Week 4 Starters Advice

[Maritimer]

I'll give my replies later when I have a bit more time, but I'll throw mine out there in the meantime:

Need 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 1 flex:

RB: Murray, Sproles, Leshoure, Benson, R. Williams
WR: Cruz, Maclin, Decker

Probably going 3 RBs and 2 WRs. Murray's got a tough matchup (Bears), Sproles is solid but unlikely to have a huge game against GB, Benson has a great matchup but who knows if they keep trying to establish the run, and we've only seen Leshoure and Williams do it once a piece. I like Cruz and Maclin over Decker, I think, but I am a bit worried about Maclin's knee.

Benson
LeShoure
Cruz
Maclin
Decker

I don't normally advocate sitting one of your studs with a guaranteed workload, but I'm sitting Murray here.

He gets Baltimore and a bye in the next 2 weeks, but after that he has a great schedule for a long time and should blow up.

Maybe I would sit LeShoure though with the groin injury.

Anyway, Benson and the receivers are who I go, then flip a coin with LeShoure and Murray.

Definitely sitting Sproles.

Williams is actually a solid option this week though, Miami is bound to be eaten alive by that defense, so Williams may get a lot of work by clock killing default, so even though they are bad against the run the sheer volume may get him solid points.

Didn't see this. Sat Sproles and Decker. Each has a TD at half. Oops.

Played Murray, Benson, Leshoure, Cruz, Maclin. Benson is putting together a decent game. Leshoure was disappointing. I'm going up against Brady, but thankfully Cam, Gronk, and the Houston DST have me up 16 (just holding my breath that his MJD doesn't blow up in the 2nd half, and that Martin doesn't magically put up numbers in a blowout).

[vincecarter4pres]

Sproles always surprises me although he shouldn't. I just felt like of all the ways New Orleans can score, that is one way Green Bay would stop, short screens and then the rush from a 3rd ground option. I figured he put up like 30 yards on the ground and 50 yards through the air with no TD's. That and Stevie J are 2 big oops for me haha.

BGE over Ridley could be as well, but there's still time left for me to salvage at least about a push there.

[BossHoggin]

Glad I ran with Sproles and Benson but I'm still going to lose.

[VintaGe36]

Going forward:

Greg Olsen (TE from Carolina)

or

Scott Chandler (TE from Buffalo)

Discuss.

[DirtybirdGA]

I guess you could go with either ,I maybe picking up Chandler myself since he's available.

[Wade2k6]

Either your league is small or you are starting the wrong people in the slots you're not asking us about.

BGE, Ridley, Bowe and Stevie are all pretty much must starts this week.

10 person. The people in my league either had no sense in how to draft, were first year players, and/or weren't able to make it so they had to do autopick. There are 4-5 good teams and several very bad ones. I was able to pick up some players that fell too far (AJ Green 3rd/ SJ 6th / Bowe 7th) and hit on some later round picks (T-Gonzalez, Ridley, G Olsen). Before the season started I traded Eli and Forte for Matt Ryan and Chris Johnson. Got Mike Wallace & L Fitz after the 1st week for Miles Austin & Greg Jennings (didn't like Wallace b/c of the holdout and is a big Packers fan so he liked Jennings). Then was able to pickup Andre Brown as a FA & traded him for BVGE after his huge game last week.

[BossHoggin]

I guess you could go with either ,I maybe picking up Chandler myself since he's available.

I don't see him being consistent

[LApwnd]

just wanted to send a big fat middle finger to Dall D, up 14 and in 1 play lost it, the Marshall wide open TD. Facing Marshall & Gould and had Dall D. That one play alone killed my entire lead

[RaoulDuke79]

I was up 55 and the other guy only had Chicago's defense left. I knew there was no way in hell he'd get that many points, but when they forced yet another turnover for a TD and were picking Romo off on every damn play, I did think to myself how amazing it would be if I ended up losing. It almost, for a moment, seemed to be a real possibility.

Of course, I still won by 31 points, so whatever.



Witten finally came through for me too in another league. I almost benched him for Celek this week, and I would have lost if I did. Good times.