TUESDAY (FOOTBALL) TALK
My Pre-Season 2009 Quarterback Rankings
Brees is the man in 2009….
Well the 2009 NFL season is officially set to begin this Sunday with the annual hall of Fame game and so the countdown begins. We are just five weeks until kick-off and with the clock moving very quickly its time to start looking at how they breakdown.
There won’t be too many surprises this season seeing Drew Brees top the rankings for quarterbacks this season. After his superlative 5,000-yard season, he’s a good bet to be the top QB selection. The number two selection could be a wild card with the old-man Kurt Warner, the newest big-gun Philip Rivers, and a recovering Tom Brady.
The standard choices should play out the top 10, but the most notable member is at number ten; Jay Cutler. He’ll be operating a completely different offense in Chicago and won’t have the same level of talent to support him. He’ll still be good this season, but a low-end QB1 makes more sense.
With T.O. landing in Buffalo and set to line up opposite the Bill’s other speedy wideout Lee Evans, Trent Edwards becomes a legitimate threat to crack the top ten. Edwards played well a spell last season before injuries slowed him up. With a new big weapon the Bills quarterback could be looking at his best season.
The second ten offers a little more debate with players like Roethlisberger, Palmer, and Hasselback likely being undervalued in the coming drafts and having great potential to outperform expectations. Another such candidate to watch for fantasy owners could the the Vikings quarterback Sage Rosenfels, who comes in at 19, but with his supporting cast and a west-coast system, he could finish much higher.
Here are my 2009 rankings, break-it-down, argue it, criticize, or agree, it all makes great water-cooler jabber in the morning;
1. (NO) Drew Brees
2. (Ari) Kurt Warner
3. (SD) Philip Rivers
4. (NE) Tom Brady
5. (Ind) Peyton Manning
6. (Phi) Donovan McNabb
7. (GB) Aaron Rodgers
8. (Hou) Matt Schaub
9. (Dal) Tony Romo
10.(Chi) Jay Cutler
11. (Buf) Trent Edwards
12. (Den) Kyle Orton
13. (Atl) Matt Ryan
14. (KC) Matt Cassel
15. (Cin) Carson Palmer
16. (Pit) Ben Roethlisberger
17. (Car) Jake Delhomme
18. (Sea) Matt Hasselbeck
19. (Min) Sage Rosenfels
20. (NYG) Eli Manning
By David Ortega
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