Month: December 2005 (Page 3 of 7)

      Week 15 Preview

      December 16, 2005 /

      Every week, I submit six names our fantasy football owners – three marginal players to start and three to bench. Let’s see how I did last week:

      START

      Brad Johnson, MIN – 146 pass yards, 0 TD (MISS)

      Samkon Gado, GB – 180 total yards, 1 TD (HIT)

      Lee Evans, BUF – 4 catches, 83 yards (HIT)

      BENCH

      Ben Roethlisberger, PIT – 173 pass yards, 1 TD (HIT)

      Jamal Lewis, BAL – 0 carries, 0 yards (HIT)

      Roy Williams, DET – 4 catches, 53 yards, 1 TD (MISS)

      On to this week’s picks:

      START

      QB – David Garrard, JAX
      Garrard has been terrific filling in for Byron Leftwich and should have a good game against the 49ers.

      RB – Ryan Moats, PHI
      Moats had a big game last week and should see at least 15 touches against the Rams.

      WR – Jimmy Smith, JAX
      Smith has been great with Garrard at the helm and the duo should carve a poor San Francisco defense.

      BENCH

      QB – Mike Vick, ATL
      Vick faces a very tough CHI defense on the road. Don’t expect his normal stats.

      RB – Willis McGahee, BUF
      The Bills just haven’t been able to run the ball recently and things will continue to be tough against a very good DEN defense.

      WR – Mushin Muhammad, CHI
      ATL is pretty good against the pass, so I expect the Bears to focus on the run and have success with it.

      Fantasy Football, NFL

      Artest is at it again

      December 14, 2005 /

      Earlier this week, Ron Artest said that he wants to be traded and specified the Knicks as a team he’d like to play for. His main problem is his lack of involvement on the offensive end.

      “I’m so demanding of the ball. It’s not my fault,” he said. “Every time somebody is on me it’s a mismatch. It messes up the offense. I like Coach (Carlisle) as a person, but I don’t like playing for Coach. I like my team, though.”

      I love the line, “I’m so demanding of the ball. It’s not my fault.” If it’s not his fault that he’s so demanding, then who exactly is to blame?

      Artest is second on the team in shot attempts (14.8) and points (19.4 ppg).

      Fantasy Basketball, NBA

      I give up

      December 13, 2005 /

      I tried to watch the MNF game last night – I really did. But the third quarter was arduous. The teams were partly to blame. During the quarter, there were six penalties and eight punts. Eight punts?

      Compounding the problem were all the commercial breaks. Over the first nine minutes of the quarter, there were five commercial breaks. Considering each commercial break is 2-3 minutes, that’s 10-15 minutes of commercials for nine minutes of actual game time. The quarter started at 11:06 ET and ended at 11:59, for a total of 53 minutes. The game is only supposed to last until midnight and at that point, there was still a quarter to play!

      We, as a nation, are assaulted by advertising and marketing campaigns every day, and it’s only getting worse. A couple of years ago, the NFL made a rule change – the clock will continue to run for most of the game even when a player steps out of bounds. But the games are still lasting 3+ hours. So all this rule change provides is an opportunity to show more commercials. Isn’t the NFL making enough money?

      Last night was an example of how the game is being ruined. It was already a poorly played game, but the fact that we had to take five commercial breaks in nine minutes made it that much more difficult to watch.

      I wonder when we, as a nation, will get fed up with this deluge of marketing and advertising and how exactly we’ll revolt.

      General Sports, NFL

      Waiver Wire Watch: Week 15

      December 13, 2005 /

      RUNNING BACKS

      Cedric Houston, NYJ – Curtis Martin is out for the year so Houston will get lots of opportunities over the last three weeks.

      Chester Taylor, BAL – Jamal Lewis didn’t get a carry on Sunday, but wasn’t on the team’s injury report, so it is possible that the Ravens are going to go with Taylor the rest of the way.

      Tatum Bell, DEN – He’s probably not available on your waiver wire, but if he’s there, he’d be worth a pickup. He received twice as many carries as Mike Anderson on Sunday and if that trend continues, he would make a good #2 RB down the stretch.

      Fantasy Football, NFL

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