Damn. Not sure I’ve ever seen a stranger week than that. I suppose the injury to Patrick Mahomes should have been the clue that this would be an ominous week. Injuries to stars such as Adam Thielen, Kerryon Johnson, Saquon Barkley, and more set the tone for a week in which scoring was all over the place. The problem was exacerbated by things like Stafford dialing in to Marvin Jones for not-1-not-2-not-3-but 4 TDs, as well as David Johnson being cleared to play and then running only a single time, giving way to a monster 3-TD day from Chase Edmonds of all people!
As such, it makes perfect sense that the cherry on top of this devilishly awful turd sundae was given to us by Sam Darnold at the close of MNF.
After racing out to a 4-1 record, my squad has lost two in a row. This week’s debacle took place at the hands of Puff’s Punishers, who limped their way to a 99.02 – 90.04 victory, keeping Josh alone atop the league at 6-1. Looking at the standings, I see that I’m the highest scorer to this point, but also have the highest points against me. It’s allllll coming back to me as to why I took a break from this dumb game a few years back.
The Big Lebowski scored a nice victory against one of the league’s top teams, draining the Growler Prowlers 94.82 – 87.02. While Redman is still toward the bottom of the standings (which I like), he’s only a win or two from being back in the thick of it (which I don’t like). As for Palmquist, the loss itself isn’t the end of the world, but he’s going into Week 8 with Case Keenum as the only starting (?) QB on his roster. Could this be the beginning of a losing streak? Let’s go live to see what Scott thinks about his chances.
While points were tough to come by for most players in Week Seven, Brent was ultimately his own worst enemy. With massive points sitting on his bench (13 from Cooper, 17 from Davis, 13 from Goedert, 28 from Stafford and the aforementioned 35 from Edmonds), he had every opportunity to beat the Great Scottsmen. Instead, he tumbled further down the standings when some garbage-time points from Dak on SNF propelled Scott to the 90.30 – 86.34 victory. You’d think Brent would be more disappointed by the loss, but after years of making bad calls, he’s used to the ones that got away.
Going into the week, I thought Bryon might have a chance to notch his first win of the season. Ted’s Analrapists were without Godwin and Chubb due to the bye week. Then it was looking even better mid-gameday when DJ was taken out after one run and Thielen was injured. But, alas, this is Buzzy we’re talking about. Earning his third “Worst Manager” award of the year, he left a TON of points on his bench, failing to take advantage of a weak opponent. *sigh* Methinks Bryon is finding out that no other pain is worse than self-inflicted pain.
One of us actually showed up to play on Sunday, as The Wiz pizzed all over Zach’s League squad, 100.46 – 67.56. The win leapfrogged Alex into second place with a 5-2 record. Anchored by Dalvin Cook, with a solid group of players around him, our resident Packer Hater seems primed to cement his place in the playoffs during the second half of the season. Zach’s squad is a little more iffy, yoyo’ing between dramatic highs and lows from week to week. It’ll take a little more consistency if The League is going to survive the rest of us trying to put him out of his misery.
Best of luck in Week Eight, fellas!
Andy
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