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I was thinking same thing. You better hope Gordon isn't a 1 day wonder and has crap numbers rest of season, or does something boneheaded and for sure gets a year suspension... He always seemed to have talent to me and I own Gordon in a couple ppr dynasty leagues, but he seems like he is the type of player who could just end up being kicked out , basically your done. Sort of how Titus Young was. He sure was out of the league quick man from a 2nd round pick to basically a ghost it's nuts the boneheaded decisions these football players make with the rules,regulations, statutes they have to abide by.
Seems fine to me- Gordon put up more points this week than Spiller has in 3 games. Obviously both will regress to the mean, but it wouldn't surprise me at all of Gordon outscores him the rest of the way, especially considering Spiller's banged up and has a tough schedule coming up.
Nice read, I have not had the chance to watch the Bills much.
Gordon has the potential to have a huge year and there are obvious concerns for Spiller. And I'm somewhat biased as a Spiller owner and my main league has unique scoring that is even more RB friendly than most.
Yes I was reading that article last night... Plays are not being run right and they are stacking boxes because no threat of a pass... EJ has to step up and the plays have to be run better. Period.
me either I have a tough match up this week... I could bench him for bell but I think Im putting him in with eyes closed hoping something goes his way in week 4.
Benching him in a 16 teamer so start w/ confidence.
Sure, no one has a crystal ball, and league settings will play a role, but this seems like a coin flip situation to me.
I agree that his talent with rear it's head at some point, but why or how would Fred start to show his age? He's looked awfully good. The best case scenario for Spiller owners would be an injury to Fjax. Something that is certainly not unlikely. As much as I need for CJ to step it up, its kinda hard not to pull for the old man.
yes an injury to fjax is not out of the realm of possibility, I would actually say at least 50 percent chance of Fjax missing games or taking himself out of games.. Spiller's touches haven't really bothered me as much as others, although the way he is getting the touches are. I believe the touches will come more and more as the year goes on, it's just the line and EJ have to make plays and help out because that is some poor ### offensive play calling and execution.
Yea, man. I watched the second half of the Jets game and was floored by how bad Manuel looked at times. Off the top of my head I remember 3 passes that looked like wounded ducks that went ridicuously over the head of the receiver and 3 other passes to RBs out of the backfield, in which he rocket-launched them off the hands or helmet of Fjax/Choice.
Yes, I am gonna pat myself on the back and quote myself from back in May. It still mystifies me that so many people overlooked the QB situation and figured Spiller would still be a top RB. Maybe it's because AP was so awesome last year with Christian Ponder as his QB, but Spiller is no AP. He is a very different type of back, and if he doesn't get space to work in, Spiller is going nowhere. As we are seeing. This is not a surprise to me at all.
freeman's contract makes him untradeable as no one is going to want to eat $6M+ for the rest of the season (unless a contender loses their QB for the year.... but even though is freeman really worth that money?)
There is a ZERO percent chance that the Bills would be interested in Freeman as anything other than a backup and they are not going to give up a draft pick to bring him in during the season. Just not going to happen. They are going to let their 1st round draft pick go through his growing pains.T with T said:
Good call. I think it was less the success of Peterson than it was the success of recent QBs like Luck, Griffin, and to a lesser extent Tannehill that led me to believe that Spiller would be ok with a rookie QB. Not that Manuel is on the level of those guys but I think it's been proven that young QBs can have more relative success than they used to in the NFL. And statistically, Manuel has actually fared decently against 3 very good defensive fronts. Though he was pretty awful last week against the Jets.Ghost Rider said:
Again....has it really been that brutal? 16 for 103 vs. CAR which has one of the better front 7? Its been a very small sample size. Yes, we expected more but I'm not sure it's a giant disaster just yet.
According to rotoworld Spiller got in a full practice yesterday, which is obviously a good sign that the leg injury was minor.
He was dealt for Gordon/Lamar in one of my leagues.
Again, yes, it has really been that brutal. This is fantasy football, you don't get points for facing a tough front 7 or having a good ypc avg one game. Obviously he can turn it around as soon as this week, but so far, I don't see how you can call it anything but bad. Doesn't matter who is to blame, who he faced, etc.
Very nice read.
This, I am seriously considering starting Rob Gronkowski over him in my Flex spot, yes Spiller is now my Flex RB beneath R.Bush and Chris Johnson.
In a redraft 12 team league the only one I had spiller in I finally got a bite, he's gone and im happy.. I know it's only three weeks but the guy was god awful and the whole buff squad was awful. I own him in 0 leagues now and should have steered clear when I had the # 2 pick overall... I traded Spiller/Colston for Dmac/Desean.... thru 3 weeks spiller/colston avg 21.7 points compared to dmac/desean avg 39... Def boosts my team imo as Desean is head and shoulders above sore foot marques and split carry CJ.
According to FBGs SOS, Miami (twice), Pittsburgh, and Atlantaare all good matchups. And some of the others are a little misleading. Some are not tough run Ds, teams just easily pass on them and don't need to run. And if spiller is used in the passing game he should do well against those teams as well.
What a horrible trade for the Spiller owner LOL. That's absolute robbery - he should have kept being hesitant.
yea dynasy that is horrible.... Spiller has more value in Dynasty imo... This year is just gonna be frustrating... Lack of a quality qb because he is a rookie, loaded boxes and loss of GL carries.... I was happy to get rid of him in my redraft league for Dmac,Desean though.
I see your point but it doesn't matter WHY Spiller is being outperformed by fjax...it matter that it's happening. Are defenses now going to stop loading the box for spiller bc we have recognized that they are? Are they going to start loading the box for fjax bc we recognize that they aren't?Ace zero1 said:
