Season 7 - Week 3

Week 3 is in the books and your humble moderators didn’t have a lot of time this week so we’re just going to bounce around with a few notes and observations.  We’ll try and get to a few for every team which should be easier now that we can use the two IR spots for them as well. 

Mitch stands alone as the last remaining unbeaten team but he’s been real close to losing 2 of his 3 games already.  He’s looking to make only his 3^rd playoff run in the last 7 years but Duke Johnson is not who Houston thought he was, Miles Sanders is fumbling his chance away and now he’s losing AB (possibly forever).  The lucky thing is he gets an absolute cakewalk this week against by far the worst team in the league missing its best player.  Basically just pencil him in at 4-0. J

Mitch may be 3-0 but Kyle’s only 1.6 points in Week 2 away from holding that title.  It helps when you’ve faced by far the fewest points in the league so far.  The trade with Riley, giving up 2 high-potential young WRs, puts him even further into win-now mode by adding 2 high potential but injury-prone RBs to his roster.  We’re positive that trade will age well. 

Seth has been the true powerhouse so far this year with a significant points lead on the rest of us.  Now he’s poised to get Melvin Gordon back next week which means he might regret dropping most of his FAAB budget on the future HOFer Wayne Gallman.  He’s looking like the #1 title contender right now as long as his starters stay healthy and his QBs keep doing what they’re doing. 

And Seth’s gain is Lazer’s loss as the main bright spot in his lineup, Ekeler, now only has 1 more week of usefulness.  Amazingly, Chris has scored between 175-178 each week and it’s tough to be that regular at his age.  His trades for Hunt and Williams continue to haunt him as Henry and Ingram are about to be his only useable RBs.  He’s just trying to hold on as the bye’s start. 

Riley and Abel are about where we figured they’d be, rebuilding but improving.  Abel’s already crushed his win total from last year and Riley’s now got more young wide receivers than a college bar after a sorority party.  Both should miss the playoffs but pick off a few people here and there. 

And finally, as it turns out, the stat-correction karma is catching up with Finken and Abel’s Week 1 victory over the defending champ wasn’t so impressive after all.  The blame falls on many places but 2 months without Saquon might turn Finken into a Lehman-style used car fire sale.  Reached for comment on his horrific start to the year, Finken simply stated “don’t care, still the Champ…”