Alright here are the current incarnations of my two fantasy teams at the halfway point through the season. Thoughts/comments are always appreciated.

Team Pushin' The Action: 6-2 with 862.10 points scored (60+ point lead for tiebreaking purposes)

QB - Brees, Matt Ryan (only on the team for this week)
WR - Larry Fitz, Roddy White, L. Coles, D. Bowe, S. Breaston, D. Avery (starting Fitz and White this week)
RB - T. Jones, B. Jacobs, S. Jackson, S. Slaton (Sitting Slaton this week, working to acquire Westbrook)
TE - Owen Daniels
K - Rian Lindell
Def/ST - Minnesota

Question: I obviously have an overabundance of talent at the WR position, is there really anything else I should be doing with it than using them as trading material for an upgraded RB?

Team Ground and Pound: 7-1 with 822.66 points scored (10 point lead for tiebreaking purposes, but that team is 4-4)

QB - Cutler
WR - T. O., B. Marshall, A. Bryant, V. Jackson, D. Bowe, T. Ginn (currently starting T.O., Marshall, and Bryant)
RB - C. Johnson, M. Lynch, R. Bush, L. McClain (please comeback soon Bush)
TE - Dallas Clark (finally was productive Monday night!!!)
K- Robbie Gould
Def/ST - Giants and Jets (should have started Giants instead of Jets last week, would have reduced my sweat considerably. Starting them this week against Dallas)

Question: Should I start Ginn against Denver in place of T.O. against the Giants or is that too much of a gamble? Should I flip out Ginn for Bryant instead as my flex this week? Or is Bowe someone I should be playing despite his match up against a tough Tampa secondary?

I'd go Garrard, Ricky Williams and Higgins. The fact that Higgins is the 5th WR in you league is why I can't stand KR points leagues. I have no interest in being in a league that special teams has so much impact on.

It's annoying at first, but I don't have much say in how the scoring is set. But it's sort of sweet when people don't get how big of an impact KR's make and they go under the radar the whole year. Also, we're a 12-team league so it gives you more opportunity to get points vs. having to use Le'Ron McClain as your flex spot.

That's how my lineup is set right now. I'll probably leave it.

I would definitely be testing the waters for a solid RB by offering some combination of Coles/Bowe/Breaston/Avery. But you're not really desparate at RB, either. Just float some offers to teams that need WR and if nothing develops, oh well.






As a Miami fan, I can tell you that I wouldn't be expecting great things from Ginn two weeks in a row. He hasn't shown much consistency and last week the CB he torched had a bum knee. Miami has a really weak secondary, but I'd still stick with TO. But as somebody who is usually wrong with predictions, you probably shouldn't listen to anything I say.

Barring a ridiculous shootout tonight which is highly unlikely, both my teams will come away with victories, putting me at 15-3 for the season.

For the record, Chris Johnson is just money.

Even though I'm winning 138-83 with him only having Randle El remaining, I would like to take this time to gripe about the Talented Mr Roto's hate column talking me out of starting Antonio Bryant. I am offically never listening to him for the rest of the year, and just going by my analysis. I think he's under too much pressure to make "predictions", when the actual smart high percentage plays are what I need to be figuring out.

<---- Started Antonio Bryant in my flex spot on one of my two teams /brag

But also started SJax in my flex spot on my other team /gripe

ask me for advice imo. alot of people on football guys forum was all over avery this week and i asked if people were worried about a torry holt coming out party. he didnt have a huge game but 56yds and a TD compared to like 28 yds that avery had =). i also said detroit actually had a chance to beat chicago this past week too =/

I had detroit in my picks ( with a spread) pool, if that's what you're getting at.

Alright here's a question for this week. I have one of my WR spots open and my flex spot open this week. Who should I plug into these positions?

Dwayne Bowe @ SD
Vincent Jackson vs. KC
Le'Ron McClain @ Houston
Kevin Curtis vs. NYG

My initial reaction is to start Bowe and Jackson in these spots, mainly due to their favorable match ups against each other's secondaries. Combine this with Bowe's consistent performance and Antonio Bryant having success as a tall reciever against KC's short CBs (Vincent Jackson is of similar build so should have the same advantage). McClain would probably be my third choice, though this is largely dependent on McGahee's status as the week develops (more favorable if Willis stays out so just a two way split in carries with Rice vs. the full 3 headed monster, though his goal line touches will be unchanged regardless). The Giants defense is playing on a high level, making Curtis the least favorable in my opinion.

Thoughts?

I think your thinking is dead on here, and you should play Jackson/Bowe. I don't like McClain the rest of the year, really, and Curtis, whom I do like, has a bad matchup. If bowe was on an even middle of the pack team, he'd be a top 10 receiver, and I like his matchup against SD.

I think your thinking is dead on here, and you should play Jackson/Bowe. I don't like McClain the rest of the year, really, and Curtis, whom I do like, has a bad matchup. If bowe was on an even middle of the pack team, he'd be a top 10 receiver, and I like his matchup against SD.

Picked up Antonio after Chambers got hurt. Woot.

The Vice City Hurricanes are 7-2, alone in 1st.

QB: Rivers, Eli Manning

RB: Peterson, Reggie Bush, Duece, Jonathan Stewart, Aaron Stecker, Ricky Williams

WR: Andre Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, Chris Chambers, Antonio Bryant, Greg Camarillo

TE: Witten, David Martin

K: Bironas,

D/ST: Tampa Bay, Minnesota

SU. I told my friend for our survival league I was scared of the matchup since Orlovsky hadn't actually been that bad (no INT's in his 3 starts), and the Bears secondary is average at best. we took TB and sweated our balls off.





Pretty much dead on. Vincent was top 10 going into last week as a WR and SD's secondary is the worst in the NFL this year.

yeah, it's not a survivor league. It's a head to head wager against a friend of mine. He's using his own knowledge of the teams and his gut, and I'm using Wang's contrary theory ( IE finding out which way the majority of the pubic is picking, then picking against them.) So far I am 4-0 having won the first four weeks of our bet, and am beating him over all in correct picks 31 to 22, just murdering him. So far I've been pleased with my results with contrarian theory, and may expand my football betting horizons next season to incorporate it.

nice

Anyone who has Jay Cutler on one of their teams should be putting a /brag in this thread. He put up 38.78 points in my yahoo leagues last night.

/brag

Had to trade Portis and Campbell for Cutler and Slaton (and I also have F. Gore) but I have him in one league.

here's a gripe... I don't have the NFL network, and I didn't even know there was a game last night till it started. I already had Braylon in ( though I wish I hadn't), but I didn't get a pick in the game in on my weekly picks pool. Du Ma!

And the only game worth watching on Thanksgiving will be on the NFL Network. That has nothing to do with FF, but still sucks a dick.

Here's another gripe: The nfl.com live coverage of thursday night games is disappointing at best. Spend way too much time listening to the announcers talk instead of being able to watch the actual game. Its basically like when you have the nfl.com game updates going where you can only listen to the radio broadcast in the red zone, but there is video too. At least you got to watch most of the 4th quarter, because the end of that game was sick.

I don't know why the fcking cable companies don't just buckle. Everyone on the fcking planet wants the NFL network.

I have Cutler and NFL Network (and it is pretty awesome). /brag

i have the nfl network ftw and the nfl league pass or w/e that it. i think it was well worth the 40$ i paid for it to listen to some of the games.

:sigh:

Have Scheffler in all 5 of my dynasty leagues and I benched him in all of them thinking he wouldn't play/if he did would be in there too little to have an effective game. And now he got re-injured so next week will be another one without knowing if he will play or not.

At least I have Cutler in 2 of the 5 leagues and Marshall in 3 of them.

I HATE KELLEN WINSLOW.

But he's a fuckin' soldier...

I am in 3 Yahoo leagues and I am a combined 25-2 going into this week. I run good.

Quick Question: I get LT and Kevin Walters in exchange for Brandon Jacobs and Roddy White. Would anyone not accept this?

LT's back to being healthy and has a nice remaining schedule. Brandon Jacobs shares carries (though he generally gets goal line work) and has a difficult remaining schedule at best. Plus LT has a clutch matchup against Denver in Week 17 that should bode for lots of fantasy points. I have enough backup at WR that losing Roddy White isn't much of an impact (I have Bowe, Coles, Breaston, Avery, Fitzgerald). Furthermore, this will have my RBs as being Thomas Jones, Steven Jackson, Steve Slaton, and LT. I can go shopping for a top WR using Jones/Slaton if I so choose. Thoughts?

I don't think I would do this, I would maybe counter with Coles instead of white or something. The thing is, the Sean Alexanderization of LT has begun, I think, and I would not be particularly eager to get him.

Thats actually the exact trade I initially proposed.

Thank you for showing up this week, MJD, I needed you. That guy either gets me 3 points or 25.. he seldom has bread and butter games.

I would like to thank two players today:

1. Drew Brees- I admit it, I doubted you today sir. I thought you were finally going to have a bad game. True, you threw for three picks, but you got a garbage production TD at the end of the game and you crossed the 400 yard mark. You proved me wrong and I will never lose faith again. Please forgive me.

2. Thomas Jones- With Brees struggling early on, you helped relieve my fears by rushing for over 100 yards and 2 TDs in the first half today. Not to only that, but for whatever reason that is beyond me, your coach kept you in the game and you get a third TD for me. I wish he could have let you cross the 150 yard mark for additional yardage bonus points, but that is just me being greedy. You also make up for the potential of Brandon Jacobs having a relatively poor showing against Philly tonight and have eliminated the sweat. You are coming on at the right time for both my fantasy team and your own team's playoff hopes. Thank you sir.

I would like to thank Brett Favre, whom I am playing against, for not "going off" in a game that his team scored 40 points at half time in (49 total) When I saw the half time score, I freaked the fck out, but then when I saw his line I thought "oh... cool.." and figured they'd be conservative and run the ball in the second half, which they did. I don't know how I'm doing, because stupid yahoo doesn't have free live scoring, I assume I'm behind, as I have Warner/Q/Tim Hightower all coming up tomorrow, but I should be in good shape as the only guy he had that did at all well, was Adrian Pederson ( who, admittedly, went off). The rest of his team is seriously terrible, so with MJD having a 3 td game, I should be in good shape.

Second that portion. Freaking annoying that I have to wait until tomorrow to see what kind of lead I have. Half the time I end up calculating rough scores by hand because I can't stand the wait but I am too cheap to pay the 5 or 10 bucks or whatever it is.

I'm just bitter we didn't have this league in espn free leagues, where I have about 40 teams that I don't give two craps about ,but they all have live scoring.

On another note, is there any doubt at all that AP is the no brainer first pick next year? They ran him all game long, green bay knew they were going to, know that Minn could do nothing else but run AP, and they still couldn't stop him .Even on that last drive of the game, they kept running him.. the announcers were like " at some point in the game they are going to have to go away from the running game, they are running out of clock". Wanna bet? AP is a monster. Gore and portis I guess are in the conversation, but I think AP is my first over all pick, if I had to do the draft over, starting today.

I agree completely, AP deserves to be the #1 pick. I would also throw Westbrook into the Gore/Portis committee for top draft picks. He had an injury plagued season, but he is simply ridiculous. How he goes, the Eagles go.

yeah, but he never plays a full year. I would pick him around 4-6 I think. I Also think reggie bush is now a no brain first rounder, he has the potential to be westbrookian.

Laziness! I remember in the "good old days" we used to actually (gasp) hand write the scores and freaking snail-mail them out every week.

Now, I would be pissed about that as well. I didn't even know that about yahoo, that seems pretty ridiculous.

yeah, but scoring is way more complicated than it was in the good old days, too. fck, I don't even know what all the scoring rules in my league are to begin to do it by hand. I looked at some of the key ones pre-draft ( PPC or no, 6,5 or 4 points for QB TD's), but some of the others I have no idea about.

After witnessing LT's lackluster performance against KC of all teams, I have decided to instead pursue Matt Forte. I ended up agreeing with you BigD, Rowdy Roddy is too much of a loss for the supposed "upgrade" that LT was going to be. Furthermore, I was very impressed with how the Giants managed to run against the Eagles, who usually don't allow that kind of yardage.

Now, as a bears fan, it's my unbiased opinion that Matt Forte is god.


Unless I have like the first pick or something, I am probably going to pick him next year, if I can. He's young, he's a stud, he's on a team that loves to run. I don't see how you can go wrong with him next year. I'm not kidding that I think I would take him at 2, and I'd have no doubts at all taking him at 5.

Fantasy football is so crazy. Any other year, I would care less about the cardinals, but this season because I have Warner, Q, and Tim Hightower, they are my clear number 2 team I was rooting so hard for them, long after Warner and Q's performance put me over the top.



Jesus christ, I would name my first born child Kurt Q. McGee.

I faded Warner and Rackers enough tonight to win by 1.38 points. 1st rd bye here we come.

TY Frank Gore, although scoring early on would have made my Sick Thread league win a smaller sweat.

I had the third pick in one of my leagues and AP fell to me after LT and Westbrook went 1-2. Before the draft I was trying to figure out if I wanted Westbrook or Jackson and then when my pick came up I went, "Oh...that made it easy."

I guess you could have made an argument for Westbrook before the draft, but if I had 2nd pick I would have had no doubt on AP.


And if we're thanking players, outside of AP, I'd like to thank David Garrard for doing what he was supposed to against Detroit. Big Ben is pretty much useless for me right now so a run of steady, solid games from Garrard would really help me.

Big Ben is so terribad. I listen to alot of Dave Dameshek, who is a pittsburgh native, and was trying to Say Ben was the MVP a couple weeks ago, and is always overrating that guy. I think he has some good qualities, but some serious flaws, IE his immobility, his long, slow release, and some of his decision making. There are about 12 qb's I'd want ahead of him, including the divine Kurt Warner.


And, since we're thanking people, I'd like to thank Mo Jones Drew, who's 3 touchdowns in one quarter made my sunday. That guy is the lightening damage of fantasy football ( Warning: that was an extremely nerdy reference right there, so if you get it, you too are a nerd). He either gets me 3 points or 25.

Jay Cutler is my starting QB. Two weeks ago I picked up Jake Delhomme for the bye week. This week Cutler faces Atlanta while Delhomme faces Detroit. Is the disparity in defenses enough to warrant benching Cutler here?

No, no no. I wouldn't bench culter against like Pittsburgh or Ten for Delhomme. Some players are must starts, every week, and I think Cutler is one of them. Don't get fancy and over coach.

I have both of them on one of my teams. That thought never crossed my mind, and will never. Cutler plays every week.