So, write-up time.
Week three. Week three. Another loss for the Redskins, this time against Eli "always throws an INT" Manning and them Giants. The QB row continues in Washington, with people looking at drafting a rookie QB in next year's draft... Boy, I would steer well clear of DC for at least another 5 years if you are a QB, we chew them up and spit them out almost as much as Cleveland.
Anyway. I'm going to start with
Hottest Bench Warmer this week which goes to pr0ximity. Keenan Allen was targeted 18 times by Phillip Rivers in week three, catching 12 of those for 133 yards and 2TDs, netting him a very, very decent 25.3 points. However, with another fantastic performance from Rishard Matthews scoring ANOTHER 2 TDs, and of course the unstoppable force that is Tom Brady, he didn't even need Allen's points, as he managed to beat the now only win-less team in the league, Carpe Victoriam, 94-79.
A grand total of
six teams had players in their starting nine who scored zero points. The
unluckiest of those teams was actually JD who had two WRs score zero points. He was actually predicted to win over pr0ximity by a whopping 35 points, however the 25 points missed out on by Terrance Williams and Torrey Smith really cost him.
The
Luckiest team of the week I would like to say is me. When you watch the highlights during half time in the Falcons-Cowboys game, and you see Darren Sproles run for an 86 yeard punt return for a TD, only to find you benched him for a 2.6 point scoring CJ Spiller, you get pretty pissed off. Combine that with 1.6 points from Anquan Boldin, and 1.8 points from Matt Jones (you swore you would never take a Redskin, now look what happened) you begin to write off yet another week. Especially with your only consistent QB going down with a knee injury for 4 weeks. However, when Steve "he was a **** in preseason" Smith posts 30 points, Jimmy Graham comes back from the dead with 14.3 points, and Eddie Lacy runs for more than 10 yards, you feel seriously lucky. Even the ridiculous 30 points posted by the Cardinals defence couldn't ruin my day.
Bueller managed to post what I think was this week's best all round performance. His top six skill positions all scored more than 13 points, and even Robbie Gould (I saw that drop, kickers are people too!) couldn't drag down the rest of the brobots to a loss. 48.2 points on Monday night meant that he sailed up past TJ at the death, and he now lies in 3rd, only behind the Devonta Meme Cop Men, and Demik's Auto-Drafted Allstars.
Speaking of which, we had a serious clash of the titans, with the afore-mentioned top two battling it out. The recap graph shows a really close race on Monday night, with Demik getting within what looks like fractions of a point to overtaking Hwood, but the gap posted up by AJ Green, Jamaal Charles and the shutout by the Seahawks proved too much for Demik to handle, even with a near 35 point showing from Aaron Rodgers (5 TDs!) and the fantastic veteran Larry Fitzgerald posting 25 of his own. Hwood remains on top, carrying over his win streak over from last season he is now on an 8 game win streak? Someone has to beat this guy... Demik moves up to 2nd on points scored.
R1N3 managed to get his first win of the season against Bernie's Ballers. A serious lack of TDs across the board from Trees' team, plus single digit showings from all but three of his lineup (Gostkowski 2 stronk) mean that even with Tyler Eifert scoring nul point, the return of LeVeon Bell spelled good tidings for R1N3 and Jeremy Maclin having a good day too, he moves off the bottom of the table and is our highest climber this week, up five places to 7th.
Our final matchup was between Hoff and Absyrd. Hoff was slightly luckier than Trees, with four of his lineup going into double digits, and four total TDs, but he saw his perfect start to the season halted by a combination of 2 TDs from Greg Olsen and three from Joseph Randle. Overall a great performance from Absyrd's team, with great numbers across the board. I hate the Giants. Not as much as the Cowboys or the Eagles, but still.
Week four is slowly approaching, and with it comes the start of the bye weeks. Remember to get rid of your Patriots and your Titans this week, because as good as Tom Brady and Keenan Allen are, even they can't score any fantasy points stuck at home on the sofa.
