Brady's Babblings

Week #2 started out on the wrong foot for the Commish as he stated earlier that the Cossacks were going to get blown out by the high and mighty Titans. It would have been a close game except for the fact that it was the Cows who had to go up against the Titans. Karmazyn may have been happier if he had gone against the Titans. He would have lost by more than the 1/2 point that he lost to the Aldoggies by a score of 94 1/2 to 94. More on that game to follow. Week 2 showed that the A division is not read to fold up and give games away for the most part. The Dragonfarts came back from being the pansy of the week to getting the high score of the week with 122 points. Of course, the team he was playing, the Contributors, now own pansy of the week honors for score a paisley 37 points with an incomplete line up. The A division would have been undefeated had the Creeping Death made a few line up changes. More points on the bench than on the field. The B division struggled again. They are 1 and 7. That would get most coaches fired. They do show however, that they can score as they are owners of 5 top six scores in the 2 weeks played thus far. The Cows have faced the toughest challenge so far as they have given up a league whopping 199 points. This and owner Tom Driver still can't figure out why guys that drafted ahead of him had better free agent priority numbers.

The C division is home of the Mighty Titans and their perfect record while scoring 228 points in 2 weeks. The Elephants are perfect thanks to an A division coaching blunder that let them escape unhurt. Remember, it is illegal to possess ivory, so you must treat the Elephants as nice as the Creeping Death did. Here is a recap of Week #2:

This was the match up that almost did not happen because the Commish did not know how to read a schedule. In true Cossack form, this game down to the wire like the first game. The results remained the same. In a game that Maze was probably counting as a victory came to a screeching halt on another play that does not mean much more than a stat, unless you have a fantasy college football team. With about 1:30 remaining on the clock for the CSU at UCLA game, CSU had scored to pull within 4 points of Bruins. They tried an onside kick, but UCLA recovered at their own 49 yard line. This is where it falls apart for the Rowdy Ruskies. Instead of downing the ball like most coaches would, UCLA hands the ball off to Akil Harris. He breaks off a run of 34 yards. He did not even score! This is the last time that he would touch the ball for the game. But, this was an Aldoggie RB and he was playing the Smirnoff makers. This irrelevant run of 34 yards gave the Aldoggies just the right amount of points to tie Maze. But wait! Aldoggies were in their stadium and got 1/2 point for home field advantage and won! Of course, every story has a moral and this would be no different. Maze had asked the Commish to look up the status of franchise WR Mike Bush from Washington State. I told him that he was listed as the starter in the pre game notes. Checking his injury status, he was still listed as day to day. This was enough to keep Bush on the bench and start McCoy WR CU. McCoy got 13 points. Bush got 14 points. You do the math and see who gets coaching blunder of the game!

This game was for partial bragging rights of the Myers trio pitting father Merv against so Michael. I can't help but to call him Michael Myers after one of my favorite movie characters who does not seem to go away. Just like in the Halloween movies, you can knock Michael down but he always gets right back up. After losing in their opening game, the Maulers got right back up and took it out on dad's Stingrays. With his #1 QB and #1 RB on the bench do to off weeks, things looked like they were going to be in Merv's favor. However, the Maulers were led by Louisville's defense with 32 points, getting a far better performance than dad's Heisman candidate, Louisville QB Ragone, who managed 14. After riding the Commish about his beloved alma mater, Alabama Crimson Tide, it was fitting that Oklahoma RB Griffin got the Stingray's 2 points. Roll TIDE Roll! He also was cursed as the Elephants have RB Golden from NC State who seems to be in the coaches favor over Stingray's RB McClendon who netted 0 points against Navy. The curse of not believing in the Crimson Tide may have hurt Merv's chances of winning. There is no coaching blunder in this game as the Maulers would have defeated any line up that the Stingrays could have put on the field.

The undersized David versus Goliath. Cows versus Titans. Who is going to step up and stop the Titans? Is anybody going to stop the Titans? This was sweet revenge for the Titans who lost to the Cows last year when Cows RB Luke Staley of BYU put up 50 plus points against the Titans. This game has been on Jeff's calendar for almost a year now. The taste of victory has been coming a lot easier for the Titans this year. Once again, they scored early and often. 37 from NC state QB would have been enough alone to tie the Contributors. After that, the team was well rounded in scoring. As for the David of this match up, Tom must feel the pressure of last years great season as everybody is ganging up on the Cows. In South Park, they should not have let Kenny leave. In this case, Tom wants Luke Staley RB BYU back! He came up with his second top 6 finish in 2 weeks, yet he does not have a victory to show for it. He thought that he had gotten a steal in the draft by getting WR Keenan Howry of Oregon. After all, he is on the Heisman watch list. Instead, this WR is playing like Keenan Ivory Wayans instead. A big fat zero from a Heisman candidate is not going over too well with coach Driver. No coaching blunders in this game as the Cows would have been turned into T-Bones no matter who they would have started! I look for a nice rebound this week if you look and see who Driver picked up as a free agent.

This game looked interesting from the beginning. How were the Pride going to play without top pick Marshall QB having an off week. A 35 point drop off in the QB position is where this game ended. Remember, Marshall is off during the semi-finals. This could come in to play. Their other 2 big guns RB McGahee Mia and Johnson Mia are off during the finals. I also heard that Johnson is hurt giving the Harry and Larry show some fits. The Redhawks won with 3 players putting up most of the points. Washington QB put up a respectable 23 and the NC State defense a nice 20. Down the stretch, Washington has a tough schedule and NC State is at Virginia on the Finals while other defense Miami is off. This will be interesting to watch. I did say 3 players put up most of the points. Their third player had bad officiating to get him the points. WR Clayton of Oklahoma was this benefactor. His first touchdown came on a questionable no call of offensive pass interference. His second and longest, 51 yard td, came on the very first play after a blind referee gave Oklahoma the ball on a fumble that was caused by the ground. Try and guess who Oklahoma was playing against. The coaching blunder of the game goes to the Pride. They took a mulligan for not reporting their scores to the Commish.

This game was over from the start. Pansy of the week goes to the Contributors for only scoring 37 with an incomplete line up. If not for the Tennessee defense getting almost half of the points, 17, this could have been even worse. What the hell am I thinking? This could not have been any more worse. This is as awful as it gets. The Dragonfarts, last weeks pansy of the week, made a few key transactions and they paid off. Going from worst to first is quite an accomplishment in this league when you have to outscore the Titans to get top dog billing. That is what the Dragonfarts dis. Led by 36 from Kansas State QB, all of Dave's players got double digits in scoring except for K Jones, RB Oklahoma. You guessed it. This was because he was playing against the beloved Crimson Tide! Of course, most of the Dragonfarts points were not needed in this slaying of the Contributors. Some would even think that he hired NFL coach Steve Spurrier for some advice on how to run up the score. Hopefully they have points to use when they need them. Coaching blunder of the week goes to assistant coach Frank Uhl of the Contributors. Head coach McSwain wants to know what the hell Frank was thinking when he was drafting this team. Without transactions for week #3, the Contributors would have fielded another incomplete line up. This would have resulted in the league getting some extra cash!

Call it over coaching or call it a huge mistake. This game could result in Coaching blunder of the year honors. Coach Snyder got half of what he could have scored with the right starters. While taking a doughnut from WR Dorsey of Louisville, WR Williams of Washington put up 27. While Alexis, RB of Washington gave him 6, RB Smith of Washington State piled on 25. Since Nebraska was scoring TD'S, their kicker gave him 8. On the bench, Miami Kicker chipped in 15, including what could have been a side pot that may have last with a 53 yard field goal. Williams also would have been in longest pass reception for a td with an 89 yarder that would have been tough to beat. Coach Brady was still not out of the woods. He decided to play RB Golden, NC State against Navy instead of WR Parker of Oregon. Navy is weak and they should be running the ball all the time. Parker was playing against Fresno State and he knew that RB Onterrio Smith would get the bulk of the offense. The Death did get 18 from Smith but Parker wound up with 22 on the bench as Golden picked up 9 by half time and was given the second half off! Don't these college coaches know that us fantasy leaguers need the starters to play and score often? We need Coach Steve Spurrier to come back to the college ranks!

This is the first of three division game weeks. This is where we get to see who are the pretenders and who are the contenders. Will the week 1 Dragonfarts show up against the Death or will his newly revamped week 2 team show up? Can Russ Shumake's return of helping the Aldoggies spell doom for the Redhawks? Can the Cows catch a break and hope that the Contributors don't come out after attaining pansy of the week status? Can the might Communists be beaten by an irrelevant play at the end of a game by the Maulers this week? Can the Pride rebound in the role of David against the hottest team in the league Titans? Can the Stingrays, monsters of the sea, topple the Elephants, monsters of the land? We will know the answers to these questions in a few short days. Good luck to all!!

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