The 2020 Season Begins!

Week 1 is in the books. And there's some panic, especially with a few of the injuries from the week. Let's do some recaps:

Hooked on a Thielen tops the week and Hamilton Rod & Gun, 141-122

HOAT (yeah, I'm not making the acronym mistake this year) took home the first Tidwell Award of the year, thanks partly to the hapless Panthers defense giving up 3 TDs to Josh Jacobs, and some garbage time for the Falcons and Calvin Ridley. It was a very good week for HRG; I mean, he scored the second most points in the league, but that's the way to cookie crumbles.

These might be the best two teams in the league, after Week 1.

Team Provost wins first Week 1 game since 2015, Boobies falls 118-97

Boobies (heh) changed his name, but it's too long to write here (even though I'm spending a lot of words on explaining why it's too long), and his team failed miserably to meet their projection. Some of that was injury (see: Thomas, Michael), but some was downright ineffectiveness (see: Wentz, Carson). For Provost, Mark Andrews made him look smart with two short TDs, and it does appear that (at least for a week) reports of Aaron Rodgers demise were greatly exaggerated.

Death Valley Driver begins title defense with 118-98 victory over Jeff Fisher Effect

It was the second straight year these two met in Week 1, and both times the result has been the same. DVD has a good week, JFE has a meh week. JFE is hoping it's more just an underperformance by his guys. He got bit by the injury bug (see: Bell, Le'Veon) but also the Mark Ingram WTF? bug. The major difference in this game was Davante Adams completely dismantling the Vikings secondary (35 points). DVD now has the major break of Marlon Mack's injury:

So that Jonathan Taylor upside that we figured would show up in, like, Week 8? Yeah, looks like it's coming sooner.

Utah Falco rides an NFC triumvirate, takes out Pedro Pickles 117.5-93

Christian McCaffrey picked up right where he left off last year, leading the scoring for UF again. But his DeAndre Hopkins and Chris Carson picks looked good for this first week too. It will be interesting to see what Falco does with the injury to Marlon Mack. Pickles, meanwhile, also got bit by the inujury bug (see: Conner, James), but also the 49ers defense sucked. He's hoping Kenny Golladay isn't out for more than the first week.

Iron Ryan smacks Hardcore Sacks in the face with David Johnson, wins 109-90

It's not like Hardcore could keep David Johnson this year, but after being burned by him the last two years, there's a good amount of irony in DJ's excellent first week for the Texans; dude looked good. I-Ry also has Zeke, so that doesn't hurt either. Hardcore put up the lowest score in the league this week, but won't make the mistake of playing the Vikings defense again. (minus-9 points? ouch!) In positive news, Adam Thielen managed two TDs and Rodrigo Blankenship scored positive points.

(This is what happens when you search "Rodrigo Blankenship" on giphy at 10pm on a Tuesday.)

Money Winner!

As previously mentioned, Hooked On A Thielen is the Tidwell winner this week. Bad news is: he won't be able to collect because his team is named after a player not on his roster.

(And before you come at me with the "But Boobie Dixon isn't on Crobi's roster!" business, let's remember: that Crobi doesn't WIN Tidwell's so....)

 

See ya for Week 2.