I can’t say for sure that Norv Turner was a great hire for the NFL Chargers, but I’m confident he will be great for the fantasy football Chargers, especially QB Phillip Rivers.
While his excellent track record with RBs (Emmitt Smith, Terry Allen, Stephen Davis, LaDainian Tomlinson, Ricky Williams, Frank Gore) gets most of the fantasy headlines, a bigger key to me especially in this case is Turner’s track record working with young QBs. Turner has repeatedly shown an ability to coach up younger players and put them in the best position to succeed. Just last year, he helped 49er ...
You might have missed it late last week, but the Broncos exercised an option bonus on WR Javon Walker for $10.7 million. Had they not done that, the rest of his five-year contract would have been voided and Walker would have become a free agent on March 2nd.
The deal Walker signed last year with Denver was basically set up for the team to have an out had Walker not proved he was recovered from 2005’s devastating knee injury. I certainly had doubts about Walker’s ability to return to form right away, on his new team, and with Jake Plummer ...
One of my favorite e-mails from 2006 was from a guy blasting us for continually ranking Chad Johnson high in our weekly rankings. I liked the e-mail because two days after we received it, Johnson caught 11 balls for 260 yards and 2 TDs.
There are times when people on our boards question a ranking for a particular week before the games are played, and they wind up being correct, but that doesn't mean we were wrong in our stance on the player going into the matchup.
Fantasy football is less of an exact science than it's ever been, so in a ...
I'm sure it's annoying when fantasy writers such as myself waffle on some issues. Unfortunately, waffling is unavoidable in many cases in today's week-to-week and year-to-year NFL. In many cases, you can make a definitive statement about a player and be right half the time, so making those definitive statements can be difficult.
But I'll make one right now: David Carr does not have a good future as an NFL starter, no matter where he goes.
In a weak free agent and NFL draft class, Carr, still only 27, will get a lot of attention and will be the subject of a ...
Poor old Marty Schottenheimer has the most career coaching wins of any head coach NOT to play in the Super Bowl. His Chargers were 14-2, the top team in the NFL heading into the playoffs. They were #1 in points scored and only six teams gave up fewer points.
And I totally understand why he was fired yesterday.
The fact is Schottenheimer was more of a father figure for the Chargers than anything else, and ownership had serious questions about his ability to lead this team on the field, on offense or defense. This move had to be done, and the timing ...
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