Sacred Sundays 2017 May Now Begin

And... we're off!  After what has felt like forever, we are finally back to football!  Best of luck to everyone, except when you are playing my team…haha!

Here are some quick hits from the draft:

• Breakdown of positions selected (including keepers): QB=20, RB=42, WR=48, TE=16, DEF=13, K=11* (*Nice work James!)
• NFL teams with the most players selected: NE=8, ATL=7, GB=7, NO=7, CAR, DAL, IND, KC, NYG, SEA & TEN = 6
• NFL teams with the least players selected:  CLE, HOU, JAX, LAR, PHI = 3, SF=2, CHI & NYJ = 1.
• Best comment during the draft – Rob: “There appears to be something wrong with the draft room.  A kicker was just selected in the 6th round.”  Priceless.
• Favorite thing I saw in Vegas – Dude walking through Excalibur wearing a shirt saying “Did I Shave My Balls For This?”
• Greatest Vegas Accomplishment – Shawn Martin made it to and made it home with his wallet!

Also, a couple notes for the future:

• We will be lengthening the time per pick in next year’s draft to 2 minutes.  The 1-minute time allotment in this draft felt like 10 seconds at times.
• Although that won’t matter if we get everyone to Vegas for next year’s draft.  Twin Peaks will graciously host an offline draft, which would be awesome because there is a hostess I wouldn’t mind staring at for 4+ hours.

We May Have Different Definitions of the Term "Lock"
Alabama defeated Florida State 24-7 in a nationally televised game, which probably wasn't even as close as the score would indicate.  Thank god I didn't follow a hot tip and actually bet any money on this game!


2017 All Unwanteds
In keeping with the tradition from the last several years, I will put together the best team I can each week using only players from the most unwanted team(s).  This year’s honor goes to the Chicago Bears and New York Jets, both of whom only had 1 player drafted.  (The two drafted players are ineligible to be on the Unwanted team, obviously).  Unfortunately, this means the quarterback options are Josh McCown, Bryce Petty, Mike Glennon and Mitchell Trubisky.  Yikes!  Crossing my fingers on this one.


Useful Tip of the Day
Use this rhyme if you’re ever facing a bear:  If it’s brown, lay down.  If it’s black, fight back.  If it’s white, good night.


Top 5 Tracking
This season, I will be tracking the preseason rankings for the top five in each position to see how accurate the “experts” are.  For the expert rankings, I’m using the Yahoo! consensus rankings as of 09/05/17.  Here they are for each position:
QB
1 Aaron Rodgers
2 Tom Brady
3 Drew Brees
4 Russell Wilson
5 Matt Ryan
RB
1 David Johnson
2 Le'Veon Bell
3 LeSean McCoy
4 Melvin Gordon
5 Devonta Freeman
WR
1 Antonio Brown
2 Julio Jones
3 Odell Beckham, Jr.
4 Mike Evans
5 A.J. Green
TE
1 Rob Gronkowski
2 Travis Kelce
3 Greg Olsen
4 Jordan Reed
5 Jimmy Graham
DEF
1 Denver
2 Seattle
3 Houston
4 Kansas City
5 Minnesota
K
1 Stephen Gostkowski
2 Justin Tucker
3 Matt Bryant
4 Dan Bailey
5 Mason Crosby
This item will be updated every five weeks to see how closely reality tracks with the predictions.


Now, I’m ready to see some games!!  And Zeke’s in for Week 1 you mothertruckers, so it’s on!!!  THE REBELS WILL RISE!!!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?!?