Week
#11
After a rough 3-week stretch from week 8-10, the Admirals are back
on top with a win this week by edging the GloriousBastards by 3
pts. The Admirals became the first team to win three different
weeks this season and took back 5th place in the standings in front
of OldNo7 and are now within striking distance of Wax and Dec.
After a minor hiccup last week, D Watson is back on his good run
since the Texans coach was fired with 29.25 pts this week and he now
stands at QB7 in the PQBFL. The Packers had a tough matchup
against the Colts defense but A Jones and D Adams were both able to
score a TD each although they fell a bit short of their weekly
projections. A Thielen, the other member of Adm’s WR duo which
is the best tandem in the PQBFL, did even better than D Adams thanks
to a juicy matchup at home against the Cowboys and he took advantage
with 8-123-2 for 24 pts. However he found out after the game
that he has covid which will slow down Adm considerably in the next
couple of weeks. One player who might benefit from his absence
might be rookie J Jefferson who started for Adm this week and
rewarded the coach with 14.25 pts; on the bench rookie A Gibson was
not bad either with 13.5 pts. On defense Adm was not stellar
but acceptable due to 14 pts from Justin Reid, 10 pts from Jaylon
Smith, and 10 pts from the Eagles defense as well.
The GloriousBastards’ long climb to the top continued with a 4th
straight top 4 finish, this time Bas finished second and overtook
Dec and Wax in the standings to take sole possession of second place
overall. Ju Herbert had a great matchup against the Jets at
home and he even beat his elevated projection with 30.75 pts which a
score that even the top veteran QBs in the league would take on any
given Sunday. At WR Bas was missing Diggs who was on bye but
backup T Boyd filled in nicely with 9-85 for 13.25 pts which was
even better than DK Metcalf who scored 12.25 pts. Metcalf did
score a TD but he was limited to only 3 receptions because teammate
Lockett (Dec) had 9 receptions which took away some targets from
Metcalf. During the late Sunday afternoon Raiders game, a
double-digit score by Josh Jacobs (10.25 pts) and even better Waller
16.25 pts, put GB in position to win this week. GB only needed
15 pts from Brady on MNF but Brady threw a last minute INT to drop
Bas 3 pts which was exactly the difference between first and
second. Those turnovers are becoming a recurring theme for the
old QB who is underperforming Bas’s rookie QB by a decent
margin. On defense Jayon Brown got injured during the game
which might have cost Bas first place because he only scored 3 pts
before going out. However the rest of Bas’ defense was strong
with 16 pts from C Jordan, 13.5 pts from D Davis, and 9 pts from J
Bates who had an INT.
OldNo7 finished third this week with 150 pts, not close to either
second or fourth place. The team leader this week was WR K
Allen who had a monster game with 16 receptions for 145 yards plus a
TD for 26.25 pts. Ty Hill also scored and caught 11 balls for
21 pts so this WR duo is getting closer to Adm’s WR duo as they rank
WR2 and WR3 in the PQBFL. There were several other
contributors for Old on offense notably M Gordon who scored 2 TDs
and RB J White who was active with 6 receptions for 64 yards, not to
mention A Rodgers adding three more TDs against the Colts although
he lost a fumble. Rookie CEH had his best game since week #1
with 17.25 pts as the Chiefs reconnected with the run and CEH gave
no room to L Bell (Wax) to take on a greater role with the
Chiefs. Defense was more problematic for Old however
with the Colts having their hands full with the Packers and finished
the game with 5.5 pts. With B Martinez on bye, Old started 2
DLs Buckner and S Hubbard both of which did nothing special with 3
pts and 4 pts, respectively. Poyer was also on bye and backup
T Mathieu was equally mediocre with 4 pts at DB. The only
decent game was Schobert who scored 13 pts as the lone starting
LB.
The BeaudoinBrothers finished in the middle 3 spots in the standings
for the fourth straight week with 4th place, far behind Old but also
far ahead of Wax, Dec, Ball, and FE. The week did not start
too well for Beaud with K Murray playing through a shoulder injury
on TNF after getting hit in the first half and he was limited to 20
pts as he barely ran, and this was significantly below his
projection due to the excellent matchup against the porous Seahawks
defense. In that same game the coach started kicker J Myers
after growing tired of Butker’s weekly missed extra points but this
time it was Myers who missed an x-pt. Most of the scoring for
Beaud this week came at the 11th hour of various games for example
Kelce scored the game-winning TD with 30 seconds left, and AJ Brown
scored a TD with 2 minutes left when he was having a weak game prior
to that, and since the Titans game went in OT the Bros can consider
themselves lucky that D Henry scored the game-winning TD on a
29-yard run in extended time. WR M Thomas has been having a
shitty season so far with a bad week #1 following by several missed
games and after his return he was worse than Beaud’s backup WRs with
7.5 pts in week 9 and 3.25 pts in week 10. However the coach
stuck with him with T Hill as the new Saints QB and Thomas delivered
with his best game of the year with 14 pts despite not scoring a
TD. On defense the coach benched the Saints against the
Falcons and they scored 15.5 pts while the Ravens scored a goose egg
against the Titans so this decision cost the Bros 3rd place.
At DL it was not better with Josh Allen getting injured during the
game and finished with zero; he was starting because M Garrett
caught covid. On MNF, L David, D White, and JJIII were all
going at it and combined for 28 pts which was more or less in line
with their projections but since the Bros were pretty much locked in
4th place it did not matter much.
WaxOnWaxOff finished in the middle of the pack in 5th place by
coming out on top of a very tight group from 5th to 8th with only
3.25 pts separating 4 teams. While Wax might have rejoiced of
this result, it was not so because the roof collapsed on their head
with second round pick Burrow being lost for the season by
destroying his knee immediately after the PQBFL trade deadline
closed. Wax will have to do with a couple of defensive rookies
for the rest of the season so their hopes of a PQBFL title pretty
much vanished when Burrow exited. Wax was projected
comfortably ahead of FE, Dec, and Ball but on MNF A Donald scored a
goose egg and RB RoJo did almost nothing with 2 pts which meant Wax
played with fire but held on to 5th place by a thread. Another
bad news for Wax was that Kamara might not be as productive with T
Hill at QB than with Brees. The Saints easily beat the Falcons
but Kamara had 13 carries to L Murray’s 12 and Hill’s 10 carries,
and most disturbingly Kamara was only targeted once by pass and did
not catch it. Thankfully he scored on the ground but without
aerial production he will be hard to count on until Brees comes back
unless Hill uses him more. RB Lamar Jackson can also be blamed
for Wax’s low score as he underperformed his projection by 8 pts
with less than 200 yards passing and one more INT in the Ravens
loss. He had many chances to lead the Ravens to victory but he
could not get the job done. At WR DJ Moore had a good game
with 14.25 pts but C Ridley left to the desired with 9.5 pts despite
Ju Jones (Dec) being affected by an injury during the game.
The best score of the week for Wax was 18 pts from the Steelers who
suffocated the Jaguars offense and picked off their backup QB 4
times.
The Decepticons stumbled to 6th place tied with the Ballers and lost
second place overall to the GloriousBastards. It could have
been worse for Dec as they were only 3 pts from finishing 8th
instead but the Rams did just enough on MNF by intercepting Brady
twice, including one INT to end the game with a final score of 6
pts. Dec would have probably beat Wax if Ju Jones had not been
banged up all game and having to come in and out several times; he
finished with only 2 receptions for 39 yards. TE Hurst could
not benefit from more targets with Ju Jones fading out, and Hurst
finished the game with a goose egg. Dec’s best scorer this
week was Mahomes who scored 21.75 pts and it took the very late TD
pass referenced above to Kelce to achieve a respectable score.
Lockett easily beat his projection with 18.25 pts but the rest of
Dec’s lineup was subpar, starting with the Browns RB tandem where
Hunt scored a short TD but only had 21 yards from scrimmage and
Chubb had over 100 yds rushing but no TD so he was also short of his
projection. It was even worse for Tua Tago who was benched due
to ineffectiveness and finished in the single digits.
Individual defense was problematic starting with star DB J Adams who
only scored 4 pts, his season low. LB J Baker also scored his
season low with only 2 pts, and it was almost the same for D Leonard
who was limited to 8.5 pts.
The Ballers scored 106.25 pts to tie the ‘Cons which brought to an
end the team’s hot streak from week 8-10 where Ball had not finished
lower than third. Ball fell further behind Old in 6th place
and has work to do to catch up. Due to the close rankings,
Ball was punished heavily for only drafting one team defense and not
trading for one during the season because the Bears were on bye;
with Wax only 0.5 pt ahead this week, it would have been easy for
the Ballers to get 1.5 additional rank-point. RB Hines was not
as productive as he was recently and took a back seat to J Taylor
(FE) who had 22 carries compared to Hines’ only 6 carries for 2
yards. D Cook scored another TD and rushed for over 100 yards
but given that the Vikings threw more than usual in that game, his
15.25 pts were short of his projection. D Hopkins also did not
have a miracle catch up his sleeve at the end of the game this week
and he finished with only 7.5 pts. At QB the Ballers went with
Newton over Tannehill because the latter was playing the Ravens;
Newton beat Tannehill by a hair with 20.5 pts mostly because he did
not turn the ball over but the Pats lost anyway as he only threw for
one TD. At TE the Ballers should have started Gronk; he was
pedestrian with 2-25 but it was better than J Cook with only 1
reception for 6 yards and it cost the Ballers 5th place.
Another issue which hurt Ball this week was rookie Swift who missed
the game due to a concussion while Z Moss was on bye so Ball had to
reach down to their least useful rookie Gross-Matos who scored 4.5
pts, which is below what Swift and Moss normally score. The
Ballers earned a whopping 217 injury points this week and will
possibly overtake ProfMJ soon in that regard for the PQBFL’s second
pick overall in 2021 while Dec remains firmly first.
FlyingElvis not only is having a tough season but is even losing the
close contests such as this week finishing only 3.25 pts behind Wax
but it resulted in being 3 rank-points behind. There were
several things that went wrong this week, first off the coach
finally sent rookie Higgins in the starting lineup and it had to be
the week that Burrow got hurt, while J Taylor outplayed Hines (Ball)
for 9.5 pts on the bench compared to 5.25 pts for Higgins. DB
J Peppers was on bye, forcing K Joseph in the lineup and he only
scored 4 pts. The Pats defense was dreadful against the Texans
without a sack or turnover and finished with -2 pts while the Chiefs
on the bench did better with half a point. However the main
guilty party for FE this week was M Sanders who is now healthy and
was expected to produce in a matchup such as the Browns but it was
not meant to be. His total yardage was not too bad with 81
yards but he did not score and he hurt his team by losing one
fumble. One of the few bright spots for FE this week was QB
Cousins who toyed with the Cowboys defense with 3 TDs, over 300 yds
passing and 26.5 pts. M Williams did not do as well with 14.5
pts although it was a decent score and turned out to be the right
move to make when the coach benched M Evans at the last
minute. On defense LB Kendricks was the leader with 13.5 pts
but FE needed just a bit more to make a difference in the standings.
ProfMJ finished last for the 4th time in 6 weeks and now trails FE
by 9 rank-points with 6 weeks to go so it is looking unlikely that
the team will finish anywhere but last, especially since FE has beat
Prof for 4 straight weeks. No miracles were expected this week
with Josh Allen on bye; D Carr was actually not bad with 22.5 pts
and he almost beat the Chiefs. Prof benched both rookie
Raiders WRs which was the right thing to do because 21 of 23 Carr’s
completions were to receivers other than Ruggs and B Edwards; ProfMJ
started Mims who was the best of the bunch but 6.5 pts was far from
dominant in a game where the Jets struggled to move the ball.
The result was far more painful for J Crowder who only caught one
pass in that game compared to 3 for Mims so Crowder got crushed by C
Kupp’s 19.25 pts on the bench. This call alone was the
difference between 9th place and 5th place for Prof – a huge
swing. Mike Davis joined the team as a replacement player and
slightly beat Drake on the bench by scoring a short TD. J
Conner was a laggard again with 99 yards from scrimmage but no TD so
8.25 pts was below expectations especially in an easy matchup.
On defense the DB position has been a problem for Prof all year and
this week was no exception with T Walker scoring only one point, S
Williams zero, and Rapp missed the game to injury.
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