Are you Ready for some Football?

Its been a while since our last post, but we are inching closer to the best time of the year, Football season and of course Draft Day. It should be once again another interest season in the NFL with some big name players on the move such as Terrell Owens, Matt Cassell, the return of Tom Brady and of course another fresh batch of rookies. Lets also not forget the possible return of Michael Vick, if you thought the Miami Dolphins were exciting to watch with Ronnie Brown running the Wildcat Offense I cant wait to see what team picks up Michael Vick to run it........

We will be posting within the next few days our rookie preview, sleepers and player ready to take the next step towards Fantasy stardom and those who should be filing their retirement papers like Tory Holt and Marvin Harrison.

Fantasy Football Superbowl Week

Weather and Injuries will play a big factor in this weeks fantasy football superbowl. Cold weather, snow and Ice have hit the east cost and some nagging injuries are bothering some star players such as Marion Barber, Clinton Portis, Tony Romo, Anquan Boldin to name a few.

What do we do?? Do I use Tony Romo or Kurt Warner......

Making the right decision 100% of the time is almost impossible, but if you are still alive today you have probably done a pretty good job.

Be smart this week, stay away from the injured players and stay away from the east coast bad weather games.....GOOD LUCK.

Fantasy Playoffs Just a Few Weeks Away

We are getting into crunch time in fantasy football leagues. The beauty of the NFL is that every week counts. Week 1 games are as important as week 10 and week 16. As we enter another big week, we are all left with tough decisions to make with regards to our starting lineup.

Who do you start??
Kurt Warner vs the Giants or Tony Romo vs the 49ers?

Ricky Williams or Amad Bradshaw

Amad Bradshaw or Leon Washington

Darren McFadden or anyone else in the league???

Suicide Pools
This week we liked the Steelers on Thursday night home for the Bengals, but we have not used the Dallas Cowboys who will be our top pick this week.

Thank You Sean Payton!!!

I would have loved to see Drew Brees get hurt in the final seconds of Sundays butt kicking vs the Atlanta Falcons. The Saints were down over 20 points with 5 seconds to play and instead of kneeling on the ball and putting an end to the misery they elected to throw a hail mary that was caught by Lance Moore for a TD.

In my fantasy league this was worth 16.8 points and I played against both Brees and Lance More and lost by 9 points.

If you could Change Your Fantasy Draft Picks......

We all love to look at our fantasy drafts and play the what if I drafted Chris Johnson over Larry Johnson, or Matt Ryan over Derek Anderson my team would have 3-4 more wins. Many of the fantasy studs over the past few years are nothing more than below average players. This list include Larry Johnson, L. Tomlinson, Hines Ward, Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, Braylon Edwards, Marvin Harrison, Tory Holt, Antonio Gates and Ryan Grant and even Darren McFadden who was likely selected over many of the other rookie running backs this year.

The new list of fantasy studs include Roddy White, Chris Johnson, Matt Forte, Matt Ryan, Michael Turner, Steve Slaton, Brandon Jacobs, Lance Moore, Donnie Avery and Kurt Warner. Its not to late to try to trade some of the "Big Name" players noted above to try to get your hands on some of these new studs.

Fantasy Stinkers

Well after this week we find out who the true fantasy stinkers are. The injuries are starting to pile on as usually as I lost two of my running backs this week in Michael Pittman and Kolby Smith OUT FOR THE SEASON. My other running backs, Larry Johnson SUSPENDED, the other Darren McFadden has turf "toes" and basically has done nothing this year.

The Dallas Cowboys "STINK" They put together a "Jim Mora" performance on Sunday vs the Giants. The game was over before it started and the Cowboys will really regret trading their entire draft for Roy Williams when the lions are picking in the top 10 because the Boys are in serious trouble with a tough schedule remaining. They are the perfect example of why any other team even thinking about doing the HBO sports special "Hard Knocks" DONT DO IT. As entertaining as it is, it is like the Madden Football Game Jinx!

Mid Season Fantasy Awards

Most Valuable Player: Drew Brees
This is an easy one as Brees has been consistent each week with 300 yard games and multiple touchdowns. Move over Peyton Manning as Brees has passed him and Tom Brady due to injury as the top QB.

Most Valuable Non-QB: Clinton Portis
No Tomlinson, No Adrian Peterson, No Randy Moss, No Terrell Ownes, No Braylon Edwards, they all have "stunk" through the first half of the season. Portis has had 100 yard games and TDs and has been a solid performer week to week. It may even be time to think about trading him at his high as he is getting up there in age and his value is at an all time high.

Rookie of the Year: Chris Johnson
Another easy choice, many would have picked Darren McFadden or Jonathan Stewart, but Chris Johnson will be a first round draft pick in all leagues next season and looks like the real deal fantasy stud. Honorable Mention goes to Matt Ryan and Matt Forte.

Biggest Surprise Fantasy Player: Roddy White
Its rare that a team with a rookie QB puts up the stats on a consistent basis as Roddy White has, but again scored a TD this week and has been a solid performer all season. He is this years version of Braylon Edwards who scores every week.

Week In Review

Well this week was another roller coaster ride for fantasy owners. Drew Breese and Kurt Warner continue to lead the way among quarterbacks, but finally after 8 games Peyton Manning finally decided to show up and contribute with two passing and one rushing TD this week.

Chris Johnson continues to excel as the top rookie and solid running back, while the first rb selected in the NFL Draft Darren McFadden continues to sit with turf toe and is just about useless.

I am a Derek Anderson owner and I can't wait until the Browns bench this guy and get the Brady Quinn era going. It is time to start to pick up some of these players who may still be on your leagues free agent lists.

Are you Ready for SHC Basketball??

After 7 weeks of Fantasy Football, I am tired of seeing my players get hurt (Romo) suspended (LJ- Winslow), tired of Peyton Manning throwing for less yards and TDs that Gus, JT O'Sulivan, Jeff Garcia, Dan Orvolosky and other qb names that I cannot spell non the less pronounce.

What do we do about this you ask, well we can quit fantasy football which we talk about every year, but I am a realist and I know that will not happen, but rather we will do the next best thing which is get ready for BASKETBALL SEASON!!

We have our league draft on Saturday morning, which will cause me to miss my daughters soccer game. Think of all the family affairs we have all missed as a result of spending 12 hours in front of the T.V on Sundays hoping and praying that players like Jacob Hester might score a TD. That's the beauty of fantasy Basketball.......THERE IS A TOMORROW!!!

How the Mighty have Fallen!!!

I am sure I am not the only fantasy football owner wanting to kill themselves over players like Terrell Owens, Larry Johnson, Ladanian Tomlinson, Braylon Edwards, Derek Anderson, Peyton Manning, Antonio Gates, etc All of the "stars" and top players in their position are being outplayed by the likes of Owen Daniels, Matt Ryan, Lendale White, Chris Johnson, Matt Forte, Roddy White.

We are seeing a changing of the STARS in Fantasy Football this year. Next year you will no longer see LT and LJ at the top of the draft boards, instead you will see players like Matt Forte, Chris Johnson, Matt Ryan, Roddy White. This has been an interesting season thus far through the first seven weeks filled with heart ache and key injuries to Tom Brady, Tony Romo, etc. It may not be to late to attempt to take advantage of some of your fellow owners and try to "steal" some of the up and coming stars for the old big name players like Terrell Owrns and Ladanian Tomlinson who will still command talent in trades.

Week 7 Suicide Pool Pick of the Week

Remember my rules of picking games for a suicide pool, avoid division games, avoid road team, avoid Monday and Sunday night games.

Those rules don't leave us many options this week, but our Suicide Pool Pick for Week 7 would be the Dallas Cowboys vs the Rams, but since we used the Cowboys our pick this week is the N.Y Giants back at home vs the 49ers.

Who do you start this week?

Here we are at week 7, not even the half way point and this football stuff has me run down. As I sit here battling a cold I am also trying to figure out who to start at quarterback this week. Here is where I love the brain trusts at ESPN who tell us to start Peyton Manning, Eli MAnning, and Drew Breese.......

Well how about picking a starting quarterback out of this group: Who would you start this week in a 2 QB league along side Peyton Manning:
a) Tony Romo
b) JP Losman
c) Rex Grossman
d) Jim Sorgi

Fellow fantasy owners these are problems, I wish i could "start" Drew Brees like they say on ESPN, but like many other owners this week i am trying to figure out which "bum" to start who may get lucky and get some playing time. I decided to go with JP Losman, the man the Bills traded a #1 draft pick to the Dallas Cowboys for who cant pass Trent Edwards on the depth chart. Maybe Edwards will take another big hit today and have to go to JP. WISH ME LUCK!

Shawn Alexander......WHY???

The Washington Redskins signed Shawn Alexander to a contract this week that will pay him about $900,000 for the rest of the season. Ladell Betts went out with an injury this week (surprise) so the Skins needed some depth at running back. My friend and fellow fantasy owner tried to pawn off Alexander on me this week since I have Clinton "The MVP" Portis and of course I had ZERO interest in trading for him.

Shawn Alexander averaged 3.5 yards per carry in his last year with the Seahawks and basically fell down after every hand off. He was just about useless as a fantasy player and real life running back. He doesn't catch passes out of the backfield, he cant run the ball so why did the Skins sign him. My friend the Chef who is obviously qualified to attempt to convince me that the Skins will try to limit Portis's carries to keep him fresh and he may be right for the fact they want to limit his carries, but it wont be with giving Alexander more carries. So the Chef decided to offer me a friendly wager of a meal at our next draft that Shawn Alexander will score more than 5 Touchdowns this season. Keep in mind he had 4 in his last season with the Seahawks, so I took this wager. Mr Chef I look forward to my dinner at next years draft, hopefully you will have some draft picks....

Foobtall Injuries Starting to Pile on-----PREPARE!!

The NFL is a dangerous game, you could probably argue the fact that the sport should be outlawed as player are to big, to fast and to strong. Fantasy football teams need to realize that it is starting to get late in the season and its time to back up your stars. How many of the Tony Romo owners had brad Johnson on their roster??? Probably not many, but dont let this happen to you. Make sure you dont get stuck without a qb going into the second half of the season and the playoffs. Pick up Jim Sorgi if you have Peyton Manning, pick up David Carr if you have Eli, etc.

YOu should also do the same for the star running backs. Joe Addai is out 2 to 4 weeks and with Mike Hart also now out for the season with a torn ACL who will be running the ball for the COLTS.....NO ONE, Peyton will throw is 100 times this week. Good news for Peyton Manning owners.

Good luck this week and make sure you monitor the free agent wire and be a week ahead of the next star to go down this week.

Week 6 ALL STINK TEAM

Week 6 was a tough week with injuries to Tony Romo, Felix Jones and of course the Kellen Winslow situation with swollen you know what.....
Take a look at the names on the Week 6 All Stink Team, on paper you would think this team couldnt lose on Sunday, but this team STUNK, get rid of all of these players with the exception of Jonathan Stewart becuase due to injuries to Qb's these players will not get you to the promised land.

Qb- All but maybe 5 Qbs: what has happend to the Qb play in the NFL, its amazing how many bad quarterbacks there are out there. Matt Cassel STINKS, Matt Hasselback STINKS, Jon Kitna STINKS, Derek Anderson STINKS, Ryan Fitzpatrick STINKS, Marc Bulger STINKS, I can keep going........

WR- Terrell Owens: defenses are keying on him, but he has to stop the complaining and play. we all thought the Cards-Cowboy game would be nothing but offense and Mr Owens once again dissapointed fantasy owners with a grand total of 4 catches for 36 yards. STINKS!!!

WR- Randy Moss: this may not be all Moss's fault, but he is performing like he did with the Raiders. No Tom Brady, no more lazy route running and Moss's posted a whole 3 catches for 26 yards. STINKS! And you wanted me to trade Clinton Portis for Moss GINO???

WR- Tory Holt: I was expecting the Rams to come out and throw the ball a lot vs the Skins on Sunday and all Tory Holt did was catch 4 passes for 36 yards. STINKS!!!!!!!!

RB- Willis McGahee: This guys career may be over, a total of 8 carries for 18 yards. The Ray Rice era should begin this coming week. Get rid of Willis fast, he STINKS!!!

RB- Jonathan Stewart- just when we all started to get excited about Stewart thinking he is the next stud running back he carries the ball 6 times for 12 yards....STINKS!!!!!!! Its time to move Stewart back to the bench until he can show more consistency.

Week 5 Start Em & Sit Em

If you are like me, you are all sick of reading ESPN and all the other websites about who to start and who to sit. What kind of leagues to these media outlets think we are in?? Do you think we need to be told to start Marion Barber, start Donovan Mcnabb, i am sitting here wondering if I should start Selvin Young or Ricky Williams. These are problems, i wish i had the luxury of deciding to start Marion Barber or LT each week.....

Lets start with the "SIT EM's"
1- Chris Johnson: if you have some depth at running back and as good as CJ has been this may be the week to sit him. The Titans are facing the Ravens this week who not only havent allowed a running over 100 yards in 22 straight games, they knocked Rashard Mendenhall OUT for the season last week.

2- Patrick Crayton: Crayton is going to drive fantasy owners nuts all year. He had a solid week last week vs the Skins, but the team lost and TO went wild again. Look for TO and Felix Jones to get those touches that went to Crayton last week. I wish I could take my own advice and bench Crayton in my league, but I dont have anyone else to play. Lets hope I am wrong on this one, but I doubt it.

3- Bengal WRS: I would sit both Ocho Cino and TJ Housh with the questionable QB play, especially if Carson Palmer cannot play.

Week 5 "START Ems"
1- Matt Cassell: coming off a bye week look for Cassell to start to throw the ball down field more to Randy Moss and open up the offense. I anticipate 275 yards and 2 TDS from Cassell.

2- Steve Breaston: You saw the post about Breastons stock up with Boldin out, look for Breaston to have another big day this week.

3- Issac Bruce: He has scored TDs the last two weeks and should be playing from behind vs the Patriots coming off a bye week.

4- Armani Toomer: with Plaxico Burress out this week, who else are they going to throw to.....

Week 4 Fantasy Football ALL STINK TEAM

The ALL Stink team represents NFL Players who "STUNK" in week 4. These are players who fantasy owners look for a lot more from.

We all heard of the All Pro team, well the ALL STINK team is a group of solid players who did nothing to help their fantasy teams win and either make fantasy owners either drink or go gray or both because they STUNK ON SUNDAY!!!

Quarterback: Derek Anderson
Well this was an easy choice, I own Derek Anderson in multiple league and the guy has shown nothing and its only a matter of time before the Brady Quinn era begins in Cleveland. For those of you who own DA, its time to cut him lose and look for other options. You are better off with Ryan Fitzpatrick starting for you at the QB positions.

Running Backs: Felix Jones and Chester Taylor
This was another easy selection for week 4, after reading about how the Cowboys were going to get Felix Jones more touches he not only didn't carry the ball on Sunday but he did not even catch a pass. Felix is a risky start for the rest of the season as long as Marion Barber is healthy.

Chester Taylor is another "stinker" in week 4 with one carry for zero yards and no catches. With Adrian Peterson a little banged up fantasy owners thought "Chester the Molester" would get more carries but once again let owners done. I would not use Chester Taylor unless AP is ruled OUT.

Wide Receiver: Andre Johnson
Andre Johnson of the Houston Texans had 3 catches for 38 yards on Sunday vs Jacksonville. If you would have told me that the Texans would score 27 points and pass for over 300 yards and Andre Johnson would only have 3 catches for 38 yards I would have said you are NUTS!!! However, that is exactly what happened. Fantasy owners need more out of Andre Johnson and I am predicting we wont see AJ on the ALL STINK TEAM anymore this year.