Originally Posted On lod2015.blogspot.com September 10, 2025
Original Author: Wings
The LOD’s 10th season is off to a start and the first week gave plenty to talk about around the League as teams test out a fully redrafted roster for the first time in more than 5 years. While it’s definitely too early to take anything away, week 1 is all about overreactions so let’s start firing these takes off.
WINGS 179.2 – ANT 112.9
Both these teams pick back up right where they left off; Wings getting a boring victory and Ant getting mollywhopped by Josh Allen. In all seriousness, the week started off shaky for the defending champion- AJ Brown pissed himself with 0 targets and Ladd lacked the performance to make up for it. With this, flashbacks of his 0-5 start the last time he was champ started to rear their ugly head.
Into Sunday, luck swung away from Ant as Joe Burrow was unable to get anything going the second half, the Miami Dolphins was gassed being on the field all game and George Kittle had an early exit after a hot start. Into primetime, a draft-day bet between Khalil Shakir and Keon Coleman played out with Keon gaining the upper hand as Josh Allen went nuclear in the 4th quarter.
Horrible week 1s aren’t a foreign thing for Ant. The team actually has never won its opening game in the recorded history of the Sleeper Era (going back to 2019). In past years, this would usually signal an immediate shift to tank mode. With no draft pick trading available until the offseason, it’ll be fun to see how Ant responds with no incentive to lose out- just hope it doesn’t result in questionable deadline trades.
Wings, however, is happy to shake off the Championship Hangover threat and can take a victory lap in silencing the haters of Josh Allen going in the first round. You’re forgiven for your trespasses, Ryan. A 68-point performance (with QB scoring nerfed) will not happen every week as much as I wish it did, but weeks like this will take the Alitas from an average team to one that can compete for the Commissioner’s Cup. The team continues to move forward guided by the mantra of Faith, Family, Football, and will go as far as their star QB takes them.
SOUNDCLOUD 193.7 – GIO 182.4
The debut of LOD’s newest member went from a spanking to one of the League’s more memorable upsets rather quickly on Sunday. Gio talked a big game being single again and ready to unleash that pent up T on some fresh meat, and to be fair, he backed it up well. Brock Bowers, Bijan Robinson and a resurgent Garrett Wilson combined for over 70 points combined in the opening games of Sunday. It wasn’t until Baker came alive late in his game with two touchdowns to Emika Egbuka (one of the many WHOs of draft day) that Soundcloud came back to life.
In the late games, JSN was able to do enough to put this game into what would have been a safe 28-point lead if the last remaining player was anyone but Derrick Henry. With a dazzling 39 point performance that was blemished only by a costly fumble, Soundcloud would enter the LOD not only with a win but the best overall score of the week.
This is not Gio’s first time losing to a rookie in their debut. Back in 2020, Gio fell to Alex in a much lower scoring affair, but just as close (155.10 -144.85). As funny as it was at the time, Alex would finish the season 5-8 and Gio would go on to have a dominant 10-3 season that culminated in his first championship, will history repeat itself?
Soundcloud privately expressed concern at his team post-draft, believing he took too many gambles on rookies and other sleepers. However, performances like today showed that there’s a reason these rooks got the hype they did, and as long as the veteran presence of the likes of Baker, Henry and Deebo can provide reliable support, this team could be poised to make a bigger splash than most expected going into the season.
BRYAN 117.8 – RYAN 110.1
There was Bad Blood brewing between these two teams long before kickoff. Bryan, inspired by a revelation during a System of a Down concert, appears to have dedicated his season to the ongoing war against “The Man.” And nobody represents this more to him than Taylor Swift. Countless debates in group chats later, the two were fated to meet in week 1 and hash this out on the fantasy field. This turned into a good old fashioned mid-off. AKA Not too many highlights to talk about on either team.
For Bryan- Jakobi gamble paid off and after Bowers exited early he was a target machine for Geno. With an average to poor performance from everyone else, though, this ended up being an overall forgettable showing.
Over on Ryan’s side, the big story was his bench, as in it scored a lot of points. Justin HIMbert, Cowboy Pookie and Hollowood Brown combined for over 90 points, or just over 80% of what his starting players were able to produce. Unfortunately, a slow, slow start for the Vikings made it impossible for JJ to pull off any heroics unless the game somehow went to OT.
Bryan escapes week 1 with a win despite a mediocre overall performance. But, as always with this team, the moral victory is closer to a blowout. The universe blesses Bryan with back-to-backs versus the two biggest devil worshippers in the LOD.
ERIK 113.7 – NAUCH 109.3
This matchup flew even more under the radar than the (B)ryan bowl and that’s really just down to poor marketing. Both these fellas are in the “just moved in with their girl” honeymoon phase and if you’ve ever seen Get Out that’s basically what happens in the first year. It doesn’t help that these two also put on an even shittier and midder performance than the guys above.
As it usually is with both these teams, one of them needed to end up frauding a win and it came down to Sunday Night with James Cook getting a late-game tuddy and Mark Andrews in a fetal position cause he’s still not over that dropped pass from January. I guess I gotta give a bit more credit to Erik cause he got this win in spite of Xavier Worthy getting assassinated on the field but that’s all I can say. Looking forward to these two squaring off in the toilet bowl.
CHUCK 174.2 – ROB 135.2
A tale of two seasons. Chuck’s rosterbating continues and if you asked Rob how his day was going this week you’d think someone slashed the tires on his Mercedes even after the Chargers dub.
Chuck was in control of this one all week. The Mahomes/Kelce stack was money on Friday and slapped Rob’s team harder than Teair Tart did to the future husband of a climate terrorist. Sunday was even more satisfying for Chuck after CMC ended up being the only 9er to not get injured after the first week and putting in a hard worker type of week.
Rob’s swag money autodraft team was all alone in 5th this week, with a large gap above and below him points-wise. What this tells me is that his team is yet to choose their destiny for the year and as is expected from his squad, a late bloom followed by a mad playoff push will be in his future.
While only 4th-best this week. Chuck seems to have the most well-rounded team (along with Gio) to start the year and is still considered a favorite to three-peat as Commissioner’s Cup champion (it would actually be a fourpeat if we counted pre-2023!).