Friday, September 03, 2010

Lotta hype over tomorrow's upcoming TCU vs. Oregon State matchup. You'd never guess that the Horned Frogs are a 13 point favorite. OSU is supposed to be their big hurdle this year? How cupcake is the rest of their schedule?

I still haven't pulled the trigger on the over for the Chargers' win total, but checking it today, the action on the under has dropped the O/U to 10.5. I'm taking it. San Diego OVER 10.5 wins for 2010-11.

The Bunny Slope League, founded by yours truly, held it's inaugural fantasy draft two days ago. I was considering doing a write-up of the entire thing, like ESPN's fantasy experts do, but figured that could be a bit of a snoozefest. I will give my initial impressions of each team, however.

The Tennessee Jaguars, managed by Mike B's dad, started things off by taking Peyton Manning with the first pick. I don't agree with his strategy here, but must admit that the Rezig spokesman won't be available at pick 24, so it was now or never for daddy B. He seems to have emerged from the draft with a decent team, including Shonn Greene, Joseph Addai, Roddy White, and Jermichael Finley. I'm not crazy about Jeremy Maclin as his WR2, though I've had him as mine in several mock drafts. Right now he has Shonn Greene on his bench in favor of Caddilac Williams and Matt Forte, I suppose out of respect for Baltimore's defense. Hopefully he will find ways to overthink things and mismanage his team all year.

The Fighting Irish Notre Dame, owned by Pugilant Mick, picked second, and took Adrian Peterson. I have no problem with this pick, though I probably would have jizzed in my pants either right before or right after I took Chris Johnson. F.I.N.D. Followed up with Calvin Johnson in the second, arguably a Lions fan homer pick, but a good value at 23rd. After this he seemed to lose his way, taking Tony Gonzalez 26th (way to soon for a TE), Eli Manning in the 4th (too soon for Eli, though the good ones were off the board once Romo went 6 picks before), and Michael Crabtree in the 5th. I like Crabtree in the 5th, but at the moment Puglilant Mick has him and Eli on his bench, while he starts Carson Palmer, TO, and Golden Tate. Interesting.

The Cove Romosexuals picked Chris Johnson third, either right before or right after he jizzed in his pants. At Buffalo Wild Wings. He followed up with Rashard Mendenhall and Miles Austin, and rounded out a solid lineup with Ronnie Brown, Mike Sims-Walker, and Brent Celek. If Joe Flacco lives up to expectations this could be a pretty nasty team. The Romosexual bench is filled with players that appear to have blown their load, but could still be productive, like Derrick Mason, LaDanian Tomlinson, and Bernard Berrian. Hopefully Flacco will have a bad opening game against the Jets, since the Romosexuals start their campaign against my own roQQboTTom fEEders.

The ever-so-creatively named Anaheim Shamieh played it safe with their first pick, taking Maurice Jones-Drew. Safe as long as his rumored knee problems don't turn out to be serious, that is. Owned by one of two women in the league, Anaheim set the feminist movement back 30 years or so by drafting alleged bathroom stall roofie toting finger-banging quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. On the other hand, she did wait until the 9th round to draft him, reasonably disciplined for an unabashed Steeler homer who also nabbed Hines Ward (5th round), Mike Wallace (6th round), former Steeler Santonio Holmes (8th round), Heath Miller (10th round), James Harrison (13th round), Jonathon Dwyer (14th round), LaMarr Woodley (16th round), and Byron Leftwich (17th round). Given that Big Ben's handcuff just got himself injured, it will be interesting to see if she picks up another QB off waivers before she plays me in week 2. Week five should be especially interesting, when half of her team has a bye. I'm not sure if it will even be possible for her to keep her Steelers unless she doesn't field a complete roster. Strangely enough, by taking the top player available whenever there weren't any Steelers at the top of the board, Anaheim looks surprisingly solid, especially in the second half of the season.

Unlike Anaheim Shamieh, who waited to nab a big name QB with...issues, Argentina Buenos Aires, owned by Mike B's little brother, took drama queen Brett Favre with the 5th pick. This easily drew the most mockery of the night, as the 5th round would probably be a bit early for America's favorite grizzled vet. Along with a strong receiving corps and a mediocre fleet of running backs, he drafted two more QBs, Jay Cutler & Kevin Kolb. Apparently he realizes his RBs are suspect, since he has already offered Cutler to his dad for Steve Slaton. That should help.

Team Cheesehead led off with another huge homer pick, Aaron Rodgers. Cheesehead isn't just a Packer fan, he lives in Green Bay. Of course Rodgers is expected to end up first or second in fantasy scoring (again), so this is the most defensible QB pick so far. After DeAngelo Williams (a steal at 19th) he took Dez Bryant in the 3rd round. The fact that Dez didn't play Thursday against the Dolphins only serves to underline the fact that Bryant turned into our league's Darius Heyward-Bey with this pick. Round 4 was too soon for Jason Witten, and I'm not a fan of Brandon Jacobs in the 5th, or Reggie Bush in the 6th, though taking a kicker in the 7th trumps those moves. Which kicker? Who cares?

Last year his team crushed me in the league we were in when Frank Gore had his best performance of the year...if not ever. I'm not going to complete this thought and jinx my team, but I think you can guess my opinion of this team. Best of luck, Cheesehead. If you consider these fighting words, so be it.

I'll cover the other six teams--soon.

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