Week 3 Recap

Adding an edit at the top here, I was pretty busy last week and so far this week. I had time to write a majority of it, but not finish it. We are still posting this regardless, deal with it.

It is that time of the week again!

I am trying to find a balance with these. I felt like last week was a little wordy, but I am not sure if that was actually the case. Figuring these out as we go because I want to keep them short enough to enjoy easily, but long enough to hit everything I feel like saying. Especially since we all (most of us) have real lives outside of fantasy football (kind of) and these shouldn't be or feel like a 10 minute read.

General notes are hard, or well I feel like they are tough, unless there is a ton of note worthy trends or happenings so I may just scrap those as an every week staple unless there is something very important or fun to throw in at the start here. You guys don't need me to tell you that the Dolphins hung 70 and shit like that, that is basically on every sports headline coming out of Sunday already.

The only general notes I have are that I have a lukewarm take baking that the top end of this wide receiver class is fine but not great. The first round guys are a little all over the place early, as expected, but nobody has totally blown me away yet. There are a few encouraging signs like Zay Flowers target share or Jordan Addison's early production, but equal amounts of letdowns so far in QJ and JSN. This slow roll into the early stretch for these guys is interesting to keep an eye on. (I look forward to having two or three of the 1st round guys go nuclear this week now that I just typed this out!)

Correlated and scientifically proven above: Abbreviated names are bad, Marvin Harrison Jr. or just MHJ now is VERY bad at football for this reason. Please let him fall in the draft to my earliest first round pick.

Cole and I also talked about expediting the spreadsheet/stat breakdown process through R more in depth last week. Shoutout to him for the guidance and running through the bones of how we can set all of this up to be easier and better than it is now. In the meantime, I am going to hold off on updating it manually and that is why.

Air Raid Offense (183.95) vs. (107.55) Baker's Boys

No comment on Jeb. Copy paste from last week. He leads the league in scoring, and wins. He still has great receivers, great runners, and great quarterbacks. He still scores a ton of points and is 3-0 now. Cool cool.

Sam's team playing to the level of their mascot this week, and running into a juggernaut. Everyone underperformed on his team. Even newly crowned HoFer Puka Nacua was held mostly in check. Garrett Wilson may firmly be stuck in QB jail more than previously thought and Tee Higgins monthly disappearing act is complete. Add in a little bit of the washed Ezekiel Elliot stealing touches experience and you have a bad Sunday afternoon.

At least CJ Stroud looks insanely good! (And QJ is going to be getting a lot more playing time, which could end up a good thing if Kellen Moore doesn't want to play Josh Palmer over him for god knows why)

This is all to say he'll score 160+ points next week when everyone pops off and we'll revisit the ups and downs again.

MVP: Consistent Dominance, hello Jeb.

Double Agent: Magician Tee Higgins

Better Days Ahead: Rhamondre Stevenson. He'll be fine and there are better games on the horizon in this this New England slogfest.

Worse Days Ahead: Deebo. The offense rotates on who they want to feed, and if Aiyuk is healthy in any capacity his numbers will take a hit from the 35% target share he had.

Team mwilson18 (113.20) vs. (74.40) [Pending] Most Improved...

In this week's version of which team wanted to win less, Mike comes out on top with the win. The bad luck streak may have finally hit a wall. 2nd to last in MAX PF, this team is not looking great, but has managed to go 2-1. He is going to come into the JT, and potentially Cooper Kupp, return week sitting at 2-2 at the worst. He just got some additional depth in Josh Palmer.

The bad news is that Najee looks like late career Frank Gore. Sam Howell is most definitely a backup quarterback. While Justin Fields is one the worst QBs on the objectively worst team in the league, who also happen to be imploding from the foundational level all the way to the field. No idea if this roster is any good at all, but by the time we figure out over half the league may be actively tanking.

Eli refuses to be the Cardinals and accidentally win games this year, and he really clearly got that point across to his receivers. Averaging about 5 a pop for three consecutive weeks now. Anthony Richardson being hurt meant he had to suffer through a Falcons game for both real life and fantasy purposes. He also managed to jettison those pesky extra points George Kittle had left in him for a year or two.

Still somehow the most improved. Still also number 1 on the draft board, all hail the new tank commander.

MVP: The Titans secondary. Wow they are trash. Amari Cooper should've had at least two TDs this week.

Double Agent: Kenny Gainwell, I don't want to throw rookies under the bus since they are not expected to be world beaters. So JAG-lord Gainwell wins this one.

Better Days Ahead: Dalton Kincaid. The Bills are running a ton of 12 personnel this year. He'll get his eventually.

Worse Days Ahead: Justin Fields, it is hard to get much worse but the bench beckons and we all know it.

Team AARP (159.95) vs. (105.55) PROCESSING

Jalen Hurts tush push still can't be stopped. Josh Jacobs still CAN be stopped*. Keenan Allen is unkillable. AND HE CAN PASS! Needlessly scoring 160 on Kevin qualifies as cyberbullying, put the phone down Riddle. Riddle did just add Kelce, which is mildly terrifying but also puts his average pass catcher age around the 33-34 mark.

Kevin was already looking like a free square, but now is very much a free square this year. His one lone proven player left in Mike Williams is done for the year with an ACL injury. The race to give Riddle the 1.01 is on.

MVP: Keenan Allen, routicus maximus strikes again.

Double Agent: Trading the 1.01 away before the season. Caleb Williams would've been a great add to Kevin's roster.

Better Days Ahead: Josh Jacobs, the breakout game is coming and Riddle plays me next week. 30 points will hurt the same no matter from who.

Worse Days Ahead: Keenan Allen, probably isn't hanging 44 a week if I was taking a stab at projections.

Chiraq Drillinois (118.95) vs. (182.55) ¡Viva La Revolucion!

Cole is truly on the brink now, and just moved Kelce. This season is already looking to be a retool, not necessarily even a full rebuild. He still obviously has plenty of guys that can and may work out in his favor. Adding picks and Burks is nice, and he is already looking like a better GM than anything the Bears have had in the past decade. He took one last swipe at Sam on the year, which can't go understated for the one sided rivalry at play here up to this point.

Sam has finally arrived. There is undoubtedly no curse left to banish him to irrelevance. He is here and his formerly imaginary rivalries with Cole and Jeb have fully materialized. Welcome to a new era of shit talk that we all weren't ready for, but will laugh about. All of his rookie picks look amazing, and he can swing at anyone in the league now. He just had the 2nd best week in the league, and could be just getting started considering it took Ja'Marr Chase 2.5 weeks to really get going and Devon Achane dropped 50 on his bench. Again, not sure we are all ready for this but we are here and Sam's team isn't going anywhere. The curse is broken.

MVP: The Taxi slots and their 50 bomb.

Double Agent: Darnell Mooney.

Better Days Ahead: Derrick Henry, the Browns have a ridiculous defense so far. The Titans can't be playing from behind all year.

Worse Days Ahead: Ken Walker, he won't be scoring two TDs a week. He is ceding reps to Charbonnet more and more each week too.

Dameon Pierce the Veil (94.35) vs. (153.30) Jaxroulette

Davis had a lot of good, but not great performances. A solid B average across the board for his team this week. It happens, just one of those weeks. Devonta Smith and co. will bounce back very soon.

Geno Smith still isn't writing back and refound his form. Kamara is coming back to the Jameis experience. Things will be better.

AJ Dillon remains bad, and did write back. Shocking. Yes, I do have a grudge against this man for stealing snaps for years and being trash.

Dan got his first win of the season. Jamaal Williams hammy injury spared Dan from another dud week from the Saints "RB1." National Tight End day came early this year. Freshly inserted George Kittle rallied the troops with a morale boost to the rare 3 TE lineup. The Jags can't figure their offense out, and Dan picked the wrong Jacksonville receiver to start again. Eventually this has to break right for Ridley, hopefully that will be when he is in the lineup starting. Meanwhile Christian Kirk will continue to put up 15 on the bench.

Kenny Pickett and Matt Canada are as unwatchable as ever, and Burrow is still hurt but at least Tyreek Hill makes up for that ten fold because he is going to break 2k. Zack Moss is 80% of Jonathon Taylor, proving Jim Irsay right for wanting to ship a whale across the country rather than pay his running back. Wins are wins.

MVP: Cheetah and his quest for 2k

Double Agent: Fat and bad AJ Dillon

Better Days Ahead: This is where I stopped last week, so we are not pretending that I am guessing regression candidates a week in advance.

Worse Days Ahead: See: above.

Low PA Prayers (169.25) vs. (165.00) The Unwatchables

I'd usually reserve this space for talking shit, but only if I wasn't whole heartedly convinced that I had lost by the end of the noon slate. Thursday night McCaffrey felt like gaslighting from the fantasy gods as I watched Henry's team explode. The Texans really hate my guts for some reason and every receiver on their team has now popped off the week against me. I'd like that to stop, please and thanks.

As it turned out, trading Davante Adams to the team you play that week can be costly. I ended up buying a game, and Henry ended up selling one. Part of the process? Who's to know. I am over writing about two weeks ago now, so this is going to wrap it up nice and short.