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Week 17 . Jan. 2nd:
Happy New Year! Adam Conn and Jeff Thitoff from 411Fantasy join Coop at Cooper Sports Radio with final picks for week 17. It's down to the wire for finalists competing for Pay the Fan's $75,000 grand prize. Indianapolis' Gary Lawrence with his team "brettstarr" takes home $2500, winning Week 16 with 178 points. HEAR THE SHOW

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Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
The Three Stooges of Football: Buffalo, Tampa and Kansas City are looking more like Larry, Curley and Moe. Just how stupid does management have to be to fire their offensive coordinators days before the regular season begins. The teams have a combined record of 1-8 and that’s only because the Bills managed to play the Buccaneers. Obviously at this point, if I owned these teams, I’d bring back the offensive coordinators and fire Raheem Morris, Dick Jauron and Todd Haley, the idiot head coaches who fired them in the first place. Now that would be interesting...

Then there's the QB situation - KC's talking about it - the Buc's have already made their move and you know Buffalo would have if they even had anyone in the wings.

Thursday Oct. 1, 2009
Let the coaching sweepstakes begin!

First the fodder. Jim Zorn is the beleaguered head coach of the Washington Redskins who, in his first two years, has split games with Detroit and St. Louis, the two worst teams in pro football. Next we have Wade Philips (Son of Bum), who seems to be on track to coach every NFL team and get fired. Now that’s a record even Brett Favre can’t touch. In the past quarter century Wade has been canned by New Orleans, Denver, Atlanta, Buffalo, and the list goes on… Wade has yet to win a playoff game and now has committed the cardinal sin of losing the home opener at Jerry Jones’ heaven on earth to none other than the hated Giants. Wade also allowed the Giants to score the first and last points in Shangri-La.

Now the Champs. Three time Super Bowl winners Mike Holmgren and Mike Shanahan. Everybody thought wait 'till next year on these two but it may just be wait till next week. When you put two egomaniacal competitors like Daniel Snyder and Jerry Jones at each others throats - look out!!!

I say Shanahan to the Redskins and Holmgren to the Cowboys..

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Coop’s Top Ten Fantasy Quarterbacks
“The passing game has become so significant that this year, with the exception of Adrian Peterson, I would take any of my top 3 choices with the second, third and fourth picks in all your Fantasy drafts.” Coop

#1 with a Bullet, Andrew Christopher Brees finished 15 yards short of beating Dan Marino’s 1984 record for passing yards thrown in a single season. What I really respect about Drew is he had the opportunity to break the record on the last play of the game but elected to throw a Hail Mary to try and beat Carolina instead. Nevertheless, the NFL’s top gunslinger finished the season with 5,069 yards and became only the second quarterback in NFL history to throw for over 5,000 yards in a season. He also passed for 300 yards ten times during the season, tying Rich Gannon's 2002 record.

#2, Peyton Williams Manning, holds NFL records for consecutive seasons with over 4,000 yards passing, and the most total seasons with 4,000 or more yards passing in a career. Manning holds the highest career passer rating among active quarterbacks and his 94.7 rating puts him second all-time behind Steve Young only. In 2004 he set a single season NFL passing TD record with 49. "That guy's pretty good, if you like six-five, 230-pound quarterbacks with a laser rocket arm..."

#3, Thomas Edward "Tom" Brady Jr., has played in four Super Bowls, winning three of them (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX). He has also won two Super Bowl MVP awards (XXXVI and XXXVIII), has been selected to 5 Pro Bowls and holds the NFL record for 50 TD's in a single regular season. He also owns the fourth highest career passer rating of all time (92.9). Oh yeah, and he has Randy Moss and Wes Welker to throw to. MORE TOP 10 QB PICKS>>

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