Category: Fantasy Football 2007

Finally!! A win! Brees (who has entirely fallen from grace) and my backup Jason Campbell both had bye weeks, so I picked up Damon Huard off of waivers — not a bad pick!! In other news, LT actually broke 20! Muhsin Muhammed is finally back from his injury and chipped in. Barber had an off week, but since poor Ross’s team only scraped together 18 points (lots of midgame injuries and the Broncos defense contributed -7!), it was a good week for that to fall.

Leonard Pope isn’t doing much. I’ve definitely been having tight end problems (a problem shared by the whole league).

QB
	QB Damon Huard, KC	15
RUNNING BACKS
	RB LaDainian Tomlinson, SD	22
	RB Marion Barber, Dal	7
RECEIVERS
	WR Deion Branch, Sea	14
	WR Muhsin Muhammad, Chi	10
	TE Leonard Pope, Ari	0
DEFENSE
	D/ST Patriots	9
KICKER
	K Matt Stover, Bal	7
BENCH
	QB Drew Brees, NO (BYE)	0
	QB Jason Campbell, Was (BYE)	0
	RB Michael Pittman, TB	9
	RB Tony Hunt, Phi	0
	WR Donte’ Stallworth, NE	4
	WR Reggie Brown, Phi	1
	WR Marty Booker, Mia	0
	K Stephen Gostkowski, NE	10

And even if it’s going to clash with the mauve in the football scoring table, here’s a photo Kevin took of the trees on the Microsoft campus, which always seem to turn a few weeks earlier than the trees in the rest of the area. His flag football league has started up again, and so this is from last Saturday’s game.

This was a great week with a brutal finish. Everyone (except for newbie TE Pope) played well on Sunday, and on Monday morning I was up 82-80 with only Drew Brees left to play. I should have pulled him (everyone on Court’s team had gone) and played without a QB, but I left him in, and he sacked and interceptioned his way to -2 points. In my league, a tie goes to the team with the winning QB, and since Court’s Peyton Manning managed to stay above zero, he won the match. 0 and 3, due to coach error. Major bummer. :-/ And after 16 points for the kicker, too!! (Who, it should be noted, outscored LT for the second week in a row — nasty pattern.)

QB
	QB Drew Brees, NO	-2
RUNNING BACKS
	RB LaDainian Tomlinson, SD	15
	RB Marion Barber, Dal	24
RECEIVERS
	WR Deion Branch, Sea	15
	WR Jacoby Jones, Hou	2
	TE Leonard Pope, Ari	0
DEFENSE
	D/ST Patriots	10
KICKER
	K Matt Stover, Bal	16
BENCH
	QB Jason Campbell, Was	8
	RB Michael Pittman, TB	8
	RB Leon Washington, NYJ	7
	WR Muhsin Muhammad, Chi	2
	WR Donte’ Stallworth, NE	2
	WR Reggie Brown, Phi	2
	TE L.J. Smith, Phi	0
	K Stephen Gostkowski, NE	8

Ouch. Keith had an amazing day: Steve Smith had 8 receptions for 153 yards, and 3 of them were touchdowns, which gave Smith 36 points. Ouch. Unfortunately, the rest of his team kept pace. My defense outscored his Seahawks 13-1, and my kicker won 9-6. But when you’re playing someone with 137 points, and your kicker outscores your #1 slot running back, there isn’t much hope.

Marion Barber had a great day — I like that Julius Jones keeps marching the ball down the field and that they give it to Barber in the endzone. And it’s encouraging that Brees managed to score positive points. Also, Deion Branch finally had some touches. Once again, maybe next week will be better?

QB
	QB Drew Brees, NO	11
RUNNING BACKS
	RB LaDainian Tomlinson, SD	5
	RB Marion Barber, Dal	22
RECEIVERS
	WR Reggie Brown, Phi	2
	WR Donte’ Stallworth, NE	1
	TE L.J. Smith, Phi	1
DEFENSE
	D/ST Patriots	13
KICKER
	K Matt Stover, Bal	9
BENCH
	QB Jason Campbell, Was	12
	RB Michael Pittman, TB	2
	RB Leon Washington, NYJ	0
	RB Tony Hunt, Phi	0
	WR Deion Branch, Sea	13
	WR Muhsin Muhammad, Chi	0
	TE Tony Scheffler, Den	0
	K Stephen Gostkowski, NE	8

This was a deflating start to the season. LT pulled it together for 17 (though that really doesn’t compare with some of last year’s numbers), and Marion Barber was decent. The Patriots D and the kicker contributed some. But my #2 draft pick Drew Brees just gained and lost the same three points over and over, my wide receivers didn’t do anything, and my bench doesn’t give me hope for next week. Eric played a Seattle trio of Shaun Alexander (my disasterous first pick last year), Maurice Morris, and DJ Hackett (who wasn’t even playing due to injury), and beat me 68-50. On the plus side, things have to improve next week?

QB
	QB Drew Brees, NO	0
RUNNING BACKS
	RB LaDainian Tomlinson, SD	17
	RB Marion Barber, Dal	14
RECEIVERS
	WR Deion Branch, Sea	0
	WR Reggie Brown, Phi	1
	TE L.J. Smith, Phi	1
DEFENSE
	D/ST Patriots	9
KICKER
	K Matt Stover, Bal	8
BENCH
	QB Jason Campbell, Was	4
	RB Michael Pittman, TB	3
	RB Leon Washington, NYJ	4
	RB Tony Hunt, Phi	0
	WR Donte’ Stallworth, NE	1
	WR Muhsin Muhammad, Chi	0
	TE Tony Scheffler, Den	0
	K Stephen Gostkowski, NE	8