TTH NFL Fantasy Football 2017 thread

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

GAME OF THE WEEK - Packers v Rams - Over/under 54.5 total points

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Jaguars v Eagles (London)
Broncos v Chiefs
Browns v Steelers
Redskins v Giants
Seahawks v Lions
Bucs v Bengals
Ravens v Panthers
Bears v Jets
49ers v Cardinals
Raiders v Colts
Saints v Vikings
Bills v Patriots

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The #1 QB this week will be... Mahomes

The #1 RB this week will be... David Johnson

The #1 WR this week will be... Diggs

The #1 TE this week will be... Kelce

The #1 DST this week will be... Patriots

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This week, Josh Rosen will score... 16 points

BONUS QUESTION - Will Blake Bortles be benched again this week? Yes

[Pleb]

GAME OF THE WEEK - Packers v Rams - Over/under 54.5 total points

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Jaguars v Eagles (London)
Broncos v Chiefs
Browns v Steelers
Redskins v Giants
Seahawks v Lions
Bucs v Bengals
Ravens v Panthers
Bears v Jets
49ers v Cardinals
Raiders v Colts
Saints v Vikings
Bills v Patriots

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The #1 QB this week will be... Brady

The #1 RB this week will be... KAREEMMMM HUNT

The #1 WR this week will be... Thielen

The #1 TE this week will be... Ertz

The #1 DST this week will be... Patriots

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This week, Josh Rosen will score... 10 points

BONUS QUESTION - Will Blake Bortles be benched again this week? I'm surprised he's still alive. Yes.

[Foe]

With lesean mccoy in concussion protocol I've had to pick up a spare back and will need to make a decision later today on who to play.

Best player available was Alfred Morris. With breida struggling and cj beathard at the helm, reckon he might get some carries.

[Baz]

Have faith in McCoy like me.

[thommo]

GAME OF THE WEEK - Packers v Rams - Over/under 54.5 total points

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Jaguars v Eagles (London)
Broncos v Chiefs
Browns v Steelers
Redskins v Giants
Seahawks v Lions
Bucs v Bengals
Ravens v Panthers
Bears v Jets
49ers v Cardinals
Raiders v Colts
Saints v Vikings
Bills v Patriots

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The #1 QB this week will be... Andrew Luck

The #1 RB this week will be... James White

The #1 WR this week will be... Brandin Cooks

The #1 TE this week will be... Travis Kelce

The #1 DST this week will be... Redskins

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This week, Josh Rosen will score... 21.4 points

BONUS QUESTION - Will Blake Bortles be benched again this week? No

[Gray Fox]

Just realised I forgot to do picks, dammit.

As for my work league. Ended up going for Keenum at QB and swapped out Engram for OJ Howard. So no doubt I'll see Brate catch 3 TDs.

[thommo]

Stick them in now, no scores as of yet.

[Gray Fox]

Winston is fucking garbage.

[Dan]

My team in the Yahoo dynasty league is almost at 200pts

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck Chris Carson and James Conner.

Oh and everyone on my team bar Watson, Hopkins and Evans.

[Browning]

I have proposed a slight relaxation of the roster limits in the 12 teamer. Yes, it may benefit me next week as I could end up with no QB at this rate... but I'm sure other teams will fall victim to it at some stage, and it seems to make sense to me. If anyone doesn't like it though, let me know, and we'll put it to a vote or something. If I have to take an L next week, so be it, but yea, I feel I won't be the only one to get bitten by it at some stage.

As far as my leagues go... somehow, I'm currently winning everywhere. I thought Mahow had beaten me already, so shocked by that one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You and me both

[Gray Fox]

15 points down in the work league.

Thielen, Kirk, Baily and Cards D to his Cooks, Zuerlein and Rams D.

[Browning]

What is going on with these late games? No fucker is scoring points.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ebron seems to be doing ok...

[Gray Fox]

Rosen keeps missing Kirk and it's got me pulling my hair out.

[thommo]

Picked up Josh Reynolds this morning in the Dynasty league, he was the only WR free agent who had a remote chance of gaining points. I then decided to keep him on the bench and play Breida anyway....

[Gray Fox]

So after that double late game drama, it's all set.

In TTH standard I lead by 7, but Tommo has Vikings D and Diggs to play, whilst I'm done scoring. Nothing I can do but accept defeat here.

Dynasty is different. I'm 12 points up with my Edelman to go against his Ingram and Latty Murray. I could see that one being very close.

Dans Dynasty sees me up by 70, Pleb has Brady, Patterson and Kelvin Benjamin. If they somehow put up those points I've still got Ingram, Kamara and Lutz to back me up.

The end of the 2 evening games has changed things in my work league though. That Kirk touchdown saved the day on him as he was sat on 2 points through most of the game, this brought me to within 14 points of my opponent and I was feeling confident.
But then the Packers shit the bed. A field goal for his kicker combined with the fumble on the kick-off bumps his lead back up to 19.02 points.

He's done scoring, whilst I have Dan Bailey and Thielen to go. I have a bad feeling Thielen might finally have his down game this week too. 10 points off each isn't a lot to ask for, right?

[thommo]

Well I've sealed a win in the regular league with that Diggs TD, as Gray Fox says.

Dynasty is a different matter - Kamara, Lutz and the Minnesota DST to play, but I'm way behind and my opponent has Gronk and James White tomorrow against the Bills, so I'm pretty sure it's already over.

[Gray Fox]

Luckily my work league doesn't have negative points for kicking misses. My worry here is that, still needing 11 points, Thielen may be in a situation where he needs to get them himself.

I'm hoping that missed extra point doesn't come back to haunt me.

[Gray Fox]

I think the Thielen fumble has put a nail in the coffin here. I'm pretty much going to need him to score, or hope Bailey hits two FG from 50+

[Gray Fox]

My worry here is that, still needing 11 points, Thielen may be in a situation where he needs to get them himself.

This ended up being what has happened. I've lost by 1.3 points, unless I get something heavily corrected in my favour.

[Dan]

My team in the Yahoo dynasty league is almost at 200pts

[Gray Fox]

Wow so Gurley taking a knee last night had big consequences.

I know several people who have lost thanks to him not running it into the end zone and they are fuming. Same thing happened to me with Ingram a few weeks back.

It also did a few other things. Vegas will be thanking him. Had Gurley run it in, the game would have fulfilled the over, but it fell 1 point short. The Rams were also 7.5 point favourites and ended up only winning by 2 with him pulling up short. Some big time money lost around the world.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He was always going to take a knee there.

It meant there was no way in hell that they lost.

It was the correct play.

[Limoutsonik]

Unless Gronk is deactivate today or scores less than 4 points,i am looking at a 9/9 win lockout in all of my leagues. Mon the pats!

[Dan]

Wow so Gurley taking a knee last night had big consequences.

I know several people who have lost thanks to him not running it into the end zone and they are fuming. Same thing happened to me with Ingram a few weeks back.

It also did a few other things. Vegas will be thanking him. Had Gurley run it in, the game would have fulfilled the over, but it fell 1 point short. The Rams were also 7.5 point favourites and ended up only winning by 2 with him pulling up short. Some big time money lost around the world.

The fact that people are going to be mad at that is just hilarious. As if he gives a fraction of a fuck about anyone’s fantasy team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, you don't want to give Rodgers a chance at a miraculous comeback.

He's done it enough times that you don't take the chance.

[Browning]

Also he put up silly points anyway as he always does. Your team sucks if you have Gurley and still can’t win.

[Gray Fox]

Indeed. And he definitely gives zero fucks about anything other than the Rams.

Stunning to think he's the same player we saw at Twickenham 2 years ago. Absolute monster.

[Dan]

I think I’ve lost more games the first 8 weeks of this season than the last 2 years combined

[Limoutsonik]

FUCKING GRONK,i lost by 0.8 points!110.02 was my score haul and 110.10 was my opponents'.Fuck's sake.

[Browning]

A fucking tie? That’s insane.

[Gray Fox]

I've never seen anything like it before.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Browns boys.

[Pleb]

I'm done for the season lads, mourn for me.

EDIT - Actually looking at Dan's Dynasty I'm on life support

[Gray Fox]

I'm playing against the Bears in the work league this week. God help me.

[Limoutsonik]

Obligatory "where are last weeks' results" and "remember to include thursday's game on the weekly pick'ems" post.

[Gray Fox]

Week 9:


TTH - Standard 3-5

Up against Mahows joke of a team, so I'm going to need my Chiefs stack to come in big. I'm also not sure I've ever seen a QB projected 32 points before. Luckily the league is still tight. Just the 1 win separating 9th from 4th. Each win/loss from here will have big a massive effect on who makes it past week 13.

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TTH - Dynasty 2-5-1

You read that record right. I somehow pulled a draw off in fantasy football. I was expecting a stat correction either way to seal it. It only needed one yard either way after all.
Unfortunately it didn't help my situation much. I'm looking at needed a win streak to sneak into the play offs. Given that I'm facing the worst byepocalypse I've ever had, it doesn't seem like it starts this week.

I've never been given a 16% chance of winning before the scoring has even started. Long week ahead here.

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Dans Dynasty 6-2



A bit of separation has began to happen in this league. The top 5 have started to break away, which could further expand this week. Only 2 of the top 5 face each other. Given there are only 4 play-off spots here this could be crucial.

I'm projected to win by about 40 points this week, but we'll see if that actually happens.

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Work League 5-3



The disgrace of losing last week hurt. Any of a number of things would have pushed me over the line. Hopkins insane catch being called back. Ty Montgomery taking a knee. Rosen throwing more than 1 capable pass to Kirk. Thielen being targeted once more in garbage time too.

It means the league is now very tight. I've finished 10-3 the last 2 seasons in this league, but I'll need some good going to get that now.

One thing that has helped is trade deadline day. In this league I've held stock in Aaron Jones and Marvin Jones jr. I was tempted to trade the latter last week, but decided to hold out. With Tate out of the picture it poses the question to Jones. Are they just happy that they're starting to establish the running game? If not, there's >20% target share that now gets to be divided between Golladay and Jones.

Aaron Jones also gets a bump by losing one of his competition. You'd think he's the back you want on the field if the Packers are trying to run the ball in.

Despite being next to last, I also managed to pick up DJ Moore. This leaves me with some 'good' headaches this week.

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It's good to finally face someone in this league who loses someone meaningful to bye weeks.

The Bucs are the worst defence in football. So I've gone for Moore for now, but then Jones is going to see more volume and that defence just got roasted by the Saints. I've got my eye on Gordon to see how his practice goes, but I'm happy to plug in Jones if needs be.

I'm not overly thrilled with Ryans matchup this week. However the only waiver options are Smith, Dak and Carr. I'm not too sure I could trust to play any of those, but Smith does have Atlanta followed by Tampa Bay next week. If he's ever going to score points it'll be now.

[Dan]

Obligatory "where are last weeks' results" and "remember to include thursday's game on the weekly pick'ems" post.

I’ll do the results tonight. Starting a new job on Monday so I’ve been slipping on this. Get picks in for TNF tonight, and if you want to use someone from Thursday in your weekly pick’em then just throw them out at the same time & I’ll count them even if I don’t get the actual form done tonight.

[Limoutsonik]

TNF result=Raiders win,no players to pick from in that matchup.

[Dan]

Oh yeah, it’s Raiders/Niners, isn’t it? They’ve really been on a roll with TNF lately

[Pleb]

Yep I'm definitely on life support. Another loss in both TTH and Dan's Dynasty will cause me to rethink my life and forget about the Playoffs. I'm facing Dan in TTH this week

Shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Raiders and I want their Defence too.

Edit: I don't want their DST I was joking.

[Gray Fox]

Raiders, but still think Bears will be better

[Dan]

Raiders for me too.

If the Bears weren’t playing Peterman this week I’d seriously consider the Oakland defence, but as it is they’re nowhere near good enough to trust over Chicago.

[Pleb]

Shit I gotta pick Raiders? Niners are trash aren't they?

[Gray Fox]

Niners with Beathard would still probably win. Random unknown QB instead though.

Breida will see a lot of work tonight.

[Dan]

Okay, pick'em results. Another high scoring week...

@Gray Fox - 1pt (at least you got your TNF pick in)
@Pleb - 23pts
@thommo - 32pts
Me - 41pts
@Limoutsonik & @Sir Andy Mahowry - 47pts

Loads of points handed out between Mahomes, Kelce & the Patriots DST, but Limoutsonik deserves special mention for a perfect week of picks AND nailing James Conner as the top RB.

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Can't be arsed to run through the other bits, but Thommo is out of survivor having not made a pick & you can all see the standings for daily on the league page.

I'll do week 9 now as I won't get a chance until some time on Saturday otherwise.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A special mention? The prick couldn't even beat me.