(Fantasy) Football Is Back

With Thursday's kickoff, everybody's favorite office game is back. I swear fantasy football is the worst thing to happen to office productivity in awhile. It's why the NFL kicks MLB's butt. The girls in the office who don't like particularly like sports can now know who Greg Olsen is like it's the name of Jennifer Aniston's new boyfriend. It's amazing how gambling and fantasy football combined with ridiculous PR at a league level have turned the NFL into's America's sport. I'll run through a few notes and my teams this year. I considered doing a start/sit but leagues now have so many different rules kinks that those are basically worthless. Moving forward, this post will be waiver wire Mondays until 2010 when it's back to baseball.

Brandon Marshall (UCF) - unsuspended yet still crazy and will be a Jet soon if you believe Kerry Rhodes Twitter page who says a "big announcement" is coming from the Jets which would be huge for Eddie Royal and Mark Sanchez

Carnell "Cadillac" Williams - starting RB in TB based on their new depth charts, hope you read my draft update and stayed away from this situation completely, poor Derick Ward

Matt Cassel - full practice for the injured QB but I think he'll play against Baltimore because there seems to be an urge from the team to get him out there (don't start him anyways its the Ravens defense) as he's their new face of the franchise

Matt Stafford - starting in DET, beat UCF alum Duante Culpepper if thats an accomplishment

Richard Seymour - traded from Raiders to Patriots a week before the season starts, wow talk about bad luck, at least he's a free agent after this year and the Pats got a #1 pick out of it

Team #1: 12 team PPR League with huge QB bonus and 12 man rosters (no TE)
QB: Tony Romo (Matt Cassel)
RB: Ladainian Tomlinson
RB: Ahmad Bradshaw/Leon Washington
WR: Calvin Johnson
WR: TO/Eddie Royal
DEF: Vikings/Dolphins
K: Prater (UCF!) / K. Brown
Note: This league is an odd one as you are capped by position in the draft, so week 1 waiver wire should be a fun one

Team #2: 8 team PPR League with Return Yards start 3 RB and WR plus Flex
QB: Donovan McNabb/Matt Schaub
RB: Steve Slaton
RB: Ray Rice
RB: Ryan Grant
WR: Larry Fitzgerald
WR: Calvin Johnson (on both teams congrats)
WR: Greg Jennings
TE: Jeremy Shockey
Flex: Lance Moore/Eddie Royal/Kevin Walter/ D Brown
DEF: Bears
K: Carney

Make sure you get your lineups in by Thursday morning as many will lock as soon as kickoff hits on Thursday night.