Official Results 2007 Week #8

2007 Week #8

The Decepticons’ yo-yo continued this week, with the team going from 7^th last week to first this week. Dec's coach guaranteed a top three finish this week and delivered on the promise. This was the Cons’ second win this season and the Cons are now tied with the Dugongs in 3^rd place. All starters for Dec scored in the double-digits except for Bulluck and the kicker. Brees had his best game of the season by far, scoring 33 pts. After a slow start, Brees has averaged 22.6 pts in the last three weeks. With McGahee on bye and T Henry injured, Dec did not expect much out of RBs but Jacobs and L White were adequate with 137 and 141 yds from scrimmage and no TD. Both Dec WRs and Cooley scored between 10 and 12 pts – not stellar but acceptable. Dec’s firepower came on defense this week besides Brees. The Patriots scored 23 pts in the crushing of the Skins. Winfield got 10 tackles, 2 assists, and 3 PDs against the Eagles and he now leads all DBs in the league by a decent margin (#2 is Bob Sanders from Spi with 1.5 pt per week behind). Dec had already wrapped up the win before MNF but Kampman added points on top with 19 more (3 sacks and 4 QB hits).

The BeaudoinBrothers finished in the top 2 for the fifth time this season and easily distanced their nearest rival FlyingElvis. The BBs regained their 8 rank-point lead in the standings which had shrunk to 6 last week. The BBs scored 162.25 pts which is only five points short of their season high which they got in week #1. The team leader this week was A Gates who scored 22.5 pts with only three receptions but two of them were long TDs. Gates has been huge for the BBs this year, crushing all other TEs in the league by 2.3 pts per week. Since Witten is the second best TE in the league and he’s sitting on the BB bench, the best TE in other teams is D Clark (UJ) who is more than 3 pts per game behind Gates. This is the third highest domination of all positions, after Brady (FE) at QB and A Peterson (Dug) at the rookie position. At WR, TJ Housh scored his 9^th TD of the year in 7 games. He has scored in every single game this year and he is on pace for 132 receptions. He is playing in the shadow of Chad Johnson but TJ is the one who puts up the big stats.

OldNo7 finished third with 137.25 pts this week. Old finished very far ahead of FE in fouth place and very far behind the BBs in second place so there was not much stress involved with a close finish this week for Old. The WRs were big again for Old this week. R Wayne and B Edwards combined for 48 pts. They are the league’s 5^th and 6^th best WRs. Old’s third best performer this week was London Fletcher who only got his second start of the season. He rewarded the coach with 11 tackles, 4 assists, and one PD for 16.5 pts. He leads all LBs in the league by more than a point a game. Old was hurt this week by star rookie Bowe who was on bye. A Gonzalez did not do much in replacement, only catching one pass for 16 yds. Old welcomed the return to the lineup of franchise player S-Jax. However S-Jax disappointed a little with only 50 total yards and a short TD.

FlyingElvis got very lucky of being blown out by 47 pts by the BeaudoinBrothers but only finishing 2 ranks below. FE saved a rank-point on MNF with TE Scheffler’s TD and the suckness of the Broncos defense for the Dugongs. Brady and Addai scored 58 pts combined and the remaining 12 starters sucked balls big time with only 57.25 pts . L Jordan and P Burress both scored a season low 2.25 pts and 2.5 pts. Umenyiora only got two tackles against the lowly Dolphins. Urlacher only got 2 tackles and 2 assists. Rookie M Lynch did not have a horrible game, but 7.25 pts was barely above his season low of 7 pts from week #2. The Panthers defense was crushed by the Colts and scored -2 pts. The Panthers rank 12^th out of 17 defenses and the backup Jets are even worse at 15^th. This is clearly a weakness for FE. And let’s remember that FE had drafted the Dolphins instead of the Panthers but traded them to the BBs during the draft. The Dolphins rank 16^th. In terms of skill to draft defenses, FE’s management needs to go back to school. Nice trade though.

The Dugongs are back from their suspension from the summary and underachieved with a 5^th place this week and only 113.5 pts. Randy Moss only scored 10.25 pts, which is well below is season average of 19.5 pts. He is getting more attention from opposing defenses. Franchise player Gore only scored 3.25 pts – his worst game of the year. And he was playing at home against the Saints. Gore sucks. L Coles has been a nice surprise this year for Dug but he only got one reception for 13 yds due to suffering a concussion during the game. It will be interesting to see if Pennington’s benching will help or hurt him. Although the Broncos D was very bad on MNF, the rest of the Dugongs’ defense provided some spark. Trent Cole continues to sack QBs left and right. He got two more this week and is comfortably 2^nd best DL in the league after Dugongs teammate Jared Allen who was on bye this week. Dug started Witherspoon and Brackett this week and although they are pretty mediocre this year, they combined for 25 pts this week which was not bad. College QB Colt Brennan has mildly disappointed this season because he was expected to blow out all other college players and it has not happened. However Brennan has been doing better lately and he moved up to within 0.1 pt of G Harrell (Beaud) for the top spot.

The Spitoons failed to reach 100 pts this week but finished 6^th nonetheless. Priest Holmes started for the first time since 2005 but he could not do much since he was on bye. Westbrook and Galloway were the only two players for Spi to show up. Westbrook scored 2 TDs and jumped over LT as the league’s best RB so far. Galloway scored 19.75 pts in a much needed performance because L Fitzgerald was on bye. J Taylor had a horrible game with only 2 pts. He is the league’s 5^th best DL which is not that bad, but he is so far behind the top 4 that he has to be considered a disappointment for Spi this year. Rookie Ted Ginn took advantage of C Chambers’ departure from Miami by scoring a TD. The only problem is that it was his only catch of the game. The Spitoons were hurting with the Ravens defense being on bye and having to start the Browns D. Nobody ever understood why the Browns were drafted, but the Browns had an awesome week with 2.5 pts, which is 56% more than their season average of 1.6 pts. Nice!

WaxOnWaxOff finished in the bottom two for the fourth time in the last six weeks but held on to six place in the standings. Something unbelievable happened to Wax this week. Out of six RBs on Wax’s roster, the total number of points scored was zero. Rudi Johnson, Cadillac, S Morris, and R Brown all missed the game due to injury, Ju Jones was on bye, and Rhodes did not get a single carry or reception. All he did was return two kickoffs. Defense was not much better. The Vikings scored one point and the 49ers scored minus one on the bench. Wax’s best player Steve Smith only caught two short passes. It is nearly impossible to compete in those circumstances. The only play that went well for Wax was Lee Evans catching an 85-yd TD pass late in the game. It was Evans’ first TD of the year – it was about time. Bulger did show sign of life by throwing for 310 yds but 12.25 pts is not even top 10 in the league.

UncleJack finished last for the second time this year and in the bottom three for the fourth straight week. Franchise player P Manning had a good game with 21.25 pts but that’s about it. Newly acquired rookie Jacoby Jones had a decent game with 7.5 pts, but Chad Johson (7.5 pts), the Steelers D (7 pts), and Portis (6.75 pts) were below expectations. Everybody else on UJ’s roster scored 5.5 pts or less. Even Dallas Clark who was been a higher performer for UJ this year did not do much and he fell behind Witten in the TE rankings so Clark is now 3rd. The coach started a player on bye again (Tatupu) but there was no consequence since no defensive player on UJ’s bench scored more than 5.5 pts (and UJ finished the week 6.5 pts behind Wax). Not only UJ’s starters were really bad, but backups were horrible too. Besides the Chargers D (25 pts), nobody on UJ’s bench scored more than 7.5 pts. UJ had the lowest coaching efficiency this week, but perfect coaching would only have scored 102.25 pts. Ouch.

Note: sometimes the NFL announces stats changes and according to PQBFL rules, the results are not totally official until Sunday 1pm Eastern.

PQBFL Home | Season 2007 | Standings 2007 | Leaders By Position 2007