Junkies Getting a Fix

So I have a bit of a crush right now. And no, it's not with the hot cartoon chick on the eSurance commercials. Well. Okay, maybe it is. But she's hot, she's wonderful, and I love her, and I don't care what anyone says. Quote, Buy, Print, dammit. We're going to have beautiful, black and pink haired, 2.5-dimensional children. Quote, Buy, Print.

In all seriousness, thank God football is back. I feel like an alcoholic with a cold beer right now. Like A1, yeah, it's that good. I think that I've spent more time watching football over the last 2 weeks than I have out of the apartment. I'm awesome. And I also promised a football preview after my fantasy draft. Of course, I lost my first game in my important league, so I don't know if my thoughts are worth anything (though I did get high score, and won a few bucks in my cash league). However, I will say that in my baseball preview, I actually did pretty well. It's sick. Who in the world would call Arizona as the NL West champs? And the Indians as the AL central champs was another surprisingly good call. Of course, there were a couple misses (I think that I was too lazy to edit out the A's after I copied and pasted from the previous year). But I think that C-Lauff is still upset about the whole Erik Bedard thing from last year and this year.

So, without further ado, my NFL picks:

AFC Division Champs and Wild Cards: New England, Indy, Denver, Cincy, Baltimore, San Deigo.
AFC Champion: New England over Indy
NFC Division Champs and Wild Cards: Chicago, Carolina, Philly, Seattle, New Orleans, Dallas.
NFC Champion: Carolina over Seattle
Super Bowl Winner: New England

NFL MVP: Tom Brady
NFL Offensive POY: Peyton Manning
NFL Defensive POY: Ray Lewis
Top 3 RB's: LT, LJ, Shaun Alexander
Apologies to: Run/catch threats Brian Westbrook and Steven Jackson
Under the radar RB's: Edgerrin James, Adrian Peterson,
Overrated: The rest of the U's backs (Gore, McGahee, Portis)

Top 3 WR's: TO, Steve Smith, Randy Moss
Apologies to: Bengals, Colts, and Rams corps
Under the radar WR's: Arnaz Battle, Santonio Holmes, Javon Walker
Overrated: Seahawks and Saints corps

Top 3 QB's: Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Carson Palmer
Apologies to: Big Ben, Vince Young
Under the radar QB's: Eli's time to shine, Cutler and Campbell making believers.
Overrated: Drew Brees and Matt Hasselback

AFC items of note:
There are a number of freaks at TE; the Tony Scheffler and Daniel Graham combo will outperform most of them.
The Broncos match up well will the Chargers, and will be able t0 use 8 in the box to stop LT.
The Broncos can run on any team that's devoting 2 defenders to Javon Walker.
The play of Jonathan Ogden and Levi Jones will probably decide the AFC North.
The Jags may not regret dropping Leftwich, but they're not making the playoffs with Dave Garrard.
The Steelers will be tough, but are in the wrong division.
The Jets are looking at a long season.
A team that has a strange attraction for me is the Titans.

NFC items of note:
The Panthers defense will step up, and they'll get just enough big plays on offense to make a run.
I want to pick against the Bears, but the rest of the NFC North is so bad that I can't justify it.
I want to pick against the Saints, but the rest of of the NFC is so bad, that I can't justify it.
The popular sleeper picks (49ers, Cardinals, Rams, etc.) are generally lame.
Joey Harrington is still Joey Harrington.
Alex Smith and Matt Leinart will become legit NFL QB's.
The Eagles drafted a QB because they're a good organization.

Of course, I'm an idiot, so definitely ignore anything that I have written down here.

-Chairman