Official Week 7 Fantasy Football Thread

[capone0]

Whoops. Didn't realize I didn't put Gore but he's on Bye. If I only had 3 backs, this would be a tough sell to drop him.

I can see how you construed that though.

[MacGuyV]

Lately I've been wondering things like: "when is Aaron Brooks coming back?" Is it even possible for your FF season not to be over when you ask that with a straight face? Don't answer that.

[Needle77]

NorCal,

RB2-Taylor, hes a starter and JAX offense is going to have to explode now that Peterson is out

K-Vinatieri(If you have faith in him, WAS defense sucks),

D-Pitt. If Falcons could not defend against the Giants front
4, I hate to see that o-line against a blitzing Steelers defense.

About the TE, i always see it as a coinflip. Wrightster might lose value because Mercedes Lewis may see more time this week. Sorry I can't help you more. My suggestion is Alex Smith, Gradkowski seems to like him, but take that with a grain of salt.

[NorCalJosh]

like i said, i naturally dont expect too much out of TE, ive been pleasantly surprised to find mcnair turning to heap to bail him out over and over, so getting one or two points out of a back up TE shouldnt kill me against a relatively weak team this week.

the only question is who to dumpfor a new one? obviously a K or DEF, both of my kickers and defenses have already had a bye, which of the 4 should i drop?

[MacGuyV]

8 team league, start only 1 RB. Rudi Johnson's my starter, Lamont Jordan backup. Looking to pick up a 3rd guy. Should I pick up a Kevin Jones or Fred Taylor, or go for upside with a guy like Micahel Turner, who could produce big if LT2 gets injured? I did this last yr w/ LJ and it would've won me my league if not for missing the playoffs via tiebreaker; though I'm not sure the Chargers OL is as dominant as the Chiefs in recent years.

[capone0]

I'd bet on Kevin Jones over any of those guys. Fred Taylor will split time with Jones-Drew who I think is better and doesn't have as much chance of getting hurt.

Kevin beats up bad Ds. I wouldn't play him very often versus good teams.

With that being said let's look at their schedule.

NYJ-Great
Bye
ATL-Bad
SF-Great
ARI-Good (matters if the same team that showed up on MNF shows up I guess)
Mia-Bad
NWE-Bad
Min-Bad
GNB-Good
Chicago-Bad

So he's got 4 good / great matchups and a bunch of medicore matchups or bad ones.

Let's look at Rudi's Matchups.

Car-Bad
Atl-bad
@Bal-Bad
SDG-Bad
NOR-Decent
Cle-Good
Bal-Bad
Oak-Great
Ind-Great (might change with Booger)
Den-Bad

KJ would be a good option. His tougher games are at the end while Rudi's are near the front of the rest of their schedule.

[MacGuyV]

Thanks Capone -
Yeah Cincy's schedule is brutal. Jacksonville has a cakewalk, and Taylor so far has gotten 20 carries every game except for the Skins game (more than Jones). I was probably just going to start Rudi every week when healthy though; you wouldn't pending matchups?

[toohigh]

OK, after taking capone0's advice, I pussed out and didn't accept any trades. I did, however, get relatively lucky on the WW, picking up both Brandon Jacobs and Wali Lundy (HOU RB, head coach wants to get him back in the mix, possibility he'll start).

Which leads me to my question, which RB2 should I start this week, and why?

Brandon Jacobs @ DAL
Jerious Norwood vs PIT
Wali Lundy vs JAC

[Spellmen]

I've heard Lundy is possibly starting and I will usually take a starter ahead of a backup in most cases, but I start Jacobs here. Lundy won't get significantly more carries than Dayne and whoever else plus Houston has shown they can't get anything done on the ground. NY can move the ball and Jacobs will get the goaline touches

[capone0]

Lundi against Jacksonville is going to be really a tough sell. Jacksonville is very good against the run.