Thank goodness that is over. If it was a fight they would have stopped it about week twelve.
Yoda has officially bounced me even from the Consolation Bracket. Mind you it was a week where he had Chris Olave as a late scratch who got him 0.00 and even worse Bijan Robinson's microscopic total was wiped out by a lost fumble, so he actually finished with a negative score of -0.10. And yet...he still beat me by 18.58 points. Not even close. It helped that he had the Miami DEF and they were actually his top scorer with 24.00 points! That blow out against the hapless Jets sunk me as both
Tua Tagovailoa and
De'Von Achane on my squad were not needed much, topping out at 14.96 and 7.70 points on a day they won 30-0. Of course that also meant that poor
Breece Hall on the other sideline had no chance and no Fantasy numbers, managing only 2.30. Yeah.
Justin Jefferson actually played and had a decent game with seven catches for 84 yards, but no scores.
Michael Pittman was doing damn fine in his game with four catches for 78 yards before he was pulled in concussion protocol on a night where he certainly would have seen more targets in the win over Pittsburgh.
Brandon Aiyuk saw all of the fun go to McCaffrey and Deebo, finishing with only three short catches even though San Fran scored 45 points. And The Commanders have been so bad of late and McLaurin so uninvolved that I sat him...so of course he promptly had his best game of the season with six catches for 141 yards and a TD (23.10) which I left on my bench along with
Baker Mayfield who had one of his best games of his career with four TDs, no turnovers, and 37.04 unused Fantasy points.
What a mess. About the only thing that went right for me this season is after I traded away Mark Andrews (for Tua) and suffered through some TEs who always got me less than ten points and twice ended up with zero points, I found Arizona rookie
Trey McBride on the waiver wire. But it was waaaaaay too little waaaaay too late.
My overall draft strategy wasn't as horrible as the resulting season. Taking
Aaron Rodgers in the mid rounds rather than going for one of the top four or five QBs
might have worked, had he not been injured ON THE THIRD PLAY OF THE SEASON. Had Jefferson stayed healthy he would have been a fine number one pick as he was averaging about 20 points per game even when Minnesota was losing. And
if Rodgers had played, surely Breece Hall would have been a weapon, sometimes even an explosive one. Reaching down to take Achane was also a good instinct, and had he stayed healthy my goodness the numbers he might have put up. My biggest fault, draft wise, was relying on two Commanders, and that comes from the optimism of a fan who hoped for a much, much better season where Terry McLaurin and
Brian Robinson Jr. might have had some fun and some gaudy stats. Alas.
At least it is over.