I wasn't one of them.
Seeing Calvin Johnson go out, I figured Matthew Stafford wasn't going to get anywhere close to the 30 points I was expecting at the beginning of the day — and he didn't, scoring 19 points.
But, that was six more than Michael Vick, who played only two quarters and scored 12.9 points. And in a 95.3-94 loss to Houserville, that made all the difference. With Stafford, I would have easily cleared the home-field advantage points that anger Houserville like a cat getting sprayed with a water.
The Spacklers and Money Man also went with their backups, and I agreed with one, not the other. For the Spacklers, it made sense with Philip Rivers over Tom Brady based on the matchup, and the 30.5 points he got from Rivers was huge in lifting him to a 103.8-100.7 win over the Channel 4 News Team.
It was a different story for T-Money. I disagreed whole-heartedly with his benching of Tony Romo in favor of Eli Manning, and I was right. Manning finished with 25.5 points, Romo had 59.7.
Nevertheless, he still beat the Jawz Attack, who also made a QB change that I completely disagreed with that morning, and he missed out on 18 extra points, starting Alex Smith (12) over Russell Wilson (30.7).
Yes, I was right.
But don't get angry. I'm not bragging. I'm in absolutely no situation to brag about who to start and who to sit.
I stupidly gave David Wilson one last chance. I had him in the lineup and felt good about it heading into the weekend. I figured Sunday I'd make a last-second switch to T.Y. Hilton.
That was the plan.
But then, I did the worst thing ever. I heard the "Fantasy Guru" John Hanson on NFL Radio say: "Start David Wilson. You must start him. He will finally make you feel good." I have that in quotes, but I'm paraphrasing.
Then, I heard the same thing on TV on NFL Network's Fantasy Live.
So I had an ego boost and I thought, well, I have to stick with him, and early on, I was satisfied. He scored a TD and was looking good. He was certainly en route to double-digits.
And then, the story of my last two seasons — injury.
He hurt his neck and went out for the second half. Just like Vick. And now, just like Julio Jones, who is out for the rest of the season.
Jones almost gave me a good going away present when he dived for a 38-yard TD that would have beat Houserville — soundly, without the home-field advantage pissing him off — but he dropped it as he fell to the ground.
I fell to the ground, too, and Jones came up just short of the points needed to beat Dawson.
As he slept, I assume in light blue PJs next to his best friend Baxter, Philip Rivers ran wild in his nightmares, scoring 30.5 fantasy points. He threw for 411 yards and two touchdowns, including 58 yards and a TD that went to Danny Woodhead, the other player who was on the Spacklers' roster.
In a game that started as or after most of us went to bed, it was hard to believe that the Spacklers would scored 45 points to overtake the News Team, but he did.
And if you take away home-field advantage, like Houserville would like to do, it was a 1.1-point victory. But we here in the JFL count the home-field advantage, so it was a cozy 3.1-point victory instead.
Everyone else in the JFL picked up comfortable wins, including the World of Noise, who moves to 3-2.
The Organ Thieves, who should rename his team to "50 Percent Peyton Points" easily handled the Toasters, who got a shocking 28.1 points out of Terrelle Pryor, again shoving it in my face. Whatever, Toaster, I can still know that I was right about Brandon Weeden.
The Slackers took care of the Fear, who benched Andrew Luck but it didn't matter, and T-Money destroyed Jawz Attack by 50 points, and it could have been by 80 points had he started Romo.
He's learned his lesson for sure.
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