Who is your 1st fantasy Bears draft pick?
by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jun 23, 2010 9:01 AM CDT
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PrintEvery year during fantasy football drafts around the country you'll find people picking with their hearts instead of their heads. Having a strong fondness or scornful hatred for a team can easily cloud your judgment when picking. One of the guys in our league is as big a Bears homer as you'll find and he always throws us for a loop come draft day. In 2007, in the first round he plucked the Bears defense/special teams. In 2008 his first round selection was tight end Greg Olsen. Needless to say his teams didn't fare too well.
I'm just as guilty as some. In my years of playing fantasy football I've only had 1 Packer on my roster and 1 Viking. I got Ryan Grant as a waiver wire pick up in 2007 and last year the Vikings defense/special teams fell to me and I was inclined to take them. It turned my stomach to make both picks, but I had to do what I had to do.
For 2010 my best guess is that Jay Cutler would be the top fantasy Bear taken, but with the some scoring systems docking you for interceptions, and some giving points per reception, you never can tell. With a new and hopefully high scoring offense in place, Chicago may have 3 or 4 receivers over 60 receptions. Will a healthy Matt Forte be the fantasy stud that so many predicted he'd be last year, or will Chester Taylor take away enough of his touches to make him irrelevant in the early rounds?
So my question to you is two fold; Which Bear do you thing should be the first one taken in your fantasy draft, and in what round would you consider making that pick up?
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Matt Forte
3rd or 4th round. He will still have value in the 2nd, but in the 3rd or 4th he will be a steal as the 2nd back on a team.
Cutler and Hester are both guys ot strongly consider.
Jay Clutchler
Will potentially be the steal of the draft. My guess is he will not be off the board until the 3rd or 4th round (excluding drafts compiled of mostly Bear fans). If the O-line can keep his jersey clean, Clutchler will be a top 5 fantasy QB.
If someone selects Jay Cutler in the 3rd or 4th, then they have went to early on the QB position
With the need for starting RBs in Fantasy Football, I’m just one who would never select a QB with RBs on the board.
No knock on Cutler, just wouldn’t select him that high. I also wouldn’t select him before about 5 other QBs.
Semper Fi
by ChicagoMarine on Jun 23, 2010 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
It all depends on the scoring format
I played in a league a few years ago that wasn’t weighted as to make people shy away from QB’s
"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." ~ Dick Butkus
by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jun 23, 2010 10:36 AM CDT up reply actions
I was assuming you meant traditional format.
Typically, that’s the one most fantasy analysts and bloggers refer to.
My apologies.
Semper Fi
by ChicagoMarine on Jun 23, 2010 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
I've played in so many different ones
I couldn’t even ell you what standard is!
"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." ~ Dick Butkus
by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jun 23, 2010 11:42 AM CDT up reply actions
I stand mildly corrected
On second thought, the 3rd may be a little early for Cutler, but not the 4th. The first three rounds usually go to your RBs, stud WRs or Elite QB’s… Leaving Cutler (whom I feel is among the second tier QBs this season) to be drafted in the 4th.
And if you disagree… Then good!!!
I’ll get Clutchler in the 4th and you won’t! ;-)
Haha!
Nahhh… Fourth round isn’t terrible, but certainly I wouldn’t hold firm to that selection.
I’m just one that believes that there is always a QB available as you can only play one per contest, so someone who has two top tier (not elite 3) on their roster will CERTAINLY be looking to trade one before the deadline.
I think Donovan McNabb, Matt Ryan, Chad Henne, Matt Schaub, etc. are all suitable players to get in later rounds. Cutler is amongst that group.
He certainly can have a breakout year, but that has yet to be documented consistently like the elite 3.
I like Cutler, but wouldn’t be in a rush to get him that early.
Food for thought.
Semper Fi
by ChicagoMarine on Jun 23, 2010 11:07 AM CDT up reply actions
Schaub will not be available.....
He is being considered an Elite pick this year, and rightly so, as far a fantasy stats are concerned. Top 5 QB to be sure.
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1 : The practice of repeating the same action while expecting different results.
by Timothy Hockemeyer on Jun 23, 2010 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions
I wouldn't pick Schaub in the first 4 rounds either, but if someone does...
… I wouldn’t be mad at him.
I’d pick up another running back or no. 1 wide receiver.
Semper Fi
by ChicagoMarine on Jun 23, 2010 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions
That Is True
And I was speaking in jest about the Bears Defense in the 1st round. I do think the Bears Defense will be a steal in the 4th round. Devin Aromashudo in the 5th or 6th. Chester Taylor in the late rounds if Forte is injured again,(knock on wood). The first Bear I pick however is Forte. He had a 1st round pedigree last Year and will slip down because he played hurt. Forte is a steal in the 2nd round in 2010.
I have made a solemn vow to never draft any Bear in FF.
I don’t ever want a too many eggs in one basket. On a similar note, I never draft any Packer or Viking because I don’t want a conflict of interest. I will also never start any player who is facing the Bears. And yes, this makes for a challenging season but I ain’t no coward.
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I remain a pessimistically hopeful Bears fan.
And how often do you win?
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Jun 23, 2010 10:08 AM CDT up reply actions
Never.
But 3 2nd place finishes in 6 years!
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I remain a pessimistically hopeful Bears fan.
You have to break the trend, my man.
The NFC North has some pretty prolific fantasy players. I won a 14 man league last year and got runner up the year before and I mix and match the North. It does make for strange situations if you need a win when players are against the Bears but if you want to win your league then you might have to take your guard down. I have taken the Bears defense every single year so that kind of balances it out, i suppose.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Jun 23, 2010 12:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Personally, I don't like having Bears guys
Because I think I’ll jinx them. Last year I had Forte in one league and Olsen in another and both had down years, coincidence? I think not.
"I was interviewing George Halas and I asked him who is the greatest running back you ever saw. And he said, 'That would be Red Grange.' And I asked him if Grange was playing today, how many yards do you think he'd gain. And he said, 'About 750, maybe 800 yards.' And I said, 'Well, 800 yards is just okay.' He sat up in his chair and he said, 'Son, you must remember one thing. Red Grange is 75 years old.' - Chris Berman
by Sam Householder on Jun 23, 2010 9:29 AM CDT reply actions
Unless I get incredible value on a pick, I feel the same way.
Not so much the jinx thing, but for the same reasons you don’t bet on your team. Too much chance of picking with your heart and not your head.
"The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed." - HST
I'd take Knox as my 3rd WR if better options were gone.
"You win because of the quarterback. We have to get that position stabilized. We're fixated on that." -- Jerry Angelo (12.30.2008)
Jerry Angelo trades for Jay Cutler! (4.2.2009)
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Knox in Martz's offense should be exciting.
"You win because of the quarterback. We have to get that position stabilized. We're fixated on that." -- Jerry Angelo (12.30.2008)
Jerry Angelo trades for Jay Cutler! (4.2.2009)
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Knox as a 3rd WR sounds right
He may surprise and end up being a very good option
"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." ~ Dick Butkus
by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jun 23, 2010 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions
He's been ranked fairly high in some of Yahoo's WR rankings.
Of course Behrens and Evans are Chicago boys, so there may be some bias.
"The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed." - HST
Matt Forte
I think he’s going to see a significant number of plays and carries. He’ll have plenty of yards, but I wonder if he will score. That would be my only knock on him as I think Hester, Olsen, or Aromashodu will have more TDs at the end of the year.
Semper Fi
Cutler, if I played Fantasy Football
Forte and Taylor are in a committee as are the WRs which would mean that Cutler should be the choice.
How do you not play fantasy football??
That statement amazes me.
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I remain a pessimistically hopeful Bears fan.
And every time I post
a chorus of angels sing. It’s getting annoying….
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I remain a pessimistically hopeful Bears fan.
Well who told you to stop taking your Lithium?
"The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed." - HST
Yeah there is a lot to go wrong with a committee
You want to try to get both halves of it otherwise you could get stuck where one gets hot and the others’ carries go down or where one gets all the goal line carries and the other gets all the other yards. So it can be tough if you only have 1 of a tandem.
"I was interviewing George Halas and I asked him who is the greatest running back you ever saw. And he said, 'That would be Red Grange.' And I asked him if Grange was playing today, how many yards do you think he'd gain. And he said, 'About 750, maybe 800 yards.' And I said, 'Well, 800 yards is just okay.' He sat up in his chair and he said, 'Son, you must remember one thing. Red Grange is 75 years old.' - Chris Berman
by Sam Householder on Jun 23, 2010 11:27 AM CDT up reply actions
nice
Last round I’m taking DM
"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." ~ Dick Butkus
by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jun 23, 2010 11:43 AM CDT up reply actions
In my auction league
I got Cutler in a standard scoring format for $11, and immediately took crap for it being too much. But so far I’m pretty well stacked at RB (MJD and Mathews) and WR is serviceable (Moss, Boldin, Harvin (gag)). So I figure, either I win the league cause Cutler plays outstanding in the Martzfence with his WRs, or I was never going to win the league anyway.
by Steven Schweickert on Jun 23, 2010 12:45 PM CDT reply actions
Cutler For Sure...
A lot of people will be scared from all the ints last year, but he is going to be playing in a pass-happy system, and he can knock out a 3 or 4 td performance in any given week. And even if the interception problems continue, he’ll still surely rack up a ton of yardage each week to compensate. I currently have him ranked as the sixth best fantasy qb, after Brees, Rivers, Rodgers, Brady and Manning. I could definitely see Knox or Aromashodu ending up on my team with a late round pick, but overall, too many WRs with no clear favorite to make any one of them a reliable starter. I’m scared of drafting Forte, both because of last year’s performance, as well as the addition of Chester Taylor.
Cutler or Aromashodu.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team, throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
Good for you.
I’m glad that you got it fixed.
And I’m with you. I don’t play fantasy football either.
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Stupid babies need the most attention!
by David Taylor on Jun 23, 2010 5:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Have either of you actually tried it?
I’m just curious.
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I remain a pessimistically hopeful Bears fan.
yup.
I played for a couple years a few years back. It’s fun, it just ate up more time than I wanted to give to it and I found myself semi-pulling for players to do well against the Bears. I was pretty done with it after that.
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Stupid babies need the most attention!
by David Taylor on Jun 23, 2010 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Which is why I never play any FFL
players when they face the Bears. Priorities. But it is time consuming and soul consuming but fun!
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I remain a pessimistically hopeful Bears fan.
It's a game where ten men and a goalie run around a field,
score a goal approximately once every 14 or 15 years, and frequently flop to the ground while feigning injuries. Afterwards, they partake in juice boxes and fruit slices, and ride home in their mom’s minivan. At least that’s what they call it in the rest of the world, or so I’m told.
"The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed." - HST
by JerBear50 on Jun 24, 2010 2:59 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
You will not break me.
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Stupid babies need the most attention!
by David Taylor on Jun 24, 2010 7:26 AM CDT up reply actions
I really meant to lay off all the soccer bashing
but you keep leaving it so open for me, especially with all the World Cup talk as of late. It’ll be over soon, and my anger towards all things Beckham will subside. Then I can go back to semi-rational conversation and berating Packer fans.
"The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed." - HST
Haha.
It doesn’t really bother me. I actually enjoy your anti-soccer rants. But you do know, don’t you, that the rest of the world calls it football?
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Stupid babies need the most attention!
by David Taylor on Jun 25, 2010 6:50 AM CDT up reply actions
Ohhhh JerBear50.....
…….That sport your talking about.Is that the sport, in witch if you fail at every other sport, you get a opportunity to play?
by I love football! on Jun 24, 2010 7:58 AM CDT up reply actions
Witches play sports?
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Stupid babies need the most attention!
by David Taylor on Jun 24, 2010 9:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Its called quidditch.
If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.
I remain a pessimistically hopeful Bears fan.
by Just Dave on Jun 24, 2010 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Haha.
Not that I know what you’re talking about. Because I’m a man. A man who loves sports and not a little girl that reads little girl books. If it is in fact a little girls book, of course. Which I have no way of knowing, since I don’t know what you’re talking about.
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Stupid babies need the most attention!
by David Taylor on Jun 25, 2010 7:28 AM CDT up reply actions
+1....
Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care what anybody says!
in•san•i•ty \in-ˈsa-nə-tē\ noun
1 : The practice of repeating the same action while expecting different results.
by Timothy Hockemeyer on Jun 24, 2010 4:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Knox most definitely
W/ his receptions and yards likely increasing and the potential as a KR, I think he shows as much promise as any Bear FF wise. The guys I play w/ all think Cutler sucks so I could probably get him in the 5th-7th round range…. STEAL!!! I play in a PPR league that also has you starting a weekly defensive player so Urlacher, Briggs, and Peppers are all options in the later rounds as well. Gotta defend the title!!!
Aw man I shot Marvin in the face.
I have Forte or the Defense
The defense is going to be huge this year but I think Forte beats them out slightly. He will lead the team in TD’s this year. But this is just my thought. Plus with a pass happy offense we know that the guy can catch.
by Jonathan Heun Jr on Jun 23, 2010 2:48 PM CDT reply actions
The defense most definately.
I would have chosen Olsen, but Mike Martz is the new OC…
The only time the Mets win is in the offseason.
My first choice would be the Defense……..My second would be Knox in the later rounds……
by I love football! on Jun 23, 2010 5:09 PM CDT reply actions
Forte
He is one of my keepers in a dynasty league. Last year wasn’t studly. but it is a points per reception league so he was still top 12 and I expect more this year. I have Brees but am going to eye Cutler strongly as a #2 if he falls at all, I feel he is going to be strongly undervalued this season. Kitna was a 4000 yard QB in this system.
Hester is big on my list for a #2-3 receiver. He was well on pace for a 1000 yard season last year before injuries in a far worse offense with less pass plays than we will see this year….Not to mention he is spending July with Isaac Bruce to work on Martz’ system and his routes.
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