Week #8
Weekly summary provided by FE this week, thank you!
Interesting developments in the PQBFL headlined by a stunning 9th
place finish by the prior league leader Glorious Bastards dropping
him out of the lead and allowing the Decepticons to jump into a
4-rank point lead. The 2-4 spots are still very tight between the
Bastards, Beaudoin Bros and Flying Elvis (48, 47 and 45 pts) and
then a slight drop off to Old No 7 at 5th behind first place by 11
pts. The 6 – 9 teams have more work to do to get into the mix.
Interesting weeks with all of the byes going on and this contributes
to a lot of change in the weekly outcomes.
This week the Decepticons break into the win column, becoming the
6th team to get a win in the 8 weeks of play so far. The NFL likes
parity and it seems the PQBFL is there already. Decept has a 4-rank
point lead now in the league after not-so-good performances by 3 of
the previous top 5 teams. Decept got another outstanding week from
Jonathan Taylor (RB#1) with 2 TDs rushing and 1 receiving to grab
37.25 points, and an unlikely source of production came from the LB
spot with Robert Spillane of the Pats scoring 21 pts with an
outstanding game including a INT. Rashee Rice and the Chiefs had a
good MNF game although it started slowly, with 20.25 for Rice and 16
for KC DST. Though Decept only has two QBs, both are productive and
Tua even outscored Mahomes on the bench this week. Good production
from all but a few players pushed Decept to a nice 183.5-point week.
Professor MJ took 2nd with a 169.5 total on big games from Breece
Hall and Justin Herbert. This was a welcome relief for MJ as his
team had had a rough patch between weeks 3-7 with 3 bottom-2
finishes in that time. Hall had a big game in the Jets 1st win of
the season over the Bengals who must be hanging their heads in
shame. The Patriots D also shined with the previously mentioned INT
from Spillane but for those who watched that game (the writer being
one) it was a teacher-student game for Myles Garrett of the Browns
who completely used left tackle Will Campbell for the entire game. 5
sacks, 6 tackles, and a forced fumble gave him 29 points for the
week. The Professor didn’t have much of a rookie this week with
Shedeur still riding the pine and Horton on bye. Had he started
Shough he could have gotten 2.5 as the Saints pulled Rattler due to
poor performance. Professor is now in 6th overall.
The Beaudoin Bros scored 150.5 for a 3rd place finish this week on
the continued unexpected stardom of Daniel Jones. The Colts are
looking formidable in a really competitive AFC right now. 3 TDs and
no INTs brings him a nice 28.25 week. D Henry and the Ravens woke up
with a much needed victory over the Bears, Henry had two TDs for 17
pts, and both receivers Waddle and Flowers were able to get double
digits. BB must be sour on Kelce because he sat him and had he not
he would have gained a rank point over Prof since Kelce had a 17 pt
performance and starter Ferguson only got 1. BB not a Swifty 😊!
Chargers D had a good game contributing 16.5 and the rookie
Schwesinger added 10 as well as college player Williams adding 9.75
in a very productive week for a college player. BB is now in 3rd
place, 5 rank points behind Decept.
Wax had an unfortunate coaching mishap this week at the QB position.
Though Baker has been reliable, this week he had an abysmal 2 points
where the other 2 QBs on Wax’s roster had outstanding games, with
Love getting 32 and stud Drake Maye getting 26.75. This team is
loaded at the QB position. Had Wax started either QB he would have
gained an additional rank point. Saquon Barkley had an outstanding
game with 30.25 on two TDs including a long 65 yd run for 150 rush
yds. A solid WR corps underperformed a bit this week with JuJeff
only getting 10.5 due to a hurt Wentz at QB, and Sutton only pulled
in 7.25. The other WRs on this team all had double digits so there
is depth there. Kittle had a good game and the IDP positions were
somewhat milk-toast but all totaled got 32 points. Rookie Jaxson
Dart continues to shine for the Giants but the loss of Skattebo
hurts that team badly. Wax is in 7th place overall with a lot of
ground to gain.
The Ballers tied their best week of the season with a 5th place
finish mostly due to a crazy big game from James Cook who feasted on
the lowly Panthers. 216 rushing yards is, I believe, a season high
in the NFL for the year. Cook is RB#2 so Ballers have a real keeper
there. Rodgers had just an ok game with 19.25 in their loss to the
Packers, but Ballers had no other options at the QB position with
byes and injuries taking all other options out. The WR position hurt
this team badly this week with Odunze getting 12.5 and Jerry Jeudy
essentially being benched (0 points overall) and all others injured
or on bye. On the defensive side of the ball Jordyn Brooks had a
nice game with 16 points, and kicker Cameron Dicker had 3 FGs made
and 4 PATs for 12.5. Unfortunately for the Ballers they are in last
by 5 rank points with a difficult hill to climb.
Flying Elvis came in 6th place this week and just a few weeks ago
was looking very strong but the worm has seemingly turned. Hurts
continues to perform well with another strong performance (31.75
with 4 TDs) but the WR position hurt Elvis with Davante on bye and
Drake London injured. Elvis had to use Stefon Diggs (9.5) and Marvin
Mims (dreadful 0.75 pts) and even if he used Hollywood Brown instead
he would have only got 1 pt, so there were no alternatives. Jacobs
had only 9.5 in the Packers big win and Javonte Williams who has
surprised this year (despite being called Elvis’s worst pick in the
draft!) had 14.75. At IDP Bobby Wagner continues to be great,
pulling down 15 pts, and Elvis made the right call with late lineup
changes putting Goedart (15.25pts) in instead of Andrews (3 pts) and
K McLaughlin (12.5) instead of Butker (4).
7th place went to the Admirals as they continue to struggle despite
having Josh Allen at QB. While good, he doesn’t seem to be as great
as Admirals had hoped, though he is QB4. The RB situation continues
to be a difficult one with the exception of Gibbs who was on bye
this week. Rachaad White and Nick Chubb combined for only 12.75.
Good news is Bigsby got some snaps and ran for 104 yds so maybe some
daylight for Admirals at RB. The AJ Brown injury is a huge one
at WR and the duo of Romeo Doubs and Tee Higgins only combined for
18pts this week. On the IDP side of the ball the team combined for
32.5 which is good production, and Admirals have two nice rookie
options with RJ Harvey (on bench with 23 pts this week) and Dillon
Gabriel who started with 13.25.
Old No 7 slid to 8th and has had a couple of bad weeks in a row.
Chase Brown had a nice game at RB with 2 TDs and 21.5 pts. K Chris
Boswell continues to be productive with 14.5 but the Steelers D had
a dreadful -1 pt and not one IDP player broke into the double
digits. This team had a lot of players on bye this week, and
the only available QB Caleb Williams, who likely would have started
anyway, was relegated to 8.75 pts by a revived Ravens D. A lot of
players on this team with single digit scores which never bodes well
for a weekly total.
Wiping up the rear this week was, incredibly, the Glorious Bastards
who had a first to worst weekly turnaround and they fell out of
first place because of it. Bo Nix had another good week with 29 pts
and the WRs Chase and Pickens picked up 27.25 but a dreadful week at
the RB position was costly. Bijan did nothing with 1.75 and Jordan
Mason only had 1.5 for a total of 3.25 pts from both RBs. On IDP a
total of 11 pts included an in-game injury to Derwin James who
pulled up a goose egg. Cam Ward at the rookie position managed 10.75
and the college player Arch Manning put up a decent 8.25. This was a
pretty shocking score for the team that was sitting pretty after
just last week.
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