Apolyton Fantasy Football - League One - Discussion Thread

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Zopperoni

I don't watch football

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Brian Griese
David Carr
Billy Volek

You better hope one of these guys does something this year.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
It's pretty steady, apart from the absence of a super-duper TE.

Looks like a good team to me

[Kidlicious]

I'm happy with my team. Ron Brown was a little risky for a 6th round pick, but who knows what will happen. I was hoping he would have signed and stuff by now though.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Kidicious
You better hope one of these guys does something this year.

I bet that Griese has a better year than Bulger. IIRC, his passer rating last year was higher than Bulger's.

[duke o' york]

4 posts.

I don't watch football either, but then my team's a joke, and now I work it means I can't stay up and listen to US forces radio like I did when I was a kid.
You can only get football on cable/satellite here, yet they used to have late-night games (for us ) on terrestrial telly not that long ago.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Kidicious

It's true. I follow all the games on NFL.com's GameCenter

[duke o' york]

I just read the net reports the next day. All right, week, when it's the Bears.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Last year Griese had a rating of 97.5 while Bulger had a rating of 93.7. Griese also had a 69.3 completion % compared to Bulger's 66.2%:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/statistics?stat=pass&sort=rat&league=nfl&season=2&year=2004

He had 336 attempts leading to 2,632 yards passing with 20 TDs and 12 INTs. Bulger had 485 attempts for 3,964 yards and 21 TDs and 14 INTs.

So Griese had 7.83 yards per attempt, while Bulger had 8.17 ypa. Griese had 16.8 att/TD, while Bulger had 23.1. Of course Griese had a higher att/INT as well, 28.00 compared to 34.64.

So if Griese had the same attempts that Bulger did (plausible considering that he's the starter since the beginning of the year), he'd have 3,797.55 yards, 29 TDs, and 17 INTs. That's quite a good QB.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I bet that Griese has a better year than Bulger. IIRC, his passer rating last year was higher than Bulger's.

Well, let's not forget that he replaced Chris Simms who replaced Brad Johnson. If Griese fails to deliver, he will get yanked quite quickly although Simms isn't very good... he's pretty awful actually.

[Imran Siddiqui]

But with a 97 passer rating, I don't think ole Chucky will yank him anytime soon. And because Simms is such crap, I don't think Griese has to worry if he has a bad 1st game.

[duke o' york]

To start:

Brett Favre - GB - QB
Ahman Green - GB - RB
T.J. Duckett - ATL - RB
Randy Moss - OAK - WR
Chris Chambers - MIA - WR
Reuben Droughns - CLE - RB/WR
Alge Crumpler - ATL - TE
Shayne Graham - CIN - K
Minnesota Vikings - MIN - DEF

Bench
Chris Brown - TEN - RB
Aaron Brooks - NO - QB
Detroit Lions - DET - DEF
David Givens - NE - WR
David Boston - MIA - WR
Mark Campbell – BUF - TE
Onterrio Smith - MIN - RB

That'll have to do to start with.

[Zopperoni]

Droughns may not get the starting job and, as reisie pointed out in the draft thread, Onterrio Smith is suspended for the season.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think all the Cleveland RBs are risks. Suggs (my pick), Droughns, Green. Basically its gambling that your pick wins the battle .

Smith, OTOH...

[duke o' york]

Well, it's good to have Vikings in the team, as I'm sure Child of Thor would agree. Even useless Vikings.

Besides, I'm gambling that his legal team will come through in the end!