-Who is that masked man?
-The playoff race starts to take shape...or not?
-Eddie wouldn't lose two weeks in a row would he? To JP???
To date, Chris is the only member of MIISFFL nation yet to be formally mocked in the mashup. Well that's about to change. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you...CHRIS!
Chris is saving the world from crime, one archvillain at a time. Obviously, Chris has been rewarded for his heroic efforts with an above. 500 record and a better than average chance to make the playoffs this season...although one must wonder if it had an impact on this week's results. See below. The Caped Crusader took time out of his crime-fighting to join us at the draft...and we haven't seen him since. Not a peep on the message boards, hangouts, Facebooks, nor at the League Meeting. Clearly he takes his role so seriously that he must feel immune to ridicule, or at least he is clearly frightened by it, as he has attempted to avoid the wrath of the mashup. However, should he progress deep into the playoffs, not even the bigger half of the Dynamic Duo will be able to survive the commissioner's scorn.
Speaking of the playoffs, just when we think the playoff picture is starting to take shape, we have yet another week where nobody has the ability to separate from the rest of the pack. 3 games were decided on Monday night this week, all of which were in comeback fashion. Eddie (seemingly) has a safe perch atop the standings, and despite the rough week, has officially clinched a playoff spot. Now, of course, Eddie has been rooting for failure since the beginning of the season, and now he just might be starting to see the fruits of his labor.
Pay no attention to that man (or men?) behind that curtain either! Teams that looked like they were left for dead are now all of a sudden becoming players down the stretch with 2 weeks to go. The role of spoiler just doesn't sit well with these dudes (and yes that includes me!). Of course JP takes the role of spoiler quite seriously..........
How did this week unfold you say?
Oh the great Eddie-dini could not pull off the miracle escape this time. In what might be his worst 1-week performance since joining the league last year, a Futility Bowl for the ages, his bakery full of humble pie was ransacked by a bunch of lowly Techmo video game also-rans. JP has had to endure his worst season to date, and he certainly did himself no favors posting a whopping 75 points in a week he went head to head with the defending champ. Eddie started the season with a closer-than-the-experts thought win over JP in week 1, and the two teams started heading in opposite directions from there. Perhaps that close score ended up being somewhat of a harbinger of things to come. Eddie has survived all year on humble pie and close victories. JP has been nothing but dreadful. However, Peyton Manning potted 35 points, and that ended up being the extent of Eddie's offense. JP had 32 points...32 POINTS!!!...going into Monday night, but that proved to be enough when Brees and Torrey Smith combined to outscore HIS ENTIRE TEAM COMBINED in what might be the best (or worst?) Futility Bowl of all time. JP salvages a modicum of respect for his season (a very small modicum) and Eddie, despite the loss, backdoors his way into a playoff clinch at 10-2, with the NFC title still not quite wrapped up
Sean, despite not controlling his own destiny in the division, has cornered the marked on trash talk in the last couple of week, prompting an off-color response from Eddie in the chat room (words that will not be repeated here...Eddie you foul-mouth), and victory celebration from Sean for actually eliciting some anger from the 10-2 defending champ. For his part on the fantasy gridiron, Sean officially ended Gaz's playoff hopes with a 154-108 thumping of the Never Nudes, who are officially headed back to the charity bin at the Goodwill. In the process, Sean earns just his second weekly pot of the season, his first since week 1. Sean rode the sticky fingaz' of Odell Beckham Jr (who we still can't figure out how on Earth he made that catch!) and big scores from Brady and Buffalo D making a surprise Monday night cameo. Gaz only had one score over 20 points (Philly D) on his side of the ledger, and he is now looking at draft picks as a potential #2 behind JP. This will represent only the second time since the inception of MIISFFL that the Never Nudes have failed to make the postseason. They will not be missed.
In the AFC, Kent once again had a chance to achieve separation over his closest rivals, but laid a rotten egg against Zach, whose season is on life support at 6-6, but still alive nonetheless. Should Kent falter this season and not make the playoffs, all he need to do in hindsight is go back to draft day and recall when he was mocked both at the draft and here at the mashup for his surprise choice of Jay Cutler. Perhaps he thought he was drafting his wife, we will just never know, but Cutler threw up yet another stinker on Sunday, taking 3 more sacks and losing 1 fumble for a good (by Cutler standards) score of 5.2. Zach took advantage with four 20-point showings (Green, Mathews, Parkey, and Indy D) and only 2 scores that failed to reach double digits. Had it not been for Sean's heroics, Zach might very well have taken home the weekly, dealing what seemed at the time to be a decisive body blow to Kent's division title hopes.
It only seemed like a decisive blow because Kent's competitors for the AFC title just could not get their act together. Patrick and the Washington Redskins had what seemed to be a plus matchup on paper taking on the big-talking no-walking Tom (he of dream team fame). Alfred Morris did his job, posting 21 points and the high score of the day on Patrick's side of the ledger, and built what seemed like a healthy 50 point lead going into Monday Night. However, Tom dropped the triple hammer as the trio of Flacco, Shayne Graham, and $951 change of pace back Justin Forsett combined for nearly 58 points together, helping Tom pull out the 8-point victory. At 5-7, Tom's playoff chances are all but lost, but he did earn the adulation of one Andrew Kent for his Monday Night heroics:
"YES! Tom YOU TERRIBLE FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYER, YOU AND YOUR SHITTY SQUAD SAVED MY BACON TONIGHT! I LOVE YOU YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!"
Inspiring words indeed from the official MIISFFL villain.
There was drama up and down the AFC Monday as Chris had a chance to take a break from his crime-fighting and deal a decisive blow to Jeff's playoff chances, while putting him in the catbird seat for the AFC title. Chris got off to a good start with 129 on Sunday to Jeff's 106, leaving him with Owen Daniels on Monday to try to stave off any challenge from Jimmy Graham and Pierre Thomas. Daniels ended up with a dud (the only Raven really not to have a significant score last night), so it was up to the Saints not to get Jeff back into it. All through the night, you could just see Jeff creeping closer and closer and closer. When Graham dropped a potential TD in the 2nd quarter, Jeff did not lament, as he saw in his crystal ball a runaway from Baltimore and a garbage time TD for Graham as icing on the cake. Yea verily it came to pass. Baltimore went up by 2 scores late in the 4th quarter, then played a soft prevent defense designed to allow Graham to score with little time remaining while preserving their win. The last Graham TD put Jeff over the top, dropping Chris down to 7-5, and headed back to the Batcave for reinforcements. Jeff now sits at 6-6, but as he did lament last night, his division record might dampen any playoff hopes he might still have.
Don't look now, but the commissioner has pulled himself back to .500 for the first time since week 2. In what was billed last week as a potential elimination game between yours truly and the other commissioner in this league (Dewey), the loser of this match would end up 2 games BELOW .500 with the wild card leaders possibly at 8-4 with 2 games to play. A loss would cripple any playoff hopes the loser might have. Three 20-point performances from TY "Daddio" Hilton, Emmanuel "No concussion here" Sanders, and Jamaal "I am not the reason we lost to Oakland" Charles put the commish over the 100 point plateau for the 2nd time in 3 weeks. Dewey needed a record breaking from Dez Bryant on Sunday night to pull off the comeback. Dez had a great game, but not great enough. The commissioner is 6-6 and has a pulse. Dewey is at 5-7, and the doctor thinks it's time to pull the plug.
Next week is the penultimate week of the MIISFFL regular season 2014! Will we be any closer to the fab 4?
Eddie-Nick (Can the commish make it 4 in row-and 3 in a row against the defending champ and keep his season alive?)
Kent-Chris (Control of the AFC is at stake)
Patrick-Zach (Patrick will need a win to keep pace)
JP-Sean (Can JP knock off the other top dog in the NFC?)
Tom-Jeff (Most likely playing for pride in this one)
Dewey-Gaz (Background noise)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING from all of us here at the mashup. Don't forget that we have 3 games on Thursday...so SET YOUR LINEUPS!
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