November 9th, 2009 by ep
Every week, every game brings a storyline or two that fantasy-footballers had better follow. Week 9 was no different.
While Matt Forte and Steve Slaton continued their downward spiral, Chris Johnson and Ray Rice continued their strong play.
Also, Clinton Portis got hurt and Chris Chambers scored twice. Yes, Chris Chambers. What does all of that mean [...]
September 10th, 2009 by jzak
For years, the AFC-South was highlighted by one Peyton Manning and the perennially powerful Indianapolis Colts.
This year, there is a chance the Colts don’t even finish in the top half of the division. Sure, part of that is because the Colts may have lost a half-step, but it is more a factor of the improvements [...]
September 3rd, 2009 by ep
If you haven’t already drafted all of your teams, you’ll likely wrap everything up this weekend.
For those of you with selections to make, I’ve got some hurry-up thoughts:
Quarterbacks
Byron Leftwich was the best choice as starter in Tampa Bay. That doesn’t mean you should own any of their QBs. Take that back, pick up Josh Freeman [...]
August 6th, 2009 by ep
My rating system is no complicated formula factoring in age, projections and offensive scheme.
It used to be. In fact it used to be based on projections from some other fantasy football Web site. And despite paying all that money every year, I never followed the list from pick 1 to pick 20. I jumped down [...]
July 13th, 2009 by ep
As we all know, rookies surprised and disappointed to great effect last year. Darren McFadden and Rashard Mendenhall didn’t live up to the hype. Chris Johnson and Steve Slaton were absolutely Ninja.
What I’m saying is, that my guess is as good as anybody’s at this point, especially with zero hours of training camp logged.
But that’s [...]
June 10th, 2009 by ep
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I wrote and re-wrote this post twice and neither time was particularly happy.
About halfway through the second time, I realized the issue — it was something I didn’t even want to read. My points were buried under countless words of no value, rambling on about my fantasy team. You don’t care about my [...]