After
a hot 4-week stretch, we could have expected the Decepticons to slow
down, but instead they beat the previous season-high by any team by a
whopping 50+ pts to end the week with a jaw-dropping 223.5 pts.
It was raining TDs left and right all week long, starting on Turkey Day
with P Rivers destroying the Cowboys with 3 TDs and over 400 passing
yards. On the same day, TE Rudolph scored 2 TDs on his own and
JPP got two sacks. Right then we all knew this week belonged to
Dec, but we just did not know how much yet. Ju Jones had a
stunning 40+ pt day thanks to two long TDs, 12 receptions, and more
than 250 receiving yards. D Murray sucked again with only 9
rushing yards, but he scored a TD again to finish the game with a
decent PQBFL score. Rookie A Kamara is suddenly unstoppable and
he added two more TDs and he almost got 100 rushing yards to go along
with 100 receiving yards.
WaxOnWaxOff had a strong week with 169 pts and took sole possession of
first place in the standings. They need to pay attention to the
hard charging 'Cons behind however, now 4 rank-points away. Wax
was up by 13 rank-points over Dec after week #7 and the lead has now shrunk to 4
rank-points. In addition, with Dec's explosion this week, Wax is
unlikely to hold the tie-breaker over Dec. A Brown got a second straight
30+ game with 2 TDs, 10 receptions for 169 yards in addition to a
2-point conversion. Gronk also got a productive game with 2 TDs
as well. On defense, E Griffen had a solid week with 16
pts. He has surprisingly emerged as a top notch DL this year. LBs also got the job done with 10.5 pts from Zach
Brown and even more important 12 pts from Mosley who was needed on MNF otherwise Beaud
might have edged Wax if Mosley had a sub-par game. While it did not
matter in the end because Wax finished so far behind Dec, we should
note that Fournette's struggles continued with only 3.5 pts this
week. He scored double digits in weeks #1-6 but has not done so
since then.
The BeaudoinBrothers got beat by both Dec and Wax, but had a good week
with 165.75 pts to remain in the hunt and refuse to give up. The
pesky Bros had the lowest projection of all teams for week #12 and were
expecting a disaster with what continues to be a weak starting
lineup. The Bros did not have a starting college player because
Darnold was on bye and Josh Allen was injured. Yet Beaud
completely outscored their weekly projection and were only one bad
starting decision away from beating Wax and taking sole possession of
first place. Ajayi started but he won't get anywhere if he's
getting only 5 carries per game. Ajayi finished the game with
1.75 pt and on the bench A Peterson scored 9.25 pts against the tough
Jaguars which was the difference between second and third place.
Also, Ertz was benched because he did not appear 100% last week, but he
scored 21 pts from the bench compared to J Graham 9.5 pts. The
Bros got a good week particularly due to defense where both Kuechly and
Reshad Jones scored a TD.
The GloriousBastards got their best week since week #4 with 157 pts but
unfortunately this week was the highest scoring of the season so
normally 157 pts would be good for second place and sometimes even
first place, but this week it was only a middling outcome of 4th.
That was achieved with only 1 healthy RB, without a kicker, and with LB
Bucannon only scoring 1 pt due to an in-game injury. Rookie Mixon's previous best week was
10.25 pts and he easily topped that with his first dominant game of the
year, ending with 19.75 pts. He currently ranks 12th best rookie
and far more was expected of him, but at least if he can keep this up,
he could be promising for the 2018 season. In that same game,
Dalton was adequate with 19 pts but the main contributors this week
were receivers. B Cooks scored 15.5 pts, TE H Henry scored 13.75
pts, and WR Davante Adams was the best of the group with 17 pts.
It appears as if the change from A Rodgers to Hundley has not affected
Adams as much as other receivers for the Packers.
FlyingElvis could not follow up the win in week #11 and fell flat with
a disappointing 119.5 pts and it could have been worse because Adm
finished not far behind in 6th place. That means FE dropped to
5th place in the standings but remains a manageable 6 rank-points from
first place so there is still time to crawl back in the race.
Defense was not as dominant as usual for FE this week. The
Jaguars were surprisingly shaky against the Cards offense and allowed
27 pts and 344 yards. The only thing that bailed them out was a
defensive TD once again so they ended the game with 7.5 pts otherwise
they would have been close to zero. B Church scored an impressive
14 pts in that game, but Telvin Smith was limited to 7 pts. T
Smith dropped to 5th best LB in the PQBFL with this mediocre
game. Joey Bosa was lackluster as well, ending with 4 pts and
dropping from 1st to 4th best DL in the league. On offense, FE
was fine but nothing special. Cousins scored 17.25 pts which is
ok but not great, L Bell got 183 yards from scrimmage which is nice,
but he did not score a TD and lost a fumble. RB Jordan Howard was
the dud of the week with only 7 rushes for 6 yards.
The Admirals finished in the bottom three for the 5th straight week and
for the 8th time in 9 weeks with only 117.5 pts. Adm is now
entrenched in 6th place, lagging 7 rank-points behind FE in the
standings in 5th place so Adm is likely to end the season in 6th
place. The Admirals quick start proved to be only a mirage,
particularly Kareem Hunt who has been trending down in a hurry.
Hunt scored 80.75 pts in the first three weeks and only 58 pts in the
subsequent 8 games, this week being the worst with only 2 pts. An
average of 7.25 pts per game during that stretch is not even starting
rookie material in the PQBFL, and even below average backup because for
the entire season 7.25 pts would rank 13th best rookie. Tyreek
Hill and the rest of the Chiefs have slowed down as well. This
week Hill caught 7 passes but all of them were short and he did not
score. E Sanders does not have a viable QB but Adm keeps starting
him with bad results: 3.5 pts this week. TE Olsen came back from
injury at the right time because M Bennett is now on IR, but it did not
matter because Olsen only scored 1.5 pt.
OldNo7 was the only team with FE who had not visited last place this
season, but with only 108 pts, Old finished last and quickly fell back
in the race to 6 rank-points from first place and greatly damaged their
odds of winning the league. Wentz has the highest total points
scored in the entire PQBFL with 264.25 pts, and he continued this week
with 26.75 pts in a dismantling of the Bears. However the rest of
the Old offense was shit .
M Gordon only scored 7.25 pts, McCoy only 6.5 pts, receivers were even
worse with 6.25 pts from A Cooper, 3 pts for Baldwin, and 4.75 pts from
Kelce. Kicker McManus only kicked two extra points and rookie
Engram was bottled up again with 3.75 pts. Defense was not as
bad, but nothing to write home about. T Mathieu was the best with
12 pts, but others did not dazzle with 9 pts from Ju Houston, 6 pts
from Fletcher Cox, and 5 pts from Kirksey.
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M Gordon only scored 7.25 pts, McCoy only 6.5 pts, receivers were even
worse with 6.25 pts from A Cooper, 3 pts for Baldwin, and 4.75 pts from
Kelce. Kicker McManus only kicked two extra points and rookie
Engram was bottled up again with 3.75 pts. Defense was not as
bad, but nothing to write home about. T Mathieu was the best with
12 pts, but others did not dazzle with 9 pts from Ju Houston, 6 pts
from Fletcher Cox, and 5 pts from Kirksey.