Our first taste of blood was with “America’s Running Back” Maurice Jones Drew. MJD (@Jones_Drew32) immediately recognized www.TheFantasyFix.com (@thefantasyfix) because we had been tweeting with him all morning.

He was gracious and somewhat soft-spoken and gladly answered every question we had. Drew told us that he had been doing fantasy football ever since he joined the league five years ago and won two championships so far. When we asked what he was planning on doing with the number eight pick, he basically told us he was going to make every effort to trade-up for the three or four pick, that way he could get himself. Seeing as how Jay Thomas had the third pick and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo had the fourth pick, neither being fantasy experts, he seriously had a chance to make that happen.

Maurice had previously just told us he didn’t mind having a pick closer to the turn, but who could blame a man for wanting yourself on your own team. James and I, sadly realized that this would never be the case for us. After all, the chances of two scrawny white boys from the NJ burbs, ever playing more horseshoes or bocce ball was close to nil. But hey, at least we get to write about them and thats pretty rewarding in itself.

Our last question to Jones was "Now that Lindsay Lohan is behind bars, do you feel safer at night?" This cracked him up, and he said in return "How is that news??". Nothing better in life than making a pro athlete laugh…

Chris admitted he really didn’t know the first thing about not only fantasy football, but fantasy sports in general. He told us that he was a “sports purist” and took issue to the fact that people were rooting for individual players instead of rooting for the team itself. But regardless of whether “Mad Dog” likes Fantasy Football, he knows his sports. Hell, a good portion of my daily sports knowledge comes from him!

I told him that if he was good with statistics and keeping up to date on all injuries (which he does), then he would do just fine. We may have another addicted fantasy player after this league. I also gave him a link to the The Fantasy Fix “Quick Fix”, in case he ever needed our help on a last minute decision.