I couldn't get Mahomes (may try to trade later)... Running with Hill, Kelce, Williams, Thompson, Watkins. This could end very poorly.
Don't worry, it will end poorly.
These types of moves usually end in disaster. Any team,
every team is going to toss up a few bad outings every year. When that comes you are virtually assured of a loss.
I can see the appeal of a stack, like Mahomes/Hill, but I even try and avoid that if I can.... well
mostly.
I try and stud it up at every position if I can, and let the real talent overcome your opponents rosters. Thats what our game is about, day in and day out. Outscore your opponents, and get wins. Get into the playoffs and try and win from there. Simple as that.
Now, that aside, I do know there is one particular time when I want to gamble on a stack, or a couple players from a specific team. And its a very rare occurrence.
Some years ago, I found myself in a massive
HOLE after some Thursday night shenanigans. I was roughly 40-50 points down and my opponent had only started 2 slots. Anyhow, so I knew I would need to gamble, and hope for a high variance lightning bolt. (Thats a big deficit in our standard-ish scoring)
I went to the wire and looked, ultimately found a young
NICK FOLES and any WR I could pair with him. (I wasn't looking for Foles in particular, he just happened to have a great matchup that week, whilst my rostered QB had a tough one) Long story short, I picked up Foles, and someone by the name of
RILEY COOPER.
Some of the old guard around here may recall what happened. A young essentially unknown
NICK FOLES threw like 7 TDs , and as luck would have it, he threw 3 to
RILEY COOPER.
I ended up with some crazy head to head victory by a very small margin, and my opponent (a great friend who has since passed away) went crazy~! He said "How did you figure that would happen?". Well, I didn't. I just put myself in a high variance scenario, where I
NEEDED TO GET LUCKY and
I GOT LUCKY . No other way around it. But, I had to put myself in that position to get lucky. And, you aren't going to get lucky week in and week out. Cuffing yourself to one specific team like you have OP, it doesn't usually turn out well.
Do you think you can get lucky all season long?
Do you think this is the "one time in history" that the KC/Mahomes led offense will continue to break records and perform at the highest of the highest levels like last year???? Possibly, but its just not happened like that traditionally.
Play and draft who you want , but don't expect history to be made season after season in certain scenarios. Don't get cute, and try and beat your opponents with the best team you can. Thats what this is all about.
QUICK EDIT - For those curious, I was in an essentially "must win scenario". I know it was early season, but I was 0-3 or something like that. FWIW, I won that week, and ultimately got knocked out the first week of the playoffs. (which I never would have been there if it wasn't for this slick win)
TZM