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For real. You end up chasing not just RB but also WR now. It puts more pressure on you to find guys who play above their adp to make up for it. Me while the guys who found the waiver gems at TE are getting 75% of Kelce at no draft cost. It’s a real predicament that’s made even harder because I predict Mahomes to be the MVP thus implying a historic season for Kelce. Ugh.

I swear I feel like everyone is so hot to take Kelce in rnd 1 back half but I’m over here saying the team cost of drafting a te is not worth it at any place in rnd 1. I’m even thinking of passing on him if he comes to me rnd 2 at pick 14 but I will be sweating big time about it. TE positional advantage is not that big! It’s a fallacy!

I don’t make preseason overreactions, I understand perspective and context. As for observations, Mac Jones is better than Cam and should be the QB.

Mahomes will be the mvp if he stays healthy and push 40+ td.

Picks at this end of the draft require some extra thought just because there are so many picks before your 3rd rounder. This is the last stop to really kind of “cheat” out 2 elite players that the early 1st rounders don’t get the chance to do. Taking 2 RB here takes so much pressure off the rest of your draft it’s crazy. You don’t have to chase any positions, there are good options at WR still available when it comes all the way back around in rnd 3 and you generally just feel good about it. The downside is you miss out on probably the last top 4 wr but if you go WR you feel immense pressure to take an RB ASAP in 3/4. It’s like the music from sonic the hedgehog when Sonic is about to drown is playing. You pass on an RB with these rnd 3/4 turn picks and you end up starting a flex player at RB2 if you are lucky.

I’ll be targeting him in early rnd 8 if I haven’t taken a QB by that point. The cat has been let out of the bag somewhat and he will go right after that if I don’t take him, in which case I’ll be left with my next tier of guys that I’m not as excited about.

I’d argue with Henry coming off 400 touches and getting Julio, the situation is more right than it has been for the passing game to make a leap. Top 7 is well within range of outcomes again (it’s where I would predict he finishes) and with the passing game upside a top 5 finish is not at all crazy.

I can’t fault either of those guys in that range. Mixon has a big bounce back bull case you can make. Plus in my league we get a carry bonus at 20 carries and Mixon much more likely to hit than than a rec guy like Ekeler.

He had 54 rec in little more than half a season he was healthy. I’m not concerned about the best rookie QB in history affecting him negatively from what we’ve seen from them together so far. I’m less concerned with Ekelers receptions than I am from consensus top 4 pick Kamaras rec due to their respective QB situations.

He barely played last season. 2019 he had a top 4 season, the prospect of getting back to that groove is what attracts me. He’s isn’t just some darling of mine, he’s ranked in the top 7 RBs by almost everyone this season so there’s some smoke to go with the fire. You can just read his blurbs on every site to hear his bull case. But essentially he’s a ppr cheat code, like Kamara has been.

This is really odd.

At 11 my dream is Jones and Ekeler but also covet Hopkins and Najee with that second pick. Would not take a Redskin, CEH or Mixon in early rnd 2. There’s this narrative that Ryan Fitztragic is some great QB and the Skins are going to roll that division. In his very long career he has never once played a playoff game people, temper expectations for them.

That’s not negligible, the Jags would love a guy like him.

Yes, push your season out 1 week. Do not be the dingus commish who starts the playoffs week 14 when teams are on bye.

They would be lucky to find a trade partner for MT at this point.

Not at all, that’s too rigid a thought process for FF which is about as fluid as it gets in every facet. It never is that cut and dry when it comes down to it and too much happens during the course of a season. Today’s bad defense could be tomorrow’s great defense. Injury, coaches, player turnover, lot of other variables. I don’t consider the teams you mentioned to be any kind of murderers row at all. If anything they should be scared of facing Henry, Julio and Tannehil. Can’t count how many times I’ve seen hours deliberating QB matchups just for the other guy facing the stout D to go off while your great matchup stud hands off 3 tds. All you can do is start the player you think will score the most based on the information you have obviously.

Not worried yet but will keep an eye on things as we get closer to end of august for sure.

Tom just turned 44 how he is he still going this strong is freakish to me.

As if defenses don’t wildly fluctuate every year anyway. Imagine running scared from Tua and the dolphins. Heck I’ll even bump Tannehill up a spot if anything. Facing a shootout with Steelers, a potential rookie in Trey Lance and Tua led dolphins? Sign me up.

I’m in on both players. Aiyuk is a big target of mine but I don’t think he makes it to the end of the 5th. Lance is a great stash if you are type to draft a 2nd QB.

Can anyone think of another time a WR scored 14tds, stayed on the team and had an adp as low as Thielans? Just curious.

Once Ridley, Jefferson and Metcalf are gone I will tab over to the RBs to see who is the next best.

I’m not hot on any panthers but gut says I’d want Robby at his adp vs Moore’s.

That’s a good way to do it. I’ve always wanted a way to incentivize total points while keeping the wacky fun of H2H. In a perfect world I would have standings be strictly total points but that’s so much less fun for everyone. I came up with an idea to have top half scorers each week get a win and the bottom half get a loss. I still think that’s decent idea but never had a chance to do it.