Mostly meaningless preseason game Q&A with Bleeding Green Nation

For fantasy purposes, I see the QB position being about 7 deep for the really good ones, and then a decent dropoff to the next 2 QB’s, and then it falls off a cliff after that… In 4 tiers…

Tier 1 – Brees, Rodgers
Tier 2 – Manning
Tier 3 – Romo, Schaub, Brady, Rivers
Tier 4 – Kolb, Flacco

There are 2 reasons that Kolb should be liked universally…

- He may very well have the best weapons in the passing game in the entire NFL. We’re talking about DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin, Brent Celek, LeSean McCoy as a really nice receiving option out of the backfield, the extremely underrated Jason Avant as the 3rd WR. Even their fullback Leonard Weaver will give significant contributions as a receiver. They’re loaded.

- The Eagles pass the crap out of the ball. Roughly 60% of their play calls are passes. That won’t change now that McNabb is gone.

Those 2 factors alone make him a really attractive fantasy football player, and we haven’t even gotten to whether or not he’s actually good. I did a post a few months back that included video of all of Kolb’s passes last year (85 of them). I won’t try to sell you on how good he is, but if you’re interested, you can make your own judgment. Links here and here.

Thanks.

Haha, it’s kosher, I suppose. The Jets are your team, and your 2nd favorite team is in the other conference, so it’s not like there’s any kind of rivalry there whatsoever. However, if your favorite team was the Giants and your second team was the Eagles, then no, that would certainly not be kosher.

Where in NJ?

Yeah, they’re wearing their old kelly green unis, but only for one game I believe.

First half. Mike Kafka will get the second half.

Heard that Sanchez is calling some plays like an offensive coordinator tonight. Love that idea by Rex.

There were a few days in camp where he was the best player on the field. Last year, he did a lot of dancing at the line of scrimmage. This season, he’s just hitting the hole. I think that’s the main difference, and yes, he looks ready.

That said, nobody is ever going to fill the shoes of Brian Westbrook. In his prime, he was a lot like Leon Washington x 100. If McCoy is even remotely as good as Westbrook, I’ll be thrilled.

3-0, by the way. Wooooo!