Agree with BigD 100%. Never bench Cutler. They have no running game and Brees threw for 400+ yards last week against them. Sure Brees threw 3 picks, but when you are racking up that type of yardage you can overlook it. Also, I would argue that Cutler's WRs are better as a unit than Brees' (at least without Reggie to catch the short passes to the outside. PLEASE BE HEALTHY THIS WEEK REGGIE!). Marshall is a top WR and Royal is having one hell of a rookie year.

Yes, I have this problem often. I want to feel like I'm doing something.

Thanks all for the advice.

I'm so screwed. I dont have live scoring, but I'd estimate my team has a total of 9 points from the early games. God damn, I need another monster game from Q-Warner-MJD

JUST CALL ON THE WARNER, AND YOU WILL BE REWARD...

HIS BEAT IS EVER BOOMIN' AND YOU KNOW HE GET IT STARTED

28.8 from Kurt Warner
24.9 from Q (!!!! number one fantasy wide receiver and he missed 2 games, jesus christ. )

and, lets not forget, 21.8 points from MJD



Man, I thought I had no shot in this game after the early games, but, here I am, up 119-107, with Braylon still to play ( and he has J-Lewis). Baring a monster game from J-Lewis and a nothing game from Braylon, I'm pretty much set. This win will secure a playoff birth, and make me giddy. It's over the league's top scoring team ( who would be an unreal 6-5 after this game). Fck my first born, I'm renaming myself Kurt Q. McGee.

I'm going to guess you lost =(

I got a huge win in my $200 league thanks to Lynch.

Why would you guess that? Braylon had over 100 yards and j-lewis did nothing, as promised. Playoff spot clinched by me.

This seemed like a weird post. Did you not watch the game?




this.



In my dynasty league, I was up by 16 going into tonight's game and he had Brady Quinn. Thank goodness the Browns suck. I won by 7.

In my main league that I play with all my friends for a good amount of change, I won because of Lynch. I was down 20 points going into tonights game and ended up winning by 3. I almost cried when he didn't cross the goal line at the end and they didn't let him run it in, but let idiot Trent Edwards get the sneek. I thought I lost because of that. Thank goodness Cleveland scored again.

In summary, tonight's game was awesome for me, as it won me two games. One (the dynasty league) that I didn't care about, and the other (which was extremely important) both being undecided until the final whistle. It made it a fun night. Also, I have Warner and Boldin, so that helps a little bit.

I had to work. The $200 league I'm in is with some friends down here. I was down 7, I had Lynch he had Evans. I came back and won.

Fuck the Browns and Brady not being able to throw a TD. Peasant ass. At least I still have the division lead in dynasty =).

How the hell does your scoring work. My leagues, 100 yds from Braylon plus 60 from JLew = 16 pts. You were up by 12.

I think BigD has Braylon, and was sweating a big game from Jamal Lewis.

no no.. I had braylon, he had j-lewis.

Now at 19-3 between my two leagues. About time that Lynch went Beast and put up a solid chunk of points. Lets hope he can get back to back 100 yard rushing games. His match up against KC is a promising one...

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Gripe:

Do any of you have "that" guy on your team? You know, the guy who is always on your bench, usually puts up decent numbers, yet you can never bring yourself to actually play him ahead of your other guys at that position.

I have that guy. His name is Lance Moore.

It seems like every time I almost put him in the lineup I think, "Well, he never has THAT big of a game and what are the chances that he'll have another decent game this week?"

Then he puts up 80 yards and a score.

I've had that guy for probably half the season and have never played him once.

Fuck that guy.

Oh man, I wish I had lance Moore, he'd by my number two wider reciever I think, and I have talent ( Boldin, Colston, Braylon). You probably need to get over this, NO is high powered and Moore has been their number one guy all year, even after Colston came back.


My main league is so deep (2rb, 3 wide recievers, 1 rb/wr flex 1 wr/TE flex) that I'm generally playing crumb bums at my flex position, so it's just a pick your poison between the crumb bums. I tried to talk the league into getting rid of the flex positions, so we might, you know, actually have to make tough starting choices, but my suggestion went on deaf ears ( well, actually, I was able to reduce the amount of flex players from 4 to 2, if you can imagine that).


But anyway, Unless you have like Boldin and Fitz, start Moore, he's great this season.

And in other news, Kurt Warner is only being started in 79 percent of yahoo leagues this week against the giants, meaning 21 percent of fantasy players are just plain retarded. Okay, maybe it's only like 15 percent, because 6 percent have like Drew Brees or Jay culter.. .but if you're benching warner to play someone like Aaron Rodgers or Peyton Manning because they have better match ups, you're just fcking stupid, and you don't deserve that greatness that is Kurt Warner.


The advice that I give Cindy Lou is the advice I give everyone.. don't out coach yourself, don't bench your best player just because you feel you need to be active. The only reason I bench one player for another is because I feel that they have equal fantasy value, and one of them has the better match up. Warner has equal fantasy value to exactly 2 quarterbacks this season, and I would never ever bench him against anyone unless I had one of those other two qb's ( and if you still have Brees and warner at this point of the season, instead of trading one of them, you deserve to fail unless you're in an extremely trade adverse league).

The problem is that he has fewer points on the season than Hines Ward, Andre Johnson, and Santana Moss. But it seems like he's more consistent overall, whereas those other three could have a big game or a complete crapfest (like Ward last night).

I've got Lance Moore in my flex spot this week.

yeah, but keep in mind he didn't play the first few games. Points per game is a more reliable stat than season points.

Touche. I didn't pay attention to how many games he had played when I picked him up. Hooray, Lance Moore.

I hate you, Lady Quinn. You're just lucky that TO and Michael Turner are going to win my game in the Pokerhaus league.

<---- Just got my Brees team served by someone playing Fargas, McFadden, and Leon Washington as 2 RBs and Flex and Pennington as his QB... /gripe The only two good players he has are is WRs (Boldin and Megatron). /gripe

In other news, my Cutler team keeps rolling and both my teams are still the #1 team in their leagues. /brag

that's a bad beat right there.

I am in first place in my league. I am playing the guy in 2nd. I have a 43 pt lead going in to tonight. My opponent has Drew Brees. My head is about to explode.

Packers Defense tonight = epic fail.

I hope you listened about starting Lance Moore.

That I did, but I already had a comfortable lead so it was just gravy. He's officially in the starting lineup now.

Sigh, have to sweat waiver requests to get either Jamarcus or D. Anderson so I have 2 quarterbacks....

This has to be the deepest league ever if you're sweating on those two.

His league starts two qb's, as I recall..

We start two QB's in a 12 team league, and obv Faggy Quinn has to get injured after the trade deadline. Got both of them, starting Russell b/c I like his matchup a bit more than Cle/Ind.

Beat: Had D. Williams on the bench.

Locked up a playoff spot in the FCP league, hopefully I can continue the run. I have 3 weak RBs that I have to keep shuffling as my #2(Hightower/Ward/M.Moore), so gonna be tough to get past the first round in the playoffs.

I need mo jones drew to score like 40 points tonight to win. If I'd started antonio bryant and Peyton hills over Kevin Curtis and McFadden ( which I almost did) I wouldn't be drawing dead going into tonight.

I do not regret trading Portis/Campbell for Cutler/Slaton.

Too lazy to look back and find your team roster (which at this point in the season might not have been accurate anyway) but who did you play in favor of him? When I see any RB matched up against Green Bay this year I cry tears of joy in anticipation for major fantasy points, seeing as how they are among the worst teams against the run defensively. When combined with D. Williams' being on a roll recently (100+ yards and at least one score), I would have been seeing him as a must-start.

Also well played on the Portis/Campbell trade for Cutler/Slaton. Slaton especially is looking very good for the rest of the fantasy season, and Cutler should constantly put up numbers as long as Marshall and Royal keep relatively healthy. With his full group of starting recievers, the Broncos have a chance against anyone due to their aerial attack.

Frank Gore and Steve Slaton. To be honest, I don't even think I changed my lineup between weeks. Still won, so it didn't hurt me (this time.)

Its just a shame you didn't start Williams/Slaton, considering just with the two of them you would have put up nearly 70 points (at least by Yahoo scoring in my league). I gambled and lost on starting Bush over Antonio Bryant. Like you, I still won, but it would have reduced my having to sweat MJD considerably. Here's hoping Reggie gets back on the run he was on pre-injury, he was on track for a filthy season.

I'm in the playoffs with a record of 8-5. I have to play the number 1 seed who is at 12-1.

These are my starters for now, should I stick with them? Give me some insight.

QB: Jay Cutler
RB: Frank Gore, Larry Johnson
WR: Andre Johnson, Steve Breaston, Lance Moore
TE: Antonio Gates
D/ST: Bucs
K: Jay Feely


Bench:
QB: Tyler Thigpen
RB: Ahmad Bradshaw
WR: Anthony Gonzalez, Issac Bruce, Antwaan Randle El, and Mark Bradley
K: Jason Elam

I like your current line up. The only thing I might tweek would be putting in Anthony Gonzalez instead of Steve Breaston. This move I am sure is very debatable and its essentially a coin flip either way, but with how Baltimore annihilated Cincy last weekend, I have to figure that Peyton will do an even better job than Flacco. But Arizona against the Rams is likewise a favorable matchup. Go with your gut and hope it works out for you.

fuck my life. in the $200 league my opponent benches westy, but obv has forte, cj3, and thomas jones. he also did have peyton who dint do shit for him. I went into mnf down 40 and slaton picked up 33, obv sage doesn't know who owen daniels is. lose by 5, and lose my playoff spot to a team I beat twice in the reg season, but he had 30 more pts than me.
dynasty1 I lose by 20 and lost the division. that team is badanyways so let the rebuilding process begin
dyn2 I won the division at 6-7. im hopefully goin to put up a respectable game and go deep one time.
my 150 got the 3rd seed after winning my division and finished 2nd in pts. should win the league and repeat since that team is beastactular.

So if I read that properly you are 2 for 4 in terms of getting into the playoffs?

yes, had i won all of my games this past week, i'd been 4/4. dyn1 i nowhere near expected to be close to 7-6 with the roster xxeddie drafted. last year i was 2/2 in winning titles. the only legit one i think i'll win is the 150, and there i'll hold onto the league trophy!

I feel like my Brees team should slaughter most everyone in the playoffs, considering its averaging 112 points per game on the season. My Cutler team is going to be much more of a sweat, I have to see how the playoff seeding works out this after this weekend's games.

Couple of questions.

Anthony Gonzalez is marked as questionable due to an injured shoulder. Which WR should I start in his place?

Issac Bruce
Steve Breaston or
Antwaan Randle El

and also should I start Jay Feely as my kicker, or Jason Elam. Projections say Elam's hip shouldn't bother him too much. What you think? Thanks in advance.

any advice?

Well Antonio Gates put up a big fat 0. Thats never good. Feely put up a whopping 2 pts. Thats not good, lance moore put up a whopping 3 pts. Not good. Overall not a good playoff game for my team.

Had both Antonio Bryant and V. Jax sitting on the same bench this week... /BEAT

Still won, but if I had started them over T.O. and Lynch I could have broken 175 points... 40 points for a WR in a single game (thanks to Yahoo yardage bonuses giving 9 points)... Just gross.

HA I believe I scored an impressive 58 pts. losing pretty bad.

While listening to the MNF game on sports radio and hearing how the Bucs had 2 picks I thought........Awesome

Yeah turned to shit and they scored me a nice -2.......

I benched Tampa's defense for the Dallas D. First time I benched TB all year and it works to success. I won in the 150 by 5 (would have lost by 3). I'm feeling good knowing my team is playing a team that puts up 113 and still wins!

Gripes (take your pick):

Tampa's D gives up a late TD to drop their point total for the night from 5 to 1 (we lose 4 for giving up 35 or more points on D).

On a meaningless fourth down at the end of the game LenDale White loses one yard to drop his yardage from 100 to 99, thus costing me the 2 bonus points for reaching the 100-yard mark.

Tyler Thigpen is stopped one yard short of a touchdown against Denver, costing me 6 points.

I lose by half a point.

One yard (in two cases) and a meaningless TD knock me out of the playoffs.