NFL talk? Questions about American football?

Just a question about my other fantasy team. Nick Foles or Jay Cutler to start? I'm thinking Foles for Week 1 because they play the Jags but beyond that I'm not sure. Question marks about both of them but at their best they are brilliant. Just not sure which one to pick as a starter...

Just a question about my other fantasy team. Nick Foles or Jay Cutler to start? I'm thinking Foles for Week 1 because they play the Jags but beyond that I'm not sure. Question marks about both of them but at their best they are brilliant. Just not sure which one to pick as a starter...

Looks like I can't make an 8pm draft, I'll have to auto it and hope for the best.

Cutler will be best in the long term...if you have Marshall or Jeffrey, it also make sense to "double-down", though it is a stern test at Buffalo. Cutler should reasonably finish with something like 4100 yards, 27 TD, 15 INT; Foles will regress a little bit, but still put in good numbers.

I also think that for this year "because they're playing the Jags" will not be a reason in itself, to promote players from the bench.

Have you also scanned the waver wire to see who is available though? Someone like Rivers, Ryan or Romo? Even Dalton is an improvement in fantasy terms.



Same here. It is most annoying.

All the good ones are gone off the wire (Tannehill, Palmer, Geno Smith, Fitzpatrick??! are the best ones left lol). I honestly think Cutler's gonna have a monster year so I'll probably start him most weeks but it's difficult to know having not seen either one play yet. I'm still leaning towards Foles at least for week 1 (I'm playing a fairly weak opponent, and my team is strong elsewhere, so I kind of hope it doesn't matter).

Also, any thoughts about taking Dwayne Bowe from the free agency? Is he better to have than Marques Colston in my back-ups after Week 1?

I've drafted Tannehill around the 13th in some mocks, I like him this season. I've not drafted Palmer but people are projecting him for a good year too. I don't think either are better than your guys yet but I do think they might have value at some point.

Dwayne Bowe just drops passes when his team need them the most, his touchdown receptions will suffer for drops in the endzone. Colston is streets ahead. Justin Hunter is being called a deep sleeper and is 1 spot back from Dwayne Bowe on my board so I'd say that that pickup would be an error.

Does the draft potentially going back 1 week mean we'll have the joys of a WK17 final?! That would potentially suck but I suppose it's better than no league at all! I've done way too much mock drafting and draft board highlighting to have no league!

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I did check some of the guys, some of them are just not very active right now. ProgFeanor for example hasn't logged on for 3 weeks. I'm happy to take your 2 mates if we can sort this one spot out in order to fill the league.

INCENTIVE: If you fill this last spot I will give you the basic version of my draft board without my personal notes in order to make your draft go more smoothly!

Can you not reduce the league down to 8 teams so we only need one more?

No ones joined. Pushed it back a week to get another member. We will start in week 2, no worries. Sorry about the disappointment.

All the good ones are gone off the wire (Tannehill, Palmer, Geno Smith, Fitzpatrick??! are the best ones left lol). I honestly think Cutler's gonna have a monster year so I'll probably start him most weeks but it's difficult to know having not seen either one play yet. I'm still leaning towards Foles at least for week 1 (I'm playing a fairly weak opponent, and my team is strong elsewhere, so I kind of hope it doesn't matter).

Also, any thoughts about taking Dwayne Bowe from the free agency? Is he better to have than Marques Colston in my back-ups after Week 1?

Since the draft was delayed a week, I figure I may as well get feedback on my other team (12-team league):

QB: Stafford
RB: Mathews, J. Bell, P. Thomas, Hyde, Bradshaw
WR: D. Thomas, Cobb, Floyd, T. Williams, Hunter
TE: Graham, Kelce
DST: Patriots
K: Dawson

So I had to pick 12th, and somehow got Graham. I feel very weak at RB though, hoping Carlos Hyde comes through...

Yeah, running backs are very weak. Stafford will get yards, but he will turn the ball over. A lot. There is that risk.

Which Floyd though? Michael or Malcom? If it's Michael, the recieving corps is solid, as Fitz and him should get around the same production this year (~1100yards; 7-10 TD). If it's Malcom, you'd better pray he gets back to being a 1000-yard-a-season guy. The other two don't really inspire confidence....

Graham is a steal, and is presumably your first rounder. Presumably, your second rounder went on DT, so there really wasn't any talent at RB available when you came back in the third, fourth and fifth. Who's on the waiver wire, ASAP, or try and force a trade.

Also, I'm not sold on Dawson as a kicker. They'd be loads of kickers on the waiver wire. If Vinateri (or even Shawn Sheeshum) is still available, maybe try to pick him up.

Yeah, I agree with most of that. I think Stafford will be good the majority of weeks, and hopefully Graham can pick up that slack. Else I'm going to have to trade for Brady/Cutler (who are both backups for their teams!) Dawson was primarily picked for week 1, when the 49ers are surely going to run the score up on the Cowboys. Then I'll see who's around.

While I am bad at RB, I started last year's draft Spiller-Richardson, and then David Wilson was my 3rd RB. So it can't possibly be worse than that, right? Still, it's a week 1 waiver priority.

And I think Michael Floyd will be the number 1 guy in Arizona sooner rather than later. Might try and use him to swing a trade for a good RB at some point. 12-team leagues are frustrating after being used to 10, the top talent disappears so much more quickly!