Tuesday, the day you look at your Fantasy Teams and start tweeting smack or just plain smacking yourself. Let’s talk a little PANIC or PATIENCE and please do not hesitate to post your thoughts on any players you think are worth picking up this week. I listed a few below
There a New Larry Johnson in Town and his name is Chris
I said it in my week two video and I’ll say it again, Chris Johnson did exactly what Larry Johnson did several years back with the Chiefs—by holding out until just before the season started he missed valuable training camp showed up with no legs under him and it has showed through the first three weeks of the season with his averaging 33 rushing yards a game. It’s a shame too as his new QB seemed to spend training camps learning to lean on strong veterans as evidenced by the resurrection of Steve Smith who—despite playing in a mini monsoon Sunday—is still averaging 120 yards per game. Meanwhile Chris Johnson seems as alienated from Cam Newton as his Newton’s father during an NCAA investigation. Maybe they should go out for tattoo’s together. Cam’s could say “I’m with stupid.”
With two road games coming up for him against AFC North foes Cleveland and Pittsburgh and the fact that rushing QB’s like Cam take TD’s from their RB’s it’s definitely time to PANIC. Grab LeRon McClain of the Chiefs because if that terrible team ever does turn it around he will be the best scoring fantasy back in that backfield and is already the goalline back.
The Ref’s aren’t giving Vick a hand
One minute Michael Vick’s hand is broken the next minute it’s just bruised. While there is speculation about that I can tell you one thing that is certainly bruised and that is Philadelphia’s ego. As I was watching the Vick postgame video in will2survive’s post yesterday, I couldn’t help but laugh at two things; the first being at the 1:06 mark of the video where he points out that he'd "be lying if I said I wasn’t FUSTRATED right now”—not as "FUSTRATED" as the English department at Virginia Tech is every time you step behind a microphone. The second and more interesting item was his complaint that he “gets hits more than most QB’s.” Another English faux paux on number 7’s part as he forgot to finish that statement with the phrase “who are pocket passers.” While I definitely felt that roughing should have been called on the play on question, the simple fact is that mobile QB’s like Vick and Roethlisberger that find themselves out of the pocket more than most are hit more and—in the end—blurs all the contact calls for these officials. Unfortunately for Vick he is not built like Roethlisberger so when he gets hit he goes down faster than a gay teen for tickets to Glee in Concert. Guess you can spend all the time you want in a prison gym for strength Michael but there’s no replacement for the “resistance training” of pinning a girl down in a Georgia men’s room.
If you have Vick don’t DON’T PANIC show a little PATIENCE and pick up Mike Kafka because if Vick misses any time—and Vince Young’s hammy continues to nag like they do—he is more than ready to become a top-flight starter and who better than Kafka to begin the 2-1 Eagles Metamorphosis into the Dream team they promised. (Thank your high school English teacher if you got that one).
I like Joe Namath better when he’s drunk
In case you haven’t read Joe Namath has accused The Jets of being overconfident. Isn’t Namath the dude who wore fur coats and boldly predicted the AFC’s first ever Superbowl III win over the Colts. Really, Joe? Are they over confident or are they just refusing to accept that while Rex Ryan has stockpiled his Defense like an 80’s
missile silo, he has not improved a mediocre at best offense. Mark Sanchez has more trouble passing on second downs then rex Ryan has passing on seconds period. And how much longer can Shonn Greene—by the way there are two “n’s” in Shonn; one for each TD he scored the past 2 years—be the guy that is about to a top level running back and how many more times can we watch him heave it up to Plaxico and hope for the best. Oh and one more thing, maybe #81 should have his name legally changed. Change Dustin to CHECK and Keller to DOWN because this offense has become as predictable as a twilight movie and just as bloody.
If you have anyone listed in bold—PANIC and pick up their corresponding position on the G-men.
There a New Larry Johnson in Town and his name is Chris
I said it in my week two video and I’ll say it again, Chris Johnson did exactly what Larry Johnson did several years back with the Chiefs—by holding out until just before the season started he missed valuable training camp showed up with no legs under him and it has showed through the first three weeks of the season with his averaging 33 rushing yards a game. It’s a shame too as his new QB seemed to spend training camps learning to lean on strong veterans as evidenced by the resurrection of Steve Smith who—despite playing in a mini monsoon Sunday—is still averaging 120 yards per game. Meanwhile Chris Johnson seems as alienated from Cam Newton as his Newton’s father during an NCAA investigation. Maybe they should go out for tattoo’s together. Cam’s could say “I’m with stupid.”
With two road games coming up for him against AFC North foes Cleveland and Pittsburgh and the fact that rushing QB’s like Cam take TD’s from their RB’s it’s definitely time to PANIC. Grab LeRon McClain of the Chiefs because if that terrible team ever does turn it around he will be the best scoring fantasy back in that backfield and is already the goalline back.
The Ref’s aren’t giving Vick a hand
One minute Michael Vick’s hand is broken the next minute it’s just bruised. While there is speculation about that I can tell you one thing that is certainly bruised and that is Philadelphia’s ego. As I was watching the Vick postgame video in will2survive’s post yesterday, I couldn’t help but laugh at two things; the first being at the 1:06 mark of the video where he points out that he'd "be lying if I said I wasn’t FUSTRATED right now”—not as "FUSTRATED" as the English department at Virginia Tech is every time you step behind a microphone. The second and more interesting item was his complaint that he “gets hits more than most QB’s.” Another English faux paux on number 7’s part as he forgot to finish that statement with the phrase “who are pocket passers.” While I definitely felt that roughing should have been called on the play on question, the simple fact is that mobile QB’s like Vick and Roethlisberger that find themselves out of the pocket more than most are hit more and—in the end—blurs all the contact calls for these officials. Unfortunately for Vick he is not built like Roethlisberger so when he gets hit he goes down faster than a gay teen for tickets to Glee in Concert. Guess you can spend all the time you want in a prison gym for strength Michael but there’s no replacement for the “resistance training” of pinning a girl down in a Georgia men’s room.
If you have Vick don’t DON’T PANIC show a little PATIENCE and pick up Mike Kafka because if Vick misses any time—and Vince Young’s hammy continues to nag like they do—he is more than ready to become a top-flight starter and who better than Kafka to begin the 2-1 Eagles Metamorphosis into the Dream team they promised. (Thank your high school English teacher if you got that one).
I like Joe Namath better when he’s drunk
In case you haven’t read Joe Namath has accused The Jets of being overconfident. Isn’t Namath the dude who wore fur coats and boldly predicted the AFC’s first ever Superbowl III win over the Colts. Really, Joe? Are they over confident or are they just refusing to accept that while Rex Ryan has stockpiled his Defense like an 80’s
missile silo, he has not improved a mediocre at best offense. Mark Sanchez has more trouble passing on second downs then rex Ryan has passing on seconds period. And how much longer can Shonn Greene—by the way there are two “n’s” in Shonn; one for each TD he scored the past 2 years—be the guy that is about to a top level running back and how many more times can we watch him heave it up to Plaxico and hope for the best. Oh and one more thing, maybe #81 should have his name legally changed. Change Dustin to CHECK and Keller to DOWN because this offense has become as predictable as a twilight movie and just as bloody.
If you have anyone listed in bold—PANIC and pick up their corresponding position on the G-men.