🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈

[bbc.reporter]

I have decided to drop Josh Lambo. He might not have enougn opportunities with Trevor Lawrence only in his first year in the team. Chris Boswell will be the replacement.

I have also made Antonio Brown my flex because of Tom Brady hehe. I want to play Corey Davis instead of AJ Brown. It appears Davis is very good with Zach Wilson. However, the Jets will be against the Patriots and Titans against the Seahawks. Should I do this?

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[ChiBitCTy]

@DireWolfM14. Okay, I will observe for 2 more weeks before looking for a trade. However, I might rest Najee Harris and I might play Antonio Brown and Corey Davis. They appear to collect more points than ESPN projected because of the performances of Tom Brady and Zach Wilson.

I would probably not bench Najee Harris but I suppose it depends on what other running backs you have.  You don't want to overreact in week 1, which is easy to do.  Antonio Brown had a great game but he's on a team with countless mouths to feed, he wont be having games like that every week.  Corey Davis is a solid player, but in an 8 man league there is likely no reason to ever play him, you should have much better options available. Just my 2.

Edit: I would absolutely NEVER start Corey Davis over AJ Brown.  AJ Brown is a top 5 fantasy wide receiver and in real life.  He's an absolute beast.  He also plays in a much better offense with a much better quarterback. Again, you don't want to overreact based on week 1.

[South Park]

Double bad news for DireWolfM14 Raheem Mostert has decided to go through a season ending surgery so he is out for the reminder of the season, as a fan and as a fantasy owner this is not good, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.


https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-Raheem-Mostert-out-eight-weeks-wife-16455788.php

[wheelz1200]

@DireWolfM14. Okay, I will observe for 2 more weeks before looking for a trade. However, I might rest Najee Harris and I might play Antonio Brown and Corey Davis. They appear to collect more points than ESPN projected because of the performances of Tom Brady and Zach Wilson.

I would probably not bench Najee Harris but I suppose it depends on what other running backs you have.  You don't want to overreact in week 1, which is easy to do.  Antonio Brown had a great game but he's on a team with countless mouths to feed, he wont be having games like that every week.  Corey Davis is a solid player, but in an 8 man league there is likely no reason to ever play him, you should have much better options available. Just my 2.

Edit: I would absolutely NEVER start Corey Davis over AJ Brown.  AJ Brown is a top 5 fantasy wide receiver and in real life.  He's an absolute beast.  He also plays in a much better offense with a much better quarterback. Again, you don't want to overreact based on week 1.

Agreed rookie game 1 and was a tough outing against bills on the road.  That's a tough first day. 

What a Monday night football game.  Waller with 19 targets, whoa.  Look out kelce, waller gonna be knocking on that #1 door real quick.  Ses every pass play was intended to get it to waller lol.  Glad I scooped him up

[bbc.reporter]

Double bad news for DireWolfM14 Raheem Mostert has decided to go through a season ending surgery so he is out for the reminder of the season, as a fan and as a fantasy owner this is not good, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.


https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-Raheem-Mostert-out-eight-weeks-wife-16455788.php

Would Trey Sermon be included in the team on week 2 or will San Francisco make Elijah Mitchell their rb1? I speculate that there might be more effort to play Mitchell as rb1 than considering Sermon in the team as rb2 or rb3. I have requested for a change in ESPN already hehehe. Also, did Covid Cam get a free opportunity for a reunification with Ron Rivera?



A source told ESPN's Adam Schefter that Fitzpatrick is expected to miss six to eight weeks.

Fitzpatrick was injured on a second-quarter hit in Sunday's 20-16 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. He was replaced by Taylor Heinicke, who will start Thursday's game vs. the New York Giants. Heinicke completed 11 of 15 passes for 122 yards and a touchdown Sunday.

Source https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32203017/washington-football-team-rules-ryan-fitzpatrick-thursday-vs-giants-taylor-heinicke-start-qb

[ChiBitCTy]

Double bad news for DireWolfM14 Raheem Mostert has decided to go through a season ending surgery so he is out for the reminder of the season, as a fan and as a fantasy owner this is not good, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.


https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-Raheem-Mostert-out-eight-weeks-wife-16455788.php

Would Trey Sermon be included in the team on week 2 or will San Francisco make Elijah Mitchell their rb1? I speculate that there might be more effort to play Mitchell as rb1 than considering Sermon in the team as rb2 or rb3. I have requested for a change in ESPN already hehehe. Also, did Covid Cam get a free opportunity for a reunification with Ron Rivera?



A source told ESPN's Adam Schefter that Fitzpatrick is expected to miss six to eight weeks.

Fitzpatrick was injured on a second-quarter hit in Sunday's 20-16 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. He was replaced by Taylor Heinicke, who will start Thursday's game vs. the New York Giants. Heinicke completed 11 of 15 passes for 122 yards and a touchdown Sunday.

Source https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32203017/washington-football-team-rules-ryan-fitzpatrick-thursday-vs-giants-taylor-heinicke-start-qb

This is a good question.  I drafted Sermon in one of my leagues and was absolutely shocked when I saw that he was a healthy scratch on Sunday morning.  I am not sure what that is all about by any means.  Normally the San Fran Niners like to use a few running backs which made it even more confusing.  Now that Mostert is out for the year Sermon will get his chance to shine..and it might not be that hard to take over the job from Mitchell.

[DireWolfM14]

Double bad news for DireWolfM14 Raheem Mostert has decided to go through a season ending surgery so he is out for the reminder of the season, as a fan and as a fantasy owner this is not good, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.


https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-Raheem-Mostert-out-eight-weeks-wife-16455788.php

Yeah that's a drag.  I had high hopes for him.  I really didn't intend on drafting a 9ers RB, but I fucked myself over in the Running Back department during the draft.  Once I finally realized my mistake he was the best prospect available.  I tried to replace him with Elijah Mitchell on waivers, but Hueristic beat me to him.

Would Trey Sermon be included in the team on week 2 or will San Francisco make Elijah Mitchell their rb1? I speculate that there might be more effort to play Mitchell as rb1 than considering Sermon in the team as rb2 or rb3. I have requested for a change in ESPN already hehehe. Also, did Covid Cam get a free opportunity for a reunification with Ron Rivera?



A source told ESPN's Adam Schefter that Fitzpatrick is expected to miss six to eight weeks.

Fitzpatrick was injured on a second-quarter hit in Sunday's 20-16 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. He was replaced by Taylor Heinicke, who will start Thursday's game vs. the New York Giants. Heinicke completed 11 of 15 passes for 122 yards and a touchdown Sunday.

Source https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32203017/washington-football-team-rules-ryan-fitzpatrick-thursday-vs-giants-taylor-heinicke-start-qb

This is a good question.  I drafted Sermon in one of my leagues and was absolutely shocked when I saw that he was a healthy scratch on Sunday morning.  I am not sure what that is all about by any means.  Normally the San Fran Niners like to use a few running backs which made it even more confusing.  Now that Mostert is out for the year Sermon will get his chance to shine..and it might not be that hard to take over the job from Mitchell.

After Elijah Mitchell's performance this past Sunday, I expect him to get the starting job this weekend, but I expect we'll see a bunch of Trey Sermon as well.  Typical 49ers playbook; running back by committee.  If Mostert had stayed healthy last weekend we probably would have seen most Mitchell's production shared among him and Raheem.  

[Hueristic]

Well week one is in the books and I don't know about you guys but me and Suchmoon had a real close game that came down to Monday night. He Had ravens QB and Raiders RB and I had Ravens D and a 35 or so point lead with which Lamar can cover easily alone so I was a bit worried and rightfully so!

At least I didn't have to wait long to know I was done as Raiders only handed of to Jacobs for massive chunk and score plays! Ravens D let me down big time and I have booted them to the wire. I would not recommend picking them up!

I'm really Glad suchmoon won by more than 5 points as Winston put up 5 more points than Cousins and I put Cousins in last minute as a safer play and I would have been really pissed at myself if that was the move that cost me the week.

Greenbay was a massive shock to everyone this week and to me it looked like Rogers was timid and afraid and had no faith in his O-Line. Maybe his antics are coming back to bite him in the ass and his boys are truly pissed off at him. I think it might be dangerous to play GB players this week even though their opponent should be a cake walk.

Lions were also a surpise and looks like they can feed us some points this year in the right circumstances.

But I think the biggest surprise was Houston as all the pundants were saying they were going to go the year without a win and you should choose your streamers against their D and a host of other crap that wasn't even remotely close to reality.

The suck teams are still the same as the last 5 years and it doesn't matter how those talking heads try to spin it the Falcons, Jaquars and Jets will be the teams to beat to snail snot yet again this year.

Sorry about the delayed post but have had personal things to deal with lately and didn't want to just post a shitty one liner for week one opener.

Looks like I have a long climb out of the depths here but I shall keep moving up this chart!

[South Park]

WOW The activity we have seen during the past hours on the waiver wire and free agency is impressive, the league is finally coming alive! I was interested in grabbing Higbee but Hueristic beat me to it, not a big deal but this still means I have to play Gronk exclusively and it could come back to bite me in some games.

Another newbie question, when I select to grab someone on the waiver wire, is that information visible to other members of the league or is it a secret?

[suchmoon]

Well week one is in the books and I don't know about you guys but me and Suchmoon had a real close game that came down to Monday night. He Had ravens QB and Raiders RB and I had Ravens D and a 35 or so point lead with which Lamar can cover easily alone so I was a bit worried and rightfully so!

It was quite exciting indeed. I was worried about Jacobs being questionable before the game but he delivered big time, limping and all.

What pisses me off is that ESPN put me in 7th position on the wire, which basically means I can't get the players I want... even though my team is like 3rd worst in the league.

[Hueristic]

WOW The activity we have seen during the past hours on the waiver wire and free agency is impressive, the league is finally coming alive! I was interested in grabbing Higbee but Hueristic beat me to it, not a big deal but this still means I have to play Gronk exclusively and it could come back to bite me in some games.

Another newbie question, when I select to grab someone on the waiver wire, is that information visible to other members of the league or is it a secret?

Well I guess I could be talked into trading Higbee, I'll take a broken down old husk like gronk just to be amiable.


Waiver list report link. (damn took me forever to find this and couldn't find it on yahoo site anymore).

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/league/waiverreport?leagueId=1730996465

[DireWolfM14]

Greenbay was a massive shock to everyone this week and to me it looked like Rogers was timid and afraid and had no faith in his O-Line. Maybe his antics are coming back to bite him in the ass and his boys are truly pissed off at him. I think it might be dangerous to play GB players this week even though their opponent should be a cake walk.

I think that surprised everyone.  I had Rodgers on the bench for that game, but I started Aaron Jones and he didn't do much either.  I'm not going to dump either of them, in fact I think I'll keep Jones on my roster for the Detroit match.  I hope he does better this week.  As for Rodgers, I'll give him one or two more weeks to see if he gets in the NFL mindset before making my decision.

Well week one is in the books and I don't know about you guys but me and Suchmoon had a real close game that came down to Monday night. He Had ravens QB and Raiders RB and I had Ravens D and a 35 or so point lead with which Lamar can cover easily alone so I was a bit worried and rightfully so!

It was quite exciting indeed. I was worried about Jacobs being questionable before the game but he delivered big time, limping and all.

What pisses me off is that ESPN put me in 7th position on the wire, which basically means I can't get the players I want... even though my team is like 3rd worst in the league.

It was almost as fun watching your two teams as it was watching the game on Monday night.  That was cool, and it did come down to the wire.  It was looking like Lamar was going to keep suchmoon in the lurch, but he did just enough.

[Hueristic]

Well week one is in the books and I don't know about you guys but me and Suchmoon had a real close game that came down to Monday night. He Had ravens QB and Raiders RB and I had Ravens D and a 35 or so point lead with which Lamar can cover easily alone so I was a bit worried and rightfully so!

It was quite exciting indeed. I was worried about Jacobs being questionable before the game but he delivered big time, limping and all.

What pisses me off is that ESPN put me in 7th position on the wire, which basically means I can't get the players I want... even though my team is like 3rd worst in the league.

I'm not sure how the waiver order was setup, I think it is the inverse of the final draft round order for the first week. Which is to say the same order as the draft as that how it works out with a snake draft style.

But far be it from me to take advantage and grab a RB that I don't need nor want!

Trade offers anyone.

[wheelz1200]

Well week one is in the books and I don't know about you guys but me and Suchmoon had a real close game that came down to Monday night. He Had ravens QB and Raiders RB and I had Ravens D and a 35 or so point lead with which Lamar can cover easily alone so I was a bit worried and rightfully so!

It was quite exciting indeed. I was worried about Jacobs being questionable before the game but he delivered big time, limping and all.

What pisses me off is that ESPN put me in 7th position on the wire, which basically means I can't get the players I want... even though my team is like 3rd worst in the league.

I'm not sure how the waiver order was setup, I think it is the inverse of the final draft round order for the first week. Which is to say the same order as the draft as that how it works out with a snake draft style.

But far be it from me to take advantage and grab a RB that I don't need nor want!

Trade offers anyone.

Is the waiver wire random each week meaning every week a new person has a Crack at the top slot?  I never bothered to look so I don't know how it's calculated.  Either way waiver wire is an important piece to the championship puzzle

[Hueristic]

Greenbay was a massive shock to everyone this week and to me it looked like Rogers was timid and afraid and had no faith in his O-Line. Maybe his antics are coming back to bite him in the ass and his boys are truly pissed off at him. I think it might be dangerous to play GB players this week even though their opponent should be a cake walk.

I think that surprised everyone.  I had Rodgers on the bench for that game, but I started Aaron Jones and he didn't do much either.  I'm not going to dump either of them, in fact I think I'll keep Jones on my roster for the Detroit match.  I hope he does better this week.  As for Rodgers, I'll give him one or two more weeks to see if he gets in the NFL mindset before making my decision.

Yeah I have Aaron Jones on my other league and I want to bench him but its a 12 team league so I would really be stretching for his replacement.

[Hueristic]

Is the waiver wire random each week meaning every week a new person has a Crack at the top slot?  I never bothered to look so I don't know how it's calculated.  Either way waiver wire is an important piece to the championship puzzle

HAH, with your great draft you don't have to worry bout nowaiver wire baloney!

thats for them Plebs!

I'm not sure if it flips each week or if you go up the ladder if you don't use your pick on espn.

OK just looked it up so this is the way the order is set on ESPN standard default leagues:

Waiver schedule
Following each week of fantasy play, each team's waiver position in Standard Leagues is reconfigured according to the team's position in the standings -- the team with the worst record receives the best waiver position (No. 1) and the top team receives the worst waiver position.

https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/ffl/story?page=fflruleswaiverwalk

So I should get first pick all season!!!

[Hueristic]

Would Trey Sermon be included in the team on week 2 or will San Francisco make Elijah Mitchell their rb1? I speculate that there might be more effort to play Mitchell as rb1 than considering Sermon in the team as rb2 or rb3. I have requested for a change in ESPN already hehehe. Also, did Covid Cam get a free opportunity for a reunification with Ron Rivera?

Just so you know you can set the order of your waiver picks and bulid logic ladders.

For instance I put in a trade on ... shit it will take too long to type so let me show you the result.

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/league/waiverreport?leagueId=1730996465

ROUND 5
   
Bellevue Psychotics
   
Tyler Higbee LAR, TE
   
Added.L00N dropped Zach Ertz, Phi TE to Waivers.
   
Bellevue Psychotics
   
Christian Kirk Ari, WR
   
Unsuccessful. Reason: A player involved has already been dropped
   
Bellevue Psychotics
   
Christian Kirk Ari, WR
   
Unsuccessful. Reason: A player involved has already been dropped
   
Bellevue Psychotics
   
Juwan Johnson NO, TE
   
Unsuccessful. Reason: A player involved has already been dropped
   
Bellevue Psychotics
   
Jarvis Landry Cle, WR
   
Unsuccessful. Reason: Player has already been added to another team.
   
Bellevue Psychotics
   
Tim Patrick Den, WR
   
Unsuccessful. Reason: A player involved has already been dropped
   
Bellevue Psychotics
   
Saints D/ST NO, D/ST
   
Unsuccessful. Reason: Player has already been added to another team.

"A player involved has already been dropped" means that I already used him in a waiver but I had to put that guy in for all my waiver attempts because I wanted him dropped before the next guy in my list I wanted dropped and then I had to put that next guy for add drop in every one of those players on the list and so on so I had about 16 actual moves setup to just drop 3 guys and try for 5. You can see at the end I didn't get any of those guys because I had already gotten the ones I wanted and the guys lower on my list didn't get filled.

Edit: shit forgot how to bold in code is it "/" ? Damn running out of time and can't be bothered to look it up now. Having memory issues in your old age suck big time.

[suchmoon]

Well week one is in the books and I don't know about you guys but me and Suchmoon had a real close game that came down to Monday night. He Had ravens QB and Raiders RB and I had Ravens D and a 35 or so point lead with which Lamar can cover easily alone so I was a bit worried and rightfully so!

It was quite exciting indeed. I was worried about Jacobs being questionable before the game but he delivered big time, limping and all.

What pisses me off is that ESPN put me in 7th position on the wire, which basically means I can't get the players I want... even though my team is like 3rd worst in the league.

I'm not sure how the waiver order was setup, I think it is the inverse of the final draft round order for the first week. Which is to say the same order as the draft as that how it works out with a snake draft style.

But far be it from me to take advantage and grab a RB that I don't need nor want!

Trade offers anyone.

Is the waiver wire random each week meaning every week a new person has a Crack at the top slot?  I never bothered to look so I don't know how it's calculated.  Either way waiver wire is an important piece to the championship puzzle

It's in reverse order of current standings and when you get a player off the wire you drop to the bottom in the order.

https://fantasy.espn.com/football/league/waiverorder?leagueId=1730996465

Waiver Order
Reset Each Week to Inverse Order of Standings

My problem is that it put me 2nd in the standings, but that's just because our "division" is the equivalent of NFC East and I happened to win one game. This doesn't really reflect the true suckyness of my team and my need to grab some players before I face someone like that wheelz guy from the other division.

Edit: shit forgot how to bold in code is it "/" ? Damn running out of time and can't be bothered to look it up now. Having memory issues in your old age suck big time.

AFAIK you can't format text in code tags. But I think you can just use quote tags for this.

[wheelz1200]

Greenbay was a massive shock to everyone this week and to me it looked like Rogers was timid and afraid and had no faith in his O-Line. Maybe his antics are coming back to bite him in the ass and his boys are truly pissed off at him. I think it might be dangerous to play GB players this week even though their opponent should be a cake walk.

I think that surprised everyone.  I had Rodgers on the bench for that game, but I started Aaron Jones and he didn't do much either.  I'm not going to dump either of them, in fact I think I'll keep Jones on my roster for the Detroit match.  I hope he does better this week.  As for Rodgers, I'll give him one or two more weeks to see if he gets in the NFL mindset before making my decision.

Yeah I have Aaron Jones on my other league and I want to bench him but its a 12 team league so I would really be stretching for his replacement.

I don't know who your other backs are but there is no way I'd bench Aaron Jones ever.  He is a sold rb1 almost every week.  The Packers all just sucked, it happens.  Jones will get his ff points all year.  If you don't mind me asking what rbs you have in that league?

[Hueristic]

I don't know who your other backs are but there is no way I'd bench Aaron Jones ever.  He is a sold rb1 almost every week.  The Packers all just sucked, it happens.  Jones will get his ff points all year.  If you don't mind me asking what rbs you have in that league?

Melvin Gordon III
Phillip Lindsay
Tony Jones Jr.
Le'Veon Bell
Cordarrelle Patterson