The You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me weekly column is back. For those of you not use to it, it is a column dedicated to exactly what the phrase stats. Some of the common threads the column always focuses on are busts, overachievers, and crazy happenings that cause your fantasy football team to lose during the week. This is where you can let out that loss.

Week one was something out of this world, with eleven out of fifteen games being won by the road team. Also, the supposed dominating contenders pulled out some close games that weren’t expected to be. All of this will just go down as a crazy week one that, and a start to an adventurous 2006 NFL season.

The first statement we would like to make is to say how awful it was to see owners get beat by the leg of Jeff Wilkins. Yes, the kicker booted six out of seven field goals as the Rams miraculously could not punch the ball in the end zone after numerous opportunities given by Jake Plummer. Everyone can accept the occasional ten points that come from a kicker, and even that comes as a surprise. To have over twenty points from a kicker though is over doing it. Even in the fantasy crazy sports world. For everyone that jumped out this season to grab Rackers, etc, deserved this happening.

Keeping on the same wavelength of the Rams and Broncos game was the not so shocking performance by Jake Plummer. He looked like the good old Jake making mistakes left and right. All of this happened even with a strong running game from the Bell’s. It had to of been ugly to receive that low mark on your fantasy squad with people looking for Plummer to have a back to back solid season. Now if you have Plummer you may want to already think about picking up Jay Cutler. He is only a bad half from Plummer away from seeing the field.

The Monday Night Football game between the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers was nothing but an embarassment for ESPN’s main Monday Night game. We’ve never seen a more horrible game from a quarterback standpoint. Aaron Brooks just showed Saints fans the truth that they held on to him five years too long. Marty Shottenheimer showed that he thinks the Chargers are going to have to baby Philip Rivers like the Dolphins did with Jay Fiedler. It just did not make sense to see the oddity of how poorly scripted that game went. The Chargers did win in overwhelmingly fashion, 27-0, but played like they wanted to win 3-0.

Lets play the game like professionals and not high school athletics. It’s understandable that Rivers was starting his first game but he has to learn from his mistakes sooner or later. It would have been a good idea to let him experiment a bit in that game then against a team where it will make Rivers look horrible in a tough loss.

A lot of people will say that the Raiders offense may have been the worst showcase of the weekend. If you say that, then you obviously did not see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers try to function against the Ravens. They could not muster up a yard, pass completion, or anything positive offensively. In fact, the three shutouts over the weekend were the poorest performances by a non scoring team combined ever. Usually a team will come close to scoring, whether it is red zone mistakes or missed field goals. But for the Packers, Raiders, and Buccaneers thoughts of scoring for week one were left behind in the preseason.

On the amazing side of “You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me” the Jets offense gets that award this week. It was good to see that old connection of Chad Pennington and Lavernues Coles come back to life. The Jets are not going to jump on anymore teams in the near future but will have some marginal fantasy value based on Pennington staying healthy.

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