Marvin, I Love You!

While I may the only one who reads this that knows of, or has heard the song referenced by the title, it is a novelty song about a lonely robot long forgotten. The robot is floating through existence cleaning out his data banks when he discovers a message he had previously received that was from a hot sounding voice, "Marvin, I love you."

Fantasy football owners seem to remember a time so very long ago when Peyton Manning would sing this to his favorite receiver, "Marvin, I love you!". Manning would then proceed to throw touchdown after touchdown to his favorite receiver, while fantasy owners rejoiced in this pairing. However, after Sunday night's one catch, 8 yard, zero fantasy point performance, fantasy owners are wondering if there is trouble in happy land. Even Marvin the lonely android gets more love than Harrison did on Sunday Night.

Another strike against Marvelous Harrison that could lead to his demise in the world of fantasy football, is the emergence of Joseph Addai. Sunday Night against the Eagles, Joseph had his coming out party. He carried the ball over 20 times for 171 yards and 4 touchdowns. The previous success of the receivers in Indy was predicated on the fact that the Colts had trouble running in the red zone, so Peyton would have to have to throw for scores. If Addai is going to make a habit out of multiple touchdown games, this spells disaster for the end of Marvin's career, as he fades off in to obscurity.

Marvin isn't getting any younger either. Reggie Wayne is clearly the future of the Colts receiving core. Wayne is signed to a long term contract, and is clearly being pressed into more action as the number one receiver on the team. Peyton has gone on record as saying he would like to keep both receivers happy, but that isn't happening. Marvin has fallen way behind in the statistical departments that are relevant to fantasy players. Perhaps this drop off in stats in as indication that Marv is starting to lose a step or two, and isn't as explosive as he used to be. If he is able to be covered better, then there is no way you can expect those gargantuan numbers that you are used to seeing from the Marvelous one.

Has Marvin Harrison fallen off the perches off the 'Unbenchables'? I'm not going to call it after this game, but one more stinker, and I'm going to have to start looking at his match-ups and thinking about sitting the venerable one down every once in a while. It pains me to say it, but I would hate to see Marvin fall from the ranks of the rock solid, every week start, wide receiver. There are so very few of those these days.