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NFL Week 11 fantasy free agents strategies: The best waiver wire pickups

November 12, 2008 by MarkM · Leave a Comment 

NFL Week 11 Free agents strategies: The best Waiver Wire pickups

Tatum Bell, RB, Denver Broncos

Tatum Bell RB Denver Bronvos

Tatum Bell RB Denver Broncos

Yes he is back in Denver. This player can have a huge impact very quickly. He already knows the offense and he has always looked great in this system. Expect him to start this sunday, and until Selvin Young is 100% he should get most of the carries.

Carnell “Cadillac” Williams, RB Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Carnell "Cadillac" Williams RB Tampa Bay Bucs

Carnell Williams

I told you he would be activated weeks ago. I TOLD YOU! Trust me this guy will be big moving into the fantasy post season. If you still have the chance pick this once Offensive Rookie of the Year for god sake do it. Gruden plays favorites and he has a hard on for caddy. Trust me this guy is going to get serious touches this year. Depending on his speed he could still be an elite RB. If you need a RB this is you diamond in the ruff.

Mark Bradley, WR Kansas City Chiefs

Mark Bradley, WR Kansas City Cheifs

Mark Bradley, WR Kansas City Cheifs

If you need a wide-out this may be your guy. He looked dominant last week, and could play a bigger factor for the cheifs moving later into the season. The Chiefs are the type of  team that should find themselves down and in more passing situations than they would like and Mark may benefit because of this. This guy is your sleeper WR pickup for the waiver wire this week late in the NFL season.

FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM CANCERS

September 11, 2008 by sportsroids · 2 Comments 

Fantasy Football Team Cancers

By Mark M

Marques Colston Top flight WR? I think not...

Marques Colston Top flight WR? I think not...

I am writing this post just to make fun of all the people who drafted Marques Colston in the 1st or the 2nd round in their respective Fantasy drafts. I never understood the high Marques Colston pick ever, I know he is tall, strong and talented but has he ever really been a consistent #1 WR for anyone?

Colston just doesn't show up enough each week to be picked high

Colston just doesn't get it done as a fantasy #1 WR

I swear he can have 200 yard games, but sometimes he just doesn’t even show up. Let me give you the examples to prove my point. Over Colston’s career he has never beaten a team with an above average secondary. Just for example whenever he has played the eagles, he has done nothing special. In 2007, he only had 3 catches for 16 yards with his long being a 11 yard run. Ok, still not satisfied? In 2006, he had 4 catches for 40 yards with a TD, not a bad day but certainly not what you expecting from your  top Fantasy draft pick WR. So the eagles may be his kryptonite right? Nope, I would say his big weakness is playing against any team in the NFC east. Colston’s best performance was the one that I just stated (40 yards and 1 TD) against any NFC East team. You can’t be a top flight receiver if an entire Division of the NFL has your number in my book.

Another statistic, which proves he is not consistent game to game, is that in 2007 he had 6 games with less than 50 yards. Ok, I fully admit that doesn’t sound that bad, but it does when you realize the man was 8th in the league in reception yards. He had over 4 games with 100+ yards. Fantasy wise, in most leagues weekly wins and losses are all that matter. Yes, Colson is a lock in Fantasy leagues, if they don’t have a playoff system, or if the winner is determined by tallying up overall points. Most leagues just are not like that, and for that reason Colston is bad a start due to his unreliable Stats. You don’t know when he is going to go off, and more times than not he will play sub par compared to the number of 100+ days superb starts he produces. He has this pattern with his TDs as well. Colston, Fantasywise, really statistically follows the motto, “Go big or go home”, which is idea your #1 can’t have over the course of a full season if your to do well in your Fantasy league. Roddy white another receiver who has very similar stats compared to Colston. Roddy White also has the same consistency problems as Colston but Roddy is always a much later pick, WHY IS THAT? Is it because Colston has big highlights of his catches on SportCenter? I just don’t get it.

But either way, how I feel does not matter because he is hurt. So regardless of your concept of his past production, if you picked Colston this year you got screwed. He is out for a minimum of six weeks, so go get Eddie Royal or Desean Jackson, cause you need somebody. Those are the two best free agents for week two that are out there in most Leagues. In the draft you might have had a shot at Andre Johnson, Plaxico Burress, Chad Johnson and all the other players whom I suspect might have been wrongly picked after Colston but now your stuck with some free agent rookie, and I have no pity for you. You are almost as bad as the idiot, who took a chance on a Broncos RB in the 2nd round, a few years ago in one of my leagues. You know who the RB was, right?

Maurice Clarett (dumbest 3rd pick I ever saw)

Maurice Clarett (dumbest 2rd round pick I ever saw)