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Last night we had our fantasy football draft.  I feel pretty good about my team, I picked up Adrian Peterson (both infact).  One pick I was lambasted for was picking Aaron Rodgers as my quarterback.  Some probably thought I was just being bias as I’m a packer fan, and others said I could have picked him up in the 14th round.  Jesse tried arguing about value picks, which I could agree to but I was taking a chance.  When I normally pick players, I take into account the players that are around them.  This is especially true for quarterbacks.  This is the same thing I did last year when I picked up Tom Brady.  He was already good the year before, but with the addition of Randy Moss, I knew there was going to be something great.  Hell, last year, both Mannings went before Brady until he landed on me in the 4th round.

Look at Brady, he threw a couple touchdowns last year…how many was it, 50?  And in our league, we don’t get negative points for interceptions.  To most fantasy leaguers, they are just picking name recognition and what their fantasy cheat sheets are.  My argument for Aaron Rodgers is that he has the best damn wide receiving corps. in the NFL, and the youngest, and the best at YAC (yards-after-the catch).  Favre was blessed to have receivers like that, and he was right when he said it was “the most talented” team he had ever been on, and that says alot for a guy who lived with the 1996 Packers.   Also, with the defense being questionable, I expect the defense to give up alot of points and the offense is going to have to make up for it in a short amount of time.

So when I am picking a quarterback, I am not picking him because based on his durability and his stats.  I’m picking him because the people around him and the philosophy of the coach.

So when I pick Rodgers, I’m saying that Driver, Jennings, Martin, Jones, Lee, and Grant are going to raise hell with the West Coast Offense system.

Oh…and I got Derek Anderson for my back-up.  Hells yeah.

One focus I want to make my blog is probably sports. To me, sports is synonymous with the phrase “Football”. Okay, I’m only bullshitting. I have been getting into sports much more these past few years than I ever have. I wound up subscribing to Sports Illustrated all of a sudden. American football is an entertaining sport. I had a conversation with a random towney bar patron. It was during the time of the Euro Cup I was wearing my Germany team-soccer jersey when he shouted at me and told me the Netherlands would win it all. We got into the mechanics and entertainment between soccer and football. By George, he was right. Not that the Netherlands would win, but that American football is a far more interesting sport than soccer. He boiled it down to that fact that the strategy and play is predetermined before the ball is even snapped. Sure there is some strategy to soccer, but falls way short of the team-effort of an American football team. I would entertain this thought a bit longer, but I am sure some friends of mine would whole-heartedly disagree with me.

Right now I am looking forward to the NFL regular season. The Green Bay Packers are looking questionable, and not because Brett Favre isn’t under center. The defense is really in trouble. I had previously wrote in disgust that they tried “bribing” Favreback in retirement, but it turned out that things weren’t being handled that way. Speaking of Favre, I actually read an interesting quote on the front of USAToday, refering to Hilary Clinton.

“Sometimes dealing with the Clintons is like dealing with Brett Favre, They’re very good players and they’ve got a great record, but sometimes you’re not sure what they really want.” - Leon Panetta, Clinton’s former White House chief of staff

Funny.  I will have to make a post about politics later!