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Two-A-Days: AFC & NFC South Divisions.

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:32:59 -0500

Welcome back to my own version of Two-A-Days. You're once again reading this blog so I guess it's safe to assume I didn't bore you to death with the last version. So without further ado – Let's examine the NFC & AFC Southern Divisions. AFC South If you happen to be a fan of the AFC South then you know two things are for sure. One- Peyton Manning is bound to put up more Touchdowns than any other Quarterback in the league and Two- Vince Young will fall prey to the dreaded Madden curse. Well, maybe not two. But you definitely know Peyton will toss up more TD's than any other QB. So let me tell you how I feel the AFC south will break down this year. Let us start with the newest team in the Division, the Houston Texans. In the off-season the Texans took a gamble on a Quarterback who only started two games in his professional career and lost both games. I am talking about Matt Schaub, who used to back up Michael Vick in Atlanta. Of coarse a lot of people think the Texans took a huge chance on trading for a back up. Houston is used to being second-guessed. After all, these are the same Texans who drafted Mario Williams over Reggie Bush. When the Texans finally inked Schaub they cut their once number one draft pick David Carr. Carr who holds the NFL record for most sacks in one season. Which is a good record to have if you play on defense. But not if you happen to be a starting quarterback. Matt Schaub will finally get a chance to lead a team throughout the entire season and not just in a back up role. The question is was he worth all the Texans gave up for him. A lot of fans across this country have mixed feelings on Schaub. The ones who are skeptical have the right to be; so far numbers wise in the preseason Schaub isn't the better Quarterback on this team. Sage Rosenfels holds that stat with 388 yards passing and four touchdowns. Their running game has seen many faces. This year they picked up former Green bay Packer Ahman Green, who was signed to be the starting running back in Houston. Anyone who has seen Ahman Green play in Green Bay knows that he can be a dangerous Running back. The only problem is keeping him healthy. That has always been Green's problem and his consistent injury problems, which were his problem in Green Bay, will most likely plague the Texans as well. Fortunately for them their back up running back Wali Lundy has been looking solid. Their Wide receiver position for the Texans happens to be a bright side to this offense. With top wide receiver Andre Johnson leading the way and rookie Jacoby Jones turning heads in the preseason. Now as far as the Texans defense goes, well for their last two drafts they used their picks on two defensive players – Amobi Akoye and Mario Williams. And in the past year Mario hasn't had the year they expected out of him. So with one more year under his belt the coaching staff hopes that he has adjusted and can become that playmaker he was supposed to be out of college. Now with Amobe Akoye, there was no questioning this draft pick. This kid is a fast learner and should do a great deal for the Texans right out of the gate. The Texans are looking to build a defensive strong team, but if they want to take over this division they need to get it together on offense. Our next team is the Jacksonville Jaguars. Coach Jack Del Rio has built a team with one hell of a defense. But as I said before, if you want to be the team to beat in the AFC south then you have to be strong on offense as well. And I am not saying that this team doesn't have an offense. Because the potential this offense shows is incredible. With the great running duo if Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones Drew they have the potential to make it into the playoffs. The only problem that they have is the consistency of the quarterback position. We are heading into Byron Leftwich's fifth season. Now the last two or three seasons Byron has been injured. Which hasn't given the Jaguars the stability that a team needs at the quarterback position. And Jack Del Rio realizes this, which is exactly why he has named David Garrard the starting quarterback for the Jaguars. This is big, I mean huge. This could change the entire AFC south. Because the Jags have always been seen as this team with a tough defense but an unstable offense due to the quarterback position. But now David Garrard is given a chance to start an entire season, which gives the receivers in Jacksonville time to get comfortable with one QB, assuming that Garrard stays healthy. But he hasn't really given any reason to think he'd get injured so this remains a good thing for the Jags. Onto the Tennessee Titans lead by Quarterback Vince Young, who has won many awards in the past few years. First with his college Texas, he defeated the USC powerhouse and became a National College champion and MVP of the National title game. He then went on to the NFL winning the Rookie of the year. Not to mention in many fans eyes one of the greatest honors a player can be given, gracing the cover of Madden. Or one of the worst honors, depending on if you believe in superstitions. But the Titans have a lot more to worry about on offense than a Jinx that may or may not be true. Like worrying about how Vince Young will do during an entire season. Last year worked because coaches didn't know what Vince was bringing to the table. Now they have footage on him. Smart coaches will game plan for Vince and stick spies on him. Last year Vince got away with a lot of things that he did in College. I just don't think he'll be able to do the same thing this year. He's going to have to be more of a prototypical Quarterback. I am not questioning if he can be that type of quarterback. I am worrying if he has enough pieces around him to become that kind of Quarterback. Last year Drew Bennett was his favorite target, Drew Bennett is now a Ram. The majority of the Titans receiving core are either rookies or has-beens. The most credible wide receivers with successful careers that they have are Eric Molds and David Givens. And Molds couldn't secure a job with the Texans and Givens has yet to prove that he can be a NFL player outside of the Bill Belichick scheme. Their Run game suffered a hit when Travis Henry went to the Denver Broncos. So far in the off-season LenDale White has proven that he can handle the load that was left by Travis Henry. Which is good cause rookie running back Chris Henry hasn't proven he can handle life in the NFL yet. Their defense was ranked if not last close to last in 2006. So if they even want to challenge for a playoff spot this year, their defense better step up big and Vince better hope that he doesn't suffer the same fate as the last seven players who dawned the Madden cover. And if he manages to survive that he better prey that one of these has-beens or rookies in the wide receiving core steps up this season. Cause if they don't step up the Madden Jinx might not hit him but the sophomore jinx will. Now onto the kings of the AFC South division and in 2006 the entire NFL, Super Bowl XLI champions – The Indianapolis Colts. The Colts have been the bullies of the AFC south division ever since it was proclaimed a division in 2002. I really don't know where to start with this team. Last year around this time so many experts were talking about how the Colts weren't going to be as good as they once were since Edgerrin James was no longer a Colt; That they could not replace that kind of production with a back up and a rookie, when all Joseph Addai and Dominic Rhodes combined for 1,000 yards. And their receiving core; well, is there any better in the NFL? I wouldn't be surprised if when it is all said and done that the trio of Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne and Marvin Harrison become the best threesome since the Triplets of Dallas. If they win one or two more Super Bowls they may even be better. If I had to pinpoint a weakness in this team it would have to be the defense. Last year their run defense was like watching a train wreck. In fact their entire defense was rank 21st in the entire league. It looked as if the once invincible Colts were going to be one and done in the playoffs, due to their insufficient defensive play. But the return of Bob Sanders changed all of that. Once Bob Sanders came back during the playoffs it seemed as if they were playing with the best defense in the league. Which makes you wonder, were they really that bad? Or were they saving their best stuff for the right time. Well I guess we'll never know. All we do know is that they saved their best stuff for when it counts, they saved it for the Super Bowl and they became World Champions. So this is how I see it breaking down in the AFC south this season. I see the Colts dominating the division again. Followed by the Jacksonville Jaguars who will wrap up one of the AFC Wildcard spots. The Tennessee Titans will come in third if Vince doesn't get hurt and last will be the Houston Texans, who I still haven't see any improvement on the Offensive line. You can change the quarterbacks all you wish. If they're not protected then they will be on their back most of the season. NFC South It seemed to me that last years NFC south champions rose from the ashes to dominate their division. After all, before 2006 the Saints were still suffering from when Mike Ditka gave up nearly two seasons of draft picks in order to get Ricky Williams. But last years Saints were the feel good story of the year. After hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city was looking for something to keep their minds off of the devastation. Which is what their football team provided them. From their home opening win in the superdome against the rivaled Atlanta Falcons. To when they nearly made it to the super bowl, falling just shy against the Chicago Bears in the NFC championship. The Saints sure gave their fans hope. Now the question in 2007 is will the Saints be able to repeat the success they had last year, or will fade away? We start off with the Media circus that is the Atlanta Falcons. We all know what the Falcons are dealing with this season. With the whole Mike Vick saga and I am not going to get too much into it. I will simply say that Mike Vick has not only harmed his fans by lying to them, when he stated that he had nothing to do with dog fighting. But he also has harmed his fans by leaving them with the quarterback situation that will surely cripple the team for the entire season. No one forced Michael Vick to be involved in this horrid act; he took it upon himself to fund a dog-fighting rink. That is all I have to say about that. Those remarks about crippling the team by the quarterback position weren't meant to disrespect Joey Harrington cause I have seen what this guy can do. When he wants to be good he can be really, really good. The problem is he is only good in flashes. In Detroit he was rarely good then when he started in Miami and they faced the Lions he played a game that would put Tom Brady to shame. Now if he can play that way, play with a sense that he needs to prove himself. If he can somehow play like that every game than the Falcons have found a player worthy of replacing Vick. But he has yet to prove that he can do that which makes the Falcons much lesser of a team. Now there are rumors of the Falcons grabbing Byron Leftwhich who has just been cut by the Jaguars. Which may be an improvement from Harrington. It all depends on if Byron can remain healthy throughout the season. The rest of the offense really isn't that much better. Their wide receivers are spotty at best. They show flashes of being a NFL worthy group of receivers. Their best receivers consist of veteran Joe Horn, Roddy White, Michael Jenkins along with Tight End Alge Crumpler. Those guys are in my opinion are a mediocre group of receivers. But you can win with them. As we saw in 2004 when they made it to the NFC championship. The problem I always thought was Mike Vick. He's a run first quarterback much like Randal Cunningham in his younger years. Except Randal eventually learned to rely on his receivers, to this point Vick has failed to do this. The Falcons Running backs aren't looking any better either. The starting running back Warrick Dunn had major back surgery in the off-season and it has yet to be determined if he can last an entire season. Now they do have Jerious Norwood. Who turned a few heads last year with some amazing plays. But with no Mike Vick for defenses to game plan for the opposing teams can pay more attention to the rest of the team. Their defense hasn't looked as good as it did in the past. In 2006 it placed 22nd in overall defense and it doesn't look like it will get any better for the Falcons in 2007. We turn our attentions towards the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Who in the off-season signed a gang of quarterbacks for their team. Two worth mentioning are Jake Plummer and Jeff Garcia. Plummer eventually retired and Garcia won the starting job. Yesterday was the day that all NFL teams had to make all cuts; you'd think that the quarterback position would trim down a little. Well no, when most teams go into the season with three quarterbacks at the most. The Buccaneers have four quarterbacks. Their running game took a hit last year when Cadillac Williams sat out most of the season due to injury. This year they hope to have him start the entire season. Good luck with that Bucs. The way Gruden runs his starting backs it will take a lot of luck. But I really don't blame Gruden for running Cadillac as much as he did. His wide receivers weren't stepping up. Hopefully for Gruden's sake, Jeff Garcia can reenergize this team as he did with the Philadelphia Eagles when McNabb went down in 2006. Cause if he doesn't I see Gruden looking for a Job in 2008. Jon Gruden looked like he was trying to rebuild a younger defense through the draft. A little too late in my opinion. He should have attempted rebuilding this team when they couldn't repeat as Super Bowl champions. But instead Gruden has tried to win with the same tired team for too long. I believe Gruden is not a Coach who builds teams. If you recall Tony Dungy was the one who built their super bowl team, Gruden just led them to win it. Gruden is too impatient to work with young players. Therefore he cannot rebuild. Which is why he relies on veteran quarterbacks to win his games. Like Rich Gannon, Brad Johnson and now Jeff Garcia. And Grudens impatience is why the Buccaneers won't sniff the playoffs this year. Even in an age when a record of 8-8 gets you a playoff spot in the NFC. Next is the Carolina Panthers, and the Panthers were many sports writer's favorite to represent the NFC in the super bowl last season. Mean while they didn't even get into the playoffs. So it goes to show you how much the ESPN Analysts and sports writers' know. This season a lot of those same "experts" are calling for the Panthers to make up for when they failed last year. I say they don't have a chance taking the division cause they face the Saint twice a year. They may be able to take a wildcard spot, but I doubt it. Don't get me wrong; I think the Panthers have good team for the most part. Their defense finished in the top ten overall. And in the preseason their defense is up there as well. Their offense looks good as well. You have a really good duo of Running Backs with DeShaun Foster and DeAngelo Williams running the rock. Their Wide Receivers look good this year. As always you can count on Steve Smith and their number one draft pick Dwayne Jarrett is supposed to be the second coming of Keyshawn Johnson. Pair those guys with Drew Carter and Keary Colbert and you have a great core of receivers. So with all those positives on offense and defense what is the problem? Well their quarterback is the problem. The once Super Bowl quarterback Jake Delhomme is looking worse and worse as the season goes on. I would say he hit a rough patch but he's been playing bad since last year. Which is a good reason why they picked up David Carr. Now I know what you're thinking, that there's no way Carr can replace Delhomme. But I think he can, see Carr came up on a bad team. So by association he was bad. Now he's on a good team, with good players. A team that was supposed to be among the best in the NFC. Remember David Carr was a number one Draft pick before. So he has what it takes to do good things. And with the Panthers it is only a matter of time before he does great things. But it will take time for that to happen. Mean while right now the New Orleans Saints are looking to dominate their NFC south rivals once again. This is a team that almost made it to the super bowl last season. I think if the NFC championship was held in the Superdome that the Saints would have won the NFC championship. But it wasn't held in the superdome and the Bears won the NFC championship. But this is a new season. Drew Brees has a core of really good young receivers to throw to, not to mention Reggie Bush. Who has one season of NFL experience. I see this being Bush's breakout year. There may be no stopping Reggie once he gets going. And when teams are focusing on Bush, Brees can air it out to Colston or hand it off to the big bruiser Deuce McAllister. Most people agree that this offense is the best in the NFC on paper. On the flip side of that their defense is the exact opposite. They gave up way too many big plays last season. Even though the numbers state that the Saints defense finished 11th in overall defense last season. The big plays that they give up prevented them from getting into the super bowl. So in order for the Saints to do even better this season they need to eliminate the big plays from other teams and let this offense do their thing. Even if this defense doesn't improve I can see this offense outscoring their opponents enough that to improve on their 10-6 record from last season. So I see the NFC breaking down like this, The Falcons will finish in last place, due to all the detrimental things that have happened to them in the off-season. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will improve on spot from last year to come in at third place, I feel that Garcia will energize them enough to win them a couple more games this season. The Panthers will come in at second place; I see the Delhomme era ending in Carolina and the Carr era beginning. And this may come to no surprise to anyone, as the Saints take home the Division.

Fantasy Football Start'em / Sit'em - Week 12 (Video)

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:56:07 -0500

Quick video rundown for the Thanksgiving week NFL key matchups provided by sportsline. See the article tags for list of players.

Buy, Watch or Pass - Week 11

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:42:52 -0500

Every week, I will examine some of the more obscure top performers in Fantasy Football. Here are the names I came across in Week 11.

Buy, Watch or Pass - Week 8

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:05:33 -0500

Every week, I will examine some of the more obscure top performers in Fantasy Football. Here are the names I came across in Week 8.

Fantasy Watch: NFL Week 8

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:27:17 -0500

Sportable gives their top fantasy football players for this week's games. What sleepers do you like this weekend?

Packers, Texans swap backs: Gado for Morency

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:45:19 -0500

The Green Bay Packers traded running back Samkon Gado to the Houston Texans on Wednesday for another young running back, Vernand Morency. Not sure how this shakes out fantasy wise but expect Gado to enter the mix and steal carries in Texas

Ron Dayne heads to Texans

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:04:08 -0500

Former first round pick Ron Dayne was signed by the Texans after being cut by the Broncos on Saturday. This move doesnt help people drafting their RBs for fantasy leagues this week since it will be a 3-way competition in Texas between Wali Lundy, Vernand Morency and Dayne. That said, Dayne actually has a chance to succeed in the short term here since he knows Kubiak's offense from Denver.

Wali Lundy Has Overcome So Much

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:42:07 -0500

Texans Rookie Lundy got his dream job this preseason. It's been a long and tough journey for this guy. Sixth-Round pick to starter (the next TD?), that's nothing when you see the roadblocks he's had to overcome. How could you not root for this guy.

Texans' Davis Out for Season

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:31:46 -0500

The Texans will have to play the season without the franchise rushing leader. The starter for the Sept. 10 season opener will be rookie Wali Lundy, a sixth-round draft choice from the University of Virginia. The backup is second-year veteran Vernand Morency, a third-round pick in 2005 who logged only 46 carries in his rookie season. Houston released veteran running back Antowain Smith on Friday and the Texans might be forced to scour the waiver wire this weekend in an attempt to add depth at the position.

Domanick Davis Ineligible for PUP List

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:59:38 -0500

Domanick Davis can't be placed on the Physically Unable to Perform list because he passed a physical at the beginning at camp and then practiced with the team. The Texans are now left with two options if Davis is not healthy enough to make the 53 man roster. They can out right cut him or the can place him on injured reserve, which would end his season. Needless to say, Davis looks to be someone to avoid on draft day. As of now, Wali Lundy sits atop the Texans RB depth chart followed by Vernand Morency. Reggie Bush plays for New Orleans. Mario Williams better be damn good.

Kubiak 'very concerned' about Dom. Davis

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:35:59 -0500

It's quite possible that starter Domanick Davis may start the season not on the 53-man active roster. Wow. Going from possibly having a backfield with Davis and Bush to having neither. It's time to go pick up Wali Lundy. The coaches seem to favor him over Vernand Morency. It's possible that Davis will be cut or may be even placed on injured reserve if the staff doesn't feel like he's making enough progress. There's no reason to draft him at this point, so avoid him.

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