There is no other way to describe week 15 other than a fantasy football fiasco. Of course, it felt like things were going to get gross the minute games were postponed due to COVID-19. However, no one could have predicted just how horribly the situation unfolded. Worst of all, we’re not even done yet.
Two more games remain in week 15 and all these will serve to do is break more poor managers’ hearts. That is because we are living through the biggest fantasy football fiasco in recent memory.
Seriously, Duke Johnson rushing for 100 yards and two touchdowns? Mac Jones being the only quarterback to play on Saturday or Sunday to throw for more than 270 yards? Marquez Callaway finishing with 112 of the Saints 154 receiving yards? I think we all feel like Dwight Schrute after he realizes Jim is mocking him with the line, “Bears, Beats, Battlestar Galactica.” What is going on?
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There were five games where both teams scored less than 20 points. Half the league, 16 teams, couldn’t crack the 20-point barrier. And it wasn’t just the bad sides causing this. The Arizona Cardinals turned into complete chumps against Detroit. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were shutout.
But it gets worse. A total of six touchdowns were scored on Monday night. Ihmir Smith-Marsette, Jesper Horsted and Harrison Bryant accounted for half of those. The only way any of those guys were being started is if you are in some odd, NFC North/AFC North-only league.
This fantasy football fiasco turned the first week of the playoffs into a joke. Now, this isn’t some rant about how defense is evil. It is an integral part of football. However, most of the games were just sloppy or marred by injuries. And in the case of the Cardinals, a random glitch that still makes little sense.
The real takeaway from the fantasy football fiasco that was week 15 is that no one is good or bad at this game. You can pick players that score lots of points and beat other managers more often than not. But literally no one who drafted their team back in August or September could have ever planned for this.
Congrats if you survived, but don’t act like your superior fantasy football knowledge was the reason why. Unless, of course, you had the balls to start Duke Johnson.
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