Menace Mashup: MIISFFL Week 10

It's League Meeting week here at the Mashup!  Our featured matches of the season will take place with the whole league present this Sunday at 1PM at the Greene Turtle Columbia!  This is such a momentus occation, rivaled only by the draft and the Menace Bowl.  League Meeting week is also the first of 4 consecutive weeks of all-divisional matches.  Plenty of shaking, rattling, and rolling is still possible as teams near the cellar can rise like the phoenix and teams at the top can still crash and burn...including Ron Mexico as hard as that is to believe.  You know what they say?  The bigger they are the harder they fall. 

Last week was the only week out of the season where all the matchups were interdivisional.  When I did the schedule this year, I wanted to have a good mix of divisional and interdivisional games throughout the season, unlike last year's schedule when Yahoo randomly decided which weeks would be interdivisonal, and every other week followed some kind of pattern.  I wanted to mix things up a little bit, and I am happy to report that I succeeded.  Unfortunately, most of the games this week were blowouts, so it's safe to say that the players on the wrong end of those decisions will be happy to see interdivisional play end.  Let the final battles for the division titles and playoff berths begin! 

After the match recaps from week 10 of course!

The Supreme Being was hanging on the edge of his seat on Monday night as all Caputo's Corner needed was 17 points from Adrian Peterson to pull off the miraculous comeback.  However, the Supreme Team probably didn't have to worry at all as Green Bay went cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs all over the Vikes and relegated Peterson to spot duty, only tallying 51 yards rushing.  Caputo's Corner is kicking himself for leaving Denarius Moore and his 30 point performance on the bench.  Supreme Being has now tied the all time series 2-2 in this epic battle of the last two champions of MIISFFL (including the playoff victory from last year).  Caputo's Corner now sits in the herd at 5-5 in the Pub Dogs division.  Also at 5-5, Supreme Being still has an outside shot of a wild card as well, even though the division title might be a pipe dream in spite of......

RON MEXICO LOST!...and badly at that.  KSo scores the upset of the MIISFFL millenium as even Ron Mexico himself was saying on Sunday that there was no way he could win this week.  Usually that kind of pessimism is reserved for Caputo's  Corner when he's watching Redskins games...as long as he's not cheering hard for the Kansas City Chiefs (BOOOOOOOOO!!!).  DeMarco Murray did his job with 28 points, but nothing from Carolina Cam, Julio Jones, and the Jets defense proved to be his undoing.  KSo finally got a big game from Chris Johnson (or as Kent calls him, CJ2YPC...see I gave you the plug that time) and 20 more from Jordy Nelson on Monday Night to finish off the top dog.  Despite the loss, Zach is still in first place in the league 2 games clear of the field.  KSo is in the hunt at 5-5, but despite beating the top dog, still has an inferior division record to everybody else, and still has quite a hill to climb.

Patrick Deegan had a chance to assert himself as the top dog in the Pub Dogs...until he got spayed and neutered by the Extreme Team to the tune of a 136-82 beatdown.  With the win, Tom climbs to 6-4, tied for the last wild card spot with JP and Jeff.  Tom has already swept Jeff, and still has one more showdown with JP in Week 14, which could decide the final order of the wild card spots.  Tom started the season undefeated (along with everyone else), took a tumble midway through the first half, but has rebounded quite nicely to be in a very good position heading into League Meeting week.  Patrick, on the other hand, despite his best efforts, is still in first place (technically) of the Pub Dogs, a division nobody wants to win apparently.  However, by virtue of a still superior division record over the rest of the field, he continues to hold the top spot...for now.

Gaz is making a play to be in the hunt for both the Pub Dogs division title and the wild card spot, climbing back to .500 with a 112-63 win over Patrick Small.  Patrick is fighting hard for the rights to Andrew Luck, and is in secret negotiations with Bill Polian over what he can do to get the #1 pick from the Colts in the event the Colts don't win a single game this year.  I hear Michael Vick, Antonio Gates and two first round picks for the next two years are what is on the table...just rumors right now, but that's what I'm hearing.  Gaz still has some work to do at 3-3 in the division and middle of the pack when it comes to point total.  Gaz has an opportunity to make even more strides next week when he takes on Matt, currently residing at the bottom of the division. 

Speaking of Matt, he ran into the personification of the Jekyll and Hyde squad that is Jeff Newman's mom bomb squad.  He ran into the Mr. Hyde version of Jeff this week as he flexed his fantasy muscle with a 140-91 explosion...and this was in spite of a robust -1.7 from Josh Freeman.  This was more than made up for by a 45 spot from from the Bears defense.  Caputo's Corner laments....anyway, Washington Sentinels played like a bunch of replacements without a single 20 point score on his roster.  Serves him right for starting the Redskins' defense.  Now at 4-6, 2 games back with a lot of teams in front of him, the hill to climb is tall. 

Finally this week, JP made amends for last week's defeat by laying the smack down on Sean, who is still cursing Jamaal Charles' name after a 42 point layeth the smacketh down.  Big scores from Rodgers (who may still be on the trading block) and Gronkowski led the way for JP despite 33 from Brady, which proved to not nearly be enough for Sean.  Now, at 3-7, Sean is in negotiations with the Rams for the 2nd overall pick so that he can possibly get Matt Barkley or Landry Jones.  Who he will eventually go with is still anybody's guess...the scout teams are doing their work as we speak.  As for JP, at 6-4, he still controls his own destiny for the wild card, and with Ron Mexico finally losing, still stands an outside shot at the Greene Turtles division title...still needs a minor miracle though.

Alright, next week, we have our annual LEAGUE MEETING!  This is our one chance for everybody in the league to get together, watch games and talk trash to their opponents.  In this week's previews, we take a look at first the featured NFL games of interest that everyone will get to enjoy Sunday afternoon on one of the Turtle's more than 20 HDTV's with NFL Sunday Ticket:

Dallas @ Washington
Tampa Bay @ Green Bay
Cincinnati @ Baltimore
Oakland @ Minnesota
Philadelphia @ New York Giants (Sunday night)

And in MIISFFL...our featured regular season matches of the year will be on tap as we start the final stretch of divisional play:

Kent-JP (A rematch of Week 2, JP looks to solidify the wild card while Kent looks to keep the momentum)
Nick-Patrick Deegan (Teacher Bowl and a rematch of week 4 with the Pub Dogs division lead on the line)
KSo-Sean (They're both from Northern VA, so this counts)
Tom-Patrick Small (Tom looks to pad his stats and get that last wild card.  Patrick is in the green room)
Gaz-Matt (Gaz may be on the outside looking in, but he's still very feisty)
Zach-Jeff (Two of the top 3 scoring teams in the league face off dripping with playoff implications)

Good matchups all around this week as we get ready for the home stretch of MIISFFL 2011.  Start thinking about your keepers too!  Don't forget to be at the Greene Turtle Columbia at 1PM for MIISFFL LEAGUE MEETING 2011! 

Trade deadline is Friday too...don't forget about that either! 

Next week's Mashup will have the meeting minutes.  Until then...fin