My brother is 40 years old, officially, and James Cook is officially an asshole. We had an absolute blast in Vegas, boys. Went to an NHL game, played Tiger Wood's new mini golf course, had a spectacular dining experience with the hottest serving and hostess staff I've ever seen in my life, saw an incredible cover band on Fremont street, and I personally made sure the casinos can keep the lights on. Even though I already posted this picture, it's so good, I had to utilize it again.
Lottttttt of close matchups in Week 8, folks. The BJ's stop their three game skid with a 116-113 victory over Pull Out Method. Spencer made the colossal mistake of thinking Jayden Daniels was mortal and wouldn't play in the game, opting for Jordan Love and costing him the ball game. Herbert and Harrison Jr lead the way for Scotty, with the rest of his team filling in scoring nicely. Spencer's stable of running backs continue their solid play; Jahmyr Gibbs had 21, Bijan with 16, and JK added 12 in the flex slot. The BJ's move to 4-4 and 7th place, with an important #7 vs #5 battle looming against Cuming of Rage. Spencer gets knocked down to 4th place, but plays Nick on a week that looks bye heavy.
Cuming of Rage... I can't help but share with the group, every time I see how Ragen fucked up the spelling on his team name, I think he should rethink his team concept and picture. Cuming of Rage, the story of how a young chef from the Middle East gets enlisted to join the Taliban, gets treated poorly, and takes his revenge by poisoning the entire army. Okay fine, the chef has a boner the whole time. I imagine Ragen's team picture should look more like this. Cuming of Rage minces his competition, Young & Wrecked, this week, 114-90. Jalen Hurts really chopped up the defense with three touchdowns on the ground. The Amari Cooper trade hype may have been a bit overdone, as he only had one catch for three yards. Seibert, my boy, continues to be the league's prime kicker, extending his streak of double digit scoring to five. Josh Jacobs doubled his season touchdown total, pulverizing the Jaguars' abysmal rushing defense, sprinkling on 27 fantasy points in the victory. Mason finds his way into a creamy matchup for Week 9: Cinnamon Danish is on the menu and Young & Wrecked is starving for a win.
In one of the best matchups of the week, Sideline Karmalytics takes down !!POUND FOR POUND!! 111-108... what a battle! Lamar Jackson and Joe Mixon lead the way once again for Eric, and don't look now, but since Joe Mixon returned from injury, he's gone 28, 26, 22 in our league. He's averaging 21 points per game he's played this season, and that includes the four point game when he got injured. Monster! With the return of Tua, Achane was a useful threat for Tank again, throwing up 20 points, and CeeDee scored over 20 points for the first time this season (29 this week!) Eric gets the final word with Singletary on Monday Night, even if it wasn't a strong word. Eric moves back up to 2nd place, a 5-3 record, and the most points scored in the league on the season. Tank sits in 9th place, at 3-5, and looks eager for his shot at the bye-ish week, Weekend At Bernie's Wizard Gang.
The Trowbridge bowl started so strongly in my favor, as the good lord would want. The benching of Kyle Pitts, the glory of the Baker/Otton stack, all beautiful things to see. Then the Seahawks entire defense got bent over by James Cook, and they robbed my favorite player, KWIII, of his only rushing touchdown opportunity. In the end, Najee and Boswell sealed things up tightly. David Montgomery, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Jefferson, a short sampling of a very long list of players Chris Boswell has outscored in fantasy this year so far. He's the #36 player in fantasy. Little fucker. I lost Stefon Diggs to IR, but I upgraded Dionte Johnson to a real QB and a competitive team. Nick sits at 5-3 and sixth place, while I slide to 4-4 and eighth place on the season.
Dem Other Boys smack the Bare Bottoms 102-89 in an important matchup for standings at the top of our league. Jonathan Taylor and DeAndre Swift win the RB battle against Henry and Barkley, outscoring the feared duo 41-26, and the Lions defense adds 16 for the Boys. Jake with the savvy start of Ladd McConkey, who drops 26, but the rest of his team couldn't get a single thing going. Sadly for Jake, he made the wrong gamble in the slot. Andrei Iosivas, the Bengals WR, laid a goose egg, while Tyrone Tracy Jr, the Giants now #1 RB scored 23 points and could have given Jake the win, had he properly placed him over Iosivas. Dallas moves up to 6-2 and the top dog in the league, Jake to 3rd place and the long mix of people at 5-3.
In perhaps the wildest matchup of the week, Weekend At Bernie's falls to Cinnamon Danish 68-71. Freiermuth could only muster up one point to get Bradley's total to 69 (nice), then stat corrections on Tuesday brought him back down to 68. Can you imagine the hysteria if Bradley had snuck it out by one point, only to be broken hearted to find out it resulted in a tie after the stat correction. Mostert did the mostest for AO with 14 points. Butker and Buffalo had solid outings, and AO gets a much needed W, moving up to 3-5 and separating himself from the bottom of the league.
The problem for Bradley and Pat Freiermuth is Monday wasn't Tight End day, that was on Sunday. Tight End scoring has been abysmal this year. I went back and grabbed an average for the league for tight end scoring. So I added up every starting TE's score on everyone's team and averaged it for the season. Prior to Week 8, the average TE score per week was 5.42. Week 8's got bumped to 10.42! Five more points, on TE day no less, wild! Fun fact, in Week 1, TEs on starting lineups averaged a psychotically low 2.75 points scored.
Big matchup between Dem Other Boys and Sidline Karmalytics this week, #1 vs #2. Happy Halloween and Happy Week 9 boys!
Commish Out.
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