W00T

A solid 50-28 win this past weekend leaves me 3-0 in FFL, my best start in some time. Unfortunately, another team in my division looks likely to go to 3-0 also, so I have to share the division lead. We're the last two undefeated at this point and will meet up in three weeks.

It was another solid week for my RBs. Jamaal Charles got me 12 points last Thursday and Joique Bell, in place of Reggie Bush yesterday, got me 10 more. A respectable 9 points from Stafford and an excellent 14 point performance from Justin Tucker took care of the bulk of the scoring.

I'm unhappy that Anquan Boldin, Vincent Jackson, and Brandon Marshall combined for only 5 points. Jackson left the game early with a rib injury and we'll have to see how serious that is. It looks like Marshall had a down game simply because Chicago jumped to an early lead and didn't do a lot of passing. Anquan Boldin worries me the most right now, as I watched most of the 49ers game and his quarterback, Kaepernick, looked awful. What made it even worse was it looked like they had established the running game with Frank Gore, so it should have been even easier for Kaepernick to both run and open up the passing game. Clearly teams have adjusted to his style and he and his coaches are going to have to do some adjusting of their own. 

Sitting on the bench is Cecil Shorts for Jacksonville, who didn't get in the end zone yesterday but had a very respectable 143 yards against a tough Seahawks defense. Then there's Tavon Austin, who I picked up after I dropped Sidney Rice yesterday. Naturally, Rice had a huge game with two TDs yesterday. I'll have to see who makes it through the waiver wire Wednesday night.

In the real world, the Vikes went to 0-3 after losing at home to, gulp, the Cleveland Browns. They simply got outplayed and outcoached. The offensive line that cleared the way for Adrian Peterson last year and did a decent job of protecting Christian Ponder is in complete disarray. Ponder was sacked six times yesterday and Peterson had to work awfully hard to get to 88 yards. Ponder looked decisive on short passes and had some zip on the ball, but he was terrible passing downfield.

Unlike my FFL team, it may be time to write this season off.