The 2016 JFL Draft is just seven days away as the keepers
have been submitted with just five first-rounders kept this year.
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Batman has a gem in Brown
At No. 9, Chalupa Batman will be able to take the top-rated player on
many fantasy charts. He's one of five JFL teams keeping a player in
the first round, and he's in the best situation of them all.
Here's the rest of the keepers: CLICK HERE
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That means everyone will have to study up to make sure they
know who the untouchables are. There are several top tier players available in
the draft who one might think should be untouchable, however, several owners —
including myself — took a gamble with a smarter play by keeping a player in a
later round in order to have early draft picks.
Channel 4 News Team did just that, although, it doesn’t seem
to be a gamble after last year. He’s keeping Cam Newton, a seventh-round pick,
over Aaron Rodgers, a first-round pick.
Newton was the No. 1 QB in fantasy a year ago so that makes
complete sense. That said, it has to be a little bittersweet for News Team
considering the fact that he sold his soul and the 2015 JFL Draft in order to
get Rodgers. As it turned out, his only good pick was Newton and he found
himself stuck with two great QBs and no one else to fill in the rest of the
lineup.
He should find it easier to do that this year with picks in
the first six rounds.
Here are some other notable points from the keeper
selections:
NOISE DID WHAT?
World of Noise made a smart selection. He finally ditched
Matt Ryan and kept a seventh-round pick in Devante Freeman who is a top-10
back. With picks in the first six rounds, Noise can’t screw this up, can he?
Oh, wait. We added defensive players.
There goes the Eagles secondary and linebacking corps in the
first four rounds.
GONE WITH THE BREES
The Slackers are moving on. Drew Brees, a franchise
expansion pick when the Slackers joined the JFL, is no more. In comes Andy
Dalton, an eighth-round pick. It’s a bit of a gamble as Brees outscored Dalton
by more than 100 fantasy points last season, but the Slackers are betting on
two things: (1) he’ll use the first-round pick to make his team better than
what he’d get with just Brees in the first round, and (2) Brees is at the end.
The latter bet is a bit scary because we all know what
happened when we thought Peyton Manning was finished.
SUSPENDED AGAIN, KEPT
AGAIN
Once again, Boyer blows my mind.
Last year at this time, he kept Tom Brady who was tagged
with a four-game suspension and lost his first-round pick to keep the QB. As it
turned out, Brady got the suspension lifted, but nevertheless, my point was,
Boyer could have easily kept a player on his team drafted in a later round and
then added Brady in the first round. With the suspension, hell, most teams
avoided that like the plague because not having a starting QB for five games
(suspension plus the bye) is killer. That means, he may have been able to draft Brady after the first round
Now, this year, the suspension is back and it doesn’t look
like anything is going to make the judge overturn it, not even Ted, Mark
Wahlberg and their weed-happy lawyer friend. Did anyone watch that movie? I got
about an hour in and just lost interest. Kind of like a Jargon blog post, am I
right Dawson?
I digress, Brady is a poor selection because it will most
likely cost Boyer a shot at the playoffs. Unless he finds the lucky backup QB like
News Team did, he’ll lose more than he wins when Brady isn’t in.
One thing is for sure, Tom Brady will play his entire NFL career as a member of Team Boyer in the JFL.
HOUSERVILLE TEACHES
ME GEOGRAPHY
He said he was going to change his name to Dawson’s Creek,
but I haven’t seen him do it on ESPN yet. … So the record book will still read
Houserville despite the fact that he moved out of Houserville, Pa.
He posted that about two months ago and I laughed. I thought
it was a somewhat funny joke, funny at least from Dawson.
But then, he said the same thing again: “I moved out of
Houserville.”
I was left scratching my head. “Is Houserville, Pa., a real
place?” I asked myself.
As Googlemaps was loading in my browser, I was certain that
this was to be a foolish search, but behold, in front of my eyes, a map of the
town of Houserville, Pa.
All this time, I thought he just made up a place, gave it a
soccer club feel and rolled with it.
Now, I’m left asking, “Who the hell names their team after
the town they’re in?”
I’ll tell you what. I can’t wait to play the Alexandria
Toasters. Or the Nanticoke Attack. Or even, the Barto Boyers! … There it is.
Boyer’s adopted team name for 2016. Who wants to start the Facebook vote to
make Team Boyer the Barto Boyers?
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