Belt Sander Paper

..., fittings, tools) Sander Tool Bag (belt sander, vibrating sander, sanding belts and paper) Impact Drill Box...

... sheet of the water color paper I’m using. To get a... I first made a paper template with common paper. When this seemed to... shape to the thcker watercolor paper, and this to the top... took further sanding on the belt sander to have the piece slip ...

... ago, AzRoger said: Is a belt sander that much of a time ... to me but yes the sander does save me a considerable ... with a piece of sand paper. But with the sander, if you only make half... of the ferrule come in contact with the belt, I... for the edge of the belt to leave a groove-like mark ...

... if you're already passing the paper slice test. that's almost 100... just run it through a belt sander until those dings are gone ...

... huge pile of literal physical paper, which sped up the process... holding my hand against a belt sander each day. Your story makes...

BigMike782 said: No truer words have ever been spoken. I have used Cubitron paper on wood and grinding wheels on steel and 3M has hit a home run. Yep. I have Cubitron II Xtract disks for our RA sanders for wood. It's all I buy anymore. I need to get a few belts for the belt sander.

... up the process using a belt sander for the initial cut- but... tip. I use wet/dry paper on a marble slab. I... wet the slab and paper, it sticks down flat that ...

...。 Chuck Norris owns a custom belt sander with three settings: Low, High... can win rock, paper, scissors without using rock, paper, or scissors. 石...。 Chuck Norris flew his first paper airplane when he was 4...

...。 Chuck Norris owns a custom belt sander with three settings: Low, High... can win rock, paper, scissors without using rock, paper, or scissors. 石...。 Chuck Norris flew his first paper airplane when he was 4...

... able to start the feed belt, and then it stopped, WTF... conduit & wires for the sander, with an SO cord drop ... get a procedure down on paper to avoid clawing up the ...

Nine months ago I decided to buy the Bauer 22in Scroll saw to help expand the type of art that I was making in my wood shop. I loved the Segmentation pieces that Wild Woods Creative and Pear & Pine and wanted to make similar items. From the moment I got the tension dialed in right, the Scroll saw, I named Jack Bauer, became my favorite tool hands down! After I made three or four animal patterns out of an Intarsia magazine, I decided to jump off the deep end and try an Animal portrait, (the Wolf Portrait photographed below). I knew then and there these types of creations were the things I wanted to make. I burned through pattern after pattern and changed mediums from cedar to MDF when I started messing around with color. I don’t know exactly when I saw a post on facebook about Dopamine decor, but I loved how the colors jumped off the art and I knew I wanted to try something like that. That eventually led me to the creations of this piece I titled, Golden Hour. It’s the first piece that I made that makes me feel like I have achieved proficiency with this tool and process. I started off applying the stencil to 3/4 MDF with clear transfer paper, 3m adhesive spray, and clear packing tape. I used a Flying Dutchman #5 Ultra Reverse blade to cut out the 300+ pieces, while taking great care to not lose track of where each piece went. I then used a belt sander and Dremel tool with a 40 grit drum to shape each piece by rounding off every visible edge. Once the shaping was done, I sanded each piece to 220 grit to remove any belt marks and prep for priming. (I found sanding to 220 grit works best with the primer to get even layers. At 400 grit the primer doesn’t stick to the MDF as well, and at 120 grit, you see elevation changes and divots easier.) I then used Automotive Filler Primer to cover all visible parts, then sand the high spots down with 400 grit. (Using this type of primer is key to having a polished paintable surface.) From there I used a mixture of spray paint and acrylic paints through my airbrush to apply the color. When the paint dried, I glued everything to the 1/2in OSB backer board and applied three coats of satin polyurethane for the finish. In total I have 71 hours into the project and 30 hours of that involved sanded of some sort. I really hope some of y’all out there see this post, decide to try a scroll saw, and fall in love with the tool as much as I have! Thank you for reading and checking out my work. Have a great weekend! submitted by /u/AppalachianCreate to r/woodworking [link] [comments]

I picked this little belt sander up a few months ago. It has already paid for itself by taking all the elbow work out of using a sand paper glued to a piece of G10 instead. it has an arbor coming out of the left side too. I need to make myself a burnishing wheel for it. Anyone with a super small setup might be interested in something like this. I do all my leather working in the house and this thing doesn't make too much of a mess. submitted by /u/ApartGrocery6855 to r/Leathercraft [link] [comments]

I’ve got some old Japanese kitchen knives I want to practice polishing. Later I will want to polish some harder PM steel blades once I am a bit more experienced. I have 1x30 belt sander and a Jake Hintz hand sanding tool. I have been told to use hynowet sandpaper from a company called Indasa. My question is what ˆs the recommended progression for belts and then hand sanding paper in terms of type of paper/belt and grit to go from rough to mirror? I also have buffing wheels/pads. submitted by /u/DrMorbius26 to r/knifemaking [link] [comments]

I just purchased a Craftsman 6” x 48” belt sander (113.225930). It runs well, but I noticed the sandpaper makes a lot of noise when it runs over the cast iron body. Has anyone tried any way to reduce this noise? Would waxing the body under the paper or using some dry lube have any effect? I obviously don’t want anything that messes with the paper or would gum up the rollers. It doesn’t bother me that much. I’m mostly just curious. submitted by /u/EvilDuncan to r/craftsman113 [link] [comments]

I'm not only new to smithing, but new to tools. Up until now I was the type of person to own 1 piece of sand paper and use it for 10 years. But I'm trying to pre-purchase belts, but don't know how many I will need submitted by /u/colefly to r/Blacksmith [link] [comments]

I just bought a belt sander and used a 60 grit belt on birch end grain cutting board, which creates very fine dust. There should be tiny amounts of wood glue in there too. Is there an easy way to clean the sand paper, e.g. use the sander on a specific material? Or are there tools for cleaning sand paper? submitted by /u/akurgo to r/BeginnerWoodWorking [link] [comments]

My old man kicked the bucket a few years ago, and I'm cleaning out the final bits of his garage, These are the only tools that are still kicking around, and I don't know if I should give them away or sell them cheap. I don't think any of them are worth really too much, right? They all work, but I already have better versions of everything here, so I don't need any of them. What do you think I should do? Thanks! FYI, that little belt sander is a beast as long as you watch your fingers. Edit: Put the boxed Makita palm sander and the 21" belt sander back under the bench. Going to try to donate the rest to an academic/kids program. Thanks for the advice! Edit 2: I'm really getting tired of explaining this again and again so here: A) He's been dead for almost a decade. B) He was not a great person, so stop saying that I need to keep stuff to keep the memories. I'm not getting into details but this man left victims in this world before he fucked off. C) I have better quality versions of all of these tools (minus the 21" belt sander, palm sander and big soldering gun that I've already put back), like I already mentioned multiple times. submitted by /u/LucidMarshmellow to r/Tools [link] [comments]

There's a guy who comes to our farmers market to sharpen knives and other implements with a small belt sander and strop. I have to admit that the knives pass the paper test, but for some reason I am dubious and reticent to have him do my various planer blades, chisels etc. are my fears founded? Is there a reason we are all obsessed with wet stones? Would I be better off investing in a knife sharpening belt sander? It seems so fast and effective. submitted by /u/akakreisler57 to r/woodworking [link] [comments]

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Hi everyone, Just wanna share my recent experience and remind everyone to wear PPE (Personal Protective Equipement). As a half blind bogan, I always wear safety glasses because I don't want anything to happen to my good eye, even if I just drill. I also wear butcher gloves (chainmail gloves) when using the band saw as I dont wanna lose a finger. Last weekend I was using a benchtop belt sander and the paper slipped off and stuck straight into my hand, cutting the bone and severing a bunch of nerves to my fingers. I went to the emergency room at the hospital, stayed there 2 nights and had surgery to reattach the nerves. They stuck me in a cast and I'm told it'll take 6 months to get feeling back, but there's a chance I won't. I was confident that the belt sander couldn't do this, never saw it as a 'scary tool', but here I am, in a cast, hoping I feel my fingers again one day. Please, please, please, don't make the same ignorant, arrogant mistake I made, if I had my butcher gloves on, I'd be fine, instead I can't feel my fingers on my dominant hand and I'm looking at 6 months recovery. I can't roll a ciggie, can't make dinner, and struggling to crack a beer. Plus the psychological side of things has absolutely cooked me. I encourage everyone who reads this to genuinely examine the risks of their build and ensure you wear PPE, it could be so much worse than you think. (Also, massive shout out to Australia's Medicare system, got immediate treatment and I didn't spend a dime) Heed my warning fellas, be safe out there and have happy builds. submitted by /u/Khadesa to r/woodworking [link] [comments]

Dr Daniel Vance was a smart man. Too smart for his own good, maybe. Forty years old, a lecturer in fluid dynamics with a mind made of shapes and numbers. No one knows why but one day, on a whim, he crunched the numbers on the apocalypse and came to a troubling conclusion. He didn’t share exactly what it was he’d deduced, but given that he immediately quit his job and liquidated his many assets, it’s fair to say it wasn’t positive. Swept up in the wake of this tremendous upheaval was his wife, a twenty-four year old PhD student who had grown infatuated with Daniel some time before. She loved the strange bear of a man who could just as easily build a log cabin as he could explain the idiosyncrasies of an asteroid’s orbit. Speaking to Daniel always left you with the profound impression he was right, so when he told her what he wanted to do, she agreed. Fifteen years and five children later, the Vances were living in the distant woods just beyond my hometown. They were enigmatic, richer than the Pope, and extremely serious about their prepper lifestyle. But they were also funny, easygoing, and incredibly compelling to speak to. Larger than life survivalists who swept into town with bizarre requests that thrilled local businesses. Vast quantities of cement, iron, lead, and steel were all shipped through the remote mountains so that the Vances could build their shelter. The advanced methods they used to keep it secret were legendary. Daniel had once spent six months earning the licence necessary to drive HGVs up to his compound so that no one else would lay eyes on it. And on one occasion when a company had refused his request for GPS tracker-free vehicles, he bought them out wholesale so that they had no choice. So when they stopped appearing in town during the pandemic, when requests for food and goods stopped and all contact was dropped, most attributed it to lockdown. They had a bunker and had spent their entire lives training to be self-sufficient in the face of civilisation’s collapse. Even Alexander, the youngest at just three, was already collecting firewood as a chore, and learning what local plants were edible. Most of us just assumed that if anyone could ride out Covid without breaking a sweat, it would be the Vances. The reality turned out to be something else. When the worst came to light, we discovered that Daniel had used the pandemic as an excuse for a dry-run. The family intended to spend six months in lockdown and essentially beta test their fallout bunker. Three months in and the Sheriff received a distress call on the radio. Coordinates were provided by the hushed voice of a sobbing child that most assume was Alexander, even though that’s never been proven. The police arrived and found the bunker still sealed. It took hours for emergency responders to cut into the door, all the while efforts were made to contact the family within but to no avail. Once inside, police were left dumbfounded. There was no one to be rescued. No bodies. No survivors. There was evidence the door’s locking mechanism had failed and trapped the Vances inside with no way out, but if so where had they gone? Beds and cots lay everywhere with mouldering yellow sheets, buckets close to hand with stains all around them. Some doors were barred, others smashed to pieces. There was even evidence of makeshift quarantines and, in places, what looked like violence. The police, usually a fantastic source of gossip, were not forthcoming until the town demanded answers and the Sheriff was forced to offer only the barest of outlines. An outbreak of a waterborne illness had struck the Vances down not long after they were locked inside and unable to seek help. Rumours of contagion were overstated, fuelled by the unrelated rise of Covid. Whatever contaminant had killed the Vances, it was non-organic in nature. No need to panic. The Vances loved-ones had been notified. The bunker was going to be demolished, and we could all put this terrible tragedy behind us. Of course we still had questions. A thousand of them. Why hadn’t the family called for help? They had radios, computers, smartphones too. They were survivalists, not Amish. And where were they? What had happened to their bodies? Why hadn’t they simply left? We shouted these and more at the town meeting but the police simply refused to comment. For most of us the excitement lasted another week or two until we realised we weren’t getting answers any time soon. Besides, the pandemic was in full swing and most of us had other things to worry about. The tragic story eventually faded until it was just one of those awful things in the town’s history that we didn’t talk about. I was as guilty as anyone else of just forgetting about it. I certainly never expected to find the bunker out there in the woods, faded police tape still on the open door that hung wide open with scorch marks around the lock. It stood out in the woods like someone had cut a hole right in the fabric of reality, the darkness so deep and black it almost ached to look at. The sight of it made my heart drop into my stomach. It radiated pain. Does that make sense? I think some part of my lizard brain picked out details that wouldn’t become apparent to me until I got closer, like the bloody finger streaks that stained the handle from where someone had scrabbled furiously at the lock without success. And the tiny viewing window had been smashed with a hammer that still lay nearby. I needed only to glimpse it to imagine the family taking turns to stand there and scream into the woods desperate for rescue. Under any other circumstances, I would have run. But I’d gone there looking for my dog, and my light revealed a few wet paw prints making their way down the dusty concrete tunnel. Half Bernese and half collie, Ripley is the sort of dog who trembles in my arms when a storm buffets the windows and needs his paws held when we brush him. I love him. I do not have much of a family, or a wife, or even many friends. But I have Ripley, and I could no more have turned around and gone home to an empty apartment where I would have to sob my grief away than I could flap my arms and fly. He was my dog and I’d raised him since he was a puppy, and I wasn’t going to leave him out in those woods. I went in after him. I didn’t know what to expect, but I knew it wouldn’t be good. Whatever the police had found, they’d not only kept most of the morbid details to themselves, they had also lied. The bunker was not demolished, or even sealed off. In fact, looking at the occasional blue latex glove tossed aside and the one or two broken police-issue flashlights, it seemed like the last people inside had been in a hurry to get out. Given this was where seven people had presumably died, I assumed it was someone’s job to clean it all up. But the corridor looked largely untouched. Just a few metres in and manic writing started to cover the walls, the desperate scrawls of a lone survivor left there to be rediscovered like cave paintings. Most were deliberations on how to get out. Diagrams. Blueprints. Equations and formulae. All focused on the door and the circuits responsible for its faulty lock. I instinctively assumed they belonged to Daniel and that he’d been the last to die. What a God awful fate for a man to outlive his children. And yet it got worse. Slowly the writing changed from equations and plans to a desperate scrawl. The same few phrases repeated over and over. Five doors. Five. Not six. Six. Didn’t make it. Didn’t make it. Six doors. Six. It seemed like the kind of thing you’d find in an asylum. A psychotic rambling punctuated only by six paragraphs right at the end. Each letter was impeccably neat, and each small paragraph was topped with a beautifully drawn Christian cross. Elliott Vance aged fifteen. A gifted guitarist. He liked boys even though he thought I did not know. I loved him with everything I had. He would have made a great man. Alicia Vance aged fourteen. She liked to paint and to shoot. She had her mother’s mean streak. It would have served her well in the future. Elijah Vance aged eight. The smartest of us all… These were Daniel’s memorials to his family, and seeing the words lit up by my torch was a haunting insight into the overwhelming despair he’d endured. He must have realised he wouldn’t get the chance to speak at his family’s funerals or to write their obituaries. This was his last desperate way of making sure the world might one day know them as he did - as real people. The words marked the end of the tunnel, standing adjacent to a trapdoor in the ground. It was not open but the tunnel came to a dead end immediately afterwards and Ripley’s prints disappeared at the hatch. I feared he might be in danger, but still I stopped and looked at the bunker door twenty metres behind me. The once gloomy forest looked so bright, even on this cloudy day, the air dotted with rain. A part of me felt like I was leaving the whole world behind as I began to climb the ladder down. I entered a large circular living space that was packed with furniture and little nooks and crannies. The walls were covered with folding beds and tables and every inch was multifunctional. A dining space could become a sitting space, which in turn might be where someone slept, or even exercised. It all depended on what particular bit of furniture you unfolded or unclipped or unfurled. Seven people in close quarters, nowhere near enough privacy, it made sense they went with this cluttered overlapping use of space. But it was still a large room, bigger than most studio apartments. And there were a few corridors that led deeper into the Earth telling me the bunker had unseen depths. I looked for some sign of my dog and soon found his trail, but this far from the rainy copse Ripley’s prints were starting to fade. After barely a few metres they petered out vaguely in the direction of a nearby door. I wanted to follow but stopped myself from rushing onwards. It was unlikely Ripley was getting out any other way, and I’d do us no good getting hurt myself. I decided to take a look around and quickly spotted a dinner table. If I needed proof the police had not bothered with a clean up, this was it. The plates were still out, the food rotten to a strange blackened husk. A child’s hat lay across one place-setting, the once-creamy fleece turned a sickly green and yellow. The chairs had their backs reinforced with wooden beams fitted with long grooves so that something the width of a nail could slide into them. And on each of the cushions were foul smelling stains that looked oddly like an ass print. I touched one with gloved hands and the material crackled audibly. Whatever it was, similar stains were on the cutlery and plates, and there were even handprints of it placed firmly on the tablecloth. At first I thought it was blood, but that wasn’t quite right. It was too contained to be from leaking blood. On the back of one of the chairs a stain tapered exactly where a woman’s waist would be like a near perfect silhouette. I shivered as I remembered that Miranda Vance had always been a slim woman and wondered how she had left her imprint on the grey fabric. Using my torch, I saw that these stains repeated in the oddest of places. Yes, there were some on beds and blankets and even patches of plain floor exactly like you might expect in a room full of sick people. But why did one stain on the floor bear such a strong resemblance to a child huddled in the foetal position? And why was the same stuff all over the tv remote, and on books on shelves, and board games too. Everything from sofa cushions to DVD boxes to piles of dirty laundry were covered in the same dried brownish material that gave off a foul coppery miasma. I found the jigsaw particularly baffling. Someone had set up another table with four chairs, all modified with the same back support as those by the dinner table. And a jigsaw had been lain out with four separate piles, but only one was depleted. The rest looked largely untouched, almost like someone had portioned out pieces for three other people who had absolutely no interest in going along with it. Maybe Daniel had tried to keep up morale while the family were sick? God help me, if that were true I couldn’t help but imagine the poor man sat there with his loved ones close to death, desperately trying to encourage them to click their own pieces into place while they faded in and out of consciousness. Something about that room emanated madness, and the longer I stayed down there flicking the bright disk of light of my torch from one detail to another, the more I wanted to leave. One door had wooden beams nailed across it. One sofa had been partially disassembled. Multiple beds had been burned. And all the light bulbs had been removed and put in a box on the kitchen counter top. Looking up at the ceiling, I finally had some insight into why the police were so confident the Vances had not survived despite never finding their bodies. Someone had jammed a human finger into one of the empty sockets, almost like they’d expected it to glow with the flick of a switch. What was it about this place that had caused the police to leave and never return? Not to even take that finger and test it for signs of illness, or even just to confirm who it belonged to? I decided it was time to hurry up and find my dog. People had died in that place, and while I’m not superstitious, I can’t be the only sceptic who has done the calculations in his head and realised it costs nothing to be respectful of ghosts. That bunker was cramped, terrifying, and the air stank so bad I started to worry I’d get sick myself. It served no one any good to linger. But I’d be damned if I’d just walk away and leave Ripley to rot down there. It’s not like he could climb a ladder and get out on his own (even if I wasn’t entirely sure how he’d gotten down there in the first place). Summoning what little bravery I had left I called out and broke the silence, something which felt like a terrible taboo in that God awful place, like screaming in a graveyard. “Ripley!” I waited and hoped to hell I’d hear the pitter patter of his paws, but for the longest of moments there was only the kind of silence that makes you wonder if someone or something in the darkness is holding its breath trying to look like just another patch of nothing. Biding its time until you finally turn around and show it your back… The TV came on with a blurt of white noise that was so loud and so sudden I cried, threw my arms up, and nearly fell backwards onto a rolled-out sleeping bag that looked like it had spent a week in the sewer. By the time I realised what had caused the noise, I could already hear a tinny rendition of Daniel Vance’s voice. …I realise the issue here. I need to emphasise just how little I understand anything that’s… I frowned at the screen as I approached. It showed a greenish infrared view of the bunker with Daniel upfront, and the dinner table behind him. It was grainy and hard to see, but I could clearly tell that his family were sitting in those chairs. …Miranda was first to fall ill. Looking back it makes perfect sense. Miranda often went into storage to fetch food for cooking and we found it behind one of the refrigerators. So that’s–ah shit.. One of the figures in the background slumped onto the table with a loud clank and sent a plate spinning off onto the ground. Shit shit shit, Daniel muttered as he got up and grabbed the woman by the shoulders and sat her upright. Miranda never did like my cooking! He snorted a laugh as he fussed with something at the back of the chair. The rods are much better than tape. All those hours spent taping them upright to the chairs. Never worked. But the rods… they fit right into the spine and with a little modification I can just slot them into the chairs. That way everyone is able to join in for dinner. I’m working on something similar for family game night. Daniel wandered over to the camera and with a grin he lifted it from the tripod and scanned the dinner table. What I saw nearly made me drop my torch. His family were long dead. Gaunt faces. Missing noses. Lips that had receded to reveal awful grins. These were corpses, plain as day, even when viewed through such a low resolution image. The only thing that made them seem remotely alive was the way their eyes still reflected the infrared back so that they glowed in the dark. And yet Daniel seemed oblivious to it all. He tousled Elliot’s hair. Kissed his wife on the cheek. Run a hand across one young girl’s shoulder. He even picked the young Alexander up from his high chair and I assume he coddled him. I don’t know for sure because I looked away, unwilling to see the poor boy up close. Eyes averted from the screen, I couldn’t help but pan my torch across to that same dinner table and shiver as I finally realised what all those stains were. Not quite blood. But close. Liquefying flesh. Left alone for months, Daniel had not put his family’s bodies to rest. Instead he had moved them around from place to place and puppeted them, living life as if nothing had really changed. Looking at where those stains had settled I saw a clear pattern emerge. He had put them to bed. He had set them dinner. He had propped them up to watch TV, or gave them their favourite books. They even sat there as lifeless husks while Daniel waited for them complete a fucking jigsaw. The idea horrified me to my core. …back to work. It’s obviously not part of the original designs. No room on the other side, not on the blueprints. Elliot didn’t believe me and why would he? I made every inch of this place, but I did not install that door in storage on the bottom level. I checked the cameras and some of the photos I took during the build and the wall is just blank. But the door is there now and it must lead somewhere. I don’t know when or why it opens, but it does and the next time I’ll be ready. Because I have to know what’s on the other side, and why it did this to us. Alone down here, often all asleep at once. Anything could have slit our throats and been done with it. But it didn’t. It took its time and I have to know why! It took our radios and computers and phones. One by one. None of us noticing until it was far too late. I kept telling the kids they needed to take better care of their things, and even as they complained I just assumed the phones were lying behind some shelf. Where else could they go in a locked bunker? But it wasn’t the children at all. Looking back there are so many signs… who kept taking away the lights? Who kept draining the batteries in our torches? How long did we live with it before we finally realised we weren’t alone? Was it here every step of the way? A door out of nothing that leads to nowhere, at least most of the time. Because I know for a fact it does not always open onto a blank wall. There is something behind it. I can hear it shuffling around in there, wet breath rattling in its lungs, a horrible sound I hear roaming these halls when it thinks I’m asleep… I listened to Daniel, fascinated by this strangely compelling rant, when movement caught my eye. An infrared camera running in the dark, its image a roiling mess of uniform noise. What was it I’d seen? I paused the tape and rewound. Squinting, I saw two pinpricks of light in the darkness just over Daniel’s shoulder. Slowly, the image resolved itself in my mind. I knew what I was seeing and it turned my blood to ice. Miranda Vance had turned her head, and her lifeless eyes glowed as she fixed them on the back of Daniel’s head. …not even any point leaving at this stage. I’m no doctor, but that door is giving off enough radiation to… well, to kill a family of seven. If none of us had touched it… Being in the same room is risky, but not lethal. But given how sick we’ve become, it’s pretty obvious our curiosity got the better of us, one by one, and we all got too close. Or maybe not. Maybe that thing on the other side came through and did this. I don’t even kn… wait… what was that? Daniel turned and the camera stopped recording. The image it froze on was of a lone man, bright as a star in the camera’s lens, facing off against unknowable darkness broken only by six pairs of white, glowing eyes. I became painfully aware of my position relative to the table and I had the painful premonition that if I turned, those chairs would not be empty. I would see the Vances, all of them, Daniel as well, waiting for me. Heads turned. Bodies left to rot for years in the dark. Behind me something shifted. It breathed. Loud. Quick. I knew what it was. I knew. It came at me so fast that when I felt something hot and wet touch my hand I screamed, only for the presence to suddenly recoil. But then, without hesitation, it leapt at me and bore me to the ground. I wept as Ripley licked my face. He was shivering and, worst of all, silent which was not normal. He was not a quiet dog, not when greeting me and not when excited like he was now. But whatever he’d seen down here, he clung to me and dug his paws into my shoulders like he wanted to be cradled over the shoulder, something he has been too big to do for years. “Oh you fucking idiot,” I cooed in a soft whisper and even in the dark I could feel his tail wagging. Joking aside, I felt nothing but relief at finding him. “Let’s get the hell out of here.” I picked him up, straining a little under the weight but refusing to give into tired muscles, and made for the ladder. It wasn’t easy climbing the three or four rungs to the hatch, but I managed it and gave the hatch a shove. First one hand, then two. Again and again, with everything I had, but still that hatch refused to budge. “Shit!” I cried while pounding at it with my fists, but all I achieved was a sore wrist. The hatch had jammed when, somehow, the handle had been snapped clean off. Now I’d need a pair of pliers or something to cut through the metal bar locking it shut. My fingers couldn’t move it, nor could I brute force the hatch open. The metal bar was an inch thick and, at the very least, I’d need some tools to get at it from this side. At least it’s fixable, I thought as I climbed back down and caught my breath. On one wall I noticed a simple diagram of the bunker made in chalk. It had three floors. The bottom was storage–Daniel had mentioned that before, and I noticed that he had drawn through it with a large red X–and the top floor was labelled Quarters, where I stood now. But the middle floor was labelled workshops and it was there I realised that I’d find what I needed. There was one door that opened onto a concrete stairwell and, standing at the top, I shone my light down the spiralling guard rails unsure of what it was I hoped to see. There were only harsh shadows and the sense of something foul rising up on the air. A smell that tickled my throat and burned a little in my lungs. Had the police even gone down this far? Had they seen what I’d seen on that TV and just left? Somehow I thought it was unlikely that had been enough to send the entire Sheriff’s department running, so was it something else that had done it. Something that had been enough to terrify dozens of armed men. Something that was almost definitely down there. The door… I went down quietly. At first I considered leaving Ripley behind, but after losing him the first time I decided I’d rather risk it just to know that he was right next to me. Besides, he was being quieter than I was, and I didn’t feel much like going down those stairs on my own. He accompanied me with only the quiet click clack of his paws on concrete, a sound I found deeply comforting as I barely managed to keep my torch from shaking in my hand and my breathing steady. Down one floor and I found the workshop exactly as you might expect. A large space filled with generators and fuel and water tanks and boilers and heaters and pretty much anything and everything that you’d need to survive but which you couldn’t put outside due to fallout. Wires pipes and tubes ran from one end of the room to the other and even years later, most of the machinery still hummed in the pitch black emptiness, an idea I found deeply unsettling. Taking one look at that strange tangle of harsh shapes and industrial figures looming out of the walls and floor, I shivered and looked around, quickly finding a small area Daniel had cordoned off for his own use. About a fifth of the total floor space, there was a large workbench and some seriously high end machining equipment, all very well used. Lathes. Buzzsaws. Drills. Belt sanders. Welding torches. Everything a man needed to do-it-himself. And Daniel had been busy. I’m not sure exactly what it was he’d been working, but there was an arm on the bench. It sat atop a pile of papers that had slowly turned brown over the years until the whole thing looked like it had been soaked in tobacco spit. On the whiteboard was a faded but still visible diagram of what looked to me like a ball-and-socket joint. I thought of the tape, of Daniel’s little mechanism to keep his family upright, and then looked at the arm and suppressed a momentary gag reflex. I don’t know if Dan had been working on posable limbs, or just a way to put the decomposing remains back together after they’d started to fall apart, but the size of the arm suggested a pre-teen child, and he’d left it out on the surface like it was a disassembled clock. It was also missing a finger. Just how fucking crazy was he? I wondered as I pinched my nose with one hand and began overturning boxes looking for a hefty pair of pliers, or maybe a hacksaw. Ripley backed away from the noise, but once I made sure he wasn’t going anywhere I carried on grabbing and pulling at box after box hoping I’d find what I was looking for. Anything to break that fucking metal bar. In the end I managed to get a pair of bolt cutters, a crowbar, and a heavy duty pair of pliers. One went in my pocket, one went down the back of my jeans, and the other was clutched in my fist, too large to be tucked away in my clothes. The bolt cutters felt hefty in my hand which was a bit of comfort, but that feeling didn’t last long. Something moved in the darkness, out there in the twisted jungle of shadows cast by all those pipes and wires that ran from one machine to the next. A figure moved. Thin, but unmistakably human in its outline. I couldn’t help but remember what I’d seen on that tape. Surely it couldn’t have been real? Maybe Daniel had rigged something up. Some fishing wire and a motor, maybe? The idea that those bodies had been moving on their own… I couldn’t be sure of that, could I? It was a frightening idea, one my mind had latched onto out of sheer panic. That was all… And then I saw them. A pair of white pin-pricks reflecting back at me from the depths of that cluttered room. Ripley, already behind me, head nuzzled into my leg, pushed even closer against me and let out a barely audible whine under his breath. The behaviour of a dog who was terrified, close to pissing himself with fear. Just a bit of metal, I told myself as the light shook so violently in my hand I struggled to see straight. Just two shiny bits of metal… They blinked and began to come towards me. If I had any doubts left, they were dispersed by the sight of a pale white hand emerging into the light. I ran straight to the stairs and went to climb them, but only one or two steps in and I saw something gripping the handrail on the top floor. A mouldy clump of flesh only just recognisable as a fist, the flesh withered until the fingers were basically bone. Without meaning to, I brought my light up out of habit and I saw the bloated face of a hairless corpse glaring down at me. I couldn’t even tell you if it had been a teenage girl or the sixty-year-old Daniel, either way I instinctively turned and found another body shambling towards me out of the workshop. I was trapped. Nowhere to go. By the feel of warm fluid on the back of my leg I could tell Ripley had finally pissed himself. An adult dog, tail between his legs, shivering like a puppy and desperate to be picked up. God I needed him to just stay together for a little longer. I couldn’t take him in my arms, but I couldn’t leave him behind either… With nowhere to go I ran down and entered storage. There was the temptation to stop once I hit the bottom. Down here the air was thicker and the sounds of my breathing were muted, somehow distant. But I only had to look back up to see three pairs of eyes glaring down at me, so without giving any of it much further thought I barreled down the corridor and stumbled onto a door at random. Opening it, I saw what looked like your standard storage room, only most of the shelves had been overturned and the food left to rot on the floor. One or two shelving units were still upright though, and their shelves were covered in tall opaque boxes that made them a fantastic hiding spot. That, I decided, would have to be where I crouched down and turned off my light. I was already inside when I realised that wasn’t all that was in there… The door almost looked normal. I could see why Daniel must have been confused by it because it looked a little bit like all the other doors down there, but it was different too. It was too tall and too wide, about a foot and a half off the ground, and the metal rusted in its entirety like it had aged out of sync with everything else down there. All around the jamb was a profusion of wet soppy moss like the kind you find hanging off trees in a swamp, and every few seconds the door would leak something strange and oily, like the kind of thing you find in a parking lot on a rainy day. Of course that wasn’t too strange in itself, but the leak was horizontal, defying gravity so that every few seconds a large glob of the stuff would whip across the room and slap into the wall opposite creating a puddle about the size of a man that defied all reason. Remembering Daniel’s words about radiation, I instinctively inched away from this puddle and the door on the opposite wall, backing myself into the darkest quietest corner I could while I pulled Ripley behind me and hoped to hell he wouldn’t give me away. Once I was in there I turned off my light and waited. I must have taken longer than I’d thought to hide spot because it was barely two seconds later when a few figures entered the room. It was pitch black after I’d turned off my torch, but they made enough noise to let me know that at least two of them had stumbled in after me. I stayed there, unable to see anything, not sure if they were heading straight for me or just getting ready to leave, forced to hold out and let luck decide my fate. When I finally heard something scrape against the wall barely two feet from where I stood, I gave up and switched my light on, desperate to know what was coming for me. The sound had been terribly misleading. Daniel Vance was no more than six inches from my face. “Get out,” he hissed from a toothless and cracked mouth. A living corpse just like the others, somehow a flash of intelligence remained in those wide, terrified eyes. And then I heard it. The creaking of a door. And without even thinking I turned the light and saw it on the wall. I saw it open, and behind the strange steel there was more than just plain old concrete. Much more. I saw a raging gullet of flesh. A ringed tube of pulsing muscle lined with teeth the size of hands. A spiralling descent into madness. Hot foetid air washed into the room, buffeting me and the rotting corpses, all of us paralysed by what we were seeing, even if for most of the figures beside Daniel and myself, they didn’t have eyes to see with. “What the fuck…?” I muttered, unable to take my eyes from the flesh tube beyond that doorway. “It’s coming,” Daniel whispered as he grabbed me with one fist and hurled me out of the room. I hit the floor and skidded along a slick fluid left by the Vance’s footprints, the smell of which turned my stomach. Perhaps the worst detail was that it was cold. I don’t know why, I’d just expected whatever oozed them off them to be feverishly hot. But it wasn’t. It soaked my shirt like I’d fallen into a muddy puddle. “It’s coming.” This voice wasn’t Daniel’s. I couldn’t say for sure, but it sounded like a child’s whisper. One by one the bodies shuffled over to the open door and knelt before it. I don’t know why but I got the impression the others had lost pretty much everything left of their minds, but Daniel remained aware. He looked back at me once more and spoke before he pressed his head to the floor in supplication with the others. “The only thing we did wrong was being here for it to torture. It didn’t need a reason, just an opportunity. Leave. It won’t let us go. It won’t even let us die. And if it catches you, it won’t let you go either.” His forehead kissed the dirt. And then something reached through the door and gripped his head in its palm the way you or I might pick up an apple. In full panic, I ran over and grabbed my dog and the bolt cutters and I ran like my legs were pistons, machines whose signals of exhaustion and fatigue could not slow me down, or cause me to fall. I had to move. I had to leave. The hand that had grabbed Daniel… the sight of it flushed my mind clean like some kind of enema. It hurt to see the image replay in my mind but there was nothing else in my head echoing around except the sight of fingers with one too many knuckles, and nails as large as a smartphone. I reached the top floor and nearly collapsed from breathlessness, but I wouldn’t let myself stay down for long. I crawled over to the ladder and climbed up and immediately went to work trying to cut the metal lock. It was hell with just one hand, the other clinging to the torch that I kept frantically pointing at the door behind me, and it wasn’t long before I fumbled one too many times and dropped my only source of light. “No no no no…” I mewed. But there was no time to look for it. I had to get out and I had to get out fast! I couldn’t see but I was sure I could hear something climbing up those stairs. Not the steady thump thump of human feet. No this was different. This was a rapid pitter patter of a spider, maybe. Something with hundreds of feet or hands, or God knows what, skittering along the floor and walls and ceiling, pulling itself along with a body whose mere shape would offend God. Using all my strength I leaned hard on the bolt cutters and, at last, the bolt gave. I threw the hatch open and got just enough ambient light to see Ripley hovering at the bottom of the ladder, growling ineffectually at the doorway. I crouched down, scooped him up, and fled up the ladder so quickly that my muscles turned to jelly at the top and I fell over onto hands and knees. But still, I was out. The long corridor covered in writing was ahead of me, and at the very end a doorway capped now by the tired blue light of a full moon. Ripley needed no encouragement. He whipped down the corridor with canine speed and I followed at a broken and stumbling crawl, eventually shouldering past the open door and collapsing onto the forest floor. For a few seconds I drifted in and out of consciousness, but when I looked up and saw the canopy overhead moving–the branches backlit by a full moon–I snapped awake and glared down at something gripping my ankle. The hand had reached out of the dark and seized me and was slowly dragging me back into the Earth below. Whatever it was, most of its body lurked out of sight in the shadows behind the doorway, but the hand that crushed my leg was the size of my torso with an arm that looked like it belonged to a mole rat. I struck it with my own fist. I dug my nails in. I cried and kicked and screamed, but nothing could stop it. From behind the door, something like a face grinned and leered at me with joy. It was taking its time, sure enough, pulling me in so slowly that it gave my mind all the time in the world to appreciate the nightmare that awaited me. I think if, in that moment, you’d given me a gun, I would’ve shot myself because God help me I couldn’t escape the look in Daniel’s eyes, how he’d knelt to worship this thing like a man who knew that hope or pride or joy or anything with even a hint of goodness to it was so far out of reach for him it might as well be a dream. How long was this thing going to keep them down there? How long did it intend to keep me!? I wept like a child, feeling like my mind was slowly cracking as I tried everything to stop that fucking pulling me into the shadows. I kicked at the earth. I dug into it using my hands looking for a root or a pipe or anything to hold onto. Nothing, nothing, I did would slow it down. I was no more than a foot from the doorway when Ripley reappeared. A dog afraid of hoovers and plastic bags and doors that move on their own. A dog who once got stared down by a particularly feisty rabbit who stopped mid chase and turned around, baffling the predator on its tail. A dog you couldn’t even watch scary movies around… And he lunged at that arm like he was a wolf, like he’d always been one. And while he didn’t quite break the skin, the pressure was enough to make the thing’s grip weaken and I slid my leg out. Unable to stand, I knelt and grabbed the dog and pulled as hard as I could and now that fucking thing bled at last as the pressure of the jaws and the sliding teeth ripped into its flesh. Together, at last, Ripley and I were let go and sent rolling backwards head over hells. I wasted no time waiting or looking or processing. I heaved the dog to my chest and crawled until I passed out, making it maybe half a kilometre away. Only when I could no longer see the door did I let myself fall to the ground face first and gave up consciousness. - The doctors said I had pneumonia, which I suppose made some kind of sense. I might have even believed them were it not for the Sheriff’s visit, asking strange questions of me as I lay in bed about what I may or may not have seen. I dismissed them to the best of my ability. I wasn’t interested in chasing that particular nightmare down, figuring out if it had been real or not, at least not while I lay there half-drowning in my own infection. To be fair, I had at least some sympathy for why the police had done so little to seal that place off. I have, on occasion, thought about going and doing the job myself, but to this day I still have nightmares about being pulled into the dark beyond that door. Not just the bunker door, the one I narrowly avoided at the end, but the one below. What I saw was a kind of madness, I’m sure of it, and I often think of Daniel’s words. It didn’t need a reason, just an opportunity. Somehow, the Vances were that opportunity. Maybe they built their bunker on a leyline, or a weak spot between dimensions, or the site of former Satanic rituals. I’m not sure it even matters. They went into the dark thinking it’d be a safe place to wait out the world’s troubles, but something had been down there waiting for them, waiting for a chance to get at a family of seven people, to lock them in and deprive them of escape and slowly take from them everything it could. I’ve moved since then. Couldn’t help it. It wasn’t just the memories you see. It was the short-wave radio I kept in my basement. Something my father passed onto me when I was just a boy. God I’d forgotten about it… at least until I woke up one day to the sound of it blaring white noise down in the dark. And buried in that sound was the faint whispering of a man, his voice barely recognisable, but unmistakably his. …let them go let them go let them go let them go let them go let them go… submitted by /u/ChristianWallis to r/nosleep [link] [comments]

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​ https://preview.redd.it/lqetx3lz05f61.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8909292999e57f50b319b241255d8b34d79cf18 Americans underestimate just how dangerous Trump really is. MAGA is a death cult. They hate liberals with the same intensity, and for the same absurd reasons, as the Nazis hated the Jews. Nazis thought they were righteous and good, and that they were eradicating evil. MAGA believes the same thing about themselves and liberals. They don’t want to co-exist. Growing up in Germany, I thought I knew everything there is to know about America, until I moved to New York in my early 20s. Actually living in America was surprisingly different from just watching it in my favorite movies. The first thing I noticed, when I immigrated to the US 30 years ago, was the casual racism. I had no idea there was this much racial tension and xenophobia in America. The movies I watched as a teenager had made it seem like America is a big melting pot, where everyone is welcome. I thought the inscription on the Statue of Liberty was America’s national motto. Now I know better. I’ve lived my entire adult life in this country, and became a US citizen. America is my home. I lived in New York for 16 years. Then I lived in Pennsylvania and Florida for a couple of years. And for the past six years, I’ve been living in Los Angeles. But I still go back to Germany at least once a year, to visit friends and family. In 2012, a German novelist wrote a bestselling book, called Look Who’s Back. In 2015 it was turned into a blockbuster movie. It’s a comedy that imagines what it would be like if Hitler suddenly showed up in present day Germany: ​ https://preview.redd.it/j9rxcasryaw51.jpg?width=740&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98be065e49321f813f41a8c8dabf2663fd4cf085 Present day Hitler 2.0 quickly gains a right-wing nationalist following and becomes a celebrity with his own TV show, because “he says what everyone is thinking” about foreigners and immigrants. In the movie, present day Hitler 2.0 says the very same hateful things about minorities as the original Hitler did in the 1930s. Some present day Germans recognize him for the hateful monster he is, but many Germans are oblivious and become his brainwashed cult followers. Sound familiar? It should. Basically the movie predicted Trump’s rise to power. Here's the real mindfuck: The movie is just like Borat 2. In some scenes Hitler 2.0 interacts with real Germans, who are not actors. And they don't know that he is an actor who is just pretending to hate all the same people Hitler used to hate. They think he's for real. They agree with him. They cheer for Borat Hitler 2.0. In a recent interview with a major German news outlet, Obama’s policy adviser Ben Rhodes said that Trump’s re-election will lead to war, and that Obama is having sleepless nights, because he feels that many Americans don’t realize how close to the abyss we really are. Like Obama, most Germans feel that Americans underestimate just how dangerous Trump really is. When Germans look at Trump, we see Hitler 2.0. And that’s not hyperbole. German Neo-Nazis, nowadays also known as Reichsbürger, love Trump just as much as American Nazis and KKK members do. In 2017, Stern, a major German news magazine, compared Trump’s policies to Hitler’s policies. They even put an image of Trump on their cover, draped in the American flag and raising his hand for a Nazi salute. ​ https://preview.redd.it/zo8oe4nxyaw51.jpg?width=580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ad08cc3eaee59f7af77bae175ad9f4cd70ea66a Spiegel, another major German news magazine, called Trump a dangerous president and the United States a danger to the world. They warned that Europe must defend itself against Trump. The article echoed warnings from the 1930s about Hitler. Surveys show that the rest of the world sees Trump’s America as the number one threat to world peace. In America, people like to say: “The first one to accuse the other one of being like Hitler, loses the argument.” In Germany, Hitler comparisons are even more taboo. These news magazines weren’t crying wolf. It wasn’t clickbait. They weren’t trying to sell papers. Their warnings about Trump were absolutely sincere and analytical. ARD, Germany’s version of the BBC, just released a new documentary about the 2020 US election, called Madness — Trump and the American Catastrophe. It documents the end of American democracy, and the rise of American fascism. One of the many foreign policy experts interviewed in the documentary is current German Secretary of State, Heiko Maas. Hitler replaced all the judges with his loyalists. After that, everything Hitler did was legal. Opposing him was illegal. And that was the end of German democracy and the birth of Hitler’s dictatorship. A leader who is above the law is the definition of a dictator. Trump and his henchmen just bulldozed Amy Coney Barrett into the Supreme Court. What happens if Trump refuses to accept defeat? It sure looks like he stacked the Supreme Court to ensure that they will hand him a win. The similarities between Trump and Hitler are crystal clear to every German. But many Americans don’t see the similarities, because they don’t even know that they don’t know anything about Hitler. They think Hitler was an evil genius. He wasn’t. His contemporaries thought he was ridiculous. Hitler was an almost comical figure. Just like Trump. Even Mussolini called Hitler a mad little clown. People made fun of the way he looked and talked. Nobody took Hitler and his cult followers seriously. Until it was too late. Hitler was a con man with a gift: He knew how to bullshit dumb people. He figured out how to use lies as a weapon. He convinced the German people that there was a global anti-German conspiracy, controlled by Jews, who’re trying to destroy Germany, exterminate the white German race, and replace them with subhuman mongrels. Yes, you read that right. Thanks to Hitler’s daily lies, his Nazi followers seriously believed they were the victims of the Jews, not the other way around. And that is the key to understanding Nazi bloodlust and the Holocaust. They thought they were fighting a righteous war against evil. Their uniform belt buckles were engraved with the words “Gott mit uns” — God is with us. And when smarter people tried to tell Hitler’s brainwashed Nazi minions that he was a bad guy who was lying to them, Hitler called it fake news. The German word for fake news is Lügenpresse. Sound familiar? It should. Trump uses the very same lies to brainwash his followers. Like Hitler’s Nazi minions, Trump’s MAGA minions are convinced that they’re the good guys and liberals are evil demons. They think of themselves as the victims of a sinister liberal conspiracy to exterminate white Americans and replace them with brown people. That’s why they were chanting “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville. Trump’s MAGA minions hate liberals with the same intensity, and for the same absurd reasons, as the Nazis hated the Jews. But the similarities don’t end there. Trump isn’t the first wannabe dictator to use social media to brainwash his followers with a daily diet of lies. Hitler did it first. The Nazis mass-produced a cheap radio, called Volksempfänger. Think of it as the Twitter of the 1930s. It enabled Hitler to speak directly to his cult followers, and fill their heads with an alternate reality, where up is down and down is up. No dictator has ever destroyed a democracy alone. Every dictator has millions of brainwashed groupies. ​ https://preview.redd.it/6f61vj82zaw51.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc1fd0752c13a79494f3ee2c49306f867f1b490a There really were millions of Iraqis who loved Saddam. And there really are Russians who love Putin, and Turks who love Erdogan, Indians who love Modi, Brazilians who love Bolsonaro, and North Koreans who love Kim Jong Un. Without these enablers, dictatorships wouldn’t exist. But those enablers don’t realize that they’re living in a dictatorship. Nazi Germans didn’t think of Hitler as a dictator. Hitler convinced them that he was the Messiah, and God had sent him to make Germany great again. His followers worshipped him the same way MAGA minions worship Trump. And for exactly the same reasons. When Trump came down that escalator and said Mexicans are an invading horde of rapists and murderers, it was a lie right out of Hitler’s playbook. Trump’s wall is a monument to racism. It protects “good white people” from “evil brown invaders.” That kind of institutionalized racism is pure Nazi ideology. That’s why Twitter’s AI content filters couldn’t tell the difference between Republicans and Nazis. Nazi Germans believed that their own survival depended on Hitler’s success. They were convinced that everything Hitler did, he did to protect them. MAGA minions believe the same thing about Trump. That’s why they don’t care if he lies and cheats. They believe he’s doing it all for them. The more cruel he is to minorities, the more they love him for “making the liberals cry.” While convincing the German people that they’re under attack by Jews, Hitler used his public office to loot the country and fill his own pockets. By the end of his reign, Hitler was a billionaire. Oh, and he was a tax cheat. Trump is also good at bullshitting dumb people. Fascist propaganda works best on the uneducated, because they don’t know when they’re being lied to. Dumb people are putty in the hands of a good liar. ​ “Democrats want to destroy you and destroy our country as we know it.” -Donald Trump (video) ​ Trump shares video of cowboy activist saying ‘the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat’ -The Independent ​ Replace the word Democrat with the word Jew, and what do you get? Typical Nazi propaganda. ​ https://preview.redd.it/zrszg81bunw51.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37e0b9596210356c1105c0be0cf0b425a47dabb9 Trump Jr. called for total war after it became clear that his father is losing the election. It’s a Nazi dog whistle. “Do you want total war?” is one of the most iconic sentences of the Nazi era. Every German knows that sentence. It’s as famous as “Sieg heil.” ​ “The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.” -Adolf Hitler ​ "All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” -Adolf Hitler ​ “The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.” -Adolf Hitler ​ Fascist propaganda switches the roles of victim and attacker. Just like the Nazis thought they were under attack by Jews, Trump’s MAGA cult thinks they’re under attack by liberals and immigrants, not the other way around. Most of Trump’s MAGA cult followers actually believe that liberals like Bernie Sanders and AOC are literal Nazis. They don’t even know that the Nazis are world famous for murdering people like Bernie. In Germany, absolutely everyone knows that the Nazis were right-wing conservative nationalists, who hated left-wing democratic socialists like Albert Einstein. In German, “right-wing extremist” is an official synonym for Nazi. Right-wing propaganda outlets like Fox News convince low info voters that the Nazis were socialists, and Bernie is a socialist, so Bernie is a Nazi. I have encountered hundreds of Trump fans online, who are convinced that the Nazis were left-wing, not right-wing. This fascist lie, that switches victim and attacker, is the foundation upon which all other right-wing lies are built. Fascist lies turn reality on its head, to create an alternate reality where the fascists are the good guys who’re just defending themselves from evil immigrant hordes and liberal demons. That’s how they demonize socialism and Obamacare. Thanks to fascist propaganda, MAGA minions think the Nazis were left-wing socialists. And if the Nazis were socialists, then socialism is bad. The entire house of cards of right wing ideology is built on this lie that is used to demonize liberals, social democrats, universal healthcare, progressives, UBI, and covid aid for the working class. This fascist lie is the reason why many red state Americans hate liberals so much, they’re willing to kill blue state Americans, if Trump tells them to. They already told us that Kyle is a hero for killing liberals. And that’s why some of them tried to kidnap and kill a liberal governor. Their bloodlust is caused by fear. They think they’re fighting for their survival against evil liberals. They don’t know that it’s all just a big lie Republicans use to manipulate them. Exposing this “big lie” is the key to deprogramming Trump’s brainwashed cult, before his lies and their bloodlust cause a second civil war. ​ https://preview.redd.it/neiiv5jg15f61.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c79fbd4989f34fb002ff39207a1ecb992a5267c8 Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed -Business Insider ​ Donald Trump 'kept book of Adolf Hitler's speeches in his bedside cabinet.' In a 1990 interview, the billionaire businessman admitted to owning Nazi leader's 'Mein Kampf' but said he would never read speeches -The Independent ​ Schmidt: Trump's 'only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand' -The Hill ​ Donald Trump using Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' playbook, says world expert on Nazi leader -The Independent ​ ​ Oliver Markus Malloy is the author of American Fascism: a German writer’s urgent warning to America. https://preview.redd.it/smfcof07zaw51.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35fa835149492493e8411b26156b33736a49e12a "American Fascism is absolutely brilliant and the most accurate explanation of political reality that I read during Trump's presidency. It is frightening but clarifying and very inspiring." -Michael Marciano, Bureau Chief, Connecticut Law Tribune submitted by /u/OliverMarkusMalloy to r/AmericanFascism2020 [link] [comments]

Obligatory this fuckup happened a few months back, but to be fair I did not realize the extent of the issue until today. So back in June, as I'm sure you all remember, it had been a few months since any store in my area had been able to stock toilet paper of any kind. This was the kind of thing that was a big deal to most people, but not me. I had a plan. A secret trick up my sleeve that gave me an advantage over everybody else: Amazon. That's right, while these suckers were wrestling over individual rolls like Black Friday shoppers, I would be sipping cocoa on my couch and getting it all delivered right to my door. Now, I had actually stocked up on TP toward the beginning of the lockdown. However, I did not have any flushable wipes, and I was able to find a box of eight individual packs of Cottonelle Flushable Wipes for a pretty good price. I popped them in my cart, clicked "buy now," and I never had to leave the couch. Win-win, right? A few weeks, maybe a month, after the wipes arrived and I began using them, I started noticing… a tingle. But not a pleasant tingle, more of an itch. A very very distracting itch. Like, an insanely overwhelmingly frustrating itch that will absolutely not go away unless I sit on the business end of a belt sander. Not something that is easy to deal with when you're standing in line at the bank. I had to fight my hand from instinctively twitching toward my agonizing butthole with every itchy pang, it must have looked like the drugs I had keistered were slipping out. As luck would have it, right around the time I began experience symptoms, I was laid off due to COVID. My healthcare was employer-provided, and while I now know that they are continuing my coverage for a few more months, the whole layoff was pretty sudden and at the time I had no idea where my healthcare coverage stood. Furthermore, I didn't feel like an itchy asshole was a great reason to go to the hospital during an ongoing pandemic when 1. I don't want to catch COVID; second, I assumed I had just developed some kind of sensitivity to the chemicals in the wipes that would go away on its own; and C. I feel like every doctor in the country has more important things to do right now than look at my asshole. So, rather than seek the advice of a medical professional, I decided to just not do anything about it and hope it would go away. Smart right? Fast forward to today. Four months after I purchased the wipes. Butthole as itchy as ever. Seriously considering seeking medical help at this point. I wake up in the middle of the night in great discomfort, and check my phone to see the time. 4 AM. I also have an email from Amazon about a recent order I placed. I open the email, and it reads as follows: Greetings from Amazon. We have recently learned of a potential safety issue regarding the following product that our records indicate you purchased from Amazon: Cottonelle FreshFeel Flushable Wet Wipes for Adults, 8 Flip-Top Packs, 42 Wipes per Pack (336 Wipes Total) Cottonelle has informed us that the product might contain bacterium, Pluralibacter gergoviae, which was detected during product testing. More details, including how to determine if your purchase is impacted and what you should do next can be found in the following notification: https://www.cottonelle.com/en-us/recallfaq This was an option I had legitimately never considered until I got this message. The very thing I had purchased to clean bacteria off of my ass had contaminated my ass with bacteria. I feel so betrayed. Also, super gross. Super, super gross. Time to go to the doctor. TL;DR – Bought flushable wipes so my butt would be clean. Wipes made butt angry. Months later, I find out that the wipes were contaminated with bacteria, and I might as well have been wiping my ass with leaves from the yard, and now I need medical attention. Cool. EDIT: please for christ's sake don't spend money on reddit awards for my butthole, if you want to make me feel better donate to Jaime Harrison and kick Lindsey Graham the fuck out of the Senate Also for those concerned, I do now have a bidet attachment, got one a month or so ago. At the time I bought the wipes, due to the societal TP freakout, bidets were out of stock too. Rest assured that no more wipes will be purchased. DOUBLE EDIT, just to make it super clear for the (relatively small) number of you that still seem to be confused: Donald Trump is a fat bald lazy racist bitch. He's a stupid loser with no money and no friends. He's a gross old welfare queen living off daddy's money and the taxpayer. He's too dumb to even be a fascist correctly. If you voted for Trump, or you are planning to vote for Trump, fuck you. submitted by /u/itchy_asshole_ to r/tifu [link] [comments]

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PRO TIP: CTRL+F to find the players you care about. Week 13 Quick Thoughts This is it folks, the first week of the playoffs! If you’re reading this, congratulations, you’ve made it! Well, either that or you’re trying to avoid the Sacko. Either way, now it’s time to get serious. Make safe choices with high floors - you don’t want to lose because you took an unnecessary risk. The exception to that rule would be if your opponent’s team completely outclasses you on paper – in that case, choose a few of those boom or bust guys with ridiculously high ceilings. They might just put you over the top. Most of all good luck, and I hope my thoughts can help to break some ties for you! Raiders @ Chiefs • Kansas City has been quite generous to opposing passers, allowing the last five QBs to face them throw for 250+ yards. Derek Carr is a QB1 caliber play against them. Pass catchers have also thrived against the Chiefs, a good sign for Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree. Since the bye, Crabtree has been targeted 7, 13 and 11 times. In those same games, Cooper has been targeted 5, 7 and 4 times. Perhaps Carr prefers Crabtree, or perhaps it’s due to better coverage being assigned to Cooper. This week, however, Crabtree should face the tougher coverage of the two against Marcus Peters who held him to just 2 catches for 10 yards in Week 6. Crabtree will be more of a low end WR2 in this situation, and Cooper will be a high end WR2. Latavius Murray has successfully shed the RBBC that plagued his owners early in the season – Kansas City is tough on the run game, but based on usage he is at worst a high end RB2 with upside for more. • Even in extremely favorable matchups, Alex Smith has proven he can’t be trusted as more than a back end QB2. That will also be the case this week. He hasn’t thrown for more than 300 yards since Week 1. Travis Kelce has caught over 100 yards worth of passes in three straight games, and faces and Oakland defense that is vulnerable to the position. He’s a elite TE1 play. Spencer Ware will be in the RB1 discussion against a middling Raiders run defense which has allowed nearly 100 yards on the ground to its last three opposing backs (only Jonathan Stewart failed to reach 100, but he got to 96). Tyreek Hill stayed involved, but as usual his targets fluctuated – I think he’s an excellent WR3 play, with a solid enough floor and a sky high ceiling. I don’t feel that Jeremy Maclin, who hasn’t seen the field in weeks, is a serious threat to him in Week 14. Maclin will be just a WR4 in his return – he hurts Hill’s outlook a little bit. Cardinals @ Dolphins • Carson Palmer has shown signs of life against Atlanta and most recently Washington – the Dolphins have recently been pulverized by the likes of Colin Kaepernick and Joe Flacco. Palmer is worth a shot as a low end QB1. Larry Fitzgerald regained a good portion of his volume last week, netting 11 targets – with DJ more and more involved in the passing game, Fitzgerald is more of an upside WR2 than low end WR1. Michael Floyd has settled in as a low upside flex/WR4. That’s as far as I would go in considering Arizona pass catchers, with one very exceptional exception of course. Raise your hand if you think David Johnson will get, at a minimum, 20 points in PPR? If you did not raise your hand please exit this thread. David Johnson is Marshall Faulk born again. David Johnson is often targeted more than this team’s WR1. David Johnson is a golden god. Not a one of us is worthy. Not a one. If you face him in the playoffs this week, please know that what happens next is not your fault. Know that I weep for you. • Ryan Tannehill played badly at Baltimore last week, and he should play even worst at Arizona this week – it is a brutal defensive matchup for the entire Dolphins’ offense. Tannehill is a back end QB2. Jarvis Landry got his groove back with 14 targets last week, but Arizona will reduce him to mere WR3 status – I’m not sure we can count on that volume sticking around. DeVante Parker, hampered by an injury and potentially shadowed by Patrick Peterson, will be a low end WR3 – your only hope is busted coverage allowing a big play. Jay Ajayi faces the toughest fantasy run defense – based on workload I’m still fine starting him as a low end RB2. Low end only because of the matchup and the chance that the game gets out of hand quickly and the run game is abandoned. Chargers @ Panthers • Carolina’s defense hasn’t given up many huge games to opposing quarterbacks recently, but they’ve given up plenty of serviceable ones and I’m confident that Philip Rivers can take advantage for low end QB1 numbers. Tyrell Williams saw only 4 targets in his first game since his shoulder injury but played nearly all available snaps. He was able to save his day with a nice touchdown, on which he did not look in any way hampered by the injury. I’m labeling Williams a solid WR2 with extreme upside against Carolina’s torpedoed secondary. Dontrelle Inman continued to be a consistent performer, and had a great game last week – he’s worth WR3/flex consideration in any league format, particularly in this nice matchup. It goes without saying that Melvin Gordon is an every week RB1 – his usage is elite. The offense truly depends on him. Antonio Gates received only 4 targets last week, but that was still preferable to Hunter Henry, who received just 1. Gates will be the low end TE1 play moving forward – Henry cannot be trusted as anything more than a boom or bust TE2. • Cam Newton should be able to put up low end QB1 numbers against the Chargers in this middling matchup. I have concerns for Kelvin Benjamin, who will likely face CB Casey Hayward, who was able to mostly shut down god-king Mike Evans last week. Benjamin, who hasn’t had a truly standout performance since Week 2, will be just a WR3. Tedd Ginn stands to benefit from the coverage on Benjamin; he is firmly in play as a WR3/flex option. He has been fantastic the past two weeks, and startable since week 6. Greg Olsen has been a disappointment to owners for multiple weeks, but he is still getting the volume to succeed. Keep starting him as a TE1 and hope for better returns on that volume this week. Jonathan Stewart will be an RB2 based on workload against a solid run defense. Vikings @ Jaguars • The Jaguars’ have been surprisingly good against opposing QBs, and Sam Bradford is not someone you want to be starting anyways. He’ll be a QB3 against Jacksonville. Stefon Diggs was passable but not exceptional last week, but bear in mind he was still recovering from a knee injury. With 10 days of rest, he should be full go as a strong WR2 against the Jaguars adept pass defense. Kyle Rudolph didn’t light up the stat sheet last week, but he does have 22 targets through the last two games. Keep firing him up as a solid TE1. Adam Thielen has a legitimate role in this offense and he’s in play as a middling WR3/flex in PPR formats. The Vikings finally got Jerick McKinnon involved in the passing game, highlighting his strengths. The result was his best game since week 4. Is it a sign of things to come? Possibly, I certainly hope so. But I wouldn’t bet on it on this team with such uninspired play calling. Still, the possibility is enough to elevate McKinnon to RB3 consideration. Matt Asiata is a low end, TD dependent RB3. • Just as Blake Bortles was swallowed up last week by Denver’s defense, I expect him to be limited again by Minnesota. He’ll be a low end QB2 against this very good defense. This matchup is just as awful for Allen Robinson who, despite considerable volume, is suffering from Bortles’ regression. He’ll be just a WR3 against this defense. Marqise Lee has about the same chance of return WR3 value as Robinson, shockingly. TJ Yeldon could have the backfield to himself if Chris Ivory and Denard Robinson remain sidelined with their injuries. The increased workload would elevate Yeldon to a low end RB2 in PPR. Texans @ Colts • Brock Osweiler remains the Texans’ QB for reasons unknown – he’ll be a middling QB2 against an atrocious Colts defense. DeAndre Hopkins continues to get the volume of a WR1, but the quality of targets are so low, he’ll remain a low end WR2 even in this cupcake matchup. Lamar Miller should bounce back and have no trouble running all over a bad Colts’ run defense for solid RB2 numbers. CJ Fiedorowicz is a PPR machine – in this great matchup he’s a bona fide TE1. Will Fuller is only a boom or bust flex play. • I trust Andrew Luck as a solid QB1 play against the Texans despite the tough on-paper matchup – he has a number of weapons, and he’ll be playing at home. TY Hilton is a no brainer WR1 with Luck under center. Donte Moncrief is an incredibly consistent WR2, and a constant threat in the red zone. I would not expect Dwayne Allen to catch three TDs again, or even one – he’s a mere TE2 despite last week’s explosion. Jack Doyle is no better – these two TEs limit each other’s upside immensely. Frank Gore is a high quality RB2 each and every week – outside of a dud in Week 12, he has been incredibly consistent. Redskins @ Eagles • The Philadelphia defense has been a shell of its early season self, and Kirk Cousins has been an excellent QB. I’m confidently starting him as a QB1. Jamison Crowder should continue to be a relatively highly targeted, highly consistent WR2, especially in PPR. If Jordan Reed can return from his injury this week, he’ll be a no brainer TE1. If Reed cannot go, Vernon Davis would be a low end TE1. Pierre Garcon is a worthy WR3/Flex play in this pass happy offense. DeSean Jackson is, as he’s always been, a boom or bust WR3. With so many mouths to feed I’d err on the side of caution with him. Rob Kelley has disappointed in two tough matchups, but he should rebound as an RB2 in this matchup – he’s still getting volume and should handle all goal line situations. • Carson Wentz has been a disaster – the lack of actual weapons outside of Jordan Matthews and Zach Ertz is a major issue. There is no running game to help him either. Also, he’s just a rookie. I think he has a bright future but for now he’s a QB3. Jordan Matthews will be a WR2 if he is able to go – he should be fed plenty against this defense. Ertz will be a solid low to mid range TE1 – his role is definitely increasing. I feel like there will never be clarity in the Eagles’ backfield. Here’s what I think: the Eagles will be in catch up mode for most of the game, making Darren Sproles a viable RB3 with RB2 upside in PPR. Ryan Mathews and Wendell Smallwood fill essentially the same role, so if Mathews is starting, plug him in as a very iffy RB3. If Mathews is not starting, Smallwood serves the same purpose. Steelers @ Bills • The Big 3 have become the Big 4. Ben Roethlisberger, LeVeon Bell, Antonio Brown and now introducing Ladarius Green will all serve as QB/RB/WR/TE1s in this explosive offense. I love Ladarius Green – I wrote an article about him taking on the WR2 role in Pittsburgh this season. Well, it took long enough but it looks like that is finally happening. Pick him up if he’s out there.The only hesitation I have about any of them is Big Ben, who has very concerning home/road splits. Being on the road, if you have another viable QB1 to start over him, consider it strongly. • Tyrod Taylor should bounce back as a low end QB1 in a game where I expect the Bills will be keeping up with the Steelers’ offensive production. LeSean McCoy is a no brainer, every week RB1 – he is the offensive centerpiece. Sammy Watkins is being slowly brought back from injury – his increasing snaps and the fact that he suffered no setbacks are grounds for him to be treated as a WR3 with extreme upside this week. Mike Gillislee is flexable in a pinch – he’s always a threat to vulture McCoy and he gets a decent number of carries all on his own. Bengals @ Browns • The entire Bengals offense will get a boost against the Browns. Andy Dalton is worthy of low end QB1 consideration. Tyler Eifert will be an elite TE1. Brandon LaFell is certainly worth a look in your WR3 or flex spot – he did very well last week and the matchup just got a lot better. Jeremy Hill will be a strong RB2, pushing the bounds of RB1 in this prime matchup in which he faces no competition in the backfield. Tyler Boyd is also in the flex range, although below LaFell, as a consistent target for Dalton who gets a boost from the matchup. • Word has it that Robert Griffin III might be starting at QB for the Browns. Whoever it is, they will not be more than a low end QB2. Cincinnati has been surprisingly stout against opposing wide receivers. Terrelle Pryor is still a strong WR2 option, but Corey Coleman will be just a low end WR3 in this matchup. Gary Barnidge is a very tough to trust, low upside TE2. Duke Johnson is a low upside RB3 with a downgrade in standard formats. Isaiah Crowell could be the only offensive bright spot outside of Pryor this week – Cincinnati has been weak against the run game and Crowell should receive plenty of carries. Crowell is on the low end RB2 radar this week. Bears @ Lions • The Lions defense has been successfully playing keepaway against opposing offenses recently, but even if they weren’t, Matt Barkley would still be a bottom barrel option at QB. Jordan Howard is the offensive star here, and there’s no reason not to expect low end RB1 numbers from him. I can’t honestly say that Cameron Meredith, Joshua Bellamy or Marquess Wilson are startable options – whoever scores points is anyone’s guess. • Matthew Stafford is a safe QB1 play against a disintegrating Bears team. Theo Riddick was barely used in the running game last week, but he remains a viable low end RB2/flex in PPR thanks to his use in the passing game. Golden Tate is the most consistent pass catcher in this offense and he’ll be a safe WR2. Marvin Jones can barely be trusted as a WR4 if he is able to play at all. Anquan Boldin is a mid level WR3 with solid touchdown upside. Eric Ebron has been a disappointment in recent games - he’s just a TE2 with limited upside in this offense with many mouths to feed. Broncos @ Titans • Whether it’s Trevor Siemian or Paxton Lynch, neither Broncos QB will be a viable fantasy start. Siemian would drastically improve the outlook of the entire offense however. In the Siemian world, Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas will be solid (and nearly identically used) WR2s. Devontae Booker has been painfully inefficient, but stands alone in the backfield carrying a huge workload and goal line duties. That’s enough to treat him as a low end RB2. • Marcus Mariota will face a real challenge against the Denver Broncos’ elite defense which has limited all but two quarterbacks to less than 16 fantasy points. He’ll be just a QB2, but should keep his floor by rushing a bit more than usual. I’ll also be avoiding all Titans’ receivers, Rishard Matthews being the most fantasy relevant of the bunch. Matthews will be just a WR3. Delanie Walker can still be relied upon as a TE1 as Denver’s defense is not as potent against tight ends. DeMarco Murray will be an elite RB1 against a questionable run defense. Jets @ 49ers • Bryce Petty and the Jets get the infinitely generous San Francisco defense this week. Petty obviously cannot be trusted, and his effect on this offense has been profoundly disturbing for Brandon Marshall and Quincy Enunwa owners. Petty came in last week and promptly peppered Robby Anderson with targets to the exclusion of all others. Marshall will be a WR3 with upside while we wait to see how he meshes with Petty after a full week of practice. Enunwa is impossible to trust. Anderson is an intriguing flex in a desperation situation – the matchup is as good as it gets and if he keeps last week’s target share under Petty, he could pay dividends. Matt Forte will likely be the best start on the Jets against the 49ers’ historically bad run defense – fire him up happily as an RB2. Bilal Powell is a desperation flex play – his one touch last week was a strange and concerning aberration. • I’ll open this section by sincerely apologizing to each and every one of you who I advised to start Colin Kaepernick. The process was correct, he had four QB1 games in a row under his belt going into Week 13, but we all got burned by the results. If you’re feeling lucky, the Jets present a good matchup for Kaep, but obviously he has a short leash. I don’t have the stones to start him again. Carlos Hyde faces a stout Jets run defense, but has the workload and the skills to turn out a solid RB2 outing. Vance McDonald faltered last week, as did the entire offense. I’m not ready to discount the steady stream of quality low end TE1 production he had strung together prior to last week. Obviously not the sexiest option, he is nonetheless a low end TE1 for the desperate. The WRs are unstartable, after all, and someone has to catch passes. Seahawks @ Packers • Russell Wilson will be a mid-range QB1 option against a faltering Green Bay defense. Get your Seahawks in your lineup. I like them all this week. Doug Baldwin will be a high end WR2, Jimmy Graham will be a TE1, and Thomas Rawls will be a low end RB1. Tyler Lockett will be a boom or bust WR3 – his production last week was fantastic but he did it on only 6 targets. I need to see more volume before I’m truly confident plugging him in. • The entire offense faces a big downgrade thanks to a tough matchup with the Seahawks. Regardless, Aaron Rodgers is a QB1 and the good news is he’s playing at home. This will be more of a floor game for him but it won’t be a disaster. Jordy Nelson should be held relatively in check, but given his weekly target share, I’d still be comfortable with him in my WR2 slot. Davante Adams laid a massive deuce last week, however, he still had the second most targets (7) and this week should avoid the toughest coverage. I still trust him as a lower end WR2. Randall Cobb has been a low upside WR3/flex play for weeks; he will remain in that range against Seattle. James Starks has begun to lose his job due to horrible inefficiency; Christine Michael and Ty Montgomery will now mix in as well, forming a dreaded three headed monster RBBC. None of them will be viable RB3s against Seattle’s tough defense. Saints @ Buccaneers • Shootout alert! I like everyone in this game. The Buccaneers defense has been better of late, but the Saints are still an offensive powerhouse and Drew Brees will be a sure-thing QB1. Michael Thomas should be in the high end WR2/low end WR1 range as New Orleans’ most targeted, most talented receiver. Brandin Cooks is a nice mid-range WR2 option, and Willie Snead is the perfect WR3/flex with a decent floor and a high ceiling. Coby Fleener is back on the TE1 radar with this matchup and the loss of Josh Hill to injury. His snaps should increase and he’s worth a start if you’ve got him. Mark Ingram will be an RB1 in this matchup – he is clearly ahead of Tim Hightower in the pecking order at this point. Hightower is a desperation RB3/flex with a rock bottom floor. • Jameis Winston and Mike Evans are both on their way to beautiful days against New Orleans. As I said, this is a likely shootout, and Evans has a monopoly on the target share in Tampa. If you’ve been holding Winston for his playoff schedule as I have, prepare to reap the rewards. Winston and Evans are a locked in QB1/WR1 pair for the rest of the season. Cameron Brate, as Winston’s number two target and a favorite in the red zone, is a locked in TE1. Doug Martin may or may not be injured – if he starts, he’ll be solid high end RB2. There are workload concerns for him with Charles Sims returning. Sims should be picked up in all leagues with Martin’s health in question. Sims will be a high end RB2 in PPR for the rest of the season in Martin misses time. He has standalone flex value as the Bucs’ third down back even when Martin is healthy. Falcons @ Rams • Matt Ryan will be a very solid QB1 play against a so-so Rams’ defense that has given up big performances to explosive offenses such as Atlanta’s. Julio Jones is questionable with a toe injury but seems likely to play. He’s a WR1 whenever he sees the field. Devonta Freeman has a definite edge over Tevin Coleman for the moment. Freeman will be an RB1 while Coleman remains merely in RB3/flex territory. Taylor Gabriel is on the lower end of the WR3/flex map, but his value and that of Mohamed Sanu would skyrocket if Jones were to somehow sit out this game. • Jared Goff gets a very nice matchup against a generous Atlanta defense – he’s streamable as a QB2 but I wouldn’t go any farther than that. I really like Kenny Britt’s outlook as a solid WR2 against this defense. No other pass catcher for this team can be trusted outside of deep leagues. Todd Gurley should be able to produce one of his better games of the season against Atlanta’s defense. I’d be content starting him as my RB2. Cowboys @ Giants • The Giants’ defense has given up the 2nd fewest fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks, but that is largely due to an excellent strength of schedule. Dak Prescott should be a lock for QB1 numbers in an important divisional game. Dez Bryant should be, at worst, a high end WR2. Cole Beasley continues to be a reliable WR3/flex and should be started as such. Jason Witten dropped a 9 reception 66 yard game on the Giants in Week 1 and the Giants have been weak to the tight end position for most of the season – Witten is a viable TE1 streamer this week. Ezekiel Elliott has everything going for him – fire him up as a top end RB1. • I love Eli Manning and Odell Beckham this week. Obviously you’re starting Odell as your WR1, but if you have a decision to make about Eli and another QB, Eli’s pretty high up on my list. He’s a top half QB1 in this potential shootout. Sterling Shepard got back involved last week and continued his mid-range WR3/flex ways. He has a touchdown in four of his last five games – not bad for your flex spot. Rashad Jennings had a great week in fantasy last week, however, he had a season low in carries. The bright spot was his involvement in the passing game. The split with Paul Perkins is concerning to me, so for me Rashad will be just an RB3 against the Cowboys. Ravens @ Patriots • Despite the blow up last week, Joe Flacco has been below mediocre all season and he’ll be just a QB2 against the Pats. New England has been excellent in limiting wide receivers, so Mike Wallace and Steve Smith Sr., who are splitting targets fairly evenly, will be just WR3s in this tough matchup. As the goal line back, Terrance West has high RB3/low RB2 value which he demonstrated very well last week. He is definitely in an even split with Kenneth Dixon at this point, however, so the floor is low if he cannot get in the end zone. Dixon himself is a middling RB3/flex getting fewer carries and not getting too involved at the goal line. Dennis Pitta unexpectedly exploded last week but he should return to his average low upside TE2 status this week. • This will sound crazy, but temper expectations for Tom Brady on Monday night against the Ravens. The Ravens are a very tough defense, perhaps the toughest in football, and without Rob Gronkowski, Brady has historically been a worse fantasy performer. Fire him up as a low end QB1. Baltimore has the league’s best run defense at the moment, so I’d consider LeGarrette Blount a low end RB2 with limited upside – his floor is lower than usual here. Julian Edelman can be safely started as a strong WR2 – the passing game will be the conduit through which the Pats attack the Ravens, and Edelman leads that charge. I wouldn’t expect much from Martellus Bennett, he will be asked to block a lot with Gronk out of the picture and he has not done well in his absence – Bennett’s a TE2. Malcolm Mitchell is a very strong WR3/flex play – he has burst onto the scene as one of Brady’s favorite targets. I’d be happy to start him, even against a tough defense. Chris Hogan is a 5 target, low upside flex kind of guy – there are too many other targets for him to thrive. James White and Dion Lewis are in a straight up timeshare for the pass catching back role, which is awful for fantasy. However, this matchup sets up well for pass catching backs, the Ravens having allowed a ton of receptions to RBs, so there is volatile upside here. Unfortunately I don’t think either is startable outside of PPR, and even there they are merely a boom or bust flex plays with Dion having the edge in touches. If Dion Lewis is going to take over the role, this would be the week to do it so we can start him in Week 15. Fingers crossed! Thanks for reading! As always feel free to leave your questions in the comments all week. I am a fantasy degenerate and am more than happy answering questions about it all the time. Bonus poll for anyone who wants to help me out: http://www.strawpoll.me/11822740 Best of luck to all in Week 14! submitted by /u/Ehan2 to r/fantasyfootball [link] [comments]

PRO TIP: CTRL+F to find the players you care about. Week 8 Quick Thoughts In response to some feedback last week, I’ve made a greater effort to give more context to each defensive matchup. Hopefully this leads to a better product and more accurate advice! Falcons @ Buccaneers • Matt Ryan will be a top QB1 against a Buccaneers defense that has given up 300+ passing yards to every competent quarterback they have faced, including Ryan himself back in week 1. Tampa Bay is giving up big games to just about every WR they face, so you can fire Julio Jones up safely as a WR1. Mohamed Sanu has been up and down in terms of targets, but against this defense he’ll make a good boom or bust flex. The Bucs have not been awful against the run, allowing not a single 100 yard rusher and boasting the 5th fewest RB receptions allowed on the season. Tevin Coleman is likely to miss another game with a hamstring injury, however, and so based on volume, talent and red zone carries Devonta Freeman will be a strong RB1 play. Austin Hooper is a viable TE streamer against a poor defense. He'll have increased opportunity with Jacob Tamme out. • Jameis Winstonthrew for 281 yards and four touchdowns in week 1 against the Falcons on the road. While he may not reach such lofty heights this week, there is plenty of reason to be optimistic about a strong QB1 performance from Winston. Mike Evans is an every week WR1 against a defense that has allowed several strong weeks to WR1s including Jordy Nelson, Tyrell Williams, and Evans himself. Cameron Brate has target numbers of 3, 3, and 5 in the last three games which is the bad news. The good news is that the Falcons have given up 5 touchdowns to tight ends, 4th most in the league, and Brate is used quite a bit in the red zone. Brate will be a TD dependent TE1 streamer. With Jacquizz Rodgers going down to a foot injury, Tampa is down to its 4th starting RB. Antone Smith out snapped and out touched Peyton Barber, suggesting Smith could lead the backfield on TNF. Atlanta has allowed a middling number of rushing yards; it is through the air that RBs are killing them. They’ve allowed the most receiving yards (476) to running backs on the season. I’m not confident in either Smith or Barber in the passing game, so the outlook is not as bright as it seems. Still, I expect plenty of red zone opportunities in this shootout. As of now Smith is the preferred RB3 based on last week’s usage, but this situation is very uncertain; Barber flashed a lot more potential in Week 7 and he is the more talented back in my opinion. The addition of Mike James to the committee only serves to muddy things further. Keep an eye on the situation as the week progresses. Eagles @ Giants • Carson Wentz faces a challenge in the New York Giants’ defense which has not allowed a standout performance to any QB despite facing Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees; the Giants’ defense is allowing an average of 1 passing TD per game. Wentz will be a mid to low end QB2. The Giants have allowed solid PPR performances to slot receivers Cole Beasley, Willie Snead, Jamison Crowder and Randall Cobb. Next up, Jordan Matthews, who is coming off of a resurgent 14 target game – fire Matthews up as a WR2. The Giants are middling against the run, and displayed some vulnerability to pass catching backs in weeks 6 and 7 when facing Terrance West (4 catches, 36 yards) and Todd Gurley (6 catches, 35 yards). Therefore, I’d expect another strong game from Darren Sproles, who out touched supposed starter Ryan Mathews 20 to 4 last week. Mathews kept himself from the void with a goal line TD, but playing just 10% of snaps, he cannot be trusted in any lineups. Sproles will be a low end RB2 with extra appeal in PPR. • Eli Manning has not been great this season, he hasn’t even been good. With only one top-12 performance under his belt, he can’t be trusted in 1 QB leagues this week against one of the league’s top defenses. If you’re in a 2 QB league, however, there is some reason to hope. The Giants’ are coming off a bye where their offensive struggles had to have been the focus. If they have sorted those out, Eli could get back on track. Rookie Dak Prescott did just manhandle this defense in the second half of Sunday Night Football, after all. The Eagles are good, but far from a shut down defense for wide receivers; Antonio Brown did great against them, and many other WRs, most recently Dez Bryant, have had solid to good fantasy performances against them. Odell Beckham’s performance is tied to Manning’s and the offenses in general, but I believe he will turn in a solid WR1 performance as the Giants try to get their offense back on track by involving their best player. Sterling Shepard is getting WR2 targets but has not been turning them into WR2 numbers; he is a desperation flex in this matchup, same as Victor Cruz. The running game is a bit of a mystery coming out of the bye, with Rashad Jennings increasingly inefficient it has been speculated that dynamic rookie Paul Perkins may get more involved. Jennings will be an RB3 with a chance to score at the goal line. Perkins isn’t startable yet but he is my recommended stash of the week for those hurting at RB. Lions @ Vikings • Minnesota is coming off of one of their poorest showings defensively, but I’m still not comfortable starting Matthew Stafford as anything more than a QB2 against the Vikings at home – on the season they have been very, very solid at shutting down opposing passing games. For the time being at least, Golden Tate has surpassed Marvin Jones in terms of targets. I’m not sure who Xavier Rhodes will be covering, though my guess would be Marvin Jones. If that is the case, Jones will be a low end WR3 this week. Tate will be a stronger WR3 start, but keep your ear to the ground for news on who Rhodes will be lining up against. Theo Riddick is an every week PPR RB2 – I’m not worried about the matchup, as teams have had some success chucking passes to their RBs out of the backfield against Minnesota (see: Bobby Rainey, Fozzy Whittaker, Paul Perkins (one big play)). Eric Ebron returned to an immediately solid workload of 10 targets and should be grabbed and used as a TE1 in a middling matchup for his position – with the WRs overwhelmed, Stafford might look to him more often as an outlet, and he’s always a threat in the red zone if the Lions can get there. • Sam Bradford will be on the streaming radar against the Lions’ league worst QB defense; that stat is padded by bouts against Andrew Luck and Aaron Rodgers, but this defense also vaulted the likes of Case Keenum to QB1 status. If you’re in need at QB this week, Bradford should be able to turn in low end QB1 numbers. The Vikings’ finally got a clue and fed their best offensive player, Stefon Diggs, 13 targets on Monday Night Football. The Lions’ have not been able to limit any teams’ receivers aside from the Osweiler-led Texans – call that an outlier. Diggs is in the WR2 discussion. Adam Thielen will be a boom or bust flex for the truly desperate; the matchup gives him some upside but the floor is rock bottom if things don’t work out. Kyle Rudolph was quiet last week but you’re going to want to start him again; the Lions’ are getting absolutely wrecked by tight ends, allowing strong performances to the likes of Jack Doyle, Lance Kendricks, Vernon Davis and CJ Fiedorowicz. Rudolph is a firm TE1. If Matt Asiata continues to get the backfield to himself then I like him as a solid RB2 in this matchup where goal line chances should be more plentiful. If McKinnon returns then his floor is lowered, but his ceiling remains high. Jerick McKinnon would be a tough to trust RB3 coming off an injury in an uncertain timeshare, though I remain a truther. Steelers @ Ravens • Ben Roethlisberger has some nasty home/road splits and is coming off of knee surgery. My suggestion? If you had a solid backup filling in for Big Ben last week, roll with them for one more week, just to be safe. With Ben back, Antonio Brown is a top WR1 play (as if that was ever in doubt) against a Baltimore defense giving up huge games to WRs all season. Baltimore shows up on paper as the 6th best fantasy run defense, but they have faced very little talent so far. LeSean McCoy, Isaiah Crowell, and Matt Forte all had solid games against them. LeVeon Bell should have no trouble at all – he’s an RB1. With Ben back, Sammie Coates is back on the flex radar against a Baltimore defense that is giving up big plays, Coates’ specialty. Ladarius Green will be activated soon; he may be a vital tool for the Steelers’ who have historically used their TE often, and are still looking to fill the WR2 void left by Martavis Bryant. Stash him if you’re desperate at the position. • The passing volume has been there for Joe Flacco, averaging 44 pass attempts per game, but the touchdowns have not, with only 5 through 7 games. With this much passing volume, positive TD regression has to be coming. If you need a streamer this week, or a solid QB2, you could do a lot worse than Flacco at home this week. Mike Wallace is quietly having a great season – with 33 targets through his last 4 games, he is getting great volume with Steve Smith hampered by injury. The Steelers are a tough on-paper matchup for WRs, but have given up plenty of solid performances to teams’ WR1s; with this kind of volume, Wallace is a low end WR2. Terrance West is coming off a dude week, but to his credit it was the stout Jets’ run defense. The good news is that no other RB got significant work so his job seems secure for now. Kenneth Dixon is worth a stash if you have the room but reports that he will get more involved should be taken with a grain of salt; West is working and things will not significantly change anytime soon, pending an injury or a disastrous performance. The Steelers’ run defense is struggling, yielding huge games to Ajayi and Blount prior to the bye. With little competition in the backfield, West is a solid RB2 in this matchup. Dennis Pitta has greater than 8 targets in 5 of 7 games, so the volume is there, and it’s a plus matchup against a defense that has given up good games to big name and no name tight ends alike – he’s a TE1. Cowboys @ Browns • With Cleveland giving up good to great games to every QB it has faced thus far, Dak Prescott will be firmly on the QB1 radar this week; stream him if you’re in need. The Browns’ defense has been no better against WRs, and I expect big things from Dez Bryant who received an uncharacteristic 14 targets last week. There is plenty of big play potential against the Browns and I like Bryant as a WR1. Cole Beasley was hindered but not erased by Bryant’s return. I don’t expect the target split of 14:7 for Bryant:Beasley to continue, I imagine it will even out somewhat. Beasley is still a strong WR3/flex, particularly in PPR formats. Obviously the Browns have not been strong against the run either and Ezekiel Elliott will be an elite RB1 in this one. Jason Witten is worthy of streamer consideration in this matchup against the league’s worst fantasy TE defense; they’re obviously vulnerable to the position and Dak will take advantage of that. • It is unclear who will start for the Browns’ at QB as of this writing, but it will be either Josh McCown or Cody Kessler. The fantasy world crosses its fingers for McCown. McCown will be in the low end QB1 discussion against Dallas. Kessler would be a low to mid QB2. Terrelle Pryor would be a strong WR2 start either way as the team’s primary target. Corey Coleman returns from his hand injury as an immediate WR3 plug in – he displayed serious talent in his second game in Baltimore. Isaiah Crowell will have a limited ceiling against the Cowboys’ tough run defense, but his rushing floor has been fairly safe all season, and he has dominated in the red zone. I’d say he’s a high RB3, low RB2 for the week. Duke Johnson has a bleak outlook, as the Cowboys have been pretty good against receiving backs so far this season – he’s a low end flex. Gary Barnidge will be in a good spot against a Cowboys’ defense that has been vulnerable to tight ends – Josh McCown being under center would further improve his outlook. Barnidge will be a good low end TE1 streaming option. Jaguars @ Chiefs • Blake Bortles is playing dreadfully, but is racking up garbage time points in certain contests which get out of hand early. Relying on garbage time production is a fluky practice, as not all game scripts allow for it. Bortles is a fine QB2 but I’d look to stream in 1 QB leagues. Allen Robinson is suffering from the bad mechanics of his quarterback, but is receiving a heavy workload (15 targets last week). This week Robinson will be a WR2 against the Chiefs’ defense which has been giving up huge games to WRs all season. If Bortles can improve his throwing technique, Robinson will be back in the season long WR2 discussion. Allen Hurns is receiving a very solid workload himself, and should also benefit from the plus matchup; fire him up as a strong WR3/Flex. The Chiefs are some of the best in the league at halting the TE position so Julius Thomas will not be a viable TE play this week. The Jags’ running game is truly putrid because they are never winning. TJ Yeldon has some flex value in PPR leagues as the primary passing down back but that’s about it. Chris Ivory is more of an RB4. • Alex Smith is in the concussion protocol, so Nick Foles will step up and start. He will not be a viable QB2. If Spencer Ware can be cleared from the concussion protocol he will be an RB1 in this game; the Jags’ are middle of the pack against the run on paper but they have given up solid games to every talented RB they have faced. If Ware can’t go, Charcandrick West will be a solid RB2. Jeremy Maclin got more involved last week, catching a TD from Alex Smith, but he only managed 3 catches on 10 targets. This matchup is a good one, and Foles gave him a slight bump in target share, so Maclin is in the upside WR3 department. Jaguars’ are ranked 5th against fantasy tight ends, but the only TEs of note they have faced thus far are Walker and Pitta who were able to turn in low end TE1 performances. Travis Kelce will be a mid-range TE1. Jets @ Dolphins • The Dolphins’ defense does not pose an especially great challenge, but Ryan Fitzpatrick has not been a startable QB in 1QB leagues since Week 2. That’s not someone I want to bet on as anything more than a low end QB2. This defense just allowed a 93 yard, 1 TD game to Marquise Goodwin, so I have faith that Brandon Marshall can turn in a good WR2 day. Quincy Enunwa keeps making big plays and it has apparently earned him a larger target share, with 11 targets last week. I honestly see him as a low end WR2 as well, with a potentially lower floor if for some reason the targets start going back the other way. Matt Forte has another two weeks’ worth of workhorse usage under his belt, and he has not disappointed with two strong RB1 finishes. We cannot simply forget, however, the split that formed with Bilal Powell in weeks 3 through 6. Forte is best treated as an RB2. Powell is an upside flex in PPR formats. • The Jets are allowing the most passing yards in the league, so Ryan Tannehill is firmly on the streaming radar as a low end QB1. His WRs will also benefit heavily from the plus matchup. Jarvis Landry should be a high end WR2. Kenny Stills will be a not so bad flex play. DeVante Parker is a punt flex play, but there’s certainly upside for the deep threat – just keep his low floor in mind. The Jets are very strong against the running game, allowing the fourth fewest rushing yards in the league, but pass catching RBs can still do well against them. Add the fact that Jay Ajayi is playing out of his mind, is coming off a bye, and has no Arian Foster to compete with for pass catching duties and Ajayi can comfortably be started as a high RB2/low RB1. Saints @ 49ers • Drew Brees is away from home, which you ordinarily never like to see, but this week we’ll make an exception. They’re giving up an average of 230 passing yards and 2.14 passing TDs per game, and face a decidedly above average QB in Brees. He’ll be a QB1. San Francisco is a fairly generous defense across the board for all positions, particularly RB, a position to which they’ve granted 1139 rushing yards, the worst in the league. Mark Ingram was unceremoniously benched last week for a fumble, replaced by Tim Hightower. It is clear that at best for Ingram, this is now a committee. At worst, he is Hightower’s backup. I’ll choose to believe head coach Payton when he says Ingram still has a significant role. In that case, against this putrid defense, Ingram and Hightower are both high upside plays. I would put them both in the category of low end RB2, and that’s only because of their uncertain workloads. If we get any clarity, you can upgrade the beneficiary. Brandin Cooks, Michael Thomas and Willie Snead are all strong starts against this very bad 49ers defense. Their targets have been all over the place based on who is open. I would rank them Cooks > Thomas > Snead, which not-so-coincidentally correlates with their TDs on the season (5, 3 and 2 respectively) – red zone usage is big in differentiating these receivers. Coby Fleener is a boom or bust TE who has had his only two big games at home. He has also seen his snaps decrease precipitously from 77% five games ago to 34% last week. Josh Hill may be taking over. In an away game, with so many other mouths to feed around him, Fleener’s tough to trust. • Colin Kaepernick gets a prime matchup against the Saints defense. His high rushing floor combined with the matchup should get him a high end QB2 performance. What can really be said about the 49ers’ receivers? I wouldn’t start any of them. But if you’re desperate, Torrey Smith could catch a long touchdown like he did in week 6, making him a viable boom or bust flex. Jeremy Kerley has been a no-show since Blaine Gabbert was benched. Carlos Hyde should be back from injury and is a legitimate RB1 against the Saints’ awful run defense. DuJuan Harris would be the back to own and use as a plug and play RB2 if Hyde is ruled out. Panthers @ Rams • Cam Newton should have no trouble putting up a high end QB1 performance against this defense, which has had success against bad/struggling QBs (Gabbert, Wilson, Palmer, Manning) but which has been lit up by good QBs (Winston, Stafford). Los Angeles has faced a series of horrendous tight ends which has inflated their stats against the position – in fact Cameron Brate, the only TE they’ve faced to receive more than 5 targets, lit them up, so the elite Greg Olsen should have no trouble at all putting up TE1 numbers. Kelvin Benjamin can also be used as a strong WR2 against a weak passing defense – his targets should rise again from Week 8’s paltry 5. Jonathan Stewart is a firm RB2 despite the tough on-paper matchup – Cam post-concussion is not doing his usual red zone heroics, leading to more goal line TDs for Stewart. • Case Keenum has at least demonstrated he can put up solid performances in the right matchup (see: Detroit) so I’m projecting a high end QB2 finish for him, worthy of streaming consideration for those in need. Tavon Austin has received 8+ targets in 5 of 7 games, which is significant. Anyone receiving that kind of target load is worthy of flex consideration – against this struggling secondary, Austin is worthy of your WR3/Flex spot. Kenny Britt is also in the flex discussion, again because of the matchup, but he is lower down the totem than Austin. Britt left us hanging before the bye, but prior to that dud he was on a 3 game hot streak. He could get going again now post-bye. Todd Gurley faces a rather tough Carolina run defense that limited David Johnson to just 24 yards on the ground last week – Gurley has been getting more involved in the passing game though, which helped save DJ, so I still like him as an RB2 this week. Lance Kendricks is a high TE2/low TE1 play this week just because the Panthers have been so bad against tight ends, and they haven’t even faced any exceptional talent. Kendricks is coming off a two game streak with 8+ targets so the precedent for his success is there. Titans @ Chargers • Marcus Mariota is on a great 4 game streak, and the San Diego Chargers have not been great this season, but look closer and see that they have held their last two opponents to 1 passing touchdown and 2 INTs combined. One of those opponents was Matt Ryan. I think Mariota is a low end QB1 for the week. DeMarco Murray is obviously in line for a huge week against a run defense that has allowed 10 rushing TDs, the second most in the league. Monitor his health, but it sounds like his toe injury is nothing serious. Handcuff Derick Henry needs to be owned everywhere. Rishard Matthews and Kendall Wright are about even with each other in the Titans’ passing game; neither has a standout target share, and both are catching touchdowns. With low targets there’s always a chance for a bust, but I’m comfortable with either as a WR3/Flex. Delanie Walker is seeing his targets divided among the aforementioned wide receivers, but he’s still a TE1 based on his talent and red zone potential. • Philip Rivers has faced Denver twice in three weeks, which has been tough, but he’s putting that tough stretch behind him now. Rivers has been better at home so far this season, and the Titans have given up QB1 performances in their last 3 games to Kessler, Luck and Garbage King Bortles. I’m penciling in Rivers for low end QB1 production. If Travis Benjamin misses time with his PCL injury, Tyrell Williams will be a locked in WR2 on volume alone. If both play, they’re both more WR3 types. Melvin Gordon faces a seriously tough run defense this week which will limit his yardage, but he’s always a safe bet for a score in some fashion – his elite red zone usage keeps him in the RB2 range, and it helps that he displayed serious talent as a runner against a tough Denver D last week. Hunter Henry lost serious playing time and targets to Antonio Gates last week, suggesting that once again SD will go with their immortal veteran over their young talent for as long as they can. Gates will be the TE to own in this plus matchup, and is worth starting as a TE1. Henry can be stashed in case injuries once again catch up with Gates. Colts @ Packers • The Packers have really only “limited” one QB, Brian Hoyer, who broke his arm early in the game. I have no worries about Andrew Luck as a QB1 this week – so far, he is having his best year yet. TY Hilton had his targets dip due to a hamstring injury that limited him during the game, and probably also partly due to the return of Donte Moncrief to the lineup. This game has shootout potential written all over it and I’d expect a lot of passing plays thanks to Green Bay’s solid run defense. Hilton is a borderline WR1 and Moncrief is a strong WR2. Frank Gore will have a tough go of it against Green Bay’s run defense which held Devonta Freeman to just 35 yards on the ground, and everyone else (besides Ezekiel Elliott) to under 50. Gore is not enough of a pass catcher to save his floor here, but his potential for a goal line TD in this shooutout does. He’s a boom or bust, TD dependent RB2 play – insert safer, higher floor options if you have them, and don’t expect much yardage. Jack Doyle felt the presence of Moncrief the hardest, his targets dropping back down to three last week. However, part of that was Kansas City’s elite TE defense and I think Doyle bounces back as a TE1 – the matchup is okay, the game is a shootout, and Doyle already has 4 TD passes on the year – he’s a definite red zone threat. However, if Dwayne Allen returns to the field (he practiced on Wednesday) Doyle will be a mere TE2. • Aaron Rodgers will also be a strong QB1 play in this likely shootout against this defense which just gave up two touchdown passes to Nick Foles. Nick Foles!!! The Colts’ secondary is allowing 288 passing yards per game, and Davante Adams, Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb should be the biggest beneficiaries. Adams has been a target monster over the last two games, which should settle down with Cobb returning, but perhaps not by much. Cobb is coming off a hamstring injury and thus may see his reps managed. Jordy is obviously a red zone favorite and a threat to score each week, but I’ll take the volume of Adams over him for now. Both are in the high end WR2 discussion for the week, while Cobb is a riskier WR3 bet coming off his injury. It seems clear that until James Starks returns, Ty Montgomery will be the “running back” for the Packers, so fire him up as a strong WR2 option in PPR leagues, and a good WR3 in standard. Now might be a good time for RB desperate teams to stash Starks – Knile Davis (waived) and Don Jackson obviously haven’t worked out. Broncos @ Raiders • Trevor Siemian gets a good matchup against the Raiders paltry defense, but his play has been so poor over the last four games from a fantasy perspective it will be impossible to trust him as more than a QB2. I do love the outlook for his receivers, Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders, whose roles are truly interchangeable. Both are strong WR2s this week. Devontae Booker is the workhorse in this backfield now, and this defense will pose no problems for him – consider him a strong RB1 play. Virgil Green is starting to get more involved, receiving 6 targets last week. If you need a punt play at TE in a deep league, this is a good matchup for him. • Derek Carr had an excellent performance last week, but that was Tampa Bay. This is Denver. Denver, which has limited every QB it has faced to a subpar fantasy performance, barring only Cam Newton in week 1. Those other QBs? Luck, Dalton, Winston, Ryan, and Rivers (twice). Oh, and Brock Lobster, but nobody is impressed by that. I don’t think Carr is any better or worse than those guys. So I’m expecting a floor, QB2 type of game from him. Denver has also completely shut down opposing wide receivers, allowing the fewest yards (only 759!) in the entire league. Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree, as good as they are, will just be floor-based WR3s against this elite defense. One thing Denver has not shut down this season is opposing run games, so Latavius Murray is still in the low end RB2 discussion. Though he is clearly leading it, he is still in a committee, which limits his upside. Bills @ Seahawks • What an ugly, nasty, no-good game for Monday Night Football. I’ll be sleeping through this one. Anyhow, Tyrod Taylor has been a remarkably productive QB without Sammy Watkins in the lineup. His rushing ability has been a big help in that regard. The Seahawks defense has been tough against QBs on-paper, but has really only faced two good QBs, Matt Ryan and Drew Brees, and they did well and had QB1 days against them. Tyrod isn’t as good as them, but he isn’t as bad as the other QBs the Seahawks have dominated, so I’ll hedge my bets and say Tyrod has a high floor, low ceiling, high end QB2 type of day. He won’t lose your matchup, but he won’t win it for you either. I’m not endorsing the start of any Bills’ WRs against the Seahawks – none are receiving enough targets, or have enough talent, to stand out as a startable flex. If LeSean McCoy can play, he’ll be a solid RB2 against a Seahawks defense which is tough on paper, but that just gave up over 100 yards rushing to Tim Hightower. If McCoy can’t go, Mike Gillislee will be on the RB2 spectrum as well. • Russell Wilson is a disaster for his owners. He hasn’t scored a touchdown since Week 4. Maybe his mobility will improve once his knee brace comes off, maybe that will help. I need to see it first. Wilson is a lower end QB2 until he proves otherwise. Buffalo hasn’t exactly been friendly to opposing QBs not named Brady anyways. Doug Baldwin is languishing under Wilson’s struggles and is just a WR3 until the offense improves. The matchup looks tougher for Jimmy Graham than it really is, because Buffalo has faced such meager TE competition outside of Gronk and Martellus Bennett. Graham should be used a low end TE1, who is also suffering from Wilson syndrome. The Awakening might be coming to an end in Seattle, as Christine Michael is losing snaps and opportunities to rookie CJ Prosise, the team’s new pass catching pack. Thomas Rawls is also fast approaching. Michael will be an RB2 against Buffalo, and owners should consider selling high. Prosise is not yet startable. Thanks for reading! As always feel free to leave your questions in the comments all week. I am a fantasy degenerate and am more than happy answering questions about it all the time. If you enjoyed this consider checking out this thread about the Fantasy Collective, a fantasy team drafted and managed by the popular vote of redditors like yourself. We’re setting our lineup today so just pop in, vote for who you would start, and you’re done! Best of luck to all in Week 9! submitted by /u/Ehan2 to r/fantasyfootball [link] [comments]

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