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The worst fantasy pickups you could possibly make | FFSK

There's a lot of judgement going on as Matt Harmon tries to make sense of your worst fantasy football mistakes of the season.

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MATT HARMON: I don't want to hear any more about these pickups for these random goofballs that are never doing anything. [SIGHS]

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Week 13 in the "Fantasy Football Survival Kit." This thing is officially almost over. The thing, of course, being the NFL season. What we're talking about today, as we're taking a little bit of a retrospective look back on some of the absolutely terrible decisions you people, the people, my people made this year. We asked you all, what was the worst waiver wire pick up? The worst free agent bid that you made this year?

I know there were some absolutely trashed ones. So let's get right into it. This first one comes in from @finfan3493. And I love that they just decided, I'm not going to talk about my worst pick up. But I'm sure, finfan, you've done some dumb [BLEEP] too. Not me, but another league member, 51 bucks for Devonta Freeman. Yikes. This one was a popular submission. I knew there was going to be a lot of this.

If you picked up Devonta Freeman, if you spent a big old portion of your budget on picking up Freeman, the good news is you're just as dumb as the New York Giants. The stupid Giants went all over the place looking for a replacement, a backup for Saquon Barkley. Like, they had a Dion Lewis coming off his worst year as a Tennessee Titans in 2019. They scraped the bottom of the free agent barrel in the middle of the year for Devonta Freeman coming off a bad year.

The answer was in their own backfield all along with Wayne Gallman. This guy is on fire. Hopefully, you avoided the Freeman landmine, you didn't mess around with Dion Lewis either, and you just added Wayne Gallman later like a certain group of smart people did. I'm in that group. Next.

Oh, yes, another popular one comes in from @A_Rusu. Looking at my lineup with his 0.6 points last week, and it's Derek Carr looking minorly demonic, majorly upset. And yes, many people were upset when Derek Carr was, like, the streaming quarterback of the week, coming off his best game against the Kansas City Chiefs in prime time the week before. He goes up against the Falcons, who are terrible on defense, and he absolutely pees all over his pants and has, like, the worst game I think that he's ever had of his entire career.

It's unbelievable. Football is a game of variance. You're all the way on one end of the variance, and then you're all the way on the other end of the variance. And that's basically what happened with Derek Carr. Sorry that it happened in your lineup and so many other people's lineups. But at least there's a lot of camaraderie, right? Like, you feel miserable, but everybody feels miserable with that one. Next.

This next one comes in from @QBWinsAreNotAStat. Love it, making a statement with this one. Someone dropped Courtland Sutton after week one, and I put all of my budget on him. Oh, well, this GIF perfectly sums that up. Because you had the right idea, OK? People dropping studs, proven guys, even if they're hurt after week one, they're total jabroni. So for you, to try to take advantage of that, that was the right thing to do, OK? That was smart.

You were being proactive, you were executing, you were being aggressive, and I love that. That's why we play this game. But you got boned on this one. He got hurt. Hasn't played since. Won't play the rest of this year. And the Broncos have drained the toilet bowl into a never-ending lake of sadness. Just try to move on and be better next time. Next.

This next one comes in from @chucknats, and it's Dez Bryant. Did you really think that after not playing football for three [BLEEP] years, Dez Bryant was going to come in and make a difference for your fantasy team? That is your fault. Next.

This next one comes in from @PFFCommenter. OK, you know this bit is taken already, actually. They dropped Chase Claypool to pick up Ryan Fitzpatrick, then he gets benched immediately. I actually don't mind you picking up Ryan Fitzpatrick, OK? Like, really no one knew that they were going to suddenly make this change to Tua. That's not the problem here. Why the [BLEEP] did you drop Chase Claypool?

What did he have, like, one bad game? And you've got all up in your feelings about it? Please, man. You people have to be a little more patient than that. Don't drop guys with difference-making potential just because they let you down one week. That's what amateurs do. This is a mess, clean it up, get your act together. Next.

This next one comes in from John. Kendall Hinton, only because they started him at flex instead of Allen Robinson. And the GIF you sent in is appropriate. For real, you are really dumb. What are you people, like-- did you get your head all the way up your own [BLEEP] and you thought it was smart to pick up a guy that the Broncos had as a practice squad wide receiver that was forced into playing quarterback because all their quarterbacks took their mask off and then they got on the COVID list?

Holy [BLEEP]. I mean, the Broncos didn't want to be in the position to do that, why did you think you had to be in the position to do that? If you picked up Kendall Hinton, it's not Kendall Hinton's fault, let's be clear about that. You are the one who has to wear the cone of shame, John, and all of you others like him. Next, I need to calm down.

This next one comes in from @leehouse4165. Well, in week two, they spent $101 of their budget on Josh Adams and dropped Mike Davis. I had to, like, literally Google search Josh Adams. I know who Josh Adams is. I would bet 99% of people out there don't know who Josh Adams is. But he's a running back-- number one for the Jets. Don't do that. Don't pick up Jets running backs, number one.

Number two, look, you couldn't have known that Mike Davis was going to have a great run as Christian McCaffrey's replacement. You couldn't have known that. But why did-- in what universe, in what plane of reality did the aliens convince you that Josh Adams was going to be a thing? That was a terrible decision. I think that's the worst one that we have so far. It's really, really bad. I actually don't have a silver lining for you, that's just trash.

That is going to do it for a very emotionally draining episode of the "Fantasy Football Survival Kit." Hopefully, none of these moves sank you on your path to the fantasy playoffs, because they're coming. And if there's one thing you can take away from this self-isolating, lonely, terrible, depressing-inducing year, it's a fantasy championship.