Week 3 starter advice

[vincecarter4pres]

I didnt want to start a new thread, so I figured I would just throw it in here:

I have been offered Decker for Rivers (I also have Romo)

My WR's are Colston, Wayne, Jordy Nelson, Garcon, D. Moore, K. Wright...would you take it? I am leaning yes since Rivers is my backup, but if romo gets hurt I would be screwed...thoughts?

I don't think I would do that.

Decker just adds to your stockpile of good but not great receivers and gives you one more option to confuse and second guess yourself with every week.

[vincecarter4pres]

Who to start at Flex?

A Morris vs Bengals
Steve Johnson vs Browns

PPR?

I lean towards Morris, if it's PPR this is really close though.

[NW7]

I didnt want to start a new thread, so I figured I would just throw it in here:

I have been offered Decker for Rivers (I also have Romo)

My WR's are Colston, Wayne, Jordy Nelson, Garcon, D. Moore, K. Wright...would you take it? I am leaning yes since Rivers is my backup, but if romo gets hurt I would be screwed...thoughts?

What are league settings like? Is it 2 WR's and a flex? 3 WR's and a flex? Something else?

You have pretty nice WR depth, assuming this Garcon injury doesn't keep lingering on. Personally, without knowing your whole team, I would pass on it if your league was 2 WR's and a flex. If it's 3 WR's and a flex, meh. I would probably pass on it, just because Decker looks like he's just going to be injury insurance for you and thus far he hasn't lived up to expectations, and more importantly you have pretty nice depth at WR as is. Rivers is nothing more then injury insurance now too, but he's a fringe number 1 QB and more than likely light years ahead of what is available on your waiver wire.

Edit -- VC4P beat me to it and pretty much posted my exact same thoughts on the trade.

[Bleeding Blue]

I didnt want to start a new thread, so I figured I would just throw it in here:

I have been offered Decker for Rivers (I also have Romo)

My WR's are Colston, Wayne, Jordy Nelson, Garcon, D. Moore, K. Wright...would you take it? I am leaning yes since Rivers is my backup, but if romo gets hurt I would be screwed...thoughts?

I don't think I would do that.

Decker just adds to your stockpile of good but not great receivers and gives you one more option to confuse and second guess yourself with every week.

What are league settings like? Is it 2 WR's and a flex? 3 WR's and a flex? Something else?

You have pretty nice WR depth, assuming this Garcon injury doesn't keep lingering on. Personally, without knowing your whole team, I would pass on it if your league was 2 WR's and a flex. If it's 3 WR's and a flex, meh. I would probably pass on it, just because Decker looks like he's just going to be injury insurance for you and thus far he hasn't lived up to expectations, and more importantly you have pretty nice depth at WR as is. Rivers is nothing more then injury insurance now too, but he's a fringe number 1 QB and more than likely light years ahead of what is available on your waiver wire.

Edit -- VC4P beat me to it and pretty much posted my exact same thoughts on the trade.

Thanks guys, its a standard 10 team non ppr 2WR/2RB/flex league. I am loaded at RB (rice, Matthews, Rundmc) so I will only start 3wr's during byes or injuries moving forward anyway

[Dirty Water]

Start 2 WR, 1 FLEX: Larry Fitz(vs Phi), Jordy Nelson(@Sea), Michael Crabtree(@Min), Michael Bush(vs Stl), Frank Gore(@Min). PPR league.

Been thinking about benching Larry Fitz, but was gonna go with Fitz, Nelson and Michael Bush.

[vincecarter4pres]

Last minute help, don't think I can go wrong anyway, but love to hear a convincing argument, stuck right now!

0.5PPR Start only one:

Ryan Mathews vs. ATL
Demarco Murray vs. TB
Mike LeShoure @ TEN

[NW7]

Start 2 WR, 1 FLEX: Larry Fitz(vs Phi), Jordy Nelson(@Sea), Michael Crabtree(@Min), Michael Bush(vs Stl), Frank Gore(@Min). PPR league.

Been thinking about benching Larry Fitz, but was gonna go with Fitz, Nelson and Michael Bush.

Jordy Nelson and Michael Bush are for sure starts at WR and Flex position. The final WR spot is tough. Benching a guy like FItzgerald is a risk and one that could very easily come back to bite you, but having said that I'm going Crabtree. Crabtree really shines in a PPR format and has a solid match-up against the Vikings. Fitzgerald has a brutal match-up against the Eagles (brutal match-up for that entire offense, not just Fitz).

Go with your gut though, nothing worse then being told to bench your studs and seeing them go off.

Last minute help, don't think I can go wrong anyway, but love to hear a convincing argument, stuck right now!

0.5PPR Start only one:

Ryan Mathews vs. ATL
Demarco Murray vs. TB
Mike LeShoure @ TEN

I think Leshoure needs to be removed from this convo. I like him long term, but we've never seen him play a regular season game. I don't think now is a time to get cute and start him (even though he's the starter for today's game apparently), wait a week and see how it all works out. It's not like you have a plethora of mediocre players you are debating between, you have 2 legit starters to choose from ahead of him.

I think Mathews and Murray are really coin flips in terms of what they are going to give you today. Both are solid starts. Just because I like to error on the side of caution with players returning from injuries and stuff like this, I'd go with Murray here.

[vincecarter4pres]

Thanks NW7 and Dirty Water I agree with his picks as well, although to be upfront I am actually starting Fitz over Crabtree this week specifically in 1 league, but I also had Andre Brown and Bennett in that league with Brees so I'm swinging for the fences cause I started so hot.

[b_mind]

Seems like Kevin Smith has become useless if he can't even get 1 carry over Bell. Looks like Leshoure is the starter with Bell backing him up and Smith limping in 3rd.

[Donlogic]

I'm not sweating that defense just yet. I think they're definitely good, but they aren't shutting down the Eagles.

They'll give up 3 or 4 total TD's and some solid yardage.

Ouch, tough call

[Donlogic]

Seems like Kevin Smith has become useless if he can't even get 1 carry over Bell. Looks like Leshoure is the starter with Bell backing him up and Smith limping in 3rd.

Good call, Leshoure killed it this week and looked great, albeit against a weak Titan D.

[LApwnd]

^^^I'm gona have to attribute Lashoure play to Tenn horrible run D, as Ridley dropped 100 yd and 1 td on them and haven't done to well since. As for Ridley as well, is it time to jump off the wagon or was there more of Balt D and NE running no Huddle? Luckily Ryan Williams is sort of turning it around and I have hopes he can be a solid Flex option when Wells injury and weak Mia d coming up.

[Donlogic]

^^^I'm gona have to attribute Lashoure play to Tenn horrible run D, as Ridley dropped 100 yd and 1 td on them and haven't done to well since. As for Ridley as well, is it time to jump off the wagon or was there more of Balt D and NE running no Huddle? Luckily Ryan Williams is sort of turning it around and I have hopes he can be a solid Flex option when Wells injury and weak Mia d coming up.

I agree with you on Lashoure, the only aside consideration I think is that in the last Q of the game the Lions had to throw a lot so his numbers could have been even higher. Next week going into Minny and with Stafford down he has a good chance to show off his skills, so it will be a good evaluation week but tough to jump on his band wagon right now.

Kind of similar with Ridley, It is a tough call, he did put up over a 100 total yards with 3 catches against Arizona, and their D has been very solid so far this year. I think this coming week going in to Buffalo is a a good match-up for him and will really be the penultimate week for him going forwrds. I say if you don't have a legit RB2 at this point Ridley is a decent start again this coming week.

[LApwnd]

^^^I'm gona have to attribute Lashoure play to Tenn horrible run D, as Ridley dropped 100 yd and 1 td on them and haven't done to well since. As for Ridley as well, is it time to jump off the wagon or was there more of Balt D and NE running no Huddle? Luckily Ryan Williams is sort of turning it around and I have hopes he can be a solid Flex option when Wells injury and weak Mia d coming up.

I agree with you on Lashoure, the only aside consideration I think is that in the last Q of the game the Lions had to throw a lot so his numbers could have been even higher. Next week going into Minny and with Stafford down he has a good chance to show off his skills, so it will be a good evaluation week but tough to jump on his band wagon right now.

Kind of similar with Ridley, It is a tough call, he did put up over a 100 total yards with 3 catches against Arizona, and their D has been very solid so far this year. I think this coming week going in to Buffalo is a a good match-up for him and will really be the penultimate week for him going forwrds. I say if you don't have a legit RB2 at this point Ridley is a decent start again this coming week.

I have mjd/mccoy, this is my flex spot I'm rolling with Williams should Wells injury keep him out next week. With Arz D and Mia craptacular O, I see alot of possesions for Arz to work Wiliams.

[b_mind]

I have mjd/mccoy, this is my flex spot I'm rolling with Williams should Wells injury keep him out next week. With Arz D and Mia craptacular O, I see alot of possesions for Arz to work Wiliams.

I'm thinking of dropping Smith for Williams myself for next week.

I'm in a tough bind for next week's matches. If R. Bush is injured for next week, I'll have to put one of my backup RBs to RB2, which includes A. Morris or Andre Brown.

A. Morris will be going up against a tough run defense in TB though, so I'm weary. While for A. Brown I'm unsure if Bradshaw will be back and he's playing against the Eagles. Or start Ryan Williams (if I get him) against Miami.

Either way I'm pretty much screwed for week 4 at RB.

At the flex, I'm going to have to go back to starting VJax against Washington.

[vincecarter4pres]

I'm not sweating that defense just yet. I think they're definitely good, but they aren't shutting down the Eagles.

They'll give up 3 or 4 total TD's and some solid yardage.

Ouch, tough call

Yeah, Arizona is legit, the Eagles line is shot to **** and Vick holds the ball entirely too long.

I kind of botched the hell out of that one. In my defense I'm an Eagles fan and definitely had some bias going there lol.