Week 3: Determine Legitimacy
To start off, I suppose I should introduce my blog. Reader, meet blog in which another self-proclaimed sports guru projects his self-proclaimed wisdom on, assuredly in your astute opinion, regardless of your current record, the best team in your league; the one in which you own (which undoubtedly also has the most creative name in the entire league, with the most eccentric picture to match.) Well, reader, you are right; your team is the balls.
Well, maybe your team isn’t quite the balls if you are 0-2. Or 1-1. Or maybe you even have a team that is playing above its level at 2-0 (Josh McDaniels’ 6-0 Broncos, anyone?) But fantasy is not simply a game of luck. A skilled manager can whoop up on the rest of the league, and you can transform your team, with sneaky trades and snagging the right free agents. So, if you are not currently the balls, do not be dismayed. You can be.
Week 3- the time to determine if your team is solid, or if its time to frantically start filling in the holes in your depth chart.
Key pickups:
Roy Helu, RB, Washington Redskins
Timmy Hightower, who has had quite the season thus far, is supposed to start conceding carries to the young buck out of Nebraska as the season progresses. Helu took the majority of second half snaps last game. The second Hightower fails to produce, Helu will get the snaps. And based off of the 10 carries that averaged 7.5 yards per carry last game, he will not relinquish his opportunity.
Thomas Jones, RB, KC Chiefs
Jamaal Charles, done for season. Was he your first pick? Bet that hurts. Almost as much as Tom Brady’s season that lasted all of about ten minutes the year he was in the top 3 picks of nearly all leagues.
But, you say, Thomas Jones is 33 years old. He cannot possibly support the workload of Mr. Charles. AND they are playing the chargers infamously stout run defense.
Yeah. Prolly right. But the chiefs have to throw someone in for this week at least. Jones has been a great goal line thief in the past few years, so not only will he get the goal line carries, but probably an additional ten or so carries now that Charles is doneski. Worth a shot at flex play.
Washington Redskins Defense
Granted, haven’t been super impressive yet. But this week, they are playing a quarterback with a track record for turning the ball over as frequently as Brett Favre. And that’s when he doesn’t have a hole in his lungs. Or broken ribs. Both of which he has now… Also, Miles Austin isn’t playing. Also, Felix Jones shoulder is so cracked up, you might confuse it for Lindsey Lohan’s poor nose. (ZING!)
Plans in the mix on shifting the format of the blog, including a
Which should I start?
Section. Probably comparing 2 flex players projected about the same amount of success.
Less Chiefs next time too.
Best of luck. Just remember, even if you lose and are 0-3,
You are
STILL
The balls.
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