Football is back: Thoughts from last night and Fantasy football

So after a week long hiatus, I am back to the blog and along with me comes the opening night of the NFL season.  Last night was brutal.  If you watched the game, you saw what happens when a team lets half of its starting lineup from the previous year go.  The Ravens defense could not stop Peyton and his plethora of weapons.  And with Ray Rice only running the ball 12 times, Flacco had to throw 62 times.  Normally, one of the highest paid QBs in the league throwing 62 times isn't a bad thing.  Unless that highly paid QB is Joe Flacco.

Flacco got a huge contract last year making him the 3rd highest paid QB in the league.  He got this because of a very good stretch of playoff games that led Baltimore to the Super Bowl.  You know who else had great stretches that got his team to the Super Bowl? Shitty QBs like Jake Delhomme (he lost) and Brad Johnson (he won), and pretty good QBs in Eli Manning (won twice) and Donovan McNabb (lost).  All of these QBs have one thing in common, they have mediocre-to-good years and then got hot during the playoffs and made it to the Super Bowl (and won it in some cases).  Flacco fits somewhere amongst those QBs and not as the 3rd highest paid QB.  He proved that last night.

On the Broncos side, they proved one big thing.  That offense is full of weapons.  The two Thomas's, Moreno, Ball, and Welker all looked above average to great at times last night.  Not to mention 7 TDs from Peyton.  Yeah, you read that right 7 fucking touchdowns.  When Welker came over from NE, many people (not me) said that he was not going to be the same and that Thomas and Decker would take away his targets.  Well after averaging about 10.5 targets a game for the Patriots, he had 11 targets last night for 9 catches, 67 yards, and 2 touchdowns.  The person who seems to be the odd man out is Decker who only had 2 catches all game.

Earlier this week, I had my two fantasy football drafts as well.  I wanted to share my teams and hopefully get some feedback on them.  My first team is an Auction draft where we use 6 IDP (Individual defensive players) and had 250 dollars to spend.  Here it is (with dollars spent in parentheses):
QBs-Aaron Rodgers (58), Terrelle Pryor (1)
RBs-Darren Sproles (20), Danny Woodhead (3), Kendall Hunter (1), Mikel Leshoure (1), Marcel Reese (1)
WRs-Calvin Johnson (59), Dez Bryant (44), Greg Jennings (3), Kenny Britt (1), Reuben Randle (1), Andre Roberts (1)
TE-Jimmy Graham (46)
K-Stephen Gostkowski (1)
IDP-Eric Berry (4), Tyvon Branch (1), Dannell Elerbe (1), Jerrell Freeman (1), Chandler Jones (1), Muhammad Wilkerson (1)

My other team was a Snake draft that was a PPR (point per reception) league and I had the 8th pick.  Here it is (with the round picked in parentheses):
QBs-Matthew Stafford (6), Michael Vick (12)
RBs-Jamaal Charles (1), Maurice Jones-Drew (2), Demarco Murray (4), Ben Tate (8), Jacquizz Rodgers (11)
WRs-Randall Cobb (3), Hakeem Nicks (5), T.Y. Hilton (7), Justin Blackmon (9), Kenny Britt (10), Denarius Moore (13)
TE-Brandon Myers (14)
K-Justin Tucker (15)
DEF-Miami (16)

Now I am just looking forward to Sunday so that I can watch football all day and hopefully win in both my fantasy leagues.