-Not to kill the mood of this entire post, but I would first like to send my prayers to all of the people affected by Hurricane Sandy. As a Jersey Shore resident, this has obviously affected my family, my friends, my town, and a lifetime of memories. I wish everyone along the Shore the best of luck during these times, and thank everyone for their support. Special thanks to Govenor Christie for handling this unimaginable disaster with leadership and courage. The Jersey Shore may never be the same, but as he has said: make no mistake about it...we will rebuild.
Sorry if that killed the vibe.
-Trust me, I understand nobody likes to hear people bitch and moan about their fantasy football teams. Everybody loves to let the world know about their own personal struggles and misfortunes, but we all hate being the recipient of a fantasy owner's rant. "RANDALL COBB SCORED 21 POINTS ON MY BENCH!!" "CAN YOU BELIVE I PLAYED THE BEARS D AND THEY SCORED 3 TOUCHDOWNS??!!""
Despite my acknowledgement of this incredible annoyance in the fantasy community, I am going to inflict pain on all of my readers with my own personal account of my fantasy football Sunday.
So I go into the second wave of afternoon games thinking I have the fantasy football world as my oyster. I am tied with my opponent, and I have Darren McFadden, Hakeem Nicks, Antonio Brown, and Jimmy Graham still ready to roll. The guy I am playing only has Josh Freeman and Doug Martin.
(By the way, I am facing PJ)
-The rest is a nightmare. Two catches into his day, Brown sprains his ankle. Seven carries into his day, McFadden sprains his ankle. Hakeem Nicks and the rest of the Giants offense decided to take the day off. Meanwhile, Doug Martin turned into Barry Sanders for the day. 51 POINTS?!?!!? ARE YOU KIDDING??!! Unbelievable. The progression of frustration from a fantasy owner that played Doug Martin this week can be roughly mapped like this:
11 points: "Damn."
21 points: "SHIT!"
31 points: "SHITTTTTTTTTTT!"
41 points: "IS THIS A SICK JOKE??!!!" (with several expletives mixed in)
51 points: (Silence)
That was my fantasy day along with probably many others. I went from thinking I was sitting pretty to losing by 60 points. Gotta love fantasy football.
-O, and Mikel Leshoure scored 3td's on my bench.
-Seriously though, the Giants offense has looked miserable for the last two weeks. I love Eli Manning, absolutely love him, but he has done a decent Matt Cassel impersonation lately. And let's not even get into Isaac Redman doing his best Jerome Bettis impersonation today. Or was it that his O-Line provided holes that could fit a Boeing 747? I may be going with the latter.
What Giants fans can take away from today is this:
- Our offense played awful and we still almost beat a good team
- The Cowboys lost so we still have a nice hold on the division
- Let's work out the kinks now before we enter the most brutal six game stretch in football scheduling history
- Maybe Eli Manning has used all of his "Random Bad Eli Games" for the year
-The Bears Defense/Special Teams unit continues to dominate. Urlacher pick six'ed Matt Hasselback and they also blocked a punt for a TD to give the unit 8 TD's on the year. To put that in perspective, Detroit led the league with 5 last year. Unreal.
-Running out of adjectives to describe Adrian Peterson. He shredded a very stout Seattle defense for 187 yards and added two scores. Sorry Marshawn, this guy is the real beast.
-Amidst RG3 mania, Andrew Luck continues to compile maybe the best rookie season in the history of the NFL. He threw for over 400 yards today, setting a rookie record for quarterbacks in the process. He has guided a very OK Colts team to a 5-3 record, and defeated a Super Bowl champ and reigning MVP. He may be a top 10 QB right now.
-I was not a big Ryan Tannehill guy during the draft, but the kid has played pretty well. He leads the league in downfield throws at 30+ yards has the Dolphins at 4-4, or "5-3 minus Dan Carpenter's horrendous performance that handed the Jets a win."
-I am dying without hockey. Baseball is over, I can't watch the NBA (I'll explain why later), and NFL Sunday is only one day a week. Now that the Breeders Cup is over (Yes, I love horse racing), my sports action meter dips to like a 3 out of 10. I am only comfortable when that number is a 5 or higher, otherwise my whole life is jammed up.
-In result, I don't have as much to talk about tonight. I have a tough week with exams and papers coming up, but I'll try to get something out to you. To everyone along the Shore, I hope you guys get power soon and some resemblance of normalcy can be restored--even though I understand our post-Sandy version of normalcy may never be the same.
Good night everybody.
-Chris Collins
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