Monday, October 08, 2007

Fantasy Football Thoughts

  • Lets forget about the market for just this one entry.  It's not doing much anyways. 
  • I was shocked that the Bears offense was able to rise up and score points against the Packers in Green Bay.  The Packers imploded with turnovers, though. 
  • I think the NY Giants defense is a good fantasy defense for the next few weeks.  (Disclosure:  I just picked them up).  The Giants play Altanta, San Francisco, and Miami.  All teams are shuffling quarterbacks and struggling at offense.  Atlanta benched Joey Harrington and went to Brian Leftwich.  The 49ers lost Alex Smith and are starting Trent Dilfer.  The Dolphins lost Trent Green to a concussion and went with "Miss Cleo" Lemon, and may go with rookie John Beck.  Blitz, blitz and blitz some more.  Sacks, interceptions, hurries, turnovers... etc.
  • Likewise, any QB going up against the Detroit defense is a MUST start.  (I went with Jason Campbell this week.)
  • Fred Taylor is the number 1 RB in Jacksonville, but that offense is much more exciting with Maurice Jones Drew in, eh?
  • It's still early, but the biggest fantasy football bust this year has to be Saints' QB Drew Brees.  This has impacted every player on the Saints.  Brees was dumped in one of my leagues, and nobody has bothered to pick him up.  Also dumped:  Wide receivers Colston and Henderson.
  • Running Back Larry Johnson isn't doing anything, either. 
  • Suddenly, people are picking up players from the Arizona Cardinals as Kurt Warner takes over at QB and makes the offense look much better.
  • Going forward, it'll get interesting in Oakland.  That's an offense in transition.  Culpepper is the QB.  At running back, we have LaMont Jordan, but he has a gimpy back and Domminic Rhodes is coming off his four-game suspension.  Tough to say what will happen there, and it would be a shame (for fantasy football) if they go to running back by committee.

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