September 12, 2010

There goes my productivity

I'm as busy as I have ever been, and my addiction to football is killing me.  This fantasy business is a dangerous drug. 
Enough moaning, let me mention a few surprises from the first week of football thus far. 
1. That Thursday game sucked.  I couldn't believe how boring it was after the first series by New Orleans.
2. I was really surprised by the lack of output by some of the biggest names: Brees, Rodgers, Peterson (under-utilized), Turner (obviously Pitt's D is good again), Gore (What the hell?), Jones-Drew (They really do appear to be trying to to lighten his load), Andre Johnson, CJ Spiller (I know he's not a top guy, but 0 points?), Matt Schaub, the entire Carolina run game, Calvin Johnson (I'm sure you've seen the bullshit over-turned TD by now). 
3. You'll notice two of the more prolific Texans are on the above list even though they put up a ton of points.  Will Arian Foster's emergence lead to a decrease in the Texan's pass production?  Certainly the Texans seem content to run the ball when protecting a lead, which they will probably have a lot this season.  On the flip side, will they run Foster into the ground?  He certainly can't carry the ball 33 times for 16 games.
4. It's not that Rodgers had a terrible game, but he was not as amazing as we all probably thought he'd be.  Again, the Packers seemed to be content to shorten the game with the run, even if it wasn't particularly effective.  That makes the Saints, Texans, and Packers three prolific passing teams that had sub-par weeks from their QB's for essentially the same reason: once they had the lead, they were content to rely on the run and their defense to protect it.  I'm not saying this isn't intelligent, but it is maddening for fantasy folk.
5. Another maddening feature of these offenses is that they have too many options in the passing game.  The highest scoring wide receiver on the Texans? Kevin Walter. The Colts? Austin Collie. The Saints? Devery Henderson. At least for Taylor's sake, Greg Jennings was productive.   

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  1. BTW: You may have heard about this Jets' incident with a female reporter. If you are an ass-man, you may want to Google-image search the reporter (Ines Sainz). I'm not saying it's an excuse for being rude and disrespectful, but I honestly cannot believe this is an isolated incident.

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