Monday, September 19, 2011

Start Me Up! Week 2 - 2011


Moves Like Jagger - a super cool uptempo song from maroon 5 featuring christina aguilera! Catchy whistle in various parts of the song.

Take me by the tongue and I'll know ya

Kiss me till you're drunk and I’ll show you

all the MOVES LIKE JAGGER

i got the MOVES LIKE JAGGER

i got the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES LIKE JAGGER

Just wanted to make sure everyone knows what they lost to this week. That is the Urban Dictionary definition of “Moves Like Jagger”… everyone is playing second fiddle to a Maroon 5 song featuring Christina Aguilera. Lol! When I saw the new team name for Tailgate Approved, I was really hoping it was some sort of sexual position involving a tongue, but oh well... What do you know?!?

Congratulations to Jens for being the Week 2 High Score Prize Winner! Joe’s Pats put on late run to try to catch his total, but in the end it was not enough. Six of Jagger’s players scored over 15 points and four of those scored more than 18 points! That is awesome scoring consistency across the line-up… something that my Scottish Rebels seem afraid to do. (James and Russ – You guys know what I’m talking about, right? Yeah you do.)

Week Numero Uno saw a tight battle for the High Score Prize, with American Bad Ass just edging Frito Pie by 1 point, 112 to 111. American Bad Ass had monster performances from Aaron Rodgers and Matt Forte in Week 1, while Frito Pie had a 31-point performance from Wes Welker thanks to a 99-yard touchdown catch. And how about this… the bottom two teams from the 2010 standings were the top two scorers in the first week! How about that for parity?!

So let’s get right to it and do this thang!!


THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

§ Vincent Jackson, WR – Scottish Rebels – 32 pts – Two catches for 31 yards. Oh wait, that was Jackson’s week 1 stat line. This week he had 10 catches for 172 yards and 2 TD’s! Remember that consistency thing I was talking about?

§ Jeremy Maclin, WR – Midnight Maulers – 32 pts – With an almost identical stat line to V Jax, Maclin finished with 171 yards on 13 catches, and had 2 TD’s!

§ Miles Austin, WR – American Bad Ass – 32 pts – Rounding out the trifecta for receivers this week, Miles Austin scored his points by finding the endzone 3 times (!) and tacking on an additional 143 yards receiving. Amazing week to be a wide receiver.

§ Tom Brady, QB – Joe’s Pats – 31 pts – Just to make sure that everyone knows he’s the best quarterback in the league, Brady followed up his week 1 performance (517 yards, 4 TD’s) with another beast of a an outing, adding 423 yards and 3 TD’s!

§ Cam Newton, QB – Joe’s Pats – 29 pts – Let’s all be thankful that we are only allowed to start one quarterback in our league. Joe owns the top two fantasy players overall with both Brady and Newton.


WIGGITY WIGGITY WACK

§ Vernon Davis, TE – Lords of Lumberg – 1 pt – Slow start for Davis this year, as he only has 5 points through the first two weeks.

§ Reggie Bush, RB – sprouts – 1 pt – I’ll let the Yahoo! News report sum up this one: “Bush was awful Sunday in a 23-13 loss to Houston. Bush carried six times for 18 yards and had a three-yard reception. This was a terrible effort.” Ouch. I mean come on Reggie, sure you scored 14 points in Week 1, but what have you done for us lately?!

§ Oakland, D – American Bad Ass – 1 pt – Oakland gave up 38 points to the Buffalo Bills. That’s equivalent to 96 points against the Patriots. Not good…

§ Mike Williams, WR – Lords of Lumberg – 0 pts – His official stat line, I kid you not, is 1 reception for -4 yards. Wonder if the quarterback actually threw a pass backwards 4 yards, or if he somehow caught a pass downfield and then actually ran 4 yards backwards…

§ Antonio Gates, TE – sprouts – 0 pts – Gates only had one pass thrown his way the entire game and finished with no catches vs. the Patriots. I think it’s obvious here that Bill Belichik has Vincent Jackson on his fantasy team and was playing against Gates this week. Am I right?


BEATING A DEAD HORSE

The “Beating A Dead Horse” Award for this year so far goes to Joe’s Pats for pulling the trigger and adding Peyton Manning to his roster. This is a pony that is on the train to Retirementville. How many professional athletes have you heard of “undergoing experimental stem cell therapy in Europe on their injured neck” that come back to throw for 5,000 yards? Probably not going to see it happen. It is fun to see Tom Brady and Peyton Manning on the same team, though…


GAME PICK RECAP

There were more correct picks in the games this week than last, but in the end, our Weekly High Score Winner for the week also picked the most correct games! Way to go Jensy! By being the only manager to pick himself to defeat American Bad Ass, Jens picked 4 of 5 games correctly. Frito Pie, American Bad Ass and sprouts all had 3 of 5 picked correctly this week.

This means that Moves Like Jagger will be #1 on the waiver wire list this week, with teams following in reverse order of standings. Be sure to get your picks in each week!


BEST BENCH(ES)

Two weeks have gone by, so there are two Best Bench awards to give out. In Week 1, it looked like sprouts was a shoo-in for the Best Bench by having Steve Smith score 31 points on his bench. But sprouts only had a 58-point improvement, six points short of the total put up by the Midnight Maulers! Jamie could have improved his total by 64 points in the first week with four roster moves: Chicago D for San Diego (+21 pts), M. Tolbert for F. Gore (+20 pts), D. Sproles for D. Williams (+13 pts), and J. Cutler for M. Ryan (+10 pts).

This week wasn’t even close… with a 50-point improvement possibility the Week 2 award goes to my Scottish Rebels! And it would have only taken two roster moves to accomplish it… V. Jackson for D. Jackson (+30 pts) and J. Best for A. Foster (+20 pts).



Get those waiver claims in, get your rosters set and get your winners picked! It's time for Week 3!!!


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