Last year I had the Giants defense and because of the special teams and turnovers they had some really big weeks for me. This year with the defense hopefully much improved I want to take them again. Anyone else like the Giants defense for FF. Also I am thinking about taking as many Giants as I can get, besides the obvious of OBJ and Eli who do you like for this year.
Beckham - obviously a 1st round pick
Cruz - maybe a mid-late round flyer if he makes it through camp/preseason.
Sheppard - worth a mid-late round pick, especially if Cruz does NOT make it through camp/preseason.
Not sure I'd use a pick on them (maybe a late round flyer), but if you want to play matchups, then whoever is the starting TE.
I wouldn't touch any of the RBs other than maybe Jennings as your 3rd/4th back.
If you're relying on anyone but Beckham/Eli as a starter, you're probably in some trouble.
I tend to stick with 12,14 or 16 team leagues and I believe this will finally be the year that many Giant fans will wait thinking he is going to fall to them and .....he's gone.
Not saying you grab him early but there are plenty of non-Giants fans that play FF that are very aware of OBJ and will be monitoring Cruz.
In contrast, one QB that could be a steal and drop further than ELI is Luck. Last year he was being grabbed near the top of QB's but this year, not so much.
Two that I feel will go to high are Cam and Brees. To the later, Due to his 2014, he dropped last year and helped many including myself but if you look at his past 6 years, he is inconsistent every other year and can be a huge INT machine.
I never like taking a QB early so I suppose I will be looking at the same cast of characters when drafting one: Ryan, Eli, Romo, Rivers, Stafford.
Some have Pitts Brown and OBJ as picks 1 and 2. Most have them top 5 in a standard league.
I had Eli for his 6 TD game last year, but of course I was playing against Brees who had 7 and 500 yards.
I usually try and get Eli as one of my rostered QB's.
As for the D I usually try and play matchups with D, unless you get the Broncos in 2015 or Seattle in 2014 I try and matchup D's, and if all things are otherwise equal I'd use the Giants.
I tend to stick with 12,14 or 16 team leagues and I believe this will finally be the year that many Giant fans will wait thinking he is going to fall to them and .....he's gone.
Not saying you grab him early but there are plenty of non-Giants fans that play FF that are very aware of OBJ and will be monitoring Cruz.
In contrast, one QB that could be a steal and drop further than ELI is Luck. Last year he was being grabbed near the top of QB's but this year, not so much.
Two that I feel will go to high are Cam and Brees. To the later, Due to his 2014, he dropped last year and helped many including myself but if you look at his past 6 years, he is inconsistent every other year and can be a huge INT machine.
I never like taking a QB early so I suppose I will be looking at the same cast of characters when drafting one: Ryan, Eli, Romo, Rivers, Stafford.
I might be talking more about my league when saying I can get Eli in one of the last rounds. I'm in a 10 team league that consists of 4 eagles fans, 2 jets fans, 2 pats fans and 1 new guy who is following football for the first time (and being "tutored" by the eagles fans at that). This might be the year someone uses my love for Eli against me but i like my chances. If not, I like Carr and Winston just as much, and both are projected to go after Eli in standard ESPN.
I had Eli for his 6 TD game last year, but of course I was playing against Brees who had 7 and 500 yards.
I usually try and get Eli as one of my rostered QB's.
As for the D I usually try and play matchups with D, unless you get the Broncos in 2015 or Seattle in 2014 I try and matchup D's, and if all things are otherwise equal I'd use the Giants.
I equate drafting the first defense to playing Russian roulette. I can't remember when the first defense taken ended up being the best actual fantasy defense. Denver's defense last year was nearly as valuable as having Antonio brown or cam newton relative to the other defenses. But TOs and defensive TDs are the most volatile stat year in year out so I'm prolly gonna try streaming this year. Denver lost too many good players and I don't trust the offense to keep the defense off the field as much this year.
and kickers are really almost pure luck.
There is always one team who drafts their D in the 7th round and K in the 10th and sometimes it starts a run on K or D and I sit back and watch it unfold.
Defense. If our defense is much improved, we shouldnt be behind nearly as much and may be less reliant to throw the ball.
So it may be one of those years where eli's numbers dip, but his play and the overall play of the team improves.
I'm in a keeper league and seriously considering keeping Cam Newton with an 8th round pick. I don't normally draft a QB until around there anyway, but Cam is in his prime and should be good value there.
I'd love to couple him with Eli in the 10th or so, there are no Giants fans in this league besides me.
If I don't keep Newton my other options would be Amari Cooper with a 4th, Dorial Green-Beckham with a 17th, Cobb with a 2nd, stefon diggs with an 8th, so not really many better options.
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is that he usually falls in FF. He's going to put up insane numbers this year. I think he will end up a top 5 QB. Last year he was the 8th ranked QB and now he has more weapons and more experience playing with this group and system. If one of these TE's steps up, it will help immensely.
I'm in a keeper league and seriously considering keeping Cam Newton with an 8th round pick. I don't normally draft a QB until around there anyway, but Cam is in his prime and should be good value there.
I'd love to couple him with Eli in the 10th or so, there are no Giants fans in this league besides me.
If I don't keep Newton my other options would be Amari Cooper with a 4th, Dorial Green-Beckham with a 17th, Cobb with a 2nd, stefon diggs with an 8th, so not really many better options.
If your league is PPR, you MUST keep Cooper in the 4th and not even think twice. hell, even if it isnt PPR - I'd still do it. Cooper has the ability, QB, offense to be a top 7-10 WR this year.
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is that he usually falls in FF. He's going to put up insane numbers this year. I think he will end up a top 5 QB. Last year he was the 8th ranked QB and now he has more weapons and more experience playing with this group and system. If one of these TE's steps up, it will help immensely.
I'm in a keeper league and seriously considering keeping Cam Newton with an 8th round pick. I don't normally draft a QB until around there anyway, but Cam is in his prime and should be good value there.
I'd love to couple him with Eli in the 10th or so, there are no Giants fans in this league besides me.
If I don't keep Newton my other options would be Amari Cooper with a 4th, Dorial Green-Beckham with a 17th, Cobb with a 2nd, stefon diggs with an 8th, so not really many better options.
If your league is PPR, you MUST keep Cooper in the 4th and not even think twice. hell, even if it isnt PPR - I'd still do it. Cooper has the ability, QB, offense to be a top 7-10 WR this year.
It is a ppr league. I can do that.
My other keeper is Gurley in the 5th. We get two keepers.
So my main considerations for the other keeper were between Newton in the 8th and Cooper in the 4th.
I got ravaged with injuries and bad picks last year (CJ Anderson in the 1st, Andrew Luck in the 2nd, Keenan Allen in the 3rd) so I had the 3rd pick in the draft.
I traded it for Odell Beckham.
So if I keep Cooper my team will be Beckham, Cooper and Gurley and then I have no 1st, 4th or 5th round picks. 2nd and 3rd go BPA WR/RB and get a QB like Eli later.
which is fine, that's as good a trio as almost anyone will have. Just wasn't sure if the gap between Cooper and whoever I'd draft in the 4th is wider than Newton and whatever QB I'd get in the 8th if you know what I mean.
1. I think his running will eventually become less and less as he gets older.
2. There a ton of QBs you can after roudn 10.... eli, rivers, bortles, carr, mariotta....etc.... where I think they would put up just slightly less numbers.
Eli would be ideal - I love having a QB/WR connection like Eli and Beckham. Or Carr with Cooper.
I would keep Jordy.
yep, you can always 2nd guess yourself and I think Kelvin Benjamin will be good too, but for Nelson in the last round vs Cooper in the 4th, you have to go with Jordy IMO.
tough to figure out GB WR's. I wonder if Cobb reverts back to Cobb with Nelson back. And then toward the end of the season Rodgers was developing a rapport with Aberderis. Not to mention Davante Adams still an investment there that they haven't given up on and they like Jeff Janis too.
Plus they signed Jared Cook at TE to pair with Richard Rodgers. A lot of bodies to distribute to, not sure how many looks any of the fringe guys if everyone stays healthy.
I go AB #1 in PPR. I could have seen a case for Beckham before the Martavis Bryant suspension, a slight one but Brown could catch 140 passes.
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Pick in a ppr league this season. Consensus #1 pick is brown but i had david johnson last yr and he was a monsterrr in ppr. Should I reach and take him 1st overall or just take AB and not get cute.
I go AB #1 in PPR. I could have seen a case for Beckham before the Martavis Bryant suspension, a slight one but Brown could catch 140 passes.
Yea agreed. Hes going to be a target monster all yr. I just keep picturing DJ having a yr like the insane yr charles had in 2013. Dj is by far the most complete back in the nfl imo. Only question mark with him is how much Arians will use him
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Pick in a ppr league this season. Consensus #1 pick is brown but i had david johnson last yr and he was a monsterrr in ppr. Should I reach and take him 1st overall or just take AB and not get cute.
I go AB #1 in PPR. I could have seen a case for Beckham before the Martavis Bryant suspension, a slight one but Brown could catch 140 passes.
Yea agreed. Hes going to be a target monster all yr. I just keep picturing DJ having a yr like the insane yr charles had in 2013. Dj is by far the most complete back in the nfl imo. Only question mark with him is how much Arians will use him
DJ will be great I'm sure, I drafted him last year, I just think the best value at 1 is AB and a couple other WR's before any RB. Plus DJ is a Carson Palmer injury away from having 8 men in the box every down and we all know there's a very low risk of a Carson Palmer injury /sarcasm.
plus a healthy Chris Johnson is back in the mix.
Defense. If our defense is much improved, we shouldnt be behind nearly as much and may be less reliant to throw the ball.
So it may be one of those years where eli's numbers dip, but his play and the overall play of the team improves.
That's a very good point. I probably didn't factor in how bad the defense was last year so we passed a ton late in games, but I also think that will be offset by a coach that probably won't force "balance". Fair point nonetheless, I probably didn't factor that in.
I tend to stick with 12,14 or 16 team leagues and I believe this will finally be the year that many Giant fans will wait thinking he is going to fall to them and .....he's gone.
Not saying you grab him early but there are plenty of non-Giants fans that play FF that are very aware of OBJ and will be monitoring Cruz.
In contrast, one QB that could be a steal and drop further than ELI is Luck. Last year he was being grabbed near the top of QB's but this year, not so much.
Two that I feel will go to high are Cam and Brees. To the later, Due to his 2014, he dropped last year and helped many including myself but if you look at his past 6 years, he is inconsistent every other year and can be a huge INT machine.
I never like taking a QB early so I suppose I will be looking at the same cast of characters when drafting one: Ryan, Eli, Romo, Rivers, Stafford.
Luck is still being drafted in the 5th-6th round. No one is taking Eli before him in FF.