He was a difference maker, more so than any of us could have
imagined.
Robert Griffin III led the Toasters to seven wins this
season.
Unfortunately, when he did not get the Toasters at least 26
points, the Ville went 0-6.
Several of those losses were close ones, too, but none more
painful than the last.
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The new emergency response company hauling Fear
and Loathing RBs to the IR has been really busy lately. He's
now lost four RBs to injuries in three straight weeks.
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All he needed was about 20 more yards and a TD against the
Giants and the Toasters would be in the playoffs. The same thing could have
been said in Week 9 when the Toasters lost to the News Team by 8.8 points. He
lost by 11 points in Week 8 and six points in Week 5.
Oh, RG3, how have you failed the Toasters?
Why couldn’t you be more like that No. 1 overall draft pick,
Andrew Luck, who shocked the fantasy world on Sunday with 45.8 points,
single-handedly lifting Fear and Loathing to the playoffs with a 133.8-87.6 win
over the Generals.
The win coupled with the World of Noise loss to Houserville,
who sucks so much that he earned the No. 1 seed in the AFC after he moved to
10-3.
He edged out the Slackers for the top seed after T-Money
played spoiler and won 101.2-94.7 to drop the Slackers to 9-4. That means the
Slackers will play Fear and Loathing in Week 14 because Drew Brees had his
worst day of the 2012 season, scoring just 12 points. His lowest total prior to
that was 21.7.
The Slackers looked like they were going to survive the poor
performance until Tony Romo exploded for 34.4 points against the “great” Eagles
defense.
Don’t worry. The Eagles defense will be much better next
week. They fixed the problem. They fired the defensive line coach, because he
was doing such a crappy job preventing wide receivers and tight ends from
running wide open down the field.
I think he also was responsible for the poor offensive line
play. It was a fire that was long overdue.
So go pickup the Eagles defense if they’re on the waiver
wire. They’re going to pick up their game tremendously.
You know, like the Spacklers did.
Boyer opened the season 2-6 and things looked pretty bad,
like he was going to join me in early fantasy baseball prep, but then, the
Spacklers took off.
Six straight wins, capped by Week 13’s 112.3-106.9 win over
the Toasters to win the NFC East and earn a home game against the Wild Card
winner, Channel 4.
For the News Team, he doesn’t feel like a winner when you
call him the Wild Card winner.
With one more win than Boyer, he’ll head on the road because
he couldn’t pick off the Organ Thieves, who won 114.7-105.4 to win the NFC
West.
It was the running backs again for the Thieves, primarily
Adrian Peterson who scored another 31.2 points, rushing for 210 yards and a TD.
He’s had double-digits in 11 of 12 games this season, and he’s scored 20 or
more points five times this season.
Peterson is playing like he did in 2007 when he
single-handedly led the Thieves to a 9-4 regular-season record and a Super Bowl
championship.
That’s exactly what he wants again in 2012.
And AP has the supporting cast to do it.
Peyton Manning continues to be great and Trent Richardson
hit double-digits for the ninth time this season, including each of the last
five weeks.
Even Steven Jackson has been productive over the last seven
games, hitting double-digits in five of them.
That’s three great running backs.
Fear and Loathing can’t even get one.
Well, DeMarco Murray re-emerged after his injury to score 17
points last week, but Ronald Brown went down making it a third straight week
that the Fear has lost an RB to injury.
He lost a pair of RBs to season-ending injuries in Week 12
and he lost another, Willis McGahee, to a season-ending injury in Week 11. It’s
been a rough stretch, but thanks to a little Luck, he has survived to go to the
playoffs.
Now he just has to pick up the next RB to go down with an
injury off the waiver wire. Who will it be? Who will be the guy who would rather be on the cover of
Madden? … Who?
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