How y'all doing again? Hopefully many of you have already gotten a few of your drafts under your belt. The NFL season is almost a week away, and I can't wait. If you have a late draft, here is a strategy that you might be forced to use, or you can plan to do this as well. I always like to have two plans for each position when I'm drafting. The first is who I would draft if I drafted that position early. The second is if I have to wait and draft that position later. If you are thinking about waiting on a quarterback, or just didn't grab any of the Top 7, then you might be shooting for the back-to-back quarterback strategy. In my opinion there are seven top quarterbacks out there this year. In any order they are: Michael Vick, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Philip Rivers, Peyton Manning and Tony Romo. If you failed to pull the trigger and draft one of them, then you're looking at the second tier of quarterbacks, and you're going to want to grab two. You're going to want to draft them "on the tail" as the forum members like to say, or the part of the draft where you have the least amount of other people drafting between your picks. If you have a high draft pick, this would be Rounds 6 and 7. If you have a low draft pick, it would be Rounds 5 and 6 or 7 and 8, depending on how quickly those other quarterbacks go off the board. Here are three different pairings of quarterbacks that you could draft and play matchups every week, in order to maximize the amount of points from your quarterback position. The first column is who you would pick first, and the second column is your next pick. Your first pick will look like you're simply picking a quarterback for your team, then the second pick finishes off your matchup plays for when your first quarterback plays some tough defenses. In some cases the second pick could be a reach, but it's part of your strategy. By this time in the draft you should be plenty stocked up on wide receivers, running backs and maybe a tight end, so you shouldn't be worrying about missing out on just one. You need to get both quarterbacks for this strategy to work, otherwise you're just going to have a mediocre quarterback on your team. Ben Roethlisburger and Kevin Kolb Roethlisberger has a nice start to his season and a nice playoff schedule too, but in the middle of his season he has a few tough games, games where Kolb gets some easy matchups. Kolb starts out with a game against Carolina at home, so you'll be able to see what he has. Then Roethlisberger has five straight easy games. Next it's time to go back to Kolb for three games. Then starts the back-and-forth matchup part. The playoffs have you starting each quarterback at home against Cleveland, and finishing off with Roethlisberger at home against St. Louis. With this pairing you'll have a game almost every week against a defense that finished in the Top 10 for fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks in 2010. Matt Schaub and Sam Bradford Schaub made it through his second straight season without an injury, throwing for more than 4,300 yards in each of his last two seasons. Bradford was a nice surprise last year, and should improve on his 3,512 yards and 18 touchdowns with Josh McDaniels now calling the plays. McDaniels had Kyle Orton throwing a ton last year for Denver, and we can expect Bradford to be doing the same this year. Schaub starts out his season at home against Indianapolis, and then goes to Miami. Week 3 is a tough matchup for both of these quarterbacks, but I'd start Bradford at home against Baltimore. Baltimore has been slowly getting worse on defense with their players getting towards the end of their careers. Week 4 is Bradford against Washington. Then Schaub gets some nice matchups with games against Oakland, at Baltimore, at Tennessee, Jacksonville and Cleveland. Next Bradford gets his shot at Cleveland. Bradford then plays Seattle in St. Louis. Seattle is good at home and bad on the road. Any games played against Seattle at Qwest Field should be avoided for fantasy matchups. Bradford starts his last two games for you with matchups against Arizona and at San Francisco. Schaub then carries your team through your playoffs with games at Cincinnati, Carolina and at Indianapolis. Joe Flacco and Matthew Stafford Flacco has been steadily improving in his three seasons in the league, slowly moving up the rankings from 20th to 17th to 12th last season. If he finally takes that step into always startable, you won't have to worry about Stafford's health, and if not, you can start Stafford when Flacco plays some tough games. If you follow football, you know Stafford plays well when he's on the field. I think this is his year that he actually makes it a full season. The pitfall of grabbing these two quarterbacks is that when one of their bye weeks comes, the other doesn't have an easy matchup. This matchup has four weeks where your quarterback might not put up a monster number for you, but after Week 10 things get really easy. Playing the matchup game with these two will get you games against Carolina, San Francisco, at Cleveland, Minnesota -- who has lost some productive players this offseason -- at Oakland (without Nnamdi Asomugha), and hopefully your championship game against Cleveland. Last Thoughts There you have it, some good pairing for y'all if you don't end up with any of those Top 7 quarterbacks. Playing the quarterback matchup game is something I do if I get forced into it, but planning for it is something y'all should do, just in case. You don't want to be trying to figure out what quarterback to take during your draft just because you thought, for sure, you'd be drafting a top quarterback. This year no matter what quarterback you have expect them to put up big numbers if they have games against Carolina, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Oakland, Tennessee, or Seattle on the road. Hope y'all enjoyed.