WaxOnWaxOff powered their way to first place this week with a
season-high 181.25 pts. Wax has now turned a 6-rank point deficit
against Dec only three weeks ago into a 3-rank point lead, and is now
only 1 rank point behind Adm at the top of the standings. Wax was
just hoping to escape this week without major damage given that A
Rodgers, Roeth, and A Brown were all on bye. Getting out of the
dreaded week #7 on top was way beyond expectations. With so many
offensive guns on bye, Wax only scored 2 short TDs which is normally
worth last place or not much better. However Wax made up for it
with one of the most dominating defensive performances in recent
memory. The Rams, rookie D Leonard, A Donald, CJ Mosley, L
Kuechly, and H Smith combined for a stunning 115.5 pts and Wax’s
offense just added a few mediocre performances here and there. A
Donald scored 30 pts all by himself after only scoring 36 pts in the
first 6 weeks combined, for an average of 6.0 per week. This week
he sacked statue CJ Beathard 4 times. That was worth double
points for Wax because Wax also started the Rams D who added 3 more
sacks on top of Donald’s sacks, and held the 49ers to 10 pts and 228
yards with 4 turnovers. Both LBs plus the rookie LB were tackle
machines and scored 16 pts, 18 pts, and 18 pts.
The GloriousBastards finished second for the third straight week and
continued their ascent in the standings, now sitting in 4th place
overall tied with OldNo7. In each of the last 4 weeks, Bas scored
at least 153.25 pts, which no other team accomplished other than
Adm. This week Bas had a few hiccups and were not as dominant
because college QB Milton was injured, Marcus Peters scored a goose
egg, E Elliott was limited to only 3.5 pts, and WR M Goodwin started
with D Adams and JJ Smith-Schuster on bye but he came up little with 3
pts. With so many misses it’s hard to finish second, but several
players picked up the slack in a big way. K Hunt exploded for 3
TDs and 27.75 pts and TE T Burton had his best week of the year by far
with 21.25 pts. He has quietly moved up to 5th best TE in the
PQBFL. To round things up, Brady and Mayfield both scored 21.5
pts which was slightly above their weekly projection and enough to edge
Adm by only 0.75 pt this week.
The Admirals continued to score with regularity and finished 3rd to
keep a grasp of first place in the standings. Similar to Bas, Adm
had a few black marks with college QB Tate missing the game to injury,
Adm still not having much to offer at the rookie position, Ingram
having a dud with 3.5 pts, and Ebron slowing down with TY Hilton’s
return and being limited to 4.5 pts. In addition kicker Tucker
missed an extra point for the first time in ages to prevent the Ravens
to bring their game to OT and Tucker ended up with 1.5 pt. The
team leader this week was surprisingly WR E Sanders who got the start
over star M Thomas who was benched, and it turned out to be a fantastic
coaching call because Sanders scored 26.75 pts. TD machine Gurley
kept on going and feasted on the 49ers defense with 3 more
scores. On defense Von Miller was quite active with 2 sacks, 2
forced fumbles, and 4 QB hits for a total of 21 pts.
OldNo7 could not follow up last week’s win with another strong week,
but nonetheless finished in the top 4 and kept 4th place in the
standings. The week started great for Old with a monster 31 pts
from the Broncos defense on TNF thanks to 2 TDs and a domination of the
Cards. However OldNo7 was significantly affected by the dreaded
intra-game injuries with L McCoy and rookie S Michel both getting hurt
early in their games to finish with less than one point combined.
The coach also started college RB Montgomery on bye which did not help
matters although backup S Carr sucked with 0.5 pt so it was of no
consequence. OldNo7 avoided the cellar this week because of
strong defense, not only the Broncos but also Kirksey who had not
scored more than 9 pts all year, finally got out of his shell with 16
pts. Also DL Garrett had a strong 14 pts in that same game.
On offense M Ryan only scored one TD but finished with a respectable
20.5 pts. The offensive leader was Thielen once again with 21.5
pts. One has to wonder when an opposing defense is going to find
a way to contain him. It looks like A Brown’s reign as the top WR
is over.
The Decepticons got over their 2-week rough patch but it was only a
limited improvement with 5th place. Mahomes delivered again with
34.5 pts but the rest of the ‘Cons team is not clicking like it was
earlier this season. Kamara’s 11.25 pts was in line with his
projection but his scoring is way down since Ingram’s return.
McCaffrey has also slowed down considerably, this week he scored only
6.5 pts for the second straight week. At WR, the Dec coach got
tired of S Diggs getting crumbs relative to teammate Thielen (Old) and
started R Woods instead, but Woods failed to reach double digits.
At TE, Rudolph has not done much since Eifert’s injury and this week
was the worst week of all with only one catch. Even at the rookie
position, Darnold started strong and then Rosen improved Dec’s outlook
by providing the Dec coach with two starting rookie QBs, but both are
now struggling to the point that they got benched in favor of Chubb who
scored 11.5 pts.
The BeaudoinBrothers mediocrity continued this week, finishing in the
bottom 3 for the 5th time in 7 weeks. The coach is not helping
matters, as noted last week A Jeffery has been doing quite well on the
bench since returning from injury (WR7 in the PQBFL) but he has not
started once yet. Same thing this week: Jeffery was benched and
scored 17.25 pts and K Allen started but only scored 8.5 pts. He
has been a massive disappointment this year, ranking WR24 which is
terrible for a guy who was picked #10 overall (first pick of the 2nd
round). TY Hilton also returned from injury this week and scored
two TDs on the bench. Hopefully we have seen the last of K
Allen. The coached also goofed on the QB, starting J Winston
(15.5 pts) and benching A Luck (25.25 pts). After 7 weeks, the
Bros’ coach is dead last in coaching efficiency in the PQBFL. At
RB, Lynch, Ajayi, and Fournette are all injured but Dion Lewis did
quite well as a replacement with 12.75 pts without scoring a TD.
We cannot say the same for franchise player D Johnson who was held to
only 5.75 pts. Hopefully the change in offensive coordinator in
Arizona will help. Defense was also poor this week for
Beaud. The Ravens had a tough matchup against the Saints and only
scored 2.5 pts. K Mack was asked to play coverage rather than
rush the QB and only scored 1 pt. At LB the injury to the
league’s top scoring LB Schobert is having an impact, with backup R
Foster starting and only scoring 2 pts.
The Ballers had a difficult week with only 122.75 pts and 7th
place. M Breida had been serviceable to this point but against
the Rams he got shut out like the rest of his teammates, ending the
game with only 5 rushes for 15 yds, no reception, and he fumbled away
one of his 5 carries. At QB Watson continues to struggle and only
scored 11.5 pts, although to his defense he was playing in Jax and he
carried his team to victory. Given Watson’s matchup, timing could
not have been worse for R Wilson to be on bye. At WR things got a
bit better with ODB scoring a TD along with 143 receiving yards, but Ju
Jones could not score once again and finished the game with 11
pts. Defense was so-so for the Ballers this week particularly the
Eagles who let the game slip away in the last 2 minutes. They
only got 2 sacks and no turnover against the Panthers. After some
early season success reality has set in for the Ballers; they are
sitting in last place in strength of starters so the outlook for the
rest of the season is dim.
FlyingElvis finished last for the second time of the year and have now
ended in the bottom half 6 weeks out of 7, with the 2nd place in week
#4 being the only exception. This has dropped FE alone in last
place, one rank-point behind the Ballers. This season has been
destroyed by L Bell who does not seem ready to come back despite the
Steelers’ bye week being over, and the Steelers seemingly not needing
him much anyway with the success of backup Conner. D Freeman is
now out for an extended period which means FE has to start Duke Johnson
who is not getting the ball much, this week he scored only 1.5
pt. To make matters worse, Gronk was a surprise scratch due to
injury, and with D Walker out to injury as well the starter was C Brate
who only caught 3 passes and the loser found a way to fumble one of
them. The coach made the mistake of starting kicker M Bryant who
was injured, but this turned out to be a genius move because Gano
scored negative 2 pts from the bench. Perhaps the coach had a
crystal ball. On offense, Cousins, Ty Hill, and Barkley had
decent games but none of them could beat their weekly projection so it
did not help to lift FE out of last place.
