well. i think you shuld play thigpen and not look back.

 

Thanks for mine

[Patrick977 0]

If it were at home I'd say Rivers, but Pittsburgh has the #1 or #2 passing D, and it's at Pittsburgh. Peyton just passed for 228 yards on them, he's the only one to go over 200 yards. They've only given up 9 TDs, and 3 of those also came from Manning. Rivers is good, but he's still not Manning. I'd go with Thigpen and the matchup.

 

Thanks for help on mine!

[pmatz 0]

Philip Rivers has been a stud for me this season, but with the brutal matchup at Pittsburgh, combined with the pleasantly suprising option of Tyler Thigpen, with a creampuff matchup at home vs. the Saints, I'm seriously thinking of benching him.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

I picked up Thigpen and won last week thanks to him. DO IT.