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Thanks for the response. I am pretty much scrapping the barrel right now with options. Either Carolina, Green Bay, LA Rams, or Titans are my only choices.
Whats wrong with GB? They have been a decent fantasy defense and face a Vikings team led by Case Keenum, Latavius Murray and possibly no Diggs.
How is this an easy schedule? TB has a good offense, Oakland has Carr back and looking ahead to the playoffs, Luck will be back.BUFFALO has a nice upcoming next 3 weeks, and the are are ......TAMPA BAY, OAKLAND, @ JETS . As a cherry on top, they get INDY and MIAMI @ home in weeks 14-15 of the playoffs if you can hold them.
Its not too early to start looking ahead to the playoffs, and targeting the easier schedules. We should at least begin to keep these in mind. (those of us that plan on MAKING the playoffs anyway)
Thoughts on anyone you might be trying to acquire this week after waivers run...? (I wait until after ours clear when appropriate, I know some of you may claim some of these along with your other pickups)
TZM
Not saying they arent a good defense just that I don't think their schedule should be pointed out as a positive. TB is 29th in my league in points allowed to defenses and OAK is 19th (and that's with 2 almost full games from Manuel).
In 4 games, Winston has had 2, that he threw only 1 TD. Against the Giants he threw 3 sure, but in the other game he threw 2, and he threw 3 INTs that game as well.
Baltimore's immediate schedule is even better indeed.
For clarity sake, the OL is not "injury riddled". They have had their starting LT Decker out since mini camp so from what I can see, the new developement lately has been Stafford holding the ball too long. He's been a bit indecisive and staring down receivers the last 2 weeks. I believe the sacks can be attributed more to that and it's correctable as long as Stafford starts playing a bit better. The O will probably get Golladay back this week which should open things up a bit. I would think NO would be a middle of the road play at best IMO. I think you can do better.
I don't know man, from what I saw he had zero time while trying to stage a comeback last week. By the time the ball reached his hands there was already a 300 pound dude breathing down his neck.
I think in predictable passing downs during a comeback situation with the D pinning their ear's back, you are going to be susceptible to that. I'm referring more to the regular game play that I've seen. I'm a diehard and Stafford has not played well. Too many times I've said "You have to throw it, you have to throw it!" and he isn't. He used to throw people open and lately he's waiting for them to show. That's a recipe for disaster. Our line is not great to begin with but they did bring two highly sought after veteran FAs in Lang and Wagner.I don't know man, from what I saw he had zero time while trying to stage a comeback last week. By the time the ball reached his hands there was already a 300 pound dude breathing down his neck.
Our line is a bit of a constant source of disappointment to me. Okay we've missed Decker, but we've brought in Lang and Wagner. Swanson was good for stretches in the last two seasons. How is it that we apparently improve on Rieff by letting him go to the Vikings, who had a terrible line last year, yet this year it seems to be better than ours ? I'm sure somebody could produce stats that would disprove all this, but sometimes I wonder about the Lions offensive line coaching
I hear you but I'd argue that Lang & Wagner hardly need coaching at this stage. Robinson is a backup starting at LT and he's been exposed at times but also has been ok for the most part. I honestly believe the truth lies in the run game. We haven't (still don't) have had a runner that installs the fear into a DL to hesitate with their rush a bit since a brief stint with Jahvid Best and nothing between him and Barry. This slows down a pass rush by making them honor the rushing attack. If I were a DC, I wouldn't worry about us either. Sorry for the hijack, I'll move my ramblings to the Lion's thread.
You have to go with ATL with Beasley back vs. Cutler without Parker. I think it's going to be a #### show.
Rolling New Orleans over Tampa this weekSameSongNDance said:
You deserve some kind of prize. The Saints D was absolutely ferocious yesterday. They had 16 defensed passes at the line. 3 scores. Constant pressure. Lattimore is the real deal. That 38 point stat line is deceptive, as the Lions had 2 DST scores themselves and got extra help from the refs. Now they get Hundley and Trubisky next.
