9.12.2008

NBD - Week 2 Preview

The Chief and I are headed up to Boston this weekend to catch a game at Fenway, so without a leisurely Saturday around the house to write another tome, Week 2 predictions will be short and sweet.

I Drink Your Milkshake! vs. Chestpubes & Ballfro
I'd be hard-pressed to name a weekend in the past three seasons when I'd take my team over Colly's, but for some reason I've got a good feeling about this Battle of Brooklyn. Maybe it's because Ryan Grant, Steven Jackson, and Hines Ward are all taking on atrocious defenses.
Milkshake by 3

CH Croakies vs. Tri Steeg Area
Looks relatively even to me, but Manning's got horrible fantasy luck.
Croakies by 5

The Leadfarmers vs. Mephistopheles
Unfortunately, I foresee Drew Brees going nuts on the Redskins this weekend, giving Ray perhaps the top scorer of the week.
Mephistopheles by 4

Zorn Country vs. Woody's Warriors
Brian Westbrook is a fantastic fantasy football player (he's pretty good at the real thing, too), but otherwise Woody's team just doesn't impress me. I'm pretty sure I say that every year, and every year his team proves to be significantly better than mine, but it's still early in the season, so...
Zorn Country by 7

Wyld Stallyns vs. Matt Ryan Loves Dogs
I actually don't think the loss of Brady will hurt Koehler that much this week, as Kurt Warner seems a pretty safe play. DeYoung will presumably replace Marques Colston with Eddie Royal, but with Brandon Marshall coming back I don't see him nearly repeating last week's performance.
Matt Ryan by 5

Ooslay Oopypay vs. Burke City Giants
A showdown between last week's big dogs (Parker and Turner) seems relatively evenly-matched, but Papkin's defensive matchups look better. Much as I'd detest to see him go 2-0,
Oopypay by 6

Last week: 4-2
Overall: 4-2

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sovic,

Just took a look at your roster; I don't think I've ever seen such a collection of fantasy has-beens and never-will-bes assembled on one team. I realize AJ's game got pushed back but did you seriously start Hank Baskett this week at WR? You're a great commish, the Pete Rozell of this league, but man you're in for (another) long year on the field.

Sam said...

what is the deal with Seattle's defensive touchdown yesterday.. i need to come up with a ruling for another league?

Commandant Lassard said...

papkin:
your message is the first i've heard, but i just surveyed the yahoo commissioner message boards and man are people fired up about it. as far as i can tell, it seems like it ought to be a defensive td for seattle. supposedly yahoo gets scoring corrections from the nfl on weds night, and processes them thursday morning. if they are still not considering it a defensive touchdown after that, but it is listed on nfl.com as a defensive touchdown (as it currently is), i would change it. it doesn't affect the outcome of our league, so not such a big deal, but i might manually change it anyway since some of our tiebreakers and waiver wire order is dependent on total points scored.

Sam said...

Not sure in the non-PLUS league you can manually edit points. What a disadvantage that is btw, not having a PLUS league. The Sun-Tues waivers thing is huge. It should be mandatory that all leagues are PLUS leagues, esp since the price includes Stattracker...

Thanks for the response...

recaps coming soon?