Thursday Night Observations

I’m annoyed. I had the Jets in my picking pool, and all the key players, none of whom I own, went off in a game that was supposed to be a defensive struggle. There was nothing redeeming about it except that Thursday night games are now done for the year.

I always try to finish what I start, so I’m writing this last one up (to the extent you can call it that), but next year I’m not sure I’ll be doing that. It’s a relic from my RotoWire days where part of my job was to provide “advice” or “guidance”.

But now, as I told Alan Seslowsky on the Week 17 video, I’m just a selfish fantasy owner rooting for his own teams and on a need-to-know basis about what’s going on in the league. That means during draft season I know almost everything, but as the year goes on I narrow my focus to what’s relevant to me — my players, my lineup decisions, the waiver wire, the playoff picture, etc.

I really don’t care about the workload share between Kareem Hunt and Jerome Ford, as I have neither. People ask me start/sit questions as though I would know, and I don’t.

So that’s that. I’ll keep writing about sports and fantasy sports because I enjoy it, but my days of doing homework — or worse, not doing homework and faking it — are behind me.

I hope Joe Flacco wins another Super Bowl so that “quarterbacks don’t matter” becomes a thing. I hope Deshaun Watson can get the massages he needs from consenting participants. I hope Aaron Hernandez can resurrect his career.

But this is probably the last Thursday Night Observations column, and there are no actual observations in it.