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After a 4-week absence, the recap write-ups have returned, this time covering the halfway mark of the regular fantasy season. Looking at the results, I couldn’t help but notice some of the odd player choices in some of the teams. A couple weeks ago, Laura posted the following on Suck It League Facebook Page:
“Is it just me or is everyone really bad at this this year?”
For this week, for the majority of the losing teams this week, there was a bit of truth behind those words. And now for the recap:
Literally Goodell vs A A Ron’s B O’ D’s
If I can think of at least one Golden truth in this league, it’s that being the commissioner is like the Reverse Midas touch. Instead of gold and fantasy prosperity, it brings nothing but woe, despair, and utter sadness...like the Ravens this year*grumble*. And this week was no different for Rob as outside of another great performance from Julio “Get the Stretch” Jones, the rest of his squad couldn’t help break the now 4-game losing streak. Though to be far, you’re not going to win games when playing the Texans defense that allowed the Dolphins to have their way with them. And speaking about the ‘Fins, woohoo Jarvis Landry and your 22.5 point self leading the charge to a 4th straight W and keeping my 1st place standing intact. 6-1 never looked this good.
POONCON Red TACOS vs Dumpster Grill
The newly-minted partnership of the Poon + Tash continues be to a fruitful one as they were able to the 24.5 victory over Erin and the Dumpster Fire. The usual suspects of Brady and Beast Mode helped paved the way to this week’s victory with 29 and 18 points respectively, but also got some help from a strong showing from the Rams D/ST with 21 points. Meanwhile, Erin got burnt by a goose-egg performance from Josh Hill as well as another bad game from Jordan Matthews. On top of that, she had T.J. Yeldon, who had easily the best game of his young career, chilling on the bench with 17.5 points which could have made the loss closer had she replaced him over Matthews. Even with the lost, Erin finds herself currently holding the 6th playoff seed as well as in the 3-way fight for 1st place in the East.
Party Like A Gronk Star vs RG3: Basic Bitch
In a match-up between former Girl House roommates, it was the 2013 Suck It League champ who came out the victor in this match-up thanks to Gronk, Julie-E and surprisingly a strong performance from the Giants D/ST. Though, I can’t help but wonder what the thinking(if any) was of playing Shane Vereen, the 3rd string RB of a now 4-headed RRBC in the Big Apple, over a lead back like Jonathan Stewart, but thankfully the benching didn’t cost her the W. As for Ms. Brown, she was not so lucky in that department. To be honest, this matchup was decided when Alex thought it was a good idea to bench T.Y. Hilton. The fact that he got 29 points on Sunday on said bench while one of her FLEXs got a 0 is only proves that. Such a basic move….
Geno 911 vs Washington Mullets
While one half of the Breaux-Donaldson duo was marathoning like a boss on Sunday, their team easily ran past their competition with a sound 81.5 - 65 victory over Eric and his Washington Mullets. Overall, every play on Geno 911 pulled their own weight this week with special mentions going to Blake Bortles, Michael Crabtree, Gary Barnidge and Lesean McCoy putting up big numbers this week. On the flip side, big games from Andrew Luck and Jason Witten were not enough to lift our reigning champion out of a now 2-game losing streak. Though you have to wonder if playing Alfred Morris(or any Washington RB for that matter nowadays) over Darren McFadden was the right move(Hint: It was not). There’s still time for Eric’s fortunes to change, but with the North division being easily dominated by both Emma + Tash and SJ, it’s not going to be easy.
Hut hut Pizza Hut vs Handegg Hooligans
Going back to talking about commishes new and old, the former Suck It League commish finally gets a W this week with a 12.5 victory over the Handegg Hooligans. While Josh McCown pretty much did nothing for Danny and ended up getting injured for the 2nd time this year, newly-acquired Stefon Diggs, Doug Martin, and A.P helped picked up the slack. Meanwhile, after an impressive rookie season in the league where he ended up in 4th place, Jack is going through a bit of a sophomore fantasy slump. And he doesn’t help his situation when he plays a someone on FLEX who was deemed inactive while he Charcandrick West, the one player who could have given him the win, bench-riding with 19 points. On top of that, his schedule for the next 6 weeks is not in his favor as he’ll be facing 4 of the top 8 currently, starting with a matchup with yours truly for this coming week. Regardless, I still see Jack making into the playoff dance by the end of it. He knows his numbers and he’ll make it work somehow(except for this week of course)
.MariGOTa vs RG3andOUT!
Evidently, this theme for .MariGOTa for week 7 was “rookies taking care of business” as it was the 2 best offensive rookies this season, Todd Gurley and Amari Cooper, coming up huge to help LB get the victory over Zach. Add those 2 with another strong game from Megatron, our favorite lass from TN goes 4-3, tied for 2nd place in the West division and on the cusp of getting back into the top 8. For RG3andOUT!, there’s only so much when you can when your first and 2nd round picks of Matt Forte and Demaryius Thomas are both on bye weeks and you’re left with Bishop Shanky and Vincent Jackson as shallow substitutes. In any case, even with the 2nd straight loss, Zach is still doing pretty well for his first year in the league and with his 2 top picks coming back, I foresee a strong push to the playoffs.
Mike Vick in a Box vs Legatron Prime [Neck-2-Neck Match of the Week]
Earlier in the week, Quentin was boasting about his impressive win differential and how he was better than his 4-2 record. While it’s possible there might be some truth in that statement, unfortunately this was not his week. As the dust settles from easily this highest scoring matchup of the week were both team reached triple digits, it was SJ, the self-dubbed “King of the North”, coming up on top and squeaking out a 7 point victory over Mike Vick in a Box thanks to strong plays from Ryan Tannehill(what difference a coaching change makes), Mark Ingram, and Danny Woodhead. Coming to this week, the surface Quentin’s team looked like they would do some damage and it came true with Russell Wilson, Jordan Reed, Devonta Freeman and Lamar Miller coming through with big points. But as I’ve learned with the drafter’s remorse that is Brandin Cooks, no New Orleans Saints wide receiver can not be trusted this year. The lesson here is you going to run your yap on FB, make sure your team can cash that check. On the winning side of things, Legatron Prime is enjoying the best start of to the season since the league’s inception, putting up triple digits scores for the 2nd week in a row, and it’s not crazy to say that he’s one of the favorites to win it all this year.
Beast a la Mode vs O Kaeptain! My Kaeptain! [Miloing of the Week]
Fantasy Football can be a cruel mistress at time and Brian felt the unforgiving sting this week a 55-point shellacking by Rodney. Looking at his squad, you’re not going to win games when your running back gives you goose eggs and your team in general flatout forgets how to football, though I do question the call of playing the Lions D, who has done nothing to warrant any attention this year, over the Bills D. On top of that, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, I personally would have played FitzMagic over Drew Brees as he has been the better QB. On the other side of the match-up, O Kaeptan! My Kaeptain! played so well this week, that they would have even won if the bench players played against Beat a la Mode. But this week also saw Arian Foster, the crown jewel that Rodney stole during the draft, go down with a torn Achilles so it’ll be pretty interesting to see how Rodney’s team performs moving forward.
