I believe in miracles too!
Gaz finds a new hobby.
Eddie doesn't care, he just wins. He has no soul.
I think the Mashup should start this week with a little Al Michaels, yes?
Yes, this was a hockey game, but the sentiment holds. I'll get to the nitty gritty when we get to the recaps, but for the first time ever, your commissioner HAS WON THE WEEKLY SCORING POT! Allow me to boast for a little bit....wait a second, this just in.
It's a Western Union from Eddie. It says. "6-0 chump...or better yet that 11-0 with a ring...a big shiny ring!. Have a nice day."
Wow...way to rain on my parade, man. Yes, Eddie has is now within 1 victory of the all time record for consecutive wins in MIISFFL history, now having won his 11th in a row. The record of 12 was set by Gaz in 2012 winning the last 11 games of the season, and the first playoff game, before seeing his season come to an ignominious end at the hands of Patrick, who took his ragtag bunch of Redskins and ran them to the hardware. Gaz was left just to wonder. This year so far has not gone quite to script for the naked wonders. So he took up a new hobby:
Yes, he somehow sucked up the courage to strap on some lederhosen and do his best brewmaster impersonation. Considering how his fantasy team has performed this season, he might want to consider it for a career. Let's just say he's not threatening any kinds of records any times soon with his wunderkids. Keep brewing that beer, Gaz!
Let's get to the match recaps, shall we?
Eddie is just ruthless. He's not interested in scoring titles, or making noise, or even talking trash. He just takes fantasy teams, chews them up, spits them out, stomps on them with his foot, and turns and walks away. This week's victim was Patrick, who after being embarrassed both at draft day and in Week 1, had put a nice little run together of 3 straight wins. Recently, however, the draft day mockery has started to resurface. Peyton was actually outscored by his understudy in this one, Andrew Luck, but Antonio, Alshon, Kelvin, and the Detroit D more than picked up the slack. Outside of the Arizona defense, nobody else on Patrick's bunch cracked double digits. Eddie finds ways to blow you out, even when his guys find the end zone no more often than the other guys do, as both sides finished with just 4 total touchdowns. Eddie can (fittingly) tie the record next week by dismissing the current consecutive wins holder, who might just be concerned with the proper proportions of yeast and sugar.
Speaking of Gaz, he won this week, but by his own admission his matchup with Sean ended up being this week's futility bowl. Sean showed flashes of the the squad that stumbled out of the gate starting 4-8 last season, and Gaz played like a dude who had been brewing a lot of beer. Arian Foster showed flashes of his former brilliance, and Sean actually made the right flip of the coin this week by starting DeSean Jackson. Otherwise there was not much else in the way of highlights in this one that somebody had to win. Gaz is shaking in his stockings as he has to somehow find a way to protect his record next week. but now with Victor Cruz most likely done for the year after crying on a cart and Steven Jackson being...well...Steven Jackson, that seems like a very tall order.
In a throwback to 2009 and 2010, the commissioner turned up the voltage in a vintage performance from his championship winning days. How did he win his first weekly title since that became an actual award? T.Y. Hilton, Denver D, and Kaepernick (long after the match had actually been decided) all decided to stick it to inferior competition for a change and chunked together over 90 points between them, more than making for another pathetic RB performance from CJbumK. JP actually didn't have a bad week this week, scoring 105 on his own, but he just keeps finding new ways to lose. 7 from Russell Wilson a game after he was worth 35 (albeit against the Redskins) and left on the bench did not help. JP is staring down the barrel of a #1 overall pick in next year's draft as he can no longer finish above .500.
Kent was in line to win the weekly scoring pot (until Kaep did his dance all over the Rams), taking care of business against an overmatched Dewey squad in the battle of the "Real League." Dewey had guys from teams that scored lots of points this past week (including 2 Eagles and a Cowboy), just had the wrong players from those teams as Dez, Maclin, and Foles combined for only 26 between them. Throw in a -2 from Cincinnati defense (in a tie no less which should have made that negative count for double) and it adds up to yet another off week for Ray Rice Memorial Team, now having lost 3 in a row and failing to crack 90 points in any of those games. Kent, on the other hand, is now in full midseason form having won 4 in a row now and in sole possession of first place in the AFC.
Nipping at his heels though is Chris, who seems to now have shaken that alternate identity from the first three weeks when we did not know if he was going to score 70 or 140. He has found his 140 point form as he dismisses Jeff almost doubling him up 144-76. Rivers, Nelson, and Demaryius all cracked 20 points and Jordan Cameron just barely missed. Outside of 29 from Rodgers, 15 from Ronnie Hillman, and 19 from Fitzgerald, Jeff's scorelines are as follows: 3, 4.2, 5, 0, 2, and -1. That's just not going to get it done no matter what fantasy league you are in, let alone a premier league like MIISFFL. Jeff falls back into cesspool at 3-3 and Chris is in a very nice position at 4-2 only a game behind Kent for the division lead and a game clear for at least a wild card spot. Could he be this year's Eddie? He'd have to be considering he's the only new guy.
Tom finally decided to back up some of that trash talk from the beginning of the year as he has himself a week with a hard fought 144-123 win over Zach. Flacco was the player to have this week as he racked up most of his 44 points in the first quarter alone over the hapless Bucs, then Baltimore called off the dogs. Steve Smith the Elder backed that up with 21.5 of his own to lead the way. Zach on the other hand made the rookie mistake of starting Kirk Cousins...period. The only way he has fantasy value is if he is coming off the bench. So he might not be a bad stash considering RGIII is on his way back. That being said, he did have the same scoreline as Tony Romo, so that's got to say something about his quarterback situation.
Eddie might as well be making his playoff plans now at 6-0. Kent is sitting pretty at 5-1 with Chris right behind him. Then it's anybody's game as the majority of the field is at either 3-3 or 2-4.
Then you have JP at 0-6. Poor JP.
Next week:
Eddie-Gaz (Eddie looks to tie the record against the current record holder)
Kent-Chris (Chris can pull level with Kent, or Kent can create some separation)
Kent-Chris (Chris can pull level with Kent, or Kent can create some separation)
Nick-Dewey (Commissioner's bowl. Can I back up this week's performance with another?)
Jeff-Tom (Tom can join the pack at 3 wins, or Jeff will pull himself out of it)
Zach-Sean (Zach looks to maintain with the leaders in the AFC. Sean knows the NFC is just a race for a wild card)
Patrick-JP (JP might end this week at 0-7, but he is playing the Redskins)
The action is just heating up!
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