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Joeycharp89

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Usually I don't like to complain about a loss. No matter how prepared you are bad luck happens and you just roll with the punches and try to have fun. But this week, in my 12 standard league I currently have 36.2 pts, with only my flex spot left to play.

Jamal Charles got upstaged by not one, but both of his back-ups. Steve Jackson got kept out of the game by his coach for spiking the ball. Brandon Marshall seemed to lather his hands in butter before every play on Thurs, and the Raiders defense gave up 35 points to Miami.

Anyone else have a particularly horrible week 1/2?
 
Joeycharp89 said:
Usually I don't like to complain about a loss. No matter how prepared you are bad luck happens and you just roll with the punches and try to have fun. But this week, in my 12 standard league I currently have 36.2 pts, with only my flex spot left to play.

Jamal Charles got upstaged by not one, but both of his back-ups. Steve Jackson got kept out of the game by his coach for spiking the ball. Brandon Marshall seemed to lather his hands in butter before every play on Thurs, and the Raiders defense gave up 35 points to Miami.

Anyone else have a particularly horrible week 1/2?
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Larry Fitzgerald's stat line:

1 reception, 4 yards. :(
 
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^That. And i started Oakland over Seattle today on defense cause i thought it was the better matchiup and Seattle dominated and Oakland got -3. And i faced Reggie Bush AND CJ Spiller.
 
I usually play the waiver wire each week for a DST, so this past week I dropped Buffalo (-1 last week) for Oakland, who got -1 this week. Still going to win with 148 to 115, but that was just a dumb mistake. Buffalo was worth about 18 in that league.
 
I'm also glad to see I'm not the only one who got screwed by Oakland. Or was I screwed by Reggie Bush? I guess both :/

I think I'm just gonna make a habit of not underestimating the Dolphins, unless they are facing a team with a good pass rush.
 
Fantasy woes so fare =

Fred Jackson
Ahmad Bradshaw
Greg Jennings
Pierre Garcon

I had a knack for drafting injuries this year I guess. :gun:
 
I completely forgot to replace Garcon with Amendola. I knew Garcon wasn't going to play and told myself I was gonna put in Danny as soon as I finished whatever it was I was doing. Didn't realize it until I saw the game start on stat-tracker.

Looks like it's gonna be the difference in the game too. Hoping for lots of ATL field goals tonight.
 
powda said:
Fantasy woes so fare =

Fred Jackson
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I didn't have Fred, but now I have an idea of what happens when you don't draft a handcuff for these top tier injury prone running backs, cause one of our guys decided to actually draft CJ in the draft and now he's balling pretty hard and the guy with Fred Jackson is struggling to stay afloat.
 
I have a combo of Adrian Peterson and Fred Jackson in two leagues, but I didn't get Spiller in either of them. I did get Toby Gerhart as a handcuff in each of those... :( I should have known to get Spiller though, he really is explosive, as we saw at the end of last season. I just couldn't bring myself to spend a 8-9th on him when I got guys like Reggie Wayne and Malcolm Floyd there. Was hoping to get him later, but he was gone by the 10th.
 
I started Danny Amendola in place of Greg Jennings in a PPR, I've scored 189 points good enough to put me 40 points over the next highest scorer ... except the guy I'm playing who has a whopping 219 points off of huge games from RGIII and Reggie Bush and the giants god damn come from behind win giving Hakeem Nicks a monstrous 41 points in our format. The only person I have left to play is Jaquizz Rodgers for the falcons, so I've very likely to cross the 200 mark, way way way over the 3rd place guy, but I still won win. Utter Bull****
 
Well, I have CJ Spiller and Darren Sproles starting for me and have Matt Ryan playing tonight. I'm at 156 points this week. Winner winner chicken dinner.
 
Those injuries are the difference for me easily. Lost by small enough margins. Additionally. I seem to have faced the higher scoring opponents early where suffering injuries hurts most. Sucks to be snake bit and im wondering who i'll lose next week.
 
I had a huge week in most of my fantasy games...on the Pick'em, not so good. I will say that the league changes from year to year and it takes about 6 games to figure out who's good and who is really good in a given year. Right now, break out players continue to break out, some just flash...all in all I loved this weekend and all the upsets and great play by some of the younger stars. Great stuff.
 
I had Eli Manning starting for me last week and was dismayed to see his early 3 ints while my bench QB's were looking pretty good. But ol' Eli threw for 510 yards and 3tds and bailed me out.
 
dc_txtech said:
I completely forgot to replace Garcon with Amendola. I knew Garcon wasn't going to play and told myself I was gonna put in Danny as soon as I finished whatever it was I was doing. Didn't realize it until I saw the game start on stat-tracker.

Looks like it's gonna be the difference in the game too. Hoping for lots of ATL field goals tonight.
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Who the heck is Amendola?

I was out of town, so I had a friend draft for me. Amendola was one of my receivers, I didn't know him, he had a bad week one, so I dropped him & picked up Alshon Jeffry.

Then Amendola goes off & Cutler has a "Cutler" moment.... argh!!
 
Danny Amendola, 4th year WR out of Texas Tech. He had 85 catches two seasons ago and was Bradford's favorite target. Last season he had a season ending injury in week one.

This year he looks like a ppr stud.
 
Week 3 update:

1 fantasy team...injuries =

fred jackson
ahmad bradshaw
cj spiller
greg jennings
pierre garcon

Are you f*@+$&# kidding me?
 
I've got him on my team too, but at least Spiller got some points before the injury. Horrible luck you're having though.
 
powda said:
Week 3 update:

1 fantasy team...injuries =

fred jackson
ahmad bradshaw
cj spiller
greg jennings
pierre garcon

Are you f*@+$&# kidding me?
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Please drop any of the following players you may have on your roster:

RG3
Rivers
Tannehill
Bush (already hurt, dammit!!)
BJGE
Cruz
Demaryius Thomas
Brandon Myers​

Thanks,
maj
 
All of my guys decided to only get points in 1 half of football. Seriously it was either the first half or the second half they got all their points. I had potential to get well over 200 points today but I'm only sitting at 170 thanks to my fricken kicker going off
 
I want to contribute to this thread again, but this week I screwed myself instead of dumb luck. I put in Brandon Gibson in at Flex, and kept Torrey Smith on my bench. Then I lost by 3 points. Gibson had 1.9 pts. Smith I believe is 25+... What was I thinking?
 
Had the Packers DST and Aaron Rodgers going tonight, needed 19 points to win, got 18. I was up prior to the extra point being kicked on that bull**** TD call, but once they kicked the XP, I lost 2 points. Tied my opponent at 83... No gif can convey my anger right now, but this one is pretty good:

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Oh, and I lost another game where I only need 18 points from Rodgers, Nelson and the Packers DST to win. Got 15, lousy ****s.
 
Go ahead and add beanie wells to my list of injuries. Amazing. I should win a prize for picking all hurt players.
 
powda said:
Go ahead and add beanie wells to my list of injuries. Amazing. I should win a prize for picking all hurt players.
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I have not been unfortunate like yourself, but if I had a team with that many injuries I would rename it, "Every Given Sunday"
 
Update:

Fred jackson
rashard jennings
ahmad bradshaw
cj spiller
greg jennings
pierre garcon
beanie wells
jerome simpson
Donald brown
demarco murry

These are the collective injuries for ONE fantasy team...and the games today are just getting started. According to the red bearded ******* in the blue suit fantasy football is fun. It's not. Shoot me in the face.
 
I started Turner and he hasn't done a damn thing. Reggie Wayne was shut down and Witten is invisible. If I play FF next year its going to be a free league. Having money involved doesn't even make it fun.
 
Just call me "Contra"... I'm a great contra-indicator for my players.

If I start them, the guys on the bench blow up & the starters get frozen out of the endzone.
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powda said:
Update:

Fred jackson
rashard jennings
ahmad bradshaw
cj spiller
greg jennings
pierre garcon
beanie wells
jerome simpson
Donald brown
demarco murry

These are the collective injuries for ONE fantasy team...and the games today are just getting started. According to the red bearded ******* in the blue suit fantasy football is fun. It's not. Shoot me in the face.
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"I hate you."
 
Watching the Texans get demolished on national television and being pissed as hell but knowing that the Packers just won me both my fantasy games.

It was a special kind of hell.
 
dc_txtech said:
Watching the Texans get demolished on national television and being pissed as hell but knowing that the Packers just won me both my fantasy games.

It was a special kind of hell.
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I benched Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson this week against the Texans. I really thought the Texans were going to lock them down...

I started Vick instead so I still won, but I left 70+ points on the bench

:wadepalm:
 
dc_txtech said:
Watching the Texans get demolished on national television and being pissed as hell but knowing that the Packers just won me both my fantasy games.

It was a special kind of hell.
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Ditto, had Rodgers and Nelson in two leagues where I was behind. Those two alone blew out one of my opponents :D
 
dc_txtech said:
Watching the Texans get demolished on national television and being pissed as hell but knowing that the Packers just won me both my fantasy games.

It was a special kind of hell.
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I needed Jody Nelson to have a bad game.... i had 2 kinds of hell :banghead:
 
Señor Stan;2037426 said:
I benched Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson this week against the Texans. I really thought the Texans were going to lock them down...

I started Vick instead so I still won, but I left 70+ points on the bench

:wadepalm:
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That's the thing that's tough about playing matchups. There's a 50% chance you're going to get it wrong.

Seems like I've been getting it wrong 100% of the time this season.
 
SCOTTexans said:
I needed Jody Nelson to have a bad game.... i had 2 kinds of hell :banghead:
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This. Jordy Nelson got 41 points in my bigger league. I have Rivers and Demaryius Thomas going tonight, he only has Prater left. I'm down, 116-171. If Rivers has a game similar to what Josh Freeman did yesterday, and Thomas has a game similar to last week, then I've got a shot at winning.

Come on shoot-out with Thomas being the primary target!
 
majestrate said:
This. Jordy Nelson got 41 points in my bigger league. I have Rivers and Demaryius Thomas going tonight, he only has Prater left. I'm down, 116-171. If Rivers has a game similar to what Josh Freeman did yesterday, and Thomas has a game similar to last week, then I've got a shot at winning.

Come on shoot-out with Thomas being the primary target!
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I'm down by 30... I need Ryan Mathews and Malcom Floyd to dominate...
 
Bye week for Drew Brees and the best bye week QB I could find was Sanchez v the Colts. I wish my league-mates knew how to do counter trades. I can't get any trades going with them.
 
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