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FanDuel advice: Searching for a topic
Sometimes there’s no grand advice. Sometimes you just make the best lineup you can.
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This is my 32nd FanDuel advice piece of the season, out of at least 51 I’m going to write during the 2015 NFL regular season. I’ll be writing postseason FanDuel advice for the postseason as well, on top of three-times-a-week columns I wrote last season.
Sometimes you just run out of topics.
As I write this, it’s Thursday evening. I’ve picked my FanDuel lineup for this week, and I think it’s good. Problem is, I have no idea what the weekly lineup-picking message is. Sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes it isn’t. I started a few different tactics, but none felt right, so I texted my girlfriend:
Well, there you go. On to my lineup. Some thought process comes after:
- Well, Tom Brady is Tom Brady; he's been the safest quarterback in the league all year long. Pairing him with Danny Amendola gives me maybe his top target, but at a much lower price than the Rob Gronkowski/Julian Edelman/Dion Lewis types have been priced all year.
- Eric Ebron is this week's designated "tight end against the Raiders." Truth be told, that phenomenon has really been muted — the Raiders allowed 18 points a game to tight ends through Week 4, and only 7.4 since — but they've still allowed at least one touchdown to the position in every game except Week 5. Meanwhile, has drawn at least five targets in six of seven games this season.
- That first game after Jamaal Charles' injury, Charcandrick West lost a fumble, had only 39 yards from scrimmage, earned one fantasy point. We all rushed to pick him up before the game, then wondered how dumb we had been afterward. Well, in three games since, he's averaged 25 touches a game, 137 yards from scrimmage a game and four total touchdowns. And he hasn't fumbled since. He's been a monster (including in a touch matchup against Denver), and now draws San Diego.
- Seattle's defense at home against Blaine Gabbert? Check, check and check.
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