Commish Notes for Week 5

First of all, I present: Vick In A Box

Second, newly created league polls: Please go vote

Has anyone else noticed league scoring appears to be a bit higher than normal? It actually is, by a lot!! After four weeks of scoring, we have a collective total of 442 points. In 2010 after four weeks we were at 382. In 2009, it was 392 points. So a 60 point gain after the first four weeks of play. This year we currently have nine teams scoring more than 400 points. In 2010 in the same time frame we had only four teams. Last weeks games saw five teams score 135 points or more, with 135.84 being the fifth highest score of the week! Insane! The lamest part about those five high scoring teams was not one of them played each other. Boring! I want the guy who scores 145 points to lose to the guy scoring 149 points. I got that several times last year, now it's someone else's turn.

Our Top Five QBs are: Rodgers, Brady, Newton, Brees, Stafford
Our Top Five RBs are: McFadden, McCoy, Rice, Forte, Fred Jackson
Our Top Five WRs are: Welker, Megatron, Steve Smith CAR, Wallace, Gronkowski

Around the NFL....This is our first bye week and the Ravens, Cowboys, Browns, Dolphins, Rams and Redskins will be out. Make your lineup moves to cover any players out. And this is going to be interesting too since six teams are out and more significant injuries are happening and will continue. That could really shift the fortunes of fantasy teams in the coming weeks. Bye weeks and injuries can really change the standings.

There are now only four teams without a win. The Rams, the Vikings, the Dolphins and the Colts. The Vikings are a mild surprise but lost receivers and quarterbacks and are installing a new system. The Colts have no changes other than losing Peyton Manning. The Rams are actually better personnel wise but apparently unable to get the new offense installed and running. The Dolphins are trying out a new offense with younger players. Hard to believe one of these will get the first overall pick in the draft but so far nothing is looking up for any of the three. And do Steve Spagnuolo, Leslie Frazier, Tony Sparano and Jim Caldwell all keep their jobs? Can you really blame all of IND's woes on Manning? Or was he just the one covering up everything else? Who will be the first coach fired? I am going with Sparano for now. Just a hunch.

ESPN yanks Hank Williams, opening number pulled: Wait a minute, a weed smoking, whisky and cocaine snorting, womanizing, hotel room destroying, bar-fighting, party hardy, tobacco chompin' redneck hillbilly that got drunk and fell off a cliff, makes a great ambassador for your product for 20 years off a song that was originally about getting drunk and partying. But when his brain cells (damaged so from all the drinking, weed smoking, fighting, and falling off cliffs) cause him to utter the "H" word in describing his so very deep and consequential political views I shouldn't hear his song no more? Whew! At least I know where ESPN draws the line. I should have been shielded from this dangerous man long ago. You irresponsible bastards.

Can't wait to see what Week 5 games and BYE weeks bring us....