Entry #1: The Birth of Yet Another Fantasy Blog

Why Start a Fantasy Blog?

After contemplating this every August for the last few years, I decided to take the leap.  I am going to start a fantasy football blog.  My wife actually encouraged this which I took as a sure sign that she has either gone crazy or that this is a sign from God.  

Fantasy Football has been consuming my thought life for the last 2 weeks.  I posted this on Facebook already but I will remind you that earlier this week, I dreamt about Earl Bennett, the #2 WR on Chicago.  In a preseason game, he caught 3 balls for 59 yards.  This made me really happy inside because I own him in one of my leagues.  I drafted him in round 13 in a 14 team league as my #4 receiver.  Sleeper alert!  In my dream, I assumed that he put up those pedestrian numbers while playing in just one and a half quarters which explains my excitement.  When I woke up in the morning and realized that it was all a dream, I was disappointed.  Yes, I have problems.

What Should You Expect from this Blog?  

As the title of this blog suggests, we hope to provide original fantasy football thoughts.  The other day, someone from the draft I just completed wrote on our message board that all I do is regurgitate what Rotoworld says.  I took offense to this. (As stated, I have problems.)  I rely on Rotoworld quite a bit but I want to believe that I use them as a reference and come up with my own conclusions.  With that said, here are the top 3 reasons that you, the reader, should read this fantasy blog:

1.  There will be original thoughts.   With the wealth of fantasy information available online, much of the information is repeated and regurgitated.  We will try to provide insight on factors that fantasy owners often overlook and provide original ideas, conclusions, and predictions.

2.  We will do the research.   As this blog begins, we want to take it seriously.  We promise to break down film (NFL Network has extended highlights that we can look at a few days after games) AND look at players beyond the final numbers.  For example, before ranking players, we promise to look through last year's game logs for every player and make our own judgments on how valuable they really were.

3.  We are smart.  There are currently 2 writers for this blog, myself and Derek Olson.  Derek is currently a writer for the TV show Friday Night Lights.  He loves football.  He played high school football with Ken Dorsey and was on the receiving end of many of his TD passes.  Derek and I were roommates in college for two years.  We both played and quit football within the first two years.  We apparently like to watch football more than we like getting hit.  We did go to Yale together but were probably the worst students that school has ever known.  We had many discussions about football and sports in general and we continue to talk alot from September through December during football season.  Derek has many more original thoughts about football than I do and will contribute to this blog as much as he can.

After this post, I will read an article about how Earl Bennett and Jay Cutler were best friends in college and developed a special connection that will continue this year in Chicago.