Streak!
Marshawn Lynch
After squeaking out a win by a single point last week, this week’s version of Ceiling Cats was high score in the league, beating my opponent by a comfortable margin. As I’m learning more and more each week, a lot of it was luck. For example, Santana Moss and Terrell Owens both had bit point hauls in the Washington-Dallas battler and I had both of them. 35 points out of my 3 receivers is a pretty darned good day.
Before the week, I had to do some shuffling as I had several byes to contend with. Peyton’s bye was no biggie since Cutler has been playing lights out this year, but Plaxico Burress and Brandon Jacobs had been doing well for me. The RB issue wasn’t so big since, after all, I had the #1 frickin’ pick of the league riding my pine - it was time for LaDanian Tomlinson to shoulder his load. The receiver issue was trickier since Marvin Harrison was on a bye, too. I decided to ditch Santonio Holmes of Pittsburgh, since he hadn’t been fit to start all year, and picked the inconsistent Roddy White back up, again.
Finally, the defense. New England was horrible last week and on a bye this week. Instead of finding room for them on the bench, I just dropped them and picked up Philadelphia. With no other changes, that gave me:
- QB - Jay Cutler
- WR - Terrell Owens
- WR - Santana Moss
- WR - Roddy White
- RB - LaDanian Tomlinson
- RB - Marshawn Lynch
- TE - Kellen Winslow
- K - Nate Kaeding
- DEF - Philadelphia
Last week I asked how I could win with some real screw-ups. This week I can only wonder what didn’t go right? Cutler went for 16, not earth-shattering but decent. The receivers, as I said, essentially went for 60 and a TD each. Tomlinson’s turf-toe was healed to the tune of 22 points, and Phily’s D banged in 12 despite losing to Chicago. Even wee Kellen Winslow added 5. An easy win, nobody’s fault and nobody’s genius moves, just a confluence of big days for pretty much everybody.
The Ceiling Cats are even at 2-2. Next week is what I consider the best team in the league, so the chips will all have to fall my way.
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