Fantasy Football Panic Meter, Week 9: Raiders’ dysfunction has us bummed about Davante Adams
For all fantasy managers, panic is the default state. You acknowledge that you will spend the next five months in a state of twitchy near-terror when you join up for this game. In fact, I think this is explained in one of the terms of service that you never bothered to read.
Well, no, if you were assuming that our goal in being here was to assuage your anxiety and fear of impending doom. We’re not equipped to handle that kind of work. Furthermore, you have good reason to be concerned about your underperforming fantasy players.
Today, as we do every week, the mission is to tell you exactly how panicked you should be about various aspects of your roster — and make no mistake, you should definitely panic, always. Let’s begin with a guy who accomplished the least with the most air-yards last week…
We apologise, but there isn’t much we can do to improve the situation. The worrying dysfunctionality of a franchise persists, and any anticipated Adams production has been reduced to collateral damage.
As you certainly know by now, Adams was the intended target on two misfires from Jimmy Garoppolo on Monday night that should have resulted in touchdown receptions of 98 and 60 yards. If both of those endeavours had succeeded, you would have a broad-open sell-high window right now. Rather, it’s hopelessness. Here, we’re all experiencing exactly what Adams did.
something. Adams made one start this season for O’Connell and caught eight balls for 75 yards. It’s not like he’s a forgotten man—over the last two weeks, he’s drawn 19 targets and seen an absurd 41.4% of the team’s targeted air yards. The situation among the team is appalling. It’s depressing.
Given how distant this team is from contending, Adams ought to have been traded at the deadline. But here we are, apparently because they didn’t want a GM who was about to lose his job to be negotiating a very significant transaction.