It was a valiant effort. Tony Romo had a huge day and Alshon
Jeffery was at it again, but it wasn’t enough for T-Money against the mighty,
amazing Fear and Loathing.
Sadly, T-Money managed just 60.6 points and it was no match
for Fear’s 50.5 points.
… Wait. What?
Fifty-point-five points?!
That’s 10 less than T-Money scored. That means T-Money is
the JFL Super Bowl IX Champion!
Are you kidding me? No disrespect to T-Money, who I’m sure
would admit that he had no business even being in the Super Bowl after last
week’s crazy last-minute drive by the Bears.
He needed Fear to have an absolute meltdown, and boy did it
happen.
Andrew Luck, who’s lowest point total prior to Week 16 was
21.8 points, scored just 3 points Sunday in a blowout in Dallas. Even when Fear
needed garbage time points, Luck was pulled for his backup in the fourth.
Fear benched DeMarco Murray, and for about three hours, it
was a mistake, until Fred Jackson rallied for 12.1 fantasy points. Murray had
just 11.8, which was his second-lowest total of the season. Le’Veon Bell, who
averages 20 fantasy points a week, had 13.4 points. And then the rest of the
team was a mess. Allen Hurns had 3.2, Stedman Bailey had 2.6, Delanie Walker
had 6.2. It was all bad.
It was a collapse for the ages.
It was a nuclear meltdown that even Jack Bauer didn't see coming.
It was like Popsicle vs. Sun.
Twelve wins, averaging well more than 100 points per game, and then this happens in Week 16. It was just unimaginable. I spoke to this fact in the preview. Perhaps I jinxed it? I don't know.
Fear did have the points to win on the bench, but he
didn’t start Kenny Britt, Kendall Wright, Lance Kendricks or Matt Asiata.
T-Money lucked out in that Fear didn’t start the right guys,
because his team wasn’t much better on Sunday.
Ben Tate didn’t even play, but he was out of healthy RBs.
The one who did play, Benjamin Cunningham, had just 5.2 points. At WR, Michael
Crabtree was a huge disappointment on Saturday, scoring just 0.7 points, and
Martellus Bennett outdid Crabtree in the disappointment department with his 0.2 points. The Vikings gave up 37
points to the Dolphins and therefore only scored 1.8 fantasy points, and Justin
Tucker had only an extra point.
It was really ugly.
But that's the story of T-Money in 2014. Ugly.
Once again, he failed to get out of the 70s (hell, he didn't even make the 70s). It's the eighth time this season, but the fourth time he still won. He's now won six straight games to close the season, and in all six, he failed to hit 100.
Call it luck of the draw, he still managed to get the "W" in all of them.
In Week 16, he would have never even came close to a "W" if it weren't for Romo.
Oh, Tony Romo. The franchise QB of T-Money.
For years, I would bash him for this keeper selection. Even
this year, I wondered a bit due to the fact that it was counting as a high
first-round keeper.
But finally, T-Money can hoist a trophy and shut me up for
good.
Go ahead, Trey (yes, that’s his name, in case you didn’t know),
you can keep him in 2015 without any words coming from me. Romo just won you a
Super Bowl with his four TD passes and 37.3 fantasy points. Blowing Luck out of
the water and subsequently sending him to the bench early was the key in this
matchup. If Romo throws one fewer TD, perhaps Luck stays in for one more drive and
flips this who script.
That’s why it was so big for Romo to have this kind of day.
Jeffery, who had 14.6 points last week to oust the Toasters
in the NFC Championship Game, added another 14.4 points Sunday. His season has been a strong one and he really came on late in the year. In fact, during the T-Money's six-game win streak to win the title, Jeffery scored a TD in every game, totaling seven during that stretch. He had double-digits in five of those games, and he reached 20 twice.
On Sunday, it was his late
third-quarter TD that pushed him into double-digits yet again.
That set the stage for Romo in the 4 o’clock games.
JFL Super Bowl IX will go down as the lowest scoring Super
Bowl of all time, and I’ll need to do some research, but I’m fairly certain
it’s the lowest scoring playoff game in JFL history.
T-Money wins his first title and becomes the seventh owner
to have won a Super Bowl.
2006 Jimmy
Jammers 99, Team Boyer 89
2007 Chinese
Organ Thieves 112, Jimmy Jammers 101
2008 Graybill's
Generals 112, Jimmy Jammers 106
2009 Dottsville
Toasters 132.3, World of Noise 103.1
2010 Channel 4
News Team 135, Jimmy Jammers 92.7
2011 Jimmy
Jammers 138, Team Boyer 100
2012 Sunday
Slackers 186, Chinese Organ Thieves 113.3
2013 Channel 4
News Team 106.6, World of Noise 93.3
2014 T-Money
60.6, Fear and Loathing 50.5
JFL POSTSEASON
CHALLENGE
There’s still a lot to be decided in the JFL Postseason
Challenge. The Jawz and Noise are both eliminated after tough days, while the
Slackers, Toasters, Jerk and Boyer all have players going now or tomorrow night
to decide the top two finishers. Boyer looks to be in the drivers seat for the
title at this point, and Jerk will need some help to hold on to the No. 2 slot.
The Slackers will need at least a 30-point game from A.J. Green — where have we
heard that before — and the Toasters need Russell Wilson to keep running like
he just did a few moments ago, breaking free for 50-plus yards.
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