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Who's Benching Trent Richardson After His 2 TD Game ? (1 Viewer)

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Richardson is tough at the goal but his total yards & yards per carry is dwindling week by week and now he has to go to Denver and play against a tough defense who has a #2 seed/bye to play for.

Who's benching him and for whom?

Me. I'm going with Ballard against KC. They suck against the run and Indy has a playoff spot on the line.

 
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Trent's been a consistent top-5 PPR RB all season. Anyone who benches him in their championship game for a scrub with a good matchup is a moron.

 
HTF did he end up with only 11 carries last week? Was he injured, I swear his box score stopped in the first half

 
Lately his fantasy points have been almost exclusively from td's and I'm just not sure how many goal line opportunities he going to get this week.

 
'ROCKET said:
HTF did he end up with only 11 carries last week? Was he injured, I swear his box score stopped in the first half
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Not hurt, just bad play calling. His last carry was 2:47 into the second half. Played final 27:13 minutes w/o a carry. 2 carries, 0 yards in the second half. Unbelievable underusage (is that a word?).
 
Agreed, I don't see a lot of GL chances for him in Denver. Regardless of his recent TD binge he's a risky play this week. On top of that he's not even catching many balls for us in PPR leagues

 
'mikel0254 said:
'ROCKET said:
HTF did he end up with only 11 carries last week? Was he injured, I swear his box score stopped in the first half
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Not hurt, just bad play calling. His last carry was 2:47 into the second half. Played final 27:13 minutes w/o a carry. 2 carries, 0 yards in the second half. Unbelievable underusage (is that a word?).
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Doesn't inspire much confidence IMO, I may look elsewhere. Even when he's gotten carries lately his YPC has been horrible
 
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'ROCKET said:
HTF did he end up with only 11 carries last week? Was he injured, I swear his box score stopped in the first half
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Browns got blow out in first half and he barely carried the ball. Also, I haven't seen a designed run for him that didn't go straight up the middle in a long time. Shurmur is not being creative with him at all. Almost all of his carries go straight into trash. I can't think of a single time I have seen him go more than three yards without contact.ETA I'm going down with the guy that got me into the championship game. Regardless of how he gets his points, he's been the most consistent RB in the league from week to week, other than maybe Alfred Morris.
 
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'ROCKET said:
'mikel0254 said:
'ROCKET said:
HTF did he end up with only 11 carries last week? Was he injured, I swear his box score stopped in the first half
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Not hurt, just bad play calling. His last carry was 2:47 into the second half. Played final 27:13 minutes w/o a carry. 2 carries, 0 yards in the second half. Unbelievable underusage (is that a word?).
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Doesn't inspire much confidence IMO, I may look elsewhere. Even when he's gotten carries lately his YPC has been horrible
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I don't look too much into YPC. He's facing 8 man fronts and he's the short yard back too. Your per carry numbers aren't going to look good with the defense selling out to stop the run. He's still scored 11 TD's this year (and 1 receiving TD), and he's scored 6 of those in the last 4 weeks. Hard to bench IMO. If you're still in it, he's likely one of the main reasons you're there. If I were still in it, I'd start him...
 
I have Foster as my RB #1- Richardson has been a GREAT RB #2

I'm just affraid that Denver is going to shut him down like they did yesterday to Ray Rice.

Can't afford to end up with a 2 point performance. Got to think Ballard has a great shot at

over 100 yds and maybe a TD.

 
'RalphMouth said:
I have Foster as my RB #1- Richardson has been a GREAT RB #2 I'm just affraid that Denver is going to shut him down like they did yesterday to Ray Rice.Can't afford to end up with a 2 point performance. Got to think Ballard has a great shot at over 100 yds and maybe a TD.
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Matchups are overrated. Many benched Murray yesterday despite the fact that he's proven he can put up points on anybody because he's one of the few workhorse backs in the league who gets almost all the touches, the goal line touches, and the RB receptions. Trent is in the same situation and those guys can put up points even when they get stuffed at the line on normal running downs. Very valuable PPR assets for that reason.
 
'ConnSKINS26 said:
'cracKer said:
'ConnSKINS26 said:
Trent's been a consistent top-5 PPR RB all season. Anyone who benches him in their championship game for a scrub with a good matchup is a moron.
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Unless it works out, then he's a genius
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The methodology would still be wrong...
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Our goal is to field the highest scoring lineup, not reward players for having good seasons. Bad methodology would be continually starting players who are projected to score less than another option. Production fluctuates during a season and knowing when to bench a player at the right time will probably be the difference in winning or losing your championship. With any luck you won't be forced to make these decisions because your players will all be peaking at the right time
 
I benched Trent last week for Knowshon Moreno and C.J. Spiller..

It was very tough to do, but the previous 2 weeks those carries were

starting to come down and the "mention" of diminished work led to it.

(an 11 caries proved to be a good call to sit him regards to play time)

In my league's scoring both the guy's I played did better than Trent did.

So no it's not crazy to think you can sit Trent, I may do the same again.

Just because you rode a guy all year an he produced, each week is new.

(awfully hard to bank on him getting goal line chances to get good points)

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'mikel0254 said:
'ROCKET said:
'mikel0254 said:
'ROCKET said:
HTF did he end up with only 11 carries last week? Was he injured, I swear his box score stopped in the first half
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Not hurt, just bad play calling. His last carry was 2:47 into the second half. Played final 27:13 minutes w/o a carry. 2 carries, 0 yards in the second half. Unbelievable underusage (is that a word?).
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Doesn't inspire much confidence IMO, I may look elsewhere. Even when he's gotten carries lately his YPC has been horrible
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I don't look too much into YPC. He's facing 8 man fronts and he's the short yard back too. Your per carry numbers aren't going to look good with the defense selling out to stop the run. He's still scored 11 TD's this year (and 1 receiving TD), and he's scored 6 of those in the last 4 weeks. Hard to bench IMO. If you're still in it, he's likely one of the main reasons you're there. If I were still in it, I'd start him...
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I think YPC is a big factor when a guy's carries are diminshing. If he was a constant 20-25 carry a game rb I think it would be a lot less relevant. I for one don't think you can bank on him giving you two GL scores every week. I don't see the Browns sniffing the endzone very often in Denver. The best scenario is a bunch of garbage time points for Trent after Denver blows them out.
 
Don't think I can bench him and I have probably better options at flex. Have AP/Foster starting at RB but just can't seem to come to benching one of the most steady scorers at RB

 
There are some good points here. Wish I had better options. It's either Richardson or David Wilson/Alex Green/Jackie Battle. So probably have to take my lumps with TRich.

 
My gut tells me to start TRich...but I do have other sound options in DMC and Moreno.

For me, it's strictly about that Denver matchup. TRich's recent value has been predicated on the TDs. I could foresee a situation where CLE is abandoning the run early, or gets Hardesty more involved if the game gets out of hand. I could also see a situation similar to the past couple of weeks...30-60 yards and 2 TDs.

McFadden has looked fine and is back to being the one-man-show in Oakland.

Moreno has been rock solid on a top offense playing a far inferior opponent (who just allowed Morris to explode against them).

Both of these backs seem a little "safer" to me at the moment. Of course, I may just plug Richardson in at 12:55, haha.

 
I benched him last week, and I didn't regret it (spiller/moreno). He's basically the goal line back for a bad offense with a bad match-up.

 
'cobalt_27 said:
Benching him for Josh Freeman.#lukinrats
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:rolleyes: I hate to bench the guy, but at this point I think Alfred Morris will be a better play this week. My last two RB who went up against Denver have imploded (Rice and Martin)I think Denver is the worst RB matchup there is this season
 
A bench T-Rich thread?.....the MegaStar?.....the next Adrian Peterson?.....that's unpossible! I can't believe this thread hasn't been :IBTL: yet.

Did Multiple Sores die or is he too busy making wisecracks in a Mark Ingram thread?

 
Im considering benching him for Jimmy Graham at flex ( hernandez is my te). As others have said, being down early against a good bronco defense shouldnt yield many gl opportunities. Of course, ive said that before and been wrong. Really think Jimmy can burn Dallas lb/s core in a shootout

 
Benching him for DWill if Stewart is still out. Don't trust the Browns and they have a horrible matchup.

 
It's either him or LawFirm alongside Murray for me. I'll probably make a GTD, although I suspect it'll be a wash between the two given the matchups.

 
'Ray said:
I benched him last week, and I didn't regret it (spiller/moreno). He's basically the goal line back for a bad offense with a bad match-up.
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And if you have options like Spiller and Moreno it's a legit call but for all this talk of diminished this and he's just a goal line back he's also a back that has hit 15 plus fantasy points in PPR leagues every week since week 7.In fact he's hit 15+ fantasy points every week except his first game when he was not healthy, the game he got hurt and exited and the next week when he tried to play through the injury. In other words when healthy he's about as much of a lock to hit 15+ fantasy points as exist at the RB position. This is due to his workload and receptions not just his TD's.I also think the Browns try to get him more touches this week in order to placate him as he was not happy about getting phased out of the game last week and let his feelings known afterward.
 
I'm torn between benching him and playing him in my flex position. He's helped me out tremendously since I traded colston for him straight up about 6 weeks ago. However, I don't like his matchup at all--so I'm thinking of playing vincent jackson over him.

 
The Shark Pool went on a feeding frenzy when I mentioned starting Knowshon over Trent this week back in November. Well, here we are championship week and Moreno's in, Trent's out. He's finding pay dirt, but starting him in this matchup is a big risk because of what the Browns do when they fall the slightest bit behind, which will happen this week, probably early. He's just not churning out the yardage he did early in the season and he bears a lot of the blame. I think the offseason will do him well.

 
'LittleLarry said:
Has this guy had any runs over 15 yards lately? I can't seem to remember any.
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Let me answer my own question.TRich had a 19yd run all the way back on Week 9 vs the Ravens. Also had a 15yd TD run vs. the Steelers week 12.This guy isn't Jamaal Charles or Chris Johnson. He'll grind you to death.
 
He's benched for me,

To little playing time lately and dependent on TD's to get points.

There are just quite a bit more "safer" options on an lot of rosters.

For me Spiller an Moreno are who I'm playing, even Murray I would.

Yep I rode him to week 13 to get me here, but you gotta play the hand.

(have to change as the season goes an manage your team each week)

 
'LittleLarry said:
'LittleLarry said:
Has this guy had any runs over 15 yards lately? I can't seem to remember any.
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Let me answer my own question.TRich had a 19yd run all the way back on Week 9 vs the Ravens. Also had a 15yd TD run vs. the Steelers week 12.This guy isn't Jamaal Charles or Chris Johnson. He'll grind you to death.
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i think trich has the ability to make explosive long runs, moreso than most backs in the league even. im no scout though.
 
'cvnpoka said:
'LittleLarry said:
'LittleLarry said:
Has this guy had any runs over 15 yards lately? I can't seem to remember any.
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Let me answer my own question.TRich had a 19yd run all the way back on Week 9 vs the Ravens. Also had a 15yd TD run vs. the Steelers week 12.This guy isn't Jamaal Charles or Chris Johnson. He'll grind you to death.
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i think trich has the ability to make explosive long runs, moreso than most backs in the league even. im no scout though.
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Ability, yes, but he's been playing broken since midseason - never been right all season but the big play potential went with the rib injury, not been running the same since. Those explosive plays are going to have to wait until 2013.
 
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