'Merica!!

 Sometimes the Weekly High Scoring team comes out of the gates like a rocket blasting to a huge lead and never looks back.  Other times it’s a team who looks dead early on but has a resurgence to take over.  The latter was clearly the case this week as American BadAss started off by being down 64 points, yet came back to win 122-112 over Big Sack and took the high score in the process!  Jason had huge games from Dak Prescott (29 pts), Tyler Lockett (28 pts) and the Indianapolis Colts Defense (28 pts).  (That defensive performance is the best single week we have seen from a defense this season).  The win gets BadAss a first victory of the season and moves them into a 3-way tie for 2nd place at 1-2 in the South Division.  Nice work bro!

Three weeks in and we are down to just one undefeated team (sprouts – Russ) and one winless team (Big Sack – Jens).  Big Sack would have had a victory this week against any other team, as 112 was the 2nd highest score of the week.  Tough matchup and outcome…historically speaking, scoring over 100 pts has led to victory 88% of the time.  But this season there have been 14 scores over 100, with already 4 of them ending in a loss, as we also saw Young Guns lose this week with 100 points.  Sprouts has the best record and leads all teams in scoring by a 50-point margin (375 total), plus they have scored over 100 points every week so far!  The Sacred Sundays records for undefeated and winless starts both stand at 6 (i.e. 6-0 and 0-6), so we are halfway there.  

Not a whole lot to get to this week, so let’s do this!!

BIG TIME

• Patrick Mahomes, QB – Attack of Mahomes – 42 pts – It’s hard to find new superlatives and adjectives to describe what Mahomes is able to do.  He was splendid on Monday night, stupefying defenses, while throwing an inconceivable 31-of-42 for 385 yards and 4 TD’s, plus rushing for 26 yards and another graceful TD!  The guy is an absolute marvel.  
• Russell Wilson, QB – Longshanks – 36 pts – Another 30+ point performance from Wilson.  He got into a slugfest with the Cowboys, ultimately throwing for 315 yards and 5 TDs!  Through three games he has thrown 14 touchdowns which is the most in NFL history.  Keep it up Russ!
• Alvin Kamara, RB – sprouts – 30 pts – Kamara did his damage mostly by receiving, as he caught 13 passes for 139 yards!  He also added 58 rushing yards.  Kamara is the lead scoring runningback in fantasy, currently averaging 25 points per week.
• Josh Allen, QB – Young Guns – 30 pts – Yet another quarterback this week with 5 total TD’s.  Allen rushed for 1 TD, but also threw for 311 yards and 4 TD’s!  (He did also have one interception).  This is his second game in a row with >= 30 points.
• Dak Prescott, QB – American BadAss – 29 pts – Dak attempted 57 passes (!), a career high, completing 37 for 472 yards (!) and 3 TD’s.  Two interceptions marred what was otherwise an awesome day.
• Stephen Gostkowski, K – Free Agent – 25 pts – He’s kicking for Tennessee now (weird), but had an amazing day with 6 field goals… 3-for-3 from 30-39 and 3-for-3 from 50+, and 1 extra point.

COME ON MAN

• Josh Kelley, RB – Longshanks – 2 pts – Only 43 yards and a lost fumble… that’s just not good.
• Mark Andrews, TE – sprouts – 2 pts – This is the second week in a row Andrews has laid a deuce.
• Darren Waller, TE – Joe’s Pats – 0 pts – Solid performance from last week sure didn’t carry over to this week, as he caught just 2 passes for 9 yards.  Ouch.
• New Orleans, DEF – Vandelay Industries – 0 pts – The Saints D didn’t do much to disrupt the Packers as their only stat was a single, solitary sack while also giving up 37 points.

TOP 5’s CHECK IN

Through three weeks here is a breakdown of the top five by position:

Notes: 

-Every team has at least one player represented above.

-sprouts has the most players represented (5), followed by American BadAss and Attack of Mahomes who each have 4.  

-Free agents only show up in kickers (of course).  Seriously, if anyone would have drafted a guy named “Rodrigo Blankenship” I would have thought you were making shit up.  I’m still not convinced a) that is his real name, or b) it’s even a real person.

-Vandelay Industries has a real love affair with tight ends.  On top of the two TE’s currently ranked in the top 5, Vandelay’s current starting tight end is George Kittle.  (Although Kittle currently ranks as the 47th tight end in fantasy).  Didn’t Mike Holmgren once say “You can never have too many tight ends”, or something?  Rob abides.

THOSE WHO SHALLN’T BE DRAFTED

This was the worst week so far for the All Unwanteds.  The lone bright spot was another strong game from James Robinson, but other than that it was pretty brutal…

The average league score was 97.8, so this is a big loss for the UnW’s, dropping their record to 1-2.

BEST BENCH

Three weeks of the season and we’ve already got our fourth Best Bench winner.  With the best Best Bench of season so far this season, Week Three’s award goes to… Attack of Mahomes!  Timmy could have improved his point total by 31 with three roster moves:  J. Robinson for M. Gordon +21, T. Boyd for D. Moore +6 and Baltimore for Kansas City +4.

This is Tim’s first Best Bench since Week 2 of last season.  Every team in the league, except one, has had at least one Best Bench in the last 20 weeks--going back to Week 16, 2018.  But the team holding the current record for longest streak without a Best Bench has not held the dubious distinction since Week 8, 2015!!  We have a nearly five year record in the works!  To preserve the mystery and avoid placing a jinx on this team, I’ll refrain from naming them at this time.  (If the current record holder’s streak extends to 5 years (i.e. they make it past Week 8 with no Best Benches), I’ll divulge the team… for now it remains a secret.)

Week 4 is already upon us!  Two weeks away from the annual Playoff Predictions!