Money Round!!

The first round of the playoffs are done, so the teams that are remaining are in the money!  Remember that this season, top prize is $180, Runner-up gets $90, 3rd gets $54 and 4th gets $36.  So Timmy, Jason, James and Russ – even if you score 0 points from here on out, you’ve got more cash coming your way!

The big congrats this week go to American BadAss for finally putting it all together and snagging a Weekly High Score Prize!  Jason becomes the 8th person this year to take home a prize by scoring 133 points this week.  He did it the old-fashioned way by having solid performances throughout his line-up.  His lowest scoring player (Vincent Jackson) finished with 13 points and his highest scoring player (Ben Roethlis-something) finished with 23.  His only player to not score a touchdown (besides his kicker) was DeMarco Murray, but he ran for 146 yards to make up for it.  Even his Defense (Arizona) had a touchdown. And his kicker scored 17 points, thanks in part to a 64-yard field goal that sets the NFL record for longest ever.  That practically counts as scoring a touchdown!  All in all, that is just solid production and definitely what you want going into the playoffs.  Well done!!

Hard to believe that there are only two weeks left of the fantasy season… so let’s get to this!


BIG TIME
-Josh McCown, QB – Free Agent – 38 pts – When a team doesn't play defense, this sort of thing can happen.  McCown walked all over the Cowboys to the tune of 348 yards passing, 4 TD’s plus 16 yards rushing and a touchdown.

-LeSean McCoy, RB – Joe’s Pats – 36 pts – Philadelphia needs to have a snow machine installed in their stadium and play every game in 18 inches of the white stuff!  McCoy went off for 217 yards and 2 TD’s!

-Petyon Manning, QB – sprouts – 34 pts – Peyton is now so far ahead of all other players in scoring that he could probably sit out the next 3 weeks and still be the top dog.  He has 352 points and the next closest (Drew Brees) only has 293.  Manning is averaging, averaging!, 27.1 points per week.  That is just remarkable.

-Jason Campbell, QB – Free Agent – 32 pts – Clearly the Patriots did not view the Browns as a worthy opponent, because they did not seem at all prepared.  Campbell took advantage, throwing for 391 yards(!) and 3 TD’s and nearly pulling off a major upset.

-Andrew Luck, QB – Vandelay Industries – 32 pts – The Colts are such an enigma because they hardly even play in the first half, then come out like madmen in the second half.  The second half was where Luck did his damage in this one, throwing 326 yards and 4 TD’s.

-Kansas City, DEF – Channel 4 News Team – 32 pts – In the battle of the indians, Chiefs proved superior to Redskins.  The Chiefs D only gave up 10 points while recording 6 sacks, 2 turnovers and 2 TD’s.

-Jamaal Charles, RB – Channel 4 News Team – 30 pts – Charles is finally having that season that was supposed to happen half a decade ago because he has remained healthy.  He is currently tops among fantasy runningbacks, having tallied 228 points on the season.


REALLY?
-Mike Wallace, WR – BoomGoesTheDynamite – 1 pt – You would’ve thought Wallace would want to prove something going against his old teammates in Pittsburgh, but you would’ve thought wrong.  He struck out with only 19 yards on 2 catches.

-James Jones, WR – Midnight Maulers – 1 pt – After a promising start to the season and scoring 45 points in Weeks 2 – 5, Jones has not produced much.  He hasn’t even scored in double digits since that Week 5 game.

-T.Y. Hilton, WR – Vandelay Industries – 0 pts – Targeted 5 times…2 catches… 7 yards.  That is an ugly stat line.

-David Akers, K – Joe’s Pats – -1 pts – For the first time since 1957 there was an NFL game where no points were registered by a kicker.  Akers lost a point here for missing a PAT.

NO POINTS FOR YOU!
As mentioned above, the Philly/Detroit game was the first game since 1957 in which no points were scored by a kicker.  The 1957 game ended 6-0.  As I was researching this, I came across a listing of professional football games in which there were no points scored at all.  The last time this happened was in 1943 when the New York Giants and Detroit Lions finished with a 0-0 tie.  WTF?!  Is that a soccer score?  I haven’t read the NFL’s new overtime rules in their entirety, but I would hope that it includes a stipulation that no game can ever, EVER, end with the score of 0-0.  Can you imagine sitting through a game that finishes with a 0-0 tie?  That would have to be the most boring game in history.  We’re talking 6th grade girl’s basketball boring.

But apparently back in the 1920’s and 30’s, people didn’t mind games finishing 0-0, because it happened 73 times!  No wonder they implemented the forward pass, people were falling asleep at these games.  Now check out the names of some of the teams involved in these games from back in the days of yore:  Rochester Jeffersons, Fort Wayne Friars, Detroit Heralds, Rochester Scalpers, Toledo Maroons, Dayton Triangles and, I kid you not, Washington Glee Club.  You had to feel really crappy about yourself if you played in a football game and lost to the Washington Glee Club.  (Side note – Do you think the PC crowd these days would go along with the “Scalpers” as a team mascot? LMAO!)


ESOTERIC JOKE OF THE WEEK
An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German are walking down the street together. A juggler is performing on the street but there are so many people that the four men can’t see the juggler. So the juggler goes on top of a platform and asks: “Can you see me now?” The four men answer: “Yes.” “Oui.” “Si.” “Ja.”


BEST BENCH
With all the touchdowns that were scored this week, you would have thought that more points would have been left on the bench.  But this week’s Best Bench ties for the second lowest total of the season.  So without further adieu, the Week 14 winner of the Best Bench is… the Coors Light Drunk Guys!  Shawn could have improved his point total by a perfect 27 with only two roster moves:  M. Colston for S. Smith (+14) and B. Green-Ellis for S. Ridley (+13).


Two more chances to claim a High Score prize, and only two more weeks until we crown a champion!!!