NFT: Fantasy chat: 8/31

not only because he is an eagle but because there are so many qbs this yeear outside the top 4

staff
cam
rg3
kap
wilson
ryan
big ben
romo
cutler

lynch depending on what round you got him in (1 its terrible, 2 is OK) and jennings may be in a timeshare or not carry it goal line, i like joque bell as your best RB to be honest

Took Dez first...Jennings in the 4th and I don't think he is going to lose goal line carries or be in much of a time share at all

In comment 11834489 CruzShip52 said:

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not only because he is an eagle but because there are so many qbs this yeear outside the top 4 staff cam rg3 kap wilson ryan big ben romo cutler

Staff cam Kap Wilson and ryan were all off the board when I picked Foles didn't take him until 9th

I get it. He plays for the Eagles. But he is an absolute fantasy stud in that offense. The team in my league that picked him up off the waiver wire was terrible. Once he picked Foles up, he proceeded to make the Super Bowl, where he lost. There is really no other reason to think that Foles won't be a top fantasy QB again this year, unless it's because he plays for the Eagles. People forget that he didn't even play the entire season last year. If you take his stats and extend them over an entire season, he would have been up there with Peyton last year, in terms of fantasy production

And screw Matt Ryan. He single hand idly cost me a chance at the championship last year. As soon as Julio went down, Ryan was completely useless. He can kiss my ass.

Allen in rd 3 is good value. Who went rd 4? Jennings or Foles? Either one, I'd say that's bad value.

but I would assume you took Foles pretty early. Personally, once you missed out on the top QB's, I'd wait til much later to take a QB. There are so many 3rd tier QB's this year that the value is insane. Guys like Rivers and Newton are going in rd 10, Brady and Romo in 7 and 8.

QB - Rodgers
RB - Forte, Gore
WR - Cruz, Torrey Smith
Flex - DeSean Jackson
TE - Jordan Cameron
DST - Carolina
K - Walsh

Bench

QB - Rivers
RB - SJax, Ingram, Carlos Hyde
WR - Hartline, Harry Douglas
TE - Gates
DST - Houston

should have read on first. Foles in the 9th is incredible value. Who the hell were your 5th, 6th and 7th picks?

if he's taken late in the 1st in a 12-team league.

In comment 11834631 kmed said:

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should have read on first. Foles in the 9th is incredible value. Who the hell were your 5th, 6th and 7th picks?

I took Reed 5th a little bit of a reach was going to go Cruz but passed

Wright in the 6th really like kendall Wright as a 3rd we

Bell in the 7th

Jennings wasn't getting to the 5th and he was the best rb on the board at 4

I'd be interested to know the 3 or 4 TE's drafted after Reed and what round and the 5 WR's taken after Wright.

but Reed's ADP is late 7th. I personally think that's way too early for him, I understand he's talented, but he's still at best, the 5th TE in my rankings. Wright's ADP is rd 8. I'd say there's a good chance you could have gotten both guys a rd later if not 2 rounds later than when you did. I guess Jennings in rd 4 isn't really bad value, but he's going in the 5th round of most drafts I see. If you really like him, I guess it's not terrible to grab him in the 4th. I think he can certainly end up as a valuable pick.

In comment 11834668 kmed said:

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I'd be interested to know the 3 or 4 TE's drafted after Reed and what round and the 5 WR's taken after Wright.

ERtz olsen Rudolph next 3 tight ends

Terrence Williams golden tate Mike Wallace Reggae wayne mike Evans next 5 wrs

In comment 11834671 kmed said:

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but Reed's ADP is late 7th. I personally think that's way too early for him, I understand he's talented, but he's still at best, the 5th TE in my rankings. Wright's ADP is rd 8. I'd say there's a good chance you could have gotten both guys a rd later if not 2 rounds later than when you did. I guess Jennings in rd 4 isn't really bad value, but he's going in the 5th round of most drafts I see. If you really like him, I guess it's not terrible to grab him in the 4th. I think he can certainly end up as a valuable pick.

In my league Jennings wasn't going in the 5th after I made the pick the 2 guys after me both said they were going jennings

I can't really get on you for the Jennings pick. I like him this year. Now Reed and Wright are a different story. There were probably some really, really good players still available with your 5th pick and you reached for a TE that's likely to finish somewhere "in the pack" with the 2nd level TE's. In round 6 you passed on some really good players to reach for a WR that you really liked. I'd be really surprised if he wouldn't have been available with your next pick. I also don't understand why you would like him so much to have to have him.

1 QB, 1 RB, 1 WR, 1 TE, 3 RB/WR, 2 D, 1 DB

Peyton
Cutler

Morris
Rice
Pierce
Ingram
Robinson
Helu

Demaryius Thomas
Cobb
White
Cooper
Moore
Austin

Rudolph
Green

Prater/McManus

Burfict
Tulloch
Earl Thomas

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I just really likes Wright as my 3rd wr...i still end up with Joique bell as my 3rd rb so I think it worked out

Hindsight your probably right I reached for those 2

think of Rueben Randle this year? Is the light going to go on?

that shows a player's average draft position and that also allows you to search by player names?

I like your team a lot. Was Sanders off the board when you took Wright?

As a WR3, a guy who caught over 90 balls for over 1,000 yards isn't anything I'd be worried about. You have to figure he gets into the endzone more than 2 times this year. That was the only thing that hurt his value. If he had scored a few more times last year, people would have been all over him as a WR2 this year.

In comment 11834704 arcarsenal said:

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I like your team a lot. Was Sanders off the board when you took Wright? As a WR3, a guy who caught over 90 balls for over 1,000 yards isn't anything I'd be worried about. You have to figure he gets into the endzone more than 2 times this year. That was the only thing that hurt his value. If he had scored a few more times last year, people would have been all over him as a WR2 this year.

Yeah sanders was gone in 4th

I have the 5th pick in my draft. 12 teams. PPR. 6 points all TDs.

Assuming McCoy, Peterson, Charles, and Forte go top 4, where do I go with the 5th.

I'm really leaning towards Manning.... Do I pass on C. Johnson and Lacy for QB?

There's really no one I love there. I feel like it's about 1-2 picks early for Peyton, Calvin.. probably 2-3 picks too early for Graham.. I think 5 is also too early for Lacy. Don't like Lynch there either. It's just the one spot where I feel like you're not really able to get full value this year. I mean, I could turn out to be totally wrong it just feels that way.

He's more of a 7th round guy, but you took J Bell in the 7th who's more of a 6th round guy; so it evens out.

I like Reed and drafted him as well, but you made a major reach in the 5th round. I wouldn't mind it as much if he wasn't such an injury concern.

I'm not the hugest Foles fan, but him in the 9th round is absurd. That OL is fantastic and LeSean/Sproles should be able to help him out with YAC screens.

Emmanuel Sanders in the 4th round is absolute craziness.

I am in a pickle, have a keeper league and everyone keeps 2 players. Standard scoring, I pick fourth and the players that are available are: Jamal Charles, McCoy, Lynch, Brees, Rodgers, Demaryius Thomas, Julio Jones, AJ Green, Dez Bryant, Demarco Murray, Andre Ellington and jimmy graham. I am assuming Lynch, McCoy and Charles will be gone by pick 4.. Who would you guys pick at 4?

In comment 11834775 TommyWiseau said:

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I am in a pickle, have a keeper league and everyone keeps 2 players. Standard scoring, I pick fourth and the players that are available are: Jamal Charles, McCoy, Lynch, Brees, Rodgers, Demaryius Thomas, Julio Jones, AJ Green, Dez Bryant, Demarco Murray, Andre Ellington and jimmy graham. I am assuming Lynch, McCoy and Charles will be gone by pick 4.. Who would you guys pick at 4?

Thomas or dez

You're getting one of the top 5 RBs and still get a modest 2nd round pick in return.

I'm on the Lacy bandwagon. He looked awesome last year, and he has looked awesome this preseason. He's going to be a stud.

He went in the 8th in the league I drafted for last week.

In comment 11834784 nygiants16 said:

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In comment 11834775 TommyWiseau said: Quote: I am in a pickle, have a keeper league and everyone keeps 2 players. Standard scoring, I pick fourth and the players that are available are: Jamal Charles, McCoy, Lynch, Brees, Rodgers, Demaryius Thomas, Julio Jones, AJ Green, Dez Bryant, Demarco Murray, Andre Ellington and jimmy graham. I am assuming Lynch, McCoy and Charles will be gone by pick 4.. Who would you guys pick at 4? Thomas or dez

Was leaning towards Thomas or Demarco Murray

In comment 11834775 TommyWiseau said:

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I am in a pickle, have a keeper league and everyone keeps 2 players. Standard scoring, I pick fourth and the players that are available are: Jamal Charles, McCoy, Lynch, Brees, Rodgers, Demaryius Thomas, Julio Jones, AJ Green, Dez Bryant, Demarco Murray, Andre Ellington and jimmy graham. I am assuming Lynch, McCoy and Charles will be gone by pick 4.. Who would you guys pick at 4?

Thomas

with your first round pick you want a sure thing. You won't win your league in the 1st rd. but you can put a big dent in your chances if you muff it. In other words don't sweat #5. take the guy you feel you can depend on the most. #'s fluctuate each way so whichever rb/wr you get there it can go either way. Peyton is not the worst pick there. I'd probably go Megatron. there's not much more of a sure thing if he stays healthy than that.

.25 PPR, 5 points per TD pass, 2nd overall pick. Round I took the players in parentheses.

QB - Ryan (8), Rivers (10)
RB - McCoy (1), Foster (3), Jennings (5th), Williams (9), Freeman (14th)
WR - A. Brown (2), Patterson (4), V. Davis (6), K. Wright (7), Watkins (11), Cameron (13)
D - Rams (12)
K - Gould (15)

We dont start a TE, thats why both of them are listed as WRs. I was pissed because Julio went the pick before Brown and Cobb went the pick before Patterson. Pretty happy with my squad though.

I picked 9th, league has keepers but we can't keep anyone that gets drafted rounds 1 or 2 so some top players are still there but defnitely a dropoff after the top 4 rb wise and top 3 wr wise.

.5 ppr, 25 yard per pass point, 10 yards/point, 4point passing td

QB: Wilson (8th rd)
HB: Bernard (6th/keeper) Mathews (3rd round(not much else there) P. THomas, Pierce, ridley (10th round)
WR: Thomas (1st) V. Jackson(2nd) T. Smith (4th) M. Floyd (9th keeper) J. Hunter, M. Austin
TE: Clay and Miller
K: Tucker
Def: NE

Overall wasn't a bad draft for me, league projections have me 3rd overall.

My HBs aren't amazing but can be a solid group, and if Ridley takes over that number 1 spot and doesn't fumble that was great value imo.

WRs are fairly strong
TE is fairly weak but wasn't much available for me
QB: I'll probably pick up someone else off the waiver wire but for now just going with wilson, as he was ranked in the top 10 last year and he's looking to be even better if the preseason coutns for anything.

Team One gets
Jamal Charles
Randal Cobb

Team Two gets
Matt Forte
Victor Cruz

Big time.

You'll probably start Rivers over Ryan more often than not this year. I think Rivers will be the better FFQB. And just better in general.

I'm just not high on Ryan.. he's not a guy I'm looking to draft this year unless I get cornered into it.

Team 1 gets the better RB AND the better WR. I know BBI is all on the Victor Cruz bandwagon, cause we are all Giants fans, but Cobb is the safer bet. Cruz and Eli have not been on the same page.

Guys usually go much higher.

Lynch is the 5th ranked rb in virtually any scoring format.

It's a 12 team league that starts 3-WR

QB: Cutler, RGIII
RB: Peterson, Spiller, Tate, Ingram
WR: Marshall, A.Brown, Hilton, Hopkins, Stills
TE: Olsen
PK: Gould
DEF: 49ers

Thanks ahead of time.

In comment 11834968 arcarsenal said:

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You'll probably start Rivers over Ryan more often than not this year. I think Rivers will be the better FFQB. And just better in general. I'm just not high on Ryan.. he's not a guy I'm looking to draft this year unless I get cornered into it.

I disagree Ryan is in for a huge year with healthy Julio

But I still don't know how good that OL is going to be and no one knows if Julio will be healthy all year or not. His best year (2012), he was the 7th best QB in my league.. which is good. But I think realistically, he'll be right on the bubble of the top 10 this year. Which means.. if you're in a 10 team league and he's the guy you start every week, the majority of the teams in the league will probably have someone slightly/decently better.

Guys, I'm in a quandary.

I have Gronk as my only TE in a 12 team, ESPN standard league. My current WRs/TE are as follows:

WR: Jordy Nelson, Antonio Brown, Hakeem Nicks, R. Randle, Kenny Stills and Josh Gordon.

Should I wait to hear about an injunction for Gordon and drop Stills or should I give up on Gordon?

And I'm not exactly thrilled about it, but he's growing on me more and more. The OL has a cause for alarm me, but they've made improvements.

They had that awful Center Konz who got replaced by Hawley midway through the season who proved to be a pretty good reliable Center. They signed the guard Jon Asamaoh(sp?) who should be an upgrade. Not to mention they drafted a day one blindside protector in Jake Matthews.

The silver lining in last years WR debacle is that it gave Harry Douglas a lot of reps and he looked pretty good. Now Harry Douglas is the 3rd WR and they have a fully healthy Roddy and Julio. It's not a lock they'll stay healthy, but right now things are looking good for that offense.

Lets also not forget about the fact that ATL defense is absolutely brutal. Matt Ryan is going to be slinging it all day to keep ATL in the game.

no reason to hold on to him for this season.

My Eagles-crazed friend in my 10 team league gave me megaton and AJ green for McCoy and nicks. Now I have a glut of receivers with Julio Jones, Cruz and Welker as well. I've been trying to package Cruz and panthers D with one of my QBs (Big Ben, Matt Ryan, and Dalton) for a better QB but no takers so far. What QB should I go after?

I guess try trading a Giants crazed fan Cruz and Welker for Aaron Rodgers.