NBD - Week 6 Review B

Let me take this opportunity to congratulate Justin Koehler on the birth of his first son, Isaac Stone. So far as I know, this is the first Son of NBD* (other than those of us who dragged our dads into the league), and should be the elder statesman of the league once we've all kicked it and handed our franchises over to our heirs. The Koehlers are keeping a blog chronicling little Isaac's growth, and I was pleased to see that just the second entry on that blog was largely devoted to Ike's effect on the fantasy football fortunes of Michael Turner. Well done, Koehler. Now onto your game, which had a similarly joyful result:


1-4 But Not a Skins Fan (116) defeats Roger's Oyster Lunch (84)
This victorious effort by the Non-Skins Fans was one of the more evenly-distributed team performances I can ever remember seeing. Only one of Koehler's players (Braylon Edwards, 4) was not in double-figures, and only one (the Packers D, 21) had more than 17. The rest was a harmonious rainbow of fantasy cooperation, where sharing is caring and each one can teach one. Top to bottom: Visanthe Shiancoe, 17; Kurt Warner, 16; Mason Crosby, 14; Steven Jackson, 13; Dwayne Bowe, 11; Cedric Benson, 11; Clinton Portis, 10. (Of course the Redskin is at the bottom of that heap.) While Koehler's boys were Goldilocksing their way to a bevy of "just right" performances, Derek Haller's team was their usual Mama Bear, with some cold-ass porridge and a threadbare mattress. Zach Miller (20) and Kyle Orton (18) had decent outings, but they weren't enough to overcome shitbirds like LeSean McCoy (1) and Nate Washington (-2). Normally when you see an offensive player with a negative score, it's the result of a fumble or interception or something. But Washington's score is the result of one play in which he was amazingly able to lose 22 yards. If that doesn't sum up the shittiness of Derek's team, I don't know what does.

Mental Errors (93) defeat Woody's Warriors (88)
I noted in my Monday afternoon write-ups that Woody had a pretty good chance at taking this game thanks to his troika of MNF participants. All he needed was 21 points out of Brandon Marshall, Antonio Gates, and Knowshon Moreno. Doesn't seem like that much to ask, does it? An average of 50 yards each and one touchdown in there somewhere would have done it. And yet... Marshall, 5; Gates, 7; Moreno, 4. Sorry, Woodrow. It's a shame, too, because you wasted the best output of the year from Thomas Jones (29) and lost to a Mental Errors team that was largely lousy in Week 6. The running backs (Reggie Bush and Kevin Smith) combined for 15 points. The receivers (Steve Smith, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Donald Driver) combined for 19 points. Nope, pretty much the only guy on Elliott's team worth a damn this week was Tom Brady, but with 380 yards and six touchdowns, he was actually worth several damns (equivalent to 39 fantasy points). This is being hailed as the return of Brady, but let's all remember that he was playing the Titans, who appear to have given up on the season already, and his team had a larger margin of victory than any since the merger. Not likely to happen again.

*Is there a little Woody out there that I'm forgetting about?