Sam LaPorta

[polecatt 474]

Is he playing today?

[vino 29]

that's how I felt watching the stat lines

[weepaws 3,152]

I don’t think that any of those high priced , single digit round te have lived up to their adp.   Shame. 

[polecatt 474]

5 hours ago, weepaws said:

I don’t think that any of those high priced , single digit round te have lived up to their adp.   Shame. 

I think the only reliable player on the Lions is gonna be Amon-Ra...

 

[weepaws 3,152]

2 minutes ago, polecatt said:

I think the only reliable player on the Lions is gonna be Amon-Ra...

 

That’s a given before the season began. 

[TBayXXXVII 2,482]

To me, it looked like the Lions game plan was to keep throwing the ball to St. Brown and Williams, even if they weren't open... then sometimes, dump it off to Gibbs.

I can kinda understand that at first.  Tampa was without Winfield, Hayes, and Kancy, before the game even started, so they were down a safety, a DB, and DL.  On top of that, McCollum was questionable and there was speculation he may not play.  So, heading into the game, the Lions knew the Bucs were without a starting DL, their best safety and at least their #2 DB and their #3 DB was going to be limited.  So, an initial game plan of "let's throw the ball everywhere", wasn't a bad one.  Now, they did get screwed early on with that interception, that as DPI that the refs missed... but that was literally their first pass attempt.  They never figured out over the next 54 that they should've changed their approach?

Teams generally don't have success running the ball against Tampa, so that's another thing where I get their idea of throwing the ball a lot.  The thing is, early on, they were having some success.  Tampa was selling out to stop the pass... but the Lions just chose to keep throwing.  I never understood what they were doing. 

[weepaws 3,152]

Agreed. The emergence of Williams as so far hurt Laporta. 

[kilroy69 1,215]

The fact that goff has looked like dogshitt has also hurt Laporta. He was bouncing balls to his pass catchers yesterday and when he was not bouncing them he was making bad throws. he has a 1/3 int ratio this year but really it should be 2/9 but the DBS keep dropping easy pics 

[TBayXXXVII 2,482]

9 minutes ago, weepaws said:

Agreed. The emergence of Williams as so far hurt Laporta. 

Starting to look that way.  We'll have to see how teams pre-pair for the Lions going forward and how the Lions address it.

[Ray_T 740]

51 minutes ago, weepaws said:

Agreed. The emergence of Williams as so far hurt Laporta. 

it has.  and I'm surprised.  Was pretty sure it would hurt Amon Ra and the #3,#4 WRs would get less touches.   but maybe hes so good that the usual checkdowns that go to him dont go to him because when the WR are open, there is no need to check it down.

[Showboat 252]

LaPorta may be a buy low candidate.  The risk is that Goff has lost the magic of the last couple of seasons or maybe the Lions are determined to get JW more involved at the expense of Laporta, but given the results of the last couple of weeks that doesn't make much sense.  The Lions were at their best last season when LaPorta was seeing 6+ targets per game including high-value red-zone targets.  You'd think that a bloated staff of coaches would be able to see that.

[weepaws 3,152]

I wouldn’t buy him, I’ll wait to see if he gets dropped. 

[TBayXXXVII 2,482]

1 hour ago, Showboat said:

LaPorta may be a buy low candidate.  The risk is that Goff has lost the magic of the last couple of seasons or maybe the Lions are determined to get JW more involved at the expense of Laporta, but given the results of the last couple of weeks that doesn't make much sense.  The Lions were at their best last season when LaPorta was seeing 6+ targets per game including high-value red-zone targets.  You'd think that a bloated staff of coaches would be able to see that.

I think I agree with this.  Depending on what/who I have at other positions, it might be worth a shot.  I have Engram in one league, stream in another, and Ferguson in another.  I wouldn't mind trying to package something up to get him.

[weepaws 3,152]

Looking at FFToday stats for the te slot, of the top 50 scores at the te slot, last season te after week two had scored 16 tds, right now they have scored 8 tds.