Clint (3–1) vs. Tony (2–2)
Average Scores
Clint: 144 (3rd)
Tony: 130 (8th)
Been a real bouncy year for Tony’s line while Clint is just back to the same old business of putting up big scores and bringing in the wins.
After two straight wins, Jon predicted Tony to start losing (which isn’t something to take credit for since I always predict Tony to start losing), and it happened just as prognosticated:
Tony posted the second lowest score of the season in week three there but then bounced back up to at least an average number of 136 in a losing effort. He’s really only posted one good score this year in week two just when he didn’t need it, and now he sits at 2–2 heading into a pretty important match-up with Clint here.
Tone dawg has felt the injury bug this year with Godwin missing most of the season thus far and Covid Newton getting Fauci’d and missing two weeks.
The key cog in the wheel is Aaron Jones now, who has been just fine:
But unfortunately for Tony, Jones is on bye so he will be without Newton, Jones, and Godwin this week facing one of the league’s tougher teams.
As for Clint’s season to this point, it’s been three big scores and three wins in a row:
He hasn’t met much resistance the last two weeks facing the league’s two biggest fart faces, and now he gets fart face #3 so this is a real nice break for Clint after facing two fantasy titans to start the season.
It hasn’t been the most impressive team performance for Clint this year, as he has benefitted from three absolute bombs from Dak Prescott
Prescott has carried the load for Clint going for 144 points over the last three weeks.
This Week
With no Jones, Godwin, or Cam for Tony this week it’s going to take some pretty weird ass stuff to happen for Tony to get back in the win column here. He hasn’t set his lineup yet because apparently there are more important things in his life than fantasy football which is bullshit — but it looks like he will complete dipshits like James White, Christian Kirk, Emmanuel Sanders, and Jimmy Graham in his lineup.
That could be okay if Tony had any other actual good players in his lineup to make up for it, but he doesn’t. His top projected player is Jonathan Taylor at 14 points against Cleveland.
When your core group of players can’t even crack 20 points, you know you’re in some trouble.
Let’s just throw Dak Prescott on there too just for fun
Dak’s line is the roof here.
Tony would probably be lucky to crack 110 this week.
Clint’s Side
ESPN has Clint scoring 136 points this week, the 5th highest mark of the week.
He has no significant players missing and overall has nothing to worry about match-up wise. I suppose you could see Dak coming down into the 20 range if the Cowboys defense handle the Giants bad offense, but more than likely Dak is a 30+ guy again, and then Kamara, Conner, Allen Robinson, Julian Edelman, and Tyler Boyd come with floors that are more than high enough to completely dust off Tony here.
I think Clint probably gets off to a nice start with a 16 or so from Robinson (let’s say 8 catches for 90 yards) and then Kamara puts the match-up to bed in the first quarter of the Monday night game and Clint moves to 4–1, joining Hahn and myself at the top of the league.
Tony finds himself on a respirator, Clint wins 142–109