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Good call on Dorsett, Axe. At least for one week.

Crowder might be available in some leagues. 14/99 today.....but I believe Robby Anderson is the good buy low.

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11 minutes ago, stonewall said:

Good call on Dorsett, Axe. At least for one week.

Crowder might be available in some leagues. 14/99 today.....but I believe Robby Anderson is the good buy low.

Axe guided me to start Goff over Lamar Jackson.....  Not blaming him, just sayin....

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7 minutes ago, Gratefulegg1973 said:

Axe guided me to start Goff over Lamar Jackson.....  Not blaming him, just sayin....

Id blame him lol.  Goff was a huge no no this week. 

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21 minutes ago, stonewall said:

Good call on Dorsett, Axe. At least for one week.

Yeah, I just posted in the Antonio Brown signing thread that now we know who his signing hurts the most--Phillip Dorsett.

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10 minutes ago, Gratefulegg1973 said:

Axe guided me to start Goff over Lamar Jackson.....  Not blaming him, just sayin....

Sometimes the right decision turns out badly.

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18 minutes ago, Gratefulegg1973 said:

Axe guided me to start Goff over Lamar Jackson.....  Not blaming him, just sayin....

Yeah, he had some misses too. Weepaws wiffed hard on Chubb....but it's only week 1.

Although quite happy with my core guys today (Mahomie, Damien, DJax, Carson, Henry, etc), had some misses too (C. Samuels, DMont, Mike Williams). Gotta chance at 5 for 5 this week, depending on what Brees does against me and Waller does for me tomorrow.

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Darn the Chubb. 

I blame the Qb, why not everyone else does. 

But hey Gallup And Hockensen And J Gordon  came up big today, thank you Jesus. 

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4 minutes ago, weepaws said:

Darn the Chubb. 

I blame the Qb, why not everyone else does. 

But hey Gallup And Hockensen And J Gordon  came up big today, thank you Jesus. 

Yep...Hock was money

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Burkhead outplaying Michel is something to keep an eye on. Belicheck will be sure to feature him going forward. Michel and Burkhead probably 50/50 going forward with White as a hybrid/WR type. Headache for any Michel owners going forward.

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19 minutes ago, LoOnAtIk said:

Burkhead outplaying Michel is something to keep an eye on. Belicheck will be sure to feature him going forward. Michel and Burkhead probably 50/50 going forward with White as a hybrid/WR type. Headache for any Michel owners going forward.

If you're just now realizing that Patriots' RBs are a clusterfork when it comes to fantasy, this must be your first year playing fantasy football.

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Michel will lead that RBBC miss more times then not. 

Problem starting a Pats rb is, when? 

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6 hours ago, nobody said:

Giants have the only coach in the league that pulls his star down 3 scores with 5 minutes left ... (Correctly)

But of course thats 15 free garbage time points Saquon doesn't get.

I dunno.

Elii threw for 300 yards.   I saw part of the game and he was looking good at that point.  I noticed he drove them for a TD just before they pulled him.

are you sure he was the problem?

Just sayin....

 

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3 hours ago, stonewall said:

Yeah, he had some misses too. Weepaws wiffed hard on Chubb....but it's only week 1.

Although quite happy with my core guys today (Mahomie, Damien, DJax, Carson, Henry, etc), had some misses too (C. Samuels, DMont, Mike Williams). Gotta chance at 5 for 5 this week, depending on what Brees does against me and Waller does for me tomorrow.

I have a great chance at 0 Fer 5. Lots of good performances on my teams, they are just spread out 

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12 hours ago, AxeElf said:

If you're just now realizing that Patriots' RBs are a clusterfork when it comes to fantasy, this must be your first year playing fantasy football.

I own zero shares but I know a lot of people on this board love him.

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I actually own one share of Minshew in a deep dynasty superflex. I was backing up Foles with him thankfully. I thought he looked good. We will see when they play non KC, but I thought he had potential coming out. Just saw he set a completion percentage debut record

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21 hours ago, cmh6476 said:

Now jaylen Ramsey limps of the field.  Poor jax.

 

Yeah just watching what shady is doing, within just a couple weeks I could envision him being our featured back.

This is why I traded Williams on Saturday.  I think Andy's faith is Shady is unshakable.  

18 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

observation

FFtoday is normally the best at projections in the game

I said it when I printed the cheatsheet and I say it again now

JAMEIS WINSTON IS NOT A TOP 5 QB never, ever ever

 

It's one week with a new coach, OC and gameplan...the garbage man will still show up

8 minutes ago, tanatastic said:

If it ain’t James White, don’t bother with a patriots RB.

Burkhead devastated the Steelers, but White is the guy they couldn't cover.  Nothing about Sony impressed me, which wasn't hard to do since EVERY Patriot player looked like a HOF'er last night. 

Oh, real observations...I made a HUGE mistake drafting Roethlisberger.  He's a flat-out suckfest on the road.  Couldn't find Vance McDonald, kept throwing to Moncrief (who should be cut today to be honest).  There was times when Ben's line gave him 7-8 seconds and none of the Steelers WR could get open.  Worried.  

 

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I watched all of the Browns game.  It wasn't nearly as bad as the final score would indicate.  The Browns had TONS of horribly stupid penalties.  Plus, a rookie HC made some mistakes.  He could have and should have challenged an offense PI call and I think it likely would have been over-turned.   They also caught about 4 or 5 total crap calls that added to their frustration level.  Add in 3 INT's in the 4th quarter and there's your blowout.   The score was 15-13 at the end of the 3rd quarter and that was WITH all that bad juju they had going on.   

Hopefully, the coaches can get them focused.   

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I don't really know where to find this information, but I'd be interested to know, if anyone can access it, how many holding penalties there were in Week 1 as compared to the weekly average from last year.

Supposedly, one of the points of emphasis for officiating this year was to be more diligent in calling the holding penalties that some say occur on almost every play--and it sure seemed like there were a lot of them yesterday.

I went on record on another site as saying that an increased emphasis on holding penalties would probably depress the offensive players' stats compared to what we have become used to, and that it would probably affect RB stats especially.  With so many RBs laying an egg on the opening weekend, I would be interested to see if my prediction was borne out in regards to a correlation between increased holding penalties and decreased rushing yardage.

Anyone?

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Axe, I'm not sure where to get that data (PFF maybe?), but think you are on to something as watching games yesterday felt like there were a lot of plays...particularly running plays...that were called back b/c of holding.

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9 hours ago, NAn said:

Axe, I'm not sure where to get that data (PFF maybe?), but think you are on to something as watching games yesterday felt like there were a lot of plays...particularly running plays...that were called back b/c of holding.

Ask Cameron Brate lol

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On ‎9‎/‎8‎/‎2019 at 8:10 PM, weepaws said:

Maybe. 

Still 13 more regular season ff games to go, and he might not be the one on a weekly bases. 

I preached about Dalvin Cook all offseason.  I'm not going to that extent with Jones, but I'll tell you this;  I watched him in college.  Throw last season out.  He had an idiot HC and the team had given up before he ever had a carry.  A lot like Cook, he was battling injuries.  Combine a bad hamstring with a poor offensive line and his numbers from 2018 are what you get.  Bad.  Now, if you saw him in college, you saw a super explosive playmaker.  IF he stays on the field, Arians is going to feed him the ball the way he did Johnson.  Keeping the ball out of Winston's hands is the only way the Bucs will win.  Don't be shocked if they try to turn Jones into a Johnson clone while setting the offense up for the new QB they draft this offseason.  They will take the money they were paying Winston and use it on the both lines.  I don't think Arians came back for 2019.  I think he came back to get the team ready for 2020/2021, with a different QB. 

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10 hours ago, LoOnAtIk said:

Ask Cameron Brate lol

lol, def saw those ones.  What was hilarious is he did a big celebration on the first one, then on the second he looked like he was about to, then he just waited and looked around and when holding was called he just shrugged like 'of course it got called back...again.'

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21 hours ago, AxeElf said:

I don't really know where to find this information, but I'd be interested to know, if anyone can access it, how many holding penalties there were in Week 1 as compared to the weekly average from last year.

Supposedly, one of the points of emphasis for officiating this year was to be more diligent in calling the holding penalties that some say occur on almost every play--and it sure seemed like there were a lot of them yesterday.

I went on record on another site as saying that an increased emphasis on holding penalties would probably depress the offensive players' stats compared to what we have become used to, and that it would probably affect RB stats especially.  With so many RBs laying an egg on the opening weekend, I would be interested to see if my prediction was borne out in regards to a correlation between increased holding penalties and decreased rushing yardage.

Anyone?

http://www.nflpenalties.com/week.php?week=1&year=2018&view=penalties

Have to use menu option to change the year. 64 offensive holding penalties which is 10+ more than in any other season in a decade.

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5 minutes ago, tanatastic said:

http://www.nflpenalties.com/week.php?week=1&year=2018&view=penalties

Have to use menu option to change the year. 64 offensive holding penalties which is 10+ more than in any other season in a decade.

Just as I suspected.  I think we should all get used to seeing a few more disappointing performances from our skill players, esp. RBs.

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More observations after Sunday/Monday.  

No other way to say it, Tomlin isn't a good coach.  That team is overconfident, underprepared and, in a word, soft.  They beat NE 17-10 at home last year then fell apart the rest of the way.  Rebuilt the defense with the Pats in mind...go to man coverage, get faster in the middle of the defense and pressure Brady.  The got beat like a drum in man, couldn't cover anybody and didn't touch Brady until the game was over.  At this point every Steeler skill player was overdrafted...EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.  On the other side of that coin, if the Pats can hang a 30 pt beating with 2 new offensive lineman and keep Brady clean all night...AND just conned their way into AB...they may not be able to be stopped.  The defense looked great, the offense was hitting on all cylinders.  Just a great performance. 

NO v Houston - it's  shame that what might be the game of the year happened in the 1st week. Saints looked terrible for the 1st half, then looked like the juggernaut in the 2nd.  Houston showed TONS of resolve, Watson was particularly impressive.  Nuk is the best WR in the game, hands down.  Dude is just uncoverable.  Duke Jonhson had strong 2nd half showing as well.  For the Saints, Brees is just so in control...nothing fazes him, like he feels no pressure.  Kamara is a beast, Cook fits in nicely, Thomas is uncoverable in the middle of the field and the defense got a NASTY streak going in the 2nd half against a very good offensive team.  What a great game.

Denver v Oakland - The Raiders have way more than I imagined, maybe Gruden can turn them around after all.  Carr looked incredible, like when he was a legit MVP candidate a couple of seasons ago before getting hurt.  Ty Williams will be a beast if Carr continues to play like that.  Josh Jacobs looked great. If Waller is available in your league and you don't have a top option already, got get him.  For Denver, man, they just didn't look impressive.  Flacco had couple of moments where his arm flashed, but he looked shaky overall.  Wasn't impressed with any of the RB's...Sanders is pretty remarkable at WR, nobody should be able to come back from Achilles surgery that quick.  Sutton had a strong game, but Denver may not be very good.  I was surprised at how little pressure the defense got on Carr.  

 

that is all

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I’d say the concept of a true WR1 is gone in the NFL for the most part.  Especially when it comes to scoring.  Maybe you guys that are in "point per everything" leagues don’t care but anyone in normal scoring leagues where TDS still kind of matter, it’s literally a poor-odds casino game out there each week.  Yeah so Thomas of NO caught a bunch of balls but he couldn’t find the end zone.  Some unknown clown did though. Or maybe two unknown clowns.  That’s great. It just isn’t like it used to be where teams had pretty reliable WR1 and WR2s with an occasional slot WR being startable.  Now? Meh.  Lame.

How long until we can draft entire WR corps? Might be getting close to doing that with RBs also.  Geezus, why does it have to be like this? There has to be a different guy for every down and distance.  Every play is a spread offense with 4 WRs and 2 TEs out there.  Whatever.

 

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7 hours ago, RoadLizard said:

Maybe you guys that are in "point per everything" leagues don’t care but anyone in normal scoring leagues where TDS still kind of matter, it’s literally a poor-odds casino game out there each week.  Yeah so Thomas of NO caught a bunch of balls but he couldn’t find the end zone.  Some unknown clown did though. Or maybe two unknown clowns.  That’s great. It just isn’t like it used to be where teams had pretty reliable WR1 and WR2s with an occasional slot WR being startable.  Now? Meh.  Lame.

The solution you're looking for can be found in the scoring system you disdain.  PPR scoring rewards the WRs that are used the most by their teams to move the ball down the field, even if they cap off the drive with a TD to the 4th wideout in the set, or the backup TE, or whatever.  In PPR scoring, Michael Thomas is still the Saints' WR to own, and the one who is going to bring home the lion's share of the fantasy scoring on any given week, just as he gets the lion's share of the usage in the Saints' passing game.

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