FlyingElvis
won for the second straight week and the team is now tied with
Dec in second
place and within striking distance of Beaud in first place. FE is peaking as the
team has gotten healthy
with the return of S Barkley and H Henry, among others. This week could have
been even better if the
coach had started A Rodgers (30.25 pts) instead of being lured
by the recent
improvement of K Cousins until he only scored 9.5 pts this week
as a
starter. Barkley is
back in the saddle
with 16.75 pts this week and Fournette continues being a
serviceable RB2 with
his 5th straight week with 9.75 pts or more (after
scoring no more
than 7.5 pts in each of the first three weeks).
At WR after a couple of subpar weeks 6-7, C Kupp exploded
for over 200
receiving yards and a long TD and his 26 pts led FE this week. On defense there is
nothing new on the Pats
side who continued scoring at will, this time with a marginally
better offense
(Browns) than their recent opponents such as the Jets and
Dolphins, but it did
not stop them from scoring another TD and 16 pts. Rookie Singletary is
also now healthy and
scored a TD and 11 pts for his best game of the year.
The
Decepticons were in the driver seat all week until MNF when
rookie D Bush was
outscored by FE’s C Heyward 12.5 pts to 7 pts which meant FE
beat Dec by the
slimmest of margin 0.25 pt.
If Dec’s
coach had started Daniel Jones at the rookie position instead,
it would have
been no contest because Jones scored 32.5 pts on the bench. WR M Evans also scored
over 30 pts but at
least he was a starter rather than on the bench so he was the
top scorer for
Dec this week. While
Dec has had to
suffer through several injuries recently, at least their bad
luck was tempered
by KJ Costello and D Brees coming back to health in the exact
same week that
Tua Tago and Mahomes missed a game to injury.
Brees’ 25.25 pts were key because backup Brissett stunk
up the joint
with only 7.25 pts which actually helped to slow down the Bros
who were left
with crumbs at WR (TY Hilton) and TE (Ebron) on the Colts, due
to Brissett’s suckness. At
the college position, Costello was playing
awful before his injury and week #8 was the first time this year
that he looked
like a real QB, this time passing for over 300 yards and 3 TDs.
The Ballers
finished in the blue for the first time this season with 3rd
place
to build on last week’s improvement which was 5th
place. So the
Ballers have now earned 12 rank-points
in the last couple of weeks after being limited to only 10
rank-points in the
first six weeks. There
were a few new
contributors for Ball to achieve this success.
First off, at WR Ju Jones has been fine all year although
not excellent,
but WR2 has been an issue for the Ballers until now when
Golladay scored 2 TDs
and finished the game with 23 pts, even better than Ju Jones
with 17.5
pts. Rookie Miles
Sanders has mostly
been a disappointment so far but he scored 19.75 pts this week
which is the
second time in three weeks that he scored double digits so he is
starting to
show some improvement. Even
RB bust Joe
Mixon was able to crack the 20-rushing yard mark this week with
66, after not
being able to exceed 17 rushing yards in 4 of his first 7 games. Mixon also scored a TD
for the second
straight week and perhaps with the upcoming return of AJ Green
the Bengals
offense will be able to move the ball better and therefore help
Mixon.
The
GloriousBastards finished in the top 4 for the fourth straight
week with 144.25
pts this week so they solidified their 4th place in
the standings,
far behind Dec and FE, but far ahead of Adm.
GB did not expect this to be a fantastic week because the
team was
hampered by not having a college QB to start since both had the
same bye week
so 4th should be considered adequate in the
circumstances. J
Goff carried Bas to a decent week thanks to
his 27.25 pts against the weak Bengals and WR M Thomas was the
other Bas player
to score over 20 pts with a short TD and 11 receptions for over
100 yards. The
Colts were bottled up all game by the
Broncos defense but at least RB Mack was able to score the
Colts’ lone TD and
his total yardage approached 100 yds so nothing to sneeze at. In that same game RB
Lindsay did not do as
well with only 6.25 pts and in fact it’s the Broncos’ other RB R
Freeman
(Beaud) who scored the Broncos TD.
Lindsay having to share the load is definitely capping
his potential so
far this year. After
missing three games
due to a concussion, D Leonard is now clearly recovered, he
scored 15 pts last
week and now 14 pts this week.
He is now
almost back on top of the LB rankings as should be expected,
only 0.1 pt per
game behind Kuechly (Wax).
The
BeaudoinBrothers had a rough Sunday with many underperformers
and at one point
were projecting to finish last while Dec was projecting to
finish first which
would have been an unmitigated disaster for Beaud. Fortunately RB A Jones
bailed the Bros out of
major trouble on SNF with his huge game 226 total yards and 2
TDs, most of the
yardage being on the receiving end including a long TD reception
in the 4th
quarter to beat the Chiefs on the road.
Jones finished the game with 31.75 pts and if he had
scored equal to his
projection of 11.4 pts, the Bros would have finished last so it
is clear that
he contributed to 4 rank-points all by himself this week. Co-RB D Henry did not
fare as well despite
the Titans being up most of the game.
Henry did not score a TD and fumbled once to finish with
only 3.75
pts. Receivers were
particularly
problematic for Beaud this week.
Thielen
was out to injury so A Robinson started again but the result was
not as good as
his previous two games. This
time
Robinson only scored 8 pts and TY Hilton was held in check all
game by
cornerback Chris Harris until the game-winning catch to set up a
FG late in the
4th quarter; it was only Hilton’s second reception of the game
and he finished
with only 4.5 pts. LBs
L David and J
Schobert were both on bye last week and returned in strength
this week with 24.5
pts combined to earn valuable points that were needed to beat
Adm and Wax who
finished only 2 pts and 1.25 pts behind Beaud.
WaxOnWaxOff
made a strong push on MNF to avoid finishing in the basement. With big games from J
Conner, TJ Watt, and
the Steelers defense all feasting on the horrible Dolphins, Wax
was about to
beat Sun, Old, and Adm, but fell just short of beating the Bros. The Steelers D started
on the back foot,
allowing 14 pts to the Dolphins in the first quarter but they
shut the door
after that and the Dolphins did not score anything more, and
finished the game
with 4 turnovers and 4 sacks.
Two of
those sacks were by TJ Watt including two forced fumbles as well
on those
plays, and Watt recovered one of those fumbles himself. Conner ran for almost
150 yards and he scored
a TD for a total of 17.5 pts which was the third time in the
last 4 games that
Conner scored over 17 pts.
With L
Jackson on bye, Wax was forced to start Rivers in Chicago which
is not the best
of matchups and as expected Rivers did not do much with 9.5 pts
which was below
his projection. Ty
Hill slightly
underperformed as well with 10 pts; 6 receptions was fine but he
did not
score. L Fitz was a
lot worse with the
Cards being unable to move the ball against the tough Saints D
and he finished
with only 2.25 pts. At
TE Wax has a
major problem developing because Ertz now has 3 straight games
without reaching
a paltry 4 pts because backup Goedert (Old) is emerging and
scoring the TDs
instead of Ertz and also robbing receptions.
To make matters worse Wax traded away Hooper to Dec
earlier this year
and it’s Hooper who has been lighting up the scoreboard, ranking
as the top TE
in the PQBFL which was unexpected.
The
Admirals scored a respectable 136 pts which is more than the
league average of
133.9 pts so far this year, but for the first time this season a
score above
125 pts was not enough to avoid the red; Adm unfortunately got
the short end of
the stick in a very close matchup against Wax and Beaud. There are very few
starting lineup calls that
could have made the difference so it is not easy to point the
finger at the
coach for this result. Perhaps
Adm could
have started C Kirk (12.75 pts) and instead bench K Stills (4
pts) or Ro
Anderson (8 pts) but since Kirk had missed the previous three
games to injury
it was almost impossible to predict to what extent he would be
involved in the
offense so the coach played it safe.
Perhaps the coach should have started DL J Bosa who
scored 16 pts, but
DL D Hunter was previously outscoring Bosa and he was DL2 in the
entire PQBFL
so benching Hunter was not actually the clearest call to make
and anyway D
Hunter had a good game with 12 pts.
Perhaps it’s one of the LBs that should have been benched
in favor of
Hunter for the defensive flex spot, either B Martinez (7 pts) or
K Van Noy (5
pts) but starting a LB at flex instead of a DL is not exactly
controversial and
is quite common. Adm
was able to have a
decent week because D Carr had by far his best game of the year
with 30.5 pts
and now his average is clearly above Garoppolo and Mayfield so
after those two
guys started for Adm in most weeks, perhaps now Adm has finally
found their
starting QB for the rest of the year.
OldNo7 had
a bad score in an even numbered week like weeks 2, 4, 6, with 8th
place this week which was the third straight time that Old
finished in the red
so Old has seen their lead over Wax in the standings shrink from
9 rank-points
to 2 rank-points during this time span.
It is actually surprising that Old could not do better
than 8th
place given that McCaffrey had a good game with over 20 pts, D
Hopkins caught
11 passes for over 100 yards, E Engram scored a TD, and rookie
Montgomery who
was only averaging 6 pts per game before this week, finally got
out of his
shell with 17.25 pts. So
most of Old’s
big guns delivered, but Old was held back by Wentz who was so-so
in Buffalo
with only 13.25 pts. This
was not
expected to be an easy game but given that that Bills D turned
out to be porous
for the first time of the year and scored negative points for
Old, the
insurance combo of starting both Wentz and the Bills failed. Old would have been
better off starting the
Saints defense instead who scored 10.5 pts and that call alone
for defensive
team cost Old the difference between 8th and 5th
place so
it was huge. Old
was also affected this
week by not having a kicker because Gostkowski is out for the
year and Maher
was on bye.
The
SunshineBoys scored 120.75 pts but that ranked last this week,
which is the
highest last place score of the season.
As it’s been the case for most of the season, D Watson
was the top
contributor for Sun with 29 pts in a close home win against the
Raiders. JJSS had
his best game of the year by taking
advantage of the Dolphins and he scored 18 pts.
It is rather ODB who doomed Sun with only 7.5 pts against
the Pats,
along with both RBs Gordon and D Freeman who could not score
double digits and
combined for 16.25 pts. TE
McDonald also
failed to deliver on MNF against the Dolphins with only 3.75
pts. On defense the
Jaguars were strong with 15
pts against the Jets, but individual defenders left to be
desired, J Peppers
leading the pack with 8 pts but K Clark, L Alexander, and P
Brown only scored
9.5 pts combined which is sometimes
outscored by almost half of individual defenders on any
given week. This
bad week combined with the recent
success of the Ballers means Sun dropped to a tie in last place
with Ball,
although Sun holds the tie-breaker by a small margin.
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