Here is my email that has been sent out to each owner. I have been writing these recaps every Monday night/Tuesday morning since 1998 as a Junior at James Madison University.
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We're are now officially underway. As a reminder there will be a THURSDAY game EVERY WEEK. Please be attentive to who is playing and make sure you have your rosters set in time. This weeks game is GREEN BAY VS CHICAGO. I know we will have plenty of starters from that game.
Waivers will go through on the computer Wednesday night. Please do not send me any choices as I will ignore them. After they have gone through you can send me your K/DEF selections via email.
Onto the games:
Matt and I played the closest game of the first weekend and we put up two of the top four highest scores to boot. We were both led by stellar quarterback play as Matt Ryan scored 34 for Matt and RGIII tallied 32 for me. Stevan Ridley kept the scoring going for Matt as he scored 19 points, but I answered with 13 each from Andre Johnson and the Patriots D. We went into MNF tied at 70, but I had 3 players left while Matt had just Ray Rice. Before I even turned the game on, I was up 4 points as Torrey Smith caught a long bomb, but that was it for him. Ray Rice took over scoring 19 points and I was suddenly in a 15 point hole. Darren McFadden tried his best to get me back, but neither him nor Antonio Gates could score and I fell just short in this shootout.
Final Score: Rainbows & Puppies 89 Escaped Lunatics 84
Our top scoring team of week 1 came from the battle between Alex and Ike. If you're not new to this league, I'm guessing you already know which team had to most points and which team did not. Ike unloaded on Alex with 27 from Tony Romo, 19 from Arian Foster, 18 from Billy Cundiff and 13 from Brandon Marshall. That's a good start. Poor Alex got 19 from Big Ben and 10 from Robbie Gould, but he was never in this game. Just for fun...Ike's bench lost to Alex's starters by 2. Yikes! Have we found our juggernaut?? Who needs a co-manager anyways, I guess Jason was just hindering Ike all this time. I would win $10, but he shorted me $12 at the draft so that money is mine.
Final Score: Myra's College Fund 101 Worthless Peons 65
Luke came out of the game at full speed as he sprinted by Nick G who has a shiny new avatar this season which makes me happy. Mike Vick threw 4 INT's, but still scratched out 22 points to lead Luke, but it was 19 points from Julio Jones that stands out. He also got 15 points from Nate Kaeding who stay healthy for more than one play this season. To round things out, Luke got 10 points each from his RB's, LeSean McCoy and Doug Martin. Peyton Manning led all scorers with 25 and Frank Gore proved doubters wrong with 17, but the other six starters for Nick G. could only muster 32 more points.
Final Score: Deathtongue 94 Lollipop Kids 74
Ben and Mike met up this week and they had some ugly outputs, but one team looks to be in much better shape in the upcoming weeks. Mike only had one double digit scorer, Tom Brady who mustered 19 points, but he also had the years first negative score as David Wilson fumbled on his first carry and was benched scoring -2 points. MJD got a lot of touches thanks to the injury to Rashad Jennings, but could only score 8 points. For Ben it was hit or miss with his squad as he had three top producers and two 0's. Demaryius Thomas led his team with 19...16 on one play, 18 from Matt Stafford and 16 from Matt Forte. On the other side of the ledger he got no production from either DeAngelo Williams or Wes Welker. The upside for him though is he has CJ Spiller stashed on his bench and with the injury to Fred Jackson, Ben looks to be solid for the next 4-6 weeks at least. I guess Mike shouldn't have cheated on his Bookoo drinks on draft night.
Final Score: The Magic Wands 69 Bookoo Barbarians 54
Nate and John locked horns in a game that was very similar to the one that Matt and I played. Nate had the games top two scorers as Drew Brees scored 26 and AP returned from injury to shock everyone with 20 points. John used team depth to stay in the game with 17 from Matt Schaub, 16 from Matt Bryant, 14 from Ahmad Bradshaw and 11 from Jimmy Graham. He still trailed by 17 with two MNF players thanks in large part to the -3 scored by the paltry Buffalo Bills defense. Anquan Boldin did his part in the early game last night tallying 10 points and it was up to Ronnie Brown who needed 8 points for a comeback victory. Well Brown showed his age and did next to nothing scoring a lone point and John came up short.
Final Score: The Bounchers 75 The Situation 69
Another year, another injury plagued season ahead for Nick B. This year Fred Jackson has already been lost from his team and that was a big reason to the bad score for The Knacks. He did get 14 points from Eli Manning and 10 each from Darren Sproles and the Texans defense, but it was not nearly enough to keep up with Adam. Cam Newton posted 17, Shonn Greene rumbled for 15, DeMarco Murray scrambled for 13 and Jeremy Maclin hauled in 12 points before getting injured to get Adam going in the right direction this season.
Final Score: Biggums' 'Basers 82 The Knacks 51
Last, but certainly not least, our newest member Joel was rudely welcomed to the FCNPFFL by get toss around by original member Jody. DoggNutz had five players post double digits with 15 each from BJGE and the Ravens defense. In fact Jody had more points on his bench (82) than his starting lineup (81) which is never a bad thing. Joel did get 25 from Aaron Rodgers and 16 from David Akers and his 63 yard field goal, but with four players scoring 3 or less points in the starting lineup and six of his seven bench spots scoring 1 or fewer points...things could get ugly real quick if changes aren't made.
Final Score: Doggnutz 81 Nikachu 59
No standings post just yet...if you can't figure out where you stand after one week, you have deeper issues that I cannot fix.
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