Fantasy Football, The Anchors

I don’t like the term bust because the reality is that when you get a bust in the first two rounds you your team sinks like an anchor. And if you select a anchor as a number one at his position your strating in a whole.

Anchors are usually not random they usually come from a poor thought process. Most Anchors are choosen by the guy who wants to prove how smart he his. He will take Frank Gore over Larry Johnson. He wants Calvin Johnson over Darrell Jackson. What qualifies you a players as a potential anchor? Pretty much any rookie, yes Adrian Peterson is a talented back but he is playing behind a very productive back already, this is like Chicago, the Bears had a productive back with Thomas Jones then drafted Cedric Benson fouth overall, Benson was not bad but Jones was so good that he kept the job. that is probably what is going to happen. The injury prone players who are healthy for one season and everybody forgot these guys spent more time on the injury list then the field, see Frank Gore. The allmighty backup, Marion Barber is not the starter, he is not a third round pick and Parcells is not going to put him in after Julius Jones drove the field. I would not be surprised if many of these players end up on the same teams in you league.

QB (the Culpepper award)

Phillip Rivers SD

I have a bad feeling about the whales vagina all together. They lost all the decisions makers on 14 -2 team. Norv Turner I just think is in a no win situation. I hate to say it but its getting close to the time that LT might start to slowdown. I remember when Atlanta made the trade with SD I told my brother, who is a huge Charger fan that was great trade, because at that time I would rather have Drew Brees and LT over Vick. I just see the whole team taking a nose dive, especially with that reciveing core.

RB

Frank Gore SF

He is a frist round pick that will sink your team quickly, first off maybe I missed a new NFL rule that allows running backs to but the ball into a napsack and fling over there shoulder, but as far as I know running backs tend to carry the ball in their hand so that the broken hand people are down playing might affect his fumbles and carries, oh yeah do you catch the ball with your hands. This add to the injury history which includes two brand new knees and laundry list of other injuries. Not to mentioned he missed a practice with an ankle injury this week.

Laurence Maroney NE (Cadilac Williams award)

This guy seem to be drafted in the snake pick between the frist and second round. Only one runnig back has had a great season in the Tom Brady era and that was Corey Dillion his frist year in New England. Plus this guy missed serious time last with shoulder a shoulder injury, he played but was ineffective, guys like Cedric Benson, Thomas Jones, Travis Henry and Brandon Jacobs will have similar seasons if he reaches his potential but he offers to much in the first round, I would rather have Fred Taylor, consistent back who if Jones-Drew suffers an injury he will be a topten back because of TD’s. Maroney is the type of back who will play 15 games but will have limited carries and tie up a spot in your lineup and give you 47 yards rushing 23 yards recieving and probably like 6-8 TDs forthe season.

WR (The Randy Moss)

Randy Moss NE

It is a rare athlete that can win an award named after himself but is looking to repeat this year. Two of the last three year he has caught 40 balls, and the other season it was sixty. For all of you guys who think he will return to his double digit TD form your wrong. I think the real reason why Tom Brady became a great quaterback was he kept it simple, through to the open guy, he does not wait for his go to guy to get open, or chuck the ball down field every time, two things that made Moss great. And if you haven’t noticed Bellicheck won’t let Moss play in the preseason games because he is not practicing due to injury, there’s a shock Moss with a hamstring injury, I am no trainer but I am preety sure hamstring injuries hurt a players speed. Mark my words some fool who thinks he knows so much more than everybody will take him before

Marques Colston NO

He had a great rookie season. But if you look at it game by game you see he had four great games and eight games below 50 yards recieving. He had only eight touchdowns. He is being drafted a head of guys Andre Johnson and Anquan Bolidin and list of other players who have produced more than he has and is more of the focal point of their teams. I am about to go out on a limb a gain, they want to find more touchs for Reggie Bush, and they drafted a reciever in the first round. He’s the type of player who can disappear in a game. You will regret not aking a guy like Hines Ward.

Just Remember you do not get extra points by finding a sleeper. How much better of a season is a guy like Calvin Johnson going to have over Ward, so why pick the guy who’s can do it instead of the guy who has done it five years in a row.