CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK.

The... "something" bowl!

Congrats to Lacy Stacy and 36 Dollar Man!

Sad way to end a season for Joon's Football Squad and I miss JC So Much.

Especially I miss JC So Much.
So unfortunate that his name foreshadowed what was to come.
As I had mentioned, there were so many injuries and/or freak incidents (RG3 benching) for this team RIGHT as he clinched the playoffs. Insult to injury... his supposed "treasured JC" (why trade him then?...) went off for 52 points in one of the most dominate performances I've ever seen in fantasy.

Jamaal only ran for 20 yards and a touchdown (8 points) on 8 carries.
OH.
THEN HE CAUGHT 8 PASSES FOR 195 YARDS AND 4 TOUCHDOWNS ON 8 TARGETS.
That's 5 touchdowns on 16 touches. (31.25%) and 13.44 yards per touch.
3.22 points per touch.
Talk about efficiency.

That performance makes JC the 3rd OVERALL player in fantasy this season. That's pretty nuts. The next RB is Shady McCoy at #13.

Things also went south for Joon's Football Squad due to what I pointed out last week. Quarterback play. Losing Rodgers was devastating. 9.6 points from the rapist. What hurts is the fact that 3 of the top 5 QB performers for this week were available. But who in their right mind goes... "Imma pick up Ryan Harvard Fitz"?
Actually... I did... when I had a platoon of Matty Ice and Case Keenum in case I made the playoffs... Fitz has awesome matchups. But still that wasn't really something I was planning to do.

Anyways. Good effort by these two.

On to what matters.

*cue NFL Films soundtrack*

Who has the edge?

QB matchup.
Edge - 36 Dollar Man

Stafford. We all know about Stafford as native Michiganders. The guy has a better line over the season than Romo (who he's starting to become) but given the situation of the game, it's hard to see Stafford respond to the pressure. Look at Monday's game. When have we ever seen Calvin drop those types of passes. Then he sat on the bench and looked... loopy. No one cared, no one wanted to step up to the occasion. We're supposed to believe they do this now? Maybe it's just my Lionized pessimism but I don't see it. On the other hand Romo... lulz. What a failure he is. However he does drop some great fantasy numbers even while he destroys his team. Both the Lions and Cowboys are a game behind their respective division leaders. When it comes to Romo I always say, "If the game doesn't matter he will be brilliant". This game matters but it's against the crappy Redskins. Edge Romo


RB matchup.
Edge - 36 Dollar Man

Uh... Duh. (THANKS JOON!)
Matt Forte #3 and Marshawn Lynch #4.
"But Lynch has Arizona". Lynch had Arizona IN Arizona and dropped 15.4. This time Arizona comes into the loudest stadium in the NFL and Lynch gets to go at them again.
I'm not ignoring the fact that Lacy and Stacy are performing extremely well. I think it's a fair comparison to call Lacy and Stacy the poor man's version of Forte and Lynch. They're on track to be those guys later in their careers but they're not there yet. Edge RB 1+2 Forte AND Lynch


WR matchup.
BIG edge - Lacy Stacy

This starts with matchups. It requires a grain of salt for Marshall though. AJ Green and Brandon Marshall get the 2 worst pass defenses in the league this week. AJ Green I can give my vote of confidence, Brandon Marshall on the other hand, I can't. Alshon Jeffery is the reason why. Against Minnesota (31st) Alshon dropped a bomb for 36.9 points taking all the points away from Brandon who finished with 4.5 points. I really think it depends on who's under center for Da Bears. For now I'll ignore it and just take BMarsh v Philly as is on paper. Let's just put it this way. I think I'd take Keenan Allen this week over both TY and Jordy. So if I rank all 6 WRS, #1,2, and 4 go to Lacy Stacy. Edge WR 1+2+3 AJ, Marsh, Keenan


TE matchup.
Push.

They're both so confusing. The only TEs I can be VERY confident in is Jimmy Graham and Gronk. Even Vernon, I have a hard time week by week thinking they'll do well. If I have to choose I'll say Jordan Cameron... he's due and Jets are just so bad. But Washington is just as bad... however Witten blew against them in their first matchup. Regardless these guys are able to drop some major points this week if their QBs look their way. Both guys take a back seat to a top flight WR in Dez and JGordon. So... we'll see. SLIGHT edge - Jordan Cameron


Defense Matchup.
Edge - 36 Dollar Man.

Let me point out that the KC defense has scored more points than DeMarco Murray, AJ Green, Reggie Bush, etc. Benching them based on matchups is a scary thought to me. I don't mean to put doubt in because I'm a pure matchup Defense player. Of course that has been extremely rewarded as many times as it's been extremely negative. So I don't know what the right call is here. The way it stands now I think 49ers are going to have a field day with a crappy Atlanta team, on monday night, at home, THE LAST REGULAR SEASON HOME GAME IN CANDLESTICK PARK. Just screams... disaster for Atlanta. Edge - 49ers D/ST


Kicker Matchup.
Who the hell knows.

I can't predict kickers. They're ridiculous (see Justin Tucker). Both bad matchups against great defenses which is supposed to be what good? cause good defenses only give up Field Goals? But then GREAT defenses don't give up any points? So WTF!?
The way things have been for me they'll probably both drop 25.

GG.

36 Dollar Man by 10.


or something.

I don't know.

Playoffszzz

PLAYOFFSSSSSZZZ

Forgive me. Again it's finals week. I'm all nighting so I think I can take some time out to go ahead with an overdue note.

First and foremost. Congrats to a great come back by I miss JC So much. Something that seems like a trend for him as last year he came so close but failed to make the playoffs. It seems as though that torch was handed over to me.

As for everyone else... Good season...

So...
I miss JC So much crashes head first into 36 Dollar Man who has been a dominating force with 11 wins.
He ties Between the Butt Cheeks of 2011 for best record in this league. Last year's champion of the regular season and the playoffs (me) only had 10. Between the Butt Cheeks did not win in 2011.
Ironically it was 10 win Fall-From-Glory Buy-in Waived in 2011 that won it all. Maybe 10 wins is the magic number? If so... CONGRATULATIoNS JOON'S FOOTBALL SQUAD.
haha.

Let's preview the matchups.

1v4

Henry met Paul in week 3 and beat him by 11.2 points.
Both teams were extremely different back then.
RG 3 was accurately benched by Paul for Alex Smith and Paul had Jamaal Charles back then... hence his current name. Henry has a drastically different looking team since then as he added the monster in Marshawn Lynch (again... thanks Joon) and no longer has CJ2YPC. These teams are extremely different.

Team Analysis.

I miss JC So much:

Huge huge huge huge problem right off the bat.
Unless you live under a rock, you know that Shanahan has shut down RG3 for the rest of the season. His reason sounds like B.S. to me but whatever.
Paul seems to have turned to Ryan Tannehill.
Let me rephrase.
PAUL SEEMS TO HAVE TURNED TO RYAN TANNEHILL.

That sounds awful on paper... cause it kind of is. Regardless of his 15 PRK, Tannehill hadn't broken the 20 point mark til 2 weeks ago against the Jets and Steelers. Now looking at it as a strict matchup play, New England has been pretty awful against the pass but have found a way to kind of... bend but not break in the 2nd halves of the last few games. Best case scenario for Tannehill is to load up in the first half and target Mike Wallace deep against what seems to be an overrated DB in Aqib Talib. 2nd half...? Good luck.

We also have the actual problem. Adrian Peterson may not go this week. If that is the case this matchup looks terrible for Paul.
A team to implode like this right as they make the playoffs is a cruel cruel prank.


36 Dollar Man:

Looking fine, looking good.
Romo is fine and ready to go against a crappy GB defense while his 3 stud running backs look healthy and ready to go. Bush has been erratic but every team would take him as their flex option. Marshawn has slowed down as of late but it seems as though he'd be due as he steadily gets 15+ touches from the backfield.

Basically... everything is as is for 36 Dollar Man and there is no additional fear going into the first round of the playoffs.


My Pick:
Sorry Paul.
As much as it's great to see you come from behind (twss)... your team's issues are too great. I don't think you'll be able to overcome this deficit.

Henry by 20+

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2v3

These two teams met only once.
It was before the power surge that Lacy Stacy had in the middle weeks before somewhat losing its mojo toward the end of the regular season.
Lacy used to threw out David Wilson and Ridley back then... other than that the team was the same. Joon's team used to roll with ARodgers and Marshawn.... Marshawn... THANKS JOON. He threw out Jacquizz and Daryl back then as well... Things have changed for him as well.

Team Analysis:

Lacy Stacy:

The upgrade from Wilson and Ridley (lulz) is HUGEEEEE.
Lacy has proven to be a beast and Zac Stacy... I must admit... is pretty damn good too when his team's situation allows him to get his carries.

Lacy benefits a ton with his matchup against the crappy Dallas rush defense. His 4. Yes 4 receivers would arguably crack any other team's top 2 options. This team was rolling. Add in a ridiculous defense that's scored 20+ points FIVE TIMES and this team looks great. Lemme say that again. His defense has scored 20+ FIVE TIMES. Who saw this coming from KC? You? oh, you're a DIRTY LIAR.


Joon's Football Squad:

Honestly this team was my favorite for an epic fail once Aaron Rodgers went down.
Yet he looked adversity in the eye and said, "let's get it on".
So he enlisted someone that's an expert in "getting it on".
Someone so good at it that he never takes no as an acceptable answer.
He brought in Ben The Rapist.

He's been more than enough. Funny thing is, he was contemplating who to replace ARodgers with and it was because this conversation that I waivered Case Keenum and he took Ben. Good choice for him.

Anyways... His running backs... oh his running backs. Demarco has a great matchup and CJ2"K" has been off and on this year. Arizona's #1 rush D comes in... that's not good news for anyone. Maybe his breakout.... speed.... lulz... can help him break one big TD scamper and it'll help? Combine this with interesting WRs and FLEX and we have a not so optimistic outlook... at least from me.

My Pick:

It's hard to pick against Joon. His team is weird. Week 13 he dropped 155.8... HUH?

But if I was a betting man I'd have to say...

Lacy Stacy by... <10.


So there you have it.

If I'm right... 36 Dollar Man and Lacy Stacy will be playing for the championship.

Good luck to the 4 teams.
Everyone else... yeah okay play for 5th or whatever... blah blah good effort blah blah HAHAHAH KEVIN blah blah.


Good luck to me for finals.

APOW: rebuilding year - FIRST. CONGRATS
Turd: Atlanta Lions