Week 4 Recaps - Intro & Matchup 1 — Protector Of The League

Guess who’s back? Back again. Brady’s back, tell a friend. Guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back.

The boys are back in town, the boys are back in town, the boys are back in townnnnnnnnnn. (awesome guitar solo). Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that had been away.

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome backkkkk. I make my money man without the coca. Livin the vida without the loca.

Week 5 is finally here and as you already know, Tom Brady is back. This means a lot of things. First, it means that this deflate gate bullshit is finally behind us. We’ve been dealing with this for over 18 months and it is finally done. One of the biggest witch hunts in the history of witch hunts is finally over and done with, thank God. Second, it means that the Browns are fucked. Already 0-4, let’s put them on the board for 0-5. Third, it means we’re going to be seeing a lot of this going forward:

Lastly, it means I finally can put Tom Brady in my QB spot. The Derek Carr/Amari Cooper stack worked great week 1, but has since faded. The Tom Brady and Julian Edelman stack should be much more fruitful. Having said that, if anyone wants to acquire Thomas go ahead and shoot me an offer.

So week 4 is in the books and things are starting to take shape. We are officially 25% of the way through the season (including the playoffs) and about 30% of the way through the regular season. Amazing how time flies when you have football Sundays to look forward to. For this week’s write-ups, I’m going to bring back an internet game that went viral a few years ago. A game called “hot dogs or legs”.

For those of you who forget, it went like this – you would get a picture of what appeared to be a girl’s legs at the beach or near a pool or something. The trick was that sometimes they were not actually legs, but hot dogs held together. The game was that you would have to guess whether the two items in the picture were “hot dogs or legs”. It made dudes feel pretty stupid, because they would think “let me spread those legs”, only to find out that they were hot dogs. For those of you who are thinking “what the fuck does this have to do with fantasy football?” just bear with me. I’m going to look at a few players from each team and determine whether their performances to date are “hot dogs or legs”. Hot dogs would be bad, it’s a player who has over-performed and will regress. On the other hand (or foot?), legs are players that will continue to perform and build on their hot start. Alternatively, they could be players that will end up as legs, despite a hot dog start. I have no idea why this came to me as an idea, but I think it could be interesting. ******DISCLAIMER - I'm going to put pictures of hot girls in here, so maybe don't show your girlfriends. Just because I'm a faithfully married man doesn't mean I'm blind and can't appreciate models. Look, but never touch.******. Anyway, here we go.

Matchup 1: WellJustTellUr MotherWeAteItAll won 124.1 to 91.6

AJ Green:

My second round pick has had two HUGE games (32, 30.3) and two terrible games (4.8, 11.7) through 4 weeks. This is a perfect way to start this game, because he’s been both hot dogs and legs depending on the week. I’ve actually thought about trading him because I’m afraid of how much double coverage he’ll see going forward. While he may have some more duds, I have to say that AJ Green is legs – sexy, sexy legs.

Amari Cooper:

My third round pick started off the year with a 20.7 point game on 6 catches for 137 yards. Since then, he has stunk – 14 catches for 181 yards. The past three games he has combined for just 25.1 points and is out of the top 25 for WR scoring. So what am I gonna get out of Amari Cooper? Ultimately I just think there is too much talent for this to continue. People often forget he was a first round pick a year ago and not just a first round pick, but a really high first round pick (4th overall). I’m going to hope for the best here and say that Amari is also legs.

Jordan Howard:

Once Jeremy Langford went down with an injury I immediately went to waivers to pick up Howard. I spent a lot to get him - $30 of my FAAB budget (20%) and I dropped Ryan Mathews who was a 7th round pick. I needed an RB and was willing to pay a price for an RB who could help me purely on volume. I expected he’d get me 10-12 points, enough to warrant a few starts. I certainly didn’t expect him to score 22.3 points this week on 113 yards rushing. Despite the promising start, I think Howard may be hot dogs. In that piss poor offense on that piss poor team, I just don’t think this is sustainable.

Matchup 1: Broke Back Caleb lost 91.6 to 124.1:

Devonta Freeman:

Freeman has been an enigma this year. Through the first four games, he has scored 8.2, 12.7, 35 and 16 points. Those are pretty good numbers and are good enough to be the 13th highest scoring RB in fantasy. My problem is the Falcons schedule. Over their first four games, they played the Bucs, the Raiders, the Saints and a Carolina team that is not nearly as good as last year’s rendition. Over the next four games, they play Denver, Seattle, San Diego and Green Bay. San Diego is a good matchup, but the other three are not. Although I have my doubts, the Falcons offense has been too good to doubt – legs.

Melvin Gordon:

The hot dogs of the 2015 fantasy football season has been all legs this year. I’m saying it right now, Melvin Gordon is legs. Through four weeks, he is the 2nd leading RB scorer in fantasy and has 6 rushing touchdowns already. He’s scored 19 or more points in every game and is averaging 21.5 touches per game (73 rush, 13 catches). With no Danny Woodhead and no Keenan Allen, he has become a workhorse. If we were to do a redraft right now, Gordon would undoubtedly be a top 15 pick.

Coby Fleener:

Ahh the curious case of Coby Fleener. What the hell is with this guy? What the hell is with the Saint’s offense? John Kuhn had three touchdowns on Sunday???? THREE??!!? I actually own Fleener in another league and lost by 6. If one of those TDs could have gone to Fleener, I would have won. Nevermind all of the pissed off Mark Ingram owners out there. Anyways, Fleener has had one good game (7 for 109 with a TD) and three AWFUL games (6 catches 54 yards combined). Sad to say, but Fleener is no more than two hot weiners held next to each other.