Playoffs Week 1

Battle Angel (6-7) vs Fobsters (6-7)
These two teams split their regular season matchup and only Battle Angel's superior PF gave them the home field advantage. Both teams lost coming into the playoffs -- and scored less than 90 points each -- so neither really has a momentum advantage. During the last four weeks, the Fobsters have only scored over the century mark one time. Battle Angle has done it twice, and was definitely more consistent the other weeks in-between. Still, this will be a close battle.

Vu's team will be led by Drew Brees and his throwing arm. The bad news is that the receiving corps is a little thin right now. Greg Jennings has been good all season, but Andre Johnson got hurt again and Vernon Davis and Malcolm Floyd are barely capable starters. Also, getting a break out season from RB Fred Jackson was great, but now Jackson is done for the year and an ailing Cedric Benson or recent free agent pickup Mike Tolbert will have to step in. That's not good.

As for the Fobsters, they are similarly constructed with a great QB and a wide open passing game. Tom Brady will lead Steve Smith, Jason Witten, Jordy Nelson, and Dez Bryant into their matchup. That should be enough to give them the edge. The problem is, their prize off-season acquisition, Michael Turner, has been slowed by injury recently and probably won't give them much of a ground game either. Look for this game to come down to which quarterback can submit the bigger game and which receiver will explode to help his team to a win!

Ante Up (8-5) vs Dirty Birds (8-5)
Both times they met this season, Ante Up wiped the floor with Dirty Birds, scoring over 120+ each game and beating the flailing birds by an average of 63.225 points. Ouch. However, those games were all played early in the season, before the Tebow Experience. Since switching to Tebow in WK11, the Birds haven't lost, eaking out wins against opponents that scored 68.1, 72, and 87.85 points. Most of those wins came without Adrian Peterson playing either.

After starting off 1-5, the DBs ended the season on a 6-1 streak, which can be attributed to their run-and-shoot attack that featured Larry Fitzgerald, Roddy White, Dwayne Bowe, and most importantly, Rob Gronkowski. The amazing tight end was the sixth best RB/WR/TE in fantasy this year, and has gone over twenty points in four of his last five games.

All of this is impressive but the magic train could stop here as Jon faces off against Jae, owner of the highest scoring team this year -- by a wide margin. Ante Up hasn't scored less than 100 points since WK7, and in fact, only had two games less than that mark this season. They have routinely shot past the 140+ point mark MVP candidate Aaron Rodgers and an astounding ground game led by LeSean McCoy and Ray Rice. Rodgers is the best QB in the land and McCoy and Rice are the top two backs.

The reason Ante Up didn't win a few more games probably had to do with their underpowered receiving crew, which is headlined by Santonio Holmes and a fading Reggie Wayne. It took a late season surge by Laurent Robinson to give Ante Up some consistent play from the position. Odds are good that Ante Up will mow down the Dirty Birds for a win (especially if Peterson remains on the sidelines), but you never know when Tebow magic is in the house!