- Between 2006 and 2008, Donovan McNabb has been a week 1 fantasy stud with a total of 859 passing yards and 7 touchdowns. Including a 361 yard - 3 TD day against St. louis last year.
- Peyton Manning has been his usual steady self in week 1 - throwing for 276, 288 and 257 yards in each of the last three years. Despite these moderate (by his standards) numbers, Manning is second in week 1 passing yards (behind McNabb) since 2006.
- Drew Brees and Philip Rivers each came out of the gates with 3 TD passes in 2008.
- In the last 8 games of 2008, Jay Cutler threw for more yards than anyone else. David Garrard was 7th and Matt Ryan was 9th.
- Tyler Thigpen, who should be getting the start in Cassel's place this weekend, threw for over 1,900 yards in the second half of last season - good for 12th in the league during that time period. However, he only accounted for 7 touchdowns.
- Matt Schaub, a popular sleeper pick, threw for over 3,000 yards despite playing in only 12 games. Projected to a full season, Schaub would have passed for 4,000+ yards and 20 TDs. In the last 4 weeks of the season, Schaub threw for over 1,200 yards and 5 scores.
- In 2007 he passed for over 2,200 yards despite basically missing half the season.
- Drew Brees has thrown for over 1,400 yards in the last quarter of each of the last two seasons. He also lead the league with 12 TD passes in the last quarter of 2008.
- He won't help you this year, but JT O'Sullivan actually averaged 240 yards through the first 4 weeks of 2008.
- In fact, the following were all in the top 15 in passing yards per game after week 4:
O'Sullivan, Brian Griese, Gus Frerotte, and Trent Edwards. Jon Kitna was 16th. Brett Favre was 14th. - Favre threw 12 of his 22 TDs in the first quarter of last year - 6 in one game against the Cardinals. In the final 8 weeks of 2008, Brett Favre threw only 7 TDs and threw more than 1 in only two games.
- Donovan McNabb threw 15 of his 23 TDs on odd weeks. not sure that means anything.
- The Arizona Cardinals gave up a league high 36 TD passes in 2008 - including 6 games where they gave up at least 3 passing TDs. Even Tarvaris Jackson was able to put 4 TDs on the board against the Cards' defense.
- I know you're asking. The Cardinals play Shaun Hill and the San Franciso 49ers this week.
- Speaking of Shaun Hill, after becoming the team's starter in week 8, he threw for over 2,000 yards and 13 TDs in 9 games. In fact, from week 10 through the end of the season, Hill was ninth in passing yards (ahead of Matt Ryan, Tony Romo, Donovan McNabb, Brett Favre, Eli Manning, and Joe Flacco) and passing TDs (ahead of Jay Cutler, Eli Manning, Joe Flacco, Big Ben, Ryan, Favre)
- He's not going to see the field this week, but Taravaris Jackson actually closed out the 2008 season with 7 TDs and over 600 yards passing in his final 3 games.
- Carson Palmer got hurt early in 2008. But, in 2007, he came out of the gates with 937 yards and 9 TDs in his first three games.
So, who were the slow starters in 2008? - Roethlisberger threw for 447 yards in his first three games combined.
- Matt Cassel threw for only 448 yards in his first three games.
- David Garrard and Jake Delhomme had only one TD pass apiece in their first three games.
That's it. I hope you got something out of this.
Hi Luis,
ReplyDeleteOne thing you should definitely do is find a way to display more than one post on your pages. Not sure what you're using to blog with, but it shouldn't be too hard of a setting to find.
Other than that, just keep going to other sites and commenting while including links to your blog in your info field, and you should do all right. That's pretty much all I've done.