Double it up for sprouts!!

It was the week of the quarterbacks.  Eight of the top ten scorers this week were quarterbacks, four of the top five were QB’s, and five quarterbacks scored over 30 points with nary one of them named ‘Mahomes’.  Surprisingly, the top QB through the first two weeks of the season is Josh Allen.  Not bad for a 15th round keeper for Young Guns!  Allen posted 27 points in Week 1 and 36 this week, giving him 63 points and a 1 point overall lead over 2nd place Russell Wilson.  But even the old guys are scoring a lot… Matt Ryan currently ranked 6th with 54 points and Aaron Rodgers sitting at 7th with 51 points.

In other interesting news, Week 2-2020 goes down as the highest scoring week ever in Sacred Sundays history.  Thanks to six teams scoring over 100 points (which ties a record), the total points scored were 1,034 beating the previous record of 1,002 set back in Week 6-2018.  This marks only the third occasion where the total points for a single week crossed 1,000.  To put this in perspective, the lowest scoring week of all-time was Week 10-2015, where across all 10 teams only 689 points were scored.  The high score for that week was only 85 points, which would have only defeated two teams this week! 

Before we go any further, big congrats to Russ for destroying the competition for a second week in a row and taking home another Weekly High Score Prize!  Sprouts showed last week was no fluke, as they bested last week’s total by 20 points, finishing with 145 points and a 42 point victory!  Russ had a three-headed monster posting massive points with Aaron Jones, Alvin Kamara and Kyler Murray combining for 102 points!  (43, 28 and 31 respectively).  The victory puts sprouts at 2-0 and makes them one of only two undefeated teams remaining (Joe’s Pats is the other).  Excellent work Russ!

Just a couple things to report on this week, most notably a Best Bench of the sort we haven’t seen in five years… Onward!

NOW THAT’S THE INSIDE STUFF

• Aaron Jones, RB – sprouts – 43 pts – Forty-point performances are an exceptional feat that don’t happen very frequently, but this is Jones’ 2^nd time to do it as he had 41 points last year in Week 5.  He got there this time by having 236 total yards from scrimmage and 3 TD’s.
• Dak Prescott, QB – American BadAss – 42 pts – Dak with some huge numbers and killing it on the rush yards/rush TD ratio.  Check it out, on the day he had 450 passing yards and just 1 TD, but then added 18 rushing yards and 3(!) rushing TD’s.  Three TD’s with only 18 yards…sounds like Jerome Bettis’ stats in his final season when they would only put him in if they were on the two yard line.
• Jared Allen, QB – Young Guns – 36 pts – Your aforementioned leading fantasy point scorer two weeks in.  He’s already passed for 729 yards, 6 TD’s and 0 interceptions.
• Cam Newton, QB – Joe’s Pats – 36 pts – Newton had another outstanding game for New England, and is returning to his old form with getting into the endzone on the ground.  He led the Patriots in rushing with 47 yards and 2 TD’s, plus added 397 passing yards and 1 TD.   
• Russell Wilson, QB – Longshanks – 32 pts – Wilson scored his points in a bit more conventional fashion for a quarterback… 288 yards passing and 5 TDs!  He did also add 39 rushing yards.
• Kyler Murray, QB – sprouts – 31 pts – Murray had a good day passing (286 yards, 1 TD, 1 Int), but made this a special day by adding 67 yards and 2 TD’s on the ground.

 

COME ON MAN!

• Julio Jones, WR – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 2 pts – Julio had a great start to the season last week, where he was targeted 12 times and had 18 pts, but this week he was only targeted 4 times catching two of those for just 24 yards.
• T.Y. Hilton, WR – Vandelay Industries – 2 pts – Tyrone’s Youngin’ caught just two passes and dropped what should have been a 44-yard touchdown.  D’oh!
• Cincinnati, DEF – Longshanks – 1 pt – I take full blame for playing the Bengals in the first place, but in my defense they were going up against the Cleveland Browns who had given up the most points to defenses (22!) in Week 1.  But somehow, again even though they were playing the Browns, Cincinnati's D gave up 35 points and managed just 1 interception.  They didn’t even sack Baker Mayfield.  That guy runs like a bag of potatoes and they couldn’t even catch him.  I hate the Bengals.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

I’ve asked so many people what LBGTQ stands for, and so far I haven’t gotten a straight answer.

ALL UNWANTEDS

The All Unwanteds were heavy on the Jaguars again this week, with the roster consisting of 6 Jaguars and 2, um, Football Players. 

QB	Gardner Minshew II	Jax	22
WR	Keelan Cole	Jax	11
WR	Laviska Shenault Jr.	Jax	6
RB	James Robinson	Jax	17
RB	Antonio Gibson	Was	11
TE	Tyler Eifert	Jax	9
DEF	Washington Football Team	Was	5
K	Josh Lambo	Jax	5
		Total	86

The average score for the league was 104, so this goes down as a loss moving their record to 1-1.

‘TOO SOON’ DRAFT ANALYSIS

Two weeks in is a bit soon to start drawing any conclusions, but here are some early season notes on draft picks:

Players you should’ve picked when you had the chance: 

• Aaron Jones, RB – sprouts – 56 pts – 9^th pick, 2^nd round (13^th selection excl. keepers)
• Russell Wilson, QB – Longshanks – 62 pts – 10^th pick, 3^rd round (23^rd selection excl. keepers)
• Calvin Ridley, WR – Joe’s Pats – 47 pts – 10^th pick, 4^th round (31^st selection excl. keepers)
• Cam Newton, QB – Joe’s Pats – 61 pts – 1^st pick, 7^th round (48^th selection excl. keepers)

Players you wish you hadn’t:

• Michael Thomas, WR – Vandelay Industries – 1 pt – 5^th pick, 1^st round (4^th selection, excl. keepers)
• George Kittle, TE – Vandelay Industries – 4 pts – 10^th pick, 2^nd round (10^th selection, excl. keepers)
• Kenny Golladay, WR – Joe’s Pats – 0 pts – 1^st pick, 3^rd round (15^th selection, excl. keepers)
• A.J. Brown, WR – Young Guns – 3 pts – 8^th pick, 4^th round (29^th selection, excl. keepers)
• Le’Veon Bell, RB – Longshanks – 4 pts – 1^st pick, 6^th round (39^th selection, excl. keepers)
• Rob Gronkowski, TE – American BadAss – 1 pt – 9^th pick, 7^th round (56^th selection, excl. keepers)

Draft grades will factor in on midterms…still plenty of time for things to change.

BEST BENCH

As mentioned earlier, the Best Bench this week is like one we haven’t seen in five years, and one which has only occurred four times prior to this week.  For Week 2, 2020 I have the distinct honor of awarding not one, but TWO Best Benches this week!!  Two teams were able to make two roster swaps to improve their totals by 25 points… the double-honorees are:  Joe’s Pats and Young Guns!

Joe needed to swap L. Fournette for C. Edwards-Helaire (+17) and S. Diggs for M. Evans (+8).  John needed to swap R. Mostert for S. Barkley (+14) and J. Brown for A. Thielen (+11).  (In the annual tallies for total Best Benches, this goes down as a half Best Bench for each of you.)

With the rash of injuries we saw in Week 2, I’m sure the Yahoo! servers are going to be set on fire with all the waiver claims this week.  Make sure to get ‘em in, get your roster set, and get ready for Week 3!!