By Mark Brown, on September 15th, 2011  Week 1 wasn’t really full of surprises if you read my article on who to start and who to bench. I’m here again this week to make sure you start the right guys, and to make sure you win. If your 1-0 then you might as well go to 2-0 and really have a nice jump on the season. If your 0-1, you can’t lose and start 0-2. That’s already a deep little hole to get out of.
This week I’m going to switch up the way I do this, and hopefully this is the way it will stick for the rest of the season. You can expect my article like this every single Thursday throughout the season. I plan on updating it and moving guys around as the injury reports change. So I’m going to take a look at each position and give you the guys that are good starts, decent starts, and bad starts. This way you can compare guys at a certain position to other guys on your team at that position. You don’t have to scroll down the page to find all of your guys at one position this way. The players are in order of the time that their game is being played and not by any sort of rank.
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By Mark Brown, on September 8th, 2011  The NFL season starts tonight!!! More importantly, the fantasy football season starts tonight!!! Why else would any of us watch Cleveland vs. Cincinnati unless we have AJ Green and want to see what our rookie will do in his first game. For that reason, fantasy football is now bigger than the sport itself.
Do you have any questions about who to start over who in the first week? Let’s take a look at all the matchups and determine who are good starts, decent starts, and bad starts. Football is incredibly unpredictable, and it’s almost impossible to read splits the way you can with baseball. Because of that I can tell you all season long who will give you the best CHANCE to perform for you. Nobody can ever predict the day that Mike Tolbert rushes for 3 TD’s. It’s impossible. Keep that in mind. I base the starts on matchup obviously and I also look at how each player has done historically against the opponent. I also factor in who I think will win the game, and whether a team will be more pass or rush oriented in that game. Whether they are up or down on the scoreboard has a lot to do with their weekly values.
New Orleans Saints @ Green Bay Packers:
Good starts: Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Greg Jennings, Marquis Colston, Jermichael Finley, Mason Crosby
Decent starts: Jordy Nelson, Ryan Grant, Mark Ingram, Pierre Thomas, John Kasay, Green Bay Defense
Bad starts: Donald Driver, James Jones, Robert Meachem, Devery Henderson, Lance Moore, James Starks, Darren Sproles, Garrett Hartley New Orleans Defense
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By Mark Brown, on August 26th, 2011  Kicker’s are a dime a dozen. But….its impossible to tell exactly when a kicker is going to have a good week. So having one that is a top tier guy over the course of a season gives you a better chance to win. The best situation for a kicker to be in is a winning one. If a kicker plays for a winning team he obviously gets more chances to kick. But getting nothing but extra points doesn’t really help either. Although it is very difficult to predict how kickers will do, I will still tell you which ones are better to have than others. Here is my list of the top kickers for the 2011 season. I know everyone has been hitting refresh on their computer’s for the last hour waiting for this list to come up.
1. Mason Crosby (GB)
2. Matt Bryant (ATL)
3. Nate Kaeding (SD)
4. Robbie Gould (CHI)
5. Billy Cundiff (BAL)
6. Dan Carpenter (MIA)
7. Garrett Hartley (NO)
8. Stephen Gostkowski (NE)
9. David Buehler (DAL)
10. Rob Bironas (TEN)
11. Neil Rackers (HOU)
12. Connor Barth (TB)
13. Ryan Longwell (MIN)
14. Nick Folk (NYJ)
15. Alex Henery (PHI)
16. Phil Dawson (CLE)
17. Jason Hanson (DET)
18. Josh Brown (STL)
19. Lawrence Tynes (NYG)
20. Sebastian Janikowski (OAK)
21. Graham Gano (WAS)
22. Ryan Succop (KC)
23. Adam Vinatieri (IND)
24. David Akers (SF)
25. Shaun Suisham (PIT)
26. Matt Prater (DEN)
27. Josh Scobee (JAC)
28. Jay Feely (ARI)
29. Jeff Reed (SEA)
30. Olindo Mare (CAR)
31. Mike Nugent (CIN)
32. Rian Lindell (BUF)
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By Zach Wilt, on November 18th, 2009 This morning the Ravens announced that Billy Cundiff will be their kicker moving forward. Cundiff has eight years experience in the NFL and has made 66 of 89 career field goals (74.2%).
He has played for the Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints, and most recently the Cleveland Browns.
I’ve got to question what the Ravens are doing out this point. What kind of team are they trying to build? In my mind the veteran Mike Nugent was going to get the job, but the Ravens go with the younger, less experienced guy again.
Good luck Billy!
By Zach Wilt, on November 9th, 2009 In his 4 PM press conference with the media, John Harbaugh didn’t instill a lot of confidence in Steve Hauschka‘s future with the Ravens.
“We think Steve’s going to be a really good kicker in the NFL. [We’re] disappointed with that kick and I think Steve is too. He can kick that ball a lot better,” Harbaugh said. “We’re not ready to say we don’t think he’s going to be a good kicker in the NFL yet.”
During the bye week the Ravens worked out free agent kicker Mike Nugent, who might be brought in if Hauschka is cut by Baltimore.
“He’s talented, he’s a great kid, he works hard. Let’s see what happens.”
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Week 1 wasn’t really full of surprises if you read my article on who to start and who to bench. I’m here again this week to make sure you start the right guys, and to make sure you win. If your 1-0 then you might as well go to 2-0 and really have a nice jump on the season. If your 0-1, you can’t lose and start 0-2. That’s already a deep little hole to get out of.
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