Holy crap. What could possibly make me feel any better about last week’s horrendous fantasy performance? If you said this week’s even more horrendous fall back to Earth, you are correct. This week didn’t make me nearly as sick as last week though because all I can say is rabble, rabble, rabble. Just a bunch of F.U.’s all across the board. “If you can’t start Jonathan Stewart when DeAngelo Williams is out, when can you start him? I’m rolling the dice and benching Cedric Benson.” That’s what I said just a few minutes before the early game’s kickoff. We all thought DeAngelo was out so I put Stewart in on Wednesday. I felt good about it all week and then when they made the DeAngelo call, I started second guessing. I put Benson back in but then switched back about a minute later. Thank heavens it only cost me 6 points. Dude, Jonathan Stewart, WTF. I benched Benson because he hasn’t cracked 12 points in 4 of 6 weeks. In all of your DeAngeloless starts, you averaged 150 yards and a TD. All I was asking for was about 60/1. You got me junk. You’re dead to me. And Cedric. Why do you hit 12 points and just stop? Why is that your mark of success? You get a D for effort.
Matt Cassel… For being Matt Cassel, you’ve been great over the last few weeks. You’ve came close, matched and even beat 1 of my actual good quarterbacks during this stretch. So why now do you choose to suck? Why when I need you the most? Boooooo.
Ryan Torain? You got me 10 points in the first half then leave injured? I’m glad your team imploded and you lost to the Lions. Screw you Redskins.
In the beginning of the season, I was a little worried about bye weeks but not too worried. I did think this was going to be my most troublesome week though. I guess I was right. I tried to make all the right moves but it rarely seems to work out in the end.
I wrote all those previous thoughts during, and after, the 2nd set of games but then it all changed Sunday night. Everything in that game worked out as well as possible. Drew Brees vs the Steelers? Scared me pretty good but it worked out great. My #1 RB, Mendenhall, AGAINST my Saints Def.? Well Mendenhall was all the Steelers offense, did as good as I could have hoped while allowing Big Ben to help my Def. out tremendously. 50.93 total points in that game when I expected 1/2 that. It all worked out and it completely saved my week. I need to stop writing these posts during games and wait until Tuesday. It’ll keep me from going crazy.
What I’m watching: Stargate Universe