Fantasy Football: Play 'em or Bench 'em Discussion!

[Brill Weave]

Here you go Tyven, time for you to do some critiquing. The following are my teams. Standard Yahoo league, no return yards etc, and team quarterbacks(in all four league.) Two were live draft and the other two were autodraft. My autodraft ones I'm not thrilled with.

Team 1(Live Draft)
QB - Matt Schaub vs. PIT
WR - Torry Holt vs. PHI
WR - Wes Welker vs. KC
RB - Adrian Peterson vs. GB
RB - Frank Gore vs. AZ
TE - Tony Gonzalez vs. NE
WR/RB - Jerricho Cotchery vs. MIA
Bench Players - Kenny Watson, Jake Delhomme, Alge Crumpler, and Ronnie Brown

Team 2(Live Draft)
QB - Tom Brady vs. KC
WR - Marques Colston vs. TB
WR - Jerricho Cotchery vs. MIA
RB - Ryan Grant vs. MIN
RB - Willis McGahee vs. CIN
TE - Chris Cooley vs. NYG
Bench Players - Matt Forte, Ahman Green, Jason Campbell, Zach Miller, and Bernard Berrian

Team 3(Autodraft)
QB - Peyton Manning vs. CHI
WR - Braylon Edwards vs. DAL
WR - Donald Driver vs. MIN
RB - Reggie Bush vs. TB
RB - Julius Jones vs. BUF
TE - Antonio Gates vs. CAR
WR/RB - Jericho Cotchery vs. MIA
Bench Players - Ronnie Brown, D.J. Hackett, Tony Scheffler, Drew Bennett, Matt Leinart, and Leon Washington

Team 4(Autodraft)
QB - Matt Hasselbeck vs. BUF
WR - T.J. Houdshmandzadeh vs. BAL
WR - Marvin Harrison vs. CHI
WR - Roddy White vs. DET
RB - Marion Barber vs. CLE
RB - Frank Gore vs. AZ
TE - Vernon Davis vs. AZ
WR/RB - Julius Jones vs. BUF
Bench Player - Brandon Marshall, Phillip Rivers, Isaac Bruce, Justin Gage, Zach Miller, and Chris Johnson.

Hit me. So far for my last team I'm really on the fence about swapping Julius Jones for Chris Johnson and Old Man Bruce for Roddy White.

[recuperi]

I would honestly put Bruce in there. Arizona's corners aren't anything to scream about, so you can expect him to be thrown to plenty in that game, as opposed to having a rookie QB playing in basically his first real game. I'd expect more dumps to TEs and RBs that game from Ryan really.

Also, I think Morris is going to at least be the starter, so Jones is really a gamble depending on how Morris ends up doing early in the game. Johnson is a fairly safe bet since TEN doesn't have much in the way of passing, and it's been known that he's going to be splitting carries with White for a while.

Sorry you had Cooley in for this week, they didn't do much looking his way for some reason

[Akiyama]

Start Ricky Williams or Marvin Harrison at the RB/WR position?

[tyven]

Start Ricky Williams or Marvin Harrison at the RB/WR position?

Marvin

@ Brill

Team 1 is very solid
Team 2 i would swap Forte for Grant. grant might seem like the safer bet but i still like the rookie against the colts over dinged up Grant against minnesota run D. really both arent very favorable matchups though so i wouldnt expect much from either player.
Team 3 i really dont like julius jones but you are extremely limited there
Team 4 definitely chris johnson > julius, CJ is a homerun threat everytime he touches it. isaac vs white is a coin flip if you ask me. once you have marshall back thats a great squad if everyone stays healthy.

[Akiyama]

I was leaning towards Marvin, but you can't blame a guy for being iffy about him. Ricky's going up against a weaker Run Defense, even though they did sure it up a little in the offseason. Might end up flipping a coin.

[Brill Weave]

Yeah, my first team is by far and away my best bet at finishing in some money. The fucking autodraft league apparently loves Julius Jones, who I can't fucking stand. Forte I'm really torn with. He didn't look good at all during the preseason but Grant at Minnesota is a brutal match up. The thing that's making me keep Grant in at this point is Aaron Rodgers. He's probably going to see a lot of heat since it's his first real game, so I'm hoping he's going to pull a few check downs to Grant in the passing game.

White I probably will hold off on starting for a few games, at least until I see how Ryan is able to perform. So this week I'm expecting a few in the L column just based on some of these matchups I've got. Either way I'm just happy the season is starting. Now only how many months until hockey starts.

[Mizango]

30 Minutes! I'm seriously about to mosh in my living room right now.

[Brill Weave]

14 minutes Miz! We got the radio tuned up here at work and there's four of us sitting around it like it's a fucking camp bonfire

[recuperi]

cutting real close Thomas Jones or Selvin Young?

[Akiyama]

TJ

[recuperi]

had young in there all week but just started thinking about defenses this morning, and I don't trust weekly rankings much lol. ty for the quick response

[Brill Weave]

Nice fucking call on Chris Johnson!

[Fistandantilus]

Gah I keep second guessing myself, my WR#3 is normally Steve Smith but for these first two weeks I can't decide who to play. I have Eddie Royal and Javon Walker on my team, I have planned on using Royal but now I am second guessing myself since he is a rookie and all. Ronald Curry who is in the FA was just named as a team captain for the Raiders, so I'm thinking maybe that hints that he will be a pretty big component in the offense? other options are a WR from the bears colts game that starts soon, but all the colts WR are take and with Orton at QB I don't really see that being a better option than a starting WR for denver. Darrel Jackson is also in the FA, but he is starting opposite Royal, hasn't looked as good in camp, and is dealing with an injury. I don't need a huge game as I'm already up by a decent margin, but he has Donald Driver and if Driver has a real solid game then I'll need 5-10 points from whoever I play here.

[Mizango]

Willie Parker payed off for me in a huge way :D

[Akiyama]

Willie Parker payed off for me in a huge way :D

/grammarhammer. paid*

[tyven]

lol i benched hines ward for santonio holmes in IDP. silly mike tomlin is ruining my life.

edit: both my BG teams getting stomped but both my money league teams are tearing it up, wb mcnabb

edit2: hows kurp's team doing in BG east, phil rivers, reggie bush, randy moss, kellen winslow all should have paid off

[Fistandantilus]

He has like 95ish and looks to beat Ryany, I have what looks like it will be the high score of 126 despite getting 0 points from stallworth who I had to play while Steve Smith is suspended. It seems that drafting all the Lions was a brilliant idea! (Michael Turner not so bad either...)

[Mizango]

lol i benched hines ward for santonio holmes in IDP. silly mike tomlin is ruining my life.

lol Ouch

I had sorry ass Hasslebeck as my QB, way to blow it in Buffalo.

[archibaldcrane]

I'm pretty much raping in the IDP league - in 3rd but still have 3 defensive starters. Defense is so key. Should be in first by the end of tomorrow - Nick Barnett, Aaron Kampman and Gibril Wilson.

[wyrmtung]

lol i benched hines ward for santonio holmes in IDP. silly mike tomlin is ruining my life.

edit: both my BG teams getting stomped but both my money league teams are tearing it up, wb mcnabb

edit2: hows kurp's team doing in BG east, phil rivers, reggie bush, randy moss, kellen winslow all should have paid off

Enjoy while you can. McNabb does it every year. He puts up insane stats for the first few weeks then gets injured. It took me three years to learn my lesson but I finally refrained from choosing him this year, even tho he was the best QB on the board at the time.