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I am legitimately happy for you.
Some had to out of necessity. Would have been really short sighted to drop him after one bad game with Matt Barkley under center on a Thu night away game.
He's graded as a top3 back in the draft. He also has 3 100 yard games in his first 5 starts as a rookie. Are you guys really serious?
Started him with Leveon bell on bye. Was down 18 and thought I had no chance to win.
Then I guess you would be shocked to find out that 31% in yahoo leagues started him. Rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.
I was more just joking around because that is how fantasy seems to work. I don't think starting him this week was the right play though unless you were desperate. He was losing touches to Carey, Langford was coming back and he looked to have an awful matchup against the Vikings. I had Christine Michael, Spencer Ware and Lamar Miller in amazing matchups, so I didn't even consider starting Howard this week. Sucks though cause I would have won my matchup if I started him, but I can't blame myself for leaving him on the bench.
Only 19% of ESPN leagues. Not sure how to find the MFL leagues numbers. But obviously I didn't have these numbers when I made a guess at the percentages.
Exactly what i was thinking. The match up was bad, but even an RB in a bad matchup might be worth starting if he was going to get a full workload. Many, many things pointed to him not getting all the carries and nothing really suggested he would get that large a percentage of the pie.
Right. There was nothing to suggest going into that game that Howard would have a game like that. His previous 2 games against much softer defenses, he had 22 carries for 68 yards and 2 catches for 6 yards. And was outplayed by Carey against Green Bay. Then factor in the return of Langford and the talk of going with the "hot hand". Anyone playing Howard last night was either out of options or nuts.
Agreed. I was out of options but the thought of playing Howard vs MIN was literally laughable to me. I dropped him for Asiata and now my liver hurts from last night...
I think TyMo is, strangely, the main reason most Howard owners started him last night. Many probably decided to just go down with their ship, rather than dropping anyone they valued on their bench.
Yep, I still have Howard and it wouldn't surprise me if Fox went back to giving Carey and Langford more carries. Really sucks, he has a good schedule coming up and I'm not sure if I should sell high or hold onto him. Can't predict what Fox will do.
I think hes the best of the three and talent rises. But as well saw w the green bay game. Howard got stuffed so they tried carey.
That's pretty much the explanation. If Howard had been stuffed on the first drive vs MINN, Fox would have searched for another hot hand.
I agree with you that he has the most talent and I was very happy when I picked him up off the WW five weeks about. However, it's the time of year where I cannot afford to start a running back only to have him benched mid game. It's not just Fox, see Ingram and Mathews this week with their in game benchings.
The key was getting Cutler back. Having a better QB makes the entire team better. Cutler being able to throw the ball down field opens up the run game a little more. The run game doing better allows for play action to work. The offense controlling time of possession helps the defense out. It's all complimentary.
in one really bad game, hoyer broke his arm and they played an unproven QB, besides that, 3/4 games have been dynomite for Howard
He has started every week since taking over the job. When did Carey take over the job? Even before Monday night's game Howard was announced to be the starter.
I agree he is their best option but I also think this is a very short-term proposition. He's got that certain something that makes him appealing in fantasy right now but I think if you play FF he is a sell high if ever there was one.
The thing is, they kinda DO grow on trees these days. I don't know about this year but last year, I posted something that said something like 22 of the league's starting RBs were basically guys that came from nowhere or had low pedigrees. And they don't stick long. the turnover is constant and John Fox for this particular team has a long history of making fantasy rb owners nervous.
It's funny, only Ajayi, Howard and Freeman have totaled 200+ yards from scrimmage this year, not David Johnson or Zeke or McCoy. Freeman specifically doesn't get enough love but I digress..
Agreed as well. RBs who are drafted in the later rounds like Howard are totally replaceable and teams seem to move on quickly and easily from them. Every once in a great while, though, those 5th round RBs can be valuable longer term. A lot of that depends on the team and how they draft. I will say that Howard looks special to me. He's definitely not fast but he just has a way of getting yards. He always falls forward and is very hard to bring down. I own Howard in 1/2 dynasty leagues and I may sell high only because I have four 1st round picks in next year's RB heavy draft. But I DO like Howard a lot more than recent late round RBs. He has something the others don't, imo.
You just prognosticated that Langford would go off week 10, and you posted this after the record breaking game Howard just had! Howards has had 3 100 yard games in 5 starts. Remind me how many 100 yard games Lankyford has during his entire career? Who's the delusional on is here?
Since you didn't answer either of my questions. You are the delusional one if you think Langford is going off week 10 ... and to my other question ... Langford has zero 100 yard games.
