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.

It's GO Time: Week 15 Fantasy Playoffs Week 1

It's that time of the fantasy football year. Some of your teams are like my Motormouths or Bay City Buccaneers -- eliminated from playoff contention and even consolation contention. In short, they had a Miami Dolphin type year.

Other teams didn't totally suck but sucked enough. Some of your teams, like NewEffect, StormFront or The Contenders, didn't get to the playoffs but they are in consolation (the NIT tourney of the fantasy football world).

Then you have the teams that you drafted the right QB's and RB's and also did enough work on the waiver wire and lo and behold...with a whole lot of luck thrown into the mix, you are like these teams and you are in the playoffs...having a Dallas Cowboys or Pittsburgh Steelers type year.

Here now are the teams tomorrow (and tonight and already maybe started on Thursday) that will be seeing which teams moves on and which team has their season end.


Redshirts (#1 Seed): In Action Week 15 Semis

QB Tom Brady

WR Galloway, Burleson, Gaffney

RB Westbrook, Lynch


Southland Bulls (#3 seed) In action week 15 Round 1

QB Warner (as of Sat 133PM EST)

RB Addai, M. Barber

WR Burress, Jennings


Afterburners Week 15 Round 1 Action

QB: Tom Brady

RB: A. Stecker, M. Barber

WR: C. Johnson, J. Galloway




Tampa Thunder (#1 seed) Bye from Round 1 action for WK15

QB Peyton Manning

RB Graham, Portis

WR Moss, Galloway


We'll see tomorrow who survives to play another day.

Week 14: Fantasy Football Final Fallout For Sunday – Playoffs NEXT week!

The 12 – 1 Redshirts lead their matchup 118 – 70. All my players are final but they still have Drew Brees and Colston from the Saints which makes tonight no relevant reality game very relevant fantasy wise. Brady and Westbrook led the offense while Galloway and Johnson and Edge dissapointed for week 14.

The 9 – 2 Tampa Thunder is projected to beat their opposition 139 to 72. Peyton Manning, Earnest Graham as well as the Colts Defense lead the way as the Thunder are headed for their 10th win of the season.

The 7 – 4 Stormfront that still MIGHT make the playoffs are trailing their opposition 77 – 133 but in this match up I still have Drew Brees to play. Earnest Graham, Wes Welker and Steven Jackson all lead the offense. The Stormfront HAVE to win other wise it will be a toss up if they get into the post season. Even if they win it’s probably going to be a toss up anyway.

The Southland Bulls 7 - 3 crushed their opposition 156 – 84. Check this lineup out: Warner, Addai, Barber, Jennings AND the Seahawks Defense. All players are final.

The Afterburners 9 – 4 trail in a close one 126 – 132 with Roddy White (he might win it for me) and Eric Johnson (oh…sure, he is really going to have a big game…not…)still to play. All of their players are final.


Locally the Bucs got spanked and the Dolphins lost again, so much for clinching the division this week.

Back To Fantasy!

Greetings to the five people who actually read this blog : - ) Colds are wonderful, aren't they (bleh :P)

Anyhow, back to fantasy.

Quick update as of before Sundays games...I actually have 1 Yahoo team in the playoffs, 3 Fleaflicker teams and my CBS sportsline team. After this Sunday we'll find out if that holds and two frustrating devlopments for this week: Reggie Bush is out (also projected to be out for the season as well...not widely confirmed yet...doesn't sound good AND Joey Galloway is questionable for Week 14 but is expected to play.)

Also: Plaxico is on the bench after his two previous dissapointing weeks.

Picks for today:

Bucs - 3

Jags/Panthers (38.5) OVER

Bills - 7.0

Giants

Upset Special #1 Rams

Upset Special #2 Steelers

Browns

Colts

Saints


NHL - All the underdogs

Week 13 Standings As Early Sunday Games Underway....

Fantasy Football Playoff Picture Week 13

Division Leaders/Wildcards

The Redshirts (11 – 1) .917 1315.00 W-11 (Yahoo)

Tampa Thunder (8 – 2) .800 996.05 Div: 2 – 1 (Fleaflicker)

The Afterburners (8 - 4) 0.667 Div: 3 – 1 (CbsSportsline)

Southland Bulls (6 – 3) .667 771.75 Div: 4 – 0 (Fleaflicker)




Need a Miracle:

Stormfront 6 – 4 .600 725.05 Div: 1 – 2 (Fleaflicker)

4-way tie among bengalsare d..., Big Red Bucky, shamrocks, StormFront is broken down using Best division record (same division only) into 2 smaller ties.

The Contenders 6 – 6 (Yahoo)




Better Luck Next Year:

The New Effect 5 –7 (Yahoo)

Bay City Buccaneers 4 – 9 (FantasySharks)

Motor Mouths 0 – 12 (FoxSports)