Week
#12
No team has won more than two weeks this season except Wax, which
has won 4. Wax has now won two consecutive weeks and is also
the only team to have done so. It was not looking good early
but everything changed on SNF when Barkley scored a silly 41 pts to
take over as the league’s top RB. He was trailing Mixon (Dec)
by 0.2 as of last week and is now ahead by 3.5 pts – a huge swing in
only one week, so late in the season. This is the largest lead
of any position so Barkley should temporarily considered MVP of the
PQBFL with a few weeks remaining. Prior to Barkley making a
splash, Wax was a bit behind the 8-ball because LB Ivan Pace got
injured during his game and earned a goose egg. In addition,
Wax’s WRs were poor particularly Ju Jefferson who ended the game
with a surprisingly low output of 2 receptions for 27 yds and most
of it was because the game went into OT otherwise he would have been
limited to a single short reception.
The GloriousBastards finished a satisfying second but it felt
lukewarm because they gained a rank-point on Beaud but lost one to
Wax so no ground was gained in the aggregate. Mahomes received
a rare start because Purdy was injured but the timing was great as
he was playing the Panthers. He responded well with 30.25 pts
but such cannot be expected again often if Purdy does not come back
soon. Bo Nix also had an excellent game with 20.25 pts, and so
did McBride with 18.5 pts despite not even scoring a TD. Bas
was hampered this week playing without J Chase on bye so they could
not expect miracles especially that M Evans was just coming back
from injury and was still a bit rusty; he only scored 8.25
pts. This was better than Bas’s other starting WR Pickens who
spent more time complaining about the refs and the snow than his own
performance, finishing the game with 6.25 pts. What a sore
loser.
One might normally expect that if finishing in 3rd place every
single week, it might be enough to win the PQBFL. The Bros
have finished 3rd in 6 of the last 8 weeks and in the top 3 in each
of those 8 weeks, and yet amazingly they now only hold on first
place by the slimmest of margin, ahead of Wax by only one
rank-point. It did not help that D Montgomery got injured
during the game, finishing with 12.5 pts on only 11 touches when he
could have had more. But there were other minor holes in the
lineup such as J Hurts only scoring 14 pts by leaving Barkley (Wax)
having the spotlight all to himself. Also, Ty Hill is a shell
of the player he used to be, only scoring 7.25 pts in a week where
the Fins scored 34 pts on the Pats defense. Hill is
bench-bound because Tee Higgins was on bye this week and C Kupp is
now obviously healthy, scoring 16.5 pts this week. The team
leader for Beaud was J Daniels with 31 pts and he was almost a hero
with a last minute TD pass but his kicker could not send the game in
OT when he missed the extra-point.
The Admirals finished 4th and moved up to 6 rank-points behind 7th
in the standings, behind FE. In order to crack the top 3 this
week and play troublemakers, Adm would have had to get more
production out of K Murray but he was limited to 7.25 pts. He
continues to be maddingly inconsistent, alternating between
single-digit games and 20+ pts games. College player D Gabriel
was on bye and B Brown has been injured for several weeks so Adm was
playing with an incomplete lineup. The core position players
made up for it with J Gibbs, N Chubb, AJ Brown, and N Collins all
scoring 1 or 2 TDs, all of them ending the game in a tight range
between 14.5 pts and 18.25 pts.
Dec finished in the middle in 5th place and took advantage of
OldNo7’s problems to take over 4th place in the standings which is
probably the best they can aspire to this season, with the top 3
behind so far ahead. Dec has juggled Tua Tago and J Love
decently since they came back from injury, this week the starter
choice was not obvious but the Dec coach picked the right one,
sending Tago into the action and he delivered with 33.5 pts while
Love scored 16.25 pts on the bench. Caleb Williams was almost
as good with 27 pts to partially recover from his funk – he had
severely underperformed since his bye week #7. The problem for
Dec this week was having drafted 2 DLs on the same bye week so they
got a zero at that position. But the bigger issue was
RBs-WRs-TE scoring a combined 18.75 pts for all 5 starters together
which was amazingly bad. Dec was planning on starting DeVonta
Smith but he was injured and then the coach elected to start Tank
Dell instead (6.5 pts), leaving Waddle (22 pts) on the bench which
was a mistake.
FE finished in 6th place, only 1.75 pts behind Dec, but 1 point
ahead of Prof where the rankings were quite tight in the bottom
half. The engine of FE Josh Allen was on bye so FE never
expected a great result for the week and was stuck with Bryce Young
as the lone active QB now that D Jones has been cut. While
Young is totally hopeless, actually this week he led the Panthers to
a competitive effort against the mighty Chiefs with 13.75 pts which
was his best game of the season and above his weekly
projection. Josh Jacobs was team leader with 23.75 pts and has
quietly moved to top 10 RB for the season, he is not being talked
about much because of the success of his QB Love (Dec). Also
Jacobs’ own defense was stellar in that contest by holding the 49ers
to peanuts and the Packers D scored 16 pts.
ProfMJ had an incomplete lineup after having traded away T Kelce and
both remaining TEs being on bye. Prof paid a dear price
because they finished so close behind Dec and FE so they felt the
sting. But the blame can also be put on RBs Swift (5.25 pts)
and B Robinson (3 pts) although for the latter, injury was part of
the story. Deebo Samuel was also affected by his own QB being
injured and he did diddly squat with only 1 reception despite the
49ers trailing the Packers all game long and having to play
catch-up.
The only good news of the week for the Ballers was that they did not
finish last, taking 8th place. L Jackson ensured on MNF that
Ball would avoid the cellar by scoring 26 pts in an important road
win. Like many other teams, Ball was fielding an incomplete
lineup due to both the Saints and Bengals being on bye. Also
rookie J Wright hardly touches the ball for the Dolphins in any
given week so his score is almost always between 0.25 and 2.75 pts
every week. But this week the turd fumbled so he finished in
negative territory. RB J Williams is equally frustrating,
every time he’s buried after a bad game, then he comes back to
shine, and after he does, he goes back to being irrelevant.
This week was a disaster with only 4 yards from scrimmage and
nothing else against a poor opponent, after having been startable
last week with 13.25 pts.
OldNo7 had not finished last all year but that changed this week
with a season low 100 pts even. The defending champs will
certainly not repeat and are now stuck in a fight with Dec and Prof
for the middle of the standings. Old did not have an active
kicker for the week and Burrow + Kamara were on bye so it was
problematic. You would think having CMC and Kyren Williams
that Old would be able to handle the absence of Kamara, but they
cannot. CMC only scored 2.5 pts which included a lost
fumble. Is he even healthy? He has scored 20 pts total
in 3 weeks since coming back from injury. He was more useful
to Old when he was earning injury points because the duo Kyren +
Kamara was just fine as starters.
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