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Duckboy said:

QB - Drew Brees 5, NO; Jamarcus Russell, 9Consensus top 3 QB and the one I see with the least issues. Had to reach a bit, but all of the top ones were gone by the next pick (and the next tier between 3rd and 4th). Russell was the last of the “guaranteed” starters – though Garcia could complicate that.RB - Frank Gore 6, Jerious Norwood 4, Felix Jones 6, J.J. Arrington 7, Greg Jones 7As I like to go, top RB then a combo for RB2. Norwood and Felix should have some good weeks. JJ goes to Denver – Kevin Faulk role? Or more? Greg Jones as the backup/possible vulture to MJD. Minimal bye issues – worst is Week 6 with top 2 off.WR - Eddie Royal 7, Greg Camarillo 6, Santana Moss 8, Isaac Bruce 6, Laveranues Coles 8, Harry Douglas 4, Kenny Britt ?Really like Royal/Santana/Coles as a “start” with Bruce/Camarillo as filler. Royal to the Welker role? – could be PPR gold. Santana is hot/cold but can win weeks alone. Coles gets Housh’s role. Hopefully Bruce doesn’t retire and Cam has a full recovery (looked good early with Penny). Douglas now the full-time WR3 in ATL. Will need to see where Britt lands to get his role. Minimal bye issues – worst is Week 8 with Moss/Coles off.TE - Zach Miller 9, James Casey ?All teams in a format like this will have an issue somewhere – here’s the biggest one for this team (though I finished 2nd in PDSL3 with a Utecht/Watson combo so can be done). Miller should put up good numbers again; Casey is a DalClark/Cooley prototype who I seee with Keller-like numbers depending on where he ends up. Potential for bye issues.PK - David Akers 4, Kris Brown 10DEF - New York Jets 9, Green Bay Packers 52 stable kickers, 2 decent D’s, no bye conflicts. Brown and NYJ have some upside potential.Overall: Not sure what to really think here, as the league looks pretty balanced; injuries will as usual come into play. My fear is that there may not be enough “explosiveness” here to take off, short of a MB3 and/or Turner injury. Like the “starting lineup” of:Brees/Gore/RB2/Royal/SMoss/Coles/ZMiller/K/Dbut depth could be a killer. Feels like a good 1st half team, but may not have enough to go top 4.

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Fiddles said:

Fiddles

8 Brady NE

9 Edwards Buf

7 CJohnson Ten

8 Graham TB

9 MBush Oak

6 Choice Dal

? Greene Rook

4 RWhite Atl

8 ABryant TB

6 Austin Dal

7 Washington Ten

9 Patten Cle

? Thomas Rook

? Toomer FA

5 GOlsen Chi

7 JCarlson Sea

4 Rackers Az

9 Feely NYJ

8 Bengals

9 Raiders

Somehow within position I have no double byes (depending on FAs and rooks)

Looking back on this draft I made a few major mistakes. First Greg Olsen in the 5th instead of Desean Jackson. Considering Carlson was available in the 6th for me I should’ve gone with the WR. Second mistake was Trent Edwards in the 7th considering delhomme or Russell didn’t go till late 9th round. I would’ve been happy with either at that point. I also assumed Branch was gone and took Austin instead. Would rather have branch but we will see how that pans out. I probably should’ve grabbed another WR instead of Shonn Greene looking back on it. All of this is hindsight pretty much. Live and learn.

I am not feeling too confident in this team because of my WR depth. Everything else looks ok to me though.

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Fiddles said:

Fiddles

8 Brady NE

9 Edwards Buf

7 CJohnson Ten

8 Graham TB

9 MBush Oak

6 Choice Dal

? Greene Rook

4 RWhite Atl

8 ABryant TB

6 Austin Dal

7 Washington Ten

9 Patten Cle

? Thomas Rook

? Toomer FA

5 GOlsen Chi

7 JCarlson Sea

4 Rackers Az

9 Feely NYJ

8 Bengals

9 Raiders

Somehow within position I have no double byes (depending on FAs and rooks)

Looking back on this draft I made a few major mistakes. First Greg Olsen in the 5th instead of Desean Jackson. Considering Carlson was available in the 6th for me I should’ve gone with the WR. Second mistake was Trent Edwards in the 7th considering delhomme or Russell didn’t go till late 9th round. I would’ve been happy with either at that point. I also assumed Branch was gone and took Austin instead. Would rather have branch but we will see how that pans out. I probably should’ve grabbed another WR instead of Shonn Greene looking back on it. All of this is hindsight pretty much. Live and learn.

I am not feeling too confident in this team because of my WR depth. Everything else looks ok to me though.

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Bri said:

Bri

QB - Shaun Hill, QB26, SF(6)

QB Matt Stafford rook (?)

Discussed Hill's numbers in an earlier thread. He was whom I targetted and I got him. To reiterate but one part, I'm confident(as long as he's starting) he'll go up the QB rankings by the time the season starts. I was purposely looking for a later QB. Everytime I wanted another QB I was figuring it would be hard to find a better than 90 QB rating QB so why bother? Injury, someone else starting...sure there's lots of reasons I just think Hill is going to be the guy. Singletary alluded to it a month or so ago and while he's entitled to change his mind I think this is going to work surprisingly well.

Stafford, bye week fill-in and let's see what the rook can do the rest of the time.

RB -Marion Barber, RB12, Dal (6)

RB Kevin Smith, RB18, Det (7)

RB - Brandon Jacobs, RB13, NYG (10)

RB Derrick Ward, RB32, TB (8)

RB Antonio Pittman RB STL (9)

I like my RBs and wanted to make sure I got enough decent ones to endure. The QB position really gave me a chance to play here and being confident in the later WRs did too. I've got 3 FF starters IMO and it's very possible Ward and Pittman could get some starts and/or starter like numbers for a week here N there. Smith had a good rookie year and should get some more love around here IMO. I thought Pittman was a bit of a steal. At about the same time though, some in the Pool were talking about the Rams drafting a RB. Yeah that would sure change his value.

I rrrrrreally like Ward and have seen him play alot. For whatever reason, most people don't realize he's a big back. Many know he can catch well and run fairly well. I just figure you get a back that big outside against small DBs and good things are going to happen. With Tampa's stable, I would figure at bare minimum he's their receiving back. Add to that, that I do think he can be their starter by week 1 and I just had to go with a 4th RB somewhat early. WRs were going but not "my guys" so I was hoping this would work itself out and it did.

WR Torry Holt, WR31 (?)

I'm planning/hoping he's a Titan. At around the time of this pick he had had a very good visit. The "he's old, he won't be as good etc" talk is fine by me. Years ago no one would have said Derrick Mason is as good as Torry Holt. Mason had some nice stats and there's no reason Torry can't emulate Mason's now at his older age. (Sorry but, not much good WR history in TEN to compare to)

WR Chris Chambers, WR42, SD (5)

I don't care about drops or whatever the reason is that he falls every year so I thought he was a good value

WR Chris Henry, WR41 (8)

I think Chambers should be ranked higher for now. I left Chambers because I thought some homerism issues would force BSS to leave him for me. Not sure if he didn't want "too many chargers" but, it worked and he came back to me. Nonetheless I think Henry is starting and/or getting starter WR numbers this year. It's been a while since he's been in a jail cell and they let Housh leave. Coles will be a prob some but Henry is far bigger and a different type player IMO. Coles could destroy teams if he can get in the slot(he's so quick to a spot) and I think Henry's been outta place there. I'm figuring Cincy flip flops these two all game. In addition, there's Ocho Cinco trade rumors. If Chad Johnson is traded, Henry is just going to explode IMO. This is the best non starting WR in the NFL IMO. He should be.

WR Matt Jones, WR65 (?)

Posted a few times in the pool about him. I don't get why people are so down on him.(Addiction wise sure, I mean NFL player) He needed a few years to develop, he got that and finally produced last year.....isn't this the spot people wanted to be in 4-5 years ago when he was drafted? Be able to get him once he's learned to produce in the NFL? IF people are expecting a lengthy suspension, sure that pretty much squashes any hope.

WR Laurent Robinson STL (9)

Starter late? OK I'll take him. I like his "tools" and all but in all honesty this was a "what starters are left?" type pick. He really is pretty talented if he can get it to translate onto the field this could be a phenomenal pick.

WR Adrian Arrington, NOS (5)

LLLove this guy's potential. I'm sorta obsessed with it and I'm pretty sure I have him in every dynasty league. He's not Colston. He is, however, another good WR the Saints somehow grabbed in the 7th round of the draft. Aside from Moore and Colston there is no reliable production from their WRs. Every player does well here N there. I think Arrington has a good chance to sneak up the depth chart quick. If not for the reason above, Payton and Brees said some nice things about Arrington last summer. I was pretty annoyed he got injured then. If this doesn't pan out....meh he's a late WR anyway

TE - Kellen Winslow III, TE6, TB (8)

TE Bo Scaife, TE19, Ten (7)

TE Martin Rucker, TE, CLE (9)

I think I have the best TEs. I see a few teams that I think could certainly say similarly. Do I? who knows I just wanted to enter a 2-point PPR for TE draft getting the best tight ends and since I feel like I did, I'm quite OK here.

Heiden has been intriguing for a long time. I think Rucker will clearly beat him out soon enough and that he was drafted with Winslow leaving in mind.

PK Stephen Gostkowski, NEP

PK Garrett Hartley, NOS

Top PK last year, PK from a top offense

DEF New England Patriots, DST5 (8)

DEF Denver Broncos, DST32? (7)

didn't care about Broncos until I saw I had to take the Broncos. I wanted a late D but geesh not the worst D. I misjudged that. I think the Pats D is going to be pretty special. The Broncos do have some talent to improve rather quickly but still I didn't want them.

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tex said:

QB1-Carson Palmer 4.16-Week 8QB2-Matt Hasselbeck 7.01-Week 7Love Palmer and Hass and no bye week conflict, so all I have to worry about is injury. As long as both stay healthy, since neither really has a running game, they should both put up some nice #'s.RB1-Maurice Jones-Drew 1.01-Week 7RB2-Ronnie Brown 3.01-Week 6RB3-Willis McGahee 6.16-Week 7RB4-Maurice Morris 13.01-Week 7RB5-Lamont Jordan 18.16-Week 7RB6-Kolby Smith 20.16-Week 8MJD, Brown, and Willis should go a long way in getting me through week 6. However I'll have to count on Ronnie Brown and Kolby Smith to get me past week 7. Miami has the Saints in week 7, so as long as Smith gets a little PT that week, maybe I can hold on.WR1-Marques Colston 2.16-Week 5WR2-Hines Ward 5.01-Week 8*****************************************************************WR3-Domenik Hixon 9.01-Week 10WR4-Sidney Rice 11.01-Week 9WR5-Percy Harvin 14.16-WR6-Brian Robiskie 15.01-I've got 2 real good WR's and 2 who will be hot and cold and 2 rooks who I don't even know where they are headed. But at least I don't have any bye week conflicts at this position. I think Robiskie in the 15th was great value because I believe he is the most NFL ready WR in this draft. He will play right away. And whoever drafts Harvin will do all they can to get him 10-15 touches per game. He is a game breaker.TE1-Vernon Davis 8.16-Week 6TE2-Todd Heap 10.16-Week 7Not real crazy about my TE's but they do have the talent to do well. Davis just needs to keep his head on straight and Heap needs to stay healthy.PK1-Phil Dawson 16.16-Week 9PK2-Joe Nedney 19.01-Week 6What can I say? they are kickers with no bye week conflict.D/ST-Tampa Bay 12.16-Week 8D/ST2-Atlanta Falcons 17.01-Week 4Took a chance by taking 2 division D/ST's and it worked out. Now I just need them to score some points. Week 7 will be a killer for me. If I can survive until week 7 and somehow make it past that week, I think I've got a shot.

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