Monday Morning Hindsight: Fantasy Football

There is nothing worse than leaving points on the bench. 

- Me after benching T.O. last week and putting Rice in over Harvin this week.

In Hindsight, good move of the week for me, trusting the Bills.  Big points for Fred Jackson and TO 23 and 15 respectively.

In Hindsight, bad move of the week for me, drafting Steve Slaton, his fumbles drops and will he won't he get carries drama has crushed me again.  If only they had a back they could run out those huge leads on the Colts...oh wait you do have a back, GIVE SLATON THE ROCK!

Week 12 Fantasy Leaders (before the Monday Night Game)

QB - Brett Favre, Minn           27 pts
RB - Chris Johnson, Tenn        24 pts
RB - Justin Forsett, Sea           25 pts
RB/WR Fred Jackson, Buf      23 pts
WR Donald Driver, GB           20 pts
WR Miles Austin, Dal             20 pts
WR Percy Harvin, Minn         20 pts
TE - Antonio Gates, SD         23 pts
D/ST - New York Jets          24 pts

All Season Fantasy Team
QB Aaron Rodgers              207 pts
RB Chris Johnson                196 pts
RB Maurice Jones-Drew     182 pts
RB/WR Adrian Peterson     172 pts
WR Reggie Wayne             138 pts
WR Randy Moss                137 pts
TE Vernon Davis                105 pts
D/ST New Orleans Saints   133 pts

College Football PLAYOFFS??

If I ran college football, I'd have 11 conference winners and 5 at large bids in a 16 game playoff.
The teams would be seeded by BCS rankings, and the top seeds get a home game in round 1 unless they are an at large.  At large teams playing conference champions play the game at the home of the conference champion.  At large teams playing At large teams play at the home of the higher ranked teams.  With a week left in the season, it would look like this:

First the people who get screwed:  BYU, Pittsburgh and Oregon st.  These teams are 14, 15, 16 in the BCS, but get leap frogged by the champions of the C-USA, MAC and Sun Belt.  No crying though, Pitt and Oregon st can win their conference with wins this week over Cincy and Oregon respectively and get into the tournament.

This week

We Squished the fish yesterday
We have Sabres-Leafs tonight
A Big Monday Night Football game
College Football Weekend and coach firings

Hopefully I'll get to it all, but first I want to talk about Playoffs

Buffalo at Kent State Live blog

Pre Game Meal: Buffalo at Kent State

Story: Two schools who lost their All-pro senior running backs struggled to win close games this years.  Kent has already clinched 4th place in the MAC east, and Buffalo has already clinched a disappointing 5th place finish.  Kent however, with a win will finish 6-6 and become bowl eligible.

Buffalo Player to Watch: WR Brett Hamlin


Last year, Kent State beat Buffalo in Amherst in a game that was mostly meaningless for both teams.  Hamlin's fumble in the end zone in the last minute gave the game to Kent.  With Namaan Roosevelt's career over, Hamlin has the chance to dominate the game in his last career start at UB.

Kent State Player to Watch: DB's Brian Lainhart, Dan Hartman, Danny Sadler.


The three stars of Kent State's Secondary have 6, 3 and 2 interceptions respectively.


Out of their 11 combined interceptions, 7 have come in their 5 wins.

Comparison Games: Temple, Western Michigan, BGSU, Akron, Miami and Ohio.

The comparisons between Kent State and Buffalo are very similar.  After losing their star player on offense, both teams lost by 1 point to Bowling Green and both teams were trampled by Temple Kent 47-13, Buffalo 37-13.

Based on the numbers, Buffalo's offense is 2.8 points better than Kent State, while the Kent Offense is 1.2 points better than UB.


Buffalo wins by 1.

The Three Heroes of Week 11

3) Turner Gill

Watching a team go 1-11, really makes me appreciate Turner and the fact that we can complain about having 4 or 5 wins. Turner answered my pleas by going for the score at the end of the half and finished hard. I’d describe Buffalo in 2009 as Jainist Monk-like…trying to play while being cautious not to harm any living creature. Wednesday, Turner put Jainism away and put the hurt on Miami with a 24 point beat down that bodes well for the future toughness of our team.

Post Game Meal - Buffalo 42, Miami 17

The key to the game was Buffalo showing up and not letting Miami build momentum.  Brandon “Son of Alonzo” Thermilus showed up for the first time all season scoring two touchdowns in after a sluggish first quarter. 

Turner showed some coaching guts by leading a drive at the end of the first half.  The result, two scores in 2:27 minutes to change the game from a 7-3 score to 21-3 going into halftime.  In addition a trick play to open the half put the game away.