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Whoah, thanks. After 12 years on the SDMB and six years of SDMB fantasy threads I should probably have figured that out by now.
It is not a big deal to me about Brady/Bradford. It was my own fault I should have checked. Unfortunately, I’ve been called out of town, but my laptop isn’t connecting to the hotel wifi.
Seems like this should be the week I could start Kenny Britt but I’m just not sure. My flex spots are a mess. I’m probably going to start Parker despite being a rookie recently injured and missing preseason. My gut says they’re going to try to force a TD to him as a confidence builder fan pleaser thing.
Hard to value Ryan Mathews and Darren Sproles.
Big Parker fan this year but hard to say how much work he’ll get today.
The more I read about Parker the more I like him. I’m really lucky he fell to 10 and I’m sure you’d have snatched him up at 11
Two minutes into the season and DeSean Jackson might be out for half the season.
This is what I get for snickering at Beef’s loss of Jordy Nelson…
I can’t be impartial here, so I’ll let the majority/commish rule on it. Obviously Brady’s day looks pretty good, but I’d just ask that you make the call before kickoff of Bradford’s game. Obviously not fair to have the 2 scores finalized and pick the better of the two.
BTW - My addition of James Fucking Jones looks pretty brilliant after 1 half of football.
I’m inclined to leave Bradford in as Retro’s QB. Not a lot of mitigating circumstance on the oversight, no enthusiastic go-ahead from his opponent (or even an explicit request from Retro himself), plus, while I think Brady was pretty easily preferable to Bradford going into the Week, it’s not such a huge difference that no one could realistically prefer Bradford: a guy could be total Chip Kelly zealot, or worried that Brady’s about to hit a big age-related decline, or they think Tennessee’s defense is way worse than Pittsburgh’s, etc. I prefer these kinds of retro-starts to be total no-brainers.
Fair enough.
Meanwhile, I’m kicking myself for releasing Travis Kelce. I drafted two years ago when he was a rookie, spending a 2nd rounder on him. Then since he did nothing his rookie year I cut him in the offseason. furt picked him up last year, again in the second round, and now that’s looking like a pretty nice starting TE for him.
I haven’t really mastered the art of patience with this whole dynasty league thing.
Well the Davonte Parker thing failed, but with Britt putting up 3 points I was pretty screwed anyway. Today is actually a huge game for me - any games between RNATB and Petey and I are critical for the division lead. It’s projected near a tie now.
I wish I drafted James Fucking Jones but after giving him that nickname I thought he’d shit the bed for me.
No problem. I would have started Brady, but I don’t think its such an absurd play to have gone with Bradford after his Pre-season.
Now what would have been absurd would have been for me to start Mariotta over Big Ben, but man that would have been nice.
What I’m passed about is that Quick was inactive for the game but not listed that way anywhere I saw.
Let’s face it, what kind of odds wold you need to lay to take the over-under of 30 for Bradford? -200? -300? Not exactly an insurmountable number.
I’m hoping my studs on Monday night make it a moot point.
I started Britt in the All-Pro league just because I saw Brian Quick was out. It was him or Ty Montgomery who didn’t do anything other than return kickoffs and posted a similarly unhelpful total.
The Iggles run enough plays to give Mathews more than flex value, assuming he is effective. At least, that was the impression I was under based on the “expert” views until I looked at their actual rushing stats for last year; they ran the ball with someone other than a QB 424 times all season. 312 of those went to Shady, 57 to Sproles and 46 to Chris Polk. I find it hard to believe that they aren’t going to give Murray close to 300. That leaves something like 9 carries a game for Mathews in a best-case scenario (that is, assuming Mathews gets all of what’s left over after 280 for Murray). If you assume Mathews gets 5 yards per carry (which he’s never managed over a season) that’s 720 yards.
The Eagles’ total running plays (474) were good enough for seventh in the league, but if you look at the teams above them on that list (Browns, Bengals, Seahawks, Jets, Cowboys, Texans) only a couple of those teams really supported two useful backs.*
You might think that receptions would make up the difference, but McCoy, Sproles and Polk only had 70 catches between them. It’s worth noting that Murray had almost double the number of catches Shady did last year, too. McCoy used to catch a lot more passes under Andy Reid than he did with Chip Kelly, which suggests that throwing to backs on first and second down just isn’t part of his scheme.
If everything goes perfectly (Mathews gets 9 carries a game and catches almost every pass), you’re looking at Gio Bernard’s rookie season: 695 yards, 514 receiving yards, 8 total touchdowns. 700 rushing yards isn’t horrible in today’s NFL - only 22 guys managed that last year - but again, that’s a best-case scenario and in all honesty it’s better than the realistic best case.
If it makes you feel any better, V-Jax didn’t do much even with Mike Evans out.
I was the one who dropped him in the first place and I still think he’ll shit the bed. Yesterday was some weird fluke caused by the way the Bears defended the pass and he’s not going to do much going forward. He’ll have big games, but you’d never actually have him in your lineup for them.
Yahoo posted a Rotoworld update saying he was out very close to game time. I was starting him in the big league and benched him around noon when I saw him on the inactives list on the NFL Network countdown show.
I usually give a once over at 11am (cst) looking at injury reports, if I notice an iffy report I pay more attention as game time approaches. The problem was there was no report prior to gametime, even during the local pregame programming ( I live in St. Louis), so I didn’t recheck him specifically.
Week 1 was a not terribly convincing win, but getting up on Petey in the division may prove critical. Andre Ellington has a 2-3 week knee sprain, which leaves me trying to figure out of Ryan Mathews or Darren Sproles is going to be more useful, as well as finding a whole lot of starters in my suspended/injured WR corps.
Sproles put up 17 points and Mathews 10, so it may be possible that the Eagles will support 3 viable fantasy starters.
I’m willing to trade away Nelson or Josh Gordon for RB help now, but I suspect I will be so lowballed that I can’t even accept in desperation. But if you’re interested in getting value next year at a discount, talk to me.
I’m also going to throw out some offers for a defense.
Injuries aren’t doing me any favors either, and if anyone has a surplus WR and is looking for a dependable backup QB (Andy Dalton) or a suddenly-in-the-spotlight RB (Benny Cunningham), I’m listening.
Depending on if the price is right, I might even part with Jameis Winston (who will be good someday, I can feel it).
Not hating the buck-fifty I put up in week 1, building around my two first round picks from last year: Carlos Hyde and Jordan Matthews. Though I’m still kicking myself for taking Matthews instead of Odell Beckham Jr. Toss in Mariotta from this year’s first round and for one whole week I have a nice trio going.
EDIT: I’m also psyched that I’ve resisted the many trade offers for Buffalo DEF I’ve fielded over the past couple season. I think I might want to hold onto them.