Apologies for the creative yet completely silly title, but that is where my headspace is right now. You cannot talk fantasy football and not feel at least a little bit silly. That being said, lets put ten minutes o the clock and let it rip!
Surprises
I shouldn’t have any of these left at this point in my ‘fantasy career’ but every year something nutty goes down in at least one draft. In the league I’ve been with the longest, one of my fellow players drafted a team that is 50% injured or suspended through week 4. I guess he is looking for the late push?
The biggest surprise was the Seattle team. Now, I get that we all love our teams, but this dude drafted nothing but Seattle players for the first 4 rounds and ended up with about 75% of his roster being nothing but Seahawks. I suppose he is willing to eat the week 9 bye week loss, just to remain a symbol of the 12th man. I think he’s going to eat more than the one loss overall…
Victories
Draft day is where seasons can be won or lost. I had the first pick in my 2 QB league draft and snagged Le’Veon Bell. Truth be told, this was an auto pick. I wanted to get AP and watch him redeem himself, but I was late to the draft, because, life. Still I scored some big victories with my RBs on that team while managing to grab Romo and the Cutlet’s dad. I still cannot shake the memory of Michael Irvin working out with the Bears receiving corps and that group making some dazzling catches and Irvin sitting back like, I don’t have hands like that. This didn’t pay out last season but I believe it will now. If not, I grabbed RGIII for a song.
Flyers
I took a chance on Vic Cruz and Darren McFadden. I believe in McFadden more than Cruz this year even, but I acknowledge that both are risky picks. When the snake came round my way late in the draft I risked it all and connected the 1-2 pick. Later that same draft I snagged Jonas Gray and everybody laughed at me.
We’ll see who is laughing week 2.