Un-orthodox MMCB

By: Joe 2

​We are one of the few teams in the league that will trade whatever it takes to get what we want. This season we moved Rob Gronkowski, Antonio Brown, Tevin Coleman, acquired and traded Willie Sneed, John Stewart, and Pierre Garcon. In these trades MMCB acquired Ezekiel Elliot, Brandon Marshall, Delanie Walker, T.J. Yeldon, and Alfred Morris. (All from the Monstars I might add) Did they improve short term or long term? Let’s take a look at the roster to see if they improved and see if its build for a playoff run or preparing for next year.

​I’m going to say we did a little bit of both, playing for the playoffs and setting up to be in good position next year. Going into the year some considered Zeek a first round talent and he fell to the second round. Zeek looks like he’s getting better and better as the season goes on, in his last 3 games he rushed 140, 138, and 134 yards each game. All coming on less carries each time (30, 23, and 15). Zeek is doing something most rookies struggle with, and that is waiting for holes to open up. I think Zeek is realizing that he was gifted into being drafted to a team with arguably the best rushing O-line in the game. As Tim pointed out Dak does just enough to keep the pressure off Zeek so he doesn’t get the Gurley treatment.

​When Tony Romo returns the carries might dip, but it’s nice to see he can produce RB1 numbers with 15-20 carries.Dallas is starting to trust him in the pass game as well so he has a incredibly high floor. At the end of the season Zeek for Brown might be a wash, difference is he can be kept. Giving up a fist round pick would be easy, if a suspended La’veon Bell can be taken in the first, my Co-owner and I would agree keeping him would be a no brainer, especially with how thin RBs seem to be this year. I give Tim full credit on this one. Zeek and Freeman would lock down the RB spot so we can focus on WR in the second or whoever falls, and then gauge how the QB situation turns out.  IMO you can draft a good QB in rounds 4-8 and still get quality, see Matt Ryan so we won’t put too much thought into that spot.

​Next we have Brandon Marshall; it was nice to see yesterday a solid game out of him. Going in to week 5 Marshall was ranked 36 Overall. By his standards he was vastly underperforming, having 2 games scoring under 10 points; he was a great buy low candidate so we bought. When given the opportunity, Marshall is among the league’s best WR based on the volume he receives. A lot of his struggles can be blamed on the poor play of Fitzpatrick (9 picks in 2 games). I felt we seen the worst from him and when big dick Decker comes back he should return to his form and become the WR 1 he use to be. By the end of the season I will predict he finishes inside the top 15 in his position. 

​Delanie Walker is an interesting one, last season Delanie Walker finished the season as the second best TE finishing behind Gronk by roughly 11 Pts Points (256.1 Gronk – 245.9 Walker). Now id be foolish to say he finishes close to that again because of his slow start. But, he also got off to a slow start last year (check his stats if you don’t believe me) as well and then picked up the pace averaging about 7 catches a game for about 70 yards. Delanie isn’t the #1 option in the offense, Demarco is; but he’s still the number one passing option and I can see him finishing out around the top 5 in TE. That’s why we were sold on him.

​T.J. Yeldon and Morris are just bye week flyers/handcuff, we didn’t really want to move Sneed but we lacked depth at RB, Ivory and Morris weren’t going to cut it. We don’t expect Yeldon to all of a sudden be a stud, but we wanted a guy who could be decent in the absence of Freeman and Zeek. Also wasn’t bad that we got his handcuff too. 

​So in short, yea we do make a lot of moves but there is a lot of thought put into each transaction we make. We even go as far as going to the people’s house and try and make a deal till midnight on a work night!! (Magz) I really could go more in depth on how we operate but I can let out all the secrets on to what makes us a successful co-ownership. There are reasons beyond clovers being up my ass ;) on why each year we are competitive. I wouldn’t look too much in the current 1-3 record. I can see that changing in the upcoming weeks and ready to make a push in the playoffs.