Sometimes when you're Living the Stream, you have to navigate troubled waters. Sail right off the edge of the map.
OK, most of the time.
OK, pretty much always.
It's not like it's on purpose, unless you're one of the lunatics (like this one) who streams IDPs intentionally in some leagues. You're sailing along, and then a flying shark (or something) eats one of your edge rushers. The East India Trading Company waylays a couple of your linebackers. Your defensive backs attempt to mutiny, and you have no recourse but to make them walk the plank.
Everything is falling apart. Your voyage appears doomed. The Kraken is about to rise from the depths to swallow your fantasy season whole.
It's all quite unfortunate.
However, IDP managers can't just grab some rum and prepare for the trip into Davy Jones' Locker. They have to channel their inner Jack Sparrow and fight to the last. Keep swinging right through the regular season and into the playoffs.
That's right. No slimy, beaked-up ball of tentacles can derail you once you are truly Living the Stream.
Because at that point, you're an IDPirate.
I apologize for nothing.
Week 10 IDP Matchup Plays
EDGE Mike Green, Baltimore (vs. LA Chargers)
It hasn't been a great year for the Ravens' pass rush—no player has more than 3.5 sacks, and one of them (edge rusher Tavius Robinson) is on injured reserve. The other is second-year pro Mike Green, and head coach Jesse Minter told reporters the youngster has started to come into his own lately.
"I feel like the last couple games (Green) has taken major steps towards playing the way that I feel like he is capable of playing," Minter said. "He would tell you the same thing. He is capable of being a really good player in this league. Sometimes it takes having a little bit of success, and your confidence grows, which he has done the last couple games."
Green already has as many sacks this season as his entire rookie year, and he has averaged four total stops and half a sack over the past three games. Now the 2024 FBS sack king at Marshall gets to face a Los Angeles Chargers team that just gave up eight sacks and has allowed the second-most fantasy points per game to edge rushers this season.
EDGE Odafe Oweh, Washington (at NY Giants)
The Commanders spent big bucks on Oweh in the offseason--$100 million over four years to anchor the team's revamped pass rush. The good news is that Oweh is on pace to beat his regular-season sack total last year with the Ravens and Chargers. The bad news, as Dean Jones of Riggo's Rag wrote, is that his production has come in fits and starts.
"All hope is not lost with Oweh; far from it," he said. "It's taking him longer to adjust than expected, but the physical gifts are there to make him a real factor when everything clicks. The Commanders need Oweh to become more than a pure pass rusher. There are run-game weaknesses that cannot be ignored. He's got the size, length, and pursuit speed to be a difference-maker, but the discipline in his run fits lacks consistency."
Oweh is coming off just one quarterback hit last week against the Los Angeles Rams, but he had sacks in back-to-back contests before that vanishing act. This week the Commanders travel to New York to take on a Giants team surrendering the fourth-most fantasy points per game to edge rushers—and Oweh is going to make it three of four with a sack.
LB Tyrel Dodson, Carolina (at New Orleans)
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