Nitpicks (in no particular order), followed by and including my own ranting:
Emmit Smith is not a punk bitch.
If you expected big things from Garrison Hearst this year (to the extent of taking him over McNabb!), you deserved what you got.
Rodney Peete wasn’t such a bad fill-in play this week. I grabbed him for a team where my draft (in terms of QBs) was a fiasco (I decided early on to go for the two Trents in the teen rounds! Yikes! Then I traded for Slash when Dilfer went down! Double Yikes!), and I had been starting Holcomb, but Peete’s admittedly underwhelming 6 points was more than enough to cement my victory.
Culpepper better be heading for the sideline; he’s the only football player on the entire Vikings roster. If he gets hurt, they might as well close up shop for the rest of the season. Maybe next year too.
Randy Moss isn’t a punk bitch either. He’s a fucking jackass, which I would argue subsumes the former term. I cackled all the way to the bank when I traded George (from a stable of R.Williams, Dillon, George, and W.Green, in a league with only 2 RB spots) and McCardell for Moss and Fiedler (led my team to 2 victories in the first 2 weeks), but Moss’ jackassery lost me my game this week. Starting WRs Moss vs Car, Glenn @Det, and Chambers (he of the 1001 TDs last year vs NYJ) at home vs the hapless Jets, and I get a grand total of three points? Bastard. Throw in Corey Dillon’s continued ineptitude, thematic of his team’s play, and Ricky’s the only producer on my starting offense. When K + DEF = more than your than your 7 offensive players, you know you fucked up.
So, my fuck yous go out to:
[ul][li]Fuck you Daunte Culpepper. 4 INTs against Carolina is fucking sad. Concomitant fuck you to John Fox, who isn’t all that. At least he knows it, though.[/li][li]Fuck you Randy Moss. Perhaps the biggest-time talent to play in the NFL reveals himself more clearly each week as a small-time player.[/li][li]In keeping with the Vikings theme, fuck you D’Wayne Bates and Derrick Alexander. Can you both really be as inconsequential as you’ve seemed so far?[/li][li]And, to complete the square, fuck you Doug Brien. Your fuckup didn’t impact me personally either way, but you’re a fucking chump for missing 2 PATs in one game.[/li][li]Fuck you Jeff Garcia and Terrell Owens. When these guys heard the theme music to MNF tonight, their response was a resounding “NO!” Here’s hoping the bye week gives them some time to get their shit together.[/li][li]Fuck you Tim Couch. Fuck you for leading your team to score against Tennessee to send the game to OT when I had picked the Titans. Lest this be a non-fantasy fuck you, I’d also like to say fuck you to Couch for scoring 27 points from my bench, behind Culpepper.[/li][li]A similar fuck you goes out to James Stewart. Nuff said.[/li][li]Fuck you Priest Holmes. You’re not that great.[/li][li]Fuck you Marshall Faulk. 4 leagues I’m in, no #1 picks, and Faulk fails to produce top pick-type numbers for 3 consecutive weeks. CAT scan tonight. Ha.[/ul][/li]I think that about covers it.