Ben Gretch
@YardsPerGretch
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Professional football enjoyer, Stealing Signals, Stealing Bananas, Ship Chasing
Joined October 2013
you know when they say a RB has “no wasted movement”? Pacheco is whatever the opposite of that is.
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Oh, Flacco's starting? Back's great, coach.
#Colts WR Michael Pittman Jr., who is dealing with a painful back injury that appeared earlier in the week poised to keep him out for several weeks… is expected to be active today, source said. An amazing turnaround and good news for Indy.
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My buddy is thinking outside the box, let’s build on this
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that dude exerts so much energy with every move, looks exhausting honestly.
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Suzy Kolber asked Julio about the TDs and he gave a pretty great response
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Remember when Antonio Brown blocked that trade to the Bills in the 2019 offseason?.
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Urban Meyer forcing Etienne into a Percy Harvin role when he already has Viska on the roster and potentially ruining the upside of two great prospects was more or less exactly what I expected when Urban Meyer got an NFL head coaching job.
#Jaguars coach Urban Meyer told reporters that first-round RB Travis Etienne will take all of his minicamp reps at WR. “Worst case scenario you have a running back that's elite with receiver skills,” Meyer said. Similar, it seems, to Le’Veon Bell in his prime.
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Taysom Hill playing QB is indistinguishable from a 13-year-old controlling Michael Vick in Madden 04.
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Rashee Rice catching a vertical TD is the "Uh oh, Happy learned how to putt" moment.
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This article's a rough read. Johnson's playoff run ended with the late Sunday game in SF. He wouldn't even be back to Detroit until late Sunday night/early Monday morning. Meeting was scheduled for Tuesday. He presumably sent this text Monday. Article matter-of-factly calls him.
Ben Johnson's agent shared his plans to stay in Detroit by texting Washington officials while the Commanders’ group was on a flight to Michigan. League sources shared one unified sentiment: The Commanders got screwed, write @BenStandig and @DMRussini.
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The Titans wearing the Houston Oilers throwbacks against the Houston Texans is extremely douchey. Not funny or even petty, just flat douchey.
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MIA hit 49 in late 3Q. From there, their three TDs were:. - after an INT where they took over at the 8.- a 68-yard TD pass between backups on 3rd and 10 .- a 67-yard TD run. Kneeling the whole 4Q would have been disrespectful. The rest was on Denver.
Speaking with multiple NFL owners, I’m told there is a common feeling that #Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel running up the score on the Broncos was “disrespectful” to the game of Football.
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people love to say "how many QBs could make that throw?" but there is only one QB who would even dream of making the throw jameis winston just did, so it actually applies here.
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what is happening. how is this a thing dotson is spending any time on.
Fantasy managers stashing Jahan Dotson and waiting for him to step into his new role as "holder". your time may finally be coming.
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Kyle Pitts is younger than Dalton Kincaid and Luke Musgrave, who combined for fewer yards in college two years ago than the 1,000+ Pitts put up in the NFL. Don't lose the plot.
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I watched 90-year-old Eli Manning face Nick Mullens on Monday Night Football this year, stop with the AAF bad quarterback play tweets.
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Derrick Henry's a 30+ RB who is going reasonably high because people see a path to a 20-TD kind of season. Raheem Mostert's a 30+ RB who is going several rounds later after he led the NFL with 21 TDs last year.
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Tyler Huntley almost beat Burrow last week, why are we doing all this.
"If Burrow beats Mahomes on Sunday, how can you make the argument Mahomes is better than Burrow?" - @PSchrags 👀. Legacy on the line in the AFC Championship. 🍿 @jasonmccourty @gmfb
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He’s trying to touch him down and Heinicke flops all over the place, that is absurddddd.
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Mike McDaniel is a 10 y/o doing a dynasty in a video game: "I'm gonna get all the fastest players and score a bunch of long TDs.". Still unclear how he got the skill level set to rookie.
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report last week arthur smith's job is safe barring a late-season collapse. falcons players knew the assignment.
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Chris Olave Week 4 air yards: 146. Chris Olave Week 4 receiving yards: 4.
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Finding out AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts are best friends who talk everyday is the highlight of my morning ngl.
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My wife has hit me with “ok butker” like three times this week, this dude was so offensive he pulled me in for being the same gender smh.
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man the announcers are hammering DJM for removing his helmet after he *got behind double coverage and caught a bomb TD at the end of the game in a massively frustrating season*. how bout the kicker just makes a 48-yard kick in a dome, this is the NFL.
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The second DJ Moore stopped getting targeted every play this game got awful.
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Imagine looking at these first round WR receiving lines as a RB drafter.
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It really is crazy the players are the best in the world, with so many weeded out on the way to the NFL, and the refs are part-time employees with tons of job security and no real incentive to get better.
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Every AJ Brown camp report is like "he's gonna break the all-time TD record," "he's gonna get 9,000 targets," "I watched him literally walk on water," and it's like you guys don't even care.
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It really is wild to remember the Jets were just dead set on him for weeks before the draft, to the extent the whole convo was about Lance/Fields/Mac and where they’d land. Imagine if Justin Fields had these WRs and this defense, my god.
zach wilson is easily one of the worst draft picks in this century of football.
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Hearing Treylon Burks will be converted to TE after the failed WR experiment. Some optimism he can compete with Geoff Swaim for the No. 2 role.
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Did not have “Barstool claims they invented Zero RB” on my 2021 fantasy football bingo card.
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Mike Williams three straight targets from the 5 with no TD then gets hurt and we’re off on the fantasy playoffs.
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Imagine a team with Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, and O.J. Howard featuring Peyton Barber and looking for Breshad Perriman whenever possible.
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This was so bad. Just no excuse for how the ball wasn’t out on time. The play worked. Then even after the ridiculous pirouette, still just needed to keep the throw inbounds.
Trey McBride should have had his first touchdown catch of the season on Sunday
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Have argued against the hip drop for some time. One of the things I learned from our Aussie brothers is they've legislated it out of rugby, to great success. Don't listen to the fear-mongering. It's a no-brainer fix.
Logan Wilson has now gotten both Mark Andrews and Lamar Jackson with the hip drop tackles.
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People do not understand FF is about outliers. Mostert was 31 last year, and cheap af. Unique profiles exist. See pinned tweet, "misapplying aggregate to specific.". If you're confident something can't happen bc you haven't seen it before, you've already lost. Have fun donating.
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diontae johnson getting wide open for three easy catches had a more impressive drive than this nice catch made into a highlight by the safety taking a terrible angle, and that dichotomy is a great thing to think about if you want to win at fantasy.
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AJ Brown was simultaneously the biggest draft winner and also it didn’t really matter bc AJ Brown wasn’t gonna lose targets to anyone lol you serious.
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Jake Ferguson winning, wide open in middle of field on 4th down
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If your takeaway so far isn’t Rashee Rice is catching 100 balls idk how to help you.
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never gonna forgive miles sanders for telling me to not draft him in fantasy football.
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We importantly now have two five-RB chains since yesterday:. 1. Pollard to TEN, Henry to BAL, Gus to LAC, Ekeler to WAS, Gibson to NE. 2. Moss to CIN, Mixon to HOU, Singletary to NYG, Saquon to PHI, Swift to CHI. We need DAL to trade for Khalil Herbert to tie this all together.
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How it started/how it’s going, zero rb in a 2000-person contest edition
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So predictable Tomlin used a timeout after they lined up to go for it.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin on Ravens going for 2: “They aggressively play analytics, so from that standpoint, they’re predicable.”.
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I would rather draft Antonio Gibson than David Johnson.
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Chargers called a timeout with basically no time left on the play clock, after it got under 40 seconds, because the Raiders lined up to run a play. How was that bad? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Fat Keenan dropping TDs from all that grease on his hands smh.
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What if Melvin Gordon becomes Mark Ingram 2.0 and Austin Ekeler just keeps being Alvin Kamara lite?.
Sources: The holdout is ending. #Chargers RB Melvin Gordon is, in fact, reporting to the team tomorrow. He won’t play this week, but he is planning to be back in the fold with his teammates.
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Lmao Kyle Shanahan has sunk four Day 2 draft picks into RBs in the last 18 months.
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Julio Jones' updated 16-game paces:. 184 targets.117 receptions.1885 rec yards.0 TD.
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Pretty amazing the Panthers have the best player in fantasy football and also CMC on the same roster.
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One of Dennis Allen's very last moves was to ensure Kendre Miller was back on IR long after he was gone.
". and one last thing, kendre miller sucks and i hate him, i want to make that clear".
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Sam Howell in first preseason game.- 8/14 for 129 (9.2 per attempt).- Two rushing TDs.- Passing 2-point conversion to take 21-20 and complete the comeback from 20-6. You'll never get me to understand how this dude fell to the fifth round.
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The thing I haven’t seen yet but is prob true is Isaac Guerendo needs to be added basically everywhere.
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Sean Payton all offseason: "It's my fault Marvin Mims didn't play enough.". - Trades Jerry Jeudy.- Plays Tim Patrick over him in preseason, then cuts Patrick. Marvin Mims, Week 1: 16% routes.26-year-old rookie 7th-rounder Devaughn Vele: 63%.
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AJ Brown proving to the nerds that concepts like regression don’t apply to reincarnated greek gods.
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The more I see about the 2022 QB class being bad, the more I judge DEN and CAR for not taking Justin Fields.
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one of the rules of fantasy football is it will always find a way to hurt you if you let yourself enjoy anything too much.
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10 years ago, I got a finance degree a year after a global financial meltdown. My senior year, a professor physically threw a copy of our textbook in a trash can. Now I get paid to write about fantasy football on the internet.
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Honestly if you put this loss on Mahomes just turn in your analyst hat and admit you can’t think critically about football.
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My wife made this charcuterie for a baby shower. What you eating first?
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Nobody was higher on Jayden Reed than the GOAT Shawn Siegele. I never bought in, despite constantly hearing it. Dude’s a wizard.
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Imagine taking CEH over this dude lmaooooooo looking at all you in dynasty but more importantly the Chiefs lolol.
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anti-PPR people: "receptions aren't inherently valuable". me: yeah neither is jordan mason punching in a 3-yard run after CMC goes 72, but this is all made up, isn't it?.
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Just found out my 6-year-old nephew, who is doing his first FF league this year, is 10-0 with a 200-point total point lead lmao.
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Have seen multiple tweets suggesting OJ Howard isn't good. Best TE yards per target since targets became a stat in 1992 (min 100 targets)
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this is why i don't draft any of my fantasy teams until october.
Rookie RB Tyrone Tracy just went down untouched on a kickoff return. Cart is out and they are putting on an air cast. #giants.
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That has to be corrected, on the field, in real time. Just figure it out. Can't have games ending like that.
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This is a legit big development, holy cow. Perine is a trusted vet in pass pro, caught 50 balls last year. "The McKinnon role" is right there.
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I mean I love Aaron Jones as much as the next guy but does Matt LaFleur know AJ Dillon is 245 pounds?.
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Has any twitter bit ever had more real juice than Dennis Allen’s hatred for Kendre Miller?.
Crazy situation with Kendre Miller: "The back was instead placed on Injured Reserve, sparking frustration among the coaching staff who was confused as to why that would be necessary for such a minor injury. Apparently former Head Coach Dennis Allen “had a lot to do with it.” One.
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society if slow drafts had cumulative on the clock timers, like chess clocks, where you can’t bleed the full clock every pick all draft
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Trading away Mark Ingram was the straw that broke the camel’s back
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Matt Nagy says the Bears need to “understand the why” of how this happened today.
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If you want to understand why Mahomes' stats show more underneath passing than Purdy's, consider how defenses play them, please. Mahomes as a downfield passer in some ways revolutionized the whole sport with the way defenses responded over the past half decade. The Cover 2 shell.
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The lesson from tonight’s game is you have to take on risk in search of upside in fantasy:. - Kupp (health).- Kyren (usage).- Jameson (lack of production). The downside risk gets way too much of the focus. It’s not that it doesn’t exist, but that ceiling is the whole ballgame.
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There are ten (10) games in the 1 pm ET window on Sunday. The NFL continues to make terrible scheduling decisions at all times.
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What makes this so mind-blowing is Tomlinson had 31(!!) TDs that season. McCaffrey has 18 right now.
Christian McCaffrey “only” needs to score 28 fantasy points to break LaDainian Tomlinson’s record for most PPR points in a single-season (474.3) from 2006.
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my arthur smith thoughts aren't just re: fantasy football usage. it's the way he berates reporters doing their jobs. it's the way people defend his boring mediocrity. he's not without positive traits, but it's been a consistent story.
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Whole lineup was submitted an hour after lock, including a low-owned Kareem Hunt, who scored Cleveland’s first TD. Then a swap off Hunt to Nico, presumably after Nico’s TD. This sucks.
Found another "isolated" incident from Willis in the Mini . assumes timestamps still in CST as @ShipChasing orig found.-User *allegedly* swaps onto Nico Collins at 5:33ET.-Related: Nico Collins had ~75 yards and a TD in the 1Q of the game Sat 1/13 game that begin 4:30ET
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Can’t believe we’re only 9 days from Will Fuller turning 12 targets into 157 yards in a comeback effort next Thursday night.
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Tyler Boyd is such an easy, basically risk-free way to draft a piece of what could be an exciting Bengals offense.
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Maybe the 49ers can buy low on a more dynamic QB this offseason like a Trey Lance.
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never thought a number like this was possible when i started a solo newsletter. definitely don't take it for granted. just want to say thanks to anyone who has supported it and me in any way.
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Leonard Fournette is the only player who somehow looks slower in a single digit number.
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Chargers have no fans so Staley’s getting Twitter behind him, smurt.
"Sack production is one of those illusioned stats in the league. Hurries and hits, from a data standpoint, is a predictable measure of future success. Sack production can spike where pressure production is more consistent over time."
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Emmitt Smith.Edgerrin James.Rashard Mendenhall.Chris Johnson.And now Adrian Peterson. The Phoenix area has built a nice retirement community.
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What an incredibly fun day of streaming. If you’re not yet aware, @peteroverzet is the most talented dude in this space. Support all his content, always.
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The Rodgers stuff is funny then you realize Tom Brady now has back to back home games against mistake-prone teams standing in the way of another super bowl.
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