Fun with Peter King and Fantasy Football
For those of you that read this site regularly, you must probably think that I hate Peter King. Well, I don't hate Peter King, I really don't. It just amuses me that a Sports Illustrated "senior NFL writer" comes up with the things that Peter sometimes brings to the table.
Today's fun comes courtesy of Peter's fantasy football team over at the SI football Fantasy Mock Draft. Now, I certainly don't pretend to be some expert on fantasy football because my team usually gets pounded like a Vietnamese hooker, but I do think that I can draft better than mister King.
Round 1 (8 overall)
Marshawn Lynch, RB
Bills coordinator Steve Fairchild, a Mike Martz guy, sees Marshall Faulk in Lynch.Round 2 (17)
Adrian Peterson, RB
As you can see, I'm not afraid of drafting rookie running backs.
As you can see, Peter went with rookie running backs with his first two picks. SI's own Fantasy Running back rankings has Lynch at number 20 and Peterson at number 26, yet Peter reaches badly for them with his first two picks. The first two picks are the most important as they probably will determine if you will get drilled or if you will be giving out the drilling...and I'm thinking that Peter will receive plenty of drilling in this league.
He passes up Maroney, Westbrook, Rudi Johnson, Travis Henry, MJD, Reggie Bush, Thomas Jones and Willis McGahee to pick these guys. He has MJD and Bush on his "All-current" NFL team, but he passes on both in his own fantasy draft. Odd huh...
Round 3 (32)
Jon Kitna, QB
This is what I project for him in 2007: 4,467 yards, 25 touchdowns -- and 18 picks.
He could've had Marc Bulger, who most experts have in the top 5 of fantasy qb's. He goes with Jon Kitna. 'Nuff said...
The rest of his picks are pretty boring and what stands out is that he has a total of 4 rookies on his team. Seems like a high number if you ask me. And then he drops this beauty...
Round 9 (104)
Jaguars D
The best defense no one pays attention to. Ever hear of Bobby McCray?
Again, SI's senior football writer says that no one pays attention to Jacksonville's defense. That's like saying that no one pays attention to Cincinnati's offense.
And judging by the comments left over at Fan Nation, the SI readers are just as baffled as I am..
2 comments:
Wow, you must feel like a total ASS right now.
Of Course I feel like a total Ass after just 1 week of play.
And if you read the post decently, you'd see that I didn't call his players bad. The picks were just weird compared to the list he had dropped just a while earlier.
They didn't make sense considering what he had said earlier.
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