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Chicago Bears' blog Blog Down is doing a nifty little concept, ranking down the top ten players that "will be the most instrumental to the Bears’ success in 2008." At #10 is Viking running back Adrian Peterson .
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At NFL.com, Michael Fabiano provides some post-draft advice for fantasy football enthusiasts. I kid you not, here is the first bit of advice: " 1. Know the schedule and set a lineup each week " "This might seem like an obvious rule, but I can't tell you the number of times I've seen owners fail to set their lineups. Whether a player is injured or on a bye week, he needs to be removed as a ...
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At Advanced NFL Stats , Brian Burke looks at Jared Allen's sack rate and how sacks correlate to winning.
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For the second time, USA Today has ranked a Viking as the best current player at his position, calling Kevin Williams the top defensive tackle in the game today. Alan Page is ranked as the fifth best DT of the Super Bowl era. (just a note--I think Pat Williams is better than Kevin Williams--not as versatile, but more dominant).
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At 10,000 Takes , some more thoughts on Dr. Z's prediction that the Vikes win the Super Bowl (this year!), particularly looking at his comments on Brad Childress and Tarvaris Jackson.
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Andy Behrens of Yahoo! discusses the dilemma of when to take a fantasy defense, focusing on the Minnesota Viking defense in particular. I actually think the Viking Defense will be a fantasy disappointment. They will improve as a defense overall, and for fantasy purposes, they should have more sacks, fewer points allowed per game, and a solid number of turnovers. But the Vikes had a ridiculous ...
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At ESPN , Kevin Seifert writes about Kenechi Udeze's cancer recovery and his marrow transplant from his brother. To help us through Irrelevant Controversy Season, USA Today is ranking the top five players at different positions during the Super Bowl era, and today. According to USA Today, Steve Hutchinson is the best interior offensive lineman playing today. Jared Allen will talk to NFL ...
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Kevin Love has the potential to be a superstar--just not if you have a narrow vision of what a superstar is. Love is a guy that modeled his game after Wes Unseld , a guy who won MVP in a year that he averaged 13.8 points per game, a guy who was elected to the NBA 50 team with a career scoring average of 10.8 points per game. But Wes Unseld was a superstar. What did he bring you? Great ...
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Last night I went to bed excited about this year in the NBA. I was ready to watch the first player the Timberwolves had acquired via the draft since Kevin Garnett that could actually turn into a superstar. And then ......... I woke up. It was a dream wasn't it.... It had to be. I got onto the internet and looked again at my post and we had drafted OJ Mayo, but then I traveled the roads of the ...
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I can still cheer for the Timberwolves because they took O.J. Mayo. Unfortunately, I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
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I already think that Dan Marino and Peyton
Manning are the greatest quarterbacks of all-time. Thanks, Chase,
for confirming it ! Seriously, though, pro-football-reference.com has an interesting post on the greatest quarterbacks of all-time. Using a ...
Draft the Potential Superstar: O.J. Mayo If you are picking at #3 in the NBA draft, you should never draft based on need. First of all, if you're drafting that early, you probably have needs everywhere--the starter you think you don't need to replace still got you an early lottery pick, so there's that. But almost every NBA champion since the league's inception has been led by a superstar (or ...
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What!?! What!?! Dr. Z is picking the Minnesota
Vikings to win the Super Bowl . No, not
like, someday . This year. People, to be honest, the Vikings aren't even winning a Super Bowl in my dreams. I've had all sorts of dreams about the Vikings winning ...
I try to save little bits of money wherever possible, and so I rarely purchase a fantasy football magazine. There are just so many web sources with valuable fantasy football information, that I just see a magazine as an unnecessary expense (though it is certainly a useful reference during a draft). So here are just a few of the good fantasy football resources I check out online when preparing ...
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I cheer for a horrible basketball team. Whatever.
You don't know. You don't know. I've been rooting
for this horrible basketball team for a long, long time. I do what I want. I used to cheer for Christian Laettner. Whatever. Then my horrible ...
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Dear Kevin McHale, I've never met you. For
all I know, you are a nice person. But
as I am watching game 6 of the NBA Finals, all I can think about is how much I fucking hate you. Yours, wwtb? P.S. I wish the Timberwolves didn't even exist. Without a ...
A couple Viking links Judd Zulgad writes that "Peterson has worked on his pass catching and blocking this offseason and the feeling is this should make him more prepared to play in a variety of situations in his second season" ( Access Vikings ). Pro-football-reference brings some serious analysis to John David Booty. Another Link Bucky Brooks wonders why nobody is signing Daunte Culpepper ...
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I've always thought those who criticize the Minnesota sports media as too positive are rather narrow in their view. Sure, there are a lot of homers in the Minnesota media, but there are also a lot of figures who are frequently very critical, cynical, and negative, and there are a whole host of Twin Cities media members that are somewhere in between. I think the "Minnesota media are too ...
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PV, Holy Hitter, and brother of PV have made a pact. If the Timberwolves draft Brook Lopez this year, we will no longer be Timberwolves fans (until Kevin McHale is no longer running the team). That will be the last step. And if Lopez ends up a superstar, it still won't matter: we've made a pact.
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Retirees: Jonathan Ogden and Michael Strahan . Both seem like Hall of Famers, don't they? Odgen was an 11-time Pro Bowler, 4-time all-pro, a Super Bowl champ, a blocker for a 2,ooo yard rusher. Strahan was a 7-time Pro Bowler, 4-time all-pro, a Super Bowl champ, 2-time league leader in sacks, and he finished up with 141.5* sacks. Throughout their careers, a lot of people always spoke very ...
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It's fun when people tell you what you want to hear.