It seems that Week 6 has taught the rest of the world what those who try to predict team defense every week already know: the NFL is unpredictable. We saw 15 DEF/ST touchdowns scored by 10 different teams, both season highs, and 7 more TDs than any other week this year. The week’s top defense, the New Orleans Saints, scored …
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Week 6 Fantasy Football Studs
Monday, October 16, 2017
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Week 6 saw scoring explosions from both offensive and defensive players. Three current or former New Orleans Saints running backs had breakout games. We saw a team defense score more TDs than any other non-QB and more points than 9 offenses managed to register on Sunday. Marvin Jones did his best Odell Beckham Jr impression and Antonio Brown reminded us …
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While Week 5 had the insane amount of injuries to blame for its duds, Week 6 will be blaming great defense. Inevitably, in a week where 14 DEF/ST touchdowns are scored some offensive guys are going to let owners down. We did see one huge injury when Aaron Rodgers went down with what looks like a season-ending broken collarbone. Something …
Fantasy Football: Week 5 Team Defense Recap
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
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It appears that we may have this year’s version of the 2016 Minnesota Vikings and they are the Jacksonville Jaguars. Like the Vikings of a year ago, for better or worse (but usually better), I find myself talking about the Jaguars every single week. They’ve gone from 1st to worst once already this season and find themselves at the top …
Fantasy Football: Week 4 Team Defense Recap
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
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While my Week 4 predictions certainly went better than Week 3, mistakes were made. My Stream of the Week finished in second-to-last place and one of my Sits finished tied for 1st place. Overall, it wasn’t the dumpster fire for DEF/ST that we saw in Week 3. In fact, all 3 of the top performers are well regarded defensive units. …
Fantasy Football: Week 3 Team Defense Recap
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
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After a week where I missed on 9 of 11 predictions there is only one thing I can say: I’m sorry. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s do our best to forget Week 3 ever happened. It was a crazy week where 2 of our top 4 performers weren’t ranked in the top 12 coming into …
Fantasy Football: Week 2 Team Defense Recap
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
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Two weeks in and we’ve already seen the unpredictability that fantasy DEF/ST brings. Last week, the Rams and Jaguars tied for first place with 29 fantasy points each. This week they combined for 0, that’s zero, fantasy points and were bottom 5 units. But, on a happier note, my Stream of the Week finished as the #1 team defense and …
Fantasy Football: Week 1 Team Defense Recap
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
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There is no chaos quite like Week 1 chaos. But out of that chaos came some truly amazing DEF/ST performances. Week 1 saw defenses score 8 TDs and 3 teams didn’t even allow a TD. A few performances were predictable, like Pittsburgh manhandling Cleveland and Carolina shutting San Francisco down. But I don’t think anyone expected to see the horrid …
Fantasy Football: Defenses With Favorable Opening Schedules
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
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I will start this article with a suggestion (and link to my previous article): DON’T DRAFT A DEFENSE. The only exception to this rule is if your league requires you to fill your roster or if you are drafting after the 4th preseason game and teams have made their final cuts. My primary reasoning here is that DEF/ST is unpredictable …
Fantasy Reaction: Injuries to Julian Edelman and Spencer Ware
Saturday, August 26, 2017
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Preseason injuries suck. Our fantasy starters being hurt in meaningless games can be devastating. Every year we complain about it and every year our cries go unanswered. The NFL preseason is a great time for teams to get a feel for young players but when that cart comes on the field our hearts sink. Last night, the preseason reaper came …