After one week, here's an assesment of what happened.
Things generally went well for Bucky's Goodgers. Painter and Stanton put up big points. Gotta feel good about the starting RBs. Mike Hart gets the vast majority of carries. It seems it was only chance that Hart didn't get 1, 2, or even 3 scores. Kevin Grady did look good but he also fumbled. That helps. Albert Young the focus of Iowa offense and Damien Sims doesn't break off an 80 yard TD. The one negative is the Indiana running game -- neither Thigpen or McCray appear ready to take over at Indiana. Dorien Bryant is huge, Steve Breaston has a decent game.
The Fightin' Farmers have to be worried about the QB position. Cupito has a terrible game considering the competition. Put another way, if Cupito can't pass for 200+ yards against Kent State, what opponent will he? Chad Henne looked worse than last year. The Fightin'
Farmers hope clearly came from the Running Back position this past week. Of course, the Plow had to be the story of the BTFFL week. Chris Wells sees playing time and looked good. No reason to think Javon Ringer won't get a ton a work. Tony Hunt's mediocre day is a cause for concern but he did get into the end zone. Ted Ginn had a great day, DWill and the PSU offense looked good.
Oh the Spitfires. Max Powers disappoints, we all know that. At least Anthony Morelli has a good day. Pittman has a good game statistically but Spitz has to be worried about Chris Wells appearance in the game. Illinois running game looks good. Mario Manningham catches a late TD but Herbert and Scott do nothing. PJ Hill a bright spot but doesn't appear to have the kind of ability Calhoun had to carry a fantasy team.
The Golden Goblins have to be excited. They get a huge game out of Troy Smith and a decent game from Drew Tate. Tyrell Sutton has a mediocre outing. If Mike Kafka, or CJ Ba-shay, can't throw the ball down field Sutton could have trouble all year. Kory Sheets has a bigger game than anyone imagined possible -- could Tiller actually utilize a feature back this year? James Hardy does okay but Max Powers could be looking to screw up more than one team. Butler looks good right out of the gate.
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The owner/GM of the Goodgers has quite the audasity to attack the Farmer's QB situation. We feel we're just fine in that department. We have two solid starters, and after Zwick's performance last week, Troy Smith's #1 backup. Cupito rarely had an opportunity to pass in a game that Mason wanted to restablish the run in. I think you'll find that Cupito will have to pass a lot this season when the Gophers are playing from behind. While I'd much prefer a running QB, at the point which Cupito was selected, he'll turn out to be a fine pick and fantasy player.
Not an attack -- just an opinion. I didn't see the game, who did? ESPN 360, how many fucking College Football packages do I have to pay for to see all the Gopher games? Anyway, without seeing the game I just have to guess. What I don't understand is why the Gophers, a team that knows how to run the ball, if it knows anything, why a team like the Gophers doesn't work on the pass against such an inferior opponent. Since Coop didn't have a decent game against Kent State -- he essentially played, oh, about as well as I could have, as long as I could yell "hike" for a few hours and hand the ball off to the right guy, I just think that is an indication that the Gopher passing game is going to have serious problems this year. As usual, I could be wrong, and you certainly could be right about the Gophers throwing out of need, but I just don't see Cupito getting it done (from a fantasy perspective). I agree with you that he was cheap and given that, any decent performance will be a bargain.
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