If you guys ever listen to my rants then you will know that I HATE how wrapped up the world gets in Christmas, but yet everyone is so willing to let Thanksgiving just slip away. Thanksgiving is the best holiday ever! Ever! Lets look at it for a second. We sit around, watch football and eat, well, everything! Nobody is forced to spend hundreds (if not more) on presents, and don't get me started on the whole wrapping thing. I don't even think I have anymore points I need to make. Well with that being said, and after reading a few articles that were based on Thanksgiving, I'm going to give it a shot this week to give my dedication to two of my favorite things; Thanksgiving and Infinite Dena Power! As I go down the standings and recap each team, I'm also going to try and match up the team to what part of Thanksgiving they would be. I have no idea how this is going to go.
White Rice - Dan - The Dallas Cowboys - Lets be honest, unless you're a Dallas Cowboys fan you always root against this team and that's exactly how everyone in this league feels about Dan. Nobody should be surprised, I dedicated a whole blog to Dan being the villian! Just as annoying as it is to hear Jerry Jones talk about how great his stadium is or hear about "Americas Team" its just as annoying to hear Dan talk about drafting Arian Foster or that he has Brandon Lloyd and Kyle Orton. Sadly unlike the current Cowboys Dan is actually backing up his talk. The three players I just listed combined for roughly 50 points in the demolishing of Alec. Hmmm maybe Dan is the 90's Dallas Cowboys when they were winning all the championships....you know what lets just wait and see. He could actually be the Tony Romo lead Cowboys who struggle to win playoff games. I know that's what we are all hoping for.
Velour Fog - Titus - Stuffing - In my personal opinion stuffing is the best part about Thanksgiving Dinner. I know for a fact I'm going to have at least 5 helpings of it tomorrow, and that's not even counting all the sandwiches I'm going to be making that includes this delicious carb. With that being said Titus has to be listed as one of the favorites going into the playoffs. He has already clinched with two weeks still to go, and is in prime position to get a first round bye. His pick up's of Mike Thomas and Chicago D has just made this well drafted team into a dominate force. Keep in mind Titus doesn't even worry about starting Matt Forte, a player who probably is an every week starter on a lot of our teams. I'm pretty sure Peach is more excited about the stuffing he is having right now at the PTI set, then the match up he has this week.
Grundy Grabbers - Alec - Mashed Potatoes - Not as good as the stuffing, but you know your slopping a huge pile of this on your plate tomorrow. Alec has already clenched a playoff birth, even if it did come with a loss to Dan. Not a bad time for the Grabbers to lock up the playoffs with match ups against Death and Hittner, two surging potential playoff teams, to end the season. Just like mashed potatoes you know they are going to be there at dinner tomorrow night, you know you're going to have some, you just have to hope its going to be the delicious thick kind that could be the best part of dinner and not the sloppy watered down stuff that you push off to the side of your plate.
Do You Like Apples - Hittner - Pumpkin Pie - Starting to get that feeling that this team is going to be around at the end of the night arnt ya? Hittner has been on a sweet run to finish out the season winning 7 of his last 9 games riding players like Roddy White, Peyton Hillis and Maurice Jones-Drew. In this past weeks high score of 137.64 those three players combined for over 65 points! Roddy White's 10.3 was the second lowest score! Top off this pie with a little bit of whip cream, or Aaron Rodgers if you will, and you got one delicious treat.
The Heaphopapotomus - Death - Red Wine - Or white if that's your thing. Sadly I'm not going to enjoy writing this, but here's the thing about wine on Thanksgiving, everyone has a glass or two at dinner but then everyone moves on to beer or some cocktail for the rest of the night. That's kinda how this team is looking right now. Big win over Stilt which has improved their chances to make the playoffs but nobody is really going to expect them to hang around. Not sure how long you can lean on Danny Woodhead and a kicker and expect to come home with a championship. Hope I'm wrong, I hope this year everyone gets floored with Merlot, but I'm betting I'm drinking Coors Light tomorrow.
Motor Boaters - Stilt - Thanksgiving Day Macy's Parade - Every year the Parade goes off while people are finishing the last minute baking or waiting for the rest of the guests to arrive. People love the parade in the morning, but by the time dinner comes around nobody is talking about it any more. Remember when Stilt was one of the best teams in this league? Feels like forever ago. Stilt has given two wins away to Kirby and Death by not setting his line up, and now his playoff hopes are on the line with match ups against Hittner and Larsen (no easy matches). You ask me, well see some more performances out of Matt Ryan and Andre Johnson, but just like after we see Spiderman and Underdog past by we wont hear from the this team again till next years draft.
nephew w/out the n - Kirby - Beer - How fitting is it that our own little brewer's team is just like beer? As I mentioned earlier with alcohol wine is perfect for the meal, but not the whole day. Once the decision is made that people are going to drink, they are going to be drinking beer all night long! Kirby has the most points for his team of everyone in the 6-5 and 5-6 cluster meaning the tiebreaker is all his. His next two match ups are favorable as he goes against Pitz and Jason...though didn't he lose to both of them earlier in the year? Ethier way Kirby, Dwayne Bowe and Frank Gore all control their own destiny. All they need to do is convince the dinner feast to crack the first beer and enjoy a Kirby homebrew out of the Dena mug!
face. - Peach - Turkey - This one is too easy. He drafted Peyton Manning first, overall, in a keeper league. Take a look at his team right now. Injuries have just started to decimate Peach. His running backs are a Redskins' rookie (Keiland Williams), a third stringer on the Lions (Maurice Morris) and LT's spell back (Shonn Green). This team was leaning on two young receivers, DeSean Jackson and Hakeem Nicks, but now Nicks is out for the next 3 weeks. Not looking good for Peach for the playoffs. Quick sidebar, how great is it that Peach had to find a list of this years "turkeys" for PTI and I flip it a few hours later and call him one! Ahhh I'm so clever...
Gunners Treble - Lars - Apple Pie - Well it could be any other dessert that people bring that you still eat any other day of the year. What usually happens is there is so much food all over the place and your stuffing your face with all the classic Thanksgiving food like Turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, veggies, mashed potatoes and left over sandwiches that you completely forget about the extra desserts. That has kind of been the season for Lars, very forgettable. . Quick right now name 3 players on Lar's team. I got one right before I went back and checked. Wait, what was I talking about, I forgot again.....
Just the Tip Drill - Pitz - Cranberry Sauce - This was the hardest one for me to come up with, but I think I got it. This team was awful all year, but there was a lot of good moves which lead to a vast improvement and may even lead to a big turnaround next season. So here's how I see it, you ethier love or hate cranberry sauce. No inbetween. If you see this as a turn around season and a glass half full view for next year, you love it, if you see it as a waste of a year and team already eliminated from playoff contention well then you think cranberry sauce is just crap out of a can.
ProtectYourNeck - Jason - Detroit Lions - Everyone roots for the Lions on Thanksgiving! How can you root for them to lose, come on! Just like they had Barry Sanders, Jason has Flacco (a player most of us want to see do well). Jason is the antiDan. Nobody gets mad at him because he's so non-threatening. Also like the Detroit Lions, Jason's biggest question about his season is does he end up with the number 1 pick. Hmm these are getting shorter, must be ready to wrap it up.
crash and burn - Will - Naps -Kind of like what you do whenever you see Will on your schedule, you relax, curl up, close your eyes and know everything is going to be ok. Everyone loves the Thanksgiving nap, just like everyone loves crash and burn on their schedule. It could be the most important part of Thanksgiving. You get the nap, refresh and go right back to work with the good food. Same with the Buffalo Wills!
Ok everyone now that we are all starving and ready for the best dinner of the year I leave you with these seven words:
"Nobody tell Stilt football is on tomorrow"
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Week 10 Recap
So yea I guess we should have a week 9 recap around here somewhere, well I don't, sorry. I decided instead to go to Atlanta to watch the Ravens defense lose the lead with a minute left in the game. It's not easy for me to process not having a dominant defense...in reality, I think we all know I sure don't have a dominant defense in fantasy. Well while some of us were in Atlanta something important happened, the trade deadline ended. That's right, whatever terrible team you have, well you're stuck with it. Some of us took note to this realization after the draft and actually did do something to make their "franchise" better. LETS TAKE A LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!
9/12/10 - Death gets Wes Welker/Kirby gets Dwayne Bowe
The first trade of the season happened before the season even started. Kirby saw a problem with having two receivers on the same team (Moss was the other, oh what little did he know) meaning they were both going to have the same bye week. Death saw both receivers as gambles. Welker having the knee surgery the year before, and Matt Cassel having no idea Dwayne Bowe actually played on the same team as him. Well within two weeks Wes Welker had 3 touchdowns and showed no signs of the knee being a problem at all, while Matt Cassel had still YET to be introduced to D-Bowe. After week 3 that changed, and changed quickly. The story basically goes Randy Moss left so defenses started paying more attention to Welker, and Dwayne Bowe has gone OFF! Right now the head to head scoring isn't even close Dwayne Bowe 115 to Wes Welker 63.4.
Winner - Kirby EASSSSSSSILY.
9/27/10 - Pitz gets Steve Smith (Carolina)/Dan gets Chad Ochocinco
Another swap of wide receivers, although for the life of me I cant remember why this deal happened. At first I thought it was because both receivers struggled out of the gate, but here are both receivers numbers for week one and two; Steve Smith 13.5, 12.6 Chad Ochocinco 21.9, 4.4. I'm not going to speak for either player but I will point out that Steve Smith has been dropped and Dan has been trying to trade Ochocinco for 85 cents on the dollar. What I do know though is that Steve Smith didn't cost me a loss, but Ochocinco did have one of his best weeks against me in a week that I lost to Dan by 1 point and he got the start only because a worker at Verizonwireless thought Ocho was cute and that Dan should start him. Feel free to scroll down and read my blog about how everyone in the league hates Dan.
Winner- Push, but somehow I'm the loser again.
9/27/2010 - Pitz gets Mike Wallace/Kirby gets Marion Barber III
Typical I need a receiver you need a running back move. At the time the Cowboys were struggling and Ben Rapelisberger was still suspended. Seems like there wouldn't be much to talk about.....BUT WAIT! Ladies and gentleman, I bring you the Fifagate trade! This trade, and the trade above somehow didn't go through for what seemed to be 8 days later and Pitz was unable to start Mike Wallace who scored 21.9 points that week. Instead of Pitz getting his second win of the season, he had to wait 6 weeks later! Oh and did you know Pitz was playing Dan that week? Seriously go back and read about how everyone hates Dan.
Winner - Kirby by default
10/2/10 - Death gets Hines Ward and Hittner's 11th round pick/Hittner gets Micheal Crabtree and Death's 6th round pick
FIRST TRADE INVOLVING DRAFT PICKS! Can we all look back at this trade in 10 years and reflect on how historic it really was? Not everyone was fully aware of how moving picks would work or for that point what value does each round have. All in all when determining the value of this trade there really isn't much. Hittner couldn't stand having Hines Ward on his team any longer, and Death was looking for a receiver since both of his starters had their bye on week 4. It just made sense to unload both. Since then Ward has been traded and Crabtree hasn't had a start yet.
Winner - Push. Death got the upgrade at the position and Hittner jumped 5 rounds in the draft.
10/9/10 - Peach gets Ryan Torain/Hittner gets Jeremy Maclin
Hittner killed the waiver wire at the running back position by getting guys like Peyton Hillis and Ryan Torain, both of which have proven to be very productive starters for their real life teams when they had plenty of questions about them prior to their first game. There wasn't as many questions about Jeremy Maclin who was emerging as a bright young wide receiver on a team notorious for throwing the ball. That throwing team is also the same team that Peach has an unhealthy obsession with, which kind of shows how desperate Peach was for a starting running back. Since joining Face. Torain has scored 6.9, 22.9, 10.5, 8.9, and Monday night's goose egg. Maclin in that same time scored 9.5, 27.9, 5.6, 4.8 and 15.0. Even thought Peach got the much needed upgrade at the running back position, Hittner took a bench player and got himself a starting wide receiver.
Winner - Hittner
10/10/10 - Death gets TJ Houshmandzadeh and Will's 4th round pick/Will gets Hines Ward
Crazy date! Crazy reaction to the trade! At first there was alot of talk about vetoing this trade due to unfairness. This trade should remind everyone that we have a TWELVE ROUND DRAFT not 15. Either way the break down goes like this Will got a producing wide receiver who starts for him and Death got a solid pick for a player who was on his bench. This still appears to be a fair deal, but I'll tip the scales to Death when you notice Housh immediately got dropped and Danny Woodhead was picked up in his place.
Winner - Death (1 out of 3 aint bad!)
11/4/2010 - Hittner gets Aaron Rodgers and Will's 9th round pick/Will gets Matt Schaub and Hittner's 5th round pick
And I thought the last trade sparked controversy! For those who don't remember this is basically the "Loan Trade". The stipulation behind this deal is that Schaub and Rodgers return to their original owners at the end of the season. This trade was not allowed to be vetoed this year, but it will be questioned at the GM summit next season. Is loaning fair? Should it continue? Do I still think Will should have tried to get a 4th round pick at least? Not answering any of the questions here.
Winner - Push. Hittner made the run for the championship, Will came up with a clever way to rebuild next year (Side Bar: If Hittner does win because of this pick he should be named the winner)
11/5/2010 - Pitz gets Micheal Vick, Randy Moss, Kirby's second round pick/Kirby gets Anquan Boldin and Carson Palmer
This was the trade for the hottest commodity on the trade block, Anquan Boldin. Numerous owners offered different packages to Pitz (no homo) for Q, but you cant really question him for taking this one. He now has more picks in the first and second round then anyone else, and potentially picked up two keepers depending how Vick and Moss play out the rest of the season (and any offseason moves). Kirby did get a play making wr he needed, but after the way Vick has been playing since his injury PLUS the early pick Kirby gave up, you have to wonder if he gave a way a bit too much. I should also mention that any team that has Carson Palmer is worse just by association. Just saying.
Winner - Pitz
11/5/2010 - Pitz gets Jabar Gaffney and Dan's 5th round pick/Dan gets Mike Wallace and Pitz's 8th round pick
Just me or is Pitz on this list ALOT?!? So Pitz gets a 3 round jump, but Dan gets a difference making WR for his playoff push. Since the trade Gaffney had his bye week and then was able to join in on the beat up on the Chiefs for 11.7 points. Mike Wallace on the other hand has gone OFF! 17 and 25.6 points. Everyone knew Wallace would be better as the season went on and yet he was traded twice this season! Seems like a no brainer that Dan is the winner here, BUT HES NOT! Mike Wallace has been a cancer to Pitz's team all year. Since the trade Pitz is 2-0, coincidence?
Winner - Push
11/12/2010 - Pitz gets Thomas Jones and Dan's 10th round pick/Dan gets Cedric Benson and Pitz's 12 round pick
Dan and Pitz trade together a lot! Pitz will be finished drafting before the 12 round thanks to this deal, and Dan got what he views as an upgrade at the running back position. Did he though? As of right now Benson has 92.7 points to Jones' 79.3. Benson's schedule has BUF, NYJ, NO, PITT, CLE, SD, BAL to end the season, Jones on the other hand has ARI, SEA, DEN, SD, STL, TEN, OAK. Much easier stretch going into the playoffs. Seeing as how Pitz upgraded his draft status for a pretty even rb swap he gets this win in my book.
Winner - Pitz
Just as the tradedeadline has past so has this portion of the blog....RANKINGS BITCHES!
White Rice - Dan - Well Alec's run up top didn't last long. Dan took out all of his frustration from the Larsen loss on long time friend Stilt. Dan can thank Kyle Orton 27.74, Mike Wallace 25.6, Brandon Lloyd 21.00 and CJ2K 18.4 for a 125 point dick slap that will leave paint marks all over Stilts face for the draft next year. Did anyone else notice Tim Tebow playing at the end of the Broncos Chiefs game? Thanks McDaniels, you pull starters when your winning the blowout, but not losing. Yes I'm still not over my loss to Dan.
Velour Fog - Titus - "AND I WILL STRKE DOWN UPON THEE WITH GREAT VENGANCE AND FURRRRIOUS ANGER THOSE WHO WOULD ATTEMPT TO POISON AND DESTROY MY BROTHERS. AND YOU WILL KNOW I AM THE LORD WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE". Yes there were higher scores and larger differences in points but when two of the top three teams meet up and its just a massive beat down like saw, well yea I gotta throw the Pulp Fiction quote in here. Also if anyone missed it please look up the highlight that gave Jacksonville the win over the Texans. David Garrard throws up a hail mary that gets spiked right into the hands of Jacksonville receiver Mike Thomas. Who is Mike Thomas? Just some guy Titus picked up for this week and got him 22.7 points. You still think the Lord didn't have anything to do with this one?
Grundy Grabbers - Alec - Of course if Titus is Jules then Alec is Bret, the guy who gets shot up by Jules for "fucking Marsellus Wallace like a bitch". Rough rough week for Alec. Titus owned him in fantasy, and the Skins forgot to show up for the first half of Monday Night Football. Atleast the Skins locked up McNabb for 40 million (I know there are all kind of clauses now, but really what other franchise would have done what they did?). Maybe he gets his redemption in the playoffs?
Do You Like Apples? - Hittner - Soooooo close to doubling the total of his opponent! 126 points made Hittner the second highest scorer this week. Jamaal Charles, Peyton Hillis and MJD almost beat Jason single handed as they combined for 57.3 points. Roddy White joined in with 25.8 points, but I'm sure Hittner would love to give back at least 10 of those. I would love to talk about the difference that Aaron Rodgers made in this game, but he actually was on a bye! I wouldn't want to see this team any time soon.
Motor Boaters - Stilt - Uh oh! The boat is sinking!!! 3 loses in a row and another playoff implication match this week verse Death. Wait ummm no jinx. Stilt is fine. Sooooo good. Not touching this any more, moving on! Good karma, good karma, good karma!!!
nephew w/out the n - Kirby - Look at who is getting lucky now! Kirby went into the late game with a 4 point lead over Will who still had Hines Ward going. Ward gets a concussion and is not allowed to return after scoring....0 points. That lost could have been disastrous as Kirby has already lost to Jason and Pitz (who still had Mike Wallace on his team). The 4 o'clock games were quite nice to Kirby as he had Eli (22.62), D-Bowe (30.6), and Gore (21.4). 2 of those 3 players teams lost. Go garbage time points or in Frank Gore's case, overtime!
The Heaphopapotomus - Death - Bye week for Drew Brees. No backup quarterback. Vince Young injured. My choices Troy Smith, or Brett Favre. OF COURSE I TOOK TROY SMITH! A near 20 points later and I look like a genius. Steven Jackson finally scored a rushing touchdown and got me another 20 points, but week after week I think Dan Carpenter is becoming my mvp. Another double digit week from my kicker.
Face. - Peach - This matchup was really close going into Monday Night Football. Actually Peach was winning, AND had Desean Jackson on the 80 yard td to start the game! He did put it best when he pointed out he would never be happier to see a qb put up 50 points on him in fantasy. I believe him. I also believe he will be happy watching the Eagles in the playoffs since he probably won't be there for fantasy.
Gunners Treble - Big win verse Dan two weeks ago, but a let down performance this week against Death. Fitz is starting to heat up, and LT was able to pick up some extra points in the long overtime against the Browns. Matt Hasselbeck even looked promising until he injured his hand and let Charlie Whitehurst come in to play. This loss may have shut the door on Lar's season...so I want to talk about Charlie Whitehurst for a second. Has any 2nd string qb ever looked worse after having so much hype? Wait, yes, Jim Sorgi. Ah well Charlie Whitehurst sucks.
Just the Tip Drill - Pitz - Remember when he blew his team up looking towards next season and the draft? 2-0 since then and the happy owner of the Mike Vick experience that scored an amazing 49.32 points! This new squad ruined the excitement about Pitz/Jason this week. Sadly now it should just be a blowout and Pitz will get his 4th victory this season. It would be a great story if Pitz would make the playoffs, but it's probably fair to say that nobody wants to hear about this all off-season, especially since Pitz started making proclamations about being GM of the year. To me its kind of like congratulating somebody for beating their addiction with drugs. I mean yea its a good accomplishment and you should be proud, but why were you on crack to start with?
Crash and Burn - Will - That had to hurt. Despite his record Will has still been trying to win and after having a lot of his players blow up this week he had to think a win was coming his way. Knowshawn and Indy's D both had over 20 points which is a great start, but maybe next week Will will (tee hee) check and see if Mike Hart is going to play. Back to back weeks of starting an injured player is very Jasonish.
ProtectYourNeck - Jason - Speak of the devil! I know for a fact Jason doesn't read this blog as I brought up to him the other day that I dedicated and entire introduction to him and he was clueless to what I was talking about. So who cares, this team is awful #1 overall pick is coming his way and I'm going to ramble for a second. Wolverine, dirty dipers, June 14, Pinky and the Brain, Community, Foghorn Leg Horn, Skippy peanut butter, R-Kelly's doo doo butter,Annie's boobs, pop tarts, lifevest, Hulk Hogan, Peter Parker, upside down pineapple cake, left hand turns, yellow, Timothy Dalton, Leon Hall, Big Bad Voodoo Daddies,1.21 jigawatts!!!!
Next week should be INTENSE as we inch closer and closer to seeing who is in the playoffs! We know Jason and Will have been eliminated, but nobody has technically clenched. Excited to see if anything else changes next week. Now you stay classy....PLANET EARTH!
9/12/10 - Death gets Wes Welker/Kirby gets Dwayne Bowe
The first trade of the season happened before the season even started. Kirby saw a problem with having two receivers on the same team (Moss was the other, oh what little did he know) meaning they were both going to have the same bye week. Death saw both receivers as gambles. Welker having the knee surgery the year before, and Matt Cassel having no idea Dwayne Bowe actually played on the same team as him. Well within two weeks Wes Welker had 3 touchdowns and showed no signs of the knee being a problem at all, while Matt Cassel had still YET to be introduced to D-Bowe. After week 3 that changed, and changed quickly. The story basically goes Randy Moss left so defenses started paying more attention to Welker, and Dwayne Bowe has gone OFF! Right now the head to head scoring isn't even close Dwayne Bowe 115 to Wes Welker 63.4.
Winner - Kirby EASSSSSSSILY.
9/27/10 - Pitz gets Steve Smith (Carolina)/Dan gets Chad Ochocinco
Another swap of wide receivers, although for the life of me I cant remember why this deal happened. At first I thought it was because both receivers struggled out of the gate, but here are both receivers numbers for week one and two; Steve Smith 13.5, 12.6 Chad Ochocinco 21.9, 4.4. I'm not going to speak for either player but I will point out that Steve Smith has been dropped and Dan has been trying to trade Ochocinco for 85 cents on the dollar. What I do know though is that Steve Smith didn't cost me a loss, but Ochocinco did have one of his best weeks against me in a week that I lost to Dan by 1 point and he got the start only because a worker at Verizonwireless thought Ocho was cute and that Dan should start him. Feel free to scroll down and read my blog about how everyone in the league hates Dan.
Winner- Push, but somehow I'm the loser again.
9/27/2010 - Pitz gets Mike Wallace/Kirby gets Marion Barber III
Typical I need a receiver you need a running back move. At the time the Cowboys were struggling and Ben Rapelisberger was still suspended. Seems like there wouldn't be much to talk about.....BUT WAIT! Ladies and gentleman, I bring you the Fifagate trade! This trade, and the trade above somehow didn't go through for what seemed to be 8 days later and Pitz was unable to start Mike Wallace who scored 21.9 points that week. Instead of Pitz getting his second win of the season, he had to wait 6 weeks later! Oh and did you know Pitz was playing Dan that week? Seriously go back and read about how everyone hates Dan.
Winner - Kirby by default
10/2/10 - Death gets Hines Ward and Hittner's 11th round pick/Hittner gets Micheal Crabtree and Death's 6th round pick
FIRST TRADE INVOLVING DRAFT PICKS! Can we all look back at this trade in 10 years and reflect on how historic it really was? Not everyone was fully aware of how moving picks would work or for that point what value does each round have. All in all when determining the value of this trade there really isn't much. Hittner couldn't stand having Hines Ward on his team any longer, and Death was looking for a receiver since both of his starters had their bye on week 4. It just made sense to unload both. Since then Ward has been traded and Crabtree hasn't had a start yet.
Winner - Push. Death got the upgrade at the position and Hittner jumped 5 rounds in the draft.
10/9/10 - Peach gets Ryan Torain/Hittner gets Jeremy Maclin
Hittner killed the waiver wire at the running back position by getting guys like Peyton Hillis and Ryan Torain, both of which have proven to be very productive starters for their real life teams when they had plenty of questions about them prior to their first game. There wasn't as many questions about Jeremy Maclin who was emerging as a bright young wide receiver on a team notorious for throwing the ball. That throwing team is also the same team that Peach has an unhealthy obsession with, which kind of shows how desperate Peach was for a starting running back. Since joining Face. Torain has scored 6.9, 22.9, 10.5, 8.9, and Monday night's goose egg. Maclin in that same time scored 9.5, 27.9, 5.6, 4.8 and 15.0. Even thought Peach got the much needed upgrade at the running back position, Hittner took a bench player and got himself a starting wide receiver.
Winner - Hittner
10/10/10 - Death gets TJ Houshmandzadeh and Will's 4th round pick/Will gets Hines Ward
Crazy date! Crazy reaction to the trade! At first there was alot of talk about vetoing this trade due to unfairness. This trade should remind everyone that we have a TWELVE ROUND DRAFT not 15. Either way the break down goes like this Will got a producing wide receiver who starts for him and Death got a solid pick for a player who was on his bench. This still appears to be a fair deal, but I'll tip the scales to Death when you notice Housh immediately got dropped and Danny Woodhead was picked up in his place.
Winner - Death (1 out of 3 aint bad!)
11/4/2010 - Hittner gets Aaron Rodgers and Will's 9th round pick/Will gets Matt Schaub and Hittner's 5th round pick
And I thought the last trade sparked controversy! For those who don't remember this is basically the "Loan Trade". The stipulation behind this deal is that Schaub and Rodgers return to their original owners at the end of the season. This trade was not allowed to be vetoed this year, but it will be questioned at the GM summit next season. Is loaning fair? Should it continue? Do I still think Will should have tried to get a 4th round pick at least? Not answering any of the questions here.
Winner - Push. Hittner made the run for the championship, Will came up with a clever way to rebuild next year (Side Bar: If Hittner does win because of this pick he should be named the winner)
11/5/2010 - Pitz gets Micheal Vick, Randy Moss, Kirby's second round pick/Kirby gets Anquan Boldin and Carson Palmer
This was the trade for the hottest commodity on the trade block, Anquan Boldin. Numerous owners offered different packages to Pitz (no homo) for Q, but you cant really question him for taking this one. He now has more picks in the first and second round then anyone else, and potentially picked up two keepers depending how Vick and Moss play out the rest of the season (and any offseason moves). Kirby did get a play making wr he needed, but after the way Vick has been playing since his injury PLUS the early pick Kirby gave up, you have to wonder if he gave a way a bit too much. I should also mention that any team that has Carson Palmer is worse just by association. Just saying.
Winner - Pitz
11/5/2010 - Pitz gets Jabar Gaffney and Dan's 5th round pick/Dan gets Mike Wallace and Pitz's 8th round pick
Just me or is Pitz on this list ALOT?!? So Pitz gets a 3 round jump, but Dan gets a difference making WR for his playoff push. Since the trade Gaffney had his bye week and then was able to join in on the beat up on the Chiefs for 11.7 points. Mike Wallace on the other hand has gone OFF! 17 and 25.6 points. Everyone knew Wallace would be better as the season went on and yet he was traded twice this season! Seems like a no brainer that Dan is the winner here, BUT HES NOT! Mike Wallace has been a cancer to Pitz's team all year. Since the trade Pitz is 2-0, coincidence?
Winner - Push
11/12/2010 - Pitz gets Thomas Jones and Dan's 10th round pick/Dan gets Cedric Benson and Pitz's 12 round pick
Dan and Pitz trade together a lot! Pitz will be finished drafting before the 12 round thanks to this deal, and Dan got what he views as an upgrade at the running back position. Did he though? As of right now Benson has 92.7 points to Jones' 79.3. Benson's schedule has BUF, NYJ, NO, PITT, CLE, SD, BAL to end the season, Jones on the other hand has ARI, SEA, DEN, SD, STL, TEN, OAK. Much easier stretch going into the playoffs. Seeing as how Pitz upgraded his draft status for a pretty even rb swap he gets this win in my book.
Winner - Pitz
Just as the tradedeadline has past so has this portion of the blog....RANKINGS BITCHES!
White Rice - Dan - Well Alec's run up top didn't last long. Dan took out all of his frustration from the Larsen loss on long time friend Stilt. Dan can thank Kyle Orton 27.74, Mike Wallace 25.6, Brandon Lloyd 21.00 and CJ2K 18.4 for a 125 point dick slap that will leave paint marks all over Stilts face for the draft next year. Did anyone else notice Tim Tebow playing at the end of the Broncos Chiefs game? Thanks McDaniels, you pull starters when your winning the blowout, but not losing. Yes I'm still not over my loss to Dan.
Velour Fog - Titus - "AND I WILL STRKE DOWN UPON THEE WITH GREAT VENGANCE AND FURRRRIOUS ANGER THOSE WHO WOULD ATTEMPT TO POISON AND DESTROY MY BROTHERS. AND YOU WILL KNOW I AM THE LORD WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE". Yes there were higher scores and larger differences in points but when two of the top three teams meet up and its just a massive beat down like saw, well yea I gotta throw the Pulp Fiction quote in here. Also if anyone missed it please look up the highlight that gave Jacksonville the win over the Texans. David Garrard throws up a hail mary that gets spiked right into the hands of Jacksonville receiver Mike Thomas. Who is Mike Thomas? Just some guy Titus picked up for this week and got him 22.7 points. You still think the Lord didn't have anything to do with this one?
Grundy Grabbers - Alec - Of course if Titus is Jules then Alec is Bret, the guy who gets shot up by Jules for "fucking Marsellus Wallace like a bitch". Rough rough week for Alec. Titus owned him in fantasy, and the Skins forgot to show up for the first half of Monday Night Football. Atleast the Skins locked up McNabb for 40 million (I know there are all kind of clauses now, but really what other franchise would have done what they did?). Maybe he gets his redemption in the playoffs?
Do You Like Apples? - Hittner - Soooooo close to doubling the total of his opponent! 126 points made Hittner the second highest scorer this week. Jamaal Charles, Peyton Hillis and MJD almost beat Jason single handed as they combined for 57.3 points. Roddy White joined in with 25.8 points, but I'm sure Hittner would love to give back at least 10 of those. I would love to talk about the difference that Aaron Rodgers made in this game, but he actually was on a bye! I wouldn't want to see this team any time soon.
Motor Boaters - Stilt - Uh oh! The boat is sinking!!! 3 loses in a row and another playoff implication match this week verse Death. Wait ummm no jinx. Stilt is fine. Sooooo good. Not touching this any more, moving on! Good karma, good karma, good karma!!!
nephew w/out the n - Kirby - Look at who is getting lucky now! Kirby went into the late game with a 4 point lead over Will who still had Hines Ward going. Ward gets a concussion and is not allowed to return after scoring....0 points. That lost could have been disastrous as Kirby has already lost to Jason and Pitz (who still had Mike Wallace on his team). The 4 o'clock games were quite nice to Kirby as he had Eli (22.62), D-Bowe (30.6), and Gore (21.4). 2 of those 3 players teams lost. Go garbage time points or in Frank Gore's case, overtime!
The Heaphopapotomus - Death - Bye week for Drew Brees. No backup quarterback. Vince Young injured. My choices Troy Smith, or Brett Favre. OF COURSE I TOOK TROY SMITH! A near 20 points later and I look like a genius. Steven Jackson finally scored a rushing touchdown and got me another 20 points, but week after week I think Dan Carpenter is becoming my mvp. Another double digit week from my kicker.
Face. - Peach - This matchup was really close going into Monday Night Football. Actually Peach was winning, AND had Desean Jackson on the 80 yard td to start the game! He did put it best when he pointed out he would never be happier to see a qb put up 50 points on him in fantasy. I believe him. I also believe he will be happy watching the Eagles in the playoffs since he probably won't be there for fantasy.
Gunners Treble - Big win verse Dan two weeks ago, but a let down performance this week against Death. Fitz is starting to heat up, and LT was able to pick up some extra points in the long overtime against the Browns. Matt Hasselbeck even looked promising until he injured his hand and let Charlie Whitehurst come in to play. This loss may have shut the door on Lar's season...so I want to talk about Charlie Whitehurst for a second. Has any 2nd string qb ever looked worse after having so much hype? Wait, yes, Jim Sorgi. Ah well Charlie Whitehurst sucks.
Just the Tip Drill - Pitz - Remember when he blew his team up looking towards next season and the draft? 2-0 since then and the happy owner of the Mike Vick experience that scored an amazing 49.32 points! This new squad ruined the excitement about Pitz/Jason this week. Sadly now it should just be a blowout and Pitz will get his 4th victory this season. It would be a great story if Pitz would make the playoffs, but it's probably fair to say that nobody wants to hear about this all off-season, especially since Pitz started making proclamations about being GM of the year. To me its kind of like congratulating somebody for beating their addiction with drugs. I mean yea its a good accomplishment and you should be proud, but why were you on crack to start with?
Crash and Burn - Will - That had to hurt. Despite his record Will has still been trying to win and after having a lot of his players blow up this week he had to think a win was coming his way. Knowshawn and Indy's D both had over 20 points which is a great start, but maybe next week Will will (tee hee) check and see if Mike Hart is going to play. Back to back weeks of starting an injured player is very Jasonish.
ProtectYourNeck - Jason - Speak of the devil! I know for a fact Jason doesn't read this blog as I brought up to him the other day that I dedicated and entire introduction to him and he was clueless to what I was talking about. So who cares, this team is awful #1 overall pick is coming his way and I'm going to ramble for a second. Wolverine, dirty dipers, June 14, Pinky and the Brain, Community, Foghorn Leg Horn, Skippy peanut butter, R-Kelly's doo doo butter,Annie's boobs, pop tarts, lifevest, Hulk Hogan, Peter Parker, upside down pineapple cake, left hand turns, yellow, Timothy Dalton, Leon Hall, Big Bad Voodoo Daddies,1.21 jigawatts!!!!
Next week should be INTENSE as we inch closer and closer to seeing who is in the playoffs! We know Jason and Will have been eliminated, but nobody has technically clenched. Excited to see if anything else changes next week. Now you stay classy....PLANET EARTH!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Week 8
I want to thank everyone who is reading this blog right now. I would say there is a 98% chance you are in this league if you are reading this. If you are one of those people I would say there is a 100% chance you agree that this is the best league you have ever been in. Part of that reason is we have all known each other for a really long time, and are pretty good friends. I had the fortune to watch the majority of the games this Sunday with not only my good friend, but my opponent for this week, Jason Pack.
The day starts out well. Jason goes to the fridge and grabs a beer, he asks what game is on I tell him we are watching Redzone but we need to keep an eye on the Dolphins Bengals matchup. Of course Jason is fine with this, he is starting Chad Henne in fantasy, and after explaining to him that the Bengals are in our division hes now rooting against the Ravens rivals as well. We talk a little bit about the league and how he's not happy with his team and needs to make moves. Jason lets me know that he has been eyeing Steven Jackson. Right there, on the spot he offers me a third round pick in next years draft for what was the 15th overall pick last year and my second highest scorer currently. I quickly decline only for Jason to shoot out his next offer, "well, how about for Drew Brees?" I simply laugh at this request and go back to checking the fantasy scores. It should come as no surprise that I had been refreshing Yahoo's fantasy page every break in action, trying to keep up with the days scores. Some time in the second half of the 1 o'clock games I celebrate a 10 yard run from Jahvid Best (pretty sure it was his last touch of the day), which sparks a question from Jason "who am I playing today?" "Me you jackass!" We go back to watching football, rooting for our respective players and anything that I deem as positive for the Ravens (Cinci losing, Packers over Jets, ect). The 4 o'clock games start and I have a pretty healthy lead. The Chargers are driving and hand the ball off to Ryan Mathews who gets stopped at the 1 after a 9 yard gain. Next play is a hand off to Mike Tolbert, Jason's starting runningback, for a touchdown. I turn my head expecting to hear a bunch of smack only to find Jason asleep on the couch. He wakes up in time for us to watch the end of the 4 o'clock games and we get to see how Mike Tolbert is going off. Well I watched as Tolbert is killing my lead, Jason continues to cruse Scott for his terrible drafting and that he now only has backups on his team. Jason leaves before the prime time game and I'm holding on to a 64.2 to 48.38 lead. Going into the late game Jason has Marques Colston and his MVP this year Pittsburgh's defense while I'm running out my #1 pick Drew Brees (who is only worth a third round pick after keepers to some people). The first half doesn't go very well for me and Drew as I keep watching my lead over Jason dwindle. Then it happened, Drew throws an interception and ProtectYourNeck is only down by 3 points! Like clockwork my phone rings. Of course it's Jason ready to talk shit. I answer and he asks me if I'm watching "this". I do my best to be optimistic, but all I can think about is that I'm going to lose to this guy. Jason is a gimme, and I'm going to blow it (sorry Kirby). Jason goes back to talking about the game telling me "I'm pumped, been waiting to watch this show for awhile now." Show? What the hell is he watching? "The Walking Dead! I told you about this show! Why aren't you watching this?" Jason football and the World Series is on. "Oh right you and sports all the time." ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? YOU JUST CUT IT TO 3 POINTS IN FANTASY! "Whatever. Ok I'm going back to this. Talk to you later." Well after that the fantasy gods felt sorry for me and made my Halloween wish come true. The Saints and the Heaphopopotamus win and Jason and the Steelers lose. Merry Halloween everyone, lets get to the rankings!
(Please note that most of what I quoted was not exact verbatim. There were moments when I went into shock talking to him and frankly forgot the exact words he used. So in advance Jason I am sorry for not getting what you said exactly right. I would worry about him complaining, but I don't think he actually reads these.)
White Rice - Dan - Always exciting when it comes down to Monday night! Dan was very quiet during the game, but was very quick to remind all of us how much his Arian Foster mancrush has grown. Foster provided Dan with 22.7 points, and if you add that to Brandon Lloyd's 22.9 and he would have beaten Will's total for the week. Sprinkle in solid performances from Kyle Orton (17.56) and shocker Chris Johnson (14.3) and its no surprise Dan was right up there for top scorer. The Empire Strikes Back....
Grundy Grabbers - Alec - The only other 7-1 team was able to put up the largest total of the week, against the last place team. Talk about overkill. Adrian Peterson lead the way with 20.2 points, but Alec had plenty of double digit performers. Sebastian Janikowski who leads all kickers in scoring, came through with big performance putting up a 16 spot for the all of a sudden offensive juggernaut Oakland Raiders. We give a lot of the praise to Dan for his teams dominance, but if you look, Alec is only 16 points back. This will be interesting down the stretch.
Velour Fog - Titus - Not even Matthew Staffords mother was as excited as Titus was to see MattStaff back in for the Lions. Calvin Johnson is loving life again. Matt drops back looks to his left and chucks the ball up to his favorite toy. Calvin was one of the big scorers this week as he put up 28.1 points! Yes I'm salty Jahvid Best didnt get rolling...again...but after the performance Johnson had this week I'm hoping opposing defenses drop back both safeties and open up those running lanes. In that optimism I'm naming Calvin Johnson as the pimp player of the week.
Motor Boaters - Stilt - Ok ok ok I get it. You went away on vacation. Fine. But did you have to give away a victory to Kirby? A guy I'm tied with for the last playoff spot? I know Hittner agrees...and I'm sure some of the guys below us would have hoped you would have been playing them the week you wanted to say F it. True story, Stilt's bench outscored his starters. He may wanna set the roster for his match up with Titus this week.
nephew w/ out the n - Kirby - You lucky bastard. Yes I know that you scored 95 points, but I'm going to assume you would have lost if Stilt had started his team correctly and you would be behind me and Hittner and not in the way you would like. It will be interesting to see how Kirby handles the whole Randy Moss thing.* I know his team has done well this season even with him being pretty quiet, but that is still a big loss for any team just when you think about what Moss can do on any given Sunday. Big big big big matchup vrs Alec next Sunday.
*Well that was written last night and I think we all know how the Moss situation is being handled. It basically got Boldin from Pitz and prevented me from obtaining him. Awesome.
Do You Like Apples? - Hittner - Apples are hit or miss, but he does like loans! The story about this team changed dramatically yesterday afternoon when Hittner made the biggest deal to date, trading for the loan of Aaron Rodgers for the rest of the year. Schaub was serviceable throughout the season, but the Monday Night let down must not have sat well in the Hittner camp as it lead to a crucial loss to Dan. With Rodgers manning the helm now this team does not appear to have a weakness anywhere in the lineup. There are some injury concerns on the bench (Britt and Floyd) but he does have plenty of depth on his team, and really injuries to your bench are never what prevents you from winning. What can prevent you from winning is how the fantasy gods view your actions. Do the gods approve of the loan? We will see shortly...
Heaphopopotamus - Death - It's really not that hard to spell. If I can spell it anyone can.
Heap-hop-O-pot-a-mus. You'll never forget it, just like I will never forget the week that my free agent pick up at the kicker spot got me 19 points and won the week for me. Everyone not named Drew Brees underperformed this week and so Dan Carpenter drilled 5 field goals to carry me to victory. I used to love GOOOOOOULD, but now I can do with out the bling. Think about it. We are all worried about the fantasy gods and how they view our team. I had a kicker named "Gould" which of course makes you think of greed and false idols, I dropped my former kicker for a "Carpenter" and I get the win with a huge performance from him. Is he Jesus? I can't say for sure, but he will be starting for me this week vrs the Ravens.
Face. - Peach - Peach's score this week would have beaten Will and Stilt (who didn't set his line up). Awful. Peyton scored 19 points and while he continues to be succesful this team continues to struggle. At some point Peach will have to realize hes an idiot and took the wrong player with the first overall pick. I really can't drag out too much more from this other than Stilt's bench would have beaten Peach this week.
Gunners Treble - Lars - Big fall this week with the loss to Titus. In a game that had huge playoff implications Lars lost by 16 points, and started a QB, RB, and DEF who didn't play this week. Good management. With the moves that are being made by teams in the middle of the pack I don't think I see Lars making the late playoff push, you know since he won't even set his team correctly. Lars faces White Rice this week, and it may be the last matchup of any significance for him this season.
crash and burn - Will - Yup. The name pretty much described this week. Will just set a new record for all time worse week score. The mark was previously held by Pitz back in week 4 when he scored a pitiful 46.44 points. Now that Will has traded away Aaron Rodgers, the ground is the limit for just how bad his team can be.
ProtectYourNeck - Jason - I have already covered Jason a lot this week so I'm not going to spend too much more time on this team. I will point out week 11; ProtectYourNeck vrs Chaos Theory. Mark your calenders.
Chaos Theory - Pitz - Pitz would have beaten 4 teams this week, unfortunately he lost to 1. Big swing in the record books. Let's not talk about what Pitz has the least in (wins), lets talk about what he is leading this league in and that's roster moves. As of 10:53am on 11/3/10 Pitz has made 24 moves to his team, 7 more then the next highest total (Hittner, 17). Can't say the kid isn't trying, it's just not working. Remember going into your draft next year, always beat on the Bengals and Cardinals. There is no way those franchises can be bad!
Ok this is going to be a great weekend with fantasy and a large number of us seeing Tosh on Saturday night. With that in mind I say good bye, and stay tuned for more "Shorties watching Shorties".
The day starts out well. Jason goes to the fridge and grabs a beer, he asks what game is on I tell him we are watching Redzone but we need to keep an eye on the Dolphins Bengals matchup. Of course Jason is fine with this, he is starting Chad Henne in fantasy, and after explaining to him that the Bengals are in our division hes now rooting against the Ravens rivals as well. We talk a little bit about the league and how he's not happy with his team and needs to make moves. Jason lets me know that he has been eyeing Steven Jackson. Right there, on the spot he offers me a third round pick in next years draft for what was the 15th overall pick last year and my second highest scorer currently. I quickly decline only for Jason to shoot out his next offer, "well, how about for Drew Brees?" I simply laugh at this request and go back to checking the fantasy scores. It should come as no surprise that I had been refreshing Yahoo's fantasy page every break in action, trying to keep up with the days scores. Some time in the second half of the 1 o'clock games I celebrate a 10 yard run from Jahvid Best (pretty sure it was his last touch of the day), which sparks a question from Jason "who am I playing today?" "Me you jackass!" We go back to watching football, rooting for our respective players and anything that I deem as positive for the Ravens (Cinci losing, Packers over Jets, ect). The 4 o'clock games start and I have a pretty healthy lead. The Chargers are driving and hand the ball off to Ryan Mathews who gets stopped at the 1 after a 9 yard gain. Next play is a hand off to Mike Tolbert, Jason's starting runningback, for a touchdown. I turn my head expecting to hear a bunch of smack only to find Jason asleep on the couch. He wakes up in time for us to watch the end of the 4 o'clock games and we get to see how Mike Tolbert is going off. Well I watched as Tolbert is killing my lead, Jason continues to cruse Scott for his terrible drafting and that he now only has backups on his team. Jason leaves before the prime time game and I'm holding on to a 64.2 to 48.38 lead. Going into the late game Jason has Marques Colston and his MVP this year Pittsburgh's defense while I'm running out my #1 pick Drew Brees (who is only worth a third round pick after keepers to some people). The first half doesn't go very well for me and Drew as I keep watching my lead over Jason dwindle. Then it happened, Drew throws an interception and ProtectYourNeck is only down by 3 points! Like clockwork my phone rings. Of course it's Jason ready to talk shit. I answer and he asks me if I'm watching "this". I do my best to be optimistic, but all I can think about is that I'm going to lose to this guy. Jason is a gimme, and I'm going to blow it (sorry Kirby). Jason goes back to talking about the game telling me "I'm pumped, been waiting to watch this show for awhile now." Show? What the hell is he watching? "The Walking Dead! I told you about this show! Why aren't you watching this?" Jason football and the World Series is on. "Oh right you and sports all the time." ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? YOU JUST CUT IT TO 3 POINTS IN FANTASY! "Whatever. Ok I'm going back to this. Talk to you later." Well after that the fantasy gods felt sorry for me and made my Halloween wish come true. The Saints and the Heaphopopotamus win and Jason and the Steelers lose. Merry Halloween everyone, lets get to the rankings!
(Please note that most of what I quoted was not exact verbatim. There were moments when I went into shock talking to him and frankly forgot the exact words he used. So in advance Jason I am sorry for not getting what you said exactly right. I would worry about him complaining, but I don't think he actually reads these.)
White Rice - Dan - Always exciting when it comes down to Monday night! Dan was very quiet during the game, but was very quick to remind all of us how much his Arian Foster mancrush has grown. Foster provided Dan with 22.7 points, and if you add that to Brandon Lloyd's 22.9 and he would have beaten Will's total for the week. Sprinkle in solid performances from Kyle Orton (17.56) and shocker Chris Johnson (14.3) and its no surprise Dan was right up there for top scorer. The Empire Strikes Back....
Grundy Grabbers - Alec - The only other 7-1 team was able to put up the largest total of the week, against the last place team. Talk about overkill. Adrian Peterson lead the way with 20.2 points, but Alec had plenty of double digit performers. Sebastian Janikowski who leads all kickers in scoring, came through with big performance putting up a 16 spot for the all of a sudden offensive juggernaut Oakland Raiders. We give a lot of the praise to Dan for his teams dominance, but if you look, Alec is only 16 points back. This will be interesting down the stretch.
Velour Fog - Titus - Not even Matthew Staffords mother was as excited as Titus was to see MattStaff back in for the Lions. Calvin Johnson is loving life again. Matt drops back looks to his left and chucks the ball up to his favorite toy. Calvin was one of the big scorers this week as he put up 28.1 points! Yes I'm salty Jahvid Best didnt get rolling...again...but after the performance Johnson had this week I'm hoping opposing defenses drop back both safeties and open up those running lanes. In that optimism I'm naming Calvin Johnson as the pimp player of the week.
Motor Boaters - Stilt - Ok ok ok I get it. You went away on vacation. Fine. But did you have to give away a victory to Kirby? A guy I'm tied with for the last playoff spot? I know Hittner agrees...and I'm sure some of the guys below us would have hoped you would have been playing them the week you wanted to say F it. True story, Stilt's bench outscored his starters. He may wanna set the roster for his match up with Titus this week.
nephew w/ out the n - Kirby - You lucky bastard. Yes I know that you scored 95 points, but I'm going to assume you would have lost if Stilt had started his team correctly and you would be behind me and Hittner and not in the way you would like. It will be interesting to see how Kirby handles the whole Randy Moss thing.* I know his team has done well this season even with him being pretty quiet, but that is still a big loss for any team just when you think about what Moss can do on any given Sunday. Big big big big matchup vrs Alec next Sunday.
*Well that was written last night and I think we all know how the Moss situation is being handled. It basically got Boldin from Pitz and prevented me from obtaining him. Awesome.
Do You Like Apples? - Hittner - Apples are hit or miss, but he does like loans! The story about this team changed dramatically yesterday afternoon when Hittner made the biggest deal to date, trading for the loan of Aaron Rodgers for the rest of the year. Schaub was serviceable throughout the season, but the Monday Night let down must not have sat well in the Hittner camp as it lead to a crucial loss to Dan. With Rodgers manning the helm now this team does not appear to have a weakness anywhere in the lineup. There are some injury concerns on the bench (Britt and Floyd) but he does have plenty of depth on his team, and really injuries to your bench are never what prevents you from winning. What can prevent you from winning is how the fantasy gods view your actions. Do the gods approve of the loan? We will see shortly...
Heaphopopotamus - Death - It's really not that hard to spell. If I can spell it anyone can.
Heap-hop-O-pot-a-mus. You'll never forget it, just like I will never forget the week that my free agent pick up at the kicker spot got me 19 points and won the week for me. Everyone not named Drew Brees underperformed this week and so Dan Carpenter drilled 5 field goals to carry me to victory. I used to love GOOOOOOULD, but now I can do with out the bling. Think about it. We are all worried about the fantasy gods and how they view our team. I had a kicker named "Gould" which of course makes you think of greed and false idols, I dropped my former kicker for a "Carpenter" and I get the win with a huge performance from him. Is he Jesus? I can't say for sure, but he will be starting for me this week vrs the Ravens.
Face. - Peach - Peach's score this week would have beaten Will and Stilt (who didn't set his line up). Awful. Peyton scored 19 points and while he continues to be succesful this team continues to struggle. At some point Peach will have to realize hes an idiot and took the wrong player with the first overall pick. I really can't drag out too much more from this other than Stilt's bench would have beaten Peach this week.
Gunners Treble - Lars - Big fall this week with the loss to Titus. In a game that had huge playoff implications Lars lost by 16 points, and started a QB, RB, and DEF who didn't play this week. Good management. With the moves that are being made by teams in the middle of the pack I don't think I see Lars making the late playoff push, you know since he won't even set his team correctly. Lars faces White Rice this week, and it may be the last matchup of any significance for him this season.
crash and burn - Will - Yup. The name pretty much described this week. Will just set a new record for all time worse week score. The mark was previously held by Pitz back in week 4 when he scored a pitiful 46.44 points. Now that Will has traded away Aaron Rodgers, the ground is the limit for just how bad his team can be.
ProtectYourNeck - Jason - I have already covered Jason a lot this week so I'm not going to spend too much more time on this team. I will point out week 11; ProtectYourNeck vrs Chaos Theory. Mark your calenders.
Chaos Theory - Pitz - Pitz would have beaten 4 teams this week, unfortunately he lost to 1. Big swing in the record books. Let's not talk about what Pitz has the least in (wins), lets talk about what he is leading this league in and that's roster moves. As of 10:53am on 11/3/10 Pitz has made 24 moves to his team, 7 more then the next highest total (Hittner, 17). Can't say the kid isn't trying, it's just not working. Remember going into your draft next year, always beat on the Bengals and Cardinals. There is no way those franchises can be bad!
Ok this is going to be a great weekend with fantasy and a large number of us seeing Tosh on Saturday night. With that in mind I say good bye, and stay tuned for more "Shorties watching Shorties".
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