WaxOnWaxOff Wax got hammered with injuries two years in a row but the end
result is that Wax enters the 2012 season with the best RB and QB in
the league. Arian Foster was the first pick overall in last
year’s draft and franchised by Wax this year, while A Rodgers was
this year’s top pick. Coincidentally, both JB and Dug let
those players go by missing the franchise player deadline.
Foster and Rodgers lead Wax to the highest strength of starters in the
PQBFL and favorites to win this season if injuries can stay at
bay. Best pick: Aaron Rodgers.
Wax normally prefers RBs early in the draft, but with Foster already on
the roster, this was the logical choice rather than go with Ray Rice
for a possible incredible RB duo. Worst pick: Julio Jones.
17th overall for the second best WR on the Falcons, 3rd top WR
drafted? Awful move. Strength: Starters. Not
only Wax has the top QB and RB in the league, but also the top TE (J
Graham) Weakness: Rookie. Wax is
the worst team in the league at the position. Ryan Williams has a
bum knee and is just hoping that Beanie Wells’ knee is even
worst. That does not provide points.
FlyingElvis FE won the league last
year and returns with a strong saved team, not only Brady but excellent
WR duo Dez Bryant and D Bowe. FE should have an above average
team this year again. Best pick: Russell
Wilson. While others paid a high price for starting rookie QBs
early in the draft, FE correctly predicted that Wilson would start in
Seattle instead of Flynn. Worst pick: after drafting J
Pierre-Paul in the 6th round, going with Mario Williams in the 8th
round was a waste. Strength: Defensive
players. J Pierre-Paul, L Fletcher, Mayo, and Tyvon Branch is the
best starting group of the league. Weakness: Depth. FE has
a good starting team but it has the worst depth of the PQBFL. There is
no decent QB behind Brady. Ryan Matthews better be healthy
because Sproles is not a starting RB and Fred Jackson is old, off an
injury, and plays for a bad team. FE did not even draft a backup
college player.
OldNo7 Old had one of the franchise’s best years ever with a 4th
place finish last year and was only one rank-point away from second
place. While such a success might be an indicator that the team
is on the right track to challenge in 2012, but the saved team is
nothing to write home about. The 49ers are possibly the top
defense, but it’s not a key position. V Jax is ok but is a
backup, and the rest are bye week fillers: Locker, Meachem, Crabtree, M
Bush. Best pick: Roddy White.
Last pick of the 4th round for a guy of this caliber. Huge
bargain driven by Wax craziness on young WRs. Worst pick: Michael
Floyd. It’s tough for rookie WRs to perform, and this guy
does not have a good QB and is overshadowed by L Fitzgerald. Way
too early in the 8th round. Strength: QBs. Stafford
is the starter and Rivers the backup. Nobody has a backup of
Rivers’ quality. As QBs are injury pone, chances are Old
can trade away one of them to a needing team. Weakness: RBs after
McCoy. Forte might not be the full time starter anymore, Reggie
Bush only had one good year, Ridley is stuck in NE RB hell-hole, and
Spiller is a backup on a bad team. The only good news is if Forte
gets injured, Old has M Bush.
BeaudoinBrothers The BeaudoinBrothers enter the 2012 season with one of their
weakest saved teams ever. Newton is the franchise player but
that’s clearly for the future because just for 2012 purposes,
Chris Johnson should have been the man. The proof is clear: CJ
was drafted in the first round, but a guy like Stafford was taken only
in the second round so Newton was worth a 2nd round pick at best.
Other saved players are banged up like Witten and C Wells. Best pick: Owen Daniels.
With Witten banged up to start the season, have people forgotten that O
Daniels is possibly the Texans’ second receiver behind A
Johnson? Available in the 22nd round, holy shit. Worst pick: RG3. He
could be good, but 4th overall? Sounds like Beaud is still
dreaming about Newton’s 2011 season. Too early. Strength: WR depth.
Starters Welker and Harvin are average relative to other teams for a
starting duo. But backups make the difference: when Steve Smith
and Miles Austin are healthy, they have potential to be starters.
Britt is the ideal WR5 because he won’t be needed early in the
season and he has great value for 2013. Weakness: depth on
defense. Starters might be ok, but backups are a yawn with guys
like Nick Barnett, Jason Babin, and Q Mikell.
Spitoons Spi was the door mat last year with 7 last place finishes, and 5
next-to-last place finishes. With a winning percentage of 0.176,
Spi came close to having the worst season ever, which remains
OldNo7’s 2000 season with 0.132 and the historical seven straight
last place finishes. So the 2011 edition of Spi was the second
worst in league history. They cannot do worse this year. Best pick: Rob
Gronkowski. Shortly after Wax took Graham, Spi was not afraid of
drafting a TE in the second round given that Gronk puts up points like
a WR does. Worst pick: James
Starks. This guy is about to be cut and is unable to stay
healthy. At least Spi drafted Benson to cover up this
blunder. Strength: Rookie. Andrew
Luck is Spi’s franchise player and has potential to remain part
of Spi’s team for a very long time. In case there is a
problem, Lavonte David is the perfect stable and predictable complement
as a rookie LB. Great combination. Weakness: RBs. Bradshaw
is Spi’s top RB but he would be a backup on 4 other teams, and
only 2nd best RB on 2 other teams. And who will assume the second
starting role? There are a bunch of question marks: S Greene, I
Redman, BJGE, Starks, Benson, P Thomas. By far the weakest group
in the PQBFL.
JakesBlues JB was dethroned last
year but had a competitive team and finished 5th, although only a
single rank-point behind Dug in 2nd place in an incredibly tight final
finish between 2nd and 5th place. Brees returns as the franchise
player despite the Saints’ offseason problems and Colston joins
the saved team as the top saved player. Best pick: Aaron
Hernandez. 4th round pick is a fraction of the cost of Gronkowski
and possibly similar performance. Gronk’s stats were padded
last year when Hernandez was injured. Worst pick: Kam
Chancellor. When you save a decent DB like B Pollard, and when
your WRs suck, why draft your 2nd DB as guys like B Lloyd, Steve Smith
(Car), Demaryius Thomas, and Miles Austin are still on the board?
Any of those guys would be starting WRs for JB. Strength: College. Aplin
and Klein have potential to finish #1-2 in PQBFL scoring this year and
can easily be trade bait later this season for any other teams who had
2013 in mind rather than 2012. One of those guys should not be a
backup. Weakness: WRs. To give
you an idea about how shitty these five WRs are, the projected total
point difference between the top group in the league (Dec) and the 6th
group in the league (Old) is far less than the difference between Old
and JB. Colston is WR1 and he would not start on any other PQBFL
team. WR3 Greg Little would be the worst WR on any other PQBFL
team, and let’s not even talk about Boldin and Santana Moss, two
has beens who do not belong in a 7 team league at all. A mind
boggling horrible WR squad.
Decepticons Dec hopes to recover from a very disappointing season last year
by finishing very far behind the top 5 teams. Franchise player
Jamaal Charles is one of the worst in the PQBFL and brings a lot of
question marks to Dec’s team. Best pick: Andre
Johnson. What a gift from heaven in the 4th round after Wax took
two young punks Julio Jones and AJ Green in front of this established
veteran. Worst pick: Von Miller.
It is questionable whether Miller is good enough to even be drafted in
the PQBFL, let alone in the 11th round. Curtis Lofton drafted in
the 18th round will quickly become the starter and Miller will see the
bench. Strength: Backups. Dec
is the top team for backups and can sustain injuries. Imagine that:
franchise player J Charles is a backup behind Rice and McFadden.
Who has ever seen a franchise player being a backup? The backup
QB is Matt Ryan who could easily finish as one of the best starters in
the league. At the rookie position, it is not clear if Doug
Martin or Weeden will start, but both are starter quality material in
the PQBFL. Weakness: Defense. Dec
is expected to have the worst defense in the league without any impact
player except perhaps Derrick Johnson.
