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While I respect your opinion, I disagree with you about Parker. Yes, I'm a Mendenhall owner. However, Parker simply hasn't been effective as a starter in quite some time (dating back to last year). Why would he all of a sudden get hot and take away the job recently granted (rightfully) to Mendenhall?
I've read only half of this so far but there is already a pattern my friend. If you take away the long TD in week1, then the longer TD in week 2 and the other long run in week2, then the long TD run week3...you see what I mean? You appear to be fairly new to the Shark Pool and I want to encourage you to post because I can see you have a lot to say about all this and its good to have a spirited debate...but you are going to get crucified in here if you are using that as a crux for your arguement that Houston has a good rush defense. Oakland is almost a throw it out the window as far as examples go. Arizona doesn't rush well on anyone either. And while Benson being held to under 50 yds is something to discuss, I wasn't high on him last week in here and was batted around a bit but I was somewhat right and Benson did not have a good week. I'm not sold on Cinci being a good team but I think San Fran has a formula to win games. They were within 1 play of actually being 5-1 right now and things might look differently. but instead they are being known for the blow out at the hands of the Falcons right now. I believe San Fran will try and establish the run early on, look for a lot of hand offs and an attempt to keep Schaub on the sidelines. They have done it against some other teams. Good luck and please don't be a stranger.
I know that I am may be new to this site but I am not new to Fantasy. Also, I actually watch most of the games and all of the Texans games. It seems strange to me that you comment with only reading half of the post and then only taking the part of the post that supports your argument. You clearly did not watch the Texans and Titans game. You are supporting you argument without facts. I am always game for a lively debate. I do it for a living. But, you talk about a pattern. what pattern? It is a known fact that the Texans give up big plays and it is a fact that the secondary is suspect. But, what pattern, does that mean that you should start the returners guys, in a league that gives points for return yards, for anyone that plays the Chargers because Eddie Royal returned a kickoff return for 93 yards and a punt for 71 yards. I have not posted on your thread regarding whether to start a sleeper WR against Houston. Why, because their secondary is suspect. And yes, SFO will continue to attempt to establish the run. Singletary believes in the run and will continue to try and establish the run every game. But the issue becomes, can they run against the box and make the safeties respect SFO's WRs. I am not saying that Gore will not have a good game and I am not saying, like you are assert, that the Texans are a good defense. They are not. But, IMO, they are not the porous rushing defense which you are promoting. The defensive backs in Houston have been suspect. Hill is an issue. Using your reasoning with AZ and OAK, you could throw out SFO's passing game because no receiver on SFO has had more than 75 yards receiving and Hill has only thrown for 200 yards one time this year against AZ. Therefore, the Texans do not have to worry about the deep threat and can load the box and have their DBs play up. JMOThe bottom line is we don't know. It is nothing more than an educated guess and I will be happy as a Gore owner for around 75 yards rushing a TD and a few yards passing. If he gets more, I will be happy. The problem is that the Houston defense is like Dr. Jerkl and Mr Hyde. However, while young, the LBs are no longer bad. So I guess, we will have to wait until game time to see who shows up. Take care
I think if you read what I posted, the 2nd paragraph I went right on to talk about the rest of your post and I responded to each and every example you made. Sometimes I start writing while I am reading, same as a movie critic will jot things down while the movie is playing. I was just wanting to show a pattern in what you were showing which was a lot of long runs...I guess its really hard for me to agree with you that Houston is a stout rush defense. Yes stats wise they have done well the past 3 weeks, I agree but Oak is nothing to use as a measuring stick, AZ is weak rushing the ball, and Cinci is a decent notch on the belt but I think at the end of the year we will look back and not see that as anything to hang their hat on.We'll see like you said this weekend, good luck to you.
I really don't know if you have been watching the games - as I think you're way off on this one . . .Parker brought NOTHING to the table last week in his return, and he even admitted he's not healthy . . . earlier this year he had already shown he had slowed down . . . he didnt help his cause by fumbling last week (Rashard did as well) . . .
Ah, the old "Take away the part where a guy did good and what's left is the part where he didn't do good, thus proving he didn't do good" argument. Unassailable logic.
Definite trend here, and as another poster pointed out above, Benson exploded yesterday so that would make the Benson shutout two weeks ago even more decisive for you guys.
Wake me up when he takes the 1st snaps on the 1st drive of the game...sure he did have a better day once he arrived on the scene in the 2nd half. Good for him, he still is a sell high as far as I am willing to post, Thomas is a major buy low right now IMO.
