Late Game Fantasy Thoughts

Green highlights for guys you should trade for or add.
Yellow highlights for players to put on your watch list.
Pink highlights for injury concerns.
Orange highlights for players I would try to trade away
Red highlights for players I would bench or cut.

Games I watched: Baltimore-San Francisco, most of the 4th quarter of San Diego-Green Bay

Baltimore-San Francisco thoughts:

Joe Flacco looks awful.  He was the 14th ranked QB coming into today's game in my one league, and he was simply awful today, with poor clock management and a lot of poor decision making.  At this point I'd rather release him and sign a matchup play at QB than play him at all.

Tied to that awfulness is most of the whole Ravens offense.  Justin Forsett is cool, but Steve Smith Jr. can only do so much with Flacco at QB, and waiver wire favorite Kamar Aiken was lucky to catch a last ditch touchdown.

On the other side of the ball, it looks like the 49ers did great, but this was really a case of taking advantage of a bad, injured defense.  Two of the 49er touchdowns came courtesy of a corner that the 49ers cut last week, so that's not saying much.  Anquan Boldin looked pretty good for a 12 year vet, but Torrey Smith was more lucky than anything else, and I'd see if you could deal him on this (relatively) high note (same with Kaepernick).  Also, Carlos Hyde went down untouched at one point in the game, which was scary, but came back in and looked just okay.  Hoping nothing real happened but wouldn't be surprised to see at least a probable designation next week.

San Diego-Green Bay thoughts:

Philip Rivers is awesome, but that's nothing new.  San Diego is in kind of a Cincinnati situation where there are just so many weapons between Keenan Allen, Antonio Gates, Malcolm Floyd, Danny Woodhead, Ladarius Green, and Melvin Gordon.  On any other team, Green and Gordon would be beastly (especially since Gordon is the lead back here), but a backup TE and a RB on a pass first team can only do so much.  Regardless - keep expecting stats from these guys, barring injuries.

On the Green Bay side, Aaron Rodgers is as good as ever, and you gotta love what he's doing with James Jones.  I'd see if I could trade Jones though in most leagues, as the averages will eventually catch up with him.  Meanwhile, that Green Bay running game is so weird.  James Starks looked pretty good today, albeit with 65 yards coming on one run, while Eddie Lacy had just three yards on four carries.  With Lacy, you've got to hold onto him if you drafted him early.  I've put out lowball offers for him in my leagues but people are smartly holding onto him rather than selling him low.

Other players of note from the day: 
- Mark Ingram is very boom or bust - he had two touchdowns this week, but if he hadn't had any touchdowns he would've had a pretty bad week.  He's a pretty safe bet for like a 5-6 point floor each week with a much higher ceiling, but I'd see if you can trade him for a higher level WR or QB to someone who sees a lot of value in the ceiling weeks.

- Don't touch ANYONE on the Tennessee Titans.  That whole team is a garbage fire, and Marcus Mariota will suffer for it.  Some people are holding David Cobb for when he gets off the DL in a few weeks and takes the RB reigns - I'd stay far away because even he will only be able to do so much.