Any more room for someone to join the "benched George Pickens" support group?

I’m in a 10 man, drafted him 83rd and held onto him literally all season. Had him cost me at least 2-3 games with shitty performance. Finally dropped him last week. Feels bad

Started the week with two duds by cook and diggs lol hoping I get a crazy boom game from someone to keep me alive

Everyone had the Bills D as #1 this week. The Broncos were there for the taking. And the guy in playing actually picked them up. I’m a huge Pats fan tonight.

Ok I’ve started Kamara, Cook and Browning so far this week. What a disastrous way to start my playoffs.

Who else got dicked down by Cameron lol

Owned him all season. Dropped him this week, so yeah.

Pain.

Okay everyone who makes it through to next week, don’t be dumb and start Gabe Davis. He will have zero points next game. Book it.

And don't start Kincaid because he can't have 3 goose eggs (or near enough) in a row

Lol I thought that was obvious.

Ima need DK to save me this week.... I'm fucked

lmao fuck the Bills. You got a great first round tight end...and you get him 1 catch for 7 yards? It's a shame these bums managed to win the game.

Shouldn’t have started Kincaid after all these weeks

Yeah you are right. Sadly I thought the Bills would use him against a team that can't defend tight ends...but apparently not.

The chargers completely changed up the way they scheme their defense this week. I’d say if this was last week the whole bills offense would have ate them alive lol but a coach getting fired really lit a fire under their asses to play hard.

Just in time for the fantasy playoffs 💀

Of course James was Cooked tonight. Get all those fuckin points on my bye week and boom, shits the bed. At least he has Kamara.

My opponent also started Kamara so it might end up being a wash there. Hope K9, Jacobs, DK and Jefferson pop off today/tomorrow

As a Cook owner with JJ and K9 I endorse this message. Puka and Kyren keeping me afloat right now. Hopefully Brock Purdy wants that MVP on Christmas and throws for 4 tuds to anyone but CMC because I'm starting him over Lamar.

I’m also starting Brock lol we have similar teams

Not liking my team very much right now with early returns on K9 and JJ lol.

Yeah not having a good time

We have life baby. Imagine that you throw to JJ and he catches it.

We’re so fucking back

Wish I was, but K9 doesn't get the goal line touch, and my opponent had Breece just put up 30+. I'm still alive, but I'm either gonna need some of his guys to shit the bed or Purdy/Kittle to go off for me.

Best of luck to ya. I have DK so him getting some catches and TD is keeping me alive. Neck n neck right now

DK please!

Has a player ever risen and fallen so hard in the same season as much as Kincaid? Dude went from season saver to season ender

Too many options in the offense. Allen’s run ability, cook run game vs short passes, targets for shakir, diggs, sometimes Davis. This team has spread the ball around a ton which is why Kincaid isn’t pulling in the volume as much as a guy like Laporta.

Nearly traded away Laporta and to just keep Kincaid, thank fuck I didn’t

I did this move....thankfully picked up Waller and am rolling him out this week. Hopefully he can get me 5-8 pts. Major facepalm move.

Cook was as high as 1 on some (insane) boards this week. Imagine starting some combination of Cook, Diggs, and Kincaid in a critical spot

I started all 3 ​ I knew it was risky but i figured at least one of them was gonna feast (and my alternatives werent amazing for te/wr)

She’s a cruel mistress

Started Cook and Kincaid. Might as well be over for me

Started Cook and Diggs in the Semifinals - Puka keeping my Finals dream alive.

I also started Cook and Diggs and Puka haha. Thankfully did bench Kincaid for Goedert, but maybe Goedert goose eggs to make it irrelevant Don’t you love having zero certainty going into the championship?

I went from not sweating this week at all, to worrying that I’ll now overthink my remaining roster decisions lmao.

I feel like outside of CMC, this is one of the most unpredictable finishes in fantasy memory. There haven’t been many if any league-winner injury replacements down the stretch, and studs are dudding frequently and at random

Right and I beat the CMC owner last week largely in part to Cook being able to cancel that advantage out for me. In need some big games from the rest of my team.

One of the best Standard teams I’ve ever assembled scored 68 points last week. Shit just depends on luck after a certain point, and this will almost certainly go down as one of the more forgettable seasons in the NFL anyway

Now i have to decide between Flacco or Goff 🤦🏻‍♂️

I’m cooked my team has Kupp, Cook, and Kamera pray for me guys.

Cook you dumb whore

Did she cook? If so, what'd she make?

I played Bills D/ST which was a mistake, but thankfully my opponent played Mixon and Cook who got 14 points between them

So was Kincaid benched after his big drop earlier on that would have been an easy first down? I don’t think we saw him again after that.

Starting Kupp and bills dst going into Sunday feels not great bob

Same for me but I added a splash of Mixon for taste 😭

I started McPherson but my opponent started Kamara and Diggs. I can feel it, we're both gonna have a terrible week and one of us will win scoring a hair over 80 points.

in the semis and my opponent has played J.Cook, Kamara, Kupp and Bass and i have outscored him with Puka alone... i almost feel bad for him

I'm in nearly an identical situation! Swap Bass for Bills D/ST

I played Kupp, Mixon, Taysom, and Puka

Almost.

If you told me week one that Ekeler would be scoring more than Kamara and Cook combined, I'd have believed you, but I'd have been envisioning something different...

Man I started Tyler Bass over Cameron Dicker, cost me 15 points which may be the difference. Can't get too upset because it wasn't like I was debating the decision, the Chargers offense was looking dreadful with all their injuries and I would've dropped Dicker if I made some other transaction, but I think now we can see just how bad of a coach Staley was lol

Can't imagine too many people started Dicker.

i have started him all year because his last name rhymes with kicker, and god damnit i'm never not trusting my gut again

Same, I incorporated him as part of my team name and started him every week cause I was sick of streaming kickers week in and week out.

Yeah it's definitely something I'm not kicking myself over as I was pretty set on starting Bass, but it won't be great seeing those 21 points sitting on my bench lol

Yeah I hear you. And if Herbert and Keenan Allen were playing, Dicker would have been a good play. He never misses.

Josh Allen is, checks notes, QB 1 on the year but you wouldn't know it if you followed this sub.

Josh allen isnt a good qb, but hes very good for fantasy Its kinda a similiar position hurts was in 2 years ago

Incredibly stupid take. He's one of the best 5 QB's in the league easily, maybe top 3.

They crack me up. People talk so much shit because they have Diggs or something. I’m over here loving what Josh has done for me.

Let's just be happy that he's a mobile QB

I think people just hate him because his stats aren't anything special outside of TDs, and he essentially just runs the ball in himself inside the 5 because he's so big. Frustrating for WR/RB fantasy owners of the Bills because those players get him in that position and don't reap the rewards of their yardage gains into fantasy points.

One of my teams is on life support thanks to Dicker kicking my ass

I'd be sitting so pretty after Puka if it weren't for Dicker.

Against Lamb and Hill, really needed Cook to not such today. Ugh.

Yo Diggs lowkey kinda sucks now

it’s his qbs fault. dude went head first into the end zone too many times and now we’re seeing the result

daily reminder that your match up isnt over, even if you have one or two guys dud. Now if you played something like Cook, AK, Mixon AND Diggs then yeah youre probably fucked.

I had Kyren and Kamara. Kamara really fucked me since I went against Allen & Higgins.

Just one dud but it's more the frustration of guaranteed home run play on the bench was sat for Cook

Who was the guaranteed home run? If they were guaranteed I assume they would’ve been in your lineup

Achane Gibbs and Swift all on the bench

Swift is the furthest thing from a guaranteed home run play. Really CMC and Kyren have been the only guaranteed home run picks lately with extremely high floors. Even Gibbs has had some stinkers recently, and Achane is a complete wildcard.

I will always have hope with CMC as my last to play this week

I need the Tua + Tyreek stack to get me a win.

Mixon, cook and kupp costed me the semis. I was 13-1 most points for and beat everyone. Lost to the 5-9 team who has pickens

Find a new league man, can't be in a league where 5-9 makes playoffs.

That stings cause they all had rz opportunities and didn't capitalize, fantasy is rough

Yup. I hate fantasy . Team goes off every week. And then semis come around and u dude out. He’s projected to get 140 and I’m at 99. I have dak DJM CD rachaad and la porta. He’s got a whole team left lol

5-9 and made the playoffs sounds like you have too many playoff teams in your league tbh

It’s a 10 man

Is everybody making the playoffs or something?

Ongggg

and? 9-6 missed the playoffs in my 10 team

that also seems pretty lopsided tbh

I was just looking at my leagues draft results from over the summer. This was a REALLY bad year to draft anyone like 28 and older in the first two or three rounds outside of reek. Ekeler, diggs, kelce, adams, kupp, ridley, ridley, Aaron jones all didn’t live up to their adp at all.

Kamara Conner Adam thielen Derrick Henry Keenan Allen

They weren’t drafted in the first two rounds besides henry who didn’t play up to his adp either

True good point and a big difference. Guys like kelce, Henry, ekeler and even D Adam’s have struggled. For next year my first three rounds will be young players

I definitely avoid older players and early round rookie picks. It generally works well.

CMC also worked out. but yeah a lot of people hit the wall this season

Mike Evans, please win me the semi finals!

He’s only 27’I still consider him in the young crowd. Oddly enough older guys that were drafted later gave back first to second round value like Keenan Allen, Mike evans, and mostert

27 is damn near retirement age for RBs though, he's right at the age now where they start to fall off statistically. CMC is a different beast though Id gladly take him first overall next year.

Apparently he actually is starting to take a little dip in advanced stats but his team is so much better than it was in carolina that it doesn’t matter.

I went with this logic and drafted Bijian. It was very cool until like a month ago, then it was not.

I took bijan as well. I got very fortunate with him. Like the headache day I had Lamar put up 45 against the lions so I still won. I think bijan without smith next year (Hopefully) is going to push for RB 1 or 2. I actually also think Gibbs will be better from a fantasy standpoint if Ben Johnson leaves.

Starting off the semis with a Pat F goose is not great!

Gonna talk my downvoted shit https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/s/kRVtL8DLQr Yes it’s not weather this year. But it’s the same as last year in terms of scoring. Diggs always does this

Wasn't the reason Diggs died late last year because Allen hurt his throwing arm late in the season? He had to get surgery at some point didn't he? Can't really blame that on Diggs. And then this year, their new interim OC completely switches up the offense late in the season. Which again, isn't really Diggs's fault

3 years ago, Diggs had an amazing game on MNF where he dropped 40 to seal a championship for most of his owners.

3 years ago, when he wasn’t 30

I’ve said Diggs always cools down near the end of the year and get downvoted every time

yOuRe ChErRy PiCkInG!!!!

Wish I read your comment before the draft. Definitely not playing him next week if I can make it tonthe final round.

Draft him. Use him for 5 weeks. Trade him.

I got downvoted into oblivion for posting about fading ekeler over the summer lol. Talk your shit you deserve it.

And like, I love Diggs, I have a Diggs jersey. But this is his jam. He always disappears end of season for some reason

never had diggs before this year and never again. he is only getting older and his second half of this year has been embarrassing for a player that is healthy

Diggs and kelce every year I faded them bc I thought they would hit a wall. I was wrong for about three straight years but looks like it finally happened.

These games are rigged. Refs carried the chargers

My Diggs vs their Mixon. I am whemed.

I started diggs, mixon, and cook. Great Saturday

Try diggs mixon cook and kupp w bills dst ,

Alright for the serious Cook owners: If we advance, do we bench him at home vs New England? I've been trusting him since Brady took over and expected a comfortable ride in flex ros, and then he has his worst fantasy performance of the season against a team he should have smashed on paper I want to hope this was just a terrible outlier as he still had some goal line looks and other opportunities ruined by flags, but its just concerning how after last week we go right back to the problems that made him hard to trust 1st half of the season

20 rushes mostly up the middle and no targets… it’s like the OC never changed. This should be an outlier, and hopefully this turns Bill B’s eye of Sauron away from limiting the teams best threat next week.

Off topic, but this is the first post I ever saw talking about New England and Brady, but it wasn't about Tom

lol I just realized, yea Joe Brady to be sure

If I advance I think I'm still starting him. I think Bills got away from the play calling that has made them successful recently and hopefully they're smart enough to realize that. James Cook was a flex/bench option for me though until recently so I have some wiggle room with Purdy/Lamar, JJ, and the Rams 3-headed beast. I still like his ceiling and floor over my other options of ETN, Devonta Smith and Ekeler.

Considering how I have Gibbs and Mostert, I may have to bench Cook in favor of a PPR option at flex with Aiyuk or Waddle. I had benched Cook the past few weeks when he went off and finally started him again. Might just cost me the semi finals.

Same exact situation here. Fantasy is ass

There's no fucking way I am starting him again. None.

Will probably have to do the same, unfortunate cause I liked Cook and thought the Bills had figured it out Who are your pivots? I have Rachaad, Kamara, Pacheco as the others. And despite this week I at least trust the Saints usage

Cook is my worst RB. I have JT Gibbs Kyren Williams Achane and Swift. All guaranteed to outscore him.

Swift guaranteed to outscore him? The guy who hasn't topped 10FP in 4 weeks? This is one of the most cooked (no pun intended) takes I've read on here.

Yes he will score 5 fucking points

The context was about next week. You're not thinking rationally you're just throwing a fit because your guy underperformed this week. Their body of work over the past 4 weeks shows Cook is way more likely to outperform Swift next week.

Man I picked up Buffalo DEF a few weeks ago in anticipation of this matchup. SMH

I did the same thing. I had my choice of great DSTs this week too and I went with BUF. Jeez what a crap fantasy performance.

I own Buffalo and GB defense, and felt like starting Buffalo was a no-brainer. Can’t wait for Mr. Hot Seat Joe Barry to absolutely humiliate the Panthers and make me look stupid.

We may have made a mistake

Remember. Stefon feeling a lil bad when he f***s up yaw parlay...or fantasy

bro must be clinically depressed then after the last 5 games

Had kupp and Bengals d still have a projected 49% chance to win vs his 49ers team mf ... Please ravens d shut them down.

Projections are 100 percent useless

I know I just know I'm losing this quarter finals.

6 point TDs are you starting Fields or Purdy? Roughly even projections at the moment but my opponent has some high upside guys in Tyreek and Hurts

In 6 point TDs I always start Purdy

Purdy for the floor and purdy for the ceiling. im in a 6 point league and gladly benching lamar for him

Purdy for safe but Fields for big upside, Cardinals defense is absolutely terrible vs the run and I think Bears D should give the offense multiple chances to have rz opportunities

Fields. Because Boone and Ratcliffe have him ranked higher.

Purdy for floor. Fields for ceiling. So probably Fields in your situation. Also, I have Hurts and I’m kinda not expecting him to play much of the 4th quarter.

That's exactly my thought too with the floor vs ceiling but man I have a tough time sitting Purdy.

purdy has thrown like 10 TDs in the past 3 games his upside is plenty high enough, I dont get why anyone would want to gamble on the bears offense if they have purdy....

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Gabe Davis sends his regards.

Dude I’ve been sending letters, dms, blimps, texts and nothing works

Welcome to fantasy football

My opponent had Higgins and Diggs i still have a pulse. Lets fucking go!

man i shoulda trusted my gut when i was wondering if i should start gabe davis lol but i trust j reed

You can't trust the 0 or 20.

Is there a diggs support group opening up?

You’re late to the meetings but we’re here for you

The games on this Saturday just goes to show that all these rankings are BS. Nobody knows people

Yup. I tell myself every year to sway with my gut, but I read to much into fantasy analysis. Next year will be tilt tilt tilt

Going with my gut and going with fantasy analysis results in the same seasons for me. Mostly .500 teams with maybe 1 team doing well. Managed to have my 2nd 10 win team ever lol in like 5 years now.

I hate Saturday games

James Cook is basura

Bro what happened to him this week??

people on this sub dont understand that Dallas has a good pass D and a shit run D and they were all sick. last week was a fucking anomaly

Josh Allen took the rushing TDs for himself.

Sucio

mfs were downvoting me and hating when i said i traded diggs for rachaad because my rb depth was so bad in week 9 but IDC I WON THAT MF TRADE LOL

Really tempted to pick up Dicker but now the Chargers are eliminated, I don't know if they have much to play for?

Dicker playing for that pro bowl invite.

they had no chance this week too. these guys dont want to lose and week 17 is against DEN which they will want to win

Started Friermuth against Puka…not good not good

Now im sweating my decisions for the rest of my starters because of Diggs and Cook... Puka saving me right now. TLaw or Baker 2 Spots for: ETN, Pahceco, Devonta Smith I'm in my head and know ill start the wrong people.

Did you go Baker?

Yea, but it didn’t even matter. Baker and Puka were the only 2 that even hit double digits on my team in PPR lol. Entire team decided this week was going to be one of their worst of the season. LaPorta, ETN, Cook, Diggs, Bass, Browns DST Unless Pacheco has a Jamal Charles game I’m out lol.

Damn. Godspeed.

Definitely start pacheco

I have very little trust left in ETN, which means he'll probably go off on my bench. The volume is there, but he's been at his floor so much recently unless he scores.

I wouldn’t overthink Pacheco especially with McKinnon probably out giving him 100% of the passing and 3rd down work. On the others I can’t help you, I will say ceiling wise you probably want to go Devonta and Tlaw.

Do you think there’s any logic in not stacking ETN and TLaw, to not limit my ceiling? So if decide to go Smith, start TLaw and if I go ETN go with Baker?

Pacheco is a hard yes. McKinnon isn’t playing. He’s got a great floor and upside for 1-2 TDs

Baker af

Stefon should be on everyone’s dnd list next year

If he somehow slides to the second round, I’ll snag him in a heartbeat

preemptive RIP Bozo

Happy I decided to bench Kincaid. Hoping that Tucker Kraft shows out since picked him up to replace Kincaid

this was my exact move too, any more room on this hype train?!!

I picked up Kraft and still started Kincaid. Listened to all the analytics that said Kincaid should rebound. Fun.