Some Catsup for the Mustard Man

Darn work! I'm starving now but taking a few minutes of my lunch just to keep the blog updated.

The bombers checked in and promised to start posting again. Maybe he can tell us how his team is going to dominate the auction league.

Some news from around the league:

LJ is back with contract in hand but says he may not be 100% for the start of the regular season. What the heck? You want LT money but can't mix in a few wind sprints during your hold out? I have never cared much for LJ's personality, so this is one more brick in that load. When his YPC is lower than 4.0 this year due to 9-man fronts and a rebuilding OL, we'll get to hear his whine coast to coast.

There are rumblings of a TD vulture in NE! The sky is falling. Dang it. Laurence Maroney wasn't in the top 5 on my list of RBs, but I projected his stats as high as third for RBs. (Potential versus risk is the cause for that disparity.) If he loses 6 or 7 touchdowns to a vulture, that's going to bite.

Eli's in the news, which reminds me to not get too down on the Giants. Eli has produces 24 TDs each of the last two years. I saw someone flat out drop Plaxico Burress on a free league already. Plax had 990 and 10 last year and 1200 and 7 the year before. Helloooo. Stud? No. Keeper? Yes. It's a similar story for Shockey. He's 'let down' Fantasy Nation, but he's still a very decent TE, with 620 and 7 last year and better than that the year before.

Adios, Ron Mexico.

The fantasy implications at this point are slim, but the Falcons will be better than people think. Look smart and get off the Falcons-are-getting-the-first-draft-pick-next-year bandwagon now. Petrino's offense relies on passing QBs. Vicks completion percentage: 53.8. Harrington's: 55.2. And Harrington's came in pre-Martz DETROIT and Nick Saban's awful MIAMI. I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

what else...

Devery Henderson is nursing a hammy, along with a handful of other WRs, including Randy Moss, I think. Just check your lists again and consider that a WR with hamstring problems will probably miss a couple games.

Culpepper is probably going to start in Oakland.

Lamont Jordan is the starting Oakland RB, at least for the first several games while Dominic Rhodes serves his suspension.

Ronnie Brown is, allegedly, in competition for the starting RB job. I don't believe it. He is too good for that team. If you believe in karma, he kicked cats when he was younger or something.

Brandon Jackson is in as RB1 in Green Bay. I don't have a good feeling that Jackson is going to necessarily get 1200 yards and 10 or anything like that, but as a RB3 or 4 for cheap, he'll fill in a bye week.

Time for a sub, I think.