Hey Everyone, Your Editor in Chief is back this week but we had some printing delays causing our latest issue of the weekly recap to be late. I blame the newest of interns who hasn’t learned how to work the copier yet. This is a different intern then our star pupil who stepped up to the perilous challenge of attempting to rank teams after week 2. There were a few mistakes but he earned a week off. Hopefully, you all enjoyed his post because you will see him again. If not, well sorry, then maybe skip reading that week. We still like your views so at least open the website. We don’t work for free so we need all the views we can get. By we I mean the CEO and myself. The interns definitely work for free. We have a few trades that really didn’t have an impact on 3 of the 4 teams involve. However, we can analysis them in more depth later this year except for the one fail this past week, which I will discuss in detail below. So don’t you worry. **Also we have another trade with Indian Outlaws and Podunk City Slickers. We’ll have to see how this pans out for Podunk in the near future but the real impact will come to light later this year. So more to come, don’t you worry. Okay, before it gets any later, lets get started on this recap!! Week 3 RecapRiver Gypsies over Troll Hunters This matchup was one by two players and two players only. The real kicker is that it was the kicker (Tucker), DP, and the Seahawks DST. Get it, the real kicker and it was the kicker (this is why I’m the boss). I mean you can say Murray was similar to Gurely and Freeman was similar to Marvin… Other than that the wild card players earned RGs a well-deserved win. He consistently put up above 100 points so going 0-3 with that would be tough to swallow. Who I really want to talk about was Marvin Jones and Devonta Freeman. Marvin Jones is a legit WR and in the right offense to produce high fantasy value. Without a running game, Stafford is having fun in Det and Marvin Jones is replacing Megatron on Troll Hunters line-up. Impressive show these first 3 weeks and I would be surprise if it didn’t continue. WR 1 in a throwing offense, can’t get any better than that. Now Freeman finally produced, yeah!!! But this guy continues to scare me. He was playing a generous DST but going forward can he repeat. RGs will sure hope so. RGs had a average performance from his remaining squad while THs had sub par. We’ll see if this continues but putting up 140 points is tough to beat. So congrats to RGs this week. Indian Outlaws over Vicious Veg-Heads This was a similar situation as noted above. Jeremy Hill and Zek, Mike Evans and Christine Michael and Gordon/Beckham and Jordy… oh wait he traded him. Ouch, that would’ve been a 20 point swing if VV would’ve started Jordy instead of trading him for an injured RB… If that was the case, we would be making fun of IOS for trading Eli and Lacy and having confidence in Cooks only putting up 3 points when Breezy was on fire with 26… That would’ve been a cause for concern indeed. But with IOS finally putting up the courage to start Melvin Gordon, he earned his first win (even though it was kinda a gift from VV). Let’s see you earn a game like your Wife and maybe we’ll give you some Fantasy Football creditability this year. Michael was impress the first 5 minutes of the game but kinda slowed down later on. 24 points though is nothing to complain about so this was a much needed we for IOS. I think you didn’t really earn it though because you could’ve easily lost if Jordy was in the mix. However, a win is a win and its always good to avoid being 0-3. 90* Putters over Twin City Tree Cats First thing first, did 90* putters play a team with their lowest scoring of the year… “Yes”,. Nuff said, next game!! No 90* did put up the 5th best points I believe so he did kinda earn it this week. But this was earned but Baldwin, which is expected but Hyde was a surprise. In 2015, Hyde only had 1 game over 20 points was week 1, similar to this year. However, he actually had another one when 90* Putters needed him most. If he simply stays Fantasy relevant around top 15 in RBs I would be happy if I was 90* Putters. Sanders and Shepard on the bench did outperform his WR2 which is promising but he needs big weeks like this and his typically voo doo magic to stay above or around 500. On the other hand, TC2 was consistently bad, especially Kelvin. Then again they were at the Bank and we had their Benjamin’s number!! Honestly, going 2-1 without Le’veon is a win in its own right. Now that you have him back at least you have a consistent RB1. I would assume his scores increase by a decent margin starting week 4 and on. Overall, the standard 90* story winning with his opponents poor performance. NorthSide Angels over Podunk City Slickers (newly named) NSA had almost everything go right outside of Gronk getting zero and Ware at 6. So like NSA had 120 points, 130, 140 or even 150… Nah I’ll pass on my TE position and still get 155 points. This team was hot and didn’t want to slow down. If only he had a TE, he could’ve challenged Mullynation to the top score of the week. He had a good “Steal” of Jordy Nelson but it really wasn’t needed. Even if Spencer Ware wasn’t a starter, this team was ready to play and dominated a 0-2 team. This is like rubbing salt in the wound. A top tier team in the pre-season rankings is sitting solo at 0-3. The only thing that is going well for Podunk Slickers is the QB and Min DST (who were rocking the bench). Honestly, against Carolina I wasn’t surprised with this play but we sure love hating on these slickers for this call. At least he had the Dolphins average DST compared to the horrendous Pittsburg Steelers on their lunch break. Some hopefully production from the bench but honestly was no match for the NorthSide Holy Angels in week 3. The Mullynation over D-Rock, Suzy’s Jock (newly named) – TITLE FIGHT Honestly, this is the same story as above. One team was hot and one team was not. Except this “hot” team was a volcano and the other has since fallen out of favor with Suzy. She may have used up all her magic against the Sorcerer (90* Putters) but she definitely took the week off if that was the case. Her two champion system as ended with DeAngelo only pulling together a below average 6 points. Sir Brown performed admirably but Palmer performance was inexcusable. Negative points from a QB who started the entire game, unheard of and very humorous indeed. It’s not like they would beat Mullynation anyway so the point is moot. We got some funny names this week and were fairly boring when looking at each game individually. Good work, Mullynation on putting up 177 points for the top score to beat. Let’s see if anyone can beat that in the up coming weeks!! Week 4 Power Rankings1. The Mullynation: 2-1 (+6) Everyone on Mullynations team performed this week and the weaknesses we talked about last week are all in the past. Ingram, Robinson and Fleener all decided the show up for the first time this year. As such, she put up some monster points this past week. Her worst performer outside of DP and kicker was Andrew Luck… no surprise there but 13 points wasn’t that bad for QBs week 3… At least he isn’t as bad as Palmer or Big Ben this past week (as noted above). She only has one loss and it was by less than 1 point. We can knock her for that. She could easily lose this spot though with any lackluster performance from her top guys again. Overall, she has solid RB depth unlike most teams and her week 3 performance shows she is a top tier team. 2. The Troll Hunters: 2-1 (-1) Once again Troll Hunters biggest weakness is his DST and I guess DP which earned him -4 points last week… that’d be a huge swing in ending points if he was just below average (not the worst). He owns 3 RB1s or high RB2 who need to be more consistent but have shown each one can be a top RB each week. He also has 3 WR1/2 to cover injuries/bye weeks/poor performance. Outside of the emergence of Marvin Jones, he also needs a little more consistency in WR performance on a weekly basis. With this type of depth and possibly performance, one loss isn’t enough to knock him out of the top tier. Still has depth in RB even behind his top 3 with Ivory and Matt Jones. Some teams below would gladly accept these guys as starter out of simple desperation due to RB injuries. QB is an issue but based on the performances last week, it’s still a wild card accept for a select few. However, another bad week, against his rival at that, and he definitely will fall plenty of spots. 3. NorthSide Angels: 2-1 (+3) Only reason why I think NSA is above RGs is that, in Kansas City, it is still the Spencer Ware show. With David Johnson and Drew Breezy consistently producing the pas three weeks top performances and hopefully Gronk looking to be back this week. This edges out RG on top of RGs having a few difficult player match ups this and in coming weeks. I mean he has decent depth at RB with Crowell, McKinnon, and Dixon (in a few weeks) his RB2/flex situation for now at least. However, it is still too early to tell if this team can make a playoff run. This RB2 and flex spot could get a little dicey later in the season. With the addition of Jordy last week, he has a lock for WR1 and WR2 most weeks. If he can hold it together most weeks, I can see this team staying comfortably above average and earn a spot in the playoffs. 4. River Gypsies: 1-2 (-) Congrats to RGs for getting his first win!! We were all hoping you would say 0 and whatever for a while but your team finally pulled it all together. However, did you waste all your big plays this past week? I see consist play from two players, Murray and Fitz. Now I still only trusy Fitz staying top 10. I’m still riding the Derrick Henry train, its just going to take a little longer than I thought (and maybe an injury would help… I wouldn’t be surprised if he was next). With Russel and Dez hurt this doesn’t help me move you up the ladder against NSA. Also I am not confident in Atlanta going forward. They have some tough matchups these next few weeks, and this doesn’t help my confidence in RGs depth in weeks to come. We found out he can put up above average points to beat a team. Just do it again and again and maybe we can move you up the list. Indian Outlaws is also showing he can produce so you are going to have to beat him if you want to move up this list. If not, I wouldn’t be surprised if IOS leap frogs you next week. Just have a repeat performance like last week and you’ll be just fine. However, that is a little easier said then done, am I right? 5. Indian Outlaws: 1-2 (+4) Only your wife deserved to jump up 5+ spots. Having close to the bottom (if not the worst) score in our league the first two weeks, you haven’t earned the right to move up above RGs or better. Like I noted for him though, you put him in his place, points wise, as well as the rest of the league you will move back up to the top teams in no time. However, don’t forget what it feels like to be at the bottom because you show us another sub 100 point game (excluding that DST/DP crap) you will join the bottom feeders once again. Solid top 4 RB/WR with a solid wild card flex. Future depth looks better than current depth with Doug Martin trade. However, will he be ready to go in week 7? Hamstring issues are huge ??? especially at RB. If he comes back strong then that’s a win, if not it really wasn’t much of a loss. As mentioned for RGs, Atlanta has a tough schedule these upcoming weeks making him tough play over Christine Michael (even at his worst). This will be solid trade bait around the deadline to boast his team for the playoffs (if he can get and say above 500). More QB issues but a solid pick up over the waivers. You put up 120-130 points and me and my interns will consider moving you up a few ranks. 6. Twin City Tree Cats: 2-1 (+2) – Only reason why he moved up the ranking is that two players in his line-up got 0 points this week… except only one was suspended. On top of only putting up 83 points, should cause you fall right? Nah, not when you have Le’veon Bell coming off the bench!! Not to say this team is ready to join the elites… but Bell will have a huge impact on the point production for this team. And he needs it!! Latavius Murray has been losing touches each of his last 5 games… with only 40% of the work load last week. If this gets any smaller, he loses his RB2 pretty quick. WR1 and WR2 are solid if Kelvin can avoid the goose eggs. Honestly, I am uncertain about this team but it is only getting better with the addition of Bell who is a must start. He really has a wildcard pick for flex with Cruz, John Brown, and Cole Beasley (he’ll just have to guess each week who he thinks will be the best… not an ideal situation to be in but it could be worse I guess) 7. D-Rock, Suzy’s Jock: 2-1 (-5) (previously known as: Suzy’s Pancakes) Suzy’s Jock is now stuck with TC2 scraps and are they even fantasy relevant? Probably not, but we’ll see how his team shakes out. Antonio Brown, always a solid win each week and Olsen has been great this year as well. Soooooo now we get to the question marks and could make or break this team. Who else would have confidence in a QB who lost you points last week. Not like you had a chance against Mullynations showing off, but you had no good performance (outside of brown obviously). Can Theo hold the RB1 spot at Detroit or stay fantasy relevant. Maybe at Chicago but how about against everyone else? Edelman will turn it around but you still have to wait another week until Brady gets back. Terrell Pryor was a solid pick up but 1 week doesn’t make him a consistent option. It’s Cleveland and if you have faith in the Browns for Fantasy Football relevance than you are strong than us all. We’ll see if that works out in your favor. If not, we’ll see your stock fall just as far as last week to join the bottom feeders. I had faith in your squad but that was under Suzy. She has disowned you this past week and you were forced to submit to someone else’s banner. You are facing part two of the wheeler back to back matches. It’ll be tough to get the W but if you put up a solid score you can avoid dropping any further down this list for now at least. 8. 90* Putters: 2-1 (+2) What What, 90* putter is out of last place, oh wait his opponent put up one of the worst scores again. Surprise Surprise… But he actually put up a decent score this week. Hyde is his saving grace and good performance from his WR core. One of his top WR (Decker) could be seeing the bench with an injury these next few weeks… and with no RB depth any small setback could cause him to trade Cobb, Baldwin or Brady (who his been beggin to come back for 4 weeks). Maybe Brady will be a saving grace as well and if I were to bet on any QB it would probably be Brady. I am still extremely nervous about this RB situation and he can only hope for Foster to possibly come back from the grave to dominate like he once did. Highly unlikely, but we’ll have to weight and see. Forrest is somewhat serviceable but if Kenneth Dixon comes back strong he will be in a world of hurt. Knowing him though THs will see his worst week of the year and 90* will win with his voo doo magic once again. TH is just hoping there isn’t an injury along the way. 9. Vicious Veg-Heads: 1-2 (-4) I am nervous about this RB situation. This will turn around if Charles comes back and doesn’t lose reps from the top performing Ware… if we are back to where we are right now. Forte might have had two great weeks but has a few tough match ups these 3 weeks. Seattle, Pit, and Arizona ouch and one solid week out of Jeremy Hill doesn’t mean he will be a consistent RB2 with Gio stealing all the passes and what not. We’ll see if he can steal a lot of touches and scores against a favorable Mia DST. Will Sammy Wats be ready this week… and can Mike Evans produce at Denver, or Tamme and Carolina… he has some tough match ups and questionable consistency. You should’ve waited one more week to trade Jordy… you would’ve been 2-1 and IOS would be joining Podunk City Slickers at 0-3. You gave a gift to IOS, typically Veg Heads Franchise giving away players and wins like they are no big deal. Just like week one when you didn’t start Cammie Newton, another tough decision cost you a win this week. Ouch, hopefully this doesn’t continue to sting in weeks 5 and on… 10. Podunk City Slickers: 0-3 (-7) (previously known as: Big Cities Hillbillies) All I can say is ouch, 80 points this week… that has to hurt entering week four 0-3. However, you haven’t had much help outside of your QB Rodgers and the Minnie DST typically on your bench. Not that they would’ve helped you last week though… You did gain a “starting” RB with Tevin Coleman. You really needed to turn this around and this week you are going all in on Atlanta against a very angry Carolina Defense and Team… You are either going to survive this week or die this week at the hands of Carolina. Unsure if I like putting more faith in a team that is going to have 3 tough matches (as noted above) these next three weeks with Julio and Tevin for weeks 5-6 and adding Ryan week 4 as well. Gio is a acceptable flex or RB2 in our half PPR but not a RB1 to rely on. Hopkins is solid but julio’s matchups has me scared… he needs huge performances from Diggs and his WR core to be a match for most teams. Doug Martin was honestly holding him down and with a hamstring issue this will last 4 weeks minimum and if sims performance decent it might give him more rest time (which limits his upside). This does help the Podunk City Slickers in the immediate future but only marginally against these tough DSTs. Projected Picks (Week 4)Troll Hunters over 90* Putters
Indian Outlaws over D-Rock, Suzy’s Jock River Gypsies over Podunk City Slickers Vicious Veg-Heads over Twin City Tree Cats Mullynation Over NorthSide Angels – TITLE FIGHT
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Vikings win! Steelers win! Broncos win! That’s all of the fandoms right? So all in all a good week for non-fantasy football! That said… Seriously what the hell is with this year and this week of fantasy football in particular. We had approximately everyone’s starters/studs either die on the field or put up abysmal numbers. I’m going to start keeping track of who’s gone down injured who is also a starter. Let’s take a gander: Indian Outlaws Thomas Rawls (Leg) Big City Hillbillies Doug Martin (Hamstring) Twin City Tree Cats Danny Woodhead (ACL tear. Done for season) Vicious Veg-Heads Ameer Abdullah (Foot) Suzy’s Pancakes Jonathan Stewart (Hamstring, out for a couple weeks) 90° Putters Arian Foster (Groin) Adrian Peterson (Torn Meniscus) Now that is just this week. And not all the injuries that kept people on the sidelines for a bit. Just the ones that caused them to leave the game. Keenan Allen blew out his knee last week sending the Outlaws scrambling and the lack of Charles and Gronk for sure impacts the Angels ability to keep points on the board. And this is just Week 2. What’s next? I fully expect all of us to be scrambling for third or fourth string RBs or WRs by Week 4. This week in aggregate seemed pretty low scoring. 2 matches didn’t break 100 points for either team. And then we only had 2 that had both teams over 100. Big turnaround from last week where only 1 team scored less than 100 points (oddly enough that was the Outlaws who are averaging 85.35 PPG so far). Hopefully the points go back up next week so we can see some big numbers and not be left numb as we bench another starter when they blow out a knee or gets a concussion. P.S. The Rams beating the Seahawks 9-3 is probably one of the most hilarious things of all time. Week 2 RecapNorthside Angels (92.1) vs. The Mullynation (96.1) – Title Fight This match up seemed to be a fight between two teams who really did not want to win. Both teams had abysmal outings by their starters and it really came down to the defenses. Defense wins championships, or at least saves two teams from sub 70 point games. The Angels mainly just experienced this week’s low scoring from everyone. Not one of their starters got over 16 points besides the Broncos D/ST. The biggest move they missed was not starting Crowell who has been showing some promise in the new Browns offense. Lots of running coming out of there right now with them losing RG3 and McCown in two weeks. The biggest thing hurting the Angels right now is the lack of their two highest paid picks (draft wise). Both Gronk and Charles are riding the bench so here hopes they get back into the line-up. Mullynation had an equally poor week from their starters. No one besides the defense got over 14 points, it’s just that they had more starters (Non D-ST) getting above ten points with 4 to the Angels 2. No real standouts on the bench to score much better besides one or two points here and there. Just one of those weeks for this match-up. Injury Report: A Both teams came out of this week without a starter being injured. But that may only be because the Angels have their starters out for injuries already. Big City Hillbillies (104.8) vs. Troll Hunters (115.7) The Troll Hunters claim a solid win over the Hillbillies. Nothing too shabby in terms of huge outliers or anything. Just one of those games. The Hillbillies came into this match with a hope that they could repeat a respectable showing of 130ish points. But alas. That was not to happen. He lost Doug Martin in the second quarter and wasn’t doing too hot before that either. This obviously limited his scoring potential which was too bad considering the rest of the team did pretty solid. The exception being Yeldon and Rodgers. The biggest thing for the Hillbillies is the negative point differential between his starters and his bench though. The Hillbillies threw up 109.6 points with his bench. And that is with 3 less slots and 1 bench player out (Ertz) and 1 putting up 0.8 points (Powell). He had 4 on the bench put up 20+ points including Diggs and the Vikings D, If he had slotted in just one of those bench players he would have won. Trust in Diggs man! The Troll Hunters had another week with not much variation from last week. Only a two point difference. The Troll Hunters managed to make it out of the week without any lasting injuries as Marshall was able to keep going for his game. So that right there is a major bonus. Nothing too special for the Hunters this week except for a big 16 points from Gano. Gurley is not looking super promising though so let’s hope that he starts to live up to that high ADP. Injury Report: B- Two of the starters got hurt, one for each team. Though only one was pulled out for the game. The bench of the Hillbillies appears like it can sustain the blow though as long as Bernard keeps up his production. Twin City Tree Cats (94.5) vs. Indian Outlaws (84.4) The Tree Cats pull off a victory over the Outlaws. It was looking like it could be a close one coming in to Sunday night but Mike McCarthy forgot that Eddie Lacy exists and is a good runner when allowed to ya know, actually run. So Lacy puts up a measley 5 points which does nothing to help the Outlaws. The Outlaws other starters were typical for this week: disappointing. ODB has not been his usually self, especially when going up against the Saints. I was expecting at least 20 points from the man. Elliot was looking decent but had a fumble to drag it back down to 12.4. I don’t know if he’s going to work out this year, but he could be primed to pick it up later and maybe next year if he stays patient in the backfield. The pickup to replace Allen had a crap game with only 4 receptions for 33 yards. And his boy Rawls went down with an injury in the first half limiting him to only 2.5 points. Hopefully Michael is able to pick up the slack if he gets slotted in next week. The Tree Cats had a pretty poor game even pulling off the win. Stafford and Murray put up solid points and Benjamin came in huge with 26.3 points. Other than that he had no one go above ten points on his team. I think it was pretty bold to start the Bengals D/ST against the powerhouse that is the Steelers offense but it really didn’t hurt him terribly. Unfortunately it is early season so Brown is not going to be a big part of the game plan for the Cardinals. I expect him to pick it up closer to the end of the season. And of course Woodhead died on the field to add on to the abysmal week. Injury Report: D+ We lost starters for both teams this week. Rawls looks like he is gonna be ok but no word on Woodhead yet. Combined with the injuries last week the Outlaws are looking to maybe end the season with exactly one person not injured. River Gypsies (110.2) vs. Vicious Veg-Heads (146.5) In the big points matchup this week the Gypsies and the Veg-Heads managed to both score above 110 points! That is big money talking! Unfortunately for the Gypsies the Veggies threw up 146.5 points in our highest score of the week. Tough luck Gypsies. Maybe the Mullynation curse transferred to you this week! The Gypsies had a respectable showing from his starters. He followed my advice and made sure Fitzgerald was in his lineup which was smart considering he was the second highest scorer on his team. Trust the Fitz! Murray and his kicker Tucker also threw up 18 and 15 points each. All in all, just a solid game. His weakest spots were his DP (crapshoot) and Wilson (never trust a Seahawk against the Rams). But really nothing could be done there. The Veg Heads roared back with a vengeance after their defeat in Week 1. Cam and Forte both threw up nearly 30 points each which covered up weakness from Abdullah (injured and out early) and Sammy Watkins. Basically all that could be done to improve this week was throwing in Benjamin for a quasi-injured Watkins. That would have thrown him up to 169.2 this week and be our first 50 point defeat. But, alas, the Gypsies survive a complete drubbing. Injury Report: B- Only one starter went down in this match-up so it was not that bad. The Veg-Heads may have to scrounge for another starter as its quite possible that Jeremy Hill is not going to cut it and Booker is just a handcuff to Anderson at this point. Suzy’s Pancakes (103.8) vs. 90° Putters (89.2) The poison is still in them pancakes. The curse is broken. The Putters tried their hardest to drag down the points scored against and did a pretty good job. But they were lured into eating them ‘cakes and felt the poison hit their own team fast. Suzy is now dancing off into Week 3 at 2-0. The Putters experienced the worst of this week in injuries. His week started off well with Decker throwing up 21.6 points in a big win over the Bills. Bortles increased his score by a few points and threw up 18.6. But after that it completely went to crap. No other offensive player went over 6 points and that is including the Blair Walsh Project. And unfortunately a lot of that was due to injuries. Adrian Peterson went down after a disappointing game against the Pack and looks to be out for a couple weeks. Arian Foster pulled his groin in the most expected injury of 2016. And Doug Baldwin hurt his knee though he powered through it to put up 3.5 points. So that’s three, count em 3 starters injured and having limited games beforehand. Everyone else just kind of played below their levels. Kuechly and the Panthers D tried their hardest to not be as bad. Solid scoring from both. Suzy’s Pancakes had one of the few mediocre performances this week. He was only struck by the injury reaper once with Jonathan Stewart who is expected to miss a couple weeks which could be big as he will soon be losing Deangelo. That said he has a fairly decent bench for potential backups in that flex spot. Antonio Brown came down from the heavens to give his powers to Diggs this week and only put up 6.6 points. I don’t expect that to continue. And this week, a mediocre week is all you need. Injury Report: F These teams lost 3 total players that were out by the end of the game. And 1 more that could be out for next week. 3 of those 4 were on the Putters, dealing a massive blow as he potentially lost his RB1 and RB 2 for at least one week and possibly more. Power RankingsSo as I am a mad fan of the hot takes and knee jerk (gah AD!) analysis of ESPN I am gonna change it up again from last week and move things around with my newly patented formula for establishing our power rankings. It is a matrix based upon winning percentage, PPG, injuries, stud production, and my general feeling about teams based upon my dearth of knowledge about fantasy football. Please understand that it won’t make much sense. So here we go! 1 – Troll Hunters (-) No major injuries and a solid performance with not much variance in PPG gives this top spot to the Hunters. Their players are looking good and put up average to great games so far this year and the bench is looking swell as well. No problems here but we shall see as the crazyiness that is 2016 (god rest Prince’s soul) continues on. 2 – Suzy’s Pancakes (+4) The syrupy seductress is too much for this league at the moment. The Pancakes escaped Bloody Sunday with losing only one player to injury but that is buttressed by the good performances by their other players. The low game by Brown will most likely not be repeated as it was pretty rain developed but we could see some trouble coming Week 4 when they lose the Williams could topple this team back down the stack. Again, Pancakes has some serviceable backs in Gore and Riddick, but no one will be a solid RB1 once Bell is back taking away Williams. So this position is tenuous. 3 – Big City Hillbillies (-1) I mainly moved down the Hillbillies because they are 0-2. And really when the time comes the record is all that matters. If the Hillbillies can make better starting choices, they will rapidly move up the ranks and are actually my favorite to win this overall if the Angels don’t manage the dark horse championship. Just need to start Diggs and that Minnesota D! 4 – River Gypsies (+1) The Gypsies stay the same due to losing again and also having some problems with that Atlanta backfield. Other than that the PPG isn’t pretty and there might be problems if the team starts acquiring injuries. Some upside can be found in their bench but they have to make those smart choices. The WRs and RBs are pretty good but choices will need to be made for the future regarding the Flex spot. 5 – Vicious Veg-Heads (+3) Forte has established himself as the back for his team so I doubt this Powell controversy is gonna flare up again. Losing Abdullah is going to be hard but I think they can make it work with the strong performances by the WR corps they have assembled. They also have the highest PPG this year at 133.15 at the time of the article being written. The RBs are gonna be the problem for this team and the Veggies will probably have to make some moves once the two-headed beast that is Hill and Gio starts rearing up. 6 – Northside Angels (-2) The benched Charles and Gronkowski are hurting me badly. I need them back in the line-up. Until then I need to rely too much on a WR corps that is a bit streaky. There could be some sneaky moves with a handcuff or two on the team so the RB group is still looking strong. Just have to play the smart PPR choice. Hopefully we see a rebound in Week 3 against the Hilllbillies! But right now I am just not impressed with my team. Gah. Injuries. 7 – The Mullynation (-4) While the Mullynation pulled of the win it was a wet noodle sort of win. Chances are her fortunes will be brighter in the coming weeks as Sims steps in for Martin and the rest of the team starts putting up serious points. Her defense is not going to save her every week like this week so a bit more consistency would be a major bonus. We will need to see some more consistency from everyone not names McCoy and Snead and a bit better production from the non-defensive players 8 – Twin City Tree Cats (+1) While coming down from the major points last week, the Tree Cats threw together a decent enough week to rise to 2-0. Losing Danny Woodhead will be a major blow but they only need to hold out two more weeks until Bell is ready to play and they already have Ajayi on the bench to step in for the groin injury extraordinaire Arian Foster. Once Bell is able to play again I think this will be a solid team, but there will be some pains until then. 9 – Indian Outlaws (-2) The points just aren’t there for the Outlaws. They have the lowest in the league with 85.35 PPG. Losing Allen last week and the lack of production by Lacy with another injury to Rawls and this team isn’t looking great either. Even having Michael to step in means little as the Seahawks offense is not doing it at all. Putting up 3 points on the Rams? Come on! Plus the $30 sitting on the bench FOR TWO WEEKS is just kinda twelve types of terrible. Why start Rawls over Gordon? Gordon put up 10 more points the week before. Yeah, Woodhead was gonna be there but you obviously paid for Gordon for a reason. Playing that Seahawks RB roulette is gonna get you burned. Rawls and Michael are not Beastmode. Good thing is that the team still has ODB but overall this team is not like the Outlaw teams of old. 10 - 90° Putters (-) I’m sorry to do this but the massive damage done to your starting RBs and some potential damage to your WR corps is leaving this team with a hole the size of the Grand Canyon in it. If you lose those guys, you are left with a WR2 in Sanders and a couple RBs that are streaky as all get out. That said maybe not having to play AP and Foster every week means more flexibility in choosing those benched players. But right now you are still in the dregs. Week 3 PredictionsNorthside Angels (1-1) vs. Big City Hillbillies (0-2)
Vicious Veg-Heads (1-1) vs. Indian Outlaws (0-2) 90° Putters (1-1) vs. Twin City Tree Cats (2-0) The Mullynation (1-1) vs. Suzy’s Pancakes (2-0) River Gypsies (0-2) vs. Troll Hunters (2-0) Hey Everyone, I’m sure all of us were super excited for (Fantasy) Football and the regular season to begin this past Thursday. For some of us this was rather short lived, probably Mullynation seeing CJ Anderson pull together 28 pts or Vegs Heads benching, that’s right, benching Cam Newton QB#1 with a solid 25 pt performance. However, it goes both ways in the following days when on Sunday, Troll Hunters starts the KC DST having no way to know the extent of the damages done due to the ESPN site being temporary shutdown. I mean come on ESPN, get your shit together. You’re a $50+ billion company whose been doing Fantasy Football for decades not some Pokemon game company (Niantic) who crashes when first released. This better not happen again ESPN… or I’ll stop hunting Trolls and start hunting for a new fantasy football website for the one and only RedZone league. Okay back to football now that I have gotten that off my chest. Actually, one more side note before we go far, like Harold and Kumar too far, within this blog post. Over the past few years as the primary editor of the RedZone Blog, I am sure you would all agree that I have exceeded all of your expectation of the weekly write-ups. However, if that was not the case then, I would challenge you to lower your expectations next time. Based on my glorious reviews (which I only read the good ones), I have been given the honored to inform you all of my recent self-promotion to Editor in Chief of the RedZone league blog. As such, the blog is currently looking for unpaid interns who are interested in pursuing a career in fantasy football, getting people coffee, and basic statistical analysis that really doesn’t mean anything but simply provides a “factual” explanation to justify your (the blogs) rather bias personal power rankings. The last one being the most important because we all know sports announcers, writers, etc. can bring up the most ridiculous stats to justify their claim. Quick Fact: Ben Roethlisberger plays his best games during the week of a full moon because he is a BEAST!! (FYI, River Gypsies better watch out week 2!! Why you ask? Hint Hint: check the night sky tonight and you’ll know what’s coming) That being said, anyone and everyone can participate in the weekly write-ups if interested. I have a few referrals who might help with the next couple of weeks but feel free to reach out to myself (Editor in Chief) or our Commander and Chieftain if you would like a position on blog’s team. ***Disclaimer: Any intern participating in the weekly write-up will get the honor to write whatever they want and will not be edited, in any way, by the Editor in Chief. However, the Editor in Chief may choose to write his own mini blog post to explain why you are only an intern and how wrong your personal opinion actually is (along with sharing the correct opinion).*** Okay enough of the intro, so let’s get started on the Week 1 Recaps where every match was an upset when reviewing the Week 1 power rankings!! Weekly Recap Mullynation (117.3) vs Troll Hunters (117.9) Mullynation might have learned a trick or two over the off-season as she was seen sprinkling some anti-luck over Troll Hunters studs Marshall/Gurley. These top 2 Troll Hunters have defeated plenty of Mountain Trolls in the past but seemed to be caught sleeping on the job week 1. However, the Mullynation curse could not be broken when CJ Anderson was cooking the books with Cooks!! Combined they were half of THs total points on this nail biting win Monday night. Big Bad Ben overcame a few issues of his own and putting up 18 pts even with multiple turnovers. Solid performances from Cooper and Kelce made up for the self-destructive Kansas City DST. There was solid bench scoring from these hunters but with his starting line-up is like a troll in sunlight (solid as stone). Luck was really the only saving grace to Mully’s week. Breezy was down all game which limited Ingram’s production. McCoy was solid as ever and not worth talking about unless he breaks 20 pts or scores less than 10. Her only chance to beat TH was to match Cooks up against teammate Willie Snead. However, with WR like Robinson, Maclin, and Landry you wouldn’t be likely to start Snead week 1 unless you were a prophet. Only move that could’ve should’ve turned Mullynation into the winner was to start Landry over Jennings. I mean, I pretty sure I heard Mullynations top WR targets were Landry and Decker… why didn’t you start him then? Just a little more bad luck for Mullynation who continues to have over performing opponents. Troll Hunters has removed the tumor of a DST and will be ready to go week 2 to against the other heavy weight hanging out in the top tier group. Northside Angels (137) vs. River Gypsies (98) – TITLE FIGHT These River Gypsies we too busy dancing around the fire to notice that the Northside Angels were given a divine blessing to punish these dancing heathens. Nothing good about RGs line up shows a good performance except for the Seattle DST and I guess Moncrief. With “blessings” that NSA received you had no chance of winning with your line-up. I mean you weren’t going to start DeMarco Murray against the Vikes (no chance) and the only bump would be a valid swap with Moncrief and Larry Fitz. However, that wouldn’t have been nearly enough to beat your punisher NSA. Poor performance from Russell, Devonta, Lamar, and Dez caused you to lose. Also Devonta and Dez could help you loss more if Atlanta/Dallas can’t figure things out on offense. Overall, not the top tier performance as bestowed upon you for the week 1 power rankings. NSA did really receive a divine blessing for Spencer Ware and Drew Breezy. If Jamaal Charles did play this would have been some sort of committee RB situation with Jamaal testing out his new legs after last year injury. Brees was also blessed at home with a godly performance of 30+ pts. Even without Gronk these angels can still fight and punish anyone who gets in the way of their crusade for the playoffs. Vicious Veg-Heads (120) vs. Suzy’s Pancakes (148) Vicious Veg-Heads had no chance against Suzy’s soldiers love drunken by her Pancakes and syrup which they devoured pregame. These pancakes and syrup are laced with a poison that grabs the hearts of the strongest men but provides them unhuman strength in battle. However, the strongest leaders can harness this power to conquer the world. Veg-Heads received the wrath of Suzy week 1. Suzy’s chosen champions were Sir DeAngelo and Sir Antonio and they conquered the vicious “barbarians” according to Suzy. She offered a glimmer of hope to Veg-heads until Monday night when Suzy showed her butchers knife. I mean Suzy’s squad was doing acceptable until Monday night when she unleashed her love potion to inspire her leaders. This crushed Veg-heads into the first lost under new management. Veg-heads could have made a few helpful moves from the bench with Cam Newton leading the way. Sammy Watkins with only 6 pts was the only surprise but outside of this VVs had a decent start to begin the year. Unfortunately for him, he was just on the wrong end of a man trying to impress his “Goddess”. 90* Putters (110) vs. Indian Outlaws (86) Simple fact for the reason why Indian Outlaws lost this game was due to a curse. They better see a witchdoctor this week or this plague of poor performance could continue into week 2 and beyond. We can already see the lasting impact his opponent’s curse has with the loss of his WR2 Keenan Allen. The curse is more around poor performance though with no player earning more than 10 pts outside of Eli’s 16 pts and Zek’s 12 pts… You have top talent and they are sub-par at best. Your bench fared better but it’s obvious this curse only affects active players. Everyone on the IOS team was just plain bad and legit bench moves could’ve helped IOS defeat this trickster. On the other side, 90* Putters was a rollercoaster. AP and Barnidge were 3 and 0, respectively, and Hyde and Baldwin were at around 20 each. With other performances on the average end he could easily beat the curse Indian Outlaws week 1. Unsure what type of power is 90* Putters is using but if he keeps up this rollercoaster ride from his team’s side, we will have to continue to rely on this “magic” for the time being. Big City Hillbillies (131) vs. Twin City Tree Cats (141) We had a David vs. Goliath match up with the Big Boy Hillbillies against the tiny tree cats… as the story predicts the tiny tree cats comes up big with a whopping 141 pts against for the Bigshot Hillbillies. These Hillbillies tried to invade the Twin Cities and the Tree Cats put a stop to that quick. These big city slickers weren’t big enough to beat the home town heroes. Even with the “league” caging TC2s strongest tiger, Le’Veon, but they have shown they can fight dirty and win without their Biggest Cat. Huge points from Woodhead (cheetah), Green (Bengal), and Kelvin Benjamin (panther) helped the TC2 topple a top tier team. Almost no bench help for the TC2 but who needs bench help when you put up 140+ points. BCH had a serviceable week outside of D. Thomas. These hillbillies played big but the Top 2 will need to play bigger to ensure he wins every week. He had a bit of support from Vikings coming up the Mississippi river giving the BCH a huge advantage after those noon games. The TC2 did not waiver when Twin Cities franchise was turned against them. However, can the tree cats defend their home again? We know they can hold their own against a hammer but can they handle a piercing arrow from a raging outlaw. We will have to wait and see. edit. Power RankingsSo these Power rankings will be slightly different this week as we try to iron out which teams are truly on top and which ones are the bottom feeders. Honestly, I was on board to our Chieftain’s post draft power rankings and probably would have produced something similar myself if I had wrote that post. However, that all changed this past week, when every “underdog” team pulled out an upset as noted above. As such, the rankings should be flipped right? Suzy’s Cakes (last in power rankings) powered out the top points of the week… with the number 8 Tree Cats last week putting up the 2nd best score. As such, for this first week I will focus more on team “tiers” and what tier they fall. Basically, anyone in that tier could be interchangeable at least for this week. So if you are last in a tier doesn’t mean you truly deserve that number 10 spot… However, it does still mean you are a bottom feeder as for right now and you better start producing in weeks to come or your playoff chances could be gone in no time… Tier I 1 - Troll Hunters 1-0 (+4) As this is my week to do the post I am going to rightfully claim the top stop (Even though all the top tier teams could rightfully claim the top spot). Key Positives for the Troll Hunters: Denver has actually invested in the run game and the dividends aren’t just preseason show. CJ Anderson isn’t planning on repeating his starting 2015 performance and that is a fact starting off strong against a top 3 Defense of Carolina. Another preseason concern with CJ was the Backfield competition which has since decreased for the time being with Booker getting three carries and fumbling on carry number 1. Gurleyman is still a top RB1 but had a tough time against San Fran… Honestly, SF just knows how to stop strong RBs with no passing threat (ie. Vikings/SF wk1 2015). Gurley will produce but it might just have to start week 3 as LA plays Seattle this coming week. Another positive is that he has WRs for days and all produced except for top WR1 Marshall. With Marvin Jones and newcomer Will Fuller in the mix, any poor performance can easily be supplemented in weeks to come. Biggest concerns is finding a DST that doesn’t hurt this team and needing JJ Watt to be at least average until he is 100%. Nobody wants to waste a bench spot on a DP. Only real concern is still some marginal RB depth from the bench. Eventually this will have to improve but for now he’s got all starting positions covered. 2 - Big City Hillbillies 0-1 (+1) Hillbillies are probably on par with Troll Hunters above but the only real reason he wasn’t number one was that his DST (the one and only Vikes!!) carried him to above average numbers. Julio and DeAndre were good and so were Doug Martin and Ryan Mathews. If at least one or two of these guys could have been great last week he wouldn’t have had a week 1 loss. On his bench, TJ Yeldon had a pretty good performance but this was only because Chris Ivory was a late scratch from the game. This might not be a norm for TJ Yeldon but if it is Hillbillies will have a decent RB2 for those tricky bye weeks. D Thomas is also showing some injury concerns over the weekend that could cause Hillbillies to make riskier line-up moves that could limit his weekly upside. Aaron Rodgers is expected to have another great week and should be a consistent QB with high upside even though was only QB7 this week. Hillbillies has a lot going for him here but an injury or two could shake this team’s foundation. Only DST scoring 22 pts will keep him on top if any of his big hitters goes down. For now though, I see this team producing high scores week in and week out only one week and teams will have to score 135+ to beat him each week. 3 - The Mullynation 0-1 (-2) Mullynation still has a good team but her curse of opponents pulling out all the stops continues into 2016. However, she has plenty of positives coming out of week 1. Andrew Luck turned his lucky horseshoe on against Detroit to earn him 35 pts but remember this is Detroit. We’ll see if he can stay healthy and produce but right now all signs point to yes. Also Ingram should benefit from an increase in workload when NO isn’t playing from behind the entire game. Lastly, Shady was consistent as ever and nuff said. Biggest concerns will be her WR production and whether Jacksonville and Miami can produce like last year. Overall, her WRs underperformed this past week and I would except that they bounce back at least marginally to beat her average opponent. We’ll see if she pull off some lady luck in the coming weeks because all her WR can produce, including her rising start Willie Sneed, but can she make sure to have them in her line-up each week is the real question. Robinson, Maclin, and Landry should have their starting spots but with Rashad and Sneed “trying to make the team” she might have to be gambling each week. We’ll have to wait and see… but overall I don’t have concerns that her team will produce which is why she still owns a spot within the top tier group. Tier II 4 - Northside Angels 1-0 (+2) – Red Belt Holder Honestly, Northside Angels team exceeded my expectations this week without his top draft pick, the Gronk! Drew Breezy played lights out and will help carry this team to victories going forward. David Johnson looked great once again!! Spencer Ware was the back to have pulling in 29 pts. If I was NSA I would be hoping Jamaal Charles stays injured and continue to give this guy the touches. His WR produced consistent numbers but nervous if any will ever have a lights out game. His WRs were getting targets and touches but none were fortunate to twerk in the end zone like the one and only Antonio Brown. At least one should put up a TD most weeks. Whenever Gronk comes back healthy, I can see this team producing above average points each week if at least one WR can sneak into the TD. Isaiah Crowell was surprisingly solid and could be a reliable flex play/bye week fill in weeks to come. The biggest concern is the could be running back committee when Jamaal Charles comes back and overall decreases the “starters” numbers of either of these two individuals. 5 - River Gypsies 0-1 (-3) River Gypies falls hard because I honestly have a lot of concerns about this starting line-up. The only people I do like are Lamar Miller as a sure lock every week. His has the potential to do well if he picks the correct WR each week. Each of these players could be a top 10 WR or more likely fall in the 15-20 range or worse. I like Moncrief and Fitzs but with the WR talent in Indie and Arizona it could be. I mean you have two Indie WRs… valid only if you have injury concerns but would you ever start both of them? I hope not. I’m nervous Dez will even be close to a top 25 WR and last week performance doesn’t help his case. Jeffery and Crabtree are good but we’ve seen rollercoaster weeks/years of these guys so they will need to be consistent for RGs to keep his team in the upper tiers of this very competitive league. Another big concern is the RB situation going forward with the unsettling Devonta Freeman situation (is this CJ Anderson 2015… and its starting to look that way) I mean it’s worth the risk for $6 but having your backup RB as DeMarco Murray isn’t ideal. He might have the starting roll these first weeks but I am still riding the Derrick Henry train who will take over the backfield in week 5 or 6. Calling it right now. We know that RGs players can be great but will they be great this year is a different question. This is the main reason that RGs is still an upper tier team (for now). Tier III 6 - Suzy’s Pancakes 1-0 (+4) The 302 Cadet’s have gained some unholy power after devouring Suzy’s pancakes and her deadly syrup elixir. This new power comes at an unimaginable costs, the Cadet’s have been brainwashed and renamed themselves in honor of their temptress. This team’s new heroes are Sir DeAngelo and Sir Antonio. However, Suzy’s power can only last so long. It has been foretold that Sir DeAenglo will be disowned when his younger brother Le’Veon returns from his pilgrimage. Until the reckoning, this army with wreak havoc to any honorable challenger. After foretelling events, a new champion will have to rise in Sir DeAngelo ashes, if this army wants to continue their reign. Who will rise to Suzy’s challenge? Common soldier, Theo Riddick’s, standout performance could predict the next champion to receive Suzy’s “blessing”. He definitely shows potential but everyone has these “potential” champions on their team, like Abdullah, Murray, Fuller, Sanu, etc. Since this is a weekly ranking looking primarily to the upcoming week, this team’s new found power looks to be red hot coming right out of the oven. Overall, Suzy’s pancakes earned the highest score this week and was rewarded with a nice bump in the power rankings. Additionally, I can see the possibility of putting together a top score in coming week. However, at any time, if either of these two champions falls out of blessing with Suzy or is cursed by a higher power, they could see themselves falling back into the bottom tier. On the flip side, another great week and you can possibly join the elites (in the upper tier VIP rankings). 7 - Indian Outlaws 0-1 (-3) He moves down three spots based on my 3 top concerns. First concern is the WR2 position. Keenan Allen was going to be a solid performer for our half PPR scoring. He’s now gone and Indian Outlaws is looking for his replacement and he doesn’t have much except young blood (Sharpe and Coleman). Both backups have potential and put up average points last week. However, like I have said above, everyone seems to have potential… relying on these unproven talent is risking but Outlaws in backed up into a corner and we’ll see if either of them can become a solid WR2 starter. Second concern is if Melvin Gordon will match or exceed his score week 1 anytime the rest of the year. When the pressure was on I saw Danny Woodhead in the game and not Gordon. Just because he put up 18 points week 1 doesn’t mean that will indicate future success. Once again has potential but the late game reps for Danny Woodhead was concerning as for right now. Lastly, the Seattle backfield situation will be a shot in the dark these next few weeks. Who will win out or will they keep the committee backfield all year… IOS would hope for at least one of these two to step up and become at least a startable RB1/2 to make up for his current WR situation. Lacy/Elliott/ODB were only okay for all their hype. They will need to pick up their fantasy game to avoid IOS receiving the humiliating honor of the lowest score of the week (and losing to the 3rd lowest scoring team as well). 8 - Vicious Veg-Heads 0-1 (-1) Honestly, I originally had you ranked higher but the more I look at this RB situation the scarier and scarier it looks. Forte had a great week one and we were all surprised that there wasn’t too much Powell action. However, as we all know, one week doesn’t make you an instance starter and they paid Powell a lot of money to help out this offense. I would be surprised if I didn’t see his name on the stats more in coming weeks. Also Jeremy Hill has almost no upside in my opinion Gio will always be there stealing points from Jeremy Hill owners… His only redeeming factor last week was a TD but 30 yds is an ouch… However, I don’t know who else he can trust Abdullah had one great game (but so did Theo) as such, another wild card in the mix. Also we all praised Veg Heads for his top WRs who did good outside of Sammy Watkins. The latest concern with him though is that he is still concerned about his foot “feeling hot”. He also confirmed he has no pain but he’s still thinking about it and that worries me to believe that he will be back on the injury list at some point this year. Also when you have the number 1 QB, its hard to not start him and Veg Heads did just that which didn’t help. This moved didn’t hurt you this time because of the Pittsburg showcase but moves like this could keep this franchise near the bottom. Bottom Feeders 9 - Twin City Tree Cats 1-0 (-1) Simply fact is that I am calling this past week’s performance by TC2 a fluke… AJ green at 30 (I expect like 15), Danny woodhead at 21 (I expect like 12), Kelvin Benjamin at 18 (I expect like 12), Stafford and Josh Brown are a wash because I expect Brown to produce at variable (when it’s his week similar to Larry Fitz last week) and Stafford was playing the Indie defense which explains itself. With these “adjustments” TC2 should win (or blow out) average teams. Prove me wrong again and I (or my interns) will move you up a tier. Only until week 4 you have a chance at a upper tier personally when Le’Veon has a “jailbreak” week 4 to remind the rest of the fantasy league why he deserve to be number 1. Outside of Bell on his bench, I have no confidence in anyone to be serviceable for the timing being. I mean your RB2 pick last week was Danny Woodhead or Jay Ajayi. Obviously, Danny is a PPR man but in our half PPR it’s a bit of a toss up. Your best hope is to survive the weeks that Bell is SSPD or on bye and you did much more than that last week. Cheers to you man but if I were a betting man, I wouldn’t expect this type of person week 2… as such you will remain a bottom feeder even after putting up top 2 fantasy numbers last week. 10 - 90* Putters 1-0 (-1) The only difference between me and my “twin” is that I have quality team and win my games through the hard efforts of my players and he on the other hand is a Mother Fuckin' Sorcerer. This was confirmed week 1 this year. You think those 90* putters are bent because of those long lanky arms? No, it’s due to his telekinesis and sorcery . Though he enjoys bending putters to a perfect 90*, his specialty is ruining team’s fantasy hopes and dreams on a week to week basis. He does this by forcing his fantasy opponents to having their worst game of the season against him. We began to question his power last year when he “earned” a first round bye in the play-offs using this same tactic in the regular season. We know it’s not perfected yet as he has yet to win a championship but I believe he is getting close. From what I have heard, from a reliable source, this unknown power was first displayed two years ago when him and is partner combined forces and took the championship scoring no more than 80 pts each game (Standard 10 team league, 3 playoff games). I am warning everyone right now; if we don’t stop him soon this might be 2015 all over again to start the 2016 season. Based on these dirty tricks you deserve to be a bottom feeder. Also TC2 put up way more points than this Dirty Sorcerer. Outside of his dirty sorcery, his team did fine outside of Adrian and Barnidge. Hyde was no surprise to blow up week 1 (similar to last year) but if he can produce and stay healthy post week 1 will be a necessity. Baldwin somehow continued his reign as a top WR and really unsure how he can keep this up. He has a few beams of light with Arian Foster earning the starting role and keeping himself healthy. Emmanuel Sanders could benefit from D. Thomas possibly on the injury this this week. Lastly, Cobb and Decker putting average points up this week. Everyone to me seems average besides AP and as such, you earned a spot near the bottom. Once Brady is your starting QB, Foster stays healthy, and at least one WR somehow becomes a top 10 player, you can maybe stop using your dirty tricks to win game. Even if you continue winning but do so with scores in the bottom 50% of the league you will remain a bottom feeder, feeding off other’s dreams and giving your opponents nightmares. Week 2 Forecast 90* Putters over Suzy’s Pancakes
As noted above the Cadet’s have gained some unknown power so far this season from devouring Suzy’s Pancakes. They will need to be sure to pray for Suzy’s pancakes to give them heroic strength once again in week 2. I predict that they will need every drop of her deadly elixir if dare to challenge the all-powerful Sorcerer in this battle of magic. I have seen this power first hand and believe we need a Hero not a brainwashed army to defeat this evil. Northside Angels over The Mullynation – TITLE FIGHT Gronk will be back to continue the curse against Mullynation. Another big player this week will be Golden Tate (I don’t know why but I have a feeling). I am nervous for Luck at Denver and McCoy will be targeted with the poor Tyrod Taylor performance and Watkins still being “injured”. This will be a tough match-up for Mully. Indian Outlaws over Twin City Tree Cats I want to see the Tree Cats continue their high preforming defense of their home town. However, I believe the raging outlaws will be out for blood after last week’s performance. The only hope is to get the “Eye of the Tiger” from their caged super star Le’Veon and pull together another week like week 1. Honestly, I don’t think it will happen but anything is possible after watching the games last week. Vicious Veg-heads over River Gypsies I believe that River Gypsies can’t get his starting line-up quite right again and loses because he “left” a lot of points on his bench. Newton, Jordy, and Evans will have huge weeks and will lift Veg-heads to a first career win in The RedZone league. However, RGs knowing full well he could have won if he had guessed right now which players to start. Troll Hunters over Big City Hillbillies This will be a burly men (or should I say Gurleymen) showdown between the Hunters and the Hillbillies. Each group of men, have a starting line-up equal to no other. Who will reign champion and claim the top spot in the power rankings week 3. This will come down to DST, kicker, and DP players and the Hunters have been saving their best shot for this week. Be ready for an action back week that ends Monday night with the lone Hillbilly, Mathews, with the weight of the world or a feather on his shoulders to finish these Titan’s match-up. My prediction is former and Mathews will not be able to handle the weight. |
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