Told ya!*
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but that got awfully close for a while
I would not have bet on myself this week, but somehow I made a good decision or two and Justin's team underperformed just enough! Winless no more! And I even settled into seventh place, momentarily atop of the league's losers. Playoffs, here I come?
My big decision this week was quarterback.
Justin Herbert injured his ribs in Week 2 so all last week there was speculation about will he or won't he suit up. I began to fear that even if he started he either wouldn't be his usually effective self or worse was going to take a couple big hits and get knocked out of the game early. I decided to start my backup,
Derek Carr, whose Raiders were going against The Titans. I would have happily taken a fiftyburger of course, but what I really needed was for him to simply make his projection in the low twenties. It was an ugly game (how many Raiders games aren't?), and though they blew their chance to send it to overtime with a two-point conversion Carr did get me 23.82 points (versus his 21.79 projection). As for Herbert, he did wind up playing the entire game in the loss to Jacksonville but was not himself with his lone TD sunk by an INT and a lost fumble. He managed only 14.58 Fantasy points. Hooray, me.
Christian Kirk continues to be my standout WR. He had another six catches and a TD in beating The Chargers.
Deebo Samuel continues to do Deebo things even as horrible as San Francisco's prospects look. And I did finally give Baltimore's
Devin Duvernay a start in my FLEX spot and he rewarded me with a touchdown.
Other than making the correct call at QB, the main reason I managed to win is because my big first round pick, King
Derek Henry, had his first great-ish game of the season. He had 143 combined yards and a rushing TD for 22.80 Fantasy points. He had only totaled 8.20 and 8.50 the first two weeks. If he starts getting some multiple TD campaigns I may have a legit shot at competing.
I did make the wrong call in my second RB spot. Miami's
Chase Edmonds had been such a massive disappointment the first two weeks I benched him in favor of Seattle's
Rashaad Penny. Predictably Edmonds scored a pair of TDs for 15.20 points while Penny was pretty quiet with only 7.40 points. Carr may have saved my week but he could have made it even better and less stressful for me if he had included
Darren Waller more as he had only three little receptions for 22 yards (3.70).
Justin's Josh Allen had an OK Fantasy day in that surprise loss in Miami, and lucky for me he missed that final pass at the goal line, but none of his other players made their projections. None. Which left the window open for me, and my squad awkwardly crawled right through it. Now I will look for Yoda's squad to all disappoint, please, see if I can limp to .500!