Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Week 8, Or Cream Rising, Other Stuff Falling

This is a weird fantasy season. We have FIVE teams that are 5-3, which means one of those teams (currently Hamilton Rod and Gun) would be out of the playoff picture. You could argue that despite 4-4 and 3-5 teams being as close as they are, they are nowhere near as talented, and our playoff field will consist of 4 of that current Top 5. And now....

REKAPITULIEREN!

Hardcore Sacks rides Jones, Kupp to 161-111.5 victory over Utah Falco
So, London was good to the Rams offense, or at least to Jared Goff and Cooper Kupp. (Also could have been a bad Bengals defense.) Honestly, when a team has two players over 30 points, it's tough to beat him, as long as the rest of his roster doesn't just completely lay down. Falco had Christian McCaffrey do his usual thing, but didn't enough from anyone else.

Released Dix On Boobies gets 20+ from his skill spots, topples Death Valley Driver 144.5-123
Matthew Stafford, Dalvin Cook, James Connor, Julio Jones and Kenny Golladay basically carried the day for Boobies (heh). It didn't even matter that Gerald Everett did nothing (in case you were wondering, I didn't count the TE as a "skill" spot). DVD posted a great score that would have beaten anyone else (other than Hardcore) but sometimes, that's how the cookie crumbles.

Hamilton Rod and Gun finally starts scoring points again, tops Iron Ryan 117.5-91.5
Tevin Coleman. Oh man. I thought Carolina's run D was supposed to be decent. They were not. Over 100 yards and FOUR touchdowns for Coleman. My goodness. Also, JuJu made a few plays, which he hasn't really done much this year (thank you, Dolphins D). I-Ry had just a single player break 20 points (Julian Edelman), and wasn't able to keep up.

Pedro Pickles pops Team Provost, 113.5-94.5
Oh, Provost. Mike Evans is a stud. Marvin Jones got lucky last week. And Provost attempted to ride the luck train, instead of sticking with the stud. Which resulted in a point differential of 33.5 points. Ouch. Pickles meanwhile got 32.5 from Latavius Murray (thanks to Alvin Kamara being out again) which would up being most of the difference in this one.

Hooked On A Thielen rides A-Rod to victory of The Jeff Fisher Effect, 96-87
Into Sunday Night Football, this game was wide open. Then Travis Kelce and Aaron Rodgers slammed that door shut. JFE's run of facing underperforming teams continued, but yet again his mediocre roster couldn't capitalize. Aaron Rodgers is the only one who broke the 20-point barrier in this one. HOTA might feel a little lucky to escape with a victory with such a low point total.

Good To The Last Money
Hardcore Sacks is this week's Tidwell winner, his second of the season, tying him with HRG and HOTA for the most. Who ends up with the most? We'll find out...

But we still have six more weeks to find out!

On to Week 9!

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