If you think falling to 0-2 in the NFL is difficult to overcome, imagine the troubles a fantasy owner might have in a shortened fantasy season. Whereas the NFL season is a full 16 games, a fantasy season is, at most, 14 games with many seasons lasting just 13 weeks. Throw in future Bye Weeks to your starting lineup and 0-2 is a world of hurt.
Seven teams in this league are facing that unwanted fate.
Before we get to the scores, a friendly reminder of the upcoming Thursday night game between KANSAS CITY and PHILADELPHIA. For those of you not keeping score at home, that is Andy Reid returning to the city of brotherly love. That should be good television.
This week marked the first week in as long as I could remember that the MNF game meant absolutely nothing to the final scores of the games. So here I sit on Monday night actually typing up this recap allowing me to be more productive at work on Tuesday.
Onto the games:
John and I tangled in a battle of teams looking to avoid that 0-2 hole. I took a quick lead behind a solid Patriots defense as they stymied the Jets and scored 11 points. On Sunday, I extended that lead with early strikes from my wide receivers. Dez Bryant wound up scoring 15 and Randall Cobb added 14. John answered with 13 from Brandon Marshall and 11 from Eagles kicker Alex Henery. Then John took a small lead behind 22 from Drew Brees, but Doug Martin kept me right in it with 14 points. Only needing a handful of points from Colin Kaepernick on Sunday night, things looked good. Through three quarters, I still hadn't wrapped up the game, but eventually Kaepernick squeaked out just enough to get me a win.
Final Score: Escaped Lunatics 75 The Situation 69
Another game with a guaranteed 0-2 starter (barring the dreaded fantasy tie) had our defending champion Nate, locking horns with Joel. On the field, the Packers trounced the Redskins and on the fantasy field, Joel got the best of Nate in the quarterback battle as Aaron Rodgers outscored RGIII 40-27. That's the good news for Joel. The bad news was that his other seven players scored just 35 more points with none in double figures. Nate had three other players score in double figures with Arian Foster tallying 15 and Jermichael Finley and Garret Hartley kicking in 10 apiece. That was enough to get Nate over the top and back to his winning ways.
Final Score: The Bounchers 85 Nikachu 75
Okay enough of the slow starting teams. Week 1 top scorer, Mike took on fellow 1-0 member Ben in a pure classic. Both teams hit triple digits this week as they (barring a huge Bengals D scoring night) were the top two scoring teams in Week 2. That means somebody lost a game that they really shouldn't have. Outscoring 12 teams and losing is the worst. Mike was led by Matt Ryan who posted 30 points, but Jimmy Graham did his best to assist with 23 points. Mike Wallace woke up from a long slumber with 13 points, LeSean McCoy put up 12 and Josh Brown booted in 11 points. Ben responded with 23 from Peyton Manning, 15 from Pierre Garcon and 12 from Lamar Miller who had a better Week 2 that his 1 yard Week 1 effort. Still, Mike was in great shape, up 27 points with Ben having just a single player left. He must've already been counting that second $10 prize. No chance Marshawn Lynch could go #BeastMode on the vaunted 49ers defense, right? Wrong. Lynch scored a hat trick of touchdowns along with 135 total yards to amass 29 total points. His final score, a meaningless one in a Seahawks blowout, was a killer for Mike. Congrats to Ben on a huge comeback and the $10 payout.
Final Score: The Magic Wands 103 Bookoo Barbarians 101
And then there was the other 1-0 vs 1-0 game pitting Nick B against Matt. Each team battled injuries and poor performances this week in an ugly effort. Matt saw Larry Fitzgerald barely do anything fighting an injury and his favorite player (as a Lions fan) Reggie Bush go down mid-game. Randy Bullock also added to Matt's misery by scoring (or is it pissing away) -1 points. Only Eli Manning (18) and the Ravens D (11) went into double digits for Matt. Nick B didn't fare much better. Already without injured receiver Danny Amendola, Nick B also saw Michael Floyd, Jason Witten and Phil Dawson combined for a paltry 3 points. Cam Newton did put up 19 points and Rashard Mendenhall added 13, but Nick was still in need of help. The Seahawks defense came to the rescue with 18 points as Nick B moved to 2-0.
Final Score: The Knacks 64 Rainbows & Puppies 51
Nick G looked to stay undefeated while Alex looked to get win #1 in a pretty solid matchup. Nick G had the games top two scoring players as Desean Jackson continued to flourish in the new Eagles offense with 24 points and Andrew Luck continued his steady play with 22 points. Jordy Nelson added 16 points for Nick G which just happened to be the point total of Alex's top scorer. That's never a good sign. Alex tried to stick around with balanced scoring. Tony Romo had the aforementioned 16 points to lead the way while Dan Bailey added 14, Matt Forte 11 and Alfred Morris chipped in 10. His other players did well, but not well enough.
Final Score: The Lollipop Kids 87 The Worthless Peons 76
Even though Lucas still has a player left tonight (and he has already scored a touchdown), it won't make a difference against Jody this week. Phillip Rivers led all scorers with 33 for Jody in a shootout win over the Eagles. Sebastian Janikowski, unfortunately for Jody, was his only other double digit scorer with just 10 points. Luke countered with his Lions tandem of Matt Stafford and Megatron who paired up on both a 72 yard (double) touchdown and a 3 yard scored for 48 total points. Heading into MNF Luke already led by 3 points and it now stands at 10 with 30 minutes left to play...and Gio scores again. Luke joins the crew at 2-0 while Jody falls to 0-2.
Final Score: Deathtongue 86 DoggNutz 67
Just like last week, our final pairing proved to be the clunker of the week. One of the two teams had a pretty decent outing while the other just had the bottom fall out. Adam and Ike proved to be a tale of two Sundays this week. With 24 points from Julio Jones, Adam nearly had all the points he would need. Yup, that about sums it up. To kick dirt on Ike's fresh grave, Adam also saw Jamaal Charles score 14, Tom Brady and Matt Prater add 13 and Darren McFadden post 11. Ike saw both his starting running backs, Ray Rice and Eddie Lacy, leave injured after just scoring two total points. The silver lining for Ike is that his two bench RBs scored 32 points. All is not lost. This week, though, all was completely and utterly lost.
Final Score: Biggums' 'Basers 88 Myra's College Fund 29
Standings after Week 2:
Back Wall Division
The Magic Wands (Ben) 2-0
Lollipop Kids (Nick G) 2-0
Biggums' 'Basers (Adam) 2-0
Bookoo Barbarians (Mike) 1-1
DoggNutz (Jody) 0-2
The Worthless Peons (Alex) 0-2
Myra's College Fund (Ike) 0-2
Critter Corner Division
Deathtongue (Luke) 2-0
The Knacks (Nick B) 2-0
Rainbows & Puppies (Matt) 1-1
Escaped Lunatics (Jason) 1-1
The Bounchers (Nate) 1-1
The Situation (John) 0-2
Nikachu (Joel) 0-2
Week 3 Schedule:
Nick B 2-0 vs Jason 1-1
Luke 2-0 vs Nate 1-1
Adam 2-0 vs Mike 1-1
Ben 2-0 vs Jody 0-2
Nick G 2-0 vs John 0-2
Matt 1-1 vs Joel 0-2
Ike 0-2 vs Alex 0-2
A very interesting schedule as none of the undefeated teams face each other. Will they pull away or will the league become wide open?
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