Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I have one league where I have been fortunate to start 7-2.Here is my all star team(cough cough)QB: T.Brady, J.PlummerRB: J.Lewis, W.McGahee, W.Dunn, K.Jones, S.Morris, TJ Duckett, T.HenryWR: R.Moss, J.Walker, R.Wayne, R.GardnerTE: T.GonzoK: Kaeding/K.BrownDef: Pittsburgh, T.BayI think for a start 2 WR, I have come out smelling like a rose considering Moss was my 1st round pick. I traded D.Staley and Keyshawn Johnson week 4 to obtain T.Brady. I have gotten fairly solid play from my QBs and Jake Plummer has really drove a stake through my oponents the last 2 weeks...it can't last though, can it?My RB are a rag tag group...I got McGahee on waivers of all things the 1st couple weeks of the season...it happens. Kevin Jones is useless to me right now and I would like to cut him but I am not sure who I would get. My team if you look at it in week 4-5 was very average and I was 2-2 at that point. In fact I started the season 0-2 and have ripped off 7 in a row. The past 4 weeks has seen Plummer, Gonzo, and McGahee really turn it on.I did not draft Walker, in fact I traded Faulk/Driver for him and got Henry to ensure the Bills backfield and get a better frontline starter at WR with R.Moss out. When you look at my team, I don't think it strikes fear...I don't have a Culpepper, Priest, Green, or an Owens...those guys scare me to death. However, being in 1st place you can say that I basically have a solid backfield with a lot of RB to choose from different weeks and a better than average WR core when fully helthy...if R.Moss comes back it could be special. Gonzo has to keep producing in order to have that big edge at TE that so many owners crave.What are you putting on the frontline? What do you attribute to your success this season? And what starters you are playing have you worried for the playoff stretch/run?
so I just completed a deal of Favre/Green for Harrington/McGahee. My RBs are now looking better and I hope this puts me in better position for the playoffs.
Driver, B Stokley,L Coles, N BuerlesonTE: A Crumpler, D ClarkDE: JETS, T-BPS. All of those RB where not drafted:SA for TJones& Taylor;Pittman & Droughns on WW.I'm 6-3 but leader in pts.
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Start 1 QB, 1 RB, 1 WR/TE, 3 Flex (so up to 4 RB), 1 K, 1 IDP, 1 DefenseScoring is essentially TD-base with almost nothing for yardage.I will say that I think my success so far speaks to being active in the Free Agent market and not being afraid to cut guys you loved in the draft but didn't pan out. I protected 4 RB, and at most one (Taylor) might start this week, yet I was able to dig up out of favor guys like E Smith to get me through.QBs Currect - Bulger (Rd 7.05), T Green (11.05), B Leftwich (FA - Week 7-IR)QB Drafted but dropped: Palmer (12.05)RBs Current - Holmes (Protect-IR), F Taylor (Protect), Henry (Protect), S Davis (Protect), W Dunn (FA - Week 2), E Smith (FA - Week 2), D Blaylock (FA - Week 8), O Smith (FA - Week 10 (!)), A Thomas (FA - Week 10)RB Drafted but Cut: Duckett (Rd 10.05)WRs Current - D Mason (5.05), R Gardner (FA - Week 9)WRs Drafted but Cut: Coles (Rd 9.05), Chambers (Rd 13.05), Burress (16.05)K Current - S Graham (FA - Week 9)K Drafted but Cut: Longwell (Rd 15.05)DEF Current - Baltimore (Rd 6.05), Jets (FA - Week 4)DEF Drafted but Cut: Miami (Rd 14.04)IDP Current - Charles Grant (FA - Week 7)IDP Drafted But Cut: Ogunleye (Rd 15.04)-QG
I'm just hoping that Henry lands somewhere next year that might warrant my trading of the pick for him. I actually had that in mind a little bit when I did it (though I hardly anticipated a big goose egg for the season from him). An 8th-rounder may not seem a big deal, but the bigger deal was that it upped my number of protects to 4 from 3, which can make a big difference in picking out the young RBs (like K Jones who I lost out on) that can be a foundation for later seasons - which does have a little bit of value.I think slightly older RBs sometimes are undervalued in keeper league when compared to the guys with 'potential'. Perhaps this is because people are hunting for the next Marshall Faulk imagining an RB with a studly solid 10-year career. They tend to forget guys like Ickey Woods who were brilliant until that one big injury brought them down. I see ALL running backs as having a maximum shelf life of 4 years (which is a big reason why I just can't seem to give up Holmes). Injury replacements are as likely as being that future stud as anybody else (heck in the league where I have Deuce, I got him late in the year as a handcuff for Ricky). This paragraph was just sort of a random 2 cents I guess 
