Fantasy recap, Week 9

What’s left to look forward to?




          Mark your calendar, since apparently there will be no more decent football to watch for a while…
** Only 48 days until Christmas
** Only 99 days until pitchers report for spring training
** Only 171 days until Draftsgiving Day
** Only 302 days until the start of the 2008 NFL season
** Only 344 days until T.O. announces his retirement

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Top Performers





** QB: Drew Brees, 30.50 pts – started by Ant
** RB: Adrian Peterson, 47.87 pts – started by Jim
** WR: Bobby Engram, 29.27 pts – started by Paul
** TE: Tony Gonzalez, 23.27 pts – sitting on Joel’s bench
** K: Shaun Suisham, 19.00 pts – sitting on the wire
** DEF: Detroit, 31.00 pts – started by Dad
          In case you were wondering if anything else could go right for Paul this season, somehow his #4 wideout was the top WR on the week. Someone please convince him to start Jason Avant, because the man would catch four touchdowns just for being in his lineup.
          And to give credit where it’s due, nice call by Ant grabbing Brees off the waiver wire a few weeks back.

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Andy Reid Blown Call of the Week award





          I have no idea what happened out in Columbus this week, but Joel started three players on a bye, two players who were injured and scored zero points, one receiver who had just a single catch and posted a astoundingly low 39 pts. Meanwhile, he left nearly 63 pts on his bench, including RB Jamal Lewis and his career high four TDs on Sunday.
          So he gets the award and possible award naming considerations in the future.

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Worst performers, "Starting QBs" edition





Third Place: Kurt Warner, 2.88 pts– sitting on Joel’s bench
Second Place: Steve McNair, -1.48 pts – started by Jeff
First Place: Alex Smith, -2.04 pts – sitting on the wire
          Combined, these three threw five picks and had two fumbles. Separate, they each stunk in their own special way.

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Stupidest thing I heard this week





          Thursday night’s Virginia Tech/Georgia Tech game was a bore to watch on TV, but listening to it on the radio was a real treat.
          With the teams tied 3-3 in the second quarter, the Hokies’ play-by-play announcer Bill Roth dropped this gem on the ensuing kickoff:
         ”Dunlevy gets ready for the kickoff and … it’s an onsides kick! He’s running behind the ball and … there’s a scrum … I think Tech has it. Yes! Tech recovers the ball! The refs say Tech has it!”
          The best part was he continued to make that same dumb mistake all night in reference to both teams – “another great play by Tech” or “Tech really needs to step it up here” – to the point where his color announcer just started talking over him and inserting the appropriate state name so listeners had some idea what was going on.
          The final score was 27-3. Tech won.

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College stat lines of note





** Miami QB Kirby Freeman: 14 attempts, 1 completion, 84 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTs. And yes, he played the whole game. I guess if you’re only going to complete one pass, it might as well be an 84-yard TD.
** Arkansas RB Darren McFadden: 34 rushes, 323 yards, 1 TD. I have no idea how you pick up that many yards and get only one score, although he did add a 23-yard TD pass. His backup rushed for a mere 166 yards and had three TDs.
** Elon P Brandon Lane and Furman P Trent Hawk: 0 punts, 0 yards. Furman’s 52-49 win over Elon on Saturday featured 14 TDs, six turnovers, and zero punts.
** Delaware RB Omar Cuff: 7 catches, 66 yards and 28 rushes, 101 yards, 3 TDs. That’s 31 TDs and 1,105 rushing yards on the year, in just nine games.

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Cowboys anagram insult of the week




          Looks like I misread the anagram last week, and
I realized my mistake as soon as I looked at “Dallas Cowboys Nickelback Keith Davis” on Monday morning:
** I bode badly; Act lacks kicks; Evil has won **
          Also, I’ve been trying for the last five years to rearrange the letters in “Andy Reid” to spell out “run” but I still haven’t figured out how to make that happen.

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I'll wait for you to put it together





         Phillies SS Jimmy Rollins and CF Aaron Roward earned their first Gold Glove awards on Tuesday.
         The Eagles receiving corps has been inconsistent all year, piling up dropped passes.
         The Gold Glove is awarded for exemplary defensive prowess, agressive play and sure hands.
         WR Kevin Curtis and WR Reggie Brown have been unable to
produce any reliable receiving threat for the Eagles.
         The baseball season ended last month.




         I'll wait.

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Our standings so far





First Place: I Need Linebackers, Paul -- 1327.28 pts
Second Place: Giuliani's 2nd Wife, Jim -- 1233.16 pts
Third Place: We Want Detmers, Jo -- 1221.55 pts
          This top three is starting to get stale up here. Somebody wake Neal back up.

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For the record





** Dad was at the Eagles game Sunday night. Since blaming everyone else hasn't worked, let's blame him this week.
** If you missed the Hall of Fame wrap-up late last week, keep scrolling down.
** I swear to gawd, if you say Kevin Kolb one more time I'm gonna make you all watch nothing but Bobby Hoying film clips for the whole week. I can't find any right now, but I swear...

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