Tout mags have been mailed out, am sure there are some on the newsstands in the US. My returning 5: Manning, T.Henry, and then three receivers from: K.Robinson, Moulds, Boston and Chad Johnson. Kills me to keep 3 receivers as we can only play two, but the rest of my guys are pretty damned sad.

Any interest in a ClubHombre fantasy football league? Proceeds could go toward financing a 'hobbying' trip to some exotic location around the world?

My protections are McNabb, Alexander, Martin, Moss, and K. Robinson. Saw a newsstand yesterday and several are out - think might not buy one this year as you can get so much better info on the net as the time gets nearer.

Vick looking to miss a month of the regular season really skews the QB choices. With there looking to be a quality #2 QB available in most leagues (guys rated from 11-20), though, I'd still probably take a chance on the guy pretty early.

I traded Culpepper for Vick and Favre in an online league and was pretty happy with that. Favre's a pretty damned good stop-gap Qb if you ask me.

My real draft's on Labor Day and I have the first pick among rookies and cuts and am desperate for a 2nd RB. Gotta choose between Trung Canidate, Curtis Martin (in a keeper league), Onterrio Smith, A-Train Thomas and guys like Hambrick and Buckhalter and Duckett. All the rankings say Canidate, but if he was any good wouldn't he have been a star in STL last year? My gut tells me that Buckhalter is going to be the best of that group, but he probably won't be the first half of this year, which is vital to set up a playoff run.

I carpet bombed the iffy RB's in my draft this week, took a BUNCH of gambles, drafting Canidate, A-Train, and Hambrick to go with Tiki and T.Henry. Hopefully a couple of those guys will work out.

I got a lot of talent on my roster by completely avoiding picking a Defensive Team until my last two selections. I think I STILL ended up with a pair that will give me decent matchups the majority of the time during the first 1/3 of the season. At that point I'll re-evaluate.

While I'm not starting Canidate tonight and my opponent this week has nothing riding, either, in this game, I will be GLUED to the TV watching the Jets and the 'Skins. Maybe now that the NFL season is starting something will FINALLY be able to take my mind off ofhow much I miss SE Asia!

Anyone else out there in a fantasy football league? T bone?

I'm also scouring trying to find decent backup RBs in my protect league. Candidate and Hambrick are about the creme of the crop. Thinking on taking a flier on LeBrandon Toefield or McGahee for my first round pick - getting a stud even if you have to wait awhile for him is huge.

Pinche Grammatica better not go crazy and kick a bunch of field goals tonight. I thought I had this week locked up until the Tennessee D backfield decided to gift-wrap a long TD for Charlie Garner last night. Week ONE and I have an ulcer ALREADY!

T bone, while our draft isn't a HUGE deal since the top 50 (or so... one jackass cut Tiki Barber and kept Thomas Jones and David Akers!) players in the league are kept, some dude actually picked McGahee in the first stinkin' round and is going to sit on him and hope somehow he or Henry is magically not in Buffalo next year. That's how desperate people are for backs in our league, I guess. Well, except the guy that thinks T. Jones is better than Tiki...

Jamal Lewis gave me 48 points for me today. I don't even need Culpepper to play tonight

Lewis was incredible, and went for like 80 points in my league, woulda had the all-time record if they hadn't taken him out and let him get his 300 yards while he was sucking wind (and deservedly so) after participating in a 3 hour track meet. Glad he wasn't facing me this week. I have a love/hate relationship with Jamal L., as I drafted him before his rookie year and thought he was going to be my team savior then cut him when he blew out his knee and didn't pick high enough to re-draft him the next year.

Of course the Baltimore D WAS facing me, and that gift INT/TD at the end of the game cost me 15 frickin' points. I need a Tiki Barber milagro manana... Not holding my breath.

I picked up WR Eric Parker(S.D.) in hopes that the suspension of David Boston and the injury to Tim Dwight, along with the fact that he is up against the weak Raider's secondary may put him at the top of WR scorers this week. We'll find out tomarrow night if this was the right move.

I dumped Boston before the season because Marty-ball isn't stat friendly to receivers. That being said, they are going to be behind a LOT this year and somebody has gotta catch the damned ball. I'd rather have any of the top 3 Dallas receivers -- Galloway, Ms. Glenn, A. Bryant than the best Charger at the moment. But for a receiver off the garbage heap, Parker doesn't look too bad.

Yep, bad move. Parker scored me a huge 3 points.

Today was NOT a good day to go against the guy with McNair. Fucker had started Gannon in every game before this one too... OUCH!

I can't believe I picked up McNair as one of my last picks in the draft to back-up Culpepper. His 47 points this week made up for my weak WRs. This is a perfect time for me to use McNair as trade-bate since I picked up Gus Frerotte to back up Culpepper(who will return next week).

Arizona is really giving the star RBs a tuff time. This week they held Jamal Lewis to 13 points, and a couple weeks ago they held Ahman Green to 9 points.

That turned out to be a great pick, Snapper. McNair is on FIRE right now and I don't think he is going to fade. You'd better get a lot in a trade for him. Eddie George is finished and Tennessee has NO running game and a pretty easy schedule for the next several weeks at least. And as you know, McNair is always a threat to score himself inside the 10 in addition to being hot through the air right now. The Titans also play Houston AGAIN in week 16, which is super bowl week in most leagues, and they should be fighting for a division title that week.

With Culpepper's injury history and bigger reputation, HE might be the one to trade.

What's the lowest score you've ever seen?

Look at what this schmucks team did last week in our league.

Snapper, it's harder to score in my league, only get yardage points for hitting minimum numbers if 100 yards for backs and receivers. Occasionally a team will post single digits.

That's an ugly looking lineup, nothing above a 4th round pick in a draft from scratch league. Of course I got beat last week by a team starting two backs off the waiver wire in Westbrook and Gordon. But he had Mcnair, so my game wasn't even close... I have the most points in my league (thanks to Manning) and am 2-4. Every team in my league goes nuts when they face me!!!

We have similar scoring to you Porker and in the five times I've started McNabb this year I have a total of 11 points (1, 1, 1, 4, 4). I am finally making a switch.

What D/ST do I play this weekend, Patriots or Colts?

Patriots vs. Browns, or the Colts vs. Texans.

I have a feeling your gonna say Pats, but I'm just looking to see what others think.

Not sure what your scoring system is, but I think both are decent. Texans O has improved a lot from last year when Carr would get sacked at least a half dozen times a game. Patriots are playing pretty well right now, I'd probably play them.

I had the Colts to start the year because of 4 games with J'ville and Houston and because they were CHEAP, but I got lucky and got both Tennessee and Dallas off the scrap heap and both have kicked ass lately.

I have the most overall points in my league right now, a good 40 points ahead of the next team, yet lost for the 3rd week in a row last week to reach the depths of despair at 2-5. I ran into the on FIRE QB for the second week in a row as Aaron Brooks demolished the woeful ATL D. I also lost 13 points when the refs called back Cundiff's 53 yard FG because some Lions dildo was flagged for 'leverage' on an unsuccessful block and Dallas took the points off the board.

But the KILLER blow was when Shaun Alexander pulled 20 yards out of his ASS with 37 seconds to go to break 100 when all Seattle had to do was take a knee and run out the clock. Of course that wouldn't have mattered if her hadn't gone to the HOUSE from 25 yards a minute earlier to break open what had been a tie game winding down towards a winning Seattle FG. Unbelievable.

BTW, my new favorite player is also my newest player, a $5 waiver wire delight, Domanick Davis. Go Texans!

Here is our scoring...


Here is my team. Would you guys change any starters?
(as you can see I traded tuff-guy McNair for D. Boston.)

Snapper I like your scoring system a lot, and wish my league was more like that, but since the league is going on 15 years now, they are slaves to 'tradition'. We only get yardage points for 100, 150, 200+ yard games for backs and receivers and 200, 300, 400+ yard games for QB's. And we reward long TD's, especially for RB's. A 50 yard rushing TD is 20 pts. Another rule I was loving last week for a second and a half (see 'Leverage' rant above) was that a 50 yard FG is 10 points, +1 for every yard beyond that.

Snapper that's a quality team, no obvious weaknesses (and Cundiff has been AWESOME!), though I think Edgerrin is finished as a big time back and would trade his ass in a heartbeat. I also think Boston is about the 25th best receiver right now playing in a 'LT, LT, LT, PUNT' offense and has had one good game in the last year and a half amongst injuries and team ordered suspensions. The Mcnair trade (and remember that I wanted you to trade Culpepper instead at playoff time) that you made was a HORRIBLE ONE!!! I think you got ahold of some of Sancho's glue before you made that one! Couldn't you get more than that???

Trading isn't always easy, though, and it obviously 'takes two to tango'. I shopped Tiki Barber and Q. Carter pretty hard in my league to a horde where 8 teams are within 1 game of a playoff spot. To a bunch of guys starting the likes of Kevin Faulk and Charlie Garner and Eddie George and Kevan Barlow every week and still slaves to the McNabb nightmare. No takers, not even an offer. Can I help it that Barber's my 5th best back? He woulda been my 6th best back if I hadn't cut M. Shipp the week before Emmitt did what senior citizens in the NFL tend to do and got hurt.

One of the MANY benefits of being 2-5 (haha) means I tend to get the pick of the litter off the scrap heap each week. This week I get to dump Joey 'Terry Glenn's eating my lunch' Galloway and pick from between Santana Moss, Glenn, or Steve Smith. I think I'm gonna go with Moss, though the other two are kinda juicy too.

My team:

qb manning
qb q. carter
rb t. henry
rb t. barber
rb a. thomas
rb t. hambrick
rb t. canidate
rb d. davis
wr k. robinson
wr c. johnson
wr galloway
k cundiff
k elling
d tennessee
d dallas

This is my first year doing this Fantasy thing. I made sooooo many mistakes in my draft, but got really lucky with my 3rd overall pick(Jamal Lewis).

My 1st pick was Edge(I still expect him to say he can't play Sunday because his pussy hurts)-next year I want Ahman Green, Jamal Lewis, Clinton Portis, or Preist Holmes.

My 2nd pick was Daunte. I ain't gonna pick a QB that early ever again.

I was lucky with my 8th pick, McNair. He gave me a little leverage. BTW, Culpepper/Frerotte have out scored McNair every game with the exception of week 6(Vike's bye-week), and the game Daunte got hurt in(even that game McNair only scored 5 more points than Culpepper).

Next year I won't even go after a kicker or D/ST because the projections this year were so off I picked them up easily from FA. They will be my last and next to last picks.

I'm such a schmuck. I bet the moneyline on the NG Giants, but I didn't start Ike Hilliard who scored 22 points in my league. Hines Ward had a huge game for me though with 21 points.
I leading going into tonight's game 99-80. He has Miami D/ST playing tonight and I have David Boston, I will move to 5-3. It's so nice having all my starters past their bye-weeks.




This is what sucks about our league. This guys team is by far the best and he's in my division witch means 3rd place is probably the best I can do. I lost 87-101 to him in week 4 and face him again in week 10. I expect our division to come down to me and him, when that game comes around I'm going to change the name of my team to "Any Given Sunday". I still like Culpepper(27 points yesterday) over McNair(14 points yesterday), but we'll see what happens when Michael Bennett comes back. Hopefully the Vikes will keep the game in the air.

Snapper, you can hang with that guy's team. I'd trade Boston ASAP, though, and would try and get guys like Chad Johnson, Darrell Jackson or Hines Ward instead. Peerless Price wouldn't be a bad bet once Vick comes back.

I'd also try and deal Edgerrin ASAP for an upgrade at RB. Maybe try and hit a grand slam and see if the Portis or R. Williams or LT owner is a little down on his guy at the moment.

I finally won again this week (highest score in the league) and now am only a game out of a playoff spot with 6 teams in my league 4-4. If I go 4-2 the rest of the way I will be at .500, likely be the top scoring team in the league and in the playoffs. Then it's all 'who's hot' and matchups to see who gets lucky and wins the 800 bucks or so for 1st. That'd be a nice HI, HOW YA DOING present for the Asia trip at Xmastime!

Guys in my league are way too tight when it comes to trading players. One guy has Randy Moss, Darrell Jackson, Chad Johnson, Plaxico Burress and Derrick Mason. His QB is Drew Brees. He would rather have these WRs ride'n the bench than try and improve his QB. I've even tryed to offer him Culpepper so he could have killer Daunte/Randy combo for Chad Johnson, but he wouldn't bite. That's ok, he ain't gonna make the playoffs now.

I already have Hines Ward and am happy with his performence except for weeks 4, 5 and 6. Boston was shitty for me last week, but not bad this week with 8 points.

I just dropped my back-up TE and picked up Rudi Johnson(RB) from the trash heap hoping that they bump him up on the depth-chart in Cincinnati.

Snapper, I should've seen you already had Hines Ward. I know what it's like to be in a league where people piss their pants in fear when they think about trading. Some lucky bastard in my league has Portis, Tomlinson and Sh. Alexander and we can only play 2 Rb's each week. He has shit at every other position and absolutely REFUSES to trade because he got raped in a trade last year -- traded Jamal Lewis for Donte Stallworth -- when he had FOUR stud RB's. So meanwhile he picks the wrong guy to bench every week and keeps losing very winnable games because the rest of his team sucks. Stupid is as stupid does...

What RB should I start this weekend?

Edgerrin James @ Miami -He's played 4 game this year and still only 1 touchdown.
or
Kevin Faulk @ Denver -He's just been named the feature RB for the Patriots. Average 111 yards in the past two game. Maybe this week he'll produce a TD.

I'm leaning towards Faulk, but would like to here your opinions.

While as I have said I think Edge is finished as a big time back, he's still better than Kevin Faulk!

Last week Faulk had 154 yards against the Browns, while James got 109 yards against the Texans. In the past two games Kevin Faulk has become the feature RB for the Patriots and now gets the majority of carries. Also I'm playing the team that I posted about before that in one game only scored 17 points, so I can gamble a little bit.

It just seems like James does a lot of work getting the ball down field, but he doesn't ever get to run it in. Miami has given up a lot of yardage to passing, but only 4 TDs this year. Maybe passing will be used to move the ball down field this game for the Colts and then they'll run it in.

It would be so much easier if I could pick my line-up after the game.

Colts backs did a decent job at the goal line while Edge was resting his sore pussy. You know your scoring system better than I do, but Kevin Faulk has never shown diddly in my league.

I'm violating my #1 cardinal rule this week, which is: "Never Bench Manning". I picked up Tuiasosopo and am starting him vs. the lowly Lions and an evern more banged up secondary than usual instead of Manning vs. the Dolphins and an opponent that has Harrison.

I have some huge matchup advantages this week, and with my record every week's a must win situation right now. But my luck this year has been horrible, so I'll probably lose to the guy starting Jake Delhomme at QB (Vick stil out and Trent Green on bye) and the Cincy D and Zack Crockett (Wm. Green hurt and bye and ganja problem) and Peerless Price.

Might not be a bad move. Tuiasosopo is facing Detriot who has given up 14 TDs to passing this year, while Manning is at Miami who has only given up only 4 passing TDs this year.

Tuiasosopo

Early injuries suck

And Manning is indestructible. Just one other reason to follow my own stinking rules. I still have a lot of things going, but I might not break double digits this week! Of course 25 should win me the game...

What a weird, wacky day. I started ALL the wrong guys, my bench did GREAT. 10 for Manning ain't great, but Tuiasosopo got me -2, and the other guy started stinkin' Jake Delhomme! A Train and Hambrick had 15 EACH. Even Ms. Glenn had a TD for 5, which would have outscored my starting 5 skill players 5 to -2! D. Davis and Tiki each had OK days but Davis got yanked in the 3rd with a boo boo and Levens ate the heart of Tiki's points for me in the 4th. Chad J got overlooked all game and Koren R. gave his usual doughnut.

BUT, despite all the CRAP, with a decent showing by the Dallas D and a nearly equally horrible performance by my opponent (Jamal Lewis and Harrison got bageled too), if I get a 40+ yard FG and 2 xtra points by Elling tonight I WIN! Oh, and with no misses, though... If I had started my #1 guy Cundiff, though, I woulda lost already. And totally deserved it by benching Manning for some rookie. DOH!

A tiny bit of luck tonight and I move to 4-5 and only one game out of my division lead with the likely division title on the line next week. This year is gonna give me an ulcer!

I'm down 21 points to the worst fantasy football team in history. I need Culpepper and Patriots D/ST to score 22 points combined to win.

Daunte averages 27 points per game and Patriots D/ST averages 12, but given this is wacky-week in the NFL a win for me is anything but certain.

Well, I squeeked by last week winning 78-71.

I'm playing the #1 team in our league this week. If I can beat him we'll be tied for first.

I benched David Boston(vs Vikings) and am starting Ike Hilliard(vs Falcons). Hilliard has scored 33 points in our league in the past two weeks while Boston has scored 10.
I also went after Chad Pennington who was still listed as a free-agent. I'll see tonight if I got him. He might be a better play than Culpepper during the fantasy playoff weeks. I'm just think'n that if the Vikings lock their division early(witch they should given their schedule) They'll start bench'n Daunte in the 4th quater to save him for post saeson. We'll see.


His line-up:
QB Marc Burlger(vs Bal)
RB Ahman Green(vs Phi)
RB Arlen Harris(vs Bal)
WR Torry Holt(vs Bal)
WR Amani Toomer(vs Atl)
TE Brandon Manumaleuna(vs Bal)
D/ST Steelers(vs Ari)
K TBA(he needs to pick up a FA for this week)

My Line-up:
QB Daunte Culppeper(@ SD)(I may switch to Pennington(@ Oak)depends on weather)
RB Jamal Lewis(@ Stl)
RB Edgerrin James(@ Jac)
WR Hines Ward(vs Ari)
WR Ike Hilliard(vs Atl)
TE Jeremy Shockey(vs Atl)
D/ST Colts(@ Jac)
K Billy Cundiff(vs Buf)

Here's what's going to help me possibly beat this guy(I hope). My WRs and TE are playing weak passing defenses. He may run into a problem with (RB)Alren Harris sinse he and Marshall Faulk(who he has on his bench) will be sharing time this weekend. I'm just hoping the moon is right for me this weekend.

Snapper, he'll likely end up starting Faulk who is supposed to start this week. Hilliard is a solid play instead of Boston.

It was weird, but the guy I'm chasing in my league had the same combo as you last Sunday night, Culpepper and NE D. He sweated out the whole Sunday night game only to get a huge 10 point bump from Daunte in the last minute as he BARELY passed 200 yards and got the late TD on the ground. After that he was tied going into MNF, and the NE D only had to outscore Elam, the other guy's kicker, and NE D had been VERY consistently good all season, and scoring much better than the random kicker.

And I'm sure the guy got ALL happy when Elam jerked his groin and was OUT of the game in the 2nd quarter. But, of course, the NE D SUCKED and got a whopping TWO points on the late hail mary pick and the guy lost anyway! I was laughing my ASS off! This set things up so if I beat him this week I will be in first place in my division after starting 2-5. Of course he has some of the same matchups you do: Daunte vs. the Chargers and Toomer vs. the horrible Falcons. I'm gonna need some luck this week, and luck ain't exactly my specialty!

Either way, if he starts Arlen Harris or Marshall Faulk I need them to share time or I'm a dead man.

Next week I'm play'n Boston(14 points today) again. Hilliard along with the entire Giants team sucked ass today. Hilliard received for a grand total of 10 yards.

My whole team sucked ass today(except for Daunte's 48 points). Ederrin James... did he even play??? Colts D/ST gave me a score of -2.

I still have a chance of winning my game this week. All I need is Jamal Lewis to rush for about 350 yards and get 4 TDs. Wish me luck.


GO RAVENS!!!

I could've survived facing Culpepper's 350+ yards and 4 TD's today. Except the lucky freakin' SOB I was playing had Moe Williams on the other end of 2 of those TD passes. And I thought I was happy when Stephen Davis was so questionable at gametime that he didn't start either Carolina back. The guy couldn't even safely start Deshaun Foster.

Of course I started the wrong D, wrong K and wrong RB's yet AGAIN this week. 4-6 and going NOWHERE! Oh well, there's always next year...

Holy shit, the Rams only have 40 yards on offense for the half. Lewis is at 91 yards and 1 TD.


GO RAVENS!!!

Amazingly I won last week and am now tied for first thanks to the Rams D/ST for getting all the yardage last week. Combined Holt(WR), Bulger(QB), Faulk(RB), and Manumaleuna(TE) only scored him a whopping 23 points. Final score was 100-82.

I need to know if Flutie is starting this week. I haven't heard any news. If he is I'm play'n Boston.

Ok, next week Peter Warrick gets the start over Boston.

I dumped Tiki and Hambrick for draft picks for next year. Of course Henry immediately breaks his leg as soon as I do that... A-Train and D. Davis better not get hurt the rest of the year! Like it matters, I'm 2 games out of a playoff spot with 3 to play.

Snapper, Boston's a loser. The guy has had two good games in the last 30 or so. That's pretty damning evidence.