Le'Veon Bell-#1 overall pick. The 2014 Fantasy MVP has gotten off to a somewhat lackluster start, only tallying 138 all-purpose yards and has yet to find the end zone. This coming after a preseason when Bell held out as long as he possibly could, not playing a single down in the preseason. Perhaps what they say about training camp and the preseason is true. What exactly do they say about training camp and the preseason?
Antonio Brown-#2 overall pick. Despite not finding the end zone yet, Brown racked up a bunch of yards in Week 1 and had a modest showing in week 2. Perhaps he should've given some advice to his teammate in the backfield.
David Johnson-Consensus #1 overall pick, kept in Round 3 of MIISFFL. The 2016 Fantasy MVP might have a few other letters added to his name...I and R.
Did DJ no K and his bum wrist have a major impact on MIISFFL in Week 2?
How did the champ do? Not so good. After squeaking out a win over the commissioner in Week 1 (more on him later), Dewey crawled himself into the fetal position against Nate. It was an ineffective defense as Nate looked to destroy all comers with his imperial army of a fantasy team. At the bar, Nate was worried that the Bucs D would pitch a shutout over the hapless bears, which seemed like a very real possibility for a while. He clearly did not pay attention to his team as 4 players topped 20 points and Kareem Hunt is keeping his bid for Fantasy MVP 2017 alive. Dewey on the other hand relied on Jameis, who didn't have to do much to destroy Chicago, and on Jordy who went down early with a quad injury on Sunday night (not that it would've mattered anyway). JP raced to the bottom early last year in his title defense, and Dewey is a mere 0.2 points away from accomplishing the same feat. Could this be the MIISFFL version of the Madden curse? Nate defeated Dewey 158-85.
Game of the Week: Ordinarily in MIISFFL we have a race to the middle with most teams sitting at 1-1 after two weeks, not this year, as we have 4 teams at 2-0 and 4 teams at 0-2. The middle is just lonely this year. Despite being down by a large margin going into Sunday Night, Chris had to like his chances with Austin Hooper and Tevin Coleman still to play and Zach only holding a kicker. The way Atlanta seemed to rack up points in Week 1 (yeah it was Chicago) seemed to bode well for Chris, especially since Hooper rumbled for 128 yards and a score. Yeah, Green Bay had something to say about that as both Hooper and Coleman were put in check despite Coleman finding the end zone once. Zach didn't put up world-beating numbers but did just enough to get to 2-0 winning 119-92
Blowout of the Week: Jeff and Nate are making early statements for their claim to the Menace Bowl, which would make sense since neither have yet to win it all and Dewey can't possibly win it all again (if recent history is any guide). Jeff obliterated Tom by a count of 143-88, as Tom fails to crack 90 points for the second week in a row. Jeff was paced by his keeper trio of Michael Thomas, Ty Montgomery, and CJ Anderson in the FLEX, 3 running backs who took advantage of some defensive fronts leaking like Niagara Falls. Oh yeah, he also had Tom the Deflator who just put up another 36-spot, because he did. Meanwhile, Tom has some good players on good teams who happened to be written out of the game script for the second week in a row, only scoring a grand total of one touchdown. Perhaps IamGold is now I-Fold on the season. Jeff's mom bomb is prime for another explosion in Week 3.
Futility Bowl: For a futility bowl it was sure a nailbiter. For the second week in a row, the commissioner lost by less than a point, and is only 0.7 points away from 2-0, instead he sits at 0-2. Yeah, you can talk about bench management, but I don't think you can argue with any of my starting decisions for the last couple of weeks. I was sitting pretty going into Monday Night as Stafford was primed to light up the G-men for another 30-spot, but of course they decided to go run-heavy this week. JP was sweating it out especially when Stafford briefly got the commissioner into the lead in the 4th quarter, but a late "sack" (if you can call it that) dropped the commissioner down. JP squeaks out his first win of the year, but without a command performance by anyone on his squad. Hey, it's a win, and he's already better off than last year.
This week's other results:
Kent defeated Patrick 103-82
Sean defeated Bruce 97-82
Weekly Pot Winner: Nate (158 points)
Lots of lousy scores this week as we are clearly starting to establish a pecking order in MIISFFL. Week 3 tends to mess things up. Will it happen again this year?
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