Beast Mode saves Week 3 for the People...
The People's Champ brings the People their first win of the season with a 103-94 win over Meaty Clackers. Victory seemed out of reach for Renal Failure until Marshawn Lynch went full Beast Mode against the Broncos, putting up 24 points including that all-important OT TD in the late Sunday night game. Jeremy Maclin beasted a cool 26 points against the 'Skins, and Cody Parkey is becoming the new Billy Cundiff with 14 big points coming off his foot.
Having your kicker as your 4th leading scorer, however, is not the best of news for Renal Failure. Things are definitely not as good as they should be. We hit the waiver wire for a RB and grabbed Bobby Rainey instead of Knile Davis because we were more confident on Doug Martin being out than Jamaal Charles, plus we thought Rainey could duplicate his Week 2 performance against a weak Atlanta defense. Yeah... did not work out. Rainey got 8 points, Davis got 23 for the Dreamcatchers. Still, Rainey did better than our usual FLEX starter CJ Spiller.
If you get Renal Failure down, you'd better keep them down...
Enough of the sugar, time for the vinegar...
Meaty Clackers made the fatal mistake of starting two players who didn't play - Doug Martin and Roddy White. Their substitutes in the lineup would have given them the victory this week and forced us down to 0-3. But they didn't, so we'll graciously accept this gift seeing how bad the last two weeks have been for us, being that we're fifth in scoring but have had the most points scored against us in the league.
We didn't do ourselves any favors with Tom Brady not being Tom Brady for a third consecutive week (15 pts). Alfred Morris put up a meh 8pts while Demaryius Thomas did fuck-all until that 2-point conversation to send the Broncos/Seahawks game to OT (5pts for one of our top two picks). Zach Ertz took the week off with 1pt as did the Houston D with 3pts.
Chris C. thinks his DreamCrushers are the kings of the HBFFL...
We're going to be without Beast Mode and Demaryius Thomas for Week 4 because of bye weeks, but we just traded WR Brian Quick(also on bye week) to the Bourbon Blasters for Chris Ivory who has seen his workload increase with the Jets so that gives us some options. Do we start Ivory and one of our Bills RB? Do we not start Ivory and start both Fred Jackson and CJ Spiller? Do we start Ivory and WR Sammy Watkins in the FLEX spot and hope that EJ Manuel remembers how to quarterback (or gets pulled for Kyle Orton in a blow-out game)? We've got some decisions to make before Thursday night rolls around.
One decision we can declare: Tom Brady, you're dead to us. Jay Cutler's our starter.
DreamCrushers are going to be missing WR Michael Floyd, and while that might sting a bit he's still starting Andrew Luck and Julio Jones who have been monstrous with chucking bears into orbit this season. They could be due for a letdown, or at least we hope so. Jamaal Charles returns to the lineup, reducing Knile Davis's effectiveness. Does he go with Reggie Bush or Joquie Bell? Who gets the call for that open WR spot? Streaky Kelvin Benjamin? The veteran Steve Smith getting revenge on the Panthers? Fantasy mirage Brian Hartline who only scores when he's on your bench?
Until Chris makes those decisions, Yahoo! says we're evenly matched. We'll see if the People's Champ can continue our streak of 100+ point games, and whether averaging 100 points a game will be enough this week. Getting to 2-2 would do wonders for our chances of hitting the magical 9-win mark which has always guaranteed a playoff spot.
3 comments:
You forgot the exclamation mark.
Great week to play me. One of my two really bad bye weeks in all my leagues.
Chris is really tough this year. Well crap, who am I kidding? I keep scrolling down the Preds deeper-season matchups and needing to change my shorts.
(Sorry to "step on" this post RF. I would have lost my nerve after tonight's game.)
Be thankful I did not start Smith. I was going back and forth at 12:45 Sunday between Benjamin or Smith. I broke the rule "always play the wr facing the team that scorned him" but it did not hurt me.
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