2019 - Week 1 Recap

Week 1 Recap

Oh week 1. Always comes in like a wrecking ball to destroy off-season narratives. Narratives like the Browns will be good, or Raiders suck without AB, or Jono will stop using his commissioner powers to cheat and get first pick. Now that the dust has settled, let's take a look at the insanely high scoring match ups under the new league rules. I will refrain from talking too much shit this week because of how weird week 1 was, don't want to eat too much crow.

Mat - DaDell Hopkham Jr (0-1) vs Dylan - The Sixth Wentz (1-0)

Welp, I got my shit wrecked. Dylan scored 180 to my 138 and he was still only the 3rd highest scoring team this week. This should give you a good indication of how this season will go for this league. Dylan cruised to victory by playing a bunch of Eagles players. He started Wentz, Ertz, DeSean Jackson, and the Philly DEF (AND JAKE ELLIOT). Very questionable decisions all around but it worked out for him. He's probably only one of fifteen people in the world who started DeSean Jackson, and it ended up netting him 31 points. He also got 38 points out of CMC, who is looking like the RB1 for the season. The Panthers are just good enough to get production out of him and just bad enough to need him to carry the team. It's too bad Nick Foles went down for most of the season, Dylan could have reached the next level with that pickup. My team did OK, both my QBs combined scored less than either of Dylan's QBs. It was hopeless from the get go. Odell, one half of my namesake, didn't do much because the Browns are who we thought they were. Todd Gurley and James Conner who are supposed to be solid RB1s did next to nothing. I'll look to bounce back next week against Brent's team who scored the most points week 1.

Justin - Antonio Clown (0-1) vs Brent - Burfict Strangers (1-0)

Brent scored the highest this week with an nutty 192 points, Justin's team underperformed at WR pretty severely and ended up with 146 points. For Justin: Julio, Landry, and Lockett all scored around 10 points, which is pretty rough for a set of starting WRs. Justin had 2 hometown picks in Antonio Brown and Josh Jacobs. We all know how Brown played out, but Jacobs looked like the OROY out there in game 1. LeVeon picked up right where he left off 2 seasons ago. His team will definitely do better in the future once the WRs pick up the slack. Brent's team was solid across the board. Mahomes looks like the MVP again and Dak Prescott had a career night. Michael Thomas getting 10 receptions and 123 yards will be a very regular thing, he'll only get better when he ends up with a couple of touchdowns too. Brent did all his damage with Zeke only scoring 12 points, Austin Ekeler should keep performing as long as Melvin Gordon doesn't come back. I'm sure Brent is hoping for that trade to happen. Hopefully Cleveland defense drags Brent down like Baker is dragging down Odell. It's our only hope.

Jono - 1 Girls 1 Kupp (0-1) vs River - Jabba the Chubb (1-0)

Big oof. In a league where people are scoring 190 points, Jono barely managed 108. In an act of ultimate betrayal, River destroys his own brother. The same brother who magnanimously invited him to the league. All of Jono's scheming and corrupt commissioner power oversteps did nothing to help him win. Saquon Barkley looks like he might struggle in a shit offense all year. Unlike the Panthers, the Giants may be too far to the shit side to get production out of a good RB. Tyreek Hill ended up injured right at the beginning of game 1 and looks to be out for a few weeks. Luckily Jono has Watkins on the bench to take his spot. Unluckily, Jono had Watkins on the bench this week who put up 42 points, which is more than 5 of his WR/RB starters combined. You read that right. At least Jono won't have a hard decision to make next week when it comes to which KC WR to start. River did very OK and his team looks very OK. I don't think he'll be lighting the league on fire with starters like Mike Williams and Corey Davis. He'll be relying on some combination of Deshaun Watson, Keenan Allen, and David Johnson to carry him every week. His bench is looking real thin too. None of his bench players out did his starters by much, except Delanie Walker, but can you really confidently start a Tennessee player every week? The answer is yes, but only Derick Henry.

Sak - Thielen Myself (0-1) vs Mike - Gucci Garopp (1-0)

Mike lived up to the Yahoo draft score hype and delivered a 183 point beat down on Sak, who managed 148 points. Sak's lineup looked good before the season but his starting RBs in Aaron Jones and Leonard Fournette combined for a measly 14 points. His WRs didn't do much better, Davante, Juju, and Thielen combined for about 25 points. TY Hilton did about as much by himself for Mike. Sak will have to make some hard decisions next week. He has more double digit WR/RB performances on his bench than he does amongst his starters. But knowing how Sak thought the Raiders would be hot garbage, I wouldn't put much stock in his judgement. As for Mike's team, I stand momentarily corrected. Who knew that the Colts could still perform without Andrew Luck. TY put up a monster game. Alvin and Dalvin look like a legit starting RB pair. Mike better hope Dalvin stays healthy. Amari Cooper continues to do things he didn't do on the Raiders. And Mike somehow got away with starting Baker, we'll see if he can keep up this charade. I refuse to believe in the Yahoo draft scores.