Our programming department wants to let all you crazy 100K players know: We should have some Perfect Picks winners this week, meaning you get an automatic pass to the playoffs.
I made a small wager that no one would hit the combination all year, and it looks like I'll be wrong - unless Eli Manning, Roddy White, Brandon Jacobs or anyone else goes bonkers tonight. So congrats if you are one of the 49 people who guessed the following combination.
QB: Tom Brady
RB: LaDainian Tomlinson (Note: I wrote Adrian Peterson initially, but it was LT all along. I'm an idiot)
WR: T.J. Houshmandzadeh
SNF: Matt Hasselbeck
As for me, I don't need no stinking Perfect Picks. Despite Kurt Warner giving me nothing this week, I crept back into the top 2,000 last night on the back of Braylon Edwards and Larry Johnson, with the Giants defense coming up tonight.
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October 12, 2007
As a Marc Bulger and Torry Holt owner on one mediocre team, I had conflicted feelings when I sat down to watch the Rams-Cardinals game. I wanted Gus Frerotte to play well enough to help Holt's stats, but not well enough to be an option over Marc Bulger for long.
Done and done. Frerotte hit some big plays in the game and his arm looks strong as ever. But his accuracy was highly suspect (14 Bad Passes, a high figure), and his decision-making was rookie-like. There's no reason to think he's going to keep this job past the Ravens game this week, but he's just aggresive enough to help Holt and Drew Bennett in the meantime.
The Profootballtalk.com Fantasy Podcast with Mike Florio and I droning on for thirty minutes is up.
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More notes from the Cardinals-Rams tape last week ...
* Edgerrin James had some nasty struggles this game inside the ten. He was stuffed at the goal line once, fumbled another time, and held to one-yard gains in two runs late in the game. James had similar problems at times with Indianapolis, often coming out of the game near the end zone. I checked the numbers, though, and this game was not indicative of the rest of James' season near the goal line. He's barely had the ball there at all, and he's played well before Week 5. We'll watch to see if it's the start of a trend.
* One thing I did notice with James is that he's wearing down during games. He has a 5.0 YPC average with his first ten carries of the game, and is under 3.5 thereafter. Maybe Ken Whisenhunt should get the backups more involved.
Continue reading "Cardinals Notes" »
Kurt Warner is being looked at as one of the best free agent pickups of the season, but there were some signs for concern last week in St. Louis. Warner didn't play very well. The Cardinals won, but it was mostly because Gus Frerotte kept throwing the wrong team.
The Rams had the blueprint for beating Warner: knock him silly early and hope he starts to panic. They threw a lot of blitzes at Arizona, and were mostly successful. In 28 dropbacks, I saw Warner hit seven times, most of them early. I charted 11 "bad passes" which is a very high number for that many attempts. Warner also had a fumble and was generally inconsistent against a poor defense.
Continue reading "Trouble for Kurt?" »
October 11, 2007
I mentioned this in Goal Line Stand, but now I'm armed with numbers. The Patriots just aren't predictable with personnel use enough to call someone a designated goal line back. Below are the goal line carries from the first three weeks in New England when Maroney was healthy.
Sammy Morris: 4 carries, 2 TD
Laurence Maroney: 2 carries, 0 TD
Heath Evans: 3 carries, 1 TD
But if you look a little further and include carries inside the ten, we get this ...
Sammy Morris: 5 carries, 2 TD
Laurence Maroney: 6 carries, 0 TD
Heath Evans: 4 carries, 1 TD
Morris' involvement appears to pick up near the goal line, but it's not like Maroney isn't getting his chances. Maroney's numbers would look a little better if he didn't come up one-yard short on a seven-yard run from the eight yard line in Week 3.
Continue reading "Sammy Morris is not NE's "Goal Line Back"" »
* Cleo Lemon played well in relief of Trent Green, but didn't put many points on the board. I checked my notes from last year, and found the same notes on Lemon. He takes the check down, he looks calm, and he's can zip the ball in there at any level. He's just not particularly aggressive. Maybe time will help. I think Ronnie Brown's excellent season is going to open up opportunities with the play-action passing game.
Continue reading "Will Lemon hurt Chambers' production?" »
Between the blog, the columns, and the chats, even I'm sick of me. I need a break, but if you can stomach some more, with a healthy dose of Tiffany Simons thrown in, check out the latest Fix. We talk starts, sits, and Larry Johnson's motivation.
Also, we talked Waiver pickups and 100K Challenge picks earlier in the week.
And for the twelve people listening to our weekly fantasy podcast on profootballtalk, Florio and I will be taping it early tomorrow morning instead of the usual Thursday night posting.
Here are some of the game notes from this week I couldn't shoehorn into Goal Line Stand this week.
* The Texans have a high-percentage, low risk passing attack, but Matt Schaub isn't afraid to stretch the field when he gets a chance. Andre Davis caught a bomb early against the Dolphins, and Kevin Walter was targeted on two looong passes. It's a good sign for Walter that he was targeted on the first three plays of the game and deep so often. He's shown more in the last two weeks than he did in the first four seasons as a career.
I don't like any of these guys against the Jaguars this week, but the success of the Texans depth shows that this offense has turned a corner and will be dangerous when everyone is healthy. It's to Gary Kubiak's credit that Andre Davis looks suddenly relevant.
Continue reading "Texans Notes" »
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