I should’ve picked up Kendrick Bourne. I was about to do it. 5 minutes before the game started I opted to start Brian Robinson instead of dropping him for Bourne. The move cost me 20 points and likely the win in an otherwise winnable matchup. Now I am predicted to lose by 16, which would drop me to 2-3 and start me on another long climb towards playoff contention. Why didn’t I do it? I was hyper focused on the RB position. I though CMC would dial it back. I thought he might be hurt. I thought wrong. Now I find myself in the midsts of yet another losing fantasy season with a mindset that can only be described as defeated. Funny how sport mirrors life sometimes.
In other news, the High School kid is facing an 0-5 ALA-Queen Creek team that was in the Open Playoffs last year but has given up an average of 39 points a game while only scoring 20 a game. I still think DV gets blown out. The 2-3 Thunder simply are not a well coached team. The QB is a liability as is the defensive line. They’ve been in every single game and every time they lose it comes down to giving up run plays and a failure of the Q to move the ball and, often, turning it over in critical situations. This is a brutally honest assessment. My kid needs to play better. While he has turned the page in the last two games, he still hasn’t reached the level of game changing ability needed to score a D1 contract. He shows it in spurts, but to be on a consistently bad team that puts the defense in very bad situations, you gotta capitalize and make big plays. That is what I’m seeing from the defense my other kid helps anchor at the college level.
I am at the point where I am merely there to support the kid–not the team or the idea of the team. I tried that. I support the defense. I care about those kids out there, but when I see a coach refuse to make changes and put kids in bad situations again and again, that is not an offense I can support.