The Capt’s struggles have begun, despite keeping his winning streak alive. Week 12 was 1 player move away from his first loss since week 2. But, a victory nonetheless over the Cats who left Beckhams 26 on the bench. This also was the first week of a Monster Trade between the Cats and Pigg (Bree’s, Olsen, Jennings, Hopkins for Rodddjjjaaas and Thomas).  Rodddjjjaaas 19, Thomas 0. How will this trade turn out? I guess we shall see….
    Pigg loss to Grider. Bree’s 27, Jennings 11, Olsen on bye and Hopkins 3. Grider had huge games from everyone but his QB and WR (who was injured). Is this Grider team strong enough to go all the way? Will his head coach continue to make poor decisions on start/sit? Will homeless people keep knocking on his door at 5am? Is this where his amazing draft came from? A homeless FFL savant that drops by with his weekly picks at the crack of dawn? I think yes. (See lower Greenville panhandler story on google).
    DFUN, once in charge of the second playoff position in the East division, loses his 3rd in a row to DSVP who is fighting for the second spot in the West.  Once again DFUN tinkers with his team and has Fleeners 2 start and Walkers 15 sit and Lafells 9 watch as Cobb falls flat with 5. Can DFUN get a new head coach in time to save his season? Will he fail to make the winners bracket AGAIN?  Is this the beginning of the most epic fail in FFL history? I think yes.
    Hola loss to LO. Hola’s luck continues with another close loss, 85-83.  Romo and the Bills showed up big with 48 combined, and if you can do the math, that’s more than half his entire output.  LO seems to be sneaking back into the Wests playoff picture with this entirely unimpressive victory.  Will LO continue to move up the rankings? Can she score more than 100 pts? Will Hola drop Brees to waivers? (Oops, that happened last year).  I think yes.
   Week 12 ends with Capt and Grider clinching the top two spots. Cats, DFUN and LO are still fighting it out (DFUNs been less fighting and more chocking as of late). DSVP has small lead on PIGG, but, after pulling the trigger on the Monster trade, will Pigg make a run at the winners bracket?

Week 13, A New Hope. Or Epic Fail
     Capt continues to struggle, but wins 90-80 over LO hurting, but not ending, her playoff hopes. Again, one player move (Stafford for Tannehill) would have ended Capt’s streak and put LO in the winners bracket drivers seat. But it didn’t happen. Again. 100pts for LO. Nope. Moving up in rankings. Nope
     Grider takes out Hola. Same story for Hola, Different week. Huge early games from Bell 22, Mason 33 and Megatron 26 gave everyone hope for a Grider loss. Too bad the rest of his team scored 33 combined. Grider escapes the “Golden Taco” by having good games from all his starters and no coaching mistakes (for a change).  Maybe his “assistant coach” came by a little earlier this week?
     Cats shoot down DSVP 100-73. Rodddjjjaaas has 24 and Thomas doesn’t play again. Maybe that trade was a bad idea?  But, the victory puts the Cats into the lead for the playoffs (but only if DFUN loses his 4th, yes 4th, in a row).  Being swept by the Cats this year tightens the West race between DSVP and Pigg ( but only if Pigg wins and scores ALOT). Let’s see what happened!!
    In the most pivotal game of this FFL season DFUN…….. CHOKES again!! Team PIGGCats blows UP! 134-103 final.  Trade players- Brees 30, Jennings 21, Olsen 5, Hopkins 35.  Total= 91pts!! This DFUN loss (4th in a row) puts the Cats in second place alone! The Cats GM was awarded the trophy for executive of the year following this game. When asked “what is best in life” the Cats GM/Head coach quoted Conan the Barbarian “crush your enemies, see them driven before. Hear the lamentations of their women”. There were NO follow up questions.
    Going into week 14….. Capt and Grider in #1 spots. In the West- DSVP in 2nd. PIGG needs a DSVP loss and to out score him by 34 to steal the second spot. With his “new” team, it could happen!
In the East- DFUN plummets to a tie with LO, both a game back from the Cats.  Cats win and they are in. If DFUN loses (AGAIN!!!) and LO loses Cats are in.  If Cats lose and DFUN wins and out scores Cats by 8, DFUN is in. If DFUN and Cats lose and LO out scores them by 201 the LO is in (ain’t happening). So, last week of the regular season and all but one team still have a chance. Capt has been playing down to his opponents. He was quoted “I’m resting my guys for the playoffs”. Grider keeps winning but hasn’t been dominate as of late. DSVP has some big wins but was also able to lose to the Cats twice. Pigg maybe hitting his stride at the right time, or last week was a fluke and he will be watching the playoffs from home.  LO was one player away from knocking off the Capt and putting herself in a tie for second place. But she didn’t. Cats….. Who knows. Could win could lose, but his resiliency over this tough season has been inspiring ( at least I think so!) Hola was just a few players away each game. Some bad luck and some bad players sealed his fate. Winners bracket last year, losers this year. And last and least DFUN. A win ANYTIME over the last 4 would have put him in second. Two wins and almost guaranteed playoffs. But dropping 4 in arow has him on the outside looking in, again.  DFUNs first winners bracket playoff seems to be fading away, again.
    Next week- the questions are answered.