Published Aug 23, 2004
One afternoon I made the — apparently fairly serious — error of hanging out in the courtyard at Popovich (the b-school building here). Somehow I ended up participating in the draft for our local fantasy football league here. I drafted 6 of 12, so I got crappy picks but not so crappy I got to have two picks in a row like lucky 12. This was the smallest draft (ok, only of two) that I’d participated in, so I fear I drafted too much for value and too little for impact, but we’ll see. I feel good about a lot of my starters, even though I only had about two minutes to prepare my board.
Named after my hometown football (ok, box soccer) team, my Baltimore Blast (my second choice was the Baltimore Thunder) consists of:
- QBs Tom Brady, Jake Plummer, and Rich Gannon
- WRs Terrell Owens, Rod Smith, Keenan McCardell and Drew Bennett
- RBs Jamal Lewis, Quentin Griffin, and Justin Fargas
- TEs Todd Heap and Bubba Franks
- K Adam Vinatieri
- Seattle D
This week’s starters are:
- Jake Plummer
- T.O.
- Keenan McCardell
- Drew Bennett
- Jamal Lewis
- Todd Heap
- Vinatieri
- And, of course, the Seattle D
It’s already a bad thing; I got up this morning second-guessing that line-up. Will Brady do better against the Indy D than Plummer vs. KC? If I believe in Plummer, should I start Rod Smith as well, therefore putting my eggs all in one basket? Or do I distribute my risk and start the tremendously underrated Bennett? And this is interfering with my productivity!
Yay excuse to be non-productive!
Oh, and somehow I missed Keenan McCardell’s frickin holdout - http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1866196
Guess that means I start Rod Smith! Should I drop McCardell and pick up another receiver? If so, who? Dante Hall, maybe, who could pick me up some points for his kickoff returns (if he scores)? There’s nobody out there I believe in — or with many more fantasy points — than Drew Bennett.
Plus let’s not say anything about my starting QB lighting up my starting D in a preseason game.