Before we begin, can I just state for the record how much I like it when knuckleheads get their comeuppance (even if, in this case, it’s one of my players)?
On Sunday, Vonn Bell had this to say about Juju Smith-Schuster’s penchant for dancing on opposing teams’ logos in pregame warmups.
So, of course, Juju makes a point of doing the dance during pregame warmups and posting the video to TikTok…
…only to get effin’ *trucked* by none other than, you guessed it, Vonn Bell.
Ahhhh, you gotta love it.
Wanna know what else I love?
Only problem was that I needed to get past Palmquist to achieve the victory, something that I’m pretty sure hasn’t happened in our two years of existence. So, even though I got out to a huge lead on Saturday thanks to a massive day from Josh Allen (coupled with meager efforts from Davante Adams and Robert Tonyan for Scott), I tried to stay cool. This was The Champ I was playing, after all.
And I was right to only be cautiously optimistic. While Kyler Murray came to play, the rest of my Sunday roster did a whole lot of nothing. On top of that, Growler Prowler got huge games from Lamar Jackson and J.D. McKissic, as well as a late rally from Drew Brees, leaving The Champ ahead of me by 1 point going into MNF.
So it came down to a dual between Steelers WRs — Chase Claypool for Scott, Diontae Johnson for me. And really, could it have been a bigger wild card than that? Claypool has had weeks when he was unstoppable, followed by weeks of being a ghost; Diontae was the clear target hog in PIT this year, but had seven drops and one benching over the previous two games. In the end, the Steelers played a terrible game against a terrible Bengals team, with the deciding factor being a TD catch by Diontae that put me…
As if that wasn’t enough action to sate your hunger, we had an epic battle between Evil Empire and ScienceWalrus. The matchup saw Scott get off to a nice headstart as Waller outscored Jacobs 25.50-18.90 on TNF (which is a bigger deal than the score indicates, being it’s pretty damned tough to replicate a score like that from a TE). Feeling good, Evil Empire reminded Brent who was number one during the course of the regular season.
However, there was a lot of football left to be played. With two top-notch stacks on Brent’s team, there was every reason to believe he could catch up to Osterloh’s high-powered offense. In one case, Tannehill-Brown lived up to its billing, dropping a fifty-burger on the unsuspecting Empire. Unfortunately, Brent’s Wilson-Metcalf stack shot its wad astray, unable to make anything stick to Scotty.
Ultimately, Scott got mostly consistent play from his roster and proved to be too much for the Walrus. While Brent had an outside chance of catching Scott on SNF, his Chubb didn’t possess the required staying power to come out on top.
So the stage is set. The undercard showcases Growler Prowler vs ScienceWalrus in a battle for returned league fees, followed by Two Christians, One Kupp vs Evil Empire to determine who will be the new Terrible Ten champ.
The Terrible Ten 