Archive for August, 2009
Brand New ESPN Power Rankings
The first of many meaningful 2009 power rankings are coming out. These are great tools for draft day since basically the writers have ranked the teams 1-32….if you like the way these guys rank the teams you can pretty much just bring the list to the draft and take the highest available team on it when it [...]
Favre Ends Annual Retirement to Sign With Vikes
I love the way Jeff from Yardbarker put it - read on:
It’s just your classic — boy retires from Packers, wants to unretire, gets traded to the Jets, plays one forgettable season in New York, retires from football, contemplates comeback with Vikings, retires again before officially unretiring, then signs two-year contract with Vikings…so that he has [...]
Favre a Viking…As Expected
The only thing shocking about this is that the media won’t be able to talk about Favre thinking about unretiring. Does this up the Vikings’ stock for TEAM-based fantasy Leagues? The ESPN guys seem to think so…
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4407157&categoryid=2378529&ex_cid=MyESPNToday_Video
The NFC Championship Game We Thought Would Happen Last Year
While watching the tail end of the Panthers / Giants Preseason game tonight I’m remembering that after last year’s regular season everyone was thinking these two would meet in the NFC Championship Game. And if they didn’t meet in the game certainly ONE of them would have made it. Of course both got upset in the Divisional Round of [...]
Favre Saga Continues
Is this thing ever going to end? I thought Sage Rosenfels played pretty well over the weekend. If he keeps doing well we might finally be able to put this thing to bed. I’m not sure Brett Favre really increases the Vikings draft status anyway - they are a solid late 1st round early 2nd round [...]
Mark Sanchez Looks Good Early
Watching the NFL Network’s Preseason coverage of the Jets / Rams game and it’s clear the world wants Mark Sanchez to be the starter. And why not, he looks the part and is far more interesting than having Kellen Clemens back there.
Teams to Stay Away From This Year
I thought this was a great article with perfect application to JHB Sports TEAM-based leagues…but keep in mind, the Falcons were on a list just like this last year:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9919766/These-teams-will-challenge-Lions-for-futility-in-’09
Who Will Be the Surprises?
Who will be 2009’s surprising late round draft picks like Atlanta, Miami, and Baltimore were last year? Is New England the hands down 1st overall pick like they were in 2008…and how did that work out for those that drafted the Patriots?? Arizona was picked late in the 3rd round in most Leagues last year [...]
Carolina’s Steve Smith Hurt in Preseason
Does this effect where the Panthers get picked in teams-based drafts? They went 12-4 last year being picked in the bottom half of most drafts. I seem to remember Steve Smith had some issues last year in preseason too…
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4391001&categoryid=2378529&ex_cid=MyESPNToday_Video
Draft Order
I often get asked the question “If I got to choose, where would I want to pick in an 8-player league’s draft order? For that you really just have to ask yourself 2 questions:
1. Are there 1, 2, or 3 teams that I ABSOLUTELY want? In other words, no matter what I definitely want ONE of these [...]
