Ok guys I need to vent, this has been a brutal start to the weekend for me and it seems like I can do nothing right no matter how obvious or not-obvious it seems in hindsight, this is just plain stupid how everything is screwing with me everytime I have to make some kind of decision that will affect my team in some major way.
So lets see where to begin... I have Jimmy Graham, he's on bye and injured, need to pick up a replacement this week so I head to the waiver wire. The dirty, deceiving, and untrustworthy waiver wire that fools me into false hopes and broken promises and beats me down with crazy and ridiculous out-of-nowhere performances by guys I toss to the side for the next hot "sleeper" I conclude is going to hit it big b/c of the assurance of some crazy, psychotic NFL Head Coach... Yes, that waiver wire. Carry on nothing to see here...
So was keeping an eye on Clay Harbor after his 7 for 70 first week replacing M. Lewis, and so he had a crap 3 for 25 or something follow up performance the next week which made me hesitant to pick him up as a Graham replacement.
So I picked up Harbor anyway, but was also strongly considering poaching on the DAL @ SEA match-up, Luke Willson has good measurables replacing Seattle's TE that is injured and DAL is dead last against TE's allowing like 8 TD's or something ridiculous like that, and has let very mediocre TE's have pretty solid performances against them while Willson was targeted a solid number of times the previous weeks despite a low yardage/reception total so far.
Harbor goes off for 15 pts, Willson has been targets 1 time with 0 catches thru the 1st half. Yay.
Also, I have Jace Amaro in my dynasty league this year and so was thinking about using him as a replacement in this redraft league I'm currently #####ing about since I thought the DEN defense could be a decent matchup for the Jets if they didn't implode as a team... so of course he goes and grabs his first TD on the season with a ridiculous 10 for 68 and a TD. Just friggin' GREAT. The suspense of waiting for the seattle game is killing me, especially facing Tom Brady and DThomas this week in my match-up after going against Arian Foster and Demarco Murray, Alshon Jeff, J Maclin last week who destroyed me with all the injuries I had. Losing this week is going to put me in rough waters for the playoffs without some kind of miracle blessing my team with good fortune the rest of the season b/c so far everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and everything that I think will happen but talk myself out of thinking will happen ends up happening X10 and makes me regret not going with my gut even more than just getting the call wrong would have, because the wrong call ends up being a disaster like this one will be while the other guy has a break-out game and is scooped up by another team that is ahead on waiver priority and is like 5-0 without a direct need for the player anyway and just sits on his bench while your team struggles to put up 60 points each week..... FML this is going to be a long post.
Bishop Sankey and Jeremy Hill are my starting RBs with Jennings and Moreno injured. There we go. But at least I got Crowell on my bench right? Who knows when starting him will end up working out like today, getting 11 carries for 77 yards and TD, while Tate had twice as many carries for the same amount of yards but 2 TD's. Maybe crowell gets more time now with West officially a healthy scatch?
Traded Gronkowski last week right before the Patriots suddenly realized they could have a good offense w/ the 2 TEs they haven't been using at all through 5 weeks of the season... because I had a healthy Jimmy Graham who then gets injured of course. Which a player I received in that trade, I mentioned right above that I was starting, is Bishop Sankey who I wanted b/c Ken Whisenhunt, the most brilliant of all Head Coaches, declared that "Bishop Sankey will definitely be used more and get more touches" and then proceeds to not do that. Meanwhile telling the media and reporters about all this ticky-tacky things like "foot-work" and whatever the hell he wants to make up so that way he ensures his rookie RB will have 0 confidence in himself as well as a coaching staff that doesn't believe in their 2nd round draft pick for some reason.
Traded CJ Spiller (although he hasn't looked great w/ this coaching staff using him like they never saw a dynamic athlete play football before) because I thought I was okay at RB with Moreno coming back soon and Rashad "Roughshod" Jennings healthy and dominating. I thought to myself I'm good at RB, lets upgrade WR2 spot shall we? SIKE! Jennings gets hurt directly after and Moreno still looking iffy even though he was active, Sankey getting jerked around by the Wiz, and JHill never getting more than a carry or two every quarter while Bernard averages an underwhelming 3.6ish yards per carry on the season and meanwhile the Offensive Coordinator says he is going to get increase in carries throughout the season and is due for an 11-15 touch game! (here's 3 touches, gotchya! Muahahahaha can't decipher what the slippery Hugh Jackson is guna do!) What a joke!
Talked myself out of the Broncos D/ST...? How does that even happen with a match-up vs the Jets... so I dropped them for the #2 D/ST on the season, the almighty Buffalo Bills! Ding, ding, ding! For a grand total of -2 points! Meanwhile the Broncos cruised to a 18 point performance! Damn that sucks! And like I mentioned before I'm pretty sure, playing against Tom Brady makes it even worse as he puts up 30 points after not putting up more than 13 in any game this season. Of course he did!
Picked up Andre Holmes but didn't start him b/c why would the raiders have a good passing game against a SD Chargers defense ranked #2 against the pass w/ only 1 TD allowed to a WR this year? So you can probably guess he starts the game off with a 77 yard TD reception, and has added on another 20+ yards for 2-102-1 line on the day! I still have some games to go but these are just the quick ones I've noticed so far and it's killin' me slowly, and painfully. The worst part is that I had pretty much every guy I've talked about here in my starting lineup at one point but talked myself out of it and started someone else. I need to stop 2nd guessing my gut feelings, I guess.
And just to rub it in my face Whisenhunt puts in Jackie "The Ultimate Vulture" Battle for his 1 carry for 1 yard for 1 TD performance on the day to snipe Sankey's rightfully earned reward for stepping up when the starter is injured. Way to boost the rookies confidence Wiz! You really know how to pick 'em up when they're down Chief! Like why do coaches feel the need to play these games with the rookies? There's a difference if he was like a 1st round pick and super duper hyped as like the next Adrian Peterson and he came in and slacked off, but that wasn't the case here. He was a 2nd round pick like most RBs these days, but definitely had a lot of vocal "experts" doubting his ability and saying that Shonn Greene might be a better RB option even b/c he's that bad! And that's complete #### just watching the tape you can tell he's super athletic, has elite short-area burst and explosiveness, he ranked in the top 94th percentile in terms of 3-cone drill at Combine while running a 4.4 40-yard dash which isn't bad at all even though some people will say he isn't really fast the numbers say otherwise, especially in short areas and in terms of elite agility/change of direction skills. The only thing he needed was more experience and confidence doing the little things right. Like pass protection, reading defenses and line movements in the NFL and not just taking it to the corner store, some assurance that 1 mistake isn't going to put him on the bench for the rest of the game, or lose all the rest of his touches to some scrub like jackie battle. I mean come on that's ridiculous. Okay, end rant I love Whisenhunt best coach ever yay!
Seattle is going to play the most conservative offense for some reason now I can just feel it, and attacking Dallas at their weakest matchup (the TE where the are last in the league by a huge margin!!) they are guna just do whatever the opposite of that is. Why do the fantasy football gods hate me? Why can't I pick the situations that actually work out like they were expected to work out instead of finding myself with 10 players all in weird, convoluted environments on teams with coaches that for some reason tell beat writers and media people one thing and game-plan/actually do the complete opposite while doing nothing of the sort they just exclaimed to the media and beat writers they would do just 24 hours ago? I need like some program that deciphers coaches sentences and press-conference answers and translates it into logical, rational thoughts and direction on what they plan on doing with the football team they are in charge of running so that people who play fantasy and beat-writers covering the team can get accurate information and relay that to the fans watching/supporting/funding the team every sunday for ####s sake! Okay. I'm done.
And that's why I hate Fantasy Football this week in as many words as I could possibly fit on one comment page, The End... kind of.
THE ABRIDGED VERSION:
So basically fantasy football is against me in some sort of conspiracy to make my team terrible and it's making me frustrated because of how ridiculously bad my decisions have been going against my gut, while my gut pick ends up going off on the waiver wire so some other chump picks him up and sits him on his bench all season b/c he's 10-0 without a care in the world while you're living in a glass case of terrible and ####ty emotions with my high-upside "sleepers" that never reach their potential until I drop them from my lineup. The End. For real this time.
I have TY Hilton
Also started Harvin and Watkins, and my bench WRs are Hurns, Patterson, and Kerley
Opponent had Newton, Rivers, Bernard, BTate, Benjamin, Cameron
