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Fantasy Football: Third-Year Wide Receivers
Everyone knows the old cliche’ about wide receivers. They don’t always make an immediate impact as rookies, and despite having natural talent, usually take a while to carve a niche with their team. About three years, to be exact. Not everyone can be Randy Moss and bust out 17 touchdowns in their first try, or [...]
Fantasy Football Tier Rankigs: Wide Receivers
In several mock drafts, Larry Fitzgerald, Randy Moss, and Andre Johnson have taken turns being the first receiver off the board, and all three have found themselves drafted in the first round on at least a few occasions. But those are easy calls. It’s difficult to assess talent and environment, and after the first tier [...]
Fantasy Football Preview: NFC Wide Receivers
One of the most difficult things to guess is a team’s starting receiving line-up, especially this early in the season. Rookies can gain huge strides due to injuries or poor performances from veterans, while lackluster efforts from the corps can cause the front office to panic and sign someone off the street, or even try [...]
Should the Lions throw Stafford into action immediately?
Let’s face it, the Detroit Lions already hit rock bottom. You don’t go an entire 16-game season without winning a game, and not be at an all time low. Morale, chemistry, awareness. It was all gone before the last game. Sure, they showed a little heart before eventually falling to Green Bay, 31-21. But what’s [...]
NFL Fantasy Start or Sit Week 10
Because I’m dumb, I forgot to post it up before the Thursday night game. Sorry to all those who missed out on his selection of Quinn, which proved to be quite the hit. It seems this week is all about change. Our country has changed presidents. The Lions have changed quarterbacks. The NFL has changed [...]
NFL Fantasy Start or Sit Week 3: Whose time is it to shine, who should ride the pine?
What a difference a week makes. After an unbelievable week one, my prognosticating skills took a nose dive in week two. In reality, though, it looks worse on paper than it really was. Three plays turned three pretty awful days into three pretty decent days. I had so many close calls not go my way, [...]
