Don’t Be a Draft Donkey
“Every year someone comes out of this looking like a donkey,… I’ve got a feeling that could be you.” In the movie Draft Day, these are the persuasive words that wheeling-and-dealing General Manager Sonny Weaver, Jr. says to panicking rookie...
Fantasy Football, Colin Kaepernick, and Fighting Against Racial Injustice
A friend and leaguemate of mine, Chad Chervitz (he gave me permission to share his name) approached me with an idea: adding Colin Kaepernick to every team’s roster as a show of support for his ongoing efforts to combat racial injustice....
Mailbag 12/13/19: Replacing Byes; Playoff Lineup Strategy
Submit your mailbag questions here, and check back every Friday for future editions of the Mailbag! Question 1) Moishe, With the ff playoffs upon us, the annual debate of the fairness of byes has played out in a number of my league;...
Mailbag 12/6/19: Transitioning to an SF League; Tanking for Playoff Seeding
Submit your mailbag questions here, and check back every Friday for future editions of the Mailbag! Today’s mailbag questions test my skills as a league commissioner… Question 1) I am commissioner of a league where we’ve been talking about potentially changing it...
Why Running Quarterbacks are Now Here to Stay
The advent of the running quarterback is not a new phenomenon in the NFL. From trailblazer Fran Tarkenton to Steve Young, from Michael Vick to Duante Culpepper, from Cam Newton to Russell Wilson, running quarterbacks have always been part of the...
Fantasy Football: How to draft a Successful Team
Today’s feature article is written by a guest columnist, sixth-grade student Matan E. Steigmann at Milwaukee Jewish Day School. He wrote this for a school project. It is a fantastic primer for drafting a successful team; there is lots of compelling...
Moishe’s QB Musings
-The Bears might (should) use Mitchell Trubisky’s hip pointer injury as a reason to sit him in Week 12. He’s having an awful season, and he doesn’t seem to be good enough to be an NFL quarterback. Chase Daniel isn’t the...
Jared Goff: Player analysis
I admit to buying into the Jaren Goff hype this off-season. I considered him a lock for top-8, top-10 production. In retrospect, my prediction for Goff still made sense. He was coming off a season in which he threw for 4,688...
Mailbag 11/8/19: Trade Kelce for Kupp?; Is Mahomes still the #1 QB?
Submit your mailbag questions here, and check back every Friday for future editions of the Mailbag! Question 1) Is this a worthy trade I get cooper kupp, kockenson and Josh Howard I give up kelce, Sony Michel and sanu. But I have...
Quarterbacks whose production will increase and decrease the rest of 2019
We all know that the past is instructive in looking toward the future but is not a full-proof predictor of it. In fantasy football, it’s common — and, we have to admit, often lazy on our part! — to look at...