Fantasy Fiascoes: Week 4
Every week we set our fantasy lineups, and we expect the guys we invested highly in to produce accordingly. Every week someone lets us down. It’s rare to find that perfect week, in which all your starters are lights out and you win by 50 points. It’s infuriating to lose because your stud players just don’t show up. For purposes of this article, I will avoid listing players who had bad weeks due to injury. With that said, let’s vent about the fiascoes from this week.
Quarterbacks
Drew Brees
Drew Brees scored 37, 21, and 46 points in Weeks 1-3 respectively. Then, with a chance to break the all-time passing yardage record, he gets to play the lowly Giants. He comes up with 8 goddamn points. Zero TDs and 217 yards. The good news is that’s going to be his worst game of the year. The bad news is he fucking blew it for your team this week. He gets a pass because I assume he will get back to being awesome, but this really sucked.
Aaron Rodgers
He put up 21 points, so it wasn’t the worst performance ever, but that just doesn’t cut it for a guy that was drafted as the QB1 in every league. He was playing at home against a terrible Bills team and he finished the week as QB20. The League has transformed, especially this year, so it takes a solid 30 point performance to crack the top 10 most of the time. Obviously you have to play him every week, but this week was a little disappointing.
Running Backs
Jordan Howard
Good Lord. 11 carries for 25 yards. That’s it. I’ll even do the math for you – that’s 2.5 points. Tarik Cohen got more touches and performed much better this week. Howard was a 2nd round pick this year and he has been a disaster so far. The worst part is the bears scored 143 points in the game, and their lead back had 25 yards. Infuriating.
LeSean McCoy
This is the last time McCoy will be on this list, because I just don’t expect anything from him anymore. The Bills are terrible and McCoy doesn’t get enough touches. He has 84 rush yards and 41 receiving yards the entire year. That’s like a mediocre game for Alvin Kamara. McCoy is not startable going forward.
Wide Receivers
Demaryius Thomas
I’m not mad at you, I’m just disappointed. He hasn’t topped 63 yards in a game this year and he only has one TD. He’s getting a decent amount of targets, but doesn’t have more than six catches in a game. He’s just average now with Case Keenum at the helm. He will probably have a few random big games, but you will never know when they are coming. He’s just a WR3 at this point. If he has a big game, try to trade him. I’m over it.
Odell Beckham
Beckham makes a return trip to this column. He’s got to be the most infuriating player in the league. The argument could be made that he’s the most talented WR in the league. And through 4 weeks, he has two games with 60 yards or less, and he hasn’t found the end zone. He looks like he his back to bitching and moaning on the sidelines because things aren’t going his way. Hopefully he can find a way to keep his cool, or a kicking net might whip his ass again.
Tight Ends
Rob Gronkowski
The Patriots looked good again. Gronk did not. He was TE21 this week. He’s scored nine points or less for three straight weeks. If you drafted him early, your team probably sucks. I can’t reasonably explain how this happens to a player as talented as him.
Pretty Much Everyone Else
TEs stink. They are impossible to predict and they cost you match ups. It seems like every week my TE gets 7 points and I play against some random son of a bitch who goes off. This week Geoff Swaim was TE8, Darren Fells was TE10, and Antonio Gates outscored Kyle Rudolph. Good luck figuring this mess out. If you don’t have one of the top 3-4 guys, just start anyone. That advice is better than any I can logically try to give you.
There’s definately a lot to find out about this subject.
I really like all of the points you have made.