Category: FOOTBALL

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer Folks, fantasy football season is fast approaching, and this blog has ignored it long enough. It ends now. With my fantasy baseball teams making a huge surge midseason (and hopefully yours too) it’s easy to forget August is almost here, and by now, multiple fantasy football mags should…

By Robby Wellington – Staff Writer Dalton’s talk of football has me fired up for my favorite fantasy sport, only four short months away. Consequently, I’ve thrown together a list of my top 14 players coming into the 2007 season. 1. LT – I strongly believe that whoever gets the No. 1 pick this year…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer I’m aware that it just turned May and baseball is in full effect, but I recently participated in not one, but two fantasy football drafts. The first was an industry league, and my team can be found here. The second was for RotoWire’s magazine. The way I see…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer I participated in a fantasy football industry mock draft last night. Click here for the results, which are going to be in RotoWorld’s fantasy football magazine. I represented RotoWire and think I came out pretty good. I’ll go over the draft results in greater detail in the next…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer Calvin Johnson is a beast and should immediately put up big numbers in Mike Martz’ system. Just because Charles Rogers and Mike Williams failed, doesn’t mean the Lions shouldn’t have taken a receiver. He and Roy Williams are not going to be easy to defend. It’s just too…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer Like last year, this draft is star-powered and full of intrigue. With many potential blockbuster trades legitimately in the works, this weekend should be plenty watchable. I’m not going to humor anyone into thinking I can predict the unpredictable, so I’ll just take a stab at the top…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer With free agency starting today, it’s as good as time as any to take a quick look around the National Football League. At this point, it would be an upset if Troy Smith is a first day selection. Or even if he makes an NFL team out of…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer What an ugly game. Six turnovers, a missed extra point and short field goal all in the first half. Where are you Chargers and Saints? Rex Grossman has been piled on enough, but come on guy, even I couldn’t have predicted such a poor showing. Not one, but…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer Ironically, the Colts find themselves in the Super Bowl the one postseason everyone had written them off. It’s easy to forget, but Indy and Chicago were the last teams to lose during the regular season, peaking early but apparently again late. Everyone wants to see a good game…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer Peyton Manning – Total Passing Yards in the game Over/Under 273 1/2 yards – Boring. Predictably, Manning averaged 274 passing yards per game this season. Do the Colts jump out to an early lead and secure that by running throughout the second half? It’s possible, but considering Manning…

By Robby Wellington – Staff Writer Online sports gaming is officially on life-support, with Americans no longer able to deposit money in Bodog or any other online site that I know of (anyone?). Right before the Super Bowl, perfect. While I despair over these dark times, I still think that Bodog’s Super Bowl props can…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer If Fred Thomas can’t cover anyone (tied for most TDs allowed this season), then why was he exclusively on Bernard Berrian Sunday? Mike McKenzie did a fine job shutting down Muhsin Muhammad, who is clearly the Bears’ second best receiving threat. I’m usually all for a pass-heavy offense,…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer New Orleans (+2) at Chicago Comments: It’s unclear which is of greater concern for Chicago entering this weekend, Rex Grossman or its recent defensive play. Grossman silenced the critics somewhat last week (7.4 YPA), but the Bears’ defense continued its downslide. Chicago is allowing 25.8 points per game…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer My 4-team (6-point) teaser was foiled by Baltimore, but in hindsight, I should have been recommending Indy (+10) anyway, considering I chose them to cover the 4-point spread. Speaking of winning and losing games in the playoffs, can we please stop all this nonsense in the media about…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer What a wild weekend of football. It’s fitting the year everyone dismisses the Colts is the same one in which they are probably going to win it all. I’ll admit I picked the Ravens to win (although I had Indy covering), but everyone had it completely wrong when…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer Indianapolis (+4) at Baltimore Comments: Aside from Peyton Manning, Bob Sanders is proving to be the Colts’ second most valuable player, as the defense performs on an entirely different level with him in the lineup. It took Tony Dungy long enough, but Joseph Addai is finally getting all…

By Robby Wellington – Staff Writer A lot will change over the next eight months, but if I drafted today, these guys would be my top 10 fantasy players for next season. 1. LaDainian Tomlinson – This is a no-brainer. I would consider taking away the 2nd round pick of whoever is lucky enough to…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer If you took my advice last week, you could have made some coin on a 4-team teaser with 3-1 odds. That said, I’m not as confident with this week’s slate, but I’m going with the same strategy nevertheless. As far as moneylines go, taking the Colts, Eagles and/or…

By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer 3. LaDainian Tomlinson It’s impossible to argue with LT’s numbers: he broke the NFL record with 31 TDs, got 5.2 YPC, totaled 2,323 yards and carried countless fantasy teams to titles. Still, he simply wasn’t as important to his team as two other quarterbacks were. Consider Michael Turner,…

By Robby Wellington – Staff Writer A few random thoughts from the games on Saturday in no particular order, followed by my own year-end picks. Colts – Chiefs Wow. As the owner of Trent Green, Larry Johnson and Tony Gonzalez (and no Colts) on my fantasy playoff team, this was not a fun game to…