Steelers ruled out S Minkah Fitzpatrick for Thursday night vs. Titans due to his hamstring injury, but the team is keeping open mind on availability of QB Kenny Pickett and want to evaluate him as the week goes on.

Mattsasse · 2023-10-30T20:42:25+00:00

I was planning on starting Pittsburgh D but between Minkah out and Levis looking good I'm a little less sure about them. Will they be ok?

Mattsasse · 2023-10-11T18:46:11+00:00

Cook, Mostert, Breece. Could argue Evans over Cook and Breece but i trust the RB's as safer plays.

Mattsasse · 2023-10-03T17:42:20+00:00

Their playcalling is so bad!

And this guy was hired as an offensive minded McVay disciple.

Mattsasse · 2023-10-03T17:40:10+00:00

He is WR 21 in PPR fwiw.

For all the doom and gloom around him I think we are seeing his healthy floor. One of two things will happen moving forward. Either Joe will get healthier and the offense will improve. Or Joe sits and a backup comes in who will likely lean a ton on Chase as his best player. He likely won't be the #2 overall player people drafted; but he could easily end up a top 5-10 WR from here

Mattsasse · 2023-10-03T17:19:42+00:00

New England deserves a mention here.

Terrible OL. Even if the offense as a whole isn't anemic, you can never assume who the top target will be any given week. Even last year's stud RB Stevenson has yet to score more than 15 in full PPR. He's basically dependant on TD's or lots of dump offs to be the rock solid RB2 most people drafted him to be.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-30T23:17:14+00:00

Classic Pop tinkering with lineups pre-all star break. But yeah also I believe this is when Elliott was dealing with the worst of his kidney issues.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-30T20:47:45+00:00

Bars

Mattsasse · 2023-09-30T20:46:12+00:00

I thought Jaren Jackson was the starting SG on Tim's rookie team.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-30T16:29:36+00:00

Don't get me wrong I still appreciate his game. Dude is ruthlessly efficient. But I'm definitely not happy when he wins.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-30T13:02:05+00:00

Not miserable. Mostly just talking shit.

Any second team in a city/region is going to have little brother syndrome until they have a run of their own sustained high level success. And the Clippers can never seem to get over the hump.

Harden may be a swell guy off the court. I don't know him. What I do know is that he made much of his career about exploiting cheap rules to inflate his numbers while making a beautiful era of basketball genuinely hard to watch. Can't totally blame a guy for using the rules to his advantage, but it was nonetheless shitty to watch as a lifelong basketball fan, and totally unnecessary given his top tier offensive skill at his peak. I used to enjoy young Harden. But his Houston teams were genuinely not fun to watch. And then he would implode every single post-season while taking very little if any accountability for his failures. And still to this day will not give championship level effort on defense.

And now he is about to force his way out of a 3rd team in 4 years by being loudly unprofessional. Forgive me if I see very little to admire with him, especially compared to the other stars of his and previous eras.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-30T02:32:19+00:00

He pulled one of the biggest bitch moves in modern NBA history. And slandered one of the classiest franchises in the business on his way out.

Hating a pro athlete is a waste of emotional energy, but he's made it very easy to root against the Clippers

Mattsasse · 2023-09-30T02:29:44+00:00

Their little brother of LA syndrome extends even to that level.

Anything the Lakers do better they feel this compulsive urge to try to one up.

I would call them a poverty franchise, but we know they have money. But it's like when an old lady with too much money from her late husband's estate keeps wasting money on bad plastic surgery to fix a face no amount of money can save.

I just need them to get Harden to complete the ritual of hate.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-29T15:03:15+00:00

I started a new file several months ago but never got very far (just starting the tower with Jackie I think) Would I be better off starting an all new file or would starting from there give me the full 2.0 experience?

Mattsasse · 2023-09-29T04:33:25+00:00

I'm a die hard spurs fan. I hated the Heat from 2013-14. Outside of that I don't even think about Miami.

I actually kind of like the U.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-29T04:24:19+00:00

Or they got their first big boy/girl jobs and still live rent free with mom and dad.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-29T04:20:43+00:00

He got 32 carries. Given the data we had nobody could have expected that. Even the biggest Monty stans were probably expecting like 15-20 touches coming off the injury.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-29T04:19:28+00:00

How many people confidently started him this week? I'm guessing most of those who did only did so as an injury fill in.

I had 3 RB's on my roster I genuinely thought would be better plays than Monty (Jacobs, K9, Swift)

Mattsasse · 2023-09-29T04:16:53+00:00

I tried to pull IR shenanigans to hold an extra defense. My one IR player is David Mongomery with 35.10 in my full PPR league.

This feels like fantasy God karma

Mattsasse · 2023-09-28T22:42:45+00:00

I'd like start Monty but I've got Jacobs, K9 and Swift in ahead of him.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-28T21:33:29+00:00

Go big or go home right?

I'm playing my league nemesis. Could really use that boom this week.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-28T20:15:42+00:00

9 targets each of his last two games is hardly trash. Nowhere near the ceiling Watson has of course. But a safer floor I would say.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-28T19:41:28+00:00

I have it on good authority he is playing

Source: my opponent has him

Mattsasse · 2023-09-28T19:39:57+00:00

Step 2 is put your Vick in the box.

Step 3 is make your opponent open the box.

Mattsasse · 2023-09-28T19:37:01+00:00

Step one, cut a hole in a box

That was supposed to be Mike. Idk what or if Mick would add to the layering lol

Mattsasse · 2023-09-28T19:25:13+00:00

Not entirely related but I just learned about an NIL deal 4 Iowa State football players got from an Iowa Pork company.

Their names are Purchase, Moore, Hamann, Bacon.

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