★Early bird fantasy football discussion 2019★

[JUGGERNAUT1333]

Looks like both Zeke and Gordon won't be reporting week 1. Chargers aren't going to discuss contract anymore, so unless Gordon is traded, he won't be suiting up anytime soon. No idea what's up with Zeke.

[Fiz-iks]

2 days and then get to discuss some real football! Can't wait, feels like Christmas as a kid.

[dupaloop3611]

2 days and then get to discuss some real football! Can't wait, feels like Christmas as a kid.

i cannot wait to watch Khalil mack destroy rodgers for 3 hours lol

[Murph0408]

zeke on plane to dallas as we speak according to rapoport

[Jayarbie]

Freeman/ingram/golladay


Dede has a lot of hype coming into season, but I'd still make him prove it for a couple weeks.

Thanks. That was my initial thought as well. The CBS projections say bench Freeman, but they're all within 2 points, and I'm not really seriously considering that, unless someone has a really convincing argument for it.

[dupaloop3611]

Looks like both Zeke and Gordon won't be reporting week 1. Chargers aren't going to discuss contract anymore, so unless Gordon is traded, he won't be suiting up anytime soon. No idea what's up with Zeke.

Zeke Just got on a plane is heading to dallas

[pl_powr]

My main money league draft results from last night. 12 team standard scoring (QB/2WR/2RB/WRT/TE/K/DST)

Zeke went 7th via auto pick. Mahomes/Kelce stack went at the 12/13 turn.

Gimme a rating /10 brahs and some brutally honest opinions.

1. (3) Christian McCaffrey (Car - RB)
2. (22) Todd Gurley II (LAR - RB)
3. (27) Adam Thielen (Min - WR)
4. (46) Josh Jacobs (Oak - RB)
5. (51) Tyler Lockett (Sea - WR)
6. (70) Miles Sanders (Phi - RB)
7. (75) Derrius Guice (Was - RB)
8. (94) Sammy Watkins (KC - WR)
9. (99) Christian Kirk (Ari - WR)
10. (118) Devin Singletary (Buf - RB)
11. (123) Austin Hooper (Atl - TE)
12. (142) Lamar Jackson (Bal - QB)
13. (147) Justin Jackson (LAC - RB)
14. (166) Philadelphia (Phi - DEF)
15. (171) Robbie Gould (SF - K)

[Fiz-iks]

i cannot wait to watch Khalil mack destroy rodgers for 3 hours lol

uhhh, do you remember what happened last year?

[Jayarbie]

My main money league draft results from last night. 12 team standard scoring (QB/2WR/2RB/WRT/TE/K/DST)

Zeke went 7th via auto pick. Mahomes/Kelce stack went at the 12/13 turn.

Gimme a rating /10 brahs and some brutally honest opinions.

1. (3) Christian McCaffrey (Car - RB)
2. (22) Todd Gurley II (LAR - RB)
3. (27) Adam Thielen (Min - WR)
4. (46) Josh Jacobs (Oak - RB)
5. (51) Tyler Lockett (Sea - WR)
6. (70) Miles Sanders (Phi - RB)
7. (75) Derrius Guice (Was - RB)
8. (94) Sammy Watkins (KC - WR)
9. (99) Christian Kirk (Ari - WR)
10. (118) Devin Singletary (Buf - RB)
11. (123) Austin Hooper (Atl - TE)
12. (142) Lamar Jackson (Bal - QB)
13. (147) Justin Jackson (LAC - RB)
14. (166) Philadelphia (Phi - DEF)
15. (171) Robbie Gould (SF - K)

CMC is an obvious pick but should be a stud. Gurley is a steal at 22. Thielen is a good pick at 27. I don't like Jacobs in the 4th. I would have looked at another WR there (or Ertz/Kittle if they were there). Watkins is chronic underachiever. Singletary is a steal. I can't believe he is still going at 100+ with Shady gone. Lamar is a good value at 142. Overall, your RBs are solid, but you WR depth is lacking and your TE is meh. Not bad, though, you can work with it. WR is one of the easier positions to fix throughout the season.

[dupaloop3611]

uhhh, do you remember what happened last year?

yeah. they split games. And Mack wasnt in top shape the first game. And was injured the second one. And he still had 3.5 sacks, 1 forced fumble, and 1 td vs the packers

rodgers is so afraid of mack.

[weightsb4dates]

Ok, first lineup question for the year. Full PPR, need 1 RB, 1 WR, and a flex from these guys:

D. Freeman @Min
M Ingram @Mia
Golladay @Ari
D Westbrook KC

Matchupwise, Freeman's is by far the worst (and the only negative matchup of the 4), but he's also the best option at RB in general. Is the matchup enough to sit him? Ingram in a running offense vs a tanking team who was historically bad against the run last year is as much of a plus matchup as possible. The Cardinals are missing both starting corners, and KC-Jax should be a shootout, so both WR matchups are juicy as well.

Ingram Golladay Westbrook for me. i could go either ay between westbrook and freeman at flex, but i think westbrook is going to be great with foles.

[JUGGERNAUT1333]

Rate my first auction draft. I know I am very top heavy with little depth, but that was my plan going in. I didn't feel comfortable enough with the whole thing and was worried if I wait too long I'll miss too many good players. I decided to land a couple top guys/couple solid guys and then hope for the best. If I do poorly this year, this was a good learning experience.

QB: Ryan
RB: Chubb, Fournette, CJ Anderson, Burkhead, C. Thompson
WR: Thomas, Thielen, Goodwin, Crowder, Allison, Dorsett
TE: Njoku
K: Bryant
D: Saints , but will do matchups.

[Fiz-iks]

Rate my first auction draft. I know I am very top heavy with little depth, but that was my plan going in. I didn't feel comfortable enough with the whole thing and was worried if I wait too long I'll miss too many good players. I decided to land a couple top guys/couple solid guys and then hope for the best. If I do poorly this year, this was a good learning experience.

QB: Ryan
RB: Chubb, Fournette, CJ Anderson, Burkhead, C. Thompson
WR: Thomas, Thielen, Goodwin, Crowder, Allison, Dorsett
TE: Njoku
K: Bryant
D: Saints , but will do matchups.

Your flex will be a struggle all year I think, would have liked to see you get one other decent WR or RB.

[JUGGERNAUT1333]

Your flex will be a struggle all year I think, would have liked to see you get one other decent WR or RB.

Me too, lol......budget said otherwise at the time. I know next time I'll need more $$ for mid rounds.

[Fiz-iks]

My main money league draft results from last night. 12 team standard scoring (QB/2WR/2RB/WRT/TE/K/DST)

Zeke went 7th via auto pick. Mahomes/Kelce stack went at the 12/13 turn.

Gimme a rating /10 brahs and some brutally honest opinions.

1. (3) Christian McCaffrey (Car - RB)
2. (22) Todd Gurley II (LAR - RB)
3. (27) Adam Thielen (Min - WR)
4. (46) Josh Jacobs (Oak - RB)
5. (51) Tyler Lockett (Sea - WR)
6. (70) Miles Sanders (Phi - RB)
7. (75) Derrius Guice (Was - RB)
8. (94) Sammy Watkins (KC - WR)
9. (99) Christian Kirk (Ari - WR)
10. (118) Devin Singletary (Buf - RB)
11. (123) Austin Hooper (Atl - TE)
12. (142) Lamar Jackson (Bal - QB)
13. (147) Justin Jackson (LAC - RB)
14. (166) Philadelphia (Phi - DEF)
15. (171) Robbie Gould (SF - K)

Love your RBs, you must have the deepest RB group in the league. I like the Thielen/Lockett stack, you get the consistency with Thielen and the upside with Lockett. If you stream TE well, this is top 4 team IMO.

[weightsb4dates]

Do you have to bid on him? Can you make $0 bids? Will he become a FA if no one bids on him? I prefer him a little over Kirk, but with only a $50 FAAB budget, I'm not sure I would commit any money to him at this point. If you can make a $0 bid or wait until you can add him for free, I'd do that. If you have to bid to add him, it may be worth $1 or $2, but not being super aggressive.

agree here.

[IlChosenOne]

Hey brahs, how do my draft results look? My league went up from 10 person to 12 person, so there's a lot less decent players available to pick up, and we did an automatic draft again.

[weightsb4dates]

Ended up in more leagues than I had intended to this year, but here is all of my teams (except for Dynasty, and one league thats drafting Wednesday night)



Edit: Just traded Breida for M. Sanders in League 1

[Fiz-iks]

Hey brahs, how do my draft results look? My league went up from 10 person to 12 person, so there's a lot less decent players available to pick up, and we did an automatic draft again.


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Well, we can't really critique an auto-draft. Your team looks OK, RBs are pretty weak. I'd immediately drop Brady, Graham, and one of the DST and pick up some RBs. Post who is available on the waiver wire and we can offer some suggestions.

[rise21]

Hey brahs, how do my draft results look? My league went up from 10 person to 12 person, so there's a lot less decent players available to pick up, and we did an automatic draft again.

Week 10 is gonna be brutal for you.

[weightsb4dates]

Hey brahs, how do my draft results look? My league went up from 10 person to 12 person, so there's a lot less decent players available to pick up, and we did an automatic draft again.


[img]https://i.imgur.com/7ombOXQ.jpg[img]

RBS are shakey, but I like the wrs (especially Hopkinslord) and watson is a BALLER.

IMO no reason to roster 2 tight ends, I would scrape the waivers for guys like Hyde or Mccoy, maybe see if Damien Harris is available with that extra spot (from removing Graham).

FWIW I think Breida will play the lead role in the SF backfield because Tevin Coleman is not good at football. I think between Michel and Breida you have a decent RB core, especially if the pats are in the redzone as much as they usually are

Also, important to note that teams look however they do now (good bad, meh), and in a week all of that could be turned upside down by an injury, or a scheme, or just a down year for a guy.

[JUGGERNAUT1333]

Hey brahs, how do my draft results look? My league went up from 10 person to 12 person, so there's a lot less decent players available to pick up, and we did an automatic draft again.

Not a super strong team to be honest man. Hopkins is a stud and Diggs is solid but your RB's are very weak. Besides starting two RBs from the same team, you basically have an RB2 and a flex. White's production last year won't be matched with how crowded the backfield is.

[wow strong misc]

12th pick in a 12 team .5 per... hows it looking ??

Qb Goff
Rb d. Johnson , kerryon , Carson , penny , Murray
Wr Julio , cooks , Hilton , Marvin Jones ,Moore , Robinson
Te Reed lol

[sandcar3]

Now that drafts are mostly over can I get everyone's opinion on Phillip Lindsay? I think people are sleeping on him more so than any other RB. Last year at this time everyone was talking up Royce Freeman as the RB to own in Denver, but Lindsay out played him all year. With both being rookies and Lindsay undrafted I totally understand that. But after what we saw last year, why are we expecting Freeman to get more carries? Am I just too high on Lindsay? He's on my team in every league I'm in.

[JUGGERNAUT1333]

Now that drafts are mostly over can I get everyone's opinion on Phillip Lindsay? I think people are sleeping on him more so than any other RB. Last year at this time everyone was talking up Royce Freeman as the RB to own in Denver, but Lindsay out played him all year. With both being rookies and Lindsay undrafted I totally understand that. But after what we saw last year, why are we expecting Freeman to get more carries? Am I just too high on Lindsay? He's on my team in every league I'm in.

Denver would be potato to cut his workload. He outplayed Freeman by a mile, so you'd think all signs to him getting a bulk of the carries. You never know though.......

[Murph0408]

Now that drafts are mostly over can I get everyone's opinion on Phillip Lindsay? I think people are sleeping on him more so than any other RB. Last year at this time everyone was talking up Royce Freeman as the RB to own in Denver, but Lindsay out played him all year. With both being rookies and Lindsay undrafted I totally understand that. But after what we saw last year, why are we expecting Freeman to get more carries? Am I just too high on Lindsay? He's on my team in every league I'm in.

IMO freeman is a bum and lindsay was a good buy this summer.

[Jayarbie]

Now that drafts are mostly over can I get everyone's opinion on Phillip Lindsay? I think people are sleeping on him more so than any other RB. Last year at this time everyone was talking up Royce Freeman as the RB to own in Denver, but Lindsay out played him all year. With both being rookies and Lindsay undrafted I totally understand that. But after what we saw last year, why are we expecting Freeman to get more carries? Am I just too high on Lindsay? He's on my team in every league I'm in.

I think they are going to be careful about giving him full bellcow status because of his size and potential fragility, but yeah, he should run circles around Royce Freeman again this year.

[Jayarbie]

IMO freeman is a bum and lindsay was a good buy this summer.

I've been surprised at how low he's fallen in some of the drafts posted here. In my money league, he was taken in the 2nd round (19 overall). Although that is a bit of a reach, I'd consider him a 3rd/4th round value, and it seems that he's fallen way below that in some drafts.

[canuck604]

Someone dropped Curtis Samuel in my PPR league, $50 FAAB

Current receivers: M. Evans, K.Golloday, C. Kirk, AJ Green, D. Jackson

Lots of hype around him going into the season, but do I burn some of my budget on someone this early?

I wouldn't. You have a nice wr group that gets even better when Green returns

Do you have to bid on him? Can you make $0 bids? Will he become a FA if no one bids on him? I prefer him a little over Kirk, but with only a $50 FAAB budget, I'm not sure I would commit any money to him at this point. If you can make a $0 bid or wait until you can add him for free, I'd do that. If you have to bid to add him, it may be worth $1 or $2, but not being super aggressive.

agree here.

Ended up picking up Samuel this morning for free

Dropped D. Jackson (didn't want to drop any of M. Evans, K.Golloday, C. Kirk, AJ Green)
and I'm pretty thin at RB (Barkley, K. Johnson, M.Sanders, D.Henderson. J. Jackson)

[ThatOneBigKid]

Had my last draft of the season on Saturday. 12 man, .5 PPR, Standard snake draft out of the #2 spot.

QB: Lamar Jackson
RB1: Alvin Kamara
RB2: David Montgomery
WR1: Tyrek Hill
WR2: Tyler Lockett
RB/WR Flex: Chris Godwin
TE: Evan Engram
DST: Eagles
K: Ka'imi Fairbairn

BN: Darrell Henderson
BN: Kareem Hunt
BN: Jordan Howard
BN: Dante Pettis
BN: Justice Hill
BN: Anthony Miller


Thoughts?