Buffalo Boy's Blog

Congratulations to James Starks and the Green Bay Packers. I have to say, after this season with the Bills and the Browns my two favorite teams stinking up the joint, I got to watching the Green Bay Packers, I had Aaron Rodgers as my quarterback in my fantasy league and loved watching him and then Niagara Falls native and UB graduate James Starks was brought in.

After Starks started playing I started watching them every week down the stretch and he was one of the top running backs in the NFC over the last several weeks of the regular season and led all running backs in rushing yards for the postseason. I don't know if he will be the starter in Green Bay next fall but hes worth giving the ball to as a change up kind of guy and could make a difference.

Yesterday he had 50 yards, not a huge day, but he did have a couple of runs that extended drives that would have been dead had he not gotten those runs in and he ran with a purpose when he got the ball. He definitely plays bigger than his size and runs with some aggressiveness. It was nice to see and lets face it, when you have a quarterback throwing the ball like Rodgers does, 50 yards on the ground sometimes isn't such a bad day.

I actually started to like Green Bay this year, They deserve full marks and Starks deserves a lot of the attention he is getting, its nice to have a local kid have that kind of success especially since it was unexpected.