Almost all my players were in losing battles last week, and I had an exceptionally low-scoring game. In fact, I thought for sure my team was going to lose; before Monday night’s Pittsburgh-Baltimore game, I was down by 29 points, and while Big Ben has had a spectacular season thus far, 29 points for a quarterback is asking a lot. But he had a monster game—which, sadly, I missed due to working late—coming up with 5 TD passes and 38 total fantasy points, putting me over the top by a mere 9 points. It was a good thing—no offense to you Eagles fans out there—that Philadelphia (whose D my opponent had) got spanked by Dallas last week, because otherwise I would never have won my fantasy game.
This week is probably going to be tough on me, because I’ll be doing without three key players: Joey Galloway, Wes Welker, and the Patriots’ D. I’ve only got two receivers in play this week, but fortunately they’re Ocho Cinco and Bobby Engram. Less fortunately, my opponent has a fantastic team, including Tony Romo, TO, TJ Houshmandzadeh (who in my personal opinion has been more of a force for Cincinnati than has Ocho Cinco this year; he certainly seems to be getting all the TD catches, and therefore all the fantasy points), and Jeremy Shockey. My opponent is favored by a relatively small margin of 11 points, but this could get ugly.
The reason I’m writing about this earlier than usual, by the way, is that I won’t be able to watch much of the early or late games tomorrow, as I am going to see Da Bears play in Oakland tomorrow! Woo!