Sunday Morning Quarterback: Second Edition

I know, I know. It's Saturday night, but I'm posting this a little early because I am getting up early tomorrow morning and heading for work for a little while. Therefore, the second edition of "Sunday Morning Quarterback" was posted Saturday night, July 5th.

First off, I would like to say happy late 4th of July to all. Ok, this week's topic is a little different. I was looking for something Football-related earlier today, and so I decided to join an ESPN.com Fantasy league (10-team League), and I just completed the draft a few minutes ago...Despite it being only July 5th. Yes, I was that desperate.

Instead of talking the Brett Favre topic to death, I will just recap the fantasy draft I just completed. Well, I was away for most of the night, and got home just in time to finish off the last five picks. I was awarded the number one pick in the draft, thank god, and the autopick simulator drafted L.T. for me, of course. The bad thing about the autopick simulator is that if you forget to edit your player rankings (like I did), then the simulator will keep on drafting running back after running back.

I know that RB's are the most important players on a fantasy team, but drafting SIX running backs before drafting even one QB is a little outrageous.

So...I tune into the draft at around 10:35 PM ET, and I have three starting RB's (L.T., Willie Parker, and Jamal Lewis), which is a solid trio, by the way. But, the simulator didn't stop there, I had three running backs on the bench as well, two of which were unproven rookies(Matt Forte, and Kevin Smith), and the other has yet to prove he's an elite NFL back (Deuce McAllister).

I did not have a starting QB until the 120th overall pick (round 12), where I picked up Detroit Lions Jon Kitna. While Kitna isn't exactly a QB most would want as their starter, especially on a fantasy team, he does have a great target or two at the WR position, and Detroit certainly is a passing team. But, a weak backfield is working against Kitna, and the Lions. I took a second QB, Jeff Garcia, with 140th pick overall. I am really hoping he has as much success this year as he did last year in Tampa.

Lucky for me, my top two wideouts are strong fantasy receivers. That is, if Torry Holt isn't on the downturn, and Wes Welker gets as much attention from Tom Brady as he did last year.

Take a look at my entire roster, in the draft order (BOLD represents the picks I made myself):

Ladainian Tomlinson, RB- 1st overall

Willie Parker, RB- 20th overall

Jamal Lewis, RB- 21st overall

Torry Holt, WR- 40th overall

Wes Welker, WR- 41st overall

Tony Gonzalez, TE- 60th overall

Matt Forte, RB- 61st overall

Kevin Smith, RB- 80th overall

Tony Scheffler, TE- 81st overall

Vernon Davis, TE- 100th overall

Deuce McAllister, RB- 101st overall

Jon Kitna, QB- 120th overall

Patriots Defense- 121st overall

Jeff Garcia, QB- 140th overall

Stephen Gostkowski, K- 141st overall

Amani Toomer, WR- 160th overall

Be sure to join me next week!

Brett Favre's Potential Destination Odds

With a new rumor in regards to Brett Favre being broken just about every hour, I think it’s safe to assume that he might not stay retired. Wait a second, you knew that when he retired? Oh, well since it’s looking less and less likely he’s going to end up with the Packers and with the potential of Aaron Rodgers attempting to kill him and all, I figured we should go ahead and take a look at the potential places Favre might end up. You know, because there’s not enough stories about the whole thing as it is.

Brett Favre wants you to sign him to a one year contract.

Washington Redskins

Odds: Likely

The Redskins are a likely landing spot if only because Daniel Snyder won’t hesitate to offer Favre a 1 year 45 million dollar contract.

Minnesota Vikings

Odds: Highly unlikely

This isn’t going to happen unless Favre is very, very pissed with the Packers organization for some reason. There’s no way he do this to the Packer fans, although it would make for an interesting Packers/Vikings Week 1 primetime match up.

The shit list of many Packers’ fans

Odds: Likely

No matter how legendary a career he had in Green Bay, Packer fans are going to be none to happy about seeing him play in another NFL uniform.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Odds: Unlikely

No real reason for Favre to end up here, unless the Buccaneer organization wants to break the most active quarterbacks on a depth chart record.

ESPN

Odds: Likely

Assuming he doesn’t return to the NFL, ESPN has the dough to sign him and he could be their NFL Life retirement expert. He’ll be able to tell us which of the players that have retired will stay retired.

Atlanta Falcons

Odds: Unfortunately unlikely

The Falcons need a veteran quarterback and they need one badly. Unfortunately for them, they spent a small fortune on a rookie QB who has yet to play an NFL down. The future's looking bright for the Falcons!

Aaron Rodgers' House

Odds: Impossible

Impossible, but hilarious none-the-less. Imagine Rodgers coming home for dinner and walking in the front door and finding Brett stuffing his mouth with mashed potatoes. He very well could go insane.

Carolina Panthers

Odds: Sort of likely

This is actually a legit, circulating rumor. It would make sense for them to sign him, but only if they’ve given up on or don’t rust the health of Jake Delhomme.

Chicago Bears

Odds: Not very likely

This is another circulating rumor, which is strange since Favre signing with the Bears would be nearly as traitorous as signing with the Vikings.

Any team except the Green Bay Packers

Odds: Very likely

If he's going to go somewhere, it looks like it's not going to be with the Packers.

If you told me this would be the most likely route in the Favre drama a couple months ago, I would have called you insane. But it seems that if Favre does come back, signing with the Packers would involve a lot of complications and by all accounts, the organization wants to move on.