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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.
