(FOOTBALL) Week One

Holy cow or duck! I did not see Marcus Mariota throwing 4 touchdowns - did you? I won my league this week but I really need to rethink some of my draft choices... right now I am a little worried about Forsett but I LOVE my JJ WATT pick - hello 22 POINTS!

So, if are looking for some good pick ups here it is from the Fantasy Guru - and one extra from The Ferd:

Terrance Williams - due to the DEZ BRYANT injury he is the number #1 in DALLAS

• Marcus Mariota (QB, Ten)
• Dion Lewis (RB, NE)
• Jordan Reed (TE, Was)
• James Jones (WR, GB)
• Stevie Johnson (WR, SD)
• Lance Dunbar (RB, Dal)
• Chris Johnson (RB, Ari)
• Tyrod Taylor (QB, Buf)
• DeVante Parker (WR, Mia)
• Donte Moncrief (WR, Ind)
• David Johnson (RB, Ari)
• Austin Seferian-Jenkins (TE, TB)
• Eric Ebron (TE, Det)
• Ronnie Hillman (RB, Den)
• Brandon Coleman (WR, NO)

So how was your week one?  Did you start the rookie out of Oregon?  Let me know!

-Christi, FFC

{FOOTBALL} Week 1

It's finally here - Sunday NFL Football - it's real people!

Here is my line up for the week -

I think it's pretty solid - but I always think that one week one.  So, how does you roster look? What do you think of mine? 

-Christi, FFC 

{NEWS} Arizona Cardinals Make NFL History

Since this blog is about Fantasy Football for Chicks, Ladies, Girls, etc.  I wanted to make sure everyone knew what Bruce Arians and the Arizona Cardinals did today...they hired a female coach!

From the awesome Bruce Arians:

“Coaching is nothing more than teaching,” Arians said Monday. “One thing I have learned from players is, ‘How are you going to make me better? If you can make me better, I don’t care if you’re the Green Hornet, man, I’ll listen.’ I really believe she’ll have a great opportunity with this internship through training camp to open some doors for her.”

Let me introduce...Dr. Jen Welter:

·      Welter, 37, was hired by the Texas Revolution of the Indoor Football League in February to coach linebackers and special teams.

·      At 5-foot-2, 130 pounds, she became the first woman to play a non-kicking position in a men's professional football league in 2014 when she suited up as a running back and special teams player for the Revolution.

·      Welter has a master's degree in sports psychology and a Ph.D in psychology.

·      She won gold medals in 2010 and 2013 as a member of Team USA at the IFAF Women's World Championship.

·      She played rugby at Boston College and played professional football for more than 14 years in women's leagues. She helped the Dallas Diamonds of the Women's Football Alliance win four titles.

This is exciting news for the NFL and for American Girls who either want to play or coach one day. 

I am very proud of the Arizona Cardinals!  

What are your thoughts?  

-Christi, FFC 

{FOOTBALL} Single digits...9 Sundays!!!

Single digits....can you believe it!  Better start prepping for the draft!

-Christi, FFC

{FUN} Ideas for Team Names...

Okay, these are fun but kind of cheesy...might be a great way to mess with peoples heads! 

Drew Brees:

1. Young Breezy

2. Get On Your Hands and Brees

3. 98 DeBrees

Jamaal Charles:

4. Jamaal of America

5. Jamaal Along The Watch Tower

6. Jamaal About Eve

7. I’m Jamaal In

8. Jamaalong Came Polly

LeSean McCoy:

9. Don’t Act So McCoy

10. To The Break of LeSean

11. LeSean the Waterfront

Adrian Peterson:

12. AP Style Guide

13. There’s an AP for that

Eddy Lacy:

14. Lacy Chabert

15. From Sea to Shining Lacy

Calvin Johnson:

16. Calvin and Cobbs (If you draft Randall Cobb as well)

17. Calvin Them Softly

18. I’ll Have What She’s Calvin

Jimmy Graham:

19. Half a Graham

20. Grahamama’s House

21. Hot Graham!

22. Green Eggs and Graham (if you draft A.J. Green as well)

Demaryius Thomas:

23. Jesus and Demaryius Chain

24. Demaryius Christmas

Marshawn Lynch:

25. The Lynchpin

26. What’s for Lynch?

27. Hedwig and the Angry Lynch

Peyton Manning:

28. The Manning of Life

29. Peytoncè

Arian Foster:

30. Foster Children

31. Foster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

32. The Foster The Furious

Aaron Rodgers:

33. Rodgers and Fumblestein (if you draft Toby Gerhart as well)

34. Running some Aarons

Wes Welker:

35. The White Welkers (if you draft Roddy White as well)

36. Welker? Barely knew her!

37. Wes Coast Hip Hop

38. Wes Side Story

39. Once Upon a Time in the Wes

Matt Forte:

40. Not My Forte

41. Forte Oz. to Freedom

42. Forte Winks

43. This is Forte

Toby Gerhart:

44. Toby or not Toby

45. Gerhart Attack

46. You Have No Gerhart

47. Gerhart of Darkness

DeMarco Murray:

48. DeMarco Polo

49. X DeMarco the Spot

Cam Newton:

50. Wham Bam Thank You Cam

51. Cam Newtons are Fruit and Cake

52. Newton’s Apple

Dez Bryant:

53. I’m Going to Deznyland!

54. I Make Dez Look Easy

Johnny Manziel:

55. Don’t Be So Manzielous

56. Buy Low, Manziel High

57. Peanut Butter and Manzielly

58. SpiderManziel, or really any superhero who ends in “man”

Tony Romo:

59. Hopeless Romontic

60. RomoCop

61. Romo and Michelle’s High School Reunion

62. Tony Romo’s, A Place for Broken Ribs

Jason Witten:

63. Witten Without You

64. A Basket of Wittens

65. The Enemy Witten

Lamar Miller:

66. Lamar the Merrier

67. It’s Miller Time!

Bishop Sankey:

68. Do the Sankey Leg

69. You Sankey My Battleship

70. Songs in the Sankey of Life

Nick Foles:

71. Foles Gold

72. Only Foles Rush In

Tyler Eifert:

73. Sorry Eiferted

74. A for Eifert

Nick Folk:

75. Go Folk Yourself

Montee Ball:

76. Canadian Montees

77. Hey, Hey! We’re the Montees!

78. MonT-Rex

79. I Came In Like A Montee Ball

So, how do you come up with your team name?  Do you like the creative ones above? I always seem to draw a blank and go with my last name (real creative right?)...let me know the cool names that are out there! 

-Christi, FFC

{FOOTBALL} Practice Makes Perfect...do a Mock Draft

Mock drafts are practice fantasy sports drafts. Before a league's draft takes place, mock drafts are a way to practice before someone's pride and/or money are on the line. Participating in a mock draft alerts fantasy players to real players that are going higher or lower than you expected.

Savvy fantasy sports players also monitor the results of these drafts for trends and to see where players are being taken to get a feel for each player's value (as shown in the Average Draft Position (or ADP) from multiple mock drafts).

They say practice makes perfect, so in that spirit here are some of the benefits I see: 

1) It helps familiarize you with the draft process

2) You can get an idea of where players are going in the draft

3) You will get to know player’s names and positions

4) You can practice with different sized teams usually from 8-16 players

"Die-hard participants are set to engage in this activity throughout the summer as part of an evaluation process to gauge player values before drafting for real." – Herbie Teope, Kansas City Star

If you want to do one places like YahooSports and FantasyFootballCalculator offer free mock drafts that are generally very easy to do, but beware you will more than likely run into die-hard drafters especially this early in the year!

So, have you done a mock draft in the past?  Let me know when you try one out!