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Starting Doug Martin

Those of you that play Fantasy Football can relate to this. Those of you that are good coaches probably cannot.  On Sunday, Doug Martin blew up for 50+ points in my Fantasy Football league. A few hours before, I was looking at my lineup deciding on whether to keep Doug Martin in the Flex position or start Calvin Johnson who had not practiced all week and had a knee injury. I decided to go and start Calvin Johnson thinking that my 2 other running backs, Darren McFadden and Trent Richardson could carry the load. I did not even think to take Denarius Moore out of the WR2 slot, put Calvin Johnson in there, and keep Doug Martin in the flex position. Maybe my judgement was clouded because I'm a UT fan. Maybe I made the decision based on the information that I received from a zillion sources in my email and online at the time. Either way, I made a very, very bad decision. Given the state of my life right now, being a good fantasy football player is one thing that I set as a part of goal...