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Week 14 Fantasy Football: Champs and Chumps
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Contributed by:
Jeff Sperber
Last Updated: Dec 13, 2011 10:43 AM |
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It’s all over for me in fantasy football this year, my friends. That’s right, “JEFF’S JETS 8” has been defeated by “The Sandman.” When you’ve got a team with Aaron Rodgers, Calvin Johnson, and Jimmy Graham, you hope to make it out of the Wild Card round of the playoffs, but things don’t always go as planned.
Hopefully, you’re still in the championship hunt because you had a champ or two on this list and didn’t have the misfortune of being knocked out because of the poor performance of one of the chumps.
Matt Ryan: 320 pass yds, 4 pass TDs
Matty Ice might’ve been a bye week filler/low-level starter for most of this season, but this weekend, when his fantasy owners needed him most, he delivered. Racking up 4 TDs and passing for 320 yards, Ryan played more like Aaron Rodgers than the tenth ranked passer in the league.
Mark Sanchez: 181 pass yds, 2 pass TDs, 4 rush yds, 2 rush TDs
Every now and then, the Sanchize has a game where he scores a ton of fantasy points. If you have Sanchez on your bench or if the guy (or girl—girls can play fantasy football too) you’re going up against starts him, he’ll have a fantastic game. If you play him, he’ll throw for around 200 yards and have two picks. Those are the rules.
Eli Manning: 400 pass yds, 2 pass TDs, INT
He’s not quite elite yet, but we’re finally starting to use “Eli” and “elite” in the same sentence without the words “is not” between them.
281 yards, 2 TDs, and a pick is a great game if your name is Blaine Gabbert. If your name is Aaron Rodgers though, we expect more (especially if you are the Aaron Rodgers on the Packers and not just someone else named Aaron Rodgers).
Carson Palmer: 245 pass yds, TD, 4 INTs, 12 rush yds
Two quarterback chumps from the same game! We all knew the Raiders were going to have to pass a ton to try to keep pace with Green Bay and they did, with Carson putting it up 42 times. Unfortunately, four of those times, he completed passes to members of the wrong team.
Maurice Jones-Drew: 85 rush yds, 2 rush TDs, 51 rec yds, 2 rec TDs
Remember before the season started some people were worried about MJD being hurt? Well, they were wrong. Very wrong.
Shonn Greene: 129 rush yds, rush TD, 58 rec yds
Two weeks in a row as an RB Champ for Shonn “Go, Go, Go” Greene. Greene is finally rewarding all the owners who reached for him too early in fantasy football drafts. Unfortunately, for them, it just might be too little too late.
There you go, CJ2K; we were just starting to think that you were going to become good again. But no, you’re still a huge bust.
Arian Foster: 41 rush yds, 33 rec yds, Fumble Lost
Do the Bengals have a good run defense? Yes. Should Arian Foster average 2.7 yards per carry against them? No.
DeMarco Murray: 25 rush yds, 6 rec yds
DeMarco Murray wasn’t the only one hurting Sunday night. Losing him was a huge blow to both the Dallas Cowboys and anyone with Murray on their fantasy team.
Julio Jones: 104 rec yds, 2 rec TDs
Jones went into the fourth quarter having an awful game. Then, he caught a 17-yard TD and a 75-yard TD. That’s how you have a good fourth quarter.
Larry Fitzgerald: 149 rec yds, rec TD
You know you’re good when you make John Skelton look good. (Well, as good as John Skelton can look.)
They say that March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. You can say the same thing about Calvin Johnson.
Greg Jennings: 20 rec yds
His stats weren’t just bad because he got hurt— Jennings didn’t get injured until the third quarter. That means (with Aaron Rodgers as his QB) he had plenty of time to get 100 receiving yards and a touchdown.
A few weeks ago, when I swapped Gronk for Jimmy Graham (as part of a larger trade), I thought I was getting the better end of the deal.
Talk about a chump! Finley got the same amount of fantasy points for your team this week as I did.
Tebow gets the credit, but Prater kicked the field goals.
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Hopefully, you’re still in the championship hunt because you had a champ or two on this list and didn’t have the misfortune of being knocked out because of the poor performance of one of the chumps.
QB Champs
Matt Ryan: 320 pass yds, 4 pass TDsMatty Ice might’ve been a bye week filler/low-level starter for most of this season, but this weekend, when his fantasy owners needed him most, he delivered. Racking up 4 TDs and passing for 320 yards, Ryan played more like Aaron Rodgers than the tenth ranked passer in the league.
Mark Sanchez: 181 pass yds, 2 pass TDs, 4 rush yds, 2 rush TDs
Every now and then, the Sanchize has a game where he scores a ton of fantasy points. If you have Sanchez on your bench or if the guy (or girl—girls can play fantasy football too) you’re going up against starts him, he’ll have a fantastic game. If you play him, he’ll throw for around 200 yards and have two picks. Those are the rules.
Eli Manning: 400 pass yds, 2 pass TDs, INT
He’s not quite elite yet, but we’re finally starting to use “Eli” and “elite” in the same sentence without the words “is not” between them.
QB Chumps
Aaron Rodgers: 281 pass yds, 2 pass TDs, INT281 yards, 2 TDs, and a pick is a great game if your name is Blaine Gabbert. If your name is Aaron Rodgers though, we expect more (especially if you are the Aaron Rodgers on the Packers and not just someone else named Aaron Rodgers).
Carson Palmer: 245 pass yds, TD, 4 INTs, 12 rush yds
Two quarterback chumps from the same game! We all knew the Raiders were going to have to pass a ton to try to keep pace with Green Bay and they did, with Carson putting it up 42 times. Unfortunately, four of those times, he completed passes to members of the wrong team.
RB Champs
Remember before the season started some people were worried about MJD being hurt? Well, they were wrong. Very wrong.
Shonn Greene: 129 rush yds, rush TD, 58 rec yds
Two weeks in a row as an RB Champ for Shonn “Go, Go, Go” Greene. Greene is finally rewarding all the owners who reached for him too early in fantasy football drafts. Unfortunately, for them, it just might be too little too late.
RB Chumps
Chris Johnson: 23 rush yds, 43 rec ydsThere you go, CJ2K; we were just starting to think that you were going to become good again. But no, you’re still a huge bust.
Arian Foster: 41 rush yds, 33 rec yds, Fumble Lost
Do the Bengals have a good run defense? Yes. Should Arian Foster average 2.7 yards per carry against them? No.
DeMarco Murray: 25 rush yds, 6 rec yds
DeMarco Murray wasn’t the only one hurting Sunday night. Losing him was a huge blow to both the Dallas Cowboys and anyone with Murray on their fantasy team.
WR Champs
Julio Jones: 104 rec yds, 2 rec TDsJones went into the fourth quarter having an awful game. Then, he caught a 17-yard TD and a 75-yard TD. That’s how you have a good fourth quarter.
Larry Fitzgerald: 149 rec yds, rec TD
You know you’re good when you make John Skelton look good. (Well, as good as John Skelton can look.)
WR Chumps
Calvin Johnson: 11 rush yds, 29 rec ydsThey say that March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. You can say the same thing about Calvin Johnson.
Greg Jennings: 20 rec yds
His stats weren’t just bad because he got hurt— Jennings didn’t get injured until the third quarter. That means (with Aaron Rodgers as his QB) he had plenty of time to get 100 receiving yards and a touchdown.
TE Champ
Rob Gronkowski: 160 rec yards, 2 TDsA few weeks ago, when I swapped Gronk for Jimmy Graham (as part of a larger trade), I thought I was getting the better end of the deal.
TE Chump
Jermichael Finley: ZERO!Talk about a chump! Finley got the same amount of fantasy points for your team this week as I did.
Kicker Champ
Matt Prater: 59 yd FG, 51 yd FGTebow gets the credit, but Prater kicked the field goals.
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