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!
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