Betrayed by Brady, Romo, Anderson

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Eleven points.

What does this number signify? Well, for fantasy footballers, these are the playoffs, when the games matter the most, and 11 points isn't much of a quarterback performance for this time of the season. So how bad is it for fantasy that three of the top four quarterbacks for the season combined for 11 fantasy points on Sunday? It's bad. It's "I lost in the fantasy playoffs to someone starting Sage Rosenfels bad."

Tom Brady scores three points on the first drive of just about every game. His worst performance of the season entering Week 15 was 17 points in Week 13 at Baltimore. He was averaging 26 fantasy points per week. You get 20 from a quarterback in any week you feel lucky. Brady delivered three fantasy points Sunday. Three. Against the Jets.  
 

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  • Eric Karabell Eric Karabell

    Eric Karabell is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He has covered fantasy sports for ESPN since 2001, specializing in baseball and football. Eric is the host of the Baseball Today Podcast, is seen several times a week on ESPNEWS and contributes to ESPN The Magazine. He has been honored twice as fantasy sports writer of the year by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association, and his blog was named best fantasy baseball series for 2007.

    Eric grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, and accordingly, favors all Philly teams first, his fantasy teams second. He previously served as ESPN.com's lead NBA editor, and is a former Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer. Eric is also the author of "The Best Philadelphia Sports Arguments," published by Source Books and available in bookstores and online.

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