Week #7

After a couple of mediocre weeks the GloriousBastards are back on top and asserted their dominance with a near 200 point week.  Franchise player J Chase originally was affected by Burrow’s injury but with the Bengals trading for Flacco it does not seem like he will miss much.  This week he was targeted a whopping 23 times and converted 16 of them into receptions with 1 TD for 29 pts.  TE McBride almost did as well with 2 TDs and 25.5 pts.  Previous rookie Judkins scored 3 TDs of his own for 26.25 pts; since then Bas is forced to start rookie Ward and as long as Ward scores about the same as RB J Mason on the bench then having moved Judkins to RB will be fine.  This week Ward was so-so again with 9.5 pts but not very different than Mason on the RB bench with 10.5 pts.  Bas also had a good week on defense with 3 sacks from Parsons who got a rare start due to T Bernard being on bye and Warner being injured.  DL D Brown was also dominant with 2 sacks and 3 passes defended.

The Decepticons are the hottest team in the PQBFL with a fourth straight top 3 finish and nearly topping Bas with 194.75 pts which was by far Dec’s best score of the year.  In almost any week this would have been enough for the win but not this time.  The ‘Cons scored 12 TDs with nearly everyone contributing except TE Pitts who was held out of the end zone but reached double digit score nonetheless so he did not have a bad game.  The best RB in the league J Taylor was at it again with 3 more TDs.  DeVonta Smith scored on a long TD for 26 pts and Rashee Rice made his 2025 season debut with a splash for 2 TDs and 19 pts, and Mahomes had another TD pass to another receiver for a total of 3 TDs.  Rookie Skattebo had another good game with 15.25 pts which was even more impressive considering it was on the road against the Broncos.  Dec needed just a bit more to beat Bas and we can look on the defensive side of the ball for the explanation.  With Hendrickson injured, backup Travon Walker started but only scored 1 point.  Also defensive flex Spillane only scored 2 pts with TJ Edwards scoring 10 pts on the bench.

The Admirals finished in the blue for the first time of the season and are now within striking distance of Wax and Prof in 6th and 7th place in the standings, both of which are only 2 rank-points ahead of Adm.  It is amazing that Adm could have their best week of the season exactly when Josh Allen was on bye.  Considering that Russell Wilson is useless, it forced the putrid Justin Freakin Fields into the starting lineup.  The result: a mind boggling 46 passing yards and 22 rushing yards, no TD.  To add insult to injury, it was at home against the weak Panthers.  Wow.  But the good news is that Fields did not turn the ball over so he had a positive score this week LOL so the glass was 50% full, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say the glass was 5% full.  Adm was able to beat Beaud on MNF thanks to a big game from J Gibbs who scored 34.75 pts while the Lions co-RB Montgomery who was also in the starting lineup only scored 3.75 pts so the Lions RBs were the entire difference between 3rd and 4th place this week for Adm/Beaud.  AJ Brown also had a rare good week with 2 TDs for 24 pts but he still has quite a hill to climb as he’s only WR25 in the league which is awful for a franchise player.

The BeaudoinBrothers had some ups and downs this week and settled for 4th place.  The highlight of the week was Travis Hunter finally scoring his first TD of the year, belatedly, for a total of 21.5 pts.  Prior to that he was ranking DB9 which is quite poor for a borderline starter at such unimportant position and being a 4th round pick.  Now he has surged to DB4 and 2/3 DBs ahead of him have only played 3-4 games which means only one DB has scored more total points than Hunter and it’s the DB elite Derwin James (Bas) so suddenly Hunter has a shot at making his draft status look less bad.  The Bros also got a positive contribution from RB Stevenson who scored 13.75 pts.  Yes, it was only the Titans defense that he beat up on.  But early in the season it looked like rookie T Henderson (Old) was going to become the Pats’ starting RB but that seems like a folly now.  This week Stevenson got 20 total touches against only 2 for Henderson.  So Stevenson is the clear starter in New England and the offense is clicking so Stevenson might have found himself a permanent spot in the Bros’ starting lineup with Montgomery being in the shadow of Gibbs and Hubbard being gimpy and increasingly in the shadow of another RB (Dowdle), like Montgomery.  The sole reason why the Bros did not finish higher than 4th was piss poor play from WRs.  Pearsall and Aiyuk are injured, Flowers was on bye, Nico Collins also got injured during the game and only scored 5.25 pts.  Waddle is healthy but he is part of the dumpster fire of Dolphins offense and only scored 1.75 pts.

ProfessorMJ showed signs of life with 5th place led by the return to health of CD Lamb who scored 18.5 pts which also helped starting QB Prescott put 27.25 pts on the board.  That said, both Stafford and Herbert did even better on the bench than Prescott did as a starter.  Prof is stacked at QB with 3 of the top 11 QBs in the league, while having a continued problem at the rookie position with all 4 scoring a goose egg, including starter Tory Horton who could not catch any of his 3 targets.  It also did not help that DB Kyle Hamilton was on bye and that regular starter Julian Love was injured but such is the hazard of only drafting 2 DBs while loading up on other positions during the draft.  There were some good news for Prof this week though, including the Pats defense easily beating their already high projection against the Titans with a dominant win and 20 pts. 

After 4 straight weeks in the top 3, FE stumbled to 6th place which could have been worse because FE beat Old by only half a point.  We could have expected much better from FE considering the Hurts had his best game of the year with 31.75 pts thanks to 3 TDs, no turnover, and over 300 passing yards so for once his scoring was not simply a bunch of 1-yard tush push scores.  Josh Jacobs scored twice for 15.75 pts, Javonte Williams scored again for 16.75 pts, and Davante Adams took maximum advantage of Nacua (Ball) being sidelined with 3 TDs.  The problems for FE were mostly that rookie Jeanty was bottled up with only 3.25 pts and poor defense notably 2 pts from DL J Simmons, 3 pts from TJ Watt, and 8 pts from B Wagner which was below his projection.  Back to Jeanty, while he had a good stretch from week 4-6, he’s still ranked only ROO7 so not good enough for franchise player status and it’s also unclear that he will be of the caliber of franchise player as a RB in 2026 unless he picks up his game in the second half of the season.

Between weeks 2-6, no team had more rank-points in the PQBFL than OldNo7 with 35, but Old’s string of success came to an end this week with 7th place.  Old’s WRs almost saved the day on MNF with 22 pts from JSN and 18.25 pts from Amon-Ra which was roughly 10 pts more than their combined projection.  However it was too little too late for beating of Prof and FE.  CMC is the one who started the late rally on SNF with 30 pts, but prior to that on Sunday early afternoon the results were catastrophic for Old for example only 1 point for QB Caleb Williams at home against the Saints.  The Saints!  One point!  Prior to this week Caleb was arguably starting level QB at 6th best in the league but now he’s been knocked off his pedestal down to QB14 which is where he belongs: a backup QB, not a starter.  Old also had problems on defense with a goose egg from the Steelers, only 1 point from Karlaftis, and 2 pts from Tuipulotu.  But the main event of the week was not any of this, it was the surprising decision by Old’s GM to elevate Tyler Warren from rookie to TE.  That puts pressure on Tetairoa McMillan as the lone startable rookie and he failed this week with only 4.5 pts.  Meanwhile, by starting Warren as TE it left Tucker Kraft on the bench with 12.75 pts which was even better than Warren with 12.25 pts.  So far on the season Warren is a better TE than Kraft but barely: 10.7 to 10.1.  So why bother making this move?  Kraft was a fine starter, ranking TE5 in the league.

WaxOnWaxOff finished in the bottom 4 for the 5th time in the last 6 weeks so the opening week win with 185.25 pts is a very distant memory by now.  TE Kittle came back to health this week and given how poorly the backups have done in his absence, at first it seemed like good news.  But he might as well stayed on IR because he scored a goose egg while Jonnu Smith chose that exact moment to score a TD while averaging a bottom of barrel 3.6 pts per game during Kittle’s absence from week 2 to 6 – what a loser.  But part of Wax’s problem this week was entirely related to the coach.  Egbuka was questionable so the coach can be forgiven for having benched him.  Egbuka ended up playing but was not that great anyway with 6.75 pts.  However, how in the world can Wax start a rookie LB (Jihaad Campbell) when Jaxson Dart had been fairly impressive since Russell Wilson has been benched?  Dart averaged 19.5 pts on average in weeks 4-5-6 so no way he should have been benched in favor of a rookie LB.  The only logical explanation is that Dart was playing the Broncos and the coach might be too much in love with his defense but that created a double whammy here: the Broncos were busted with only 4 pts, leaving Dallas on the bench with 15 pts, and Dart’s 34.25 pts were wasted on the bench while Jihaad Campbell scored a lowly 3 pts.  Ouch.  Wax was able to avoid last place because DL W Anderson scored a TD on MNF and 18.5 pts.

The Ballers finished in the red for the 5th straight week and because of Adm’s good result this week, the Ballers are now firmly in last place with only modest hope of getting out.  Of course, with Lamar Jackson on bye and Nacua injured, things were not looking up.  Goff did not need to do much on MNF because Gibbs (Adm) was running wild and Goff finished the game with only 9.5 pts in an easy win.  At WR, Nacua is not replaceable, but even regular starter Rome Odunze was bad with only 3.5 pts.  WR Brian Thomas was forced into action and he scored only 4.5 pts.  What a disaster he has been so far.  After a very promising rookie season in 2024 he was ranked highly heading into 2025 but he ranks WR32 which is abysmal for a second round pick.  But the Ballers had other problems.  The Vikings defense was torched by the Eagles and only scored 4.5 pts, Hutchinson did not get a sack on MNF in a quiet game, and Ball might alternate their starting DB all they want between Sauce Gardner and Blankenship but both are awful with Blankenship starting this week with 4 pts and Gardner doing a bit better on the bench with 5.5 pts.  Yes, DB is not an important position.  But when you have the 21st and 22nd DBs out of 23 DBs in the PQBFL and nobody else to start, the difference between Sauce/Blankenship and even the weakest starting DBs (DB8-9) is several points per week nonetheless, which stings.



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