Afirmative Blacktion, we hardly knew ye. After a questionable draft featuring a defense picked in the seventh round (Pittsburgh), the early-season dropping of monster tight end Rob Gronkowski and several roster-setting miscues, fate has finally caught up with Coach Moylan.
That's right, folks: Fantasy football season is over for the 5-8 Blacktions. Always unpredictable, Coach Moylan's team defeated the season-long championship-favorite Bootleggers of Kenowhere, then spiraled into a six-game losing streak. After snapping that streak with a win against the beleaguered Tree Humpers, he again showed his big black balls to Coach Leiting and his juggernaut of a team.
We never knew what to expect from Coach Moylan. Example: In week five, he started Ray Rice and Fred Davis, both of whom were on bye weeks. Perhaps he had so much confidence in Rice that he suspected the super-stud Raven would put up 10 or so points through sheer will alone. Maybe he was in Eastern Europe fingerbanging babushkas. We can only speculate, and that is the nature of Moylan -- mysterious, unpredictable and decidedly erratic/erotic.
Much like poor Johnny Knox (twelfth round draft pick) and his broken back, Coach Moylan's Affirmative Blacktion must wait until next year to return to the field. We may question his draft choices, his lineups and waiver moves, but in the end, he beat the number one seed not once, but twice. Perhaps there is some wisdom in this wild maverick renegade after all.
We will be interested to see how his season develops next year, when he is resurrected from the cold Alaskan earth he will be interred in later this month. Godspeed, Moylan. see you next year old friend.
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| R.I.P. Craig Moylan |
The K-Town Bootleggers came into the West Wilson Street Fantasy Football Brotherhood with their guns blazing. After a 10-3 season, striking fear into the hearts of most, injuries befell the team, sending it to a third place final standing that hardly lived up to expectations for the good Coach.
Not bad for a rookie.
That's not what Coach Leiting would say, however. With crippling injuries coming late in the season to Matt Forte, Fred Jackson and Jay Cutler, he might say something with a little more colorful language attached. This would of course be exacerbated by any mention of the early-season injury to his second-round pick, Texan wide receiver Andre Johnson. Before his injury, the star WR averaged about 18 points per game. Ouch.
Leiting made the best of it, however, picking himself up to become the regular season Goliath this year. We can only imagine what could have been, should his team remained healthy. The waiver prowess and instinct of this newcomer have put him on the radar for all the other coaches in the league. Next year will be an interesting one, and all the 2011 point leader will need to take 2012 is a little better luck on the injury front. Like it or not, Coach Nick, you're the league antagonist now. Forgive us if we revel in your defeat -- it's nothing personal.
You'd better put on your black cowboy hat. Because this is an obituary, you see, and you're dead. Give Kim Jong-il my regards and we'll see you next year.
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| R.I.P. Nick Leiting |
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