I’m done trying to predict NFL football games this season. Covid-19 is making everything way too unpredictable. The Broncos game was the latest example of that. How can I possibly call a game when one team loses all their QBs after I call it? Trash. Takes the fun out of the thing. So, I’m done with all of that noise.
I’m done with football in some ways. I’m just a fan right now. I am not coaching. I’m not even training for some time. All I am doing is playing Madden and watching the Giants creep back into the playoff picture. I’m good with that. I’m good with the unpredictability so long as I don’t have to call winners. It is fun.
Fantasy football has been fun as well. Unfortunately I am out of playoff contention in one of my three leagues. Playoffs start next week and while I have the same record as the 5th place team, I am in fact in 10th despite knocking off the top 3 in the last three weeks. I did all I could in the late stages. I figured out the point system (which is different from any I have ever encountered and entirely different from this specific league last year) late and figured out how to play the system late and now it is too late.
In the beachborn league I am sliding back into the last playoff seed. Now I am going to face last year’s champ in the first round. In the newest of my three leagues I am entirely relying on Eric Ebron to score 8 points to put me into the playoffs. This man needs 8. If he gets .0000000001 less, I’m out. I could fall from 5th to 10th just like that. Sound familiar? Just like in that other league I’m playing the #2 guy. Unfortunately I am left to rely on Ebron thanks to a number of bad choices this week. Such is the way of fantasy.