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Who are you benching for Grossman? (1 Viewer)
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Voodoo Rage
Footballguy
Benching Josh Freeman
karmarooster
Footballguy
Ryan, Schaub.... maybe Romo.
karmarooster
Footballguy
eh I guess against SF I'll stick with Romo. So basically starting Rex over every non-stud QB I have (Brady, Romo, Vick). Starting him over Schaub in 2 leagues, Ryan in another.
I was considering Schaub as well, but am giving him another week or two before I completely panic.
Frank Black
Footballguy
Same here.
Johnny Blood
Footballguy
Dropped my kicker to add him as a FA and think on it all week. May bench Bradford and Eli for him.
kiLLscaLLion
Footballguy
I'm also having trouble deciding between Grossman and Fitzpatrick. Ultimately, I think it comes down to which offensive line will do better at pass protection and whether Oakland or Arizona has a better pass rush (leaning towards Oakland here). I can see Washington running the ball more often than Buffalo, however. Buffalo might have to throw more to play catch-up because I think they will have trouble against Darren McFadden.
Raiderfan32904
Footballguy
Grossman has a great matchup this week and should be the starter over a lot of the names listed here. However, I am more interested in his long term outlook. Anyone bullish long term? I love his upside and he'd be great week 8 bye week filler at Buffalo (during Aaron Rodgers bye week). He was available in my league almost for free.
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Man In The Box
Footballguy
In the running with Eli, Cutler, and Henne. Shoot me now.
Road Warriors
Footballguy
Grossman in for Bradford.
Multiple Scores
Footballguy
Picked him up and starting him over Eli/Kolb.
I like him longterm, since he has a nice mix of WR's, TE's, and a RB that is good catching passes out of the backfield, he looked decent at the end of last year and again last week, so I think his production could continue. If not I will just drop him since I got him off the WW. I think he's worth a shot since he does have more options in that offense now...
Johnny Blood
Footballguy
The problem is that every season he has streches like the end of last year, and he always had games like he had last week. There's no clear evidence that anything has changed. There's hope...
No Way Jose
Footballguy
Starting him over Peyton. Tough decision.
Frank Black
Footballguy
In addition to playing him over Eli in one league, I am also playing him over Ryan and Bradford in another league. Ryan has a bad matchup and Bradford has the injured finger and is missing his #1 slot WR. I'm going all in on Grossman this weekend and like several of your, did not expect this turn of events so early in the season. If it pays off, we'll be glad he was on many of our WWs to plug and play this week and perhaps beyond for those of us who don't have stud QBs.
fightingillini
Footballguy
Benching Bradford for Grossman in a 8 team start 2 QB league. Easy call since Sammy is a little nicked up.
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Benching Sanchez. And Kerry Collins and obviously Peyton Manning. I just wanted to write that down for once: "Playing Rex Grossman over Peyton Manning"
With Lloyd (most likely) out, Gaffney happened to be the best available WR on my wire this week, so I'm plugging him in, too (over an injured Jacoby Ford and with Mike Thomas on Revis island).
johnadams
Footballguy
Gaffney technically, but nabbing Fred Davis if he is by some miracle still available is a really smart move.Like someone said earlier, Grossman as a starter has a tendency to look very good one week and lost the next. The good news is that his schedule is borderline ridiculous. PHI in week 6 and NYJ in week 13 look like the only difficult matchups (PHI in week 17 as well, but most leagues don't bother). Other than that, DAL and NYG in the division have suspect pass Ds, the entire NFC West (and they get all four) are very beatable through the air, and the remaining AFC East (BUF, MIA, NE) are all beatable through the air. CAR, which will struggle against the pass, and MIN, which is closer to neutral round out their schedule. Normally, I'd look to trade him after his bye, but maybe he's pretty effective most of the year?'mr roboto said:
Danish Bengal
Footballguy
Picked up Grossman to start him this week only. Ryan will be back in my starting line-up from week 3 and onwards.
The Cards' secondary looked pathetic and Grossman actually looked pretty good week 1 so I have a good feeling about this
The Cards' secondary looked pathetic and Grossman actually looked pretty good week 1 so I have a good feeling about this
sspunisher
Footballguy
Got Romo and Freeman in a 2 QB league. Benching Freeman for Grossman. I might ride the NFC East QBs all year with their ridicilously friendly schedules.
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sspunisher
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Why not? A rookie QB shredded the Cards Pass D, it's worth a flier. Unless you're talking about the owners willing to bench one of the top 7 QBs for Grossman, then I agree with you 100%.
Godsbrother
Footballguy
Wow. This seems risky. How much of a chance is there that Washington gets up early and then just grinds the ball? I am thinking Kolb might be the better play because Arizona is likely to be the team needing to throw.'Banemorth said:
Banemorth
Footballguy
They kept Eli Manning to just 268 yards, 1 int, 1 fumble NO TD passes. Granted the Giants are pretty beat up but I still think they're a better team than Arizona. My money is on Rex.
Godsbrother
Footballguy
I am not necessarily disagreeing with you but you have to admit Arizona's receivers are worlds better than the Giants.
Restricted
Footballguy
Because the Arizona D blitzed a crazy amount of time trying to rattle the rookie and he had enough protection and moxie to get the ball out fast enough. I don't see them trying that again for the fact of non-rook qb plus the live and learn rule from week 1. I can still see a shoot-out of sorts occurring but I don't see SexyRexy laying close to the yardage that Newton did against the Cards.
Banemorth
Footballguy
With the exception of Nicks I do agree.
sspunisher
Footballguy
Well yea no one should be expecting 400 from Grossman. Every Grossman owner's situation is different, based on who they're benching to start him. I have to choose between Freeman @ MIN or Grossman vs ARI. I'm more willing to make a snap judgment on Arizona and call them a bad defense b/c of a rookie than I am willing to call Minnesota a bad D b/c of a top 5 QB.I'll probably do some stat digging the next couple days to see if I can convince myself to start Freeman. If not, Grossman will stay in.
Restricted
Footballguy
Id do grossman over freeman this week.
Grigs Allmoon
Footballguy
Kerry Collins
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InmanRoshi
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It's not wise to compare Grossman running a Ron Turner offense with Grossman running a Shanny offense. This is an offensive scheme that made Jake Plummer a 4000 yard/27 TD season QB, and Jay Cutler a 4500 yard/25 TD system. You don't have to be a great QB to put up numbers in this system, the offense does the heavy lifting for you.
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Johnny Blood
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I don't think anyone is worried about his ability to produce. No system can prevent Rexy from running backwards in terror and launching dragons off his back foot, or fumbling snaps, or any of his other problems.
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Tanner9919
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In 3 of his last 4 games, Grossman has thrown for 300+ yards, with a 59.1 comp %, 8:3 TD/Int ratio, and a 97.5 QB rating...and he plays Az this weekend.looks like a great start, and so does Santana Moss..
InmanRoshi
Footballguy
And Jake Plummer and Jay Cutler never did any of those things. Never. Not in a million years.
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Johnny Blood
Footballguy
Obviously they did. Did you watch Grossman's whole career in Chicago, or just catch a few nationally televised games? You seem to be arguing against a position nobody holds. If Grossman does something habitually, who cares if Cutler does it occasionally? You'd have to be nuts to say that running backwards is as characteristic of Cutler's game as Grossman's.If you don't think Grossman has a history of chronically running backwards instead of stepping into the pocket then you didn't really watch his Bears career. Of course nobody thinks Plummer or Cutler never make the same mistake. That's ridiculous.
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