There are two ways to win a fantasy football game. You can either get lucky when your opponent has a shitty scoring week or you can watch your big time players step up and justifiably get that double U. We saw each version play out this week that setup a championship title between two dudes that haven’t been there for a long time or ever.
#1 You Done Messed with A-Aron vs. #5 Team Tecmo
Benching Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers in fantasy football is a felonious way to manage a team but it might’ve been the smart move for both Meyer and Marvel this week. Of course, I’m saying this with the benefit of hindsight but both of these QB’s had a few question marks attached to them this week and they both combined for 19.2 points on an ugly Sunday semifinal matchup. Brady didn’t complete his first pass until the second quarter and he was more than happy to run some clock and play it safe at Mile High all day. Brady was held in check while also defeating the Broncos, which was a lose-lose scenario for Jeff and basically crushed any chances of Meyer winning while simultaneously putting a significant dent in the Broncos chances for a repeat. Rodgers’ stat line does not tell the true story as he suffered from two horrendous Devante Adams touchdown drops and Aaron handed it off around the goalline, limiting his point potential and causing this reaction from Devante Adams at Soldier Field and probably from Chris wherever he was watching football.
#1 You Done Messed with A-Aron vs. #5 Team Tecmo
Benching Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers in fantasy football is a felonious way to manage a team but it might’ve been the smart move for both Meyer and Marvel this week. Of course, I’m saying this with the benefit of hindsight but both of these QB’s had a few question marks attached to them this week and they both combined for 19.2 points on an ugly Sunday semifinal matchup. Brady didn’t complete his first pass until the second quarter and he was more than happy to run some clock and play it safe at Mile High all day. Brady was held in check while also defeating the Broncos, which was a lose-lose scenario for Jeff and basically crushed any chances of Meyer winning while simultaneously putting a significant dent in the Broncos chances for a repeat. Rodgers’ stat line does not tell the true story as he suffered from two horrendous Devante Adams touchdown drops and Aaron handed it off around the goalline, limiting his point potential and causing this reaction from Devante Adams at Soldier Field and probably from Chris wherever he was watching football.
91.6 total points is below average and you might want to call Chris lucky for advancing but if Adams catches those two passes, it adds at least another 27 points to Chris’s total and suddenly he looks like a juggernaut football squad. Meyer seriously could’ve put his receivers in a bingo spinner and pulled out two names at random as all of this WR’s were probably ranked within 18-35 this week and all of them were equally capable of scoring within 3-15 points. Meyer decided to go with Diggs and Crowder, which didn’t work out but it’s hard to point the finger at Granger for not identifying the best WR duo because they were all so equally matched. Chris will saunter into the Fantasy Bowl for the first time since 2006 winners of eight in a row and a 9.5 point favorite according to the early lines in Las Vegas. Chris’s winning streak has been aided by the fact that only one of his opponents has scored over 100 points against him but as the 11 other teams would bitterly call Ch. Marvel lucky for this run, Chris would remind you that he’s been the unluckiest owner in the league when it comes to points against and you can take your bitterness, roll it up real tight, and shove it straight up your candy ass.
#3 I’m Your Huckleberry vs. #7 Dick Tickling Cock Jockeys
We talked about how Meyer and Chris might’ve thought twice about starting their stud QB based on the potential downside but Dave Cress could’ve seriously considered bencing Drew Brees all week based on his craptastic two weeks leading up to a game against the seemingly decent Cardinals D on the road, where Brees has struggled. Just when Dave thought Brees couldn’t be any dumber, Drew decided to go out to Scottsdale...
#3 I’m Your Huckleberry vs. #7 Dick Tickling Cock Jockeys
We talked about how Meyer and Chris might’ve thought twice about starting their stud QB based on the potential downside but Dave Cress could’ve seriously considered bencing Drew Brees all week based on his craptastic two weeks leading up to a game against the seemingly decent Cardinals D on the road, where Brees has struggled. Just when Dave thought Brees couldn’t be any dumber, Drew decided to go out to Scottsdale...
with 37.2 fantasy points. This is an example of why fantasy owners shouldn’t bench the studs that got them there and Brees was even kind enough to throw a couple of nice balls to Brandin Cooks, allowing him to race the endzone twice and compile 30.6 fantasy points all by himself. I thought that this game would be won thanks to big time performances from star players, but I thought it would be from Castillo’s team. Getting 13.1 points from a running back shouldn’t be considered a disaster by any means but the way Le’Veon Bell has been playing, that amount was disappointing for Castillo. Devonta Freeman picked up the ball as the big scoring back but he got little help elsewhere as Derek Carr was happy to settle for FG’s and Carlos Hyde’s numbers suffered from playing on a shitty team with a shitty defense, limiting his carries. Dave will get to experience his first Fantasy Bowl ever while Castillo gets to experience getting outplayed by a high scoring team instead of being on the right side of that whooping, like he’s been so often lately.
Christopher Marvel hasn’t won a D12 title since 2002 and David Cress hasn’t won a D12 title since the inception of mankind so we will come back here in a few days and allow them to read a D12 Fantasy Bowl preview that they might actually care about this time.
Christopher Marvel hasn’t won a D12 title since 2002 and David Cress hasn’t won a D12 title since the inception of mankind so we will come back here in a few days and allow them to read a D12 Fantasy Bowl preview that they might actually care about this time.