Public Service Announcement
Nov 6, 2008 Fantasy Geeks
The Jay Cutler is god led Denver Broncos and the Horse Balls-less Cleveland Browns meet tonight in a clash swordfight of epic pathetic proportions. So, you know, set your fantasy lineups.*
* Ummmm, Diehard Chris? You probably don’t even need to bother. kthxbye!
Programming Note
Sep 28, 2008 Bad Idea Jeans, Fantasy Geeks, Self-Referential Stuff
Yours truly will be a guest briefly on NBCSports.com’s Fantasy Fix with Gregg Rosenthal and Tiffany Simons. I’ll be talking about today’s game and, I suppose, pimping Steve Slaton and trying to hide my fears about the defense. You can listen here. I should be on around 10:30 CST.
(BFD was also invited to participate, but he thinks he’s too good. Or he’s traveling. One of those answers for sure.)
I’m done with Sergio / He treats me like a rag doll
Sep 23, 2008 2008 Season, Fantasy Geeks
I am in three fantasy football leagues. Because I didn’t want to have to root for any BESFs while I was at the game, I benched all my Tennessee players and the Tennessee defense.
Or, at least I thought I did. In one league, I forgot to sit Cortland Finnegan. I went 2-1 this week. Care to guess which league I took the L in?
Here are the updated standings for God’s Own Fantasy League (through week 3):
Kickoff “The Only Real News is Practice- and Hurricane-Related” Edition
Sep 16, 2008 2008 Season, Fantasy Geeks, Kickoff, Teams that aren't the Texans
“Richard Smith’s campaign to question,” indeed. Steph has an interview with a Japanese Houston Texans blogger. Money quote: “But as powerless as I am, I’m willing to continue writing, to introduce to our nation how great our franchise is, and the excitement of the sport. Hopefully someday, maybe when we win the Super Bowl, my little blog will earn a bit more love from my nation.”
Prognosticatin’, B! If you paid attention to Chris’ fantasy forecast last week, you would have known to start Chris Johnson, Darren McFadden, Anthony Gonzalez, Aaron Rodgers, Trent Edwards, Felix Jones, and Eddie Royal (among others). Judging by how I am owning a number of you fools in the fantasy league, maybe you guys should read that column (or listen to the podcast) before setting your lineups.
GRRRR! Ed Hochuli will be “graded down” for his blown call against the Chargers on Sunday. This will likely make Hochuli angry, causing him to turn green and tear his shirt off. Such is life. If it makes Ed feel any better, I am actually grading him up for that call, as I like the Broncos making me look smart for picking them to win the division.
Quick FFL Wrap-up
Aug 23, 2008 Fantasy Geeks
Going by the projections in Yahoo, which we all know has the credibility of a Lil Dickie Justice column, here is the expected order of finish.
| Feces Flingers (bfd) | 1921 |
| Backdoor Sluts 9 (dave) | 1865 |
| Bum’s Bulldogs | 1856 |
| IHOPness (DSITE) | 1855 |
| Hamstring Avulsions (Matt) | 1792 |
| Barking Spiders (Charlie) mgamaguche | 1784 |
| Houston Diehards (Chris) | 1772 |
| Duane Brown Says | 1772 |
| CT Texan | 1753 |
| Vonta Screen Pass | 1738 |
| Simple Jack (TPL) | 1733 |
| Wilted Rosenfels (Lee) | 1682 |
However, considering there’s no way in hell any of us can compete against CT Texan and his stable of 9 backup QBs, we’re really all just playing for second place.
Brooks Bollinger FTW!
Sorry, don’t know the owners of a couple of teams.
FFL Update
Aug 21, 2008 Fantasy Geeks, Self-Referential Stuff, Shameless begging
7 Teams in. 3 or 5 spots remain. Preferably 5.
Email me for the info.
Update: Chris points out an added bonus to being in this league.
Hey, I don’t know if you want to reference it in your FFL post or not -
but it may or may not help participation to mention that we will be
talking about the league when we do our (hopefully) weekly fantasy
football podcast.So, if they’re in the league, they have a unique opportunity to be praised
and/or mocked relentlessly on a weekly basis for all the world to hear.
So there you go.
Kickoff
Jun 21, 2008 2008 Season, Andre Johnson, Corky Johnson, Curious Coaching, Fantasy Geeks, Kickoff, Okam's Razor, Will Demps makes love to the...ladies?
To Be The Best, You’ve Got To Beat The Best Just Stay Healthy. CBSSports’ fantasy football coverage offers a write-up of Andre Johnson, how ridiculously good he is, and how important it is for him to be 100% healthy this year. My only knock on the article is that it ends with a hint that Johnson is “injury prone.” (As an aside: I still rank Kubaik’s decision to leave Johnson on the field once the Panthers game was in hand as his worst single decision ever.) (H/T b0ng, via Eric)
Come Along And Ride On A Fantasy Voyage. Another fantasy sports article regarding your Houston Texans. A fairly straight-forward and honest write-up, with little in the way of surprise. In fact, the main reason I am posting it is so I can quote this line: “The only addition the team made to the defensive line was fifth-rounder tackle Frank Okam, who needs to supplant the very injury-prone Travis Johnson as soon as possible.” Replace “injury-prone” with “retarded” and we are in agreement, anonymous web author. (H/T Eric)
Ladies Love 37th Ranked DBs. Rounding out our Saturday Kickoff fantasygasm, here’s an article ranking the top 50 fantasy DBs coming into 2008. Our own Smoove Will is #37 and C.C. Brown in #39. The fact that these two are ranked and Fred Bennett is not should tell you all you need to know about the translation from real-life football to fantasy football.
