Week 18 is a dark time in fantasy football seasons. For most, the season has become merely a shadow, a whisper of history carried on a cold wind. For the lucky, they survived the journey and captured their glory with a championship victory in Week 17. But for those who dare enter the dark forest...
Most of the time, an NFL player’s decline is something we see coming, then watch as it happens over the course of a season or two or three. Seldom does it happen all at once.
When Josh Allen completed a pass to Amari Cooper on Sunday night, then Cooper lateraled it back to Allen, who ran it in for a TD, Allen was credited with a TD pass and a TD run. On the same play.
That love of extra football gets a dose of steroids each Thanksgiving, when we get three games to feast on while we feast on our holiday turkey. Plus, for the second time, there also is a Black Friday game.