Week 3: Wash-up

It's a crazy week when in the top 10 lists for each position you barely recognise any of the scoring leaders. Ok, Rodgers at the top of the QB list is not unusual, but Andy Dalton in second place? Taylor? Flacco and McCown? And then there is the RB list - who are all these players?

Quarterback: New York Jets
Go Flash Go

Another week of big injuries, this time Big Ben Roethlisberger took a hit to his knee. It ended up being best-case scenario, only a sprained MCL and a few weeks off. Eddie Lacey limped off the field for Endless, so too did Lynch and Adams for Zim.  One of Marcy's fav's, Parkey, is done for season with a groin injury. Or, it could be he's just sick of the Eagles, too.

And yes, the Eagles did win this week despite Zim and myself putting the boots in last week. BUT, I watched that game and the Eagles didn't so much as win, as the Jets pulled a Jets and sucked completely. They totally gave it up! If the Patriots can post 51 over the Jags, they were looking at a 75 against this weeks Eagles. Which makes it 150 against the Jets. In my own fantasy fantasy world. The Jets could really use a decent QB, any one got Flash's number?

A reminder to all Head Coaches that this week the dreaded Bye's begin.

Marcy (108) def Agent P (96)

A big win for Marcy who rolls on to a perfect 3-0 and completes Agent P's anti-ideal start of 0-3. Marcy worked through a poor Tight End display, relying, as so many do, on Aaron Rodgers to get the job done. Five touchdowns and a near perfect game. Gore is proving a good pick-up by the Colts this year, and, as mentioned above, Marcy can now freely dump Parkey as his season is over. Agent P suffered from RB-syndrome, a common problem this year in which the RB's put on their pads, take the field, leave the field and cash their paychecks. Play the game? That's for other suckers, apparently. Nice work in starting Newton over Luck - Newton is looking fine and dandy this year (see below), Luck... not so much. 

BB (116) def The General (112)

The projected close game was very close! But there can be only one, and this one is BB with a 3-0 start. BB does seem to have the kiss of deaths for QBs though, churning through his second in two weeks. Last week Romo went down, now Roethlisberger. If you have a QB you hate, ship him to BB to take care of. BB also proves that some RBs are earning their money, with both Randle and Ingram running rampant. And Julio Jones, another lazy 25+ points. The Atlanta Falcon's are probably the most improved team from last year so far. The General's troops put up a fairly strong performance, if only the Jets Decker had caught, say, 4 balls for 40 yards, an average day at the office, then he'd be sitting pretty at 3-0. Also, Anderson? RB-fail. Awesome to see Le'Veon Bell back in, a tidy 20 points in his first game of the year.

Lighties (128) def Zim (70)

Two monster performances by AJ Green and Jamaal Charles helped to sink Zim's battleship this week. A terrible performance by Kaepernick, though, and you wonder how much longer he can be a starter - and not just in the Fantasy game. Not that the Lighties Bolo-tie loving back-up was a big improvement, posting only 9 points in a loss. Zim's scoreline could be used in a poster for Fallout 4 - radioactive wasteland, with a radroach chewing on Marshawn Lynch's leg. Maybe that would be a useful incentive to BLOODY DO SOMETHING. The Bears were shut-out, one of the worst performances from a team I've watched, so no points to the Kicker. Adams was injured in the first quarter, no points to the TE. Lynch limped off, basically no points. The good news for Zim was Brady monstering it, Lewis and Edel's doing their job, and the Seahawks remembering they paid Jimmy Graham a lot of money to be awesome. Packers D was also impressive - Clay Matthews is a beast. 

Breesus (97) def Endless (61)

Joe 'Cool' Flacco led the charge for Breesus with a solid 20 points, but it was Cobb that really inflated the scoreboard with 28, taking advantage of Rodgers running rampant. If not for Cobb, Breesus could join Zim and Endless in the Wasteland, a whole lot of nothing going on. Last week I suggested Endless could have the best team in the League, and she had a projection of 129 point. Let me see, 129 and then 61 total. I withdraw my 'best team' comment. For now. If Lacey can play a full game, Hill can get some of the ball and Donnell can get some love then the makings of a fine team are there. Can someone tell the players?

Farnsworths (163) smashed, ground into fine powder, incinerated and then flung the remains of  Doof (104) into space where it suffered solar radiation before being spaghettified by a black hole, which turned out to be the Farn's heart

A buck 62, on the back of 147 - what more can you say? I think you can start with HAH! Williams put up a big fat 0! Suck it! But when the next lowest score is 13 with four teams over 20, a big fat zero is not looking so big and fat. More like, irrelevant. Or even, merciful. Have a look at the Cardinals Defence score: 28. 28! Inflates my score over 100 nicely. Chalk up the Playinator's as another team with RBs that consistently ignore my demands that they give me fantasy points. Who do they think they are? Peterson took an entire year off (because of child abuse, so, you know, kudos on starting a child abuser...) but he has done 17 and 24 in the last two weeks and does not look like stopping. What is cool is seeing Larry Fitzgerald, an aging star, have a stellar three game stretch. What a free agent pick-up.