Ask the Geeks: Week 13 (Part 2): The Fantasy Football Geek Blog

By Brandon (FFGeekBlog) on Saturday, December 1, 2007. Comment on this post

Ask the Geeks: Week 13 (Part 2)

A couple more questions from the past day or so...

Micael Jenkins asks: I'm in a must win week and here's my roaster. I think it's decent but i'm iffy about sitting andre johnson in favor of deion branch in light of what philly did to moss last week. what do you guys think?

QB Tom Brady
QB Drew Brees
WR Larry Fitzgerald
WR Wes Welker
WR Deion Branch
RB Derrick Ward
RB Travis Henry
TE Antonio Gates
W/R Maurice Jones-Drew

BN Andre Johnson
BN Kevin Jones
BN Torry Holt
BN Chris Henry
BN Benjamin Watson

Brandon's take: Mr. Jenkins, are you (or are you related to) the Michael Jenkins that plays for the Falcons? We're always looking for celebrities (or semi-celebrities) to hit our site. Anyways, I'm going to stray a bit from your question and first make the comment that you have the most STACKED team in terms of receivers I have ever seen. You really can't go wrong here. However, if I were you, this is what I would do...

Bench Travis Henry, as he could be splitting time with Selvin Young or Andre Hall. Put MJD in Henry's spot. Now you can start 4 of those receivers (one in the WR/RB spot). Go with Fitzgerald, Welker (especially if you're in a PPR league), Johnson and Holt (even if Frerrote is behind center). Benching Branch is tough, but considering the matchups, I think you have to go that route.

If you just wanted a simple answer to your question though, I would play Andre Johnson over Deion Branch. Hope this helped!

Kyle asks: Hey geeks, need some help for my do or die week. My team is starting to come together at the right time. Could use some help though.

QB- Big Ben
WR1- R. Wayne
WR2- ??? Engram, Calvin Johnson, C. Henry, Gage
RB1- S-Jax
RB2- ??? K.Smith, Fargas, AP2, Watson, Lynch(D)
W/R- ???
TE- T. Scheffler
K- Crosby
DEF- San Diego

I was thinking Engram, K. smith, and Fargas. Let me know what you think. thankx

Brandon's take: It seems that a lot of people are facing do-or-die situations here in the last week of the fantasy regular season (myself included in 3 out of 4 leagues!) Anyways, in terms of your team Kyle, I have to agree with your picks. The only real decision is whether to start Calvin Johnson, Kolby Smith or Adrian Peterson (CHI) at the W/R spot. While Johnson has a good matchup versus the pathetic Vikings defense, he still has to fight with Roy Williams and the other Detroit receivers for touches. Smith and Peterson will be the feature backs in their offenses, and it appears that Smith has the most potential, especially at home this weekend. Good luck!

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#1. Brandon, 1 year ago

@Micael: It looks like Larry Fitzgerald won't be playing this week, so put Travis Henry in there at the RB/WR spot.

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