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Twenty months of silence, and then somebody went back through the recaps. How it ended, the Hall of Shame, the record book, and the numbers that follow every one of you into September.
Nobody kept a record of the 2024 season, which was, on reflection, exactly the point. Twenty months of quiet. No trades, no trash talk, no 11:58 a.m. panic-add of a backup tight end. Everybody went silent and quietly hoped the rest would forget.
The recaps did not forget. Every number below came out of the CBS write-ups. That is what is going to hurt.
A grown man won a championship with a team named after his own perspiration, and the truly unforgivable part is that he deserved it. Jay closed the title game 174.7 to 125.2 and finished as the best game-day coach in the league by a margin that is not a margin — he earned his roster more than three times the points of any other manager. He set more different lineups than anyone alive. He churned that bench like a man with something to hide.
The trophy has been sitting in his house, unsupervised, since 2024. Nobody is making an accusation. Nobody has independently verified it is still there either.
The commissioner made the championship game at 9-8. They didn't earn that trip, they found it, like a twenty in a coat pocket. Then they showed up to the biggest game of the year and got handed 49.5 points of humility on CBS, which is worse than national television because at least on national television somebody would have edited it.
In their defense: Week 14 they hung 189.5, the highest score anybody posted all season, on the back of a Josh Allen game that had literally never happened in NFL history. In their non-defense: two weeks earlier they won a game 68.4 to 46.6, the fewest combined points any two teams managed all year. Two franchises, one full Sunday, 115 points. Both should have been contracted on the spot.
James had the best team in the league and it is not close. Seven-game win streak. Lamar Jackson going nuclear for 518.2 points, the best quarterback season anybody had, including a 46.2-point Week 7 in which he functionally played by himself. The number one seed, the number one player, and every advantage a fantasy manager can be handed.
Here is the stat that ought to be tattooed somewhere he can see it daily: for the year, Ladd McConkey averaged 18.4 points on James's bench and 8.6 in his lineup. The kid was measurably better when James was not paying attention. He built a juggernaut and then spent four months proving its most dangerous opponent was the man who owned it.
Permanent record. No appeals process. Nine entries, each one load-bearing.
Tyreek Hill. Travis Etienne. Davante Adams. The worst opening trio in the league by a country mile, and it bought him a 4-12 season. Ricky didn't draft a roster, he assembled a support group — three men who each had their best year while he was in high school.
Six times worse than the average manager. Week 8 they benched Patrick Mahomes for Caleb Williams and lost by 9.1. Week 9 they benched Mahomes again, threw DeAndre Hopkins on the pile for good measure, and lit up 31.1 more. Two managers. One team. Zero learning.
Week 15. Playoffs. Elimination on the line. Gabriel looked at Baker Mayfield, looked at Matthew Stafford, and chose violence against himself. Stafford put up 7.8. It was his first start of the year for the team and CBS openly printed that it “might be his last.”
He had the best team in the league at 11-3 and in the final week he did not open the app, leaving Ladd McConkey in his lineup knowing the kid was scoring zero. Two weeks later he overruled the projections in an actual playoff game and torched another 23.9. That one ended his season.
Roy's entire season was one wide receiver in a trench coat. Kupp good: nearly unbeatable. Kupp bad: never won. Not one time. 0-4. We could have skipped watching Roy's games entirely and just checked one box score. Several of us did.
Marc played Saquan My Balls twice and lost by a combined 114.1 points — the widest gap between any two teams in the league. One of them was 149.9 to 62.3. That is not a matchup, that is a hate crime with a box score.
1.6 fantasy points. Worse than every other player in the league that week. He touched the ball eight times and finished behind where he started. He ran backwards for a living that Sunday, and Marc lost by 8.8. Do that math.
Matthew scooped Anthony Richardson off the waiver wire and started him immediately, and CBS's write-up was simply that he “found out why Richardson was available.” Richardson and Cedric Tillman combined for 13.9 points. The information was free. It was everywhere. He chose not to look.
Week 11 was the first time all year Ricky set a perfect lineup. Every position optimal. Gained 19.9 points doing it. Final score: 180.5 to 98.6. The man finally did his homework and got beaten by 82 points. CBS's own recap gave him a “slow clap.” We did not write that. They did.
Weeks 6 through 17 — the stuff worth keeping.
| Figure | What It Was | When |
|---|---|---|
| 189.5 | Highest team score of the seasonRaiders of the Lost Yards ending Moose Knuckles' seven-game win streak | Week 14 |
| 64.2 | Josh Allen — biggest single game by anybodyFirst player in NFL history with three passing and three rushing TDs in one game | Week 14 |
| 63.2 | Saquon Barkley — 255 rushing yardsNinth-most in a game in NFL history | Week 12 |
| 58.9 | Ja'Marr Chase, Saquan My BallsMore than half his team's points, by himself, on a Thursday | Week 10 |
| 58.8 | Jonathan Taylor, Raiders of the Lost Yards218 rushing yards and a pair of 65-plus yard touchdowns | Week 16 |
| 50.6 | Joe Burrow, M and MThrew for 300-plus and four scores. Lost the real game. Never change. | Week 10 |
| 518.2 | Lamar Jackson's season total, Moose KnucklesBest QB in the league. Won nothing. His manager was busy. | Season |
| 0.6 | Closest game of the yearMoose Knuckles 116.4, Raiders of the Lost Yards 115.8. Nobody slept. | Week 10 |
| 46.6 | Lowest score of the season — Joe Buck Yourself166 total yards, worst team-yardage figure all year, three starters at zero | Week 12 |
| 43.0 | Best bench performance in the league that weekJerry Jeudy, sitting on Jay's bench, while Jay won the game anyway | Week 13 |