Fantasy fiddling
It’s coming up to Fantasy time again, so we run through some of our favourite tips and strategies for a successful draft. First though, updates and interviews from this week’s brilliant Play60 event.
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Fantasy pre-season: A different kind of preparation (Standard, mainly)
It is mock draft central as websites start running out of stuff to talk about. At Gridiron Manor we always have something else to talk about though I am allowed to go off and talk about Fantasy Football. Today I am going to look at a few strategies in picking...
Putting baby in a corner
Our latest top-ten faceoff moves to the other side of the ball with Cornerbacks. Plus we disagree grouchily with the top 100 players list and offer up some basic firework safety tips.
A fantastical game to play: an introduction
As the off season approaches the end and the dawn of the pre-season is just breaking on the horizon, the pages of various websites start filling up with fantasy football articles and encouraging us to play. This also means we’re dusting off the Gridiron Gentlemen fantasy league and re-vamping it...
Dan’s Top 10 Corners Heading Into the 2015 NFL Season
With offences all squared away in our run of top 10 lists; it’s time to move on to the defences. Over the coming weeks, much like we did on offence we’ll be covering each position, starting with the question that seems to crop up every off-season. Who is the best...
Simon’s Top 10 Cornerbacks Heading Into the 2015 NFL Season
The defensive love continues at Gents HQ this week with a look at one of the toughest positions in football – Cornerback. Going up against the superstar wideouts every week, cornerbacks need it all – footwork, speed, strength, good hands and, perhaps most important of all, footballing intelligence.
Dylan’s top ten cornerbacks heading into 2015/16
We’ve taken a look at every position on the offensive side of the ball, so now we turn our attention to the defense, and to start things off it’s corners under the spotlight. One of the most athletic and skillful positions in the game, some of the most talented players in the...
Who has the best receiving corps and how do you rank it?
A conversation on twitter ended at 2am one night between one of our listeners Paul and Gents Dan and Dylan. Paul was outnumbered and duly conceded that the on the fly rankings that Dan and Dylan were putting out were probably correct. But Paul came back with an outstanding email...
Training Camp
Despite the sweltering heat we have heroically managed to get a podcast out in which we ponder some hypotheticals from training camps, Duncan reaches the nerdiest level of statistical detail yet achieved, and we consider our ultimate fantasy starting lineup, which turns out to be mainly robots and x-men.
Offensive Line Appreciation with Ross Tucker
Enough of this ranking of individuals, time for a look at the often-underappreciated O line. Ross Tucker weighs in with his expert opinions, and how would emojis work instead of player names?