What's going on in the world of MIISFFL and the NFL? We've reached halftime! So let's catch our collective breath as we still have 7 weeks of pseudo-excitement to go. Our Piggy Predictors had another good week, but both missed on my game and on Jeff's loss to Deegan, and Dewey one-upped Kent by correctly calling JP's shocking upset loss to Tom, putting to rest any thought of an undefeated season. MIISFFL is kind of looking a lot like the AFC right now. You have 4 dominant teams, all at 6-1...and then everybody else. When the top dogs get together, crazy things happen. Not unlike what happened in the Tom-JP matchup, and in the Houston-Baltimore matchup from this past weekend. Houston and Baltimore came into Reliant Stadium as the only teams with winning records in the AFC. Everyone expected a back and forth slugfest. The only thing that went back and forth on that one was football, as Houston put it both end zones with equal ease. Houston comes back from a bad loss to Green Bay with a spank job on the only other >.500 team in the conference.
n the NFC, Atlanta at 6-0 is the only unblemished squad left. This week they have the Filthydelphia Iggles as both teams are coming off their bye. The Iggs have had some issues lately and Dewey and Kent's 2nd cousin 3 times removed Andy Reid decided to fire his chum and DC Juan Castillo, making the defensive guru the fall guy...for the offense. You know a guy is on the hot seat when he cans his defensive coordinator because
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Can it get any worse for Ron Antarctica? The competitive portion of his season has long since ended, but now he's working really hard to lock down that #1 pick in next year's draft. It's hard to blame him. Even guys like Megatron have fallen off the fantasy map this year. After all, couldn't even crack 5 points against DA Bears. When you have to resort to guys named Ballard and Kerley because guys like Johnson and Newton are MIA, you know your season is toast. He did somehow manage to scrap 96 points out of this week's mess, but this week's beneficiary is Andrew "Don't QaJizz on My Tate!" Kent. A solid 107 point outing, well within the Yahoo prediction margin of error mind you advances him to the group's elite at 6-1. He stands at 3rd place in the group, however, due to a loss to JP. He has defeated the other 6-1 team in the league, Tom, but before you panic that head to head does not get counted, there's still another matchup with the Extreme Machine to come in order to sort that one out.
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That popping sound you hear is the champagne bursting. No, I'm not talking about another baseball team giving themselves a shower in the locker room. That's the 1972 Miami Dolphins celebrating that there once again will be no undefeated team in MIISFFL. They will have another such celebration when (if?) the Atlanta Falcons finally lose. In that sick twist of irony we talked about in the Mashup last week, the team formerly known as Undefeated put an end to JP's quest for perfection 134-120. In other news, Chris Johnson actually has a pulse, sticking to the Bills for 35 big ones, which went a long way considering that Rodgers and Gronk had just another day at the office hanging 27 and 22 respectively. However, it was another Pat, Brandon Lloyd, who did JP in. For at least one week, Lloyd must have thought he was still with the Redskins scoring only 1 point. Will JP tinker with the lineup next week, or will he stand pat with a roster that allowed him to race out to 6 straight wins to start the season?
On the other end of the spectrum, we have yours truly picking up the scraps with Sean. In the "Somebody has to win" bowl of the week, I was able to squeak out a 85-84 win (something Yahoo calls a "thrilling upset." You tell me.). The bye week did me bad as I had to start Ponder (not much of a setback from Rivers all things considered), when I should have rather started nobody. Going into Monday night, all Sean needed was 7 points from Cutler and he had this one in the bag. Emphasis on needing 7 points from Cutler. He is Jay Cutler after all, and thanks to a pancake from Suh (with the maple syrup on top), Cutler was only able to squeak out 5 points. Sean has company in the basement with Ron Antarctica at 1-6 as both look to jockey for position for next year's first pick.
Perhaps a surprise member of the 6-1 club is Gaz, who cruised to an easy 146-117 win over Andy in the latest edition of the Bowl between the farthest members of MIISFFL. As stated in the open, Gaz took a commanding lead when Cruz cranked out a 77-yarder from Eli. Couple that with 2 short of a 40-burger from Brees, and double digit score from everyone else but the kicker, Gaz not only wins this one in convincing fashion, but takes home the weekly scoring pot, his second such win of the year. Don't look now, but Gaz has even taken the lead away from Deegan for the overall scoring title. As for Andy, he falls into the abyss at 2-5, and the rest of the league thanks him for his contribution to the pot. The only question now is whether or not he will sink far enough to challenge Ron Antarctica for the #1 pick.
Speaking of Deegan, his only two wins this year have come in weeks when he won the weekly scoring pot. In every other week, his charges have been on vacation. For the first time all year, Patrick wins a game without everyone going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. As a result, he remains within a Hail Mary's distance of the leaders at 3-4. The unfortunate loser, Jeff, watches his bomb fizzle yet again as this season is truly shaping up to be a contest between the haves and the have nots. MoJo Drew will be MIA for a considerable period of time thanks to a bum foot. Rashad Jennings is this week's waiver pickup of the week as a result...and who bankrolled enough in the FAAB to nab him? That's right! This commish isn't going down without a fight fellas!
Finally this week, Patrick Small had a chance to stay within arms length of the leaders, but Dewey put an end to that discussion with a 40-point thump job over the quasi-joggers. Dewey had the defensive play of the week as Houston twiddled their thumbs to a 33 point performance over a Ravens offense that couldn't get out of its own way. Dewey improves to 3-4, which means his season may not yet be over, but one more loss could very well mean a trip to the Antarctic Circle with the likes of Caputo's Corner, Sean, the MomBomb and of course Ron Antarctica. Get on the phone to Melbourne, we need more Fosters!
Alright, that's a wrap on this week's recaps. Next week we start the second half...and get closer to the League Meeting. Let's hope that there's still something to play for by then!
Zach-Tom (The Extreme Team gets their chance to kick the champ while he's down)
Kent-Sean (The QuaJizzer gets to kick Unknown while he's down)
Jeff-Nick (The MomBomb gets to kick....oh wait you mean Nick already beat Jeff????)
Patrick Small-Gaz (Patrick is running out of chances to gain ground in the division)
Dewey-Andy (Will they ever meet each other??????)
JP-Patrick Deegan (Bo knows how to school a teacher?)
We are less than one month away from the annual LEAGUE MEETING! As many of you know, this is the one event where we ask everyone in the league to come to the Greene Turtle to watch some games and talk trash with your opponent. A very important date in the calendar indeed. Let's just hope that the games that week are not playing out the string!
Nick
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