Ladainian Tomlinson is No Longer a First Round Draft Pick

I know this sounds ridiculous but look at the pattern. In the spirit of Marshall Faulk, and Shaun Alexander, Ladainian was the consensus first overall pick for the 2008 fantasy season. He rewarded all of those first pick drafters with what was by far his worst fantasy season to date. The reason was a season riddled with injury, the most debilitating of which was an ongoing, nagging toe injury. This injury is not looking like it will ever go away for good. This allowed for the emergence of the quick footed and very versatile Darren Sproles. If history serves as any indication, the days of fantasy football dominance for LT….ARE OVER!!! I am not saying that he is not longer ownable like Alexander became after his big season, or retired like Faulk after his big season’s, but He is no longer draftable in the first round. There have been rumours floated that Ladainian Tomlinson may get cut before the season starts. These rumors will probably remain just rumors, but with the season that Sproles had, you can definitely look for a running back by committee in San Diego at the very least. I cannot see a situation that you can draft the 2nd horse in an obvious timeshare situation and still consider yourself a serious Fantasy Football player……even if that player is the greatest fantasy football player of all time. Consider yourself on notice, if you draft LT in the first round and get your ass handed to you, not my fault, I warned you.

Pretzel’s Picks Wildcard Weekend

Well these were not up yesterday but I picked Arizona Cardinals and Indianapolis Colts.

For Sundays games I like the Baltimore Ravens in Miami.  They will control the Wildcat offense.  I also like the Minnesota Vikings at home against the Philidelphia Eagles.

Good Luck Everyone I will see you next week.

MVP

Ok, so by now you have heard that Peyton Manning has won his third MVP award tying him with Brett Favre are the only players in NFL history to win 3 times.  I think there is something wrong with this picture.  Most of the info that I hear talk about how he won this because had offensive line and running game issues and still was able to perform at a high level.  Not that this is incorrect but I think there was another QB with a similar situation and put up better numbers, Kurt Warner (he got 1 vote).  ONE VOTE!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME????  The Cardinals are awful with Matt Leinhart at the helm and yet they put Warner in there and they have the #2 offense in the league.  Another guy that had a good year, hmmmm lets see, how about DREW BREES!!!!  He came within 15 yards of breaking the NFL’s single season passing record for yardage and this was with his best receiver missing half the season but he was still able to the fill-ins look like pro bowlers and he did not get one single vote?????  Chad Pennington gets four and Brees and Warner combine for 1 vote.  Something is definitely wrong. 

Here is all the voting:

Of course this is just my take.  I also think Albert Haynesworth should have got some consideration but yet again received 0 votes.  I think the voters should look at each season and not at a players body of work.