Bucs should make play for Brett Favre
According to several reports, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets have entered the bidding war for Brett Favre.
Good – for the Bucs, that is. (Well, the Jets too given their current QB sitaution. But mainly the Bucs.)
In his first season in Tampa, Jeff Garcia proved to be a solid option last year because he didn’t make mistakes. Coupled with error-free play from their quarterback position, the Bucs relied on their defense, were able to win the NFC South and made the postseason (where they lost to the eventual Super Bowl Champion New York Giants).
True, the defense is another year older (Ronde Barber is 33 and Derrick Brooks is 35), but coordinator Monte Kiffin is one of the best in the league at getting the most out of his players. Tampa also has a nice mix of youth and veteran experience on that side of the ball and second year players Tanard Jackson and Gaines Adams should only continue to improve.
But back to Favre. Garcia is perfect for Gruden’s offense because he plays conservative and doesn’t make mistakes. He’s also severally limited given his style of play and has spent most of the offseason bitching about his contract (a situation that is far from resolved). The Bucs should make a play for Favre and go for it this year. He’s not the best fit for Gruden’s offense given his gunslinger mentality (Gruden runs a more controlled offense), but they’ve both worked together before so Gruden certainly knows how to best handle him. The Bucs aren’t the most talented team in the NFC, but with only New Orleans serving as a legitimate threat in the division, Tampa could easily make a postseason run with Favre and who knows, maybe much more.
I have mixed feelings on this (going to Tampa) after making several coments about Farve last week during the Green Bay Fans uprising.
I felt then that GB should have let him go and stay retired and quite frankly I have not changed my mind now that there is talk of him going to my Tampa Team.
How do you not know when you want to retire? I said then that he was in retirement mode and I still think he is. He went home and its booring to him after being in the lime-light all those years…poor baby
Go to the Jets Brett…………I don’t need you, you’re done and NY will eat you alive…you won’t be in Green Bay anymore. Or stay retired, enjoy the money and go into the booth like everybody else.
Tampa Bay
AS / JP –
Keeper League: 1QB, 2RB, 3WR, 1TE, 1RB/WR, DEF, K
Standard Scoring with No PPR
RB1 Frank Gore (5th Rd)
RB2 Willis McGahee (2nd Rd)
WR1 TJ Housh (3rd Rd)
RB3 Selvin Young (16th Rd)
I can only keep three of these players. I also hold the #1 overall pick in our draft which will land me LT. Who’s the 3rd keeper – Housh or Young? Young has excellent keeper value, but Housh is a Top 10 WR.
If I give Housh back, there’s a possibility that I may be able to redraft him in the 3rd round given the number of teams who lose 2nd round picks for keepers. If I miss on him, I should definitely be able to land Santonio Holmes or Dewayne Bowe in the 3rd round.
Another option is to trade McGahee (2nd Rd) for Thomas Jones (6th Rd) and Brandon Jacobs (8th Rd) keepers. This would leave me with LT, Gore, Jones and Jacobs plus open up up my 2nd and 3rd round picks for WR/WR or QB. With 36 keepers being taken out of the draft, my early picks are pretty damn valuable.
Thoughts?
Why isn’t the LT owner keeping him?
if I understand your system correctly, you lose whatever pick next to those players you keep, so if you kept McGahee, you wouldn’t have your second round pick.
I’d probably let McGahee go back into the draft and keep Gore, Housh and Young, given the cheap cost of Young. After you draft LT, you’ll have LT, Gore and Young, so you can go WR in the 2nd round, which if I understand this correctly, should give you a pretty good WR.
Yes, that is correct. In order to keep a competitive balance, we aren’t allowed to keep any 1st round picks…hence the reason LT is available.
Obviously, things will continue to change with the start of preseason, but two pieces of news just crossed the wire this afternoon that may change the situation.
(1) Mike Shanahan says Denver’s starting RB job is open for competition. With his tendency to play the hot hand, this worries me.
(2) Ravens LT Jared Gaither went down with an ankle injury at camp and was carted off the field.
I think you’re right with the keepers but I’m going to dangle McGahee on the trade block and see if I can’t get a better offer before I let him go.
Thanks.