The Thursday Night Game was your typical awful played game, but the way it played out reminded me another reason why I think Fantasy Football is just so fucking ridiculous and absurd. "Garbage Time". I get it, there's nothing you can do about it, it is what it is, and stats are stats regardless if they came in the 1st quarter or 4th quarter, but it really burns me up that there are teams out there that got rewarded for starting Blake Bortles who looked like the shittiest QB to ever play the game in the history of the league. Now luckily in our league, Mark benched him, because well, BORTLES SUCKS and boy did he suck in a grand fashion last night. Because the Jags were getting blown the fuck out and the Titans just stopped caring, especially in the 4th quarter, Bortles got the most bullshit garbage points imaginable and ended up with 33 points....33 POINTS!! His 350 yards and 3 scores LOOK like a hell out a game, but it was the exact total opposite. It's just so wrong to me for a guy who should've been BENCHED at half, got to pad his stats for a whole half because he himself SUCKED and now gets to take advantage of a lax Titans Defense. Unreal, but typical with this dumbass shitty game. Anyways, Mark DID play Demarco Murray and I know, you might be expecting me to be pissed about being in a hole again but honestly you know what I think about Murray going over 120 and scoring a TD to get nearly 20 points? THANKFUL....thankful because it could've been WORSE....SO MUCH WORSE...with the game in hand Murray didn't do toooo much after halftime and sat out the 4th altogether. Considering he was getting whatever the fuck he wanted out there, I was expected for sure 150-170 yards and possibly another score, so when he left the game after the 3rd, I was relieved. I'll take being down 19.3 points. For Matt, Allen Hurns benefited from garbage time and ended up with over 90 and a score. Unfortunately for Drew, his guys, Allen Robinson and Marqise Lee didn't do much in garbage time. Man has Allen Robinson fallen off. Bortles is a huge reason why, but Robinson isn't exactly helping matters. He still managed 6 catches for 70 yards, but still that's not even the kind of production you want from a normal 6th round pick much less a guy who was going in the 2nd round who you got to keep in the 6th. Luckily for Drew, Alex didn't get much from Delanie Walker as he only had 4 for 75, so this matchup is still winnable only because of Alex's decimated lineup this week. Eugene should be pleased with his Rishard Matthews play, he scored a TD which helped him almost double his projected points. That's exactly the production he needs from his complimentary guys. Onto the Week 7 Awards.
Wane McGarity Stud Of The Week
A.J. Green (Bay Area Tanners)
Have to go with the guy who I traded for and helped extend my hope for at least one more week. Green was amazing, with a hell of a hail mary TD catch, and this one handed catch shown above. His nearly 27 points helped me knock off Eugene and his undefeated squad.
Michael Wiley Dud Of The Week
Jordy Nelson (Light's Broken Bots)
Jamaal Charles and LeSean McCoy were more injury related for their terrible games but for Aaron Rodgers to complete 39 passes (39!) and only 1 of those was to Jordy Nelson is absurd and insane. TD's are the only thing saving Nelson from being a complete bust, but Matt can't afford for these kind of Jordy Nelson games to be a constant thing. For Matt's sake, hopefully he'll be more involved in the offense starting this week.
Drew Bennett Sneaky Surprise Award
Marqise Lee (THE SPOILER)
Honorable mention goes to Jack Doyle as Ryan's bye week replacement, but he had a little bit of hype going into the week, while Lee was a total crapshoot play by Drew that managed to work out in a tightly contested game. Lee's 14 points were huge in getting Drew his 4th win of the season.
Jay Cutler Bad Decision Award
Albert makes "The McCoy Trade"
This is in hindsight of course and it's a prime example of how being forward thinking can bite you in the ass. It made sense, Albert at 4-2, with a pretty mediocre running back group thought he could risk giving up one of his stud WR's to get back a guy who's a legit top 5 running back all season. The catch? McCoy hurt his hamstring last Wednesday, but because things seemed to fall into place, Matt dropped Mike Gillislee (McCoy's backup) that day to pick up Mike Davis and Albert owned the #1 waiver claim. It made too much sense. The Bills would rest McCoy for a week, and Albert would use Gillislee, and then McCoy would be back for the rest of the season and everything is good. On top of that he gained a WR3 with WR2 upside in Jordan Matthews and flipped a guy who's a game flow dependent running back in LaGarrette Blount. Well, things quickly went to shit when the Bills decided to basically force McCoy into action despite not being healthy. It in effect forced Albert to play both Gillislee and McCoy which turned into a nightmare. Not only that, predictably, McCoy aggravated his hamstring injury and Jordan Matthews was awful. The guys he traded to me? Combined for 53 points. Matthews and McCoy combined for like over 3 points total and now who knows when McCoy will be back. A perfect situation ruined because of Rex Ryan's foolishness. It might be the turning point in Albert's season and not in a good way.
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