Friday, September 28, 2007

All Art and (Bringin' The) Noise, Signifying Nothing

Bad, bad column by Yahoo's Brad Evans this week. Let's dive in:
Outstanding defenses in 2006 that are now benign matchups: Miami (vs. Run/Pass)

One check of Yahoo's own Total Defense rankings shows that Miami is only weak against the RUN.
Pennington will dismantle the Bills with his super ginger powers.

I don't speak jive. Any of you speak jive?
Fantasy Lame - Matt Hasselbeck

Brad cites how well San Fran's pass D has done these past 3 weeks, but neglects to mention those were against Arizona (Leinart; nuff said), St. Louis (dwindling O-line and a QB with cracked ribs) and Pittsburgh (still learning their new O but Big Ben still threw a TD and no INTs). Seattle has a balanced offense that uses the run to set up the pass and that'll work just fine.

But I've saved the worst for last...
Fantasy Lame - Marvin Harrison: if I had to decide between him and, say, McDonald (vs. Chi), Jennings (at Min), Derrick Mason (at Cle), or Wes Welker (at Cin), Harrison would be the odd man out

Man, oh, man... how STUPID would you feel if Harrison goes off against DEN but was on your bench? Especially if you sat him for DERRICK MASON?!!! What makes this even worse is that at the top of the article, he says, "Thou shalt never sit thy studs even in an unfavorable matchup."

As I mentioned last week, Brad is one of the Deadspin-esque writers at Yahoo! I think he's lost his way a little bit and sadly, based on how he responds to some of his email, I don't think he'll find it again soon.

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