It looks like there will be football this year! That’s great news for this site (which focuses on just football and the Super Bowl). I mean if there was not a football season this year, we have nothing to write. And a year off would suck! I mean the Spring and Summer without football is bad enough. Could you imagine fall and winter without the NFL? I shutter at the thought.
It has been sometime since we’ve updated, so there is a lot to talk about. We’ll touch on some of the recent moves (who’s playing where), maybe touch on some fantasy football stuff and then we’ll give you some updated Super Bowl Odds.
Some of the biggest news is happening with the Cincinatti Bangles. Chad CincoOcho was traded to the New England Patriots and Carson Palmer has publicly said that he will retire if Cinci doesn’t trade him.
Two of the best corner backs in the league are still available for teams to sign. Both Nnamdi Asomugha and Antonio Cromartie are at the top of every teams wish list. Oakland and the Jets would lose a lot of talent is they aren’t able to resign these players. The third best corner back free agent Johnathan Joseph has already been signed by the Houston Texans who like him better than Cromartie.
Wide receiver Sidney Rice is leaving Minnesota (and the newly acquired Donovan McNabb) for a big pay day in Seattle. It’s a big loss to McNabb and a great pick up for the Seahawks.
Speaking of the Seahawks, Matt Hasselbeck won’t be around to throw to Rice. Hasselbeck just signed a deal with the Tennessee Titans. So the greatest quarterback in Seattle’s history will end his career with another team.
Those are some of the biggest moves so far, but there will be a lot more coming soon. There are a lot of guys still unsigned and a lot of deals still to be made. For all the boredom that the NFL create with the lockup this summer, it has sure created a lot of excitement this week.
We haven’t even touched on the fantasy football impact of all these moves, and I think it’s still too early to really determine. A couple of signing can drastically change a team and their fantasy impact. Improvements on defense will help their offense stay on the field. An addition of one good lineman can drastically lift a running backs value just like a good wide receive can lift the value of a mediocre quarterback. I think we will have to wait a few weeks until everything is sorted out before we can really fairly assess everyone’s fantasy values.
Below are the current odds to win the Super Bowl. I would expect these to change A LOT over the next couple of weeks as more and more free agents find homes. For example Santonio Holmes is a beast and he’s a free agent. If he resigns with the Jets, I’m sure that would help their chance of winning the Super Bowl. If this happens I would expect their odds to drop. But if Holmes signs with another team, then I would think that the other teams Super Bowl odds would drop and the Jets odds might even increase a little since the odds of him signing with the Jets is probably already baked into the line.
Odds to win the 2012 Super Bowl XLVI –
New England Patriots 13/2
Green Bay Packers 7/1
San Diego Chargers 11/1
New York Jets 12/1
Pittsburgh Steelers 13/1
Atlanta Falcons 14/1
Baltimore Ravens 14/1
Dallas Cowboys 15/1
Philadelphia Eagles 15/1
Indianapolis Colts 16/1
New Orleans Saints 16/1
New York Giants 22/1
Chicago Bears 25/1
Houston Texans 25/1
Minnesota Vikings 25/1
Detroit Lions 30/1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30/1
Kansas City Chiefs 40/1
San Francisco 49ers 45/1
St. Louis Rams 45/1
Arizona Cardinals 50/1
Miami Dolphins 50/1
Oakland Raiders 55/1
Tennessee Titans 55/1
Denver Broncos 75/1
Jacksonville Jaguars 75/1
Seattle Seahawks 75/1
Washington Redskins 75/1
Cincinnati Bengals 100/1
Cleveland Browns 100/1
Buffalo Bills 150/1
Carolina Panthers 150/1
