FFL: I survived Carson Palmer

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(Cross Posted at UFSL)

Watching the Bengals-Ravens game on Sunday I was starting to worry.  I mean Carson Palmer and the Bungle offense looked atrocious.  And sure enough, Palmer ended up with 3 measly points.  (Maurice Jones-Drew was disappointing as well with only 4).  That should teach me to pick a Bengal (I am a life long Steeler fan).

But as fate would have it, I still won (87-68).  Plaxico Burress, Hines Ward, and Lee Evans all had good games; exceeding their projected point levels.  And of course the Purple Jesus Adrian Peterson kicked in double digits even in a losing cause.

But I have to admit what really helped was that Brad had Kevin Curtis and Willis McGahee neither of whom saw action.  Toss in a terrible day for Braylon Edwards, in a ugly loss for Cleveland, and he couldn’t win despite a nice game by Drew Brees.

I will take the 87 points and the win.  That point total would have been good enough to win all but two games in our league.  But I am not going trust Carson Palmer again until I have some concrete evidence that the Bengals can score some points.  Sunday they could barely make first downs.

At least unlike Ben I didn’t lose a critical player for the season.  But I will have to get better at QB to compete with the top teams given that a couple of you topped 120 points.

I won’t tease Brad to hard about the zeros from Curtis and McGahee as I am apt to pull the same thing myself at least once this season.