Quote of the day
"It was a pretty good game for a while… " -- Baltimore QB Joe Flacco, after a 49-27 loss in DenverDaily blurb
I’m not going to pontificate too much on last night’s NFL game; there are plenty of other places to get that. But from a fantasy football perspective, using a traditional point formula, Peyton Manning scored 46.28 fantasy points. Last season, the top output for any QB was 39.4 from Russell Wilson at Buffalo in week #15. There was only one higher offensive game last season – 53.4 points in week #9 from TB running back Doug Martin.
I didn’t stay up to watch the 4th quarter (the game must have ended well after midnight on the east coast), but you have to feel bad for anyone who had linebacker Danny Trevathan, who intercepted a pass in the 4th quarter and then dropped the football just prior to coasting into the endzone, resulting in a touchback. (video). Nobody drafted Trevathan in any of the RIFC leagues, so it’s probably not going to be a first-week fantasy game-changer – although anyone with the Denver team defense also failed to get that defensive score.
It’s obviously too late to lock-in a pick for last night’s game in Football Pickoff, but you have until 1pm EDT Sunday to make picks for the other 15 games. Note that I don’t post scores until after all picks are locked in. Suffice it to say that if you picked Denver, you earned 26 points; if you picked Baltimore, it’s -26 points.