Top 10 WORST Coaching Moves

Every year coaching moves make or break your fantasy season.  This is the true beauty of the game. We have all been there when a bad move is made.  Sometime these coaching moves are fun to laugh at, sometimes these moves are just down right awful, but every year that rare moment occurs when you get  that faulty, garbage like, egregious coaching move where you are left sitting in disbelief.  It makes you wonder if Matt Millen is running your fantasy team.  Newsflash here, when someone calls you Millen, those are fighting words. 

TOP TEN WORST COACHING MOVES OF THE 2011 FANTASY YEAR

We will start with a special mention:  In the Detroit Pigskin Dynasty league  where on October 8th (Week 4) the team "Coach D's Disciple" traded TE Rob Gronkowski for the injured WR Andre Johnson.  Initially when you hear this you automatically think "Seriously What!?!?"   Coach D's Disciple had nothing to lose here as he started out  3-1 and already had Jason Witten as his starting TE.  He ended up making the Superbowl anyways and besides this leads us to the #10 move

#10.  ROB GRONKOWSKI GOES UNDRAFTED

In the Detroit Pigskin Dynasty league Rob Gronkowski went UNDRAFTED and wasn't even picked up off the free agent waiver until Week #2.  EVERYBODY was asleep on the record setting TE.

#9.    DAVID AKERS DROPPED FOR ROBBIE GOULD

In the Comcast League in Week 7 "The Pack Attack" dropped kicker David Akers (for the bye week) in exchange for kicker Robbie Gould.   Kickers normally don't ruin your fantasy year, but David Akers is the exception, he might be the best fantasy kicker....EVER.  He was the #1 scorer this year upon kickers and it wasn't even CLOSE.  The next closest kicker (John Kasey NO) was outscored by the point total of 192.56 to 156.  There where weeks when Akers was out producing running backs and wide receivers scoring 15-20 points a game.  You would not think that is such an egregious error, but this isn't the last we have heard of Mr. Pack Attack.

 ( A Close Relative to Matt Millen ? )

#8.     THE MICHAEL VICK EXPERIMENT

Anybody that listen to Matthew Berry and drafted Michael Vick in the 1rst round.  Seriously, That is very Millen esque how he proclaimed Vick should be the #1 overall pick before the season.  Over the likes of known fantasy stud QBs such as Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, and Tom Brady.  In the Detroit Pigskin Dynasty league Vick went #8.  In the Comcast league Vick WENT #2 OVERALL.

#7.    A.J. GREEN GETS TRADED FOR BEN TATE

After week three “Saint Patrick’s Day” figured he was loaded at the WR position with Andre Johnson, Kenny Britt, and Vincent Jackson.  Ben Tate had been a top ten running back filling in for an injured Arian Foster.  With AJ Green on his bench he figured he could pull the trigger and trade with team “DaddyZeb.”    Then as we all know everything went drastically wrong.  Ben Tate went back to being a backup and AJ Green went on to be a Pro Bowl receiver and EASILY a top ten WR start.  “Saint Patrick’s Day” went on to be near the bottom of the league as “DaddyZeb” went on a win streak to propel himself into the playoffs.

#6.    TEAM ZUGGY  84.80   THE FLINT TROPICS  84.16

This is the classic fantasy football blunder that makes you want to rip your hair out, and frankly ruins the rest of your week.  The could of, would of, should of, of fantasy football.

Quick background of the Detroit Pigskin Dynasty league, it was so close this year that a 7 win team made the playoffs.  In this PIVITOL Week 11 match up Team Zuggy was sitting at 5-5 and The Flint Tropics where sitting at 4-6.  There were four games left in the season and as it was stated, the playoff race was WIDE OPEN.    The Flint Tropics had the difficult decision of who to start in the #3 WR position.  The team already had Larry Fitzgerald and Hakeem Nicks going.   For the last spot he had to choose between Torrey Smith (who scored 22.50 points), Nate Burelson (who scored 12.30 points) and his eventual choice Earl Bennett who scored a painful 7.50 points.  Now you have already guessed it by now,  The Flint Tropics were never able to recover from this loss, Team Zuggy?  Well that team went on to win the Superbowl.

#5.    VICTOR CRUZ DROPPED FOR STEVAN RIDLEY

This happened during Week 5 of the Comcast league.  “Team Punishment” was the guilty party.

I had to look up that Stevan Ridley was a backup running back for the New England Patriots.

Victor Cruz went on to be the #4 fantasy scoring WR OVERALL.

Perfect example of this manager channeling his inner Millen.

 ( The Curious Case of Marshawn Lynch )

#4.  MARSHAWN LYNCH TRADED FOR MARK INGRAM

This massive blunder occurred in the Detroit Pigskin Dynasty league, During week six, Saint Patrick’s Day was up to his old tricks again as he traded away Marshawn Lynch.  It was Seattle’s bye week and he was in desperate need for a running back.  After this trade Lynch went on to finish the fantasy season scoring 10 touchdowns in the final ten games.  Mark Ingram went on to get lost in the shuffle in the New Orleans offense and ended the season on Injured Reserve.  The person on the other side of that trade?  Eventually Superbowl winner Team Zuggy. 

#3  MARSHAWN LYNCH DROPPED............FOR A KICKER!?

I have already stated the second half phenomenon that was Marshawn Lynch.  Remember when our friend “The Pack Attack” dropped David Akers earlier? 

  WELL TALK ABOUT A DRASTIC DOMINO EFFECT.  

 For Marshawn Lynch’s bye week, Pack Attack dropped him for Carolinas kicker, Olindo Mare.

There is nothing really else to explain here.

#2  JORDY NELSON WAS TRADED FOR........CEDRIC BENSON

This happened in the Comcast league, TV Jimmy traded the #2 WR Overall (by fantasy scoring) during week three all while Cedric Benson was facing a three game suspension

If you’re wondering, team “Master Teacher” pulled this move off.  We will get a hold of him to comment on this blog to tell his side of the story on how he managed to get this amazing deal done.

I’m seriously at a loss of words for you guys, this move is unexplainable, well I guess you can explain it, this is a clear definition of a Millen move.  And now you’re wondering what could be possibly worse than this 

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#1 TEAM ZUGGY  81.64     THE ONE POINT BANDIT  78.64

The final score alone already tells you that a simple coaching move could of got the win for The One Point Bandit.  Also, I am starting to realize a lot of breaks happened for Team Zuggy to win the Superbowl this year.   This epic showdown occurred during week 9 in the Detroit Pigskin Dynasty.  Both teams were sitting at 4-4 and The One Point Bandit was desperate for a quarterback due to injures.   

He had his choice of:  Andy Dalton

Or Carson Palmer…….

Or Mark Sanchez……

Or Tim Tebow………

Or Matt Hasselbeck…….

Or Alex Smith………

Or Jay Cutler……

ALL OF THESE QUARTERBACKS would have gotten The One Point Bandit the victory.  Now I hopefully have built the suspense enough so that you are all wondering what quarterback could he possible of picked up???

 (WHO IS THIS GUY !?!)

Yes this guy, Seriously, Tarvaris Jackson. He scored 3.14 points.

He was truly playing some MillenBall