This is the first week in a very long time where I feel completely confident in my team. My team went through a major overhaul prior to last week's match up, and that overhaul paid off.
One of the biggest helps to my fantasy roster last week was Riley Cooper. If this guy is still available in your league, do yourself a favor and pick him up ASAP. Cooper is showing excellent chemistry with QB Nick Foles. Cooper has close to 400 yards and six touchdowns in the last seven games. I jumped on Cooper right after his hat-trick touchdown game a few weeks ago and haven't been disappointed. I finally have a receiver who is producing major yardage, and doing it while staying healthy (KNOCK ON WOOD!!!)
In other news, Matt Ryan is going to be my starting quarterback again this week. "Why do I care?" you may find yourself asking. Well, Ryan is been going through a major rough patch with his two receivers and starting running back out. Ryan will face the Swiss-cheese Tampa Bay defense this week, and also gets wide receiver Roddy White back in the line-up. If Matt Ryan can't pull his head out of his ass this week, consider letting him ride the pine for a little while. Give your back up a chance and see how it goes; however, don't jump the gun and start Ryan this week. Part of my overhaul was picking up undefeated QB Alex Smith (don't you love the things people throw away on bye weeks?)
I finally have some healthy running backs. Picking up Andre Brown of the Giants was one of my best moves of the season this far (clearly haven't had too many highlights this season). Brown should continue to shoulder the load in the Giants running-back needy offense. Injuries also played a key role for me in other pick ups at RB. Rashad Jennings of the Oakland Raiders took over at running back for the injured Darren McFadden. Jennings has been producing solid number and could help save my crippled season from slipping completely out of control.
I'm really confident with my roster this week. At this point in the season I've managed to pull myself out of last place (but not by much) so I'm feeling a little cocky. My team looks healthy and ready to produce better numbers than ever before. I'm not sure how I ended up with this rag-tag group of players (the team I drafted is almost completely gone) at this point, but I'm a desperate man. I've got nothing to lose, but maybe this is the fire under my ass that I've needed all along. I'm still a long shot for a playoff birth, but anything is possible in a league where four teams are at 4-6 on the season!
I think this is a good piece of writing. I enjoyed the fact that you do a good job at explaining everything that is going on your fantasy league. I'm one of the people who doesn't need explanation, but a blog like this one helps explain the situation to someone who doesn't understand who fantasy football works. I enjoyed the humor in the post, but I'm kind of confused as to your emotion of your posts. I understand that fantasy football is a passion of yours, so maybe you should make a blog post about how important fantasy football is to you. A post like that will definitely improve your blog as a whole. Good luck
ReplyDeleteYou do a good job at conveying your feelings about your current team. Clearly your new lineup of players is important to you and your overall . I admit complete ignorance of fantasy football and football in general, so I really don't know what could be done to improve your writing. I guess more analysis, or maybe more explanation geared towards clueless people like me, would help strengthen your entries.
ReplyDeleteI feel like somehow relating your blog to different aspects of life can help strengthen it and give it diversity. You do a great job for its specification as a football fantasy blog, but it gets a bit mundane. Relating it to past experiences, or even talking about your specific feelings and attachments towards players, or lack thereof, can help. I also do like that you try to give advice, but it doesn't seem very prevalent, and you can work on that a bit.
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