Daily Short #199, July 5th, 2018: Two Tweets
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This isn't the way anyone wants to spend their 4th of July, but Texas DBs Kris Boyd and B.J. Foster were apparently lucky given the alternatives.
Boyd posted on the photos of the crash on Twitter last night stating that they "could have been gone," but both players are "doing a lot better" after apparently being absolutely rammed from the rear end. Having been in one car wreck where I was t-boned from the side, I can say from experience that both of these guys are probably feeling at least a little bit sore today. That kind of sudden, unexpected impact can do a lot of terrible things to the body, but the luckiest of us only have to endure the screeching aches and pains from muscles and joints we weren't even sure existed prior to the event.
The good news is, Texas football players have access to some of the best trainers, equipment and technology to help with alleviating these sorts of issues. It sounds like things could have been a lot worse.
We should be thankful that we're given such a reminder about the importance of paying maniacally close attention while driving without any human lives being lost or major injuries incurred. When news of a car wreck ever ventures into my personal little corner of the world among those I love, know, associate with, or follow, it will always give me the shivers. We cannot be reminded often enough, though, because our brains are so quick to become used to the norm.
Some things cannot be prevented -- getting rear-ended often falls into this category. However, the thing we can control is being hyper-aware of our surroundings and treating driving a motor vehicle like the task it truly is: a death-defying stunt that carries with it incredible risk.
Future generations will look back at the age of human-operated motor vehicles as one of the most insane periods in all of history. They'll hear about how anyone could just hop in a vehicle capable of reaching near 100-mph speeds. They'll marvel at our willingness to drive among thousands of others on the roads and assume control of these fire-breathing machines -- capable of inflicting mass injury, death, and destruction with the jerk of a wheel or a mis-timed press the gas pedal -- and think of us as some mix of daredevil and neanderthal.
Yesterday, I participated in the third-annual SiriusXM Independence Day Invitational fantasy league, defending my championship from 2017, and boy did things get sideways in this one.
My main takeaway from this draft? Things have overcorrected in the value of early round RBs as compared to WRs. In this case, the RosterWatch Cheat Sheet instructed me to undertake what turned out to be an "upside-down" or "zero-RB" strategy in order to zig while others zagged. You can see the full draft results here, but I feel like I extracted value at most every turn, especially given the 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 2 TE and 2 Flex setup of the league.
Starting out with Julio Jones and Odell Beckham was simply dirty. Adding on T.Y. Hilton (whose ADP has been drug through the mud due to recency bias) with the knowledge that Andrew Luck should return to health as my WR3 is lunacy. My WR3 is likely to finish as a Top 10 option at his position. I was then able to not only get a top-flight TE as well (Greg Olsen) in a TE-premium format by successfully predicting when I could start a positional run. Most importantly, I was able to backfill my running back talent in the later rounds while others were scrambling to pick up the scraps at WR:
Derrius Guice was the best pure runner in an unbelievable 2018 running back class and Jay Gruden has all but anointed him the 2018 starter in Washington already. Mark Ingram will serve a four-game suspension to start the 2018 season but should be an RB1 Weeks 5 and on. While he's on ice, I'll be able to use Jamaal Williams of the Packers who'll at least have feature-back duties while backfield-mate Aaron Jones serves his own two-game suspension and I'll also be able to mix in rookie Kerryon Johnson whose role is certainly TBD, but who we know the Lions traded up into the second round to acquire, addressing a huge need as one of the league's worst running attacks. Johnson represents huge upside as the Lions offensive line is all of the sudden appearing formidable. Tevin Coleman, as always, will have standalone value but will be pure gold if injury occurs to Devonta Freeman (who, don't look now, but has had a sneaky-high frequency of missed games with concussions recently). The final high-upside flier at the RB position is Nyheim Hines who should walk right into at least passing-down duty in an Andrew Luck offense -- and on a fast track in Indy. We've seen how fast he runs on that track, too -- give me 4.3-speed in Luck's offense (devoid of most all competing RB talent) any day of the week.
They might as well ship the trophy now.
Just like I correctly stated on July 5th of last year.
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The Absolute BEST in family and cosmetic dentistry for the Houston-Memorial Area
Now Accepting New Patients --- 281-293-9140
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This isn't the way anyone wants to spend their 4th of July, but Texas DBs Kris Boyd and B.J. Foster were apparently lucky given the alternatives.
Boyd posted on the photos of the crash on Twitter last night stating that they "could have been gone," but both players are "doing a lot better" after apparently being absolutely rammed from the rear end. Having been in one car wreck where I was t-boned from the side, I can say from experience that both of these guys are probably feeling at least a little bit sore today. That kind of sudden, unexpected impact can do a lot of terrible things to the body, but the luckiest of us only have to endure the screeching aches and pains from muscles and joints we weren't even sure existed prior to the event.
The good news is, Texas football players have access to some of the best trainers, equipment and technology to help with alleviating these sorts of issues. It sounds like things could have been a lot worse.
We should be thankful that we're given such a reminder about the importance of paying maniacally close attention while driving without any human lives being lost or major injuries incurred. When news of a car wreck ever ventures into my personal little corner of the world among those I love, know, associate with, or follow, it will always give me the shivers. We cannot be reminded often enough, though, because our brains are so quick to become used to the norm.
Some things cannot be prevented -- getting rear-ended often falls into this category. However, the thing we can control is being hyper-aware of our surroundings and treating driving a motor vehicle like the task it truly is: a death-defying stunt that carries with it incredible risk.
Future generations will look back at the age of human-operated motor vehicles as one of the most insane periods in all of history. They'll hear about how anyone could just hop in a vehicle capable of reaching near 100-mph speeds. They'll marvel at our willingness to drive among thousands of others on the roads and assume control of these fire-breathing machines -- capable of inflicting mass injury, death, and destruction with the jerk of a wheel or a mis-timed press the gas pedal -- and think of us as some mix of daredevil and neanderthal.
Yesterday, I participated in the third-annual SiriusXM Independence Day Invitational fantasy league, defending my championship from 2017, and boy did things get sideways in this one.
My main takeaway from this draft? Things have overcorrected in the value of early round RBs as compared to WRs. In this case, the RosterWatch Cheat Sheet instructed me to undertake what turned out to be an "upside-down" or "zero-RB" strategy in order to zig while others zagged. You can see the full draft results here, but I feel like I extracted value at most every turn, especially given the 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 2 TE and 2 Flex setup of the league.
Starting out with Julio Jones and Odell Beckham was simply dirty. Adding on T.Y. Hilton (whose ADP has been drug through the mud due to recency bias) with the knowledge that Andrew Luck should return to health as my WR3 is lunacy. My WR3 is likely to finish as a Top 10 option at his position. I was then able to not only get a top-flight TE as well (Greg Olsen) in a TE-premium format by successfully predicting when I could start a positional run. Most importantly, I was able to backfill my running back talent in the later rounds while others were scrambling to pick up the scraps at WR:
Derrius Guice was the best pure runner in an unbelievable 2018 running back class and Jay Gruden has all but anointed him the 2018 starter in Washington already. Mark Ingram will serve a four-game suspension to start the 2018 season but should be an RB1 Weeks 5 and on. While he's on ice, I'll be able to use Jamaal Williams of the Packers who'll at least have feature-back duties while backfield-mate Aaron Jones serves his own two-game suspension and I'll also be able to mix in rookie Kerryon Johnson whose role is certainly TBD, but who we know the Lions traded up into the second round to acquire, addressing a huge need as one of the league's worst running attacks. Johnson represents huge upside as the Lions offensive line is all of the sudden appearing formidable. Tevin Coleman, as always, will have standalone value but will be pure gold if injury occurs to Devonta Freeman (who, don't look now, but has had a sneaky-high frequency of missed games with concussions recently). The final high-upside flier at the RB position is Nyheim Hines who should walk right into at least passing-down duty in an Andrew Luck offense -- and on a fast track in Indy. We've seen how fast he runs on that track, too -- give me 4.3-speed in Luck's offense (devoid of most all competing RB talent) any day of the week.
They might as well ship the trophy now.
Just like I correctly stated on July 5th of last year.
