This is a weekly breakdown of fantasy football but more specifically The Gally Blog Fantasy Football Competition. Our league features some of the Internets best up and coming writers, as well as a few established pros. The last time I won a fantasy league was when I drafted LT, before the advent of platoon RB situations, and he ran for 2000 yards. This year, I’m in first place but don’t think that I know anything about football. Logic normally writes these updates but he’s studying for the LSAT, so it’s up to me to cover this post and pick up the slack on being an offensive asshole. That’s enough of me yammering on, here’s the actual stuff you might care about.
Top Performers:
- Chris Johnson: Xmas Ape reaped the benefits of CJ once again. Chris ran for 132yds, had 100 yds receiving and got two TD’s. That netted Ape a nice 35.2 points.
- Donovan McNabb: Yeah you read that right, McNabb was the second best point gainer this week, as he gained 30 points for Max. He did this on 450 yards throwing, 2 TD’s and 1 INT.
- Randy Moss: Rob in WI owns Moss, and Moss lead him to hand me my first fantasy loss this year with his 29.9 fantasy points. Moss had 179 yds receiving and 2 TD’s
- Peyton Manning Gimp owns Manning, and yet is sub .500 on the year. Manning got him 27.08 points on 327 yards passing with 4 TD’s and 2 INT’s. Yeah, Manning has thrown for 300+ yards in 8 of 9 games this year. That’s another record.
- Bernard Scott: Bernard was a free agent and might be theis weeks snap judgment pickup. Bernard got 26.7 points on 206 return yards with a TD, 33 rushing yards and 21 receiving yards. Depending on whether or not Cedric Benson returns at full form or not, he could share the load in Cincinnati.
Bad Starts:
- Mario Manningham and Steve Slaton: Adam claims he slept in and that’s why he started two guys on bye weeks. Come on Adam, there’s no sleeping in on Sundays. At least not in NFL season.
- Julius Jones and Marques Colston: Owned by Flubby, these two pillars of fantasy football combined for 16 rushing yards, 17 receiving yards and one fumble lost. That got these two a combined 1.3 points.
- Antonio Bryant and Vernon Davis: Owned by Logic. These two combined for 16 yards and 1.6 points. Sure, we all would have started Vernon Davis, but there’s no excuse for starting a Buccaneer, especially when you give out fantasy advice.
- Santana Moss and Zach Miller: These two chumps are owned by Max. I don’t think you should ever start a Raider, but it’s not my job to mock people for making bad decisions. Wait, you mean it is? Good job dumbass. These two clowns combined for 17 receiving yards and 8 return yards for a brain numbing 2.1 points. And yet, Max won his matchup last week and I lost…
- Miles Austin: Owned by Punter and Brandon, Miles had 20 yards receiving for 2 points last week. Maybe now that he’s getting double covered he isn’t the best receiver in the league
- Clinton Portis and Andre Caldwell: Owned by James Brown. Portis didn’t play due to injury, but the nature of the NFL’s injury report makes it a crapshoot sometimes so JB gets a break this time. Caldwell just fot stifled in the Pitt-Cincy defensive battle as he had 23 receiving yards for 2.3 points.
God that was a craptacular week.
Bad Sits:
- LaDainian Tomlinson: Maybe he’s not completely useless anymore. He picked up 96 yards and 2 TD’s for Xmas Ape’s bench, which means he lost 21.6 points.
- Lee Evans: Brandon and Punter decided to sit Evans for Miles Austin. Evans may have only had 50 receiving yards, but he caught two TD passes which meant they left 17 points on their bench.
- David Garrard: Flubby benched this sildky smooth man of the evening for Tony Romo. Romo started his can’t play pass December ability a few weeks early this year and only got 12 points, while Garrard threw for 221 yards and a TD while running in another in leading his the Jags to a win over the Jets.
- Beanie Wells: Gimpy left Wells and his 23.7 points on the bench. It’s not like he needed them though as he had over 140 points on the week. Oh and gimps two starting RB’s got themselves 21.78 and 18 points this week. Want to make a trade there ole gimpy?
- Jonathan Stewart: Rob left Stewart and his 20.2 points on the bench this week. He started Cedric Benson and Brian Westbrook in his place. Ouch.
- Donnie Avery: Max left Avery and his 18.7 points on the bench in favor of Santana Moss’ and Calvin Johnson’s combined 9.6 points. Still it was a St. Louis receiver playing against New Orleans, so you can’t fault him too much.
- Kyle Orton:JB started Cutler over Orton and paid the price. Sure Orton only played a half, but he didn’t throw 5 INT’s either so he still almost doubled Cutler.
- Jerricho Cotchery: Adam would have still lost, but by starting Cotchery over Manningham at least he wouldn’t have started a guy on a bye week.
Standings:
- Plax’s Shiv Advisor-Gally: 9-1 L1 1064.51 Fantasy Points
- Cameron’s Wake-Bucholtz: 8-2 W2 1016.61 points
- Unmotivated Leather-Punter/Brandon: 7-3 W2 1013.35 points
- Sky Baklava-Xmas Ape: 6-4 L2 1013.30 points
- Donte’s DD-Logic: 6-4 L1 925.5 points
- Tequila Mockingbirds-Flubby: 5-5 L3 905.54 points
- Sac Town Kings-Doktakra: 5-5 W4 905.52 points
- Ghosts of Sean Taylor-Gimp: 4-6 W1 880.69 points
- Favarro Must Die-Rob in WI: 3-7 W1 857.53 points
- Vicks Dead Eagles-Max: 3-7 W1 850.11 points
- The Godfathers-James Brown>: 2-8 L1 669.02 points
- Shiancock-Adam: 1-9 L7 794.22 points
Well that’s all for this week, perhaps next week I’ll be better prepared.
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