Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Shaking Things Up...To Say the Least!!!


For those of you who don’t understand the impact of the Brain-Shadow Mega Deal let me begin to show you how it will impact everyone in our league because for some of you the 2nd and 3rd Round will look drastically different!!!!

2.01 --- Some things never change and one thing that is a certainty at the turn is Ricky H. loves Mr. Reggie Wayne and will select him provided #85 is off the board already (right Rick???). I think Rick wants to make a splash - a name for himself - and draft wide-out/wide-out but I think he realizes that Maroney as your #1 and no other back to speak of that has any potential to put up solid numbers with his 4th round pick he has no other choice…or does he??? Let’s play this thing out!!!

2.02 --- Eric Vogel loves Rudi and recognizes he could go Steve Smith but here’s where things get interesting…in Vogel’s own words, “been there, done that”! As much as it pains Vogel to admit he’s learned something from DNice he can’t ignore the fact that DNice has won back-to-back championships with solid running backs (Tomlinson and LJ in ’05 and S. Jax and LJ in ’06). Vogel witnessed Mark piece together a receiving corp with the likes of Joey Galloway, L. Coles and Mike “f-ing” Furrey. Vogel had to struggle every week last season deciding which RB to go with because he took Steve Smith too early….how did that work out for UCB….can you say early exit!!! Great players admit and learn from mistakes … he won’t make the same mistake this season…not with Norwood…give him Thomas Jones and watch him make a run at the Championship!

2.03 --- I almost forgot to mention --- Mark has also had T.O. during both championship runs --- is the third time a charm??? We’ll see because you can bet your ass he’s drafting T.O. with his 2nd round selection! The kid doesn’t have a 3rd round pick with LJ eating it up and you know he wants Tom Brady in the 4th so why wouldn’t he go with what works. You’ll get no argument from me other than it’s all for naught because he just doesn’t have the guns this year…UNLESS………well, let’s just see how this thing plays out!

2.04 --- Kevin Conley has now realized what is happening; realizes he was a bit “off” in his prognostication and sees that RB’s are flying off the board and Young Colin Senuta has yet to make a selection in the 2007 draft. Let me guess you’re saying “who cares what Colin does” - well you should my friend because in case you haven’t noticed, the Shadow is rolling DeAngelo Williams as his RB1…he isn’t even RB1 on the Panthers!!!
You’re now seeing that waiting on RB until Round 4 just ain’t going to play out the way you thought….you take Ronnie Brown because you love LT and he’s the closest thing you’re getting to him this season…just ask Cam Cameron!! Here’s the downer though…as you are putting up the sticker you see the colors and the names and now know you could have had Willis, Rudi or Benson to run alongside Ronnie and found WR’s a bit later….no worries, I am quite sure Chad will “show his stripes” on a more consistent basis this season……..RIGHT???

2.05 --- Well, Big Dan is in attendance and can actually see how things are playing out…he knows he needs backs and is still haunted with the fact he gave up Alexander and Tiki two years ago for Ray Lewis of all people…knowing this he is still going to roll the dice and grab Steve Smith because he is also still feeling the lingering effects of rolling out Edge every week last season and getting nothing! Won’t happen on Wissenhunt’s watch but I can understand the reservation…Smith is solid and he’ll sure up your receiving corp that already includes Evans and Branch…pretty impressive! You can take your chances with Clinton Portis in the 3rd unless Shadow or Drury pull the trigger on a proven vet instead of an unknown….I guess we’ll see…hopefully CP is healthy because if not your rolling out Alexander and who???? Maybe you should grab your back now because if you don’t you may have to run with Marion Barber as your RB2 ….maybe you should have just kept him???

2.06 --- Welcome to the 2007 Draft Shadow…with the 16th overall selection you would like …. Tough call considering things aren’t going the way you were envisioning. Sure, we all know “you’re not concerned in the least” and we’ll let you have that but let’s at least look at things objectively; we know you’ll want to go wide-out crazy and who can blame you with some of the names out there but which one of those wide-outs will be toting the rock for your squad this year??? We’ve seen how your teams have produced before with a plethora of top-notch receivers, yet you’ll try it again and swear this year will be different … will it really??? I tend to lean toward no, but who knows maybe DeShaun Foster gets injured and gives Williams a boost. Hell, maybe you should just draft him and make it happen! Anyway, take your pick of the remaining wide-outs … my guess is you’ll go Holt since Roy, Marvin, and Larry have let you down in the past…….anyone noticing a trend ????

2.07 --- Relax P-Skert, long wait is over and you can go place that Marvin Harrison sticker on the board and breathe a little easier knowing you’ve got two more coming in the 3rd … you are clearly feeling pretty good, as you should because you are clearly head and shoulders above the rest of your Chi-town crew!

2.08 --- And at this very moment the hundreds of thoughts running through Drury’s mind during the last 10 picks are becoming a bit overwhelming and he is just trying to hold it together enough to make this pick count a bit more than last seasons 2nd rounder…shouldn’t be difficult Michael you do remember how ineffective Randy Moss was last season - right? What to do, what to do…I thought Benson or T. Jones would be here and as I am looking through my magazine I can’t seem to find a RB who is up to par with them so I guess I’ll go Andre Johnson because he did well last season….OK, give me Andre Johnson. OK, but you do realize Shadow has two selections before your next pick in the 3rd, right??? Hopefully, he takes another 2 wide-outs and leaves you Caddy, Lynch or Edge…if he goes Back-Back---you’ll take what’s left and like it….man I hope you like it!

2.09 --- Here we go folks ... for arguments sake … we’ll pretend that Shadow understands he’s never won with receivers and is staring at Edge, Caddy and Lynch to round out his stable of Running backs. No disrespect to any of the above mentioned backs…all of them would be good RB2’s or great RB3’s but to have to be forced to use them as your RB1 when you could have had S-Jax well, that’s just asinine!!! I guess I can’t blame you for going Double D’s here because you might as well take your chances with the LaMont Jordan’s of the Fantasy World and grab as many WR’s as you can…at least you get to brag for the 3rd year in a row that you had the best Wide Receiver Corp in the League!!!

2.10 --- Simply put … I have LT, GORE and JACOBS….so I’ll take a WR and who knows maybe follow that up with the best signal caller in the game – mind you, in the 3rd ROUND!!! Give me Fitz and hold on one second … I just need to enter this one and I’ll be right back with my second of the loop picks…………….

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