Fantasy Football and the Jets

I will write about the NBA later when the season advances and I could actually make some predictions and analyses. By the way, when my admissions exams to high school are over, I will write two blogs per week, so stay tuned, buckle in, get ready, light the fireworks because this little drummer boy is going to start going into battle. I’m going to stop blabbering now and get down to football.

Fantasy Football: In my best league, I finished the season horribly, dropping two straight, yikes, I know. After finishing 9-4, my starting lineup heading into the easy(ish) divisional round looked something like this: Aaron Rodgers (MVP-MVP-MV-whaaaat did I say?), Josh Jacobs (this was a test for next year), Cam Akers (this would be Christian McCaffrey’s spot, but he played three games all year), Terry Mclaurin (picking him up 100% next year), Davante Adams (Best WR in football), Travis Kelce, Allen Robinson, Miami’s defense, and Jason Sanders. I put up 20 points more than my opponent, who had a bad roster (which, mind you, was not burdened with injury) and his players just didn’t perform (unfortunate timing, I know, but really, who cares? I got to the Finals!).

In the Finals, I was matched up against a guy who’s 11-2, and had Aaron Jones, Derrick Henry and Dalvin Cook on his roster. All three from trades (this guy was playing chess, not checkers), oh, you thought I was done, oh no, he had Lamar Jackson, Stefon Diggs and Deandre Hopkins. How could I not forget about Ronald Jones, TJ Hockenson, Baltimore’s defense, and Younghoe Koo. Vegas would’ve called it: David vs. Goliath (multiplied by Socrates, Plato, and my mother because of his uncanny trading ability).

In the finals, I had the unfortunate experience of bearing through a game without my anchor, Travis Kelce, but lucky for me, Dalvin Cook was out, so there was a light at the end of the playoff tunnel. I took advantage of Cook’s absence as I took Alexander Mattison, the backup running back who lives in the shadow (he put up 29.5 points). During the day, where I didn’t have Travis Kelce, my team stood up to the schoolyard bully and bloodied his mouth, and gave him a black eye. I put up 151.2 points in that week and for the two-week playoff series: a whopping 322.64 points, to belittle the puny 283.12 points.

In my other uneventful leagues, I went to the Finals in one (as the four seed) and lost to the three seed. In the other leagues, I didn’t make the playoffs as I couldn’t communicate with my other opponents, because it was a random league.

The Jets finished the season horribly; the Jets just shoot themselves in the foot every year, last year, we had a shot at Joe Burrow, or Justin Jefferson, but we took an O-Lineman :/ We started the first 8 games of the season 1-7, we finished the season 7-9, and we can’t make this stuff up. With a chance at a generational talent on display in college, Trevor Lawrence, Adam Gase decided to turn this team around, that’s like walking into a dark room (the season almost over), blind, having your feet tied (having literally no talent on the team), and knowing that Chucky, Annabelle, and IT (that being the Jets fan base) are in there having a tea party. Now, with the second overall pick, I’m going to out on a limb and say… QB!!!

Most mock drafts say Justin Fields go number two, some more say Justin Fields, one or two say Penei Sewell and someone said Ja’Marr Chase (I really don’t know what that person’s thinking). Now, my mock draft is very unprecedented. I say the Jets take Kyle Pitts, TE out of Florida. Now, my reasoning is… hahaha you thought that Kyle Pitts is going number two (I wouldn’t put it past Joe Douglas, though). I say Justin Fields from Ohio State. Now, Zach Wilson is a great player, he just got hot at the wrong time, and there isn’t much hype around him. Now, the hype part doesn’t matter, but, he might actually be a flash in the pan. Or be just good in college. Justin Fields was shadowed by the potential number one pick, Trevor Lawrence, the whole college season. Justin Fields had just begun to blossom a little later in the season, for the non-college fanatics, like me, to get to know. He’s a bigger guy, he can scramble, he has more throw power, he could take hits and for me at least, he’s tougher. I would take Trevor Lawrence in a heartbeat, just because he doesn’t need to be tamed as much (while Justin Fields is like a young colt) and because he’s more of a field general.

My full mock draft and awards will come in my next piece, which is Sunday because by then I’ll get rid of the high school test burden.