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Postgame reaction from Fire Starters and The Commish after Fantasy Bowl X and an appearance from "The Generalissimo."
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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Postgame reaction from Fire Starters and The Commish after Fantasy Bowl X and an appearance from "The Generalissimo."
Sunday, December 26, 2010
the board
This is where I will keep track of board bets for the season. So feel free to post your own in the comments section here and let me know if I miss any as we go through the rest of the year.
Over/under 12 passing TDs for Matt Moore in 2010
The Commish=Over, btn=Under
(btn gets that one... what a disaster)
The Institute will pick himself to win and 40 Acres to lose every week and still outpick everyone else in the league.
(not even close but he did outpick umphlett)
Not one player on the icon's bench in week 1 will survive the season on the team.
(for some unknown reason, overbay kept braylon edwards all year... missed it by one player)
A.J. will make less than 10 moves this year.
(he made 14 and least in the league)
Over/under 12 passing TDs for Matt Moore in 2010
The Commish=Over, btn=Under
(btn gets that one... what a disaster)
The Institute will pick himself to win and 40 Acres to lose every week and still outpick everyone else in the league.
(not even close but he did outpick umphlett)
Not one player on the icon's bench in week 1 will survive the season on the team.
(for some unknown reason, overbay kept braylon edwards all year... missed it by one player)
A.J. will make less than 10 moves this year.
(he made 14 and least in the league)
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
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Playoffs!?! playoff preview featuring a roundtable discussion with the four managers squaring off in the semifinals this week.
Friday, December 3, 2010
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I break down the league two weeks out from the playoffs and receive a phone call from the Vice Commish.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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An abbreviated Thanksgiving special.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
btn episode #413
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Brandon joins me to discuss his crushing defeat at the hands of The Commish and to marvel over Michael Vick's record-breaking performance.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
btn episode #412
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The Commish and Phoenix Rises join me to talk about this week's games and the playoff picture. Stick to the end to hear Brandon get attacked by The Terrorist/transmogrify into a Darth Vader-like demon. It's scary.
Friday, November 5, 2010
victory (or behind the numbers week 9)
Having only recently come down from my GOP-infused, caffeine-fueled Johnny Drama-like gutteral chats of "VICTORY!" I am now ready to return to my less than stellar fantasy reality. Certainly much has happened since I have been away. Fire Starters started a brushfire of buzz with his first ever video column. Although I have to say, it's all been done before. You want to really step your game up? Everyone knows that all good directors only do films in 3D these days. If I had watched that intro in 3D, I still may not be sleeping at night. Terrifying.
It's always best to measure any prolonged absence from the game by noting how many teams Randy Moss has been on in the meantime. It seemed like just the other day that Moss was catching touchdown passes from the Bieb... err Tom Brady. Then he went back to the tried and true Purple People eaters. But the match made in heaven never really got off the ground as Brett Favre looks more likely to soon be doing guest spots in commercials for erectile disfunction than to keep up these Wrangler ads. (Hey! He's just having fun out there! Right, Jen Sterger?) As soon as Chilly sends him packing, Jeff Fisher is more than happy to welcome in the mercurial wideout to stretch the field for VY and CJ1K. (Why does every Titans player go by alternate droid nicknames from Star Wars again?) The only question that remains: Is Randy Moss still any good? Apparently 31 NFL teams don't think so.
Anyway, now that I'm back and I've been gone too long to expect me to actually come up with a new gimmick for the column, let's do some old-fashioned predictions.
black is for sunday vs. showmedamoney!
In the battle of teams that refuse to use capital letters, we have a showdown that probably means next to nothing. Things just have not gone well for me this season. When my players zigged, my schedule zagged. While my trades were ying, my luck was yang. And once again, I am laid out on my back looking up at the rest of the league. No one is going to copy my 2010 draft strategy and preserve it for future generations but my team is not nearly as bad as my record. I have three very competent wide receivers, a stable of running backs who can contribute, and Joe Flacco has been exactly what I thought he would be. I also think it's fair to say I have gotten the better end of the Hillis/Colston for Marshall/Orton deal. With Megatron showing the high end of his ability the past few weeks, there are better days ahead for my team and I think Sunday is going to be one of those days. Darren Sproles is not a startable RB2 even for a team battling injuries and bye weeks. Make a trade. For anyone. And Ryan Fitzpatrick is not a long term replacement for showmedamoney's golden boy QB1. (NEWSFLASH: It's about to get really cold and snowy in Buffalo, NY.) Billy desperately needs to move Andre Johnson before the deadline tonight to shore up other positions or showmedamoney can go ahead and cash in on this season.
Pick: black is for sunday
40 acres & a mule vs. Fire Starters
While Fire Starters may have given up on tracking his own predictions, we haven't forgotten how horribly inaccurate they have been all season. Pimping ain't easy, huh? Fortunately, for him, he's been a far more solid manager of his team's success than a predictor of other teams' success. No team has been more of a moving target this season than Fire as his starters have been anything but consistent. Chris has made a league high 34 moves this season and pulled off at least two trades with implications of changing the landscape of the league. That latest endeavor will bring Thomas Jones right back to wreak havoc and revenge on his former squad. Danny Woodhead, the new oompa loompa, has foudn the perfect home but not much production since coming on board. The real killer is Phil Rivers. Someday PBS2 will be able to explain to us why he would trade his most valuable commodity midseason for Ahmad Bradshaw but he's going to have to think for a while just to come up with what was going through his head when that happened. Another year, another head-scratching trade from A.J. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Pick: Fire Starters
SHolstonKayakPirates vs. The Institute
Of all the managers in our league this year, no one has had more of a nightmare season than Jeff. Watching the Pirates season unfold has been like reading Great Expectations cover to cover in reverse. Nothing like a riches to rags story to really sour you on the whole experience of fantasy football. If there's one coach on the hot seat it has to be Jeff. The pressure from The Flying Crouton and Bacon Bit has to be mounting as we speak. This level of failure will not be tolerated from a once promising talent pool. This week, he welcomes in the upstart Institute squad who has claimed victory in five of their last six contests. With Peyton Manning under center and Ron Dayne still out there lurking and waiting, this team's confidence is at an all-time high. The edge goes to VZ under the strength of the play of the wife beater and L. McCoy who are facing off in what I am certain will be a high scoring, intriguing QB battle between Manning and Mike Vick.
Pick: The Institute
Phoenix Rises vs. the icon
Battle of the fantasy zombies in this game as the icon finds himself undead after riding a 3 game winning streak and a tie to an over .500 record, not a small feat in this league this season. Brandon, meanwhile, just has one too many identical players on his bench. Even though I know he is working his fellow fantasy managers by sending them late night text messages, emails, and phone calls like a desperate ex-girlfriend, no one is giving into his Burgergate booty call this year. We're too strong and we respect ourselves too much to take your leftovers. His quest for zero to hero status just seems to have been derailed by a previously unscheduled inability to score touchdowns. Piling up yards gets you into close games but scoring TDs has always been the difference between winning and losing. That said, the icon is due for a fall. His team is much more like the one we saw the first four weeks than the one we've seen the last four. Back to the grave, zombie. We're tired of you feasting on our brains.
Pick: Phoenix Rises
Game of the Week
K Rabbits vs. The Commish
This is by far the most interesting game of the week. Not only does it pit two of the top three teams in the league against each other but is also a rematch of last year's championship game. Could it also be a preview of Kris' second place destiny? I've been saying all year that Gates is the not-so-secret weapon for this year's Commish squad. He's been nicked up at various times but has managed to avoid serious injury. McFadden is on fire and AD is AD. But Foster has been the cornerstone of the Texan offense while LT2 catches Detroit this week. Rodgers gets the edge in the battle of the QBs over Big Ben. But Welker and Ochocinco look very unimpressive these days and I think they are the difference as Kris misses a golden opportunity to pick off The Commish sans CJ1K.
Pick: The Commish
It's always best to measure any prolonged absence from the game by noting how many teams Randy Moss has been on in the meantime. It seemed like just the other day that Moss was catching touchdown passes from the Bieb... err Tom Brady. Then he went back to the tried and true Purple People eaters. But the match made in heaven never really got off the ground as Brett Favre looks more likely to soon be doing guest spots in commercials for erectile disfunction than to keep up these Wrangler ads. (Hey! He's just having fun out there! Right, Jen Sterger?) As soon as Chilly sends him packing, Jeff Fisher is more than happy to welcome in the mercurial wideout to stretch the field for VY and CJ1K. (Why does every Titans player go by alternate droid nicknames from Star Wars again?) The only question that remains: Is Randy Moss still any good? Apparently 31 NFL teams don't think so.
Anyway, now that I'm back and I've been gone too long to expect me to actually come up with a new gimmick for the column, let's do some old-fashioned predictions.
black is for sunday vs. showmedamoney!
In the battle of teams that refuse to use capital letters, we have a showdown that probably means next to nothing. Things just have not gone well for me this season. When my players zigged, my schedule zagged. While my trades were ying, my luck was yang. And once again, I am laid out on my back looking up at the rest of the league. No one is going to copy my 2010 draft strategy and preserve it for future generations but my team is not nearly as bad as my record. I have three very competent wide receivers, a stable of running backs who can contribute, and Joe Flacco has been exactly what I thought he would be. I also think it's fair to say I have gotten the better end of the Hillis/Colston for Marshall/Orton deal. With Megatron showing the high end of his ability the past few weeks, there are better days ahead for my team and I think Sunday is going to be one of those days. Darren Sproles is not a startable RB2 even for a team battling injuries and bye weeks. Make a trade. For anyone. And Ryan Fitzpatrick is not a long term replacement for showmedamoney's golden boy QB1. (NEWSFLASH: It's about to get really cold and snowy in Buffalo, NY.) Billy desperately needs to move Andre Johnson before the deadline tonight to shore up other positions or showmedamoney can go ahead and cash in on this season.
Pick: black is for sunday
40 acres & a mule vs. Fire Starters
While Fire Starters may have given up on tracking his own predictions, we haven't forgotten how horribly inaccurate they have been all season. Pimping ain't easy, huh? Fortunately, for him, he's been a far more solid manager of his team's success than a predictor of other teams' success. No team has been more of a moving target this season than Fire as his starters have been anything but consistent. Chris has made a league high 34 moves this season and pulled off at least two trades with implications of changing the landscape of the league. That latest endeavor will bring Thomas Jones right back to wreak havoc and revenge on his former squad. Danny Woodhead, the new oompa loompa, has foudn the perfect home but not much production since coming on board. The real killer is Phil Rivers. Someday PBS2 will be able to explain to us why he would trade his most valuable commodity midseason for Ahmad Bradshaw but he's going to have to think for a while just to come up with what was going through his head when that happened. Another year, another head-scratching trade from A.J. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Pick: Fire Starters
SHolstonKayakPirates vs. The Institute
Of all the managers in our league this year, no one has had more of a nightmare season than Jeff. Watching the Pirates season unfold has been like reading Great Expectations cover to cover in reverse. Nothing like a riches to rags story to really sour you on the whole experience of fantasy football. If there's one coach on the hot seat it has to be Jeff. The pressure from The Flying Crouton and Bacon Bit has to be mounting as we speak. This level of failure will not be tolerated from a once promising talent pool. This week, he welcomes in the upstart Institute squad who has claimed victory in five of their last six contests. With Peyton Manning under center and Ron Dayne still out there lurking and waiting, this team's confidence is at an all-time high. The edge goes to VZ under the strength of the play of the wife beater and L. McCoy who are facing off in what I am certain will be a high scoring, intriguing QB battle between Manning and Mike Vick.
Pick: The Institute
Phoenix Rises vs. the icon
Battle of the fantasy zombies in this game as the icon finds himself undead after riding a 3 game winning streak and a tie to an over .500 record, not a small feat in this league this season. Brandon, meanwhile, just has one too many identical players on his bench. Even though I know he is working his fellow fantasy managers by sending them late night text messages, emails, and phone calls like a desperate ex-girlfriend, no one is giving into his Burgergate booty call this year. We're too strong and we respect ourselves too much to take your leftovers. His quest for zero to hero status just seems to have been derailed by a previously unscheduled inability to score touchdowns. Piling up yards gets you into close games but scoring TDs has always been the difference between winning and losing. That said, the icon is due for a fall. His team is much more like the one we saw the first four weeks than the one we've seen the last four. Back to the grave, zombie. We're tired of you feasting on our brains.
Pick: Phoenix Rises
Game of the Week
K Rabbits vs. The Commish
This is by far the most interesting game of the week. Not only does it pit two of the top three teams in the league against each other but is also a rematch of last year's championship game. Could it also be a preview of Kris' second place destiny? I've been saying all year that Gates is the not-so-secret weapon for this year's Commish squad. He's been nicked up at various times but has managed to avoid serious injury. McFadden is on fire and AD is AD. But Foster has been the cornerstone of the Texan offense while LT2 catches Detroit this week. Rodgers gets the edge in the battle of the QBs over Big Ben. But Welker and Ochocinco look very unimpressive these days and I think they are the difference as Kris misses a golden opportunity to pick off The Commish sans CJ1K.
Pick: The Commish
Thursday, October 14, 2010
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The Commish joins me along with the manager of Phoenix Rises to discuss Josh Luchs, waiver wire pickups, and trades.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
btn episode #410
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Listen in as we discuss the Randy Moss trade fallout and pick out contenders and pretenders in the Playoffs!?! fantasy league.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
btn episode #409
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Listen in as I discuss Dez Bryant's dinner bill, Donovan McNabb's return to Philly, race and gender in the NFL and some early season surprises in the Playoffs!?! fantasy league.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
btn episode #408
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This week, I discuss Clinton Portis' comments about female reporters in the locker room, Reggie Bush giving back the Heisman, and an 18 game NFL season as well as review week 1 and preview all the upcoming action in week 2.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
btn episode #407
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Listen in as we break down the entire league post-draft, make fun of Kris for another stupid trade, pick our early season Playoffs!?! favorites and predict this week's games. The Institute serves as my guest co-host for the week.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
btn episode #406
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A fantasy draft special from behind the numbers.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
btn episode #405
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Join us as we talk Haynesworth vs. Shanahan, the new NFL circus, review the preseason, break down two more divisions, and play a name game with QBs.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
"the decision"
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
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