2004 Week #1
1st Place Decepticons 147.5 pts
4th Place BeaudoinBrothers 125.5 pts
The Decepticons opened the 2004 season with a close win in the defense of their league title. In 2003, the team only won one week and they have already tied this number after week #1 in 2004. Culpepper and the defense carried the team on their shoulders. Culpepper had the best week of any player in the league with 5 TD passes and no turnovers for 41 pts. On defense, Ray Lewis lead the way with 16.5 pts, the best performance by a defensive player except Bruschi. Donnie Edwards also had a nice game with 11.5 pts. The Decepticons outscored every other team on defense by 7 pts (38 pts for Dec vs 31 pts for Wax). This ended up being enough to edge WaxOnWaxOff for the win.
WaxOnWaxOff started the season very well, justifying the Las Vegas odds which make them league favorites in 2004. Receivers did the job with Moss scoring 16 pts, T Owens 29 pts, and Heap 13 pts. Rookie Carson Palmer dominated every other rookie by exploiting the Jets D for 18 pts. The second best rookie in the league in week #1 was M Clayton from UJ and he got 9 pts so Palmer at least doubled all rookies. The first place slipped away from Wax due to a sub-par performance from the Panthers D at home on Sunday Night. The Panthers only scored 3 pts. First round pick McAllister can also be blamed as he also only scored 3 pts in a disappointing performance.
The Spitoons finished 3rd or above only 4 times last year. This year will definitely be better for them. They finished 3rd, closely beating the BeaudoinBrothers, OldNo7, and UJ. The Spitoons' RBs exploded for 6 TDs and 53 pts together. S Alexander and A Green were the first two draft picks of the Spitoons and they delivered. Quentin Griffin scored 30 pts on the bench. The team is loaded at RB. However, the picture is not rosy at WR. The team was expecting to be dominant at the position but Steve Smith went down to an injury while other WRs had average or disappointing games. One week into the season, a team strength changed to a question mark. At QB, the team does not look too good as expected. Bulger struggled to score 11 pts against the Cards at home and he can consider himself lucky that one of his INT was called back due to a penalty.
The BeaudoinBrothers were very average in week #1. Jamal Lewis could not get anything going without Jonathan Ogden on the line. Shockey dropped an easy TD pass in his game and finished with only 3 pts. Backup Gates may take over him as the starter because Gates was one rare backup that did well for the BeaudoinBrothers. McNabb proved that if he has a good WR, he can put up huge numbers. He scored 36 pts, trailing only Culpepper for the week's best player. LT started his long career with the BeaudoinBrothers with an ok performance of 14 pts. He needs to do better to lift the team among the leaders.
OldNo7 started the 2004 season on the wrong foot. The coach made several costly mistakes. He started injured Michael Barrow on defense. He started the Chiefs porous D against the Broncos. The Chiefs layed a goose egg in that game, allowing 34 pts and over 400 yds. KGB did not even get a tackle against the Panthers' struggling offensive line. OldNo7 scored only 14.5 pts with their 4 defensive players, which was the league's worst defensive score by far. Second worst were the Spitoons with 28.5 pts. Therefore, defense clearly sunk the team this week. Rookie Kevin Jones did not look very good against the Bears with only 5 pts. The only bright spot on the team was the performance of RBs P Holmes and C Portis who scored 50 pts together. They are clearly the team's strength. Their performance was not enough to carry the team though.
UncleJack entered the season as the league's big underdogs and they predictably finished last, although they could have easily finished 3rd with only 10 more points. TJ Duckett could not even score a single point for the Falcons as Dunn carried the load. The coach started backup Boo Williams instead of the first TE they drafted Randy McMichael. Boo scored 2 pts compared to 17 pts for McMichael. Ouch! Maybe the team knew the Titans D was going to be stellar. They scored 21 pts, which is almost double the 2nd best defense in the league, the Bucs with 12 pts.
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