Talking Fantasy Football

by Josh Kirkendall on Sep 1, 2008 1:28 PM EDT

Now that the roster is set, and the Bengals prepare this week (which will dig into later), I entered a post at Fake Teams (a SB Nation fantasy sports blog). I dished up my pick for the Bengals best fantasy player and best sleeper pick. You can read my perspective there.

We ran our Flea Flicker draft last week, and I'm a bit concerned about my picks. Most of the players are starters with other teams, but hardly the best at their respective position. I picked up Steven Jackson as my first pick (fifth overall). Concerned slightly with his lack of preparation (hold out) and missing four games last season. The boy can play though, with 2006 being his best season. Here's hoping he can bust 'em out.

I picked up Maurice Jones-Drew, Laveranues Coles, Alge Crumpler, Mason Crosby, Eli Manning and (my annual homer pick), Chad Johnson. Fred Taylor has historically bailed me out, but now it appears he's forced to bail himself out. Devon Hester, David Akers, Joey Galloway, Matt Ryan and Jake Delhomme rounds up my team.

This team has potential, but it seems to me that it could go really, really bad.

If you're a regular reader here, and have a team within the league, tells us who you got and what you think. Or, if you want, talk about your own league and team.

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My team is stupendous

on paper, anyway. Picking first in a ten team league, I’ve got Carson and Kurt Warner at the helm, LaDainian Tomlinson, Willie Parker, Chris Perry, and Felix Jones at back, Reggie Wayne, Anquan Boldin, Dallas Clark, Anthony Gonzales(WR-Indy), Robert Meacham, and our beloved Ocho Cinco(round 9) as receivers, Jeff Reed kicking, and the Minnesota defense/special teams. The debate I’m having- with myself- is whether to start Warner over Palmer from week to week, whether Boldin’s disgruntlement will lead to his being ineffective on game days, whether I’m a little too Colt heavy at receiver, whether Meacham, Gonzales, or Chad will ever see the starting line-up, and whether any of that matters, seeing as I’ve got L.T. Honestly, I would have preferred Brees to Carson but he was long gone before I came up again at 20-21.

by IgnatiusJReilly on Sep 1, 2008 6:09 PM EDT reply actions

Not a bad looking team, Ig.

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by Josh Kirkendall on Sep 1, 2008 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah

I was told I’d draft last because I won last year and I prepared for picks 10 & 11. Then, our commish said we’d draw lots and, sure as shit, I drew number one. L.T. may be the biggest no-brainer around. Everyone was down on Carson so he was available and I’m enough of a homer to prefer #9 to, say, Jason Campbell or Chad Pennington. I think everyone was snubbing Chad on principle and because of the injury.

by IgnatiusJReilly on Sep 1, 2008 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, pretty much boom-or-bust, K.

The two teams I’ve got right now were both auto-drafted with no pre-rankings because I can’t do fantasy stuff at work and I didn’t have the iMac yet, but they didn’t shake out too badly. On my one team I have Kevin Smith (starting RB for Detroit) and my QB is Drew Brees, so I’m offering Jerious Norwood and Marc Bulger for Rudi in case he ends up taking that job.

The draft for the cincybengals.com keeper league is tomorrow night while I’ll be at work, so I think my brother in-law is going to draft for me. I told him he could come over and play with the new iMac if he did my draft. lol I have second pick, I’ll probably take Westbrook as Tomlinson wasn’t kept, but will almost certainly go #1. On that team I’m keeping Pennington for a seventh round pick, Dallas Clark for a tenth, and Stephen Gostkowski for a 14th. Believe it or not, those were three most worth keeping. Took over a pretty bad roster.

by Craig Conrad on Sep 1, 2008 11:55 PM EDT reply actions