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Sara, AKA the Fantasy Football Librarian, is featured as a guest blogger on the NY Times football blog The Fifth Down this week. Her blog, if you haven’t checked it out already, is home to an absolute wealth of fantasy football information, so it wasn’t surprising that I learned something new from her Times post – apparently there’s a documentary about fantasy football out there. This I gotta see.
It’s still ridiculously early, but there are already a few published mock drafts for next year’s fantasy football season out there…
NFL.com: I find quite a few nits to pick with this one. One could certainly argue for Tom Brady as the top overall pick, but despite the terrible year for tailbacks that 2007 was, I’m still taking Tomlinson with the top pick. They’ve got A-Pete 2nd, and while he’s plenty tempting, I’ll take the sturdy LT over a guy as injury-prone as Peterson any day. Ronnie Brown (12) goes too late; I’d grab him mid-1st-round for sure. Same with Joseph Addai (8) – what in the world did he do this season that would make him anything but a top-5 pick?
The Hazean’s mock first round: Now this is more like it. Every pick makes sense to me. The only things I’d change would be to bump Addai (3) above Peterson (2), and to drop Peyton (8) down to 10 or so, which would slide Gore and Lynch up. To be honest, I really wouldn’t draft him in the first round at all this year. I truly believe he and Harrison had something special, and since Harrison doesn’t seem likely to ever be the threat he once was, I think Peyton’s numbers, while they’ll continue to be pretty great, won’t ever reach those astronomical 2004 levels again. (More …)
At least, unless he’s not a man of his word, that is:
Johnson admitted Thursday on the NFL Network that he has “gotten out of line every now and then.” But he added, “What great one doesn’t? What great one is not emotional about what he does? What great one does not have passion about what he does? What great one hates losing?
“Find me a great one that doesn’t do the same things that I’ve done in the past and I’ll stop playing. Period.”
All it should take to end his career is a phone call from this guy…
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…as well as those of us who are not too fond of the Manning family as a whole. I have to give the Giants props though, as they played the perfect game plan to take the Patriots out of their rhythm. Towards the end of the season, teams realized that the only way to beat the Patriots was to pressure Tom Brady (which takes Randy Moss out of the game as Brady doesn’t have time for those deep bombs), but the Giants were the only team with defensive players good enough to actually make it happen. I guess we’ll have to wait until next season to see the Patriots go 19-0!
