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If you’re not a fantasy football fan, I’m guessing this post isn’t for you. But if you are, feel free to give us your critiques, suggestions, and general opinions of the team Hoffa and I put together last night in our draft.

We’re playing in a 9 team league, and last year Hoffa and I were on separate teams. My team took a nose dive in week one when Tom Brady went down and I never recovered. This year we’re planning on winning the whole thing.

With that out of the way, here’s our team:

WR- Larry Fitzgerald- We had the number 5 pick this year, which stinks. Right in the middle. Because of our shitty spot, we missed the top running backs and instead of just picking up some jobber out of the backfield, we went with the #1 stud receiver in the game, and I was very excited about this pick.

RB- Chris Johnson- We were kind of surprised he was still around for the second round, but after the top 3 or so running backs, Tom Brady was picked, so a bunch of teams went for the top tier QBs. I thought this was a damn good pickup in round two, as he’ll get a lot of carries for the Titans.

QB- Kurt Warner- Sure, he’s up there in age, but he led the Cardinals to the big one. Plus, with Larry Fitzgerald on our team, having Warner gives us double points whenever the two connect. I like that a lot.

RB- Michael Westbrook- I wasn’t sure about this pick and I’m still not. But in the 4th round, with not many top running backs around, it was a decent pick.

WR- Roy Williams- Well, he’s another gamble, but both Hoffa and I seemed to think he’s going to be decent this year.

DST Pittsburgh- While everyone else was scraping the bottom of the barrel for RBs, we decided to make a bold move and get the top D in the league. A lot of people were surprised we went D that early, but for us it made a lot of sense.

WR- Vincent Jackson- Another guy that seemingly fell through the cracks in the early rounds, we thought it was a steal this late in the game.

RB- Beanie Wells- I had to have him just because he’s out of THE Ohio State University. And he completes our Arizona trifecta.

QB- Matt Schaub- All the fantasy football magazines were high on this guy and we needed a backup. No further explanation necessary.

K- Rob Bironas- Since we missed the top tier of tight ends, I thought we’d go for a top kicker and wanted Steven Gotskowski from the Pats. Alas, he was taken right before our pick, so we nabbed the #2 kicker.

TE- Owen Daniels- The best TE available on the board at the time.

DST- Philly- Why not.

The rest of the draft:

In no particular order we picked up the following as shots in the dark:

QB- Matt Sanchez

RB- Fred Taylor

WR- Michael Crabtree

WR- Brian Robiskie

DST- Colts

TE- Zach Miller

So, that’s our team for this year. See any glaring weaknesses? Any potential problems? Any injured guys that we weren’t aware of coming in to the draft?