2007 Week #2

 

1st Place WaxOnWaxOff 185.25 pts

2nd Place OldNo7 184.25 pts

3rd Place Decepticons 161.25 pts

4th Place BeaudoinBrothers 156.25 pts

5th Place UncleJack 150.25 pts

6th Place FlyingElvis 145.75 pts

7th Place Dugongs 141.5 pts

8th Place Spitoons 134.5 pts

 

WaxOnWaxOff exploded with 185.25 pts this week for the team's first win since weeks #1-2 of 2006.  Randy Moss scored 27.25 pts to follow up last week's 26 pts and showed that he is for real this year.  Wax has a few PQBFL owners to thank for not cutting Moss this year.  Wax's WRs might turn out to be an indestructible force this year because S Smith is also clicking on all cylinders with 35.5 pts this week.  S Smith scoring on bombs also helps J Delhomme who scored 26 pts despite the Panthers' loss.  The Vikings defense had another huge game with 16 pts and they scored another TD.  They currently lead all defenses by far.  Rookie Calvin Johnson scored a TD for a second game in a row and looks to justify the high draft pick spent on him.  Wax suddenly jumps to the top of the standings and is an instant contender. 

OldNo7 rebounded from week #1's last place with 184.25 pts and a second place.  Old should have won this week but T Spikes choked with only 5 pts on MNF.  This extends Old's drought to 38 straight weeks without a first place.  Old was the only team not to win in 2006 besides the Dugongs, but the Dugongs won in week #17 of 2005.  Old's last win dates back to week #15 of 2004!  Old's team was carried this week by C Palmer throwing for 6 TDs and B Edwards responding with 2 TDs of his own and 29.25 pts.  He is key to Old's success due to the lack of depth at WR for Old.  The Bears D and Briggs dominated the sorry Chiefs with 20 and 21.5 pts respectively.  Note that RBs might be a headache this season for Old.  S Jackson has a slow start and R Bush has a horrible start.  On the bench is M Barber III who shockingly leads all RBs in the PQBFL after two weeks. 

The Decepticons also rebounded from a bad week #1 with a third place this week.  Cooley scored a TD on MNF to beat the BeaudoinBrothers.  Unlike Wax and Old, nobody on the Dec team had a big week except for A Johnson who scored 25 pts.  Almost everybody contributed on Dec's team.  All starters scored 8.5 pts or more except the kicker and the college player.  The second highest scorer after A Johnson was the Pats defense who were very impressive in holding the Chargers offense in check and scoring a TD.  Rookie LB P Willis had another double-digit game and he is right behind A Peterson (Dug) and Ca Johnson (Wax) in the rookie standings.  Drew Brees was not as bad as last week, but 11.25 pts against the Bucs remains a disappointing game. He only scored a short TD and had one INT. 

The BeaudoinBrothers finished in the middle of the pack with a 4th place and are now tied to Wax in first place of the standings.  LT only scored 5.75 pts this week, which almost matches his worst game of 2006 (5.5 pts).  LT only has 68 rushing yards in 2 games.  He needs to wake up for the BBs to have any success this year.  A Gates has picked up the slack with 16.75 pts this week and he leads all TEs by over 5 pts on average so far.  Roethlisberger came back to earth after his big week #1 game with 10.75 pts this week.  He only scored one short TD.  At WR the BeaudoinBrothers scored 3 TDs (Holt 1, TJ Housh 2) but that was not enough to keep up with Wax and Old's WRs. 

UncleJack slowed down to a fifth place this week but remains third in the standings after two weeks.  Chad Johnson had a huge week with 34.25 pts against the Bengals and E James showed that the Cards offensive line has improved from last year.  The new coach also puts more emphasis on the running game which helps James.  Edge scored 18.5 pts and he currently ranks 2nd best RB.  UJ unfortunately started the wrong 2nd RB again.  Chris Brown only scored 3 pts this week against the Colts while Jamal Lewis ran wild for 215 yds and a long TD against the shitty Bengals defense.  Note that LB Lofa Tatupu is having a nice season start with 15 pts last week and 17 pts this week.  He leads all LBs so far. 

FlyingElvis came up a bit short again with a 6th place despite scoring over 140 pts for the second straight week.  T Brady is proving to be a great franchise player selection with 25.25 pts while Larry Johnson struggles for the Dugongs.  T Owens and D Driver both caught a TD pass.  At RB, first round pick Addai scored for a second straight game and he currently ranks 5th best RB.  The problem for FE is the second RB.  The coach made the mistake of benching L Jordan (13.25 pts) and starting MJD (3.25 pts).  This sent 10 pts down the toilet.  MJD is a huge bust so far (37th best RB - 3rd round pick).  The other problem for FE is the TE position.  V Davis is not getting the job done (average 2.5 pts per game).  The backup TEs for FE are even worse.  FE has the 18th, 19th, and 20th TEs in the league out of .... 20 TEs.  That's right, FE has the worst three of the entire league. 

The Dugongs finished 7th this week and dropped to last place in the PQBFL standings. Larry Johnson had all kinds of red flags around him in the preseason but the Dugongs took him first overall anyway.  LJ scored 7.25 pts like last week and he is not getting the job done.  At least this week he had the excuse of playing a tough defense in Chicago.  For those who did not watch MNF, D McNabb is looking like crap.  He is obviously bothered by his knee and cannot run freely.  His passes are way off too.  The Dugongs had a chance to finish as high as 3rd this week if McNabb had a good game but he did not reach double-digits by not scoring a single TD.  The Dugongs' WRs were expected to be the team's weakness and it's happening.  Boldin and L Coles both scored less than 9 pts which is really bad given that the entire league is blowing up at the WR position with S Smith (Wax), Chad Johnson (UJ), R Moss (Wax), A Johnson (Dec), etc. lighting up the scoreboards.  The Dugongs' LBs are also to blame for the team's bad start.  None of them rank in the top 15 at the position.

The high-powered Spitoons finished last for the first time since week #14 of 2005.  The Spitoons were the only team not to finish last in 2006.  Surprinsingly, the team who now has the longest streak of avoiding last place is the Dugongs, the team who finished last in 2006 and who is also last so far in 2007.  The Dugongs' streak is now 11 weeks but it is not expected to last for very long.  The Spitoons' score of 134.5 pts was the highest ever by a last place team since defensive players were introduced in 2004.  Even if we exclude the addition of college players this year, 134.5 pts is still the highest last place score (127.5 pts excluding Chase Holbrook).  This beats the previous record of 123.5 pts from the same Spitoons in week #10 of 2004.  This last place might be explained by the fact that the GM/coach of the team spent all weekend gambling in Vegas.  The Spi coach won a few thousands three days in a row before seeing his balance going down slightly on Sunday.  Still, this weekend in Vegas resulted in about $5k in winnings for Spi (Monday gain/loss unknown at this time) .  The Spi coach was behaving like a high roller by gambling $300-$500 per hand at the Pai Gow poker tables, getting free drinks & free dinners from casinos, riding in stretch limos, reaching platinum status and getting a bunch of perks.  As the saying says, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas so some other activities by the Spi coach will remain in Vegas and will not be published here.   That was all good but the Spitoons team lacked direction and did not have high scorers this week.  TE Winslow Jr was the team's best with 18 pts.  Zach Thomas was ok with 13 pts but the other LB AJ Hawk only scored 4 pts.  Kitna started at QB but was knocked out in the first half before coming back late in the 4th qtr to lead the team to an OT win.  Unfortunately Kitna missed a lot of playing time which prevented him for getting a high score. 

 

 

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