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Icon Fantasy Football League Update
Squeaked out a 42-40 victory against the Delaware Enforcers to improve my record to 3-2 .... but as crazy as it may sound, I fell to LAST place in the Glory Division! This week was one of those where nobody played a game within their division. And OUR division won every game. It's incredible how these standings look after five weeks:
| Power Division | W | L | PS |
| Bruney Broncos | 2 | 3 | 283 |
| Toronto Tigers | 2 | 3 | 171 |
| Cincinnati Superstars | 1 | 4 | 246 |
| Running Vikings | 1 | 4 | 194 |
| Delaware Enforcers | 1 | 4 | 191 |
Now check out MY division:
| Glory Division | W | L | PS |
| Green Bay Dynasty | 5 | 0 | 360 |
| Buckeye Wrecking Crew | 4 | 1 | 321 |
| Pennsylvania PimpDaddies | 3 | 2 | 345 |
| West Virginia Dolphins | 3 | 2 | 296 |
| Miami Waves | 3 | 2 | 242 |
What really sucks about this is our playoff system takes the best two teams from each division, not the four best teams OVERALL. So if things keep going this way we could have two teams from one division with losing records make the playoffs and we could have two or three teams with winning records MISS the playoffs. So even with a winning record I'm a game out of the playoff chase and a LOT of points behind in tiebreakers. Not only do I need to win, I need to score some massive points and FAST.
This week I face my fiancee Penny and her Toronto Tigers (1-4). Toronto is currently dead last in Total Points Scored in the league, but get a lot of players back from a bye. Chicago TMQB (Jay Cutler), RB Matt Forte, RB Thomas Jones, and WR Anquan Boldin are the main weapons for the Tigers.
My lineup for the week COULD look like this:
TMQB Cincinnati (Carson Palmer) vs. Houston
RB Chris Johnson (Tenn) at New England
WR Randy Moss (NE) vs. Tennessee
WR Chad Ochocinco (Cin) vs. Houston
WR Mike Sims-Walker (Jac) vs. St. Louis
WR Devin Hester (Chic) at Atlanta
PK Ryan Longwell (Minn) vs. Baltimore
DST NY Jets vs. Buffalo
My debate is between WRs Devin Hester, Mario Manningham (at New Orleans), or DeSean Jackson (at Oakland) as my fourth WR. The rest of my lineup is set in stone. I'm hoping Sims-Walker makes up for getting himself inactivated for being late to a meeting before last week's game.
Hester is facing the statistically weakest pass defense in Atlanta (22nd) so my initial thought is to start him. Was disappointed in Jackson only getting one catch last week and figure he will be covered by CB Nnamdi Asomugha who regularly shuts down #1 WRs. Manningham's touches have decreased since Hakeem Nicks has returned from injury. So if anyone out there reading this wants to chime in on their opinions of who they would start, I'm all ears.
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Week 6 Studs, Duds, and Sleepers
STUDS
WR Randy Moss (NE) Facing a weak Tennessee secondary that gives out passing yards like they are candy, Moss could have his first huge game of the year.
WR Braylon Edwards (NYJ) Only four days after being traded from Cleveland, Edwards had an impact for the Jets on Monday night, catching a TD, (Heheh, did I mention I predicted that?) Think about what an additional week of practice with QB Mark Sanchez and a matchup against a leaky Buffalo defense will do to possibly inflate his impact.
RB Cedric Benson (Cin) Benson is now the league's leading rusher going against a defense that very susceptible to the run.
QB Aaron Rodgers (GB) The Lions will have no answer for the strong armed QB. Detroit has allowed at least two passing TDs in every game so far.
DUDS
QB Joe Flacco (Bal) Flacco will have his hands full dodging the Vikings pass rush.
RB Steve Slaton (Hou) Not having the impact of last year thus far. Chris Brown being used as goal-line back. Plus, Bengals defense is getting stronger.
RB Fred Jackson (Buff) With Lynch back and offense grounding to a halt, his value has dropped off the face of the earth. Jets defense not a good relaunching point.
WR Laveranues Coles (Cin) Ochocinco, Andre Caldwell, and Chris Henry stepping up their games. Coles is fading into the background.
Sleepers
TE Jeremy Shockey (NO) The ex-Giant could go ballistic on his former team.
RB Michael Bush (Oak) If the Raiders want any chance to score points, they'll need to use him a lot.
WR Michael Jenkins (Atl) Has been quiet thus far, but is due for one of his sporatic 2 TD games.
DST Tampa Bay With Jake Delhomme throwing INTs and other Panthers fumbling the rock, we might just see a pick 6 or other defensive score.
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Well thanks for stopping by Mandie. Come read more anytime :)
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