JFS171
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I guess my personal approach is this:
When a valuable RB goes down, and the replacements could conceivably be available, I want to read AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE about the situation. So with this situation, I followed and participated in the McGahee injury thread, this Hillman thread, and bumped the Know-Show thread to garner wisdom of the forum on all fronts. I even googled all three guys... Moreno, Hillman, Ball to find if there were any other sources that weren't being widely reported.
From my experience, this message board and the Rotoworld Forums are FAR better sources of information than I've found elsewhere. The reason is that all of us have different feelers, hear different things, read different things. When all combined, that is extremely wide-reaching. Combined with Twitter (where Wesseling - known as F&L around here - questioned whether Hillman was the guy and said he had a sneaking suspicion it was Moreno) - also followed by many on this board and in the RW forums, these are the best resources we have.
No offense intended to Lammey, but he was biased in this situation. He had hyped Hillman since the draft, and inherently viewed this situation with rose-colored lenses for Hillman. There was zero reason for him to question Hillman after he clearly believed in the guy so much, and now saw his clearest path to playing time. That's not to say he's not good at his job, or that he doesn't have a pulse on this team. It's simply to say we all have inherent biases, and it's important to identify those biases when considering a source. We ALLLL know Lammey loves Hillman - it's in the OP of this thread.
IMO, there was sufficient evidence to suggest Moreno could at least earn a split of the carries (say 40%) with a good shot at earning McGahee's role.
I'm not intending to gloat - just trying to show the approach I used that led me to Moreno. Just my 2 cents - paid off twice this year with Moreno and Dwyer...
When a valuable RB goes down, and the replacements could conceivably be available, I want to read AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE about the situation. So with this situation, I followed and participated in the McGahee injury thread, this Hillman thread, and bumped the Know-Show thread to garner wisdom of the forum on all fronts. I even googled all three guys... Moreno, Hillman, Ball to find if there were any other sources that weren't being widely reported.
From my experience, this message board and the Rotoworld Forums are FAR better sources of information than I've found elsewhere. The reason is that all of us have different feelers, hear different things, read different things. When all combined, that is extremely wide-reaching. Combined with Twitter (where Wesseling - known as F&L around here - questioned whether Hillman was the guy and said he had a sneaking suspicion it was Moreno) - also followed by many on this board and in the RW forums, these are the best resources we have.
No offense intended to Lammey, but he was biased in this situation. He had hyped Hillman since the draft, and inherently viewed this situation with rose-colored lenses for Hillman. There was zero reason for him to question Hillman after he clearly believed in the guy so much, and now saw his clearest path to playing time. That's not to say he's not good at his job, or that he doesn't have a pulse on this team. It's simply to say we all have inherent biases, and it's important to identify those biases when considering a source. We ALLLL know Lammey loves Hillman - it's in the OP of this thread.
IMO, there was sufficient evidence to suggest Moreno could at least earn a split of the carries (say 40%) with a good shot at earning McGahee's role.
I'm not intending to gloat - just trying to show the approach I used that led me to Moreno. Just my 2 cents - paid off twice this year with Moreno and Dwyer...
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Very funny and true. Sometimes you get lucky in roulette, and that's what keeps that game alive. When McGahee's injury news was trickling out, the only Denver RB FA options IML were Ball and the long-inactive Moreno. I used my waiver pick Tues 8et on Ball. Later that night I decided to clear Hillis' spot off my roster finally and add the other unknown in the Den RB points department in Moreno. We have 12 teams, 21-man rosters, and start 3 rb, so our rosters are very deep. I got lucky. If I had Hillman, I would have been less aggressive. I don't blame anybody for thinking Hillman was the RB to target. If he was available he'd have been my first choice. There was no way to know what would happen if McGahee went down. Coaches are intentionally vague or evasive almost all of the time when it comes to projecting who will fill what role after a big injury. We find out after the game, not before it. Even when they said Moreno would start, we had no way to know how the touches would be spread out. Those who are shredding Lammey, et al, all had access to this forum and could have told us all in advance that Moreno was the man to get. Nobody knew for sure. I didn't play Moreno or Ball, and wouldn't have played Hillman after hearing Moreno would start. It was a week to watch and learn. I picked up Bryce Brown just before kickoff of week 10 and sat on him until Shady went down, so I played him instead. I'm always looking for the lottery ticket where if talent met opportunity it would pay off big. I'm sitting on Bernard Pierce for the same reason. Sorry to those who lost this lottery, but there are more tickets to buy out there so keep grinding and good luck!
I also missed on Lloyd. They need to have the drinking and crying emoticon, because that's what Lloyd and Hillman have me doing.
DT, Decker, Beadles, Walton, Ayers, etal. The McD players they got rid of weren't productive. They aren't 'purging everything left of the McDaniels era' just because they are McD guys.
