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This seems like an overreaction to a good week to me.Look at his game log:Week 1: 8 carries for 43 Yards, 1 catch 17 yds no TD. (8 carries in the blowout)Week 2: 6/46, 2/11 and 0 TDWeek 3: 5/47, 0/0 and 1 TDWeek 4: 2/15, 0/0 and 0 TDWeek 5: 7/58, 4/38 and 2 TD.You tell me which of those weeks looks like the outlier? Put it this way, unlike MB3 I would not start this guy every week. Not until he does week 5 at least a couple more times with some consistency. Last year MB3 was solid as a rock this is far from that.
It is looking like Pitt has got themselves a "New Bus"
agreed.as a pittsburgher, i can tell you all that najeh only will spell willie, when willie is tired.they even mentioned this during the broadcast.proof in the pudding = i live in the 'burgh, as do my fellow owners, 2 big $ leagues, and najeh has not been owned in either league this season, even after his most recent weekend (and we've already gone through waivers, so hes a full fledged FA now).-biz-
Dump Truck
lol. gotta feel bad for that girls' closet.-biz-
As a FWP owner, I would love more TDs, but both Davenport TDs came on drives where Parker had 7 or 8 carries (I am pretty sure on that, I checked the game log 
). On one, Parker had a 20 yard TD overruled to be at the 1 and on the other Parker had a carry at the 5 yard line and got 0 and then Davenport came in got a 0 and then on 3rd down, got a 5 yard wide toss for a TD (defense was probably playing pass on 3rd and goal from the 5).I hate to see FWP lose goaline touches, but this is an overreaction to a game where Najeh got some carries when Parker had 28. 28 carries over 16 games is 448 carries, so Parker probably was a bit fatigued. If Parker was getting 15 carries like Maroney and losing goaline touches, I would be real worried, but when he is getting almost 30 carries, he will get a little tired at the end of a drive.
Other than the fact that Parker's been better in short yardage situations, you mean? (And before you assume anything, I don't own either of them.)I'll be surprised if Dookie has another 2 TD game this season. Parker may not get the crazy TDs some were predicting, but it's not going to be because of Dookie. If anyone has been paying attention they'd know it's going to be because of Heath Miller and Spaeth. The Steelers are throwing to the TEs in the RZ a LOT inside the 10, folks.
Parker could have scored on both those TD runs, it's not like Dookie ran over everyone to get into the end zone, but I love the way he is playing right now...
Parker is 12th in total pts (13th PPG) in non-PPR leagues, thats with no signature long TDs (and he's been ankle tackled on a few that were *this close* to being broken, not to mention him missing Ward blocking outside to spring those runs the last two weeks), and only one red zone TD. The TEs have also caught FIVE TDs. Do you expect the Steeler TEs to combine for 16 TDs this year? I don't, but if you do, go get Heath Miller now. Parker will still end up at 8-10 total TDs, top 5 in the league in total yards, and a true franchise fantasy RB.
Concur.It's only a matter of time before the Dookster pulls a hamstring or sprains his sternum or something anyway and all this foolishness can cease.
Projecting TD's is difficult, along with projecting numbers based off of 5 games. When I look at Parker's 2 seasons as a full time starting RB the difference between the 5th ranked Parker (last year) and the 15th ranked Parker (2 years ago) was the threat of a losing goal line touches. Currently he is ranked 13th. The difference between RB10-RB20 is never that many points so to arguing him anywhere in that range is pointless. However TD's are what makes a Top 5 or even Top 10 RB and I don't think he will get close to his 16TD's of last year. I can see him maybe getting 5-8 TD's but I don't think that will be enough to break the Top 10. I know my opinion of his TD total will not be popular because of all the FBG's man love for FWP but Dookie's performance does mean there should be some concern for FWP owners.
If nothing about Parker improves and he automatically gets yanked at the goal line every week, he's still top 10 - ward and jordan are currently ahead of him and that won't last. I don't see any real threats to pass him except maybe Gore or LJ if they catch fire (and they could). He has one TD through five games. You said you projected 5-8 - that would be 4 more over the last 11 games at the low side. Do you expect his yardage to go down significantly? Because even if he only scores four TDs in the last 11 games, it should improve his standing in the rankings unless his yardage takes a hit to the tune of a 20-30% drop on a per game basis (and remember he's already posted a clunker vs. ARI out of those 5 games)
I agree with absolutely everything you have to say here, other than the fact that we should be concerned about FWP based on Dookies performance. I think we should be concerned with FWP right now, to be certain. But I do not think that Dookies one time performance has anything to do with that. The fact is that Inside the opponents 5 yard line, Dookie has had a total of 3 carries this year.....ALL OF WHICH CAME THIS PAST WEEK. The thing that should worry us FWP owners are not those 3 carries and the fact that Dookie put them in, but rather the 5 carries that FWP has had inside the 10 and did not get in.Dookie had one good week and it just so happens that at least 2 of those carries came after FWP brought it in close on a decently long run. One game does not equate to a trend. If Dookie can do this another week, then Dookie will worry me. As of right now, the guy had a good week, like a lot of backs do when they come in to give a guy a breather.
Didn't see the play, but didn't Parker have a 3 yard carry to the 1 and then Miller had the TD catch from the 1? Where was Najeh in? Maybe he was in because it was a pass play, which it was, but I have no idea since it doesn't say on the play by play.
