Adam Schefter tweeted that Andrew Luck is retiring, and Tom Pelissero corroborated it. We’re stunned. I’m literally cooking Hamburger Helper with one hand and writing this post with the other, …
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Here is our 2019 NFL rookie fantasy football team names list. Our 2018 rookie fantasy football team names list became one of our most-viewed articles of all time, so this …
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Week Two NFL Injury Report by a blindly optimistic Raiders fan What’s up NF-aiLures! Your representative from THE hottest team here to hold your hands as your not-exciting coaches continue …
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We are coming up on the one year anniversary of Football Absurdity and we are excited for what this next year will bring. We had a good first year and have …
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Last week, the NFL announced that Mark Ingram would be suspended four games for violation the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances. When this was announced, a storm of fantasy pundits …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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Alright boys and girls, the waiver wire pieces are usually Waleed’s territory, but he spoke ill of our lord and savior, Mike Davis, so he’s gotten the boot this week. …
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My wife and I have few annual traditions. One tradition we do have is the “Twelve Nights of Christmas Movies,” in which we consume a bunch of classics over the …
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If I had presented you with the question, “should I start or sit Jordy Nelson this week?” in the first part of the season, you would have told me I …
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It is week fourteen and you are either in do or die mode or your playoffs have started. If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know …
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As the song goes, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s December, which means you hang the stockings, trim the tree, sit around the fire, and completely ignore …
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It’s been a heck of a season for Jay Ajayi. He toiled for the Miami Dolphins as they rode into obscurity, then overnight he was on the NFC’s top team. …
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Well aren’t you quite the daredevil? It’s the fantasy football semi-finals and you need a QB and you didn’t get one off the waiver wire? Well, look at you. I …
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This isn’t a good week to be Jeff Fisher. He was fired a year ago on Tuesday, and three of his former floundering QBs are the top three seeds in …
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It has come to my attention that I have made a glaring omission on my week fifteen waiver wire article for running backs. By not addressing Mike Davis, I gave …
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Week Fifteen Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Fifteen Waiver Wire Tight End aka I Only Wish It Was The End It is week fifteen, the fantasy playoffs have …
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Week Fifteen Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Fifteen Waiver Wire Wide Receiver aka The Waiver Wire Is Like 7-11 It is week fifteen, the fantasy playoffs have arrived …
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Week Fifteen Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Fifteen Waiver Wire Quarterbacks aka From Wentz It Came It is week fifteen, the fantasy playoffs have arrived and the …
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It’s weird to think about it this way, but Sterling Shepard and Eli Manning haven’t played in a game together in nearly a month. Thanks to Shepard’s migraines and Eli’s …
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Now, I consider myself somewhat of a fantasy football statistician. I want to peep you on the next big market inefficiency: guys with SJ in their initials. Here are three …
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I know, I know, that title. I’m sorry. I’m trying to delete it. It’s the fantasy football playoffs, and you really should have better running back options than what is …
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The San Francisco 49ers offense has been straight trash for most of the season, but Jimmy Garoppolo has been coached up by Kyle Shanahan just enough to make his options …
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I’m going to cut straight to the chase. You’re here because you streamed quarterbacks and made the playoffs. If so… nice. You’re living the dream, putting together a quality squad …
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It is week fourteen and you are either in do or die mode or your playoffs have started. If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know …
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He wasn’t Washington’s first choice. That was Robert Kelley. He wasn’t Washington’s second choice. That was Chris Thompson. But, third time’s a charm for the Washington backfield, as Samaje Perine …
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When you first saw him, you couldn’t help but be a little overwhelmed. Those eyes, that smile… so handsome. Jimmy Garoppolo has that it factor that allows you to let …
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Week Fourteen Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Fourteen Waiver Wire Tight End aka Where Oh Where Did My Gronk Go It is week fourteen and we are …
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Week Fourteen Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Fourteen Waiver Wire Wide Receivers aka All I Do Is Win Win Win It is week fourteen and we are …
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Week Fourteen Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Fourteen Waiver Wire Running Backs aka Running In Circles It is week fourteen and we are either in do or …
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Week Fourteen Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Fourteen Waiver Wire Quarterbacks aka No Quarter Shall Be Given It is week fourteen and we are either in do …
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Welcome to week thirteen! The fear of the number thirteen is called triskaidekaphobia, the fear of spiders is known as arachnophobia. The fear of taking a tight end too early …
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Three straight weeks, three straight tight end pieces about Tyler Kroft as a fantasy football commodity. In the last two iterations of this article, I begged you to start Kroft. …
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I’m not a fan of Jared Cook. I want to get that out of the way right now. Every year the fantasy football community gets caught up in his athleticism …
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Imagine you are at the blackjack table. You have a nineteen. You see the dealer holding a ten and you know that he has a twenty and has you beat. …
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At this point, you shouldn’t really be streaming, to be honest. Running backs are such volatile fantasy football commodities that we all have four or five on our roster that …
Read More Going into the season, the Miami Dolphins situation was supposed to produce a ton of fantasy football points. However, Ryan Tannehill was lost for the season and everything quickly fell …
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The Chicago Bears haven’t had the best season on offense, and really have only one fantasy football relevant player because of it. Even then, Jordan Howard’s fantasy football production has …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Josh McCown is the smart fantasy football play. In our week thirteen quarterback sit or start counterpoint, I find myself wondering …
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This week we offer a Thanksgiving leftovers amount of sleeper free agent wide receivers, available in more than 50% of your fantasy football leagues. Usually we get you three wide …
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have a wide receiver problem, in that they have two guys to play one role in their offense. This is fine for the happy-go-lucky rookie JuJu Smith-Schuster, …
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The Los Angeles Rams offense has been on absolute fire this season, though most of the fantasy football production has been isolated to Todd Gurley, Robert Woods and Jared Goff. …
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We’re reaching the home stretch for fantasy football! For many people, this is the last week of the regular season and a ton of you are in win-and-you’re-in situations. That …
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I’m not going to lie to you and tell you that this was a simple article to write. Matthew Stafford has been one of the better quarterbacks in the entirety …
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It certainly has been a strange year for fantasy football quarterbacks. Some players have ebbed and flowed (Alex Smith), some have burst onto the scene before suddenly being undercut (Dak …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Twelve Waiver Wire Tight Ends aka As If It Wasn’t Bad Enough I Have To Write About Tight Ends, I …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Thirteen Waiver Wire Wide Receivers aka Where There’s A Waiver Last week, I worried that the waiver wire wide receivers …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Thirteen Waiver Wire Running Backs aka I Am Back To Hating Waiver Wire Running Backs Remember last week when I …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Thirteen Waiver Wire Quarterbacks aka You’re On The Case When you are thirteen weeks into a fantasy football season …
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Streaming tight ends is the way to go. Just like I was thankful for those who overdraft quarterbacks and leave all the fantasy football QBs to me to stream, I …
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Charles Clay started off the first quarter of the season paying dividends to those who trusted their fantasy football TE slot to him. But then he missed weeks six through …
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At this point it feels like every other week I have to recommend starting Tyler Kroft, Tyler Kroft sits at below 50% fantasy football ownership, and Tyler Kroft goes out …
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Black Friday are the two words most likely to make a shiver go down the spine of retail workers. Millions upon millions of bargain hunters descend on big box stores …
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Nothing has really gone right for the 2017 iteration of the Indianapolis Colts. Andrew Luck can’t seem to get back from injured reserve, and it’s become an entirely lost season …
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When the Chiefs lost Spencer Ware to IR in the preseason, fantasy football prognosticators were split on Kareem Hunt. Nobody doubted he could be good, his preseason made that clear. …
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In our week twelve quarterback sit or start counterpoint, I’m going to tell you why you should start Drew Brees. I know what you are thinking. Waleed, didn’t Jeff tell …
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The best part of Thanksgiving are the side dishes. Whether you have turkey, ham, tofurkey, and whether you smoke, sous vide or roast your meats, the side dishes are where …
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There’s a mantra in fantasy football that says “Don’t Sit Your Studs.” The DSYS mentality is extremely prevalent, and useful, given most people tend to overthink matchups and end up …
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Last week Jay Cutler went down with a concussion after serving up three absolutely brutal interceptions against the Buccaneers. Once he went down, the Matt Moore-Kenny Stills love connection started …
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For Thanksgiving this week, I am thankful for fantasy football. I am thankful for other fantasy football players who draft quarterbacks early. I am thankful they leave quality wide receivers …
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I want you to be forewarned that there is no hot-takery afoot in this article. This is an earnest fantasy football perspective developed in literally dozens of seconds. Drew Brees …
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The last time we saw Marcus Mariota, he was throwing four interceptions against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football. That kind of prime-time meltdown is enough to have people …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Twelve Waiver Wire Tight Ends aka Don’t Test Me! It has been brought to my attention that some of our …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Twelve Waiver Wire Wide Receivers aka Wasted Wishes With Hopes Of Winning Normally, I think finding wide receivers on the …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Twelve Waiver Wire Running Backs aka I Don’t Actually Hate All The Waiver Wire Running Backs The good news for …
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Week Twelve Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Twelve Waiver Wire Quarterbacks aka You Know It’s Bad When Blaine Gabbert Looks Good When you are twelve weeks …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Tyler Kroft is the smart fantasy football play. In our week eleven tight end sit or start counterpoint, I’ll tell you …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting one of the New England Patriots running back is the smart fantasy football play. In our week eleven running back sit …
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I came across a weird internet subculture quirk while snatching that featured image for this week’s fantasy football tight end sleepers piece. Apparently, Fedora Shaming is something that people who …
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Last week I recommended starting Eric Ebron. It wasn’t exactly a slam dunk victory, as he received only two targets. Luckily for those who started him, he hauled those in …
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Tyler Kroft has been trying to fill the Tyler Eifert role in the Cincinnati offense this year. He hasn’t quite been Tyler Eifert, but then again few players are. He …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Sterling Shepard is the smart fantasy football play. In our week eleven wide receiver sit or start counterpoint, I’ll take some …
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This week’s sleeper fantasy football running backs takes advantage of the fact that at this point. people quitting on their fantasy teams, allowing you to snatch up players whose situation …
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Adrian Peterson deserves respect for his playing career and deserves to end up in the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, however, we’re seeing the end of a great, storied career right …
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In Greek mythology, Cerberus is the multi-headed canine guardian of the Underworld. Cerberus is the trusted hound of Hades, the Greek god of the dead and overseer of the afterlife. …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Derek Carr is the smart fantasy football play. In our week eleven quarterback sit or start counterpoint, I’m going to add …
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I lamented the sleeper quarterback options this week, but I feel a bit better about the wide receiver options. It was tough sledding to find these diamonds in the rough …
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Please allow me to speak for all Keenan Allen fantasy football owners this year. Keenan, buddy, let’s rap. What is it buddy, do you not like Los Angeles? You haven’t …
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[UPDATE: Scratch everything below. Shepard was a late add to the injury report with migraines and was made inactive Sunday. Try one of these guys, instead?] The New York Giants spent …
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I’m going to level with you. At this point in the year, there aren’t going to be amazing fantasy football streaming quarterbacks available on the waiver wire. They’ve all been …
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If only someone would have warned us about Matt Ryan regressing this year. If only some prophet could have come down from the heavens and imparted the knowledge to us …
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Going into this year’s draft season, Derek Carr stood on the precipice of fantasy football greatness. He was just shy of 4,000 yards last year and carried an impressive 28:6 …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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Week Eleven Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eleven Waiver Wire Tight Ends aka Even Tight Ends Don’t Like Tight Ends When talking about waiver wire tight …
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Week Eleven Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eleven Waiver Wire Wide Receivers aka What Wide Receivers Have We Made Up? If you have read my waiver …
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Week Eleven Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eleven Waiver Wire Running Backs aka Everything Is A Lie The problem with trying to find a waiver wire …
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Week Eleven Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eleven Waiver Wire Quarterback aka Where Bortles Sounds Like Hope The waiver wire quarterback pool for week eleven is …
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The Indianapolis Colts have pretty much turned into the Jack Doyle and T.Y. Hilton show with the loss of Andrew Luk. Well actually, with the complete mishandling of the Andrew …
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Look, we all have our weaknesses. Some people are alcoholics, some can’t quit gambling, some have crippling depression or other maladies. Some of us can’t quit Eric Ebron. The former …
Read More This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that you should start Carlos Hyde this week against the dumpster-fire that is the New York Giants. In our week ten running back …
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Unlike most positions in fantasy football, it’s becoming increasingly easy to stream tight ends. Fantasy football owners have gotten used to their binkies, their tight ends that they are comfortable …
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Remember timeouts and detention? Those were the worst things that could happen to you at school as a kid. Think how insane that is now, to be upset you get …
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Things haven’t exactly gone how Keenan Allen fantasy football owners envisioned as the 2017 season unfolds. He’s had some ups and downs this season, and he has fallen from the …
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We didn’t think that the New York Jets offense was going to be this good. “This good,” is a relative term, as they are just middle-of-the-road in both scoring and …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that you start Eli Manning in a non-Super Bowl fantasy game. In our week ten quarterback sit or start counterpoint, I have to …
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Hollywood has a remakes problem. They know that if they do a sequel or a redo of a classic film, it’s essentially printing money. Ths means scores of uninspiring junk …
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It’s been a pretty rough season for DeMarco Murray’s fantasy football owners. He’s been pretty bad, and not just normal bad. He’s continued to split reps with Derrick Henry, and …
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The San Francisco 49ers are one of the biggest messes in the NFL. They’re a dumpster fire of insane proportions and there’s only one other NFC team that is as …
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It’s quite a week for fantasy football quarterback streaming. There are a lot of not great, over the hill quarterbacks with positive matchups to take advantage of this week, and …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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I’m not a huge fan of the Star Trek reboots, they’ve turned the franchise into essentially the same cinematic experience as any given Marvel or another generic action movie. Compare …
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First and foremost, please don’t misconstrue me saying Eli Manning is a good play as Eli Manning is a good fantasy football quarterback. Sure, he’ll always have a place in …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Ten Waiver Wire Tight Ends aka And Then They Were Bad Again Every week I have to spend a …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Ten Waiver Wire Wide Receivers aka Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wide Receiver The nice thing about waiver …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Ten Waiver Wire Running Backs aka The Bleached Bones of Desperation Imagine you are walking through the desert, desperately …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Ten Waiver Wire Quarterback aka To The Injured Goes The Spoils I don’t really know how many new ways …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, starts off by telling you that he is one of the biggest Jared Cook detractors out there, before going on to recommend starting Jared …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, gave a half-hearted endorsement of Demaryius Thomas, which is all he probably deserves. In our week nine wide receiver sit or start counterpoint, I’d …
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The key to finding wine that you enjoy isn’t just blindly going after the price tag. You want to try the different varietals to narrow down what grapes make the wine …
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Austin Hooper started his 2017 season with a bang. He was literally uncovered on a play and rumbled for over 80 yards and a score. Granted, he delivered a vicious …
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I’m one of the biggest Jared Cook detractors you’ll find out there. Sure, he’s hyper-athletic, but he’s asked to do more than his skill level will allow because of it. …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Adrian Peterson is the smart fantasy football play. In our week nine running back sit or start counterpoint, I’m going to …
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Sometimes the fantasy football gods take care of things themselves. Pierre Garcon had horrendously underperformed with C.J. Beathard, and was becoming a drop candidate. The Niners put him on IR. …
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Only one wide receiver was more widely added this week in fantasy football than Paul Richardson, and that was part Twitter sensation, part Martavis Bryant annoyance, part wide receiver JuJu …
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This isn’t where Brock Osweiler wanted to end up. He took less money from the Houston Texans than offered by the Denver Broncos to end up sucking, getting kicked to …
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Fantasy Football Choose Your Own Adventure Hey, new players! Welcome to the exciting, lighthearted world of fantasy football. Sure, fantasy football can enhance otherwise boring NFL games, just like gambling …
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The NFL trade deadline this week was a lot of fun to watch unfold. It is not every day you get to watch a team celebrate a trade that didn’t …
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Let’s face it, we all have coworkers we don’t like. It’s inevitable that you’ll push up against another personality you don’t want in your life while spending a large chunk …
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The NFL world and fantasy football world was rocked earlier this week as the Miami Dolphins agreed to send running back Jay Ajayi to the Philadelphia Eagles. While going from …
Read More This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Jared Goff is the smart fantasy football play. In our week nine quarterback sit or start counterpoint, I’d like to offer …
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It’s funny how quickly things can change in the NFL, and in fantasy football. It wasn’t that long ago that Adrian Peterson was a no-doubter, set-and-forget every week fantasy football …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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It’s week nine and your fantasy football roster is in shambles. Maybe you went after Aaron Rodgers, maybe you were streaming and the Byenado Part II: Byepocalypse has you out …
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Last week, I told you to go ahead and roll with the Ginger Gem in fantasy football with Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton. He turned in 243 yards and two touchdowns on …
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When the Rams took Jared Goff with the first overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft, they obviously had high hopes for the kid. Fantasy football owners didn’t expect much …
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When you calculate your week 9 FAAB, you want to sort your waiver wire targets based on which of three monsters they are. Yes, this is a longstanding and peer-reviewed …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Nine Waiver Wire Tight Ends aka The One That Almost Got Away! We are eight weeks into the football …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Nine Waiver Wire Wide Receivers aka Into the Great Wide Receiver Open Week nine has some very exciting options …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Nine Waiver Wire Running Backs aka The Burkhead Truther Will Set You Free To Die, To Zeke, No More….Again …
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Week Nine Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Nine Waiver Wire Quarterback aka Bad Just Got Badder The waiver wire quarterback pool for week nine is as …
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We are about halfway through the fantasy football season and to the surprise of nobody, the number one rated quarterback in fantasy football is Tom Brady. How can you not …
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We are about halfway through the fantasy football season and to the surprise of everyone, the best quarterback in football is Alex Smith. Let’s be honest, nobody saw this coming. …
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The lead up to Halloween is one of the most painful times of year for those who lead the otherwise painless existence of work, a mortgage and no kids. You …
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Hello, fellow Austin Seferian-Jenkins owner. If you’re like me, you’ve been aboard the ASJ wagon before he got back onto the sobriety wagon and sorted out his life. For us …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Tyler Kroft was the smart fantasy football play. In our week eight tight end sit or start counterpoint, I’d like to …
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We’ve got fantasy football puzzles. You know, in case fantasy football wasn’t complicated enough for you.
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Every year we try to convince ourselves that Tyler Eifert won’t be hurt and miss significant time, and every year Tyler Eifert laughs in our faces and casts curses on …
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It’s not often that I feel better about the fantasy football running backs that I would want to stream than the quarterbacks, but the quarterbacks are so, so bad this …
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The first time I really felt myself with regards to fantasy football was loudly zigging while everyone else was zagging on C.J. Anderson a few years ago. Hype and pro-rating …
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You know, if you’re playing fantasy football, you want to be the very best, like no one ever was. To catch the players in ideal matchups is the real test, …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Ameer Abdullah was the smart fantasy football play. In our week eight running back sit or start counterpoint, I’d like to …
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Some might say the worst fantasy football rule is “minus 500 points if a kicker misses an extra point.” Still, some might say that’s the best rule. I recently saw …
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It’s Trade Talk Thursday and many readers are trying to figure out which week eight trade targets would look best on their fantasy football team. Unfortunately, it was a relatively …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Nelson Agholor is the smart fantasy football play. In our week eight wide receiver sit or start counterpoint, I’d like to …
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I’m a bit calmer about these sleeper options as compared to the quarterback ones. No fuss or muss in this intro. These guys are around in over half of Yahoo! …
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I majored in History in college, specifically Cold War history. This part of our historical tapestry is filled with interesting stories, fictional and non-fictional. John Le Carré mined this for …
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When I was in high school, we read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. That’s not too unusual for high schoolers, but was unusual was that we had a mock …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Andy Dalton is the smart fantasy football play. In our week eight quarterback sit or start counterpoint, I’d like to offer …
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We made it halfway through the fantasy football season! If you listened to us earlier in the year, you wouldn’t be listening to us now, since you snagged Deshaun Watson …
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I’ve been one of the most ardent Matthew Stafford supporters over the last couple of seasons. His fantasy football (and real football) production skyrocketed after Jim Bob Cooter took over …
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I want to start off this piece by talking about a food allergy I have. I’m allergic to ginger. As a child, I ate a bunch of gingerbread cookies, threw …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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Week Eight Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eight Waiver Wire Tight End aka Why Tight Ends? Because You Hate Yourself, That’s Why! We are seven weeks into …
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Week Eight Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eight Waiver Wire Wide Receiver aka Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wide Receivers The wonderful thing about the waiver …
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Week Eight Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eight Waiver Wire Running Back aka Running to the Waiver Wire For All Your Problems If you thought the …
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Week Eight Waiver Wire: QB RB WR TE Fantasy Football: Week Eight Waiver Wire Quarterback aka The Waiver Wire Is Where Quarterbacks Go To Die As we dive into the …
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As I wrote about earlier this year, Jason Witten completed his gradual fall from weekly fantasy football tight end starter to stream-only option this year. He’s become one of the …
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I was originally going to highlight Delanie Walker here, but with the late-week injury, even if he’s active, I doubt he will do much. The slick stream play there is …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Tevin Coleman is the smart fantasy football play. With our Fantasy Football Counterpoint, I’d like to take a look at Jeff’s …
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My wife and I are working to rectify our massive popular culture holes by working our way through a curated list of top-rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes. So far it’s …
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If you’re a dedicated Football Absurdity reader, you already know the drill with our weekly sleepers piece. Every week, you need help. We’re here to provide it. Whether your WRs …
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There’s been much wailing and gnashing of teeth in fantasy football this season regarding the the DeMarco Murray and Derrick Henry situation. Murray clearly isn’t Murray, but he’s getting the …
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It wasn’t all that long ago that the fantasy football Twitter battlefield lines were drawn. On one side were super-geniuses, like me, who thought that Devonta Freeman, not Tevin Coleman, …
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Aaron Rodgers is a Packer. My wife is a saint. Wait, is there a saint that is really nice but also curses like a sailor and loves cheap whiskey?
Read MoreThis week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Marqise Lee is the smart fantasy football play. Jeff also told you that his heart really wanted to go with Pierre …
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Jacoby Brissett has been an incredible story for the Indianapolis Colts. He salvaged something from their 2017 season, giving them an iota of respectability while Andrew Luck takes the Lord …
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We’ve been through dozens of articles together so far, so I feel like I can level with you. Oh, what’s that? You clicked through a link on Twitter? That’s okay, …
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First off, what is an Absurdity Check. This is where I take a look at one of Jeff Krisko’s sit/start articles and offer a different point of view. Then we …
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Maybe you own Matthew Stafford or Deshaun Watson. Maybe you invested in Aaron Rodgers. Or maybe you just don’t feel great about your borderline starters in bad matchups this week …
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It’s time we have a frank conversation about Big Ben Roethlisberger. It’s time to cut ties with him in fantasy football, in pretty much all leagues. This week he has …
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I have a love-hate relationship with Tyrod Taylor, as I seemingly cannot nail down when Taylor will have a good or bad fantasy football game. I’ll own that right away, …
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Week three has come and gone and with it any hope that our collarbones will remain intact. Who knew monstrous men could do so much damage to one fantasy football …
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Quarterback Waiver Wire Week Seven Running Back Waiver Wire Week Seven Tight End Waiver Wire Week Seven Week Seven: Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Wide Receiver aka Wide Receivers Aren’t Always …
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Quarterback Waiver Wire Week Seven Wide Receiver Waiver Wire Week Seven Tight End Waiver Wire Week Seven Week Seven: Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Running Backs aka There Is No Such …
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Running Back Waiver Wire Week Seven Wide Receiver Waiver Wire Week Seven Tight End Waiver Wire Week Seven Week Seven: Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Quarterback aka Your Team Is As …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Evan Engram is the smart fantasy football play. I’ve have questions asking what an Absurdity Check is. An Absurdity Check is …
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Don’t get me wrong, I love Waleed. I think he’s a great guy. He’s funny as all get-out, and he has a sweet afro. Unfortunately, his fantasy football prognostication skills …
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Streaming fantasy football tight ends, the heart and soul of Football Absurdity. As Gronk, Kelce, Graham, Reed and Eifert have already shown you, investing in a tight end in the …
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A swift and brutal devastation burned through the Giants receiving corps last week, topped only by California’s wildfires. Brandon Marshall & Odell Beckham Jr. are out for the season, and …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting DeSean Jackson is the smart fantasy football play. While I can understand the appeal, I feel there are better boom or …
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Week six leaves us with several top-flight wide receivers missing from our fantasy football rosters. With A.J. Green, Dez Bryant and Doug Baldwin on bye, and the sudden loss of …
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When Jay Cutler called DeVante Parker a faster Alshon Jeffery, the fantasy football world lost its got dang mind and he flew up draft boards. That makes sense, as Parker …
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If you drafted DeSean Jackson in your fantasy football draft, you knew exactly what you were getting yourself into. Jackson is one of the best deep threats of the last …
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In Trade Talk Thursday, I covered general trade strategies for the week. But with the news coming out that the Ezekiel Elliott six game suspension is being upheld, now is …
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We are five weeks into the fantasy football season, or as some men call it, the crucible. Some teams are forged into hardened steel. Other teams have found their line-ups …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Mike Gillislee is the smart fantasy football play. I must admit that I admire the faith required by Jeff to believe …
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There’s been plenty of moving and shaking at the running back position recently. The mess in Seattle, the rise and fall of Tarik Cohen, the death of Dalvin Cook and …
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There probably isn’t a greater feeling of drafting the wrong fantasy football running back in the NFL than Isaiah Crowell & Duke Johnson. This offseason debates raged about whether Crowell …
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Mike Gillislee’s fantasy football owners have already had two very different seasons out of the Patriots running back. In the first couple weeks of the season, Gillislee had 33 carries …
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Whether you’re streaming your fantasy football quarterback, have succumb to injuries, drafted only DeShone Kizer for some reason or your QB is on a Bye week, we are here to …
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Jared Goff’s emergence from the shadow of Jeff Fisher’s mustache has been one of the ballyhooed stories of the NFL. While it transitions over to fantasy football some weeks, Jared …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Carson Wentz is the smart fantasy football play. While I am a big fan of Carson Wentz and what he has …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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Carson Wentz started off extremely well each of the last two seasons in real life and in fantasy football. Through the first four games last season, he amassed 1,007 passing …
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We are five weeks into the football season and for some reason, we are still talking about waiver wire tight end. Why? Didn’t you get the hint last week when …
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Even after five weeks of football, there is still talent to be had at wide receiver. People are losing patience with some starters, while new players are emerging from new …
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As we look at the week six waiver wire, it’s getting harder and harder to find running backs to fill in. If you haven’t lost any running backs to injury …
Read More As we look at the waiver wire options for week six, we are finding the waiver wire at quarterback desperately thin. Unless you want to trust your team to Jay …
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Week five has come and gone and you can only wonder at a universe that seems to be trying to destroy your fantasy football team. Why does everyone on your …
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Week five has come and gone and many zeroes decided to be heroes. Smart fantasy football streamers used these performances to punish their opponents. So let us sit back and …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Austin Seferian-Jenkins is the smart fantasy football play. He feels so strongly about ASJ that he broke out into song. And …
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We are a quarter of the way through the 2017 NFL Season and nothing has gone as expected. Just the way we like it. The only thing predicable about the …
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Originally, I was going to recommend sitting Jack Doyle this weekend in a bad fantasy football matchup against the 49ers. Instead, doctors recommend he sit inside a dark room for …
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There’s a player in every single fantasy football league who didn’t get to start their stud tight end on Thursday. Patriots All-World Tight End, Rob Gronkowski, was a late and …
Read More Last offseason, there were few fantasy football values I liked more than Austin Seferian-Jenkins. ASJ was a physical phenom in a TE-centric offense. Remember Cam Brate’s breakout 2016? That was …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Pierre Garcon was the smart fantasy football play. Now I don’t what sort of game he’s playing at here, but I …
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There are enough high-end fantasy football wide receivers missing this week due to byes that it’ll make your head spin. The Saints (Michael Thomas), Falcons (Julio Jones), Broncos (Emmanuel Sanders …
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There was much ado about how the Jacksonville passing game would shake out after they lost Allen Robinson for the season in week one. Many fantasy football prognosticators spilled gallons …
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The 49ers passing offense has not been a reliable source of fantasy football goodness for quite some time now. There was some hope that Chip Kelly would turn that around …
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As we enter into week five of the fantasy football season, many teams are looking for ways to improve their roster. If you’ve read up on our guide to initiating …
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As we enter into week five of the fantasy football season, many teams are looking for ways to improve their roster. If you’ve read up on our guide to initiating …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Frank Gore is the smart fantasy football play. Myself, I’m feeling a bit more aGOREaphobic this week. (I’m so sorry for …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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Samuel Johnson once said, “running backs, like gold and diamonds, owe their fantasy football value only to their scarcity.” Well, sort of. I don’t know who Samuel Johnson is, but …
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In week one, Tarik Cohen sent the fantasy football world into a tizzy. He promised to be a huge part of the Bears passing game going forward. The Bears lost …
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Frank Gore has had a rough go of it so far in 2017. Defenses know Jacoby Brissett can’t hurt them, so they’ve keyed in on Gore. He’s currently facing the …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Jameis Winston is the smart fantasy football play. I’m not going to lie to you. He is absolutely correct. I can’t …
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If you are a fantasy football quarterback streamer, the stars aligned week four. Owners are scrambling with three no-doubt starting quarterbacks on Bye (Drew Brees, Matt Ryan and Kirk Cousins). …
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The first two weeks of the season were some of the worst of Andy Dalton’s career. Through two games, he tallied only 394 yards with zero touchdowns and four interceptions. …
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Jameis Winston has been a hard nut to crack so far this season. He lost week one to a hurricane-induced bye week, which means there’s a smaller evaluation sample size …
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We’re visiting a classic commissioner’s conundrum, this week: The quitter. I’ve commissioned leagues where I’ve contacted people to make their pick, and they replied, “Oh I didn’t know the draft …
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We are four weeks into the football season and you have the nerve to come back to me for waiver wire tight end advice? Again? Didn’t you listen to me …
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The week five waiver wire is an interesting place to look for wide receivers. Two of the top ten receivers for this past week are available in most leagues. One …
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The waiver wire options for week five are a testament for just how much went wrong for some teams in week four. Injuries are piling up and if one of …
Read More As we head into the week five waiver wire pool, you are starting to miss your chance to get a break out candidate at quarterback. There is one every year …
Read More Week four has come and one and if you played any of the top players from this week, I have to wonder what other terrible decisions you are making in …
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Week four has come and gone. And with its departure comes the dawning realization that you don’t know what you are doing. Why did you think drafting a tight end …
Read More This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Jared Cook has got top-five upside. Jeff is saying the words, but I just don’t believe him. His words say start …
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It’s okay if you aren’t up on streaming fantasy football tight ends. Not all of us are about that life. Those of us who recognize that the position outside of …
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The year is 2032. While the Sino-Russian Confederacy has recovered from WWIII, the former United States exists as a post-nuclear apocalyptic wasteland of occupied territories. The area once known as …
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This is probably the most begrudging recommendation that I will ever make. If there’s one fantasy football axiom I live by, it’s that you’ll never go broke betting against Jared …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that sitting Marvin Jones Jr. is the smart fantasy football play. While Jeff brings up some interesting points, he is also wrong. If …
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Fantasy football owners so far this season haven’t had much of a need to stream wide receivers. Only Allen Robinson’s injury has left fantasy football owners tearfully dropping receivers. Desperate …
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Heading into the season, Marvin Jones Jr. was in the spot-starter fantasy football third wide receiver mix. He had two of the most explosive games of 2016, and then Golden …
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Coming into the season, the biggest fantasy football knock on Rishard Matthews from last season were the additions around him. The Titans added Eric Decker, Corey Davis and Taywan Taylor, …
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Fantasy football owners so far this season have had every need to stream running backs, as David Johnson’s injury and questions surrounding top-twenty backs like Isaiah Crowell, DeMarco Murray, and …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Tarik Cohen is the smart fantasy football play. It is hard to fault his logic. I’m a Bears fan, and I …
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If you read my article on playing the waiver wire game, you know that it is an essential part of winning your fantasy football league. If you haven’t read it, …
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This week my co-worker, Jeff Krisko, suggested that starting Andy Dalton is the smart fantasy football play. Personally, I would tread gingerly before starting him at quarterback. There are some …
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There wasn’t a mediocre running back debated more hotly this fantasy football offseason than Isaiah Crowell. There were two general camps when it came to the Browns’ back. The pro-Crowell …
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Tarik Cohen’s week one breakout performance provided the first free agent frenzy of the fantasy football season. Fantasy football owners emptied their FAAB and burned top waiver priorities on the …
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Fantasy football owners so far this season have had every need to stream quarterbacks, as Andrew Luck still hasn’t returned, Cam Newton has been a disappointment and Big Ben is …
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At this point, it seems like picking on Road Ben Roethlisberger in fantasy football just feels like the cheap way out. Unfortunately, there are still those out there who decry …
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While the Cincinnati Bengals didn’t knock off the Green Bay Packers, new OC Bill Lazor reformed the offense in a way that will make fantasy football owners happy. The Bengals …