Week 2 Re-Cap

I might not be the smartest guy in the world, but I know there are just certain things you don’t do in life. Like advice. You don’t ignore advice if 1) the advice comes from a relative and 2) if the advice was meant for something good, like win a fantasy football game. But more on that later. You also don’t count out winners. In fact, you should relish winners and bathe in the confidence they ooze in hopes that some of what they have will seep onto you. That’s why, during my week two predictions, I said what I said about Tom Brady. As if the Patriots need something to motivate them, they played this weekend like it was them against the world because of all of so called “distractions” from last week. With all of that said, let’s get to the Week 2 re-cap.

Virginia Revolution vs. BadAss Bills: Game of the Week
Back to the advice thing. Friday while doing some last minute checking on the teams before heading off for the weekend, I noticed that the Virginia Revolution was starting Maurice Jones-Drew. This kid is a one year wonder who made fantasy owners very happy last year. But this is a new year and he is pressing and pressing hard. So I text messaged the coach of the Revolution. By the way, the coach of the Revolution DID take my advice from the previous week’s re-cap and picked up Ronald Curry. But anyway, I texted him and told him he should play either Curry or the Texan’s TQB as one of his OP’s instead of Jones-Drew. I felt if he did this, he could possibly have a shot at beating the BadAss Bills, regardless of how long the shot was.

The result? Jones-Drew lit up the field by scoring a whopping 2.5 points, while Curry didn’t do much better at 5 points. But the Texans TQB scored 27 points. It’s time, league owners, to start playing a TQB at one or both of your OP’s. Think about it, which player on the field touches the ball more than anyone? The QB. So why wouldn’t you play as many as you can?

Anyway, picture this. I’m in the truck hauling ass across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I have the Future of Alabama Football with me. We are on our way to camping for the weekend for his birthday. My cell phone rings; it’s the coach of the Revolution. He tells me that he was looking at the “matchups” for this weekend and was going to play Jones-Drew since he was playing Atlanta. “Ok.” I said. “That might not be a bad match up.” But inside, I knew I was right in what I said in the text message. So I let it go.

Now, here we sit on a Monday morning and the Revolution find themselves in a 69 point hole going into tonight with the Eagles TQB and a Redskins LB yet to play. Hang it up. I predicted a 59.5 point win for the Bills, and it looks like they are going to get it. The Bills started the Patriots, Giants and Bengals’ TQB for a combined total of 93 points. As predicted, Seattle’s defense let the Bills down, as did Marshawn Lynch. But when you have just three players score almost as many points as a single team did, well, listen closely, because the fat lady is STILL singing. I said it would be ugly, and man was it.

Team Smith vs. HorHey’s Niners
I predicted last week that in order for the Niners to have a chance that Chad Johnson was going to have to have a big day. Boy did he. In a shoot out with the Browns, Johnson had a breakout game with 35 points. I also predicted that Adrian Peterson and the Patriots defense would suffer some let down from week 1. I was only partially right. Peterson dropped down to 10.5 points but the Patriots basically stuffed an “on paper” potent offense in San Diego. In a stunning upset, the Niners took it to Team Smith. I had predicted a 33 point win, but the win was by only 30.4 and it was the Niners over Team Smith. One of the fundamental rules of fantasy football is to not let your home town sentiment govern your draft choices. When you are heavy with players from one team, it is bound to come back and bite you. That’s exactly what happened to Team Smith this week. He is very Steelers heavy and had one score zero points and another 8 points. The Niners scored 68 points between Chad Johnson and Steve Smith that put them over the edge. This could have been a much closer game, but I honestly think this was a sign of things to come from the Niners.

Gnus vs. Warthogs
I won’t necessarily say the Hogs are back, but the Wart may have been refilled. I predicted a 36.5 win for the Warthogs and going into tonight, they are ahead by a whopping 65.5 points. However, the GNUS do have three players tonight vs. one for the Hogs. Doesn’t matter. The dynamic duo of Galloway and Who’s Your Momma built a strong enough lead to cover anything that happens tonight. As predicted, this was almost as exciting as the Michigan/ND game this weekend.

Syrens vs. Bailbonds
I predicted that if the Bailbonds looked past the Syrens to a week three match up with the Jimmy Peppers that they could be in for a grave let down during week two. How right I was……..sort of. In what equates to missing home plate after a home run trot and being called out, the Syrens neglected playing a team defense and lost to the Bailbonds by a measly 11.6 points. In what I thought would be a blowout victory for the Bailbonds, they suffered from several key players not performing at the level one would expect. Had the Syrens played a team defense, this would have been an even bigger upset that the Niners over Team Smith.

Jimmy Peppers vs. The Jakesters
Prediction: 91 point victory for the Peppers.
Actual: 60.3 point margin for the Peppers going into tonight.
‘Nuff Said.