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Greetings FFers! I hope the rest of you are in far more temperate weather than I am in right now...it's supposed to be at the 100 degree mark for the next several days here in Colorado - and when you combine the hot temps and strong sun it's just brutal out here. I will be running in a race tonight, too (a short one though!), which definitely feels a bit crazy right now. The real question here will be: how red can my face get?? But back to football. Sad day in Broncos Country with John Lynch being granted his release today . For more football links, read on: FF Geek Blog has a handful of guys you might want to think about grabbing in their 2008 Sleepers and undervalued players article. The news that Reggie Williams will undergo knee surgery makes me think a little bit harder about Garrard this season. Don't get me wrong, I think Garrard definitely has it in him but with both Williams and Jerry Porter recovering from surgery, I just have a few more question marks surroundin...

My next article with the Bruno Boys' A Librarian's Touch column is up - Beyond the Obvious with IDPs . In this column I took a look at the IDPs (individual defensive players) in my dynasty league and evaluated them plus a handful of rookies and FAs that are still available. Enjoy!

As training camp continues across the NFL, I can't encourage you all enough to stay on top of training camp news. I'll probably beat this issue to a pulp over the next few weeks, but there's nothing more enlightening for a draft than news eking out from camp. So hey, feel free to check back here often or try some of the usual suspects like KFFL , Rotoworld , FF Xtreme , ESPN - they all will have the latest and greatest camp news up asap. In other camp news, I'm on the hunt for a website that keeps a list of all the training camp blogs/sites out there. Anyone have suggestions? In the meantime, keep yourselves entertained with Rotoworld's Nine stories to know from camp . I'll be honest, I'm still not 100% sold on Marvin Harrison being back to his old self but I'm willing to be convinced. If someone wanted to oh I don't know, fly me out to the Colts' training camp to see for myself, I'd be okay with that. But onto the links for the day: Want fr...

As many of you know, I spent some time over the past year or so looking at how the fantasy football experts did in their preseason ranking s - which sites were the most accurate? Was one site particularly good with RBs or maybe WRs? I've only looked at about 2 years worth of data (and in many cases, really just one year) and my rankings of the rankings are hardly without fault...but it's time to start looking at the 2008 preseason rankings. Below is a list of the sites that I was able to access (either for free or the site comped me access to their rankings) and evaluate in the past. Some of you have requested additional sites be added for this year and beyond - so if you don't see a site listed below and you'd like to know how it does at the end of the 2008 season, let me know! 1. Rotoworld 2. Ask The Commish 3. FootballGuys.com 4. FF Cheatsheets 5. NFL.com 6. FFToolbox 7. CBS Sports 8. Yahoo! Sports 9. Fantasy Football Xtreme 10. Fox Sports 11. Pigskin Addiction 12....

If you came to FF Librarian this morning at 8:47 AM eastern time from Ledyard , Connecticut, you are my 100,000 th visitor. Congratulations and I will happily (and perhaps slowly) reward you with some sort of FFL shwag if you are interested. If this could be you, send me your IP address and I can confirm if it's correct or not. So I have just now finished The Hazean's e-mail mock draft that was just 4 rounds long. My first two picks were Randy Moss (1.12) and Reggie Wayne (2.01); with rounds 3 and 4 I wanted to grab some RBs for my team, so based on the following picks from round 3, I went with the following guys... 3rd Round: Curveballs 4 Jesus: Jamal Lewis Sean McCall/Football Outsiders: Marques Colston Football Burrito Tony Romo Pancake Blocks: Chad Johnson West Coast Nonsense: T.J. Houshmandzadeh Bruno Boys: Steve Smith The Hazean : Brandon Marshall Football Jabber: Plaxico Burress Fantasy Football Fools: Edgerrin James Fantasy Football Geek Blog: Torry Holt Fantas...

In my recent column with the Bruno Boys , I commented on the lack of articles that address some of the more difficult RBBC (running back by committee) situations. There are a few gems out there, though, and apparently more are cropping up every day. Take a look at a few: The Huddle's The 2008 Ultimate RBBC Review - I realize this article is only partially free for non-Huddle members. But I'm a non-Huddle member who can only read the first 4 or so reviews, and I still think it's worth your time. Now if you are a Huddle member, you're probably in for a treat. And by the way, I apparently can't stop reading and linking to John Tuvey's articles; he's got quite the fan club (um, why can't my last name be turned into something as hipster as his? tuvey =2v. I mean, really - that's fantastic. It's the small things in life...). If you haven't read his o-line analysis that I linked to in this blog post yet, go check them out (again, only partiall...

My column with the Bruno Boys is up! Check out Committing to a Committee and let me know what you think. Anything you want to hear about in the future? Leave a comment and let me know. Enjoy!