In MIISFFL news, we have our first trade of the season! Nate and Bruce decided to "play the game" and swap some waiver wire trash as Will Fuller went to Nate and Bruce picked up Austin Sefarian Jenkins (he did score that TD by the way) and Dion Lewis. Nate needed the boost after you see where his recap ended up this week. More on that to come.
In NFL news, it was the Body Bag Game part 4.8.29 on Monday Night as the commissioner decided to self-immolate for 3 and a half quarters watching the Redskins choke on their cheesesteak in Philthy. Every member of the Redskins O-line either played hurt or went down to injury at some point in the night. And despite Jason Peters suffering a similar fate, Carson Wentz decided to one-up his Week 1 performance, much to Bruce's delight. More on that to come.
How did the champ do? Dewey may be doing better than his predecessor as past champion, but he sure is not making it easy on himself. Tom has quickly become the keeper of the Futility Bowl as his team just cannot seem to get out of its own way, failing to post 60 points yet again. Dewey needed his opponent to trip over himself because he only scored 84, winning 84-53. Jameis Winston and Jared cook did all the heavy lifting in this one, with an assist from Allen Hurns (Jags again?). That was all Dewey needed. Tom only had 6 players score 6 points or less as he is racing to the bottom in an attempt to get the #1 pick next year. He already had #2, why not go for #1? To add insult to....insult...Papa Bear Lynch decided to get into a dust-up with the back judge after charging the field baseball style and earned himself a 1-week vacation. Addition by subtraction perhaps?
Game of the Week: JP finally gets a noteworthy fantasy performance, and who knows how good it might have been if he had a kicker who actually could put the ball through the uprights? The -5 from the K spot stuck out like a sore thumb as Patrick prevailed 142-126 in what was a very even matchup on paper. Of course, paper matchups mean everything in fantasy football. Both players had a chance to salt it away on Monday night, but Carson Wentz through TDs to everyone not named Alshon Jeffrey and Jordan Reed finally got in some good garbage time work to give Patrick the W. Ezekiel Elliot dropped a 40-burger, but every week his suspension just lingers means one more week Patrick might not have him later in the season when he might need him the most. Something to watch.
Blowout of the Week: The commissioner scored 129 in his best output of the season so far, but this one was over on Thursday. Tyreek Hill and Amari Cooper combined for 66 points on Thursday to end this one before it even started on Sunday. But Chris wasn't done: 33 from Russell Wilson, 21 from Ingram, plus 20 more from Carolina defense (they lost but only gave up 5 points of their own to kickers), led Chris to a 184-129 win and the top score of the league this season in a nearly perfect fantasy lineup for the week. Chris turned on the wayback machine to past seasons of regular season excellence only to fall flat on his face in the playoffs. Despite the result, both teams sit at 3-4 and very much alive in the wild card chase.
Futility Bowl: After early season offensive prowess, the matchup between Nate and Jeff looked like this was a likely Game of the Week candidate...until it wasn't. Jeff's entire roster miserably underperformed. So did Nate's...except for the kicker!! 13 from Josh Elliott proved to be the clincher in a 85-71 win crashing Jeff to 4-3 after racing out to a 4-0 start. Nate's squad looks human after a dominating start to the season, but at 5-2 he is still 1 game clear of everyone in the NFC. Jeff at 4-3 is fading fast. Better get to work on those wedding plans.
This week's other results:
Sean (3-4) defeated Kent (2-5) 133-98
Bruce (4-3) defeated Zach (6-1) 106-88 (Zach's undefeated run comes to an end!)
Weekly pot winner: Chris (184 points)
We have reached the half-way point of the regular season! Time to start thinking about trade deadline in 4 weeks (if anybody bothers to trade) and the League Meeting!
Next week, we simply transfer the corpses from this year's Body Bag Game and strategically place them in time for the MIISFFL Halloween Spooktacular!!
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