Five other things Brian Urlacher may have said to Bobby Wade this past weekend in Vegas.

5. I'm not your Bro, Bro

4. You know how many douchebags coppied this barbwire bicep tatoo off of me? Like, alot that's how many.

3. Holy shit bro! I don't think she's breathing.

2. I, just...really feel safe in your arms right now.

1. Sex Cruise? Hell yeah, I'm down.

Who's gott the Motts?

I hear allot of people chirping about how they good they are. I challenge them to actually make a case based on results and reality, not just their own grandiose self concept. Here are some aspects of what make me one of the best:

Passion for the game





I fell in love with football at the tender age of 10 when my Chicago Bears captured not only the imagination of the sports world but the imagination of the entire world. Their absolute dominance in such a physical sport combined with all the larger than life personalities helped to create both one of the most feared and loved sports teams in history. I've been in love with the game ever since. I picked up the art of prognostication at an early age as my dad would bring home parlay cards for us to play. Every Thursday night I could be found going over stats in the paper along with my parlay cards. "That Miami passing game is overrated and no match for the balanced Buffalo attack. I'm gonna key the Bills, give me them with the 4 and the hook all day long" I would say as my 12 year old voice cracked. My five dollars allowance just turned into twenty.

IT Background

For the past 15 years I've been working professionally with technology focusing heavily on database design. I've used much of this knowledge to my advantage participating in various leagues and contests. I have formulas and models that you will never see because they are too valuable to me for competition purposes. I'm now starting to incorporate new technologies used by various new media outlets to keep my data as fresh as possible. The early bird gets the worm, and as far as breaking news goes, I don't sleep.



The proof is in the pudding.

I have been playing fantasy football for about 10 years. I started in cold, public yahoo! leagues and then moved to online leagues with cash payouts. I played in a 'free' contest and quickly gave up on it because of the fee every time you change your player. The next year in 2004 I tried it again and started off hot, real hot. I was ranked #1 overall for weeks 6 through 11 out of over 34,000 players. I hung in there but finished 9th overall with a few more teams in the top 20. I think I won $500 dollars between my teams. The thrill of being ranked #1 out of so many people really hooked me. I got a whiff of that $10,000 grand prize and I wanted more. The next few years I hunted for higher stakes contests but they all seemed to only pay 50%-60% of what they took in.

The Big Time

In 2007 I heard about a contest with large payouts and a reasonable entry fee. I entered that contest and it went belly-up the next day. Luckily, on opening day 2007 year I heard a radio spot for a similar high stakes contest in it's inaugural year. I entered and spent most the year dancing around the top 10. I was on fire down the stretch and went from 13th to 2nd in the final three weeks. My $69 entry fee turned into $125,000. In 2008 I entered 10 teams in the FFOC contest that awarded a top prize of a million dollars. I drafted real well and started out hot. Considering the success I had the previous year I was pretty excited to see one of my teams #1 on the leader board after week 1.

By week8 of the contest 4 of my 10 teams were in the top 37 out of 6,660 teams. My ten teams combined for about a .750% win percentage, six of the teams made it to league championship games week 10. Unfortunately, those 6 teams went 1 - 5 and I didn't last too long in the play-offs. I think my top team finished 51st, not bad out of 6,660 but not the success I have grown a custom to. I played the other contest that I finished 2nd in the previous year and finished 31st out of about 2,000 teams. Pretty good again, but not good enough.

What makes someone an expert?

It's not a journalism degree. It's not an expensive haircut and a pretty mug. It's not that you've been playing since Vince Evans was slinging it. It's passion for the game, good prognostication skills and the ability to gather and access all the information you can to make quality informed decisions.

It's all these factors that have contributed to me becoming one of the best fantasy football experts in the World. If you want to prove me wrong, let me know where you play at and I'll show you what time it is.

Juggernaut

Do you think you are one of the best? Email me your credentials and I'll consider adding you to the FF Juggernaut list of top 10 experts.

Exclusive interview with the world's best FF player!

Recently I sat down with the person I believe to be the foremost expert in fantasy football, myself.

You seem pretty confident that you’re going to win the FFOC.com $1,000,000 top prize. How did you do last year?

I bought a 10 pack, went to 6 championship games and went 1 – 5.

Ha ha, 1 – 5. That’s brutal, so how far did your one measly one team go in the play-offs?

I didn’t make the 59 team cut week 14. I wasn’t very close either, fucking Favre.



That’s what you get for relying on Favre to bring you to the promised land.

I didn’t have him, I had Cotchery and his 20 yards. My man Brees had one of his worst games, that didn’t help.

So you didn’t finish in the top 15 or even come close. What makes you think you make it to Vegas this year?

I’ll put my drafting & management skills up against anyone. Last year Brees and AP sat at the top of my draft board. I had a top 2 pick 3 times and didn’t take Tomlinson or any of the other scrubs people were salivating all over. Rodgers & Cutler were the two QBs I had as my break-outs. I drafted some fantastic teams, but had one major flaw in my philosophy. Trying to fix the deficiencies that were caused by that flaw hurt my teams all year.

What was the major flaw?

Shit, why don’t I just give you my car keys and my wallet too?

Did the flaw have anything to do with you dropping McFadden during the 1st pre-season FA period?

Hey, that shit was a software glitch! It's a good idea to not enter FA bids at 2:00 AM btw.

There are some serious players in the FFOC. What makes you think you can beat a guy like Chad who amazingly put two teams in the final 15 and won another high stakes contest?

I was doing quite well last year and was curious to see how I was stacked up to other expert owners. I pulled the data for the top 500 teams as of week 8 and analyzed it. These two people stood out in the data set:

Donald T. – 9 teams in the top 500, 4 in the top 100, 1 in the top 50.

Chad S. – 8 teams in the top 500, 3 in the top 100, 1 in the top 50 – ranked 2nd overall.

I had 4 teams in the top 100, all 4 of them were in the top 37 teams. I’m not sure how many teams both of these guys had, but I think they both had twice as many or more than I did. According to the data, I had the best chance to go to Vegas, but a lot happens between weeks 8 and 15. Data doesn’t lie.

Wow, congrats on your play as of week8. That and a buck fifty will get you a ride on a bus. You ever think that maybe your over-confidence is your Achilles heel?

No, I think having to face Thomas Jones and his 150 yards and 3 TDs a few times had something to do with my failure during championship week.

You think you’re the best at player projections and determining draft value. Care to offer insight on what you think as we head into draft season?

Not until the season starts, it wouldn’t be too smart to help my competition.


What’s the point of a FF blog if you aren’t going to offer any of your self-proclaimed world’s best FF knowledge?

I’ll drop some knowledge here and there. I have two goals for the blog, I want to find out who the best fantasy football experts are and entertain those who enjoy the game.

Good luck this season.

Luck is overrated; I want to compete against those counting on luck.