Fantasy Football Playoffs Part One: The Brady Letdown

All year, Tom Brady has been dominating his opposition. The same can be said for fantasy football. So going into the playoffs last week with 2 Tom Brady Teams (1 Yahoo, 1 CBS Sportsline) and 1 Jeff Garcia team (that should have been a Kurt Warner team...hit head on wall times one thousand).

Yahoo projected 18 almost nineteen points for Brady for week 15. How many actual? 140 Yards and 1 Interception. That's it. That is all. Final score for the Yahoo playoff game? 75 - 105. I was not the 105. Joey Galloway had a bad day (though the Bucs game was VERY enjoyable to watch!), Nate Burleson 1 point, Jabar Gaffney, 0 points. Brian "Super Genius" Westbrook, 7 points (might have been 13...ahem...) Marshawn Lynch, 4 points and the MVP for the Offense? Tony freaking Scheffler...the TE. Even the kicker only racked up 2 points. The IDP scored 49...the offense only scored 25. I'm up for the 3rd place game...hopefully things will go slightly better this week, even though there is less enjoyement checking to see if you won 3rd place as opposed to 1st place.

The Other Brady team did just as bad losing 58 to 98. Brady only had 3 points here. Arron Stecker, Calvin Johnson, Jason Elam and the Packers Defense were the only real performers. Other players like Galloway, Marion Barber, Roddy White and Eric Johnson (like Brady) fell flat for week 15.

For the Garcia team...I should have started Warner. Garcia scored 7 some odd points and Warner scored 18 points. That one choice was the difference between at least winning one fantasy game.

Lesson learned for next year in December...pay attention to the weather...for even Tom Brady can not beat Mother Nature or Old Man Winter.

One slight hope left...my one remaining eligible playoff Peyton Manning helmed team is still alive after earning a first round bye...I'm playing the Carson Palmer owner. Tony Dungy is reported to say that he will not rest starters for week 16...but it may be a one half performance.