JLM Week 4 -- SHOOTOUT!!

In what was probably the highest scoring "close" JLM week ever (well, two of the competitors were close...excluding a certain math teacher who fell in love with a true freshman quarterback and two Bayou Bengals) the tie at the top was broken, and the new leader is........... Roswell's own me.

After refusing to ride the Tebow bandwagon for three weeks I finally gave in and picked the "Baby Rhino" against Ole piss. As I watched the game unfold I felt hoodwinked. Tebow is slow. He doesn't make people miss. Even though they run that dang QB draw 215 times per quarter I didn't think he was accumulating any stats. And his passes! Man is his throwing motion awkward. This guy has no chance of making it to the NFL. But something funny happened during the fourth quarter. They showed his stat line. He had 140+ rushing yards and over 200 passing, not to mention 2 rushing touchdowns and two passing. I started doing the math in my head. Holy crap, he was on course to put up over 50 JLM points! And I didn't even see it coming even though I was watching almost the entire game. Shows how much I know, right. Anyway I was going to pick Felix Jones instead of McFadden because D-Mac had a concussion against Bama and I thought he might not play. Good call by me. McFadden got 24 JLM points along with Dixon to give me 101 from my starting backfield. Harvin and Burton went for 18 each and Hall, Byrum, and Auburn combined to get me 17 (go figure, worst score was a bammer) for a 154 total. Could Larry catch up without Tebow?

Well, he started off well, picking up Erick Ainge off the scrap heap. Ainge torched the Arky St. Indians for 38 JLM points. Larry also got 24 from MSU's Dixon. Next up was Mario Fannin. After giving way to Ben Tate for most of the game Mario got in late and galloped 67 yards for his 3rd touchdown of the game with under 30 seconds left to collect a whopping 28 JLM points (probably the only time all year an AU player will account for 20+ JLM points). Burton and Lucas Taylor teamed up for another 40 and Larry was making up ground fast. Too bad he had the same idea with DJ Hall and Wes Byrum as me. With Tennessee's win he ended up with a total of 147 to come up 7 points short.

James was led by Taylors' 22 and Harvin's 18. He had a bold pick with Kodi Burns at QB (love the optimism) and got burned when Kodi gave way to Cox in the 2nd quarter. James ended up with 77 to limp home in 3rd this week.

So after four weeks, I lead with 2 wins, but I think Larry has the most overall points. It's starting to get interesting. Now we'll get to see if any of us have any sack and pick some Auburn players going into the Swamp. Gulp.