Week #6

The BeaudoinBrothers won for the second time of the year but only gained a single rank-point over Wax so they remain moderately far from the top.  The Bros were not dominant but week #6 being the lowest scoring week of the season so far due to bye weeks, it only took 153.75 pts for Beaud to win.  R Wilson did enough on MNF with 1 TD and no turnover to secure first place.  The Bros have great RB depth with M Sanders, J Robinson, and R Stevenson who are all in the top 15 RBs and therefore starting RB material, so missing D Henry on bye week was not too painful.  That said, the unexpected cherry on top was that the Bros got lucky that D Harris (Adm) got injured exactly the week that Henry was on bye which paved the way for R Stevenson to start and he scored 19.5 pts for the Bros’ best score this week, tied with M Pittman who was also benefiting from an injury to J Taylor (FE) and forced M Ryan to throw a whopping total of 58 times and even N Hines (Ball) was injured too so Pittman took the opportunity to catch 13 balls in that game.  Defense was more shaky for Beaud, notably Logan Wilson started but only scored 4 pts with regular starter L David benched and he scored 14 pts so it almost turned out to be a costly mistake.

WaxOnWaxOff did not win but with second place this week it was the 4th time in 6 weeks that Wax finished top 2 so there has been no let up.  Wax almost won for a third straight week despite TJ Hock being on bye, Nick Bosa missing the game to injury, and Josh Allen who scored only 3 pts in the first 29.5 minutes of his game (0 TD, 1 turnover) before scoring a TD with 16 seconds remaining in the first half and then playing much better in the second half to finish with 29.25 pts.  Another bright spot was the continued emergence of rookie Breece Hall who rushed for over 100 yards in Green Bay and scored.  Hall now averages 11.9 pts per game, only a hair behind D Lloyd (Beaud) and C Olave (Bas) who are at 12.0 pts each.  Wax missed first place this week due to one critical call: E Elliott was benched because of his matchup against the Eagles but Elliott had a decent game with 13 pts, and instead Wax started AJ Dillon against the Jets but the Packers did not impress against the Jets and Dillon did not do much with only 4.25 pts so that decision alone was the difference with first place because Wax got beat by only 4.75 pts.

The Ballers finished in the blue for the second time of the season to distance ProfMJ behind, and move closer to Dec in 7th place.  Ball could have won this week if not for missing a RB2 to start: Hines and Patterson were injured, Akers does not want to play for the Rams anymore, and Zack Moss was a healthy scratch.  With only one healthy and active RB, D Cook had to carry the load and was held in check during 57 minutes by the Dolphins defense until he scored on a 53-yard run with 3 minutes remaining and ended the game with 83 yards from scrimmage: he only had 30 yards total if not for that single run.  The other reason Ball missed first place is that A Rodgers did not capitalize on his matchup with the Jets and only scored 10.5 pts.  Could it be that J Goff will start over Rodgers sooner rather than later?  Goff was on bye but he’s been outscoring Rodgers by a mile so far this season, 19.3 (QB6) for Goff against 12.7 (QB16) for Rodgers.  Goff comes back from his bye and his WRs are getting healthier so it will be interesting to see what the Ballers’ coach does at QB. 

The GloriousBastards were well positioned to win week #6 on MNF with Herbert going against R Wilson (Beaud) but Herbert was held scoreless and had one INT and finished the game with a season-low 5.5 pts, which was the first time in 2022 that he failed to reach double digits.  Not only did Bas fail to finish first, but Bas also fell behind Wax and Ball, and also almost finished behind Old so Herbert’s bad game had significant consequences.  Bas’ other QB rookie Pickett was concussed and exited with 8.25 pts and the missed time turned out to be crucial given the tight standings.  Bas’ receivers did all the work this week, led by 27.5 pts from J Chase who scored twice, then G Davis scored 13.5 pts in the absence of D Adams on bye, and TE Gesicki did even better with 19.25 pts with Freiermuth on bye as well.  On defense D Davis was strong with 17 pts but his Saints teammate C Jordan cancelled Davis’ outperformance with only 3 pts of his own.  With the Steelers on the bench, the Vikings did well with 10.5 pts but this was cancelled by DB J Bates only scoring 4 pts with M Fitzpatrick injured. 

OldNo7 finished in 5th place for the third time in the last 4 weeks with 136.25 pts, only 17.5 pts away from first place.  Through 6 weeks Old has the second best strength of starters in the PQBFL behind Wax, but Old’s coaching efficiency ranks dead last.  Old’s coach could be excused this week for benching LB A Singleton because at times Singleton was not even part of the game plan by the Broncos, but this week Singleton was all over the field with 19 tackles 2 assists and 25.5 pts on the bench.  Instead Old started Werner (6 pts) and D Campbell (8 pts) both of which failed to reach their projection.  Unlike the LB position, it was more debatable to start Wentz at Chicago who ended the game with only 3.25 pts while T Lawrence on the bench scored 22 pts.  One can argue that Wentz breaking his finger was not predictable but nonetheless the choice of QB or LB was the difference between 5th place and 1st place.  The one position where Old did not have to think about starters was RB with CMC and Kamara both starting as usual and reaching double digits but neither of them scored a TD so they were merely ok rather than boosting Old to the top.

FlyingElvis finished a season-low 6th place and also season low 127.75 pts and dropped from 7 rank-points away from Wax to now 11 rank-points behind.  Very few teams have ever overcome a 10+ rank-point deficit to win the league in previous years.  It could have been worse for FE because Dec was not far behind and the FE coach put rookie Alec Pierce in the starting lineup at the last minute and benched G Wilson which was a great move with Pierce scoring the game-winning TD late while Wilson was limited to 1 reception for 8 yards.  The coach also benched Mostert (4 pts) on Sunday morning in favor of DK Dobbins which did not turn out as well because Dobbins was dreadful with only 15 total yards and no TD but that call only partially offset the rookie starting call; both decisions taken together was a net positive and the difference between 6th place and 7th place.  Not only Dobbins had a poor game, but L Jackson did as well with only 13.25 pts, barely more than half his weekly projection in a game the Ravens were supposed to do well on offense against the Giants.  L Jackson had two turnovers in the last 3 minutes of the game to cost his team the win.  On MNF Ekeler tried to save the day and scored a TD but the Chargers did not have much success against the Broncos defense so yardage was limited and Ekeler did not reach the century mark. 

The Decepticons could not follow up week #5’s second place with another positive result, this week Dec finished 7th in a season quickly going up in smokes.  After weeks of underperformance, Dec’s coach benched franchise player N Harris who ended up with a season-high 9 pts on the bench, which is not that great anyway but it was 1 point better than starter Montgomery with 8 pts.  Fournette has been the only reliable RB on the team with no worse than 6 pts all year and this week he was adequate with 14.25 pts.  After 6 weeks Fournette ranks RB10 which is great for RB2 but not good enough for RB1 which is what Harris was supposed to be, not Fournette.  For the first time this season Kupp did not score a TD, except for week #4 when he had a season-high 14 receptions so his score that week was great anyway (20 pts).  No such elevated stats this week, I mean 7-80 and 17 yards rushing would be good for most WRs but for Kupp that meant underperforming his weekly projection by more than 7.  Lockett was below his projection by even more due to a poor game of only 2 receptions for 17 yards in a game where Geno Smith was throwing more to the TE than the WRs so at least Dec benefited with Fant starting and scoring 8.25 pts.  QB Mahomes had a modestly subpar day with 20 pts, he could lead the offense with some success but his 2 INTs were the difference between being ahead of projections and below projections.  On defense the Rams were dominant by holding the Panthers to only 3 pts, but LB Baker only registered one tackle and nothing else, despite playing 100% of defensive snaps.

ProfMJ’s nightmare season continued this week by failing to reach 100 points and Prof finished 8th, far behind Ball so now Prof has increasingly high chances of finishing the season dead last by a significant margin after dominating 2021 by a similar margin.  Prof tried to shop Brady before the week started, but his performance on the field against an injury-depleted Steelers squad would not give comfort to potential trade partners with Brady finishing the game with 12.5 pts and lost the game when he could not connect on a 2-point conversion.  At least Burrow on the bench exploded for 37 pts so for week #7 and beyond at least Prof has a viable QB who is back on track.  However for this week, even if Prof had started Burrow it would not have made any difference because Prof finished so far behind Dec.  There was no such bench depth at RB this week for Prof.  With both J Conner and J Williams injured, D Henderson was forced into the starting lineup but at least he was taking advantage of the Cam Akers saga to get a growing share of carries for the Rams.  Unfortunately he only had 3.6 yards per carry but he scored a TD so his final result of 9.25 pts matched his projection.  It was not the case for injured player replacement Jeff Wilson who scored in negative territory due to a lost fumble and the 49ers playing from behind and throwing rather than running the ball.  At WR it was similar to the RB situation: K Allen missed due to injury and both M Evans and D Johnson stunk with 6 pts and 6.75 pts respectively.

The Admirals finished last for the first time since week #10 last year which coincidentally was the starting point of a hot stretch from weeks #11-18 where Adm was the best team in the PQBFL.  Adm can only hope that the same will happen in 2022 as the coach will whip the players’ butt for their poor week #6.  It was the first time this season that any team scored less than 90 pts - Adm ended with only 84.5 pts.  Part of it was injuries, for example with both D Harris and R Penny out, Adm had no choice but to start Chubb as normal but Gainwell as RB2, because RoJo was a healthy scratch again and M Mack is not even in the NFL anymore.  Gainwell was poor with only 2 points, but the even bigger problem was not injury related with Chubb scoring only 5.75 pts which was by far his worst game of the year, coming at a bad time.  Chubb remains RB1 in the league so far but his lead over Ekeler (FE) has narrowed to less than 2 pts per game.  The other major problem was on defense with J Bosa injured plus Crosby+Martinez+Byard on bye which left Adm with only 3 active defensive players, one short of the minimum.  None of the active players lit up the scoreboard with Winfield being the only one to reach 10 pts but he hit 10 pts on the nose rather than exceed it.  Team defense was even worse with only 4 pts from the Colts who barely avoided a home loss against the Jaguars.  At the rookie position C Watson was also injured but it’s not like he’s been doing much with an average of 4.1 pts per game, however it’s still better than backup Skyy Moore who started and scored 2 pts this week.




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