I want fan­tasy vet­er­ans every­where to do them­selves a favor come draft day. If you walk into the room with the NFL.com Fan­tasy Foot­ball mag­a­zine, slyly give it to your least favorite owner in the league. Such an action is fit­ting of a peri­od­i­cal that would likely not help anyone.

After Andy sav­aged the mag­a­zine last year, I fig­ured I’d give them the ben­e­fit of the doubt. How­ever, after strong con­sid­er­a­tion, I real­ized this was foolish.

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The deck is stacked against Larry John­son enter­ing the 2007 sea­son. He enters the sea­son with a new quar­ter­back, changes on the offen­sive line and per­haps the most abu­sive coach to run­ning backs in the NFL. By the way, he’s also com­ing off of the most car­ries in a sea­son. His 416 car­ries top­pled the league and eas­ily cat­a­pults him over the dreaded 370 carry mark but we’ll have more on that down the road.

Now John­son is really tempt­ing fate by stat­ing his desire to hold­out. He says he’s “pre­pared” for a long bat­tle. As a part of this con­tract dis­pute, John­son aims for a con­tract in between the guar­an­tees of LaDain­ian Tom­lin­son ($21 mil­lion) and Pey­ton Man­ning ($35 mil­lion). Larry John­son owners…be afraid, be very afraid. Any­one who has pro­duced big num­bers for just two years and is ask­ing for money com­pa­ra­ble to two of the league’s biggest names is clearly out of his mind.