'BigJim® said:
'Hipple said:
'Mr Rodgers neighborhood said:
BigJim and shadyridr hit the nail on the head. If your 4th round pick is healthy, you start him regardless of matchup. If he's playing against a team that was horrid against the run last year, and looks to be horrid against the run this year your decision should be easier.
A lot of people are assuming that the Cardinals are just going to blow the Panthers out. I'm not so sure. Kolb doesn't deserve any acclaim as of right now, and has been up and down in his opportunities. If the Panthers can get up early and grind on the Cardinals they could control and win the game. I think this game will be alot closer than what most seem to think. Neither team is that great in my view.
XNo they didn't. In fact they and the OP collectively missed the mark. Your analysis about who should start has nothing to to do with the round in which you drafted a player. Those are sunk costs. You should in fact try and forget where you got guys, as it will only serve to divert you from the task at hand, which is putting your top scoring lineup on the board. Hell in many cases I drafted guys in later rounds that i think will outperform players I had drafted even 10 rounds ahead of them. Draft based decisions have much more to do with ADP (ie how you think others view the players value) than how you think they will score in the year. Focus on where players were drafted and fielding your lineup that way will also leave you behind the curve vis a vis emerging trends. If you were to do that last year you probably left randy moss in 3-4 weeks too many, and missed out on a lot of good weeks from guys like Brandon LLoyd because "how can I start a 17th round pick over my 1st round pick?"
Highly doubt I missed any marks here. I would never, and I can't emphasize enough, sit a RB2 I had the confidence to draft in the 4th. Against his first opponent? Are you seriously looking at matchups with your 4th round pick in game 1? Then you either need to do a better job drafting or prepare the tums for a long season.
In fairness to shady I did not read what he wrote. I was going off of hearsay (and this is why it's not allowed in court). Now that I did, he said nothing of the sort. He was misquoted. In fact his answer was entirely based on DW's health, and the weak Cards d, not how much the draft pick cost him. You on the other hand absolutely missed the mark when you already have your players bucketed and are still thinking about what the draft cost was to you in evaluating starting decisions. "if i drafted him as my rb2" "my 4th round pick" these are precisely the red herrings that I am saying are the wrong approach. Now we may reach the same conclusion, but that doesn't mean we got their the 'right' way, thus making it likelier that we continue to make those kinds of mistakes in the future.
I think this will be a good metaphor for what I am saying. I play golf. I have a few clubs in my bag that cost 2-400.00 (though I got em used and discounted). I also have a few random rag tag clubs that I paid 1-4 dollars for at a thrift store. When I am selecting my clubs on the course, in many circumstances when given the choice I will keep the 2-400.00 club (taylor made burners, calloway diablo hybrids) in the bag and hit an old beat up adams knock off 2+ XPC wood, when I could just as easily try the other. Why? Because my scorecard doesn't have a slot for 'how much did the club you hit costs, just how many strokes did you take on that hole...
In any league I got him in, he was clearly undervalued by others looking at his 2010 season. He's healthy, looked quick in the preseason (83yds on 14 touches), and should be the beneficiary of a lot of Cam checkdowns.I dont know how anyone who drafted him could sit him this week vs. a crappy ARZ defense.
Seemed like an easy call to me
