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Top 10 Fantasy QB’s

My top 10 QB’s for fantasy football.  In my opinion, this is how the season’s QB’s should shake out in terms of fantasy scoring.

1. Drew Brees -NO

2. Aaron Rodgers – GB

3. Peyton Manning – IND 

4. Matt Schaub- HOU

5. Tony Romo – DAL

6. Tom Brady – NE

7. Philip Rivers – SD

8. Kevin Kolb – PHI

9. Joe Flacco – BAL

10. Brett Favre – MIN

Top 10 Fantasy RB’s

My top 10 RB’s for fantasy football.  In my opinion, this is how the season’s RB’s should shake out in terms of fantasy scoring.

1. Chris Johnson – TEN

2. Adrian Peterson – MIN

3. Ray Rice – BAL

4. Michael Turner – ATL

5. Maurice Jones-Drew – JAC

6. Frank Gore – SF

7. Steven Jackson – STL

8. DeAngelo Williams – CAR

9. Cedric Benson – CIN

10. Ryan Grant – GB

You have fantasy football questions, I have fantasy football answers!

So I have updated my 2010 NFL Fantasy Football Mock Draft for the last time this season, and I plan to list position by position rankings soon. 

But you may have more specific questions pertaining to your league that you need answers to.  You are not alone.  I, your friendly fantasy football expert am here to help!  If you wish to have any fantasy questions answered, just ask in the comments section of the Fantasy Answers page and I will answer your questions as quickly as possible.  Just check back for the answer.

During the season, you may find that you need an expert second opinion of who you should start or sit over whoever else you have on your team on any given week.  Ask those questions as well and I will get back to you the same way.  Again, use the comments section of the Fantasy Answers page for answers, and remember to check back every few days for updated posts during the football season that can help you win your fantasy football league!  Have a great season!

Bob

Bob’s Final 2010 NFL Mock Fantasy Draft!!!

This is it! My final Mock Draft. A little late, but I wanted to make sure that I was as accurate as possible. Remember: this draft is not rankings. It is a hybrid of average draft position, my ranking of the player, injuries, holdouts, etc. So I am in no way saying take this guy over this guy at this point in your draft. I’m saying this is where it would be good to take someone and they may still be there and your expectations should be measured judging by your league’s scoring, and which player(s) you have at each position.  Enjoy!

http://nfldraftmock.com/2010-nfl-fantasy-football-mock-draft/

5 WHO ARE FALLING FAST!

As off-season camps start wrapping up and the pre-season just around the corner, fantasy drafts everywhere are getting ready to take place. I am here to offer 5 players who’s stock is falling in fantasy drafts. These are in no particular order, and I’m not saying not to draft these players, I’m saying be careful where you draft them.

1. Kenny Britt WR (Titans): Britt was in my 5 fantasy players on the rise just over a month ago, as his promise was evident late last season. Word from Titans camp that he has been dealing with numerous small injuries and is having a pretty bad camp, however lands him on this list today. I’d stay away from Britt until at least the 7th or 8th round.

2. Rashard Mendenhall RB (Steelers): T Willie Colon is out for the season with a torn achilles and that spells trouble for an already uncertain offensive line. The Steelers hope that rookie C/G Maurkice Pouncey can become the player they need him to be – and fast! With the O-Line’s best player out of the fold and an uncertainty in the passing game while Ben Roethlisberger is out, that means less and smaller holes for Mendenhall. The Steelers RB is going in rounds 2-3 in most mock drafts and I’m telling you that is much too high. Take a pass on him unless you get him at a great bargain.

3. LeSean McCoy RB (Eagles): Brian Westbrook he is not and he didn’t show much last year to suggest that he can handle the starter role. Perhaps more importantly is the Eagles’ penchant for using too many RB’s, especially near the goal line. This offseason, the Eagles signed RB Mike Bell who played with the Saints last year and vultured many a TD from Pierre Thomas.

He figures to do the same this season as reports are saying that Bell has the #2 RB spot locked up. He’ll steal touches and TD’s from McCoy, especially at the goal line, and the Eagles also employed FB Leonard Weaver last season at RB many times who also took some TD’s. With such a committee in the Eagles’ offensive system, McCoy will be lucky to have 800 yds and 6 TD’s. Respectable, but not what you’d want from a #1 or #2 RB in a 10 team league.

4. Kevin Walter WR (Texans): Not that he was going to be a top 100 guy anyway after doing nothing last year, but Walter is also being pressed hard for his #2 WR spot on the team thanks to Jacoby Jones showing flashes of being a very good receiver last season. Walter had a very good season in 2008, but those days are gone.

5. Kyle Orton QB (Broncos): WR Brandon Marshall is gone, leaving Orton with Eddie Royal, Jabbar Gaffney, or Demaryius Thomas as the #1 WR, and Brandon Stokely and Brandon Lloyd on the bench. Orton was a repectable QB last season for the Broncos, but the seemingly schizophrenic coach Josh McDaniels is coy when asked about his QB situation after drafting Tim Tebow in the 1st round and trading for Brady Quinn. McDaniels won’t even say who the starter will be when the season opens, and with this type of situation, even if Orton starts the first few weeks, if he performs in a manner that is less than stellar, McDaniels may yank him for one of his shiny new football throwing toys.

2010 NFL FANTASY FOOTBALL MOCK DRAFT UPDATED!

HERE IS ANOTHER UPDATE TO MY 2010 NFL MOCK DRAFT! CHECK IT OUT!

2010 NFL FANTASY FOOTBALL MOCK DRAFT VERSION 1.2

I have made some more updates to the 2010 mock fantasy draft!  This time there were a few considerable changes made based on numerous factors, uncluding a slight formula change. I believe this version is the most accurate to date. As always, comments are welcome. Enjoy!

Cleveland can’t take the ‘Heat’; fans overreact

LeBron James announced on Thursday night on a live ESPN special that he has decided to join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami to play basketball for the next several seasons. 

Then, all hell was unleashed in Cleveland, Ohio.

As soon as the announcement was made, the collective breath of  Cleveland fans was knocked out of them, they feel, as if their “King” walked up to each one of them and sucker-punched them one by one.

Fans were burning and tearing up jerseys and T-shirts of James in the streets, and lashing out on the evening news.  Facebook lit up with a littany of Cavs fans that are outraged and hurt by James’ “Decision”  not to return to the Cavs next season.  That worse than the decision to leave was how he went about it. 

He went on national television and announced his decision, slapping Cleveland fans in the face and disgracing the city, they proclaim.

Really, Cleveland?  Looks like you are just as classless as he is.

While I agree that when I heard about this TV show to announce his plans, I was disgusted in the way that not even Michael Jordan, the greatest of all time would have done such a thing, and in the way that it took an extremely large ego to go this way about it, and it was classless and unprofessional not to inform the Cavs of the decision before telling the world, I can’t understand why Cleveland – including the Owner Dan Gilbert (who wrote a strongly worded letter to Cavs fans on the team’s website tearing James apart)  - are taking this personally.

It’s simple.  The man was a free agent.  He did not belong to the Cavs and he certainly didn’t belong to the city or it’s fans.  He belongs to himself.  He chose a better opportunity elsewhere, and guess what C-Town fans: that’s okay.  You are overreacting.

Want proof?  On the local Cleveland news, they are comparing his decision to sign with another team, even as a free agent, with Art Modell’s decision to move the Cleveland Browns organization to Baltimore. 

Again I ask: Really, Cleveland?  It’s the same thing to announce on TV that you’ve decided to sign with a team other than the one you’ve played for previously, as it is to move an entire storied franchise out of a city it’s been in since it’s inception?

I think not.  Clearly Cleveland disagrees with me.

LeBron meets with 6 teams in biggest free agent year in NBA history.

The whole NBA is holding their collective breath until they find out one thing:  What is he going to do? 

He is not Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire (who is nearing a $100 millon deal with the Knicks), Dwayne Wade, or Dirk Nowitski.  He is Lebron James and right or wrong, he is the most imporatnt man in basketball.  Not for his playing ability or marketing power, though those things are certainly why everyone wants him.  But it’s for his decision.

James is a free agent and has been since 12:01 am July 1st.  He is the straw that stirs the drink in what is being recognized as the biggest free agent year ever in the NBA.  With so many of it’s top stars opting for free agency, some teams gave up on last season in order to clear cap space to sign one – or in some cases more than one – of these young players.

Yesterday, the son of Akron, Ohio sat down with the likes of Nets owners Mikhail Prokhorov and rapper Jay-Z, Nets coach Avery Johnson, and GM Rod Thorn.  He also entertained the New York Knicks who had a truckload of stuff to bring with them – literally.

Today, sporting a white t-shirt and baggy sweat pants (the perfect choice of clothing for an important business meeting with professional excecutives offering millions and millions of dollars) he entertained the Miami Heat with Heat exec. and former coach Pat Riley, Heat owner Micky Arison, coach Erik Spoelstra and former Heat center Alonzo Mourning (all wearing business suits – way to be overdressed) in toe. 

After a courtesy meet and greet with the L.A. Clipppers, James will call it a day.  In tomorrow’s Main Event, LeBron will be entertaining the Chicago Bulls, as well as his old team, the Cleveland Cavaliers - the 2 teams considered the favorites to land him. 

He hopes to make a decision by July 5th.  What James decides may shape the NBA for the next decade.

Favre has surgery and plays with kids. His annual signal that he’ll be back.

As if we didn’t know this already, Brett Favre is coming back. No, he hasn’t announced it yet. But he has announced it if you speak Favre-glish.  It’s the language that only Favre knows how to speak since – after all- it is his language.  And he doesn’t need to say a word. 

If you do listen to what he speaks, you’d believe that this is a man in limbo pondering his future.  All he will say is that he is considering it and talking it over with his family.  That’s Favre-glish for “I’m pretending to be undecided until maybe the last 2 weeks of training camp, maybe later to avoid going through ‘two a days’.”

Favre has given his sign for the year (as if we needed one) that he will indeed be back for a 20th NFL season.  He first had surgery on his left ankle to clean up some scar tissue and bone spurs.  Now, he’s back to practicing football with high school kids at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Favre will continue to ‘decide’ for at least the next 2 weeks.  After that, he will officially announce to all people who do not understand Favre-glish that he will be returning.

Brad Childress and the Minnesota Vikings, myself, and every other NFL writer out there have known this for months.