Week 3 Notes, earlier than the Week 2 Notes

 I really enjoy when our standings are a perfect palindrome. I don't love it when my team is 9th of 10, but hey, it's early.

Ah, who am I kidding? As if that makes a difference, right?

Let's do the traditional recaps this week.

B.S. Centurions dismantle Pedro Pickles, 125.5-98

That Mike Williams pick in the 10th round looks like money right now. He's Justin Herbert's favorite target, and an early leader for BS's keeper next year. He's certainly helped overcome Allen Robinson in the 3rd. Williams had 30.5 points on Sunday; Allen Robinson has 18 on the season. Matt Nagy sucks. Pickles partly got got by Nuke playing through a rib injury. And not playing Kareem Hunt.

Hardcore loses CMC, Tidwell, wins over Jeff Fisher Effect, 125-95

You all saw The Commish's apparent jinx powers. Last week's notes reference CMC's point total at the time of the posting, and that's all he got, after an injury. But then JFE's roster just slept through Sunday, while Hardcore's roster was like Alexis to Stevie in Schitt's Creek:

It's tough to win a game when you get 10 total points from your RBs. And Hardcore is loving his 4th round pick of Cooper Kupp. He's the WR1 in all of fantasy right now (just ahead of the aforementioned Mike Williams.

Team Provost softens Iron Ryan, 122.5-107

A week after having a shot at a Tidwell on Monday night and still losing, Provost got right this week. When your skill position guys all put up 15 or more, it's gonna go pretty well for you. And it's also helpful when your kicker sets an NFL record for distance, and destroys the hopes and dreams of Lions fans everywhere. (Relatedly, damn the NFL for not allowing you to embed YouTube clips. Here's a link to the call by Lions radio team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NM93tx7Tvk)

Utah Falco uses Zeke to punish HRG, 104.5-96

Pretty sure we all enjoy it when we use a player from our opponent's favorite team to beat them in fantasy. Though, come to think of it, it's basically only the Cowboys where that happens; all the other favorite teams in our league barely have any players worth starting. Certainly not the Giants. Anyway, two TDs by Zeke doomed HRG against Falco this week. I'll say Falco did get kinda lucky though: an injury to A.J. Brown caused him to put up a donut, and the Bucs D LOST 3 points...but he still pulled out a win.

Released Dix On Boobies tops DVD, 103.5-88.5

Herbert, Mattison and Cardinals D. That's how Boobies (heh) won. No one else on the roster broke into double digits. Meanwhile, somehow DVD had THREE players over 20 points, and couldn't break 90; partly thanks to the 8 points the Washington D lost him. After Thursday night, it looked like playing Sam Darnold over his keeper Josh Allen was going to be a good move. Then Allen came out and put up the QB1 of the week. Boobies (heh) squeaks out the win.

Tidwell Time

BullSpit Centurions won his first Tidwell of the season. No repeats yet. The longest we've gone without a repeat Tidwell winner to start the season is four weeks (last year, our first repeat winner was in Week 5). 

Commish is now off to cry in a corner with an aggressively mediocre team.

Week 2 Notes (Basically in Week 3), or Latey McLaterson

 Yeah, so this week's Notes are late. It is what it is.

Now, I'm just hoping to get these things out before Christian McCaffrey drops 30 on me tonight (Thursday night).

As usual, I'll start with recaps. As unusual, I'm gonna mix it up a bit.

There was a sort of 3-way race for the Tidwell this week. Funny enough, two of those teams played each other, and all three had a Green Bay stud going on Monday Night. Speaking of Monday Night, what is the deal with the Peyton and Eli Show? I found it unwatchable, only slightly less so than bumbling Louis Riddick and over-excited Steve Levy (Brian Griese is good though). I'm willing to give it another watch though; I stumbled in while they were interviewing Gronk and Gronk was trying to be as funny as possible, and kind of failing. Anyway...

The Tidwell ultimately went to Hamilton Rod & Gun, thanks to Davante Adams, and our scoring system that kept Aaron Rodgers and Hardcore Sacks from putting up enough points to take home the ten bucks.

Third place in the Tidwell standings (he says, as if there were such a thing) was Team Provost, who actually got to play Hardcore. In defense of his title, Provost is now 0-2.

Speaking of teams who are 0-2, Death Valley Driver really does seem to be driving to the valley of death. He's put up a TOTAL of 142.5 points (which you'll notice is LESS than our top two point scorers this week). He's the only one who doesn't have more than 200 total points, and he's 57.5 shy of that. It's not been a good start.

You know who it has been a good start for? Bishop Sycamore Centurions, who is one of two undefeated teams so far (HRG is the other). If Mike Williams continues to be Justin Herbert's favorite target, and Travis Kelce and Lamar Jackson keep doing what they do, his team is gonna be good.

Justin Herbert, btw, was one of only 3 players in double figures for Released Dix On Boobies who, one week after a Tidwell, flirted with the lowest score of the week. He fell to Jeff Fisher Effect in a kind of pillow fight; neither team cracked 100 points. JFE could have broken 100 with SOME output from his D or K spot (they combined for -1 on the week).

Let's see....who haven't I talked about yet? Oh right. Iron Ryan, who was bummed he didn't get to play either Boobies (heh) or JFE. He got Tidwelled instead.

And Pedro Pickles, a week after picking up Gronk on waivers while the rest of us fell asleep at the wheel, rode him to a win over the other guy I would have assumed would have picked up (or even drafted) Gronk, Utah Falco. He's got the old guy who throws to Gronk instead. 

So, as I click "Publish", it looks like CMC only has 3 points. So, there's that.

Good luck in Week 3.

But not you, Tim.

It's 2021, and we're playing fantasy football again!

 So, do you remember when the season started and there was no concern about injuries or illnesses and life was perfect?

Yeah, me either. It was a Week 1 just like any other. Injuries, illness, some surprises and some teams who might consider hitting the panic button, even in Week 1.

Boobies (heh) smothers Hardcore Sacks, 137.5-89

This one had a lot happening on Opening Night with the Cowboys and Bucs; both were happy that Cowboys WRs had big nights. The real difference in this game? A-Aron laying an egg, Raheem Mostert doing Mostert things and getting hurt (because that's what he does) and Tim picking the Browns D for a Week 1 matchup against the Chiefs. We'll see if Amari Cooper keeps putting up 30 point games (which I feel like he did a bunch last year until Dak got hurt).

Centurions look real, take down The Effect, 119-108

Saquon is back, but wasn't good. Andy Dalton is bad and couldn't help Allen Robinson. But that didn't really matter for BSC, thanks to two TD catches each for Travis Kelce and Corey Davis (who is apparently the only Jet receiver). The Effect has nothing to be ashamed of really (I can say that, cuz it's me). His team did their thing, mostly. A solid start. (yeah, I'm sure it's just telling myself not to panic).

Utah Falco kills DVD, 112.5-74

So it's only Week 1, but it looks quickly like DVD's team is NOT going to be good. James Robinson may not be the primary back in Jacksonville (because Urban Meyer is an idiot) and Brandon Aiyuk is apparently a magician with a good disappearing act (or his coach hates him suddenly). Falco managed to overcome the negative points from the Tampa D (thanks to the QB from the same team) and a couple TDs from Adam Thielen. Still waiting on a Zeke sighting...

HRG take two good players, beats Provost 109.5-81

Kyler Murray and T.J. Hockenson (who, BTW, has one of the silliest headshots ever on ESPN) got most of his points, but that's all HRG needed. Provost's team wasn't (isn't?) good. Aaron Jones can't be that bad again, but CEH might be. Mike Evans is often BIG hit or BIG miss; he was the latter this week. But 32 from Murray is a good start for any team. Interesting piece: there were FOUR players in HRG's lineup that scored exactly 7.5 points.

I-Ry does just enough, beats Pedro Pickles 106.5-98.5

Good news for I-Ry: that Mahomes/Tyreek stack is likely to do some great things for him this year (they were his only 2 players in double digits in Week 1). Bad news: his RBs might be REALLY hurting. He's got three on his bench who got zilch in Week 1! Now you're saying "But it's his bench." Did you see his starters? Gibson was meh, Najee Harris was more meh. Pickles was fine. He coulda won, if not for the Ravens D and Mike Gesicki (who's already been jettisoned for something else at TE). Dat Pickles bench doe.

Other Stuff   

As already mentioned, Boobies (heh) won the Tidwell this week.

Also, apologies on the Notes arriving when they did. Hopefully, they'll be sooner for more of the season. Crobi, Pete and I played in a golf tourney on Tuesday. We shot 61 (11-under par) and didn't come CLOSE to winning (best score was a 52). So the time I would normally be writing the notes, I was driving around looking for a golf ball that I had smashed into the woods. Or some bushes. Or a sand trap.

When's the next league outing?

On to Week 2!