Archive for the ‘Tom Brady’ Category

Hey, does anyone have an egg? How about a dozen of them? Can you please scramble them up — scramble them real good like — and then put them all over my face in several layers? Thanks.

Yes, I was wrong, and Tom Brady was in fact fined $10,000 last night for his judo kick on Ed Reed during the AFC Championship game in the final minute of the second quarter. I’ll let the shock of me being wrong wash over you for a second. Would you like a minute to collect yourself? Fine.

OK, carrying on then.

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Let me take you back, oh, exactly 24 hours ago, when in this very space — this sacred Chain Links space — we discussed Tom Brady’s poor sliding technique. Like most things Tom Brady, the topic won’t die.

And rightfully so, I might add. As I said then in reaction to Bernard Pollard”s first comments on Brady’s kick in the direction of Ed Reed when he was sliding with 20 seconds left in the second quarter of the AFC Championship game, there was a strong stench to his very awkward, very douchey-looking slide. At best, it was stupid, and at worst it was a completely unnecessary lack of sportsmanship, and a blatant disregard for one of the few areas of etiquette in football. Namely, if you’re giving yourself up on a play you should, well, give yourself up on a play.

But Pollard wasn’t done with just his post-game remarks in which he called Brady’s slide “bull crap“. He wants the league to take a look.

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I have breaking, urgent, and disappointing news to report: the fantasy football season will end soon.

Let that rattle around for a few minutes. I’ve often referenced the fact that many of you have spent the past three months or more sheltered in your bunker that’s far removed from your family. And now in about two weeks you’ll be faced with a severe shock as family life returns during the most frantic time of the year for such matters. Suddenly you’ve gone from scrutinizing T.Y. Hilton’s inconsistent production and yards per reception to putting a carrot on a snowman. If your mind isn’t focused, the placement of that carrot could have long-lasting and drastic psychological effects on your children.

Yes, this time of the year is a little bittersweet for so many of us. A large percentage of the fantasy football playing public will see their season end this week, if that already didn’t happen last week. So much like the holiday season as a whole when we look back on the year that was and all the awful things we did (which prompts the composing of horrid songs), this is a time for fantasy reflection. Oh, we’ll be breaking down the fantasy playoffs plenty in this space, and dedicating many hours when we should be sleeping to that exercise. But that process of reflection will slowly begin as we attempt to learn something from the 2012 season.

With that in mind, let’s turn to the excellent J.J. Zachariason for a quick reminder of a drafting philosophy that we’ve touched on before, and we’ll touch on it many, many more times because it bears repeating.

Don’t overvalue quarterbacks during the height of a passing era when passing numbers are quickly inflated, and late-round QBs are providing great value in terms of fantasy production.

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