Well, last night FINALLY marked the return of REAL NFL Football and what a game it was. Your typical down to the wire affair featuring last year's Super Bowl teams in the Panthers and Broncos. For Mike, Leland, Matt, and Dad it marked their official start of the Fantasy Football season as they had players go in last night's game. So how did they do? We'll start with Mike who had the star of the game in CJ Anderson. Anderson DEMOLISHED the Panthers defense with some nice runs and a couple scores and finished with nearly 28 points. Of course selfishly I ask, WHERE WAS THIS CJ ANDERSON LAST YEAR?!!? I don't think in the 7 games he was on my roster he got me 28 points COMBINED. Anyways, this is exactly the performance Mike needed if he wants to take down Leland in week one. You need these monster performances to compete with his squad and now it puts Mike in the driver's seat, though Leland has the squad that can overcome this deficit. Although yes, it's only one game, it also should solidify CJ Anderson's status as an RB #1. If he can do this damage to Carolina, he certainly should be able to do this to lesser D's and it's obvious the Broncos are definitely going to be a run first team. Mike's other play was Jonathan Stewart who finished with a measly 64 rushing yards. Stewart isn't a bad RB at all, but these kind of games will happen more often than not, which means CJ Anderson's going to have to do the major lifting. Stewart loses goal line carries to Cam Newton (which happened last night) and even Mike Tolbert, so his ceiling is very limited. Luckily the CJ Anderson made up for Stewart's mediocre game. Back the Broncos, and Leland can't be happy with his 2nd rd pick. People were worried about the QB play hurting Demaryius Thomas and at least for 1 game they were proven right. Thomas didn't even reach 50 yards, and though I wouldn't panic yet, it was a great D they were playing against, I do expect Demaryius to really have to work for his yardage and points. He might be more of a low end WR2/High End WR3 but Leland's depth can afford that as he still has Randall Cobb and Brandin Cooks as his other receivers. Cooks was already in a better situation than DT and I expect Randall Cobb to outperform Thomas as well. Leland's in a deep hole, but again, with the roster he has, it's definitely not the end of the world. The other Broncos wide receiver, Emmanuel Sanders, didn't do too much for Dad either. He, too was held to less than 50 yards and unlike Leland, Dad can't afford for Sanders to not perform at at least WR3 status. It's just one game though, so we'll see how the offense plays against the Colts Shitty D next week. Might be singing a new tune. Speaking of Dad, he should be content, not super excited, but content with his guys performances. Cam got his, even though the numbers looked a little ugly, those rushing stats always bail him out. Greg Olsen barely missed his projection and it's obvious Cam still loves to throw to him and Kelvin Benjamin (feels like those two are the only ones who exist on that team) and he's primed to have another great season. Even Emmanuel Sanders projection wasn't that high to begin with and he almost met it so Dad's definitely still in this week's matchup with me. How about Matt? I count him out, say he's team got a lot of obstacles to overcome, and his first player of the season, Kelvin Benjamin exceeds expectations. When all you hear is how Kelvin is having a terrible offseason, looks sluggish, being outplayed by Devin Funchess, and would be on a limited snap count week 1, you can only think negative things about the guy. You go with what you read about from guys closest to the team. Obviously they were wrong, because Kelvin Benjamin looked great last night. 91 yards and a score. Cam was targeting him all night and he looked unstoppable. This is the kind of production Matt needs to keep his team afloat until his team gets it all together. A Jordy/Benjamin/Gordon trio with Gronk at TE could be a super dangerous receiving group if it all goes to plan. Now he has to worry about Gronk possibly not playing (Sunday night play too) but if he does, he's gotta chance at stealing week #1 against Eugene. It was a great, thrilling start to season and for the rest of us the season starts Sunday! Should be an interesting ride to say the least!
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