Thread: Week 1, Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda

Originally Posted by In-com-plete

I started Lee Evans instead of Plaxico. Evans got 0 and Plax got 32.

I still won with 95, but it wouldn't have even been close.

You started Evans??
I gave advise to a guy in my league who has Evans NOT to start him and he did. Silly guy.

But for me I should have started Marshawn Lynch over Jerious Norwood.
And I should have started Brandon Marshall over Darrell Jackson.

And I should have started Derrick Mason over Larry Fitzerald.

I won but completely sucked this week.

Originally Posted by JayCutler4MVP!!!

You started Evans??
I gave advise to a guy in my league who has Evans NOT to start him and he did. Silly guy.

But for me I should have started Marshawn Lynch over Jerious Norwood.
And I should have started Brandon Marshall over Darrell Jackson.

And I should have started Derrick Mason over Larry Fitzerald.

I won but completely sucked this week.

Marshawn was amazing. He looked bigger than I thought he was when I watched his clippings. Has the speed, the patience, the smarts, and the toughness. I guess you're starting him now every game, ay?

One rookie I chose as my #1 runningback in both leagues I joined and is paying dividends is Adrian Peterson. When I saw what he could do in the preseason, I had a feeling he was going to make an impact immediately. I also read an article on Yahoo by one of their analysts who rank the players for the Yahoo FF leagues, that in hindsight, they ranked AP way too low. By upside alone, he was better than most top 10 rb's, so when all the top tier ones were taken, I was fortunate to get him on both my teams.

Originally Posted by JayCutler4MVP!!!

You started Evans??
I gave advise to a guy in my league who has Evans NOT to start him and he did. Silly guy.

But for me I should have started Marshawn Lynch over Jerious Norwood.
And I should have started Brandon Marshall over Darrell Jackson.

And I should have started Derrick Mason over Larry Fitzerald.

I won but completely sucked this week.

Sometimes I do the homer thing and it backfires. Sometimes I'm anti-homer and it backfires. Now I just start the best guy no matter what.

Ex:
Last year I benched Hines Ward when we played them because I was so certain we'd shut him down. He had like 8 catches for 125. That was 16 points as we also got a point for a catch in that league. I lost that game by 2.

WHO DO you guys think will be week 2's shoulda woulda coulda's????

for me it will be marshawn starting instead of carnell williams. marsh will probably get shut down, and williams will play through the pain and run all over new orleans.

also my shoulda player will be starting cooley of greg olsen. i just have a feeling the bears are going to air it out soon and he will be the man. (hopefully not this week though)

Originally Posted by underrated29

WHO DO you guys think will be week 2's shoulda woulda coulda's????

for me it will be marshawn starting instead of carnell williams. marsh will probably get shut down, and williams will play through the pain and run all over new orleans.

also my shoulda player will be starting cooley of greg olsen. i just have a feeling the bears are going to air it out soon and he will be the man. (hopefully not this week though)

Tough to say right now; lots of tough defenses going up against premiere players, and so many key injuries.

I have Tatum in one team, and he put up good numbers against the Raiders, but now they face Minnesotta, #1 against the run last season, so I'm not playing him. I don't think I'll be wrong here, though.

Joe Horn is a #1 WR for Atlanta, but their offense is horrendous, so I'm starting a #2 RB in his place at the flex possition, Najeh Davenport. No way will he put up big numbers, but he still might outproduce Horn. Many teams in this league, so it's rare to have a lot of good #1s. If Atlanta gets their act together, and Horn puts up decent numbers, this will by my shoulda.

I was also thinking of taking a chance on starting James Jones who became GB's #2 WR because of an injury, and we all know Brett likes to throw the ball. He didn't have good numbers the last time, though.

Originally Posted by broncos_mtnman

Started Bulger and benched Kitna.

I still won though, thanks to Pitt defense.

I started Kitna over Rivers. Kitna is my guy every week. Running a Martz offense with the weapons he has should put up HUGE numbers.

The lions might not win many games ( unless they play the Raiders every week..) but I think Kitna is going to put of big fantasy numbers.

Started Leinart over Delhome in my money league.

Figured Leinart would have chewed up 49ers defense like he has in the past. Boy was I wrong. I still won by 2 points but it was way too close and I thought he might have lost it for me on that last INT of the game. I also had Boldin starting so that helped me when they got the TD.

I ended up 4-1 in all leagues, not a bad start!

Originally Posted by omac

Marshawn was amazing. He looked bigger than I thought he was when I watched his clippings. Has the speed, the patience, the smarts, and the toughness. I guess you're starting him now every game, ay?

One rookie I chose as my #1 runningback in both leagues I joined and is paying dividends is Adrian Peterson. When I saw what he could do in the preseason, I had a feeling he was going to make an impact immediately. I also read an article on Yahoo by one of their analysts who rank the players for the Yahoo FF leagues, that in hindsight, they ranked AP way too low. By upside alone, he was better than most top 10 rb's, so when all the top tier ones were taken, I was fortunate to get him on both my teams.

Yea he did impress me and he was a lot bigger then I thought he was. But I'm not starting him this week. I'm going to wait one more week I dont know how good he will do vs the Steelers.

and Yea In-Com-Plete. I know what you mean.

I usually dont start players vs Denver unless its a proven stud.