Team Of The Week
It's often said that all good things must come to an end but its seldom mentioned that the same maxim applies to all bad things. So it was in week 8 as we finally saw the end of the league longest running losing streak, with the Lottery at last picking the rights numbers to come up with the W.
Some coaches may have missed the controversial mid-week trade between the Lottery and the Swedes. The Lottery had picked up Bills QB Fitzpatrick from the waiver wire only to exchange him for 49ers WR Crabtree. Crabtree proved good value with 11.30pts in a week when all the Lotteries WR's contributed. Whether the Commish feels quite so good come week 10 with QB Brees on a bye and no back up QB in sight in another matter entirely.
The Baptists must now play out the rest of the season walking that difficult line between pride and a high draft pick for season CNFLE III as only divine intervention will see them claim a wild card berth. Franchise WR Colston and franchise RB Mendenhall must take their share of the blame for Baptists fall from grace. All too often these two young stars have failed to shine leaving the Baptists in a three way battle for the CNFLE wooden spoon and in case you were all wondering, yes it exists and yes it will be engraved!
Seventy Nine FC – Really Quite Good.
The leagues most underrated team refused to comment on the slander posted by this very reporter in this very column because they are quite clearly chickens. Be that as it may these chicks could well end up laying a golden egg as the79ers continue to go about their business with increasing authority. WR Lloyd lit up the grey skies over Wembley with an astonishing display against San Fran including one miracle grab for a TD. Meanwhile, across the pond, RB Green-Ellis was having a career day with 112yds, 2 TD's and 11 receiving yrds for a total of 27.30pts. These two players define the FC philosophy as Head Coach Martin takes players other coaches have passed by and molds them into fantasy stars.
Royale with TD's saw WR Sims-Walker put up his best numbers of the season (against a Dallas team that looks like they have already begun next seasons proposed lock out) and QB Rivers pretty much guarantees you 20pts plus week in week out, but the rest of the squad look woeful. Realistically the Royales can say goodbye to any hope of a divisional title and are in danger of falling behind in the race for a wild card.
Still Nothing To Fear.
The roar of Factory proved to be nothing more than the tiniest blip on their road to fantasy ignominy as they came crashing down from last weeks victory like an asteroid hitting the earth in an extinction level event. In a display of big brass ones the Factory elected to employ the 'No D' scheme against the very team that created it. 46.40 total pts. This Factory is condemned. Big Ben, the Moss brothers, rookie RB Matthews shame on you, shame on you all.
The Factories opponent continues to ttttease. Just like a cheerleaders smile and wiggle you kid yourself that this is going somewhere but you know your only gonna end up disappointed. Well done Ttttaylor, you looked great in that tutu as you beat up on the leagues weakest but your 3-5, your were the leagues pre-season favourite, you had the first pick in the draft so when are you going shake what momma gave you for real?
The Karmic Wheel.
Regular readers of this column (and may I take a moment to thank you both) will recall that in previous posts I have spoken of my belief that the Disco's season was being built upon swampy foundations. A mixture of good fortune and voodoo had seen the Frogs rise the summit of the league but at last it appears that the karmic wheels are falling off this charade. Without Disco star WR Nicks Yoda was free to perform a clinical dissection of the Frogs. Yoda it would appear is back to his masterful best and is once again the team to beat. The green one has weak schedule as we turn the season's corner facing the like of the Factory and Lottery and will have his division wrapped up in time for Christmas.
Stats Are For Losers, The Final Score Is For Winners.
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| The back ups back up runs one in. |
If the league was ranked by points scored the Bench Warmers would be sitting in 7th place. If the league was ranked by which team has faced the highest scoring opponents they would be sitting in 12th place. But we run on a week by week match up by match up basis and so Occam's razor dictates that the Warmers are indeed 7-1 and therefore the best team in the league. They achieved this win with the ninth lowest score of the week against a French Leader team that posted their lowest score of the entire season. Week 9 sees the Bench Warmers take on the really quite good 79ers and will need a win to convince this reporter that they are for real.
The Leader slips back to .500 but is still just one game behind a potential wild card berth. The squad need to discover their je nais se quoi in time for their week 9 match up against the Royales the loser of which could be done for the season.
Halloween Gore.
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| Frank 'Straight Ahead' Gore. |
The Swedes have climbed out of their early season hole and extend their win streak to 5 in a close one against the Rocks with the Colts WR duo of Garcon and Gonzalez doing just enough to post the W. Running back Jones-Drew and Charles are in a fine run of form whith Jones-Drew looking healthy for the first time in the season. The Buccs D conceded 35pts against the Birds but still put up 23 fantasy pts courtesy of two defensive TD's. With QB Romo out and cut from the Swedes roster QB Fitzpatrick is the unknown by which the Swedes season hangs.
This defeat sees Rocks slip to 5-4, a game behind Yoda in Division 2. They are the league's third highest scoring team and will remain a threat as they chase down that precious wild card berth. RB Gore continues to deliver in a 49ers team that loves to power run, TE Davis left the Wembley game with an angle injury but now has two weeks to recover. The Rocks need to hit the waiver wire to pick up some cover for these two 49er stars in time for the week 9 match up against a forlorn Baptist squad.
Good Call.
The rook hits gold with his pick of the 49ers back up back up QB Smith for 20.04pts.
Bad Call.
French Leader leaves QB Orton and his 21.56pts on the bench and loses the game by 10.84pts.
Bench Of The Week.
The Rookie leave just 3.60pts on the bench due in part to a dose of bye fever.
Vasco De Gama CNFLE II official bookmaker.
Yoda from Wales Evens
Seventy Nine FC 2/1
Tim Riggins Bench Warmers 3/1
Super Swedes 3/1
Bone Rocks 4/1
Hairy Frog Disco 5/1
Royale with TD’s7 /1
French Leader9/1
Ttttaylor 15/1
Bryants Baptists 33/1
It's A Lottery 66/1
Fear Factory 100/1
All which means that week 8 is in the bag. With just six weeks of the regular season remaining their are still nine teams in with a realistic shout at the playoffs. Personally , I still cant see byond the bookies current top four but your welcome to prove me wrong.
Keep looking to the skies.
David Marrs
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| The 49ers D try to grab a souvenir glove. |
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