Week 12 Game by Game Sit-Start Breakdown (1 Viewer)

[loqutis]

Houston vs Detroit

START

Matthew Stafford - #1 passing offense in the NFL.

Calvin Johnson

Arian Foster - Scored a TD in every game this year except last week.

Andre Johnson - The only WR option for Houston

Matt Schaub - Detroits D is starting to step up (See last week against GB) Houston won't be able to simply run the ball all day

Owen Daniels

Tony Scheffler - entering week 12, he's already surpassed his target totals for all of last year. Has only had one 100 yard game.

SIT

Mikel Leshoure - Needs to have a TD if he has a good week. Houston hasn't allowed a TD to a Running Back this season.

Titus Young - OUT

Ryan Broyles - CJ is the only guy catching balls in Detroit with consistency

Brandon Pettigrew - Can't hang on to the ball and is now the #2 TE option. Drop the very first pass in last weeks game and Stafford avoided him the rest of the game.

Ben Tate

Kevin Walter

Washington vs Dallas

START

Tony Romo - Everyone but Nick Foles has thrown on Washington

Dez Bryant - 2 games in a row with a TD

Miles Austin - Washington has the #29th ranked pass D

Jason Witten - Washington has given up the 3rd most points to TEs

SIT

Felix Jones - only had 43 yards rushing last week. Has had ZERO 100 yard games.

Robert Griffin III - Cowboys have given the 7th fewest points to QBs. He had 4 TDs on 15 completions was an anomaly

Alfred Morris 5,7,7. those are his point totals for the last three weeks.

Josh Morgan

Chris Cooley - Chris Whooley

Santana Moss

Pierre Garcon

New England vs New Your Jets

START

Tom Brady - #1 total offense in the NFL. In his last seven outings against the Jets, Tom Brady has superb averages of 297 yards passing and 2.3 touchdowns.

Wes Welker

Aaron Hernandez - Gronk out. Hernandez should play and get ALL the TE targets

Mark Sanchez - NE has the 30th ranked pass D.

Dustin Keller - Pats are giving up the 4th mosts points to fantasy TEs

SIT

Shonn Greene - Gave up half his carries last week to Rowell

Jeremy Kerley - Honestly don't know who will catch the balls for NY

Chaz Schilens

Stephen Hill

Stevan Ridley - Patriots take advantage of a teams weakness and the Jets have the #4 ranked pass defense. Sit Ridley. Looks like the Indy game all over again.

Brandon Lloyd - They scored 59 points and Lloyd had 45 yards receiving

Rob Gronkowski - OUT

Vikings vs Chicago

START

Matt Forte - Only one game under 15 carries all season, including 24 touches last week.

Brandon Marshall - Even in the embarrassing lose to the 49ers, Marshall still managed to get a TD.

SIT

Jason Campbell - Jay Cutler - Only because we're not yet sure of Cutler's injury status.

Michael Bush

Earl Bennett

Devin Hester

Kellen Davis

Christian Ponder

Adrian Peterson - Bears have the #4 ranked Rush D and the #5 ranked total D

Toby Gerhart

Percy Harvin

Devin Aromashodu

Kyle Rudolph - excluding last weeks nightmare, the Bears have been shutting the TE down every week.

Oakland vs Cincinnati

START

Andy Dalton - 6 games of 25 points or more. 6 TDS in the last 2 games. Oakland has 30th ranked D against QBs

A.J. Green - 9 games in a row with a TD

Carson Palmer - top-ranked quarterback since Week 7. he has accounted for 300 total yards and/or multiple touchdowns in six straight games

Marcel Reese - Now he's running!!! DMC is still out.

Denarius Moore - Still had 7 targets last week and was missed on a couple big plays.

Brandon Myers - dropped a TD in the endzone, so could have had a bigger game. Since week 9 Myers is the No. 2-ranked tight end

Andrew Hawkins - Oakland has given up 6 passing TDS in the last 2 games. Maybe AJ won't catch all 3 this week.

Jermaine Gresham - The Raiders have allowed 25 fantasy points to opposing tight ends in the past two games

SIT

BenJarvus Green-Ellis - His good week was last week. Cincy just doesn't run enough.

Brandon Tate

Darrius Heyward-Bey

Rod Streater

Pittsburg vs Cleveland

START

Trent Richardson- The browns have to keep giving him the ball.

Mike Wallace - batch has been around for awhile. He knows he needs to get Wallace involved. Browns have given up the 6th most points to WRs

SIT

Charlie Batch

Ben Roethlisberger - OUT

Emmanuel Sanders - Steelers are going to focus on running the ball Only Wallace with have enough targets

Heath Miller

Brandon Weeden - Steelers giving up the 3rd fewest points to QBs

Josh Gordon

Josh Cribbs

Greg Little

Ben Watson

Jonathan Dwyer - Mendenhall will share the carries

Rashard Mendenhall - Dwyer will share the carries

Buffalo vs Colts

START

CJ Spiller - He's had over 100 combined yards in every game since week 6

Stevie Johnson - 14 total receptions the past two weeks. Colts have the 20th ranked Pass D.

Andrew Luck - Bills have given up the 4th best points to QBs

Vick Ballard - 4 times as many carries than D. Brown.

Reggie Wayne - 7,7,8, 7 Those are Wayne's receptions the last four weeks.

T.Y. Hilton - With Avery out TY steps in

Ryan Fitzpatrick - Colts are ranked #15 aganst the pass. Mostly because they can't stop the run. When Fitz has to throw he can. Look for the bills to come with a balanced attack this week.

SIT

Donald Jones

Fred Jackson

Scott Chandler - Chandler has failed to score six or more fantasy points in a game since Week 4. Colts have allowed the 2nd fewest points to TEs.

Donald Brown - Only 4 carries last week

Donnie Avery - OUT

Dwayne Allen

Denver vs Kansas City

START

Jamaal Charles - 17 carries last week. Maybe Hillis is finally being fazed out.

Peyton Manning

Demaryius Thomas - Denver #2 ranking passing offense

Eric Decker

Tony Moeaki - 3rd game in last 4 where he's had over 50 yards. KC giving up the most yards of any team to TEs

Ronnie Hillman - Chiefs are the 27th-best fantasy defense against opposing running backs. six of the last seven weeks, running backs have totalled at least 100 yards.

SIT

Matt Cassel - benched

Peyton Hillis

Dwayne Bowe - Hurt

Dexter McCluster

Kevin Boss

Willis McGahee - Injured Knee, Out 6-8 weeks. look for Hillman to collect most of the carries

Brandon Stokely

Jacob Tamme

Seattle vs Miami

START

Marshawn Lynch - He's their entire offense

Sidney Rice - 5 touchdowns in the past 5 weeks

SIT

Ryan Tannehill - Seattle has the #3 pass D in the NFL

Reggie Bush - He's just not playing well. 130 total yards and one touchdown in his last three games.

Daniel Thomas - Sahring time

Davone Bess - Seattle has allowed the fewest fantasy points to WRs in the league

Brian Hartline

Anthony Fasano

Russell Wilson

Golden Tate - Not enough yardage to go around. Rice get's all the looks

Doug Baldwin

Anthony McCoy

Atlanta vs Tampa Bay

START

Matt Ryan

Jacquizz Rodgers - Second most touches on the team

Julio Jones - If he plays

Roddy White - Tampa has the worst Pass D in the NFL

Tony Gonzalez

Josh Freeman

Vincent Jackson

Dallas Clark - Leads the team in Red Zone Targets.

SIT

Michael Turner - He HAS TO get a TD in order to have a good game. With turner you just can't guess the correct TD week

Doug Martin - Tampa is going to fall behind early and abandon the running game. Tampa's worst ranked Passing D is Martins downfall.

Mike Williams

Tennessee vs Jacksonville

START

Chad Henne - Titans have allow 18.2 points to opposing quarterbacks each week in standard-scoring leagues—27th in the NFL.

Cecil Shorts - Now he's getting targets and catches to go with his big plays. He's scored double-digit fantasy points in standard-scoring leagues in four of the last five games

Jake Locker - Jacksonville's secondary has allowed the 8th most points to QBs this year and 527 yards in Week 11, We'll take HALF of that total and be happy

Chris Johnson - Jacksonville has allowed the 5th most points to RBs

Jalen Parmele - 24 carries last week, against the 29th ranked D against RBs. I'll take that chance.

SIT

Rashad Jennings - Done, he had his chance.

Laurent Robinson

Justin Blackmon - he exploded for the first time all year. Henne still completed less than 50% of his passes

Marcedes Lewis

Kendall Wright

Kenny Britt

Nate Washington

Jared Cook

Baltimore vs San Diego

START

Philip Rivers - Raven secondary is a MASH unit. ranked #27 in pass defense

Danario Alexander - Rivers has found his new Toy, and with the Reed suspension the Ravens are down another DB.

Joe Flacco - Going to have to throw a lot to keep pace with Rivers

Torrey Smith -

Anquan Boldin -

SIT

Ryan Mathews - He gets ZERO carries in the red zone. He needs a massive yardage game to score a ton of points.

Robert Meachem

Ray Rice - Chargers have the #3 Rush defense. Even with 20 carries last week Rice only had 40 yards on the ground.

Jacoby Jones

Dennis Pitta

Antonio Gates - Is age catching up with him? ZERO 100 yard games all year. Only one game of more than 4 receptions.

San Francisco vs New Orleans

START

Drew Brees - N.O. has the #2 Passing offense.

Marques Colston - They're not going to be able to run against the 49ers. So Colston will have a ton of targets

Lance Moore - See Colston. Moore has had four games of nine-plus targets.

Jimmy Graham - The most dangerous receiving weapon on the Saints

Colin Kaepernick - If he gets the starting nod he'll explode. Saints D is awful and he tore up the Bears tough D.

SIT

Mark Ingram - 49ers just don't let teams run on them

Pierre Thomas

Devery Henderson

Michael Crabtree - 49ers are the @1 rushing team. If they're going to win, they're going to do it their way. Running and D.

Alex Smith

Frank Gore - Saints are going to score quickly and often. Limited Carries for Gore

Mario Manningham

Randy Moss

Vernon Davis - He'll be blocking all night, 8 Targets with Kaepernick at QB so it all comes down to who the QB is.

Darren Sproles - 49ers are the #2 Rushing D. N.O. has the #2 Passing offense.

St. Louis vs Arizona

START

Danny Amendola - He has 18 receptions the last two weeks. PPR Machine

SIT

John Skelton or Ryan Lindey

LaRod Stephens-Howling - Wells is scheduled back.

Larry Fitzgerald - 1 catch last week and he's facing a very good Rams secondary. Only had 1 100 yard game this year. Not even 600 yards receiving for the season.

Michael Floyd

Andre Roberts - disappeared last week. Rams DBs are just amazing

Rob Housler

Sam Bradford - Arizona's D is for real. Arizona has also allowed the second-fewest fantasy points to quarterback at home in 2012.

Steven Jackson - Not getting enough carries

Brandon Gibson

Austin Pettis

Lance Kendricks

Chris Wells - First week back and the running game is nonexistent

Green Bay vs Giants

START

Aaron Rodgers - Rodgers ranks second in the NFL in touchdowns (27) and third in fantasy points (208)

Randall Cobb - In his last five games, Cobb has collected 46 targets. 6 TDs in the last 4 games

Eli Manning - Manninghas thrown for 677 yards with six TDs in his last two games against Green Bay

Hakeem Nicks

Victor Cruz - GB is the 24th best fantasy defense against opposing receivers

James Jones - the Packers have attempted43 passes a game in their past three meetings with New York,

Jordy Nelson

SIT

James Starks - Even with ALL of the carries he only managed 74 yards against a weak Lions run D.

Martellus Bennett - Green Bay GB has allowed just one touchdown to opposing tight ends over the past eight games.

Jermichael Finley

Ahmad Bradshaw

Carolina vs Philly

START

Cam Newton - I'm not sure the Philly D will make an appearance. RG3's 4 TD performance against this unit was no fluke. Newton may run for over 80 yards on this team

Steve Smith

SIT

Nick Foles - unless that line can channel the powers of Orlando Pace, Foles may be knocked out of the game

LeSean McCoy - He won't play

Jeremy Maclin

DeSean Jackson - only has seven catches for 67 yards in his last two games.

Brent Celek

DeAngelo Williams

Jonathan Stewart

Brandon LaFell

Greg Olsen - The Eagles have allowed the seventh-fewest fantasy points to tight ends

Bryce Brown - Philly just wants the season to be over

You can listen to us talking about these selections here

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[efactor]

Good read. Thanks for the effort

It would be tough to sit Martin and ADP at this point though. They are on fire and regardless of the defense they play, I seriously doubt many have better options.............

 

[fred_1_15301]

Much better effort than last week but my one suggestion would be to take out obvious picks. Nobody will bench guys like Rice or ADP regardless of matchup.

 

[duaneok66]

sit RG3 (again)??

okay.

Overall, better than last week, but recommending starting guys that are questionable??

 

[packseasontix]

sit RG3 (again)??okay.Overall, better than last week, but recommending starting guys that are questionable??

Oh better sit Rodgers as well... Come on RG3 is the #1/2/3 depending on scoring so you SHOULD NEVER sit him. Yes the Cowboys are #7 for holding QBs but here is their schedule.#21 - @Eli#23 - @Wilson#8 - Freeman#26 - Cutler#15 - Flaco#12 - @Newton#21 - Eli#6 - @Ryan#18 - @Foles /Vick (went out)#25 - WeedenFreeman they shutdown but he didnt start turning things up until after the week 5 byeRyan threw for 342 Yards but 0 TDs, that is more a failure of the Falcons following through than the Cowboys "shutting him down"http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/pointsagainst?season=2012&pos=QB&mode=average&ntid=6Also the only truly bad game he has had was the Atlanta game where he got injured otherwise I feel he would have gotten more yards and a TD as well. He didnt so that is taken into account as to why he is not outscoring all QBs.

 

[spodog]

Good write up. No point in indicating that you should sit guys who are on NFL I/R, however. (Kevin Boss?)

Sit RG3 at your peril, readers. The Cowboys DEF stats against QB's should be thrown out the window on the Thanksgiving Holiday.

This is a big stage game for a big stage talent. Look for RG3 to light it up today in front of a massive National TV audience.

Just sayin.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

You lost me at ''sit AP''

 

[packseasontix]

You lost me at ''sit AP''

For sure, he lost me at sit RG3.... You don't have top 10 talent at this point of the year and sit them. Maybe these two have "down games" but thats still better than most even good games, also they could go off and RG3 could have 5TDs or AP could run in 3 TDs.Now you sit AP if you have Ray Rice, Foster, T-Rich....You sit RG3 if you have Brees, Rodgers, Brady....

 

[Clifford]

Nice write up, but I disagree with the following:

START

Joe Flacco - Going to have to throw a lot to keep pace with Rivers

Dude is horrible on away games. Flying to the West Coast is not going to help his game. I'd sit.

SIT

Robert Griffin III - Cowboys have given the 7th fewest points to QBs. He had 4 TDs on 15 completions was an anomaly

You don't sit a top-3 QB in a prime-time game for any reason.

Adrian Peterson - Bears have the #4 ranked Rush D and the #5 ranked total D

They have a good D but AD usually has his way with them.

BenJarvus Green-Ellis - His good week was last week. Cincy just doesn't run enough.

I think he will do well

Doug Martin - Tampa is going to fall behind early and abandon the running game. Tampa's worst ranked Passing D is Martins downfall.

He's involved in the passing game. I can't see who most teams would sit him for.

Kenny Britt

Think he is primed for a big game

Michael Crabtree - 49ers are the @1 rushing team. If they're going to win, they're going to do it their way. Running and D.

Frank Gore - Saints are going to score quickly and often. Limited Carries for Gore

These two contradict each other. Are they going to run it a lot or not?

 

[duaneok66]

great points, but

1) RG3 has been dealing with injuries to his receivers all year, and yet (in my league) he's the #1 QB . . .

2) he's always a threat to amass rushing yards and rushing TDs

there's no way someone is sitting RG3 for a QB that is ranked 13-24.

 

[devouredbychaos]

You lost me at ''sit AP''

Yup.

 

[kinghill]

stopped reading at bench RG3

ok I lied I kept reading. This makes no sense...

SIT

Stevan Ridley - Patriots take advantage of a teams weakness and the Jets have the #4 ranked pass defense. Sit Ridley. Looks like the Indy game all over again.

 

[loqutis]

Thanks for reading guys. Appreciate the feedback and hope you listen to the show as well.

 

[GSDguy]

I appreciate the thread. Isn't it a contradiction to say that Martin is a sit because they will be behind and need to throw, but you also list Mike Williams as a sit too? Also, Seattle was supposed to be a top run D at home too...AP is still picking pieces of them out of his teeth.

 

[loqutis]

OK one Rushing TD given up by the Houston D. This year.

 

[Clifford]

Is it obvious enough why you don't sit RG3?

 

[packseasontix]

Is it obvious enough why you don't sit RG3?

Ya I have him in and Luck on my bench. Its the same last year when I had CAM Newton and Brees. I never sat CAM after week 3 because he can just explode some games. He might have a dud, but his dud unless he gets hurt is still as good as a lot of the 13-24 guys good games.

 

[kinghill]

another TD for RG3

 

[Sienna2012]

Is it obvious enough why you don't sit RG3?

 

[duaneok66]

Is it obvious enough why you don't sit RG3?

great post.

 

[Andrew74]

I kept reading after "sit AD" but stopped after "sit Martin". Yeah, I'm benching the two best FF RBs.

 

[loqutis]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

 

[Warrior]

lol

 

[Hang 10]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

Who did you sit him for in the first place?

 

[duaneok66]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

can't believe you ever considered doing it in the first place. You act like yesterday was the first time that he had a big game.

 

[rjv]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

can't believe you ever considered doing it in the first place. You act like yesterday was the first time that he had a big game.

Drafted him in the 9th round in my keeper league this year. Best chance I ever took. Going to reap the benefits for years to come.

 

[shadyridr]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

Who did you sit him for in the first place?

i play in two leagues. RG3 is on someones bench in both. its nuts. one league the guy is starting brees and the other the guy is starting peyton.

 

[zamboni]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

can't believe you ever considered doing it in the first place. You act like yesterday was the first time that he had a big game.

Drafted him in the 9th round in my keeper league this year. Best chance I ever took. Going to reap the benefits for years to come.

I used to think that way about Cam Newton. :(

 

[BustedKnuckles]

You lost me at ''sit AP''

Yup.

Chicago's defense appears more vulnerable on the ground than anywhere else entering Week 12. Now playing on a short week, the Bears have surrendered 407 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 82 carries (4.96 YPC) over their last three games. Already matchup proof, Peterson should not struggle to light up this group.

 

[otb_lifer]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

can't believe you ever considered doing it in the first place. You act like yesterday was the first time that he had a big game.

Drafted him in the 9th round in my keeper league this year. Best chance I ever took. Going to reap the benefits for years to come.

I used to think that way about Cam Newton. :(

 

[Hopeless Lions Fan]

Fix the grammar mistakes and you have a great writeup!

 

[rjv]

Admittedly, I'm going to have a hard time sitting RG3 ever again.

can't believe you ever considered doing it in the first place. You act like yesterday was the first time that he had a big game.

Drafted him in the 9th round in my keeper league this year. Best chance I ever took. Going to reap the benefits for years to come.

I used to think that way about Cam Newton. :(

RG3 is a much higher intelligent player. Cam had so many ?'s coming out of Auburn from football IQ to integrity issues. IMO you can't put Cam in the same sentence as RG3.

 

[loqutis]

Fix the grammar mistakes and you have a great writeup!

Thank you. These a simply quick notes from the podcast. Not really meant as a article. However, I understand many people will not listen to the show, so I wanted to at least provide some info for the selections.

 

[Apple Jack]

Sit AP, Doug Martin, and RG3? Is this a joke?

 

[Ghost Rider]

Sit AP, Doug Martin, and RG3? Is this a joke?

 

[loqutis]

Sit AP, Doug Martin, and RG3? Is this a joke?

At this pint you should ride the horses that got you here, but you may not be happy with the results.

 

[Clifford]

Sit AP, Doug Martin, and RG3? Is this a joke?

Yeah the advice in here is just awful. You are over thinking no brainer lineup decisions.

 

[goonsquad]

Wow, you guys are being tools. It's very possible, and I would even guess probable, that RG3 is on teams that also have a Brady, Brees, or Stafford. So no, it's NOT a no-brainier to just start RG3 every week. Lineup decisions are NEVER just about one player, every team has to weigh a choice between two or more guys on their roster each week and sometimes it's a choice between two "never sit" studs.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Everybody killing the messenger without acknowledging he's just a conduit. The message came from Black Eyed Joe's podcast. Agree that this week is as bad or worse than last week's, but it's not OP's content.

 

[Phenix]

lol

 

[loqutis]

Amendola is most likely out so EVERYONE is a sit in this game. Of course, watch Well explode in his first game back.

 

[kinghill]

Bench 11 of the top 20 RB

Got it

I think I'll just forfeit my games this week

 

[kinghill]

Everybody killing the messenger without acknowledging he's just a conduit. The message came from Black Eyed Joe's podcast. Agree that this week is as bad or worse than last week's, but it's not OP's content.

Where is that from?

 

[loqutis]

Bench 11 of the top 20 RBGot itI think I'll just forfeit my games this week

Top RBs for week 12http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leaders?slotCategoryId=2&scoringPeriodId=12&seasonId=2012

 

[loqutis]

Everybody killing the messenger without acknowledging he's just a conduit. The message came from Black Eyed Joe's podcast. Agree that this week is as bad or worse than last week's, but it's not OP's content.

Where is that from?

Not sure what he's referring to either. I tried clicking on the link last week and I was punked. Sadly all of the bad picks are ours to absorb