It’s five weeks into the season now, and we are in last place. When I say we are in last place, I mean LAST place. The only way we could even get our money back that we paid to get into the league would be if the sun went super nova between now and week sixteen. The guys who picked Faulk, they’re doing ok, but no thanks to him. In fact the only guys doing well this year are guys who picked some very long, long shots, a few rookies and a couple of decent veterans. The studs of the past are sitting on the fantasy benches, or waiting out the season on the free agent rolls. So I ask you, readers of Philly Page 2 what went wrong?

Seems to me that this year may signal the end of fantasy football as we know it. Not only does it seem that almost all of the fantasy studs of the last several years have all decided to get old at once, but teams have appeared to stop featuring players. No longer is there a number one RB or WR, but a collection of half decent players that each get the ball about a half dozen times a game. Our beloved Eagles are a study in this type of football. While this is great for the game of football, it keeps defenses honest, and keeps everyone healthy, it signals the beginning of the end of our hobby. How can you handicap guys who don’t play eighty percent of time? There use to be a time when the top ten positions were locked in, no questions asked. Now it’s a crapshoot. Football loves the new systems, the new innovations, and once one team has success doing it, they all will follow. So where does that leave us? Will we now have to change our rules to allow drop and adds on the fly, make them a game time decision, or while the game is in progress even? Send in your lineup to your commissioner when the team lines up at scrimmage maybe? With three running backs and many more wide receivers to choose from on each team it is becoming increasingly difficult to pick one guy at the beginning of the year, and sticking with him. The team he plays for isn’t doing it, why should we have to?

In the end though I know I’ll never give up my fall diversion. It’s just to much fun sitting around on a Sunday drinking beer, watching the game and trash talking with your buddies about his lousy picks, and yours. Drop me a line here at happy valley and let me know how you’re fairing this year in your own league. We’ll have a couple of virtual beers around the computer and commiserate about what could have been. Where have you gone, Keyshawn Johnson?

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