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[bumpman]

kudos to those who started Turner. That is a gamble that paid off in droves. After two weeks, Turner only has 25 rushing yards less than LT2!

 

[SSOG]

I guess SSOG's runningback and team knowledge doesn't extend past the Rockies.

If someone had posted a thread talking about what a great play it would have been to start Mack Strong over LaMont Jordan, hopefully everyone can agree that that would be absolutely ludicrous. Guess what... Mack Strong wound up outscoring LaMont Jordan.Just because you buy a winning lottery ticket doesn't mean that buying lottery tickets is a sound business decision. If San Diego played Tennessee again next week, I'd bench Michael Turner all over again.I said earlier in this very thread that Turner wasn't going to have much fantasy value unless he ripped off an 83 yard run. Turns out he ripped off a 73 yard run, instead. That's the sort of thing that is a complete and total fluke, and cannot at all be predicted.Anyway, congratulations to everyone who had the balls to start Turner this week, because the gamble paid off brilliantly. I still firmly believe that it was not a sound fantasy decision (any more than starting Mack Strong over LaMont Jordan would have been, even though Mack Strong wound up outscoring Jordan), but I doubt you very much care because Turner wound up putting up a great score, and you're all probably laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[el-gato-grande]

I guess SSOG's runningback and team knowledge doesn't extend past the Rockies.

If someone had posted a thread talking about what a great play it would have been to start Mack Strong over LaMont Jordan, hopefully everyone can agree that that would be absolutely ludicrous. Guess what... Mack Strong wound up outscoring LaMont Jordan.Just because you buy a winning lottery ticket doesn't mean that buying lottery tickets is a sound business decision. If San Diego played Tennessee again next week, I'd bench Michael Turner all over again.I said earlier in this very thread that Turner wasn't going to have much fantasy value unless he ripped off an 83 yard run. Turns out he ripped off a 73 yard run, instead. That's the sort of thing that is a complete and total fluke, and cannot at all be predicted.Anyway, congratulations to everyone who had the balls to start Turner this week, because the gamble paid off brilliantly. I still firmly believe that it was not a sound fantasy decision (any more than starting Mack Strong over LaMont Jordan would have been, even though Mack Strong wound up outscoring Jordan), but I doubt you very much care because Turner wound up putting up a great score, and you're all probably laughing all the way to the bank.

Funny how "I was wrong" never appears in this post. At least some of the others had the sack to admit they miscalculated (at least for this particular contest). You and my father are cut from the same cloth. Maybe I should pass you his number and you could start a club. MT actually has quite a history of ripping off long runs. He had an 83 yard run in a game last December against the Colts and runs of 45 and 38 yards in preseason games this year. Hmmmm...maybe that is why he had a 5.7 YPC average heading into this season.

 

[SSOG]

Funny how "I was wrong" never appears in this post. At least some of the others had the sack to admit they miscalculated (at least for this particular contest). You and my father are cut from the same cloth. Maybe I should pass you his number and you could start a club. MT actually has quite a history of ripping off long runs. He had an 83 yard run in a game last December against the Colts and runs of 45 and 38 yards in preseason games this year. Hmmmm...maybe that is why he had a 5.7 YPC average heading into this season.

I was absolutely wrong this week, but I still think it was a "lottery ticket" situation. Just because it happened to pay off doesn't mean it was a sound business decision, so to speak. A gamble can work out and still be a bad gamble (just like a decision can fail and still be a good decision- for instance, starting Peyton Manning over Rex Grossman this week was a good decision, even if Grossman DID outscore Peyton in a lot of formats).I congratulate the people who had the balls to try it, and I'm sure they don't care that I think it was an unsound decision, because as I said, they're laughing on the way to the bank.Also, as for Turner's "history" of ripping off long runs... I don't know how many long runs he could have ripped off in his history. Only twice in his career has he had more than 50 yards rushing. He had an 83 yard TD last season, but before that his longest career run was 30 yards- that's not counting games against scrubs and second-stringers playing vanilla defense in the preseason, that's only counting the games that count.

 

[-OZ-]

I was absolutely wrong this week, but I still think it was a "lottery ticket" situation. Just because it happened to pay off doesn't mean it was a sound business decision, so to speak. A gamble can work out and still be a bad gamble (just like a decision can fail and still be a good decision- for instance, starting Peyton Manning over Rex Grossman this week was a good decision, even if Grossman DID outscore Peyton in a lot of formats).

It was a risk, but nowhere near a "lottery ticket situation". The reasons and logic was clear here, while there is none in a lottery. If you started Rock Cartwright, that would have been a lottery. Foreseeing the Chargers stomping on the Titans and playing a RB who has performed when called on, and resting their star player in a meaningless game (at that point) was not difficult to do. I highly doubt I'd play Turner in any other week, and in those, you would be correct. But in the future, if you have a very talented backup RB on a team that will dominate the Titans, he may be worth playing. (there aren't many situations like this)