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.