How the fantasy football landscape changes
Deuces Wild
Harold McIlvain II
Issue date: 9/10/08 Section: Sports
"With the seventh overall pick in this year's fantasy football draft, the Funky Chickens select Tom Brady."
If you joined a fantasy football league this year, it was not a rarity to see "Tom terrific" be drafted within the first 12 picks in a standard scoring leagues.
And at the time, it seemed like a nice, safe pick. After the first five to six elite running backs were off the board, Brady would have been a pick that owners would not regret.
Until Sunday.
Brady owners are now scrambling to add a replacement after suffering an injury that will cost him the season.
If you are looking at the bottom of the barrel, Chad Pennington did not look too bad Sunday with 251 yards, two touchdowns and a pick. Playing the match ups with the free agent market might work, too.
Brady's injury speaks volumes to how difficult it is to put together a team on draft day that will dominate your league. The only debate about Brady coming into the season was whether or not 40 touchdown passes was too high of a ceiling to reach this year, not if he was going to play every regular season game.
Fantasy football is humbling for those NFL fanatics out there, and that was the case this Sunday.
At my fantasy football draft this year, a guy drafted Terry Glenn. But it doesn't end there. He was excited about the pick. And he did so in the fourth round. Yes, the very same Glenn that isn't on professional football team.
"Yes," the owner said. "Quarterback-to-wide receiver combo!"
He realized later that, despite correctly identifying Tony Romo as the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, Glenn was in fact not on any football roster--except for his.
But guess who scored the most points in the first week of play? It was our dear friend that drafted a receiver who is without a team.
That's what keeps me coming back year after year to play fantasy football, because once you think you have figured things out--something dramatically changes.
If you joined a fantasy football league this year, it was not a rarity to see "Tom terrific" be drafted within the first 12 picks in a standard scoring leagues.
And at the time, it seemed like a nice, safe pick. After the first five to six elite running backs were off the board, Brady would have been a pick that owners would not regret.
Until Sunday.
Brady owners are now scrambling to add a replacement after suffering an injury that will cost him the season.
If you are looking at the bottom of the barrel, Chad Pennington did not look too bad Sunday with 251 yards, two touchdowns and a pick. Playing the match ups with the free agent market might work, too.
Brady's injury speaks volumes to how difficult it is to put together a team on draft day that will dominate your league. The only debate about Brady coming into the season was whether or not 40 touchdown passes was too high of a ceiling to reach this year, not if he was going to play every regular season game.
Fantasy football is humbling for those NFL fanatics out there, and that was the case this Sunday.
At my fantasy football draft this year, a guy drafted Terry Glenn. But it doesn't end there. He was excited about the pick. And he did so in the fourth round. Yes, the very same Glenn that isn't on professional football team.
"Yes," the owner said. "Quarterback-to-wide receiver combo!"
He realized later that, despite correctly identifying Tony Romo as the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, Glenn was in fact not on any football roster--except for his.
But guess who scored the most points in the first week of play? It was our dear friend that drafted a receiver who is without a team.
That's what keeps me coming back year after year to play fantasy football, because once you think you have figured things out--something dramatically changes.
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