Week 6 Recaps - Matchup 4, Matchup 5 and Interview***
Matchup 4: Marty Huggins wins 120.6 to 119:
Start Em: “Lastly, I actually think that Odell is going to have a better season than Antonio. Yes, that’s right. If anyone’s willing to take this bet, I’ll bet $10 that Odell Beckham Jr. has more fantasy points than Antonio Brown.” That’s what I wrote in Guy’s draft recap. Through 4 weeks, I looked really stupid. Antonio was having a huge year while Odell hadn’t even caught a TD. That changed a bit in week 5 when Odell finally caught a TD. It really changed in week 6 when Odell scored 41.2 points and Antonio scored 6.7. Currently, Antonio has 109.9 fantasy points, while Odell has 98.6. Not looking so bad anymore. Throw in the fact that Ben Roethlisberger is out for at least 3-4 weeks and my bet is looking pretttyyyy pretttaayyy gooodddd.
Start Em: Matthew Stafford is the #2 scoring QB in our league through six weeks. Say what? Say yes - Matthew Stafford has scored more fantasy points than Andrew Luck, Drew Brees and Cam Newton. The only person he is behind is Matt Ryan. This will continue - the Lions STINK and will throw the ball a ton. They have no healthy RBs and a solid group of WRs, so Stafford will continue to rack up points. He’s averaging 275 yards per game and has 14 TD passes already. Start HIM.
Sit Em: Isaiah Crowell’s run is over. It’s just over. Through 4 weeks he was a top 7 RB in fantasy. The last two weeks however, have been bad. How bad? 13.5 combined points bad. It’s not going to get better either, as his next 6 opponents are the Bengals, Jets, Cowboys, Ravens, Steelers and Giants. All of those teams rank in the top 20 of rushing defenses and 5 of them rank in the top 13. To make matters worse, Crowell has a week 13 bye, right when you really need him. Sit HIM.
Matchup 4: Broke Back Caleb loses 119 to 120.6:
Start Em: This is low hanging fruit, but Melvin Gordon is a must start. Even in a tough matchup vs the Broncos, he still got 27 carries and 94 yards (15 fantasy points). More and more RBs are going down with injury, so you have to keep Gordon in the lineup. Start em.
Sit em: Allen Hurns is one of many Jaguars players who has disappointed this year. After catching 10 TDs last year, he has just 1 so far this year. He’s only scored 10+ points once and his season high is 11.7. Maybe the Jags will turn it around, maybe they won’t. Either way, Hurns is too risky to start on your team right now. Sit em.
Sit Em: Coby Fleener is an abomination. So frustrating. You start him twice, he kills you. After you give up on him, he puts up 22 in week 3. You start him in week 4, thinking he’s turned the corner. Wrong, wrong, wrong. He kills you with 3.4. Then he has a bye. He comes back the following week and scores 23, with one receiving TD and one rushing TD. Good news right? No, it was a fluke of epic proportions. First, he scored a rushing touchdown? I haven’t seen a TE score a rushing TD since Aaron Hernandez was on the Pats. Second, his TD catch wasn’t even thrown to him. It was thrown to Willie Snead and Fleener intercepted it. Fluke. Sit em.
Matchup 5: Ken Killed Harambe lost 70.8 to 118.6:
Start Em: Todd Gurley was a bust for Ken, but one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. After an uneven start to the season, Gurley has averaged 18.95 points per game over the last 4 weeks. It looks like the Rams passing game is opening up a bit, which should free up Gurley. He may not be the top 5 Guy he was drafted to be, but he’s firmly in the top 12 RB discussion. START HEEEIIMMM.
Sit Em: Dylan spent a pretty penny on Jordan Matthews, $33 dollars to be exact. The results? Not good, not good at all. In the two weeks Dylan has owned him, he’s scored just 17.5 fantasy points. That means Dylan basically paid $2 per fantasy point. Return on Investment.
Sit Em: Jeremy Hill is the most infuriating running back in the history of fantasy football. What an absolute bum. Since going off for 25.1 points in week 3 (against the top rated Broncos D - started in less then 30% of ESPN leagues), he’s scored just 20.7 fantasy points in 3 weeks. The one thing you used to count on for Hill was goal line touches. Not anymore. Last week, the Bengals ran 6 plays within the 5 yard line. Three were runs to Gio Bernard, 2 were incomplete passes and one was a QB run to Andy Dalton (it was an option play, but no fuckin chance Dalton was pitching that thing. Ninkovich fucked that up). It’s really hard to sit him, but unless your’e desperate or stubborn, I just can’t see how you do it.
Matchup 5: Pure Taige wins 118.6 to 70.8: AND INTERVIEW****
Commish: You’re running through the league this year, so describe your team in 5 words or less.
Tieg: Caramels are for winners.
Commish: We were all fucked up at the draft. Did that help you, or were you just more prepared this year?
Tieg: I felt fine, I was just trying to keep my edge in case Tracey showed up and wanted to get funky. Tracey’s a fire fox.
Commish: You have other fantasy leagues I take it. How are those going?
Tieg: I have one other league and have just had bad luck so far. The tables are turning though, there’s still a lot of season left to play out. To answer your next question – no, I do not own LeSean McCoy in that league (Editor’s note: that was my next question). I did attempt to trade for him though. Final note on that league – Ken, there are no winless teams there.
Commish: LeSean McCoy just got hurt and DeMarco Murray is regressing a little bit. Are you concerned about your running backs ?
Tieg: Next question.
Commish: Speaking of injuries, Big Ben will be out for a few weeks. That definitely reduces the value of Antonio Brown.
Tieg: Marcus Mariota is gonna put up all pro stats this week, I’m not worried at QB. Brown can suck against the Pats, but I’m slightly concerned after that. Landry Jones did play a number of games last year, so hopefully they can connect.
Commish: Just for fun, let’s play a little name game. I’ll name a different WR and you tell me whether you’d rather have them, or Antonio Brown.As for the following players, tell me which one you'd rather have.
Tieg:
Odell Beckham – I’ll take Antonio
AJ Green – I’ll take Antonio
Julio Jones – I’d take Julio right now, Matty “Ice” is unstoppable. Captain Hindsight just reminded me of when I was a non-believer and I dropped Matt Ryan for “Elite” Joe Flacco. Get outta here Captain Hindsight.
(Editor’s Note: Matt Ryan scored 44.9 points that week. Yikes).
Mike Evans – I’ll take Antonio
Larry Fitzgerald – I’ll take Antonio
Commish: Non-football question – I’ll repeat from past interviews. If you got to kill your worst enemy, how would you do it?
Tieg: Who would even by my worst enemy? Probably radical Islam in general, or Hillary – she’s really grinding my gears lately. But say I could kill a terrorist that committed a crime on U.S. soil. That could work. I’d first stick them in a vat of pig’s blood and then periodically have Gronk come and hold him under the blood line**. Eventually I would just feed him to a pack of dogs from some rich part of the country, like Greenwich Connecticut. **Speaking of blood line, what a great Netflix show. Who would’ve thought that the Florida Keys could be so gripping?
Commish: Non-football question – If you could have any TV show continue on forever, assuming the quality wouldn’t slip too bad, what would it be?
Tieg: That’s easy. Bring back the Social Assassin: Larry David. He’s sort of a quasi-idol of mine. He gets to say what he wants all the time and doesn’t give a fuck.
Tieg: Reverse question for the Commish. At what point does the Clerk Magistrate resent the fact he didn’t trade out of the Packers’ offense for his boy Jamaal Charles?
Commish: I’m guessing there was a Jordy Nelson for Jamaal Charles trade discussion at some point. Through 6 weeks, I’d have to say Robby D made the right decision. Charles didn’t play til week 5 and last week was the first time he made an impact. Overall, given the chance, I’d take Jordy over Jamaal.
