IDP Week 13 Waiver Wire Pick Ups In Review

You'll have to forgive my "human" side for a moment while I review my picks from last week.

I'll be the first to admit I make some bad calls here and there and I think most of you who know me over the years rarely ever see me brag about any of my picks. So that's why I ask you to forgive me for this rare moment of showing "Mr. Your Picks Suck" how I did last week.



In addition to my week 13 picks I made, I also recommended Brent Grimes & Abram Elam to some people via email & on the blog comments.  Grimes had an INT, 7 tackles and 6 pass deflections this week and Elam of Cleveland had 7 tackles and a pass deflection.
____________________________________

My Week 13 Picks from Last Week in Review:

DBs

Reed Doughty WAS had 7 solos 3 assists

T. Newman DAL had 6 solos

D. Patterson PHI had 6 solos

Tracy Porter NO had 5 solos 1 assist 1 pass deflection
or Greer who had 4 solos 1 assist, but I recommended Porter over Greer


LBs

I said Shanle of New Orleans had a bad matchup, but was worthy of a pick up from his previous 2 weeks. His lousy matchup did come true and lead to a lowly 4 tackle game

I recommended Geno Hayes of Tampa Bay or Quincy Black of TB and Black had 7 solos & Hayes had a mediocre game with 4 tackles and a pass deflection, but passable for a waiver wire guy


DEs

Giants Pierre Paul had 2 sacks, 3 tackles & a pass deflection
Avril DET had 3 sacks and 4 solos tackles

At the time of writing this, Baltimore & Pit are at halftime and my two picks below have the following so I'm not sure how they'll end up at the end of the game.

T. Suggs 1.5 sacks, 5 tackles

H. Ngata .5 sacks, 4 tackles

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'll have my normal Waiver Wire picks for week 14 posted during sometime after the Monday Night Football game.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------



I'll have my normal Waiver Wire picks for week 14 posted during sometime after the Monday Night Football game.


DBs

SS R. Doughty WAS has the Giants week 13. However, he'll be benched if Landry is back from his heal injury so you have to watch that closely. But if Doughty is starting then he's the first one I'd want from this week. He led the Redskins in the box scores week 12 and his matchup is as good as it gets week 13. He has the potential of a 12 tackle week and he had many big games like that last year so he's fully capable to have a big game vs. NYG.

CB Terrance Newman DAL is coming off another big week against the Saints and next he gets the Colts. He should get another 7 or more tackle performance.

CB Dimitri Patterson PHI had a slow week, but he had been on fire prior to his week 12 matchup.  Week 13, he gets Houston they should be firing the ball through the air a bunch to keep up with the Eagles. That bodes well for Patterson and I see no reason he shouldn't get back to his 7 tackles a game again.

CBs Tracy Porter NO & J. Greer NO should both have big weeks.  I believe the Saints will be WAY up on the Bengals and Palmer will have to throw a ton in catch up/junk-time. That will lead to tackles & INTs for one or both of them. If I has to choose one, I'd go Porter on a hunch, but I like both.

LBs

LB Shanle NO is for real. I know I'm slow on the draw on this one, but I didn't expect him to be as good as he was in a matchup vs. the Cowboys. I will warn that Cincy is an even worse matchup for LBs, but not much worse than I thought the Cowboys were so he's the best of the LBs on the wire.

LB Geno Hayes TB is another good matchup vs. Atlanta. He did well vs. the Ravens as expected and you should expect the same vs. the Falcons.

OLB Jarret Johnson BAL gets Pit week 13 where emotions always run high. The Steelers will work hard to establish their running game and Johnson should continue his 6 tackles or more trend he's been on.

LB S. Weatherspoon ATL is back and although he did very little against Green Bay, he's up against Tampa Bay week 13 and I estimate about 6 solos and a couple assists. If that's enough for you, than pick him up, but he will still be sharing reps with Nicholas here and there.

DEs

DE J. Pierre-Paul NYG is coming off a 2 sack week and get the Redskins who are giving up 5.5 sacks a week. I like his chances

DE T. Suggs BAL is a given against Pit. He should not be on your waiver wire, but his matchup is so good, I'm mentioning him as a reminder.

DE Haloti Ngata BAL has not done anything lately, but it's important to note that the last time he played the Steelers week 4, he had 11 total tackles and a sack. Even if he gets half of that production, it's better than both of my DEs that I start.  I'll definitely be giving him a try week 13.

DE C. Avril DET is worth a flyer vs. Cutler and the Bears week 13