re: 2019 NFL - News, Notes and Stats

Has anyone made a move for Barkley?

I'm having a hard time valuing him right now. Guy in my league is 0-3 AND was riding the Ekeler wave. I was thinking about sending Fournette/J Jackson(was going to drop after this week) for his Ekeler/Barkley.

HPPR & I'm 3-0. I'd still have Ingram/Breida/Ekeler(after trade)/mattison/Brown to try and get me to Barkley's return. At THAT point, i'd be tough to beat with Watson/ingram/barkley/julio/AJ/TY & Kelce.

if Barkley is on the long end of that estimate, you're looking at not having him until week one of the playoffs. So yeah it'd be nice to have him for that stretch but I'd still wait a few more weeks and be more secure about my playoff spot before making that move

You can send it.

No one would accept that trade though

I think you’re gonna hurt yourself with that lineup. Ekeler and Breida are about to lose some touches for sure. You’re gonna be scraping for RB points waiting for Barkley, and there’s no guarantee he comes back this year since Giants won’t compete for anything

if its a situation like Julio where he's a talented WR in a potent offense, there's just some bad luck in connecting down there yeah eventually that's going to correct itself.

When you've got Flacco throwing to you, inefficiency is expected

I'd do a Fournette for Barkley straight up swap if I were an 0-3 barkley owner...wouldn't throw in Ekeler though

I disagree on that. The Julio thing was the exact opposite of positive regression. It’s unlikely that a QB and WR are going to continually disconnect on red zone TD passes, or that a WR leading his team in air yards won’t score a TD (Sutton). The Julio thing Matt Ryan wasn’t even looking at him. The Falcons were using him as a distraction to draw double coverage in the end zone to free up everyone else. Julio wasn’t getting any red zone targets. That was a scheme issue, not just a statistical outlier, which is what regression is based off. It ended up being that every team figured out what the Falcons were doing with Julio and started fading coverage away from him, so Matt Ryan had to start going back to him in the endzone

I have also been expecting more from Fournette this year, although just found a few reasons to be more positive about him going forward.

First is his lack of TDs, which I think will change simply because of his usage and also being their best option in short yardage.

Next is his increased involvement in the passing game. If you take his yards from scrimmage this year and assume he continues that through 16 games (big if for injuries of course), then he ends up with 1,456 yards. That would have put him as the 6th best RB last year.

Minshew appears to be a much better fit than they've had at QB in the past, which should start to ease the box a little.

I would play Sutton over Brown in PPR