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10.05.09Monday Morning JerkMe & Mr. Mendenhall Considerable time in this space has been spent detailing the roster management failings of your humble writer. Last week, after benching Knowshon Moreno (15 points) in favor of T.J. Houshmanzadeh (1 point), I even decided that I would relieve myself of the responsibility of setting our line-up, like Marty Schottenheimer in the 2007 AFC Championship, and hand the reins over to the incredibly eager Mysterious Mr. Tzatziki. But just like Schottenheimer, who late in that game found himself scrambling for his headset in a frantic attempt to resume micro-managing, I couldn’t stay away for long. Not when an ...
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10.02.09The Michael J. Cox Lock of the WeekSo naturally I went out and got drunk last night. I’ve tried three times to sit down and write my weekly retort to Marble, but due to the hangover that I’m working through, I haven’t been able to get much further than opening Word up until now. Then it hit me. What I’m dealing with right now on the hangover front isn’t much different than losing 4 straight NFL bets with Marble. With a bad hangover, I have to constantly remind myself that if I just power through it, ultimately I’ll feel fine and be ready to rock by the time I ...
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10.02.09The Marble Ryan Lock of the WeekWelcome to the recovery, people. If you missed the big market rally of the past six months, don’t worry, you can catch the next one in 2011 when China invades Australia, starts WWIII, and Americans are forced to leave their interactive marketing jobs and go back to real work on farms and in steel mills. In the meantime, you’ve got Marble Ryan. At 4-0 through three weeks, I’m the best bet you can make right now. Even Michael J. Cox is on board, hedging himself against the forced opposition against me by placing 10 unit bets of his own on ...
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10.01.09You Know Who You Should Sit?Brett Favre (QB – MIN) Let’s just come out and say it. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and Brett Favre is as indecisive and crazy as any woman you’ve ever dated. If it weren’t for those Wrangler commercials, we would’ve sent him off to get gender tested like that female South African sprinter. Everything comes to a head on Monday night (and you wonder why ESPN basically turned into FavreTV in the offseason) and Favre will be as fired up as he’s been in a long time. He’s coming off last week’s game-winning miracle heave into the back ...
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10.01.09You Know Who You Should Start?Glen Coffee (RB – SF) I'm going to refrain from making the requisite coffee joke here and just say that everyone's favorite pre-season sleeper is finally going to get his shot. The 49ers are going to run the ball a lot, and with Gore out for at least 3 weeks, Coffee is going to be the man to take those carries, and this week he's going against the weak Rams D. Don't read to much into his struggles last weak replacing Gore. He was coming in cold and going against a good Minnesota run defense. Now that he's had a week ...
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09.30.09The Week 4 Podcast: “Brian Westbrook is a married man’s player”Marble Ryan and Torry Hallelujah welcome podcast-newcomer Michael J. Cox to discuss NFL gambling strategies, the unreliability of second-tier WRs, waiver pick-ups, and some questionable point projections from the folks at ESPN. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, or download it directly to your computer.
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09.29.09Let Them Eat CakeIf you’re like me, you didn’t waste a roster spot by drafting a backup TE, or even a kicker or defense. Some owners even went as far as to pass on a second QB if they’d taken an elite signal-caller in one of the early rounds. Why put a Hugo in the garage when you have a Ferrari in the driveway, right? Unfortunately, the bye weeks have quickly snuck up on us and now it’s time to find some replacements. Before you hand over roster spots to Keanu Reeves and Orlando Jones, you’ll need to figure out which players you ...
