Week 4 of the TSBFL is already upon us, and the divisional favorites, busts, and mediocres are slowly sifting to the surface like worms in electrical shock after a rainstorm. Drug habits have been broken, a few teams got their first wins, and a certain loudmouth agent spends his time raving about the problems with the American justice system. If you need a refresher about team lineups, click here. Otherwise, if you have any advice/hate mail for the league’s coaches, don’t hesitate to let them know. This is entertainment industry and we have to give the people what they want, after all.
Team Penetration 62, The Stafford Effect 50
Team Creepinfrbehind 92, SICA SportsBankers 83
FREE PLAX 107, Large, Oval Balls 90
The Dick Whitmans 82, Grateful Red 74
Purple Jesus is My Homeboy 91, JaJuan Johnson All-Stars 89
Team Guinness 83, Orange Crush 63
Team Penetration
(Jake McCormick)
What wins football games in this league? Defense and special teams. Sure flashy offensive performances from guys like Greg Camarillo and Shaun Hill have people buzzing, but I’m giving all of my props reserved for this week to the Giants D and David Akers, who scored a combined 22 points and were two of my three players in double digits. For the Giants D, shutting out a Tampa Bay team that has a tough running offense with Mike Alstott and Warrick Dunn is no easy task, but they managed to contain both running backs and shut down Brad Johnson, Joey Galloway and the Buccaneer passing game. What? This isn’t 2003?
Either way, I’d also like to give Carson Palmer a firm, yet completely non-gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that) pat on the butt for his bounce back performance against a normally reliable Pittsburgh defense. Doubly awesome was the fact that we played the defense Palmer gutted for 13 fantasy points. He is now our starter for the rest of the season, barring any injuries and bye weeks. We’ve got our first true Penetrating win, and that’s definitely a big load off the small of our backs.
The Stafford Effect
(H. Jose Bosch)
I don’t understand why you guys keep asking me about the receivers. I think the media is trying to goad me into a controversial answer. At least that’s what T.O. told me. Wait, why am I listening to him? He had zero points this week. Even I got a fantasy football point and I don’t even play in the NFL. Sigh. I think we’re going to go one more week before we start tweaking things. I don’t want to hit the panic button yet but the guys have to understand how serious a poor start is. I expect Drew Brees to be back in form and net us some points and I have confidence that our Steelers defense will step it up. The receivers and running backs have to show up and play, though, or heads will roll.
Team Creepinfrbehind
(Jake Fowler)
I’m proud to say that at 2-1, team CreepinFrBehind is no longer CreepinFrBehind. A very solid effort from the squad this week. The game ball goes to Aaron Rodgers with Desean Jackson coming in second, although if he keeps doing those stupid ass TD celebrations and gets hurt I’m going to personally come to Philly and do a back flip as I punch him in the face. Clinton Portis also is on the hot seat. This is his last chance to produce. If he can’t get 10 points against the Bucs, he’s benched/traded… This being the first bye week, it’s time for some fresh faces to make an impression. Leon Washington, Hines Ward this means you. My players have some favorable match ups this week, so team penetration… oh that’s too easy…
SICA Sportsbankers
(Head coach Paul M. Banks and General Manager Soxman)
On Falling to 0-3 and the team’s chances of turning the season around
Soxman: I survey the best talent week in and week out to win. PERIOD. Our roster is hurting with some key injuries. Losing Dwayne Bowe killed us because we were forced to start Eddie Royal who failed to come through for us again. He’s been put on notice that his roster spot is not a right, it’s a privilege.
Banks: We had a lot of guys play well. It certainly wasn’t perfect there by any stretch. A lot of guys did a lot of good things and it was across the board. Only one spot truly let us done.
On their Opponent
Soxman: You guys ask the same question every week. I’m not talking about the past. We are focuses on next week. They beat us and proved to be the better team. All the teams in the league can say that right now.
Banks: I think fundementals was the biggest reason why they came out on the better end of things yesterday. I’m proud of the way the team played and performed.
On breaking the winless curse
Banks: Fundamentally, we want to keep making improvement in our techniques and fundamentals.
Soxman: No comment.
On Tom Brady having as much fantasy value as Mark Sanchez after week 3
Banks: Tom is our quarterback. Next question.
Soxman: We are not making any roster changes at the QB position at this point in the season.
FREE PLAX
(Andy Weise)
Drew Rosenhaus is enjoying the 3-0 start and now with Anquan Boldin on a bye, he still refuses to cut ties with Plaxico Burress.
“I love Plaxico and have faith that he will get out of jail sooner than later and help this team. We’re committed to him like Whitney was committed to Bobby, like Marc Stein is committed to Twitter, like I am committed to being the world’s biggest jackass. That’s committment. I love you, Plaxico.”
Large, Oval Balls
(Paul Schmidt)
Just a disappointing week. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue…
Look, Weise’s team is good. It’s very good. But I feel vindicated that he got really….REALLY lucky this week. He got Maurice Jones-Drew’s insanely good week this season this past week. He got Matt Schaub’s second ridiculous week in a row.
But let’s be realistic about them, too. He’s starting Darren McFadden and Torry Holt week in and week out. That’s not a formula for success. Or anything else for that matter.
We had some good things happen this week — Pierre Thomas got started late in the game but got his first major performance of the season, and Brandon Jacobs FINALLY showed up. Dallas Clark was outstanding as usual. All in all, we put up 90 points and had a solid, if not spectacular, week.
Now that we’re entering bye weeks, we’ll be making some hay against these teams that have no subs.
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