The Chicago Bears season ended Sunday with a 17-13 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. Lovie Smith, players, and fans alike were generally happy with the victory.
I was not.
Talents of Jay Cutler and Matt Forte being wasted by Jerry Angelo and the Chicago Bears front office
January 1, 2012 By 2 Comments
Matt Forte Injury Update: Leaves Game With Knee Injury
December 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
Matt Forte and any underpaid star athlete’s biggest fear – sustaining a serious injury before securing a contract extension – may have, unfortunately, come true earlier today.
NFL Midseason Awards
November 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
The NFL season is half over, and many stories that seemed oh-so important back in August now have little bearing on the season.
We fans fretted and conversed about the lockout and missed training camps, the kickoff rule change, a certain “Dream Team” in Philadelphia, and a #1 overall draft pick who just wasn’t going to cut it as an NFL quarterback; but few predicted the Bengals, Giants and 49ers would lead their divisions at this point.
Chicago Bears v Philadelphia Eagles: Monday Night Football Preview and Prediction
November 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
The 4-3 Chicago Bears travel to the “city of brotherly love” to take on the 3-4 Philadelphia Eagles tonight. This game is very important to both teams as they each try to extend their winning streaks to three while trying to stay alive in the NFC playoff race.
Jay Cutler Dominates: Don’t Pay Forte, Pay Jay
November 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
Enough with this “Pay Forte” stuff. It’s getting pretty old, and I believe it has no real merit.
So what if the guy has nearly 50% of the offense’s total yards and leads the team in both receiving and rushing yards and gets paid less than a million dollars a year? Trust in Jerry Angelo. He knows best.
Photo Story: “Bust Buddies” with Philip Rivers & Chris Johnson
November 2, 2011 By 9 Comments
Based on what they are being paid by their real life teams, and the production fantasy owners were expecting when they drafted them in the first two rounds, there have been no two bigger non-injury busts in fantasy football this season than Philip Rivers and Chris Johnson. (We’ll forgive Jamaal Charles and Peyton Manning for their season-ending injuries).
They are the stars of our latest photo story: “Bust Buddies”.
Fantasy Football Week 7 Stats To Know for Ray Rice & Matt Forte, DAW and JStew, and Mario Manningham & Victor Cruz
October 20, 2011 By 3 Comments
With six weeks in the books, you know where you stand and kind of team you have. You are either in coasting mode, maybe trying to find that one more player to complete your lineup, or you are barely breathing as you make every trade offer and waiver wire pickup you can. If you are in the latter group, take heed: there is help. There is still a way to win.
At this point in the season, we have collected enough data and stats to make more sound decisions. Then again, it’s all how you interpret those statistics. Here are a few I find interesting.
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Fantasy Football Week 5 Start Em, Sit Em: Start/Sit Picks, Player Projections, and Week 5 Lineup Advice
October 4, 2011 By 106 Comments
Injuries!
Andre Johnson is gone. Ben Roethlisberger is banged up. Miles Austin is on the mend. Marques Colston is back, but when will he get on track?
With the bye weeks now here, the time has come when fantasy leagues are truly won and lost. If you drafted well, and got a little lucky, you should be near the top of the standings. But nobody can ever completely escape the injury bug. Managing your lineup properly when byes and injuries attack is what separates the good owners from the great ones.
So let’s look at the Week Five games and decide who to start and who to sit this week.
Fantasy Football Week 2 Pairings: Rex Grossman/Santana Moss, Cam Newton/Greg Olsen, and more
September 17, 2011 By 2 Comments
Week 1 had some crazy swings that I don’t believe anyone could have expected.
LeGarrette Blount only given five carries?!
Steve Smith for 178 yards?! Listen, I knew that Arizona was trying to figure out their secondary and was very weak after getting rid of Rodgers-Cromartie, but I never would have recommended you play Cam Newton in his first game as a pro!
I have a friend, to save his identity we will call him Kentoso, who had a great draft and his team blew up this week which was expected, but he blew up in an unexpected spot. He had both Stafford and Calvin Johnson. While I thought both of them would do well, I didn’t think they would do that well together. Stafford is dedicated to getting the ball to his best receiver. Much like Stafford, Kentoso is dedicated to a few things; fantasy football, pairing a strong receiver/ QB together, and drinking until he has no shame.
This week’s predictions will look at QB dedications that they will try to exploit this week or lose trying.
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.
Chicago Bears-Detroit Lions Preview and Prediction
December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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It seems like a year has passed since these two teams had their first game back in Week 1, which featured one of the most devastating ways a team can lose a game.
On Sunday, the Detroit Lions(2-9) will try to avenge that Week 1 loss and steal a home-field victory over the surging Chicago Bears(8-3).
Fantasy Football Week 13 Start / Sit Picks
November 30, 2010 By
Well friends, I am disappointed to say that I dropped another game in the P&G-sponsored Blogger Fantasy Football League*. The loss drops me to 6-6 on the season and two games out of the final playoff spot. I now need to win out and I need help. That is never a good position to be in.
So what went wrong in Week 12? It would be easy to look at the tight end position, where I chose Vernon Davis over Kevin Boss. Davis proceeded to score three points, and I lost by four. Since Kevin Boss had 70+ yards and a TD, the winning production was sitting on the bench at that one spot.
But, just like the Buffalo Bills’ loss in Week 12 cannot be totally blamed on Stevie Johnson dropping that wide open TD pass, there were other positions that could have picked up the slack. Adrian Peterson was running wild before getting hurt and having to leave the game. Vincent Jackson, who I foolishly started in his first game back*, got hurt after two plays. Neither Mike Wallace nor Mike Thomas came anywhere close to the production they’d been getting recently.
* – One of my most trusted fantasy football principles has always been that I don’t start guys who are playing in their first game back after a long layoff. I prefer to wait for them to prove on the field that they are back, even it takes two or three weeks. I like seeing before I believe. Yet, here we are in Week 12, crunch time for all of us, and I recommend Sidney Rice as my WR start ‘em and then go with Vincent Jackson in the most critical week of my season in the Blogger Fantasy League. I failed myself and I failed you. I’m sorry. This is a great example of why having principles and sticking to them is so important. In Week 12, I was a doofus, and I cost us all.
Add it all up, and most of what could go wrong did go wrong, save for Eli, BenJarvus, and Dan Carpenter coming through huge. The real surprise is that I only lost by three points with this confluence of crap that occurred.
And with that, Week 12 is over. Thanks for letting me vent. It is time to turn our attention towards Week 13, and as I did last week, I will enlist your help later this week in setting my Week 13 roster.
Fantasy Football Week 9 Start, Sit Picks and Projections
November 1, 2010 By
Last week I opened up the Start em, Sit em post by telling you about how was I was off to a strong 5-2 start in the P&G-sponsored Blogger Fantasy League*. With the stakes being two tickets to the Super Bowl, you can imagine how much focus I’ve put on doing well in this league.
This week, I must regretfully inform you that I lost in Week 8, falling to 5-3 with a 14 point loss. The worst part? A win was sitting on my bench.
Monday Morning Observations: Tony Romo, Matt Forte, Jahvid Best, and more
September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Chicago Bears: What I Saw From Preseason Game 2
August 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
If you were looking for a more improved Chicago Bears team after watching them in preseason game one, you didn’t see it.
After a whole week of the coaches and players professing that they were going to come out against Oakland a better and improved team than how they played last week against San Diego, the Bears failed miserably to meet those expectations in a 32-17 loss.
