Week 6

Week 6 is in the books and this season is shaping up much differently than last season.  Last year, the top 4 playoffs teams were determined pretty early and the 2nd half of the season wasn't very interesting.  This year, it seems like any of the top 7 teams (sorry Seth) could make the playoffs and it wouldn't be a surprise (well, maybe Abel...yeah, definitely Abel).  Week 7 is the mid-way point and everyone will have played each of the other teams.  Starting next week, it's either revenge or getting the brooms out but for now, on with the power rankings.

What is going on in this league this year?

1. Smells Low - Riley's team put together a solid week and took home high points.  He was expecting much more from his Pats though trying to get revenge on the Colts.  Unfortunately, those points were all sitting on Mitch's bench.  Riley is looking to trade for some younger talent (aren't we all...amiright, married guys?) and is ready to wheel and deal.  He'll need it this week going against the hottest team in the league with all of his Broncos on bye.  His issue will be does he drop some of his position players or the #1 K and D.  These are the decisions that could haunt him the rest of the season. Hopefully they teach that in Chopping Wood 101 or whatever bullshit classes he's taking this semester. 



Riley expects so much more from you Tom Brady

2. Rollin' 4 Deep - Sweating out the SNF and MNF weren't fun for Finken but luckily for him, Gronk, Eli and ODB minimized the damage and propelled him to his 3rd W in a row.  Rivers was huge throwing for over 500 yards (obviously in a loss, it's Rivers) especially since Peterson was stuffed by KC.  Alas the same happened to KC's RBs that Finken had invested heavily in, returning a mere 7 points combined which is a less than optimal ROI.  Seth's decimated team is coming to town and R4D is favored big to keep rolling to 4 straight and a 6-1 record.  At this pace, it'll take a Cornhusker-like collapse at the end of the season for him to miss the playoffs for the 3rd straight year. 

Not sure how, but Finken's 5-1

3. Off Suit 10s - Kyle has skyrocketed up the rankings as he's won 3 in row.  The pessimist will say that those wins were over the 3 worst teams but Kyle now has the #1 ranked player and 5 of the top 12 are on his roster.  Amazingly, 3 of those were traded to him from Finken at some point for a grand total of jack, shit and Phillip Rivers.  Unlike his Hawkeyes, the schedule tightens up with Riley and then Finken, plus OS10s has Rodgers on bye this week.  He gets through these next few weeks unscathed, then it's really time to take notice. 

Lehman barely sneaking by Mitch

Tie-4. Fuck It Three - For losing to I'm Out, South should've plummeted down the standings further, however he's still leading the league in points and has only lost 2 in a row.   Getting a monster game out of Hopkins and Luck weren't enough this week.  AZ shut down all of his Steelers and Lacy had a runny nose so he decided not to play.  It looks like South is betting on Big Ben coming back this week which would be a boost to his whole lineup.  If BB doesn't go, it could be trouble in the rematch from last year's title match this week against Lazer in which he got smoked by 60 points. 

This was basically South's effort against Abel

Tie-4. If We're Using Logic - Chris had to have felt great watching MNF as Eli and ODB marched right down the field and scored early in the game.  Surely a sign of things to come and a 72 point deficit could be quickly erased.  However, Eli had other plans as he decided to hold the ball longer than South holds info from his friends and they finished with only 30 points between them.  It also didn't help that he left Starks, Jon Brown and Shady McCoy on the bench this week.  That's now 3 losses in a row and South is up next.  Four straight losses and a below .500 record?  Sounds like he might want to stick with middle school football.

Chris's MNF experience in a nutshell

6. Play It Backwards - Looks like Mitch now owes Kyle a sixer after his close loss.  Luckily Busch Light is the pinnacle of Kyle's beer sophistication chart and so it won't be too hard on the wallet.  Megatron and Graham finally showed up for Mitch and backed up their starting status but Bradford was pretty useless on MNF.  Mitch didn't have the foresight to start Blount going against the team that he always runs over.  Oh well, I'm sure Danny Woodhead got just as many points against a solid D.  With a bunch of his bigtime players on bye this week, he's lucky he's facing Abel.  Wait, let's ask South how that turned out.

Despite this, Mitch still can't put it together.

7. I'm Out - Abel's team finally came to life this week and put a hurt on FIT by almost grabbing high points.  Even though his TE gave him a 0 and he left Cutler and Bryant on the bench, his Jets came through for him and the rest was solid enough.  As mentioned before, he's getting Mitch at a good time and if he remembers to set his lineup, he could actually put together a winning streak.  Although with Mariota banged up and Cutler on bye, he may have to rely on his 4th QB to get him through the week.  I think RG3 is projected to get at least 18 points right? 

Here was high points for you Abel...

8. Ah It's Early - Seth really made a run at it with a bunch of guys on bye and banged up.  He got solid production out of his QBs and starting skill guys.  Sadly, he didn't start JStew over MelGor or the Houston D (against Jax!) over the AZ D (against Pitt).  He makes those changes and grabs the win and high points for the week.  Now he's facing Finken and has Forte and the Red Rocket on bye with Keenan Allen banged up.  Not ideal.

Doing write-ups for Seth's team feels like...