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MJD's neck has more depth than Decatur. Fact. |
Sawyer Shinobi's 155.64,
Decatur Staleys 83.84
Let's just get right to it, because I know you're all waiting for me to write it: I took the fantasy beating of my life in Week 5. Like 'Who even let this guy in the league?' kind of beat down. A 'banana in my pocket and turned a monkey loose' slaughter. Being without Miles Austin (bye week) and Lance Moore (hamstring) exposed my extremely thin bench. Also, choosing to trade for RGIII between Week 4 and 5 proved to be THE BEST DECISION EVER (RGIII Weeks 1-4: 31, 32, 27, 24; RGIII Week 5: 4 points, concussion). I had two doughnuts in my starting lineup in attempting to makeup for the absence of Moore and Miles via free agency: Greg Little (CLE) and Jacoby Jones (BAL). My third free agent pick up last week was Henry Melton. He also doughnut'd. A combined 23.20 points from Marhsawn Lynch and Ray Rice didn't help matters. I'd also like to thank Dennis Pitta for not showing up for a third straight week. Counting RGIII's pre-concussed 4 points, I've had a COMBINED 9 points at the quarterback position over the last THREE WEEKS. 9! And insult to injury: I had zero touchdowns in my starting lineup. 0!!!! Just embarrassing. Seriously, awful.
Enough of that beat down, on to the 'ball outs' portion of the headline. Sawyer Shinobi's pummeled me into submission and didn't even need Cam Newton (7.84) to help in the matter. Reggie Wayne, who apparently hit the fountain of youth with Andrew Luck at QB in Indy, went for a 2007-like 37.20 points. Victor Cruz had 23 points, including three touchdowns (3!!!) and Jamaal Charles kept up his 'I'm the only viable option in this offense' production in KC with 18.10 points. Alshon Jeffery had 8 points (including a score) before hurting his hand (he'll reportedly miss 4-6 weeks) in the second half in Jacksonville. The Baltimore D/ST contributed consistent numbers like it always does, finishing with 15 points after holding Charles and the aforementioned KC offense to 6 points.
NEXT UP: Decatur Staley's vs. Gronk Smash!
NEXT UP: Ben There Raped That vs. Sawyer Shinobi's
Bear Down Brawlers 203.96, Stairway to Seven 163.60
The most impressive of the Week 5 ball outs goes to Don's Bear Down Brawlers, who cracked the two-bills barrier with 203.96 points in a win over Stairway to Seven, who had the misfortune of drawing the two-bill Brawlers in a week with a no-way-I-should-lose 163.60 points. The Brawlers had nine of 13 starters drop dub-figs (Philip Rivers, 25.16; Malcom Floyd, 12.80, Marques Colston, 33.10; Ryan Matthews 19.90; Arian Foster, 27.80, Tony Gonzalez, 20.30, Matt Forte, 14.70; Sean Witherspoon, 12.50; San Fran D/ST 13.00). The now healthy additions of Matt Forte and Ryan Matthews makes two-bills not out of the question in the coming weeks. Another fountain of youth development: Tony Gonzalez (four touchdowns in five weeks). Colston and Foster just put up sick numbers. Congrats, Don.
Had I scored 163 points and lost, you wouldn't be reading this, because I would've thrown my laptop out the window by now. Seven got 32.70 from Peyton Manning, 15.50 from Julio Jobnes and a welcome-back-35 burger from a now-healthy Ahmad Bradshaw and still lost by 40. Bradshaw was the good news. The bad news was one-time-free-agent-superstar Andre Brown's doughnut playing behind Bradshaw. Mike Wallace laid a 1.70-point egg but Reggie Bush had a bounce-back 13.20. Another fun note to ponder: All three of Seven's defenders (Roman Harper, 10.50; J.J. Watt, 11.00; James Laurinaitis, 11.50) dropped dub-figs in the no-way-this-should've-been-a-loss losing effort. Condolences, Eric.
NEXT UP: Bear Down Brawlers vs. Boondock Saints
NEXT UP: Stairway to Seven vs. Da Bears
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Packers 117.40,
Ben There Raped That 104.20
How is Drew Brees not the No. 1 overall pick in every fantasy draft every year? Dude is money in the bank. First five weeks for Brees this year: 29.56, 23, 26.5, 40.84, 38.60 points. The 38-burger this week helped Brandon come-from-behind during Sunday Night Football to beat the Commish's Ben There squad. A.J. Green had, at least by A.J. Green standards, a let down with 12.50 points after going for a combined 50.10 points in Weeks 3 and 4. Frank Gore had 18 in San Fran and Ray Lewis dropped a dub-fig defender day with 10 points. A potentially large blow to the Packers could be the loss of Danny Amendola, who was injured in the Rams Thursday Night Football win over the Cards. Amendola, who is out anywhere between 4-7 weeks according to reports, had 51.90 points over the first four weeks.
The Commish had another steady performance from Matt Ryan (24.20 points). That was really about it. The only other real highlights were Brandon Marshall's 23.40 points (two straight weeks for this half of the Ambiguously Gay Duo going over 100 yards receiving), Blair Walsh bringing in 12 points in the kicker slot and Courtland Finnegan 11.50 points from the DB position. Letdowns included the usually-big-time-WR Torrey Smith (3.80), always-terrible Chris Johnson (0.90) and Jimmy Graham (0.40). Roddy White had 6.80 points in the flex. So take that, Brock. At least both halves of our Week 4 trade were pretty much terrible in Week 5.
NEXT UP: Packers vs. Chiefs
NEXT UP: Ben There Raped That vs. Sawyer Shinobi's
49ers 126.50, Gronk Smash! 114.18
The 49ers didn't really get any over the top performances, but a 126.50 total was enough to finally get into the win column. The Rams D/ST had a big-time 27-point total on Thursday Night Football and Michael Vick put in a more consistent (something he's not been a lot of this year) 16 points. Larry Fitzgerlad had an 'eh' 9.20 and DeAngelo Williams decided a doughnut was good enough, finishing the day with -0.40 points. That's not a typo. That's a negative. A few dub-fig days (other than the already mentioned Vick and Rams D/ST) carried Sean's squad in this one: Adrian Peterson (10.30); Vernon Davis (12.60); Michael Crabtree (19.30) and Von Miller (15.50). Welcome to the W club, Sean.
The slide to start the season continues for Scott's Gronk Smash! squad. And to quote Scott (from Saturday morning), “If I lose this week, I'm going to kill myself.” So stay tuned for developments on that front. The loss wasn't without bright spots: Percy Harvin (25.60 points), Shady McCoy (14.00) and Justin Tucker (10.00) in the K slot. Joe Wacko-for-Flacco had a oomf 6.88 points to lead the disappointment. The Law Firm BJG-E had 1.60 and the Gronk had 3.50. Other than those three, not a terrible week for the Smash!, but the terrible start to the season continues. Can somebody get a pulse check on Scott?
NEXT UP: Gronk Smash! vs. Decatur Staleys
NEXT UP: 49ers vs. Patriots
Patriots 126.12, Da Bears 111.84
Another big day from Amy's Patriots trio and another win for Amy. Tom Terrific had 20.72, Wes Welker had 18.40 and Steven Ridley went for a second-straight 25 burger. That's 64.22 from the three, or an average of roughly 21.4 per Pat. That write-in draft pick Alfred Morris had another 15 points this week (that's 21.6. 8.9, 14.8, 18.9 and 16.5 through five weeks, if you're scoring at home). Lawrence Tynes was the only other dub-fig, with 11 points. Domenik Hixson had an 'ugh' 5 points and Eric Decker had an 'eh' 8.10, but those two are not matter. Amy keeps rolling behind her New Englanders. And if you're asking who's matched up against Amy the week of the Pats' bye, that would be me (in Week 9, Oct. 30-Nov. 5). That was literally the highlight of my fantasy week. That.
Da Bears had big days from the Chicago D/ST (31 points) and Daniel Thomas (21.80 points), but it was all quiet up and down the line-up from there. Ryan 'The Amish Rifle” Fitzpatrick had a shoot-himself-in-the-foot 3.14, MJD had a where-were-you 5.90 points and Jordy Nelson, the king of inconsistency, had 2.90 points. Stevie Johnson had 3.90 and Jermichael Finley continued his awful season with 1.10. Michael Turner had 12.90 points in a 24-17 win in Washington. Not a bad performance from that barrel-legged DUI machine, but nonetheless, Wii Todd's squad falls to 2-3.
NEXT UP: Patriots vs. 49ers
NEXT UP: Da Bears vs. Stairway to Seven
Chiefs 132.32, Boondock Saints 105.76
From the Toilet Bowl to 2-3, everyone welcome Matt's Chiefs back into contention. It's no surprise, either, that the resurgence of the Chiefs has been behind No. 1 overall pick Aaron Rodgers, who had 31.42 points to back up his bounce-back 38-burger from Week 4. Rodger's previous high before that was 28 way back in Week 1. Trent Richardson continued his Fantasy Rookie of the Year-like season with 18.8 (that makes a total of 79.2 for Richardson through five games, including a 4 point dud in Week 1). Martellus Bennett had 4 points in a game where he played through a hyperextended knee (tests coming this week to determine his out time, if any) and James Jones continued his pace as Rodger's favorite target this season in Green Bay's Greg Jennings-less offense with 17.60 points Sunday.
Boondock's 105 points were the second lowest in the league (still roughly 23 POINTS BETTER THAN ME) in a rather low scoring Week 5, ignoring, of course, Don and his 203 points (I'd prefer to ignore that, though). Eli Manning (26.26) and Curtis Lofton (12.50) were the only dub-fig performers in the 13-man starting line-up. Not-officially-hurt-he-just-plays-like-he's-hurt Jeremy Maclin continues to fall on his face week after week, this time with 3.90 points. Andre Johnson had just one catch (and just SIX targets) against the Jets in the Texans' win on Monday Night Football, playing in, statistically speaking, the most run-heavy offense in the NFL. Willis McGahee was held to 8.20 in New England and Cedric Benson ended up in a walking boot after 4.10 points and a sprained left foot in Indianapolis (Benson, by the way, has been officially ruled out for Sunday night's game against Houston). Brian Hartline had 5.90 points, that's just 35.6 points less than his ball out performance last week.
NEXT UP: Chiefs vs. Packers
NEXT UP: Boondock Saints vs. Bear Down Brawlers
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POWER RANKINGS
Pl. | Team | Record | Points For | Points Against
1. Packers | 4-1 | 708.30 | 632.34
Drew Brees is a baaaaaaaaaaad man.
2. Sawyers Shinobi's | 4-1 | 677.06 | 565.46
Who needs Cam Newton, anyway?
3. Patriots | 4-1 | 614.90 | 594.26
Tom Brady. Wes Welker. Steven Ridley. Period.
4. Bear Down Brawlers | 3-2 | 705.24 | 636.32
Brawlers dropped 203 points in Week 5. The same week Decatur scored 83.
5. Ben There Raped That | 3-2 | 666.32 | 585.50
Oh, Chris Johnson.
6. Decatur Staleys | 3-2 | 616.38 | 665.40
Decatur scored 83 points in Week 5. The same week the Brawlers dropped 203. #FAIL
7. Da Bears | 2-3 | 662.52 | 677.32
Chicago's D/ST has scored five (5!!!) touchdowns in five games.
8. Boondock Saints | 2-3 | 620.16 | 630.42
Andre Johnson's fantasy free fall continues.
9. Chiefs | 2-3 | 591.08 | 659.50
Aaron Rodgers looks like the discount double checker of old. He's not a dancer, he's a QB.
10. Stairway to Seven | 1-4 | 720.26 | 756.44
Eric put it best in the league message board: “No. 1 in total points ... 1-4 record.”
11. Gronk Smash! | 1-4 | 656.64 | 688.08
Someone always goes off against Scott. This week that someone was the Rams D/ST.
12. 49ers | 1-4 | 568.14 | 725.66
49ers break into the W column with a negative-burger in the lineup. Just to spite Scott.
And one for the road: