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Living Lighter: Hate your fantasy team? Don’t fret — it could be worse.

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Staring at an 0-3 start in your fantasy league? Hey, it could be worse, you could have this group of fantasy busts, based on some seriously faulty preseason analysis:

QB: Kevin Kolb
Forget those preseason struggles, it’s all about the system and Kolb looked pretty good in a couple of starts last season. One quarter against the Packers and Eagles’ fans will forget about Donovan McNabb. You think Mike Vick is a threat? The just-got-out-of-jail, can’t-pass-from-the-pocket Mike Vick? Ha!

RB: Maurice Jones-Drew
I personally guarantee that MJD will score at least two touchdowns in his first three games. What more can you ask from your #4 overall pick? The guy hosts a fantasy football radio show, for Pete’s sake! Of course he’s going to be a stud!

RB: Ryan Grant
You’re worried about injury? Are you crazy? Grant simply doesn’t miss games due to injury. The guy is as durable as the day is long. Count on it.

WR: Michael Crabtree
This guy is so good that he can miss all of preseason and still catch 48 passes in the final 11 games. He’s a veritable shoe-in for a 90-catch, 1,200-yard season. Dude is gonna go off in Jimmy Raye’s high-octane passing attack.

WR: Sidney Rice
Bah, hip injury, shmip injury. There’s no way Brett Favre comes back without a guarantee that Rice is good to go. No. Freakin’. Way.

TE: Brent Celek
He has future Pro Bowler Kevin Kolb throwing to him. What more do I have to say?

Why the Jets are overrated

New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan stands on the sidelines in the fourth quarter in week 1 of the NFL Preseason at The New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on August 16, 2010.    UPI /John Angelillo Photo via Newscom

Bill Simmons picks the Pats over the Jets in the AFC East this year, and here’s why:

First, I seem to be the only person who remembers that the Jets were 9-7 last year. You’d think they went 19 and minus-3. Second, I don’t trust the Sanchize even a little. Not a smidge. Unless he was trying to get us drinks from a crowded bar and the bartender was a cute female. Third, all the fuss about New England’s admittedly shaky defense obscured its explosive offense: The Pats are loaded at receiver and tight end, they have Brady, they can chuck the ball with anyone and they’re pissed off that nobody is picking them. And fourth, I’m a huge homer. So there.

I forgot that the Jets lost seven games last year…hmm…

Through five or six episodes of “Hard Knocks,” Rex Ryan does seem to be full of bluster, and Sanchez looked fairly brutal in the preseason. They’ll have a strong running game and a good/great defense, but I’m not sure that makes them the Super Bowl favorites that they seem to think they are.

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