Week 9 Preview
I lost my rock in Cousins this week. That's 4 players lost or on IR and I'm still writing this thing every week. Commissioner of the year if you ask me.
We're most than halfway through the season so it's time for playoff watch. If the playoffs started today, they would look like this:
Byes: Brady and Aron
3 Seed - Dom vs 6 Seed - Clint
4 Seed - Bruce vs 5 Seed - Kevin
More importantly, the Loser's Bracket would look like this:
Byes: Chris and Logan
10 Seed - Rusty vs 7 Seed - Bryan
9 Seed - Cord vs 8 Seed - Austin
Clint just sneaks into the playoffs by 5.06 points over Bryan. Technically everyone is still in the playoff hunt. Logan may be 1-7 but that team looks so good. Could easily go on a run.
Worst Coach of the Week
Nominees:
For the first time this year, I'm not nominating anyone. No bad drops/ adds. No really game changing benchings. Bruce could have started Hopkins and won, but no one would have started him over the guys he started.
Biggest Busts
QB - Patrick Mahomes - Worst game of his career. May be the only time we get to list him here so have to name him.
RB - Miles Sanders - 0 points on two carries. Cord only lost by 21 points. Any points from his RB position would have been nice.
WR - TIE Davante Adams and Jacobi Meyers - Logan was only down 10 with Adams and Myers vs St Brown. If I were Logan I would have felt like I had a shot at least. Well those two combined for a total of 4 points. Embarassing display by the Raiders.
TE - Darren Waller - 0.9 points... After being questionable all week, he decided he could play...for one whole route. Fuck you Waller.
Kicker/ Defense - Eagles - 0 points. Could have put Kevin's entire team on the busts list this week.
In Memoriam
Week 8 - Kirk Cousins
Week 7 - Chris's Playoff Hopes
Week 6 - Chris's Playoff Hopes?
Week 5 - Logan's Playoff Hopes
Week 4 - Logan's Playoff Hopes?
Week 3 - Mike Williams, Joshua Kelley
Week 2 - Nick Chubb, Justin Fields
Week 1 - Aaron Rodgers, JK Dobbins, Jets Wide Receivers
Week 8 Bets
None that I know of.
Update on Season Long Bet Mixon vs Ford:
Ford - 78.2 points
Mixon - 79.5 points
Week 9 Games of the Week:
Aron (6-2) vs Bryan (4-4)
While Bryan's team is underperforming, I consider this a battle of powerhouses. ESPN has Bryan projected to win this week due to Aron's best player, Etienne, being on bye. I think it could be close still.
Both team's have the advantage of having a top 3 TE and top 5 QB. Aron has Chase who gives him the advantage at WR no matter what Bryan throws out there.
This really comes down to the battle of trash RBs. Whichever team can put together more points with subpar RBs will win. That team will be Bryan. Guaranteed. Dude can't miss the playoffs. Come on.
Commissioner's Pick (8-0): Bryan