NFL Week 14

[Stevo]

I just picked up Gerhart off the waiver wire for my first week of fantasy playoffs and dropped the afflet Brandon Jacobs.

Hoping he gets the start next week. I have a 2 RB league and want to get him a start and bust the caste system in my fantasy league with the only white RB. I have Ryan Matthews, Andre Brown, and Pierre Thomas, who at least aren't the most offensive afflets ever. But I have all White TE's and a majority of White receivers along with Peyton Manning and Matt Ryan as my starting QBs.

This is the first year I have really paid attention to FF so I am hoping to bust the Caste System in my fantasy league.

 

[Awake in America]

In case anyone missed it. Danny Woodhead, had 94 yards combined receiving and rushing. To include his 6th TD receiving. He lead RBs with receiving TDs. He is having a good year. Too bad for him that Ryan Matthews is having a good year rushing as well.

It stinks that Woodhead has to share time with Matthews, but Matthews is a pretty good player, and has stayed healthy this year. The problem is when the Chargers bring in Ronnie Brown. Seriously? He shouldn't take meaningful carries away from either Woodhead or Matthews, but of course it's Woodhead's numbers that suffer. What a joke.

 

[Upside]

Pretty solid week:

- Hillis, Woodhead and Gerhart all scored touchdowns! Some token runs for Leonard too. All are still criminally underused too, but I'll take this. Hell, I half expected Hillis to be inactive.

- Nice receiving games by Nelson, Cooper, Decker, Hartline, Edelman, Welker, and Cole Beasley came up with a couple nice catches too. It has been a really fun year as far as Wide Receivers go. Every week, about 4-5 of our guys come up big! I really hope this opens the door next year for some young guys who I think got screwed over in the preseason; Spadola, Shipley, Swope, DePalma, Moe, Wylie, McGuffie, Vernon, and woefully underutilized Dane Sanzenbacher.

- Jordan Cameron gets back on he map with 100yd game. Dennis Pitta returned to action.

-Viking Defense, at least its Caucasian members, came up big; Cole led with 13 stops, Sendejo and Greenway each had an INT, and Allen and Robison each had a sack. Chris Conte is about the only Bear defender that can tackle, yet Gruden manages to find a reason to criticize him. Nice games by Worrilow, Poz, and Kuechly too.

-Which brings us to the black quarterbacks. Aside from Jason Campbell, (who I personally think is better than all of them) the black quarterbacks looked like pure crap. Not one, besides Campbell, threw for more than 220 yards and 1td. Meanwhile, its business as usual for Manning, Brady, Brees, etc.
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Unfortunately, there were some casualties:
-Gronk done for the year. DWFs/media are already suggesting the Patriots go in another direction come daft time because of his injuries....smh.

-Another Concussion for Welker, which will likely keep him out of Thursday's game.

-Sean Lee appeared to have injured his neck Monday night

-Just as predicted, Shanahan will likely bite the bullet for RG3-10's lousy play.

 

[Upside]

Sure didn't take the Bears long to send Craig Steltz back to the bench. After a 12 tackle performance last week, Steltz was relegated to special teams in favor of Major Wright, who amassed an impressive 4 total tackles, and wiffed on at least another three. It is a crime that Steltz isn't starting. Its blatantly clear he is superior to Wright in all facets of the game. What does the guy have to do?

Apparently Gruden is intent on ruining Conte's career as he has singled him out several times as the scapegoat for the team's defensive problems. Early on in the broadcast, as Gruden was talking about the decline of the Bears' defense, a graphic was shown on the left side of the screen while on the right half the camera lingered on Conte, obviously a planned attack. On a national broadcast like this, that's all it takes for a White safety to be widely demonized by DWFs.

Yeah, he did that a few weeks ago too. Conte is easily the mvp of that defense. Nobody in the entire front 7 can tackle. Its hard to play safety when you can't count on the other 9 guys to make a friggin tackle! Gruden wasted no time pointing out the one tackle Conte missed, and all but blamed him for the sorry state of the bears run defense, yet gushed about the youth and athleticism of the coal LB corps, who between the three of them missed at least 15-20 tackles last night.

 

[backrow]

Sure didn't take the Bears long to send Craig Steltz back to the bench. After a 12 tackle performance last week, Steltz was relegated to special teams in favor of Major Wright, who amassed an impressive 4 total tackles, and wiffed on at least another three. It is a crime that Steltz isn't starting. Its blatantly clear he is superior to Wright in all facets of the game. What does the guy have to do?



Yeah, he did that a few weeks ago too. Conte is easily the mvp of that defense. Nobody in the entire front 7 can tackle. Its hard to play safety when you can't count on the other 9 guys to make a friggin tackle! Gruden wasted no time pointing out the one tackle Conte missed, and all but blamed him for the sorry state of the bears run defense, yet gushed about the youth and athleticism of the coal LB corps, who between the three of them missed at least 15-20 tackles last night.

Conte had some great, open field tackles on AP as he consistently broke through. even CBS notices this:

And while coach Marc Trestman faced a barrage of questions after the game about why he was so quick to send Gould onto the field (it was second down) the reality is that the Bears lost because Adrian Peterson steamrolled them up and down the field all afternoon.There were no 75-yard runs -- Peterson's longest gain of the day went for 23 -- but the game plan was effective nonetheless; death by a thousand Purple Jesus collisions, often with safety Chris Conte in the unfortunate position to have to make a tackle several yards down the field.