Your Week 10 Guesses
You know how to determine if someone has a loaded fantasy team? When that someone is in a ten person league and sends you a text message asking, “Who should I start: Gore, Parker or Chris Johnson?” You should start go fuck yourself because if these are literally three players you have to choose from, unless your quarterback is Jim Sorgi you are probably steamrolling your fantasy league.
Switching topics, it’s only week 10 and we’re really fucking sick of writing for this site. I’m not sure what happened, but when you are writing about fantasy football for seventeen straight weeks it begins to feel really redundant. Case in point, here are five players to look out for tomorrow.
1) Shaun McDonald
We would feel a lot better about this with Orlovsky playing, but we trust that Culpepper can actually get the ball to the best open receiver. More often than not, that should be McDonald. With Roy Williams being sent to Dallas for a litany of draft picks that are going to turn the franchise around, McDonald is the perfect second option at receiver: Not a world beater and not Todd Pinkston, but he is skilled and under the radar just enough that he can put up some numbers.
2) Jamaal Charles
No Kolby Smith, Larry Johnson is out searching for a soul, the rookie upstart should get virtually every carry out of the backfield against a paltry and miserable San Diego Chargers defense. We know what kind of year it has been for rookie running backs, if everyone else’s success is any indication then Charles very well might break Adrian Peterson’s single game record.
3) Michael Turner
He’s been suffocated a little from his strong start this season. But these NFC south teams seem to come out the gate swinging when they are playing each other at home. Atlanta hosts New Orleans, and I expect them to overrun them at the line of scrimmage like every offensive line seems to do. What I’m trying to say is, every offensive lineman in the NFL is on steroids.
4) DeAngelo Williams
Sigh, we’ve mocked Williams numerous times in the past for his insufficient sumanotype for the NFL, but with Jonathan Stewart doubtful for tomorrow’s game and Oakland as their opponent, I’m liking Williams’ chances to have a good game. He might even get a yard for every pound he has in his tiny little body.
5) Vincent Jackson
Coming off the bye week, playing the Chiefs, putting up numbers like he was supposed to for the past two seasons, playing the Chiefs, if these aren’t reason enough to put him in the flex position, then I envy your roster and resent your good fortune/aptitude. These things happen when you start Braylon Edwards against your better judgment and he only scores two fantasy points. Asshole.
Enjoy the games tomorrow.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:48 am
[...] The Week That Was by State School Elitist Sort of an odd duck week for fantasy football. Production was kind of low again, yes, and the players who actually showed up weren’t the standard game breakers nor were they the bottom rung NFL players who probably aren’t even on a fantasy roster (with obvious exceptions to both the former and the latter). We are acting stunned because we were inordinately inaccurate. [...]
November 12th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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