Welcome to Week 7 of the RotoWire & FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship as we are just halfway through this season with plenty of winning weeks ahead for everybody.
It was only yesterday when it was the first kickoff for the 2017 season, but now we have plenty of evidence and background to go forward.
And also welcome to life after Aaron Rodgers.
It could have not come at a worse time with the Packers facing a nice enticing opponent in New Orleans.
There is no doubt that some are enticed by taking a flyer on Packers backup quarterback Brett Hundley. But even if he goes off against New Orleans this week, you don’t want to be the one that is left holding the bag and he goes the other way.
For this week a lot of players will be on the Falcons-Pats game for Sunday night with an over/under 56 points. There is no doubt that most of the players in that game will be heavily played, i.e. Pats QB Tom Brady and Falcons QB Matt Ryan.
With that said, if you are unfamiliar with the RotoWire & FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship competition, here are the basics:

– 10-week competition hosted on FanDuel
– $10 entry
– Compete against other users and three FanDuel experts (Jeff Erickson, Derek VanRiper, Kevin Payne)
– Finish above the experts and win an entry in the Week 11 Freeroll with over $4,000 in prizes and RotoWire subscriptions up for grabs
– Each qualifying week acts as a double-up with the top 150 doubling up their cash
– This is not a continuous competition so you can enter every week, and you don’t have to have participated in Week 1 to enter this week’s competition
– You can sign up for this week’s competition here

What an insane Thursday night game. I had the Raiders plus three, and I was stewing over the 3rd-and-12, tipped touchdown to Albert Wilson that gave the Chiefs six-point lead. But the Chiefs blew it by going into a shell and trying to run clock rather than running their regular offense, punted it back to the Raiders who converted a 2nd-and-20 and a 4th-and-10 and had two untimed plays following penalties to win on a last-second throw. And then Giorgio Tavecchio, who missed two field-goals just barely made the game-winning PAT. Truly one of the more insane games I’ve watched, Thursday or otherwise.

Oakland vs. Kansas City

Open: 47.5 O/U, KC -2.5
Press time: 46.5 O/U, KC -3

We all know about Marcus Peters, but the two other Chiefs corners who play prominently, Terrance Mitchell and Phillip Gaines, are easy targets in a Kansas City scheme that refuses to move Peters based on matchup. So long as the offensive coordinator in question isn’t hopelessly inept, the best receivers who play against the Chiefs will usually run routes against their worst corners. That’s why the Chiefs are allowing 8.2 yards per target to receivers, and a league-leading nine touchdowns in five games. That’s not a great return when you have a corner as talented as Peters, but this is the choice the Chiefs have stood by to this point.

I had the Titans minus 4.5 in this game, a line I made up mid-week before Marcus Mariota’s status was confirmed, and it felt like the wrong side virtually the entire time. But one bomb to Taywan Taylor later, and it was good. I actually saw the line go up to 7.5 in some places, meaning the gratuitous Derrick Henry TD run actually swung the outcome.

What a random day of football. I mean it’s always somewhat random, but usually you get the sense you did well or poorly by the end of it. Week 6 seemed totally arbitrary, some of it even in my favor, but rarely in the way I envisioned. I suppose that’s part of the game, though – not merely that outcomes are uncertain but grasping the extent of the uncertainty and how much it overwhelms the known.

This was an odd game. It’s rare to see one team so totally unable to run. I’m a Giants fan, so I’ve often seen Paul Perkins or Rashad Jennings run straight into tacklers at the line of scrimmage for no gain these past two seasons, but Jonathan Stewart was losing three or four yards on half of his runs. A coach can force 2nd-and-9 or -10 if he’s stubborn, but 2nd-and-13 is unacceptable even to the dumbest, most thick-skulled troglodytes.