a laugh / a buy / a sell

Three years from now I might look back at this and laugh about how wrong I was.  However, for the time being I am laughing at something else.

It was a rough home debut for Geno.  Three 1st half interceptions + this gem closed the book on his night as well as any chance to start week 1 of the regular season.


Buy/Sell

Kenbrell Thompkins - Has opened some eyes this preseason and posted an 8-116 stat line in his last game.  If anyone had not heard of Thompkins yet Yahoo! sports writer Brad Evans did his part to make him a household name.  Anytime a player is the feature article on the yahoo news ticker he is no longer a sleeper.  The stars seem to be aligning for Thompkins.  No Brandon Lloyd.  No Hernandez.  No Gronk to start to the year.  No Welker (sorta).
The past few years the most fruitful of the Patriot Wr's have been the slot receiver think Welker--this years Amendola.  Here is a list of the best receiving years going back to 2002 from a Patriot WR who was not the slot WR

2002 - Patten: 61/824/5
2003 - Branch: 57/800/3
2004 - Givens: 56/874/3
2005 - Branch: 78/998/5
2006 - Caldwell: 61/760/4
2007- Moss: 98/1500/23
2008 - Injured
2009 - Moss: 83/1260/13
2010 - Branch: 48/706/5
2011 - Branch: 51/700/5
2012 - Lloyd: 74/911/4


Two of those years are not like the others, but I think we can all agree that a Thompkins/Moss comparison might be a bit much.  Brady has taken plenty of "no name" receivers and have made them contributing members to the team and fantasy relevant.  Looking at the numbers I think you can pencil Thompkins in for 60/800/4 which would have been good enough for just outside the top 30 best fantasy WRs in 2012.  So I am sorry Mr. Evans I am going to sell on Kenbrell Thompkins being the reason I win my fantasy league.

Maurice Jones-Drew - Currently on CBSsports the 3 resident fantasy football experts have MJD ranked as the 17th / 17th / and 15th best RB.  I really don't get this one.  Since taking over the reigns in 2009...
2009: 1765/16
2010: 1641/7 (14 games)
2011: 1980/11

2012 - He was on pace for another big year.  Before the injury in his 6th game he was averaging more ypc than any year in his career at 4.8, had accumulated over 500 yards of offense and had 5 TD's to go with it.

I get that he is coming off an injury and is now ancient at 28 years of age but ranking this guy as low as these experts have his borderline criminal. 

Hey, MJD you hear about your sportsline ranking?

I am buying MJD as a top 10 fantasy back this season.