The 2008 NFL Season has Started!

(no, I'm not sitting in my apartment like a dork watching the game like this. This was Halloween 2 years ago.)

Go 'Skins!

Are You Ready for Some Football Pt. 3

Finally. The last of my 3 fantasy football drafts. This one was especially challenging because the commissioner of the league decided to mix things up this year. Instead of just going with a team defense, he decided we should go with individual defensive players(IDP). In all my years of fantasy football (and I've been doing this a LOOOONG time), I've never been in a league with IDP. And quite honestly, I still have no idea what the hell I'm doing. I based my IDP picks solely on a cheat sheet I got from my favorite fantasy site that I use every year, thehuddle.com. So with this league, we field a team consisting of 1 QB, 2 RB, 1 RB/WR (flex position), 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 K, and instead of 1 team defense, there is 1 LB, 1 DL, 1 DB, and 2 other DPs. Because of the added positions, this was a 20 round draft instead of a 13 to 15 round draft. And now, I present to you Izzy's Bullies:

QB: Drew Brees, Marc Bulger
WR: Santonio Holmes, Brandon Marshall, Reggie Brown, Isaac Bruce (side note - I still thought Bruce was with St.Louis. I just found out today that he is now with the 49'ers. I got really rusty in the offseason!)
RB: Joseph Addai, Jonathan Stewart, Chris Johnson, Steve Slaton
IDP: Jared Allen, Kyle Vander Bosch, Terrell Suggs, Kirk Morrison, Barrett Ruud, Calvin Pace, Bob Sanders, Nate Clements
TE: Chris Cooley
K: John Kasay

The regular season starts tomorrow night! I'm psyched! I just wish it wasn't Redskins/Giants. The Skins are notoriously bad in nationally televised games.

Are You Ready for Some Football Pt. 2

Some brilliant people decided to hold my 2nd fantasy football draft on Labor Day. Labor Day! Because it was good for some. The rest of us had to come home early from vacations, beaches and cookouts to be there. And then they changed the time to a half hour later. THEN we didn't even get started for at least another half hour after that. That was probably another hamburger and a half I could have eaten at the cookout! Not to mention that I had to get up at 3:30 am for work the next day. This one league is notoriously SLOOOOOOOW when it comes to making picks. Needless to say, 3 hours after this draft was supposed to start, we were done. And people wonder why the hell I was so tired at work yesterday. Anyway, I present to you the Dewey Devils 2008:

QB: Drew Brees, David Garrard
RB: Steven Jackson, Chris Perry, Ray Rice, Maurice Morris
WR: Marques Colston, Nate Burleson, Joey Galloway, Reggie
Williams, Antwaan Randle El, DJ Hackett
TE: Jason Witten
K: Nate Kaeding
Def: Chicago

This league starts 1 QB, 2 RB, 3WR, 1 TE, 1 K, and 1 DEF. Also this league is a keeper league meaning we keep 2 players from our previous year's team. I kept Drew Brees and Steven Jackson and actually picked up another player I had last year, Marques Colston, with my first pick (3rd) of the draft. Another thing to note is that this is my money league. $50 entry fee and $5 a roster move. (Up from $32 entry and $3 a move.) So it's a nice pot of money at the end of the year. We also are having a $20 prize each week for the team that scores the most points. And so everyone stays involved thru the playoffs, we also have a Toilet Bowl. All the teams that don't make the playoffs get to play and the point is to lose your game. The biggest loser wins $20. So really, the chances to win money are endless. As are the chances I don't get squat! Heh. Such is life in fantasy football.