Mission Impossible: Viking Funeral - Week 3 Recap
The Vikings had their most atrocious game of the year against a Buffalo Bills team that looked to be the worst team in the NFL.
It was an embarrassing loss for a
super bowl contender to endure, and for the Minnesota Vikings fantasy team, it
didn’t look good either. Desperate for a
comeback through much of the game, the Vikings threw the ball 55 times and ran
only six times. These garbage-time completions didn’t mean much for the real
Vikings, but they gave us a shot at a fantasy win. CJ Ham, Aldrick Robinson and
Tyler Conklin (three players we opted not to start) combined for 7 catches, but
every other pass that Kirk Cousins completed (33) was a point in our favor. The
garbage time touchdown between Cousins and Rudolph was a nice boost, and Adam
Thielen led the team with 24.5 points thanks to 14 receptions. With all of
this, we still ended up with a very low score, but we at least gave ourselves a
chance to win and that is important. We ended with 78.5 points.
“Team mcbride” has, luckily enough
for us, given up on this league. They started three players who were not
playing this week in Mark Ingram II, LeSean McCoy and Julian Edelman. Even with
that, he still had a viable kicker and defense, along with Tom Brady, Chris
Carson, Antonio Brown, and Rob Gronkowski. Believe it or not, Chris Carson
ended up being his top performer with 20.4 points. To say this would have been
a steal for our opponents is an understatement. Coming into the week it looked
like our easiest challenge yet, with the Bills being the Vikings opponent and
our foe was playing multiple ineligible players. After the week was over, we
felt extremely lucky to have eked out a win even if it was against a horrible
team. We actually had the second least amount of points in the league, but it
didn’t matter.
Final Score: Minnesota Vikings 78.5 – Team mcbride 71
In recent news, Dalvin Cook is still
nursing an injury and with an early Thursday game it is questionable whether he
will be thrown into the fray against the Los Angeles Rams and their devastating
interior linemen. After dropping CJ Ham this last week to pick up Roc Thomas
for insurance, we will pick Ham back up and seriously consider starting him. He
would have been our top performing running back last week.