If you paid any attention to professional football in December you know that 2011 was a historic year for quarterback productivity.
Here is a list of the many passing and receiving records that were broken or tied during the 2011 NFL season:
A List of the NFL Single-Season Passing and Receiving Records Broken This Year
January 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
Fantasy Football Week 11 Injury Updates
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hey fantasy fanatics! Who’s ready for week 11? How are your teams shapin’ up? Let’s take a look at the important injuries for Week 11 and who we all need to keep an eye on heading into Sunday.
Fantasy Football Week 9 Stock Report: Blount, Flacco, more
November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
All the talk this year has mainly been of the struggles of Chris Johnson and Philip Rivers. As painful as it is to watch, dwelling on the problems will set you back.
Six team byes have been scaled back down to four this week, so fewer players will be sitting out of your matchups, but it will still likely necessitate at least one or two touch decisions; decisions you shouldn’t take lightly, because while this may be the middle of the season for the players, our playoffs are right around the corner and crunch time is upon us.
How many NFL teams would trade their current QB for Cam Newton right now?
October 31, 2011 By 17 Comments
How many teams would trade their current QB, right now, for Cam Newton?
This is a question I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past several weeks, as I continue to be more and more impressed (and surprised) by how well Cam Newton is transitioning to the NFL in his first season.
Fantasy Football Week 6 Stock Report: Daniel Thomas, Darrius-Heyward Bay UP; Matt Schaub, Reggie Wayne DOWN
October 15, 2011 By 4 Comments
Luckily for a lot of owners, there are not many major players who have a bye this week, except for my team…but I have faith in Jay Cutler!
Regardless, there may be some surprises this week from a few highly unknown RBs. This position may very well be the most important for owners in terms of touches for players, but on the professional level it is the most dispensable position, as almost anyone can succeed in the right situation.
If you are itching to see how Tim Tebow is going to follow up his breakthrough game in Week 5, then you are going to have to wait until next week, but if you want to hear a bunch of media chatter about him just turn on ESPN.
Having said that, we have a lot of good stuff for you in this week’s Stock Report.
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Fantasy Football Week 6 Injury Report: Updates on BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Rashard Mendenhall, Daniel Thomas, and more
October 14, 2011 By 1 Comment
We have lots of injury updates heading into week 6 of the NFL season, including the latest on running backs Rashard Mendenhall, BenJarvus Green-Ellis, and Daniel Thomas, so let’s get to it.
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.
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 1 Start Em, Sit Em Lineup Advice, Player Projections, and Roster Q&A
September 6, 2011 By 175 Comments
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?
All 32 Week One NFL Starting QBs…as Michael Jackson Songs
September 2, 2011 By 7 Comments
When Super Bowl XLVI arrives in Indianapolis come February 2012, it will be 19 years since one of the most iconic moments in the history of America’s most popular sporting event: Michael Jackson’s epic 1993 halftime show.
Unfortunately, the eternal King of Pop is no longer with us (he would have turned 53 just a few days ago on August 29th), and he thus he will never be able to follow in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen, The Who, John Mellencamp, and others who have taken to the Super Bowl stage as older musicians, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t weave the musical brilliance of Michael Jackson into a post about the National Football League.
So enjoy this homage to my favorite musician of all time, Michael Jackson, 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.
Fantasy Football Tips Sheet: Overrated and Underrated Players
August 29, 2011 By 12 Comments
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.
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Fantasy Football QB Rankings for 2011: Top 15 plus the “Stay Aways”
August 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
Well running backs, it was a good run (no pun intended). For over ten years, you have been fantasy football gold. The old cliche was that when draft night came, it was best to draft running backs early and often.
However, with the arrival of platoons in the backfield, a greater emphasis on passing, and unbelievable rule adjustments that make it practically impossible to defend the pass, running backs just aren’t as valuable as they once were.
In fact, one could easily make the case that there are several players of other positions who are more valuable than even the top running backs. This has never been more the case than it is this year at the Quarterback position.
But which quarterbacks should you be targeting in your drafts or when the free weekly FanDuel beat-the-expert contest starts? And which ones should you stay away from?
Just like I did earlier this week in ranking the running backs, here are my top 15 fantasy QBs for 2011, as well as my suggestions for who you should stay away from.
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Fantasy Football Week 8 Start / Sit Projections and Lineup Advice
October 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We are now 7 weeks into the 2010 Fantasy Football season and my combined record in six leagues is 32-10. In only one league am I not at least two games over .500. I don’t keep records of these sorts of things, but I cannot ever remember jumping out to such a strong start in so many leagues.
Making this especially exciting is that in one of my leagues, the P&G-sponsored Blogger Fantasy Football League*, the stakes are a trip to the Super Bowl for the winner. Those are the highest stakes I’ve ever played for. Add in the potential for bragging rights among my blogging buddies, and you can undoubtedly understand why I spend so much time attempting to optimize my lineup each week.
Speaking of the Super Bowl, do yourself a favor and check out the Text It To The House promotion. It’s a fun, easy weekly game you should be taking part in where you pick the five players who will have longest plays from scrimmage this week (Pierre Garcon! Pierre Garcon!).
Anyway, so far in BFL2010, despite making a few boneheaded decisions (dropping Thomas Jones) and losing one of my top WRs before the season even started (Sidney Rice), I’m sitting in a three-way tie for the best record in the league. Please, if you would, do me a favor and knock on some wood.
All of this early season success, of course, has me terrified.
Fantasy Football Week 6 Start em, Sit em Lineup Advice and Projections
October 12, 2010 By
Now that we are five weeks into the season, I think it’s time to start reassessing the conventional wisdom.
Regular readers know that I always trust established track records over small sample sizes, and I try best never to overreact, but it is important to remember that each NFL season is its own unique being. Thus, while I’m not ready to jump off the Matt Schaub bandwagon yet, I think it’s okay to not consider him a must start anymore. The same is true for DeAngelo Williams, who has seen the awful Carolina offense torpedo his value.
Week 6 is also important because every is back from suspension. We got to see the impact of Brian Cushing (minimal) and Santanio Holmes (not huge, but flashes of potential), and this week we get to see Ben Roethlisberger back under center for Pittsburgh. And as a Mike Wallace owner, let me just exalt…Halalujah!
Does Big Ben show up in this week’s start/sit? Let’s take a quick look back at last week’s hits and misses, then find out.
Seven Statistical Highlights from Sunday’s NFL Action
September 20, 2010 By 2 Comments
This came into my inbox last night straight from the NFL. Some pretty interesting numbers, factoids, and feats from yesterday’s games. Hopefully I get one of these every week; if so, I’ll certainly share.
Here we go: a look at seven statistical highlights from games played at 1:00 p.m. ET and 4:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, September 19, the second week of the 2010 season.
