Fantasy advice – week four

Okay, it’s the fourth week of the season now and you can start to see some patterns emerging that will help guide fantasy decisions from here to the end of the year. It’s been another tough week to break away but here are some thoughts.

In the meantime, if you read this post and you think there are ways this could be improved and actually provide something not provided elsewhere, please feel free to drop a comment… thanks.

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Fantasy advice — Week three

Sorry to the person relying on this info. Moving week. Haven’t been able to get away for long periods of time.

Locks:

Quarterback: Matthew Stafford, Detroit vs Minnesota — For the second straight week Detroit gets a reeling team with a beat up and questionable secondary. Stafford will feast on the likes of Chris Cook and Cedric Griffin and if Calvin Johnson doesn’t have a big day (though I think he will) his counterparts in Titus Young, Nate Burleson and Brandon Pettigrew should. Stafford eclipses 300 yards with a minimum of two touchdowns, probably more. (more…)

Colts efforts at locating heir to Manning come too late

I had two reactions when word spread earlier this week that Indianapolis Colts President Bill Polian spent a good chunk of the Stanford season opener scouting quarterback Andrew Luck.

My first thought was good luck getting Luck. There are more than a half-dozen teams worse off than Indy is this year. Despite getting manhandled by Houston in the opener, the Peyton Manning-less Colts still have Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, Austin Collie, Pierre Garcon, Joseph Addai and enough other weapons to complement an aging-but-still-solid Kerry Collins that there is no way Indianapolis will fall off the map enough to be in position to draft Stanford’s signal caller.

My second thought was what took so long? (more…)

Fantasy advice — Week two

This is not a fantasy football website, but we both compete in a number of leagues and we definitely have opinions. For now I’m going to throw forth a handful of names each week on who I think will do well and who will fail. If anyone checking this out has any thoughts on what might be more useful — or if you think this feature is a waste of space and should be scrapped altogether — drop us a comment and let us know.

In the meantime, here’s Andy’s fantasy advice for week two.

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