This may seem like an unusual pick (especially to those of you that don't have this position in your leagues), but I think the high fantasy scorer for the Hawks this week will be:

DST

Huh?  DST?  For those unfamiliar with the acronym it stands for Defense and Special Teams.  The Chicken Royale's fantasy football league (South Alaskan Fantasy) uses the standard free-bee nfl.com/fantasy league system which has this as a player, and it seems that most fantasy leagues have support for this option now.

 It may seem odd that on a team that has historically been known for its offensive prowess that I would not choose any of them, but our defense rocked last year and all the starters have all returned.  We will be without Rocky Bernard the first game, true, but they will be without their stud Pro Bowl offensive tackle Jason Peters.  The Bill's have some weapons on their offense, but they are young, and I expect them to not be polished for Sunday's game, and I expect the Hawks D to chew them up.  Ye Haw, I can already smell them Buffalo Burgers grillen!

 And lets face it, I don't expect any of our offensive player's fantasy stats to exactly sizzle Sunday. Hasselbeck has not been playing or practicing for weeks, plus we are probably going to be trying to establish our new running game, so he probably won't score high.  And if he ain't doing his thing you can bet our receivers won't be doing theirs.  I also don't expect any of our running backs to have break out games because they will probably all be splitting time while they get evaluated.

Who knows, maybe Forsett can one run back and give the DST a little boost.

Gonna try starting up a new segment here at the Chicken Coop.  Fantasy Friday!  We'll focus on the how we think the Hawks will do in a fantasy sense.

We mean fantasy football you sickos!

I heard that they were gonna be having special online coverage for tonight's opening game, so I just had to sneak a peak.  My verdict: great concept, kinda sucky execution.

It's super cool to have 5 different angles on the game, and to be able to see them all at once.  Its also super cool to have the game stats at hand without having to leave the game.  Unfortunately the streams were extremely choppy which made it aggrivating to watch.  If they can straighten out the kinks, this thing could really rock.

One other thing that made me unable to watch it, though is kudos for the service, was the fact that the streams were a few seconds ahead of my cable HD of the show.  How is streaming 5 different angles of the game faster than one single feed through cable?  But I would catch what happened a few seconds earlier from the choppy low def stream, and it kind of diminish my viewing enjoyment of the HD version, so I turned it off. 

 If I was not in front of a TV, this would have been a life saver.  And once they work out the kinks, this will be an awesome thing.  I hope it's a sign of where football coverage is going.

Ahhhhh.... the long bleak period of the year that exists between the end of the end of 4th quarter of the Superbowl and the opening kickoff of opening day has finally passed.

I can't say that I'm thrilled aout the outcome cause I really don't like the Giants, and still can't believe how they Forest Gumped their way to a Superbowl victory last yet.  But it's football, and it's football with Madden.  It's football that affects my fantasy football scores.  It's regular season football, and its awesome!!!

Welcome back my long last friend.

In case you hadn't noticed, we have spruced up the Chicken Coop. 

 I would like to thank Chicken Skin for her guidance and help in creating the new design. 

This makes design number 3 for the site, and and the first time I've been excited about the sites look.  Lets take a wander down memory lane.

version 1:

version 2:

version 3:

The schedule on this site has been updated for the 2008 season.

I'm stoked for this year like no other.  Go Hawks!!!

This came across in my email this morning as part of a GameStop ad and I could not help but thinking it was just wrong

And following that up was an email with the NFL's own attempt at cashing in on the Favre soap opera:

In the more old news department. We wanted to officially congradulate the Seahawks on being the NFC West champions for the 4th straight season in a row.

That is an amazing feat. Wish I could find the article I read a while back talking about it, but suffice to say, we keep some pretty elite company with that sort of accomlishment.

I know is is old news (like 4 month old news), but the Hawks are entering the new Molgren Era.

I was hoping this was the plan of action when they brought Mora on board, I really enjoyed watching him in Atlanta and always found myself rooting for the guy. I love the Hawks keep finding folks that are from here, have ties here, and/or want to be here. Its great having that home town feel with our team.

Keep up the good work Hawk front office :)

Now that all the scores are updated for last season we have a winner in the prediction game!!!! 

Its Javachicken with 133 points.

Football boy genius has a Seachickens logo shirt on the way to him for being the big winner (yeah for the store!!!).