Why I hate Mike Shanahan
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by user Ufgators
Let me set the scene for you: It's Sunday morning, around 8am. You wouldn't normally get up this early, but something special is happening today: FOOTBALL! As we all know, with football comes fantasy football, and with fantasy football comes nervous men at 8am scrambling to set lineups. (I think that's the transitive property.)
So, you click on your starting runningback, Mike Bell (hey, maybe you had a bad draft) and what do you see?
"With all due respect to the fantasy football people out there, I don't care who we have back there," Broncos general manager Ted Sundquist said. "Our football team will rush the football. It's who we are."
Are you $%@$#%^ kidding me? As if having Mike Shanahan of the Denver Broncos giving us the most general player news wasn't bad enough, we are now introduced to news guys spouting the teachings of Mr. Shanahan: always be vague.
While being vague is great from a strategic point of view, it sucks from a fantasy point of view. In all honesty, does Shanahan think that cornerback Tye Hill is scouring Yahoo! Sports on Sunday to see which of the 10,000 runningbacks Denver will start? NO! Players have more important things to do, like, say, prepare for their upcoming game!
Now, I'm sure managers will read their opponents scouting report like an obsession, but what about the guys like Bill Belichick who offered the public a list of his injured starters, only for us to find out that the players on that list weren't really injured!? I'm all for strategy, but tinkering with something as serious as injuries seems immoral.
For example, how many times have you played against the guy who has LT, and you think to yourself "Man, I hope LT gets injured!" only to find out a half hour before game time (also the time when all lineups are locked) that your starting back got injured? Well, Belichick giving us false injury reports is the same thing. Either keep that information disclosed, or be truthful about the status of your starters.
So what does all this mean for fantasy managers? It means that we will be forced to pull our hair out and pray to the Fantasy G-ds that maybe, just maybe, the third string runningback on Denver will get 8-10 touches tonight.
Date
Sun 09/10/06, 8:27 am EST
