It’s that time of year again. That’s right, the fantasy football playoffs. Where hours and hours of draft research, obsessive-compulsive checking of Stat Tracker and smack talk come down to which team gets lucky enough to have Washington’s third-string running back go off for 2 touchdowns. Why do so many people, myself included, waste their lives away on this shit? I’ll leave that one to the philosophers and so will owners of Andre Johnson (11 recs for 193 yds), Brandon Marshall (21 receptions) and, yes, Quinton Ganther (scoring his first and second career rushing TDs), who are now one step closer to the glory of a fake championship.
On the actual playing field, records fell in Indy as the Broncos’ Marshall snatched the NFL single season receptions record from his talented tantrum-throwing predecessor, Terrell Owens. The Colts also broke the New England Patriots’ record for regular season victories (22.) As a Pats fan I can tell you Indy punks, the regular season doesn’t mean shit. I’m sure you’ll blow it against San Diego again in the playoffs this year.
Week 14 also featured some big time inter-conference matchups. The Vikings exposed the Bengals as second-class NFL citizens behind Adrian Peterson. Even though he’s one of the league’s bigger stars, “All Day” has found it tough to get any PR since Brett Favre and black hole like ability to away all attention joined the Purple People. But dude’s on pace for 1500 yards and 18 TDs along with improving as a blocker and receiver. If the Vikings are going to finish this dream season, he’ll have to carry them there.
Meanwhile the Chargers helped Dallas continue their seasonal slide down the standings of the NFC East. I do feel bad for Tony Romo and the Cowboys fans, they try hard (Roy Williams excepted). But it’s hard to win in the NFL when your coach routinely shoots your team in the foot. Wade Phillips’ latest blunder was letting time expire on an end of the game drive. The Cowboys were down 10 points with no timeouts and needed two scores to win. Phillips could have kicked a field goal with 30 seconds left and had time to try for a miracle drive. Instead he dumbfoundedly watched the clock expire while the Cowboys scored a worthless TD with 2 seconds left.
Other News and Notes
– The Steelers, I mean what the hell happened? Eight sacks on Big Ben? Oakland and Cleveland back-to-back? Aren’t you supposed to be the City of Champions? Polomalu or no Polomalu, that’s just pathetic.
– Chris Johnson is just ridiculous. If not the real MVP of the league then the unanimous fantasy MVP. He put up three more TDs and 117 rushing yards in the Titans’ rout of the Rams. But his best play of the day was this screen pass where he made everyone else look like they were in slow motion.
– Green Bay swept the Bears and looks to be the leading favorite for hot team nobody wants to play in the playoffs. And as much as I hate Favre and his relationship with the media, even I admit that a third Packers-Vikings playoff game would be phenomenally entertaining. We can only hope.
– Even though he may one day die on the field, Derrick Mason is a bad bad man and a warrior. And of course, the Lions are just bad.
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Brees/Ray Rice/Jamaal Charles and TEN D had me crushing to open up my playoffs. Over 100 pts just from them, with a dash of Miles and Ocho sprinkled in for good measure.
You know its bad when you get 10 people calling you on Sunday saying, “You wanna go to the Rams game, I got 4 tickets” and I say “Nah, I’m just gonna clean the house and watch the games on TV”.
Mason got smacked. I can’t believe he kept running. I would have taken a knee…
The Lions seriously can not f’n tackle.
Mason was and will always be a hard motherfucker. Him & Steve were made of granite or some shit and complimented each other well. It looked like he got shot by a riot gun’s pellet, took the lick and kept going lol.
it nice to finally not here Vince Young get shitted on
had rice, chris johnson, ganther, andre, and brandon in, with bills d and rob bironas. Killin these playoffs. And if i win i get… oh wait, i get nothing. fuck this. i should be the redskins GM for puttin my team together like i did.
Can you believe that (as of today) that the GB vs PITT’s game’s spread is PK? That’s ridiculous, GB is going to dominate PITT. They’re [Green Baby] Coming off a five-game winning streak (while Pitt is coming off a five-game losing streak), they also on paper have the best defense in the NFL. The game is at Lambeau and PITT is 2-5 on the road this year while Green Baby is 5-2 at home. The Steelers have lost their last two games to OAK and CLE. They gave up 8 sacks to CLE. The Packers are still going to be hungry to clinch a wildcard spot. What I’m saying is, if you’re a betting man and the spread stays the same hit up your bookie and throw that paper on GB. If I’m wrong, someone quote this paragraph for the Week 15 Recap.
I am praying the vikings don’t have to see the pack in the playoffs. I mean sweeping the pack in the regular season is one thing, but to beat a division rival three times in a season would be something else.