Week #12

After a dry spell in weeks 10-11 where Dec only scored 221.5 pts in total, the ‘Cons exploded for almost the same score but in only one week, with 193 pts to easily win week #12 far ahead of Adm for Dec’s first win since week #3.  Dec now has a firm grip on second place and only 3 rank-points behind Beaud in first place with 5 weeks to go and the team getting healthier.  Dec was supposed to have the best defensive team in the PQBFL and it took a while to get there but this week Dec was clicking on all cylinders.  The Rams, JJ Watt, and Deion Jones all scored a TD, D Leonard scored more than all of them with 19.5 pts because of lots of tackles and a sack, and J Adams was the “worst” of the group with 6 tackles 3 assists 1 sack and 2 QB hits for 14 pts.  The ‘Cons scored 82.5 pts on defense alone, almost as much as the total team score of 106.25 pts in week #11.  Offense was not bad either with Mahomes taking control of the offense with 37.5 pts, C Carson came back from injury after missing 4 weeks and scored double-digits, and Chubb got his best game since back from injury three weeks ago with 19.5 pts.  The only weak spot was receivers R Woods, Lockett, and Hurst combining for only 22.5 pts not to mention Tua Tago who missed the game to injury and rookie WR Pittman was quiet with 3.25 pts. 

Earlier this year, when the Admirals won week #1 and #7, they could only follow-up with mediocre performances of 6th place in week #2 and 5th place in week #8.  This time was different; after winning week #11 Adm had a strong 164 pts and are now only half a rank-point behind both Bas and Wax so third place is within striking distance.  D Watson continued on his hot streak with 41.5 pts on Thanksgiving day while J Bosa was the defensive leader with 24.5 pts thanks to three sacks and 5 QB hits.  Rookie J Jefferson was excellent with 22.5 pts in the Vikings’ win with 2 TDs, filling the void for Thielen missing the game due to covid.   However rookie Gibson did even better on the bench with 30.25 pts.  Those two Adm rookies are now ranked ROO3-4 in the PQBFL and are the best non-QBs behind Herbert (Bas) and Burrow (Wax) which is promising for Adm’s saved team in 2021.  While D Adams had a fine game with 15 pts, the replacement for Thielen at WR was C Kirk who could not do better than 3.75 pts.  RBs also left to the desired with 3.75 pts from D Harris and 7.5 pts from A Jones.  In the Packers’ game it was a mild concern that J Williams had the same number of carries as A Jones and Williams scored the TD plus the fact that A Jones did not catch a pass in that game.

The BeaudoinBrothers could not top 140 pts for four straight weeks between weeks #8-11 but had their best week since week #7 with 158.5 pts and third place.  As the season is getting closer to the end D Henry is starting to overwhelm defenses as he does every year including 2019 when he helped the Bros to the PQBFL title.  This week going against the tough Colts defense Henry was merciless, scoring 3 TDs before halftime and if it was not for Tannehill stealing a 1-yard score in the last minute of the second quarter, he could have had 4.  High production from D Henry normally means AJ Brown takes a back seat and indeed he was not overly involved in the offense with only 4 catches but one of them was a TD bomb and he also had another score on a fluky onside kick return at the end of the game.  M Thomas was equally non-involved in his game with only 4 receptions as well but he did not score a TD so his final score was again disappointing with only 6.5 pts.  At least Beaud benefited from covid luck by starting the Saints defense in that game, and they only allowed 3 pts and 112 yards of total offense.  The main problem for Beaud this week was QB where both R Wilson and K Murray have slowed down considerably in the last few weeks.  Thankfully Beaud started the correct QB Wilson with 13.5 pts as Murray scored only 5 pts on the bench, but it’s not exactly comforting that Wilson is now a game manager with the Seahawks’ recent defensive improvement and RBs Carson (Dec) and Hyde (Adm) returning from injuries.  At RB Mostert came back from his own injury and scored a TD on exactly the same week that Gurley missed a game due to his troublesome knee in what could have been a nice output for Beaud given that the Falcons scored 43 pts on the Raiders.  Mostert still has room for improvement however because his yardage was pedestrian with 12-43 and J Wilson stealing lots of carries.  On defense the Bros were hampered by M Garrett missing another game due to covid, Josh Allen is on IR, and backup DL Fowler only scored 1.5 pt.

OldNo7 finished 4th this week with a respectable 149.5 pts but most of the production came from only two players: A Rodgers scored 31 pts and Ty Hill exploded for a godly 49.25 pts and he could have scored more if he did not slow down in the second half of his game.  K Allen had a decent 13 pts but was less of a focus of the Chargers’ offense with the return of Ekeler (FE).  TE Engram was almost as good 10.25 pts which was only the second time this year where he scored double digits.  The problem for Old this week was RB where McCaffrey is irreplaceable: he scored between 19.25 pts and 22.5 pts in the three games when he was active this year but he missed his 9th game this week.  Old should have started J White this week who scored 2 TDs on the bench but instead inexplicably went with Breida who sucked again with 1.25 pt.  RB Gordon could not get on track because the Saints could key on him with the Broncos having no other useful players on offense and he finished with only 3.5 pts.  Individual defense was not bad for Old this week with double-digit scores from Poyer and Schobert, while DL Hubbard almost reached that threshold with 9 pts.  The problem was the Colts defense getting destroyed and finished with -2.5 pts and they no longer occupy the PQBFL’s top spot at the position.  They now stand behind the Steelers (Wax). 

WaxOnWaxOff was a laggard until a late week push that included lit candles in the hope that the Steelers game would not be cancelled and their prayers were answered.  In the last game of the week both TJ Watt and the Steelers defense scored exactly 16 pts to power Wax slightly ahead of Prof and FE to finish in 5th place.  Wax moved back into a tie with Bas in third place in the standings but now has Adm breathing down their neck.  It’s not going to be an easy final stretch for Wax without Burrow and this week as a replacement C Young had a sack but not much else for 6 pts.  The best score of the week was A Donald with 16.5 pts which means the top 3 scorers were all on defense for Wax this week.  The best offensive game was 15.5 pts from RoJo who scored another long TD in the Bucs’ loss to the Chiefs.  Kamara continued his underperformance without Brees (Dec) with only 5.25 pts with L Murray (Bas) easily outrushing him 19 to 11 carries and Kamara only catching one pass for negative yardage.  Kamara dropped to RB4 in the PQBFL behind D Henry and the outlook for the next few weeks is not bright.  Things are not much better at WR where DJ Moore continued his seesaw season with only 7 pts this week to move back down to WR25 in the PQBFL which is not what Wax expected from their early 4th round pick in August.  Ridley had a fine game with 13.5 pts but one would have guessed a higher output given that the Falcons destroyed the Raiders and Ju Jones (Dec) being out to injury.

ProfMJ scored 128.75 pts this week which was their second best output of the year but fell only 0.5 pt short of beating Wax and could not do better than 6th place because week #12 was the third highest scoring week of the year for the PQBFL as a whole.  Things started on the right foot for Prof on Turkey day with 29.5 pts from W Fuller until the turd got suspended for the rest of the season due to drug violations.  With Conner out due to covid, Prof needed Drake back in the lineup and he delivered with two short TDs for 17.75 pts.  Replacement RB M Davis did not do as well with only 15 rushes for 55 yds plus three receptions for 24 yds without a TD in a road loss in Minnesota.  QB Josh Allen was preparing for a shootout against his young counterpart Herbert but the Bills’ task turned out easier than expected and after J Allen scored a TD early in the 3rd quarter to take a 24-6 lead he did not need to throw much for the rest of the game so he finished with 11.5 pts, a low score which was partially affected by two turnovers.  Defense was nothing special this week again for Prof with all 5 starters coming up short of their projection with the best being Hicks at 8.5 pts and DB Walker the worst with only one point.  Rookie WR Mims plays on a bad team and he missed lots of games to injury to start the year but at least he has slowly been trending up and scored his best result of the season with 8.25 pts.  The bigger concern for Prof however is that his outlook for 2021 is not particularly enticing. 

FE has shockingly not reached 125 pts in any single week all year; FE scored 124.75 pts this week which was actually the team’s highest score all season and FE could not finish higher than 7th place.  FE started the wrong QB with Cousins scoring 28.5 pts on the bench and starter Bridgewater being limited to 14.75 pts as those two guys were playing against each other in the same game.  Ekeler came back from injury after missing 6 games which was a boon for the FE offense but first round pick Miles Sanders stunk with only 3.75 pts most of which was because of a 2-point conversion; he was otherwise useless with only 22 yards from scrimmage.  It was old man A Peterson on the bench having a nice Turkey day with 2 TDs while rookie Swift (Ball) was out due to a concussion.  FE could have beat Wax and Prof on the last game of the week but Boswell missed an extra point and DL Heyward only scored 6 pts so just a bit more was needed for FE to finish two ranks higher.  Heyward was actually the weakest link on FE’s defense this week because the team’s LBs did well with 15.5 pts from Kendricks and 12.5 pts from Edmunds, respectively.  At WR M Evans had a good game with 17.5 pts because he scored two TDs but M Williams was a non-factor in his game with only 5.25 pts. 

The GloriousBastards had been improving recently and were slowly moving towards the top with four straight top 4 finishes until they got stopped in their tracks in week #12 with a dreadful 106.25 pts for 8th place.  Bas dropped to 3rd in the standings behind Dec, and OldNo7 is now only 4 rank points behind so Bas who had as good a shot as any for the PQBFL title as of last week, are now looking at 6th place being a distinct possibility if they don’t pick up their game.  QB Brady scored 24.5 pts which was higher than his projection but most of it was in the 4th quarter after the Chiefs already had a comfortable lead.  DK Metcalf was the only other bright spot for Bas with 18.75 pts but he did not score a TD.  The rest of GB’s team was dismal, starting with RB Elliott who lost one more fumble and finished with 0.25 pt and dropped to RB15 in the PQBFL.  The loss of Prescott and the injuries on the offensive line can only go so far to explain his level of play, particularly the fumbles.  Josh Jacobs also lost a fumble and finished with only 1.5 pt in a game where he got hurt and did not finish the game.  WR Diggs caught 7 passes but could not top 40 yards and was held off the end zone, while TE Waller was even worse with 4-23 and nothing else.  In a week where nothing was going well for GB, kicker Badgley missed an extra-point to finish in negative territory and the Broncos defense had no help from their offense with their backs constantly against the wall and could not do better than 3 pts.  Even rookie Herbert had a below average game by his standards with only 14.5 pts which was his worst game of the season other than his 12.25 pts in week #3. 

The Ballers got crushed with a season-low and league-low 64.75 pts this week, far behind everyone else and with Old pulling away more than 10 rank-points ahead in the standings it looks like Ball will finish the season in 7th place.  TE Gronk was the top scorer of the week with 11.25 pts and everybody else scored in the single digits, with the only other player who could beat his projection being kicker Zuerlein with a modest 7 points.  QB Newton was horrible with 0.5 pt and he was the wrong QB to start; Tannehill was far better with 20.5 pts despite playing the Colts defense.  In that game, RB Hines did not do as well as expected even with J Taylor (FE) out to injury and Hines was limited to 7.75 pts.  But the one who laid an egg big time was D Cook who lost a fumble and did not score a TD for a total of only 3.75 pts while his projection was not far from 20 pts which is also roughly his season average (20.9 pts per game before this week).  Cook had not scored less than 9.25 pts all year and now we can see a trend emerging with Cook scoring only 28.25 pts in his last three weeks for an average of less than 10, far below his average of 23.3 pts in the first 9 weeks of the year.  WR D Hopkins did not do much in New England with 7.75 pts which was his 3rd single digit game in the last 4 weeks, the lone exception being the game where he caught the game-winning hail Murray pass to beat the Bills in week #10 otherwise it would be a pretty horrible 4-week streak.  WR Watkins missed 5 games to injury and came back right on time this week to start and score 5.75 pts; the other Ballers WRs P Williams and Edelman were injured, and AJ Green scored a goose egg on the bench without Burrow so Ball did not have other viable options than Watkins.  On defense the Bears were humiliated by the Packers and finished with -2 pts, C Jones only scored 2 pts at DL, the two Ballers DBs Simmons and Jenkins combined with only 8 pts, and LB Wagner had a season-low 7.5 pts. 




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