Month: October 2020

BBY 2020: Week 6 Recap & Week 7 Preview

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I apologize for not doing a write up last week.  The week simply got away from me.  This week’s write up was late as well due to a migraine on Tuesday.  All is well. 

Week 6 Recap

Katon (3-3) 84.8 vs. Tommy (3-3) 89.6

Katon got 15.0 points from the New York Giants Defense and 3.8 points from Aaron Rodgers and only lost by 4.8.  Tommy was led by Kenny Golladay’s 15.5.  Difference in the game was Kicker with Katon getting 2 from Stephen Gostkowski and Tommy get 10 from Joey Slye.  Tommy abandoned Stephen Gostkowski and Katon tried to turn him against him. Gostkoswki’s loyalties lie with Tommy. It sometimes comes down to the kicker.

Jen (5-1) 97.4 vs. JD (1-5) 85.7

The other “close” game of the week was Battle of the J’s.  Jen got 35 from Deshaun Watson who accounted for 35.9% of her total point output.  JD 5 starters in single digits and nobody scored over 15.  Another tough loss for JD who falls to 1-5 and has a tremendous uphill climb if he is to make the playoffs. 

Kenny (5-1) 78.3 vs. Mike (4-2) 150.1

Kenny’s first loss of the season comes at the hands of a 71.8 point ass whooping from Mike.  Kenny’s worst game of the year corresponded with Mike’s best game of the year.  Kenny had averaged 132.6 per game prior to this matchup.  He was without DK Metcalf (Bye) and Dalvin Cook (injury) and started the wrong Qb Bridgewater (9.4 points) over Ryan (34.6).  Mike was destined to smash in this contest.  His starting lineup put up 150.1, but had he started the right defense and flex he could’ve scored 182.5.  Justin Jefferson got him 38.1, Kyler Murray 28.8, George Kittle 23.4, and AJ Brown 20.1.  That’ll do.

Trey (4-2) 89.4 vs. Brad (3-3) 159.0

Brad rebounds from his 0.1 loss in Week 6 with a near 60 point curb stomping of Trey.  Trey was without his first two picks Josh Jacobs and Chris Carson.  His 89.4 was a noble effort and would’ve beaten half the league this week with 26.3 from Will Fuller and 17.9 from Cam Newton.  Mike Gesicki retired for some reason.  Brad had his first monster outing from Derrick Henry as he exploded with 46.4 points.  Brad went into Monday down by 10.4 points and got a combined 71.1 from Mahomes, Kelce, Drake, and his kicker.  This was capped off by a long touchdown run in garbage time by Kenyan Drake. 

Chase (2-4) 72.7 vs. Moose (2-4) 145.2

Moose exploded for his best game of the year getting 32.7 from Julio Jones, 31.2 from Lamar Jackson, 28.1 from Ronald Jones, 19.9 from Trey Burton, and 16.1 from his $66 man Chase Claypool.  No Alvin Kamara, no Darren Waller, no problem for Moose who has won 2 out of his last 3 games and looks poised to be a problem down the stretch.  Chase was without Russel Wilson, Michael Thomas, and Hunter Henry due to byes and their replacements combined for less than 30 points.  7 starters in single digits and nobody scored more than 14.6.  Where was this last week? 

Scotty (2-4) 86.6 vs. Joe (2-4) 103.1

Scotty’s team has been ravaged by injuries.  He picked up Andy Dalton who struggled mightily against the Cardinals, Miles Sanders injured his knee and missed the rest of the game, and he got a 0 from his Tight End.  Joe got solid performances from CEH with 21.9 and Steeler’s D/ST with 19.  Enough to get the W.

Week 7 Preview:

Brad (3-3) vs. Katon (3-3)

A couple middle of the pack teams fighting to stay in the playoff race.  Brad draws some terrible matchups with his KC Stack versus Denver @ Denver, Derrick Henry faces the Juggernaut Pittsburgh Defense, and Kenyan Drake faces Seattle who has been good against the run.  Terry McLaurin is his one bright spot this week drawing the ghost of the Cowboys team who got torched by the Cardinals last week.  Katon has Aaron Rodgers in a potential shootout against the Texans.  David Montgomery faces the Rams, Amari Cooper in the Washington game.  He has other players with favorable matchups like Mixon vs. Cleveland, Noah Fant vs. KC and Keenan Allen vs. Jax, but they are all questionable for the contest.  In 3 Wins Brad has averaged 147.1.  In 3 Losses Brad has averaged 98.6.  This certainly looks like a 98.6 week and not a 147 week.

Trey (4-2) vs. Chase (2-4)

Trey gets back Josh Jacobs and Chris Carson, which is the good news.  The bad news is Jacobs plays Tampa’s underrated defense who just donkey stomped the Green Bay Packers.  Also there are reports of Raiders linemen getting covid and not following protocols on the bye week, so Jacobs might be getting demolished all game.  Carson is @ Arizona.  In 2 games against the Cardinals last season Carson averaged about 70 rushing yards, 30 receiving yards, and didn’t score in either contest.  Tyler Boyd faces Cleveland again after getting a solid 7-72-1 stat line in their first outing, good for 16.7 fantasy points.  Chase is starting to get healthier, but then trades for another injured player in Miles Sanders.  Chase gets Russel Wilson back and hopes to have Michael Thomas back, but he now is battling ankle and hamstring injuries.  He’s starting two Eagles on Thursday Night Football against the Giants, what could go wrong?  Chase may or may not win this game, but if his team can get fully healthy for the back half of the season he can make a run to the playoffs and beyond.  Wilson-Sanders-Gaskin-Adams-Thomas-Le’Veon sounds dangerous.

Joe (2-4) vs. Mike (4-2)

Joe has some tough matchups this week with Big Ben @ Ten, CEH @ DEN, McKinnon @ NE, and JD McKissic being in Joe’s lineup.  Mike has Kyler Murray in a potential shootout with Seattle.  David Johnson who’s strengths matchup well with GB’s weakness.  This matchup also features some young studs at Wideout with Calvin Ridley for Joe and AJ Brown and Deebo Samuel for Mike.  This should be a good game, but Mike looks to be the early favorite.

JD (1-5) vs. Tommy (3-3)

Tommy lost when he scored 139.8 and won when he scored 89.6.  JD lost when he scored 138.9 and won when he scored 107.8.  So really there’s no telling what the hell is going to happen in this one.  JD’s team isn’t the best, but he has some great matchups.  Josh Allen vs. the Jets, Aaron Jones in potential shootout with Texans, Antonio Gibson in a breakout spot against the shell of the Cowboys, and Phillip Lindsay against KC who will try to keep Mahomes off the field with ball control.  Tommy has Tom Brady @ LV, Zeke @ Washington who’s front seven is highly talented and can take advantage of a severly banged up Dallas O-line, Kareem Hunt is in a smash spot against the Bengals.  He got 23.1 against them in Week 2, his highest point total of the season and that was sharing time with Nick Chubb.  Tommy’s Lions stack of Golladay and Swift face Atlanta’s defense that got Dan Quinn fired.  This has the makings to be a great game with more than likely one of these teams getting another unfortunate loss in a close game.

Moose (2-4) vs. Kenny (5-1)

Kenny was dominating the competition until last week.  Moose was struggling mightily until last week.  Can Kenny bounce back?  Is Moose for real?  Moose will be without Lamar Jackson who is on a bye and Kenny is without Dalvin Cook due to injury/bye.  Moose has Stafford @ Atlanta, Alvin Kamara coming off a bye vs. Carolina, RoJo coming off a monster outing against Vegas, Julio in the Detroit game and Waller vs. Tampa Bay.  Allen Robinson gets his date with Jalen Ramsey.  Kenny has Matt Ryan and Gurley in the Detroit game, Melvin Gordon’s drunk ass against KC, where he also has Tyreek Hill.  Diggs is in a smash spot against the hapless Jets who still haven’t fired Adam Gase for some reason.  DK Metcalf is a monster and Wr #6 post bye week, but will most likely face Patrick Peterson in a fun Wr/CB matchup to watch.  Should be a great game and I can see either team pulling this one out.

Scotty (2-4) vs. Jen (5-1)

Jen in Forrest Gumps voice, “I just kept winning…”  Scotty has been ravaged by injuries, he has Wentz versus the NYG on TNF, Conner @ Tennessee in a marquee AFC matchup, Justin Jackson versus Jacksonville, Jared Cook vs. Carolina, Brandin Cooks versus Green Bay.  So between the Jacksons and the Cooks Scotty is hoping to get a win in the books… Jen loves the D.  Meaning of course that most of her players names start with a D.  Deshaun, Devin, Devery, DeAndre, and DJ are going to battle it out and try to move Jen within 1 game of playoffville population 6.  Scotty makes a trade with Chase to bring in some reinforcements but loses his Miles Sanders in the process.  Now Scotty just has to make the correct starting lineup decisions.  I like Jen’s chances in this one. 

As always, best of luck everyone!

-Brad

BBY 2020: Week 4 Recap & Week 5 Preview

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Week 4 Recap:

Katon (3-1) 147.2 vs. JD (0-4) 138.9

JD entered Week 4 with a new team and a new dream.  He took a risk and traded his first round pick Kenyan Drake to Brad for thoroughbred Josh Allen and “This Year’s Miles Sanders” Antonio Gibson.  He was rewarded with 25.3 from Allen and 20.8 from Gibson.  He had 5 players score 19.2 or more and scored his highest point total so far this season with 138.9.  Unfortunately, fate had other plans, and it wasn’t enough to overcome Joe Mixon’s explosion of 42.1 points, Aaron Rodgers 32.5 points, and Amari Cooper’s 30.4 points.  Katon lost Nick Chubb in the Dallas game, but you couldn’t tell with his 147.2 points scored.  JD remains beaten and moves to Week 5 still searching for his first win.

Moose (1-3) 114.0 vs. Joe (1-3) 109.0

Speaking of first win, Moose started non-division games a perfect 1-0 after skunking the first few weeks.  Lamar Jackson set the pace on this one with his 50+ yard rushing touchdown to the tune of 26.9 points.  Kamara continued his excellent season with another 19.4 points.  Ronald Jones played a Chargers defense riddled with injuries and got a respectable 18.8.  Allen Robinson enjoyed having Nick Foles throwing to him with 22.6.  It all came down to Monday Night Football.  CEH got 10.6 for Joe, setting up the Julio vs. Ridley +0.2 match.  Julio got 5.2 in the first half and exited the game due to injury.  Ridley couldn’t corral a would-be touchdown late in the game, when the GB defender punched it out of his hands.  Joe got a 24.7 from Mike Evans, 24.3 from Ryan Fitzmagic, and 19.2 from Jerick McKinnon who received every single first half snap against the Eagles.  Congrats on the first win Moose!

Tommy (1-3) 139.8 vs. Trey (3-1) 154.0

Tommy’s patience in Tom Brady paid off to the tune of 35.3 fantasy points.  Zeke had 16.5, Kareem Hunt had 19.1 and Adam Thielen had 25.2.  Trey’s team was just too powerful.  Scoring his highest point total so far this season with 154.0.  Trey had 7/9 starters in double digits and had 4 of those starters get 22.3 or more.  #6 Rb Chris Carson got 23.5, #5 James Robinson got 12.7, but most impressive was Odell Beckham Jr’s big day with 37.9 points.  He went off against the familiar foe Dallas Cowboys.  Tommy’s best scoring week of the season was still not enough for Trey this week. 

Jen (3-1) 91.6 vs. The Corpse of Chase’s Team (1-3) 85.5

I like Jen’s team because it’s fun.  Joe Burrow who got 18.1, CeeDee Lamb got 22.7, and Devin Singletary got 16.1.  Chase had a noble effort.  The only preseason-intentioned starters were his Qb and Tight End.  His Qb is #2 and got him another 23.9 this week.  His Rams D/ST got him 12.  Everybody else was held to single digits.  When you are starting two tight ends, Devonta Freeman, Myles Gaskin, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Greg Ward wins will be tough to come by. 

Mike (3-1) 139.9 vs. Brad (2-2) 86.5

Enough of these close games, let’s look at a good ole’ fashion ass kickin’.  Super Bowl I rematch ended with Mike trouncing Brad.  Mike got 23 from Kyler Murray, 19.6 from Mike Davis, and 20.8 from two random ass touchdowns for Latavius Murray.  He put the stank on it on SNF with George Kittle’s 35.6 point outing.  If you don’t enjoy watching George Kittle play football then you do not enjoy watching football.  He’s a football player and he’ all Mike’s.  Brad wind up with an impromptu bye week for Derrick Henry and several questions about the KC-NE game that wind up getting postponed a day and wind up a bit of a defensive battle anyway.  Add the (what appears to be) lopsided trade to JD and here Brad is 86.5 points and a bad loss.  Can’t win many games when 4 players score 3.9 or less. 

Kenny (4-0) 141.3 vs. Scotty (2-2) 102.1

Kenny continues his revenge tour, crushing Scotty.  Because of unknowns of the NE-KC game Kenny benched Tyreek Hill and it wind up not mattering.  He got 30.6 from Dalvin Cook, 27.8 from Melvin Gordon III, and 18.8 from Todd Gurley II.  Scotty lost Austin Ekeler to an unfortunate hamstring injury that is looking to sideline him for several weeks.  With Jared Cook out, Scotty turned to Adam Trautman, who was more effective as an almost $0 DFS play rather than a start in season-long leagues.  Tyler Lockett decided not to show up this week and Miles Sanders was held to single digits.  Dak’s 42.2 accounted for 41.3% of Scotty’s point output this week. 

Week 5 Preview:

  1. Kenny (4-0) vs. Katon (3-1)

Putting some respect to Kenny’s name by having his matchup be first this week.  Kenny will have #3 Dalvin Cook @ Seattle on SNF, #10 Melvin Gordon @ NE, #3 DK Metcalf vs. Minnesota, #5 Stefon Diggs @ Tennessee, Tyler Higbee @ Washington, and #8 Tyreek Hill vs. LV.  Two top two running backs and three top eight wide receivers.  4-0.  His challenger this week is Katon.  Katon just lost Nick Chubb for 4-6 weeks and has Aaron Rodgers on a bye.  In comes Jared Goff @ Washington.  He’ll have #7 Joe Mixon @ Baltimore (who just gave up 20+ points to Antonio Gibpson), and #28 Rb David Montgomery on TNF vs. TB.  #2 Amari Cooper faces the exploitable Giants, and #20 Robert Woods joins Goff for the Rams Stack.  This game looks like it’ll come down to Keenan Allen vs. New Orleans on MNF for Katon.  Looks to be a close game. 

Joe (1-3) vs. Tommy (1-3)

Potential Kicker Bowl early in the season here with 1-3 Rivals engage.  Joe will have his Steelers Stack back to attack the Eagles on Sunday.  CEH faces LV, Jonathan Taylor Thomas plays @ Cleveland.  Mike Evans is on TNF against the Bears maybe.  Calvin Ridley may or may not play vs. Carolina.  Tommy has Tom Brady in the Chicago game on TNF.  Zeke faces the Giants and Kareem Hunt faces the Colts.  Adam Thielen will be featured in the SNF Seattle game where the Seattle secondary has been toasted so far this year.  Joe looks to be the favorite here, but in a rivalry game anything can happen.

Trey (3-1) vs. Scotty (2-2)

Another great game this week, features Trey and Scotty.  Trey’s success this season has been overshadowed by Kenny’s undefeated season, but he is right there in the conversation of contenders.  With Cam Newton most likely out next week due to having COVID and Matthew Stafford having a bye week, Trey might be garbage bin hunting Qb’s on the waiver wire.  Scotty will have #1 Qb Dak Prescott against the Giants.  Trey will have #6 Chris Carson who at this point might be more machine than man since he can’t seem to get injured.  He gets knee twisted on dirty hit, still plays.  Concussion protocol during the game, nah he’s fine.  By the end of the year he’s going to look like Red at the end of Pineapple Express.  #5 James Robinson is @ Houston, who may be motivated following the firing of the dictator BOB.  Will Fuller may also be unleashed upon news of BOB’s departure.  Josh Jacobs faces Kansas City.  Scotty won’t have Austin Ekeler for awhile, but he gets back James Conner.  Conner has a tough matchup against Philly.  On the opposite side of the field he’ll also have Miles Sanders going up against a well rested Steelers front.  Scotty will be hoping Tyler Lockett comes back to life in a much anticipated shootout on SNF. 

Jen (3-1) vs. Mike (3-1)

Second highest combined win total squaring off in Week 5 features Jen vs. Mike.  Jen has Burrow @ Baltimore or Watson vs. JAX.  Devin Singletary is @ Tennessee and Devery Henderson faces Washington.  Hopkins plays the Jets who might be led by Joe Flacco this week.  DJ Moore has a pretty matchup vs. Atlanta.  CeeDee Lamb faces the Giants.  For Mike he has Kyler Murray in that Jets game.  David Jonson in the Jax game, and Mike Davis in the Atlanta game.  Interesting juxtaposition of players playing in the same game against one another for Jen/Mike.  I don’t know who wins, but I’ll have nightmares of what George Kittle did to me last week.

Chase (1-3) vs. Brad (2-2)

Chase will be without Davante Adams, Mason Crosby and TJ Hockensen due to bye weeks.  Chris Godwin and Leonard Fournette are Questionable to play on TNF.  We’ll have to wait and see if Michael Thomas and Raheem Mostert are ready to rock or not.  CGM plays on MNF so Chase will need to plan yet again for a MNF person to be potentially out.  But we do know Chase has #2 Russell Wilson in a shootout on SNF.  Brad is still recovering from the ass kicking he received last week by Mike, Covid, and himself in what may go down as the worst trade in the history of the league.  Despite all that, Brad is at full strength (as of Tuesday morning anyway).  #4 Patrick Mahomes faces the Raiders, Derrick Henry has a tough matchup against Buffalo, Kenyan Drake has one last chance to not make Brad look moronic against the hapless Jets.  #12 Terry McLaurin gets Jalen Ramsey and the Rams this week.  Julian Edelman will have God-knows-who throwing him the ball against Denver who will be starting God-knows-who at Qb as well.  #2 Travis Kelce faces the Raiders and Michael Gallup faces the Bears.  Gallup will remain in my Goddamn flex spot every week this year.  I’ll lose weeks because he’s getting less catches and yards than Cedric “Who the hell is” Wilson while Dak throws 500 yards every f-bomb-ing week.  I’d like to imagine Michael Gallup running on the football field like he’s in a field of clovers.  Just prancing around, skipping along, not a care in the world.  Might as well because Dak doesn’t look for the mf-er.  After having the #1 Qb on his bench, Brad now somehow has the #1 TE and #1 Kicker on his bench.      

Moose (1-3) vs. JD (0-4)

Last and certainly least: The matchup with the least number of wins.  Moose finally stopped the madness last week securing his first victory while JD got bum rushed by Katon.  Moose has Lamar Jackson vs. Cincy, #1 Fantasy Rb Kamara vs. the Chargers who made Rojo relevant last week.  Rojo @ Chicago on TNF.  Julio vs. Carolina, Allen Robinson in the TNF game and maybe a couple more starters on MNF.  JD has #3 Josh Allen vs. Tennessee, Antonio Gipson vs. LAR, Hollywood Brown and Mark Andrews vs. Cincy and Robby Anderson vs. Atlanta.  Cardinals D/ST against Joe Flacco’s Jets.  Moose is hoping Lamar Jackson rushes more than he passes this week as JD has his top two pass catchers.  Should be a great game. 

Best of Luck everybody!  Make sure to make as many trades as possible, they always work out, trust me.  😉