Week 5

A week of upsets, come back wins and the lowest scoring for all the teams...the Black Hole was filled with excitement in Week 5

Brown Stars (102) vs Dirty Birds (88.50)
The Stars lucky number has to be 102…for two weeks in a row the Brown Stars score 102 points pulling a huge upset win against the Birds. It was a disappointing week for the Birds as Boldin was kept in the roster even though he was a game time decision. Reggie Bush did have a solid week with 119 all purpose yards but with no touchdowns to show for it. Favre (16) was having a great game until two interceptions in the second half leading Green Bay to their first lose of the season. The NE Defense scored 17 pts helping their team improve to 5-0. Torry Holt had a respectable 18.50 points but the rest of the team isn’t even worth mentioning.

What made this loss even more embarrassing is the fact Brown Stars Top 2 RBs and Top 2 QBs scored a total of 8.5 Points. The Brown Stars left Maroney in the roster and he didn’t play but what’s with Larry Johnson 12 yards rushing? With Boldin out Fitzgerald carried the team with 23.50 points along side the dependable Plaxico (20.5). Trent Green maybe out for the season but Jason Campbell is sitting pretty on the bench with 22 points this week. The Stars play the Knights next week “The battle of the Michigan boys.”

Fobsters (87) vs Jedi Knights (73)
The Fobsters claiming that the Knights “force is no good against the FOB” pulled the other upset win in the league. The FOBs was lead by Phillip Rivers, who actually held onto the ball this week, scoring a team high 27 points. Jeff Garcia is looking good contributing 15 points with 2 TDs and 0 Int. Jennings had a respectable 16 points but top pick Shaun Alexander had a disappointing 3.5 points. The Fobs improve to 3-2 above the .500 mark and holding strong to a playoff spot.

The Knights had a peculiar week with 3 players on byes and 3 being hurt the Knights were hurting for able bodied starters, having to leave Adrian Peterson who is on a bye and Steven Jackson who is hurt in the lineup. Brady is Mr. Consistent with 25 pts and Braylon put up 14 pts. But when your Kicker (Neil – 12 pts) scores more than three of your WR combined it’s not a good week. The Knights look to bounce back next week and end their current two game losing streak.

Old English (102.5) vs Nacho Libre’s (83)
It’s sad when the only team in the league who votes for you to win is yourself. The Libre’s comment of “I hate football” is the same statement spoken by the GM last season around this time. The week Michael Turner is placed on the bench he scores 20 points and Maurice Jones-Drew after having a horrible season comes up with 18.5. Putting in Javon Walker for two weeks in a row when he has been ruled out to play is a baffling move even for the Libre’s. Gates put in a good week with 20.50 but with LT not scoring TDs this season the Libre’s fall to 1-4.

The English had a solid week with six players scoring double digits. Leading the way is this seasons surprise fantasy back Ronnie Brown with 22.5. Steve Smith and Laveranues played respectably with 2 points and Manning had a mediocre performance with 18 points. The OEs improve to 4-1 and are top of the league with combined score of 699. They are looking to prepare for next weeks game picking up two QBs on the waiver wire.

RazoRamon (102) vs babysrus (89)
Much Love was pronounced early in the week and phone numbers exchanged as these two best friends battle it out. The babysrus still looking for their first victory of the season was poised and ready to get the monkey of their back. The Ramons were visible upset with Addai not playing when all the notes said he would…Damn you Yahoo. The game was exciting; the lead was exchanged several times on Sunday. Going into Monday Night Football the babyrus had a comfortable lead of 76 to 65.5 with Owens, Lynch and the Dallas Def still up to go for the babysrus and only a TE (Witten) and K (Folk) left to play for the Ramons. Thinking he had the win the GM of the babysrus, drops the Dallas Def to pick up Kurt Warner after hearing of the season ending injury to Leinert.

The GM of the RazoRamon seeing this move quickly comments on the action and hopes that Karma bites the babysrus in the ass. And karma prevails the RazoRamon pulls of the amazing come from behind win with Witten scoring 20.5 points and Folk punching in a season high four field goals scoring 16 points. When asked how he feels the GM of the babysrus says “I think I should quit this game” Will the babysrus ever get a win?

Next Week's Game to Watch
RazoRamon vs Old English
The 4-1 teams battle it out to take sole possession of first place.

Since I’m a numbers geek something of interest: three of the winners this week scored 102-102.5, maybe 102 isn’t just the lucky number of the Brown Stars.

By Ryan

Week 4

Dirty Birds (109.00) vs Fobsters (44.50)
This is an embarrassment. Heading into Monday night, Jimmy only had 20+ points on the board. That’s um. Disgusting. Not one player on the Fobsters notched double digit points – well, three did, but they’re on the bench. Here’s a ticket to NFL Europe Jimmy, see you next year.

RazoRamon (129.00) vs Jedi Knights (95.00)
Nice, a real game to review. The Knights were the king of the hill coming into Week 4. Three straight wins, an outstanding roster, and plenty of power behind their running and passing game. Well, running into a razor’s edge surely stopped the Jedis cold didn’t it? Led by MVP-candidate Randy Moss (26.5), Ryan’s team punished the Knights on the ground (Joseph Addai, 21.5) and through the air (Jason Witten, 16).

Lum’s team is still looking pretty spectacular with Tom Brady and Carson Palmer leading the charge but now that Steven Jackson is nutted up, maybe the ground game will falter a bit. The Jedis weren’t really relying on the disappointing Jackson anyway though, since young WRs Braylon Edwards, Roy Williams, and Bernard Berrian (37.5 pts combined) are growing up fast. WR Andre Johnson remains sidelined for the Knights and until he and Jackson return, the Jedis could be in for a rough few weeks.

Old English (176.00) vs babysrus (98.50)
Man, those Old English bastards are good aren’t they? After coming out of the gate with two 150+ scores, they put up a doozy of a week with 176 this week to thoroughly trash the babysrus’. Early season MVP Tony Romo slapped up 34 points, Peyton Manning and WR Santonio Holmes connected for 27 points each, and RB Ronnie Brown went wild for a second week in a row (29). The only bad news facing this team is the loss of LaMont Jordan, possibly for a week or two.

Gene’s team on the other hand, is scoring and making a league-leading 18 waiver moves, but they sure aren’t winning. Donovan McNabb had a piss poor day (4 pts), Willie Parker and Terrell Owens flopped, and only rookie stud in the making WR Dwayne Bowe (26) came out to play on Sunday. When will Gene get a win? How about if people stop putting up ridiculous games against him? The last three weeks have seen opponents explode for 147, 162, and now 176 points. Gene must play no defense – only dragons.

Brown Stars (102.50) vs Nacho Libre’s (87.50)
The battle of two bottom feeders resulted in Galvez pulling out a sneaky win versus Hong. Both teams have lost three games already this young season so pride was on the line. Who needs pride when you’ve got big muscles like Galvez though? QB Matt Hasselbeck pumped out 20 points, Larry Johnson had a respectable 15.5 points, and four other players contributed double digits to push the Stars over the hump for a big win, their first. They probably could have won by a bit more if Laurence Maroney had been pulled but really, who knew he was going to be sitting out Monday night?

Hong’s big game plan these days is to play BOTH Chargers’ running backs. They combined for 21.5 points. LDT had 23.5, Michael Turner had -2. Whoops. In good news, the Seahawks defense is super sleeper and has been stellar this season (16 this week). It’s nice of Hong to match the real life Chargers’ 1-3 record but he should really aim higher – snatching DeShaun Foster off waivers was a nice move though.