My fantasy season is mostly over thanks to a very flawed strategy of taking crappy players on crappy teams and Andre Johnson and Jay Cutler as my holdovers.
Oh well. Onward and Upward. So, I had two free agent moves left and I picked up Peyton Manning and Kenny Britt. Both of which will cost me $20 to holdover (total budget of $181...don't ask). So less than 10% for each to get a Top 3 QB and a rising star at WR who was the second best until a blown ligament.
I also have Antonio Brown for $8 and Tim Tebow for $5. I was hoping Stevan Ridley would have taken over for BenJarvis Green-Ellis by now...or at least an injury so he would get 15 plus touches a game. No luck there.
Looks like I will be paying big bucks for a #1 and #2 RB next year. Fingers crossed that Manning is back and Britt is 100%.
Showing posts with label Tim Tebow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Tebow. Show all posts
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tim Tebow is my Savior?
My strategy this year was to wait on starting QB, get a couple of mid-value guys, then shuffle them in-and-out of the lineup depending on the weekly matchup.
I felt pretty good about coming away with Joe Flacco and Jay Cutler. What a mistake. Cutler, through no fault of his own, cannot stay upright. And Flacco has been mediocre. On a weekly basis, I feel that I am already down 10 points to my opponents going into any matchup. Hell, they could have Rex Grossman going and I still don't feel confident that Flacco or Cutler will post 20 plus points (we get 6 points for any TD in our league).
Therein lies my strategic problem. With the value of TD's at 6 points, QB is vital to success in our league.
Okay, hindsight is 20/20. What to do now?
Call in the Savior...Tim Tebow. Granted, I have to wait another week, but he could be this fantasy season's Michael Vick. This is for fantasy, I don't give a crap if Denver losses the rest of their games. I just want Tim "Fantasy Savior" Tebow out there, running, throwing, catching, punting, kicking, tackling...whatever it takes to score points.
In limited action last weekend, he put up 17 fantasy points in a standard scoring league. In my league, that would have been good for 18 points. In one half!!! Last season he averaged 25 points per game in the last 3 games of the season (in my league, it was slightly better at 28.33 ppg).
So, I am going with Tebow. My season may be over (I have Andre Johnson as my #1 point-getter. Ouch.), so at least I can holdover Tebow for next-to-nothing for next year.
Tebow in 2012. I like the sound of that.
I felt pretty good about coming away with Joe Flacco and Jay Cutler. What a mistake. Cutler, through no fault of his own, cannot stay upright. And Flacco has been mediocre. On a weekly basis, I feel that I am already down 10 points to my opponents going into any matchup. Hell, they could have Rex Grossman going and I still don't feel confident that Flacco or Cutler will post 20 plus points (we get 6 points for any TD in our league).
Therein lies my strategic problem. With the value of TD's at 6 points, QB is vital to success in our league.
Okay, hindsight is 20/20. What to do now?
Call in the Savior...Tim Tebow. Granted, I have to wait another week, but he could be this fantasy season's Michael Vick. This is for fantasy, I don't give a crap if Denver losses the rest of their games. I just want Tim "Fantasy Savior" Tebow out there, running, throwing, catching, punting, kicking, tackling...whatever it takes to score points.
In limited action last weekend, he put up 17 fantasy points in a standard scoring league. In my league, that would have been good for 18 points. In one half!!! Last season he averaged 25 points per game in the last 3 games of the season (in my league, it was slightly better at 28.33 ppg).
So, I am going with Tebow. My season may be over (I have Andre Johnson as my #1 point-getter. Ouch.), so at least I can holdover Tebow for next-to-nothing for next year.
Tebow in 2012. I like the sound of that.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Jay Cutler versus Kyle Orton (Nevermind Tim Tebow)
As the NFL season, and more importantly
the Fantasy Football season, is about to start, it’s
worth looking at two quarterbacks that were traded for each other in 2009, have
performed fairly similarly over the past three
years and yet are viewed very differently.
Jay Cutler is often considered a borderline #1 fantasy quarterback while Kyle Orton is often lumped in with the Tarvaris Jacksons of the world as bye week waiver wire fodder.
Why? Probably because Cutler was a first round pick (#11 overall) in 2006 while Orton was a 4th rounder in 2005 (106th overall) and Cutler is said to throw a "laser" while Orton is the Tim Wakefield of NFL starting quarterbacks.
However, a look at their three year per season averages tells a much different story:
Cutler (15 games) – 25 TD, 20 INT, 3,822 yards, 82.9 QB Rating.
Orton (14 games) – 20 TD, 11 INT, 3,478 yards, 85.1 QB Rating.
In my opinion, you would be well advised to draft Orton at least two rounds later than Cutler, fill in your running back or receiver depth and not lose any production from your QB slot. And if you are worried about up and coming Christian Rock Star Tim Teblow (not a misprint) taking Orton’s job, check out Merrill Hoge’s take on the Young Messiah:
Jay Cutler is often considered a borderline #1 fantasy quarterback while Kyle Orton is often lumped in with the Tarvaris Jacksons of the world as bye week waiver wire fodder.
Why? Probably because Cutler was a first round pick (#11 overall) in 2006 while Orton was a 4th rounder in 2005 (106th overall) and Cutler is said to throw a "laser" while Orton is the Tim Wakefield of NFL starting quarterbacks.
However, a look at their three year per season averages tells a much different story:
Cutler (15 games) – 25 TD, 20 INT, 3,822 yards, 82.9 QB Rating.
Orton (14 games) – 20 TD, 11 INT, 3,478 yards, 85.1 QB Rating.
In my opinion, you would be well advised to draft Orton at least two rounds later than Cutler, fill in your running back or receiver depth and not lose any production from your QB slot. And if you are worried about up and coming Christian Rock Star Tim Teblow (not a misprint) taking Orton’s job, check out Merrill Hoge’s take on the Young Messiah:
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