Last Minute Advice

It’s crazy all the places we can look for and get Fantasy Football advice these days. You put Fantasy Football in a Tweet you get tons of responses in seconds. People have been reading my article for a little advice and for entertainment, I assume. But these last two weeks I’ve been the one needing advice.

If you recall, I talked about being a head of the curve and said how Beanie Wells was going to have his break out game and take over as the #1 back in Arizona. Yeah, I was a tad bit wrong with that. It cost me a game. I lost because I took my own advice and went against the advice of others. I guess you write a couple blogs you think yourself as an expert. As the great Lee Corso says, “Not so fast my friend.” So, I asked for some advice yesterday. I tweeted out asking what everyone thought of Mario Manningham. First my friend Rich chimed in, “@HackLaSalle probably not, Eli can`t get him the friggen ball!” Not exactly sagely advice, however funny none the less. Next, someone I don’t even know chimed in so thanks to FANTASYFBNYJETS who gave me this “@HackLaSalle manningham always has that chance to bust a long one, but this week looks more like a kevin boss, smith game.” Gut based instinctual type advice. Never a bad thing, though I needed a little more. Finally, my buddy Alek (who is a pretty good fantasy football player in his own right, even though I’ll bust his balls.) came through with this gem “

@HackLaSalle Chargers give up the 7th least amount of fantasy points to opposing WR’s. Only allowed 4 WR TD’s all season.” That’s other worldly advice right there. That’s the kind of stuff if I did a real meat and potatoes kind of fantasy blog I’d love to have. Alek gave me this advice to NOT start Manningham. I took it as the complete opposite. My thinking is if Steve Smith 1.0 isn’t getting in the end zone and I’m not sold on Hixon or Nicks as better than Manningham. All things being equal, in a PPR league where Manningham averages 13 points, I should be looking for a 10 to 13 point game for Manningham. I can live with that.

There’s another little caveat, the league that I have Manningham we have to pay five dollars per drop/add. So, I’m looking at save five bucks at the end of the season and still try and be victorious. I have to admit if it wasn’t for the fee and the waiver wire being full of poo, I may have made a move. In getting some advice I had to dish some out. The aforementioned FANTASYFBNYJETS asked me a simple start/sit between Flacco and Matty Ice. To me the choice was clear. With QBs, I always look at the defenses. Flacco is facing the Bengals D. Cincy’s D has been good all season and they always get up for a big game vs The Ravens. Matty Ice is going against the Redskins. As we all know, the Redskins are barely a professional football team. What you may be thinking is that the Falcons are just going to ground the ball and Ryan may not get that many points. Even though the Skins are 5th in pass defense and 22nd in rush defense I still feel confident in my pick.

Then, in the evening last night I got a text from one of my closest friends Kevin Brady it read, “I’m thinking about taking the zero.” Damnit man, didn’t I already advise against this? Kevin’s in the league with me where it’s five dollars a transaction. He picked two excellent TEs for this season grabbing Schiancoe and Cooley. Schiancoe’s on the bye and Cooley’s done for the year.  As I mentioned before the waiver wire is filled with poo. In this case where he’d have to lose the five dollars on someone who may not get him any more points than the zero Shiancoe or Cooley would earn him in that slot, I may have recommended it. But if you recall in my ill fated “ahead of the curve” column I gave everyone a replacement for Cooley, Fred Davis. He’s available in our league and I think could be worth the five spot you’re going to have to pay to get him.

As for you humble reader, I’ll be hanging out on Twitter fielding questions from now until about 10:30 and then you may be able to catch me on there again before the 4 O’clock games. Ask me your start/sits and everything else. That way if you lose, you have someone else to blame

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