Fantasy Football Strategies: How I Stole Tom Brady and Tony Romo

Listen, everyone has their fantasy football strategies. While this may be true it's amazing some of the things people continue to do that doesn't work anymore. My brother and I have been fantasy football geeks for years and as rules change in the NFL so should the fantasy football strategies. We'll keep this short, but we wanted to share with you how ridiculous it was to get Tom Brady and Tony Romo on the same team.

The Negatives to These Types of Fantasy Football Strategies

Let's get these out of the way, because many of you are already probably going to be thinking negative about it anyways. The biggest problem to overcome is either losing out on a high point #1 receiver or running back. Unless you're drafting with all beginners you'll most likely lose out on one or the other.

This team lost out on the running back area. Now, depending on what you consider losing out my secondary RB starter right now is DeAngelo Williams for Carolina. For those of you with your own fantasy football strategies should be ready to bash this pick right now. To be honest, I would too, but just wait, because it's all part of the plan. Oh, and to make matters worse the RB/WR area ended up being Ahman Green. This only makes matters worse on paper.

The Positives to These Types of Fantasy Football Strategies

Granted, this isn't the normal way I draft personally, but when the door was left open to get both star QBs why in the world would you pass it up. First off, you just took a nice amount of points off another team. In 2007 Romo garnered 283 points or a little over 17 points a game. He had 7 weeks over 20 points and 2 over 30 points. So, you can only imagine the type of trade bait that will be with him sitting on the bench.

In fact, the draft was held August 18th and this team has already seen 4 trades at the time this article was written. So even though my running backs are hurting, I can catch another good one and even two if the deal looks good. So, now that you know the biggest negative and positives, lets take a look at how it came to be.

The Two Round Draft Summary

Alright, in this particular draft I ended up with the 3rd pick. You can only imagine that the first two were RB LaDanian Tomlinson and RB Adrien Peterson. No surprise and while both RB Brian Westbrook and RB Joseph Addai was on the board, I elected to pick QB Tom Brady. Why? Well, it was a mixture of not wanting the top 2 RBs and the fact that Brady had almost 400 fantasy points last year. Sure, I don't think he'll have as much this year, but the schedule says he'll still get plenty.

Now the waiting game was set and I watched pick after pick go by. Since I wasn't going to get another chance until 15 picks later, the original fantasy football strategies I had in place was getting 2 #1 receivers. 11 of those choices happened to be running backs. Then the top 2 receivers Randy Moss and Terrell Owens were gone as well. Oh and Peyton Manning was #6. So here I sat going WHAT?

So, my fantasy football strategies changed. I picked Romo at #18 and on the way back around after WR Reggie Wayne and WR Braylon Edwards were taken was able to snag RB Maurice Jones-Drew. What about receiver? Unfortunately I ended up with Wes Welker as my #1, but it's only unfortunate because I can't stand the guy. I was looking for anyone who average 10 points a game last year and his 9.9 was good enough.

Continuing These New Fantasy Football Strategies

So, I'm really hurting at running back because I kept getting good value receivers, but most importantly I was stealing points off the board for more trade bait. 2 of my next 3 picks were San Diego's defense and Minnesota's as well. I love it when people are wondering why the hell you're drafting defenses so early, but why wouldn't you. I'm losing on RB, so I need to go elsewhere to get top notch results. Why not the #1 and #2 defenses points wise in the league?

Worse case scenario? I trade away Minnesota for another receiver somewhere down the road. In the meantime both teams average over 12 points a game which is more then many of the players others are picking. Oh, and I even took the Pittsburgh Steelers as well which play Baltimore twice, and do well against the Browns and Bengals at least once.

The Final Analysis

I understand many of you will continue with your own fantasy football strategies, but if you don't have one yet this is a great way to go. I happened to look at my bench stats from 2007 and between the two defenses and Tony Romo I have 577 points sitting on the bench that no one else will get. Unless of course I get what I want. Before the trade deadline I'll be able to bolster my running game and get a couple receivers that are well worth it. Which is why using fantasy football strategies like this will most likely win you the league title.

Just keep in mind it doesn't have to be the quarterback position. You may be able to do it with Tight Ends, Defenses, or even Wide Receivers. Why? Everyone still thinks the fantasy football strategies revolve around running backs. My response to that is, not anymore. Let the debates begin!