Okay, we’re five weeks into the season! Hopefully you are sitting at 5 and oh or 4 and 1 but if not don’t despair, there’s still time to make up ground! Some moves to make…
1) The 3 for 1 Trade: If you feel like you are one player away from really taking off (meaning you are in the upper half of your league standings) and want to make that push towards a Championship, don’t be afraid to over pay and grab the player you covet. Go to one of the also ran teams with a bonafide star (like Roddy White or Willis McGahee) and offer three of your middle of the road guys for their superstar and two of their worst players (Kicker, 5th receiver etc.). This way you fill up your starting lineup with studs and only give up depth in return… One caution, be sure to factor in bye weeks and/or injuries before depleting depth!
2) Don’t give up on players too early! Going crazy over the way Tony Romo or Michael Turner are playing up one week and then down the next?!? Don’t give up yet as the studs always show up sooner or later. Be sure to take advantage of matchups that are favorable but don’t over think it. You picked guys in the first round for a reason, don’t sit them when they can blow up at any time!
3) If you are at the bottom of the pack, don’t be afraid to change it up with trades and pickups. Guys like Jeremy Maclin and Donny Avery are coming out of the woodwork and are outscoring TO and Wes Welker. It doesn’t matter if their NFL teams stink, garbage time touchdowns still count for 6 points! Also if you have one blue chip player, offer him up to the league big boys and let them fight it out for him. Dangle the player and wait for the best offer just like at the baseball trade deadline. Someone will give you a few good guys back, you’ll be on your way towards winning and that’s the name of the game!
For Entertainment Purposes Only
Do these two idiots look like they know what they are doing?!? A Superbowl contending team previously, the Dallas Cowboys have been effectively dismantled by soft coaching and softer heads. The Cowboys wasted their 2009 NFL draft! True enough the actual draft occurred for the Cowboys when they traded for wide receiver Roy Williams last year, but a team that faltered and subsequently failed in 2008 needed to do something last weekend. The trendy preaseason Superbowl pick last year, Dallas stumbled in December again and completely missed the playoffs. After listening to all the nonsense coming out of Big D this year, one would expect an effective and well thought out draft. Armed with 11 picks, the Cowboys had enough to move around and grab a couple of impact players despite not having a first round pick. Instead, the Cowboys played the “value” card and completely traded out of day 1. What a crock! The Patriots and Belichek played the value card also and, oh by the way, made four 2nd round picks. Four! That’s outstanding if you are a Patriots fan and troubling for everyone else. Meanwhile Jerry and Wade traded down, reached in the third round for more Linebackers (Wade’s favorite position), and picked up a dozen no-names and stiffs. What the ___?! I almost puked when the ESPN roving reporter stated the the Cowboys felt that the draft was a crapshoot (my word) and that you miss on half the draft picks, so you need to go for quantity versus quality… Huh?! Did the Eagles or Patriots, Steelers or Packers feel like they needed to make 12 picks to improve their teams? Heck you don’t even need to go out of the division… The Eagles got Jeremy Maclin, the Redskins got Brian Orakpo and the Giants got Hakeem Nicks. Each team addressed major needs and helped themselves out; the Cowboys? They picked up special teams guys and back-ups. The Cowboys had great drafts with Jerry and Jimmy and Jerry and Bill. The thing Jerry needs to remember… He had nothing to do with it!
