I know, I know. All of you are out there, wondering why it's taken me so long to write anything. Well, what can I say; I been busy. I got married in August and I'm starting a new job next week. Somehow, I just haven't had the time for TTFFL nonsense that I usually do.
At least, that's the excuse I'm using for my lame-ass 0-3 start this year. Back in my glory years, I never had a particularly good regular season record, but this is the first time I've ever started 0-3, in any league. And I thought I had a pretty good team, too! I can put part of the blame on Fred Jackson's week 1 injury, and part of the blame on Tom Brady's ordinariness thus far this year (he currently ranks 15th among QBs in TTFFL scoring), and part of it on the schedule --- my opponents this season have scored more points than anyone's, by a decent margin.
The 0-3 record is the bad news. The good news is, my team is actually better than it's played so far. So y'all better just watch out.
Speaking of QBs --- what the hell? The first four picks in this year's draft were Brady, Rodgers, Brees and --- in a reach of epic propotions by Aaron --- Peyton Manning, and so far only Brees has played up to his draft position. Brady, Rodgers and Manning are currently 15th, 20th and 10th in scoring among QBs, and 21st, 35th and 11th overall. Hell, Rodgers hasn't quite managed to put up as many points as the Redskins DST, for crying out loud.
As bad as it's been for me so far this year, I think I'd have to hand the title of Biggest Loser to our reigning champion, Pete Trumbore of the Orion River Horses. His roster sure looked impressive right after the draft, with Stafford, Fitzgerald, Richardson, VJax and Gates, but every one of those guys has been a disappointment for most or all of the season. The only silver lining to Pete's season is that he drafted the rags-to-riches QB story of this season, RG3. As good as he's been so far, he may not be enough to salvage Pete's season.
If Pete is the big loser thus far this year --- and there's little doubt that he is --- then Taylor is without question the big winner. The only remaining unbeaten, he scored a draft-day bargain in Stevan Ridley, or at least so it appeared after week 1. In an example of the rich getting richer, Taylor was the one to benefit when my starting RB Fred Jackson got knocked out, as he happened to be the one to draft C.J. Spiller (although that too no longer looks like the good fortune it once did). AND he had the waiver wire position to grab Andre Brown last week. Unbelieveable!
At least we can all take comfort in the knowledge that, like every other year, Taylor's winning streak won't last.
The rest of the below .500 crowd are, by definition, suffering from some degree of misfortune. Merrill has been justly disappointed in his roster of Cam Newton, DMC, Nelson, Torrey Smith and Finley, but his bad karma ended last week after he sent in his league dues. Adam is in the same boat, but somehow managed to score a victory last week in spite of being a deadbeat (it helped that he was playing Pete).
Nick rounds out the below .500 bunch with the best team autodraft can give you, though if you start DeAngelo Williams and Jared Cook, you pretty much deserve what you get.
And finally, no overview of the first three weeks of the season would be complete without congratulating Kevin for sucking the least of all the teams in the league last week. Kevin put up a healthy 85 points, thanks largely to a rare 4-touchdown performance by Big Ben Roethlisberger. Nice work, Kevin. Maybe you'll win a week again in another ten years or so.
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