I suddenly got hit with the need to take a nap, so I don't want to try and think of anything (that I think is) creative or funny for the title or intro. So onto the recap we go. So I actually ended up taking a nap and now life is good. I still don't want to come up with a good title, so I won't. There were no monday night miralces or nightly nail-biters since all of the games were basically decided on Sunday night.
Game Recaps
Skyler vs Chad: It's a small sample size, but Chad is the leading scorer every week this year, and I don't see a way he will be stopped. He is finally winning the championship this year based on this extrapolation. I could just end the blog here, but I'll keep it going for tradition sake. But seriously, at only two weeks in, he is 37 points higher than #2 in the league, and he's 105 points higher than #12 -- the North Division, it just means more. Derrick Henry nearly went for 50 during this slaughter. I don't want to say it was meaningless, but Henry could have gone for 40 fewer points and Chad still would have won. And Skyler was the 5th leading scorer in the league, so it's not like Chad blew out the worst team this week. Outside of this defense, everyone scored double digits, including 20+ point games from Evans and Mr. Unlimited. Skyler had pretty good games from Lamar and McLaurin (27+ points each), but he had five players score single digits to compensate for it. This game was the weekly bonanza and was 0.32 points from being a combined 300 point game.
Tommy vs Brady: We go from the bonanza to the battle of ineptitude and the nail-biter of the week. Tommy had three players score 20+ and Brady had two cross that threshold. Tommy had two other 'medium' players who scored 10+ while brady had one of them. Tommy's bottom four players had a combined score of 8.1 points, so that's what kept brady in this game and made the winning margin as narrow as it was.
Brandon vs Matt: I won't naMe nAmes, buT someone in This matchup thinks he is a lock for the championship alongside Chad. I suppose this player is technically in second place, but the gap between him and Chad, who is in 1st place (37 points) is larger than the gap between him and 9th place Skyler (34 points). So I'll let you decide how real of a threat this player is. Anyway, Matt beat Brandon behind 9+ points from every person. Brandon had four of <9 and only one 20+. Maybe Matt has a point if all of his players have a high floor every week.
Rob vs Trevor: Trevor had Aaron Jones score 41 on Monday night, and he still lost by 30. Rob put the hurt on Trevor behind a combined 135 from his QB, and top 2 RB's and top 2 WR's. That would have been enough to beat Trevor. It must be nice not needing Kittle to bit your opponent. Trevor didn't have anyone else who scored 20+, but he did have 5 guys who scored double digits. Trevor's in an interesting spot of knowing he has a guy who can drop 40, but also, if Jones doesn't drop 40, and only gets 20 (still a really good outing), Trevors floor could be around 105-110 points.
Tyler vs TJ: Tyler got 70 of his 120 from two guys, but the rest of the team was meh (he only had one other guy who scored double digits). TJ got a good bounce back from Zeke, and a great game from Hockenson, but was let down by the rest of his team. He was let down by the Ute Fan who had 4 interceptions -- but at least his mom helps people get out of bed in the morning -- Zach's mom', not TJ's. Though if TJ's mom is now a social media influencer, good for her.
Jordan vs Kyle: Back by popular demand, it's the beatdown of the week (popular demand meaning I just remembered we did this last year), and Jordan laid the beatdown on Kyle by beating him by 45 points. Kyler Murray got Jordan ~40 points and 6 of his other 8 players 15 points a piece. Kyle had an off week where he had 3 players who were right around 20 and another player at 15. Those 4 players got him to 75 points, and his remaining 5 players helped him limp across the 100 point mark this week. I don't know if the Bucs DST are legit, but that could be a big boost as the surprise DST who scores lots of TD's usually helps his team make a surprise playoff run.
Award Season
MVP: I'm going with the Bills DST. Tommy eked out a win over Brady in the weekly nail-biter, and of his 3 highest scorers, the Bills were the biggest surprise by pitching the shut out against Miami.
LVP: Sticking with this same game, Dak came back down to earth and Brady lost by 11.
Unluckiest Team of the Week: Trevor had the second highest score for a losing team, but he wins the award this week since his game was closer than Skyler/Chad's game.
Luckiest Team of the Week: Tommy was the 9th highest scorer this week and still managed to get the win.
Game Previews
Skyler (9) vs Brady (10): Skyler has 0 players on Thursday and 3 players in primetime. Brady has 0 players on Thursday and 2 players in primetime. This isn't the front runner for the battle of ineptitude, but no one would be surprised if they won it. One of these two will be happy to get their first win of the season. This does have some promise to be the Monday Night Miracle/Nightmarge given the amount of primetime players.
Tommy (5) vs Chad (1): Tommy has 1 player on Thursday and 0 players in primetime. Chad has 0 players on Thursday and 0 players in primetime. This is the second leading candidate for the weekly bonanza since both teams are undefeated.
Matt (2) vs Trevor (8): Matt has 1 player on Thursday and 0 players in primetime. Trevor has 1 player on Thursday and 1 player in primetime.
Rob (6) vs Brandon (7): Rob has 0 players on Thursday and 2 players in primetime. Brandon has 0 players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime.
TJ (12) vs Kyle (11): TJ has 0 players on Thursday and 2 players in primetime. Kyle has 1 player on Thursday and 1 player in primetime. As of right now, this is the lead for the battle of ineptitude. One of these two will be happy to get their first win of the season, the loser likely is in last place
Jordan (3) vs Tyler (4): Jordan has 0 players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime. Tyler has 0 players on Thursday and 2 players in primetime. This is the leading candidate for the weekly bonanza as both teams are undefeated and have a good amount of points.
Good luck to everyone but Brady this week.
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