Week 4: everything collapses
It has been a somewhat good, but mostly brutal week on the fantasy football front. Incredibly, we have followed up winning without Joe Burrow by winning without CeeDee Lamb. It was a two-point margin, but we will take what we can get.
This feels massive. I cannot take anymore injuries and I really worry about our QB position, but we’re 3-0, tied for top 3 in the league. It’s incredible.
Since we last talked, I sent out a massive amount of trade offers for QBs to replace Joe Burrow. I ultimately settled on a counter-offer of Dak Prescott for Harold Fannin Jr. That may sound silly or not like much, but these clowns hoard quarterbacks, like some teams have three or four, and they are completely unwilling to trade. I will take what I can get.
I don’t think this injury sidelines Lamb for the entire year. At this point, we are ridiculously reliant on Garrett Wilson. We are three weeks away from Rashee Rice returning and who knows how long from Lamb coming back. I’m kind of happy to wait. Obviously, I will arrange this roster in the best way I think we can win games. This current week’s setup is looking like:
QB: Dak Prescott
WR1: ???
WR2: Garrett Wilson
WR3: Tetairoa McMillan
RB1: De’Von Achane
RB2: ???
TE: Jake Ferguson
FLEX: ???K: Brandon Aubrey
DEF: New England
We have Chase Brown, Travis Etienne, Calvin Ridley, Quishon Judkins, Malik Washington, Luther Burden III and Tre Tucker on the hypothetical bench. There are no two ways about it, some hard decisions have to be made this week. But I mean, my goal was to build a championship team. These early injuries have been unfortunate, but we have some major reinforcements coming. A lot of teams do not. We are 3-0, a lot of teams are not. I figure this will be a hard couple weeks for us, but I will obviously try to win. Biggest thing I would say is I feel blessed to be 3-0 right now. Considering how many injuries we have had and what all, we are chugging along way better than I suspected.
We do, unfortunately, have to play a fellow 3-0 next week.
Jake Ferguson, to date, is my absolute best draft pick this year. Hopefully, he can produce Sunday night. Beyond that, Garrett Wilson better go score us 40. I expect we lose this week, but this team is built to bounce back.
I don’t anticipate any trades on the horizon, but I would very much like Calvin Ridley out of here and maybe Chase Brown too. If Prescott continues to suck, I may try to swing Ridley for Jared Goff. I have word that might be favorable. With where I am at and the others are at, it’s incredibly hard to see Chase Brown leaving.
Also, we did change the team name from “Bench don’t kill my vibe” to “Jerry World” after the Prescott trade. I probably cursed us by doing that, but oh well.
