Board 8 > NFL Discussion Topic - Week 16

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Merry Christmas to all my fellow NFL fans! May we all win our fantasy titles.

Oh, there may also be some real life football happening, too.

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how could the Saints lose on Christmas

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If there was ever a day for a miracle, today is the one.

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There are exactly two games this week I don't feel are easy to pick. The Friday/Saturday games are not those games.

I'm restless in bed and my mind started wandering so sure I'll do it

Tier A: (Teams I will not go against for essentially any reason)

Browns
Chiefs
Ravens
Saints

Tier B: (Teams that would, say, have to get smashed by Covid for me to pick against them)

Bears
Bills
Eagles (So long as Hurts is in)
Rams

Tier C: (Teams I would need a good reason to suddenly pop up to pick against)

Buccaneers
Cardinals
Chargers
Colts
Dolphins
Texans

The other two:

Panthers are done and have fallen apart, but Haskins is awful and Gibson may not be playing again for WFT. This could easily be the ugliest game of the week and I'm not confident in either team to make even 20 points.

Titans and Packers are pretty well close to just flipping a coin and could be the shootout of the week. First to 40 wins?

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I initially misread that you were talking specifically about this week and was very confused about that second tier.

Regardless, what a time to be alive with the Browns being at the top of any list.

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The Browns would have been tier C if the Jets hadn't gotten their win last week. They were the game I'd been circling for half the season as the Jets best chance of a win.

The Jets got their win and lost one of their only meaningfully talented players in the process. I think they lose this one ugly.

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I ran out of time to edit it while editing it and it wouldn't post. I'm still having a lot of trouble sleeping on my off days.

Now with confidence points because I'm still restless.

16: Ravens
15: Chiefs
14: Browns
13: Saints
12: Bills
11: Rams
10: Eagles
9: Bears
8: Texans
7: Buccaneers
6: Colts
5: Cardinals
4: Dolphins
3: Chargers
2: WFT
1: Titans

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With a game on a Friday today, this will mark the first NFL season where we've had a game played on every day of the week.

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Fantasy finals are off to a fantastic start with that massive Kamara run

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The only thing that matters to me with this game is that Dalvin keeps popping off like the #1 RB in the entire league he is and that Jefferson just doesn't.

If this Vikings D continues to get gashed it's looking like we'll see more throws to JJ and less handoffs to Cook.

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The Vikings have seemingly been dominated this entire game and yet are in a position to have a lead at the half.

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king henry's gonna demolish the packers this week. whenever the packers have had to play tough and aggressive teams they lose hard. it won't be pretty. they'll still limp into the 1 seed on the NFC and lose after the bye probably.

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davidponte posted...

Fantasy finals are off to a fantastic start with that massive Kamara run

Kamara trying his best to give me a Christmas miracle

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how is Dan Bailey still on the team

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HashtagSEP posted...

Kamara trying his best to give me a Christmas miracle

The best gift I've gotten all day.

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All hail Captain Kamarica

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fantasy opponents everywhere are in shambles

imagine having a great year and making it to the finals only to have Kamara put up 4 TDs on you

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Recalling the moments when people were telling me that Kamara was a bad fantasy pick for round 1 while I'm sitting in finals.

:)

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Kamara now has half of my opponent's projected points on the week after that FIFTH TD.

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I have Alvin Kamara.

My chance to win per espn before the game was 51%

It's now 59%

Thanks Brees

I'm up to a modest 95% winning odds after his performance.

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I'm at 62% with a projected 34 point lead. I'm feeling pretty good though.

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oh shit we got scorigami too, it really is a christmas miracle!

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Only thing that sucks is that McLaurin is out and he's more consistent than Godwin at this point, so it's got me a bit worried, aside from the obvious random injury catastrophes that could happen.

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I was already projected to win by 20 before games were played today. I had the best draft of my life and ended up with a team that was way better than almost everyone else's in this league, and got the first round bye. My opponent here also clinched the first round bye, but then got hit with a bunch of injuries and got lucky last week where his opponent laid an egg. I'm now projected to win by 50.

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I had been in first all season but my opponent made some key trades that absolutely stacked his team, so I was projected to lose by 15 in a very high scoring week, but Kamara quickly turned that around.

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I pivoted from cousins to brees this week after starting cousins for several weeks

If I lose I miiiight be done for good lol

*owns Kamara in fantasy*

Nice.

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Just noticed with Kamara locking up RB1 for the year and there being a very high chance Tyreek ends up WR1 for the year (half ppr. He has a 27 point lead over Adams) I'm likely to end up with the top RB and WR for the year as my 1 and 2 picks.

I'm ok with Brees now. He was just making a point to solidify the fact I didn't even need a QB to win this year. Drafted Wentz and Jones, had Jimmy G, Fitz, Goff a minute each for nothing, had Cousins a minute and he was MVP by being mediocre for me for 4 weeks.

turbopuns3 posted...

I'm ok with Brees now. He was just making a point to solidify the fact I didn't even need a QB to win this year.

tbqh it seems like he was trying to make this point for the saints this year too

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turbopuns3 posted...

Just noticed with Kamara locking up RB1 for the year and there being a very high chance Tyreek ends up WR1 for the year (half ppr. He has a 27 point lead over Adams) I'm likely to end up with the top RB and WR for the year as my 1 and 2 picks.

Hey, I have Kamara and Tyreek, too!

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My first and third round picks were Michael Thomas and Odell Beckam. Needless to say, my WR corps let me down this season, and I just want to forget about it.
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KCF0107 posted...

My first and third round picks were Michael Thomas and Odell Beckam. Needless to say, my WR corps let me down this season, and I just want to forget about it.

I feel ya. Last year I had Juju and Diggs as early rounders. Did not go well. No playoffs for me. This year Tyreek Ridley Jefferson turned out slightly better

My team was basically Kamara, Hill, and a bunch of apparent scrubs that made ESPN be like "Your team fucking sucks," but then surprisingly good seasons out of Keenan Allen and Jonathan Taylor paid off, and I picked up Roethlisberger for most of his good weeks, and suddenly I was in first place.

The team I'm facing is like objectively better than mine, but Kamara may have turned things around. I picked up Hurts since Steelers suck now so I've gotta rely on him not being a fluke.

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Yeah ESPN predicted me as 9th place in a 10 team league after draft day. Finished 4th, however it would've been tied for 1st if I'd been using the app myself. (don't know tiebreaker situation from memory)

One week near game time when there was a covid rescheduled game, I was trying to text my gf to explain to her exactly how to navigate the uncertainty by leaving a spot open during the 1pm games but she was too busy at the time to focus on it and benched tyreek and lost by like 7. So it's not a "if I'd just started X over Y" it's literally like interface failure lol.)

And now favored to win the ship. I can see how ESPN got there though because basically most picks I made after round 5 were busts for 90-100% of the season.

Wait a second. Wow. I just noticed my championship opponent is starting a lineup he 100% drafted

Tannehill
Henry, Jones, Taylor
Evans, AJ Brown, Landry
Hockenson
Colts
Zuerlein

To watch 49ers/Cardinals tomorrow, you either need to live in a local market or buy Amazon Prime.

Nope nothing dangerous at all about that move.

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You can also just watch on twitch
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I watched the game on Twitch last night because the delay was significantly less than what I get with Game Pass. I consistently get spoiled from the group chat every Sunday because I'm so far behind for some reason.

Going up against Brady in both of my finals today, so fuck that guy.

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Twitch is the only way to watch because they replace the stupid halftime reports with catjam dance party

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Gronk essentially hit his week 16 projection in the first quarter. ty bby

Okay that's enough out of Gronk. Let's give Godwin that ball more.

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davidponte posted...

Going up against Brady in both of my finals today, so fuck that guy.

well fuck

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davidponte posted...

well fuck

This is what the rest of us have been dealing with for a decade you filthy dirty pats fan. Now you get to see the other not-so-great side of it!
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gabbert in to start the second half

10 seconds in (when the lions started with the ball) another touchdown

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Rough start and end to a head coaching career

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Oh gronk met his projection a second time, that's good

This ended up being great. Him getting pulled means he only outscores his projection by 5ish points, which I'll definitely take.

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