jimaveli

Kirko deserves to be paid. I'm still confident that he's gonna have a 3 pick game or two at some point but he's playing well...much better than I thought he would this late into the year. And he's almost a lock to hit one deep shot a game. In general, he's hitting people in the hands and making things happen.

Yep. And he played well in both of those. For clarity, the point there was a simple one I thought: Eli made a lot of risky throws...lots of which led to ints. Lots of ints. It also led to a lot of stats for his #1 WRs over the years...stats that several players couldn’t produce without Eli giving them lots of chances to make contested catches.

We’re in the right place to discuss Odell. IMO, far too many folks think fantasy football is football. That’s how a Odell type of player could get miscast as some kind of team/offense fixer elixir. Truth is: he’s a good football player but he has limitations: size, health issues, and he wasn’t a great candidate to be ‘good at being famous’. And duh, he’s not team leader material. As a wr, this is fine. But, because of New York, stats, highlights, Madden animations, and people winning fantasy leagues with him, too many folks acted like he’s the same as a Tyreek Hill or even a Michael Thomas. And holy moly, he’s not as good as best days Antonio Brown. That was never his game to me. He had a bunch of stats because of volume and several defenses being dumb enough to cover him 1 on 1 early on in his career. And Eli would throw it to him when it didn’t make sense to do so because Eli. To me, he’s Emmanuel Sanders with too much attention and funny hair, if that: a good player who can be key at times but no one should be having to rig an offense around him every week. And no one should be picking him as their plug and play wr1 in fantasy. Even with all of that, Sanders is a good player! No one seems to hate him, right? So if Odell is at least that level of player the rest of his career, it should be fine. I just don’t know if he can get out of his own way, get healthy, and stop being assumed to be a Hopkins type of player long enough to do it.

Dude went from Madden ‘19 cover to out of the league. Peyton Hillis is impressed. I can buy into the theory that Brown has been getting progressively worse as time goes on. I might even buy CTE enough to not rule it out. Regardless, it’s sad and it is already leading to folks chasing around weird/jerk WRs looking for the next AB. OBJ has been selected. He’s got a nice portfolio: stuck on Cleveland, rando jerk incidents on and off field, injuries, and he’s loved by rappers/talk-singers. Let’s see how it goes.

Kyle Shanny snickers on the inside and throws on more Mustard. Yikes. I thought the Niners would win. But I didn’t think the Pack would take this level of a beatdown. They can’t even pretend to stop the run at all. Their offense looks like the Niners D is picking their plays on Tecmo Super Bowl. I can’t imagine what adjustments could change this enough for the pack to come back. And State Farm, captain of pouting, doesn’t seem like the type to drag a group into a game at this point in his career. Let’s see! The Niners are scary good. KC is good too and I think they can score on anyone.

It’s 2020 and Aaron’s inner hatred towards the Niners is not working. And his hatred for all his non-Adams weapons is screwing him too. Hopefully he lets it fly the next time they get the ball.

I want to see if they’re willing/able to run on the Niners. They weren’t the last time. But that was last time. If not, we will see them unleash the Rodgers with Jones, Adams, and their other clearly lesser folks.

Thug. Selfish. Not a team guy.

We worried so much about Tennessee dealing with Baltimore and not enough about Baltimore dealing with Henry. Or maybe it was just me. I thought Baltimore would be able to reek havoc on the Titans secondary with size, speed, and Lamar’s stuff. I was wrong.

The Texans secondary was never set to deal with a healthy KC for 3 hours so KC was gonna score some points. To make matters worse, the Texans not having an adult running game really hurt them again. Up 24-0, it would’ve been a great time to have some good schemes and/or rbs to put to work.

The refs are impressively bad when they are bad. I don’t know how that hit doesn’t get called. Sure, they didn’t know it would knock Carson out of the game but still. It looked pretty clearly like the exact thing they are supposed to be all over. This was a crazy weekend of football and next week may be more of the same. All of the home teams are heavy favorites early.

I am going to choose to believe that the Eagles aren’t this unlucky. Holy moly.

Kirk made a few adult throws down the stretch of that game. It’s good to see him finally do it in January. And yikes at that Brees fumble. Ugly stuff. Hill almost saved them anyway.

If the pats call some adult plays on that goal line stand where they did a bunch of shenanigans but ultimately a ran similar play 3x in a row, they may sneak out with a win here. But this Pats team wasn’t winning a super bowl so going out now is fine. And hooray to the titans for not blowing it.

Derrick Henry is really big, eventually very fast, and hard af to tackle in red zone situations.

Josh Allen shat himself several times after playing well enough most of the game. Sucks for him after a pretty good 2nd season.

Don’t do it!

The Browns are a sad case of what happens when people see a list of names and assumes it’s all gonna magically come together immediately. Then oops, the injuries, personality issues, and the general Clevelandness come together, they land in a familiar 8-8-ish type of season and everyone freaks out throughout the whole the thing. The schedule was always gonna be tough but folks ignored it and took for granted how hard it is to be good in the nfl week in, week out...especially in chaos on a team with loser energy and history. To make matters worse, Lamar Jackson took his off-season to work on his body and his game while Baker taped commercials and bingo bango, the Ravens end up being great while Cleveland was whatever. Aka the Ravens are a better organization and showed it once again. They changed their whole setup and personnel to match with Lamar while pushing him to improve himself to make it all click. Meanwhile, Cleveland saddles Baker with another coaching staff change instead of charting and staying a course, hoping for a little luck with health, and..well, you know..fixing the horrid offensive line.

DJ Moore is a good one. I worry that a better offense might hurt him fantasy-wise. Besides that, I really like the player. Him and Samuel both. I hope Carolina can get it together.

Tannehill has been like Super Alex Smith. That’s not bad at all but the weekly floor remains horrifying. The thing that gives me hope for him is the deep shots he seems to be hitting more often now. Zeke managed a pretty good season while the crying point was that he got paid and ‘lost his hunger’. I am fine if the hate goes too far on him. Derrick Henry just secures the rushing title so he will be coveted next year. He certainly looks tough to tackle. If the Titans offense is competent, he’s got no business being a bust.

I’m also keeping an eye out for Justice Hill. Gus is a simple run hard rb. If Mark isn’t back, I could see the Ravens working harder to get Hill involved.

Cam’s rookie year was in the range but he got over huge on TDs and passing yards. Regardless, CMC and Lamar had dream seasons.

Alvin Kamara. He was hurt this year. And he was absurdly unlucky on TDs. Spreadsheet and end of year point total folks are gonna fade him and be wrong about it. It’s just a matter of how far the hate goes.

I too waited for Boone instead of rolling with Sony Michel or John Brown. That didn’t work out. But hell, the Vikes laid an epic egg even with the Pack fumbling all over the place. They led for a decent while and still were deadset on being cutesy instead of elbowing Green Bay in the face similar to how a couple teams have done with success this year. Boo for Boone. Sorry for everyone who needed him.

It’s been ugly ever since Kirk threw that silly pick.