Our game of the week featured the league’s highest scorer, the 24th time in AFL history a manager has won both the Tom Brady Award and the Peyton Manning award in the same week.

Eric led the way with 157.32 points, good for 32nd on our league’s all-time single-game team scoring list. Week 2 marks his 17th career Tom Brady Award, which moves him back into a tie with Anthony for the all-time league lead, and his 18th Peyton Manning Award, easily the most all time. He has a career record of 18-7 in games of the week while Alex falls to 0-2 in his appearances.

Eric was aided significantly by Derrick Henry, who was the week’s top scorer at all positions with 49.00 points, the #5 all-time single game performance by a running back in the AFL. Under our old scoring system, Henry still would have turned in the #5 all-time performance, but with just 48.2 points.

Incredibly, this was not Henry’s best game in our league. Back in Week 14 of 2018, Henry turned in a 49.5-point game for Anthony Battle, which still stands as the 4th highest running back score in AFL history.

If there’s one negative to bring Eric back to earth a bit, it’s his league-worst 6.8 points from the kicker position through Week 2, which wasn’t helped by the Miami Dolphins 35-0 loss and Jason Sanders’s goose egg in the game.

Back on the positive, Eric is back in sole possession of the AFL’s longest active 100-point game streak. We’ll get to Anthony’s performance later, but Eric is now alone with a 6-game streak. It’s a far cry from his record 23-game streak from Week 11 of 2017 through Week 5 of 2019, but even on that streak he had to get to six games before he could get to 23.

Our second highest score of the week was Evan’s 156.26-point effort, which falls just a few spots behind Eric’s on our all-time list at #36.

Evan had a great set of performances, including our top starting wide receiver, kicker, and defensive scores of the week.

Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp led the way for Evan with 32.72 points, good for the #50 wide receiver score in league history.

As alluded to, Evan also earned defensive and kicker coach of the week honors. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense had a pair of pick-6s and wound up with a 30.58-point day! Meanwhile, the top five kickers for Week 2 were not rostered, but Evan had the best of the rest with Indianapolis Colts kicker Rodrigo Blankenship and his 13.9 points.

Evan currently leads the AFL 37.58 points from the defense position through two weeks. Andrew, meanwhile, is dead last with just 2.80 point, but at least he got a positive total from the Giants defense after losing points from the Packers in Week 1.

Evan’s week could have been even better than it was. He would have won the Tom Brady Award if he hadn’t taken the coaching risk of starting Rams tight end Tyler Higbee at FLEX instead of Chargers receiver Mike Williams. That move cost him a league high 16.4 points, and instead of the Brady Award, Evan takes home the Hugh Jackson Award for Week 2.

On the flip side of the coaching spectrum, Stephen April is earning his self-given moniker of ‘BEST IN THE WORLD,’ after taking home a second straight coach of the week win. He single-handedly gave our league a positive week by earning a league-high 30.68 points, also earning the win since that point total was far higher than his margin of victory over William.

Stephen took two coaching risks. He earned 12.78 points by starting Matthew Stafford at quarterback over Joe Burrow. It was the second straight week Burrow was projected to outscore Stafford and failed to do so. That alone was enough to flip the result of this matchup, but Stephen earned an addition 17.90 points by starting Cardinals receiver Rondale Moore at FLEX instead of Jalen Reagor. Whether Stephen saw something nobody else did or just took a shot in the dark, it worked out for him and that’s ultimately all that matters this week.

Stephen currently leads our league in kicker points, earning 22.5 of them Rams kicker Matt Gay through the first two weeks. In fact, Stephen and William, who has used Cowboys kicker Greg Zuerlein in the season’s first two weeks, are the only two managers with double digit points from their kickers in each of the first two games this year.

William was our only manager in Week 2 to suffer an unlucky loss. His 124.40 points were fifth in the league; he just got unlucky with the matchup.

Perhaps the most intriguing game of the week, the matchup between the two former members of DeMatha’s Crew team came down to the final minutes of Monday Night Football and featured our league’s lucky winner, to balance William’s unlucky loss.

Will held a narrow lead of less than two points with less than four minutes to go when the Lions began feeding D’Andre Swift in garbage time.

Alex’s 87.02 points were good for just 10th in the league this week and he becomes our first manager to win a game with fewer than 100 points in 2021.

Will was our only manager without a Top 5 starter at any position this week. Alex wasn’t much better but he did have Patrick Mahomes, the #5 starting quarterback with 27.42 points in a Sunday night loss to the Ravens, and that made the difference.

The one game that may have been as intriguing as the Massimini/Kincaid matchup was Kennedy/Saunders. Sean entered Sunday Night Football with Lamar Jackson left to play, and while his deficit wasn’t insurmountable, a quick pick-6, which this year costs an additional 4-point penalty for the touchdown return, put Jackson in a big hole. Even after pulling himself back above water by halftime, Sean had good reason for his lack of confidence he would win.

What came after was nothing short of remarkable. Jackson put together such an incredible second half performance that he wound up leading the league in points at the quarterback position with 33.98, good for #87 on our all-time QB list, so while Sean’s 24-point margin of victory may look comfortable on paper, it was nothing of the sort until that incredible second half performance by the Ravens star quarterback.

Sean is now on a five-game streak of 100-point games, the second longest active streak behind Eric. Meanwhile, Brandon has now started the season with back-to-back weeks of less than 100 points. He’s been within five points both times, but he’s in danger of equaling his career-worst three-game streak of sub-100-point games set between weeks 5 and 7 of our inaugural 2013 season.

This also marked Sean’s first regular season victory against Brandon in the AFL. His only head-to-head victory prior to this one was in his AFL title game victory in 2019.

Cory has had his own troubles with Anthony, but not so this week. Cory had his second straight week of 135+ points, setting himself up to potentially rank #1 in consistency when that metric begins factoring into power rankings next week. Anthony, meanwhile, went first to worst.

After leading the league in scoring with the 9th highest single-game team score in AFL history a week ago, Anthony finished dead last with just 84.22 points, ending his streak of 100-point games at five and leaving Eric in sole possession of the league’s longest active streak.

Cory wound up not needing him at all, but Aaron Jones went off for him on Monday Night Football, racking up four touchdowns, three of them through the air, on his way to a 41.44-point day. That score ranks #18 all-time for starting running backs in AFL history.

If the season were to end today, in a deadlocked AFL West featuring four 1-1 teams, Cory would hold the division’s playoff spot thanks to his division-leading 273.26 points, second in the league only to Eric’s 284.08 points.