(WatchBlog McGee is a fictionalized blogger but reports on actual,
flesh and bone, real-life fantasy football leagues. This year, he is
embedded deep in the CFFFL, and will be periodically blogging on league
matters.)
QB or not QB, that is the question
In
the most highly anticipated game in CFFFL history, the 2 teams who
would face off had dramatically different stories at the QB position.
Gary “I drafted 5 RB’s and still couldn’t manage to play 2 healthy ones
in the Championship game” Cook got his Cousin Mose and himself to the
final game on the back of one man, QB Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers outscored
every other player in the league, and was the only consistent player for
the Cousins of suspect genealogy. Conversely, Amanda “Am I glad I won
the inaugural CFFFL championship - it depends, what does it pay?” Cook’s
Quail Hunters charged into the playoffs with the far less impressive
Joe Flacco taking the reigns at QB, a player who had scored just over
half as many points as Rodgers over the entire season, and had struggled
to score over 4 points in a game just as recently as week 13. The
Hunters were not playing Flacco by choice, but rather out of necessity
after the much more consistent QB Matt Schaub was lost for the season
with an injury in week 10. The question for each team was almost a
polar opposite one. For the Cousins, could they win with a great QB,
but a mediocre team, and for the Hunters, could they win with a great
team, but a mediocre QB? Those questions were answered quickly in the
game, when the Cousins went with RB Roy Helu as a starter, even though
he was inactive for the game. A crucial coaching decision on the most
important game of the year, and it was one of the worst of the season.
As a result, the Cousins got 6 points at the running back position,
while leaving 30 RB points on their bench. The lack of production at RB
essentially sealed the game for the Hunters, even before Rodgers took
the field Christmas night. Needing 69 points, he was only able to
deliver 43, and thus the Cousins became Quail meat, roasted on an open
fire.
BFFs?
Was this the Best
Fantasy Football ever? Probably not. Several teams showed disinterest
at points throughout the season, and the banter, though spry and
spirited in the beginning, by the end, had faded into sporadic at best.
Even this own imbedded blogger’s extremely well written, and critically
acclaimed contributions lacked consistency in the final weeks of the
regular season on into the playoffs. But overall the season was a great
one, filled with stories of mighty teams crashing down, and downtrodden
teams rising up. We had compelling battles of brother vs. brother,
father vs. son, husband vs. wife, brother vs. sister, and everyone vs.
the annoying blogger, and his suspected team of choice. The CFFFL
season was not perfect, but it was a welcome distraction for this
blogger, and for most of the Cook (plus one Johnson) family who
participated. No one knows for sure if the league will have a second
season, but for now, no one cares. Instead, the fantasy champagne is
being sprayed in the fantasy locker room, and all the fantasy floors
have been covered with fantasy plastic in fantasy anticipation of an
epic fantasy celebration. Fantastic.
Watchblog out. (And over.)
