But the week’s highest score, and biggest props, go to Vandelay Industries!! Louis knocked it out of the park with his QB and wide receiver (Andrew Luck & Calvin Johnson, 28 and 31 points respectively), and also got rock solid production from his runningbacks, Murray (17 pts) and Forte (16 pts). Vandelay finished with 117 points, which was only four points shy of an optimatl line-up and a full 8 points higher than the next closest team. Well done sir!!
As a reminder to everyone, the Weekly High Score Prize this season is $50. So you will definitely want to make sure you have your line-ups set each week, get your waiver claims in early, and respond to trade offers quickly…(I’m looking at you Shawn). Also, we will be doing the League Pick ‘Em again this season, which means that whoever picks the most correct winners in our weekly match-ups will be moved to first in the waiver order. The remaining teams will be in reverse order of the current standings. Since I am only announcing this now, we will start this for Week 2.So this week I’m kicking off a new weekly item, the ‘All-Undrafted Team’, I give out the year’s first Best Bench award and get to the bottom of the ‘BoomGoesTheDynamite Curse’. But first, some observations…
YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT
- Matt Ryan, QB – Joe’s Pats – 33 pts – Joe made the right choice here in not having Brady as his QB, as Matt outscored Tom by 24 points. He got there by tossing 3 touchdowns to go along with 448 yards of passing. Sweet!
- Calvin Johnson, WR – Vandelay Industries – 31 pts – All but like four yards of this stat line were gained in the first half: 164 receiving yards, 2 touchdowns. Megatron was legitimately on track to score in the neighborhood of 65 points.
- Matt Stafford, QB – Scottish Rebels – 29 pts – I am officially a Matt Stafford fan. Yes, yes I am.- Julius Thomas, TE – sprouts – 28 pts –Julius Thomas as a 13th round keeper pick is absolutely awesome! He showed why he is one of the elites, hauling in 3, yes 3!, touchdown catches!
- Andrew Luck, QB – Vandelay Industries – 25 pts – Good performance hurt a bit by two interceptions. Adding a rushing TD is always a nice touch.
COME ON, MAN!
- Jamaal Charles, RB – Channel 4 News Team – 2 pts
- Victor Cruz, WR – 2 pts
- Jason Witten, TE – Vandelay Industries – 1 pt
- Rams, DEF – DownGoesJason – 1 pt
- Doug Martin, RB – 0 pts
FORGET THE ‘MADDEN CURSE’, HOW ABOUT THE ‘BOOMGOESTHEDYNAMITE KEEPER CURSE’?!?!
Jens had a real knack for picking keepers coming out of the 2011 season. His first keeper is now on trial for at least one, but probably two murders, and is unlikely to ever see the exterior of a prison again. His second keeper is now banned for life from the NFL for going all Apollo Creed on his fiancé in a casino elevator. These two fine, upstanding young men are, of course, Aaron Hernandez and Ray Rice…both were Jensy’s keepers for the 2012 season.
THE ‘ALL-UNDRAFTED TEAM’ OF 2014
Here are the rules for this segment:
a) A team is going to be constructed from the top Week 1 performers who were undrafted in our league.
b) These players will be the starters every week, unless they get injured or are on a bye week.
c) Enough back-ups for each position will be selected from Week 1’s top undrafted players.
d) Each week, if the All-Undrafted team’s score is greater than the average score for the week, that will be considered a win, and if not it will be a loss.
Now, I give you, the All-Undrafted Team of 2014!!:
QB – Jake Locker, TEN = 19
RB – Mark Ingram, NO = 18
RB – Chris Ivory, NYJ = 16
WR – Allen Hurns, JAX = 23
WR – Steve Smith Sr., BAL = 17
TE – Dwayne Allen, IND = 12
K – Matt Bryant, ATL = 18
DEF – Minnesota, MIN = 23
Total Week 1 = 146
Bench = QB-Derek Anderson, CAR; RB-Isaiah Crowell, CLE; RB-Justin Forsett, BAL; WR-Greg Jennings, MIN; WR-Rod Streater, OAK; TE- Delanie Walker, TEN; DEF-Philadelphia; K-Mike Nugent, CIN
Considering that the Weekly High Score for the week was 117 points, we’ll go ahead and mark this as a victory for the Undraftees. In all honesty, it is not all that bad looking of a team… we’ll see how this crew holds up over the whole season.
BEST OF THE DRAFT
In case you were wondering, after one week of play the best keeper production was a tie between Andrew Luck, QB – Vandelay Industries and Julius Thomas, TE – sprouts, both of whom logged 28 points this week. But given the fact that Thomas was a 13th round keeper, and Luck was a 6th, we’ll say that Thomas is the Best Keeper so far.
The Best Pick of the draft goes to sprouts as well, for picking Knowshon Moreno in the 12th round. Moreno got 19 points in Week 1, which was more than any player picked from round 8, 9, 10 or 11. Nice pick Russ!
BEST BENCH
Apparently the Defending Sacred Sundays Champion didn’t want the first week to go by without being mentioned, so Jason went ahead and took home the first Best Bench Award of the season! A solid 28-point improvement was there for the taking with four roster moves: C. Kaepernick for A. Rodgers (+8), K. Benjamin for D. Thomas (+11), L. Miller for T. Gerhart (+5) and J. Hunter for L. Fitzgerald (+4).
Get your waiver claims in, get your rosters set, pick the winners from each game and get READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!!
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