Some More Accountability Along With More Gloating for This Past Fantasy Football Season

You know this job ain't easy. It's sure a lot of fun to toss around opinions, eat, sleep and breathe fantasy football, but when the day is done...it's still not easy. We've gotta be on top of the game at all times, take the criticism when we're wrong and still somehow manage our own fantasy teams and hope to win our own fantasy titles.

The hard part is always dropping a post about a potential sleeper we like and then having a buddy in our league read that very post and beating us to the punch. Well, that's just life and I'm hardly complaining. And not that we like to brag or boast all too much, but when we get it right, we gotta let people know. When it comes to fantasy football, cockiness is all part of the game.

With that said I'm holding myself accountable today for some of the things I nailed this season and some of the others I completely whiffed on.
Let's start with the misses and why I'm an idiot, because...

- I told everyone (including myself) to bail on Kevin Smith way, way too early in the season. And here I thought Rudi Johnson was going to take over. That sound you just heard was a virtual "f-bomb."

- Um, I did mention that Ricky Williams would get the bulk of the carries in Miami. What was I smoking? Bad joke, turns out neither Ronnie Brown nor Ricky Williams were all that reliable.

- I was told to bury this one, but I did suggest that DeAngelo Williams would be a spectator to Jonathan Stewart's breakout rookie season. I'm honest. And hindsight is 20/20, as later in the season – I suggested Stewart was of no use. Swing and a miss on all accounts.

- Yes, I swore by LaDainian Tomlinson as you rode him and eventually crashed into the building, unless your Championship game was in Week 17.

Although, I'm that big of a moron and could even be considered a genius, because...

- I warned you that Aaron Rodgers was going to have significant fantasy value.

- I kinda-sorta said Steve Slaton could be a stud. OK, I mentioned him as a deep sleeper, but still.

- I did forewarn that Jamal Lewis had B-U-S-T written all over him.

- Calvin Johnson; you were going to draft him anyway, but I went out on a limb and suggested he was gonna crack the Top 5 fantasy WR list. I know, not much of a reach, but anyway.

- What about my suggestion that you trade Clinton Portis and Marion Barber, because both had peaked? I took some backlash, but hey since each respective post both guys did zilch to help fantasy owners and were long forgotten.

- And lastly, I promised you that Peyton Manning would help win many fantasy titles down the stretch, while his buddy Joseph Addai would play no part.

So what does it all mean? Well, it just means that I threw more strikes than gutter balls. The joy and agony of fantasy football is a thin line. I wound up not winning a single fantasy title this season, but managed to place in the top 3 in both of my money leagues. I wish I had followed some of my own advice a little stricter. I lost one of the most "punched in the stomach" fantasy Championship games of all time a few weeks ago.

Thanks to not dealing Marion Baber before the deadline and giving up on Kevin Smith way too early, I was left thin at RB in the title game. However, I managed to hang in there thanks to Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne. My one colossal and unforgivable mistake was that I benched my bread and butter defense, the Tennessee Titans. For some obscene reason I took a gamble and went with the Texans against the Raiders. Well, the Titans scored 25 points that day and the Texans scored 5. I lost the title by seven points.

And that's fantasy football. Always, listen to the experts.