Fantasy Football Challenge - Football Fanatics Articles Archive

Enclosed in this archive is every bit of the action and updates that occurred in March 2004 within the world of fantasy football. You may want to read these articles for research on players in the coming year, or just check to see if we were way off base with our reporting. Whatever the reason, it's all here for your enjoyment.

Fantasy Football Challenge - March 2004 Fantasy Football Articles

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you, my family completely supports you, dont feel bad about this at all. This was going to happen. He handled it just the way youd expect Jon to handle it.

"Im so lucky and fortunate to be in this situation. I dont know how bad it could be, just because Jons handled it so great."

Now that the job is Palmers, dont look for any backtracking from Lewis, who demonstrated the will to stick with his initial decision by standing behind Kitna last summer despite some impressive exhibition work by the newcomer.

Ill also note at this point theres no reason to believe Palmer isnt everything the Bengals hoped for when they landed him last April.

"It goes back to all the things we drafted him for," said offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski. "Hes got a great, quick release. Hes got a strong arm. Hes tall. He can get the ball down the field. Hes got good touch.

"Theres a lot of rookie quarterbacks that even in that situation dont perform well," said Bratkowski of Palmers preseason work against backups. "It was a very positive sign. Look at what hes capable of doing."

Bratkowski said Palmer is going to fit into the mini-camp practice schedule just like Kitna would have, probably at about 80 percent of the snaps.

One last note on this one. ...

In an article published late Sunday, Sporting News columnist Dan Pompei advised teams in the market for a starting quarterback against discounting the possibility that Kitna will be available at some point in the offseason.

While Kitna wants to return to Cincinnati and has said in the past hed be willing to renegotiate his current contract, but the question is whether hell still want to return if he knows hell have to take a major pay cut. Apparently the Bengals cant live with Kitna counting $4.3 million against the salary cap, as his contract calls for.

As Pompei summed up: "If being a starter is Kitnas priority, hell probably refuse to renegotiate his contract and become a free agent. ..."','3/1/2004 11:01:30 AM','11:01:30 AM','Monday'16055,2004,1007 6569,31,75,'Report:

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