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If I didn’t know better I swear Fitz just teleported from 1976 😂

Alright, standard scoring means you'll want to prioritize RBs that get a heavy workload. Look for teams that have a dedicated RB or main back and don't do the committee thing (stay away from Bills RBs). Think Derrick Henry, Ezekiel Elliot, Nick Chubb, AJ Dillon, Jonathan Taylor, those types of players. Standard scoring also puts a greater emphasis on WRs that get chunk yards, catch TDs and get a lot of volume, so shifty slot receivers or RBs that catch passes out of the backfield are less desirable. You want someone that gets yards and gets the ball thrown to a lot. Your RBs and WRs are gonna be your workhorses in your league and where (typically) most of your points will come from, so draft some consistent production guys early and try to take at least 1-2 RBs and 1-2 WRs before looking at other positions. TE position is very boom/bust and quality thins out SIGNIFICANTLY once Kelce and Waller are off the board, although teams that play a lot of TEs in sets might give you a couple of sneaky good options beyond that. Prioritize WRs and RBs, if a top guy is there after that, grab him. Otherwise you can wait until the back end of the draft to grab a TE. QB you can typically wait until later rounds 5-7 to grab one, although watch the action in the draft room. If a run starts on them earlier you might want to grab one earlier. Most guys in the upper tiers give you decently good floors, and if a QB has rushing skills and takes goal line carries that has surprising value in FF. Even bad teams with meh QBs can give you good production (Blake Bortles was a great fantasy QB because of garbage time). Defense/Special Teams is very streaky, unless you have a team where you know their defense is just owning the ***** out of everything (see Patriots, 2019). Note that very few of these defenses exist so the good ones will come off the board quickly once people fill in the regular roster spots. My personal favorite strategy is to stream a different defense every week and just find the team in the league with a really putrid offense (prolly the Texans, Jags or Bears this year) and just play whatever defense is playing that team this week. It has worked very well for me but it requires management and foresight to rotate defenses out. Kickers you can take at the back end of the draft after you've filled your main spots, your bench and just about everything else. Just look for someone consistent if you want to set it and forget it. I personally like to stream kickers or find teams that historically have kicked the most field goals and go from there.

Is your league PPR or standard scoring? That affects drafting SIGNIFICANTLY.

Two TE's on the active roster? No Jacob Hollister? 8 WRs? This list is sus.

I'm annoyed, I wish the players would just get the vaccine and stop talking about this. I'm just going to shove my fingers in my ears, cover my eyes and yell 'football' over and over until the season is done.

Definitely agree, most soft tissue shoulder injuries for receivers are not season ending. Worst case scenario he's a midseason elevation from IR.

Hollister, stop trying to Josh Allen over a defender in preseason. That’s a quick way to get rekt.

That run had no chance, Bears D had that completely sniffed out.

TD JESUS!

Getting Leodis McKelvin vibes with McKenzie fielding punts and kicks.

I feel like its a scheme thing, we executed it better in the first contest and got pasted in the second one. The scheme is literally 'take away Kelce and Hill' and force Mahomes to earn every yard, keep everything in front of your front 7. Our biggest issues here were run defense and no pressure from our front 4. Run D was so bad that 'in front' was basically 'free first down' and we just couldn't get Mahomes on his back with our front 4. Unless the entire OL is second string (like in the SB) the Chiefs effectively will get ~21-24 points just because Mahomes is gonna get his yards, you gotta keep the play in front of you and you're not going to be able to cover Hill and Kelce on every single play. You just have to keep the points around there and score more.

That 'block' he executed during the Jags/Browns preseason game may have been one of the saddest and most amateurish attempts and inline blocking I've ever seen in professional football. Look for the Pat McAfee bit on it, he savagely lays into Tebow and deservedly so. Watching Tebow try to block is a perfect example of how hard it is to do properly and how unappreciated the skill is.

Seeing that list with only 5 CB's on the active roster fills me with existential dread.

For #4 quotes from 'The Office' (in homage to one of Josh Allen's favorite TV shows). Close second could be Parks & Recreation or the Anchorman movies.

Another reason Bojo was let go is he was a subpar holder, something that is often overlooked/glossed over. Haack is good in this regard and may factor into why Bass is so automatic now because the ball is in the right spot every single time.

Players named A. Williams on the Bills are cursed.

This might be a hot take but both Bill Gray’s and Tom Wahl’s > In-n-Out & Whattaburger

In-n-Out will only deliver fresh, never frozen meat to its retail locations. That means that any restaurant cannot be more than give or take 300 miles from a meat distribution center. There are only 2 as of 2018 in I think California and Texas. They also don't franchise, all locations are corporate. JA17 has his work cut out for him.

Meh, haters gonna hate. The dominant narrative is that NE rules and Buffalo drools and that last season was an aberration because half their team opted out because of COVID and NE is back this year. If Buffalo wants to change the narrative it's simple. Do. It. Again. Next year? Simple. Do. It Again. Eventually once the narrative becomes sufficiently divorced from reality, the narrative will change. Right now IDGAF, makes for great bulletin board material inside the training facility.

Erie county does not currently have a mask mandate for private businesses. I believe this is for county buildings only according to what I read online. Worst case scenario just pack one for yourself and your kids in case it’s recommended or encouraged. I would wear one when indoors or in very crowded areas for now just to err on the side of caution.

Its completely infuriating that its almost 2022 and still the only way to get all the football I want from a paid service is to sign up for a satellite TV package from the Satan incarnate of media companies. I swear I can't be the only human that could give two ***** about cable TV and Just. Wants. Football.

This is exactly it, he plays the 1T/NT position on a DL. He's NEVER going to light up the stat sheet.

I love how Star has literally done nothing this year so far and he's already the whipping post on this board. Man just can't catch a break 🤣

I think Mac Jones is going to have a rude awakening playing in the NFL. This isn’t the cupcake schedule Bama plays every year and then waltzes into the CFP and to the final.

Don't need to invest in your punter if you never punt 😉 That being said I'm going to miss Bojangles, that one punt he uncorked against MIA in week 17 last year may have been the most perfect punt I have ever seen.