Eight weeks into the season, and the standings are still wide open. Almost everyone moved a position this week except for the two division leaders, Frito Pie and Lords of Lumberg! Both of those teams have records of 5-3, but only hold 2-game leads over the bottom-ranked team in each division. That’s right, the bottom-ranked teams in each division are only 2 games out of first place. Unbelievably tight! So there is still a lot of football to be played!
Speaking of football—Congratulations this week go to sprouts, who showed that they were the only team that could break 100, and logged very nice 115 points!! With the victory this week, sprouts becomes the first two-time winner this year. Well done Russ!
Just a quick update this week as my normal writing time has been interrupted with meetings, conference calls and TPS reports. Stupid work, always gets in the way of the important things. So we move on to the observations:
PLAYERS I WISH I HAD ON MY TEAM
* Chris Johnson, RB – sprouts – 38 pts – Chris Johnson is what you would call a home-run hitter. When he goes off, he goes off big time! Remember Week 2 when he piled up 48 points? Yeah, so this was just a mediocre game for this guy…
* Maurice Jones-Drew, RB – sprouts – 32 pts – Russ managed to have the two top scoring players for the week on his team! Reminds me of Jamie George circa 2005.
* Ryan Moats, RB – Free Agent – 32 pts – Three touchdowns for this guy after coming off the bench to replace Steve Slaton. Looks like we may have a runningback controversy…
* Aaron Rodgers, QB – American BadAss – 28 pts – Well, at least Rodgers won the fantasy point battle against Favre…
* Brett Favre, QB – sprouts – 25 pts – …but not by much.
* Matt Forte, RB – Scottish Rebels – 24 pts – I’m going to use this section to conduct an experiment… Greg Jennings really sucks. He probably doesn’t deserve to watch the NFL, let alone play in the NFL. (I will report next week on the results of my experiment.)
PLAYERS I NORMALLY END UP WITH ON MY TEAM
* Brandon Marshall, WR – Frito Pie – 2 pts – After a three game stretch where he scored 45 points, Marshall has only managed 6 in his last two games.
* Anquan Boldin, WR – SOFA KING GOOD – 2 pts – Hey Anquan, if you are hurt don’t play. Because if you play, James might be expecting you to score more than 2 points.
* T.J. Houshyourdaddymandzadeh, WR – Midnight Maulers – 2 pts – How about that Cowboy defense shutting down the Housh?! They might have a playoff game in them yet…
* Torry Holt, WR – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 1 pt – Honestly, until I was scanning Shawn’s roster this week, I thought that Torry Holt was out of football. In a way, by playing for Jacksonville he kind of is…
* Mike Sims-Walker, WR – Scottish Rebels – 0 pts – You have got to be kidding me! You cannot be serious! Twice I have had Sims-Walker in my active line-up and twice he has scored me zero points. Unbelievable.
* Steve Slaton, RB – Lords of Lumberg – -1 pt – So how does a runningback end up with a negative point? All you have to do is only gain 10 yards, lose a fumble and get benched for the remainder of the game. Oh, it’s simple!
DEFENSE UPDATE
As you know, the Philadelphia defense went off in Week 1 and scored an unbelievable 43 points. The challenge at that point became to see how long it would take the lowest scoring defense to break through the 43-point barrier. As of last week, two defenses remained below that mark: Tennessee and Jacksonville. As of this week, one defense remains: the Jacksonville Jaguars.
After playing in 7 games, the Jaguars have only scored a total of 40 points. That is an average of only 5.7 points per game! However, they do play the Chiefs this weekend, so I’m giving them a pretty decent chance of scoring 4 points.
IT IS NATIONAL “CHECK YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERY” WEEK
So you know, go ahead and check the battery in your smoke detector.
BEST BENCH
It’s like that old saying, “You gotta dance with who brought you.” Seriously, what was I thinking playing Mike Sims-Walker and Marshawn Lynch ahead of Greg Jennings and Matt Forte?! There must be a reason that one of those guys was my keeper and the other one was my first round pick… So this week, the award for best bench goes to: the Scottish Rebels! I could have improved my total this week by 35 points, with three very simple line-up changes— M. Forte for M. Lynch (20 pts), G. Jennings for M. Sims-Walker (14 pts) and New Orleans for Baltimore (1 pt).
Only two more weeks of byes! Get ready for Week #9!!
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