Last night was the greatest example of Fantasy Football that could have ever happened. The pure unpredictability of the game. The lowest of lows and highest of highs. Enter Jay Ajayi. So in the first half, Ajayi was nonexistent..he played only 9 snaps and it looked like Darren Sproles and Corey Clement for whatever reason were going to dominate the workload. Even WENDALL SMALLWOOD got into the action. It was ridiculous. Was he still hurt? Was he being punished? All of these thoughts were going through my head on the VERY FIRST GAME of the season. You spend all offseason preparing, researching and then the games actually start and NONE OF IT MATERS. I started to question myself..should I have taken Lamar Miller or Royce Freeman? Did I make mistake starting Ajayi at the flex over Emmanuel Sanders? Am I really going to go from to a 20 pt favorite to a 6 pt favorite? It was as bad as bad can be..a little over 1 point in a half's worth of work. Then came the 2nd half and FINALLY Ajayi got some work and made the best of it. 60 yards, 2 TD's and a 2 point conversion later, all was well and Ajayi had exploded for 20 points. And that's what makes fantasy football..fantasy football. You just never know about anything. So I got lucky, but unfortunately for most of the teams who had guys yesterday, they weren't as lucky. Except for Eugene that is. Julio Jones was a BEAST with 10 catches for 169 yards. He even got screwed over by having a 52 yard catch called incomplete. Even without that and with no TD, he got Eugene off to a great start, which sucks for Kenny, because not only is he playing against him, Kenny had Zach Ertz who was pretty mediocre and had a couple of bad drops as well. Ertz finished with a little over 7 points and Carson Wentz can't come back fast enough for Kenny's sake. The Falcons, outside of Julio Jones, were also big time disappointments. Dad is lucky he's playing Alex's Le'Veon Bellless team because Devonta Freeman did nothing and actually got hurt during the game and wasn't in much in the 4th. Dad better hope that it was an outlier game for him, because Dad's team has high expectations this season. I still expect him to win against Alex, but it wasn't the start he was hoping for. Mark decided to go with Matt Ryan over Jimmy G (I would've too) but wow did he look terrible. Ryan was off all night on his throws and didn't throw for a TD pass and threw a pick. Not a great start at all for the defending champ as he was already an underdog to begin with. As with everything..just because teams have a slow start of good start it means nothing at the end of the day. There's still plenty of football to be played, and we'll see what happens Sunday for the rest of Week 1.
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