Week 1
Allllrightttyyyy, a late welcome to FFL 2014/15.
Week 1, upset city. Starting with the “should have been” champs, Lil D Ceiling Cats getting upset by DFUN. It happened last year when Peyton went for 50 in game one and DFUN still found itself in our “sacko bowl”! Unfortunately not much to make fun of on the “Good Call Coach” front. I call it a freak occurrence.
Let’s get into the other games of week 1. ESPN, the global leader in sports, clearly has their finger on the pulse of FFL projections. Let’s take a look.
1. Defending Champ “the Capt” was 28 pt favorite over the guy who tried to drop Drew Brees last year, Team Holamon. “The Capt” left 21 pts on the bench in Romo over Ryan,12 pts left on bench with Vereen instead of the former “muscle hamster” D. Martin, and 6 more for Bush playing instead of Hyde. In fact, Capt’s bench scored 94 while his starters scored 86! Good call Coach!
2. Team Pigg v the new guy DSVP. Vader Pug 28 pt favorite. Loss. Jamaal Charles, Mr Hit or Miss, missed. 2 pts, Moreno, on the bench 19pts. Pitta TE bench 8, Cameron starter 4. Probably just a bad week for the new guy.
3. And the best for last. 52 pt favorite, best starting lineup (possibly worst bench) Team Grider loses to LO. no big “Good Call Coach” moves, just absolute disappointment, Dallas Cowboy style! Sad!
Week 1 had top 4 drop to bottom 4 (projected).Projected ESPN stats horribly wrong. So please keep using them to set your lineups!!
WEEK 2
DFUN 9 pt dogs. Win to go to 2-0. With AP out for “whooping” his kid, Team LO caught a break and had 9, 12,and 23 from her RB. Unfortunately she had M. Colston’s worst game in his career with a big fat 0! DFUN was hitting on cylinders (pure fn luck) and had huge games from everyone but AJ Green, who they should drop immediately!
TEAM HOLAMON v DSVP- even, DSVP WINS. Holamon decides to start Ryan at QB and is rewarded with 9 pts over Romo’s 11. Then he starts Hyde at RB, learning his lesson, gets 0. Yep 0. Luckily A. Gates was on the bench with his 27pts over starter G Olsen’s 7. And to finish the ” Good Call Coach” award of week 2, M Ingram 16pt on bench for Vereen’s 4pts in the lineup.
Back to defending champ, “The Capt”, 16 pt fav over Team Pigg. LOSS. Cutler on bench with 25, Luck in game with 18. Forte starts, 3, Spiller sits with 12. Pigg gets huge games from Rodgers 28, RB Morris with 20 and Dez with 16. Team Capt, 0-2.
Ceiling Cats 23 pt dogs to Grider. Grider wins. Cats leave 24 on bench with Rivers as Brees continues to disappoint. 8 for Jennings while 11 sits with Stacy on bench. Cats WR continue to fail dramaticall! Grider is awarded with 15, 20, 23, 22 from his RB,RB,TE and FLEX. We can only hope injuries take their toll on his team.
RECAP- week 1, upset city,( or maybe not), week 2 some wins some lose. Former Champ 0-2, former 3rd 0-2. Week 3? We will see.
WEEK 3
Week 3 brought some sanity to the madness of an undefeated DFUN and an 0-2 Ceiling Cats and the Capt. LO, Pug, and Holamon end the week at 1-2; DFUN ties Grider at 2-1 and despite the fact that his team/head coach/GM make Jerry Jones and the Cowboys look good, Pigg remains undefeated! No one is outta this thing yet,
Adrian Peterson style WHOOPINS- the Capt v DSVP. Pug was +18 pt dawg and showed it was for a good reason by falling 100-65, slightly more than 18 pts. With J. Charles out, the Pug offense fell behind early and never recovered. He left some points on the bench with Garçon and Wilson but the Capt was rollin this weekend. Luck for 31, Maclin 21 and good days by the remainder. “Bad DeathStarVaderPug, bad boy!” could be heard disappointingly, by the Pug owner.
Second WHOOPIN- Cats -18 fav over Laces Out, final score 107-52. This was over Thursday night as Julio Jones went for 28 to start the week. Followed soon by Brees19, the Beast 24, and Waiver wire Knile Davis 17. There were coaching mistakes by the Cats. Usually are when the bench out scores the opponent (and her bench) 79-55. R Jennings with a huge day, 23, was resting on Cats bench alongside S smith and D Hopkins, combined for 20.
Laces suffered from Stafford throwing out a 3 pt dud and by EVER playing D McFadden and his 5 (high point, don’t think he is hurt, YET). The WR, TE, FLEX took down a sad 17 pts together. As noted above, LO left some on the bench, but both were so sad this week there is no way LO can get “Good Call Coach” award.
The UNDEFEATED- Team Pigg, despite a complete lack of talent and skill (I’m jealous of his record!), has “Forrest Gump” style walked into the top of the charts and remains unbeaten after 3 weeks over the “Taco” of the league, Team Holamon 101-82. HOLA was actually fav by 11 and was promptly let down by A Gates 0, whom he should just drop to waivers now, and S Vereen with 3, whom he can keep! Reggie Bush enjoyed the game, from the sidelines, with his 15 pts but sloowww days by most sealed the deal, and the loss.
BIG day for Pigg, wasted on a weak opponent! Foles 26, Michael Trabtree 14, Hurns 12 and DEZ 14 and solid bench play. BTW if your looking for a QB, this is the place. Foles, Manning (the mouth breather, not the good one) and A Rrraawddddjjjaas!
BORING- Last and least DFUN loss to Grider. These two bitter rivals have been beefing for years! Sheer hatred!! GRID fav by 19, wins by ALOT more. This rivalry can only be compare to the “Iron Skillet” bowl, pitting TCU v the 4th best High School Team in uptown/the bubble area of Dallas, SMU. When these two get together….. SMU (DFUN) usually loses, bad. TCU (GRID) goes into and outta this game with the confidence of being the better team from the bigger better conference and it shows. Until next week when he is destroyed by a TTech team DSVP. But let’s not get ahead of our selves. It appears Peyton played completely alone this weekend except for AJ Green who cheered him on from the locker room.
GRID still has a, on paper, scary starting team. What he is missing is that Shady McCoy appears DONE, 2 pts. Trade this loser soon or go down with him! Graham only got 5 but he was quoted as saying “I’m saving it ALL up for next week and the Cowboys”. He was then seen laughing maniacally and trying to draft himself in 12 FANDUEL league teams for week 4.
Weekly HIGH 107 CATS
LOW- 47 DFUN
GOOD CALL COACH- HOLA, for being the only FAV not to win in week 3.
Week 4
Week 4 is gone and the picture is still not clear on who the dominant teams are. It appears parity in the NFL has found its way to our FFL front door. GRID (team looks good on paper, pray for injuries), the Capt ( can out score everybody on any given Sunday), LO (livin on a prayer), PIGG (falling back to earth rapidly), DSVP ( bad dawg, bad team!) and Taco, I mean HOLA (this years waiver king so far). And last and possibly the most disappointing start in FFL history, Cats ( no fn idea). One close game and three runaways and we are back to a week by week carousel of failure and upsets. Enjoy!
Pigg, 14 pt fav is brought down by his ‘Skins duo, Cousins with 5 and D. Jackson with 0. They were wiped out worse than…. Well, you know where that was going. Falcons at -10 on D was the icing on the cake. As noted in week 3, Pigg has a stable of QB’s, and he chose WRONG. Discount double check was on the bench with 28 big ones. Rawwwddjjjeerrrss!
LO came out swinging like Ray Rices fiancé, but avoided the knockout blow with Stafford’s 25 and her D getting positive points (11). Final 82-61, could have been worse if LO had put in T Williams and his 19. But it’s the cowboys, you can’t trust them, I get it. (Drop Murray, drop Murray, drop Murray).
DSVP v GRID. 115-91 Grid. 20 point fav so this one was actually close to projections (way to go ESPN, that’s a start). Once again GRID defies all logic and not only doesn’t drop McCoy, he starts him. 1 pt. Same with Murray and his 26. Clearly this guy is done or just waiting on his yearly injury to close out the ‘Boys chances of NOT going 8-8. Drop him (see above). A Brown with another huge game, 25 and someone name Lamar Miller, who appears to be in the NFL, gets 16. I can only assume it was charity games for the handicapped. Bennett 13, T Richardson 15 (tying his first 3 games total output) watched from the sidelines, keeping this beat down in check.
DSVP. Brady 4, Brown 4, Garçon 2, Cooks 3. Wasted- J Charles’ 28 and L Donnel’s out of nowhere, 23. Pug was challenged by 4 bye week players and by not trading D Thomas to the Cats. And Tom Brady sucks!
Capt v DFUN. 41 point underdogs, DFUN, gave it the ol college try with Big Ben 22, Gore 22, Wayne 17 and Delanie Walker (who is this fn guy?) 14. Unfortunately DFUN’s other 5 starters totaled a big fat 10 pts. Cobb 23, C Johnson 11 ( don’t count on that happening again anytime soon) and R White 13 all watched from Buffalo Wild Wings. 47 on bench in a 28 pt loss. THAT HAS GOT TO HURT!
The Capt rode the back of A Luck 29 and J Nelson 22, and freaking Phil Dawson 17. Lacey 11 finally did something and Forte 16. Should be just about time for the yearly Forte season ending injury. Advice, drop him. Capt left 51 on bench in this snoozefest, so don’t lose to much sleep DFUN!!
And finally, the family showdown. HOLA v Cats. Good news for Cats, P Rivers is killin it!! 27 pts. On the bench. Next to Hopkins 12 and K Davis 11. The 4 guys on bye went to Cleveland to party with Johnny Football and Bron Bron. Keenan Allen finally broke double digits with 13 and Steve Smith ran wild with 25. D Bree’s appears to be at the top of his game, so start sending the trade offers soon.
HOLA- one word….Asiata…. 27 freakin points. 27. The FFL Gods are clearly angered by the Cats lack of offerings and sacrifices. This will obviously change next week when everyone is back from bye week. Right? Please? Coommeee ooooonnnn!
Week 5
Week 5 came and went. Nothing of any consequence happened. Recap will be shortened. Week 6 will be much more exciting (probably not). One close game, one blow out and one decent victory.
LO crushed HOLA 99-49. If it hadn’t been for Brian Quick (?) 20 pts, it would have been the worst FFL lose in recorded history (no stats to back that up). LO got double digits from 6 of her starters, something she hasn’t seen very often this season. Boooorrrriiiinnnnggg! Side note- HOLA bench scored 58.
DFUN loses 110-121 to DSVP despite Peyton’s 31pt blowup! WR, TE and FLEX combined for 11pts sealing the deal in favor of the Pugs. Bobby Rainey left on the commish’s bench with 10 pts would have made this one interesting. But he was on the bench, see above. LOSS DFUN
In the barn-burner of the weekend, GRID, using nothing but luck and, I believe, black magic to steal another victory from PIGG 79-78. PIGG left 88pts on the bench. 88. Freaking. Points. On. The. Bench. New prediction, GRID goes winless for the rest of season and the world is restored to normal. Or he wins out and the “end of days” are here. Prepare accordingly.
That’s it for week 5. No other news to report. Nothing. Nada…….
Oh yeah, almost forgot. Cats score 117 (and clearly the FFL gods are not appeased yet), loses to the other team.
Week 6- CATS guarantee a victory!
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