BIFL - Week 5 Review A

This would be probably the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Seriously. But I would want to be sure he brought in Zed as an "extra set of eyes." Thanks for the link, Doit, though I should point out that you are actually the Commish of this league. Probably something you should know.

Games:


Merriman's Bitch-Chokers (130) defeat Juse and the Argonauts (98)
Miles Austin will probably have to go down in history as one of the fastest-producing free agent pick-ups in fantasy history. At 11:39 on Sunday morning, faced with Bye weeks for two of his top receivers (Greg Jennings and Devin Hester), something made Will feel unsure about Donnie Avery and Austin Collie. That anxiety was certainly misplaced, as Avery went for 14 and Collie went for 21, but both were dwarfed by Austin (45), this week's high scorer in fantasy. This sucks on many levels: it means that Will won, which sucks. It means that Will can crow about being a "genius" for starting him, which sucks. It means that the Cowboys had a big day the same day as the Redskins lost, which sucks. It means that Cowboys fans have hope that there is a budding superstar on their team, whereas there is clearly no such player for the Skins, which sucks. The only silver lining here is that Will released a player who now has 33 points over the past two weeks. Go git 'im! Juse, your cloud this week is that Glen Coffee (13) suffered an injury, but the silver lining is that with him and McFadden both out, you will now never be tempted to bench Cedric Benson (21), who is apparently a huge stud. You also got a big day from Kellen Winslow (24), which is nice, but when you're playing against Peyton Manning (24), Adrian Peterson (18), and the high-scorer of the week, "nice" isn't gonna get you much.

Chip Lohmiller (84) defeats Iron Chef of Pounding Poon (69)
Dick forgot to start a running back this week. Not a kicker. Not an IDP. A running back. Ugh, that's inexcusable. Then again, none of the RBs on his bench would have put him in position to win against a Lohmiller team that now hasn't lost since the first week of the season. That doesn't mean they looked terribly strong this week, though, especially with two receivers laying eggs (Mike Sims-Walker was benched for violating team policy, and DeSean Jackson apparently violated Donovan McNabb's mom or something because he barely got looked at). But Matt Schaub (24) had another good day, and Ray Rice (21) finally sprang (sprung? springed?) a short pass for a long TD, as we've all been waiting for. That's really all it took to beat out an Iron Chef team that had a pretty good Kurt Warner day (23), a decent Hines Ward day (14), and little else.