Comments on: Help a blogger out!

By: Squish

Squish — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:04:24 +0000

I swear it was an accident! Just happy to help out. I’d probably be doing the same thing you guys do if I had a little more time on my hands. You generally become a decent fantasy guru when you have 12+ fantasy leagues any given year. Turns out it’s not as hard as I thought since I reached on a lot of the same players in every league (Ray Rice woot!). As long as you guys keep up the good work, I’ll be here to help as much as I can

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:06:39 +0000

Hah, nice! You’re the first commenter to reach 100…maybe we should have had a prize ready for this day or something.

By: Squish

Squish — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:38:59 +0000

100th post. That is all.

By: Mal

Mal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:19:56 +0000

Yeah I went with Smith and Hightower, they are the safest.

I have to choose between Roeth, Eli this week and I went with Roeth- but now I think I’ll pick up Garrard off the waivers- so who to start at QB?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:59:12 +0000

To the best of my knowledge, Hightower’s still the starter, though it’s pretty clear to everyone that he’ll someday lose the job to Wells.

By: Squish

Squish — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:13:40 +0000

Moats is out automatically because of his matchup. Hightower is no longer the starting back in Arizona but is a reasonably safe play if it’s a PPR format. Smith has upside against Seattle since Tatupu is still out and there defense has not looked great on the ground lately. Maroney has a bad matchup and isn’t looking good.

I’d have to go with Kevin Smith for upside with Maroney as a secondary bet. With Smith, you drafted him as an RB2, I think you have to play him as one when you can. Moats has a good matchup but nobody knows WTF is going on in Houston. It may be possible that if Slaton starts then gets out of the gates fast (and doesn’t fumble), Moats may only get like 5 touches. He’s just too risky to start right now. Hightower should be worthwhile this week at least especially out of the backfield in PPR.

In the end I have Smith out front with Maroney and Hightower in a more or less tie. Since I generally break ties in non-PPR by looking at the PPR rankings, I have to go with Hightower out of those two but really it’s up to you.

By: jon j

jon j — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:29:00 +0000

Kevin smith hasnt exactly been fabulous in the fantasy scoring department but he does have 15-20 touches each game.
Moats is going up against indy and they arent exactly great at stopping the run. Count on Houston to run a lot against them
Hightower I dont know much about. Not many carries but seems to be scoring some fantasy points.
Maroney in the last 2 games has had a lot of carries, but its hard to predict what NE will do with their running game.

If I had to choose id start higtower and maroney or hightower and smith.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:26:49 +0000

Yeah, it’s not a happy situation no matter which two I wind up starting. Really expected bigger things out of Smith this season… good thing SJax has been pretty good so far or there’s no way I’d be 5-3 in this league.

By: e-roc

e-roc — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:23:51 +0000

Matt, that’s quite the stable of “meh” RBs… I voted Hightower and Smith as well but it was definitely picking the lesser of the four evils. Moats is a one-week wonder to me (Indy > Buffalo) and Bill Belichick’s use of RBs is a fantasy football nightmare.

Smith is a no-brainer if Megatron can get back into the line-up…

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:40:44 +0000

For you, I voted for Hightower and Smith. I have the exact same RBs, but I also have Turner, Jamaal Charles and Donald Brown, so I have a few more options. I’m playing Turner and Hightower for sure, but am thinking Charles instead of Smith for a flex. Things might change significantly with several of these guys this week, so you really may need to try to get to a computer saturday night/sunday morning. We could have more info on Moats’ role and Smith’s health as well as Morris’ health affecting Maroney. Good luck!