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I finally broke down and dropped $20 bucks to play Draft Kings (or was it Fan Duel). Among the players I picked on my team were Brady, Lewis and Edelman. And you know, I finally get it. I get why playing fantasy can completely corrupt the purity of watching the game of football. Instead of relaxing and enjoying a complete win over the Jags, I'm yelling at Josh for keeping Lewis out of the game most of the 2nd half. Going nuts every time Brady hands off to Blount for TD's HE should be throwing for. It was so bad, I looked over the guy next to me at the bar, and said, "Yah know, Peyton Manning never would've handed off 3 times on the GL."....and I did it with a straight face. 
Fantasy football corrupts. Fantasy football for money corrupts absolutely
1. God I hate this early bye. The offense is in rhythm and starting to find its running game. The defense is starting to show incremental improvement with every quarter, and now it all stops. All the momentum is lost and every week going forward the chances for injuries will just increase for the next 13 consecutive weeks after we come back. If we hadn't has so many well placed bye weeks in recent years I would have thought all part of the league office plan to sabotage our season.
2. The OL continues to astound. This shouldn't be happening with 3 rookies and a journeyman manning the interior. BTW- do you ever recall a successful team rotating so many OLmen on a regular basis. Cannon is getting series playing on both sides and Kline is being rotated such that each of the OG's are playing about the same number of snaps. Ironically the ONLY guy that is playing every snap is the UDFA rookie. Go figure that one.
3. They only allowed 2 sacks again, but both were on the coverage side that might have been avoided. For the 3rd time in a row, for the most part Brady was untouched. My guess would be they had under 5 QB hits. This bode well for the future. If Stork comes back healthy this could be an awesome OL by the playoffs.
4. Brady was redundantly awesome. Not only is his throwing spectacular, his command of the LOS and the flexibility that Josh's offense allows, has to be positively frightening to opposing defenses.
5. If you happened to catch and see what the Bills' defense is doing to the Dolphins offense in the first half, it only makes what the Pats did last week IN Buffalo even more impressive. They truly are playing chess, while everyone else is playing checkers
6. Welcome back LGB. I was less impressed with the 3 TDs. What I really liked was the 18 carries for 4.3/, and the catch for another 14. A lot of those carries were in tough yardage situations. There will be times we will need LGB, especially at the end of games when we need 4 minute drives. Can we stop the lets trade LGB for a CB now.
7. Gronk is simply a force of nature. He's like Brady in that any discussion about him can't really express his impact.
8. I think Williams is going to finally make Hooman expendable. When he is the 2nd TE, he is starting to move the LOS. He's already proven he can catch the odd pass. If a roster spot is needed at some point, that's a place they might want to look at. Also, watching Chandler make that catch near the GL, it made me think, that if he'd be playing on another team , he'd get a lot more catches. I also was thinking that if he'd gotten into the damned end zone, my fantasy team would be doing better.
9. I'm a big Dobson supporter, but I have to admit, he took a step back today. When you are the fourth or 5th option you are only going to get 3 or 4 targets every game, and you HAVE to take advantage of them. Today Aaron didn't.
10. There will become a point soon where people are going to recognize that if Danny Amendola ever got the number of looks that Julian gets, HE'd be the guy with the 100 catches and 1100 yds. I think Edelman is the more dynamic receiver, but DA is good enough to get the catches and yards that simply go with the position in Josh's offense.
11. It was too hard for me so see who the personnel was on the front 7, but I'm pretty sure Mayo had many more snaps today and the run D was better for it. The Jags only had about 50 yds total. So while there wasn't much of rush this week, neither was Bortles running around there free.
12. Again incremental improvement from the secondary again. Butler continues to improve in his coverage. It's a shame he's going to get tagged with a TD pass because Harmon Turned a 12 yd gain into a 60 yd TD with a bad angle and a HORRIBLE tackle attempt.
13. Overall the coverage looked solid. The Pats now have the most picks in the league, and Butler should have added another when he tricked Bortles into a throw that he dropped. BOTTOM LINE. The secondary was supposed to be our biggest question mark. So far, through 3 games, while there is certainly room for improvement, there is also some reason for encouragement. Butler looks like he has the makings of a #1 CB. The safety play has been excellent, and the rest has gotten better. Remember it's not where the secondary is now that matters. It's were it will be in January.
14. Do you get the feeling that Bill really likes coaching this team.
15. Looks like the other games today are more interesting that ours in some ways.
a. The Bill's/Miami game I mentioned already. Rex is making Tannyhill look like a child, when last week Josh and Brady had Rex in tears in his own house.
b. Nice to see the Crows lose again, and a shame to see Ben go down. I really do hope it's something less than season ending.
c. Disappointed that the Dolts won, but it will make the crushing of them in 3 weeks that much more sweet.
d. Looks like the Cardinals are the real deal and right up there with the Packers and Seahawks in the NFC, while Denver and Cinci look like the main threat in the AFC thus far. Still it is such a long way until thing really begin to sort things out in the playoff races. We are literally months away and so much can change.
So far so good.
Fantasy football corrupts. Fantasy football for money corrupts absolutely
1. God I hate this early bye. The offense is in rhythm and starting to find its running game. The defense is starting to show incremental improvement with every quarter, and now it all stops. All the momentum is lost and every week going forward the chances for injuries will just increase for the next 13 consecutive weeks after we come back. If we hadn't has so many well placed bye weeks in recent years I would have thought all part of the league office plan to sabotage our season.
2. The OL continues to astound. This shouldn't be happening with 3 rookies and a journeyman manning the interior. BTW- do you ever recall a successful team rotating so many OLmen on a regular basis. Cannon is getting series playing on both sides and Kline is being rotated such that each of the OG's are playing about the same number of snaps. Ironically the ONLY guy that is playing every snap is the UDFA rookie. Go figure that one.
3. They only allowed 2 sacks again, but both were on the coverage side that might have been avoided. For the 3rd time in a row, for the most part Brady was untouched. My guess would be they had under 5 QB hits. This bode well for the future. If Stork comes back healthy this could be an awesome OL by the playoffs.
4. Brady was redundantly awesome. Not only is his throwing spectacular, his command of the LOS and the flexibility that Josh's offense allows, has to be positively frightening to opposing defenses.
5. If you happened to catch and see what the Bills' defense is doing to the Dolphins offense in the first half, it only makes what the Pats did last week IN Buffalo even more impressive. They truly are playing chess, while everyone else is playing checkers
6. Welcome back LGB. I was less impressed with the 3 TDs. What I really liked was the 18 carries for 4.3/, and the catch for another 14. A lot of those carries were in tough yardage situations. There will be times we will need LGB, especially at the end of games when we need 4 minute drives. Can we stop the lets trade LGB for a CB now.
7. Gronk is simply a force of nature. He's like Brady in that any discussion about him can't really express his impact.
8. I think Williams is going to finally make Hooman expendable. When he is the 2nd TE, he is starting to move the LOS. He's already proven he can catch the odd pass. If a roster spot is needed at some point, that's a place they might want to look at. Also, watching Chandler make that catch near the GL, it made me think, that if he'd be playing on another team , he'd get a lot more catches. I also was thinking that if he'd gotten into the damned end zone, my fantasy team would be doing better.
9. I'm a big Dobson supporter, but I have to admit, he took a step back today. When you are the fourth or 5th option you are only going to get 3 or 4 targets every game, and you HAVE to take advantage of them. Today Aaron didn't.
10. There will become a point soon where people are going to recognize that if Danny Amendola ever got the number of looks that Julian gets, HE'd be the guy with the 100 catches and 1100 yds. I think Edelman is the more dynamic receiver, but DA is good enough to get the catches and yards that simply go with the position in Josh's offense.
11. It was too hard for me so see who the personnel was on the front 7, but I'm pretty sure Mayo had many more snaps today and the run D was better for it. The Jags only had about 50 yds total. So while there wasn't much of rush this week, neither was Bortles running around there free.
12. Again incremental improvement from the secondary again. Butler continues to improve in his coverage. It's a shame he's going to get tagged with a TD pass because Harmon Turned a 12 yd gain into a 60 yd TD with a bad angle and a HORRIBLE tackle attempt.
13. Overall the coverage looked solid. The Pats now have the most picks in the league, and Butler should have added another when he tricked Bortles into a throw that he dropped. BOTTOM LINE. The secondary was supposed to be our biggest question mark. So far, through 3 games, while there is certainly room for improvement, there is also some reason for encouragement. Butler looks like he has the makings of a #1 CB. The safety play has been excellent, and the rest has gotten better. Remember it's not where the secondary is now that matters. It's were it will be in January.
14. Do you get the feeling that Bill really likes coaching this team.
15. Looks like the other games today are more interesting that ours in some ways.
a. The Bill's/Miami game I mentioned already. Rex is making Tannyhill look like a child, when last week Josh and Brady had Rex in tears in his own house.
b. Nice to see the Crows lose again, and a shame to see Ben go down. I really do hope it's something less than season ending.
c. Disappointed that the Dolts won, but it will make the crushing of them in 3 weeks that much more sweet.
d. Looks like the Cardinals are the real deal and right up there with the Packers and Seahawks in the NFC, while Denver and Cinci look like the main threat in the AFC thus far. Still it is such a long way until thing really begin to sort things out in the playoff races. We are literally months away and so much can change.
So far so good.
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