Benching Tomlinson? (1 Viewer)

[jcuadrado]

If LT was ruled out because of injury....I'd still play him..

He's that good....

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

I would if I like my other options. People talk as if LT is god. He has NEVER thats NEVER lead the league in rushing. I have him on one team and I can think of atleast 4 backs this week I would start in his stead.So if your other options are better this week by all means bench the man.

He is as close to god as it gets with FFL RB's. Never lead the league in rushing? so what?

 

[enfuego]

I would if I like my other options. People talk as if LT is god. He has NEVER thats NEVER lead the league in rushing. I have him on one team and I can think of atleast 4 backs this week I would start in his stead.So if your other options are better this week by all means bench the man.

He is as close to god as it gets with FFL RB's. Never lead the league in rushing? so what?

Common sense says the REAL reason Schottenheimer starts LT is in an effort to motivate Michael Turner...

 

[Rhino802]

Here is was an interesting comment on stopping LT:

As Trevor Pryce said to me today, you don't shut down Tomlinson. You hope he gets food poisoning the night before.

(from Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times)

 

[VIKEfan]

I would if I like my other options. People talk as if LT is god. He has NEVER thats NEVER lead the league in rushing. I have him on one team and I can think of atleast 4 backs this week I would start in his stead.So if your other options are better this week by all means bench the man.

I could care less about leading the league in rushing. So what if someone else out rushes my LT by 50 yards and gets the rushing title. If LT out gains the league leader by 400 yards receiving and has 3 more total TDs, I'll call that success.

 

[jamil]

Here is was an interesting comment on stopping LT:As Trevor Pryce said to me today, you don't shut down Tomlinson. You hope he gets food poisoning the night before.(from Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times)

please don't let this happen.

 

[Billy Ball Thorton]

I would if I like my other options. People talk as if LT is god. He has NEVER thats NEVER lead the league in rushing. I have him on one team and I can think of atleast 4 backs this week I would start in his stead.

So if your other options are better this week by all means bench the man.

So, what rule of thumb do you apply to arrive at that decision regarding say, the LT2 vs CTaylor dilemna this week?

In my opinion I would not be able to bring myself to bench LT in favor of CT this week. I would bench him forLJ

BW

RJ

and most likely SJ this week

anyone else it would be very difficult.

 

[Billy Ball Thorton]

I would if I like my other options. People talk as if LT is god. He has NEVER thats NEVER lead the league in rushing. I have him on one team and I can think of atleast 4 backs this week I would start in his stead.So if your other options are better this week by all means bench the man.

I could care less about leading the league in rushing. So what if someone else out rushes my LT by 50 yards and gets the rushing title. If LT out gains the league leader by 400 yards receiving and has 3 more total TDs, I'll call that success.

I was not bashing him as much as trying to make a point he has bad games like anyone else. Trying to illustrate he can be stopped from TIME to TIME.

 

[Marc Levin]

I sit him once a year when they play that vaunted BYE defense.

Agreed. Although benching him down the stretch last year after his rib injury would have been reasonable, and as it turned out, generally the right move.

Unless you were in a PPR. He had a dearth of TDs, but he still put up good numbers in a PPR - an extra 3 points per game over his no-PPr numbers.He wasn't "the man," but he DID have over 10 FF points per game in PPR leagues.

 

[Marc Levin]

If LT was ruled out because of injury....I'd still play him..He's that good....

 

[zamboni]

I sit him once a year when they play that vaunted BYE defense.

Agreed. Although benching him down the stretch last year after his rib injury would have been reasonable, and as it turned out, generally the right move.

Unless you were in a PPR. He had a dearth of TDs, but he still put up good numbers in a PPR - an extra 3 points per game over his no-PPr numbers.He wasn't "the man," but he DID have over 10 FF points per game in PPR leagues.

Fair enough. I'm in a TD-heavy league, so the impact was much more severe there.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Why don't people who do dumb crap like this ever play in the same leagues I do?

 

[-OZ-]

Anybody thinking of pointing him to the bench against the vaunted Ravens defense?

There is one player in the NFL who I would never bench, no matter who else I have on my team, no matter the matchups. LT is that player.

 

[purestrength]

Anybody thinking of pointing him to the bench against the vaunted Ravens defense?

There is one player in the NFL who I would never bench, no matter who else I have on my team, no matter the matchups. LT is that player.

I pretty much agree with you, although I would put Peyton Manning in the same category.

 

[Sweeper]

Stop trying to over coach your team and put the single best offensive player in the NFL in your starting FF lineup.

 

[Vibe Raiders]

Anyone who has LT and sits him doesn't deserve him! Trade Now!!!

 

[-OZ-]

Anybody thinking of pointing him to the bench against the vaunted Ravens defense?

There is one player in the NFL who I would never bench, no matter who else I have on my team, no matter the matchups. LT is that player.

I pretty much agree with you, although I would put Peyton Manning in the same category.

Arguably, but I could imagine benching him for a healthy Palmer against AZ or Green Bay, or others.

 

[Bad_Mo]

Why don't people who do dumb crap like this ever play in the same leagues I do?

I would venture a guess that LT "fell" to him at #10 during his draft too.

 

[Wreckincrew]

I like to factor in potential too.

LT has just about the highest potential to go off for 3 TD's & 200 yds, no matter what color jerseys are on the field with him.

 

[coo2ie]

No way man...

 

[Voice Of Reason]

All of this aside, I'd much rather lose with LT in my lineup and a bench RB going off than a bench RB hitting his average and losing because LT hit his average.

Why?

 

[jurb26]

Anyone who has LT and sits him doesn't deserve him! Trade Now!!!

I would trade him if I had him. Looks like plenty of people would be willing to overpay for him.

 

[Marc Levin]

All of this aside, I'd much rather lose with LT in my lineup and a bench RB going off than a bench RB hitting his average and losing because LT hit his average.

Why?

The implication is that if he had started LT and LT hit his average, he'd have won the game, but he lost b/c he started his bench RB and that RB hit his average.

 

[Scarpati]

My advice would be to sit Tomlinson and play Larry Johnson, Brian Westbrook and Ronnie Brown. If you don't have all those guys, though, you may have to live with LT2.