Peyton was back to form.
Let me paint a picture for you. Yahoo! projected that this week’s game would be a 96-96 tie. Yes, the projections are often wrong, but there’s a consistency in the wrongness that you start to get a feel for after awhile. So no, it wasn’t going to be 96-96, but a pretty high-scoring affair seemed to be in order given the small league with teams full of stars. So, would me losing 69-54 surprise you? Let’s recap, shall we?
Moves during the week were minimal. I finally gave up on Kellen Winslow, if for no other reason than the QB throwing to him has been so inconsistent. I don’t know a thing about Anthony Fasano of Miami, but he was the highest-scoring tight end in free agency, so I picked him up. My opponent, The Ghost of Bill Mundy (inside joke at my company), grew worried about Aaron Rogers’ injury and replaced his backup, Ben Roethlisberger, with Trent Edwards of Buffalo. I had a feeling that Peyton Manning was going to get healthy against the Texans, as would Marvin Harrison, so into the line-up they went. And so the stage was set. My team:
- QB - Peyton Manning
- WR - Terrell Owens
- WR - Santana Moss
- WR - Marvin Harrison
- RB - Marshawn Lynch
- RB - LaDanian Tomlinson
- TE - Anthony Fasano
- K - Nate Kaeding
- DEF - Philadelphia
It was a weird week to try and score in my head as the games’ progressed on TV. My opponent’s QB went down early in the first quarter and would score no points. Success, right? My own QB went for 19 (and did 3 better than Jay Cutler, whom I benched, so yay me). The trouble begins in the wide receivers, where Andy’s (the owner of the team) trio of Lee Evans, Greg Jennings, and Brandon Marshall outscored my guys 34-15. Whoops - hey, 19 point difference, there went my QB advantage. Santana Moss scored 0 points; when I saw the box score I thought he’d been injured but the recap didn’t mention him at all. Hunh. Running backs helped me pick a few back up (11-8), but his Bears defense dropped 18 on the Lions while Phily picked up all of 1 against the Redskins. His kicked doubled up mine, 8-4, and my TE’s 4-1 victory meant nothing.
A strange, strange, week, but my record is now 2-3. Interestingly, the league has 3 at 3-2 and 3 at 2-3, so I’m far from out of it. I need to figure out if there was any way to know that I’d leave a 19-point receiver (Roddy White) and a 25-point running back (Brandon Jacobs) on the bench, or if those were freakish luck. Hrm. We’ve played each other once through, so now it’s back to the top of the order again.
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