Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail

First off, I'd like to congratulate Levi on notching his first win over a seasoned TTFFL opponent (versus his week 3 win over Team Datanator, another newbie).  Ya gotta love fantasy.  In week 4, Eric Decker blows up for 14 points on my bench, and Michael Bush outscores the guy he's handcuffing, Darren McFadden.  So week 5 comes, I put in Decker and Bush (because my only other startable RBs are on bye), and they combine for zip.  Zilch.  Nada.  Squat.

And yet they BOTH outscored the talented Mike "top 5 fantasy WR" Williams, who contributed negative one point.

Yes, I love this game.

Anyway, congratulations again to Levi.  And in fairness, I suppose I should congratulate Nick, too, on his first TTFFL win against an established opponent, but that was a win against Kevin, so it doesn't really count.  I would like to congratulate him on his victory over Merrill in week 5 --- I mean, I would really, really like to congratulate him on his victory over Merrill --- but I can't, because for some reason he started Marshawn Lynch over Frank Gore, and thus fought Merrill to a draw instead of claiming victory.

What did we tell you at the draft, Nick?  The object of this league --- is to beat Merrill.

Anyway --- the real reason I'm posting now is not to talk about Levi's victory or Nick's tie, or even about the severe beating I plan to administer to Nick in our game this week --- but to point out that finally in week 6, we're practically guaranteed that either Taylor or Aaron will finally taste defeat, as they play one another.  It's like the playoffs in September, except that it's October.  Personally, I think the game is Taylor's to lose, especially since he can (and probably will) start both Miles Austin and Dez Bryant at WR.  How did we let Taylor end up with both of those guys?

As it happens, Jason and Adam are meeting in another matchup of high-seeded teams, which would be a matchup between the #3 and #4 seed if Merrill hadn't somehow avoided a loss last week (*ahem*, Nick).

Most of the other matchups are interesting as well.  We'll see if Kevin can avenge the savage 72-39 beating Jody handed him in week 3, when we have the second Battle of the Brothers Graham; Kubicek will attempt to finally get off the schneid when he goes up against the mighty River Horses in the second Battle of Oakland University; and I will once again show Nick how it's done in the second Pearson Throwdown.

Only the game between Levi and Merrill has no secondary theme.  But we can hope that they start a tradition of Levi Kicking Merrill's Ass.  Go Levi!  If you can beat a Ninja, you can certainly beat a Marauder!