Fantasy Draft Recap/NFL 2011 Season Preview!

Last week I ranked my top fantasy football players by position. I had two drafts over the weekend...I'm currently preparing for John Canton's ( www.thejohnreport.net ) TJR Draft tonight.

Over the weekend in my Live Yahoo Draft...I selected #2 and in my Live ESPN Draft...I selected #1. I did take Arian Foster and Aaron Rodgers, respectively. The Rodgers one I hated to do, but with 3 other Packer fans in my draft, I absolutely had to. I was invited into another league the other day, I won't be around to draft since I'll be out of town in Outing, Minnesota this weekend, but the predraft pick set me at #2. My current plan is to pre-rank my players...with my 1st pick go with Adrian Peterson or Ray Rice...and then go WR/RB/WR or WR/WR/RB. It's a PPR league with 2 starting RB's and 2 WR's...no FLEX position.

So in four drafts here's how I'm picking:
2nd: Arian Foster
1st: Aaron Rodgers
4th: ???
2nd: AP or Rice

I'm not sure what my strategy will be with this league tonight, it will be a free bragging rights league...no money on the line, so I'll probably jump after players I want and take a few risks. Chances are I'll walk out of the first round with Aaron Rodgers.

Anyway, there was no new Jakey and The Ace show this week. It's my lovely girlfriends birthday week and a bit more of serious news, 1st hour co-host C-Mac's mother had brain surgery on Tuesday...so it just wasn't a good week for the show. Next Week we'll have 4 hours of new Radio! Tuesday night will be the NFL Preview Show and Wednesday night will be the 3rd installment of The John Report Radio.

Let's get to the picks...I may or may not use these picks for my show picks next Tuesday night...only time will tell!

AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE

AFC North
1. Baltimore Ravens 11-5
2. Pittsburgh Steelers 10-6
3. Cleveland Browns 7-9
4. Cincinnati Bengals 2-14

AFC South
1. Houston Texans 11-5
2. Indianapolis Colts 9-7
3. Tennessee Titans 8-8
4. Jacksonville Jaguars 6-10

AFC West
1. San Diego Chargers 10-6
2. Kansas City Chiefs 9-7
3. Oakland Raiders 8-8
4. Denver Broncos 6-10

AFC East
1. New England Patriots 13-3
2. New York Jets 11-5
3. Miami Dolphins 8-8
4. Buffalo Bills 3-13

Seeds
1. New England Patriots
2. Baltimore Ravens
3. Houston Texans
4. San Diego Chargers
5. New York Jets
6. Pittsburgh Steelers

NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE

NFC North
1. Green Bay Packers 13-3
2. Detroit Lions 9-7
3. Chicago Bears 8-8
4. Minnesota Vikings 6-10

NFC South
1. Atlanta Falcons 12-4
2. New Orleans Saints 11-5
3. Tampa Bay Bucs 9-7
4. Carolina Panthers 4-12

NFC West
1. St. Louis Rams 10-6
2. Arizona Cardinals 9-7
3. Seattle Seahawks 6-10
4. San Fransisco 49ers 5-11

NFC East
1. Philadelphia Eagles 11-5
2. New York Giants 10-6
3. Dallas Cowboys 7-9
4. Washington Redskins 3-13

Seeds
1. Green Bay Packers
2. Atlanta Falcons
3. Philadelphia Eagles
4. St. Louis Rams
5. New Orleans Saints
6. New York Giants

Yearly Awards
MVP: Aaron Rodgers
OPOTY: Jamaal Charles
DPOTY: Clay Matthews III
OROY: Julio Jones
DROY: Von Miller
Coach of the Year: Gary Kubiak or Jim Schwartz

Playoffs
Wild Card Round
#3 Houston over #6 Pittsburgh
#5 New York Jets over #4 San Diego

#3 Philadelphia over #6 New York Giants
#5 New Orleans over #4 St. Louis

Divisional Round
#1 New England over #5 New York Jets
#2 Baltimore over #3 Houston

#1 Green Bay over #5 New Orleans
#3 Philadelphia over #2 Atlanta

Conference Championships
#1 New England over #2 Baltimore
#1 Green Bay over #3 Philadelphia

SUPER BOWL XLVI
Green Bay Packers- 34
New England Patriots- 27

Final Thoughts-
Call me a biased Packers fan, or whatever you want...I don't care. I honestly don't think there's much in the NFC besides Green Bay. We'll see how New Orleans offense looks against Green Bay's defense in about 7 Days 2 hours from now, and vice versa. Atlanta looks great on paper but they were exposed in the playoffs. Philly is being called 'The Dream Team'...dream teams don't work out, see 2011 Miami Heat.

The AFC is really anyone's conference. New England, New York and Pittsburgh probably have the biggest shots of getting there....could San Diego? Yes! Could Baltimore? YES! Could Cincinnati? NO!!!!! (Paul Allen Voice)

Honestly...I'm happy football is back, I'm happy I can watch my Packers defend their title and I'm happy I can play fantasy football.

Good luck to all the teams...and GO PACK GO!