Sean has now won three of his last four matchups against Brandon dating back to the 2019 AFL title game. This week he was aided by a huge day by Lamar Jackson in Baltimore’s track meet loss to the Miami Dolphins.

Jackson had more than 300 passing yards, more than 100 rushing yards, plus three passing touchdowns to go with another score on the ground. In all, he scored 44.36 points for Sean. It was the best quarterback performance of the week and ranks 6th all-time among AFL quarterbacks.

Brandon had a balanced attack this week. He would’ve liked to get better production from Chase Edmonds and Wil Lutz, but the most disappointing performance on his roster was probably Travis Kelce who finished with less than eight points.

One of three managers this week without a single player, offensive or otherwise, in the Top 5 at their positions, Brandon probably wishes he’d taken a coaching risk by starting the Buccaneers defense instead of the Rams. Tampa Bay led all fantasy defenses in scoring this week while on Brandon’s bench and the 15.05-point difference between his two units would have clinched him a coaching win and a 2-0 start to the season.

Instead, Sean is one of three teams in the AFL East, and in the entire league, in fact, to remain undefeated. His victory in the game of the week gives him his 7th career Peyton Manning Award, tying Brandon for the seventh most all-time. Sean improves to 7-9 in his game of the week appearances while Brandon falls to 7-17, extending his lead for the most game of the week losses.

Sean will look to get better production out of his kicker spot going forward. Through two weeks, he has just two points from the position, the fewest in the AFL.

It may have been inadvertent, but Alex is going to live by the Bills and die by the Bills this season. Five of his nine starters play for Buffalo, and through two weeks he is definitely living by the Bills.

Offensively, Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs are lighting it up and Dawson Knox is giving Alex respectable production at the tight end position. This week, Alex gets dual defensive and kicker coach of the week honors for the Bills defense and Tyler Bass, Buffalo’s kicker.

The Bills led all starting defenses in the AFL with 23.38 points while Bass led the starting kickers with 13.60 points.

The effort by Buffalo overcame Pittsburgh’s huge Week 1 performance to give Alex the early league lead in season-long defensive scoring at 40.48 points. He’ll hope for continued consistency at the position moving forward.

Alex’s team total in Week 2 ranks as the 7th highest team score in AFL history and he did it despite Daulton Schultz scoring less than half a point before exiting Sunday’s game against Cincinnati with an injury. He also did it despite leaving the #2 kicker performance of the week on his bench as Bengals kicker Evan McPherson scored 13.90 points. The week’s top kicker, Graham Gano, was not rostered in the AFL in Week 2.

Stefon Diggs had a monstrous game Monday night with 12 catches for 148 yards and three scores. His 38.50 points was the highest wide receiver score of the week and ties him for 13th all-time among starting AFL wide receivers. The Bills defense also got Alex on a positional leaderboard as their point total ranks #91 all-time in the AFL.

Alex led all AFL managers with six Top 5 performers this week, including at least one at every position except tight end.

By leading the league in scoring, Alex takes home his 2nd career Tom Brady Award, his first coming in Week 4 of last season. He hopes to take home more than one of them in 2022.

Despite the loss, William shares the AFL Central division lead through Week 2. It is the only division with fewer than three teams sharing the lead.

Coming off an unlucky loss in Week 1, Cory scored an extra 23 points in Week 2. The increased output turned out to be unnecessary as Will had a historically bad performance.

Will’s score is the first to fall under 60 points since starting rosters expanded for the 2016 AFL season. Out of 1,578 regular season and playoff game scores in AFL history, only 20 have ever fallen below Will’s 59.75 points in Week 2.

Cory, meanwhile, got great production out of several players, none more than Jalen Hurts and Jaylen Waddle. They may spell their names differently, but the two gave Cory similar production with 34.82 points and 36.25 points, respectively.

Waddle’s performance was part of a historic day for the Miami Dolphins as he and teammate Tyreek Hill became the first pair of wide receivers in the Super Bowl era to each record 170 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the same game. Waddle now ranks 23rd on the AFL’s all-time single-game wide receiver list.

Cory could have been an even bigger beneficiary of the Dolphins offense, but he left Tua Tagovailoa on his bench. The Miami quarterback scored 41.49 points yesterday, the second highest quarterback score of the weekend. It ultimately didn’t matter as Jalen Hurts tied the AFL’s #84 all-time quarterback mark less than seven points behind Tua.

A bigger error for Cory was leaving the week’s #4 running back score on his bench as Damien Harris scored 17.30 points, well more than Travis Etienne who Cory took a coaching risk on. It wasn’t enough to land the Hue Jackson Award in Cory’s lap, but it does drop his coaching score after a solid Week 1.

Even so, Cory extended his league-leading active streak of 100-point games to six. With Will’s streak of four games coming to an end this week, nobody else in the AFL currently has more than two consecutive 100-point games.

For such a strong team score, there really wasn’t a whole lot to talk about for Evan’s team from a historical perspective. In fact, the most noteworthy thing for him this week, other than starting 2-0 in his title defense campaign, was that he left the third highest running back score on the bench in Tony Pollard and his 18.87 points.

Eric currently leads the AFL in kicker scoring through two weeks with 26.90 points, but that position is being undone by his defense where he is dead last in the league with just 6.47 points.

Eric is in a bit of trouble. After barely clearing the 100-point mark in Week 1, he fell below it by a few points in Week 2. While his scores are very consistent from a standard deviation standpoint, you have to score well over 100 points every week to consistently win in this league. Sometimes, even that isn’t enough, as one of our next two highlighted managers can attest to.

Stephen can’t seem to catch a break this season. Two weeks in and he’s been among the top six scorers twice. He has zero wins to show for it.

This week, Stephen had two players record Top 100 performances at their positions. Tyreek Hill scored 36.50 points, barely edging out his teammate Jaylen Waddle for the #22 spot on the AFL’s all-time wide receiver list, and Mark Andrews led tight ends with 22.13 points, good for 81st all-time on the positional list.

Additionally, Stephen bounced back from his Week 1 Hue Jackson Award to earn Top Coach honors in Week 2, earning a league-high 11.96 points by starting Breece Hall at running back instead of Rex Burkhead.

Anthony, meanwhile, took this week’s Hue Jackson Award by costing his team a league-high 12.70 points by adding and starting Greg Joseph and cutting Daniel Carlson, who was his Week 1 starting kicker.

That didn’t matter. Anthony held off Stephen thanks to his own two historic individual performances. Aaron Jones led all running backs in Week 2 with 33.80 points, the #89 running back score in AFL history, and Amon-Ra St. Brown was one of four receivers to top 30 points in Week 2, scoring 35.31 points and taking the #33 spot on the AFL’s all-time wide receiver list.

For the second week in a row, the AFL’s #10 scorer ate a W as Andrew improved to 1-1 and remains within a game of the three-headed beast leading his division at 2-0.

Andrew almost paid for a risky decision to start Ezekiel Elliott instead of James Robinson. It wasn’t an official coaching risk because entering Thursday night FleaFlicker’s recommendation was to start JuJu Smith-Schuster, but after he ignored that advice he probably should’ve taken the platform’s nudge to start Robinson, who wound up turning in the week’s #5 running back performance with 16.94 points.

That mistake ultimately didn’t come back to bite him, though, as Alex Kincaid was one of three managers without any Top 5 positional performers this week and both Andrew’s kicker and defense were among the Top 5 starters at their positions.

Andrew now has the longest active streak in the AFL without a 100-point game, having failed to reach triple digits since Week 14 of 2021. He is one sub-100 performance away from a tie for the eighth longest drought in AFL history.