We are smack in the middle of the era of the SUPER TEAM.

For the fifth straight season, a league champion was one of the top two seeds. For the third time in four years, the league champion earned the scoring title. But it is so much more than that. I would argue that for the fifth straight season, one team entered the postseason as the overwhelming favorite and didn’t disappoint. Hell, three teams…Bob in 2014, Calderon last year and Matt this season, we’re the favorites from beginning to end.

For Neatock, this championship began in week five of last season, when a 1-4 Matt team picked up a struggling Todd Gurley in a trade. The Rams back didn’t help, as Matt would win just one more game the rest of the way, earning the top pick in the 2017 draft. That almost seemed to seal the league’s fate.

Yet, Neatock tried his hardest to sabotage his success. In the offseason he tried desperately through a series of long G-Chats to unload Carson Wentz, but fortunately for him, he failed. Matt also came really close to trading out of the top pick (Le’Veon Bell) to Rob Masterson, that is, until I wrote a post about the success top picks had had in this league and he changed his mind at the last second. Perhaps I should get Matt’s mug.

Anyhow, he didn’t pull the trigger, took Le’Veon Bell first overall, instantly giving Matt the best backfield in football. In fact, Gurley and Bell arguable were the best backfield ever. Although they didn’t break the record for most points scored in a regular season, they became the first duo to both earn first-team All-Robio awards.

Speaking of All-Robio, Carson Wentz had a fantastic second-year, himself earning a second team All-Robio, which helped propel Zach Ertz to a third-team All-Robio award. Those four, along with a pair of steady wide receivers and a solid kicker and defense (trade with me), led Matt back to the promise land.

Matt crushed the gate, opening the season with four straight wins and six of his first seven, breaking 1,600 four straight times. He hit a rough stretch, dropping three of four, as he struggled to get points from his wide receivers, but a strong finish and two more 1,500-pt games, landed Matt with a 9-4 record a two-seed.

Yet, what this group, minus Wentz, did in the postseason was fantastic. Matt became the first person to score 2,000 in back-to-back games, hit over 1,500 in all three of his playoff games, shattering the record for most points scored in one postseason with 5,684 points. His 25,302 points for the full season (regular and post) is the second most ever scored (three of the top five have happened in the last four years).

The title game itself, proved to be anticlimactic, as Bob had one of his worst performances in a long time. Both teams had a wide receiver get shutout (a first in a title game) and only two players on Matt’s title team managed to hit 200. Bell went for 254, while the difference maker, Todd Gurley, delivered 276 total yards, two scores and 672 points (the most for a title game).

To think, if Matt doesn’t land Gurley last year in week five, Bob wins this game (if Matt even reaches the titles game). Gurley’s postseason run was historic. He became the first back to have back-to-back 600-point fantasy games and his 1,662 points in three playoff games is also a record (by any player at any position).

Neatock becomes just the third person to earn three league championships (he’s now 3-1 in the title game) and is tied with Bob, as the only two people to have three titles since 2007.

It’s official…the league has Been Neatock’D.