Playoff Recap - Wild Card Round

First of all, those 1 o'clock snow games were a lot of fun to watch.  It fucked up fantasy a bit and all my Fan Duels, but any game played in 8 inches of snow is a hoot if you ask me (maybe not if you ask Bry and Scott).  The first round of the playoffs are complete and since there's only two games, I figure, why not bang out a quick recap.

Congrats to Mike Mintz on advancing to the semi finals and a date with Flames.  Carson Palmer and RIvers didn't let him down, even as Red Tom Brady had a good day on his bench.  Fitz, Allen and Marshall, the strength of his team all came through and made up for his lack of a running game.  A solid week was enough to beat a lackluster opponent and get him into the semis.

Bry has fallen, leaving only two players left trying to become our first two-time champ. Bry, who at one point was 7-1 and on top of the world, is one and done.  Let's see what went wrong.  First off, AP got hurt in the 2nd quarter, not good.  He believed in the Ladarius Green hype, which was risky with Gates still around, but necessary with his TE situation in shambles.  Roddy White for Percy Harvin really stretched his depth, forcing him to play James Jones sans Rodgers.  All this led to a nice fisting by the Mintz man.

The favorite in this match was Matt/Sean and they didn't disappoint, winning easily to force a matchup with Came-ron Yo Face.  They have two bona fide studs in Gordon and McCoy.  If they get anything out of their QBs this week, or any week, they are dangerous.  Along with Gordon and McCoy, Lacy, Davis, and Jackson could all go off at any moment, and they have Amendola on their bench, who should see more targets with Gronk out.  But those QBs....

Scott more than anyone got hurt by the weather.  It took Foles a half to figure it out and kept Torrey Smith from going deep.  None of his players did much aside from that.  Stacy had a tough matchup, Olsen had 8 catches but no TD, Kendall Wright who had been a PPR machine got nothing on Thursday night, and Victor Cruz, let's face it, was a huge disappointment after about Week 3.

Scott and Bry, congrats on making the playoffs and have fun being like the rest of us, on the sideline acting like we're actually pretty good at fantasy football and just needed a break here or there.

Plan is to have a preview up on Thursday.