Just because there’s no real football this weekend doesn’t mean we won’t have anything to talk about. Join MSF’s fantastic football foursome, Amanda Lawson, Drew Lange, Tyler Juranovich and myself for this week’s edition of “The NFC North Report.”
Mike McQueary’s Testimony On The Sandusky Shower Incident, The Sam Hurd Drug Saga, and Other Football Nuggets
December 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
It’s been a busy 24 hours in the football world.
Mike McQueary provided some disturbing but important (and damning) testimony about Jerry Sandusky; the Sam Hurd drug saga continued to unfold; and Adrian Peterson explained one of his motivations for returning to the field.
Fantasy Football Week 14 Start em, Sit em Advice, Projections, and Lineup Q&A
December 6, 2011 By 91 Comments
Week 14 is here.
For some of you, that means you have a team (or hopefully teams) on bye this week. If so, major kudos to you.
For others of you, Week 14 means that it’s the first week of the playoffs. If so, good luck, and hopefully the advice in this post will help you move on.
For others, Week 14 is the last week of your regular season. Maybe you’ve clinched a playoff spot or maybe you’re still scratching and clawing for one. Regardless, hopefully we can do you and your lineup some good with our picks in this week’s start em, sit em.
And for some of you this may be your first week without fantasy football – if your playoffs start this week and you did not make it; but if that’s the case, why would you be reading this?
Alas, if you’re here, you are looking for help in Week 14. And you’re in luck, because that is exactly what you’re about to get.
Adrian Peterson Injury Update: High Ankle Sprain, Status For Week 12 In Doubt
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the big stories coming out of Sunday’s games, in addition to Jay Cutler’s injury, was the injury to Adrian Peterson that forced the league’s best running back to miss most of Minnesota’s loss to Oakland (which surely induced many more crocodile tears).
Fortunately, it sounds like Peterson avoided any serious damage to one of the appendages that helps him run all day.
Packers-Vikings Preview: Point Spread, Prediction, and Analysis by Drew & Amanda
November 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
As they did last time the Packers and Vikings played, Amanda Lawson and Drew Lange decided to do their game preview in the form of an entertaining, candid email exchange
Here it is.
Fantasy Football Week 7: Last Minute Tips on Beck, Hardesty, Sanzenbacher, Sanchez, Peterson, and Fitzgerald
October 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Every week in fantasy football there will be guys who seemingly come out of nowhere and stars who disappoint. Let’s take a look at some players who fit each of those descriptions.
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Packers-Vikings Preview and Prediction: Lawson and Lange “Ponder” the Outcome of Green Bay at Minnesota
October 20, 2011 By 7 Comments
[Editor's note: In this episode of "Lawson and Lange", Packers fanatic Amanda Lawson and Vikings sufferer Jrue Lange discuss and predict this week's not-so-epic matchup between NFC North rivals. It's just not the same without what's-his-name...McNabb, I mean McNabb.]
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Amanda Lawson:
Drew,
I hope you are excited for Week 7′s game, Packers vs. Vikings, as the rivals duke it out. Of course “duke it out” could be changed to
“Packers trample over”. And I’m not saying that simply because I’m a Packers fan but am saying it because I have watched both teams this season. Any slightly educated football fan is aware that the Packers have the upper hand.
Fantasy Football Week 7 Start Em Sit Em: Start/Sit Picks, Player Projections, and Lineup Advice
October 18, 2011 By 70 Comments
Well, that was fast.
As soon as I opened up my big mouth and proclaimed that 2011 was going to be the most prolific fantasy year ever, scoring around the league plummets. No worries.
At least I had a great week on the predictions front, as I was right on nearly 80% of my picks.
As always, here is a quick look back at last week before we move on to week 7.
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Fantasy Football Week 6 Start Em Sit Em Picks and Player Projections for Hillis, Hernandez, Dez, Stevie J, and more
October 10, 2011 By 106 Comments
Is 2011 going to be the highest scoring fantasy season of all time? All signs indicate that it could be. Last season, seven players finished the season with more than 270 points (ESPN Standard Scoring). After four weeks this season, a staggering 18 players were on pace to beat that mark…and nine of them were QBs.
Like I said at the beginning of the season, gone are the days of fantasy rule by the RBs. Of those 18 players, only 5 are RBs…simply a staggering thought to anyone living in 2006 or before.
Jay Cutler Dominates: Jay Cutler vs The NFL’s Best RBs
October 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
I’ve already shown you how Jay Cutler dominated against the Falcons and the Saints, and how he is a much better and more balanced QB than to Aaron Rodgers, but what you may not also know about our boy Cutler is he is also the NFL’s best running back.
Surprising, I know, but that doesn’t take away from how completely and ridiculously true it is. Cutler has 853 career rushing yards to go with five rushing touchdowns.
I think it’s about time for Cutler-Payton comparisons.
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Fantasy Football Week 4 Start Em, Sit Em Picks, Player Projections, and Lineup Advice
September 26, 2011 By 154 Comments
Week Three is over, and you are probably wondering one thing: How is a guy that’s giving such great advice 0-3 in his own fantasy league?
I wish I knew…injuries have just killed me…and I’ve lost each week by an average of 1.2 points. Just heartbreaking.
Some of you are probably in the same boat as me. Even if you aren’t, it’s the time in the fantasy football season when leagues are won and lost. Now is when we have to start making the tough calls.
Fantasy Football Week 3 Start Em, Sit Em Advice, Player Projections, and Lineup Q&A
September 24, 2011 By 174 Comments
Week Three is here, and hopefully you aren’t 0-2. Don’t worry, it’s still not panic time…but it very well could be time to shake some things up. As always, let’s recap last week’s predictions before looking ahead.
Because we at MSF try our best to get you our Start Em, Sit Em picks before everyone else, we have to take a few chances. One of the downsides to coming out with these picks on Tuesday is that we won’t know all of the injury updates that come out later in the week. We answer your questions and update our predictions accordingly as more information comes out.
However, a few predictions didn’t pan out this week because of injuries (either during the game, or because guys with nagging injuries didn’t end up suiting up on Sunday)…so out of fairness to me, we are going to throw out Michael Vick, Felix Jones, and Dez Bryant.
So besides those guys who caught the injury bug, I went 29 out of 46 overall…a little under 65%. I improved from week one…and that’s exactly what you should try to do from week to week in fantasy.
Vikings vs Lions Week 3 Preview and Prediction
September 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Two weeks into the season and the Minnesota Vikings look like the best first half team in the league and the Detroit Lions look like one of the best full game teams in the NFC. This game has the potential to be the most exciting first half of football in this short 2011 season.
Minnesota Vikings vs San Diego Chargers Preview and Prediction
September 9, 2011 By 4 Comments
The last time these two teams met was back during Week 9 in 2007. It featured the greatest single game accomplishment in NFL history – Adrian Peterson put up an astonishing 296 rushing yards in only his eighth career game, only three games after running for 224 yards against the Chicago Bears.
Even though it is a small sample size, almost literally the smallest you could get, we can all expect Peterson will run for over 300 yards on Sunday afternoon right? Probably not, considering when Peterson set the record in 2007 his quarterback was Brooks Bollinger. I will never say anything bad about Brooks Bollinger (North Dakota native), but I think we can all agree that Donovan McNabb is a bit of an upgrade.
That being said, I don’t think there will be a need for Peterson to run the ball 30 times, especially in the first game of the season.
Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings: Don’t Be Lured By Sleepers In 2011
August 25, 2011 By 5 Comments
Everyone loves to draft a guy that he thinks is a sleeper. Why? Because it’s our way of proving to everyone else that, “Yes, I know more than you.” Beyond that, it’s simply quite fun to draft a guy that surprises everybody else.
Like I said before, it’s not that fun to draft Ichiro. You know exactly what you’re getting. (Or at least you used to know, before this season.) On the flip side, thinking about Jason Heyward’s upside gives us all visions of glory.
But when it comes to drafting running backs for your fantasy football team this year, save the “sleepers” for other positions.
