A sports blog by and for Midwest Sports Fans
Yesterday was a brutal Sunday in the NFL, both in terms of injuries and the quality of play. With so many prominent fantasy players banged up and six more teams on bye in Week Eight (Atlanta, Chicago, Green Bay, New York Jets, Oakland, and Tampa Bay), the waiver wire will once again be a popular destination.
Is 2011 going to be the highest scoring fantasy season of all time? All signs indicate that it could be. That means that making the right start em, sit em decisions has never been more crucial. So let Jon and Jerod help you set your Week 6 lineups in this week’s Start/Sit column.
Compared to the last couple weeks, there were relatively few impactful injuries during Week Five, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any attractive options on the waiver wire heading into Week Six. Andy Bottoms breaks down the prospects of Tebow, Torain, Carter, Cassel, and many more.
It was another intriguing weekend in sports, especially here in The Midwest where baseball is currently king and a changing of the guard is underway in the Big Ten. Here are 8 things we learned this weekend.
The Tinley children are on Fall Break, so we’re spending the week vacationing on Perdido Key. I was without Internet access until yesterday, when I successfully guessed the password for a wireless router in a neighboring condo. A word of advice: If you’re in Florida and your wireless password is “sunshine,” you’re inviting anyone who can pick up your signal to use your Internet. Anyway, here are some things we learned this week.
Six teams have a bye in Week Five, so many fantasy owners will be hitting the waiver wire in search of one week rentals to fill out their rosters while others are trying to fill holes created by injuries or ineffectiveness. Among the names analyzed in Andy Bottom’s waiver wire advice column for Week 5 are Crabtree, Cruz, Cook, Casey, Kendall Hunter, and many, many more.
Enjoy this homage to Jerod’s favorite musician of all time as we kick off our coverage of the 2011 NFL season. Here are all 32 Week One starting QBs in the NFL…as Michael Jackson songs.
With the two best QBs in the NFL set to face off this Sunday, Jerod takes a stab at MSF’s first ever NFL QB Power Rankings. Surprisingly, Derek Anderson did not make the top 10.
Shonn Greene and Alex Smith are two of the most prominent and obvious sleeper picks and waiver wire steals for Week 8. Check out who MSF and PFI believe will be the best Week 8 sleepers for your fantasy football lineups.
