By: Ben
Johnson
You know what’s not great? When a person that
nobody cares about on a planet that nobody cares about with a life that nobody
cares about does a thing, for instance fantasy football, that nobody cares
about, and there are parts of that thing that EVEN THAT PERSON doesn’t care
about. It’s like the least caring about of anything ever. That’s what fantasy
football tight ends and defenses and kickers and shit are like.
Nobody cares about these guys, even the
people who might have any reason in the world to care about these guys. I
wonder if these guys even care about these guys. Maybe they’re just sitting in
a bathtub somewhere, drinking $5 champagne from the bottle, pooping in the tub
because why not because who cares, and saying “nobody cares about me.” That’s
what I would do, probably, if I was a kicker in the NFL. Just wallow completely
in my own pathetic uselessness and be extra bitter about it, saying “you
fuckers only care about me when the ball goes through the things” out loud in any
room I might currently be alone in. For instance some kind of workout room with
only right leg strengthening machines.
I know that I would do this, because that’s
basically what I do all day anyway. I am compiling NFL football kicker
projection statistics on a big dumb spreadsheet because the world does not care
about me and this is a thing I know I can do. Let me just have this one thing.
Is that too much to ask, fuckers?
Tight
Ends:
1. Jimmy Graham, New Orleans Saints
Jimmy
Graham is the only tight end who is more than a tight end. He does so much
catching and running with the football, it’s like he might as well be a very
good wide receiver, except he’s a tight end so you get to have a very good wide
receiver for a tight end instead of for a wide receiver, and then you get to
have slightly less good wide receivers as your wide receivers, but that’s okay
because Jimmy Graham is so much better than all the other tight ends. This is a
real good thing to do in fantasy football, and since there’s only one Jimmy
Graham, only one fucking guy in your league gets to do it and it’s not going to
be you, probably, because you took fucking Roddy White who got injured (let’s
say he got injured). So: fuck Jimmy Graham. Stop ruining everything for 90% of
us, dickhole.
2. Rob Gronkowski, New England Patriots
Gronkowski
is like Jimmy Graham except he only plays like 5 games a year because he’s
always injured, but during those 5 games he’s completely unstoppable. If you
watch an actual full football game with Rob Gronkowski in it, you will be like,
“This is insane, that guy cannot be tackled by a human, that is an unfair
advantage in the game of tackle football, he should have to play against an
all-rhinoceros defense or something.” And then the next week he’s got a
fractured ankle or bent spine from something stupid that happened to him while
he was playing Vodka pong with some frat guys from Iowa State. So if you draft
Gronkowski, you also have to draft a backup tight end, which is like, come on.
Let’s just do one guy, please.
3. Jason Witten, Dallas Cowboys
Good
old Jason Witten. He sure is a Jason Witten out there. I’m Witten for my man. I
can’t believe he Witten did that. Bed Witten Bad Boys. I’m
just free associating here. I got nothing. This guy is probably one of the five
best guys to ever play tight end, and I am searching for puns in order to say
something about him.
4. Vernon Davis, San Fransisco 49ers
Vernon
Davis was the cause of one of the better head coach press conference
meltdowns we’ve ever had, and also he went to college at the University of
Maryland near where I grew up, and also he did crazy
shit with his body at the NFL’s scouting combine in 2006 and as a result of
this he got drafted in the draft too high and got paid too much and therefore continually
makes uptight people very upset because he’s merely an excellent tight end and
not some world-changing force of nature like Jimmy Graham. These are all things
I know and like about Vernon Davis. I mean, come on, world, can’t we just agree
to have a Vernon Davis in us? What’s all the fuss about?
5. Jermichael Finley, Green Bay Packers
Jermichael
Finley is like Vernon Davis except if nobody had a meltdown about him, and he
didn’t go to the University of Maryland, and he didn’t set any records at the
combine, and he was drafted reasonably and was only moderately overpaid. I
fucking hate him. Why can’t you be better, Jermichael Finley? You’re supposed
to be better than this. Look at me, for example. I work my ass off all day
long, except when I don’t, which is as often as humanly possible, and then I
have to come home and watch you be an inconsistent offensive weapon for the
Green Bay Packers with enough flashes of brilliance to potentially average out
to the 5th best tight end in the NFL? Get serious.
6. Tony Gonzalez, Atlanta Falcons
Tony
Gonzalez is the best tight end of all time, and he should know because he’s
been around for all of it. Not to pat myself on the back, but that was a pretty
decent “old” joke about Tony Gonzalez. You have my permission to use it in case
the subject of Tony Gonzalez comes up in conversation and you want to end that
conversation as soon as possible so you can go smash your skull in with a
cobblestone.
7. Coby Fleener, Indianapolis Colts
“Coby Fleener” sounds like something a
Scottish person would say and expect you to know what the fuck they’re talking
about. Like “I thought I’d have a wash but she’s a Coby Fleener so I came out
alright in the end” and you’re going to die someday without ever knowing what
you just laughed at.
8. Kyle Rudolph, Minnesota Vikings
Kyle
Rudolph’s quarterback is Christian Ponder, who so far has not been too good of
a quarterback. You know what’s crazy, though? Christian Ponder completed 62% of
his passes last year. If you watch football it is pretty evident that Christian
Ponder sucks, and then everybody’s like “oh man, he SUCKS,” as if he only does
anything good like 5% of the time. But something at least moderately good still
happens more than 60% of the time he tries to do something. Anyhow, if I was
the quarterback for the Vikings, and I might be by the end of the season
because Christian Ponder SUCKS SO BAD, I would try and pass the football to
Kyle Rudolph.
9. Greg Olson, Carolina Panthers
Greg
Olson is gross. You’re going to be that big and that strong and that fast and
you’re going to brag about dominating women sexually, even in your freshman
year of college when you’re a Division I football player on a scholarship at a gigantic
party school getting mega-laid for the first time in your life, even if your
college was the University of Miami, which probably has an available Bachelor in
the Arts of Shady Near-Rape Sexual Maneuvering program? That’s a recipe for me
not ever liking you or your weird two halves of your face that don’t match.
10. Jermaine Gresham, Cincinnati Bengals
I
did not know until I saw this picture that it would probably be awesome to hang
out with Jermaine Gresham.
Other tight ends: Owen Daniels, Brandon
Pettigrew, Jordan Cameron, Fred Davis, Dwayne Allen, but really you can just
wait and see who on the waiver wire is sufficient at tight end and then pick
them up. I mean, people rank too many players. It’s like people think there’s
some fantasy football prize for the least sucky dude who never does anything.
You’ll figure it out. No biggie. Or else, more likely, you won’t. Also no
biggie.
Defenses:
No.
Kickers:
No. I’m done.
I can write about anything else now. My life
is going to be good again.
