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New York Giants Womens T-Shirt , whether it’s due to a chunk of your roster missing the same week or a bye week just limiting the potential pool of players. I can’t say anything for how the former has hit you personally this week, but it’s definitely one of the latter. Week 9 is one of two six-team byes this season, so it’s possible your start-sit decisions are a little more desperate than usual this week. That’s OK, a lot of us are going to be in the same boat. Here’s this week’s start/sit:Running backStart: Chris Carson, Seattle SeahawksSeattle is the most run-heavy team in the league and the only team with a run-rate above 50 percent. Chris Carson is the lead back because he’s the best back and he’ll face a defense that’s 21st in DVOA against the run. Last week he got 25 carries against the Lions that resulted in 105 yards and a touchdown. He’s gone over 100 yards on the ground in three of his past four games.[Sunday morning update: Carson is a game-time decision in a late afternoon game. I’d still start him if he’s a go, but make sure you have an available alternative if he can’t].Start: Jordan Howard, Chicago BearsHoward’s usage hasn’t been ideal this season, but he’ll be the top runner on a team favored by a lot of points against a team starting Nathan Peterman at quarterback. With a lead of 10 or more, Chicago runs 53 percent of the time. They should have a lead of 10 or more quite often. 56 percent of Howard’s carries this season have come when the Bears are leading. This should be a perfect game script for heavy usage from Howard.Sit: LeSean McCoy, Buffalo BillsTake everything said about Howard and make it the opposite. McCoy isn’t likely to run much unless the Bills go full Wildcat in this game. The Bills do stick to the run, relatively, when they’re down by 10 or more but even though they’re the third-most run-heavy team in those situations, it’s still just 36 percent. McCoy does get more involved in the passing game when the Bills are behind, but still, he only has 24 targets when trailing this season.Sit: Duke Johnson, Cleveland BrownsWe can all hope Duke Johnson’s usage increases under new offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens. Unfortunately, we shouldn’t just assume that’s going to be the case in the first game. Johnson has yet to eclipse 10 touches in any game this season. And while the Chiefs have given up the third-most fantasy points to running backs this season, it’s more likely Nick Chubb will be the back who takes the majority of the snaps and carries. Wide receiverStart: Kenny Golladay, Detroit LionsThe Golden Tate trade cleared the way for more Kenny Golladay and we should all be happy for more Kenny Golladay. Golladay has three targets combined over the past two games, but with Tate now gone, he’ll get pushed into the No. 2 role. And you should hope Golladay is treated as the No. 2 by the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings have a huge split against No. 1 receivers (no. 1 in DVOA) and No. 2’s (26th in DVOA). That difference is caused by Xavier Rhodes, who shadows the opponent’s top pass catcher. In past games against Detroit New York Giants Hats , that’s been Marvin Jones and if that’s the case again Golladay could have even more potential in the offense.Start: Tyler Lockett, Seattle SeahawksTyler Lockett has been a touchdown machine this season. He’s scored in six of Seattle’s seven games. Some of those come from where you’d expect. He’s now the team leader in red zone targets (four) with Brandon Marshall (five) released and that’s resulted in two touchdowns. He’s also a big play threat on the receiving end of deep Russell Wilson passes. Now that Seattle has figured out its play-action passing game — they run the third-most play-action and average the second-highest yards per play off it — Lockett could continue to be a consistent threat for the remainder of the season, especially against a Chargers secondary that has struggled this season.Sit: DeSean Jackson, Tampa Bay Buccaneers If you have Jackson on your roster, he probably won you a few games early in the season. Don’t hold onto that and assume the magic (Fitz or otherwise) will return with the quarterback change. Jackson hasn’t cleared 100 yards receiving since Week 4 and his three-catch, 68-yard effort with a touchdown last week took eight targets to accomplish. He’ll go against a Panthers secondary that has continued to improve and has given up the 10th-fewest fantasy points per game to opposing wide receivers.Sit: Calvin Ridley, Atlanta FalconsRidley has cooled off since his hot three-week stretch at the start of the season. He’s still second on the team in red zone targets (five) but he’s either the No. 3 or 4 target in the offense behind Julio Jones, Austin Hooper, and occasionally Mohamed Sanu. Atlanta moves all of its receivers around on the field, so everyone gets in the slot, but if Ridley plays there often this week, he’ll have a tough matchup against Fabian Moreau, who has been Washington’s best cornerback this season.Tight endStart: Whoever you got.There are six total teams on a bye this week and tight ends on those rosters include Eric Ebron, Jack Doyle, Zach Ertz, and Evan Engram. If you’re deep enough that you have a tight end decision to make, good for you. Most of us are not. The New York Giants lost on Monday night to the Atlanta Falcons, 23-20, are once again 1-6, and are closing in on having the first overall pick in the NFL Draft. There was plenty we already knew about the 2018 Giants that was confirmed in this mess of a Monday night game:The third iteration of the rebuilt offenisve line is bad. The Giants have all the firepower they can ask for in Odell Beckham Jr., Sterling Shepard, and Saquon Barkley. They are also utterly incapable of consistently putting it to use. The Giants’ defense is flawed New York Giants Womens Hoodie , but tries hard and shouldn’t be blamed for their losing record.However, there were some things that we learned.Eli can still throw down the fieldThe Giants signaled that they were going to be aggressive with their receivers when the first pass of the game was a 10-yard play to Beckham. The Giants were cautious in their use of Saquon Barkley, but finally showed a willingness to challenge a poor secondary with Beckham and Sterling Shepard. Manning completed 71 percent of his passes, finishing with 399 yards passing and a yards per attempt of 10.5, his highest of the season. While the Giants did get good runs after the catch from both Beckham and Shepard, Manning also looked down the field far more than he had against the Eagles. Eli’s game was far from perfect, but it was nice to see him threaten a defense down the field, even in the face of pressure — Something the Giants largely have not done this season. We won’t know whether or not the Giants can sustain I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Eli Manning just looks like a different quarterback when he has the option to attack a defense, rather than just take what it gives him.The Giants can’t play in the red zoneFor all the Giants’ offensive firepower, it shouldn’t really surprise that they are utterly inept in the red zone. The short field that comes with play in the red zone has a bunch of effects on the game. Everything is sped up because offenses simply can’t stretch defenses out they way can between the 20s. Secondaries don’t have to cover as much space, receivers don’t have as much space in which to work, and passing windows are smaller. The red zone is the area of the field in which all the little problems elsewhere on the field rear their heads at once, and the Giants have plenty of them. Slight miscommunications are magnified and being just off-target becomes wildly inaccurate. And small lapses in blocking can become drive-killing mistakes. The Giants routinely do all of these on offense, and it shows in Red Zone play which is just bad. It isn’t as simple as just having a big receiver — Both Sterling Shepard and Odell Beckham are capable of playing far larger than they measure thanks to their quickness and 40-inch vertical leaps. Evan Engram was a premier red zone threat in 2017, but he isn’t used in the same way in this offense.The Giants’ offensive line can’t hold up or create any kind of room for Barkley to run the ball. Poor play calls and miscommunications waste opportunities. The Giants have a lot of little (and some very big) problems which compound and magnify each other, and need to be solved individually before they will have consistent success in the Red Zone.The pass rush might have some lifeThe Giants came in to Monday night with the worst pass rush in the NFL. Granted it was against an offensive line that has done about as good a job of In Olivier Vernon’s second game back, the Giants’ pass rush finally started to show some life.With Olivier Vernon giving the Falcons’ offensive line a legitimate pass rush threat to worry about, the Giants’ other rushers began to find some success, with Kerry Wynn, Lorenzo Carter, Mario Edwards (negated by a defensive holding penalty) Womens Customized New York Giants Jerseys , all getting to Ryan. James Bettcher also mixed in plenty of schemed pressure with some aggressive blitz calls, which forced Matt Ryan to speed up his process. For the third time this season the Giants’ defense did enough for the team to win. They held an offense which had averaged nearly 30 points a game to 23, and gave the offense opportunity after opportunity to win the game. And once again, the Giants’ offense failed to capitalize. It remains to be seen if the Giants can repeat the defensive feat against the Washington Redskins’ talented offensive line, but for now it was good to see.Pat Shurmur’s bad decisions continueGiants’ head coach Pat Shurmur has made curious, or downright bad, decisions throughout the season.There was consternation regarding Shurmur’s decision to go for 2 points on the team’s first touchdown. That call made sense from a math perspective — best case, the next score would be for the win, worst case it was still a one score game. The move also signaled to his team that he IS trying to win the game, something that his offensive scheme hasn’t always indicated. THAT decision wound up being moot, as the team scored another touchdown and completed a second 2-point conversion attempt. MUCH more egregious, Shurmur called a pair of quarterback sneaks in the final minute with the Giants out of time outs and desperately trying to mount a comeback. Manning took advantage of a bad Falcons offense to get the Giants in scoring position in a flash. But with no timeouts remaining, the Giants had to score, and quickly. Failing that, they needed to get the clock stopped. Instead, the Giants ran a pair of quarterback sneaks with an offensive line that had been utterly dominated all game long. This is on top of the schematic decision to not use Saquon Barkley as a downfield passing threat. Barkley was targeted plenty, 10 times, catching 9. But on those targets, he only got 51 yards, with a long of 14. Shurmur flatly refused to send Barkley down the field in a game where Sterling Shepard had 167 receiving yards and Odell Beckham 143 and a touchdown.