I'm not going to tell anyone not to play Ryan Fitzpatrick this week in cash, as the lineup that you are able to build around it is ridiculous. However, I want to call out some of the risks in playing Fitzpatrick this week.
1) The receiving group for the Buccaneers is absolutely atrocious with Mike Evans out this week.
2) This Jets defense is not as bad as it is made out to be. Yes, they have given up a lot of passing touchdowns, there's no denying that, but have held Tom Brady and Matt Ryan to an average of 250 yards and two touchdowns in two of their last three games.
3) Ryan Fitzpatrick is not exactly good at football. This is a quarterback who really struggled last year with the Jets and had a better receiving corp than he will have next week. Last year, Fitzpatrick had Brandon Marshall and Quincy Enunwa.
If you want to play this lineup below, all you need is Fitzpatrick to not kill you and it should be extremely competitive. Will post my lineup in a separate blog post.
QB Ryan Fitzpatrick 6100
RB Leonard Fournette 8700
RB LeVeon Bell 9400
WR Antonio Brown 9300
WR Marvin Jones 6400
WR Sterling Shepard 5700
TE Kyle Rudolph 5400
K Steve Hauschka 4700
D Chicago Bears 4300
Well this is tough. Dodds' lineups prominently feature Fitzpatrick...
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing a whole post on this! I appreciate the detailed feedback/explanation.
ReplyDeleteI keep going back and forth on Fitz and Stafford. All the points you mentioned are well taken, but of course the value is nice and we've seen McCown (who is about equal with Fitz talent-wise) do a decent amount with a sub-par WR corps this season. Albeit Bowles>>Koetter.