What I Think about Week 1 2015

Welcome to the first official blog of the new Fantasy Football season.  Naturally, I lost in both of my leagues this past week, so expect a little venom and vinegar with your dose of my Truth this week.  But as they say, it’s only 1 week, so let’s see what happens next.

Going to streamline things a bit this year.  No more weekly awards and stuff that requires lots of research and shit.  Nah, from now on all you’re going to get is the unfettered, unfiltered, untarnished Truth from my fingertips.  Hope you enjoy it even more.

• So, I lost to Nathan this week.  Seems like I usually do.  So, I went back and did a little checking.  Turns out that since 2006, Nathan is only 5-5 in Week 1.  But as I suspected, during that time he was 3-0 against me in Week 1, including this past weekend.  Son of a bitch.
• For the first time in 5 years, Tony P. has a new team name.  I, for one, always considered “I Touchdown There” to be one of the greatest FF team names of all time.  But, life is change after all, so I will learn to accept the mediocrity of “Cosby’s Sleepers” with the same dispassionate disdain that the judicial system is showing towards Mr. Cosby and his statistically-challengable innocence.
• In my other league, my good friend Don Roman scored 136.56 points and changed his team name to “Draft Grade D.”  Love it.
• I don’t blame Kevin for starting a kicker who doesn't have a job in Week 1.  Turns out that Barth had been released from the Broncos the day after our draft.  Then he was picked up and released by the Bucs.  But according to Yahoo!, Barth is still playing for the Bucs!  No reason for Kevin to think he wasn’t active, except of course if he had checked the news wire for Barth and seen the top item on the list that said he’d been released.  Ah, well.  I picked up Montee Ball this week and according to Yahoo! he is still playing for the Broncos too!  Someone should call these guys’ agents.  Most likely, Kevin cares as little about the K position as Nathan does.
• Tom benched Ameer.  I fucking gift-wrapped those points for you.  Tom, I don’t know who you use for research to set your lineup, but I suggest a change.
• Barry Mega Team Check-in – top 3 first-round, high-price players delivered 46.8 points.  The rest of the team didn’t have enough juice to catch up with Berk’s big week.
• Wow, the Buffalo Bills were something to behold this weekend!  I thought the Colts would be a FF powerhouse against everyone this year.  The Bills held them all in check. But you know what I love most?  The Bills’ fans are so charged up about this season, they started showing up for the game on Saturday morning!  They stood up through that entire game.  That’s loyalty, my friends.
• Speaking of loyal fans, it made me happy to read that Fireman Ed is back rooting for the Jets again.  Granted, I have no love for the Jets at all, but that guy personifies that fan base to me, and it’s good to see the love of the game come back.
• Is Peyton done as a FF powerhouse?  Time will tell, but this weekend doesn’t bode well for anyone who has a Bronco on their team, including the RB’s.
• I love the NFL FF commercials. 
• Don’t tell Mindi, but I love the Aikman Miller Lite commercial too.
• Is it just me or does Sam Bradford look like his shoulder pads come up to his chin? There doesn’t seem to be much space between the pads and his head!  It’s fucking weird.
• Eli should have known better. 
• Coughlin should have been fired years ago.
• No way the kicker decides on the spot to do an onside kick to start overtime.  Pete Carroll, I call bullshit.  Nice job throwing your guy under the bus like that.  A coach makes that call, and it was probably you.
• Suh’s move wasn’t dirty.
• Pacman should have been kicked out of the game for that shit he pulled.
• What does it take to get kicked out of a game these days?
• I’m proud to say that I was too tried Sunday night to watch the end of the Cowboys-Giants game and hear Mindi whooping and hollering in the bed beside me.  For the record, Mindi is rooting for BOTH the Bears and Cowboys this year, despite my protests that no one should ever do that.
• This past month I submitted a sample blog post to my favorite NFL column, Monday Morning Quarterback.  The site was hoping to find fans to write blogs about their favorite teams throughout the season, so they asked for submissions asking why you love your team so much in no more than 200 words.  I spent a few hours polishing my thoughts into what I thought was a well-written summary of my feelings and submitted it.  Sadly, it was not selected.  Of the two entries for the Packers that were accepted, I thought only one of them held a candle to mine.  No accounting for taste, I suppose.  Some of the fan blog choices they made for other teams were downright horrible, so their editorial decisions are in question as far as I’m concerned.  I’m proud of what I wrote, and I hope it made it well into the final selections.  MMQB says they are going to reach out to submitters for future entries.  We’ll have to see.  Keep your fingers crossed for me.  Take a look at the entries they selected and see what I mean.

Well, that’s it for Week 1.  I have more stuff in store in the weeks ahead, so check back each Wednesday for the latest post.  Good luck in Week 2, except for Tony P.