Colin Kaepernick...you're dead to me.
3 more passing yards.
9 more rushing yards.
something?
anything?
Matt Ryan you're dead too. down 3 with under 2 minutes to play, send it to overtime. easy day...Kaep with get his stats in the overtime period. PICK SIX! around kidding me??
Final Score to the Four Loko Society of Lemoore (FLSL) Championship
Tough pill to swallow.
Lets just dive right in. Last year was a fairly successful fantasy year for me, ended up with FOUR second place finishes, one championship and lets not talk about the League of Ds. This year's format is going to be a quick hitter on the Four Loko League Draft, 3 matchup previews and my fanduel lineup.
This year's FLSL draft was a renunion of a league that is going on its 5th season and started onboard a big ass boat in Japan. Members voyaged here to Tampa from Hawaii, San Diego, Atlanta and Jacksonville to participate in the draft order event and live draft. For those that attended, you know the epicness that was achieved that day, for those who didn't....well maybe next year? All but two other members joined in the draft via the WORLD WIDE WEB from all over the globe, Japan, Virginia, New York, California, and Parts Unknown (the Champ).
Heres how ESPN thinks we did.
FYSA(For Your Situational Awareness) Tean DAO was autodrafted, Charles Cash was drunk...well so was I, oh so were the Ape and Roz.
Here are what I believe to be the 3 best, and 3 worst picks in the draft:
All Three took place in the 10th Round and envolved unproven players with high upside.
Brooklyn Beatdown - 110 overall Bradin Cooks. I've witnessed Cooks' ADP go from the 130s up the mid 60s in a matter of weeks. Brees is used to making low end draft picks look like studs, and this is the first time in recent memory that the Saints have invested a first round pick on a receiver, i'm buying the hype.
The Champ - 113 overall Kevlin Benjamin. Benjamin is getting thrust into the spotlight as the Panthers completely gutted their mediocre receiving corps and replaced them with an bunch of receivers past their primes aka a mediocre receiving corps (see Jason Avant and Jericho Cotchrey). Benjamin could have benefited from playing opposite of Steve Smith for last couple years of his career, but sources (a Panthers fan I work with) say that the Panthers Brass thought it was time for Cam to be the undisputed leader of the locker room, and that wouldnt happen with Steve Smith there. Either way, Benjamin has looked great in the preseason, and he'll be a must start receiver by years end.
The Ape - 118th overall Zach Ertz. Almost every draft i've done this year, when Zach Ertz is drafted I say, "Shit I forgot about Ertz." I believe that Ertz will end up ranked higher than the four TEs draft before him in this draft (Reed, Rudolph, Pitta and Cameron).
After five seasons of drafting this league knows what they're doing, and it's hard to find bad picks, but here's what I came up with.
Tx Midnight Cock - 45 overall Trent Richardson. The highest I saw Trent go in any draft, Rashaad Jennings, Toby Gerhart, and even Chris Johnson would have been better picks here, but El Gallo Loco made up for it by take Ray Rice in the next round. soooo Comme si comme sa.
Chalupa Batman - 82 overall Matt Ryan. This wouldn't have been a bad pick, had Sir Charles Cash not draft RGIII two rounds earlier in a league with only 3 bench spots....I won't mention the 2nd defense he drafted.
Mardukas II Son of Mardukas - 36 overall Pierrce Garcon. All the way heading into the draft I had planned to keep Giovani Bernard until about 1 hour prior and 3 or 4 Jai-Alai into the day, I switched to A.J. Green. But 2 Jai-Alai later my brain has a Matt Forte and Gio Bernard combo and I need receivers...hence the reach for Garcon even though I already A.J. Green and needed another back. Damn you Cigar City Brewing!
Match ONE - Two Victims of the Texas Public School System
I know I criticized El Gallo Negro for taking Richardson, but that was based on WHERE he took, not that he actually took them. I'm probably the one and only person who thinks Richardson has a good game here. Luck has WEAPONS, two tight ends with hands, a stud #1 in Ty Hilton, a savy vet in Reggie Wayne, and a #3 who is a former #1 with a chip on his shoulder....you can't guard ALL of them and stack the box, i think Trent busts his first big TD for the Colts, and ends with 75+ 2 tds. The Champ has C.J. Spiller playing against my Bears and their historically bad run defense from a year ago, and the logic says he'll have a big day. My only worry for C.J. is that the Bears go up big early via their monsterous receiving corps, and the Bills are playing catch up behind the arm of E.J Manuel...yuck. Peterson vs Jennings and Manning vs Wilson wash each other out, as do both of their receiving corps. I'm looking at the TE matchup here. Jordan Cameron (to me) looks like a flash in the pan, and the browns QB situation...do I need to say anything? Greg Olsen is the only familiarity Cam has left in his receiving corps and with his injured ribs, I think Cam is going to play is safe and smart. BIG DAY FOR OLSEN.
The Champs take one on the chin, but not by much. WINNER - The Rooster.
Another 4-0 start for Sir Charles...only to end 4-10.
Week One of the Poehlman Curse.
***BREAKING NEWS**CAM NEWTON UNLIKELY TO PLAY***
Shit. That might just change my pick between the rooster and champ, Matt Blanchard or Joe Webb? YUCK. Sorry Hern, the bucs are going to eat whoever it is alive. Champ takes it.
Back to the Beatdown. Too many lions, Rodgers beautifully awful performance on thursday. If he knows it's coming and doesn't do anything to stop it...is it still rape?
Other matchups -
Death Via Aerial Assault...Assaults The Dope One.
The Ape gains from our sad #12 replacement who is starting both Cam and Matt Prater.
Palmer - I simply like having someone playing in the MNF game, and Palmer fit the budget.
Foster and Gore - For the same reason, they're both probably as healthy as they'll be all year playing against BAD defenses.
Marquis Lee - Always gotta have a sleeper to separate you from the pack, and with Cecil Shorts out...the Jags playing from behind..someone has to catch the ball.
Garcon and Marshall - Fanduel is PPR, i'm banking on 6+ catches for both.
Julius Thomas - Because every team needs a Broncos pass catcher.
Nate Freese - $4500 against CAP, MNF Player, in a potential Lions Beatdown, i'll take it.
Steelers - The browns are bad. the steelers are old, but again they're healthy. Troy gimme a pick six!!
As always Ladies, Ds, Chippies and Admirers,
Kick Rocks,
The Commish.
PS: I don't spell check or re-read, deal with my organic misspellings and poor grammar.
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