In a PPR league, I’ve got a choice between Josh Freeman or Vince Young. I’ve also got Vick, but I highly doubt he’s starting this week.
Correction. Evans is on bye. He’s also pretty inconsistent, so not a great option anyway. I can wait until close to kickoff to see is anything changes with Aaron.
20 team league. My starting QB is Colt McCoy. Should I bench him and leave the spot blank so I don’t get stuck with negative numbers?
You get points for receptions for the QB in your PPR setup? Weird - I’ve never seen that before.
Yes, I know, I don’t need to add PPR league when I’m discussing QB stats.
Rodgers suffers a concussion last weekend; loses his two favorite targets in Finley and Lee; has no rushing game to rely on; has a deep threat in Jennings that even questionable cover teams like the Redskins have been able to take away all season; and has a defense that’s so injury riddled that it can’t be relied on to spell him or give him good field position … so he sits on my bench and racks up 21 points. Gah!
And David “Money from inside the 45” Akers misses three field goals and costs me 12 points.
Oh, and did I mention that I gave up on Jennings after last week and not only didn’t start him, but actually dropped him?
What a week.
I can thank my opponents match-ups that I even still have a shot at winning this week (thank you Rams and Steelers!).
You gave up on Greg Jennings because he’d only scored three touchdowns through 5 games? Tough crowd.
Well, he hasn’t done much of anything until yesterday, but I agree that cutting was extreme.
Outside of his strong first week, he was getting 2 receptions for ~25 yards and averaging 5 points per week. Considering how teams were able to bottle him up and that they were down Grant, Finley and Lee and their QB was coming off of a concussion… yeah, I gave up on him.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and both of my WRs managed to match his typical output. It just figures that the one week I don’t have him in the line up hoping it will finally be the week he breaks out and watching my bench outperform him is the week he breaks out.
Who gives a shit about Finley? Jennings didn’t have any trouble producing without him on the field before. Lee hardly catches any passes anyway, and Grant - well, he’s a decent back, but I guarantee you nobody has put 8 in the box against the Packers since at least mid-2008.
Finley gets more targets per game than Jennings and his yardage reflects that (he had over 100 yards twice). He’s obviously one of Rodgers favored targets and he’s a consistent threat that teams needed to worry about.
Lee doesn’t catch many passes because Finley gets them. His loss is more about the fact that a team with protection problems to begin with is down their first and second string TEs.
With the lack of production from Jennings with these guys in the line up, why should one expect his production to increase without them in the line up?
Because Jennings has always produced without Finley in the lineup?
Has he also always produced without a second string TE, no running game and a concussed QB no one knew what kind of shape he was in?
There was no reason to expect that a guy who has been contained pretty effectively all year would have a great day when the defense has only him to worry about.
Sure there is: Jennings wasn’t producing because he wasn’t being targeted.
And he wasn’t being targeted because he was being taken out of the game with a halfway decent CB and a safety over the top (see: Washington Redskins). Without a TE as an underneath threat, no complementary WR to steal coverage and no run game to worry about, it’s not logical to assume that suddenly targeting him more often is going to equate to his having a big day.
Obviously, that’s how it worked out, but that doesn’t make it logical. That you’re arguing with the benefit of hindsight is a bit disingenuous. This whole thing started with my admitting that I messed up by making the move, but I still believe my rationale to be solid. Unfortunately, things like fantasy sports don’t always work on rationale, and the Dolphins apparently can’t stop one guy.
Yes, that’s true. But unless he was benched or injured, dropping Jennings was always a bad move.
Anyway, what do you mean no complementary receiver? Do Donald Driver’s 6 straight 1,000 yard seasons not count?
Driver is the guy I expected to benefit from Finley and Lee both being out with underneath routes and the guy I thought, if any one would, was going to have a big day.
Maybe complementary receiver was the incorrect choice of words, but I don’t view him as a deep threat that’s going to steal coverage from Jennings.
Honestly, my dropping of Jennings was predicated as much on the injury to Rodgers as his lack of production. I needed the roster spot and he was the only guy I was confident at the time was not going to produce.