Remember when everyone was hyped about this incoming class of QBs? Yeah so do I. So far, the only one who's truly effective is Trey Lance, and that's only on direct snaps at the 1 yard line.
I'm almost convinced Matt Nagy torpedoed Justin Fields' performance with bad play-calling so he could convince everyone Andy Dalton is the better quarterback. Your guess is as good as mine as to why.
Action photo of this year's rookie QBs
Are the Panthers good? They've allowed only 30 pts through 3 games so far. Is Andy Dalton going to make a playoff run?
Are the Chiefs bad? Sure, losing to the Ravens in the 4th quarter because CEH fumbled the ball isn't your fault...but you lost to the Chargers, and the Raiders lead the division. This town went silent after that loss, it's a deliciously satisfying thing to witness.
More injuries to key offensive players happened week 3 including CMC for a short few weeks, AJ Brown, Sterling Shepherd, Darius Slayton, Juju Smith-Schuster, James White, K.J. Hamler, & Elijah Moore.
The waiver wire is starting to thin out, albeit the one and only savior himself makes his way back into the NFL. Josh Gordon, and in a Chiefs uniform.
Now to our league:
Joe popped outta nowhere on the back of Josh Allen's 5 touchdown performance, and supported by incredible games from his other receivers Adams, Jefferson, and Chase putting up 181.78. So far, Scott is still the high water mark this season at single week points, 187.98.
I smashed our lowest single week total this season at 105.54. Take that nerds.
Chu's woe's continue losing CMC for a few weeks. I'll trade you for him homie.
Scott is the only remaining undefeated team and there are no more winless teams. Like I said, he's the team to beat.
Week 1 Perfect Lineup:
QB: Josh Allen (Joe, 39.06pts)
WR: Mike Williams (Jordan, 30.7pts)
WR: Davante Adams (Joe, 26.2pts)
WR: Cooper Kupp (Scott, 26.1pts)
RB: Ezekiel Elliot (David, 25.1pts)
RB: Kareem Hunt (Scott, 24.5pts)
TE: Dalton Schultz (FA, 23pts)
WRT: Emmanuel Sanders (FA 23.9pts)
QWRT: Justin Herber (Boyer 33.22pts)
K: Chase McLaughlin (FA, 19.8pts)
DEF: Denver (Brett, 23pts)
Total: 294.58pts (By far our lowest perfect lineup total)
RBs -- Surprises in the top 5 here, Zeke, Hunt, Barber, Robinson, Harris. Barber taking over for the injured Jacobs in LV had 142 scrimmage yards on 28 touches. Jrob and Harris finally cracking the top 5.
WRs -- Williams, Adams, Kupp, Sanders, Jefferson. Again, the NFL does not give a shit about your fantasy team. Emmanuel Sanders went off for 96 yards and 2 TDs while Diggs had 60+ yards and 0 TDs. Go figure.
QBs -- Allen, Herbert, Stafford, Cousins, Brady. Allen showed up in a big way this week. Chargers looked great agains the Chiefs. Stafford and the Rams look like the best team in the NFC, and how poetic would it be if they get to play the Superbowl at home.
TEs -- Schultz, Conklin, Kelce, Andrews, Kittle. Okay NFL, we get it.
K -- Justin Tucker set a NFL record 66 yard field goal that bounced in off the crossbar. No other kicker matters this week.
Week 4 Matchup of the Week (Mike vs David):
Welcome to the matchup of the week boys. Mike is very narrowly 2-1 while sitting at 9th most points in the league. David is also narrowly 1-2 after running into Joe and sitting at 3rd most points in the league. Will the law of averages find its way in David's favor? Let's see.
My biased opinion:
QB - Rodgers v Stafford -- Rodgers and GB will have a tough-ish test against Pit if Watt comes back from injury. Stafford and the Rams should have a great game against division rivals AZ.
RBs - Barkley/Chubb v Jones/Zeke -- gotta give this one to Jones/Zeke. One of the two goes off in a week and it's a coinflip who it will be.
WRs - Allen/Thielen/Claypool v Samuel/Cooks/Chark -- This one goes to Mike and it's not even close.
TEs - Gesicki v Kittle - Yup, this one to David.
K - I don't even need to look. David has Butker. We might as well give the whole matchup to him based on this alone. #godTier
D - Tossup between Was@Atl v TB@NE. TB12 is probably going to have a field day against his former franchise just based on principal, so the DEF is going to be fresh all game.
Final thought: I think this comes down to QB performance, and making sure David's WRs don't shit the bed. Mike will have some correction and fall a few places in the rankings.
Betting line: David (-9)
P.S. So far I'm 3-0 on picking matchup of the week.
Good luck in Week 4 boys. Full power rankings will be out tomorrow.