It was a good week for us on the streamable defenses front this week. How does that meme go? It’s not much, but it’s honest work? Or something like that. Well insert that in here now. The Jets were our top option this week against Dwayne Haskins and Washington. Nine points is an okay output there. The Oakland Raiders were our second option and were actually the highest scoring of our three choices from a week ago with 13 fantasy points against the Cincinnati Bengals. Even the worst of our three picks posted five points. In all, it was a good week for us.
We come out with this article every Tuesday on our website (www.weknowfantasy.com) to offer you three defenses owned in less than 40% of Yahoo and/or ESPN leagues that are available for streaming. At least one of the options will be owned in less than 10% of leagues as well to cater to as many leagues and readers as possible. You can find last week’s results below and previous week’s results at the bottom of this article.
Week 11 Results
New York Jets at Washington - 9 points
Oakland Raiders vs. Cincinnati Bengals - 13 points
Washington vs. New York Jets - 5 points
Week 12 Streamable Defenses
Seattle Seahawks at Philadelphia Eagles - Owned in 34% of Yahoo and 28.2% of ESPN leagues
The Seattle Seahawks are one of the best five football teams in the league and they’re playing their best when the time matters. They’re coming off a bye and get the Philadelphia Eagles, who are a middle-of-the-pack defense in terms of points allowed to opposing defenses. However, in the last game we saw the Seattle defense, they posted five sacks, an interception and two forced fumbles including a touchdown against a very good San Francisco 49ers’ offense. Over the past four weeks the Eagles have scored 10, 31, 22 and 10 points. They’re not playing their best football and Seattle needs to keep pace with the 49ers.
Detroit Lions at Washington - Owned in 8% of Yahoo and 7.6% of ESPN leagues
This is one of those picks going off of Washington being a lot worse on offense than the Lions are on defense, which is kind of hard to go. Washington has given up the fifth most fantasy points to opposing defenses and just allowed the New York Jets to post nine fantasy points a week ago. The team named Dwayne Haskins its starter for the rest of the season a week ago and we’ll continue to see the regular rookie struggles out of him. He had a decent outing against the Jets, but did throw an interception, making it five in the four games he’s seen game time. We’ll keep picking defenses that play Washington on a weekly basis.
Denver Broncos at Buffalo Bills - Owned in 20% of Yahoo and 17.2% of ESPN leagues
I guess I’m going with a clean sweep of picking away teams this week. This pick is more of one going with an actual good defense opposed to a suspect defense with a good match-up. The Bills aren’t a horrible match-up as they’ve allowed the 13th most fantasy points to opposing defenses. They have one of the best secondaries in the league allowing the fourth least amount of fantasy points to opposing wide receivers. They’re also good against the run where they’re allowed the 12th least fantasy points to opposing running backs. I expect Josh Allen and company to struggle a bit on Sunday and we could see a few errored passes, even though Allen hasn’t thrown an interception in five weeks.
Week 2 Results
Houston Texans vs. Jacksonville Jaguars - 10 points
Tennessee Titans vs. Indianapolis Colts - 8 points
Carolina Panthers vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - 6 points
Week 3 Results
Green Bay Packers vs. Denver Broncos - 13 points
San Francisco 49ers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers - 7 points
Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. New York Giants - 8 points
Week 4 Results
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cincinnati Bengals - 19 points
Indianapolis Colts vs. Oakland Raiders - 3 points
Cincinnati Bengals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers - 2 points
Week 5 Results
Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Jets - 35 points
Tennessee Titans vs. Buffalo Bills - 7 points
Arizona Cardinals vs. Cincinnati Bengals - 1 point
Week 6 Results
Washington at Miami Dolphins - 10 points
Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions - 3 points
Denver Broncos vs. Tennessee Titans - 23 points
Week 7 Results
Houston Texans vs. Oakland Raiders - 2 points
Detroit Lions vs. Minnesota Vikings - -4 points
New York Giants vs. Arizona Cardinals - 10 points
Week 8 Results
Detroit Lions vs. New York Giants - 11 points
Indianapolis Colts vs. Denver Broncos - 7 points
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Tennessee Titans - 5 points
Week 9 Results
Cleveland Browns at Denver Broncos - 5 points
New York Jets at Miami Dolphins - 6 points
Miami Dolphins vs. New York Jets - 8 points
Week 10 Results
Indianapolis Colts vs. Miami Dolphins - 8 points
New York Giants at New York Jets - 1 point
Kansas City Chiefs at Tennessee Titans - 5 points
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