Droppin

Well thats up to you.

Apparently EA and Doritos have teamed up to allow the fans to decide who should be the cover athlete of Madden 11 this fall. Click on the link below and you can vote for Jared Allen, Drew Brees or Reggie Wayne. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of defensive players on my Madden cover and I’m not sure Reggie Wayne deserves it over Brees who has had a great year. Then again, I’m not sure I want the curse to be on Brees seeing as how I won’t Fantasy Football with him heading up my squad this season. Decisions, decisions…

http://www.doritoschangethegame.com/index.html

FX announced its comedy scheduling plans, setting a release date for its new ensemble series “The League.” “The League,” about a fantasy football league from producers Jeff Schaffer (“Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Jackie Marcus Schaffer (“Disturbia”) will premiere Oct. 29 and run Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. after new episodes of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

Okay so in one of those, I called my shot moments I decided to quickly throw out my picks for the 2009 NCAA tourney.  So this will be quick and dirty but here you go:

Midwest-

• First Round- Louisville, Ohio St, Utah, Wake, WV, Kansas, BC, MSU
• Second Round- Lousiville, Wake, Kansas, BC
• Regional Semis- Louisville, Kansas
• Midwest Winner – Louisville

West

• First round-UCONN, BYU, Purdue, Washington, Utah St, Missouri, Maryland, Memphis
• Second Round-UCONN, Washington, Missouri, Memphis
• Regional Semis-Washington, Memphis
• West Winner – Memphis

East

• First Round- Pitt, Tenn, FSU, Xavier, UCLA, Villanova, Texas,  Duke
• Second Round- Pitt, FSU, Villanova, Duke
• Regional Semis-Pitt, Duke
• East Winner- Pitt

South

• First Round – UNC, Butler, West KY, Zags, ASU, Syracuse, Clemson, OK
• Second Round – UNC, Gonzaga, Syracuse, Clemson
• Regional Semis – UNC, Syracuse
• East Winner – UNC

Final 4-Lousiville over Memphis and UNC over Pitt

And from there…come on do you even read this site?  We are Tarheel fans BABY!

UNC 78-70 over the Cards.

Of course if Lawson doesn’t get better then I call a do-over.

It’s official. I’m giving it up. Throwing in the proverbial towel. I can’t go on like this anymore. I mean it almost feels like all the players and coaches in the NFL got together over the off season and decided to do everything bass-ackwards just to mess with the millions of junkies out there who pour their blood sweat and tears into drafting a team that with a little know how and a whole lot of luck can beat the odds and win their leagues. Well I won’t stand for it anymore. I mean tell me what I am supposed to do when even LT, the best back in the league is suddenly sharing carries with Michael freakin Turner.

That’s not even bringing up the QB situation. Guess who is a top 5 fantasy QB this season? DAVID CARR & REX GROSSMAN people! Only Peyton Manning even looks remotely close to living up to his fantasy potential this season. Everyone else is a complete wash.

And wide receivers? Come on its like teams are purposely conspiring to ensure that nobody gets back to back 100 yard games.

Something has to change with Fantasy Football. The current system just doesn’t work for today’s game. Their is too much parity in the league and while that might make for entertaining football it doesn’t highlight superstars the way it used to and that leads to incosistency from key players. This might seem “challenging” to some and you might even say that it seperates the good owners from the bad. I say it has reduced Fantasy Football to pure dumb luck.

There are some people out there who think they have a solution for the future, you’ll hear terms like “team running back” or even the idea of “optimal Fantasy Football”. There may be something to that but it will take a revolution in the system to change things.

That’s why I’m hanging up my fantasy clipboard and headset. I’m done with fantasy football.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go set my rosters. Hey just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean I can’t still win right?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go set my rosters for next week. Hey just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean I can’t win right?

Last night was my first of many upcoming fantasy drafts for SHOWTIME.  There was actually a draft party and so the war room was in full swing, six owners there live, the other six were participating from various locations across the country.  By the end of the night the room was hot and musty but when the smoke cleared, my fellow owners graded each team and gave me an A- (there were only two other owners who received and A-) and three of them have me playing in the championship game and two thought I can go all the way.  We will see, there is a lot of risk to my lineup and I grabbed a couple of back-ups hoping that they will pan out at some point.  This draft is always intense and I have not faired very well in the past as you do have to dig a little deeper in these 12 team leagues and I have been drafting early on.  Last night I drafted 11th and it was a refreshing change of pace.  Let me know what you think of my roster:

Starters: QB – Jake Delhomme, RB – Ronnie Brown, RB – Lamont Jordan, WR – Chris Chambers, WR – Reggie Wayne, TE – Heath Miller, K – Josh Brown, DEF -  Colts

Reserves: QB – Byron Leftwich, RB – Kevan Barlow, RB – Correll Buckhalter, RB – Michael Turner, RB – DeAngelo Williams, WR – Reggie Brown, WR – Terry Glenn