Weekly Fantasy Rant ‘10 Week 10


Fantasy / Sunday, November 21st, 2010

To cleanse my mind of week 11 fantasy football thoughts this morning, I figure there’s nothing better than just thinking about week 10 fantasy results. It was a hell of an offensive week for everyone last week. I couldn’t watch the games on TV last week so I missed what was actually going on but I did watch my fantasy app non stop and watch the points just go, go, go. I didn’t have many choices to make for the last week of byes but of course the one choice I did make came back to bite me. Absolutely no one was hype on Matt Cassel last week. I drafted him as my #3 QB and only needed him for 2 bye weeks. For Joe Flacco’s bye week, Cassel did nothing. NOTHING. I’m sure I already griped about that one. So looking at the hate for Cassel filling in for Drew Brees last week, I decided to just drop him and pick up a hyped up David Garrard. It took the entire game, down to the absolute last play of the game, but Garrard actually panned out. I’m pretty sure his 30 points is the highest point total of any of my players in a single week this year. I was pretty relieved I made the decision. Until the Chiefs went down big, forced Cassel to pass and bam! I just watched my fantasy app as I shot myself in the foot in slow motion. When I was doing the numbers in my head, I was sick. I was thinking I sat Cassel and his ~50 point fantasy week. That’s a bad feeling benching 20 points in a heated title chase. Luckily his monster numbers, minus sacks, only equated to me benching like 8 points. However the moral of that story is I just relieved quite a few minutes of week 11 fantasy football anxiety.

Oh, and thank you Brandon Lloyd. Way to outperform the rest of my feeble team. Mendenhall, wtf was up with your team last week? You better bounce back this week. And Cedric Benson, oh Cedric Benson, why don’t you just break something and just completely miss games. You’ll do us all a favor. You are the bane of my fantasy football existence. You are my regret. What a waste of a #3 pick. I’ve had enough of this. I’m going back to week 11. I don’t fly you know. I take the subway like everybody else. Oh, and people don’t stare. You make me puke.

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