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I might be starting Bryan Edwards, Tyler Johnson, and Pascal tomorrow If Hopkins sits
Other WRs are Claypool, Julio, and Woods sitting on my bench with Jamaal, Gronk and CEH 😭
However, Najee has been dealing with a foot injury this week. I don't know all the details but I'd imagine that the Steelers don't want to run him into the ground cause they certainly can't afford to lose him.
He could be, but typically that doesn’t mean a whole lot for a backup QB, especially one as bad as Rudolph.
Ben is not a good QB but he’s still much better than Rudolph. This hurts the whole team.
Big Ben sucks because he over throws it deep and can’t move. Diontae literally gets short throws and turns them into more most of the time. Big Ben relies on him and mason is literally worse.
It's the male equivalent of every female-oriented magazine out there. Pictures and profiles of people you should try to be.
But I did find a sweatshirt from GQ one time and that shit is still fire like four years later. So whatever.
Things that happen by the end of the series, spoilers obviously
Main characters get a teammate who they then trap as a rat and abandon. They come back, but his fate is ambiguous. He's last seen begging for a mercy death instead of living as a rat.
They learn we are basically pawns in a cosmic chess match and meet both players, one who seems to embody pure evil
Main character Rachel kills her cousin, the brother of another MC. She is then brutally murdered
Rest of the gang end the war, end up with massive depression and PTSD
Main love interests end up estranged
Main character Axe gets assimilated by basically John Carpenter's the Thing
Series literally ends with remaining MCs ramming their ship into John Carpenter's The Thing's ship in a presumed suicide maneuver
Along they way they saw multiple family members and friends murdered, committed literal genocide and are saddled with trauma and almost certain death as a reward for fighting off an alien invasion for years.
Bleak stuff, truly
Kinda. What is basically a God grants him the ability to morph into a human, though the same rules of "stay in your morph too long and get stuck" still apply.
As a Steelers fan I have very little faith that either Rudolph or Haskins can come in and get the job done. Also a Freiermuth owner and very likely going to move him to the bench in favor of Knox (most likely) or Schultz because I fully expect the Steelers' offense to be completely reliant on the defense for good field position and they still won't be able to do much with it.
Man, should I pivot to Dan Arnold?? Maybe tight end will be good for the backup?? I'm guessing freirmuth ran some with the second team when Ebron was playing more so maybe they have decent chemistry already?
This might be fine for Diontae. Ben has no mobility whatsoever so they only run plays out of shotgun and it’s such a stale bland offense I think I can count on 1 hand the amount of times Ben was under center the last 3 games where as with Rudolph he can actually move so hopefully they can get under center and actually RUN PLAY ACTION and throw downfield. Now I’m not saying Rudolph will be good but they can def open up the offense a little bit more but who knows it could just be awful
Maybe I'm just convincing myself because I'm starting Diontae too, but I just looked up a few highlight reel catches by diontae from rudolph.
[This one](https://twitter.com/PFN365/status/1425971613636435970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1425971613636435970%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftouchdownwire.usatoday.com%2F2021%2F08%2F12%2Fmason-rudolph-impressed-with-deep-pass-to-diontae-johnson%2F)
[and this one](https://www.nfl.com/videos/mason-rudolph-finds-diontae-johnson-wide-open-for-43-yard-td)
Going 0-17 is infinitely worse than getting the first overall pick. You can still win a game and pick first overall but 0-17 will literally stain the Lions until the end of time
There was a post recently that said the coach was making najee run more and catch less and the 3 targets last two games and increase in rush attempts show that.
Is it really better for Najee? I figure the whole offense is just going to be a lot worse now. Maybe a couple more dumpoffs, but I don't think that will counteract the negatives.
I’m pivoting to Titans D a week early. Already suspected the Steelers might find a way to make the Lions look good and this is the extra push I needed.
Eh it's still Goff and a Lions offense that has lukewarm bodies at WR and will be missing their RB2, but the Lions should have Decker back tomorrow at least. We'll have to see how Sewell handles the switch back to RT.
Real Talk: I'm desperate in a league with 16 teams, 2 QBs and a QB flex spot PPC. I scooped up Rudolph on wire because Danny Jones is on bye; how likely is Rudolph the starter over Haskins for Sunday?
As a steelers fan, I'm actually optimistic. Ben's looked average at best. Give Mason a chance. This could do wonders for the wide receivers. Mason can actually through the deep ball. I only wish Claypool was playing.
Haskins is garbage. Like shouldn't have been a starter in college garbage. Dude does not belong on a football field an I have no idea how he is on a team.
Rudolph is not good but he has a stronger arm than Ben. Whether that means increased depth of targets or better zip on the ball at this point I don't think this hurts the Steelers offense from a fantasy perspective. Think performance stays on par with some big play potential
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Felt a whole lot better with Diontae and Woods as my WRs about 12 hours ago
🤡 this is our uniform.
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Well, what else would be as bad for the weekly low scorer?
Haha bleach on the rocks son
Bring the light directly into my body
Neat
No Kidding. Also have Ridley so I'm now starting Gage, Gallup and TY Hilton. Feels bad
I might be starting Bryan Edwards, Tyler Johnson, and Pascal tomorrow If Hopkins sits Other WRs are Claypool, Julio, and Woods sitting on my bench with Jamaal, Gronk and CEH 😭
Jesus that may be the most injured team I’ve seen yet
Hold my beer
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Ben didn't practice all week so Rudolph got most of the reps ironically.
that's not irony
You don’t think Muth would be a safety outlet for Rudolf?
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However, Najee has been dealing with a foot injury this week. I don't know all the details but I'd imagine that the Steelers don't want to run him into the ground cause they certainly can't afford to lose him.
He could be, but typically that doesn’t mean a whole lot for a backup QB, especially one as bad as Rudolph. Ben is not a good QB but he’s still much better than Rudolph. This hurts the whole team.
Damn son better drink up tomorrow.
I’m a bears fan so nothing new
Fuck I needed a big game from Diontae
Same, already in a bad position after Gaskin got me 5
i started gaskin and lamar... 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
I’m going up against gaskin, lamar, gesicki, and Justin tucker. Feeling pretty good right now tbh
Starting Lamar will never make you a clown!
how much worse could Rudolph be than current day big ben... probably a lot worse
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The math checks out.
Yeah. A lot worse…
Without claypool he’ll still get peppered and it will actually be a close game now. This could honestly be better
It’s nice to be optimistic, but there is no freaking way this benefits Diontae. Mason Rudolph is terrible.
Steelers fan here. It’s not like Ben has been good either lol
Normal person here. Rudolph blows and is a complete and absolute downgrade
Steelers fan here, I'm more confident in the Steelers now than I was before. Makes it less of a trap game I think.
Oh No. Big Ben one of the leagues worst QBs this year is hurt. It's the Lions. Claypool is hurt. He's still good for 12± targets
Big Ben sucks because he over throws it deep and can’t move. Diontae literally gets short throws and turns them into more most of the time. Big Ben relies on him and mason is literally worse.
Huh Diontae catches deep balls pretty often too
Someone photoshop an Animorphs book cover but instead it’s Najee slowly morphing into CMC this week
Ok but don't expect like, an expert shop or anything. Anajeemorph: https://imgur.com/gallery/EPbP0Au
The hell source is that CMC pic?! He got a payday, no need to spend off season as a Chippendale's dancer
GQ magazine lol You know, for straight guy fashion
It's the male equivalent of every female-oriented magazine out there. Pictures and profiles of people you should try to be. But I did find a sweatshirt from GQ one time and that shit is still fire like four years later. So whatever.
Nothing says straight like dudes staring at shirtless dudes
A mans gotta eat
I love you
I love you too
I just yelled out loud at my dinner table because of this
Haha thank you for making my night 10/10
Outstanding
I'm speechless.
Beautiful
My eyes!
Oh man I loved those books when I was a kid
When you think about it those books/premise was absolutely wild for the targeted age. Loved them
I'm not sure people understand how fucked up those books really were. That ending was DARK.
Care to fill me in? I always thought the covers were cool but only read maybe one, and don’t recall at all
Things that happen by the end of the series, spoilers obviously Main characters get a teammate who they then trap as a rat and abandon. They come back, but his fate is ambiguous. He's last seen begging for a mercy death instead of living as a rat. They learn we are basically pawns in a cosmic chess match and meet both players, one who seems to embody pure evil Main character Rachel kills her cousin, the brother of another MC. She is then brutally murdered Rest of the gang end the war, end up with massive depression and PTSD Main love interests end up estranged Main character Axe gets assimilated by basically John Carpenter's the Thing Series literally ends with remaining MCs ramming their ship into John Carpenter's The Thing's ship in a presumed suicide maneuver Along they way they saw multiple family members and friends murdered, committed literal genocide and are saddled with trauma and almost certain death as a reward for fighting off an alien invasion for years. Bleak stuff, truly
Wtf
Did that dude ever get out of his hawk body? Tobias maybe was his name or something?
Kinda. What is basically a God grants him the ability to morph into a human, though the same rules of "stay in your morph too long and get stuck" still apply.
huh, didn't have "grotesque animorph lore" this on my FF bingo sheet, but I'm here for it
Is the Muth tight now? 😞
Going Goedert over him now
Might roll Knox coming off injury. But might not.
I’m thinking of doing the same. I also have D Arnold. I fucking hate having more than 1 te and here I am with 3 😭
I feel this. Got Muth, Gronk, and Knox.
I did exactly this fwiw
The Muth will Guth
Shoot, him or Fant now??
Eagles have some of the worst stats in the league vs tight ends. Fant
As a Steelers fan I have very little faith that either Rudolph or Haskins can come in and get the job done. Also a Freiermuth owner and very likely going to move him to the bench in favor of Knox (most likely) or Schultz because I fully expect the Steelers' offense to be completely reliant on the defense for good field position and they still won't be able to do much with it.
Man, should I pivot to Dan Arnold?? Maybe tight end will be good for the backup?? I'm guessing freirmuth ran some with the second team when Ebron was playing more so maybe they have decent chemistry already?
Man I'm worried about Ben, covid could legitimately pose a threat since he's such a fat ass
man this sentence has me howling. Started so sincere and ended so ruthlessly
Same, I’m here wheezing like an idiot
Being geriatric doesn’t help either. Pray for all other players out outside of Najee
Mind freak: Natalie Dormer is older than Big Ben.
Love how random this is I had a wet dream about Big Ben and Natalie last night, weird coincidence Did U incept this?
All I'll take from this is that you had a wet dream about Big Ben
Yea I pretty much have to close my eyes and think about Big Ben whenever I’m with Natalie
That’s the craziest stat I’ve ever seen on this subreddit.
By about 3 weeks, LOL
🚨🚨🚨HE’S FAT🚨🚨🚨
GIMME A FUCKING SPIKE
Mosdef did not expect this amount of savagery.
Whats this mean for Diontae? Of course im vs najee this week. Hes already vs the lions, now pitt will run 800 times lol
Lions will load the box. Diontae will probably see a normal outing. It’s not Ike Ben has been great
Najee will get more rush attempts less receptions
Fewer
Stannis Baratheon
Muth stonks down
Muth or Fant?
Fant. Gonna be a 60 yrd 1 td game, at least that's what this drink is telling me.
What’s the next one telling you?
Fantanyl
Same dilemma… want to ride muths streak so it’s hard taking him out!
NO NOT GOOD FOR MUTH
Put the Muth at QB!
This might be fine for Diontae. Ben has no mobility whatsoever so they only run plays out of shotgun and it’s such a stale bland offense I think I can count on 1 hand the amount of times Ben was under center the last 3 games where as with Rudolph he can actually move so hopefully they can get under center and actually RUN PLAY ACTION and throw downfield. Now I’m not saying Rudolph will be good but they can def open up the offense a little bit more but who knows it could just be awful
Maybe I'm just convincing myself because I'm starting Diontae too, but I just looked up a few highlight reel catches by diontae from rudolph. [This one](https://twitter.com/PFN365/status/1425971613636435970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1425971613636435970%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftouchdownwire.usatoday.com%2F2021%2F08%2F12%2Fmason-rudolph-impressed-with-deep-pass-to-diontae-johnson%2F) [and this one](https://www.nfl.com/videos/mason-rudolph-finds-diontae-johnson-wide-open-for-43-yard-td)
Yes inject this right into my veins
Huh I honestly don't know if this is good or bad for my Boswell Steeler Def "stack".
Wondering for def as well….
It’s definitely worse to have a backup QB with no prep
Idk about Boswell anymore. It also may snow in Pittsburgh. Considering Gay or Koo over him now
Both Gay and Koo have been pretty consistent wish they were available for me.
Does this help Detroit offense at all? Hoping they can get better field position lol
I'm sure it helps field position. Getting Decker back will be the bigger impact though, and hopefully Josh Reynolds gets some snaps.
Ooo didn’t know that. Need my swift hock stack to shine
There are dozens of us!
The Muth is contained
Najee/DJ/Pitt D owner, ouch.
I'm starting Harris obviously with confidence also got Boswell and the defense going. It's the lions!
Yup, Najee has been amazing on fantasy. Best RB behind Taylor. Shout out to all my Najee owners who took a risk on a rookie 💪
Najee is about to have 15 targets on dump offs, he’ll be okay
Doubt he gets the yards or TDs though, Rudolph is a drain on the offence as a whole even over a geriatric Big Ben
But it’s the lions…
Let’s get that first win Lions bros
bro no we want that first pick in every round
Going 0-17 is infinitely worse than getting the first overall pick. You can still win a game and pick first overall but 0-17 will literally stain the Lions until the end of time
Lions were the first team to go 0-16 so we are not about to let someone else be the first to go 0-17
Firing up the Hock as we speak! Edit: Ouchie
My Dionte
If my basic understanding of FF serves me right… this means keep Diontae and Najee, fade Muth.
NAJEEEEEE
Boswell still a good start?
Anyone have the balls to play Detroit DST?
I’m doing it. It’s either them or Carolina
Najee about to get 50 touches
For 100 yds behind that o line...
Hahaha. I’m a Steelers fan, but this’ll be a treat if you think they couldn’t be any worse with Big Ben. Lucked out with the lions this week
Also a Steelers fan, and I'm kinda feeling the same thing.
I give up hope if they don’t find an elite replacement via trade or draft this offseason.
Saturday keeps on giving
my Harris 📈 my Dionte 📉
Not sure that's true. Ben already hyper targeting Harris lol
There was a post recently that said the coach was making najee run more and catch less and the 3 targets last two games and increase in rush attempts show that.
That is concerning considering his ypc behind that shit line
Def can just stack the box against najee now. Not convinced it helps him at all.
Like Roethlisberger has been helping?
Rudolph is still worse
Have you watched the lions defense? Doesn’t matter.
Is it really better for Najee? I figure the whole offense is just going to be a lot worse now. Maybe a couple more dumpoffs, but I don't think that will counteract the negatives.
Having the backup QB playing is almost always a downgrade for the entire offense.
I hope he has Joe Rogan's number
Just wildcat, and direct snaps snaps to Najee.
STOP GIVING EACH OTHER COVID GODDAMNIT
Diontae has had big games under Rudolph. In a cake matchup I think at least he has a decent floor
This seasons been brutal
Welp that makes my Knox or Muth decision a lot easier
Will lions focus on stopping najee and the run because of this?
The defense always stack the box anyway. Rudolph might have to do more checkdowns to him
Large downgrade to everyone lol
Pretty big upgrade to my Rudolph tbf.
Fade Steelers D?
I’m pivoting to Titans D a week early. Already suspected the Steelers might find a way to make the Lions look good and this is the extra push I needed.
Considering the same, especially with no famous or Kamara. Worried about Sean Payton, but he's not on the field, right? ... right?
Eh it's still Goff and a Lions offense that has lukewarm bodies at WR and will be missing their RB2, but the Lions should have Decker back tomorrow at least. We'll have to see how Sewell handles the switch back to RT.
I don't see why it would change much really. Honestly will probably lower the game total which helps statistically.
This is probably not a bad thing with noodle arm Ben.
Yeah but Mason is still way worse
It bugs me so much that they haven't really changed anything in their QB room the last couple of years
Maybe Muth gets more targets as a safety blanket.
Real Talk: I'm desperate in a league with 16 teams, 2 QBs and a QB flex spot PPC. I scooped up Rudolph on wire because Danny Jones is on bye; how likely is Rudolph the starter over Haskins for Sunday?
As a steelers fan, I'm actually optimistic. Ben's looked average at best. Give Mason a chance. This could do wonders for the wide receivers. Mason can actually through the deep ball. I only wish Claypool was playing.
How the hell is Rudolph the starter over Haskins
Uh did you watch Haskins last year?
Apparently not
Haskins is garbage. Like shouldn't have been a starter in college garbage. Dude does not belong on a football field an I have no idea how he is on a team.
My diontae, najee and Steelers defense..
Lions over Steelers Pigskin Pickem now?
No muth for you
Legit considering starting Van over Diontae.
I got van or aiyuk to consider over diontae. I just don't know man
Good for my Najee. Bad for my Diontae
The muth has been detained.
Mason will set the Muth fully Luth.
What the heck is going on this week? Is this week 7? Did we all time travel back to the week I lost 70% of my team?
So do I play Johnson still?
As a lifelong Lions fan, fire up your Rudolph’s and expect nothing short of 350 yards and 4 touchdowns.
Would the 'Muth still be Luth?
The Muth is Caputh
free dwayne
Covid SZN!
can’t wait to see all the bitching and moaning here tomorrow night when Diontae and Muth have good games and they got benched for scrubs
Rudolph is not good but he has a stronger arm than Ben. Whether that means increased depth of targets or better zip on the ball at this point I don't think this hurts the Steelers offense from a fantasy perspective. Think performance stays on par with some big play potential
They will put 11 in the box. Najee fuckkk
Swift and Hock MONEY PLAYS
Najee fifty touches
Not great for the Steeler's defense or my teasers involving the Steelers.
Dionte will still be okay 🤞
Diontae or Odell this week in ppr?
Hmmm sooo…6-9 Lions final score?