The Shadow Coverage Report – Week 3
September 25, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Strategy |by: Bobby LaMarco
| Shadow Coverage Tracker | |
|---|---|
| WR Finish | Total |
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 4+ | 6 |
| Grand Total | 14 |
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Razzbowl Reflections: Week 2
September 25, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Football, RazzBowl |by: everywhereblair
Excuse me, everybody, I'm a bit tired from spending the last week pitching the Razzbowl to the Shark Tank investors. See, I thought we had such a good program here -- the best ball, the FAAB, the community -- that we could turn this [waves hands around frantically] from the world's biggest free Pros-V-Joes best ball tournament into a lucrative side-business. Then, Mark Cuban started talking about some team he owns, and I started talking about how I drafted Joe Mixon and Leonard Fournette, and then he started saying something about inexperience and over-my-head, and then I took my prop football and I threw it right over his head. Turns out, if you attack a billionaire, there's a group of people who start following you, but not in a Korean boy-band kind of way.
So while I write this from the rest stop in eastern Kentucky eluding the finest private security vans that Cuban could hire, I trust that y'all will learn from my mistakes and do a Kickstarter in the future.
Miami Offense & Defense Give Jacksonville Fitz
September 25, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Daily Notes | 57 Commentsby: Donkey Teeth
It's the age old question. Pondered by all the great philosophers for millennia. Debated by all great leaders and all feared dictators since the beginning of time. Beard or mustache? Abe Lincoln or Tom Selleck? Grizzly Adams or Groucho Marx? Gandalf or Ron Swanson? Merlin or Ron Burgundy? This enigmatic dispute has built for ages with no sign of a clear answer. That is, until Thursday night's legendary culmination of Ryan Fitzpatrick vs. Gardner Minshew: a Beard vs. Mustache rumpus to rule them all. And it was nothing but beard in this one as Ryan Fitzpatrick flashed his facial prowess at a clip of 18/20 for 160 yards, 7 carries for 38 yards and 2 passing touchdowns—he now has 4 touchdowns on the season. The virtual fan chants for Tua and his baby face goatee will have to wait another week. Many will question whether this was a valid win for the beard crowd, citing the illegal use of Fitzmagic in this contest—and rightfully so. Unfortunately, we may never have a definitive answer to the greatest question in the history of mankind. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday for fantasy football:
Start/Sit Week 3: Kelley Will Go KaPOWski Against Carolina
September 24, 2020 | Fantasy Football Strategy, Start/Sit | 53 Commentsby: MB
So far I have enjoyed the challenge of putting out a weekly start/sit article. A lot of these are foreshadowed in my weekly rankings (13th in accuracy for FantasyPros last week)! But also, writing this column has helped me take a closer look at my rankings the day after I publish them and it makes me notice that what I put out on Wednesday is far from a finished product. If you use my rankings, be sure to check back on Sunday because they will look a lot different. I love gambling on football. I've been doing it for years and I still have a roof over my head so I guess it's not going too bad. I do a lot of digging from Thursday-Saturday when looking at game lines and totals and it helps find the errors in my ways from a fantasy aspect earlier in the week. If you'd like a second opinion on my start and sit options, be sure to check out Rudy's projections each week! Now would be as good as a time as any to use that 7-day free trial. Let's get to the plays for week 3.
Rest of Season Top 25 Tight End Rankings
September 24, 2020 | Rest of Season Rankings, Top 25 TE Rankings | 2 Commentsby: B_Don
The Elites
Set it and forget it. These are the TEs I'd be trading for if you don't want to just live the stream at TE.
- George Kittle may not play this week due to lingering injury concerns plus MetLife field concerns. Even missing another week, I'd still take him as my #2 TE for the rest of the season.
- Darren Waller gets the official bump to the elites after 16 targets in week 2. 12 receptions on 16 targets, *moving on up...*.
- Of course, 1 week after I put Mark Andrews into the top tier, he disappoints, but last year's track record and his connection with LJax keep him here for now.
Teasers and Pleasers: Week 3 Best Bets
September 24, 2020 | NFL Gambling | 3 Commentsby: Aaron Pags
Welcome to Razzball's dedicated gambling column-Teasers and Pleasers! Each Thursday during the NFL season, at 11:00 am EST, TnP will post our top bets for the upcoming week. Just sit back and win some money with us in 2020.
How do bands come up with their names? Steely Dan is famously named after a giant steam-powered dildo, but others aren't quite as artistic. English rock band, Chumbawamba, is just gibberish according to their official statements. However, if you are searching for an innovative way to intro NFL picks for Week 3, you dig a little further and find it came from a dream. Band member Danbert Nobacon had a dream about peeing, and the signs on the club door restrooms he dreamt about replaced "Men" and "Women" with "Chumba" and "Wamba." We got knocked down last week (0-4 ATS), but we get back up again...
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Now let's get to it! Week 3 picks for your Tubthumping pleasure.
Sexy Flexies, Week 3: A Thursday Night Special
September 24, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Strategy | 15 Commentsby: JB Barry
Week 2 was brutal for a lot of fantasy managers with the injury bug biting some of the biggest names in football. In addition to Michael Thomas already being out, we saw Saquan Barkley lost for the season and Christian McCaffrey sent to the IR with an ankle injury. There’s no replacing players of this magnitude, but if you drafted well, you have guys who can move up your fantasy depth chart and into those starting positions. More than ever now, if you’re dealing with injuries and moving former flex players into starting roles, it is going to be important to find productive players to put in your flex spots.
As you know, every Thursday here on Razzball, I will be posting the weeks “Sexy Flexies” to give you a couple of players to consider starting in your flex spot. The objective isn’t to point out the obvious guys you’re starting in your RB or WR slots, but to take a look at a couple of players who are a bit more under the radar. These will likely be guys that you won’t start every week but will be good rotational pieces in the flex spot of your lineup based on matchup and opportunity.
Week 3 Fantasy Football Rankings: Donkey Teeth
September 24, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Football, Weekly Rankings | 105 Commentsby: Donkey Teeth
I just snuck out of a court ordered gambling rehab facility to write this post, so I'll have to be brief. After I was arrested for stealing old ladies' purses from the retirement home down the block to fund my string of Arizona Cardinals' Super Bowl wagers (a 50:1 lock!), the judge sentenced me to 6 month's of in-patient rehab. Since I'll be releasing my weekly fantasy football rankings each Thursday morning for the duration of the season, I've decided to throw in some bonus bold Thursday Night Football predictions along with my expertly handicapped pick for the contest:
Miami Dolphins (+3) at Jacksonville Jaguars
Forecast: Dolphins at Jaguars, Fitzmagic at Minshew Magic, beard at moustache, it doesn't get much better than this folks! Obviously this game will be all about Uncle Rico Minshew. His swag will cast a shadow so big on Thursday night that no other player will even be seen other than maybe Saucy Boi Preston Williams—who happens to be my favorite buy-low wide receiver target following weeks 1 and 2. But back to Minshew Mania: the Jock Strap King will arrive at the stadium 10 minutes before game time wearing nothing but a leopard print jock. Without any stretching or warm up throws, the mustachio'd one with lead the Jaguars on a 69 yard touchdown drive on the opening series. It'll be all mustache from there except for a series he'll take off after halftime while recording a track for his new album—see below. So jump on that sweet stache and ride it all the way to a Thursday night victory!
Rest of Season Top 80 WRs: Week 3
September 23, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Football, Rest of Season Rankings, Top 80 WR Rankings | 26 Commentsby: al_FF_red
Your WR top 80 4.0 is here! Now we have some real live NFL data to help make adjustments. Some players were removed due to injury or ineffectiveness, and some new faces have forced their way onto the scene.
This list is not league or format specific, but it is based on 2020 projection only. When thinking through tiers and rankings I asked myself simply – “all things considered who would I rather have on my roster?”
You ever watch that move Napoleon Dynamite? Come on, you're looking at advanced statistics for your imaginary football team -- I KNOW you've got that movie on DVD and a "Vote for Pedro" shirt sitting non-ironically in your closet. ENYWHEY, there's the character of Uncle Rico, who kept taking film of himself throwing a football in an effort to chuck it over a local mountain or grain field or really, just about any object that could be placed in front of him. Now, after the complete decimation that your fantasy football team received in week 2, are you thinking, nay, hoping that some team will sign Uncle Rico so he can bring his swagger and dynamite -- see what I did there? -- arm to your favorite team? Well, worry not! Blake Bortles has come back! Undrafted free agent Nick Mullens is taking the field! Taysom Hill is making $8 million to be the third best quarterback on the Saints and he's completed 6 passes in his NFL career. And Kaep is still on the outside. At this point, let's give Uncle Rico a shot. Heck, Gardner Minshew is 90% Uncle Rico DNA. Fingers crossed no more QBs get hurt in Week 3, otherwise you should be gearing up to start Dwayne Haskins in your next DFS hot taek.
Week 3 Fantasy Football Rankings: MB
September 23, 2020 | Fantasy Football Rankings, Weekly Rankings | 64 Commentsby: MB
I learned something in our fantasy football group chat this morning. It was a conversation between THE BOOF, DonkeyTeeth and B-Don (they didn't know I was watching tehehe). If you think about it, it's kind of obvious, but I'll bet you two packs of smokes, a bottle of toilet wine, and 3 packs of ramen that you didn't know that Jonnu Smith is the 0.5 PPR TE1 through two weeks this year! Crap, I keep forgetting that my time has been served for crimes I ALLEGEDLY committed and I don't have to bet prison items anymore. Which is unfortunate because I really miss that sweet, sweet toilet wine. Another fun fact, getting last place in a prison fantasy league has a little bit harsher of a punishment.. But I digress back to Jonnu. If you followed my rankings in week two, you would have started him in any format! You also might have started Emmanuel Sanders, but it's not my fault he sucks. I'm just the ranker, sheesh.
Stealin’ or Dealin’ Week 3: Check Out The New Diggs
September 22, 2020 | Buys & Sells | 33 Commentsby: MB
This was bound to happen. This is the least prepared for an NFL season that players have ever been. Limited contact practices, no preseason games. Sadly, this is probably just the beginning of a season that will be filled with injuries. And fines for coaches not wearing their masks! Drama, drama, drama.
Injury carnage can also create panic trades, even this early in the season. You can imagine how panicked Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey, and Courtland Sutton investors are right now. Even if they are able to get their guys on the waiver wire, you better believe that they will be willing to have some conversations about acquiring some carries and volume in the passing game. Let's get to the buys and sells of the week.
