aka The Trial and Tribulations of The Dangville Ocho Stinkos, Weeks 3 and 4

This week in the Power Creative Fantasy Football League, the Dangville Ocho Stinkos clashed with Charlie Dillon’s “The Widow Makers”. Would Aaron “Favre Who?” Rodgers continue to be as good or better? Would Terrell Owens’ head inflate to the size of a basketball. How did my Kicker Round-Robin do? Details after the jump.

Previous weeks: 1, 2

Week 3

Dangville Ocho Stinkos (1-1) vs The Widow Makers (1-1)
137.20 - 91.05

Lineup:

QB – Aaron Rodgers, Packers
RB – Joseph Addai, Colts
RB – Michael Turner, Falcons
RB – Michael Forte, Bears
WR – Terrell Owens, Cowboys
WR – Greg Jennings, Packers
TE – John Carlson, Seahawks
K – Ryan Longwell, Vikings
DST – Bears

A win for the ol’ Stinkos – and in dominating fashion! I am now 2nd in total points in the league, trailing by 7 to The Intimidating Mascots. I took the gamble and started the fledgling Aaron Rodgers this week and he followed up his 29 point Week 2 with a 21.5 Week 3, throwing no passing touchdowns, but rushing in a TD in the fourth quarter. He also threw for 290 yards, which is just fantastic. Meanwhile, Big Ben Roethlisberger, my now-backup QB injured his hand and had 4.15 points. Win for me, boo for Big Ben.

Joseph Addai woke up this week, too, rushing for 78 yards (more than his first two weeks, combined) and 2 goal-line TD’s. And just when I considered trading him… ATL’s Michael Turner, my “other” RB again outshined Addai, rushing for 100+ yards again and scoring 3 TDs! He’s turning out to be the bargain of my draft. But the real winner was Michael Forte, the rookie RB for the Bears. He had 90 rushing yards and more receiving yards than Terrell Owens! The dude is a double-threat! He’s also currently 4th in the league in rushing yards with 306. Michael Turner leads it all with 366. All three of my RBs scored 20+ points this week. It was good week on the ground.

On the wide receiver front, I started the Cowboys’ Terrell Owens and the Packers’ Greg Jennings. T.O. had an absolutely terrible game, catching 2 passes for 17 yards and netted me 2.7 points. THPPBT.  Greg Jennings, on the other hand, had 115 yards on 8 receptions, but didn’t get a TD. He netted me 15 points.

Meanwhile, over on the Kicker/Tight End carousel, it would appear I made some OK moves. The Vikes’ Ryan Longwell kicked two FG’s and two XP’s for 8 points. John Kasay, who I dropped for Longwell scored 5. You’ll remember that I dropped the 49er’s Vernon Davis as my tight end and picked up John Carlson from the Seahawks. Davis scored 2 this week. Carlson scored 4.8. So-so there, but whatever.

Also, the Bear’s defense didn’t suck – 10 points out of a starting 12. They’ve been better, but like Kickers and Tight Ends, they are really there just to hopefully not suck rather than being great.

Injury Updates

As previously mentioned, my #2 WR, Marques Colston, tore his thumb off in Week 1 and isn’t slated to be back until mid-October at the earliest. This week, he was finally put on the Injured Reserve.

Week 4

Dangville Ocho Stinkos (2-1) vs Overpaid Convicts (1-2)
111.25 - 72.75

Raaaaghhhhh!! The Stinkos cannot be stopped! 4th straight week of 100+ points, baby! Lineup looked like this:

QB – Aaron Rodgers, Packers
RB – Matt Forte, Bears
RB – Michael Turner, Falcons
WR – Derrick Mason, Ravens
WR – Terrell Owens, Cowboys
WR – Greg Jennings, Packers
TE – Heath Miller, Steelers
K – Ryan Longwell, Vikings
DST – Chargers

On the Tight End Round-Robin I dumped John Carlson (who had a bye this week) for Heath Miller and it pretty much fell flat with Miller nabbing only 2 points. Joseph Addai was also on a bye week this week.

My starting QB, Aaron Rodgers sucked this week, compared to Week 1, 2 and 3 Rodgers. But Roethlisberger sucked more, by some .20 points, so good call on my part. Rodgers is also injured with a sprained shoulder – but he’s expected to suck it up like Favre would do and play in Week 5 and then build a home for Habitat for Humanity at halftime.

Meanwhile, both of my RB’s I started this week (Matt Forte and Michael Turner) cooled off considerably from Week 3 netting a combined 17 points. Forte had nearly as many receiving yards (42) as he did rushing yards (43)! Versatile, that one.

The wide receiving corps was the crew that really bailed me out, with both Terrell Owens and Derrick Mason (an unappreciated, consistently middle-of-the-pack receiver) both came down with 17.7 points a piece, with Mason grabbing 137 yards on 8 snags. But the real darling of the team this week was again Greg , who has become the favorite target of Aaron Rodgers and netted his 3rd game with 100+ receiving yards and 2 TDs for 25.9 points.

Injury Updates

Marques Colston is still shopping around for a donor thumb – no timetable yet.

NEXT WEEK: The Dangville Ocho Stinkos vs Bela and the Lugosi. Stinkos currently favored by 23 points!