I'm afraid you need to step back from the fantasy world into reality.
Yes, you "whooped" me by 22 points, hardly end of story; I'll have probably the two largest margins of victory in four weeks after tonight but because it's my team and not yours, it's just "overperforming", right? But the guru, or whoever the hell sets the "expected" points has nothing to do with what actually happens, so you can talk about the guru and differentials and outperforming all you want. Maybe I should be the guru, since I went out and purposely picked up Houston's D against a ****** team, something that obviously the great, all powerful guru neglected to consider. Guess he/she/it ain't all that bright after all. But then neither am I, given I benched Mason over Burleson
Your last two wins came against teams without all their best players either due to injury or bye weeks. Gloat if you like, but every time someone comes back and says something you go back again to overperforming without ever objectively looking at your own team. This week you played, as already pointed out, a team with two of their top three draft picks on bye week. Forte and Smith both "overperformed" versus the Guru's predictions yet you neglect that. Rodgers, Wayne and Benson signficantly "overperformed" when you faced me to the tune of about 20 points. Gonzalez, Benson, Tynes and your D "overperformed" in week 2. Wayne and Benson "overperformed" in week 1 and you lost. BTW, do the math for this week. My "overperformers" you mention, D and K, totaled a whopping 6 points over what the guru said. Forte and Smith "overperformed" by 13. We can go back and forth on "overperforming" all frickin' day long. I can list absolutely everyone's "overperformers" just by taking five minutes and looking at the scores.
Do you get the point yet? All this BS about "overperformed" is pretty much irrelevant, as your record dictates. Yet you keep throwing it out there. Dude, your team is no more and no less guilty of "overperforming" than anyone else's, you're just utterly lacking in introspection. You'll be 3-1 and have about 300 points. I'll be 2-2 and have about exactly the same amount of points (one of my losses coming when Brees faced Detroit and I had to play against Brees - wah, wah, woe is me). So will other people. Some of us have faced injuries and bye weeks, you haven't.
And yeah, thus far I completely agree about TO. Part of it is QB, part of it is his not playing in the preseason to get used to his QB or the offense in general and part of it is he's old. Honestly I was hoping to play Gonzalez and either Bennett or Mason (who I guess since he caught another TD pass is still overperforming) until TO got up to speed. Sadly, to paraphrase Dressel, Gonzalez sprained his hymen (Corey?) and played all of one set of downs. Such are the breaks of the game.
Until about week 8 I'm only expecting to be about .500 thanks to injuries and bye weeks. You talk like you honestly believe you'll be 7-1. We'll see what reality brings.
