philmckracken

The first thing I do before my fantasy drafts is go through my cheatsheets and cross off all bears (I'm not even a packers fan). I suggest you all do the same.

Take Willis. Like you said, he's a 3 down back. They plan to throw to him more this year. The Bills also added fullback Alan Ricard to block for him. New offensive coordinatior (Steve Fairchild) says Willis will be the center of the offense.

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If you go with 3 rb's, then Addai, Taylor and D. Williams. Taylor is the unquestioned starter-that's easy. DeAngleo Williams has a great chance of being the starter with Foster's injury history and Addai could easily be Indy's starter.

subtle

Pack lost 2 offensive lineman-that will hurt.

That's a tough call but I'd probably have to lean towards Steven Jackson. The new OC, Scott Linehan, wants to run more in St. Louis. You also have to consider that Edge is older and his o-line is definately not as good as Steven Jackson's. St. Louis' addition of Steven Davis is just insurance for the loss of Marshall Faulk.

Ronnie Brown.

Don't ignore offensive line woes when picking players. Everyone just seems to think that it doesn't really matter that much when a team loses an offensive lineman or has a poor offensive line. It does matter. Take a look at salaries by position and decide how important offensive lineman are. You show me a great running back with a crappy offensive line (and no passing game) and I'll show you an overrated stiff.

The bears want Benson to be the starter. Teams don't draft a guy at #4 to watch him sit. But Benson hurt his shoulder and then left the sideline during a preseason game so they made Jones the starter. The bears don't know what to do and they won't know all season. Expect a mess. Situations like this never work themselves out easily, especially when the media are constantly talking and writing about a running back controversy, just like the bears' current qb 'controversy'.

Vick and his receivers have value to you when someone else drafts them. While another owner is wasting a pick on him as his #1 qb, you can be happy drafting someone productive. You should be able to draft a #1 and a #2 qb who are both more productive than Vick. You should be able to get a qb like Kitna as your #2 and be confident that he will produce better than Vick. Meanwhile, the Vick owner spends all season getting frustrated, saying to himself, "I thought this was the year that Vick puts it all together." That owner then begins to agonize every week about whether or not to bench Vick and then gets even more frustrated when Vick does have a couple of decent weeks while riding that owner's pine. It's better to just avoid that whole mess and let someone else deal with all that headache. There was some crazy stat last year like: Vick didn't throw a td pass to a wr all season or until the last few weeks of the season, something wacky like that but it was true. Any improvement on that still sucks. Forget about him.