Welcome Sloper’s to the first edition of The Dude and Iggy Football Review, the place where we tell you what happened a week after the fact and it really don’t matter anymore. We thought about calling it the Captain Obvious Newsletter, but…
This will be a new weekly article that you can look forward to with great anticipation and enthusiasm throughout the NFL season recapping the Slope Fantasy Football league and the Slope Pick’em league. Dude and Iggy will be your hosts and we have no clue how this thing may morph as each week passes.. especially since Dude drinks and it’s always a mystery what he’ll come up with.
(Yes, those really are our faces)
And of course Thank You to our host, TK, for agreeing to let the sports nuts on Slope engage in some Sunday banter.
All that being said, let’s talk football.
Iggy’s Fantasy Pigskin Update
Week 1 of NFL season is always a red letter day for many reasons, but fantasy football adds an extra bit of excitement as team owners have been wondering how their drafted players will perform once play begins. What an amazing start to the season with Peyton Manning lighting it up on Thursday night to excite the football world.
And that brings us to the first award of the season, the weekly “Iggy Bacon Award” awarded to the player that downright sizzled and Peyton sure set a high bar the first game of the season and nobody else came close Sunday or Monday.
Congrats to Hokie for not only having Manning on his roster with 462 passing yards and SEVEN TD’s, but also one of his favorite targets, Demaryius Thomas who put up stellar numbers himself with 5 catches for 161 yards and 2 TD’s. Combined, they gave Hokie 98 fantasy points. That alone is a respectable score for a week by an entire team and made it easy for Hokie to dominate week 1 with a victory over Bleak with a score of 195 to 142. Here were the head to head results of Week 1:
And based on that, the standings after the first week of play (my team is highlighted by default, not because I’m trying to brag about a rare victory)
The second weekly award will be called the “Bonehead Bench Award” to the team owner that decided to leave a guy on the bench that ended up going ballistic on the field. This week I’ll award it to myself… While I was sitting and watching the San Fran/Green Bay game I was saying to myself “Wow, Boldin is kicking ass, why didn’t I pick him up, he was hanging out there on the draft board for a long while.” At which point I look at my roster and I did pick him up, in the 9th round and sat him for week 1 in favor of other high potential wide receivers. A beautiful 43 points sitting their laughing at me but it’s OK that I rested him, I was still able to win my matchup against the mighty Desert Fox. Honorable mention fellow bonehead shout outs to msterling for benching Kaepernick in favor of Romo and Quirky for benching Eli Manning in favor of Cam Newton.
The matchups for week 2 line up as follows:
As a side note, I’ve been playing fantasy football since 1995, back before the internet age, when you had to wait til Monday and Tuesday mornings to grab the newspaper for the box scores of each game in order to hand calculate your teams score. It’s amazing what fantasy sports have become and being able to track every play of every game every week as they happen.
My pal Wildebeest was an original member of the Maladroit’s (look it up) league back in 1995 and it’s nothing short of a miracle to see him in 2nd place and I’m glad we’re still playing together after all of these years.
By the way, does anyone have any spare running backs? Poor Dude could use one… or two…
OK Dude, it’s all yours now… Take it away…
Dude’s Pick’em Chatter
The 2nd Annual Slope Rope A Dope NFL Pick’Em Challenge is off and running and taking the top spot for the first week we had a tie between Nf6 and WEagle. I’ll be keeping a close eye on these guys as I suspect performance enhancing drugs may be involved with this win. If that’s the case, email me, I’d like to try some. Its early in the season so we have a tightly packed group in the middle of the field but let’s all give a round of applause to Desert Fox and Polar! Its damn hard to go 7 of 16 on opening weekend. Most people probably don’t realize how much effort it takes to be that mediocre, well done guys!
A major upset in most people’s week one picks was the Buccaneers vs Jets game. If you missed it, trailing 17-15 with seconds remaining in the game, Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith scrambled for 10 yards and was shoved while he was out of bounds by Bucs Lavonte David. The 15-yard penalty then put the ball in field goal range and with 2 seconds remaining on the clock Jets kicker Nick Fold nailed a 48 yarder to win the game. The real mystery of the events that unfolded was how in the hell did bigolded and Hokie know that it was going to happen? The Jets guys? Seriously you picked the Jets? Well done… I guess…
Each week I’ll be dishing out “The Dude Hangover Award” to the worst pick’em picker of the week and this week the king of terrible, the sultan of doom, the master of disaster is… Drum roll….. redvettes with a big fat zero! It aearepps our beolevd rdetteevs got deep in the tagltgaie party and fgroot to mkae his picks this week. Congratulations on being the worst of the week and in the hole for the season. Get a shovel and start digging buddy.
Dudes freebie of the week, long Denver, short New York. Good luck guys you don’t want to be next weeks redvettes, don’t worry too much, looks like he forgot to make his picks again and as of this writing, Yazzer and WEagle haven’t made their picks either… GET ‘EM DONE!
