Week #4

Red-hot FlyingElvis followed up the week #3 win with an even bigger ass whopping this week, with a league-high 202.25 pts.  The entire FE starting lineup scored in the double digits except M Andrews who was close enough (9.5 pts) and the college player which is always hard to crack 10 pts anyway at that position.  Everybody else, defense included, all scored 10+, led by rookie Jeanty who had been quiet to this point with only 19.5 pts in three weeks but he exploded for 30.5 pts this week alone to climb from a lowly ROO13 in the league to ROO2, behind Egbuka (Wax) who has been far more consistent.  Josh Jacobs also had a huge game with 26.5 pts and FE could have scored even higher if the coach had not benched T Etienne (20.5 pts) in favor of Dobbins (10.5 pts).

The Decepticons finished in the top half of the standings for the first time of the season with 174 pts and second place.  Similar to FE, Dec finally got some help from the rookie position with 24.5 pts from O Hampton.  Actually unlike Jeanty it was not Hampton’s first big game because he scored 16.25 pts in week #3 but he had been benched in favor of Dec’s rookie kicker, so this week was the first time that Dec got bigger production from a rookie in the starting lineup.  The Chiefs have struggled in 2025 but Mahomes has not, he scored 31.5 pts against the Ravens to jump up to QB3 in the PQBFL.  J Taylor cooled off with only 9.5 pts but Achane and Harrison picked up the slack with one TD each.  The Eagles defense scored as well on a punt return for a 13.5-pt effort in a key road win in Tampa.

The GloriousBastards finished in the top 3 for the third straight week and have not finished lower than 4th place, which results in Bas already having a commanding 7 rank-point lead in the standings with many other teams in a fairly tight pack behind Bas, all of those other teams having finished in the bottom 3 at least once.  The Bastards have some injury issues like others but so far they remain manageable enough to continue with top 3 finishes.  This week Jayden Daniels missed another game but Bo Nix did well in his absence with 26.25 pts.  Conner and A Jones are injured so Bas is very thin at RB and backup J Mason was pedestrian with only 5.5 pts; thankfully franchise player Bijan made up for it with 22.5 pts.  Bas’ other franchise J Chase did not have as much success this week because clearly he’s missing Burrow and only scored 6 pts.  However G Wilson scored a TD and 17 pts and Bas even had Pickens on the bench with 27.5 pts, benefiting from CD Lamb’s injury.

WaxOnWaxOff bounced back from last place in week #3 with 4th place this week with a respectable 147.25 pts which was considerably more than their weekly projection.  Rookie Egbuka and RB Bucky Irving both scored on a long TD reception, but to edge his bets the Wax coach started Maye against the Panthers rather than start another Buc with Mayfield at QB.  The strategy worked but realistically any choice would have been fine, Maye outscored Mayfield 24.75 pts to 23.75 pts and even J Love on the bench did better with 26.75 pts.  Barkley scored without much yardage and Ju Jefferson did the opposite with 10-126 but no TD.  On MNF the Broncos defense closed the week in good fashion for Wax with a rock-solid defensive performance holding the Bengals to only 3 pts and 159 yards of total offense.

OldNo7 finished a middling 5th in a considerably up and down week.  Franchise players Amon-Ra and CMC were the team leaders with 20.5 pts and 20 pts respectively.  Rookie TE Tyler Warren also did well with a TD and 13.5 pts and he now ranks ROO8 in the league so he’s worthy of being a starter, albeit not a stellar one.  The reason Old could not get an above average week was QB Caleb who slowed down with his worst output of the season with only 12.25 pts but at least he led the Bears to the W in Vegas.  Smith-Njigba had an excellent season start in weeks #1-2-3 but this week he failed to reach double digits for the first time of the season with 8.5 pts which held Old back.  Also Kamara was a surprise start in Buffalo but only scored 7 pts which was not worse than Chase Brown on the bench also with 7 pts, but Old should have started K Walker who scored 11 pts.

The Admirals finished in the middle 3 spots for the second consecutive week with 6th place but remain stuck in last place in the standings.  Adm was in danger of finishing in the bottom 3 before MNF but rookie RJ Harvey got the job done with 15.75 pts which was by far his best game of the year after being limited to only 10.5 pts in the first three weeks combined.  Josh Allen was dominant as expected at home against the Saints with 28.25 pts, in fact he did even better than his projection despite throwing one INT.  Franchise player Gibbs also beat his projection with 14.5 pts but Adm’s other franchise player was far more problematic again with AJ Brown only catching two short passes for 7 yards.  The Eagles anemic passing offense is a problem and with Brown ranking WR36 in the PQBFL, is he even benchable?  Backup R Doubs had not done much so far but this week on the bench he scored 24.75 pts.  The coach will have decisions to make.

The Ballers finished 7th for the second consecutive week in a lackadaisical effort of 130 pts, only 3 pts behind Adm.  If the coach had submitted a lineup this week, most likely the Ballers would have started the Vikings against the Steelers, rather than defaulting to the Colts on the road against the Rams.  The Vikings did not do much with 6 pts but it was still better than the Colts’ 2 pts and it was the difference between 6th and 7th place this week.  On MNF LB Jordyn Brooks saved the Ballers from a lower finish thanks to a big game of 15 tackles 3 assists.  On offense, J Cook starred with 18.5 pts, D Swift scored the game-winning TD for the Bears and finished with 11 pts, Rome also carried his weight in that same game with 14.25 pts, and Puka was a monster with 26.5 pts.  However the big problem for the Ballers was L-Jax getting hurt in KC before he had time to reach double digits. 

The BeaudoinBrothers’ downward spiral continued this week: from 2nd to 4th to 6th to 8th.  Next week, 10th place will not be possible LOL  The Bros actually played good defense which would normally avoid finishing bottom 3 with 22.5 pts from the Lions defense and 20 pts from Crosby who created two turnovers, one INT and one forced fumble.  The coach also had the courage to bench first round pick Brock Bowers in favor of Ferguson and it paid off with Ferguson easily outscoring Bowers 14 pts to 7.25 pts.  But the rest of the offense was beyond dreadful with 2 INTs from D Jones (6 pts), and the 2 RBs + 2 WRs combining for crumbs: only 26.5 pts, nobody scoring a TD and nobody having good stats either. 

The hits keep coming for ProfMJ, after losing CD Lamb last week, now it’s M Nabers who is out for the year plus Prof finished in last place this week.  Prof was tied for first place after two weeks and all it took was a disastrous week #3-4 to essentially eliminate Prof from contention with their two franchise players sidelined which is not possible to recover from.  At least Deebo Samuel did well in Lamb’s absence with 17 pts despite not even having J Daniels (Bas) throwing to him, but the rest of the starting lineup was weak even those who are not injured for example only 13 pts from Ju Herbert against the Giants and 6.25 pts from Kyren Williams against the Colts.  This week there was no miracle from rookie T Horton who was as usual hardly involved in the game (only 1 reception for 10 yards) but this time no TD.





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