Showboat

The fact that Howell can't get the ball to Commanders best receiver suggests that Howell is not the answer (or has a lot to learn). Brissett comes in and immediately finds McLaurin for a TD and more yards than he has had in the last two games.

FU McLaurin - it's only been one series, but I can already tell that you are not part of the game plan.

McLaurin is the most invisible "alpha" receiver in the league.

Good grief! The Raiders may be looking to top the 70 that the Dolphins put up earlier this season.

In addition to financial incentives, take away draft picks or not invite an owner back, but really only for the most blatant forms (starting clearly injured/suspended/bye week players). The problem is that it is impossible to tell if someone is tanking or just playing a hunch so long as they are starting active players. This last week if someone benched Diggs, JJ, Swift and Gus for Chase Brown, Tyjae Spears, Wandale Robinson and AT Perry would they be tanking? the results would say not. Now, starting Aaron Jones, Jonathan Taylor, M. Thomas and T. McLaurin would be viewed differently

Packers coaches/playcallers are not very smart and deserve to lose. They should not have been in any rush to score. They could have pounded the ball three times from the 6 yard line draining the clock and/or the Giants time outs.

Perhaps. Let's at least finish the season, if not letting Mahomes finish his career before having the discussion. There were plenty of snippets of Brady's career that weren't glorious (remember "were on the Cincinati"?)

It's a silly argument: Eli 2 - Brady 0 hth Super Bowls, but no one in their right mind would say Brady didn't surpass Eli.

After Mahomes has experienced the prolonged success of Brady for 10 or 15 years, we can begin the discussion. Until then Mahomes is still one of the elite QBs in the league who has a chance to ultimately challenge Brady for the GOAT title. Let's not forget that Brady also had a few down years of his own and Mahomes still has his team in contention for a post-season run (no shame in being <Brady at this point).

Exactly.

Well, at least we know it's not Hunter Swift.

Brown is a good one - also A.T. Perry, Jalin Hyatt, Roschon Johnson, Tyjae Spears (though the last couple are probably already rostered).

Scoring explosion - at this rate they will blow past the O/U.

I hope it's the last season for Travis Swift.

The Eagles are the most over-rated team, especially on defense. The D will make some good plays but will have too many lapses. Most of the time Hurts and the O has been able to overcome, but the D has never been able to dominate a game even against bad teams.

Is it time to give up on this dude (thinking more of dynasty/deep keeper leagues)? His lack of production has been scary and he never seems to be on the same page as Howell. Is he just not that good? Has he hit the wall (seems too young for that) or defenses have figured him out? Is the issue with Howell or coaching or play-calling?

hmmm. Dillon against the Chiefs - don't particularly like that match-up even with Jones out - I think I'll stick with my AT Perry flier for week 13. If Jones is still out in week 14, Dillon against the Giants may be a more palatable an option.

FU to Thursday football. Geno Smith suddenly tuns into Dan Marino and Charbonnet who hasn't done squat all year suddenly finds the endzone against the elite Dallas D. Seriously, I think my opponent was actually trying to tank by starting those two against me.

Well he did actually make two kicks that were taken off the board due to penalties.

The Raiders D has been better against the pass than the run, so logic would suggest a big game for Pacheco. The KC coaches will probably over-think it and dial up 50 passes for Mahomes and 8 rushes for Pacheco.

I'd say Dobbs, too, especially if you get penalized for INTs.

I think I'd play Jacobs over Taylor. TB is a pass funnel D and the new coach in LV has been leaning on Jacobs. KC hasn't been blowing teams out so I think the Raiders keep it close enough in a home divisional game to feed Jacobs a heavy workload. On top of that, I'm playing against Jacobs this week, so he is sure to go off given the way my season has gone.

I can't tell if you are actually talking about football. I mean a fast paced team may run about 80 plays per game. If the average play is 7 seconds, that's 560 seconds total - even rounding that up to 600 seconds is only 10 minutes of actual action. That would be 20 minutes of actual action if both teams played at that pace (unlikely). Most of the game time is eaten up by guys getting off the pile, subbing in, and out and huddling up, not to mention victory formations and so forth.

I'd go with Hill - his floor isn't really any lower than the other guys, but his ceiling is way higher. Likely may find some consistency, but that's a bit of a gamble without really knowing what his role will be in the offense.

McLaurin's typical 5-60-0 performances have been killing me (standard scoring). It just seems that his role in Washington does not involve scoring TDs. Is there any reason to believe that changes at Dallas on Thanksgiving Day? My alternatives are not great, but would you bench him for any of the following? K.Herbert @ MIN (I'd feel better about going this way if Foreman was out) T.Spears vs CAR (kind of a dart throw, hoping that the Titans give him more oportunities against a weak Panthers rush D) AJ Dillon @ DET (should get volume if Jones sits, but he didn't really do anything when Jones sat earlier in the season and the match-up is not great)