Tactical Transactions: Moves to Make Before Week 11

In recently re-watching Remember the Titans for about the 47th time, I was reminded about what I believe to be perhaps the most outlandish bit of minutiae in all of sports moviedom. There is no way – NO WAY – Alan “Burnt Toast” Bosley was a “five-time, five-time player of the week!” as his father angrily exclaimed following his benching! Ryan Gosling has pulled off some incredible acting gigs over his career, but depicting Bosley as anything even remotely resembling a former stalwart defender was a bridge too far.

Think about it…

At the very beginning of the movie, his teammates are hard at work at a pad-less practice while he comes sidling up in preppy clothes, not a drop of sweat on him. Come training camp, he’s trading for extra dessert at his meals and throwing up during workouts (see again: lack of off-season preparation and clearly bad dietary habits). You could practically see him tiring while busting country moves for his roommate Blue Poitier, who finally reaches his breaking point in crying out “does the term cruel and unusual punishment mean anything to you?” While the directors undoubtedly wanted you to think this was about musical choice, Blue might as well have been talking about Bosley’s on-field performance, which was…lacking.

In the first game of the year, he gives up a touchdown almost immediately, acknowledging to team captain Gerry Bertier that he can’t keep up with the opposing receiver. Petey Jones, a running back (THE running back, ya’ll) known for little more than his fumbling problems, comes in and instantly makes an impact with a pass breakup and strong tackling, giving the Titans the Revis Island they desperately needed. When Bosley finally reemerges in the state championship, he makes it two for two in getting put in a pair of clown shoes giving up yet another score. I don’t know what types of metrics they kept back in those days, but quarterbacks targeting Bosley undoubtedly came away with a perfect passer rating.

Five-time player of the week. Was he the team’s kicker too? Maybe a valuable special teams gunner like Patriot Matthew Slater? The mascot? I don’t know the answers to these burning questions, but I do know that Alan Bosley was not coming away with those accolades based on his defensive performance.

Was there a point to this introduction? Maybe not. Maybe I just wanted to vent about one of the most ridiculous cinematic reveals in movie history.

Or maybe, if we really reach, we can think about not buying into our own early-season press clippings. Maybe Bosley had some success as a hungrier underclassman, but eventually, he stopped putting in the work. For the contenders among us, you’ve won the games you’ve won (both this year and in years prior), but you still have to keep your eyes on the prize. Keep grinding, making moves, and leveraging available advantages like our just-released November ADP. Don’t be like Alan.

Disclaimer! As you’re well aware by the fact you’ve come to a website entitled dynastyleaguefootball.com, we’re still taking a long view into account in addition to each player’s weekly (and year-to-date) output. Guidance will continue to take into account a player’s current stature in tools such as DLF’s ADP and rankings, in addition to how he’s performed.

One last note, as I’m referencing DLF ADP and rankings, advice herein is for a 12-team, non-superflex setting with full PPR scoring. Divergent league settings (both for starting positions and scoring) hopefully shouldn’t render this advice as not actionable, but it’s an important disclaimer nonetheless.

With that preamble in hand, here are the tactical transactions you should consider before week 11:

Buy (All Teams/Contending Slant) - Jonathan Taylor, RB IND