Board 8 > NFL Discussion Topic Week 14

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Wow, the Cowboys suck and will probably still make the playoffs anyway.

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started Dak over FitzMagic, cant see how I survive this dud.

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I don't even have fantasy to fall back on this week since I have a first round bye. I just have to suffer this team this week.

Go Titans..?

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LeonhartFour posted...

Wow, the Cowboys suck

Unstoppable. Mitch Trubisky is. So is his Citizen Eco-Drive watch against the Cowboys.

A team with as much talent cant be this bad it's just unbelievable

Alright, fantasy playoffs, do I finally cut ties with Winston and start Tannehill instead, who has been very good, or ride it out with Winston and hope for less than 6 INTs?
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Tannehill is playing the Raiders, who are floundering and on the way down, so I like that matchup.

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Winston puts up disgusting fantasy numbers for how goddamn bad he is, but I did snag Tannehill as my Foles replacement in one league (For a consolation bracket LOL) and I'm thrilled with it.

Well, the thing with the Bucs is that they're going to keep throwing, no matter how many INTs Winston has, and they've got a talented receiving corps.

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Winston has been good for me all year for the most part, despite it being awful to actually watch him play. It always seems like I'm going to get like 11 points from him then by the end of the game he's at 20 and I'm happy.

He really let me down last week though and that had nothing to do with poor play and everything to do with the Bucs running the ball, which scares me.
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This afternoon game is perplexing me here. On one hand you've got "Patriots at home", but at the same time my high school football team's offense seemed more capable than this team. The defense can only hold for so long, and if the offense struggles to score even a couple TDs as they have for weeks, then they're in trouble.

I'm equally on "Chiefs blowout" and "close Patriots win".
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https://twitter.com/Ravens/status/1202219707773923328/photo/1

Pack it in folks, Ravens are officially #blessed.

Im happy to say the Pope gave it the thumbs up, Archbishop Lori said.

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FFDragon posted...

https://twitter.com/Ravens/status/1202219707773923328/photo/1

Pack it in folks, Ravens are officially #blessed.

Oh fuck

Fantasy football choices are driving me crazy this week, especially as it's playoffs and my game is projected to be super close. Can't decide between:

2 WR's to play from - Sutton, Chark, Woods, Boyd (Have Thielen too but he's out)
Flex spot from - Ekeler, Drake, Powell (and whoever is left out from the above)

Right now I have Sutton, Chark, Ekeler in.

Chark worries me because he's playing a secondary that has done well against the pass so he could bust. And with the flex I think Drake will see higher volume (against a better D) and Powell has a monster matchup against the Dolphins. Ekeler just seems a safer pick though

Sutton/Chark/Ekeler seems like the obvious play to me.

I think Ekeler is the best fantasy guy on that list by a bit if you're playing PPR, with #2 being Drake. Powell should not be a consideration with the Jets Coach and O-Line imo. Boyd is an intriguing play with Dalton back under center, but I still think the other two are better and playing Woods means relying on Goff which is a big yikes from me. You could make the case to go Sutton/Boyd if the risk of a bust scares you more than the higher ceiling.

meanwhile I've been flopping Robby Anderson and Cole Beasley in my WR2 slot for the past half hour and I think I'm settling on Anderson but I'm a bit scared in spite of the theoretical A+ matchup

I ended up going with Winston over Tannehill. If I lose, I want it to be because Winston let me down one last time.

I also started McCoy over Cooks in my FLEX spot in a "Conner is injured and now I am screwed" play.

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Yeah I play PPR. I should probably mention there's a minor bonus to RB's for volume. We give 0.2 points per rush attempt to try close the non pass catching RB's upto the WR field for flex position purposes.

I'd go with Anderson in your scenario

davidponte posted...

I ended up going with Winston over Tannehill. If I lose, I want it to be because Winston let me down one last time.

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ShatteredElysium posted...

Yeah I play PPR. I should probably mention there's a minor bonus to RB's for volume. We give 0.2 points per rush attempt to try close the non pass catching RB's upto the WR field for flex position purposes.

Oh, uh, this actually makes Ekeler vs Drake an interesting discussion, though I think I still choose Ekeler here. They're both better than any of your WRs regardless and it's not enough to make Powell a factor though.

Winston deciding to end my season 6 minutes into the first games of the day. You hate to see it.

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Welp first round of the playoffs and I'm sure everyone on my bench will light it up while my starting lineup shits the bed
As is tradition

LadyVyxx posted...

I'm sure everyone on my bench will light it up

you sure you didn't mean "my opponent's team" here?

davidponte posted...

Winston deciding to end my season 6 minutes into the first games of the day. You hate to see it.

The rushing TD to make up for it :')

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lmao bills

pointless as hell unsportsmanlike penalty

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JAMEIS.

oh yeah

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Reg posted...

you sure you didn't mean "my opponent's team" here?

I always second guess my line and bench the wrong guys

This week is catered to eliminating me out of the playoffs in fantasy.

Two injuries on my side and everyone on my opponent's team has a touchdown to their name. Fuck.


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Chiefs gear for todays game mistakenly was sent to New Jersey instead and is now on its way to Foxboro, sources tell ESPN. The detoured equipment is expected to arrive between 3 and 3:30 p.m. ET, in time for Sunday's kickoff. It the Chiefs didn't have the equipment by the time the game started they would have to forfeit, per a source.

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Pats finding new ways to cheat

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Belichick playing 4D chess

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Surely even the Broncos can't blow this lead, right?

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jameis no

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how do you bench the guy that gave you 3 first half TDs? It's not his fault the D is garbage

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oh now apparently its an injury, twitter keeps going back and forth and the game isn't on TV where I am

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I think the 3 INTs (one being a pick six) are his fault though

not that it's ever stopped him before

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Jameis is the greatest bad QB of all time

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If the Ravens lose, it's entirely on the free 30 yards they just gifted the Bills

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Winston would have been a great QB in the 80s and 90s when nobody cared if you threw a lot of picks.

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Make that the free 55 yards

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*exhales*

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It's looking like I will be eliminated in both my playoffs after being top scorer in the league.

League 1 - Up by 13, Projected to lose by 22
League 2 - Up by 38, Projected to win by 5 (but it tends to really underrate defensive projections and he has 2 def players left)

I will be fuming if i lose both. More so about League 1 where my LB took a shit and I almost subbed him out but opted against it.

I basically need the Chiefs to have a stinker against the Pats. He has Mahomes and Tyreek (but I do have Kelce)

Kittle just got another 10 yards with a defender pulling his head off by the facemask the entire way.

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ShatteredElysium posted...

It's looking like I will be eliminated in both my playoffs after being top scorer in the league.

League 1 - Up by 13, Projected to lose by 22
League 2 - Up by 38, Projected to win by 5 (but it tends to really underrate defensive projections and he has 2 def players left)

I will be fuming if i lose both. More so about League 1 where my LB took a shit and I almost subbed him out but opted against it.

I basically need the Chiefs to have a stinker against the Pats. He has Mahomes and Tyreek (but I do have Kelce)

Do you not do 2 weeks per match playoffs?
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The Pats might actually have a chance if we get a Chiefs penalty on every 3rd down
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Lets go
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Nope. I'd prefer that we did but we don't.

We did try it one year and I'm not sure why he didn't stick to it. I think if ESPN had better customization options we would do like first rounds of playoffs 1 week and the others 2 weeks but it's all or nothing.

FFDragon posted...

Kittle just got another 10 yards with a defender pulling his head off by the facemask the entire way.

Yeah that was a monster play.

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So my other league is a 10 teamer and I wanted it to be competitive so I made the playoffs only the top 4, with them starting week 15. As of now it's looking like all 4 playoff teams will be 10-4, with everyone else being below .500.

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Basically my matchups as they are right now

League 1
20 Points + Wentz, Ekeler, Chark, Kelce, Boswell
vs
Mahomes, Fournette, Carson, Tyreek, Logan Ryan (averages 18.7), Lambo

League 2
40 Points + Kyler Murray, Michel
vs
Goff, Kupp, Diontae Johnson, Jordan Hicks (averages 25.5 points)

LAMAR is a run to the left, nice

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