Just
one week after we stuck a fork in the BeaudoinBrothers' 2017 edition,
this crazy season continued with another twist & turn with the Bros
winning for only the second time of the year but taking sole possession
of first place in the standings. We'll have to wait a bit longer
to count them out for sure. The Bros were almost without a TE
because Ertz was out to injury and Jimmy Graham gimpy and only scored
one point. But it did not even matter, Beaud won fairly easily
with 155.75 pts. With the return of Josh Gordon and Corey
Coleman, rookie D Kizer is turning into a viable QB. He almost
beat the Packers and scored 17.5 pts. On MNF, J Landry erased
Brady's dud of 6.75 pts with 2 TDs of his own and 20.25 pts.
Otherwise Beaud got the job done with defense this week rather than
offense. If it was baseball, the Broncos would have pitched as
close to a perfect game as you can imagine with a shutout and only 100
yards of total offense to the sorry Jets. L David filled in
well for injured J Collins and R Shazier with 18 pts, and Kuechly
scored 18 pts as well for an impressive 36 pts from the LB duo.
OldNo7 finished 2nd this week and further squeezed the top 5 of the
standings. Old remains in 5th place, but only 1 rank-point behind
FE in 4th and only 5 rank-points from 1st place. That means with
3 weeks left to the season, there is an amazing 5 teams with a very
real shot at the PQBFL championship. C Wentz was the team leader
with 30.75 pts this week in an impressive road win against the tough
Rams. However the very bad news is that Wentz is now out for the
year to injury. Fortunately Old has two other viable QBs in M
Ryan and C Newton, but they are not having the season that Wentz
had. L McCoy also contributed this week with 21 pts in the snow
bowl against the Colts. Old also got a double-digit score from M
Gordon, K Allen, D Baldwin, and Kelce for an strong total of 100.25
pts from only the top 6 offensive players. Defense was more
problematic with the Seahawks finishing in the red against the subpar
Jaguars offense, DL Vernon being limited to 2 pts, and T Mathieu only
4.5 pts.
The Admirals finished a respectable 3rd but because Old did even
better, they slipped to 7 rank-points behind Old in the
standings. K Hunt came alive with 16.5 pts which was the first
time he did better than 10 pts since week #3. Adm is still
hampered by injuries to TEs because G Olsen started but he is not
himself and did not catch a pass and was targeted only once. The
top contributor was Gurley with 21.25 pts against the Eagles.
Gurley is likely to finish the year as the top scoring RB in the PQBFL
unless L Bell catches him late. D Brees had a decent game on TNF
with 18 pts, but his late INT in the red zone cost the Saints the win
or at least a shot at OT. On defense, the Vikings disappointed
with only 2 pts in Carolina when they gave up 3 TDs and over 100 yards
rushing to old man J-Stew.
FE finished only 1 point behind Adm and had to settle with 4th
place. On offense, Jordan Howard (24.75 pts), D Hopkins (27.25
pts), and L Bell (28.25 pts) had fantastic weeks and by themselves
should have propelled FE to first place or close to it which would have
paid big dividends given the struggles of Wax and Dec this week.
Unfortunately the rest of FE's lineup was horrible. Cousins could
not score 10 pts in a blowout loss to the Chargers. In addition,
AJ Green lost a fumble and had mediocre stats, the Jaguars D gave up a
lot of garbage time scoring to the Seahawks and finished with only 3
pts, and LB Beasley is worthless and finished with only 1 pt. To
make matters worse, stupid kicker Bailey easily cost FE 3rd place with
2 missed FGs and one missed extra-point.
The Decepticons' stunning run ended abruptly with only 115 pts and the
team should consider itself lucky not to finish lower than 5th.
The 'Cons fell back to 3rd in the standings but are still in good
position to win the league, particularly with A Rodgers coming back to
health possibly next week. However the injury bug affected A
Kamara who had been on fire previously. A concussion limited him to 2.25 pts
before being sidelined. It seems only an injury was going to slow
him down. The 'Cons backup rookies leave to be desired so
hopefully Kamara can recover quickly and not miss games. P Rivers
continued to fill in nicely for A Rodgers with 23.5 pts this
week. M Thomas had a great game to make up for lost ground on TNF
with Kamara's injury and he scored 20.75 pts. LB D Jones also did
his part in that game with 19.5 pts. However the rest of the
defense was not impressive especially the goose egg by the Patriots on
MNF against the lowly Dolphins and only 3 pts from the top LB in the
PQBFL B Wagner.
WaxOnWaxOff finished in the red for the 3rd time this season with only
112 pts and a missed opportunity to put Dec at bay in the
standings. Wax started the wrong QB, 2016-style. Stafford
started in Tampa Bay and scored 11.5 pts, leaving on the bench 27 pts from R
Wilson and 29 pts from Roeth. Wax's coach had the guts to bench
WR M Evans and it proved correct because Evans only scored 4.25
pts. However starter L Fitz did not do much better with only 7
pts. Gronk's suspension was painful with J Reed injured, but at
least backup Doyle scored the lone Colts' TD. Fournette had a
decent game with 14.75 pts against a good Seattle defense, but the
other two runners Bilal Powell and Latavius Murray were a disaster with
a total of 55 yards from scrimmage total between them. If Wax can
win the PQBFL this year, it might be the shittiest set of RBs on a
championship team.
The GloriousBastards finished last for the 7th time in 14 weeks.
The coach was also asleep at the wheel given the poor production from
his squad, and started injured Mixon and left rookie OJ Howard on the
bench with 12.5 pts. However Bas finished far behind Wax that it
did not matter. The Giants defense did not show up at home
against the Zeke-less Cowboys. They did not get a single
turnover, sack, blocked kick, safety, or whatever. Nothing.
They finished the game with -3 pts with 30 pts allowed and over 450
yards of offense. B Cooks was nowhere to be seen on MNF along
with T Brady and finished with only one reception. At QB, Bas
started Alex Smith after benching him recently but this week A Smith
came up small with only 7.75 pts. One rare good news is that D
Freeman was healthy and scored double digits against the Saints.
