[Official 2012 NFL Season] Fantasy Football Lineup Advice Thread

My D/ST Dilemma:

Baltimore hosting Ben-less Steelers
or
San Fran on the road against the Rams
or
Pats on the road in Miami against Tannehill

All division games, which are always a danger to turn obvious laughers into surprising upsets. Two on the road. All 3 looking great in the last couple of weeks.

Right now, I'm leaning more to Ravens at home against the Immortal Charlie Batch, though the Pats with Talib have been dominate and the Niners killed the Saints in NO.

With Ben likely out, I wouldn't bother with Brown. Longshot for TDs. Cleveland and Jacksonville have been slightly feisty of late. Fred Jackson is tough to rely on, too - only 3 significant showings this season. If it were me, I'd go with Lloyd.

 

The Rams OL is terrible, and their offense as a whole isn't much better. The 49ers defense is virtually a must-start nowdays. That should be sack-city. The only reason you don't play them is if Batch suits up for Pittsburgh, which is totally up in the air at the moment. New England is a nice option, but not as nice as the other two.

 

Who do I go with at RB (2)? Playoffs. Need to win. PPR.

McCoy, McFadden, B. Brown, D. Murray, F. Jones, B. Wells, Moreno, R. Jennings?

WR - Give G. Jennings, A. Brown, or Garcon a go? Or stick with Steve Smith?

TE - Rudolph is iffy, go with Pettigrew? Finley? Lewis? Tellus?

I'm safe with Jets D this week right? Or are they giving up on life?

The only locks in my lineup are Matt Ryan, Dem. Thomas and Colston at this point. Wow & crap...

 

Looks like we have the same RB conundrum. Brown is a given with McCoy out. I hate that McFadden is coming back and wish the Raiders would let Reece take over for the rest of the season. I'm seriously thinking of starting Beanie Wells place of either of them this week.

 

Buffalo D vs. Jacksonville

or

Baltimore D vs. Pittsburgh

Go

 

Baltimore. Ben likely out or limited.

Hated rivals, the old Ravens D will get up for this one.

 

Matt Ryan vs NO

RG3 vs NYG


I have ryan slotted in right now but I keep thinking RG3 may have a big day for his first mnf game

 

Maybe, but NYG D-Line knows how to play athletic QBs.

 

Pick one each:

RB2

J. Bell
D. Wilson
D. Brown
McFadden

Flex

Same group of RBs + Edelman & D. Bess

 

Kate, why are you asking for advice? I come to this thread looking for your insight.

I'm in a PPR and need to decide b/t:

1) Keller v. ARI or Rudolph @ GB

Apparently ARI has given up the fewest points to TE in Yahoo, and GB has given up the 5th fewest.

2) Shorts @ BUF or Garcon v. NYG

Shorts missed practice Thurs. due to a 'hamstring' issue.

 

I guess if you had Brees and Roddy White both on your team this week like me, you're pretty much guaranteed a loss before the weekend even starts. Good stuff.

 

Drew Brees how I hate you right now. Lucky for me my opponent has Kaepernick starting so I still have a chance.

 

LOL, I don't know... I'm kinda confused during this week, must win week. Must. Be. Clutch. Wanted to hear other people's insight.

Play Rudolph. He was a full go at practice today and has a slightly better matchup.

But... on one hand, NYJ will get more scoring opportunities cause ARZ is starting their 3rd string QB again. Turnovers are inevitable.

I see a bounce back week for GB all around, but GB will probably get up early and MIN will have to throw and rely on Ponder. So Rudolph.

The WRs is a tough choice, but I'm leaning towards Garcon. He only played half the snaps last week but was targeted 6 times. I would expect more snaps this week as he gets healthier. And they like to target Garcon short, medium and deep... so even better for PPR leagues. The only gamble with Garcon is, one tweak of the foot and they'll sit him the whole game.

Shorts has been beast, but if this hamstring problem is real, could limit his effectiveness. Check to see if he practices tomorrow. I'm was expecting a shootout in BUF, but there expecting a 60% chance of rain on Sunday, so we'll see.

 

Regarding the info about teams vs TEs. That's a great stat that yahoo is supplying because they even do this for IDP leagues. But look at the schedule of GB to paint the better picture of why they're so good defending TEs.

GB: they've played 2 elite TE's in Graham and V.Davis who both got 70+ on them. Fleener/Allen combined for that much too. The other TEs they faced? K.Davis, Kendricks, Mercedes, Pettigrew, Hausler, Black Unicorn Bennett. The only TE definitely better than Rudolph you could argue they shut down was Daniels and that was because it was a blowout. With Harvin likely out again, Rudolph continues to enjoy a larger role.

Shorts v Garcon is probably a coin toss/gut call. but the meaningful snaps Garcon has had have been amazing. Did you see how fast he looked on Thanksgiving? And that was with all his owners worried about him running on turf, which is harder on the joints. This week, against a worse secondary, at home, on grass.

 

PPR league, 20 return yds = 1 point. Which one should I start at flex?

Blackmon (hurt) @BUF
Hartline vs NE
Miles Austin (hurt) vs PHI
TY Hilton (hurt) @DET
LeShoure (hurt) vs IND
Joique Bell vs IND

It looks like all of these guys are probable for their games.

Thanks!

 

Assuming they're all healthy and play.

I would rank them:

LeShoure, Blackmon, Hilton, Hartline, Austin, Bell

 

CLE @ OAK game

There expecting rain all day FRI, SAT, and most of SUN.

Expect a muddy game.

 

Would you guys go with Arizona DST or Seattle? Arizona's playing the Jets and Seattle is playing the Bears. I'm leaning towards Arizona but I'm kinda afraid their crappy offense is just gonna put them in bad situations.

 

Tough call. The Jets are turnover prone but so is Cutler and the Seahawks are at home.

Patrick Peterson is a nice bonus too. Do you get yards for KR or just TDs?

 

Just TD's. And the Seahawks are at Chicago which makes me a little wary since they play a bit better at home.