Fantasy Football

A few headlines with a couple days of absolute nothingness, that is unless you’re referring to sports at large, in which either steroids or Tiger Woods has kept you entertained. “ooh, Tiger Woods is restarting tour play. Watching him walk around on a grassy lot and swing a metallic club is so much more entertaining than watching several other men walk around on a grassy lot and swing a metallic club because…he does it with style.”

But football news has been uninspired and the opposite of noteworthy, whatever that may be. Passe? I guess. I don’t know. But a few items came across the newswire that may have a tangible effect on the fantasy season.

For starters, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cut their entire roster (Derrick Brooks, Warrick Dunn, and two of their starting receivers (Galloway and Hilliard). These are all veteran players and this is kind of what you’re supposed to do to keep your team fresh, not to mention Tampa’s local economy is kind of in the shitter, but do they have a couple dozen draft picks I’m unaware of. As far as I know, you still have to field a team to actually be considered an NFL franchise.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re an NFL franchise and their owner, Malcolm

Glazer, bough Manchester United in 2005 and is estimated to be worth around 2 billion. So as long as Glazer wants that team in Tampa, it will be in Tampa. But cutting five mainstays (especially Derrick Brooks) seems a tad presumptuous. It makes you wonder why if they thought their roster was so marginal (which it is) then why they fired Jon Gruden, unless they just assumed that everyone was at fault.

At least someone is prospering in this market. Albeit, that person is a professional athlete that plays for a New York team, so I’m not sure if it’s indicative of an upswing in the economy. But I could be wrong. What do I know? I write a football blog for Christ sakes.

Anyways, congrats to Brandon Jacobs. You maybe the over-sized version of Brian Westbrook (because he’s always “questionable”) and split a back field with two other running backs, but you’re totally worth the $25 million because you’re bigger than most linebackers. I’m looking forward to totally passing on you in the fourth round for both of those reasons.

The Marvin Harrison saga continues, as the Colts officially cut him and he begins to play the market. We said before that he should play the loyalty card and bilk the Colts for more money than he could get anywhere else. But like 90% of all professional athletes he overestimates his market value and his agent couldn’t talk him off the ledge. So, the question is where to now. The Eagles seems to be a popular speculated destination, mainly because that’s his hometown and “where he registers his gun” as Tony Kornheiser so charmingly put it a couple days ago on PTI.

However, as an Eagles fan, while I would take him in lieu of being able to attract either Houshmenzadeh or more importantly Anquan Boldin, I really don’t think the Eagles need another receiver under six feet tall. They already have that market cornered with DeSean Jackson and Kevin Curtis, who are extremely viable 2nd and 3rd receivers respectively. But at 1 and 2 where they currently reside, the Eagles are stretching and they know it; even if it is their best receiving corps. in six years.

Alright, we hope to post tomorrow to close out the week.