Past The Halfway Point

I wrote a review last week but did not get a chance to do a preview or post what I had written. Here it is.

According to NFL statistics, Week 7 of the 2010 NFL season was the highest scoring week in 25 years. Ironically, for the first time in the PPR era, 2 EFFL teams scored below 70 points in the same week. Congratulations EEB and Nick. You guys suck. I will say though that only once this season had a team scored more than 150 and it happened twice this week. 2 other teams scored 140+. They both lost. While many teams were either lucky or unlucky in week 7, it seemed to even things out over the season which is usually unheard of. All teams are within 75 points of each other for points allowed. Let’s get into who wound up in tears in Week 7.

Stanky Monkeys 126 – Johnson’s Farm 68:

It’s embarrassing to me that if the playoffs started today Johnson’s Farm would be in. With the league low score in two of the last 4 weeks, and a bottom 3 score in another, this team should be buried. Leaving over 100 points on your bench isn’t the best way to go about things, but I don’t think this team is going to scare anyone. Chris Johnson has scored 8 or fewer 3 times (0-3) and 21 or more 4 times (3-0-1). When CJ goes, so does this team, aka this team has absolutely nobody else that can do anything. Is there a better feeling than trading for a guy and seeing him explode for 45 points? Stanky looked to be in a world of hurt only a couple weeks ago, but after a couple trades and some nice waiver wire pickups could turn out to be decent yet. While not overly explosive, Lou has quietly turned into a competitive squad. This team has gotten some luck before so I wouldn’t be surprised either way with the Monkeys.

Dueling Pylons 100 – The Stone Masons 93:

This was just a crappy game all around, and the Masons missed a golden opportunity to take advantage of a reeling Pylons team. With almost the entire team injured or on a bye, the Pylons bench had a total of 2 points before the Monday night game. If you told me Josh Freeman would outscore Drew Brees I would have taken it. Also the Masons duo of Broncos certainly left something to be desired. When you allow 59 points to the Raiders, it’s just a bad day all around. Out of 18 players in this matchup, only 5 had their team win the actual game. Any time that happens you’re almost certainly in for a low scoring fantasy day. Luck happened to be on the Pylons side for once, and an injured Antonio Gates toughed it out to seal the victory. If this was the low point of the Pylons season, I certainly can’t complain. The Masons are a better team than this and I suspect you’ll see a much better performance in week 8.

Tweeting In The Trenches 112 – Coach Janky Spanky 69:

In 7 weeks, this is now the 4^th time Janky Spanky has failed to break 100 points. This week wasn’t even close. I’m honestly looking at EEB’s roster and wondering how you can possibly draft a team that bad. I believe we have found subject #2 for the “Who do we keep feeding alcohol at the draft?” poll. Out of their last 11 draft picks (round 7 til the end), only 3 remain on the roster. At 1-6 Coach Janky Spanky is now the league whipping boy, and anyone fortunate enough to play them twice is in luck. EEB’s QB, RBs and WRs put up a combined 32 points in this game. This is probably some sort of league record, but I’m not spending the time looking into it. I’m still not sold on TITTY, but Rodgers, Nicks and TO have been putting up solid weeks. This team has boom or bust potential, but in a muddled EFFL that could be enough.

Maybe This Time 153 – Animals With Eyepatches 142:

The Eyepatches certainly deserved a better fate than a loss in this one. After a monster showing in the 1 o clock games I thought the Eyepatches were on their way to another victory. Even heading into Monday night they looked to be in decent shape. But that all changed when rookie white guy Chris Gronkowski missed a block and got Tony Romo killed. The Eyepatches were still holding onto the lead until late in the Monday night game when Jason Witten was just too much. Great comeback by Sam in this one to get an important win in the division. The Evens division looks extremely tough this year, and this win was huge to keep Jimish from running away with it. Despite the loss I still think the Eyepatches look like the team to beat. This was the 4^th time in 7 weeks they have broken the 140 point mark, and this team will be a serious contender all season long. Losing Romo for awhile could hurt, but Jimish always seems to find a way to right the ship.

Tequila Party Gnomes 155 – The King’s Crusaders 143:

Both 5-1 teams put up 140+ in week 7 and both lost. 8 of the 10 teams are now within 2 games of each other with only 6 weeks to play, and this race could not be any tighter. TPG absolutely exploded in week 7, and I was being cursed out for offering advice to use Patrick Crayton. Thankfully he did enough to get the win. If TPG had used Kenny Britt’s monster game, this could have been a record setting week. With the right lineup combination TPG could have maxed out at 207 points. The King made a valiant effort to come back and try and win this one but it was just not enough. Darren McFadden could have been the difference in this one. I think both of these teams are for real as TPG looks to have very solid depth and balance. Tough loss for the King, but you have already won 3 games when scoring less than 105. Nobody else has won more than 1 scoring that low. Welcome back to the race.