Sam the Savior

Tony’s Brown Jacket hopes are contingent on a QB that just left quarantine.

Tony has been putting his lips in strange places this year so it comes as no surprise that the person he is relying on most to save his season recently returned from a disease commonly referred to as the ‘Kissing Disease’. Mononucleosis, the saliva transmitted virus, put Jets QB Sam Darnold in quarantine for several weeks. Prior to Sammy-Swap-Spit’s return, Tony’s DelFL record was an outstanding 4-1. So why did the DelFL have to endure all the nonsensical WeChat posts about how Sam Darnold returning was the key to unlocking the DelFL trophy room at the end of the year?

Because Tony is obviously playing 3-Dimensional chess while the rest of us are playing with our 3rd grade Pogs.

Either that or Tony picked up another type of virus in Thailand. A virus would explain the odd behavior. But, Tony behaving oddly is as unsurprising as Boner being fired for someone else’s miscarriage (allegedly). It is the characteristics of Tony’s oddity that is baffling. Tony isn’t getting upset about high scoring losses. He is not tied down to his drafted roster (wherein past years, his players were drafted by the almighty algorithm, so surely they are the best and untradeable). He is winning, reportedly big, in sports gambling. None of this is standard.

Tony has lost two games in a row in the DelFL and he isn’t panicking. Odd again, but Sam Darnold to Robbie Anderson, the connection he has pinned his entire season on, looks dynamic. The 92 yard bomb to Anderson early in the Jets-Cowboys game was a ‘Told-you-so’ moment in a life that has been full of ‘Please-don’t-tell-anyone’. Tony for the first time, even when losing, is confident in his strategy and future success. And just as we will never be able to fully comprehend his algorithm, Tony’s season relies on a fantasy QB he doesn’t even roster. You might be saying, ‘but that doesn’t make any sense’. It does to Tony, and that’s all that matters.