Perhaps in 2014, he'll take that advice seriously.
Because honestly, he hasn't had the best of times drafting in the first round.
Steven Jackson is now out for several weeks, leaving him a void he's not sure he can fill right now.
Last year, Michael Turner was the No. 1 pick when guys like Marshawn Lynch and Jamaal Charles were still available.
Now, both weren't all that bad in terms of picks. They may have been reaches in terms of when they were taken, but they certainly do not rank as the worst first-round pick the Noise has ever made.
We only have to go back to 2010 when the Noise took Chad Henne in round one. A year removed from a trip to the Super Bowl and he made this move.
Maybe it's time to change up the draft strategy.
He's got to do something because what he's doing right now isn't cutting it against Houserville, who won his seventh straight contest against the Noise during the regular season.
And the Ville hammered home the point with 147.5 points, getting 19-plus points from Cam Newton, Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, Pierre Garcon and Jimmy Graham. The Ville got exactly what I said he would love to see and that's a big day from both Nelson and Cobb.
Having both wideouts is a live-or-die mentality and it's been a positive strategy in the past.
In 2006, I drafted Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne in back-to-back rounds with the idea that Peyton Manning had to throw to one of them each week — and if he utilized both, I'd get big points. It worked for me and it may work for the Ville, but he's going to have to be committed to it. Had he started the season with Nelson and Cobb both in the lineup, he'd be 2-0 heading into Week 3.
Instead, the only 2-0 teams are the Jimmy Jammers, Dottsville Toasters and T-Money.
Like the Ville, the Jammers is relying on a pair of wideouts. They aren't on the same team, but with their fantasy values so high, it allows for big weeks just like the one Cobb and Nelson had this week.
Julio Jones went for 182 yards and a TD on 11 catches, while Dez Bryant had nine catches for 141 yards and a TD. It totaled 50.3 points, and added with Matthew Stafford's big day, the Jammers easily took care of a divisional foe who swept him last season, Jawz Attack.
Take that Jawz.
Things could have been better had Russell Wilson passed the ball more. Only 142 yards and a TD left him with 15.3 points from his QB. In a 29-3 win, where did all the points go?
Oh, there they are. Marshawn Lynch took them. With his 98 yards and 3 TDs, he scored 32.1 fantasy points. The Spacklers should have been in good shape in his matchup, but Tom Brady had only 14.8 points in his awful win against the Jets.
That allowed the Toasters to take a decent lead and hold on while Lynch went crazy.
He's now 2-0 for one big reason, RGIII.
Man, how many times will I have to type that and eat my words?
Redskins fans aren't. In back-to-back games, the Redskins have fallen behind big early. If you look closer at the numbers for RGIII, the majority of them have come in garbage time.
Grant it, in fantasy, garbage points are no different than any other fantasy point, so the Toasters will take it. (I hope not next week.)
That's right, the two of the three 2-0 teams will go up against each other.
The other 2-0 team, T-Money, moved there with a big win over the reigning Super Bowl champion. Only 71 points for the Slackers and it seems like he may have a running back problem. Ray Rice only had 4.1 points after a lackluster Week 1, perhaps the Slackers are starting to worry.
He had to worry even more when he saw Fred Jackson score for the Bills. C.J. Spiller, his No. 1 pick, still scored double-digits, but it wasn't anything impressive.
At 0-2, he's already halfway to the total number of losses he had all season.
If things go my way, by the time Week 4 ends, the Slackers will have all four of those losses. #ThatShouldRileHimUp #Wait4TheFacebookResponse
He'll cry and complain and say his guys need to get the ball more.
Graybill, too, expressed his displeasure in the Gamecast Chatroom as the Dolphins' Week 1 game progressed. He had just one catch and it didn't get much better that day. It did in Week 2, though, as he caught nine passes for 115 yards and a TD for 19.3 fantasy points.
So, what's the lesson for today's youth? If you don't get the ball, whine like a bitch and you'll get it next week.
Still, that didn't work for Graybill. Only 77.6 points total and it left him well short of the Fear, who got his first win of the season.
And how did it take this long to get to one of the bigger stories of the week in the JFL.
The Chinese Organ Thieves blew away the League with a huge Week 1 performance. Peyton Manning scored 67 points by himself.
This week, the Organ Thieves just barely beat that with his whole lineup. Peyton Manning scored just 26.7 points, which is respectable in the fantasy world, but after last week, it seems like finding a few pennies on the ground.
It would have been OK had the rest of the team not caught a case of the single-digits — the opposite of what the News Team had. Nikish got 48.7 points, a better-than Eli but lesser-than Peyton performance. Jamaal Charles added 17.9 points, Victor Cruz posted 13.4 and Julian Edelman had 14.3
It was a good week.
You may have noticed over the last few minutes of reading, I pointed out how good of a week Jamaal Charles and Marshawn Lynch had.
Man, could you imagine what it would be like if the Noise didn't waste his first round picks?
That will be the day.
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