Week 1 Recap:
Division 3:
Joe (0-1) 117.3 vs. Brad (1-0) 117.5
I must start here after Monday Night Football. My goodness. Both teams deserved to lose this one. Joe decided to start Michael Gallup over Julio Jones and Antonio Brown, which I thought was a questionable decision going into the NFL opening game on Thursday night. I had it ranked Julio-AB-Gallup. Of course, by him choosing Gallup he got 1.2 more points than Julio (5.6 versus 4.4). Brad decided to start Kareem Hunt in the flex over Corey Davis. Jamison Crowder was ruled out and Davis’s projections went up slightly. Then Keenan Cole was ruled out and Davis’s projections and volume of targets was locked in. Yet I decided to keep in Kareem Hunt because I liked the symmetry of Joe and I both starting flex players in revenge games. Robby Anderson versus the Jets and Kareem Hunt versus Kansas City. Speaking of Robby and Kareem, Robby scored a 57-yard touchdown for his lone catch of the game. 1 Catch, 14.2 points, not too shabby. Kareem found the endzone and got 15.6. Of course, the stars of this matchup were Joe’s Patrick Mahomes who went off for 36.2, but unfortunately for Joe many of those passes went to Brad’s #1 Wideout Tyreek Hill who matched Mahomes with 36.6. Tyreek saw 15 targets, 11 receptions for 197 yards and a 75-yard touchdown. Joe’s #1 pick Dalvin Cook delivered a solid 17.4, whereas Brad’s #1 pick Aaron Jones got curb stomped by a Saints defense and team that sent a message to the world on Sunday. Then of course there was the Monday Night Football game. Brad went into MNF with a 6.2-point lead and Raven’s D/ST and Joe had Justin Tucker. With 0:42 seconds left in the game Justin Tucker hit a 47-yard field goal to bring Joe within 0.2. The Raiders then drove the field quickly and Daniel Carlson hit a 55-yard field goal with 7 seconds remaining to send the game into Overtime. Brad was up by 0.2 and the Raiders had 27 points scored. Raven’s D/ST was at 5 points at the time, meaning if the Raiders scored 1 more point it would move Raven’s D/ST into 28 points allowed, which would have dropped them by 2 points. In the first drive of Overtime the Raiders drove the field quickly. Carr hit Edwards for a 33-yard touchdown meaning Joe would win the game by 1.8 points. But a replay showed Edwards was down at the one-yard line. Setting up a First Down and Goal. On first down Carr was stuffed on a Qb sneak up the middle. On second down and goal Leatherwood jumped, causing a false start to happen. Replaying second down it was an incomplete pass. On third down and goal Carr passed it to Willie Snead but it was hit far in the air and intercepted by Averett for a touchback. Brad gets 2 points bringing his lead to 2.2. A field goal by Justin Tucker would win the game for Joe. Lamar Jackson starts to get the drive going. Then on 3rd and 7 from the Baltimore 33-yard line, Jackson is sacked and fumbles the football. The Raiders get the ball, Brad, who had been rooting against the Raiders offense all game, now started cheering for them to score. On the 3rd play of the drive Derek Carr hits Zay Jones for a 31-yard touchdown and the Raiders win the game. Brad defeats Joe by 0.2. Holy shit what a roller coaster.
Mustafa (1-0) 130.4 vs. Chase (0-1) 113.1
Kyler Murray had a great game for Chase with 33.4 points compared to 14.1 from Moose’s Ryan Tannehill who couldn’t get it going against the Cardinals defense. First round picks Nick Chubb for Chase got a respectable 21.1 points and Alvin Kamara for Moose got 16.6. Chase lost Raheem Mostert who chipped a bone off his knee. Marquez Callaway couldn’t get away from Jaire Alexander and finished with 1.9 points. On Sunday Night Football he got a great performance out of Cooper Kupp who scored 25.3 points. Moose got 8.7 from Mike Davis who disappointed most likely due to negative game script. Diontae Johnson went out of the game briefly before returning and scoring a touchdown for Moose and getting 12.1 points. Chase went into Monday Night Football with a 24.1 lead. Moose had Darren Waller and Ty’Son Williams left. Waller was enough, scoring 24.5 points. Williams’ 16.9 was lagniappe as Moose defeats Chase by 15.3 points in Week 1.
Division 1:
Kenny (1-0) 136.1 vs. Trey (0-1) 122.1
Things were looking okay for Kenny after Thursday Night Football. Zeke had gotten only 4.9 points, but Godwin got 22.0 for a decent combination of 26.9 points. Trey’s stack of Jalen Hurts and Devonta Smith worked out well as they combined for 44.7 points. TJ Hockensen performed as expected catching 8 passes on 10 targets for 97 yards a touchdown. (21.7 points). Courtland Sutton disappointed for Trey only getting 1.9 points. In comparison Kenny’s Wr#1 and #2 combined for 45.3 compared to Trey’s 12.8, which ultimately decided this game. Trey did hold a slim lead of 2.5 heading into MNF with Josh Jacobs holding a questionable designation due to illness. But Jacobs played and scored 2 touchdowns, closing the Week 1 victory for the defending champion and highest draft grade earner, Kenny.
Scotty (0-1) 98.3 vs. Katon (1-0) 132.9
Katon did not disappoint. An interesting note on this matchup, prior to Week 1 games both had a surprise inactive at Running Back. Scotty had 49ers Trey Sermon and Katon had Bills’ Zach Moss. Despite having four players score 7.2 Katon took care of business. His Mixon-Montgomery combination combined for 47.3 points, compared to just 20.6 from Scotty’s Najee Harris and Darrell Henderson combo. Both teams wide receivers disappointed with Scotty getting 20.5 from Adams and Moore and Katon getting 11.1 from Evans and Smith-Schuster. Katon did; however, get 22.6 from Travis Kelce who picked up where he left off last year. And that was more than enough.
Division 2:
Mike (1-0) 133.1 vs. Jen (0-1) 117.9
Jen started this matchup off with a bang! Amari Cooper got 35.4 points on Thursday Night Football. On Sunday Mike evened the score with strong performances from Russel Wilson (26.9), Adam Thielen (25.7), and D’Andra Swift (20.4). Mike was surely disappointed by first round pick Derrick Henry’s paltry 9.2, but a negative game script can do that for Henry and the Titans O. Jen had a solid week, but after Cooper, no one else on the team exceeded 18.7 and 5 players scored in single digits. Going into MNF she needed Lamar Jackson to outscore Daniel Carlson by 22.3, but Carlson delivered a strong performance of 11 points including a 55 yarder to send the game into overtime.
JD (1-0) 132.2 vs. Tommy (0-1) 107.8
Despite all the injuries JD’s team delivered in week 1. On TNF JD got a whopping 55.2 points from his Dak Prescott-CeeDee Lamb stack. He was disappointed by Saquon Barkley’s 3.2 points, but Melvin Gordon made up for it, scoring 24.3 points (most of which came from a 70-yard touchdown run in the 4th quarter). Gordon wind up outscoring Tommy’s #1 Overall Pick Christian McCaffrey who finished with 23.2 points. Tyler Lockett also showed out with 4 catches for 100 yards and 2 touchdowns, an incredible 29 points on only 4 catches. Tommy’s downfall was Aaron Rodgers getting 1.2 and getting benched after the Saints crushed the Packers. Brandon Auyik didn’t receive a single target in the game and finished with 0 points. ESPN says this is due to a lingering hamstring injury. Graham Gano also finished with 1 point. It was impressive that Tommy broke 100 points with 3 players combining for 2.2 points.
Week 2 Preview:
Division 1:
Kenny (1-0) vs. Scotty (0-1)
Kenny has a combination of some tough matchups and some really favorable ones. He has Josh Allen at Miami, Zeke at LA Chargers, Jacobs at Pittsburgh, and Harrison Butker @ Baltimore. He also has Hopkins vs. Minnesota, Godwin versus Atlanta, which is a smash spot, and Deebo Samuel @ Philly. Scotty has Justin Herbert versus a Dallas team that just gave up 30 fantasy points to Tom Brady. Najee Harris versus Las Vegas who gave up a couple touchdowns to the likes of Ty’Son Williams and Latavius Murray last week. Davante Adams and the rest of the Packers are coming for blood after a disappointing opening week. They get Detroit on Monday Night Football. Looks to be a great matchup in Week 2!
Katon (1-0) vs. Trey (0-1)
Katon has come very favorable matchups and enters Week 2 the heavy favorite to move on to 2-0. Brady, Evans, TB D/ST stack faces swiss cheese defense Atlanta. Mixon and Montgomery face each other in the CIN @ CHI matchup. Kelce gets Baltimore who couldn’t stop Darren Waller in Week 1 to save their lives. Trey’s Jalen Hurts and Devonta Smith stack is vs. San Fransisco, Johnathan Taylor vs. Aaron Donald and the LA Rams D/ST, Antonio Gibson faces a decent D line of the Giants on TNF. Trey will need big games from his Hurts to Smith stack, Den D/ST against rookie Trevor Lawrence (who threw 3 INT in Week 1), and Courtland Sutton to show up this week after Jerry Jeudy went down to an injury that will have him sidelined for multiple weeks.
Division 2:
Mike (1-0) vs. Tommy (0-1)
Biggest game of the week for this matchup is Seattle versus Tennessee. Mike has Russell Wilson, Derrick Henry, and DK Metcalf. Tommy has AJ Brown and Tyler Lockett. Mike also has Chase Edmonds vs. Minnesota and Adam Thielen vs. Arizona. Tommy has a juicy matchup for Gronk against Atlanta. Tommy’s Rb’s do have tough matchups with CMC vs. NO and Sanders vs. SF. Ultimately this game will look to come down to Monday Night Football where Mike will have D’Andre Swift @ GB and Tommy will have Aaron Rodgers versus Detroit. Who scores more Metcalf or Lockett? Henry or Brown? Swift or Rodgers? Great Week 2 Matchup here.
JD (1-0) vs. Jen (0-1)
Biggest game of the week for this matchup is Dallas versus LA Chargers. JD has Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb. Jen has Austin Ekeler and Amari Cooper. Every single player for JD is playing on the road except for his kicker. Dak and Lamb is in LA as previously mentioned, Barkley is at Washington on TNF, newly acquired $71 Rb Elijah Mitchell is at Philly. Diggs-Higgs and Higbee (should make a team name out of this somehow) are all away as well. Jen has Lamar Jackson vs. KC on SNF. Ekeler in the Dallas matchup. CEH in the SNF matchup, and Terry McLaurin versus the Giants on TNF. Someone to watch for Jen is Brandin Cooks who had an impressive 18.7 in Week 1 on 7 targets from Tyrod Taylor. Cleveland opened favored by 13 points, meaning Cooks could be in line for even more targets in Week 2.
Division 3:
Joe (0-1) vs. Chase (0-1)
Both teams coming off their loss on MNF and looking to avoid the 0-2 start to the season. A phenomenal matchup on paper starting with the field generals on both teams. Joe has #1 Qb Patrick Mahomes @ Baltimore who just got carved up by Derek Carr. Chase has #2 Qb Kyler Murray versus Minnesota who gave up a respectable 18.6 to Joe “Big Dick” Burrow. Joe’s Minnesota stack of Cook and Jefferson square off with an Arizona defense that looked surprisingly good against the Titans in Week 1. This game also features a couple of wideouts facing each other with Joe having Antonio Brown vs. Atlanta and Chase having Calvin Ridley vs. Tampa Bay. I’d be remiss to not mention the incredibly disgusting matchup of these teams Running Back #2’s who also face each other this week. Joe has Myles Gaskin vs. Buffalo and Chase has Devin Singletary @ Miami. And I just puked in my mouth.
Brad (1-0) vs. Moose (1-0)
Brad and Moose feature the only matchup with two winning teams this week. Moose has Ryan Tannehill who is in the Pacific Northwest to face the Seattle Seahawks, Alvin Kamara @ Carolina, Keenan Allen vs. Dallas, Diontae Johnson and Darren Waller will square off against one another in the LV-Pittsburgh matchup. Heading into Week 1 I imagine not many people have Vegas versus Pittsburgh being a 1-0 vs. 1-0 matchup, but here we are. Brad has Matt Stafford at Indy. Stafford looks solid in Week 1 against the Bears secondary, but the Colts secondary is a lot stronger. Chris Carson has Tennessee, TyFREAK Hill is @ Baltimore. Allen Robinson is coming off of his 11 targets, 6 catch game versus Jalen Ramsey and the Rams and is now facing a Bengals Defense that gave up a pair of touchdowns to Adam Thielen, but held Justin Jefferson to 5 catches on 7 targets and 71 yards. Ultimately this game looks to be decided on Monday Night Football where Brad will have Aaron Jones as his last hope to top Moose and move on to 2-0. Will the Packers come out flat again? Will AJ Dillon get more work than Jones? Who gets to 2-0 in D3? We’ll see.
Thanks for reading and best of luck this week!
-Commish B-Razzle Dazzle
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