Playoff Edition 5 - 2011

(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.)