2010 LFC Week SEVEN PREVIEW
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What the heck happened? Just because I take a week off and the league turns upside down - all the teams headed for the post-season lose to the bottom dwellers ... and now those basement rats are runnin' the show!
Congrats to teamjacob, DoggPound, & littlerupp for giving this league a much needed boost of realism and takin the top teams down a few pegs ....
As per usual ... view the league's top scorers of the week - and of the season at:
http://lewisfamily.league.fantasy.nfl.com/league/56914/players/leaders
Now - since I've been slow on the updates ... and week seven is just days away, instead of a review, I give you ... the Week Seven PREVIEW!
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LEWIS FAMILY CHALLENGE GAME OF THE WEEK:
5-1 FiveAlive @ 4-2 DoggPound
* Back when the season was only a couple weeks old, this matchup appeared to be a yawner - flash forward four weeks, DoggPound found a way to put up 150pts a week and the StayAlive crew has knocked off several playoff contenders - and both of these teams are riding a four game winning streak ... lo and behold, do we have our first championship preview? For week7, it appears the Pounders have the edge, as their starters have some juicy matchups this weekend that should bring in points by the dozen - meanwhile the Johnson Five will need some luck to reach 100pts. But don't count them out, as the Pound have three starters that haven't practiced yet this week, nursing injuries that could hinder their production this weekend and make this game come down to a Monday nite affair - which by the way, the Johnsonistas will be enjoying their Cowboy Duumvirate of Romo & Jones.
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Next Best Game of the Week:
3-3 Smytherines @ 2-4 teamjacob
* There's a caveat to this being a high-rated game - that being, as long as the management team over at teamjacob burns the midnight oil and gets their starting lineup into shape for this weekend's game, we just might see a decent game ... as they have a total of five players sitting out on a bye this weekend. Sound drafting decisions there. Else, the Smytherines could be looking at a possible +75 point differential in the outcome. Brutal. It would be a shame, as teamjacob has been scary recently, putting up numbers big enough to scare the teams waiting to play them in future weeks. You can bet the folks running the Smytherines are exhaling a big sigh of relief when they saw how many jacobians are taking the week off - not often you can notch a win before the game is even played.
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4-2 Haulers @ 4-2 AllStars
*A Tale of Two Teams - One going up, the other going down. Midway through the 2010 LFC Player draft the Haulers were the talk of the draft war rooms - not for anything positive - but for their implausible decision to go several rounds before drafting any RBs. You know, runningbacks - the guys that get to touch the ball more times than the ballboys? The guys that get to carry the ball anytime the team wants to score points? Yea, those guys. Instead, the Haulers decided to go the pauper route. Choosing instead to sit outside the stadium gate in their worst sackclothes and lament the sufferings of a modern day fantasy football lineup, crying out to their higher power, "Why O HigherPower, hast Thouest foresakenth uste?" Oh - and they stink, too. Meanwhile, the Allstars are quietly moving up the standings and they have a shot to win three straight in the coming weeks.
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2-4 SauteedMules @ 2-4 BrooklynTrees
* If either of these two teams wanna shot to make a playoff run, this is the week to turn things around. The Toothpicks have an easier schedule than the ButteredMules from here on out - and could make a decent showing for an expansion club. Both teams are at full strength and this matchup could wind up being the most closely fought game of the weekend. Either the game will end with the Asses relieving themselves on the windward side of the Shrubs ... or we'll all be asking ourselves, "If a tree falls on a Mule in an empty stadium, will the home team surrender %45 of the local ad revenue?"
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2-4 roopdogs @ 4-2 SpecialEd
* As I was bouncing my boy on my lap last night, telling him stories of the early days of the 2010 LFC season, back when SpecialEd was the talk of the league: "You could barely get through a sentence without a mention of how great SpecialEd's lineup was," I waxed eloquently, "GMs were jealous of his highlighter prowess and his ability to draft all the right RBs." And this too shall pass ... a great goateed jogger once said, as he tumbled into the grass while the Harley flipped across the pavement with verse cards flying like chocolate rain. This league is all about the Pound and the high-steppin' moves of the Johnson Five. SpecialEd is so September. This Week Seven Edition of Edward's Most Exceptional is hemorrhaging talent, victims of the Bye Plague that is rampant nowadays. The floundering roopdogs couldn't ask for a better opportunity to gain control of the highly coveted Trailer Bowl trophy.
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2-4 Dolphins @ 3-3 GoldenKnights
* Any other season, this matchup would be the focus of the week. Journalists from all corners of the globe would be covering the pregame personnel moves - as the two GMs vie for just the right starting unit to gain the most points. But this is the 2010 version of the LFC - the version that allows teenyboppers to humiliate self-professed experts of football in front of seemingly two or three people. Sure either one of these two teams could right the ship and go on a winning streak and be a playoff threat - but that's a few weeks from now. But right now, week seven - this is Dolphins/GoldenKnights. And TNT will be showing the 2004 version of Walking Tall, starring The Rock on Sunday afternoon - and I just gotta find out what he's cooking up for security guards at the new casino in his hometown. We're talking the People's Elbow, people!
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2-4 NoPunts @ 3-3 littlerupp
* Complainers & whiners get no love from the editors of this preview - so a brotha needs a week or two to get his head straight - to find himself - to see if there's any chance to keep a sense of himself in the middle of all these dirty diapers - can I still host my weekly dice game on the balcony on the nights when I'm on baby duty - are there any onomatopoeias that are palindromes? You know, the real questions of life .... but yea, I'll stop all that and toss ya'll a preview ... I got your preview ... right here ... a 2-4 team is playing a 3-3 team. One will win, one will lose. One won't be watching.
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