Week
#10
The Decepticons bounced back from their week #9 disaster with a
crushing win in week #10 and took a commanding 5-rank point lead in
first place of the standings. J Taylor was back to his normal
self with 3 TDs again and an eye watering 286 yards from scrimmage
and Achane would have been the star of the week with his 37.5 pts if
not for Taylor himself. Dec scored 83.5 pts from their
starting RBs, almost more than Bas’ entire starting lineup,
whoa! The win was even more satisfying for Dec because Mahomes
was on bye so being forced to start Tua Tago was perilous and he
scored only 11.75 pts, which is half of Mahomes’ season average of
23.4 pts.
WaxOnWaxOff had their highest finish since the week #1 win.
It’s been a rough stretch from week #2 to #9 with nothing better
than 4th place until this week with second place. Both of
Wax’s college players were on bye so Wax was not projecting to have
a great result but in the end it did not matter. J Dart was
the team leader with 23.5 pts but another tile fell on Wax’s head
when Dart was concussed and will miss next week so the hits keep
coming. Wax was boosted by several other starters scoring 20
pts or near 20 pts, such as Maye (20.25 pts), Kittle (20 pts), the
Broncos defense (20 pts), and Egbuka (18.75 pts).
ProfMJ continued their recent improvement with third place. In
the last 4 weeks Prof has been the second best team, only one
rank-point behind Dec so they have been tough opponents as of
late. A lot of the recent success was the return to health of
CD Lamb in week #7 but it was a different issue this week because
Lamb was on bye. WR Jameson Williams filled in nicely with
17.75 pts which was his best game of the season. The biggest
difference between this Prof team and the team earlier this season
is the fact that there is now a rookie worth starting. Tyler
Shough scored 2 TDs and no turnover for 24 pts which is a massive
improvement over all the others that Prof started previously.
OldNo7 had a moderately above average week with 4th place and gained
some ground on FE, Beaud, and Bas in the standings. Rookie T
Henderson has been a beneficiary of the injury to R Stevenson
(Beaud) and scored 3 TDs for 31 pts now that he has a bigger
workload. It seems clear that Henderson will stay in place
even after Stevenson returns because the genie cannot be put back in
the bottle, which is even better news for Old. QB Caleb has
had an up and down season but this week was mostly up with 2 TDs
although it was against the Giants defense so not overly
surprising.
FlyingElvis finished 5th for the second straight week and in the
middle pack (4th-5th-6th) for the fourth straight week.
Despite the average finish, FE was able to take advantage of the
Bastards woes to leapfrog Bas and now sits in 4th place in the
standings. Similar to Wax, FE had both college players on bye
so there were some headwinds but FE finished moderately far from Old
that it’s unlikely FE could have beat Old even with an active
college starter. The biggest production came from an
unexpected source with the Seahawks defense scoring twice for 21
pts. They are quietly doing quite well this season, ranking
DEF2 not far behind the Texans (Adm). FE’s core players
RB-RB-WR-WR all had decent but not flashy games with scores ranging
from 12.5 pts (Jacobs and Etienne) to 14.75 pts (D Adams) and 19 pts
(D London).
The Admirals had several bad underperformers this week such as AJ
Brown 2.5 pts, R Doubs 1.25 pts, and rookie Harvey 1.75 pts, but
they were partially saved by the huge game by J Gibbs who scored 3
TDs and 37 pts, which did not get as much mention simply because
Dec’s RBs were even better but Gibbs alone saved several ranks for
Adm this week. As mentioned above the best defense in the
PQBFL so far has been the Texans and they delivered this week again
with 14 pts thanks to a last second TD to ice the game.
The BeaudoinBrothers struggled to 7th place so their time in first
place was short lived. Like many other teams the Bros had an
incomplete lineup with one kicker on bye and one injured. But
the bigger problem was star TE Bowers who followed up his monster
game of 35.5 pts in week #9 with a dud of 2.25 pts this week.
The Bros could have beat Adm if they had started the Chargers
defense (21 pts) against the Steelers instead of the Lions (6 pts)
against the Commanders so the coach is partially to blame.
Newly acquired QB Stafford via trade did his part with 32 pts but it
was not enough to overcome the pedestrian efforts from D Henry (8.25
pts), Montgomery (9 pts) and Flowers (9.5 pts).
The Ballers finished in the red for the 7th time in the last 8 weeks
although their score of 129.75 pts deserved a better outcome.
The short term optimism after L Jax’s healthy return in week #9 was
short lived. He only scored 14.75 pts this week which was
significantly below his projection. He did not have a bad game but
he simply did not need to do much as the Ravens nursed a lead all
game long against the Vikings so he was a game manager.
Another problem this week was the play of RB James Cook. He is
having a franchise-player worthy season but this week he was not,
with a poor game : no TD and a fumble lost for a total of only 4.5
pts which was below his projection by an even greater margin than
L-Jax. It was Cook’s worst game of the season and it was not
against stiff competition – the Dolphins are beatable.
The stunning debacle of the GloriousBastards continued this week
with last place and a piss-poor 87.25 pts which was the worst result
of any PQBFL team all year. What a fall from grace for Bas in
only three weeks when they were sitting pretty in first place and
now they find themselves in 5th place and closer to 6th than 4th so
they might not have hit rock bottom yet considering how Prof is
trending up. The Bastards have great starters but weak backups
and it has finally caught up combined with injuries. With J
Chase on bye, Bas did not have many other options because Pickens
and Worthy were also on bye which was a draft issue. It only
took one injury to Evans to wreck the starting lineup and force DJ
Moore into action and he was utterly useless: 4 targets, no
reception. The other starting WR had a better excuse, G Wilson
got injured during the game before only scoring a single point but
anyway Bas finished so far behind Ball that it was a
non-event. With both Purdy and Daniels injured, Nix got the
call and he is normally a decent plug-in QB (he ranks QB12 so far)
but not this time. The Broncos beat the Raiders but it was an
unimpressive 1 TD 2 INT game for Nix. Rookie Cam Ward was on
bye and Bas is so thin after being forced to graduate Judkins (8.5
pts this week) that rookie Tuten had to start. The result was
predictable: only one point.
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