Fantasy Football Musings

It's amazing how much fantasy football fortunes can change, not even overnight, but in the course of a couple of hours.

Case in point: yesterday, while driving home from Champaign, I checked my FF score. I was in serious trouble. My opponent had Aaron Rodgers and Correll Buckhalter going, both of whom had scored approximately a billion points apiece, and at the time, my guys Marion Barber and Ryan Grant had scored bupkis. I gave about twenty minutes of thought to who I'd put on the trading block in an effort to save next season and garner some draft picks.

Then, about an hour later, I decided to check my score again. WA-LAH, as my old buddy Eric used to say -- David Akers kicked a bunch of field goals, Marion Barber apparently picked the whole Cowboys offense up and put them on his shoulders, and my WRs had some damn solid games. So I'm four points down at the moment, with Eli Manning going for me tonight. If he can get two hundred yards' passing and/or a TD, I'm in great shape. Fingers crossed, as nobody ever knows what can happen in a game, but I'm hopeful. So in the course of an hour, I went from a goat to possibly getting high points for the week.

I still think I may float a few guys out there for some draft picks for next year -- if I can deal some of those RBs I've got hanging around (especially Brandon Jacobs' backup, or Miles Austen or something), I could get at least something for it.

Ryan Grant still sucks, though.