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Fantasy Football Articles - October 2003
Enclosed in this archive is every bit of the action and updates that occurred in October 2003 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 - October 2003 Fantasy Football Articles
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of thinking about catching it. So we need to move on. We don''t have guys who have bad hands. I would not classify any one of our perimeter people as having bad hands. We need to focus more on catching the football and quit worrying about dropping it."
Tight end Ernie Conwell and wide receiver Donte'' Stallworth freely admit they have dropped more passes than at any other time during their college and professional careers.
"It can become a mental thing if you allow it to be," said Stallworth, who has 15 catches for 220 yards and one touchdown. "All through college, I think I only dropped like maybe two balls. I don''t think it''s a problem with me. It''s a matter of me getting back into a groove. I haven''t found it yet. Hopefully, I can find it sometime soon before the season gets too far along."
Conwell, who has 21 catches for 231 yards and two touchdowns, met privately with head coach Jim Haslett on Monday to discuss his situation.
"I''m playing fairly well, but I''m not playing up to my standards that I have set for myself," said Conwell, who''s spending extra time catching passes after practice. "This is totally foreign to me. I''m definitely doing more thinking. I had a couple of drops in that Indianapolis game and that''s never really happened to me before.
"Then what happens is I get frustrated and then I start over evaluating things that have come natural and basic to me my whole life. I''m trying to solve a problem that really is not there."
Conwell said he has dropped four passes in the past three games.
"I had a drop in the Chicago game and it probably lingered with me longer than it should have mentally," Conwell said. "When I saw it on film, I didn''t see the ball until the last second. All of a sudden, by the time I picked up the ball, it was a foot away from me. That''s just part of the game. Those things happen. But it got magnified because of the drops I had in the Indianapolis game."
Against Chicago, Joe Horn dropped a potential 60-yard pass, and Stallworth dropped
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