Week Three Recap: The Rad Dynasty 2025 Season! (3.03)

Injuries, upsets, surprising performances, and questionable roster moves highlight what was an interesting week 3 in The Rad Dynasty. But first, let's give a shout out to the Julie Chen player of the Week (I'm making that a thing now, btw). And that player is Jalen Hurts for ned's rollers. Hurts had 4 overall touchdowns, leading to 35.04 fantasy points for team ned. Special thanks to Alice for NOT starting Caleb Williams, as he would have been the player of the week with 37.12 fantasy points. That would have been enough to turn a close loss into a blowout win. Let's talk about that, shall we?

Dynastic Dan (3-0) 125.07 vs Alice in Horns (1-2) 120.42

This was a super ugly game, both teams underperforming by a massive amount of points. Things started out great for Dynastic Dan, as Josh Allen, James Cook, and De'Von Achane combined for 61 fantasy points on their Thursday night game. I thought this was going to be an easy win. Unfortunately, the rest of the team laid a major egg, and Dynastic Dan was lucky to sneak out a win against similarly underperforming Alice.

Dan entered the Sunday night game down by 2 points, and needing Harrison Butker to outscore Travis Kelce in order to eke out a win. Luckily, this happened and Dan escaped with a 3-0 record. It's been a murderers row of opponents for Dan (TDs or Bust, Ned, Alice) but somehow this team remains undefeated. 2-1 BDB is next on the docket before things start to get easier for a little bit. Alice looks to rebound against Bluth Company, in what should be an absolutely vital game for both teams.

Skattebo Doesn't Know (2-1) 203.87 vs Bluth Company (0-3) 128.52

Just an absolutely massive game for defending champ Mike. It's still early in the season, but that is the most points scored in a matchup yet this year. His team exploded up and down the board, led by Lamar's 32.4 points, Jonathan Taylor's 31.3, and Hunter Henry's random 25 burger. Even Cam Skattebo himself finally got going with a 21.1 point game. 

The losses continue to pile up for Bluth Company. It's almost comical how bad of luck Bluth has had so far in this league. His team's all time record is 10-23, and 7 of those wins came in 2023 - the league's inaugural season. The 128 points he scored would have beaten 6 other teams this week, but unfortunately he was facing off against someone who scored over 200. Tough to win when that happens.

TDs or Bust (2-1) 151.27 vs My Team (1-2) 142.48

This was a very competitive matchup, and either team could have scraped this one out. The projections went back and forth all weekend long. My Team was favored going into Monday night, but then Jared Goff had a bad game while Jahmyr Gibbs had a big one. This tilted the scale in Perry's favor.

This would have been a big upset for My Team, but alas it wasn't meant to be. They will look to rebound against Mike next week, while it will be a battle of the TD teams to see who will improve to 3-1 and who will be 2-2.

Show me the TDs 121.69 (2-1) vs The Killing Fields (2-1) 119.76

This was a super tight matchup, decided by fewer than 2 points. Would have been a 3-0 start for Killing Fields if things had gone a little differently. On the flip side, Show me the TDs always seems to have their games come right down to the wire. This was another matchup that went back and forth all weekend. It probably shouldn't have been this close is it wasn't for the massive underperformance from Show me the TDs. They underperformed by 34 points while TKF underperformed by 5.

Not related to this matchup, but Sean was able to score a major win by picking up Tyreek Hill off waivers. It was the first time we've seen a major name become available on waivers, and Sean made sure he got him by wagering his entire FAB budget to pick him up.

BDB's Jet Setters (2-1) 135.9 vs Teflon Don (1-2) 124.24

BDB's team continues to impress, coming out of the gate with a 2-1 record. Teflon Don seems to be headed in the other direction. They are the third lowest scoring team in the league. I really thought this team was going to turn things around so far, but injuries and poor play from the incoming rookies has really derailed things.

Teflon Don did make a big trade today, sending away Dak Prescott, Evan Engram, and next year's 2nd rounder to Tbone for his first rounder - which may very well end up being the 1.01 depending on how things go for TBone. That's something to monitor. It doesn't help Teflon Don now, but it could pay big dividends in the future.

Ned's rollers (2-1) 161.79 vs Tbone (0-3) 84.53

Tbone may set a league record for futility this year. After a 4-1 start in 2024, this team has now lost 13 games in a row. And it isn't looking any better. Tbone inexplicably released Tyreek Hill and got nothing in return for him. And he has traded away his 1st rounder next year. This has left the team a mere skeleton of its former self. A massive rebuild looks to be on the horizon. But is TBone up to the task?

Ned rolled over the opposition in what may likely be his easiest win of the year. This one was never in doubt. Jalen Hurts himself nearly scored half of the points TBone's entire team did this week.

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Now for a look at the standings. Dynastic Dan sits alone at 3-0, while 6 other teams sit right behind him at 2-1. Tbone and Bluth occupy the cellar with matching 0-3 records. I haven't given up on anyone yet, aside from maybe TBone. Yes, Bluth is 0-3 but the talent on the roster is there. Alice has had a little bit of rough injury/matchup luck so far, but I expect things to even out. Same with Teflon Don.

If I had to take an early guess at which 4 teams will be in the playoffs, I would say: Dynastic Dan, TDs or Bust, Ned, and then Skattebo Doesn't Know. Next year is where things will really get interesting, as the playoff field will expand to 6 teams (the top 2 teams getting a first round bye). I'm excited for the move. Should introduce a lot more parity to the league, and also give hope to people who consistently finish just outside the top 4.

Week Two Recap: The Rad Dynasty 2025 Season! (3.02)

Week 2 of the Rad Dynasty has wrapped up, and now it is time to take a look at this week's action - which is headlined by player of the week Amon-Ra St Brown for Tbone's Terrific Team! He had 115 yards and 3 TDs, leading to 34.7 fantasy points for Tbone's team. Two players outscored St Brown in week 2, but neither were started, so they aren't eligible to win this award. Jared Goff (43.96) sat on My Team's bench, while Russell Wilson (36.3) isn't even rostered. Unfortunately, TBone was not able to pull off the win, as they let the lead slip away to Teflon Don on Monday night.

Teflon Don (1-1) 139.06 vs Tbone (0-2) 128.69

Things just get tougher and tougher for TBone as this is now this team's 12th loss in a row going back to last season. Derrick Henry had a bad game with 2.3 points. If he'd have had his usual monster game, Tbone would have had a chance at winning this. Teflon Don was led by Malik Nabers and his 34.45 points. This matchup went into Monday night with TBone leading by less than a point, but Teflon Don's Devin White was able to come through with the needed points (and more) to secure the win and the 1-1 start.

Next week will be tough for Tbone as he faces ned. Teflon Don has a chance to move above .500 with a win over BDB.

Dynastic Dan (2-0) 180.67 vs Ned's rollers (1-1) 155.04

Despite the seemingly lopsided final score, I actually had to sweat this one out. My team underperformed through Sunday's action. I was kicking myself over my last minute decision to remove James Cook (26) from my lineup at the last minute for Breece Hall (4.8). Josh Allen also had an abnormally bad fantasy game with 11.82 points. By the afternoon games, ned was favored to win this matchup by quite a bit.

But then his starters decided to underwhelm too. Jalen Hurts (11.54) and Courtland Sutton (2.35) massively underperformed, leaving the door open for me to come back on Monday night and snatch victory away from ned. I was down by about 13 points, and I had two defensive players left to play: Daiyan Henley (who I haven't trusted since the championship game last year when he had a goose egg in the title game) and Danielle Hunter. I was sweating it because IDP can be quite volatile. I was fully expecting them to come up short. But then they absolutely exploded. Henley had 22.5 points and Hunter had 15.75. That's nearly 40 points when all I needed was 13.

Dynastic Dan faces Alice in Horns next week, in what should be a great matchup. Ned has a slightly easier matchup against TBone.

Show me the TDs (1-1) 149.4 vs Skattebo Doesn't Know (1-1) 127.15

This was a tough luck loss for defending champ Mike. His start to the week reminded me of the start Chris had last week. Austin Ekeler (3.4) and Jayden Reed (0) each left with injuries, leaving a massive hole in Mike's lineup. It's really tough to recover from that. It ended up being a relatively close game (22 points apart) so if these guys had played the whole game, it may have been much closer.

Sean's team moves into fourth place with the win. Brandon Aubrey (22) and Tua (22.6) were the leading scorers in the game. I'm starting to kick myself for releasing Jaylen Warren at the beginning of the season, as he has turned into a solid source of points for Show me the TDs. That is a big, underrated pickup for this team. I was worried about Kaleb Johnson making him irrelevant in fantasy. Boy was I wrong.

The Killing Fields (2-0) 150.43 vs My Team (1-1) 113.2

What a turnaround for The Killing Fields, who was one of the worst teams in the league last year. You could even argue THE worst. But Scotty has come in as the new manager and turned things around quickly. It's only two games, but this is a team that looked dead in the water last season. Hats off to Scotty for the 2-0 start.

On the opposite side of things, My Team didn't look very good in this one, after its impressive performance in week one. Kittle and McFadden are on IR, and were left in the lineup. Maybe their backups aren't enough to pull out a win, but you just hate to see the spots being left empty. It doesn't help that other players like Brock Bowers (6.3), Jordan Mason (4.8), and Terry McLaurin (7.3) didn't do enough to make this competitive. Hopefully uncle Pete patches up his roster holes and this team can right the ship next week. It's definitely not too late.

Alice in Horns (1-1) 123.09 vs BDB's Jet Setters (1-1) 112.28

This was an ugly game with some serious injury implications. Joe Burrow (9.04) is out for essentially the whole fantasy season for Alice. She'll have to rely on Caleb Williams and Jordan Love going forward. Aaron Jones (2.3) is now on IR for team BDB. Otherwise, there was not much interesting fantasy wise happening in this game. Like I said, it was an ugly game. Both teams struggled to do much of anything.

Alice will face Dynastic Dan in a rematch of last year's playoff game. BDB will play Teflon Don - another 1-1 team. The winner will move above .500.

TDs or Bust (1-1) 143.75 vs Bluth Company (0-2) 119.19

It's been a tough go of things for Bluth Company in the Rad Dynasty. In the initial year of this league, he was the second highest scoring team in the league, but still somehow missed the playoffs. In year 2, the wheels fell off and he dropped to the last place team and winner of the Ashton Jeanty sweepstakes. Now in year 3, things continue to look bad. I really thought Bluth was primed to turn things around this year, but it just hasn't worked out that way. Still lots of time though. It won't be easy in week 3 against defending champ Mike, but I still have faith in this team.

TDs or Bust won despite failing to meet initial projections for the second game in a row. You can't help but feel that this a team waiting to explode. Drake Maye (30.3) is going to be a pretty good fantasy QB, I think. Bijan (18.3) and Gibbs (17.9) balled out, but Jefferson (9.6) and Drake London (5.65) have struggled out of the gate. Once everyone gets on the same page, look out. 

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The standings are pretty wild so far. I'm sitting in first place by virtue of points scored. Newcomer Scotty sits in sole possession of second place. Then it is a massive 8-way tie at 1-1. Bluth and TBone sit at the bottom with 0-2 records.

Things are still very much wide open, with only two undefeated teams through week two. Only one loss separates third place from last. If you are having doubts about your team, don't! You've got this! 

Can't wait to see how week 3 unfolds. See you then!

Week One Recap: The Rad Dynasty 2025 Season! (3.01)

Welcome back to my weekly recaps for The Rad Dynasty! In seasons past, I have sent out these recaps in many ways - email, Yahoo league chat, social media, etc. But I think the group text will help keep everyone connected and in the loop. I don't have to be posting it a million different places in order for everyone to see it. In case you are interested in reading recaps from past seasons, you can normally see an archive off to the side of the text you are currently reading. Scotty, this might be interesting to you if you care at all about the history of this league coming into its third season.

Player of the week for week one: Josh Allen for The Rad Dynasty! He scored 42.76 fantasy points right off the bat in the first week of the season. He had 4 touchdowns and 424 overall yards of offense in Buffalo's giant Sunday night comeback win over the Ravens. Good job Josh Allen. You seem to be picking up right where you left off last year.

Now, onto the games.

Ned's rollers (1-0) 149.68 vs Show me the TDs (0-1) 148.46

This was the clear Game of the Week here in the Rad Dynasty. Ned wins by a little over a point, after DJ Moore loses a fumble on the very last play of Monday night's scoring. The 2 point deduction is enough to hand Ned the win. What a crazy finish. That being said, there is always a risk of a point adjustment when a game finishes this close. In another league I was in, I won two games by point adjustments last year. It is a lot more likely to happen in leagues with IDP, like this one. So we'll see what happens. Funny note: Ned has DT Jalen Carter in his DL spot, and he takes a zero in this matchup because he spit on Dak Prescott before even playing a snap. The week definitely began and ended in wild fashion for Ned.

My Team (1-0) 128.53 vs Teflon Don (0-1) 101.57

This was a brutal game for Teflon Don, as right off the bat, two of his starting receivers had dreadful performances that tanked this team's performance. AJ Brown had 1.3 points in the season opener, and Xavier Worthy had 0 after getting injured in the Friday game. It was going to be tough to come back from that. The rest of the team didn't really do much either, and this ended up being a blowout loss to uncle Peter. These teams have now met for the 4th time, and Peter has won all 4 matchups.

My Team starts 1-0, despite also underachieving in week one. Yahoo projections have this team finishing with a winning record and possibly making the playoffs, which would be a massive leap for a team that's ranked towards the bottom of the standings the last two seasons.

Skattebo Doesn't Know (1-0) 141.06 vs Alice in Horns (0-1) 136.97

Defending champ Mike continues to find ways to win, as he defeats fellow playoff team Alice in a very close game. This was a tough luck loss for Alice, who was projected to win for much of the weekend. But this was a matchup that kept going back and forth in the projections. Joe Burrow had an unpredictably bad game. If he even has a normal game, Alice wins this one. 

Alice will look to rebound next week against BDB, while Mike will take on Show me the TDs in what should be a very important battle.

Dynastic Dan (1-0) 166.06 vs TDs or Bust (0-1) 114.78

On paper, this was a good matchup between the two best regular season teams from last year. But TDs or Bust had an absolutely terrible opening game, and this ended up being a blowout. Josh Allen's big performance didn't even matter, because if you remove it completely, Dynastic Dan still wins this game by about 10. On paper, a team with Justin Jefferson, Bijan Robinson, Drake London, and Jahmyr Gibbs should dominate, but as a whole, they underperformed. There was a big play by Bijan early on Sunday that tilted the favor in Perry's favor briefly. Had me worried for a while. But when the rest of the team doesn't show up, and you underperform by this much (35 points) it will be hard to win against anyone.

BDB's Jet Setters (1-0) 142.27 vs TBone's Terrific Team (0-1) 103.62

This was a great performance by BDB's team, who came alive after a down 2024 season. Hopefully this is a sign of great things to come this year. Led by Justin Herbert, Saquon Barkley, and newly acquired Garrett Wilson, BDB outpaced projections by 20 points and raced out to a blowout win over Tbone.

Poor Tbone is going to have a long year. They are projected to have the lowest scoring team in the league this year and go 1-14. Not only was their projected point total the lowest in week one, they still managed to underperform on top of this. The only thing keeping them from being the lowest scoring team this week was Teflon Don's abysmal performance against My Team.

The Killing Fields (1-0) 124.02 vs Bluth Company (0-1) 110.54

Congrats to Scotty for winning his very first game as new manager of The Killing Fields. It looks like the rebuild is off to a great start. For Bluth Company, this has to feel like more of the same. The team always seems to be projected as one of the highest scoring teams in the league, and then it massively underperforms. I remember thinking that Bluth was one of the most consistently screwed teams last year between poor performance and injuries. But injuries can't even be blamed for this one, as the team was just flat out bad, underperforming by 36 points. Hopefully Bluth can turn it around next week, in a battle against similarly underperforming TDs or Bust. 

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Interesting start to the season. A lot of back and forth matchups in the standings. A lot that is up in the air, as many star players didn't show up in week one. It seems like a lot of the high scoring players this week were left on benches, while guys like JaMarr Chase (3.6) and many other high profile players had bad, underperforming games.

I guess we'll see if the coming weeks provide any clarity. It's always interesting at the beginning of the season. Hard to tell what is an anomaly and what is a sign of things to come.