There's a great battle going on in the Nittany South and the Jammers and the Fear appear to be the front-runners in the Liberty Conference five weeks into the season.
Both the Organ Thieves and the News Team are 4-1 and battling for a division title, and maybe a conference title.
I'm halting JFL Weekly, at least for this week, because I timed it out last week and it takes an extra two hours to put together and I don't have that this week.
So here we go, in no particular order:
Jimmy Jammers 155.7, Team Boyer 106.6
So much for Tom Brady being on the BYE.
Team Boyer found a perfect replacement in Eli Manning, who threw three touchdown passes — inches away from a fourth — to score 31.4 points.
After that performance, Manning scored a vast amount of his points in the first half, it looked like the Jammers was on his way to a loss, but Ray Rice and Roddy White had big second halves and Malcolm Floyd had an even bigger point total in the 4 p.m. games.
Floyd had 213 yards receiving and a touchdown to score 31.9 points as the Jammers routed Boyer 155.7-106.6.
While Floyd had a big day, the key really had to be Ray Rice and Peyton Hillis.
First, let's talk about Ray Rice. He was finally healthy, which gave him the chance to run the ball, but the other big thing was that the Ravens gave him the ball on the goal line.
After struggling to punch it in with both Willis McGahee and LeRon McClain on separate drives, the Ravens finally sat the vultures and gave Rice the chance to do what he did at Rutgers all the time.
On his carries Sunday, Rice had no trouble getting in.
This is why I really do not understand why teams feel strongly with going with the "big" backs when they get to the goal line. Defenses can key on that. Just look at the Eagles. They can slip it to LeSean McCoy because there is that threat of a pass still. If you bring in LeRon McClain, the defense can zero in on the run game, and have a better chance to stop them.
Hopefully, the Ravens will utilize their new goal line back who led them to a big win.
And speaking of goal line backs, Peyton Hillis looks like one but he is more than that. At 6-2, 250 pounds, it's hard to imagine Hillis as a feature back, but he has turned into that. He scored double-digits again for the fifth time this season and has scored at least one touchdown in every game. He would have had two Sunday had Jake Delhomme not fumbled a snap on the 1-yard line.
It's amazing that Hillis even made it on my roster. I was extremely high on Jerome Harrison — hence the reason I drafted him in both of my leagues — and that is the only reason Hillis wound up on my squad, because I needed Harrison's backup. If it wasn't for that, he would have been some one else's waiver wire gem after his Week 2 explosion.
Sunday Slackers 158.5, Dottsville Toasters 142.1
The Dottsville Toasters won a Super Bowl last year, and it could be said that it was because he had Chris Johnson and Ray Rice.
Yes, they helped him score a lot of points, but I would also add that having a consistent quarterback made the difference.
The Toasters have had the bad fortune of having some bad quarterbacks over the years. We used to joke about the Toasters curse.
After five weeks of the 2010 season, we have to start looking into the return of the curse.
Matt Schaub had another awful day with just 6.4 fantasy points, and it cost the Toasters on a day where he got 142.1 points.
Unfortunately for him, he was facing the Sunday Slackers whose squad went nuts and scored 158.5 points thanks to double-digit performances from everyone but TE Tony Gonzalez.
Hakeem Nicks and Steve Smith had a blast against the Texans defense — who hasn't? — and scored a combined 43.5 points. (Just think how much Matt Schaub wishes he could face his own defense.)
Drew Brees seemed to get out of his early season slump with 22.7 points, but his Saints still lost to the Cardinals. Injuries have played their part, but one has to wonder what's wrong with the Saints. Everyone expected them to have the chance to go undefeated and here they are losing another game that they for all intensive purposes should have won. Instead, they allow 30 points and as a result, the Saints defense scores 17.5 points for the Toasters. If they take care of rookie Max Hall at QB, the Toasters win this matchup.
Instead, it's the Slackers who get the win and move to 2-3. A nice pick-me-up for a die-hard Reds fan.
Fear and Loathing 109.2, Chinese Organ Thieves 99.6
For the first time since 1970, the NFL season will go into Week 6 without an undefeated team.
I found that to be an amazing nugget of information.
I also found it to be coincidental that the JFL will head into Week 6 without an undefeated team, thanks to yet another Fear and Loathing Monday Night comeback.
Notice to the league: If you're playing Fear and he has someone going on Monday night, just shut down your computer on Saturday, book yourself a getaway for Sunday and Monday, and come back Tuesday ready to regather your fantasy team after a loss.
The latter part is what the Organ Thieves were doing Tuesday.
Other than 33.9 points from Phillip Rivers and 20.8 from LeSean McCoy, it was a rather boring day for the Organ Thieves. Thomas Jones, Mark Clayton and Lance Moore combined for 3.7 points, and worst of all, new Viking Randy Moss outscored his new teammate Adrian Peterson on Monday night.
Which brings me back to my former statement that said Fear produced another Monday night comeback. The fact is, he never was trailing, but all predictions had Peterson scoring more than Moss. Peterson was on his way to outscoring him until Brett "Text Message" Favre connected with Randy Moss for a 37-yard TD.
If Fear was in attendance, he would have sprinted downfield and leapt into Randy's arms. Instead, it was Favre who did this, which I thought was a bit of an over-reaction to a touchdown that did not give the Vikings the lead.
But thanks to ESPN's extra-unecessary graphic, I was alerted to the fact that it was his 500th TD pass. So now I had a reason to why Favre acted like a douche, and I say douche because most normal stars act like they didn't set a milestone when they do.
Kind of like most normal people don't text pictures of their johnsons to women who are way out of their league. (Did anyone listen to the voicemails? Heard them on WIP. What a douche.)
T-Money 102.8, World of Noise 70.8
T-Money didn't have to do much here. I said it in my preview and I was right on.
Easy win for T-Money. Silly loss for the fast-falling World of Noise.
Other than "I'm sorry, I was wrong about Kenny Britt," I have nothing more to say about this matchup out of spite of Noise's horrible lineup. T-Money, on the other hand is looking good and is primed to get back into the divisional race.
Graybill's Generals 132.7, Jawz Attack 114
Hello, Percy Harvin.
Where have you been?
A keeper bust up until this weekend, Harvin went for 97 yards and two touchdowns to score 31.2 points, enough to get past the Attack, who with Mark Sanchez, looked to be primed for his second win of the season.
But Harvin came alive.
Also, Terrell Owens remained alive for the Bengals, while Chad Ochocinco remained quiet.
I said that whoever won the TO-OCHO battle would win this, but I was wrong in picking Ocho. It's kind of amazing that Ocho has had so much trouble getting the ball. Who would have thought that T.O. would resurrect his career in Cincy.
For the Attack, that is bad news.
However, he did have good news on two other wide receiver fronts.
Brandon Lloyd never had a career to resurrect, so basically what he is doing is unprecedented. His 135 yards and two TDs were all part of his career day, making Jawz look like a genius. The Lee Evans start also was great and with Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Bills aren't winning, but they're scoring. That's good for the Attack and future matchups.
But not this one.
On the other side, Graybill's squad is coming around. DeAngelo Williams has been a bummer for the most part, but Joe Flacco is starting to do what I thought he would do and C.J. Spiller has turned into a top sleeper back.
Of the few backs that were ultra-hyped — Shonn Greene, Ryan Matthews, etc. — Spiller has really been the best, scoring double-digits on most weekends. The Bills shipped out Marshawn Lynch to make way for the rookie back, so more good things are on their way.
Channel 4 News Team 122.1, Real Houserville 80.9
Good news for News: He took down favored Houserville to move to 4-1.
Bad news for News: He lost Aaron Rodgers for at least one week.
Then again, with Donovan McNabb and Kyle Orton on the bench, he's still in good shape.
And if you're looking for a quarterback in the JFL maybe you should contact the News Team and grab one because he has an excess of quarterbacks. All he needs is a running back to fix his depleted corps of backs.
Arian Foster had his first bad week of the season and missed double-digits scoring just 3.1 points, and John Kuhn and Tim Hightower are barely worth a mention.
The scariest thing for News Team, and I guess it's good that he's winning, is that DeSean Jackson has been relegated to a secondary fantasy option when Kevin Kolb is at quarterback. News Team is on the same boat as Fear in that he wants Michaal Vick to return as soon as possible.
Still, with Miles Austin exploding and the Lions defense going nuts against the Rams scored 35 points, the News Team didn't have to worry about it this week.
In fact, he didn't have to worry about much. Houserville was a dud Sunday without his key cog, Rashard Mendenhall. He'll get him back this week and he hopes that he'll get the Weeks 1-4 Peyton Manning back, too. Only 10.7 points in Week 5 helped lead to his demise. ... Boy, was that fun to type.
Both the Organ Thieves and the News Team are 4-1 and battling for a division title, and maybe a conference title.
I'm halting JFL Weekly, at least for this week, because I timed it out last week and it takes an extra two hours to put together and I don't have that this week.
So here we go, in no particular order:
Jimmy Jammers 155.7, Team Boyer 106.6
So much for Tom Brady being on the BYE.
Team Boyer found a perfect replacement in Eli Manning, who threw three touchdown passes — inches away from a fourth — to score 31.4 points.
After that performance, Manning scored a vast amount of his points in the first half, it looked like the Jammers was on his way to a loss, but Ray Rice and Roddy White had big second halves and Malcolm Floyd had an even bigger point total in the 4 p.m. games.
Floyd had 213 yards receiving and a touchdown to score 31.9 points as the Jammers routed Boyer 155.7-106.6.
While Floyd had a big day, the key really had to be Ray Rice and Peyton Hillis.
First, let's talk about Ray Rice. He was finally healthy, which gave him the chance to run the ball, but the other big thing was that the Ravens gave him the ball on the goal line.
After struggling to punch it in with both Willis McGahee and LeRon McClain on separate drives, the Ravens finally sat the vultures and gave Rice the chance to do what he did at Rutgers all the time.
On his carries Sunday, Rice had no trouble getting in.
This is why I really do not understand why teams feel strongly with going with the "big" backs when they get to the goal line. Defenses can key on that. Just look at the Eagles. They can slip it to LeSean McCoy because there is that threat of a pass still. If you bring in LeRon McClain, the defense can zero in on the run game, and have a better chance to stop them.
Hopefully, the Ravens will utilize their new goal line back who led them to a big win.
And speaking of goal line backs, Peyton Hillis looks like one but he is more than that. At 6-2, 250 pounds, it's hard to imagine Hillis as a feature back, but he has turned into that. He scored double-digits again for the fifth time this season and has scored at least one touchdown in every game. He would have had two Sunday had Jake Delhomme not fumbled a snap on the 1-yard line.
It's amazing that Hillis even made it on my roster. I was extremely high on Jerome Harrison — hence the reason I drafted him in both of my leagues — and that is the only reason Hillis wound up on my squad, because I needed Harrison's backup. If it wasn't for that, he would have been some one else's waiver wire gem after his Week 2 explosion.
Sunday Slackers 158.5, Dottsville Toasters 142.1
The Dottsville Toasters won a Super Bowl last year, and it could be said that it was because he had Chris Johnson and Ray Rice.
Yes, they helped him score a lot of points, but I would also add that having a consistent quarterback made the difference.
The Toasters have had the bad fortune of having some bad quarterbacks over the years. We used to joke about the Toasters curse.
After five weeks of the 2010 season, we have to start looking into the return of the curse.
Matt Schaub had another awful day with just 6.4 fantasy points, and it cost the Toasters on a day where he got 142.1 points.
Unfortunately for him, he was facing the Sunday Slackers whose squad went nuts and scored 158.5 points thanks to double-digit performances from everyone but TE Tony Gonzalez.
Hakeem Nicks and Steve Smith had a blast against the Texans defense — who hasn't? — and scored a combined 43.5 points. (Just think how much Matt Schaub wishes he could face his own defense.)
Drew Brees seemed to get out of his early season slump with 22.7 points, but his Saints still lost to the Cardinals. Injuries have played their part, but one has to wonder what's wrong with the Saints. Everyone expected them to have the chance to go undefeated and here they are losing another game that they for all intensive purposes should have won. Instead, they allow 30 points and as a result, the Saints defense scores 17.5 points for the Toasters. If they take care of rookie Max Hall at QB, the Toasters win this matchup.
Instead, it's the Slackers who get the win and move to 2-3. A nice pick-me-up for a die-hard Reds fan.
Fear and Loathing 109.2, Chinese Organ Thieves 99.6
For the first time since 1970, the NFL season will go into Week 6 without an undefeated team.
I found that to be an amazing nugget of information.
I also found it to be coincidental that the JFL will head into Week 6 without an undefeated team, thanks to yet another Fear and Loathing Monday Night comeback.
Notice to the league: If you're playing Fear and he has someone going on Monday night, just shut down your computer on Saturday, book yourself a getaway for Sunday and Monday, and come back Tuesday ready to regather your fantasy team after a loss.
The latter part is what the Organ Thieves were doing Tuesday.
Other than 33.9 points from Phillip Rivers and 20.8 from LeSean McCoy, it was a rather boring day for the Organ Thieves. Thomas Jones, Mark Clayton and Lance Moore combined for 3.7 points, and worst of all, new Viking Randy Moss outscored his new teammate Adrian Peterson on Monday night.
Which brings me back to my former statement that said Fear produced another Monday night comeback. The fact is, he never was trailing, but all predictions had Peterson scoring more than Moss. Peterson was on his way to outscoring him until Brett "Text Message" Favre connected with Randy Moss for a 37-yard TD.
If Fear was in attendance, he would have sprinted downfield and leapt into Randy's arms. Instead, it was Favre who did this, which I thought was a bit of an over-reaction to a touchdown that did not give the Vikings the lead.
But thanks to ESPN's extra-unecessary graphic, I was alerted to the fact that it was his 500th TD pass. So now I had a reason to why Favre acted like a douche, and I say douche because most normal stars act like they didn't set a milestone when they do.
Kind of like most normal people don't text pictures of their johnsons to women who are way out of their league. (Did anyone listen to the voicemails? Heard them on WIP. What a douche.)
T-Money 102.8, World of Noise 70.8
T-Money didn't have to do much here. I said it in my preview and I was right on.
Easy win for T-Money. Silly loss for the fast-falling World of Noise.
Other than "I'm sorry, I was wrong about Kenny Britt," I have nothing more to say about this matchup out of spite of Noise's horrible lineup. T-Money, on the other hand is looking good and is primed to get back into the divisional race.
Graybill's Generals 132.7, Jawz Attack 114
Hello, Percy Harvin.
Where have you been?
A keeper bust up until this weekend, Harvin went for 97 yards and two touchdowns to score 31.2 points, enough to get past the Attack, who with Mark Sanchez, looked to be primed for his second win of the season.
But Harvin came alive.
Also, Terrell Owens remained alive for the Bengals, while Chad Ochocinco remained quiet.
I said that whoever won the TO-OCHO battle would win this, but I was wrong in picking Ocho. It's kind of amazing that Ocho has had so much trouble getting the ball. Who would have thought that T.O. would resurrect his career in Cincy.
For the Attack, that is bad news.
However, he did have good news on two other wide receiver fronts.
Brandon Lloyd never had a career to resurrect, so basically what he is doing is unprecedented. His 135 yards and two TDs were all part of his career day, making Jawz look like a genius. The Lee Evans start also was great and with Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Bills aren't winning, but they're scoring. That's good for the Attack and future matchups.
But not this one.
On the other side, Graybill's squad is coming around. DeAngelo Williams has been a bummer for the most part, but Joe Flacco is starting to do what I thought he would do and C.J. Spiller has turned into a top sleeper back.
Of the few backs that were ultra-hyped — Shonn Greene, Ryan Matthews, etc. — Spiller has really been the best, scoring double-digits on most weekends. The Bills shipped out Marshawn Lynch to make way for the rookie back, so more good things are on their way.
Channel 4 News Team 122.1, Real Houserville 80.9
Good news for News: He took down favored Houserville to move to 4-1.
Bad news for News: He lost Aaron Rodgers for at least one week.
Then again, with Donovan McNabb and Kyle Orton on the bench, he's still in good shape.
And if you're looking for a quarterback in the JFL maybe you should contact the News Team and grab one because he has an excess of quarterbacks. All he needs is a running back to fix his depleted corps of backs.
Arian Foster had his first bad week of the season and missed double-digits scoring just 3.1 points, and John Kuhn and Tim Hightower are barely worth a mention.
The scariest thing for News Team, and I guess it's good that he's winning, is that DeSean Jackson has been relegated to a secondary fantasy option when Kevin Kolb is at quarterback. News Team is on the same boat as Fear in that he wants Michaal Vick to return as soon as possible.
Still, with Miles Austin exploding and the Lions defense going nuts against the Rams scored 35 points, the News Team didn't have to worry about it this week.
In fact, he didn't have to worry about much. Houserville was a dud Sunday without his key cog, Rashard Mendenhall. He'll get him back this week and he hopes that he'll get the Weeks 1-4 Peyton Manning back, too. Only 10.7 points in Week 5 helped lead to his demise. ... Boy, was that fun to type.
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