With the 2012 Fantasy Football season drawing to a close, Doc decided to look back through his patients and make the first annual All-IR Team. In order to be eligible, a player had to be put on the season-ending IR and not the designated-to-return version that debuted this season.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Injury Report
At this time of year, everyone’s hurt. And the like the saying runs, “If you’re not hurt, you’re not playing.” You can imagine all the haggling with the insurance companies that the Doc has to do with these injury reports.
Let’s take a look at who’s all banged up and how they will impact you in your quest for fantasy victory.
Please, blog, may I have some more?It’s the end of the regular season or the start of the playoffs in fantasy football and the injuries just don’t care which situation you are in. Some injuries are going to be older ones while we also have a spate of fresh hurts that will impact your fantasy rosters.
Please, blog, may I have some more?The doc is in…the playoffs, that is. Are you? Let’s grab the charts and see what injuries will impact your week 13 matchups.
Philadelphia RB LeSean McCoy is still out with a concussion as is Eagles QB Michael Vick. This wasn’t much of a surprise but it makes RB Bryce Brown a strong play for this week. It’s no surprise that Brown performed so well on Monday night.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Hopefully your team didn’t go into a food coma like the Jets did in the second quarter of their embarassing loss to the Patriots in last night’s late game. It’s bad enough the Patriots were able to hang 35 points on the Jets in the second quarter but there was no moment lower than when Vince Wilfork blocked a lineman backwards and Mark Sanchez got a double-helping of backside.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Doc doesn’t know what gives him a bigger headache between being a sub-.500 team in the Razzball Writers’ League or all of the quarterback concussions suffered last week. This time it’s the concussions that felled Michael Vick, Jay Cutler and Alex Smith.
More concerning was the injury that felled Ben Roethlisberger on Monday night against the Kansas City.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Doc is not surprised that Darren McFadden got hurt. That’s right up there with the sun rising in the east, the Cubs being a crummy baseball team and the SEC thinking its the best college football conference since the dawn of mankind.
Please, blog, may I have some more?“And like broken glass you’ll shatter
With bloody fists I’ll batter
Like a ten ton hammer, son.”
“Ten Ton Hammer”–Machinehead
With nine weeks in the books, you should fall into one of three categories. If you have three or fewer wins then you most certainly are the nail being driven down into the wood.
Please, blog, may I have some more?The doctor is in and has a pile of patients to see this week. At this time of year, injuries are even more critical to your fantasy success with just four weeks left after this one. I’ll tell you which injuries will put you in a bind which ones are of no real worry.
Please, blog, may I have some more?It appears Doc has a case of crystal balls. As mentioned last week, I thought the injury report would fill up and it certainly has. Let’s take a look at who’s new in the clinic this week and who went to the morgue known as injured reserve.
Please, blog, may I have some more?