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Mike MacGregor: Evolution of Fantasy Football Players
Mike MacGregor is the founder of the 1-on-1 game, FantasyThrowdown.com. and I thought I’d share his message with you about the evolution of the hobby and the people playing it. Evolution of Fantasy Football Players We are right in the thick of traditional fantasy football league playoff time, Weeks 14-16 of the NFL season, and…
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RSP Football Writers Project
Secretly, we all want to build a football team. It’s why we’re passionate about every player recruited, drafted, traded, and signed. It’s why we play fantasy football. It’s why many of us are fanatical about the NFL draft. After a few weeks of my rants to Footballguys writer Sigmund Bloom about Steelers tight end Heath…
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News of the Weird: Cameron Kenney
Around this time last year Cameron Kenney was eluding top prospect Prince Amukamara on the football field for a more-impressive-than-the-stats-suggest, 6-65 performance without Ryan Broyles in the lineup. This year, Kenney couldn’t elude a trashcan and a pole in my home town.
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The Curious Case of Montee Ball
Wisconsin has earned the moniker “Lineman U” during the decade for its excellence at the position. One of the unintended consequences with this unit’s excellence is the parade of productive college running backs that underwhelm in the NFL. Ron Dayne, Brian Calhoun, Anthony Davis, P.J. Hill, and John Clay are all examples of players that…
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Reads, Listens, Views 12/9
Fantasy Football Congratulations to Footballguys.com David Dodds, who was elected to the Fantasy Sports Writers Hall of Fame. Although there are some who wonder why we have a Hall of Fame, if accountants can have one I suppose fantasy writers can, too. That being the case, Dodds is most deserving of the honor. He’s an…
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Fond Memories(?) of a Violent Game
The sum of my experience playing organized football is one season in a DeKalb County Pop Warner league in Atlanta, Ga. I missed tryouts because my family had just moved there from Cleveland, Ohio and I joined the team a week before its first game. I had no experience playing in pads and like most…
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RSP Contest Results
In case you missed it, I held a contest last week. I provided evaluations of three NFL players when I studied them at the college level. The first three people to correctly name the three prospects would win a past issue of the RSP from 2006-2010. The contest had a good response, but the question…
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Tuesday (Wee) Morning Thoughts on Blaine Gabbert
Scared. That’s how most will characterize Blaine Gabbert’s performance from the pocket on Monday Night Football. It’s how I see it. It’s hard not to see it this way after watching several of Gabbert’s rookie performances. When the rookie throws the ball, even from a reasonably clean pocket, he doesn’t follow through by shifting his…
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“Football Player”
We live in the football era of specialization: Slot receiver. Third down back. Move tight end. Pass rush defensive end. Nickel back. In the box safety. But there was a time when its best players played more than one role. Sammy Baugh was both a great passer and ball hawking safety. Chuck Bednarik played on…
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RSP Contest Update and Reads, Listens, Views 12/2
The Name the Prospect Contest has earned a great response and a lot of readers are asking me if I have revealed the answers. You’re going to have to wait a little longer because only 1 reader out of nearly 100 entries has correctly identified all three players. I love a good contest and the…