I took a chance and started Darnold. Not a lock that it was the right call – maybe Daniel Jones rushes for 100 yards again – but it definitely wasn’t a bad one with Darnold posting a tidy 24.80, five points over projection. Thanks largely to two rushing TDs, but he did break 300 passing yards. Barely, but still. None of my QBs throw for yards. 300 is good.
And I’m loving his go-to receiver DJ Moore, who has posted scores of 12.76, 17.90 and another 16.50 tonight.
I really hope CMC comes back; his presence helps free up Moore as well as he personally provides Darnold with lots of passing yards. Not sold on Hubbard if CMC can’t start.
I am way overly invested this week in the defensive battle cle/chi game with Nick Chubb, Allen Robinson, David Montgomery, and OBJ.
I’m still leading Dale a little bit because Josh Allen is back to doing Josh Allen things.
I really love to see Allen succeed. Not only for my fantasy team, but because it always foils Hamlet’s “Josh Allen is finally going to pull off the mask and reveal that he’s been Blake Bortles all along” predictions.
You definitely beat me but an underrated play was having the Denver defense against the hapless Jets. I did pick Denver in the Survival league, but the Jets are just awful
The Northeast corridor is starting to look like the NFC East. (In general.) Everyone’s 1-2 and nobody’s top tier in scoring. Could end up being a tight race for the division.
Saquon Barkley is starting to show flashes of looking like he might become himself again. Very encouraging. I’m starting to get worried about CMC; Tony Kornheiser used the word brittle to describe him, likening him to Tua. Not that he has special insight but it’s not a good sign. He pointed out that McCaffrey missed 13 games last season from three different injuries. Saquon missed 14 but just from a single season ending injury.
I’m starting to feel better about this trade with Barkley showing more confidence, after having suffered some seller’s remorse over Hockenson. I hope McCaffrey comes back quickly and stops getting injured or I might start feeling bad about the trade for a different reason.
EDIT: The Giants are surprisingly not terrible from a fantasy perspective. They’ve just forgotten how to win and gotten into that persistent loser mindset. They’ve been winning all game the last two games, looking actually pretty decent, but then giving the game away on a literal last second field goal to lose the game both weeks. Last week the kick missed but the Giants jumped offsides to give him a second kick which he made. Jones couldn’t pass but he ran for a 100 yards.
Jones did finally demonstrate some passing ability in this week’s loss which is encouraging for Giants WRs, but I would continue to avoid Evan Ingram like the plague. He’s an albatross, straight up.
As opposed to the Jets who are a complete dumpster fire at every level.
This is shaping up to be my worst fantasy year by a long shot.
The screwed up thing is that I knew this would be the case immediately after the draft. This isn’t a case of my being ill-prepared or me having a string of bad luck, but as the draft was happening I saw it falling apart. I hated my draft slot, I hated the players available when I was picking, and I knew when I saw my final roster it was hopeless.
It’s kind of heartening to know that my instincts were correct I suppose, it’s not like I convinced myself I nailed it.
I didn’t even really want Josh Gordon, but after having him on my roster for 8 years I felt like if this is the year he actually gets his shit together and it wasn’t on my roster it would bring great shame to family. So I overbid $11 against… no one. No one else bid for him. Oops.
On the other hand, perhaps the prophecy will be fulfilled and he leads me to a championship.
I picture it much more as one of those aha! moments in movies when the protagonist (clearly you) thinks he’s got no chance to defeat the villain (Me, of course) because of The Prophecy, but fights anyway. And just as the villain is about to level the killing blow, the bespectacled old researcher (Petey2? Ellis? We’re taking applications) comes running in and shouts "It’s a mistranslation! Not Josh Gordon! Josh AND Gordon!!! and you immediately turn the tide with huge games by Josh Allen and newly acquired Melvin Gordon, ensuring your victory. As I breathe my last (saying “Of course it was Josh Allen all along. Fuck him”), your love interest (Omni, but played by Olivia Munn) comes running up and you the two of you embrace lustily.
I tried trading Cooper Kupp before the draft because I had Metcalf and Jefferson, and I needed RB help. I was rebuffed. I’m glad my offer was denied.
My TE position is still a dumpster fire, but if Hines can stay productive (more snaps with Marlon Mack gone), then my team should be feisty all season.
Guys I feel like I should put you on notice about my giving up my team.
It’s clear after 3+ years at this now I don’t have what it takes to keep up with you all. My team continues to founder and I have no clear plan to improve that. I’ve been watching less football the past few years and I expect that’s going to continue…I genuinely don’t know many of the players anymore. And the idea of “scouting college players” is self-evidently not happening. So I don’t know if you all want me sticking around being a doormat. I’ll certainly keep my team solvent this year as much as I can, for nearly being out of RB’s already. If you have some preference for my disposition or succession you have some time to consider things before next year. If you do need someone to keep it, I can keep doing that. You’re all nice guys and I’ve been playing with many of you in various leagues for a decade plus, itself pretty cool for my being somebody’s random roommate (from wayyy OTB) that filled in at the last minute.
So, you all run with that.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I watch a shit ton of college football (more than the NFL), and that hasn’t seemed to help.
I didn’t even remember you were a last-minute fill in roommate (whose by the way?), but I do hope you stay if it brings you even a bit of enjoyment and not worry about where the team is currently. I think what we have seen is one good draft and a trade or two and it’s very easy to go from worst to first.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll start putting out feelers to see if a good replacement is interested for next year, as of right now I don’t have any candidates in mind. Maybe Jules will remember someone expressing interest in the past that I’ve forgotten.
It does suck being a doormat, but it’s not a permanent state. Dale was definitely at the bottom of the league for a few years but now he’s one of the top contenders. You can definitely try to rebuild - one good strategyh for that is to just sell off your good pieces, eat a dick for a year or two, but accumulate a bunch of draft picks. Probably a better strategy overall than just sort of trying to keep afloat and clinging to a few good players just to avoid poor showings.
But it sounds like your interest in fantasy is down and I get it, I’ll start working on a replacement unless you change your mind and decide to maybe blow up your team and make a big rebuild.
This was a long time ago. Back when we were making the auction FF league, yahoo (where we all had our accounts) didn’t do auction drafts. So we decided we’d all sign up for the same ESPN mock draft, since they had the auctions set up, and then transfer the results to the yahoo league. (People preferred to keep all their FF in the same place)
One of our players didn’t show up and Overly ended up filling in to do the mock draft. We offered him a spot in the league, and he decided to join us and join the boards and he’s been playing in SDMB leagues for like 15 years now.
I didn’t remember him being a rooommate though - in my memory he was just a random guy who filled the (public) mock draft lobby but chatted with us during the draft and decided to join the league for real. Maybe I’m mixing up old stories.
So unless you were around for the first couple of years of the auction league, you wouldn’t have remembered that story. By the time I invented him to the dynasty league he had 15 or so years of history in SDMB leagues.
Actually, come to think of it, when we first started the auction league we didn’t even have an online-draft. We used a voice/text chat program and held the auction with me acting as an auctioneer and people bidding for players manually. Man, that was a long time ago.
This has been a pretty brutal start to the season with injuries, and it isn’t getting any easier this week. I thought week one would be as bad as it would get with Mike Evans shitting the bed and Aaron Rodgers having the worst game of his career. But it has gotten worse from there. CMC has to come back soon and stay healthy, or this season is in some trouble.