Bye Week #1 is Coming up Soon
NFL Week 4 is the first Bye week. Is your team ready? Tennessee, New Orleans, Washington and Jacksonville get the early bye. If you haven’t already, you need to check your teams and make sure you aren’t left with a hole at a position because 3 of your 4 wide receivers play for these teams.
Week 4 Games:
Baltimore at Cleveland
Chicago at Detroit
Denver at Indianapolis
Green Bay at Minnesota
Houston at Atlanta
Kansas City at San Diego
NY Jets at Buffalo
Oakland at Miami
Philadelphia at NY Giants
Pittsburgh at Arizona
Seattle at San Francisco
St. Louis at Dallas
Tampa Bay at Carolina
New England at Cincinnati
Your best bet is to offer out a few trades. Be careful of a straight A to A trade as unless you are willing to downgrade that position, why would the other owner bother? A 2 for 2 trade works best where you can try and get equal value for the primary player and give them some value on the other.
An example: Lets say you have Frank Gore, Clinton Portis and Maurice Jones-Drew. You are banking on Jones-Drew improving and you know you can’t get much for him now so you shop Portis on the trade blocks.
Maybe the guy who has Willis McGahee is stacked and RB and start 2 backs with him. Because it is a fairly even trade you will need to sweeten the pot with the other player in the deal. Lets say you add Braylon Edwards (assuming you are Ok at wide receiver without him) for his Jerry Porter.
Make some trades if at all possible because if you have to drop someone for the scraps left on the waiver wire you will be loosing value. You don’t want to be one of those guys who didn’t pay attention to the byes and have to decide to lose a game or lose a decent player.
If you absolutely have to pick up some players, here are a few options that may be available and could stand to have a decent week 4.
Quarterbacks
Green, Trent QB MIA
Losman, J.P. QB BUF
Grossman, Rex QB CHI
Running Backs
Morris, Maurice RB SEA
Foster, DeShaun RB CAR
Griffith, Justin RB OAK
Pittman, Michael RB TB
Wide Receivers
Booker, Marty WR MIA
Avant, Jason WR PHI
Jones, James WR GB
Horn, Joe WR ATL
Defenses
Raiders, DST DST OAK
Dolphins, DST DST MIA
-Chris
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Sports Illustrated
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October 13th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Marian Jones
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