I had a buddy say to me on Tuesday. "I'm trying to think of a reason not to start Mitch in round 1 of my playoffs". I thought he was joking but he laid out an okay case for it. He's hugely into analytics and laid out a bunch of reasons why Mitch could be a sleeper candidate to go off.
I shit you NOT this dude basically foresaw the future of exactly what happened in this game. He brought up how Trubisky started running more the prior two games vs NYG and DET. He thought Dallas's D would be vulnerable to a running QB. He talked about how well our matchups are with our WR's vs their DB's if the line can just protect Mitch. Dude was like a wizard.
What did I do? I sat there and laughed at the poor bastard. Told him that Mitch had one good game vs a horrible Lions D. That just one week prior he was all over the place vs a bad Giants D and that the 1 yard rushing TD bolstered his fantasy line to make it look good. I laid out all of these reasons against it.
Ugh... I owe that guy a beer. I pray he wins or I'm such a douche.