The Chargers tried to make it interesting, but despite Herbert's three touchdown passes on MNF it wasn't enough for Yoda's squad to catch me and I outlasted him by eight points. He remains winless and I move from eleventh place into...eleventh place. Woo-frickin'-hoo.
Deebo's day was magnificent in the loss to Seattle and was absolutely the difference between my winning and losing. What are the odds he can get me 30+ points every week? Slim. Which puts my chances of winning games, without some outlier explosion every now and then, back to much less than good.
Chase Edmonds had his first productive outing in the slaughter of The Rams, though his 139 yards of offense came without a TD which would have made it an amazing day. Antonio Gibson had a second good outing in a row, too. If those top two RBs can actually start producing every week I will have a shot at being mildly competitive. If they go back to what they were doing the first couple weeks...oy. The Ravens named Latavius Murray their starter in their never-ending revolving door of a backfield so I started him and was rewarded with a touchdown. Lamar had a good game, though only one TD. He has yet to have one of those run for 98 yards and two TDs plus throw for 290 and two more games that he routinely rolled out during his MVP campaign a couple seasons back. But he is getting closer.
My most reliable player and my top draft pick, Davante Adams, had an uncharacteristically quiet day in the Green Bay rout of Pittsburgh. Hopefully that is his one and only negative blip on the season. Two TD passes to Randall Cobb?!? Come on, Rodgers, don't f*ck with me. I am hoping for a shoot out with Cincinnati in Week Five. The biggest blight in my lineup continues to be George Kittle. Win or lose, Kittle simply hasn't been the explosive force for San Francisco that he had been. He did see plenty of targets last week at eleven, so if that trend continues and he can get to seven or eight balls a game again, plus tack on those magnificent YACs, maybe the rest of the way he will turn out to be worth my third overall pick? So far I am getting more production out of my kickers than I am from one of the supposedly elite TEs in the league.