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Team #1

QB Drew Brees 44
RB Chris Johnson 24.6
WR Randy Moss 6.7

Total= 75.3

Team #2

QB Peyton Manning 23
RB Maurice Jones-Drew 11

Total= 34

Well Drew Brees was definitely the MVP of week 12. He threw for 371 yards and 5 touchdowns in an awesome performance by the Saints on Monday Night Football. In fact, he single handedly beat team 2 by himself scoring 44 fantasy points.

Randy Moss had another off-week. I'm shocked he has made it this far. I had Chris Johnson fill in for Michael Turner, who re-injured his ankle and looks like he won't be returning to his 2008 self anytime soon. It became pretty apparent that Johnson would be the next line now after his 2 touchdown performance this week. Some are arguing that he is the most valuable and complete back in the game. While I'll disagree, I still think he deserves to be in the conversation. Did you see the Titan offensive line on one of his touchdowns after he broke the first tackle? All of their hands went up because they knew he was gone...dude is explosive no doubt.

Peyton Manning and the Colts came from behind to win again this week and remain undefeated. He had a good game throwing for 3 touchdowns, but nothing spectacular with only 244 yards and 2 interceptions.

MJD seems to be the odd man out this week. Even though he did score double digit fantasy points, he did not score any touchdowns and his team only managed 3 total points in a loss against the 49ers. Maurice Jones-Drew you've had a great year but...you're fired.

See you guys next week as Chris Johnson will be joining Peyton Manning and Team #2.

Team #1

QB Drew Brees 25
RB DeAngelo Williams 13.1
WR Randy Moss 9.4

Total= 47.5

Team #2

QB Peyton Manning 15
RB Adrian Peterson 9.8
RB Maurice Jones-Drew 14.4

Total= 39.2

A rather uneventful week saw the Saints and Colts stay undefeated along with a thrilling last-second Lions victory for a battle of the league's two worst teams. The Saints continued to steamroll behind Drew Brees' 3 touchdowns tosses, while the Colts were rather lucky that Joe Flaco threw a red zone interception that cost the Ravens a chance to take advantage of a sub-par 2 interception performance from Peyton Manning.

I had Deangelo Williams fillin for Michael Turner, who may be out another 4 to 6 weeks. Team 1 also got 9.4 points from Randy Moss who caught a touchdown, but only had 34 yards receiving as Wes Welker was Tom Brady's favorite target verse the Jets.

Team 2 got another solid contribution from MJD, but Adrian Peterson and Peyton Manning both had below average weeks. AP's stats suffered because of a great day by Brett Favre who threw for 4 touchdowns.

So it comes down to Peyton vs. Peterson. One of my twitter connections @candacearm helped me out with this decision and reminded me how important Peyton has been to his team this year. He has been a great leader and helped make newbies like Garcon and Collie into solid contributors on an undefeated team in 2009. AP is still the best back in football but he got overshadowed by Favre this week, and in the fantasy apprentice game it only takes one bad week and you can be gone. Adrian Peterson, you're fired.

Team #1

WR Golden Tate Notre Dame 19.5

Team #2

WR/RB Jacquizz Rodgers Oregon State 32.4

In what ended up being great finale to the first Fantasy Apprentice season, Jacquizz Rodgers of the Oregon State Beavers edged out Notre Dame's Golden Tate to become the first College Fantasy Apprentice Champion!

Rodgers scored two rushing touchdowns and totaled over 200 all-purpose yards this week. The speedy little sophomore running back only stands 5 feet and 7 inches tall, however he has put up huge numbers this year tying the Beavers school record with 19 touchdowns while gaining 1,313 rushing yards. He has been very consistent throughout his 2009 campaign, in fact there was only one game verse UCLA in which he did not score a touchdown. His best games coming against Stanford in which he had 189 rushing yards and 4 touchdowns and his last two games verse Washington and Washington State in which he rushed for over 150 yards and scored twice in both. Although he has been pretty under that radar this year in my opinion, he has a chance to really get on the national scene with a huge game against #8 Oregon next week. It's been a pleasure watching him this year and it's great to have such a worth champion. Congratulations Jacquizz Rodgers!

Golden Tate put together a great year too. It seemed that every game Notre Dame played this year went down to the wire, thus allowing Tate a "golden" opportunity to put up big numbers and make a name for himself creating a formidable duo with quarterback Jimmy Clausen. He took full advantage of it, setting school records for catches in a season (83) and season yardage (1,295), scoring 12 touchdowns along the way. Tate only had one game in which he didn't score as well, the first game of the season against Nevada. Although very championship-worthy, it has come time for the last College Fantasy Apprentice firing of the year...Golden Tate you're fired.

See you guys next year, thanks for following! We still have a couple more weeks until we crown the NFL Fantasy Apprentice so stay tuned. Feel free to let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions or advice.

Team #1

QB Drew Brees 16
RB Michael Turner 11.1
WR Randy Moss 29.9
WR Calvin Johnson 8.4

Total= 65.4

Team #2

QB Peyton Manning 33
RB Adrian Peterson 26.3
RB Maurice Jones-Drew 20.5

Total= 79.8

In a stunning upset, Team #2 beats Team #1 down a man. A great performance by Peyton Manning in the Sunday night game made all the difference where he threw for 327 yards and 4 touchdowns.

AP ran for another 2 touchdowns and I really feel for all MJD owners as he should've had two scores as well but took on the one yard line to burn valuable time as the Jets had no remaining timeouts. Jones-Drew even apologized to his fantasy owners in the post-game press conference, mentioning that he owns himself as well. I understand that he doing this for his team, but it's this kind of stuff that can get you fired in Fantasy Apprentice. Thankfully for MJD his team came out ahead.

Team #1 saw another good performance from Randy Moss with 2 scores and 179 yards but that's about it. I really expected more out of Drew Brees playing the lowly Rams and Michael Turner ran for 111 yards on only 9 carries before sufffering a high-ankle sprain.

That only leaves my beloved Megatron who scored the least amount of points last week too. CJ had eight receptions for 84 yards, but no touchdowns and at least two drops that I saw. Him and Stafford will works things out eventually but still have a ways to go. The good news is that the Lions play Cleveland next week. The bad news is that Calvin Johnson is fired.

Team #1

QB Tim Tebow Florida 21.6
WR Golden Tate Notre Dame 17.5

Total= 39.1

Team #2

QB Jimmy Clausen Notre Dame 15
WR/RB Jacquizz Rodgers Oregon State 27.5

Total= 42.5

Wow, we had ourselves a close game this week. The Notre Dame vs. Pitt game got off to a slow start but led to an exciting finish. Clausen and the boys tried to make another fourth quarter comeback after being down 18, Tate scored on an 87 yard punt return but they eventually came up short 27-22.

Tim Tebow and the Florida Gators beat South Carolina 24-14 to become the first undefeated team in the conference since Steve Spurrier's 1996 national championship Gator team. South Carolina scored an early fourth quarter touchdown to take the lead but Florida ended up prevailing. Although Florida is undefeated, they have not been very impressive offensively this year.

Oregon State rolled over Washington 48-21 with the help of two touchdowns and 159 rushing yards from Jacquizz Rodgers.

Normally Tate would be the most likely to go here but his punt return didn't count for any points, so a tough decision was made even tougher. After looking at the schedules for the coming weeks I decided that it would be best to have our final showdown next week. In my opinion Golden Tate and Jacquizz Rodgers have been the best two players all year so... I'm setting up a final showdown for them next week. Tim Tebow and Jimmy Clausen you're fired!

See you guys next week when we will crown our first College Fantasy Apprentice!

Team #1

QB Drew Brees 17.4
RB Michael Turner 30
WR Randy Moss 20.7
WR Calvin Johnson 2.7

Total= 70.8

Team #2

QB Peyton Manning 16
RB Ryan Grant 15.6
RB Maurice Jones-Drew 19.4
WR Andre Johnson 10.3

Total= 61.3

Boy did Larry Fitzgerald make me look bad this week. After firing him last week, he only had 9 receptions for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns verse the Bears.

Calvin Johnson came back after missing the last three fantasy apprentice games and...stunk the joint up. It seemed that Stafford underthrew a couple balls his way but they are definitely not on the same page currently and Megatron has been a major fantasy disappointment so far this year. He was saved by Michael Turner's big two touchdown 166 yard performance against the Redskins.

If I had my choice to replace Adrian Peterson in week 9 I would have chosen Deangelo Williams, but I didn't want his two touchdowns to be the difference between the two teams so I chose Ryan Grant who put up a solid 96 yards and a touchdown. MJD was solid as always, Manning had a less than stellar game with over 300 yards passing but only 1 touchdown and 1 interception and Andre Johnson didn't have a touchdown but caught 10 passes for 103 yards.

This was a tough one but when it's a close call I have to go with past performance and Peyton has been very consistent all year. Andre has had two games with only two catches and one game with only 4 catches and 35 yards. Peyton has only had one game of under 300 yards passing. Andre Johnson...you're fired.

Team #1

QB Tim Tebow Florida 22.7
WR Golden Tate Notre Dame 19.4
WR/RB Jacquizz Rodgers Oregon State 15.7

Total= 57.8

Team #2

QB Jimmy Clausen Notre Dame 28
WR Dezmon Briscoe Kansas 13.6

Total= 41.6

The Notre Dame Boy's put up good numbers again, although they lost to Navy for the second year in row. I wish I could fire him but it wasn't Jimmy's fault they lost. He put up 452 passing yards and two touchdowns. Actually if it was just Clausen and Tate vs. Tebow, Briscoe and Rodgers the game would have been decided by only about 3 points even though they would have been down a player.

That only leaves one option, Dezmon Briscoe. He's scored pretty much every week this year and been very solid but I have no other choice.

Next week Jacquizz Rodgers will join Jimmy on Team #2 and we will be down to the final four, see you next week!