Squish (252)
e-roc (119)
Jeff (53)
Mal (45)
Tommy (45)
Ken (42)
Amir (37)
Tj (29)
If you’re not interested in my personal fantasy football situation, skip this post. Brandon’s got some info you can actually use in his waiver wire report for week 16. I find it easiest to get a handle on a fantasy situation I’m in when I explain it to someone else, and hey, what luck – I’ve got a blog on fantasy football! Crazy how these things work out sometimes. Details on my finals matchup after the jump.
Updates from January, 2010
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My finals matchup
Matt
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Thanks for reading! (Oh, and one more thing...)
Matt
As the fantasy football season is quickly drawing to a close, I just wanted to say a quick thank-you to our readers who have made our first season of blogging a whole lot of fun. When we started this blog, we didn’t know if anyone would care about what we had to say, and we definitely had no idea that we’d wind up with thousands of readers every week. Your participation and feedback in the comments and the Ask the Geeks columns have made this a whole lot of fun.
If you like the blog, are into betting on sports, and are feeling in the holiday spirit, we’d be really pumped if you signed up with one of our new sports betting affiliates. They’ve got some nice bonuses for new clients, and they give us an affiliate fee if you sign up after clicking on one of the offers below. So if you’re thinking about betting on the Super Bowl or something anyway, it would be awesome if you helped support our blog along the way. We’ve also got one for poker thrown in there for good measure.
If you’re still live in your playoffs, best of luck. If not – well… happy holidays! Thanks again for visiting. We’ll be posting throughout the rest of the fantasy playoffs, and we’re planning on posting regularly with news and updates during the offseason as well.
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We keep winning things somehow
Matt
I was pretty pumped about our Draftmix Blogger Challenge victory a few weeks ago, though I have to admit feeling a little bad about winning something like that in our first season of blogging. Now I get word that the folks who run the Carnival of Fantasy Sports were nice enough to award the top prize to one of our posts in the first edition of their competition.
I’m really pleased to have our blog recognized, and even more pleased that it was one of my posts that took home the gold, and not one of Brandon’s. I believe the wisdom of Jack Black is particularly well-suited to this occasion: "Woohoo! I win! I win! One to nothing!"
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What is going on in Oakland?!
Brandon
Can anyone explain to me why JaMarcus Russell is not the starting quarterback for the Oakland Raiders right now?
The Raiders are 2-7, with their final games @ MIN, @ KC, DEN, @ GB, IND, @ JAX, SDG. The chance of the team winning any of those games except the Minnesota one (since Adrian Peterson will not be playing) is about 0%. Daunte Culpepper has proven that he is not the answer. Josh McCown…DITTO (at least I think he has proven this…apparently coach Lane Kiffin doesn’t agree). You can see their stats for the season below:
Josh McCown: 59.5 QB rating, 5 TD, 9 INT, 8 fumbles (2 lost), completing 58.2% of his passes and throwing for 152 yards/game
Daunte Culpepper: 73.3 QB rating, 4 TD (plus 3 rush TD), 4 INT, 6 fumbles (2 lost), completing 56% of his passes and throwing for 163.4 yards/game -
Year of the running back?
Brandon
If you were/are the owner of Ronnie Brown, Deuce McAllister, Travis Henry or Rudi Johnson (to name a few), you know that this season’s running back field has been hit hard by injuries and suspensions. Because I have fantasy squads with a few of those players, and because it’s around the half-way point in the NFL season, I decided it might be interesting to compare the top running backs around draft time this year with the actual rankings going into Week 10. This is what I discovered…
Rank Draft Average Current 1 LaDainian Tomlinson Adrian Peterson 2 Steven Jackson Joseph Addai 3 Larry Johnson LaDainian Tomlinson 4 Shaun Alexander Brian Westbrook 5 Joseph Addai Ronnie Brown 6 Frank Gore Marshawn Lynch 7 Rudi Johnson Marion Barber III 8 Brian Westbrook Clinton Portis 9 Willie Parker Willis McGahee 10 Laurence Maroney Reggie Bush Note: Yahoo! rankings used for this comparison.
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LaDainian Who?
Brandon
For a weekend that was supposed to be completely dedicated to the Patriots vs Colts showdown, a certain running back did his best to steal the spotlight. As many websites are stating, Adrian Peterson was on a "Viking Quest" to break the single game rushing record…and he succeeded.
Adrian Peterson (RB-MIN): 296 rushing yards, 3 TD
Peterson broke the previous record of 295 yards, which was held by Jamal Lewis. Let’s also note that Adrian Peterson becomes the first rookie to rush for over 200 yards twice, as well as the first player to rush for over 1000 yards in his first 8 games. Peterson completely stole the show, making the opposing team’s running back, MVP LaDainian Tomlinson, nothing more than a footnote in the game summary. Apparently, Lewis took offense to this accomplishment and was determined to put up some head scratching stats of his own:
Jamal Lewis (RB-CLE): 20 attempts, 37 rushing yards, 4 TD, 4 receptions, 67 receiving yards
While averaging less than 2.0 yards a carry, Lewis managed to score a touchdown once every five times he carried the ball.
These weren’t the running backs to put up some amazing fantasy stats this weekend however…
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Random post of the day: Cheerleader nearly trampled
Brandon
In case you missed this video on TV or the internet the past few days, I figured we should share it with our readers. Luckily the girl is not hurt, but WOW…what was she thinking?!
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New England Domination!
Brandon
Sorry, but before I go into football related topics, I have to give a shout out to the Boston Red Sox for their World Series victory last night. With a 4-3 win, they swept the Colorado Rockies for their second World Series Championship in four years. With most of their talent expected to return next season…do I hear DYNASTY?!
Not to be outdone though, the Patriots went out and completely destroyed the Washington Redskins 52-7. Fifty-two to seven?! Are you serious? While not the greatest team the NFC has to offer, the Redskins were supposed to be a solid team that could "match-up" well with the Patriots (or at least that’s what I heard at least one commentator say). Letting up fifty-two points is not matching-up well with anyone.
Tom Brady (QB-NE): 306 yards passing, 3 TD, 14 yards rushing, 2 TD
