Ok, I am thinking about sitting a few starters due to matchups and I have $50 on the line. Starting 3 RBs out of Ray Rice, Best, Benson, and Tolbert. Rice against the Steelers was pretty bad last year. Tolbert against the struggling Vikings D without their starting DT might be a good fill in right now. Already splitting reps and could have more carries than Matthews and he is a Redzone/TD machine. Thoughts... Also considering sitting Rothlisberger vs Ravens and putting Kolb in at home vs a pretty bad Carolina secondary. I am thinking Ben is usually a middle of the pack decent numbers type and I think Kolb can at least have that kind of outing but with more upside in week one. I am also sitting TE Gronkowski and just picked up the rookie Lance Kendricks who is starting and had a killer preseason. Bradford loves him some TEs and the Eagles struggled with TEs all last season. I had a pretty nice draft in a 12 team league at the 10 spot. New league we setup and we recruited a lot of noobs and the draft reflected that. Hell Manning was picked #2 and Ray Rice fell to me at #10. I believe 5 QBs taken in 1st round. Nuts... Here is my team: QB Rothlisberger RB Rice RB Benson WR Andre Johnson WR Nicks Flex Best TE Gronkowski DEF Steelers K Janikowski Bench: QB Kolb RB Tolbert RB Ringer (Drafted him a few weeks ago before contract settled) WR Braylon Edwards WR AJ Green TE Kendricks (Just dropped Cooley) DEF Cowboys
Sit Rice. He is absolutely horrible vs Pitt. In fact there was a graphic that showed all other RBs vs Pittsburgh are averaging over twice as many points as Rice since he's been in the league. His average is 3 points per game. Egad. Tolbert would be my choice.
FWIW, I think the Ravens picked up Vontae Leach, one of the best run blocking FBs in the NFL to pave the way for Rice. Boldin is said to have better chemistry with Flacco now and Evans is a legit deep threat to occupy the Pitt safeties. I'm hoping Rice will have a decent game as I have him starting in one of my leagues.
I'm struggling with deciding whether to start Beanie Wells vs Carolina or to go with Ryan Mathews. I'm going with Beanie for now unless anyone provides a good reason to go with Mathews.
Go with Beanie. Everyone seems to agree. Matthews is splitting reps and Tolbert is stealing most of the touchdowns.
I went and looked back at all the games the last 2 years and his stats were horrible. Only decent game was in 2009 where he had 143 rushing and 20 yards receiving with a fumble. What do you think about the Kolb vs Big Ben?
flip a coin probably I think the Ravens do a much better job stopping the run vs the pass, so Ben can still have a pretty good day. Kolb should do well, but we don't know yet how that offense is going to click or not.
