{"id":23257,"date":"2013-12-04T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=23257"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:13:11","slug":"fantasy-football-start-emsit-em-playoff-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/12\/04\/fantasy-football-start-emsit-em-playoff-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Football Start &#8216;Em\/Sit &#8216;Em Playoff Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another installment of who to start and who to sit while making your weekly fantasy football lineup decisions for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> week of the playoffs. \u00a0We went 17-11 in the start \u2018em portion and 9-5 in the sit \u2018em portion, not too bad. Let\u2019s get to this week\u2019s list;<\/p>\n<p>Start \u2018Em<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Foles \u2013 Keep riding the hot hand<\/li>\n<li>Josh McCown- Same as above but even better matchup.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Smith- He is another who has been a top 8 QB the past 4 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Joe Flacco- He has been middling but if you are desperate he has a great opponent in the Vikings.<\/li>\n<li>DeMarco Murray \u2013 The Bears may have the worst rush defense in football plus the Cowboys have a new commitment to the run.<\/li>\n<li>Le\u2019Veon Bell- He has been cleared and should roll this week.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Tate \u2013 He finally broke out last week and the Jaguars while playing better still have run defense issues.<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Bernard \u2013 This is more about matchup with the Colts but should be a solid RB2.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Ray Rice \u2013 He continues to get touches and has a fantastic matchup vs the Vikings.<\/li>\n<li>Fred Jackson \u2013 He just plays and scores points each and every week, trust him for your playoffs.<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Rainey \u2013 He had a solid game and while the Bills have been better he will get plenty of chances.<\/li>\n<li>Lamar Miller \u2013 He ran the best I have ever seen him plus is getting almost all the carries even inside the 10.<\/li>\n<li>Andre Johnson \u2013 He spoke up and got more targets and always play your guys vs the Jaguars.<\/li>\n<li>DeSean Jackson \u2013 The Lions looked good vs Flynn but this will be a different world.<\/li>\n<li>Alshon Jeffrey \u2013 He will continue to roll vs the Cowboys bottom 2 pass defense.<\/li>\n<li>Torrey Smoth \u2013 He has been as consistent as you can be and should put a TD on top of his yards vs the awful Vikings secondary.<\/li>\n<li>Larry Fitzgerald \u2013 The Rams continue to give up well over 65% to wide receivers.<\/li>\n<li>Kendell Wright \u2013 He has been in the top 10 in targets since early in the year and they should have to throw vs the Broncos.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Floyd \u2013 He is becoming a star and gets the awful Rams secondary.<\/li>\n<li>Dwayne Bowe \u2013 He continues to get targeted and the Redskins make all receivers look good.<\/li>\n<li>Rueben Randle \u2013 They will have to throw vs the Chargers and he should get plenty of action.<\/li>\n<li>Jared Cook \u2013 If you are feeling lucky the Cardinals have made every tight end look good all year being the worst team defending them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bench \u2018Em<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony Romo- He has been better in real life than fantasy and the Bears are pretty good vs the pass.<\/li>\n<li>Philip Rivers \u2013 He has been very good but in the last 6 weeks the Giants have been a top 8 defense against QB\u2019s.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Roethlisberger \u2013 I expect a ton of running and limited passing as Miami is tougher vs the pass.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Luck \u2013 He continues his slide and the Bengals are top 8 against QB\u2019s.<\/li>\n<li>LeSean McCoy \u2013 I know you have to start him but the Lions have been nasty against Rb\u2019s, temper expectations.<\/li>\n<li>Alfred Morris \u2013 He is just not getting the touches especially in the red zone.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Johnson \u2013 Denver has been good vs Rb\u2019s and I would not want my fantasy hopes in his hands.<\/li>\n<li>Zac Stacy \u2013 The Cardinals at home plus their very good run defense slows things up for Rams Rb.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Gore \u2013 Even with good matchup he is not producing and the Seahawks are back in stride.<\/li>\n<li>Demaryius Thomas \u2013 It would be very tough to bench a Bronco but the Titans are #1 vs the pass in the fantasy world.<\/li>\n<li>Vincent Jackson \u2013 He is way too much up and down lately plus a tough matchup and a lingering injury.<\/li>\n<li>Eric Decker \u2013 Expect a huge crash back down to earth this week.<\/li>\n<li>Keenan Allen \u2013 The Giants have been very tough vs receivers, hopefully you have better options.<\/li>\n<li>Roddy White \u2013 Sure he broke out last week but has way too many weeks where he is a non-factor.<\/li>\n<li>T.Y Hilton \u2013 Still living off the big games early, a non-factor the past 4 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Marques Colston \u2013 Another guy who has had an awful season living off his name.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Smith \u2013 No more than 65 yards in forever.<\/li>\n<li>Tony Gonzalez \u2013 Just not seeing enough in his last year, there are better options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week and let me know if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another installment of who to start and who to sit while making your weekly fantasy football lineup decisions for the 1st week of the playoffs. \u00a0We went 17-11 in the start \u2018em portion and 9-5 in the sit \u2018em portion, not too bad. Let\u2019s get to this week\u2019s list; Start \u2018Em Nick Foles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fantasy-football","8":"category-fantasy-sports","9":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fantasy_football.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-637","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23258,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions\/23258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}