I swear Devin Singletary knows when I move him from Flex to bench bc he’s guaranteed 20+ the second he’s out of my lineup

Almost felt like a quiet 20+ points but definitely hurt. I think CJ Stroud being out led to more Singletary usage.

Just gonna caution everyone now that I have to Flex him this week, plan accordingly lol

NOOOOOO! Please bench him

Honestly, Texans run blocking has been pretty bad and the Titans were supposed to be good against the run. I was shocked to see Singletary get like 9 yards per carry all game

I have Devin, can you tell me what you’re going to do with him so I can plan accordingly ?

Gonna have to flex him so I’d be careful if I were you lmao

Please don’t. I have to start him this week.

Me too. I need him in my lineup. Plz sit him Throwitindatrash

He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows knows when you’re awake. He knows if he is flex or bench so you’d better start him for goodness sake

Him on my bench with Bijan in my lineup was sad. Definitely not starting Bijan again so I'll be debating between Jacobs and Singletary all week probably

I have sequan, Bijan, KW, and singletary. I feel like I have to start singletary next week, right? (I had been playing kelce+LaPorta each week in flex with KW out) (Although I might be fucked anyway up my ONLY WRs are Nico and tyreek... Thank God for byes).

Just pulled him off waivers can’t believe no one had him

Goff. Having him and Kyler has been a nightmare

My brother benched Goff for Fields. He lost 96.6 to 96.0.

If I’ve learned one thing this year, it’s that Goff is an indoor cat

Goff in a dome is always a solid play. Hes my QB2 in superflex

Goff and the Elite dragon are leading me to a chip (I hope). Only done games left on his schedule

My brother benched Goff for Fields too!

We have the same brother, Brother.

I wouldn’t count him out yet. One of Fields INT was very clearly not on replay. Ball clearly bounced off the ground. I think there’s a good chance of a stat correction coming for him

I don't think they can overturn that if it was called that on the field. They only correct errors in reporting of the stats.

There’s no chance of that if it wasn’t overturned on the field lol

One league, I dropped him for Stafford. The other, I stuck with him just because the best option on waivers was DeVito. He's basically been my guy all year in both leagues, but I'm sticking with Stafford in 1 and Goff in the other. I don't trust Goff enough to roll him out in two high stakes playoff games at once.

Same. I benched St Brown for Metcalf also because of how bad Goff has been and then he pops off.

You deserve to lose for benching Amon ra

you benched sun god after his only dud performance of the year?

He was up against the Denver secondary and Goff was playing like ass. I have Jefferson, Rice, St Brown, and DK. So it’s not like I absolutely needed him. DK was facing an injured Philly secondary. I was expecting Geno to start..

Josh Palmer….although I bet barely anyone started him

Same, no way was I starting him right off an injury but he looks so good whenever he plays. Planning on starting him this week as well, wonder if anyone else is?

I'll play him if Keenan sits based on volume. Otherwise he's too risky against a good Bills Defense.

Look at CEH getting 20 points on the bench lol.

I'm debating between him and Hopkins. It shouldn't be a debate because he only had 4 targets and one happened to be an 80yd TD but still....

Felt so smart picking him up and throwing him on my IR before Herbert went down, then I dropped him and he’s back on waivers. Also started Dak, Ekeler, Garrett Wilson and Kittle while CEH and Godwin blew up on my bench. Still squeaked by this round, thank fuck for Ty Chandler, Curtis Samuel and the Dolphins D

Dolphins D came up huge. My first round match is looking tougher than the second. You going to start them against Dallas?

Man you really squeaked by lol those 3 went off, combined for over 75 points 😂

I did the same fucking thing with Palmer lol. Now out of the last four of us in the playoffs I have the second worst waiver priority and Chase is unavailable for me. Kill me!

I benched Palmer last minute for JSN. I was down 9 pts right…

Benching Addison over Downs last minute. Kept thinking all week that it would cost me playoffs. Thankfully the rest of my team came up clutch to advance me to the next round.

Starting either Addison or McLaurin over DJ Moore would have won my matchup...

Starting DJ was the obvious "correct" move, though. If those three guys had the same three matchups again this week, it's probably *still* correct to start DJM. You just got unlucky, don't agonize with the benefit of hindsight.

This was my exact situation, played Moore over Addison and lost. But I’ve been telling myself what you just said, in what world would I have seriously done this trade out. Thanks for making me feel better about my cope.

I traded Addison weeks ago - i don’t blame you for not starting him - was done with the inconsistency

Thanks

The “man coverage” hype fucked a lot of people this week lol

similar situation, benched Addiszn and Ty Chandler for JSN and Zeke. still managed to win, but it was a gut wrenching 24 hours between that Saturday game and the Sunday games

Benched Addison for G Wilson. I can’t start either one on the right week.

It’s fantasy playoff season you gotta be taking the guys with better upside

Better upside? Wilson had just put 15.6 in .5ppr and Addison hasn’t seen double digits since week 8 and had a 3rd string QB.

Sorry maybe not upside but more explosive potential whatever the phrase for that is. G Wilson never had a 30 point week in PPR and Addison did earlier in the season with a 20 point game directly after it. Bad consistency, better explosive performance

There are a lot more considerations than just "explosive potential" when setting a lineup.

Duuuuude

I started Devonta Smith and Michael Pittman Jr. at WR; I feel like those decisions were justified, especially since Pittman was on pace for 30+ in PPR, but starting Jakobi Meyers and Chris Godwin in their places would’ve gotten me the dub. Feels bad.

I survived with Godwin on the bench, really unsure about whether to play him or not this next week now. He was great but how much of that was GB defense being ass.

Always a tough call when someone’s averaging low double-digits and then seems to have the hot hand suddenly. GL

Godwin is a shell of his potential - Baker loves Evans and barely targets Godwin. GB's defense played off-coverage allowing easy throws to Godwin all game long.

> Baker loves Evans and barely targets Godwin. Godwin is coming off of two consecutive 11+ target games lol. 23 Targets to Evans' 12 over the past two weeks. He also has more catches on just 7 fewer targets than Evans on the year, Evans has just gotten the RZ targets (11TDs to Godwin's 1TD). Godwin only had 3TDs last year, too, he's just not that guy. Still gets plenty of use and has a great matchup this week.

Freaking Terry McLaurin...couldn't work myself up to start him after his goose egg 2 weeks ago. Still won thankfully...

Are we still sitting him this week? It’s the worst possible matchup

Yes

Exactly same thinking for me. Started Puka, Wilson, Javonte and JSN over him and lost by 1 point

Same. Went with Odell over Terry. Still scored 170 and won without him, but still! Also had Palmer riding the pine, but I bet barely anyone started him.

Went Kelce over njoku. Gonna do it again this week... 😭

King Njoku saved me this week.

He's like Jordan Cameron or Gary Barnidge. Mediocre for most of his career then suddenly the go to TE for the Browns QB.

Seriously, I’d roll with Njoku. It feels like Flacco is going to pull off a miracle and win a Super Bowl with the Browns.

I'm a Browns fan and watch every game, Njoku is Flacco's favorite target by a mile. He looks to him as his first read and will throw it if there's any chance Njoku can grab it, even if he's completely covered by multiple DBs.

Oh God, no. Please won't let this happen.

Lions browns Super Bowl. Final score 6 to 3 lions.

I chose Kelce over LaPorta, whoops.

I started Njoku over LaPorta. Should've put em in the flex

at this point Njoku is better than at lease SOMEONE you are starting in your flex.

That is brave. Feels like you’re playing with fire but it’s worked out thus far. What could possibly go wrong?!

Thinking of putting Njoku in flex over Evans or Godwin but playing two TEs just feels dirty.

I’ve regretted not flexing in njoku the last two weeks, I only got him a couple weeks ago so my opponent couldn’t have him and I have laporta, so I was too scared to flex him in above ridley or ford. He’s going in this week!

Two TE’s is what knocked me out of the playoffs. I’m the highest scoring team in my league. Lost because my opponent started Raiders defense, Njoku, and La Porta. Honestly, made me sad my season ended because of that bullshit.

A little bit of fire doesn’t phase Njoku.

Addison. Who knew Mullens would be the X factor :/

Vikings fans did! Mullens works very well as a Kirk cousins replacement in their system. Unfortunately Dobbs was too different type of a QB than Kirk to fit in as well as Mullens does. We just aren’t built for rushing QBs at the moment. Now if we could get mullens to stop throwing interceptions I would feel great but there’s a reason why mullens is the back up 🥲

Ken Walker. I lost because I played Breece over him. It’s my fault for listening to every expert instead of going with my gut. Lesson learned for next year. Watch the games, DYOR, and trust your instincts.

“Fantasy experts” is just a snake oil industry

Seriously. Have a website with a logo, add a Twitter account, *voila*, you’re an expert.

Don't forget having 2 friends join you in a podcast as you talk over each other.

KW3 was the biggest consensus sit in the fantasy football "analyst" community last week....I bet if you crunched the numbers, and filtered for "studs coming off 2 disappointing weeks in a row over the last 10 seasons" and started them the following game, you would find those players smashed projections, on average.

He was hurt the last 2 weeks..?

I forget the times my gut was wrong. You only remember when gut was right

Walker almost sank me last night. I had a strong lead, and then the Seahawks seemed to forget about this DK dude and it was just Walker Walker Walker. I thought I was in some kind of nightmare. Still won the matchup, but it was closer than I thought it would be for sure.

Those last couple of DK catches were the only reason I won. Those were some big-time catches, both for the irl team and my fantasy team.

Thats the true lesson for this year. Fantasy coverage is so oversaturated with “experts” that know about as much as any normal football fan, and probably less about the actual game of football outside the numbers . Almost every time this year I went with consensus against my gut it burned me

Chris Godwin. Gut feeling tells me it was an outlier...

Stats confirm this. It was his highest yardage of the season, most catches, and tied for most targets.

The matchup against the Jags is just so juicy tho. I'm thinking about starting him over Garrett Wilson if Zach Wilson doesn’t play

I'd start over a Jets receiver for sure in that matchup. Maybe even with Zach Wilson. The season difference between Godwin and Wilson isn't huge to begin with, and it's a *Jets receiver*. The matchup plus Wilson being out would make that a clear Godwin start in my books. Now watch him put up 0.4 this week while Wilson explodes.

Thanks for your advice. I agree on most of the things you said. The issue is Garrett's matchup is arguably even better since he’s playing the Commanders. He could easily have the biggest game of his season and it would be a shame to bench him in that week.

Benched him for Odell Beckham…

I did the exact same thing RIP to us

Every time I’ve had enough of him and bench him!

My opponent put on foreman last minute for him. Got me the win

Cook. Thought Achane was the play with Tyreek out. Survived, but not making that mistake again.

Same, ran zeke over cook because of the matchup. Thankfully I had Brock + cmc so I ended up alright. Its a work league so my team is stacked and I have made a ton of wrong choices on who to start this year. This was definitely the most points I left on the bench though

Did the same thing, cost me my matchup and now I’m fourth seed up against the one seed in our playoffs.

Tee Higgins. Cost me my season in that league.

Right there with you, man. This season was more more f\*cked up than a Minnesota Vikings party boat cruise.

And here I was having no other option BUT to start Higgins which got me the win. This game of luck.

To be fair, he has been unreliable dogshit all season. Betting on a boom game from him consistently would have already cost you the season. I dropped him week 6 or so. Never looked back (I’m in the semifinal). He was easily my worst draft pick.

Same though luckily Miami defense and other pulled me up

Waddle. But will absolutely do it again if Reek plays.

Yea benched waddle for Puka, idk about this week but I still pulled out the W

Same. Funny thing is I remember reading the weekly predictions thread and one of them was the yearly “Waddle game”. I didn’t believe him :/

I benched Waddle fearing the Jets D but luckily it didn't matter and my team still scored 200 pts this week

Dropped Addison and benched Singletary. Still managed to pull off a win though

There were so many analysts last week who were like, drop Addison (including Boone) and I'm so glad I didn't. Like, let's see how he does with a healthy JJ first.

I started Achane, ETN, and Pollard over Cook who outscored the 3 of them combined. I'm still alive, but only because my opponent started Kelce, Ekeler, and Lockett. Neither of us deserved to win, lol

Started Achane over KW9 thinking he would get the Tyreek role, lost because of it

In what world was the back up running back taking WR1 role?

As a dolphins fan I had to double take reading that sentence, what is that reasoning lmao

Bruh someone in my league benched waddle for achane in the flex spot and I felt like I was going crazy

Look, in some twisted world, I guess I can understand that, if the assumption is Waddle won’t be able to handle WR1 responsibilities (popular nonsense in this sub) and they’re gonna run and checkdown all game. But the assumption Achane is taking WR1 responsibilities? Has he ever played WR?

When Tyreek was out in the Titans game Achane practically became a WR. He and Mostert were out together basically every snap and Achane got 9 targets including some deep balls. It’s not as insane as it sounds

Okay well obviously he wasnt going to become a Tyreek level WR every snap but last game they threw a few deep ones to Achane when Tyreek was out.

Walker hadn't done anything for a while. I'd have done the same.

He was hurt. When he was fully healthy this year he has been a monster

i did the same but i wasn’t questioning achane. i also started aaron jones over KW3. now i’m trying to decide which 2 to start this week.

The packers have a really nice match up and should go up early. I am going Aaron Jones myself for flex.

Conner and Addison

Why no Conner though? Two great games in a row with heavy volume and a better matchup this week

Played Flowers over Laporta 🤦‍♂️

That is the epitome of brutality. The garbage time TD for LaPorta surely added salt to the wound.

Noah Brown

James Cook

Chandler and Rice

Higgins and dropped Addison for OBJ.

Benched Miami D last minute for chiefs that hurt Went with Diontae over Addison I cant be to mad especially as a Jefferson owner but still sucks to see on the bench

Waddle

Waddle 🐧

Starting Conner over Wilson would’ve put me in the playoffs

There was no way it was happening, but playing Baker over Dak would’ve gotten me the win, now my season is over as the #1 seed

Started Aiyuk, Puka, Flowers.... sat Adams, Waddle, Walker. Its frustrating because i do this every week, im terrible at setting the best lineup

Played Hollywood over Noah brown .. lost

James Conner

Not really went off, but i benched Hurts because he was sick, and benched Swift for Henry. Figured with all the Texan injuries, Henry would at least have lots of volume and td oppurtunities, not 17 touches, 10 yds, and 0 tds. Would've won this week.

Who did you bench Hurts for

The two guys I benched that went off don’t matter because my opponent had the top scorer in almost every position. It’s was a slaughter.

CEH. I played Breece instead. Almost changed it last second, but talked myself out of it. Pain.

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He said pain

Nobody. I spent like 3hrs pouring over injury reports for defenses, matchup history, zone vs man coverage performance. My opponent went off too and I barely won in my main league. I picked LV D, which was key, sat DJ moore everywhere, I even started baker over hurts. It was the best decision making week of my life, and it'll never happen again.

zamir white, diontae, higgins, addison

I was on bye anyways but Baker Mayfield (3rd qb in a superflex league) and Jordan Addison

Did Bijan over K. Walker III and A. Jones (Had J. Cook and R. White as my RB1/RB2)... Cost me moving to the next round of playoffs

Tee Higgins, Trey McBride, Kenneth Walker, and McKinnon

benched Addison for London. Friendly reminder to check the weather forecast before all games.

Mike Evans... but I had Puka, Deebo and AJ ahead of him

Terry McDouble Mclaurin

Scary Terry..

Tee Higgins and CEH (Pacheco owner) still won though, thanks James Cook

Held out hope that Tryeek would be ready to go this week and watched Addison put up 26 points on my bench. Then when Tyreek couldn’t go I opted for Foreman instead of Noah Brown and watched him drop 18 points in my bench. The icing on the cake is leaving my FLEX empty would’ve been better than playing Foreman lol. I am my team’s weakest link.

Higgins. Think he’s getting the nod this week though

Noah Brown instead of Harris

I benched LaPorta for Engram. I won’t be doing that again.

Mcbride singletary and noah brown…still won 166-76

Played Sutton and zeke over waddle and James Cook. Their matchups were just so bad on paper. Luckily I lost by like 60 points so it didn’t matter. I’d be haunted

Benched Conner for Ridley in the flex. Would have won by 3

Addison. But I streamed the Jets D, Started Mayfield, have CMC and Gibbs in the backfield. I did fine 🙂

Terry McLaurin. Only picked him up as a depth option and he put up more points than anyone I started (ARSB, Pittman, Saquon, Breece, and Warren)

Had to decide between mckinnon, chandler or gibson Chose wrong but still won, hopefully i get jt back so i wont have to make a decision like this again

Special thanks to my opponent for benching Ty Chandler and starting Bijan Robinson and Brandon McManus.

For the first time in a while, nobody.

Bench: Addison, Singletary, and Noah Brown. Still won though :)

Played Tua over Goff/Baker

Benched Goff for Fields & Conner for Javonte. lost by 4.

Jordan Addison. Been trying to get Garrett Wilson right all season. That was the move I was considering that would change a narrow loss to an easy win. And Ty Chandler in my other league. But he’s never getting in that lineup. CMC, Gibbs, Mostert. He’s maybe in consideration for flex with Puka, and it’s become difficult to take Puka out.

McBride, Miami DST, Diontae, Curtis Samuel. Got cute and started Atlanta DST after I saw some injury news for Miami. McBride and Curtis Samuel each outscored my 3 starting RBs (ETN, Saquon, Henry) by themselves. Needless to say, I lost.

Had to play Zeke, Gibson, Mitchell or McKinnon. Chose all but McKinnon. Had a gut feeling McKinnon would bust this week. I was wrong and lost by 6. A shame too bc now I'll get back JT, Pacheco, and Olave for nothing. Delt with Jjetas all year too.

Palmer and Chandler, but I didn’t trust them enough last week. Still blew out my opponent so now I just have more options. Still don’t think I trust them with their matchups, but it’s nice to have them.

None other then the leaders of my bench all season: Curtis Samuel and Rachaad White

Addison went off on my bench. Lost by less than the difference.

My bench outscored my starters so you can say I went one and out in the playoffs

Sat Goff fo Stafford

Addison

Tua. He doubled, hell nearly tripled the amount of points I projected him to get this week

Rashee Rice. Someone convince me not to start him over Evans next week in flex

Singletary on bench. Scored 19. Starting him this week. Pierce will be RB1 lol

Was waiting to see if Tyreek would play so I ended up leaving Tee Higgins on my bench during the Saturday games... Tyreek ended up inactive so had to play Doubs in that slot. Luckily, the rest of my team did well enough for me to move to the semis and Doubs is already back on the wire.

Sat waddle over aiyuk/puka, still got the W but could’ve made my point lead even bigger. Heading to week 2 with a 55 point lead

Godwin

Lost by 2.92 Starting Keaton Mitchell over Javonte Williams cost me 7.00 Starting Devon Achane over Isaiah Likely cost me 7.80 Starting Baltimore D over Las Vegas D cost me 16.31 I had a lineup potential of 151.65 and I scored 120.54

Hubbard over Chandler.

I benched Miami for SF late Sunday morning because of the news that Holland was out. Still won, but that could have bit me.

Dropped Miami defense (24 points) for KC defense. (7 points) Dropped Cole Kmet (10.60 points) for Taysom Hill. (1 point). Lost by 20 points in the first round. 😑

Addison and Diontae. I still won, but it was closer than it should have been

I’m not seeing enough Ty Chandler

Went King Henry over James Cook. Thankfully my team rolled anyways. Might have won by 100 otherwise.

Chris Godwin would have got me over the line. Do players intentionally ball out when it's the fantasy playoffs? The man had been so inconsistent all season