Monday Afternoon General Manager

My roving thoughts on the Sunday games. These keep getting later and later in the day until one day I suspect I will forget all about it. Big thank you to James Saxaphone. Without you I'd probably be dead, face down in a drained pool somewhere.

1. Rankings - We are three.95 weeks into our third season and no one has released their power rankings as of yet. Let me be the first.

1. A Hamburglar Scorned
2. monsterwith21faces
3. Nobody's Darlings
4. The Discombobulators
5. 7 Pillars of Wisdom
6. The Seaward
7. Big City of Life
8. Bengals are Back
9. Iron Curtain
10. Lord Armstrangler

Begin the disagreements. Here are my thoughts. Scott is loaded at running back, has two quality options at quarterback, and Megatron. He seems to be making all the right calls at Defense. He is weak at TE and that is it. Ben has the best quarterback, and two of the best receivers. If Pierre Thomas stays healthy and the Dallas running back situation pans out he is equally as dangerous as Scott. Brandon is the worst of the undefeated, only because he has some weakness at receiver and a second and third running back. He's been making great waiver wire moves and playing the right people, so he seems to have the magic touch this year. Everett gets the nod at four because of his incredible week 2 performance. I get the nod at five because I still have Williams and Turner. Jason is at six but with the week four emergences of Brandon Marshall and Matt Forte he is quickly moving up. Steve is 2-2 and at seven because of his four quarterback roster and a big drop off after his number one receiver and his top two running backs. The bottom three are a crap shoot, but Tyler looks better after picking up this guy Slaton who burst onto the scene this week with two scores. I still think Jim's team is incredibly dangerous. If he finds a viable option at quarterback there are a ton of weapons on his team. He may have the best two starting receivers in the league. John falls to the bottom spot because he refuses to trade his receivers and Romo is not getting the job done this year.

2. Close Games - Besides Scott's incredible week, the other three games are really close and will all depend on the Monday night game. Smart money is for John, Brandon, and Tyler to all pull out close wins, but as my dad said, "Nothing will be predictable tonight. It's going to be a game played purely on an emotional high." I asked him why he thought that and he said, "Favre will be playing his old team. They are going to want to get after each other and settle some old scores." When I pointed out that he was in fact making a prediction on what he claimed was an unpredictable game he decided to not give me my dinner tonight. So I'll be watching this one on an empty stomach.

3. Mohamed Massaquoi - By my count I got three text messages referencing my pick up of Massaquoi. One from Jason in which he blamed his sweet adorable daughter for not being able to get to the waiver wire sooner. One from Tyler that cursed me whilst threatening to beat me up. He must have taken his anger out on the add/drop player button at some point yesterday. And One hypothetical text from Scott that I'm assuming he was too prideful to send. However the gist of the message would have read: Oooh, I was so close to picking up Massaquoi and playing him this week. Will Massaquoi ever put up those numbers again - probably not. Will I ever end up playing Massaquoi - probably not. But it is within these small fantasy victories, in the trenches of our league, where I will fondly remember this year. It most assuredly will not be for any playoff wins.