Welcome to Week 13 all you crazy Razzballers. It’s been a fun season so far. There were lots of not so fun injuries but lots of guys stepped up and hopefully you grabbed a few of them. I am thankful for DeMarco Murray, Timothy Tebow, Cam Newton, Kevin Smith, Laurent Robinson, and Antonio Brown scattered about on my teams and some other dudes as well. Overall I’m not having great seasons but good enough to have some playoff bound teams and in the leagues I care most about. And of course there is always FanDuel to play which I’m addicted to. If you want to Duel me just white glove slap me in the comments.
Good luck everyone! I hope all your players exceed expectations!
Through 11 games let’s see how some quarterbacks stack up to the single season records. The first name will be the record holder and then the current leader and how they project out.
Completions: Peyton Manning 450: Drew Brees 323 –> Proj: 469.81
Attempts: Drew Bledsoe 691: Drew Brees 460 –> Proj: 669.09
Passing Yards: Dan Marino 5,084: Aaron Rodgers 3475 –> Proj: 5,054: Drew Brees 3,589 –> Proj: 5,365
Passing TDs: Tom Brady 50: Aaron Rodgers 33 –> Proj: 48
QB Passer Rating: Peyton Manning 121.1: Aaron Rodgers through 11 games 127.7
Completion Percentage: Drew Brees 70.6%: Aaron Rodgers through 11 games 71.8%
Rookie Passing Yards: Peyton Manning 3,739: Cam Newton 3,093 –> Proj: 4,498
Rushing TDs: Steve Grogan 12: Cam Newton 10 –> Proj: 14.5
Rushing Yards: Michael Vick 1,039: Tim Tebow 418: IF he’d started 16 games —> 1,114
Drew Brees came just 15 yards from beating Marino’s record in 2008. It will be interesting if he can keep up the pace this year. It would put him 1st and 3rd all time which ain’t too shabby.
It’s fun watching Cam Newton put up the season he is. I’m no draftnik so I’m not going to fault anyone who thought he would suck but I sure do give props to the Panthers for taking him #1 overall. He of course has a long way to go to be as good as Peyton Manning, whose record he should break, but he will finish his rookie season with a better completion percentage and QB rating that Manning did his rookie season. And at 22 years of age he has a ton of time to get better.
Of course Aaron Rodgers is the guy and the guy behind the guy and that other guy too. He’s on pace for 5k yards and to set the record for completion percentage and QB rating. And that 48 TD pace isn’t too shabby either.
Tim Tebow’s numbers are always fun to look at. He also would be on pace to shatter the rushing attempts by a QB record. And the low totals of yards passing and completion percentage for a starting QB would probably project to be a record as well but hey he is what he is.
Of course these projections don’t take into account these guys might see limited action in week 17 but hey, it’s still fun to take a look.
LINKS THAT DON’T STINK
Make sure you play our Week 13 Lineup Challenge for a chance at a My Playbook Season Pass from Fantasy Pros and a bad ass Razzball Sonuvabench! Mug.
The Razzball Podcast is trucking.
Here are some links from friends of the site so be friendly and give them a clicky click.
Dexter Manley’s Library as you might imagine is a scary ghost town but the librarian is hilarious. Here are his week 13 start/sits.
Dalton Del Don has one of the best weekly NFL wrap up articles on the web.
The Football Girl is cooler than Tom Brady’s hair fluttering in the fan at his Uggs shoot and here are her Start/Sits for this week.
Check out my post on today’s injuries and the fantasy fallout over at The Fake Football.
The Fantasy Douche breaks down the horrible Chiefs’ play calling.
Our friend Zach Law interviews Rotoworld’s Evan Silva. It’s a good read!
Dynasty League Football takes a look at some players whose stock is falling.
Bryan Fontaine from Pro Football Focus takes a look at Dynasty value for those of you out of this year’s race.
Matt Waldman always brings the goods and this week delves into some NFL history.
Our friends at the NY Times 5th Down Blog take a look at Aaron Rodgers’ amazing season and put it into historical perspective.
Mr. Jimbo Day predicts this week’s games over at his site GoAheadScore.
If you don’t read Chris Wesseling’s The Morning After you are doing yourself a disservice.
Sara the Fantasy Football Librarian is one of my favorite people in the entire world!
Jacob Sloan of Fantasy Football Fools goes in-depth into how to analyze a trade.
