# Quick Week 2 Fantasy NFL Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542 "2004-09-15T12:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jimdigritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jimdigritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimdigritz)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/1 "2004-09-15T12:59:04Z")
Hey, I find myself in a quandary… Should I play Steve McNair (TEN), or Jeff Garcia (CLE) in week 2 in my Fantasy team?? Any arguments to help me reach a decision? Jim ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/2 "2004-09-15T14:59:17Z")
McNair. Indy’s passing defense is horrendous. Brady spread that offense around last week like he was up against high school kids. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/3 "2004-09-15T16:15:29Z")
McNair, easy. I wouldn’t play Garcia over McNair unless two things were happening- McNair playing a very tough defense, and Garcia playing a very shitty one. Indianapolis wouldn’t mind winning 44-41, and you like that. You like that a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/4 "2004-09-15T17:37:55Z")
You don’t want to take advice from **Munch** or **Jimmy Chitwood** - they both LOST in week 1 in the SDMB He Hate Me Fantasy League! They clearly don’t know what they are talking about… McNair, definitely. He’s a top play most weeks, and against Indy, doubly so. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/5 "2004-09-15T18:31:32Z")
Don’t make me angry, **Wilson**. You won’t like me when I’m angry. Nor will you like Jamal Lewis when he’s actually playing well, nor Barlow when he’s got Beasley blocking for him, or Drew Bennett when he’s not sucking. (Man, what a craptastic performance from the Falcon Twists this week, huh?) ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/6 "2004-09-15T18:42:06Z")
If I were you, I’d agonize over my decision, then start Garcia. Once the game began I’d start to wonder if I made the wrong choice, lament my folly, get depressed because I was losing a fantasy football game, and get drunk to cope with the pain. Or I guess you could start McNair. signed, the guy who wished he hadn’t started McNair last week. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/7 "2004-09-15T19:09:16Z")
You guys. I post a thread for discussion and trash talk about our league, and it gets ignored- but you take the talk to another thread. Well, that was obviously a mistake. :smack: Being the one to defeat Munch in the first week, my advice is: Start the one that will complement your team best. If you have a receiver from onme of their teams take that QB- it’s as if you’re doubling points, if QBs and WRs get the same amount for TDs and yardage. If not, then start McNair. He has a lot more to work with. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/8 "2004-09-15T19:18:21Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Don’t make me angry, **Wilson**. You won’t like me when I’m angry. Nor will you like Jamal Lewis when he’s actually playing well, nor Barlow when he’s got Beasley blocking for him, or Drew Bennett when he’s not sucking. (Man, what a craptastic performance from the Falcon Twists this week, huh?) Oh please, I had to watch my number one WR go down with a broken collar bone, then watch Amani Toomer and Stephen Davis suddenly age 10 years right before my eyes. Then realize that teams have figured out they can put 8 in the box and there’s nothing Kyle Boller can do about it - bad news for my boy Heap. Anyway, take McNair. He’s going to light up Indianapolis in the air and on the ground. It’ll be ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/9 "2004-09-15T19:41:14Z")
> [@Steelerphan](#): > > You guys. I post a thread for discussion and trash talk about our league, and it gets ignored- but you take the talk to another thread. Well, that was obviously a mistake. Smack talk is a beautiful, fleeting, fickle thing. Attempts must not be made to try to control it, or even contain it. A comparison between our league and breeding captive pandas could be made, but I’d hate to suggest/reveal that Hamlet likes having sex with bears. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-week-2-fantasy-nfl-question/264542/10 "2004-09-16T01:11:42Z")
> [@Jimmy Chitwood](#): > > McNair, easy. I wouldn’t play Garcia over McNair unless two things were happening- McNair playing a very tough defense, and Garcia playing a very shitty one. Indianapolis wouldn’t mind winning 44-41, and you like that. You like that a lot. Garcia produced decently last week against the Ravens. I had him benched, but Pennington produced (basically) the exact same points, so it didn’t bother me. I know nothing about FF, but what I’d do is check the passing attempts vs rushing attempts, and passing TDs vs rushing TDs of both the Titans and Browns, trying to get a feel for how they tried to score. I know Garcia ran a TD in, but McNair does that too. So check if one of them does an even pass/run and another goes pass heavy. If that’s the case, take the pass heavy style. Also check the yards per carry let up by both (next week’s) opponents. If one is soft against the run, don’t expect your QB to come out slinging it.