Week 2 in Reveiw

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Scoring was down league-wide in week 2 of the CFFFL season, as average scoring was down 17 points per game from week 1. In fact, the highest scoring team from week 1, Josh's Juggernauts, scored 37.5 fewer points in week 2, and finished the week in the bottom half of scorers. Fortunately for Josh "Media conspiracies are real!  Also, I don't know what 'embedded' means" Cook, he was facing the Dallas Plowboys, who had an even worse day. Norman "I've gone 2 weeks without cutting anyone - I can do this..." Cook suffered from an injured RB Jamaal Charles, and a poor performance from his vaunted 49ers D/ST who were way outperformed by a Bills D/ST sitting on NCook's bench. The Juggernauts benefit from a unbelievably easy schedule, playing last place teams in other divisions twice, while playing their much tougher division foes only once. If JosCook is looking for a league conspiracy, perhaps he should look in the mirror.

Another team to take a dramatic drop in scoring from week 1 was No Appeal who dropped down over 40 points in a weeks time. David "em·bed·ded - v. past tense of embed - attach (journalist) to a military unit, a political campaign, or a fantasy football team - does not mean to become the same as or exercise control over the thing attached to" Cook suffered from an early loss of WR A.J. Green and a pitiful performance by their Miami D/ST who scored -1 points. Amy "I may be crazy for starting Andy Dalton over Jay Cutler, but I still won by almost 40 - who's crazy now?" Cook and her Team Poppins beat the league trend and actually improved from week 1, and got an important first win of the season by crushing No Appeal 93-55. No Appeal has faced the toughest schedule in the league in the first 2 weeks, and in week 3 it gets no easier as they face the overall points leader. Good luck with all that.

Speaking of the overall points leader, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Men continued their early league dominance by taking down the previously undefeated Bedford Gamers. As the only team to break 90 in each of the first 2 weeks, Cindy "I'm not gonna make an Adrian Peterson joke here, cause that's just sad" Cook has established her Marshmallow Men as the team to... um, conquer. Whew, that was close.  Durlon "Using that 4th rd pick on Seattle's D/ST got me -1 points? No regrets..." Bryant had plenty of bench points to win, but because they were from such unlikely sources, they were of course left on the bench. The Gamers fall to 1-1, and will have a tough matchup in week 3 to try and get over .500.  WatchBlog will be sure and let you know what happens, you know, eventually.

Surprisingly, the 2nd lowest scoring team after 2 weeks is the defending CFFFL Champs, team You Wish. At 0-2, Shoshana "I'm never benching Brandon Marshall, or drafting Doug Martin again... ever" Cook has been the victim of injuries early on in the CFFFL season, and will have a tough road back to the CFFFL championship game. Some questionable scheduling from the Commish means You Wish doesn't even play the lowest scoring team. How's that for some conspiracy talk? The team benefiting from SCook's early season woes was the upstart 2-0 team NotAbootDwayne. Despite leaving 15 points on the bench, John "I've already run out of Canadian themed jokes and it's just week 2" Cook still won in convincing fashion by over 27 points. Despite not being in the same division, these 2 teams will face off again in week 12. Where these 2 teams will be by then, or what the Commish will have done to fix this majorly screwed up schedule is anyone's guess.

Speaking of a majorly screwed up schedule and the Commish, guess what team is scheduled to play 5 games against the 3 the lowest scoring teams in the CFFFL, despite only 1 of them being in the same division. If you guessed team Motherboy, you'd be right. Commish Gary "I'm a huge fan of ESPN, cause when we used Yahoo!, schedules were way too fair and balanced" Cook played his first of those five games in week 2, and was able to post his first win of the season despite scoring only 77 points. The Commish acknowledged the scheduling issue, saying "I will see what can be done, but be aware that changes to the way we view our weekly standings or updates to our season schedules are on the horizon." And we thought Roger Goodell was the king of Commissioner mismanagement. GCook's week 2 victim, team StJohn, also lost their starting QB Robert Griffin for the majority of the season, and has yet to make a roster move this season to address the hole. Hopefully for Gary "Help me EJ Manuel, you're my only hope" St John, the scheduling "changes" will help him bring his team out of the cellar. Perhaps a visit to the waiver wire would be advised.

In the Battle of the Birds, The Phoenix rose from the ashes of week 1, and buried team BattleOstriches by posting the highest score in week 2, and the only score over 100. 100.4 to be exact. Jerry "A good son-in-law always lets his father-in-law win - I just hope team StJohn doesn't read this before we play..." Cook was one of the few teams to post decent numbers in week 2. At 1-1, and just 1 game out of first in the Curly division, the embarrassing 67 point output in week 1 may soon be a distant memory.  The BattleOstriches and Matt "I cut Le'Veon Bell?! Oops..." Johnson fell to 1-1, but stand alone at 2nd in the Moe division thanks to being in the only division sporting 2 winless teams. What had to be a waiver miscue meant MJohnson both waived, and then re-acquired RB Bell in the same week. What could have been a disastrous move for the BattleOstriches resulted only in the waste of a waiver pickup. Only time will tell if that will impact this team "Battling" for the Moe division crown.

That's week 2 for you. More whenever I feel like it. WatchBlog out.