Fantasy Football

As I’m sure you have heard by now (and if you haven’t then you’ve probably never heard nor intend to read this website, so I don’t need to worry about you), Brett Favre is retiring for the tenth time from the NFL, though this time it appears to be permanent because no legend has ever been worse at the end of his career, so we’re all taking it a little more seriously. I mean, after all, he won as many Super Bowls as Trent Dilfer. He’s a legend.

I think we've seen this before.

Alright, I’m being a little shortsighted, admittedly. But mainly because I’ve loathed the way the media has treated Favre for the past decade (when he really wasn’t all that great except for the 2007 regular season). That is, they’ve been overtly kind whereas someone like Donovan McNabb or Ben Roethlisberger can’t flinch in the pocket without be crucified for it. But it’s time to get down to brass tax: What does this mean in terms of the fantasy season for the Jets?

As I have mentioned before, Thomas Jones was a severe disappointment in 2007, when they had Kellen Clemens and Chad Pennington splitting time. As bad as Favre was the second half of the season, you still had to take him into consideration when designing a defensive game plan against them, which opened up the offense Thomas Jones and to a lesser extent, Leon Washington. Not to mention all the receivers saw an increase in productivity from 2007 to 2008. Really, the only persons statistics that were adversely effected by the acquisition was Brett Favre himself.

Even with the draft on the horizon and free agency yet to kick off, in all likelihood the Jets are going to be back with Clemens, who has shown flashes of promise but is ultimately a disappointment to date. The offensive line has improved so the skill players should see an uptick in statistics from 2007. For example, Thomas Jones should get in the end zone more than twice (like in 2007), but it will be much closer to that production than his 2008 season (17). If Clemens doesn’t play better than he did in 2007 (or in college, for that matter), expect every other player on the Jets to look just as mediocre as he will.

Or maybe everything will be on the up and up. After all, everybody knows it was Eric Mangini’s fault that they didn’t make the playoffs.

Busy today, back with more tomorrow.