This weekend kicks off the NFL for many fans as every team plays in their first preseason game of the 2012 season.
For us in the Jimmyjam Football League, it’s time to start evaluating keepers and potential draftees in the upcoming 2012 JFL Draft on Aug. 26.
But before we head into our seventh season in the JFL, we have to take a look back at the 2011 season that saw some big records fall.
Four teams moved into the top 10 in single-season scoring last year, including the Channel 4 News Team, who obliterated the record, scoring 1,789.2 points during the regular season. The Jammers, Slackers and Attack also posted top-10 marks, but despite the high scoring by these four teams, the rest of the League evened it out because during the regular season, there was only a 151.1-point increase from 2010.
Total JFL Regular-Season Points
2011: 17,884.3
2010: 17,733.2
2009: 17,151.2
2008: 14,475.0
The 2006 and 2007 seasons are not comparable because we only had 10 teams.
As you can see, the biggest jump came in the 2009 season, but I think that can be attributed to some awesome fantasy performers in the last three years — Chris Johnson in 2009, Arian Foster in 2010 and the QB explosion (Rodgers, Stafford and Brees) in 2011.
We move back to a lineup that forces each owner to start a tight end and I’ve adjusted the defensive stats a pinch to cut back on the number of 30- and 40-point games defenses were having.
Also noteworthy is that the Jawz Attack, who moved into 10th all-time with 1,557.4 points last season, lost nine games last season. He was Mr. Unlucky, running into top scorers each week, giving up a JFL record 1,671.5 points. Considering no team that has given up 1,500 or more points in a season has had a winning record, Jawz Attack was lucky to win four games.
Among those lucky wins was a victory over the Jimmy Jammers, who became the first JFL team to score 10,000 career points.
The Jammers also improved to 64-27 all time, a JFL-best, but the News Team is roaring and looking to contend for the best franchise. At 39-16 over his last 55 fantasy games, he has moved all the way up to second place on the all-time win list with 47. He’s tied with Boyer, who beat him in the conference championship last season.
The Organ Thieves (45 wins) and T-Money (43 wins) round out the top five franchises.
Four of the top five franchises are in one conference, so it isn’t a surprise that the Super Bowl representative from the opposite conference has been dominated by one family — the Johnsons.
The Jammers has been to five of the six Super Bowls, going 2-3, while World of Noise filled in the gap with a trip to Super Bowl IV.
Here’s a quick look at all 12 teams as they head into the 2012 season.
Team Boyer
2011 Record, Finish: 10-5, lost Super Bowl, NFC East Champion
Career Record : 47-38-1 (.552)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 4-4 (4)
Owns: No one in particular. Boyer has a decent record against most teams, but doesn’t flat out own anyone, outside a 6-2 record vs. the Generals. The only thing he’s dominant in is beating teams with names related to the movie Jaws. He’s 4-0 against them — Jawz Attack (2-0) and the former Amity Island Massacres (2-0).
Bugaboo: The Jammers, without a doubt. He’s 1-7 against the Jammers with two Super Bowl losses.
Team Boyer has quietly been one of the better teams in the JFL and it’s because his franchise quarterback, Tom Brady. He’s the only player to be on one team in the JFL — other than Jason Avant with the Noise. Boyer takes Brady into his seventh season and will look to regain the momentum he had at the end of last season. After a 4-4-1 start, Boyer won four straight games to take the NFC East and improved it to six straight to advance to his second Super Bowl and first since Super Bowl I.
T-Money
2011 Record, Finish: 6-7
Career Record : 43-42 (.506)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-5 (5)
Owns: He owns the Noise — but who doesn’t? — with a 5-1 record.
Bugaboo: The T-Money just can’t figure out the Generals. With just one win in six tries, T-Money will try to adjust that record this season.
T-Money just always seems to be in the mix. Despite QB issues over the years with Tony Romo, he was a constant playoff contender — until 2011. He was one of two teams to be in the playoffs every season from 2006 to 2010, but his attempt to make it six straight playoff appearances came up short with a 6-7 record in 2011. He was 6-5 heading into Week 12, but a loss to the Slackers and a loss to Team Boyer in Week 13 gave Boyer the division title and T-Money a ticket to the offseason.
Dottsville Toasters
2011 Record, Finish: 5-8
Career Record : 42-40 (.517)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 3-1 (2)
Owns: Closest thing to owning is a 3-1 record vs. Houserville.
Bugaboo: The Jammers. He’s 1-5 vs. the Jam.
In the two years that have followed the Toasters’ championship in Super Bowl IV in 2009, he has started strong and tailed off. In 2010, he started 6-4 but lost his final three games to miss the playoffs. Last year was worse. After starting 5-3, the Toasters lost his final five games to fall from first to worst in the NFC East. This year, Weeks 10, 11, 12 and 13 will mean a lot to the Toasters.
Channel 4 News Team
2011 Record, Finish: 9-5, NFC West Champ, lost in NFC Championship.
Career Record : 47-39 (.547)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 5-3 (4)
Owns: Houserville. He’s 4-0 vs. the Villain.
Bugaboo: Toasters and Boyer. He’s 3-6 against both — simple math makes that 6-12 vs. them both — and the biggest aspect of this is two losses in particular, 2009 in the NFC Championship game against the Toasters and 2011 in the NFC Championship game against Boyer. Had he won both of those games, based on his point total in Week 16 of those seasons, we’d be talking about the three-time Super Bowl Champion Channel 4 News Team.
Well, I just said it. The News Team is a pair of Week 15 wins away from being a dynasty. However, he’s not far from it, having gone 39-16 in his last 55 fantasy games. Last season started slow with a 2-4 record, but seven straight wins handed the News Team the division and the No. 1 seed in the playoffs. He rested during the bye week and faltered in the conference championship game. As a result, he’ll have to hand the trophy back to the man who gave it to him last October, but there’s no doubt that the News Team will be a favorite to take it back to the D.C. area in January.
Graybill’s Generals
2011 Record, Finish: 6-8, lost in NFC Wild Card.
Career Record : 40-44 (.476)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 4-2 (3)
Owns: T-Money. He’s got a 5-1 record against the Money man.
Bugaboo: Just can’t handle the man who had the cubicle right across from him at the Lewistown Sentinel. Fear and Loathing has a 6-2 record against the Generals.
Since posting double-digit winning campaigns in two of his first three seasons, capping it off with a Super Bowl title in 2008, the Generals have been mediocre. Last year was a step in the right direction, getting back to the playoffs for the first time since the 2009 season, but the six wins were the lowest among playoff teams and he was a tie-breaker away from missing the dance. He’s in a tough division and was picked to finish last in the preseason poll — although, I personally thought he’d contend, as posted in my 2011 preseason preview — so 2011 has to be looked at as a success. A step forward would be eight wins and another trip to the playoffs.
Chinese Organ Thieves
2011 Record, Finish: 4-8-1
Career Record : 45-37-1 (.548)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-3 (4)
Owns: He owns two-thirds of the AFC West, 10-2 against both Noise and Fear (5-1 vs. each).
Bugaboo: The other third of the AFC West. He just can’t beat the Ville (0-4).
The Thieves thought 2009 was a fluke, but all of a sudden, another 4-win campaign has snuck into his franchise’s history books. But like he did in 2010 with nine wins, the Thieves will look to bounce back in 2012. Last season, he started 0-4 giving up 129 or more points in each of the first four weeks, including 165 to the News Team in a week where the Thieves scored 158. He went 3-1-1 in the next five games to eek his way back into contention, but with Adrian Peterson down and out and Philip Rivers having a season to forget, the offense struggled and went 1-3 in the final four games of the season. If keepers Rivers and Peterson bounce back, so should the Thieves.
Real Houserville
2011 Record, Finish: 7-7, AFC North Champion, lost in Wild Card round.
Career Record : 32-26 (.552)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-4 (4)
Owns: Noise. Easily has manhandled the man who seems to make every jab he can. Whereas Noise talks a big game, Houserville plays a big game, winning seven of nine matchups against the boisterous Noise.
Bugaboo: Houserville just can’t beat the News Team. He’s 0-4 against Mr. Burgundy.
Houserville has never missed the playoffs, and despite a four-game losing streak and a 1-5 stretch during the middle of the season, he rallied with three consecutive wins to win the AFC West and make his fourth playoff appearance. However, for the fourth time, he was dealt a playoff loss before the Super Bowl. Last season, marked a changing of the guards for Houserville, who for his first three seasons in the JFL was led by expansion draft pick Peyton Manning. With Manning toying with him all offseason, he finally made the decision to keep him because it looked like Manning would play by Week 2 or 3. Well, after the 2011 JFL Draft, it became clear that Manning wasn’t coming back and all Houserville had was Cam Newton. So he made a deal to get Ben Roethlisberger for Wes Welker. … Bad news is that may have cost him a Super Bowl title. Good news is, he has a new franchise QB in Cam Newton.
Fear and Loathing
2011 Record, Finish: 7-6
Career Record : 39-41-1 (.488)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 0-3 (3)
Owns: As mentioned before in the Generals capsule, he owns him with a 6-2 record.
Bugaboo: The one team to struggle against the Noise is Fear. He’s 2-6 against them. It may not seem all that bad, but it’s made worse when you put it this way: Fear has given Noise 21.4 percent of his career wins (6-of-28).
At 7-5, all Fear had to do was beat Houserville in the final game of the season to make the playoffs. Essentially, Week 13 was a playoff game for Fear, and like his three playoff trips in franchise history, he couldn’t get a win. Fear’s season fell apart early after Jamaal Charles went down with a season-ending knee injury in Week 2 of the season. He never really was able to recover, having to rely on replacements. He had to do the same thing at QB with Vick missing the final three weeks of the fantasy season, forcing Tim Tebow into action. Fear could use a year away from the injury bug for sure.
World of Noise
2011 Record, Finish: 2-11
Career Record : 28-54 (.341)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-2 (2)
Owns: The only thing Noise owns is the worst franchise record in the JFL.
Bugaboo: (1) Playing fantasy football, (2) Making smart draft choices, (3) His love for Jason Avant.
Well, 2011 was awful for the Noise — the worst in his franchise’s history. If it wasn’t for a pair of Fear and Loathing wins (How does that make you feel, Nick Malawskey?), Noise would have gone 0-13. Either way, he was ushering in the No. 1 pick in the draft. And he has some rebuilding to do. He doesn’t have a franchise anything. He’s trying to work on a deal for DeSean Jackson, who could be a franchise WR, but that’s it. He doesn’t have a QB. He doesn’t have a big-time RB. The 2012 season will be about rebuilding the foundation for Noise.
Sunday Slackers
2011 Record, Finish: 10-4, AFC East Champion, lost in AFC Championship game.
Career Record : 23-30-1 (.435)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 0-2 (2)
Owns: No one in particular. He’s 3-1 against a pair of teams (T-Money and Boyer).
Bugaboo: Despite stealing the division from the Jammers last season, the Slackers hasn’t had much luck against his biggest rival in all of fantasy sports. The two owners, have battled for World Series titles often, have a fierce rivalry, but the Jammers have won seven out of nine times, including last season’s AFC Championship game win.
Last season was a huge step forward for the Slackers, who behind Drew Brees and Ray Rice — who he acquired from the Jammers — won his first division title. The duo will be keepers for sure in 2012 and they’ll certainly be part of a fierce battle for the division title in 2012. Brees threw for 5,000 yards yards last year, but so did Matthew Stafford, so the rivalry between the Slackers and Jammers is bound to get crazier this season.
Jimmy Jammers
2011 Record, Finish: 12-4, Super Bowl VI Champion
Career Record : 64-27 (.703)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 9-4 (6)
Owns: The Jammers is 7-1 against a trio of teams for a combined 21-3 record (Toasters, Fear and Boyer). Two of the biggest wins out of those 21 came against Boyer in Super Bowl I and Super Bowl VI.
Bugaboo: The Organ Thieves, despite a win against them last year, continues to be a thorn in the Jammers’ side. With a 5-2 record, the Thieves are one of only two squads to have a winning record against the Jammers. News Team is the other with a 4-3 mark.
The 2011 season was all about symmetry for the Jammers. Four straight wins, followed by two straight losses, followed by four straight wins, followed by two straight losses, followed by four straight wins. … Did I lose you? Well, that pattern equaled Super Bowl title and the Jammers hope the pattern doesn’t pick off where it left off. If that’s the case, it’s two straight losses to start the season and a loss in the first playoff game. The 2011 season also marked the first time the Jammers hadn’t won his division, so he will have his sights set on getting back to the top in 2012.
Jawz Attack
2011 Record, Finish: 4-9
Career Record : 8-18 (.308)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 0-0 (0)
Owns: Too soon to tell.
Bugaboo: Too soon to tell, as well.
The Jawz Attack’s first two seasons have finished in 4-9 records. Last year’s was a tough pill to swallow, scoring so many points — fourth-most in the JFL in 2011 — yet finishing 11th in the JFL. Some weeks, it was just mind-boggling, losing because of three-TD days by Ahmad Bradshaw and many more instances that made you say, “Really?” Giving up a JFL-worst 1,671.5 points really hurt. Especially after scoring 120 or more points in five of the first six games, but amassing a 1-5 record. Perhaps his luck will change in 2012. … Perhaps he’ll make his own luck by drafting Andrew Luck.
For us in the Jimmyjam Football League, it’s time to start evaluating keepers and potential draftees in the upcoming 2012 JFL Draft on Aug. 26.
But before we head into our seventh season in the JFL, we have to take a look back at the 2011 season that saw some big records fall.
Four teams moved into the top 10 in single-season scoring last year, including the Channel 4 News Team, who obliterated the record, scoring 1,789.2 points during the regular season. The Jammers, Slackers and Attack also posted top-10 marks, but despite the high scoring by these four teams, the rest of the League evened it out because during the regular season, there was only a 151.1-point increase from 2010.
2011: 17,884.3
2010: 17,733.2
2009: 17,151.2
2008: 14,475.0
The 2006 and 2007 seasons are not comparable because we only had 10 teams.
As you can see, the biggest jump came in the 2009 season, but I think that can be attributed to some awesome fantasy performers in the last three years — Chris Johnson in 2009, Arian Foster in 2010 and the QB explosion (Rodgers, Stafford and Brees) in 2011.
We move back to a lineup that forces each owner to start a tight end and I’ve adjusted the defensive stats a pinch to cut back on the number of 30- and 40-point games defenses were having.
Also noteworthy is that the Jawz Attack, who moved into 10th all-time with 1,557.4 points last season, lost nine games last season. He was Mr. Unlucky, running into top scorers each week, giving up a JFL record 1,671.5 points. Considering no team that has given up 1,500 or more points in a season has had a winning record, Jawz Attack was lucky to win four games.
Among those lucky wins was a victory over the Jimmy Jammers, who became the first JFL team to score 10,000 career points.
The Jammers also improved to 64-27 all time, a JFL-best, but the News Team is roaring and looking to contend for the best franchise. At 39-16 over his last 55 fantasy games, he has moved all the way up to second place on the all-time win list with 47. He’s tied with Boyer, who beat him in the conference championship last season.
The Organ Thieves (45 wins) and T-Money (43 wins) round out the top five franchises.
Four of the top five franchises are in one conference, so it isn’t a surprise that the Super Bowl representative from the opposite conference has been dominated by one family — the Johnsons.
The Jammers has been to five of the six Super Bowls, going 2-3, while World of Noise filled in the gap with a trip to Super Bowl IV.
Here’s a quick look at all 12 teams as they head into the 2012 season.
NFC East
2011 Record, Finish: 10-5, lost Super Bowl, NFC East Champion
Career Record : 47-38-1 (.552)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 4-4 (4)
Owns: No one in particular. Boyer has a decent record against most teams, but doesn’t flat out own anyone, outside a 6-2 record vs. the Generals. The only thing he’s dominant in is beating teams with names related to the movie Jaws. He’s 4-0 against them — Jawz Attack (2-0) and the former Amity Island Massacres (2-0).
Bugaboo: The Jammers, without a doubt. He’s 1-7 against the Jammers with two Super Bowl losses.
Team Boyer has quietly been one of the better teams in the JFL and it’s because his franchise quarterback, Tom Brady. He’s the only player to be on one team in the JFL — other than Jason Avant with the Noise. Boyer takes Brady into his seventh season and will look to regain the momentum he had at the end of last season. After a 4-4-1 start, Boyer won four straight games to take the NFC East and improved it to six straight to advance to his second Super Bowl and first since Super Bowl I.
2011 Record, Finish: 6-7
Career Record : 43-42 (.506)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-5 (5)
Owns: He owns the Noise — but who doesn’t? — with a 5-1 record.
Bugaboo: The T-Money just can’t figure out the Generals. With just one win in six tries, T-Money will try to adjust that record this season.
T-Money just always seems to be in the mix. Despite QB issues over the years with Tony Romo, he was a constant playoff contender — until 2011. He was one of two teams to be in the playoffs every season from 2006 to 2010, but his attempt to make it six straight playoff appearances came up short with a 6-7 record in 2011. He was 6-5 heading into Week 12, but a loss to the Slackers and a loss to Team Boyer in Week 13 gave Boyer the division title and T-Money a ticket to the offseason.
2011 Record, Finish: 5-8
Career Record : 42-40 (.517)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 3-1 (2)
Owns: Closest thing to owning is a 3-1 record vs. Houserville.
Bugaboo: The Jammers. He’s 1-5 vs. the Jam.
In the two years that have followed the Toasters’ championship in Super Bowl IV in 2009, he has started strong and tailed off. In 2010, he started 6-4 but lost his final three games to miss the playoffs. Last year was worse. After starting 5-3, the Toasters lost his final five games to fall from first to worst in the NFC East. This year, Weeks 10, 11, 12 and 13 will mean a lot to the Toasters.
NFC West
2011 Record, Finish: 9-5, NFC West Champ, lost in NFC Championship.
Career Record : 47-39 (.547)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 5-3 (4)
Owns: Houserville. He’s 4-0 vs. the Villain.
Bugaboo: Toasters and Boyer. He’s 3-6 against both — simple math makes that 6-12 vs. them both — and the biggest aspect of this is two losses in particular, 2009 in the NFC Championship game against the Toasters and 2011 in the NFC Championship game against Boyer. Had he won both of those games, based on his point total in Week 16 of those seasons, we’d be talking about the three-time Super Bowl Champion Channel 4 News Team.
Well, I just said it. The News Team is a pair of Week 15 wins away from being a dynasty. However, he’s not far from it, having gone 39-16 in his last 55 fantasy games. Last season started slow with a 2-4 record, but seven straight wins handed the News Team the division and the No. 1 seed in the playoffs. He rested during the bye week and faltered in the conference championship game. As a result, he’ll have to hand the trophy back to the man who gave it to him last October, but there’s no doubt that the News Team will be a favorite to take it back to the D.C. area in January.
2011 Record, Finish: 6-8, lost in NFC Wild Card.
Career Record : 40-44 (.476)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 4-2 (3)
Owns: T-Money. He’s got a 5-1 record against the Money man.
Bugaboo: Just can’t handle the man who had the cubicle right across from him at the Lewistown Sentinel. Fear and Loathing has a 6-2 record against the Generals.
Since posting double-digit winning campaigns in two of his first three seasons, capping it off with a Super Bowl title in 2008, the Generals have been mediocre. Last year was a step in the right direction, getting back to the playoffs for the first time since the 2009 season, but the six wins were the lowest among playoff teams and he was a tie-breaker away from missing the dance. He’s in a tough division and was picked to finish last in the preseason poll — although, I personally thought he’d contend, as posted in my 2011 preseason preview — so 2011 has to be looked at as a success. A step forward would be eight wins and another trip to the playoffs.
2011 Record, Finish: 4-8-1
Career Record : 45-37-1 (.548)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-3 (4)
Owns: He owns two-thirds of the AFC West, 10-2 against both Noise and Fear (5-1 vs. each).
Bugaboo: The other third of the AFC West. He just can’t beat the Ville (0-4).
The Thieves thought 2009 was a fluke, but all of a sudden, another 4-win campaign has snuck into his franchise’s history books. But like he did in 2010 with nine wins, the Thieves will look to bounce back in 2012. Last season, he started 0-4 giving up 129 or more points in each of the first four weeks, including 165 to the News Team in a week where the Thieves scored 158. He went 3-1-1 in the next five games to eek his way back into contention, but with Adrian Peterson down and out and Philip Rivers having a season to forget, the offense struggled and went 1-3 in the final four games of the season. If keepers Rivers and Peterson bounce back, so should the Thieves.
AFC North
2011 Record, Finish: 7-7, AFC North Champion, lost in Wild Card round.
Career Record : 32-26 (.552)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-4 (4)
Owns: Noise. Easily has manhandled the man who seems to make every jab he can. Whereas Noise talks a big game, Houserville plays a big game, winning seven of nine matchups against the boisterous Noise.
Bugaboo: Houserville just can’t beat the News Team. He’s 0-4 against Mr. Burgundy.
Houserville has never missed the playoffs, and despite a four-game losing streak and a 1-5 stretch during the middle of the season, he rallied with three consecutive wins to win the AFC West and make his fourth playoff appearance. However, for the fourth time, he was dealt a playoff loss before the Super Bowl. Last season, marked a changing of the guards for Houserville, who for his first three seasons in the JFL was led by expansion draft pick Peyton Manning. With Manning toying with him all offseason, he finally made the decision to keep him because it looked like Manning would play by Week 2 or 3. Well, after the 2011 JFL Draft, it became clear that Manning wasn’t coming back and all Houserville had was Cam Newton. So he made a deal to get Ben Roethlisberger for Wes Welker. … Bad news is that may have cost him a Super Bowl title. Good news is, he has a new franchise QB in Cam Newton.
2011 Record, Finish: 7-6
Career Record : 39-41-1 (.488)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 0-3 (3)
Owns: As mentioned before in the Generals capsule, he owns him with a 6-2 record.
Bugaboo: The one team to struggle against the Noise is Fear. He’s 2-6 against them. It may not seem all that bad, but it’s made worse when you put it this way: Fear has given Noise 21.4 percent of his career wins (6-of-28).
At 7-5, all Fear had to do was beat Houserville in the final game of the season to make the playoffs. Essentially, Week 13 was a playoff game for Fear, and like his three playoff trips in franchise history, he couldn’t get a win. Fear’s season fell apart early after Jamaal Charles went down with a season-ending knee injury in Week 2 of the season. He never really was able to recover, having to rely on replacements. He had to do the same thing at QB with Vick missing the final three weeks of the fantasy season, forcing Tim Tebow into action. Fear could use a year away from the injury bug for sure.
2011 Record, Finish: 2-11
Career Record : 28-54 (.341)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 2-2 (2)
Owns: The only thing Noise owns is the worst franchise record in the JFL.
Bugaboo: (1) Playing fantasy football, (2) Making smart draft choices, (3) His love for Jason Avant.
Well, 2011 was awful for the Noise — the worst in his franchise’s history. If it wasn’t for a pair of Fear and Loathing wins (How does that make you feel, Nick Malawskey?), Noise would have gone 0-13. Either way, he was ushering in the No. 1 pick in the draft. And he has some rebuilding to do. He doesn’t have a franchise anything. He’s trying to work on a deal for DeSean Jackson, who could be a franchise WR, but that’s it. He doesn’t have a QB. He doesn’t have a big-time RB. The 2012 season will be about rebuilding the foundation for Noise.
AFC East
2011 Record, Finish: 10-4, AFC East Champion, lost in AFC Championship game.
Career Record : 23-30-1 (.435)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 0-2 (2)
Owns: No one in particular. He’s 3-1 against a pair of teams (T-Money and Boyer).
Bugaboo: Despite stealing the division from the Jammers last season, the Slackers hasn’t had much luck against his biggest rival in all of fantasy sports. The two owners, have battled for World Series titles often, have a fierce rivalry, but the Jammers have won seven out of nine times, including last season’s AFC Championship game win.
Last season was a huge step forward for the Slackers, who behind Drew Brees and Ray Rice — who he acquired from the Jammers — won his first division title. The duo will be keepers for sure in 2012 and they’ll certainly be part of a fierce battle for the division title in 2012. Brees threw for 5,000 yards yards last year, but so did Matthew Stafford, so the rivalry between the Slackers and Jammers is bound to get crazier this season.
2011 Record, Finish: 12-4, Super Bowl VI Champion
Career Record : 64-27 (.703)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 9-4 (6)
Owns: The Jammers is 7-1 against a trio of teams for a combined 21-3 record (Toasters, Fear and Boyer). Two of the biggest wins out of those 21 came against Boyer in Super Bowl I and Super Bowl VI.
Bugaboo: The Organ Thieves, despite a win against them last year, continues to be a thorn in the Jammers’ side. With a 5-2 record, the Thieves are one of only two squads to have a winning record against the Jammers. News Team is the other with a 4-3 mark.
The 2011 season was all about symmetry for the Jammers. Four straight wins, followed by two straight losses, followed by four straight wins, followed by two straight losses, followed by four straight wins. … Did I lose you? Well, that pattern equaled Super Bowl title and the Jammers hope the pattern doesn’t pick off where it left off. If that’s the case, it’s two straight losses to start the season and a loss in the first playoff game. The 2011 season also marked the first time the Jammers hadn’t won his division, so he will have his sights set on getting back to the top in 2012.
2011 Record, Finish: 4-9
Career Record : 8-18 (.308)
Playoff Record (Appearances): 0-0 (0)
Owns: Too soon to tell.
Bugaboo: Too soon to tell, as well.
The Jawz Attack’s first two seasons have finished in 4-9 records. Last year’s was a tough pill to swallow, scoring so many points — fourth-most in the JFL in 2011 — yet finishing 11th in the JFL. Some weeks, it was just mind-boggling, losing because of three-TD days by Ahmad Bradshaw and many more instances that made you say, “Really?” Giving up a JFL-worst 1,671.5 points really hurt. Especially after scoring 120 or more points in five of the first six games, but amassing a 1-5 record. Perhaps his luck will change in 2012. … Perhaps he’ll make his own luck by drafting Andrew Luck.
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