2011 Fantasy football discussion thread

[Sylvanfan]

Who's a better play at Tight End?

Greg Olson against the Saints
or
Dallas Clark against the Chiefs

Do you Saint fans think I can go to Marques Colston yet, or should I keep him on the bench for another week. My other option is like Jabar Gaffney...I'm thin at receiver, and injuries have hit me hard early.

[Cheerio]

Gronkowski vs. the Jets or Keller vs. the Patriots? Leaning towards Gronkowski

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Who's a better play at Tight End?

Greg Olson against the Saints
or
Dallas Clark against the Chiefs

Do you Saint fans think I can go to Marques Colston yet, or should I keep him on the bench for another week. My other option is like Jabar Gaffney...I'm thin at receiver, and injuries have hit me hard early.

Hard to say, last week he couldn't have seen more than 20-25 snaps, I barely saw him out there. And Brees only looked his way once. I'm assuming he'll be a lot more involved in the offence this week now that he's got a game under his belt, but the way Brees spreads the ball around (especially that he has a new favourite target in Graham) it's hard to predict, especially with the injury. Sounds like you're stuck so its worth a gamble, haha just don't crap on me Sunday afternoon if he doesn't see many balls. I'm sure he'll have at least 3-4 catches though, and perhaps more.

And I haven't seen enough of the Curtis Painter O to answer about Clark, but as for Olsen anyway, he seems to be Newton's 2nd favourite target, and the Saints always seem to struggle against good TE's, what with their less than ideal OLB's.

[Lil Pedro]

Ladies and gentlemen, I am in desperate need of some FF advice.
Do I play Roddy White or Shonn Green in my flex?
My gut says to go with Roddy, but there playing the Packers (lined up against Woodson) and hes still not 100%.
Or do I go with Green, who should rebound from a terrible performance against the Ravens, and is playing a lackluster Patroits defense?
Any advice would help, im in a bit of a pickle

[Lil Pedro]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Who's a better play at Tight End?

Greg Olson against the Saints
or
Dallas Clark against the Chiefs

Do you Saint fans think I can go to Marques Colston yet, or should I keep him on the bench for another week. My other option is like Jabar Gaffney...I'm thin at receiver, and injuries have hit me hard early.

Olsen. Curtis Painter is garbage, and Newton has shown that Olsen is a good dependable target. Plus the Saints pass defense hasnt really been anything to brag about this season

[Sainters7]

Man, I need to make a trade at WR I think, in my non-CP league. Every week its a headache. Here's who I got (10 team league):

Calvin Johnson
Mike Wallace
Hakeem Nicks
Stevie Johnson
Steve Smith (CAR)

We have a flex position, and with 2 of my 3 QB's on their bye week I can play a 4th WR so it lightens the stress, but who would you bench? Considering my serious lack of depth at RB, I think its time to make a trade..

[rubecube]

I don't think Stevie is going to be lighting up the Eagles secondary this week. Asomugha got burned by Cruz two weeks ago but he's been fairly solid other than that.

[DropIt]

Originally Posted by Lil Pedro

Ladies and gentlemen, I am in desperate need of some FF advice.
Do I play Roddy White or Shonn Green in my flex?
My gut says to go with Roddy, but there playing the Packers (lined up against Woodson) and hes still not 100%.
Or do I go with Green, who should rebound from a terrible performance against the Ravens, and is playing a lackluster Patroits defense?
Any advice would help, im in a bit of a pickle

Greene would be trying to bounce back from a bad first 4 weeks. He and the entire Jets running game has been attrocious due to one of the league's worst offensive lines. I would be starting White myself, he has had a rough first couple weeks but they have yet to play indoors. Plus, There is a chance Woodson would be keyed up on Jones, as he is a much bigger deep play threat and has led the team in both catches and targets. Play the junk out of White every week IMO from now on

[red sky]

Need to sit one of my WR this week and each one seems to have a pretty good matchup. Any advice?

Steve Smith vs. NO
Stevie Johnson vs. Phi
Hakeem Nicks vs. Seattle
Jeremy Maclin vs. Buffalo

I am liking Smith this week the most I think.

[Sylvanfan]

I have another one. This is a 6 team league where we have 2 Qb's. Which one of Michael Vick, Eli Manning, or Cam Newton should ride the bench this week. I should mention that passing TD's count for 6 points in this league. If not for Mannings sweetheart matchup, this would be much easier.

[flamesrule14]

Would any of you start Cassel over Roethlisberger? I'm thinking about it, but don't know if I should do it. Ben is beat up a bit, but I just don't trust Cassel at all.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by flamesrule14

Would any of you start Cassel over Roethlisberger? I'm thinking about it, but don't know if I should do it. Ben is beat up a bit, but I just don't trust Cassel at all.

At best Cassel will give you 200 yards passing and 1 TD. More likely you'll get 120 yards and 2 picks. Stick with Ben, at least there's some upside with him.

[Hockey]

Originally Posted by nickerjones

FUUUU and now I have to play you while my QB is on a bye week. Of course my QB is Romo so who really cares

Horrible week for my guys so so far. I need Forte to have a huge game for me this week.

[Lil Pedro]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

At best Cassel will give you 200 yards passing and 1 TD. More likely you'll get 120 yards and 2 picks. Stick with Ben, at least there's some upside with him.

You would have been a winner if you started either of these guys...fantasy football is such a tossup

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Had a pretty good day but Im afraid all of Jermichael's drops in Atlanta cost me. I have a 10.7 pt lead, but the guy im playing has Jason Hanson tomorrow who has been money so far this year and with our scoring system hasn't gone under 10 all year. I'm not confident that I will hold on. It's gonna be tight, that's for sure.

[Hockey]

Im down 18 points and I just got Forte to play.Gonna be a good finish I hope.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by Lil Pedro

You would have been a winner if you started either of these guys...fantasy football is such a tossup

Yeah, KC has 4 TD's all season, and Cassel throws 4 TD's yesterday. I think Ben had even fewer passing TDs's and tosses 5 against a defense who hadn't surrendered more than 17 points in a game all season.

I also believe that with two more guys throwing for over 400 yards yesterday, it's now 14 games with a 400 yard passer and the record is 15. Rogers was 4 yards short of hitting that number yesterday.

Screw running backs, I'm grabbing Rogers if I have a top pick next year.

[Sainters7]

I'm down by 44 in the C league with Stafford & Megatron to go, which sounds promising until you factor in that I also have the Chicago D (didn't think about that this week), and my opponent has the Lions kicker and D left. So basically I need Stafford & Megatron to explode...but also need Chicago to not get lit up (doesn't make sense), or at least get a crapload of picks/fumbles (which would only hurt Stafford's #'s)...plus they'd have to miss all their extra points...and Detroit's D has to get lit too.

...so basically I'm done haha. Too many intersecting variables there.

EDIT: And there's no-one in fantasy football I hate more than DeAngelo Williams this year. Finally send his useless azz to the pine this week and he explodes, of course. What is your problem with me??

[Hockey]

Up by 9 in one of my pools and I have Best and Chi D and he has Forte.

Down 10 in C league and I have Forte. Hopefully Forte, Best and Chicago D all have a good game for me.

[Sylvanfan]

My wide receivers did nothing this week, and it cost me. My opponent was only down 14 points and he has Stafford and Megatron...I had Forte. Didn't help me that Mason Crosby had to kick field goals this week. All year he's had nothing but converts. Sucks to lose to a guy who started Steven Ridley and Titus Young.