Every Fantasy Football season there are certain players we’re really convinced to pursue in our Fantasy draft. If they end up on our roster, we’re quick to passionately declare how amazing they are and that we’re glad we selected them. When we find a player we truly believe in and see what he can do for our Fantasy season, we have no problem “pounding the table” to let others know we’re confident in him to deliver. We “pound the table” and make the case for why that player will exceed everyone’s expectations and why we think he’s so great. We defend…
Category Archives: Fantasy Football
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Pounding the Table: Fantasy Football Fellowship Friday
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Smoke Screens from Training Camps: Fantasy Football Fellowship Friday
Continue ReadingWith NFL training camps underway, football is back! Starving for football content, we look for practice reports from team-beat reporters and interviews galore from players and coaches. The reports and sound bites getting out there are often misleading because coaches are feeding media members selective information or narratives they want to circulate. They have motives and reasons for why they divulge certain facts and hold back some of the truth. They also won’t run certain plays when the media is around. Plus, many reports come out about particular players and how well they perform…
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Taking Risks: Fantasy Football Fellowship Friday
Continue ReadingLast week I wrote about how sometimes during Fantasy Drafts certain players may be the boring pick, but because of how consistent and reliable they are, they’re the right pick. We shouldn’t reluctantly take these players, but be excited about picking them. I believe that to be true, but there are other opportunities during a Fantasy Draft where we must be willing to exercise boldness and confidence to take a risk on specific players. We don’t want to be foolish by taking risks too early in a draft or draft players that…
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Reluctant or Excited? Fantasy Football Fellowship Friday
Continue ReadingEvery year as we prepare for our Fantasy Football drafts, we remember there are particular players like the veteran wide receiver and the steady tight end who we can almost always count on to produce. When on the clock to draft and staring at the available players, we know the right one to pick based on how reliable and consistent he is. However, for some odd reason, we’re hesitant to draft him. He seems like a boring pick and almost too obvious of a selection, so we try to talk ourselves out of it. But even…
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Control What You Can Control
Continue ReadingPlaying Fantasy Football allows us to feel more involved in the sport we love to watch every fall. But, we also realize our role is limited because we aren’t the ones putting on a helmet or calling the plays! It’s hard to accept, but so much of playing Fantasy Football is out of our control. We don’t control the actual NFL action, the injuries that take place, who the quarterback throws to, and which players the coach puts on the field and in position to score. We also don’t control what other Fantasy managers in…
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Gut Feeling
Continue ReadingI’m fired up! My first Fantasy Football Draft of the season is taking place on Saturday, and I’m heading into the 19th season of this competitive league made up of my high school friends and two brothers. After losing in the championship game last season, I’m prepared and ready to draft a team that can win me the ring this year. Like all managers during Fantasy drafts, every time I’m on the clock to select a player, I implement strategies and philosophies based on Fantasy experience, lessons learned, knowledge from watching football, research from experts,…
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Perception vs. Reality
Continue ReadingIt’s football season and here at UNPACKIN’ it, we’re excited about another year of Fantasy Football Fellowship! Throughout the NFL season, UNPACKIN’ it Ministries makes available a unique resource that provides content for leagues and churches to use each week in a small group setting. Visit fantasyfootballfellowship.org for more information. In addition, we run leagues that you can join and participate in weekly faith and Fantasy discussions with us. Go to unpackinit.com/fantasy for more details. Please forward this email to anyone else you think might be interested. For the rest of the month on Fridays, our UNPACK this devotional will include a Fantasy theme. It’s Fantasy…
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Patience or More Wins
Continue ReadingFantasy Football continues to grow each year as millions of people are participating and new Fantasy owners are joining. Many young football fans are playing for the first time, while older adults are finally jumping in after years of being encouraged and challenged by their friends. Although some first-time Fantasy owners win right away and draft a strong team immediately, that’s not normally the case. When newcomers join an established league, the typical expectation is for them to take time to acclimate so they can clearly understand what Fantasy Football…
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Lies and Promises
Continue ReadingAs Fantasy Football owners, we can’t wait to watch the action on the field and see how well our players look this season. Until then, we’re having to settle for preseason games without key starters, training camp reports from team beat writers, and sound bites from coaches and players. Each day, headlines are displayed on Fantasy websites, and push notifications are sent to our phones with new information about our Fantasy players. With mostly secondhand information, we’re left to predict what might happen this year based on what coaches and…
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Two Kinds of Hope
Continue ReadingFantasy Football leagues are starting up everywhere (JOIN ONE OF OUR LEAGUES HERE!) and drafts are taking place with Fantasy owners deciding their picks for each round. All of these choices are based on one word…hope! We hope the players we pick will either outperform their stats from last year or their predicted stats for this season and be the steals of the draft. We hope our starting running back doesn’t get injured and we hope our wide receiver has strong chemistry with his quarterback. We hope we selected the right sleepers and…
