October 10, 2018

Cheer Up, Sleepy G

The most important comparison in football is getting tighter:

Evans: 4 games; avg. 7 catches, 105 yards, 15 points

Brown: 5 games; avg. 7 catches, 75 yards, 13 points

Times Sued for Hitting Babies with Furniture

Evans 0

Brown 1

I’m in the market for RBs, yet I’m trading RBs. Better yet, I’m trading RBs for QBs. I’m taking the scarcest position and trading it for a position so robust that four of last week’s top 12 scorers at said position were sitting in free agency. Correction: are sitting in free agency. Compare this to RB, where the highest FA scorer was #13 (and it was Wendell Smallwood who turned seven touches into 70 yards, a TD, and a 2PC).

In the past, there’s been a certain “I know what I’m doing” element. That’s not the case this year. I’m guessing. I’m second-guessing. I’m third-guessing. I’m guessing all the way up to Sunday morning and making more last-minute switches than ever before. As Brian can tell you, as he told me, I have made twice as many transactions as the team with the second-most transition. I’m just flying through free agents. Point: I started TJ Yeldon twice this season, scoring a total of 16 points. In the two weeks since, he has scored a total 38 points for Spencer. I was such trash last week that I still would have lost, but dammit I would have defeated Brian in Week 4!

So that’s where I’m at: what-if fantasies starring TJ Yeldon, who outscored my three starting RBs combined this week.

I can’t think about it anymore.

Let’s recap last week. But wait! We don’t have to. We can just refer back to my predictions since they were. Spot. On.

Anyway, let’s do the recaps.

Luck Dynasty 107 over Luck Indeed 87

Shelby had enough points to beat two teams, and having already played Oliver, she needed Luck on her side bad. Luck arrived in the form of Andrew Luck in heaps of garbage time, and luck doubled back around the in the form of the Mason Crosby’s rickets. I suppose you could say that luck had its hand in Sam Darnold and Isaiah Crowell holding down the Broncos D and farting in its mouth, but we know Darny and Crow are good and we suspect the Broncos D is less than its name. This is a defense that didn’t replace Aqib Talib this summer on top of not replacing Malik Jackson last summer. The Chubb-Miller pass-rush thunder is only so useful when you’re constantly trailing by ten. Yes, I’m blaming my defense and kicker while I had zero RBs or WRs hit double digits WHAT ABOUT IT? The worst part is just how many kicker-DST combos would have won me the week. I was sitting there Sunday night just dreaming about Doc Brown taking me back to get the Bengals defense and kicker in one go, good for 32 points. Listen: I could have picked up the Bills kicker and defense and won this week. THE BILLS. I only go on about this to emphasize just how little actually happened in this matchup. David Johnson returned to glory, and if not for Kennedy, I would have led the league in IDP scoring again. Meanwhile, my highest non-QB offensive player was Alfred Blue, who didn’t even score a TD. My whole team combined for one TD. In what will definitely go down as Shelby’s worst week, I can only hope I had my worst week.

Jimmy G String Divas 150 over Rickshank Rickdemption 148

This was the other matchup eleven of us guessed right (sorry, Spe), but none of us imagined Sean would be in it to the last second, especially when Cam Jordan needed to outscore Alvin Kamara for victory. Jordan did outscore Kamara, by 4, but he needed to do so by 6.4 to seal it for Sean. We can credit OBJ and AB for their four TDs, or Ryan Succop for his four 40-yard FGs. We can even laud the #2 LB in fantasy, Joe Schobert. Or we can blame Quincy Enunwa for posting a fat gooser while Sean’s other three WRs each had enough to secure victory. Larry Fitzgerald could have won Sean this game, yet Larry Fitzgerald is who Sean chose to scapegoat for this loss. Pathetic. This has to be the only team in all of fantasy football to own Gurley and Gordon and have a losing record, right? So, we can make fun of Sean for thinking Larry Fitz and Mike Crabs would be a viable 1-2 WR punch, but the funny thing is, that combo would have won him this matchup! Agh, watching Sean lose despite posting the second-most points on the season is the best!

JCor413 2.0 110 over Alan Rails’ Ghost Train 101

This was as even a matchup as we collectively predicted, and while Coleman picked himself to win, he lost according to his fears. Before the games, he cited his lack of a WR floor as a great frustration, and lo and behold, he was one WR choice away from victory. Tyler Lockett over literally any of the three WRs he started would have led to a victory he almost eked out anyway thanks to a 50-yard scoop and score by one of the fatter defensive linemen in the league. Has anyone noticed just how sexy Deshaun Watson’s season has been so far? He hasn’t rained TDs yet, but he’s quietly thrown four straight 300-yard games, including thee straight 375+ games. He’s no Fitzmagic, but he’s trying. He’s also thrown one interception in each of his five games, but that’s relatively good. Corey won this one on two just nuts receiving TDs by His Holiness the Saquon Barkley. Cam Newton chipped in, and the floor was high for the usual suspects. The Calvin Ridley experiment is probably on hold for a couple weeks, but it was fun. Corey will switch to starting Edelman and Gronk in what’s sure to net 12-15 combined from the TE/FLEX stack. Also, Michael Thomas is just barely on pace to break the single-season receptions record after back-to-back games with four catches. As you likely assumed, none of Coleman’s players are on pace to break any records, unless there’s a record relevant to Amari Cooper’s week-to-week production resembling a seismograph readout.

T Mac Dumpster Fire 121 over Doofus Rick 97

I wasn’t into this matchup. There was not one moment where Oliver appeared to have a chance at winning. It was very Broncos. Just slip behind further and further, then score a little, then stagnate, then maybe there’s a flash, but no, no it was just some peripheral phenomenon that made you think you saw something, like, out of the corner of your eye, Vance Joseph looks like a head coach, but you look straight on, and you remember, oh, barely a defensive coordinator, in way over his head. Fitting, since Oliver and Vance Joseph are the only ones trying to make the Dolphins defense a thing. The last thing I’ll say: what kind of omen is it that your the dude who hasn’t seen the field in a month is the only one capable of anything on offense?

As for Tim, I dig most of it. Big Ben is slinging it around, Davante Adams is catching everything, and this defense: with Mack on bye, four players with over 8 points is the kind of floor you need to sustain victory, especially when your RB situation is three excellent players in piss-poor circumstances. Both Fournette and Thompson are on teams experiencing perfect gamescript for their individual success, but injuries are keeping them from the harvest. Aaron Jones is for sure the best player in his backfield, but for some reason he’s only allowed on the field a third of snaps. Annoying.

Oof, just realized Oliver wins if he starts Rodgers and Demaryius over Goff and Fuller, which seems like an obvious play in retrospect. Oh well.

Simple Rick 172 over Sleepy Gary 142

More people should have known this was going to end this way, especially since most of us were working with the knowledge of Brady’s 37 points. Could we have predicted Conner’s 30? Yeldon’s 18? Hell, the Cardinals 19? Well, the Cardinals we should have all been in on after I clearly laid out just how good they are. Did you know that three of the Cards’ DBs are top-5 in scoring at the position? It’s because they all play safety, LB, or nickel, sometimes choosing which one based on their keys at the snap. It’s really worth a deeper dive. I’ll have to get into it one day soon when I have the time to crunch that coaches’ film on GamePass. What was I talking about? Dominance. Looks a lot like a goofy blonde dude catching passes from a just slightly less goofy blonde dude, but it works. And you can’t really blame Kennedy’s squad for the loss, since they were fourth in scoring this week. You’ll never see a combined 42 from Ebron and Jaylon Smith again, ever, any week, for the rest of time. Sad story since Kennedy really needed the win. But don’t worry, K. You’ll get your win against me this week. I don’t guarantee it, but only because I’m afraid to jinx my chance at $10. And hey, you found out Austin Ekeler is worth playing every week, and you can dispel the fantasy that your WRs are the strength of your team just because their names are better. You are Russ and RBs. Get used to it.

Side note: Bradley McDouglad is leading all DBs in points, making him the news Michael Bennett from a Buc’s perspective. So fucking dumb to not be able to self-scout at the professional level. Enough.

Better Call Brees 133 over Show me watt you got! 123

Start with a base of two zeroes. Add two twos. Pour on 15+ from four players not named Brees to go with 35 from one player named Brees. Smother it in RavensD-Tucker gravy, and you’ve got a victory. I mean, Kennedy would have beaten you, but I’m just rubbing it in to get his players steaming mad to take it out on my boys this weekend. I personally didn’t care at all about this matchup until I saw the other ones trending toward money for me. And then I rooted for Drew Brees harder than I’ve ever rooted for any QB not named Jameis Winston (okay, mayyybe Josh Freeman). Was it worth losing a piece of myself for $10? Only if you neglect the control over the following week’s contest that comes with said $10. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think I have any control over winning these weekly games, but you have to believe in something.

Uh, this matchup… Evan made an effort, for sure. I think we can all see the Rams defense is matchup-dependent, but I get why you’d think the Seattle offense is bad. It’s because they look bad. But in this game, they looked good (sometimes). Are they good? No, no I don’t think they are. But they have figured out how to run the ball and play decent defense. So we can’t treat them like the pushovers they appeared to be the first few weeks. They will stack up against any team they play. That’s good coaching. Related: Evan’s going to the playoffs, and not just because he fleeced me for Royce Freeman. He has a strategy. He has a clear picture of where his team is and where they are going. He knows how to keep course and how to change course. It involves making very simple decisions and then having them magically be very good. Take notes, people.

Now, as for what I think will happen this week, I’m going to provide simple expectations for the NFL matchups so you can go with or against my grain accordingly. Keep in mind I do watch the games and look at the numbers, so I have a full picture of what’s happening. As always, it’s up to you to decide whether or not you believe I’m accurately describing the picture.

Eagles @ Giants

Thursday night games are known for being poorly planned. There’s not enough time to rest, study, and practice an adequate amount in three days. It’s like that venn diagram of study/party/sleep they show to college freshmen. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Doesn’t matter. Eli Manning can’t sleep through all the death threats he’s getting (mostly from OBJ), so hopefully he’s studying and practicing, because the Eagles defense isn’t quite what it was last season. It’s not much worse, but it’s noticeably declined with Jalen Mills’ affect throwing off the team. He was getting yelled at by defensive captain Feltcher Cox, only to yell back as Cox walked away. That level of disrespect is reserved exclusively for people who don’t rate. The offensive brain drain puts the defense in more neutral gamescript, which is rough because this team is not built to defend the run at all. Can they? Sure. Against Atlanta (sans Freeman), Tampa, Indy, Tennessee, and Minnesota (sans Cook). In other words, we have no idea how they’ll hold up to the first legitimate RB they’ll face all season. Probably poorly. And to be clear, I think Eli shows up a little. Probably throws a couple TDs and a pick. The OBJ box has been opened, and the only person who can close it now is OBJ. As for the Eagles’ offense, Wentz appears to have returned, but the playcalling is not what it was. They go into the night co-starting Clement and Smallwood, and they will use them against a Giants run D that suffers from a lack of tackling linebackers, which is to say a lack of linebackers that do the only thing necessary to be correctly classified as linebackers. The Eagles starting LT has been on and off the field all season, and the backup is so atrocious that his every weakness was exposed on Hard Knocks in a letter from a felon. I don’t traditionally bet on division matchups because they have a tendency to go haywire, but I like the Giants to win, mostly because everyone assumes they will lose, and the Eagles just aren’t quite that good. If you’re playing against Alshon Jeffery, let out a sigh. CB Janoris Jenkins has been locking down #1 WRs this year, and Jeffery’s lost a lot of speed since his Chicago days.

I’ll be back this weekend with a synopsis (word choice?) of Sunday and Monday’s games. Until then, send me trade offers for Drew Brees. I’ve heard he’s worth at least a third-string receiver with late-round keeper status.

Sunday. It’s 8:04 PST, giving me about an hour and a half to breeze through fourteen games, with the intention of giving you enough time to read anything you might apply to your last-minute decisions. I’m going to try to do it in an hour.

Bucs-Falcons

The battle of the defenseless offenses goes down in Atlanta today. It’s a high-scoring game in a dome, which means kickers are scoring points. THEN AGAIN, I thought that last week when Mason Crosby was playing in Detroit. If we zoom in on the trenches, we see the Bucs, on paper, winning the war: the defensive line is getting Beau Allen back, meaning it will be the first game we get to see a the McCoy/Vea/Allen rotation that should make our rush defense stout, especially against an Atlanta line whose guards are among the least impressive in the league. I see Atlanta trying to get the run game going through outside zones, but then again, they might not try to get the run-game going at all, since Julio Jones averages about 900 yards per game against any iteration of our secondary. This is probably the game he breaks his TD drought. Spencer thinks our secondary is only going to get better as the season goes, and the only reason I can’t disagree is because if the Bears game wasn’t rock bottom, I’m not emotionally prepared to know rock bottom. On the other side of the ball, the Bucs boast an above-average pass-blocking unit and a below-average run-blocking unit. So an average line going against a Falcons line that has no defensive tackles of repute while having maybe the best pass-rush combo in the league (considering Everson Griffen’s suspension and the Broncos not being in gamescript to pass-rush ever again). I’m referring to Vic Beasley and Takk McKinley, who are more-or-less the same player coming at you from both sides. Jameis will get sacked by one of these guys at least once today. Donovan Smith is solidifying himself as an average blindside, while Demar Dotson is playing the whole year slightly injured. The Falcons linebackers, sans Deion, are basically Duke Riley and Devondre Campbell, who are average tacklers, nice in pass-coverage, but not much else. Especially coming off a bye week, the Bucs ground game gets going this week. This team has long been of the mind to keep from putting too much on Jameis’s shoulders, and running the ball 25 times is how you do that. Like most games, this one will be decided by turnovers and special teams. Edge: Bucs.

If you’re waiting to see whether or not I play Ito Smith after seeing him in my lineup all week, I think I’m chickening out. I believe he’s worth owning because Devonta Freeman will be out at least this week and probably next, but I think the Bucs defense is preparing to snuff out everything but Julio in this one.

Chargers-Browns

This game is in Cleveland, where the Browns just won their first home game since 2015. The buzz surrounds the matchup between Keenan Allen and Denzel Ward. If you don’t know about Ward, he’s the corner Cleveland drafted 4th overall when everyone expected them to draft Bradley Chubb. The night before the draft, there were reports that (5th pick) Denver had Ward at the top of their list. Ward is already playing like an elite corner. The reason this doesn’t really affect Allen is that Allen plays mostly out of the slot, while Ward plays exclusively outside. I’m putting it to bed, mostly because, even though I imagine I will lose this week, I still want to win. The Browns’ defense has been three or four years in the making, and it’s finally ready. One of the underrated moves of the offseason was the Browns trade Kizer Soso for centerfielder Damarious Randall, whose presence deep, with Joe Schobert shallow, is forcing opposing QBs to throw outside, where they have to go through Ward. That’s with the combo of Myles Garrett and Emmanuel Ogbah bearing down on them. Rough for Rivers, who is having a career year that’s all but doomed to fall apart as we get deeper and deeper into this campaign. That said, they’ll throw the ball enough to get him in that 20 FP range so long as he doesn’t throw three picks. The state of the Chargers defense is such that the Browns will be able to run on them and complete passes over the middle. Derwin James can only be in so many places at once. Even superhumans are, to some degree, still just humans. The Browns offensive line is one of the best in the league (really), and they have three legitimate RBs. If Baker can complete 15 passes between Landry and Njoku, this is a slam-dunk win for Cleveland.

(Thus, they will lose by 20.)

Colts-Jets

Ewwww. So what we’re looking at here is the Colts offense, which is near the top of the league in yards and points despite playing most of their season without their top WR, their top TE, and their top RB. Andrew Luck is the best QB in his generation. He was gone, and now he’s back. Who can do what Andrew Luck does every week. His offensive line is below-average, and his top targets are sophomore WR Chester Rogers and rookie RB Nyheim Hines. Luck’s just like, “If I’m gonna make a play, you’re gonna make a play,” and boom, it happens. The Jets defense is capable but by no means as good as their fantasy-point total might suggest. They don’t generate a convincing pass-rush, but they do have a top-10 corps of DBs batting down balls. Edge: Luck. On the flip side, Sam Darnold threw some awesome long balls to an open Robby Anderson. Hopefully the Jets finally realized this is the means of all the success Sam Darnold ever had in college. The shame is everyone else realizes it now, too. It’s the same thing the Bills need to realize about Josh Allen soon. Anyway, the real star of this offense is the Crow, who is an every-week start despite having an Amari-Cooper-esque roller coaster game log: 24, 3, 17, 0, 35 in five weeks. Just play the man, Spencer! You cannot be serious with this Sammy Watkins shit! Uh… what else? Oh, Chester Rogers is worth starting until T.Y. Hilton comes back. If you’re unsure of your WR situation (cough Shelby cough), get Rogers in there now.

Seahawks-Raiders

In foggy Londontown! Russell Wilson is catching shade from the fantasy community for not being the runner we’re used to him being. Here’s the thing about Russ: he has long-term goals. He wants to own a professional sports franchise one day. He wants to prolong his playing career for as long as possible. You know who’s not prolonging their playing careers? QBs who run the ball. I mean, we’ll see with Cam Newton, I guess, but historically most of those guys are done starting around age 31 and done playing before age 35. Russ is using his mobility to create throwing lanes. It’s just a matter of time until he gets enough reps for it to click. Might not be this year. Will he still average 20 per? He likely will. Remember, the Seahawks are prone to slow starts, and they tend to explode for fantasy points in November-December. The Raiders are terrible, and it’s fun, but I do wish Gruden were doing a little better. I want that Gruden swagger that comes with victory. It won’t come soon. It probably will have to wait until Vegas. In this game, I like the Carr to Cooper connection to bounce back. Seattle’s secondary is the worst part of their defense. By the way, this defense is much better than they were given credit for a month ago. Even with Thomas, they were able to keep the Rams on this planet. It’s because the pass-rush has always been the answer. Whoever coaches up this pass-rush needs to be in the Hall of Fame. They just go scoop these underpaid talents every year and rack up sacks and pressures. So while I like the Carr to Cooper connection, I don’t like Carr. I want to get hype about the Marshawn Lynch revenge game, and while logically it looks like it will be a relative dud for Beast Mode, LOGIC DOES NOT APPLY TO BEAST MODE. If you’re hoping this is the game Baldwin comes back, he’s going to get locked down by Rashaan Melvin. This is more likely another Ty Lockett reign game. Do I want to talk about the Seattle RBs? No, I don’t talk about RB committees unless there are roles. It seems like both of these guys are just going to pound forward with reckless abandon every time they get the ball, and I legitimately have no idea how you motivate a grown man to do that while paying him basically the league minimum.

Panthers-Skins

The Redskins looked like maybe the worst team in the league on Monday night. They were destined to lose, but they made it ugly on their own. Now, they’re rolling out gimpy AP and Kapri Bibbs behind Alex Smith, who’s resumed being the Alex Smith he always was. Jay Gruden is no offensive genius. No we know. As a league, we don’t own a Redskins receiver, which means I traded Mike Evans for AB straight up. (I stand by it; I just want to emphasize it.) I’m not going to watch one minute of this game. I like the Panthers versus Josh Norman storyline, and I know McCafe will score 20+ FP, but otherwise I just don’t care. The Skins rush D versus the Panthers rush O will be the main event, but the deciding factor will be the team who kicks the 63-yard field goal as time expires. Cue Brian chanting Graham Ga-nooooo-oh-oh-ohhh-ohhh-oh-oh (or however you spell our war chant).

Bills-Texans

I honestly want to watch this game. As I mentioned in my Darnold comments, I think the Bills will realize they need to go deep to have success. I don’t know who their deep threat is, but someone on the team has to be able to run fast, right? You don’t start the league’s strongest arm without legs that can catch up to it, right? Oh my god, the answer is no, they don’t have a deep threat receiver. There are so many fast receivers warming benches around the league, and these assholes are trotting out literally the slowest WR corps in Benjamin, Zay, and Holmes. Literally the slowest! So nevermind. The Bills defense versus the Texans passing game is enough to tune into. Watson is going to air it out for at least the first two quarters, and assuming the Bills get a pick six and some field goals to keep it close, he’ll probably throw it into the fourth. I’m good calling another 300+ game, and the league agrees as three of us start Texans wide receivers this weekend. The only other team we’re doing that with is the Rams, for reference. Uh, what else—I don’t like the Texans run game, and I feel good enough to bet on that. The Texans run defense is decent. The kept Zeke human last week. The Bills announced they are not trading LeSean McCoy, which I hope means they trade him next week, but until then, he’s locked in a time share with Chris Ivory. We are all being very responsible staying away from this offense. The defense is as sexy as they were last year, but they just have such shitty gamescript, they can’t play their best schemes for the bulk of the game. Ooh, which reminds me: Tre’Davious locks down Nuk in this game. Nuk gets maybe 60 yards.

Cards-Vikes

Josh Rosen is breaking out soon. Inertia is causing us to pump up the Vikings defense in this matchup, even though they’ll be without Everson Griffen and Andrew Sendejo. They also have a banged-up secondary. Xavier Rhodes said during preseason he would be playing this whole season with an injury, his ankle I believe. Trae Waynes had a good season last year, so everyone anointed him a starting CB in this league, which he is probably not. He’s just fast. The Cards offense can score 20 on this team, and that can be enough with the Cards defense playing the way it is. It’s so interesting since just last season, the story in this would have been Cards offense versus Vikes defense. Now, it’s all about Steve Wilks’ crew which saw seven starters play all 98 snaps last week against SF. Just so you know, the average team plays around 60 snaps, and only one or two players play them all. What they’re doing in Arizona is this thing bad teams have always done to beat good teams. They are outlasting. They’re Rocky in this bitch, and I think this is the game we start giving them respect again. That said, Thielen will continue his pace to break the receiving record, and Diggs is still good for the ten points he usually gives you, but injured Dalvin Cook is still probably a week away from being a week away.

Bears-Dolphins

Rumor has it that Brock Osweiler is starting this game. Against the Bears defense, which is coming off a bye week. Miami’s offense was terrible anyway, so there is some weird chance that relativity loops back on itself and Osweiler somehow tosses five TDs today. Doubtful, sure, but when stars collapse into black holes without first achieving supernova, we’re clearly in a new age of physics. I think people count the Dolphins as a plus-matchup, but their defense is sneaky good, especially at rushing the passer. They don’t get many sacks, but they convert pressures into picks with the best of them. Trubisky had two weeks to be the dude who threw 6 TDs, and I just know he’s going to stink up the field in this one. Miami is in no mood to be disrespected. That said, the power of Mack will break their will in short time, leading to avalanche scoring, mostly from Jordan Howard breaking tackles for big runs. On the Miami offense, you bench everyone. On the Bears offense, you bench only the passing game.

Rams-Broncos

The weather report says 20 degrees and snow. We know that NFL players cannot slow this offense, but can the elements? I think so. I think we will finally see the Rams lose, and people will assume the Broncos are good. It’s the perfect storm. Denver just got embarrassed by a rookie QB and a man nicknamed after a small bird. Cold weather favors the run game, which means we’ll finally the Royce Freeman we were promised. Am I going to regret trading Royce for Brees (essentially) when he goes for 120 and two scores today? Yes. I’ll probably hit a pillow about it multiple times. Of course, you have to start your Rams, but I’m saying start your Broncos, too. Remember, at one point in time, Case Keenum was Jared Goff’s mentor.

Ravens-Titans

Nope. Don’t want one bit of predicting this game. I’m starting Alex Collins because the Titans have been defending the run worse than any of my other players’ respective oppositions. I’m benching Derrick Henry for the inverse. I see Mariota and Flacco both getting picked multiple times. I see field goals. It will be a repeat of what these teams did last week, getting locked into a battle of field position and field goals. I’d rather watch Panthers-Skins. Start these defenses and kickers, fade everyone else (unless you’re desperate like me).

Jags-Boys

This is going to be quite the matchup. I already sent you the Kevin Clark tidbit that sums up this matchup. It’s Jacksonville verses nobody. It’s Dak Prescott running zone option or just straight handoffs. It’s Blake Bortles throwing for 300 yards again. It’s TJ Yeldon becoming the top-10 fantasy back he was projected to be when Jacksonville first drafted him. It’s Jalen Ramsey getting his first pick of the year. It’s not a “blowout” per se, but it’s all Jags, all the way, by double-digits.

Chiefs-Pats

The dope on this game is that when Belichick plays a team he thinks he’ll see in the playoffs, he gives them very little to work with, film-wise, even if it means sacrificing the regular-season victory. Cue Pat Mahomes’ music. Brady will also tear it up, albeit from Spe’s bench. It’s hard to imagine anything but a 40-point shootout, but then again, the thing we’re not talking about is how Mahomes just had the worst game of his young career. He put on tape some evidence that he can be had at this level, that he is flawed. For that reason, and for the reason that Brady is Brady, I’m betting Spencer is picking the wrong QB in this one. We are more likely to see the Kareem Hunt game that last week foreshadowed. Remember, this is the same Pats defense that allowed Detroit to break it’s 100-yard rusher drought just a few weeks ago. Two weeks, to be exact. I’m fading gimpy Michel in this one and imploring Cam to finally play James White, whose jersey he wore to our draft before picking him in like the tenth round. Just give him a go!

Niners-Packers

This is a classic spot for Aaron Rodgers to go off, so just know that it’s happening. The only thing that will keep it from being legendary is the lack of competition. The 49ers are one bad loss away from tanking. Last week was pitiful, but the score is worse than the game. San Fran owned time of possession and set themselves up to win before turning it over twice in the fourth quarter. They can keep up with the Packers offense on a good day. I just don’t think it will be a good day. Watch out for a Beathard so bad that San Fran makes a desperation trade just to try and salvage ticket sales. I’m fading everything about San Fran and pumping up all the Packers options, even Mason Crosby. He hit his final attempt last week, and he’s a professional. He will shake it off and probably score in the top-10 at the position this week. Do I believe it enough to put him in my own lineup? No, no I do not.

Week 6 Predictions

Sleepy Gary (Hunt) over Let’s Go 2-4 Together! (Evans)

Luck Dynasty (Luck) over Better Call Morty (Winston, duh)

JCor413 2.0 (Barkley) over Show me watt (Freeman, via bench)

Alan Rails (Watson) over Doofus Rick (Rodgers)

Fitzpat Rick (Mahomes) over Rickdemption (Gordon)

T Mac (Adams) over Jimmy Aww Geez (Ryan)

— Petty Commish