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[quote]chillain wrote:
spaceking wrote:
True, but you have Rogers tossing balls and basically he isn’t battle tested…besides there is usually 2-3 rooks at WR who make an impact early, (i.e. Colston, Baskett, ect).

Not to metion STL has done nothing to bolster its secondary, and no one is scared of Hill and Brown at the corners, while MIN will likely match up Griffin on Driver, with Sharper for secondary support…so to me that SCREAMS start Jackson.

I completely disagree with the notion that Rodgers isn’t “battle tested” yet. The dude did step in and play meaningful minutes in one game last year, going 18-26, 201yds, 1TD, no picks. Not exactly garbage time stats either, since it happened @DAL in Week 13.

Granted it was only one game, but numbers like that don’t happen by accident.

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Exactly.

Who cares if Griffin is on Driver with Sharper for secondary support. The Vikings were DEAD LAST in pass defense last year. You should be licking your chops to start Driver this week.

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[quote]dre wrote:
mudpro69 wrote:
My Team roster goes like this:

QB=Brady/Eli, depending on weekly match-up
WR-Fitzgerald
WR-Burress
WR-White
RB-Westbrook
RB-Addai
K-Crosby
DEF-NE
RISK-Ricky Williams

I feel good bout this season…

Do you play in a keeper league or something that you have Brady, Westy and Addai?[/quote]

No. Got lucky on the autodraft…yeah me!

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[quote]mudpro69 wrote:
dre wrote:
mudpro69 wrote:
My Team roster goes like this:

QB=Brady/Eli, depending on weekly match-up
WR-Fitzgerald
WR-Burress
WR-White
RB-Westbrook
RB-Addai
K-Crosby
DEF-NE
RISK-Ricky Williams

I feel good bout this season…

Do you play in a keeper league or something that you have Brady, Westy and Addai?

No. Got lucky on the autodraft…yeah me!
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But you have three of the top 5-8 picks. Even for an autodraft that shouldn’t happen. How many teams in your league?

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[quote]dre wrote:
mudpro69 wrote:
dre wrote:
mudpro69 wrote:
My Team roster goes like this:

QB=Brady/Eli, depending on weekly match-up
WR-Fitzgerald
WR-Burress
WR-White
RB-Westbrook
RB-Addai
K-Crosby
DEF-NE
RISK-Ricky Williams

I feel good bout this season…

Do you play in a keeper league or something that you have Brady, Westy and Addai?

No. Got lucky on the autodraft…yeah me!

But you have three of the top 5-8 picks. Even for an autodraft that shouldn’t happen. How many teams in your league?[/quote]

I agree with Dre. That really shouldn’t happen but it does on occasion.

Even though I got completely boned in my autopick draft this year, I did one last year and ended up with a phenomenal roster.

Apparently there were some people in the league that just loved the Browns, Bears, and Titans. They rated all of the players from those teams as their highest picks so the computer would pick those players first which allowed the majority of the studs to fall to the other 7 owners.

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[quote]chillain wrote:

I completely disagree with the notion that Rodgers isn’t “battle tested” yet. The dude did step in and play meaningful minutes in one game last year, going 18-26, 201yds, 1TD, no picks. Not exactly garbage time stats either, since it happened @DAL in Week 13.

Granted it was only one game, but numbers like that don’t happen by accident.

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But they do happen if you get lucky, look at how many QBs have had ONE good game, and then fall flat or are consistently mediocre. I’m not saying the guy is a bust, I actually think that he’ll be decent, but starting Driver with what amounts to a relatively unknown performer at QB in the first game of the season is like starting him with a rookie caller.

I’m saying for the FIRST week of the season use Jackson. Mcnabb will get him plenty of catchable balls, he has a great matchup against STL’s young corners (which is what he is already use to seeing from college), and with his open field play he should get at least one touchdown. That along with 7-10 catches and 80-100 yards makes him a good value. Sit on Driver in the first week and see how good Rogers performs.

If you were just playing them based on talent alone, I’d use Driver every day of the week. Unfortunately this isn’t the case since you have to factor in the play of the QB. Mcnabb is solid and LOVES his rookie receivers, look at how he used Baskett last year. Rogers is still an unknown and could struggle, even against a bad secondary. IMO this makes Driver a poor first week play. If you feel good about the rest of your team, take a chance, it could payoff huge.

BUT I COULD ALSO BE WRONG!! It does happen on occasion, not often mind you, but it does happen by accident :slight_smile:

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Here is my roster:

QB – ROMO
RB – PETERSON
RB – MCALLISTER
WR – MOSS
WR – HOUSHMANDZADEH
WR – MUHAMMAD
TE – WITTEN
D – SEAHAWKS
K – KAEDING

BENCH:
Kurt Warner
Chad Pennington
Rudi Johnson
Darren McFadden
Ahman Green
Courtney Taylor
Javon Walker
Deshawn Jackson
Antonio Gates
David Akers
Giants D

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Westbrook, Addai, Brady and then to add insult to injury you also got Larry Fitzgerald.

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[quote]spaceking wrote:
Here is my roster:

QB – ROMO
RB – PETERSON
RB – MCALLISTER
WR – MOSS
WR – HOUSHMANDZADEH
WR – MUHAMMAD
TE – WITTEN
D – SEAHAWKS
K – KAEDING

BENCH:
Kurt Warner
Chad Pennington
Rudi Johnson
Darren McFadden
Ahman Green
Courtney Taylor
Javon Walker
Deshawn Jackson
Antonio Gates
David Akers
Giants D
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How many people are in that league, like 4?

Anyways, my starting lineup for this weekend:

Peyton
Braylon
Plax
Galloway
McFadden
Edge
Cooley
Phil Dawson
Tampa Bay

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[quote]esk221 wrote:

How many people are in that league, like 4?

Anyways, my starting lineup for this weekend:

Peyton
Braylon
Plax
Galloway
McFadden
Edge
Cooley
Phil Dawson
Tampa Bay

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No 10 actually, I just got lucky in the auto pick draft, and made a couple of trades, one for Romo and one for Petersen as well. Green, Pennington and Johnson were FA’s so that helped too.

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Ah okay, I thought that was just from your draft! I kind of wish I would have drafted a QB later and shored up my RBs a little better, but my WRs should make up for it.

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[quote]esk221 wrote:
Ah okay, I thought that was just from your draft! I kind of wish I would have drafted a QB later and shored up my RBs a little better, but my WRs should make up for it.[/quote]

Yeah, but Edge should be good for 1000 yards, and at least 5-8 scores. With the WRs and Manning you’ll be solid.

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[quote]spaceking wrote:
But they do happen if you get lucky, look at how many QBs have had ONE good game, and then fall flat or are consistently mediocre.

I’m not saying the guy is a bust, I actually think that he’ll be decent, but starting Driver with what amounts to a relatively unknown performer at QB in the first game of the season is like starting him with a rookie caller.

I’m saying for the FIRST week of the season use Jackson. Mcnabb will get him plenty of catchable balls, he has a great matchup against STL’s young corners (which is what he is already use to seeing from college), and with his open field play he should get at least one touchdown.

That along with 7-10 catches and 80-100 yards makes him a good value. Sit on Driver in the first week and see how good Rogers performs.

If you were just playing them based on talent alone, I’d use Driver every day of the week. Unfortunately this isn’t the case since you have to factor in the play of the QB. Mcnabb is solid and LOVES his rookie receivers, look at how he used Baskett last year.

Rogers is still an unknown and could struggle, even against a bad secondary. IMO this makes Driver a poor first week play. If you feel good about the rest of your team, take a chance, it could payoff huge.

BUT I COULD ALSO BE WRONG!! It does happen on occasion, not often mind you, but it does happen by accident :slight_smile:
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That’s a pretty solid argument for DeSean this week. Of course, the beauty of fantasy is that after all the matchup analysis and keeping up with all the latest news, we never really know how it’ll all go down on Sunday.

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[quote]dre wrote:
mudpro69 wrote:
dre wrote:
mudpro69 wrote:
My Team roster goes like this:

QB=Brady/Eli, depending on weekly match-up
WR-Fitzgerald
WR-Burress
WR-White
RB-Westbrook
RB-Addai
K-Crosby
DEF-NE
RISK-Ricky Williams

I feel good bout this season…

Do you play in a keeper league or something that you have Brady, Westy and Addai?

No. Got lucky on the autodraft…yeah me!

But you have three of the top 5-8 picks. Even for an autodraft that shouldn’t happen. How many teams in your league?[/quote]

Office league 8 ppl. $50 each team. Yeah they were kinda sore, but oh well…

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[quote]chillain wrote:
spaceking wrote:
But they do happen if you get lucky, look at how many QBs have had ONE good game, and then fall flat or are consistently mediocre.

I’m not saying the guy is a bust, I actually think that he’ll be decent, but starting Driver with what amounts to a relatively unknown performer at QB in the first game of the season is like starting him with a rookie caller.

I’m saying for the FIRST week of the season use Jackson. Mcnabb will get him plenty of catchable balls, he has a great matchup against STL’s young corners (which is what he is already use to seeing from college), and with his open field play he should get at least one touchdown.

That along with 7-10 catches and 80-100 yards makes him a good value. Sit on Driver in the first week and see how good Rogers performs.

If you were just playing them based on talent alone, I’d use Driver every day of the week. Unfortunately this isn’t the case since you have to factor in the play of the QB. Mcnabb is solid and LOVES his rookie receivers, look at how he used Baskett last year.

Rogers is still an unknown and could struggle, even against a bad secondary. IMO this makes Driver a poor first week play. If you feel good about the rest of your team, take a chance, it could payoff huge.

BUT I COULD ALSO BE WRONG!! It does happen on occasion, not often mind you, but it does happen by accident :slight_smile:

That’s a pretty solid argument for DeSean this week. Of course, the beauty of fantasy is that after all the matchup analysis and keeping up with all the latest news, we never really know how it’ll all go down on Sunday.

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And look at how many players have had good preseasons and fall flat on their face. I agree that DeSean is a high upside pick this week and he seems to be the popular fantasy sleeper pick right now. But I just can’t see him outperforming Driver.

Grant played what, one play all preseason, so they are going to limit his touches in the beginning of the season which means more passing. Which means more chances for Driver, especially with James Jones out with a hammy.

But I could also be wrong too. I just love talking football!

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Yea buddy!

MT reppin the ATL, that motherfucker got me 55 points yesterday. Damn right!

And I hope none of you poor bastards had Brady

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Howd everyone do this week?

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I lost because my opponent had fukin’ Willie Parker. Scored two TDs all of last year and this weekend he gets three! Bastage. Oh well, that’s fantasy football for ya. I still had a good week though from my team.

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Fuck Chad Mui Loco nee Johnson.

Did you know that there are two Adrian Petersons @ RB in the NFL? One’s plays for the shitty Bears and had 0 fantasy points. The other is Purple Jesus, watch him do damage against the Packers. Poor Al Harris got knocked de fagau, same Al Harris who came in low at his knees last season at Lambeau Field, a hit that knocked Peterson out for several weeks, and when he returned he never truly got his legs back.

“No grudges, but I definitely wanted to come out and, if I had the opportunity, put a little boom on Harris.”

Guess who I picked in week one?

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I sucked ass. RB’s wouldn’t run, QB threw for less than 200 yards, defense gave up 34 points, and I don’t even want to talk about my WR’s.

My bench outscored my starters by 30 points.

I am not liking this fantasy crap at all.

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lost this week, due to Brady going down, and poor RB/WR games. My backups Matt Hasslback, and ended up picking up Chad Penninngton so well see how things go