Week 4 is gone, and so are the undefeated and unwinned. More injuries, more bad decisions, more waivers, and our first no show on game day (PIGG). Week 4 is also the first quarter of our FFL season so we will take a look at the stats. As Team Griders group of overpaid (we shall see) group of FFL experts say…. “there are lies, damn lies and statistics”. Should be fun!!
Lead Story- Undefeated TBIAC v Unwinned Team Griders Power Bottom. The big question is how a team as bad as TBIAC was undefeated? 12 from Brees ( who has been really nice this year), 0 from Sims (only playing because injury), the girl named Sue (Christine), 14, Antonio with his normal 18pts and Gronk with a big fat 1 aren’t enough to keep the smoke and mirrors going. The Power Bottoms had a huge game from Big Ben, 34 and from McKinnon (who he acquired from the Cats, just saying…..), 15 and the Bengals 14. Victory Power Bottoms!!! TBIAC left 19 and 26 on the sidelines from M Jones, M “Trabtee”. The Bottoms left 20 on the pine in W Fuller (another trade from the Cats….. just sayin….Cats make great trades…..just sayin).
Unwinned TSMYTDS v Cats. 90-85. Julio Jones goes for 300 yds and a TD and 36pts. The resurgent DeMarco, 23pts, continues to prove Team Taco’s wise and crafty draft choices! TSMYTD’s K, -1 and D, -1 and WR, 0 didn’t help at all but were enough to unseat the Cats as Holamon Family Champions. For the second straight week the Cats missed on monster QB days by following the so-called experts. Last week started Ryan 19 , Stafford benched with 26. This week the start went to Stafford 7, benched, Ryan 35. ESPN experts hopefully all work for Team Grider. Cause they SUCK!
LO 75 Pigg 61final. Not too much drama on this one except seeing if Pigg will field an entire lineup! After punishing his K by leaving him at home (or most likely Pigg forgot the K was on bye) and a -4 from his D, Julius Thomas scoring a zero and an injury, an to top it off, Carson Palmer went down to a concussion. Zeke rumbled for 20, Hyde for 13 and Sanders finally showing some FFL skills with 14, but it wasn’t near enough to make up for the Coaching miscues and injuries. LO wasn’t anywhere near dominate, but a win is a win. Dak’s 17 and McCoy’s 16 were enough. 3 and 5 from Forte and Blount, 0 and 7 from Hopkins and Jones, and Witten with 4. Strong special teams day helped bring the W home for Lo, with 12 and 11 from K and DST. 29 points left on the bench in Demarious Thomas and Gore weren’t needed to bitch-slap the unaware Pigg.
As noted, DSVP 98- Grider 122. Grider got very little from the “mouth breather” Eli and Girl-y, but everyone else was magnificent. As discussed for the last two years, our only chance of a non-Grider championship is a fluke game or injuries. His bench is pathetic, sad and weak (like TG Power Bottom’s starters). Poor DSVP just got FFl’ed this week. It happens. He will bounce back to become mediocre as usual! When your leading scorer is a Cleveland Brown, you may want to churn that roster over a bit. Just sayin!!
1/4 of the way through the season STAT breakdown-
EAST
Grider and LO 3-1, Cats 2-2, TG Power Bottoms 1-3
WEST
TBIAC 3-1, Pigg 2-2, and DSVP and TSMYTDs 1-3
PF (points scored) PA (points scored against)
Grider 433 415
Cats 405 348
LO 384 364
TGPBs 365 405
TBIAC 368 365
DSVP 353 414
TSMYTDs 346 363
Pigg 333 313
Cats have the largest difference between PF and PA and the 2nd most points scored by is 2-2. TBIAC is only 3pts ahead of his PA but is 3-1. Pigg is absolute last in PF, and in PA, but is 2-2, while Grider is #1 in both PF and PA and 3-1. The West division is looking much like the dumpster-fire they were last year, rekindling the talk of division re-alignment. The commish has done nothing about these issues, like most others, due to the fact that last place in either division is still last place! The East’s last PLACE PF is 365 and the West’s FIRST place PF is 368. This may change, or like last year, the West will only have one representative in the winners bracket.
Playoff Bracket as of now-
1. Grider v 4. Cats
2. TBIAC v 3. LO
6.TGPBs v. 5. Pigg
7. DSVP v 8. TSMYTDs
Plenty of time to change your playoff position. Plenty more injuries to come. Plenty more bye weeks left. Hopefully no more empty roster spots (Pigg). Who will find the next superstar (Cats)? Who will make the trade that propels them to the next level (prob not LO, she has trust issues). Who will stand pat and hope their draft will pull them through (hopefully Grider). Who will churn players weekly looking for the next win (most of us!!). Good luck, you will need it!
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