FCFI Week 1 Review and Week 2 Preview
Well if it wasn’t for our respectable score of 144.50 points, I’d throw this season away already. Our third round draft pick, the one I was worried about before I even made it, turned out to be a bust. Kyle Padron got a solid negative 3.30 points in week one of the Fantasy College Football Invitational. We weren’t starting him and I don’t think we, or June Jones, ever will.
In the end, we lost week one to Athlon 166.35 to 144.50. We were pretty much in trouble since Montee Ball put up 37 points on Thursday night. Athlon also had Robert Woods and his three touchdowns and 17 catches for USC. So now it is time to shake things up a little bit heading into our week two matchup against CFFInsider.com. I did take CFFInsider.com’s advice in starting Ed Wesley last week. He got me 3.60 points. It was awful, so now it’s personal. Bring it Alex and company.
CFFI had the highest score among the losers with 153.75, so they will be looking to get in the win column at the expense of College Sports Madness. Case Keenum will get more points for us this week with a trip to North Texas. Chris Relf was a nice pickup and we may ride that hot hand. The other option is Russell Wilson. I’d like to see Wilson throw the ball more than five yards down field before we start him, but if Montee Ball can turn an easy pass into a touchdown all the time, we probably should start him. That quarterback decision may come down to Saturday morning. I expect CFFI to start Matt Barkley and Andrew Luck and hope the Pac-12 has another bad week.
At running back, we get Chris Polk making his first start. He looked healthy against EWU last week and we should have played him then. Washington should get plenty of plays off against Hawaii. Rex Burkhead is a staple in the lineup and Cierre Wood was the only player on Notre Dame who could do anything. CFFI has us beat, as most do at running back, with David Wilson, James White and Andre Ellington.
There are about six wide receivers I want to start in week two. For now I settled on D.J. Woods and waiver pick-up Jamier Lewis. I love those one-two punches from quarterback to wide receiver. With Mississippi State playing against Auburn’s awful defense, I think that might be fun. My people will talk me out of it by Saturday since we have Jeremy Ebert, Marquis Maze and a presumably healthy Jermaine Kearse sitting on the bench. I think we have a small advantage over CFFI in the wide receiver department, but we have to find the right ones to play.
Despite missing the waiver deadline, we picked up DeAngelo Peterson for our tight end of the week and Eric Folk as our new kicker. We held onto the NC State defense after their brilliant performance against Liberty. They won’t get as many points against Wake Forest this week, but they do have South Alabama in week three. After that, we’ll get rid of them and play week by week.
