Fantasy Football Euphoria

With Tenacious determination, uncanny talent evaluation, expert maneuvering, and a little bit of luck, DaMan has had one of the best managerial stretches of his fantasy football career in the last 10 days or so. Let’s replay what happened.

1.) At 3-2 and winner of 3 straight, DaMan enters Week 6 of the season having to face arguably the best 2 teams (Lee’s team is no joke, he could easily end up 7-6 and make the playoffs and the Rhythm Methodists) in the league, heavily equipped with breakout stars and fantasy studs like Jennings, CJ2K Johnson, Mathews, Graham, Gore, Garcon, Stafford, etc., etc. He’ll be lucky if he splits the games, and probably will go 0-2.
2.) DaMan picks up the Chicago D and Billy Cundiff (Baltimore K) from the free agent pool.
3.) DaMan has an awful beginning of the Sunday and is losing most of the way to Lee; it looks over. NOT SO FAST, my “Harvin an awful day” friend…… Billy Cundiff kicks 5 field goals (20 fantasy points),and Devin Hester+ Julius Peppers lead the Chicago Defense to a crucial 32 fantasy points on Sunday night, stunning Lee and edging him in the matchup 132-125 in come-from-behind fashion.
4.) Bobby trades Charlie Whitehurst quickly to Lance for Early Doucet (one-week rental)
5.) Later that night, DaMan gets busted for picking up too many QB’s in what he will refer to as “Pondergate,” thus depriving him of Christian Ponder and Carson Palmer.
6.) DaMan is thrown in jail without a hearing or trial, as the Commish enforces the harsh consequences of his own rule. Interestingly, the Commish does NOT pick up Christian Ponder for himself, even though he knows exactly when Ponder/Palmer will be released to the public.
7.) Lee owns Christian Ponder for all of 5 minutes before his own violative conduct is discovered; Ponder is released back into the pool and picked up by Liz Jiang. (Again, the Commish does NOT pick up Ponder even though he has 1 active QB for the next week).
8.) DaMan and Derek have heated exchange on the phone; Bobby’s pleas fall on deaf ears; Derek hangs up phone after hearing enough.
9.) Bobby apologizes, claims not to be a crook; Derek releases Bobby from his wrongful imprisonment.
10.) Bobby immediately picks up Maurice Morris knowing Jahvid Best left the game with his 19th concussion-related injury.
11.) Bobby picks up the “retired” Carson Palmer on Monday after the whole league had a chance to pick Palmer up KNOWING Bobby had tried to pick him up.
12.) On Tuesday morning, Carson Palmer is traded to Oakland from Cincinnati.
13.) Bobby makes several offers to QB-less teams for a one-week rental for Palmer…..gets Volk to bite and trade him Darius Heyward-Bey for the week.
14.) Bobby trades Sam Bradford (who was supposed to start at the time of trade, but later announced out for the week) to Liz Jiang for the aforementioned Christian Ponder, thus claiming both QB’s he wanted DESPITE being deprived of them earlier in the week.
15.) Lance scoffs at Bobby’s offer of Maurice Morris for Nate Washington
16.) Carson Palmer announced to be NOT starting for the Raiders
17.) Lance and Hayden compare ego sizes mid-week as to who’s the best team in the league. Hayden talks of routing DaMan; he has legitimate case with almost his whole team playing in Week 7 while DaMan has Nicks, Maclin, Cruz, and Vernon Davis on the Bye.
18.) Christian Ponder throws (and runs!) for 17 fantasy points; Sam Bradford declared out before the game; status for Week 8 in doubt.
19.) Early Doucet gets late TD to post 11.5 fantasy points; Charlie Whitehurst gets -3 points for Lance.
20.) Darrius Heyward-Bey posts 10.5 points; Palmer throws 3 picks en route to -5 fantasy points.
21.) Maurice Morris posts 7 points; Nate Washington puts up 1.5.
22.) DaMan leads the self-proclaimed “Best Team in the league and knows where he’ll be at the end of the season” Rhythm Methodists 144.5-125 with only Hayden’s kicker to go.
23.) Unless Lance pulls off a Monday Night Miracle, DaMan has a great chance to vault into first place in the league if MJD can outscore Mike Thomas.

Sorry to brag, but I will probably never have such a euphoric week of managerial prowess. Call me lucky, call me “peaked too soon,” whatever, but there’s no doubt in my mind I turned 2 losses into wins the last 2 weeks and turned a devastating situation (3 QB’s injured + 4 other guys on a bye) into an advantage into a win. I LOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEE Fantasy Football!!!!
5-game winning streak. Who’s next????? Who’s left?????????


Fantasize on,

Robert Yan