I managed to get my second win but I am beyond dejected. Barring the top scoring teams in this league losing their best players for the season I see no path to the LOVE Brokers winning two more games the rest of the way. The only reason I squeaked out this low-scoring victory is that Chark Week is as banged up as my team and he didn't see one of his players was a scratch in time to replace him on his roster.
Dak Prescott found himself in another shoot out and kept my feint pulse going. If he doesn't keep putting up over 30 fantasy points per week - which seems a pace that will be difficult to maintain and foolish to count on - I have almost literally nothing else. The only other player with a consistent good ceiling that I have left is Seattle's Chris Carson. But late in the win over Dallas, Carson's knee was wrenched in an illegal gator-roll tackle by Trysten Hill. It was not season-ending (yet), but at best it is going to slow him down and at worst keep him sidelined. If Carson can't go I have zero chance of competing. With Saquon Barkley gone that leaves me with third and fourth string bench riders left to chose from. You can find a not-completely-dreadful WR if you look but there are quite literally no running backs left. This week I started The Giants' Wayne Gallman Jr. who rumbled to a mighty 2.40 points, half of his already pathetic projection. Denver's Royce Freeman was the best RB on my sad, bloody bench that I didn't start. He was projected at 3.43 and had a stellar day where he cruised over that to 4.50 points. *sigh*
If Carson is out I will be forced to start two worthless running backs who together will be incredibly lucky to get me ten points TOTAL. Clearly that is unsustainable and is essentially impossible to manage a win with unless Dak can get me 60+ points that week.
My top wide receiver, Detroit's Kenny Golladay, finally saw his first action of 2020 in Week Three and promptly caught a touchdown. The Lions managed to upset Arizona but they are pretty awful, which as long as Stafford and Golladay stay healthy will be fine for me in fantasy terms because they will be looking to throw all the time. But he'll have to pull 20+ per week to keep me in it, and somehow score much more than that if Carson is gone or severely reduced. With Sutton out for the season I can make a patchwork of guys who should at least get in the low double digits most weeks to compliment Golladay, but it isn't going to make up for no running game at all.
So yee-haw, I am in eighth place. I won't get any higher and will surely fall much lower.
Whatareyouginnado?