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If you’re reading this post right now, one of three things is happening:
One, you are in your league’s championship round and looking for some advice as you try to make the most important lineup decisions of the season. We congratulate you, and we’re here for you. Skip ahead and start soaking in the analysis as you go for your league’s equivalent of The Shiva.
Jon will have the overall Week 12 start/sit post ready to go for tomorrow morning, but with three games on Thanksgiving Thursday I thought it might be helpful to do a special start/sit column for those games.
So in this post I’ll do just that, providing analysis and recommendations for the key players you need to decide on before Turkey Day.
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After losing my Week 1 matchup for fantasy, I am ready to call it quits. Not sure I’m cut out for this.
The first week was full of hard-hitting action and high scores, and with that combination comes the injuries. Here’s your injury update to make sure your second week goes better than my first!
Week One is finally here. You have done all the research (you know, the usual: waiver wire picks…injury updates…comparing QBs to Michael Jackson songs…), you have gone through your draft, and most importantly, you have started talking smack to everyone in your league.
You only have one job left to do: start the right guys.
Nothing could be worse than having an awesome team…on your bench.
Each and every one of us has a fantasy sob story or two, and it’s almost a guarantee that one of them revolves around sitting the wrong guy.
So who are you going to start this week?
With Jon, Drew, and others taking over some of the weekly fantasy football columns this year, I have been forced to find a way to fit myself into the fantasy football analysis. My first thought is that I should do a “tips sheet” type post in which I periodically pull together some of my random fantasy-related musings.
Since I have now participated in several drafts and am starting to get a feel for how general values, ratings, and draft positions are shaping up this year, now seems like as good a time as any for the first Fantasy Football Tips Sheet post.
So here are some tips.
Every year there is a player who emerges late in the season to propel a mediocre team to fantasy football championship around the world…
Hey, remember Jerome Harrison? You probably do if you had him on your fantasy team… I sure as hell do seeing as he single-handedly knocked me out of the playoffs last year.
So maybe you just snuck into the playoffs or you’re a good team who happens to have some brutal match-ups (i.e. Cedric Benson against the Steelers) – well you’re in luck because you have a Choice – crash out the playoffs in a blaze of glory or make the only logical Choice there is – add Tashard.
(Editor’s Note: The Sports Agent Corner is our periodic Q&A with Dallas-based sports agent Gary Glick of Synergy Sports, Inc. Learn more about Gary and see his list of past and present clients at the Synergy Sports website.)
MSF: Give us an update on your players currently on NFL rosters.
Gary Glick: Interesting year so far. We had several that were released and several doing well. One of the ones to watch is Mike Adams at Arizona (#27). He is small at 5’8” but has been very effective on special teams and is a very sure tackler.
MSF: How does the beginning of the UFL influence your landscape? Is this a place where you are going to actively direct your clients who cannot make it on an NFL roster right now? Is the UFL immediately on par, better than, worse than the CFL?
Starting a new semi-regular feature: TSTICAMW (aka Today’s Statement I Couldn’t Agree More With).
The premise is simple. All day long I stumble upon blog posts and stories relevant to our readers here at MSF. When I find something that I really agree with — something that, in fact, I could not agree more with — I will post it under the heading TSICAMW.
And today’s TSICAMW comes from the good folks at Pro Football Talk, who provided their take this morning on the smoke that is beginning to build around Deion Sanders’ relationship with Eugene Parker and how that might or might not be influencing the “mentoring” that Primetime is doing for players like Michael Crabtree, Dez Bryant, and Noel Devine.
And you know what they say about “where there’s smoke…”
Here is the statement and a link:
