Wisconsin Rapids Bro League
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TRADE: Cole sent RB Miles Sanders and WR Brandin Cooks to Brett for RB Breece Hall and WR Allen Lazard prior to week 5.
Only three teams in the Bro League stand tall with winning records. Of course, Cole Walters is still at the top despite a matchup-dependent loss this week as he averages 146.86 points per week, enough to hypothetically win every week of this still young season. After a decently competitive start to the 2022 season, he is the lone winning team in the Steven Nett Division mainly due to Stoltz's continued reliance on Nathaniel Hackett and the Denver Broncos offense, though I suspect a changing of personnel is nearing quicker than offseason us could have expected. Generally, NFL football is watchable for fantasy reasons while college football both good and poor in quality is fun to watch. Bad NFL football makes me legitimately upset and watching Russell Wilson and his supposedly torn lat not average 20 points a game with plenty of weapons surrounding him has made some of the worst football of 2022 and yet, the Broncos were gifted another primetime game this week against the somewhat quiet Los Angeles Chargers. If QB Justin Herbert is healthy, this current iteration of Denver's offense doesn't stand a chance. Last week's 9-12 OVERTIME loss to the equally unwatchable Colts re-established my peace with losing access to Thursday Night Football viewership thanks to Amazon Prime this season. Maybe I'll go down the streaming service subscription road again sometime in the near future (I did just drop Netflix for what it's worth) but for the time being, they need to add a lot more sporting events/content before I hand any more money to Jeff Bezos and his space adventures.
The other teams with winning records in the Bro League are Shooter McGavin division leader Alec Swanson (4-1), who beat Gabe by 68.76 points in week 5. Alec massively benefit from TE Travis Kelce...
A. Being one of two trustworthy Tight Ends in 2022 (the other being Andy's TE Mark Andrews)
and B. Scoring four touchdowns with an absolutely Jerome Bettis-like 7-25-4 statline on Monday Night against the Raiders.
Kelce is just one of a few reasons to reinvigorate the excitement that sometimes disappeared last year for the Kansas City Chiefs. Not only is Mahomes doing Mahomes things but, the running game looks far more competent than it did last season with Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Isiah Pacheco and Jerick McKinnon alternating snap counts on a weekly basis to efficient results as they all work well in the passing game along with being league-average runners that benefit from the defenses constantly sweating KC's alien Quarterback and crazy play-calling. For the time being, this offense doesn't even miss Tyreek Hill (who is likely missing Mahomes at the moment with Tua Tagovailoa and Teddy Bridgewater sidelined in concussion protocol) as it's opened up the offense with defenses unprepared for whichever receiver Andy Reid and Mahomes feel like getting involved on a weekly basis (much like the RB conundrum). The only constant is TE Travis Kelce and that weekly positional certainty is why Alec has a commanding one-game, 68-point (rounded up) advantage over the rest of his division. The other NFL team to get hyped about after this week's results are the Buffalo Bills, who just handed down the worst Steelers loss in 33 years with a 38-3 thwacking on Sunday where QB Josh Allen put up a week 5 QB high of 35.16 points, with about 90% of that coming before halftime and Case Keenum taking over once coach Sean McDermott decided to rest the early-season All-Bro favorite. Peaking ahead at the Week 6 NFL Schedule and oh, look at that...
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| FOX Sports 3:25 PM CST: Buffalo Bills @ Kansas City Chiefs. A rematch of last season's Divisional Round epoch. |
The final, unsung winning team so far in the Bro League is The Rule of Law. Yes, my team that made a trade offer of nearly my entire roster to Hoefs' Yeezy Taught Me for WR Cooper Kupp has now won three in a row and is the lone winning, non-divisional leader. It's been a bizarre start to the season but, the reliability of TE Mark Andrews and the inability to bench bellcow RBs like Derrick Henry (RB4) and Christian McCaffrey (RB3) have helped my team's stock rise. Now, I feel better than ever but it's fantasy football... One week, you have the deepest team in the league and after a series of snaps, you're down three starters that put up 0.0 like ESPN's Field Yates who claims to have had QB Teddy Bridgewater, WR Tee Higgins and TE Darren Waller in his lineup last week. Only Nick's Waller affected WRBL results this week but, the impact was a killer as he lost by nine on Monday Night Football to Hoefs, giving Nathan his first win of the season. There's no London games this week so at least we don't have to worry about any more Alvin Kamara situations and as the zero winless/undefeated teams only five weeks in have told us, anything is possible as we're all still alive and Tomfoolery is on the rise as the trade market continues to heat up.
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| The Seattle Times Waiver Wonder: TE Taysom Hill (3 Rushing Touchdowns, 1 Passing Touchdown, Fumble Recovery) |
