I believe this is my fourth season of Fantasy Football. I made a short attempt at attending to a Baseball team, but never could handle the depth and span of all the players, stats, games and strategy. And plucking eyelid hairs seems more enjoyable than attempting to manage a Fantasy golf team. Being on the east, I had a slight advantage to be well rested, awake and ready for the noon time draft. This year I got stuck with my worst pick level yet at 8th and its automatic that I won’t see LT, Shaun Alexander, or this year’s top pick Larry Johnson…
Given that the strategy is to pick up RBs early, I won’t see a lead QB either – McNab, Mannings or Palmer. I’ll have to settle for rolling the dice on WR and hope that the RBs that I am left with will be supper stars this year.
But in all reality, even if you are in the first few top seeds of the draft, you still need to know some depth in the field to pick some great players. I don’t think anyone in this league except for Wang and Burke have the up front knowledge. Sak and Jared just stumble on dumb luck and talk more shit than they can take.
So this year I think I picked up a good team here it is:
Pick – Rank – Player – Position
1. (8) Steven Jackson (RB)
2. (17) Willis McGahee (RB)
3. (32) Matt Hasselbeck (QB)
4. (41) Roy Williams (WR)
5. (56) Todd Heap (TE)
6. (65) Joe Horn (WR)
7. (80) Tatum Bell (RB)
8. (89) Michael Clayton (WR)
9. (104) Atlanta (DEF)
10. (113) Drew Bledsoe (QB)
11. (128) Heath Miller (TE)
12. (137) David Akers (K)
13. (152) Chad Jackson (WR)
14. (161) Dallas (DER)
15. (176) Travis Henry (RB)
I’m telling you now Travis Henry is the sleeper RB of the year… no one will draft him but he’s going to put up some good numbers this year in Tenn.
The guy is two years into his 3 year contract and he can’t put together an offence (with Moss, Jordan, Porter, and Collins) and a defense (with Sapp, Burgess, and Morrison). Then I show up to my local spot, the Village Tavern (a west village hang out spot with a dozen flat screens, the NFL game day package and free food at the half time breaks!!!), and the Jets and Raiders are going at it today. We could have gone to the game as tickets couldn’t even be given away – Jets were easily one of the worst teams in NFL…
This has to be one of the most idiotic decisions in management history or just classic Raider management… Collins, the obvious Raider starter was 4th in the league in passing yards through 13 games (with the sit out, he’s down to 7th). He’s 10th in the league in touchdowns through the same number of games. Tui? Haven’t seen anything productive from him since his 99 Washington Huskies days… and we still haven’t – especially when the Jets had him on the mat 6 times this game.
Still the decision to remove Collins, I believe, has less to do what the media says as ineffectiveness of Collins and more to do with Norv Turners ineffectiveness to develop plays and an offense that matches up to the abilities of Moss, Jordan and Collins. The result of the removal… the Raiders third loss, and the Jets first win in 9 games… and this is what we saw of Tui —-
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