Shoutouts: Your fantasy team is terrible! And how Matt Kemp transformed

You have just a few more hours before the 2011 NFL season kicks off and your fantasy team starts taking actual body blows, rather than the anticipatory ones it’s been taking all preseason.

It hurts when your star receiver goes down with a season-ending injury in the second exhibition game, but the actual damage doesn’t kick in until the games begin.

That’s why now’s the time for Matt Martinez to give you 15 Things to Do If Your Fantasy Team Stinks.

Because yours does. Remember: It’s never too early to start talking trash on the league message board. Or change your team name.

A more serious shoutout, or rather a shoutout to a more serious piece, for Josh Martin’s well-reported take on the blueprint for Matt Kemp’s monster season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Martin did a great job of soliciting thoughts on Kemp’s transformation from 2010 disaster to 2011 MVP candidate from his teammates and manager Don Mattingly. A terrific use of the kind of team access that Bleacher Report can arrange for some of its top writers.