Week #13

The Decepticons won week #13 to take a 6 rank-points lead over Old in 4th place in the standings.  The roller-coaster continued for rookie Caleb with his best game of the season 30.75 pts.  He had similar success in weeks #5-6 only to crash after his bye with mid single-digit scores in weeks #8-10, so time will tell if he can keep it up now with the new coaching regime in Chicago or if he will go back to low scores.  He has been key to Dec’s success or lack of, during the entire season due to the huge point swings.  Dec had a goose egg from Kyle Pitts but offsetting that was good production from J Reed (2 TDs), J Taylor (1 TD), and J Mixon (1 TD).  D London did not score but he had 9 receptions to score almost as much as all these other guys, even kicker Boswell contributed with 12.5 pts by making 8/9 kicks.

The GloriousBastards failed to secure the win on MNF because Bo Nix had a mixed game with only 1 TD and 2 INTs for 12 pts.  Nonetheless, Bas beat Beaud by 2 ranks and Wax by 4 ranks which is not very common so the result was excellent and Bas is now only 1 rank-point behind Wax in second place and will probably have the tie-breaker over Wax by having scored more total points so far this season.  Bas was carried by defense this week, first off the Cowboys scored a pick-6 on the Giants on top of 6 sacks and limiting them to less than 250 total yards for 18.5 pts.  DB Derwin James had his best game of the season for 17 pts with 1 INT and 10 tackles+assists in a critical road win in Atlanta.  TE McBride did not score a TD but he was dominant with 12 receptions.  After a moderate start, McBride has been warming up.  At first it seemed like Kittle (Ball) was running away as the best TE in the league but recently McBride has been catching up, he’s now only 1.5 points per week behind.

FlyingElvis finished in the top 3 for the third time of the season with 160.75 pts to play troublemakers which benefited Bas.  In the process FE jumped ahead ProfMJ in the standings to 6th place, 2 rank-points in front of Prof.  Similar to Bas, FE had an excellent week on defense.  First off TJ Watt was in Burrow’s (Old) face all game with 5 QB hits 2 sacks and 1 forced fumble for a total of 18 points.  Crosby has not been as dominant as in previous years (DL3) and he had not scored double digits since week #5, but he came alive this week with 1 sack and 4 QB hits for 12 pts in a close loss to the Chiefs.  Offense was all Josh Allen as usual but he did one magic trick he had never done before.  Allen scored 3 TDs but in PQBFL scoring he was credited 4 TDs due to having a TD pass and a TD reception on the same freaking play – unreal.

The BeaudoinBrothers wobbled to 4th place and were kept out of the blue for the first time since week #4.  In the process, Beaud gained 2 rank-points on Wax but lost 2 against Bas in what was a mixed outcome.  Rookie Jayden Daniels was the leader with 26 pts as he took advantage of a juicy matchup against TEN.  Similar to teams above, defense played a big role with all 5 starters scoring double-digits, ranging from 16 pts for the Bills defense down to 10.5 pts for DB Kyle Dugger.  LB Logan Wilson missed this week to injury and it affected the porous Bengals defense, but it certainly did not affect Beaud with backup LB Quay Walker scoring 15 pts.  On offense Beaud was held back by one catastrophic coaching call, starting Chuba Hubbard (0.5 pt) and benching Montgomery (10.25 pts).  Beaud woud have finished tied in first with Dec if they had started Montgomery.  Hubbard was so bad he even fumbled in overtime which led to the Panthers’ loss.

OldNo7 almost beat Beaud on MNF but lost by the slimmest of margins 0.25 pt when TE Njoku had a great game with 9 receptions 2 TDs but the Browns defense did not do their part in that same game by allowing 400 total yards and losing in Denver.  Old’s best score was rookie Bowers who almost beat the Chiefs by himself with a stat line of 10-140-1.  He’s been having a fantastic rookie year as ROO4, outscoring every rookie WR even the heavily hyped ones like Harrison (Prof), Nabers (Prof), McConkey (FE) and B Thomas (Wax).  In fact Bowers has also been outscoring all regular TEs even in front of Kittle and McBride.  Because he’s still just a rookie, there is a chance he might become the second TE ever besides T Kelce to be franchised. 

After 12 straight weeks in the top 5, WaxOnWaxOff finished below average (6th) for the first time of the season.  Unlike some of the leading teams this week, defense was more of a mixed bag for Wax and not as dominant as other weeks.  The Broncos saved the day on MNF to beat Prof thanks to 2 pick-sixes, but DL was a problem with N Bosa on bye and backup Anderson only scoring 1 point.  If we ignore injured Brisker, the best DB in the league has been B Baker but this week he was so-so with 7 pts, his lowest score of the season after having scored double-digits 4 straight weeks prior to this week.  Ju Jefferson and Hockenson were both held out of the end zone so they both underperformed relative to their weekly projection but the bigger issue was QB Mayfield only scoring 5.75 pts (1 TD 2 INTs) which was his worst game of the season despite playing the Panthers which is probably the reason Wax left Stafford on the bench who scored 16.25 pts.

ProfMJ almost beat Wax but fell short by 0.5 pt and finished in 7th place for the 3rd straight week and dropped to 7th in the standings as well.  James Cook made a decent effort on SNF to avoid this result thanks to 18 pts but in the end it was not enough.  The best score of the week was Keenan Allen in a blast from the past with 20.5 pts.  Also the Jets defense almost beat SEA and had a TD on a kickoff return for 16.5 pts in what has otherwise been a forgettable year (DEF8) when expectations were high.  What used to be Prof’s engine the connection Prescott-Lamb which went out in smokes when Prescott got injured, was in full display this week.  QB Herbert did not score a TD and ended the game with 7.75 pts.  Dallas’ backup QB Rush completed 21 passes but only 2 went to Lamb so he scored a paltry 3.75 pts.

The Admirals finished in 8th place and are now 9 rank-points behind Prof in 7th so it’s near the psychological barrier of 10 rank-points which is very hard to overcome so late in the season which  means 8th is most likely where Adm will finish the year.  Adm made the unusual move of benching K Murray in favor of D Carr because of Murray’s matchup in MIN.  That turned out to be correct as Carr outscored Murray 16 to 12.5 pts.  This ended up being the difference between finishing 8th and 9th but that was one of the rare positives of the week.   Gibbs lost a fumble and was limited to only 5.5 pts.  AJ Brown and Nico Collins did not score a TD and failed to reach their weekly projection.  Chubb scored 1 TD and LaPorta even had two TDs, but both had such weak stats (Chubb 21 rushing yards and LaPorta 3 receptions for 6 yds including his TDs) that they could not carry the team on their shoulders.

The Ballers finished last for the 4th time in 6 weeks.  This week was quite similar to previous weeks: L Jackson did well with 24.75 pts and almost everyone else was poor.  Even Kittle is coming apart like the rest of the 49ers offense with only 2.25 pts this week.  You would think rookie Odunze would have benefited from the strong week of Caleb (Dec) but he did not, only catching 2 passes for 25 yds.  Even star RB K Walker was terrible with only 2.25 pts, only a fraction of his previous season-low of 7.25 pts back in week #5.  The other starting RB J Williams scored a TD early in the game but finished with a stunning 4 rushes for 1 yard in a game that the Broncos played ahead all game long.  This time it was McLaughlin (Wax) having the bulk of the carries with 14-84 while it had previously been Estime taking touches away from Williams.  In either case, Williams is unreliable.





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