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Larry Fitzgerald is the player I was hoping to select at 1.11, so I was nervous about letting him go. But as 
crazy as owners in this league are to pick running backs, I thought there was an outside chance he might still 
be around at 2.02. Plus, the trade works out fine anyway. There is a big drop in value from moving from 1.11 
to 2.11, but I believe I’ll more than make that up with choice 5.02. That will be a good player. As for 2.02, we’re going with Steve Smith. He helped us win this league last year. Carolina doesn’t throw to its tight ends or running backs and doesn’t have much else at wide receiver, so he’ll catch a lot of balls. And in this scoring format, you get a point for each reception.
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2.03

Our draft gamble in the first round paid off as we got a guy as our WR#1 that will carry our receiving crew 
every week and should challenge for the top overall WR scorer again in 2009. Larry Fitzgerald (and probably rightly so) will be the top WR off the board in 2009 since everyone remembers his glorious playoff run last year...but Johnson actually was the top WR (and 6th overall scorer) in PPR leagues last year despite playing with a revolving door at QB in Houston and a rookie RB. 

From a strategic perspective, we knew that Harmon picked twice in the four intervening picks since we chose Westbrook at 1.10 and would likely take Slaton as his RB#1 with one of his picks; that also meant he was unlikely to take AJ since he would have invested both his top picks in the same NFL team (that doesn't 
happen often). So we knew that we would just have to get by Ian and we would get AJ as we wanted. We are happy with the start to our team from the 10th spot in the draft.
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2.04

With my second round pick I was hoping for Andre Johnson or Fitzpatrick, just so we wouldn’t have to fit into 
the mold of taking 2 running backs in the 1^st two rounds. Both receivers are off the board, so we had to look back to the running backs. we were torn between Portis and Thomas Jones, but Portis is 3 years younger, although he has been banged up quite a bit in his career. I felt that Jones’ production could fall off with the 
Jets bringing a new signal caller back under center. Also Jones’ is hitting that point in his career that he may begin to see his personal production begin to diminish.
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2.06

The #2 WR on my board after Larry Fitzgerald so I'm drafting while the drafting is good.  We all know "mega-tron" can play, with mediocre QBs and on an 0-16 Lions team, he had 78 receptions for 1,331 yards and 12 TDs which was good for 3rd best WR in this format last year after Andre Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald.  The Lions won't turn the ship around over night and as long as they continue to play from behind, opportunity knocks for Calvin Johnson.  The Lions will likely start the year with Daunte Culpepper throwing the ball, before they open things up with Matt Stafford.  Over the course of a season, the Lions have upgraded at the QB position from last year.  In addition, the Lions went out and picked up Bryant Johnson and Ronald Curry at the WR position and drafted the consensus stud TE, Brandon Pettigrew from Oklahoma State to help pass 
protect and take even more pressure off Calvin Johnson.  Mega-tron had a fantastic season last year on an 0-16 team, I expect his production to be even higher this year and challenge for the title of #1 WR in 2009.
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