Week #6

The Decepticons bounced back nicely from their week #5 fiasco with their first win of the season, almost topping 200 points.  It was not Mahomes who did the job however as he struggled with 2 more INTs and threw for the same number of TD and finished below his weekly projection.  The team leader was rather C Kupp with scored 27.5 pts; he still dominates the WR position, ahead of Ty Hill (Prof) with an average of 20.1 vs 17.9 for Hill.  An honorable mention goes to Mixon and Fant this week who both scored 20.75 pts.  Mixon has been a mild disappointment but nothing terrible, it was the first time since week 1 that he scored more than 10.5 pts so he appropriately took advantage of the weak Lions defense.  Fant has been a better performer than Mixon so far as he ranks TE5 in the league, higher than what was expected and right on the heels of Waller (Bas) at TE4.  Defense was soild for Dec this week which helped to easily distance Prof and Beaud in first place with 17.5 pts from the Rams and 16 pts from D Leonard.  Those two can be expected to do well, but the bigger surprise was JJ Watt coming in the starting lineup for N Bosa who was on bye and Watt responded with 13.5 pts after not doing much all year, previously 4/5 weeks he scored a paltry 4 pts or less.  Despite this good game he remains DL18 out of 21 and barring injury it was probably the only time of the season that he will see the starting lineup for Dec, but he got the job done when it mattered. 

ProfessorMJ lost one rank-point to Dec but strengthened their led over rivals FE and Beaud in the standings with second place.  D Henderson led the way with 20.75 pts - he continues to impress despite S Michel stealing some carries.  Henderson has always been injury prone and he missed one game so far this year, but in the 5 games in which he participated his lowest score was 9.5 pts – an excellent floor which puts him at RB5 in the league.  With Chubb injured, Conner had to start and did not do much with 6.25 pts.  At WR Ty Hill had a big game once again with 18.75 pts and for WR2 the coach went with M Evans for the first time but it did not work out with Evans only catching two passes.  Similar to Dec, defense helped Prof finish near the top of the rankings this week with excellent games from Rapp (17.5 pts), R Smith (12 pts), and with Mosley on bye J Brooks subbed in nicely with 14 pts.  The only part of the defense which was questionable was the Bills who lost on MNF and only scored 2.5 pts, almost letting D Henry (Beaud) completely melt the large lead that Prof had built over Beaud on Sunday.  Rookie T Lawrence led his team to their first win of the season against the Dolphins, his 15.25 pts were below his projection but nonetheless at the rookie position any score above 15 pts will distance the competition.  Lawrence remains ROO2 behind J Chase (Bas) however. 

As mentioned above the BeaudoinBrothers attempted a comeback on MNF with D Henry scoring 32 pts as this non-human machine continues non-stop to destroy opponents, and padding his lead of points per week to 22.8 pts vs 14.5 pts for J Taylor (FE) after 6 weeks, the gap from RB1 to RB2 of 8.2 pts is almost triple the second largest lead at any other position which is the Bills (Prof) 2.9 pts per week ahead of the Saints (Dec).  Unfortunately this week Henry’s effort failed to have any impact on the standings.  With Zach Wilson on bye, Rondale Moore made his first appearance in the Beaud starting lineup and had his second worst game of the season with only 4.25 pts.  With Ridley on bye, the Bros started Claypool and M Pittman to take advantage of juicy matchups against the Seahawks and the Texans but they both fell flat on their face with 2.75 pts and 3.75 pts.  Even though A Cooper on the bench did not have a big game with only 7.75 pts but this coaching call would have put the Bros in second place so it was costly; coaching mistakes continue to mount for Beaud with 7th place in coaching efficiency this year.  Similar to R Moore, D Carr had his first start of the year for Beaud with R Wilson sidelined and M Ryan on bye, but the result was different than Moore.  Carr responded with 26.25 pts in an impressive road win against the decent Broncos defense.  On defense the Colts (18 pts) and Logan Wilson (13 pts) did well but the Bros needed more than 7 pts each from Garrett, Simmons, and L Collins to beat Prof.

The Admirals came out on top of a tight group in 4th to 7th place with 137.5 pts and escaped with a finish in the top half of the standings this week.  K Murray led the way with 32 pts in a destruction of the Browns.  Murray threw for 4 TDs and no turnover, although interestingly he fumbled 4 times, none of which were forced fumbles by the Browns, and recovered all 4 fumbles himself which therefore did not lead to any loss of points.  At RB A Jones scored a TD and 15 pts, but for RB2 the coach started Gaskin because of the matchup with the Jaguars and the result was poor.  No matter how great the matchup is, Gaskin is awful, he finished with 5 rushes for 9 yards and was even outrushed by teammates M Brown (5-24) and S Ahmed (7-22).  Even Tua Tago was more productive than Gaskin with 3-22.  Gaskin fell further to RB29, while D Harris had a good game on the bench with 14 pts and moved up to RB25.  The main letdown of the week was Mike Williams who only scored 3.25 pts, his second bad game in three weeks after a hot start, it’s been boom or bust for him in the last three weeks because the one good week in week #5 was fantastic with 32.25 pts; so despite 2 bad games in 3, the 3-week average is still respectable.  One main problem for Adm this week was LB because B Martinez was injured, Oluokun was on bye, and Jaylon Smith recently released by Dallas and signed by Green Bay was not been fully integrated in the game plan for the Packers yet and scored a goose egg.  Thankfully it had no impact on the standings this week because Adm edged other teams but was far away from 3rd with little chance to get there even with an active LB. 

FlyingElvis could not follow up week #5’s win with another top performance – this time the team had to settle with 5th place.  L Jackson beat the Chargers but the Ravens mostly did so on the ground, with Jackson ending the game with only 1 TD out of 4, and he also had 2 INTs and only threw for 167 passing yards so he failed to reach double digits.  In that same game Ekeler was simply not fed the rock, he rushed 6 times and only gained 7 yards, to go along 4 receptions for 48 yards and no TD.  The lone bright spot on offense for FE was J Taylor who scored 2 TDs and rushed for 145 yards.  B Cooks was not bad with 13.25 pts but the coach should have started Thielen instead who scored 23.75 pts.  Defense was definitely better than offense for FE and saved FE from a much lower finish, with double digit scores from the Packers, T Edmunds, Wagner, and D James.  Only JPP was not great with 5 pts but with Q Williams on bye and D Lawrence injured, FE had no other choice at DL.  FE was also hampered this week at the rookie position because K Pitts was on bye.  FE did not have the guts to start R Bateman who was coming back from injury for his NFL debut and he did not do much on the bench with 5.25 pts but it was nonetheless better than starter T Marshall who was limited to 1.25 pts.  Thankfully that call would not have made a difference because Adm finished ahead by 4.25 pts so the 4 pt difference between Bateman and Marshall would have been just a hair short.

WaxOnWaxOff finished in 6th place tied with OldNo7 this week, at a time when Wax did not expect miracles due to not having a rookie to start with all three being on bye which was a mistake by the GM during the draft.  After drafting Sermon and trading for T Lance, Wax should have drafted any rookie not with a bye in week 6, it’s not like E Moore was a cannot miss prospect that Wax had to draft no matter what bye week (currently ROO23 out of 30).  Josh Allen made a good effort on MNF to save Wax from further pain with a 33.75 pt game to beat his projection and catch up with Old.  On defense TJ Watt was the lone star with 23.5 pts while others struggled, notably Budda Baker who has not been as dominant as expected and scoring 2 pts in week #6 was bottom of the barrel.  He has now fallen to DB12 which is not far from worthless considering he was at the top of almost all DB draft lists.  The main problem for Wax this week was RB+WR where both Ju Jefferson and DJ Moore scored far less than their projection in the single digits, and RBs Edmonds and Ro Jo were even worse, with 6.25 pts combined during Kamara’s bye week.

OldNo7 finished out of the red (well, halfway out of the red) for the first time since week #1.  With McCaffrey’s continued absence and without a college player to start since Old only drafted one and he was on bye, Old was handcuffed, and AJ Brown being iffy Old started Antonio Brown and Di Johnson and both got the job done with 20.5 pts and 13.75 pts, respectively.  E Elliott failed to reach 10 pts and backup Gordon was limited to 6 pts, Gordon was only playing because both CEH and McCaffrey were out.  Prescott had a decent game to lead the Cowboys to victory but he needed OT to beat his projection; before that, 2 TDs and 2 turnovers was not good enough but with the TD in OT he finished with 26.5 pts which was enough to beat Bas and tie Wax.  On defense with the 49ers on bye Old had to start the porous Chiefs defense but they came through with 11 pts in a road win against WFT, the first time of the year the Chiefs D scored more than 8 pts.  They did not outscore the 49ers in any single week so far so Old will probably revert back to the 49ers despite this improved effort from the Chiefs.  At LB it was a tale of two opposite stories, Alex Singleton scored 16 pts and powered up to LB8 in the PQBFL, a more than satisfying result so far.  At the other end of the scale Schobert’s trade to the Steelers has been a disaster for OldNo7, he was limited to 2 pts and dropped to LB30 in the PQBFL due to his smaller role on the Steelers defense unlike his centerpiece role in Jax previously.

The GloriousBastards’ see-saw season continued as the team finished in the red every even-numbered week, while having significantly better results in the odd-numbered weeks.  This week Bas finished 8th – the team’s worse finish all year.  Ju Herbert was powerless against the Ravens defense with only a short TD and not even reaching 200 passing yards.  The coach stuck with Ju Fields as starting rookie instead of league-leading J Chase and this week Fields outscored Chase for the first time of the season but that’s because Chase scored his lowest all year at 9.75 pts; Fields did not beat his own projection with 11.25 pts.  Bas’ LBs woes continued with D White and Cunningham underperforming yet again, combining for 11.5 pts and further dropping to LB20 and LB28 in the PQBFL.  What a dismal showing for such an all-star pair.  Even the Broncos stunk this week with only 0.5 pt which is not common for them.  Only K Clark and M Fitzpatrick reached double digits on defense.  On offense the only player who showed up was CD Lamb who had not done as much as the sky-high expectations that Bas had when he was drafted in the 3rd round, but with 28.5 pts this week including the game-winning TD in OT, Lamb climbed to WR8 which exactly matches the order of WRs in which he was drafted. 

The Ballers finished last for the third time of the season and are sinking fast, with a combination of some injuries but that’s not the whole story because the Ballers are 5th in injury points.  There has been some team missteps as well, for example similar to OldNo7 drafting only one college player had ramifications this week because the team had nobody to start.  At RB S Barkley was sorely missed, with backup Zack Moss doing next to nothing on MNF with only 1.75 pt.  Thankfully D Cook came back to the lineup with 16.25 pts which was a needed relief but it was not sufficient.  The rookie position continues to be a problem, with the coach being AWOL and leaving M Parsons in the starting lineup.  It worked fine for a while but Mac Jones has recently outplayed Parsons; Jones is now ROO4 and Parsons ROO8.  This week Jones easily outscored Parsons 18.25 to 5 – this lineup change would have avoided last place so Bas can be thankful.  At LB Kendricks is a pillar and he scored 10 pts, but for defensive flex a more active team management might have resulted in S Barrett or H Landry starting, but both were benched (9 pts, 15 pts) in favor of Milano by default who only scored 2 pts.  Offense was a mixed bag, Gronk being out does not help and Tonyan only scored 2.5 pts.  A Rodgers had a decent game with 24 pts and so did Diggs with 19.25 pts but McLaurin only scored 5.25 pts and it’s becoming clear he was better off with Fitzpatrick than Heinicke. 





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