L.A. Playa
09-07-2006, 01:06 PM
interesting which QB they say to start this week
QUARTERBACKS
There’s such a wide gulf between fantasy starting quarterbacks and backups that until starters get hurt and bye weeks come, you shouldn’t need much advice. That’s particularly true this week, when top quarterbacks like Tom Brady (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=1163), Jake Plummer (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=1988), and Donovan McNabb (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=704) have juicy matchups. So don’t take the following recommendations the wrong way: don’t start a mediocre quarterback with a good matchup against a good fantasy quarterback; start him over another mediocre quarterback with a bad matchup.
START
Kurt Warner (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=1256) vs. San Francisco – Do you really need me to tell you that the 49ers don’t have a good pass defense? Or that Warner might (might!) have the most dangerous set of pass catchers in the league? Warner could outperform a lot of quarterbacks who got drafted as fantasy starters, at least until his inevitable injury behind an offensive line made from construction paper and pipe cleaners.
Chad Pennington (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=858) at Tennessee – Hey, he won the Jets’ wide open quarterback competition. He was a great quarterback before he started getting hurt, so even though he’s off fantasy radar screens, it’s not crazy to say he may be good for a start here and there this year. It’s hard to find a more favorable matchup than the Titans, who rank in the bottom three in five of the seven Football Outsiders pass defense categories, including dead last in projected overall 2006 defense.
J.P. Losman (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=2780) at New England – This is why I wrote that introductory note about not starting a matchup quarterback over an actually good quarterback. The Football Outsiders projections expect the Patriots defense to be fifth-worst in the league this year, so right about where they were last year. If that’s the case, then Losman, who has looked better this preseason in winning the quarterback contest with Kelly Holcomb (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=2604), could have a solid day.
QUARTERBACKS
There’s such a wide gulf between fantasy starting quarterbacks and backups that until starters get hurt and bye weeks come, you shouldn’t need much advice. That’s particularly true this week, when top quarterbacks like Tom Brady (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=1163), Jake Plummer (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=1988), and Donovan McNabb (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=704) have juicy matchups. So don’t take the following recommendations the wrong way: don’t start a mediocre quarterback with a good matchup against a good fantasy quarterback; start him over another mediocre quarterback with a bad matchup.
START
Kurt Warner (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=1256) vs. San Francisco – Do you really need me to tell you that the 49ers don’t have a good pass defense? Or that Warner might (might!) have the most dangerous set of pass catchers in the league? Warner could outperform a lot of quarterbacks who got drafted as fantasy starters, at least until his inevitable injury behind an offensive line made from construction paper and pipe cleaners.
Chad Pennington (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=858) at Tennessee – Hey, he won the Jets’ wide open quarterback competition. He was a great quarterback before he started getting hurt, so even though he’s off fantasy radar screens, it’s not crazy to say he may be good for a start here and there this year. It’s hard to find a more favorable matchup than the Titans, who rank in the bottom three in five of the seven Football Outsiders pass defense categories, including dead last in projected overall 2006 defense.
J.P. Losman (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=2780) at New England – This is why I wrote that introductory note about not starting a matchup quarterback over an actually good quarterback. The Football Outsiders projections expect the Patriots defense to be fifth-worst in the league this year, so right about where they were last year. If that’s the case, then Losman, who has looked better this preseason in winning the quarterback contest with Kelly Holcomb (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=NFL&id=2604), could have a solid day.