by Courtney Kirby | Mar 31, 2015 | ANALYSIS, Dallas Cowboys, Fantasy Football News, Free Agency, NFL News, Other Sports Fun, Running Backs, Tight Ends, Wide Receivers
Dallas Cowboys 12-4 Welcome to the NFC East Week and the Dallas Cowboys 2014 Fantasy Highs and Lows. Each week we will go division by division breaking down each team. Highs: Dez Bryant It amazes me that Dez continues to perform and stay healthy every year. In his 2014 season he had 88 receptions, 1320 yards, and 16 touchdowns. That is three more touchdowns then any other receiver last year. Dez is now a franchise player after being tagged this offseason. No long-term deal yet for Dez but he will get paid with stats like his. DeMarco Murray I think we all can agree that DeMarco Murray was the standout for the Cowboys. He averaged 17 fantasy points a game. He had five games with 20 or more points and had eight games in a row with over 100 yards rushing. He had another four games over 100 yards rushing as well, for a grand total of 1845 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns and another 416 yards receiving. He was the clear number one running back of 2014 behind a very talented offensive line. Murray has found a new home for the 2015 season with the Philadelphia Eagles. Both Murray and Chip Kelly think this will be a very good match. After being run to the ground and switching teams only time will tell if Murray can be as successful this year as he was last year. Lows: Terrance Williams My first low was Terrance Williams. I love Dez but Dez could have been even better if the Cowboys opened up that offense using...
by Ashley Williams | Mar 26, 2015 | ANALYSIS, Fantasy Football News, Her Fantasy Football Podcast
This week we will talk about who we are excited and not excited to draft as how things and players stand today. More free agency moves could happen and players could lose or gain value based on the NFL draft…but as of today we will talk about who we are looking forward to picking up and who we are going to...
by Brandon Marianne Lee | Mar 22, 2015 | ANALYSIS, Quarterbacks, Running Backs, San Francisco 49ers, Tight Ends, Wide Receivers
San Francisco 49ers 8-8 Welcome to the NFC West Week and the San Francisco 49ers 2014 Fantasy Highs and Lows. Each week we will go division by division breaking down each team. The 49ers fell from grace this year. After three years of improvement under the tutelage of Jim Harbaugh, everything seemed to screech to a halt. As could be expected the team made a plethora of moves already this off-season, but let’s take a moment to look back before looking forward. Highs: Anquan Boldin Congrats to Boldin and his re-emergence. He was great. Look at the tape. He was the rock of this team. He ended the season with 83 catches for 1,062 yards and five touchdowns. Back to back 1,000+ yard seasons for the 7th time in his career. He’s 34 years old, so this was even more impressive. Colin Kaepernicks’ Last Two Games If you drafted Colin Kaepernick based on his upside in the preseason, you were sorely disappointed. But if you picked him up out of desperation at the end of the season because you needed a warm body to fill your QB position, you were delighted! In Week 16 they finally let him run with abandon and he racked up 151 yards and scored his only rushing touchdown of the season. In Week 17 he only rushed for 63 yards (still a nice number for a Quarterback) but he added two passing touchdowns to his fantasy performance. Lows: Colin Kaepernick (most of the season) Of the Quarterbacks that started 16 games, only Andy Dalton and Derek Carr had less fantasy points than Colin Kaepernick. He...
by Ashley Williams | Mar 21, 2015 | ANALYSIS, St Louis Rams
St. Louis Rams 6-10 Welcome to NFC West Week and the St. Louis Rams 2014 Fantasy Highs and Lows! Each week we will go division by division breaking down each team. The Rams didn’t have a whole lot of fantasy value in 2014. Wide receivers were getting picked off week after week with injuries, there were quarterback woes per usual and a running back by committee situation turned into an unreliable running back situation in the end. High: I am really trying to think of a high, I mean…I am really struggling here. Brian Quick was a high for a minute there but then he got hurt, so I guess I would say the Rams defense was consistent in showing up against big teams and I liked seeing that this year. Sorry, guys. I don’t have much on this one. Low: Let’s start with the LOW low out of the gate…Sam Bradford getting hurt. I mean I just don’t know what you do with this poor kid anymore at this point? I mean….I feel so, so, so bad for this kid with his bad luck and freakish injuries. But what do you do? Apparently the Eagles have a plan in mind. I guess my other low would be the Rams wide outs not really doing much all season long and then all getting injured….it wasn’t pretty. Not that you were really expecting much from them but they are usually good for one good sleeper a year. Bummer City. The Rams now have Nick Foles instead of Sam Bradford in the mix so it could be a very different...
by Courtney Kirby | Mar 20, 2015 | ANALYSIS, Arizona Cardinals, Fantasy Football News, Free Agency, NFL News, Quarterbacks, Running Backs, Sleepers, Things to Watch, Wide Receivers
Arizona Cardinals 11-5 Welcome to the NFC West Week and the Arizona Cardinals 2014 Fantasy Highs and Lows. Each week we will go division by division breaking down each team. The Cardinals have made some moves this offseason and restructured some contracts leaving a lot more cap space. Rumors are that the Cardinals are very interested in Peterson if the Vikings are willing to do a trade. If the Peterson trade does not happen we are looking at a very similar team to draft from in our 2015 fantasy drafts. Highs: My biggest high for the Cardinals in 2014 was Bruce Arians. You may be saying that doesn’t affect my fantasy team, but Coaches can have a huge impact on who you start. Arians won Coach of the Year and to me there was no real competition. He was hired on by the Cardinals before the 2013 season and led the team to a 10-6 record. That was double the wins the previous season. The Cardinals improved from 32nd overall on offense to 12th and 12th on defense to 6th. He is making this team better, which is making them better for fantasy. After Carson Palmer tore his ACL in week 9 there was never that fantasy star coming out of Arizona. Palmer was right about 18 fantasy points in each game he played so in a two Quarterback league or if you had Kaepernick or RG3 he was a great play. He signed a huge contract right before getting injured, which was restructured so the Cardinals could save $7 million in cap space....
by Brandon Marianne Lee | Mar 18, 2015 | ANALYSIS, Defenses, Quarterbacks, Running Backs, Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks 12-4 Welcome to the NFC West Week and the Seattle Seahawks 2014 Fantasy Highs and Lows. Each week we will go division by division breaking down each team. Seattle had three fantasy relevant players: Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and “Defense.” Everyone else was frustrating and unpredictable. That’s pretty much the whole story, but we’ll go into some of the details knowing that much will change with the recent arrival of Tight End superstar, Jimmy Graham. Highs: Russell Wilson Wilson was the third highest scoring fantasy Quarterback on the season behind Aaron Rodgers and Andrew Luck. Those skeptical about his future will say, “But he didn’t throw the ball!” True, but he acquired 849 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns. If he were a Running Back, he would tie with C.J. Anderson with the 16th highest yards on the season and would tie with a handful of guys (including my favorite player, Matt Forte) for 17th in rushing touchdowns. Don’t look for him to repeat that if they sign him to a cushy contract. Up until now Wilson has had the uncanny ability to not get hit, but when your team hinges on your highly paid, very talented Quarterback, things change. Marshawn Lynch Lynch finished the season with the fourth most rushing yards (1,306) among all Running Backs in the league. And at 13, he tied with DeMarco Murray for the most rushing touchdowns. He also caught 37 passes for 367 yards and four touchdowns. As long as he plays you want him on your fantasy team. And for a fun bonus, we wanted to make sure that you saw this amazing...
