Week 1 recap

Death is extremely busy with the playoff bound O's so he asked for substitutes.  What he got was Dan and Hittner giving their extremely biased and often insulting points of view for the public to see.

Match up of the week - The Hand - 110.16 def. The Commish - 80.34

Dan on Death - After being caught multiple times roster-bating at the draft, Death went into this opening weekend with high hopes. His starters did little to get excited about, but I'm sure he has a rager from the thoughts of Julio and Robert leading his team, while Rivers' future as a starter is left in question.

Dan on Pitz - That sneaky fuzzy Italian... Wins the weekly incentive, has over 30 points in WR's riding the pine, his defense scores -2 points (seriously, Buffalo?), and he puts up 110 points.  Watch out for Pitz if you have him coming up soon, he looks scary good.  (leaked photo of Pitz after the 1:00pm games Sunday)

 

Hittner Recap- So did I jinx the commish or what? Declared hm my preseason favorite to win it all, and placed him atop my power rankings...My bad...I still love what he did in the draft, but potential “breakout” players don't necessarily breakout immediately, so we will see how things progress for the commish. Now Mr. Pitonzo, his decision to go for Matt Ryan looks potentially great. His man-crush on Brandon Marshall is off to a great start and overall, looked like one of the best teams in the league in week 1. And as Dan pointed out, VERY deep at WR. Is 110 the most points scored in IDP history with 1 started contributing a negative number? Can we get the Elias Sports Bureau on that?

Dan - 95.06 def. Peach - 86.12

Dan on Dan - The keepers came to play, that's all I can say.  23 from Drew, 19 from Arian, and 12 from Rob accounting for almost 60% of Dan's total points.  Mike and Mike (Wallace and Bush) offered some solid support for the opening weekend with 9.7 and 16.2.  Dan has Peach's number that's for sure.  4-0 all time after this weekend, they'll meet again week 12 as Dan attempts to continually knock down Peach and get win #5

Dan on Peach - Gotta be excited about the return of Peyton and for Demarco's performance.  MJD will come around, WR's are solid, but this week 1 loss had to leave Peach with his head shaking.  It doesn't get much easier in the next few weeks for Peach with games against Hittner and Titus, it could be a slow start to the season for our reigning cellar dweller.

Hittner Recap- Well...Peach outscored me...Peyton played very well as Dan said, but will never live up to his lofty status as the first ever draft pick in IDP history...And Peach will never stop hearing about this...Although wasnt the RB formerly known as CJ2K the other highly coveted option there? For the record I was in the “If I draft #1 overall I'm taking Adrian Peterson” boat that year. So I feel good about that. As for Dan. His on again off again relationship with Mike Wallace returned. Very respectable numbers for a guy who only practiced 2-3 times prior to the game. Dan's beloved backups RB's Michael Bush and Ben Tate...well...they are backups...

Titus - 138.58 def. Kirby - 80.90

Dan on Titus - I hate Titus so much.  Not even a little bit, it's complete and utter hatred.  He just sits there all pompous and puts up 138 points.  His only player not in double digits?  His kicker with 7.  Romo 24.48, fuck you, Megatron 11.1, fuck you, Reggie Wayne 13.5 (SERIOUSLY REGGIE WAYNE!?), fuck you, Ray Rice 21.3, okay that was cool, Run DMC 11.8, fuck you, Vernon Davis 10.3, fuck you, Kevin Smith 21.1, fuck you, and the Baltimore defense with 18!!  I can only imagine what Titus looked like watching his team dominate...... yeah, that seems accurate.

Dan on Kirby - If I were Kirby I would have been terrified to look at the final score of this one.  I mean Kirby's team had a decent day.  17 from Gore, 11.5 from Reggie Bush, good numbers from his bench... Kirby will be alright in the future, I truly believe that, he just tried to approach the beast calmly this week and Titus let him have it.

Hittner Recap- 21.1 from Kevin Smith??? Seriously??? Titus has picked up right where he left off...And so have the rest of us...Does anyone even like Titus anymore? He is definitely the “heel” of the IDP (do we have a babyface anywhere???) Every player Titus starts turns to fantasy gold...Kirby...he has a good team. A playoff contender...But nobody is touching Titus right now...On the bright side, hopefully someone on Titus' team will get hurt (NOT RAY RICE) … That would be ideal

Hittner - 85.72 def. Lars - 83.70

Dan on Hittner - Got away with a close one!  Fred Jackson out for a month.  Don't worry too much for Hittner he has CJ Spiller on the bench that only put up 23.4 points, I think he'll be fine until Fred returns.  Hakeem was a little disappointing but the big conundrum is who does Hittner start at QB?  Eli is solid but suddenly Cutler with all his weapons looks a lot more dangerous then in years past.

Dan on Lars - Lars is all talk, no bite.  He had to be excited to see Demaryius put up big numbers in week 1.  Stafford will be better than what we saw this week, but in order for Lars to succeed something needs to happen in the RB position.  3.2 from Turner and 4.4 from Richardson definitely hurt.

Hittner Recap- I was thrilled to come away with a W here after grossly mismanaging my roster. Not neccesarily my fault, I mean you cant project a player getting knocked out early (Fjax), but we pulled out just enough to get the W over a feisty Larsen. I am excited about knowing Spiller will be the go-to guy in Buffalo for a few weeks. I am NOT excited that Sproles had 1 carry, on a 2-pt conversion attempt. I like having a QB controversy. I went with Cutler as my backup expecting Chicago to be greatly improved on offense, and in week 1 they certainly were. For Larsen, his RBs underachieved, and there was Beanie sitting on his bench, injured, as usual...That could come forth to be a serious problem. He needs Stafford to get back to playing like last years version, and he might be the zunstoppable force again?

Will - 101.02 def. Jason - 82.18

Dan on Will - Jason updated his slogan from "You Best Protect Ya Neck!!!" to "Protect Ya Neck kid!!!" before this match-up.... an obvious and necessary update if you were to ask me.  Regardless, Will took his advice and did just that watching Rodgers go for 23.82, 'quan 12.6, Jimmy 14.5, and the Law Firm 15.5.  The icing on the cake was Nate Kaeding throwing down a solid 18 points to finish off Jason and leave Will overcome with joy..

Dan on Jason - Honestly, I'm surprised.  I'm surprised and shocked that Jason's team scored over 80 points.  How'd he get there?  19.88 from Vick, 11.6 from LeSean, Houston put up 15, Gostkowski added 10, and 11.8 points from a Doug Martin player that I'm sure Jason is still ecstatic he out witted Death for.  All in all, I don't see Jason scoring much more than this in any given week the rest of the season.

Hittner Recap- Jason isn't necessarily a “heel”, he's just incompetent so we all want him to suffer for his stupidity. For public record I will say, Jason, I love you man! And I mean that. You make this league so entertaining. When he loses Shady and Vick after this season, there will be trouble afoot. His Doug Martin theft came in handy. But my favorite thing about this matchup? Who finished off Jason? Nate Kaeding...the kicker he had on his roster last preseason, when he decided to ADD a second kicker and drop Sproles, who led Dan to the Finals...Jason later dropped Kaeding before week 1. In my mind, Nate Kaeding knew this, and wanted to make sure he stuck it to Jason Pack this weekend...and stick it to him he did! BJGE's running performance bodes well for Will's potential this season, Boldin is an animal, my love for him is unrivaled, his TD “catch” was glorious. The funny thing, Rodgers didn't even play “that” well. Will's team may be capable of much more.

Alec - 90.34 def. Stilt - 62.22

Dan on Alec - Alec got lucky this week with poor roster setting from Stilt.  Don't get me wrong he still put up 90 points but sometimes you need luck to succeed.  Alec had all his old favorites show up for the week 1 party.  Brady, Percy, Ahmad, and Aaron Hernandez all in double digits.  Alec looks again to be a formidable opponent on any given weekend.  It should be noted that Alec is the first person to complete the league "Collect'em All".  He has successfully beaten every team at least once with his victory over Stilt this weekend.  Congrats Alec, we're proud of you!

Dan on Stilt - "Oh I'm sorry, I was too busy making sure a nuclear power plant didn't melt down so that you all had energy to watch your precious football games that I didn't even take this week seriously ." said Stilt, always.  Could Stilt have won this game? Yes.  But that's just his mentality.  He'd rather put more thought into how to ice you at the draft than his weekly roster.  Yeah, he had the lowest score this week, but do you honestly think that bothers him?  I think Stilt will make you pay if you take him lightly...