The Decepticons pulverized the competition and beat their own
all-time record of 223.5 pts established in 2017 week #12 with a
massive 238.5 pts this week. The WR duo M Evans and T Lockett
who had scored 58.5 pts combined in week #9 were not even factors
this week with only 12.25 pts so Dec could have flirted with the
250-pt mark if the WRs had done better this week. Just on
defense alone, Dec scored 95 pts led by J Adams who scored a TD,
sacked D Jones twice and forced two fumbles. The Rams D also
scored a TD and finished the week with 21.5 pts, the second time in
their last three games that they score exactly this total. In
the same game LB Littleton was active with 18 pts mostly with
tackles and assists. Even though J Adams was dominant at the
DB position, rookie Daniel Jones otherwise had a good game with 4
TDs, even his 35.75 pts topped QB Mahomes who scored 33.75 pts and
threw one of his TDs to Kelce for the first time since week #2 so it
was about time. Unfortunately Dec only picked up one
rank-point on Beaud. The Cons have beat the Bros four straight
weeks to cut their lead to half a rank-point in first place in the
standings; it’s been a long march to the top but Dec is almost
there.
The BeaudoinBrothers fielded a complete lineup for once and
rebounded with 186.75 pts after a string of three subpar
weeks. It was the first time Beaud finished in the blue in the
last 4 weeks after finishing top 3 in five of the first 6
weeks. With Thielen and TY Hilton sidelined, backups A
Robinson and J Landry were better than in recent weeks with 25.5 pts
combined particularly Landry who outscored his teammate ODB
(Sun). RB D Henry rewarded the coach who started him with
28.75 pts and single handedly beat the Chiefs. Henry starting
meant A Jones was relegated to the bench but he was the wrong RB to
bench due to his 3 TDs while Chubb started and was limited to 10
pts. At TE Ebron was on the field for more snaps than in
recent weeks and he was targeted 12 times but only converted on 5
receptions against the weak Dolphins so he can be blamed for the
Colts’ loss. On defense the Browns duo Schobert and M Garrett
did not get the job done with only 8 pts combined, partially
offsetting the Ravens who dominated the Bengals with 2 TDs and 23
pts. The week’s best scorer for Beaud was rookie K Murray who
threw for 3 TDs and scored 31.75 pts.
WaxOnWaxOff finished third for the second straight week and while
they still languish in 7th place in the standings, Wax is now only 4
rank-points behind fourth place (Adm). Wax had a chance to
beat Beaud on MNF but kicker Gould missed the game to injury and the
coach made the mistake a starting loser RB R Penny who only carried
the rock twice for 2 yards and lost a fumble to finish with minus 3
pts. Wax should have started RB R Jones who was benched with
10.75 pts so this decision alone made the difference between 2nd and
3rd while the kicker injury was possibly was not consequential with
Wax finishing 9 pts behind Beaud and the 49ers backup kicker scoring
8.5 pts. QB L Jackson is slowing turning out to be worth the
trade earlier this year, Jackson scored 38.5 pts against the Bengals
and he’s only 0.1 pt per game behind Mahomes and is suddenly looks
like a candidate for franchise player. Ty Hill also had a big
game with 25 pts, TE K Rudolph chose the perfect week to score 2 TDs
with Ertz on bye, and the Steelers did the same with 24.5 pts while
the Eagles D was on bye as well. In that game TJ Watt got two
sacks and scored 16 pts to move up to 3rd best LB in the
PQBFL.
The Admirals finished 4th but very far behind Wax this week with 137
pts compared to Wax 175.75 pts. QB D Carr led his team to
victory but it was not smooth sailing, needing a last minute TD from
his RB Jacobs (Bas) to win the game while Carr himself only threw
for 1 TD against the Chargers D. Carr’s 12.5 pts was below his
weekly projection, and between Mayfield (18.75 pts) and Garoppolo
(7.25 pts) who were benched. At RB Adm got crumbs from Ingram
who scored a short TD. More was expected than just 9 rushes
for 34 yards against the Bengals given that the Ravens were ahead
all game long. Gurley was a non-factor against the Steelers
with only 5 pts and dropped to RB19 so far which is not even
starting RB material – a shame for a franchise player. The
best game of the week for Adm was WR Kirk who came back to health
with a bang thanks to 3 TDs and 33.75 pts. TE Andrews was not
bad either, taking advantage of Ingram being underused; Andrews
scored 2 TDs and 19.5 pts. Defense was more of a struggle with
only 0.5 pt from the Vikings and 6 pts combined from DLs D Hunter
and J Bosa.
OldNo7 scored an adequate 129.5 pts but this week it was no better
than 5th place. Old was hampered by not having a TE to start
due to Engram’s injury and Goedert being on bye. WR Hopkins
was also on bye but normally Godwin and K Allen can score as well as
Hopkins but this week they were ok but not great with 24.75 pts
together. At RB McCaffrey scored 15.75 pts which is good for
most RB but below his already quite high projection. One TD
and 141 yards is not even good enough by his own standards. T
Coleman started alongside McCaffrey and he was limited to 6 pts on
MNF with Michel on bye , McCoy a healthy scratch, and K Johnson
injured. Rookie Montgomery did well in weeks 8-9 but he was
back to his pedestrian stats this week with only 5 pts.
Defense was so-so as well for Old with the Bills losing to the
Browns and scored 7 pts, Poyer 8 pts in that game was ok but not
better than expected and LB Mack did not do as well with only 3
pts. The lone bright spot on defense for Old was Buckner who
scored a TD and finished the game with 13 pts which was a boost to
Old.
The Ballers scored 110.5 pts this week and edged FlyingElvis by a
hair to play trouble-makers towards the top of the standings.
With this performance the Ballers jumped right back above the
SunshineBoys for last place. The Ballers being able to beat FE
this week was quite an accomplishment given that the team had no
rookie and no DB to start, two of them being injured and three being
on bye. LB M Jack and DL Campbell were also on bye, forcing
Christian Jones into the lineup at defensive flex and he only scored
a single point. DL Trey Flower did better in replacement for
Campbell with 12 pts and LB Edmunds was good as well with 12.5
pts. On MNF the Ballers needed just a few points from RB
Breida to put FE away who had LB Wagner. Breida was a
non-factor but his 2 points were just what Ball needed. At QB
Josh Allen lost in Cleveland but at least he scored 2 TDs with no
turnover for 21 pts which topped his weekly projection. K
Golladay scored a long TD for 13.75 pts and Mixon also had a good
day with 151 total yards against the Ravens which was surprising
although no TD.
FlyingElvis suffered a rough week with both Dec and Beaud finishing
at the top and FE finishing in the red for the first time since week
#1. FE had a golden opportunity to beat the Ballers in
overtime on MNF given that the Ballers’ RB Breida was not even on
the field in OT. It was RB Mostert who was on the field with 5
touches in OT, not Breida or T Coleman. So all FE needed was
one tackle from LB Wagner but he could not get it done, his 12.5 pts
in regulation were also his final score despite the 49ers having two
drives in OT. Most of FE’s starting lineup was suckness,
beginning with QB A Rodgers who stunk for the second straight week
with 8.25 pts against the Panthers, not exactly a stellar
defense. Franchise player Barkley was even worse with a
whopping single rushing yard on 13 carries against a bad defense
from the Jets – he cannot possibly be healthy. But how about C
Kupp? He is supposed to be one of the league’s top WRs and he
did not even catch a pass on 4 targets while Everett and Woods got
23 targets combined. Kicker Succop came back to health in time
for Fairbairn’s bye week but he scored only 1 point. It did
not help that the Pats D was on bye for FE but at least the Colts
were well positioned to score Pats-level scoring given the matchup
at home against the Dolphins. The Colts D was not too bad with
11 pts but they could have done better and they lost the game.
The GloriousBastards had their worst week of the season with only
104.5 pts and finished 8th, now falling behind Adm in the standings
with OldNo7 close, only 1 rank-point behind. It was not
entirely clear who the starting QB was for Bas, but with Brady on
bye and Goff forced to start, now it has become clear. Goff
was an unmitigated disaster with no TD, 2 INTs, one fumble lost, and
two fumbles not lost for a total of minus 3 pts. Kicker Rosas
was also in negative territory this week with -2 points with Lambo
on bye. At least with the Broncos on bye, Bas did not score
negative points at that position since they had nobody else to
start! College QB Eason came close to finishing with a minus
as well with a goose egg because of his 0 TD 2 INT
performance. Very rarely do we ever see a trio of defensive
players score almost half of an entire PQBFL team, but it just about
happened for Bas this week with LB Leonard scoring 26.5 pts, R Smith
11 pts, and DB Bates 13 pts for a total of 50.5 pts from these guys
alone. At WR M Thomas was active with 13 receptions but was
held out of the end zone like the rest of the Saints who had a bad
upset loss at home. The Bastards’ other WR Diggs had another
game to pull hair out with only 3 receptions for 9 freakin’ yards
despite Thielen being out to injury.
The SunshineBoys finished last this week with 86.75 pts which was
the 4th straight week in the bottom two in the standings. It’s
hard to expect anything good without a starting QB, this week D
Watson was on bye, and bad luck hit because it happened to be the
exact same week that Stafford who is normally always playing but his
timing for his injury could not have been worse to miss the
game. As if it was not enough, Dalton got benched by the
Bengals and E Manning has been passing out Gatorade for a
while. The one strength of this team is supposed to be WRs
with ODB and JJSS but they both sucked again with only 14.75 pts
combined. The TE position is another sorry mess since Dissly
got injured several weeks ago, with V McDonald scoring 2.5 pts this
week and Ji Graham 4.75 pts on the bench. Sun’s rookie has not
done much all year regardless who started and with Fant on bye, G
Pratt came back to the starting lineup with 4 pts. Defense was
nothing special except for Vander Esch who scored 13 pts but those
points would have been better last week when such a score would have
beat the Bros; this week Sun was deep in last place that it did not
matter.
