Week 1 Wrapup

It's that time again!  We have officially embarked on a new fantasy football season.  Opening weekend saw some pretty interesting games, including a surprising season opener in which Kevin Ogletree had more receiving yards than Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks, Dez Bryant and Miles Austin.  Its obviously going to be another crazy year, and Yahoo! has started doing match-up recaps, meaning I don't have to type as much.  Instead, I'll list the top impact fantasy player for each match-up.  Let's hope this won't be a shitty idea.

Neil defeats Danny (159.96-97.24)

RGIII celebrates throwing his first TD

The real difference maker in this match-up was a QB, but surprisingly for a team sporting the name Breesus Christ, it was Robert Griffin III.  Projected to only score 15.63 points this past week he put up an even 25.  Throwing for 320 yards and rushing for 42 puts him in elite QB territory, but as a rookie you can't expect to see that week in and week out.  I say that realizing that it is probably the exact same thing I said about Cam Newton last season.  Speaking of Cam, he was awfully quiet this week, and I know Danny's hoping that it doesn't become a trend.

Joe defeats Rich (152.08-95.26)

For those of you who were in Danny's mancave for the games Sunday, you know that this match-up was over early, and that Rich was one more Ryan to Julio Jones hookup away from chucking his laptop straight at the TV.  Luckily for everyone they stopped at two, but I'm still giving the title of "Impact Player of the Match-Up" (IPOM) to both of them.  I'm breaking a paragraph old rule here by naming more than one, but since each of their points were based on the other's success, I'll allow it.  Matty Ice ended the game with four total TDs (one rushing), and Julio Jones had 108 recieving yards and caught 2 of the 3 touchdowns Ryan threw.  On Rich's end, Buffalo's D let him down the most.  It didn't really matter.

Kaminsky defeats Frank (113.22-108.14)

My prediction: this will be the only time I say this all season. Blaine Gabbert was the impact player that changed this match-up.  After looking terrible all last season and being projected to throw up 8.77 points, Gabbert threw for 260 yards and 2 touchdowns, scoring 19 points this week.  I still can't believe it. Look at the picture on the left.  Even Blaine can't believe that ball isn't going to be picked off.  Frank's team under preformed this week for the most part, although Stevan Ridley put up 21.2 points in what was to this point a career game for himself.  I'm 90 percent sure I wont say that again this season either.  Maybe it'll just be one of those years again...for the second year in a row.

Big Dan defeats Nulty (110.04- 105.72)

In case it wasn't clear, here's
AP, my IPOM

Before I start a quick humble-brag session, I'd like to say use this as a forum to tell Nulty that the text he sent Sunday night before the Denver game didn't work.  He tried to jinx my lead, and the match-up got close enough by Monday that I was on edge until the second half of the Chargers game.  That being said, I'll start the previously mentioned humble brag.  Adrian Peterson, aka AP for those of you who don't recognize his full name, showed up bigtime after every fantasy football analyst said to bench him in any league.  Running in a couple of touchdowns along with his 84 rush yards isn't bad for someone who just a few months ago had n chance returning for Week 1.  Luckily my genius (along with some helpful bad advice from my anti-fantasy guru) started him over Mark Ingram.  On the other hand, Nulty must be kicking himself for not starting Coby Fleener over Ronnie Brown or Toby Gerhart.  

Russ defeats Ed (109.68-107.32)

No individual player on Russ's squad really outperformed their expectations.  Instead, for the impact "player" I'm going with the Baltimore Ravens Defense.  Scoring 19 points on Monday night help put Russ far enough in front of Ed that Carson Palmer's nice late night showing couldn't catch him.  On the other end of things, Ed is probably wondering where Wes Welker was this week.  As everyone attempts to ignore that awful alliteration, I'll move things along as I boldly predict that to be Wes' worst start this season.  I know right, pure genius.  The Ravens D saved me from having to name a kicker as the IPOM, and even though Akers would've earned it with his 63 yard field goal, its something I just don't want to do.

Tom defeats Adam (93.94-89.78)

The last IPOM this week goes to Tony Romo, who decided that he didn't care what fantasy rankings said about his targets this week, throwing again and again to Kevin Ogletree (seen below).  When the smoke settled in this match-up, Romo's 307 yards and 3 touchdowns were the added edge Tom needed.  On the disappointing end of things, Adam joked about Fred Jackson's knee too soon, and he left the game against the Jets after amassing a measly 1.5 points.  The injury ends up deciding this one, and the curse of Freddy Jackson continues.

Someone's definitely going to put a waiver claim in on
this guy...will it be a waste?