Saturday, September 7, 2013

Thursday Night Overview: Peyton's Historic Game + First Big Trade

Manning puts Broncos on his broad shoulders 
 Before We get to what was an amazing start to the NFL season, We're not even three days into the season and we've already had our first major trade. Leland, who was in desperate need of QB, made a trade with Kenny for Matthew Stafford. Remember in my draft grades I said Kenny's shrewd draft move of drafting Matthew Stafford after already drafting Drew Brees would pay off? It sure did as Leland waited too long to draft a QB and ended up with Jay Cutler as his QB, paid a ransom for Stafford's services. Leland shipped off Randall Cobb and Chris Johnson for Stafford, Lamar Miller, and James Jones. My analysis? It was a move Leland had to make in my opinion. You can't go all season with Jay Cutler as your QB and the only teams that would be willing to trade would be ones with more than adequate backups. Kenny had the best backup in the league, as Stafford is usually a bonafide starter in 12 team leagues. He had to make the deal, but it cost him dearly. His #1 receiver, his #2 running back (also happened to be his 2nd and 3rd round picks) is kinda pricey. For Kenny, it's a great trade. He adds depth and doesn't really give up much on his side in return as he wasn't going to use Stafford but for one bye week. Kenny's receivers are now Demaryius Thomas, Randall Cobb, and Antonio Brown, not to mention he still has Percy Harvin Stashed for when he comes back. Kenny's RB Combo of Doug Martin/Chris Johnson is also upgraded. This moves Kenny into top 3 teams in contention on paper. Leland needs Lamar Thomas to break out for this trade to be really worth the price of Stafford. We'll see how this pans out throughout the season. Anyways, back to Thursday night's kickoff game. Wow...what a game it was. Experts who say you should "wait for a QB late" should ask Albert how he feels about getting 7 TOUCHDOWNS from Peyton Manning. Yeah, I don't care what they say, you'll get great production from later QB's like Tony Romo, but Elite QB's are ELITE for a reason and I believe are well worth the higher draft price (though Manning was a STEAL in round 4). 46 points from one player...that's going to be tough to overcome for sure and I'm pretty sure we know who's winning the first Stud of the Week award. It's even scarier for opponents facing Manning because he found yet ANOTHER weapon to go to in their TE Julius Thomas (2 TD's ON MY BENCH NATURALLY). I think the Manning for Brady tradeoff worked out pretty well for Albert. Don't think he'll miss Brady much at all. Here's a look around the league at the other teams who had players in the Broncos-Ravens game.

Passion ofthe Puente- "Fantasy Experts" are as bogus as weathermen. How these people make a living as experts is beyond me as they're just as informative and right/wrong as everyday people like you and me are. For example, this week Matthew Berry very cocky and snobbishly proclaimed his dislike for Wes Welker this week not only his column but on ESPN as well. Tim Hasselbeck disagreed with him and said he would have a monster game with 10 catches only for Berry to snidely remark "yeah, I'm going to take the under on that". Well guess what asshole? 9 catches for 67 yards and 2 TD's. Only black mark was a muffed punt but still 20.5 points for a guy who was supposed to be nonexistent?? Yeah, I LOATHE experts. It doesn't take a genius or stats to know, you're starting WES WELKER no matter what, especially in a 12 team league. These guys really don't help worth a dick, but they pound their chest when they're right, and sweep away their mistakes (Ryan Mathews as a stud RB 1 for 3 years) and proclaim "you shouldn't rely on them to set your lineups. THEN WHAT ARE THEY GETTING PAID FOR?!? Anyways, Mike Posey's pretty happy with "hateable" Wes Welker. 

Not Even Lying- This was getting very dicey for Kenny, as Demaryius Thomas was pretty invisible for the 1st half of the game and was held to 5 points for all of the first half and all of the 3rd quarter. Finally at the beginning of the 4th Thomas get a TD. Kenny was just relieved with that. Late in the game though, Thomas had a ridiculous 78 yard TD to help him finish with 30.5 points for the game. Freaking insane. Proof how dangerous Thomas can be and just the beginning of what could be an offensive onslaught of points as Kenny adds Randall Cobb and Chris Johnson to his squad Sunday.

The Bad Robofies- The funny thing about Ray Rice, is a boring uninspiring Rice game STILL leads to 16 points. 36 rushing yards is bust worthy for a player like Ray Rice, but 1 TD and 8 catches for 35 yards saved what could've been a disasterous start. That's the good thing about Rice in a PPR, receiving stats will bump him tremendously. So yes ,it couldve been better, but it could've been a hell of a lot worse.

Springville Warrior- On the flip side of this matchup, Eugene had a terrible performance from Eric Decker. Drops galore (including a gimmie TD) and he even fumbled a catch (luckily out of bounds). That's thing with the Denver receivers. Decker and Welker will have interchangeable hot and cold games. That's the risk when drafting them. Unfortunately this week was a cold week to the tune of only 4 points.

Hoosier Daddy- We already discussed Albert and his 46 point Peyton Manning Performance. How about his opponent. Not a great week to face Albert, but that's how the schedule unfortunately works for Ryan. Ryan had Torrey Smith and he wasn't great but wasn't too bad either. An average performance. As many times as Flacco threw the ball, it was disappointing to see Smith not targeted as often as you would think. He got 4 catches for 92 yards. He'll need the rest of his team to step up to overcome the giant lead Peyton Manning gave Albert.

Me, Matt, Drew, Leland, Mark, and Mayra didn't have Thursday Night plays.


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