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me thinks josh wanted him ;)

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If his name aint beckham I aint touching any Giants this year IMO

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WHats the word on Paul/Erm/Your keeper fish? Setting my cheat sheet as we speak



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Jpoo wrote:

WHats the word on Paul/Erm/Your keeper fish? Setting my cheat sheet as we speak


 

+1. need to know who we can cross off. were getting less than 24 hours for a full player pool here...



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erm said Bennett, paul hasn't given an answer even though he texted me "5 minutes" over 45 minutes ago, and I am still torn, probably going to flip a coin shortly but I will send an updated email as soon as paul texts me back.

I emailed everyone this, but the draft has been changed to 9pm.  also, I edited the "keeper settings" on nfl.com and it made me assign them a value so I am really hoping that works instead of doing what we did last year.  If that screws up I guess we will have to pause the draft and do what we did last year and use round 1 as the keeper round and hope it goes more smoothly than last year.



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Im not racist, but CPT is real.

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hahaha

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haha it was pretty good, but league stories outshine a decent photo I give the people what they want.

paul picked jon stewart now for $6 and I am almost def going with Hopkins so we're almost all set on keepers, i'll send out the email after I edited NFL.com.

 



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maclin will be so dissapointed when you break the news to him

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haha, I would tweet him, but I'm afraid I would get a similar message to this:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25286253/chiefs-wr-jeremy-maclin-hates-your-fantasy-football-team



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final list, keep for records:

me: Hopkins $8

nick: bell $18 (3rd time)

josh: beckham $2

New Mike: Hill $14

Braj: Mike Evans $4

Mouth: Jordan Matthews $10

Danny: Shane Veeren $12

Paul: Jonathan Stewart $6

Forster: Randle $4

Erm: Martellus Bennett $8

Kearns: Watkins $4

Nickerson: Lamar Miller $12

 

 



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im just pumped nickerson didnt keep mychal rivera (who i now know what team he plays for)

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so I have a fantasy draft for ummm work coming up, you guys have any good sleepers for me?

while you're at it, whos your top 10 on the big board?



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dylan, dylan, dylan, dylan, dylan

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fish u get scared of playing me twice a year including week 1 so u offered up erm as a sacrificial lamb?

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I did a random order, got tired of seeing the same schedule every year and more importantly I got tired of facing you and josh back to back weeks 1-2 and having to play both of u again at the end of the year.  not fair that I'm the only one playing 4 games against 2 of the top teams every year so with a random order let the odds ever be in your favor.



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i think somewhere in there was a compliment. well thank you fish that was the nicest thing youve ever said to me!

was always a great way to open up the season but week 12 (round 2) got dicey since it was always important.



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Truly some kind words, impressive.

Okay! Snap judgements time:

1)What the **** went on with QB's this year? Mindblowing.

2)Running back values have gotten ridiculous, craziness.

3)Gotta love everyone poo-pooing the Peyton pick... then proceed to spend $110+ between Eman and Demaryius... WTF

4)Mikey loves to be the one to "bid up" guys so no one gets a value, which every year back fires and shoots himself in the foot.... I love it.



Okay! team by team now!

Fish: Man, if Gurley doesn't do what you think he will you could be in for some trouble here... I won't even mention Bradford. WRs are ooo nasty though.... saw how well that worked for Danny last year... big time dice roll of a team here.

New Mike: Nice and well rounded team, not to much to dislike here honestly.

Mouth: Another nicely built team, WRs will either be a dynamic duo, or a lead weight, either way good team

Paul: Outside of Julio and Rodgers it's just a collection of names, I feel like this is the standard Paul team.... I don't like it

Mikey: This team is so awful I think it gave me cancer. What a disaster.

Nickerson: Nice depth, no names jump out at you and scream stud, but he should be in it every week.... Still not sure about that whole Tyrod Taylor thing though...

Kearns: Not bad, not great... Relying on three rookies is not a recipe for success generally in my book, but we'll see.

Danny: I'll leave Vereen out of this.... His team is alright, RB a lil weak, but he has depth to possibly make up for it.

Forster: Thats an awful lot of Cowboys ew... He's going to be playing RB roulette all season, and thats not a fun proposition usually... Rest of the team is solid, can't argue with it.

Nick: All in on Bridgewater aye? Could pay off, even if it doesn't plenty of options elsewhere... Otherwise team is really nice, like it a lot

Erm: For the second year in a row, Erm actually fields what I think to be a really nice rounded team. Not bad at all!

Me: I love my team, I think I got huge values all over the place. No true weak spot, even if Shady regresses the value I got him at was expected to me my flex, I can live with that.


All said, I'm ready for the season!



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god i love fantasy drafts. forster gets soooo worked up haha. i noticed mikey screwed himself again this year with tannehill (last year was djax) after he immediately texted me asking to trade haha. i was all in on bridgewater so i declined.

speaking of all in, there were a couple guys i missed out on (more on that in a sec) but i basically drafted my team before the draft even started. it might not be smart to pigeonhole yourself into a player so i do it by teir, but most of the guys i went hard after were who i got.

wasnt leaving the draft without one of my top 6 RBs. mccoy going early allowed u to get a steal and when 4 of the other guy went for outrageous money i was all in on demarco.

also wasnt leaving the draft without anotonio and john brown. was all in on those guys.

i wanted to get 2 of the following - coleman, mel gordon and ameer abdullah. only got coleman as kearns outbid me for the other 2, which is why i really really like his team.

ive been listening to fish too often lately and ended up with maclin. actually wasnt planning on drafting him but liked his value and think he will do well as the #1 in kc.

anyways, as for other teams... the 3 of us killed it obviously. josh got some great values which allowed him to be pretty stacked across the board, forsett as your flex is huge. im one of the ppl wayyyy down on peyton this year. he could bounce back but i think its equally possible hes done. fishs WR corps are the best in our league, but youre putting a lot of stock in gurleys knee. every team has quesion marks so no need to worry.

outside of us, and maybe even moreso, i like kearns team. was big on gordon and abdullah and cooper. grahams numbers will go down but hes still a beast. qbs went for the cheap this year so stafford at 1 or whatever he got him at was good value. plus some depth. all in all i really like his squad.

i agree that erms team looks good as well. unfortunalty for him, he cant sustain it all year.

man mikey seems like a knowledgeable nfl and fantasy guy but his drafts continue to underwhelm me ever year. the rest are middle of the pack imo.

the best part is that FANTASY IS BACK. ive been so busy with work and wedding stuff that i havent had a chance to digest the fact that football starts next week. being out of the country for all of week 1 prolly doenst help, ill have to wait until week 2 to be a part of it. BUT, i am now fully back in fantasy/NFL mode and it feels SO GOOD!!

just rambling thought.s well done boys.

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i'll get to some more points later in the day when I'm not so busy, but yes I agree my team is a pretty big risk although I do like it.  my plan going in wasn't to go HAM on WR and scraps for RB's, but I guess the rest of the league caught on from last year and realized it was pointless to save $ for your bench and everyone went nuts on the big guys esp the RB's.  i loved my strategy last year where I was willing to spend $170 on 3 big time guys (either 2 RB's/1 WR or vise versa) and it worked out great getting lacy, arian and DT.  but the difference this year was that I'm pretty sure only like 1-2 players last year went for over 70 points and this year there was at least 6 so that really changed things for me, the value just wasn't there with the RB's so I decided to get better value on 2 top flight wr's and then figure it out with RB's.  I'm not happy gurley is my best RB, esp at close to $50, but he was literally the last RB on my list who I thought could have a big year and I was set at WR so I just f*** it and got him. 

I didn't want to spend that much on Bradford, but I really wanted him and had a feeling one of you guys was going to bid me up so I just went with it.  my fall back was bridgewater and as nick saw he got him for $1 so not sure if I made the right move or not, but as long is Bradford stays healthy I don't see how he doesn't throw for close to 300 yards with 2/3 td's every game which will make it worth it for me.

bottom line, I am nervous about the RB's, esp early on, but with Bradford expecting to put up big numbers and the WR trio of calvin, AJ, and Hopkins I'm hoping to get big production there and then when gurley gets going I think I'm going to have a solid team.

  



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i threw out a couple bids on bradford. not a bad pick just didnt want to spend much of any money on a qb. spent like 45 on luck last year and while he was the #1 qb, my team as a whole didnt do as well. there are a lot of qbs and their point differentials just dont make up for having a ****ty RB2 or flex.

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like any draft its way too early to judge, but here are some of the steals/questionable decisions IMO:

STEAL:

- basically every keeper besides shane veeren (I'll get to later).  We now see how valuable they are when nick got bell for $18 when he would have went for over $70, josh got ODB who would have been over $55, etc.  Hopefully people towards the end of the season who are out of the playoff race look to trade for potential keepers and give a contender a starter so we need to figure out a reasonable trade deadline.  we also need to address the IR rule.  I agree with josh I don't like it, but I remember everyone a few years ago bitching they wanted it but now it has just turned into 1-2 guys who get hurt early in the year being stashed as a cheap keeper which isn't right.

- maclin at $10.  Not sure why everyone thought I was crazy about him, I only liked him this year because I could of kept him for $8 but I don't think hes gonna put up last years #s. but for $10 on the open market that's great.  Most WR's his caliber were going for somewhere in the 30's so this is a great pick.

- McCoy at $33.  I'm not as high on him this year for obviously reasons but when lativus murray is going for almost $50 and most top backs over $70, McCoy at $33 was probably the biggest steal of the draft as long as he stays healthy.

- Wheaton for $5 (paul).  #2 WR on an offense that is expected to throw a lot is always a good thing.

- Sproles for $2 (paul).  he's gonna get a lot of catches and some carries and I think is a real good flex option esp during bye weeks.  I really wanted him and F'ed up at the end thinking someone was gonna grab him before my next selection but people still had $ left and I got out bid.

- davante adams $23.  same as wheaton, only a better qb and better system.  wouldn't surprise me if he had a huge year.

- ryan Mathews ($6).  same as sproles, he's gonna get more carries than people think and if murray gets hurt, hes a top 10 fantasy back for whatever weeks he starts.

Questionable Decision:

- Shane Veeren for $12 (danny).  was a dumb decision at the time and looks even worse now.  No way he would have gone for more than $1-2 after seeing how everyone spent their $200 so quickly on starters.

- Sam Bradford/Gurley for a combined ($70). what idiot did this?  oh yeah, it was me.  I stand by these decisions because I think Bradford is going to have a top 5 QB fantasy year so $20 is worth it, and I think gurley at $50 is also fair considering I think hes gonna be a monster by week 4 and maybe earlier.  however, both guys coming off an acl injury these moves could easily backfire and then I screwed myself.  I guess I was exposed to too much chip Kelly this offseason with all these risks!

- Frank Gore at $43 (forster).  Could be decent, but colts line isn't good and they haven't been a running team since luck got there. if gore was on the eagles I think he would have put up good numbers but not with colts.

- Arian Foster for $31 (nickerson).  Isn't he hurt for half the year at best?  Nickerson might be out of it before he even suits up and spent a good amount of money on him. 

- Luck for $51 (braj).  easily the worst value of the draft.  you just don't need to spend this kind of money on a qb, esp one who is not the clear cut favorite to be #1.  bridgewater went for $2, Wilson under $10, manning for $15, big ben $9, Stafford for cheap, I could go on.  does he really think luck is going to be 5 times better than someone like Russell Wilson cuz he paid 5x as much?

- Tannehill for $8 (braj).  so after going wayyy too high on a starting qb, he then goes and gets a backup qb for $8??  this reminds me of the skins trading 4 picks to get RG3 and then use a 3rd on cousins, and we all saw how that worked out.

- Latavius Murray $46 (paul).  I liked him, but for more like $25-35, too risky at this number.  has he done anything other than have 1 good half last year when he broke 2 big gains?

 

 



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Team wise report:

me:  def liked my team more last year because I was more stable at RB (lacy, forster) and my WR were great also (maclin w/ philly, DT with manning) so this years team is more risky but I do like it.  I think sankey is going to have a bounce back year 2, gurley will be the man sooner than later, and my 3 wr and Bradford should be consistent as well and I don't see calvin/aj getting hurt again (what big time WR gets consistently hurt 2 years in a row?).  I also love Richard Rodgers, ARod always throws to his TE and this is a big fast kid whos gonna put up decent numbers.

kearns: pretty decent but I agree with josh, hes relying too much on rookies.  maybe one breaks out but the chance of having 3 break out is slim but hes got a lot of other solid players in lynch, graham and Watkins so solid team.

braj: not a fan of his team. he just doesn't know how to draft in an auction, last year he said he was too scared to pull the trigger and it looked like the same this year until he went nuts on luck and then DT ($72?!).  his RB's are worse than mine and that's saying something

Danny: not good in my book.  other than Charles, TY and maybe eman sanders I wouldn't play any of these guys.

nick: love your team.  great rb depth which your going to need with the suspensions and injury history but got some real studs there and if bridgewater becomes who we think he is you should have a good year.

erm: solid, nothing special, fringe playoff team.  too early to start agholor but he should eventually be good, and hes got decent, consistent players in Wilson, lacy and andre johnson

nickerson: don't like it.  below average RB's, average fantasy qb, and wr's aren't great either although I do like Brandon cooks

forster: pretty good but doesn't scare me.  a lot of cowboys which is weird for a skins fan to do haha.

joe: like his team a lot.  got a lot of big names like AP, forte, big ben and a lot of solid up and comers who could break out like Jordan Matthews and adams.  he should make a run this year.

new mike: this team looked better in 2011 with drew breese, morris, marshall and djax, but if those guys have bounce back years along with cobb, hill and gronk he could have a real good team as well.

josh: really like your team as well, solid rbs and wr's and I think manning will be fine as well, although he is one hit away from being done but you do have romo. 

paul: don't like.  some strong guys in Rodgers, Julio and potentially ertz but other then that its pretty weak.  waste of talent with Rodgers and Julio that's for sure

 

 

  



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good stuff fish. after looking back at mouths team i agree, hes got a strong team and seems to every year. hes proven himself as a top 5 fantasy player in our league.

i gave you a hard time during the draft about gurley but i think he will be fine from week 1. it was just (just?) an acl injury and hes a beast so he will bounce back fine. plus as i know from my ship 2 years ago when zac stacey was the most unsexy star of fantasy, jef fischer will FEED his bell cow. you said aaron rodgers always throws to his TE? other than jemichael finley a few years ago i dont really see it. certainly an upside guy but far from a sure thing.

speaking of TEs, getting put on autodraft and picking antonio gates for $1 may have been the best pick of my draft, and i didnt even pick it! i didnt realize he was the #2 TE last year ahead of jimmy graham. like r rodg, ASJ may be great but he may also suck. lucky for me i have reinforcements coming week 5. personally i think greg olsen will be the #2 TE in fantasy this year, not sure who got him.

i liked dannys team at first but then i realized he already had a WR in his flex spot. how is he going to get martavius bryant on the field after his suspension? if i was him i would have went after another RB instead of eman. had he done that his team would have been real solid. as of now im not so sure. he loves edelman btw.

im all in on kearns team. yes he has a lot of rookies but mel gordon and abdullahs upside is crazy. i went HARD after those guys but had already gotten coleman (nice run last night!) and wanted to ensure i could get john brown. i like his team.

and yes - josh - your team is stacked. not sure whether it was fantasy football knowledge or auction draft skills that got you there but you got great value all over. even more than mccoy, forsett as a flex is insane.

LOVE the markus wheaton pick. i even bid up a few points on him even with AB and bell. wheaton is going to be GREAT this year. i realizes theres not much of a reason to believe that yet but just watch. i dont expect maclin to repeat. but with AB carrying the load hes a solid WR2. i read andy is trying to get him the ball in all sorts of ways (even HB) which is why hes having such a great preseason. hopefully he keeps it up. in the end, just remember the name john brown.....



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speaking of top 5, if us three and mouth are in there, whos the fifth? leaving new mike out of it since hes only been in the league 1 year i guess its between kearns and nickerson. nickerson sorta won a ship with motz team but that was like 6 years ago and with the snake draft. kearns is nothig special either but at least he has some fun with his roster. forster has won 1 ship too.

not sure danny or paul have ever made the playoffs and mikey fell out of the top 5 over the past couple seasons.



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right here joey

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top 3 is def us 3, winning the 4 of the past 5 seasons and we all are almost always in contention.  Idk who would be considered #4-5 it been a revolving door.  fricone is usually in the playoffs but I don't think hes ever won $.  I would probably put forster in there but hes been nothing special either.  when I get time next week I will do a better breakdown and see what the numbers show



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first league story! a great way to piss everyone off before the season even begins haha

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hahaahah, I might have to



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Markus Wheaton or Brandon Coleman?

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I'd prolly go wheaton but i'll be honest I never even heard of coleman until a week ago so I'm prob not your best guy here.  nick is on his honeymoon for 2 weeks so this forum might be a little slow, but he's been talking up wheaton all offseason and claims he's the steelers #2 wr so you would expect him to get touches.  and throw in bell and Bryant being out tonight, I expect the pats to load up to stop AB which should give wheaton some opportunities.

now that we are here, I'm getting very nervous about my team.  I really screwed up with the RB's at the auction, I thought gurely would be ready week 1 and not week 4, and then I tried getting sproles or ryan Matthews for my bench but was out bided for both.  now i'm stuck with frigging dion lewis for tonight and we'll see what happens next week.  hopefully lewis plays in the danny woodhead/shane veeren role tonight and gets some touches and maybe a receiving td which will save me.  if he doesn't play, i'm gonna need HUGE games from my WR's and Bradford to save my week, but it might be a tough few weeks for me until gurley becomes the lead man in STL.

I also didn't realize cordell Patterson was looked at so negatively fantasy wise in our league.  he obv doesn't have the hype he did last year when people thought he was going to break out, but he's still a young guy and was a monster his rookie year, I thought people would expect a bounce back year from him but I couldn't trade Brandon bolden for him who is going to be useless after tonight SMH. 



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Could always trade with me fish!

As for Cpat he's not only in the fantasy dog house, he's in the real dog house w/ the head coach. Dude does not know how to run routes... case in point Charles Johnson is the starting WR over him.

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trust me i know you're down to trade and I looked into every team, but I'm not trying to make any huge roster changing moves until I see how my team plays for a few weeks.  I was only looking for a quick 1-2 week fix and get a RB on someone's bench for someone on my bench which is why I was offering CPat or aquan bolden.  i knew I wasn't getting your top 3 backs and I wasn't too high on your backups for this week other than duke Johnson which I knew I couldn't get either.

if the lack of rbs starts killing me I will look to trade one of my wrs (most likely Hopkins) but we'll see what happens, I hope to go 2-1 and then when gurley gets back I can take off from there.   



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picking up dion lewis last minute worked out MUCH better than I anticipated!  yes, its only 12 points, but that def helped considering my other options were zack stacy or some teams backup/3rd string RB who probably will barley touch the ball.  not saying I found my long term starter or anything, since next week blount is back and lewis will go back to the 3rd down back, but dion got a majority of the carries last night as well as a bunch of catches which was nice to see.  I woulda been pissed if I had traded Hopkins for someone similar or even wasted a play on a guy like Brandon bolden which was originally my plan when dion was sitting right there on waivers all week. 



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Damn where's Nick at? So glad the steelers let their hall of fame DC walk to have this chump who decided he would leave Gronk uncovered all game. They talked up how they knew exactly how to stop him, great smack talk. Oh yeah Wheaton is awful, alligator arms all day. They need Bryant bad.

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nicks on his honeymoon for 2 weeks.  I didn't think he had phone access but he texted me right before the game started saying "320 am here, Die hard! lets go steelers!!"

I asked him if he was at a bar or had phone access but he never responded so I'm not sure what happened there. with that said, I think every1 knew the steelers d was going to struggle early on in the year esp after that bills preseason game where all 3 qbs went like 30-33.  I think steelers are gonna be in the 7-9 to 9-7 range just cuz their O is so good but I've been saying for years when the time comes and dick leabau leaves they are going to take a huge step back and so far that is what is happening.  they do seem like they have a good front 7 esp shaizer he was all over the place, but not only did that secondary look bad, they flat out didn't know where to line up on some plays leaving gronk open on multiple TD's which you can't do.  we'll see how they progress as the season goes along but I don't see them as title contenders right now.

 



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steelers will be fine. 28 points was less than most ppl expected them to give up. playing a pissed off brady and the pats is enough to make any secondary look bad, how about we give them a week not against the best QB in the league? their front 7 is fantastic, especially tuitt, heyward, timmons and shazier. not sure why brandon boykin didnt even get a snap but they need to figure out the secondary before the playoffs, because yes they are going (7-9 is laughable).

speaking of 7-9 eagles looked terrible against a team that couldnt win the afcs a year ago. the coach from the hawks already making improvements to the falcons D but the eagles got rid of all their skill position players and it showed. 11 yards for murray? matthews tipping final drive catches for interceptions? bradford looks freaking frail out there. id be worried, because the D isnt anything to write home about, similar to my steelers. mostly just talking ****, but come at my steelers you best not miss.

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haha I'm assuming you only watched the 1st half.  yes, eagles looked bad 1st half but I liked the way they bounced back in the 2nd to take the lead and should have won if not for a missed 44 yard FG from an allegedly pro bowl kicker in a dome.  sucks they blew a winnable game but overall I'm not concerned.  and here's why:

- you had 5 new starters on offense playing their first game together vs a team with a brand new coaching staff so it was very difficult to scout against them since there was no film on them.  during halftime, chip made some adjustments and didn't get stopped until the last drive of the game. 

- after not playing for almost 2 years I think it was encouraging to see how Bradford looked.  at one point in the 2nd half he was 20-22 and again, this was without a running game since they were down by so much.

- the revamped secondary did not look great obv, but I think that was due more to Julio jones just being unstoppable.  he looks like the best WR in football right now, and matt ryan is still a good qb.  without dez next week or desean week 4 eagles dodge some bullets and they should bounce back.

like I said, while I hate losing games esp ones were you have a chance to win, I'm not worried, I think the falcons are a lot better than you do so going on the road against them was no guarantee win.  game 1 with a very new team, esp at qb playing in a new system (and playing at all), needs time to gel.  thankfully dallas at home is next week without dez and no running game if eagles can slow down the witten/romo combo and win they are right back in 1st place of the nfc east and everyone will talk super bowl again haha.

 



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I never said Falcons were a bad team, but you keep saying the steelers schedule last season was cake and they topped the Falcons who haven't changed much but their coach. And yes Julio is a monster. With dez out its a 2 person race for best season from a wr between him and AB who's 133 yards weren't bad either.

I actually stayed up and watched the whole eagles game. Went until about 4. Wasn't as bad as watching the sunrise as I watched the steelers but I love football and it was a good game.

Steelers caught a break with Suggs too. Didn't watch that game but heard the whole thing was ugly. I tried to tell u guys Peyton was finished.

Still, can't tell anything about a teams season until at least week 5 or so. Pats were 2-2 last season including getting stomped by the Chiefs early. Looooong way to go boys.

I arrive home Saturday and cannot wait for a full day of on schedule football on sunday!

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just like teams, still early on manning esp vs a good ravens team, however its easier to judge how a player looks than a team.  with that said, this isn't a good stat:

Since Week 13 of last year, there are 7 KICKERS that have more fantasy points in ESPN standard scoring than Peyton Manning. One of them -- Connor Barth -- did it while playing in one fewer game.

 



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Crowell against the Titans or Latavius Murray against the Ravens

Pick 1: Brandon Coleman, Tyler Lockett, Cole Beasley

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I would say crowell only cuz I don't like murray vs the ravens d esp with no passing game to help him out, although I will admit I haven't watched much of the browns game so im not sure how many carries duke Johnson is getting now.

-as for our league, I'm pissed you got ravens esp for this week vs Oakland, I wanted them but didn't go high enough.  I thought the loss of suggs would scare people away.

-27 points for moncrief?  I get he had a good game, but isn't he the 3rd or maybe 4th wr??  you got TY, Andre, the rookie and then moncrief battling for the 3rd spot right?

- congrats danny for Cunningham for 10 points.  mason should be back next week, who btw danny has, and gurley a week or 2 later. I'd be surprised if he ever plays Cunningham at all



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yeah once again danny manages to baffle me, yeah i was all in on the Ravens especially if McGloin starts, tasty matchup

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10 targets and a td even before ty got hurt? now hes out for a few weeks? moncrief is 1b at worst with ty sidelined and 2b when he gets back in a high power offense and hes well ahead of dorsett who had a fumble and a drop. i like my chances as a wr5 on my team plus who else are you betting on later? gotta spend $ to make $$

getting cunningham was chasing points. im more upset new mike got denver for this week (mostly cause im playing him) but ravens were a good pickup too, even thou losing suggs could be big.



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btw josh id go murray because i trusted crowell as the #1 in browns backfield last week and he was terrible. 12 for 20 yards? sheesh. might just be down on him for a week or 2 but refuse for pimp him this week. take that for what its worth.

coleman for guareteed points. hawks are rarely down like they were last week so lockett wont see much more than he did. hes gonna be a beast but more of a special teams ace atm. if u get return points thou its def lockett

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ESPN Rams reporter Nick Wagoner does not expect Todd Gurley (knee) to play in Week 2 against the Redskins.
Gurley is inching closer, perhaps to the point that he could debut in Week 3. Specifically, Wagoner wrote "it still seems likely that (Gurley) is probably not" going to play against Washington. The Rams face the Steelers in Week 3. Look for Tre Mason to return as the Rams' lead back in Week 2 against the Redskins, with Benny Cunningham replacing Mason on passing downs.


yikes. fish if you like anyone my trade department is always open.


also, josh i think the smart play is crowell. ravens front is still beastly and crowell pulled the jets last week which is a big part of the reason he was shut down.

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gurley not playing until week 4 has been known. and yes I realize I need a RB, but like I said last week, I'm gonna try to get by at like 2-1 for this 3 week stretch with sankey and an RB committee (looks like dion lewis thus far) and hopefully gurley takes over from there.



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Will you trade for Ivory already? I'm playing Joe and I don't want to have to worry about watching Ivory run for 100 and 2 Tds vs that awful Colts D on Monday night. Just remember that All-World Jonas Grey ran for 200 and 4 Tds on them last year. I like Moncrief as well, I threw down 15 on him, which I thought was too much but clearly not correct. He can be a stud especially if Andre continues to look old.

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