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All Aboard the Rainey Trainey (2 Viewers)
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belljr
Footballguy
3.7 ty
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
15.5 points in PPR. Boom
belljr
Footballguy
More like doug martin territory.
its in the bag. coaches love rainey. he fumbled the game away and cost his team a chance to tie against carolina. 2 more today and they still trot him out there.
they obv hate martin. he practices for 2 weeks straight and they wont let him play. its not bc he aint healthy. its bc hes close to getting cut. meanwhile, all the beat reporters are talking about is how rainey is the starter going forward and how much the coaches prefer him.
this guy is gonna be a garbage time monster the rest of the season. martin is a healthy scratch and fumbling every 10 touches wont even get james in the game.
rdrouyn
Footballguy
msudaisy26
Footballguy
What are you even talking about? What happens when a game is a blowout? They put their 3rd and 4th stringers in there to finish it out. Rainey may have been demoted mid game. The other conclusion is Lovie is the exact opposite of guys like Coughlin, instead of pulling them out he sends them back in there and says learn from your mistakes. Either way you are so far off on this, if Martin got cut he would be claimed by almost every team. Not even the Bucs are that dumb.
We can add this up to your other great calls, about the Bengals dumping Dalton, and signed Josh Freeman because he is better than Dalton and can throw it deep to your boy Green and help you win your fantasy league
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SameSongNDance
Footballguy
msudaisy26
Footballguy
They both had a couple of good games but Rainey averaged like 3.7 yards per carry last year. I think James was 4.7 or something, but he had a very small sample size. The production was really no different than Martin's, mostly average or below average games and then boom they would bust out a good game.
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Kool-Aid Larry
Footballguy
rainey owners are pullin' a trainey
rdrouyn
Footballguy
Also it is important to watch the games, I remember one game against Buffalo last year where Rainey did nothing the whole game and then found a enormous hole and ran a 80 yarder with a TD at some point. Those types of box scores are great for fantasy but in reality he wasnt productive 95% of the game. In between the tackles he gets you nothing. He is more of a RBBC back.
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lol, way to take one smidgeon of a long post completely out of context and use it in a thread that has absolutely no relevancy.
explain how martin can practice for 2 weeks straight and then get deactivated? you know who that happens to? players that arent good enough to crack the lineup and earn playing time. doug martin was a healthy scratch this week. i dont see how it can be any more obv that this is raineys backfield.
bagger
Footballguy
rdrouyn
Footballguy
lol wut? this happens all the time for players with ankle/knee sprains. Jamaal Charles was practicing today, if he doesn't play Sunday does that mean he's benched?
shoecrew22
Footballguy
Ppr...making scrubs relevant since the dawn of fantasy football.
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How are u guys not getting penalized for fumble losses in your leagues??
SameSongNDance
Footballguy
GeorgeCostanza
Footballguy
yea all ppr leagues did was make FFB even more flukey. you can just throw anyone that gets decent playing time in your lineup and compete. this is why FFB is so popular. literally any idiot can win
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
You should figure out what your lineup should be, and then do the opposite of that.
skinsrule05
Footballguy
It is pretty ridiculous for a guy w 110 yds, no TDs and 2 fumbles to score 17.Reegus said:
Godsbrother
Footballguy
He got 8 pts in our league, (0.5 PPR, -3 FUM)
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
Reegus said:
matttyl
Footballguy
So, going forward how does all of this shake out? Does he even remain with the team? Does Martin come back as a bell cow? The Bucs play a weaker run defense week 4 and Martin will have had 3 weeks of "rest", and the rest of the offense will have 10 days to recover form last night.
The 10 days of rest is probably why Martin did not play last night ... He should be 100% with fresh legs by the next game
mikel0254
Footballguy
I don't see any way he gets cut. The coaches like him....maybe not as much after the two fumbles last night, but given the way they kept going to him over James & Sims after those two fumbles, tells me they like him better than James or Sims.
But Martin will for sure get the opportunity to start and seize the job for the rest of the year. I'd say 70% of the carries until he struggles again (which is bound to happen) at which point Rainey will be given another shot. All in all, I think it's a messy backfield to rely on week to week.
matttyl
Footballguy
Sims is on the IR (possibly the temporary one is memory serves). He wasn't available last night away. James had a net of -1 yard last night. They didn't have a lot of options.
mikel0254
Footballguy
Ah, didn't realize that. Regardless, they had James in there plenty and still kept coming back to Rainey
joffer
Footballguy
Hate penalizing for fumbles
steveski
Footballguy
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but if you get points for scoring a TD then you should lose points for giving the ball to the other team.
joffer
Footballguy
i disagree
Godsbrother
Footballguy
But didn't he trip on his way to the gatorade table -- how does your league not penalize for that?
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steveski
Footballguy
Do you have a rational reason as to why you don't think you should lose points for fumbling or do you just own Rainey and wish you had 4 more points than you do now?
