Da Business

Bye weeks continue week 7 and will run through week 14. Plan accordingly. One more week of International Games on the schedule. Be cognizant of NFL kick-off times for the International Game week 7. No line up deadlines. Waiver wire runs on Thursdays, 5 pm PT/8 pm ET. Each team is permitted a maximum of two adds. Must include a drop for each add. No drops. No adds. Each player added is 5 bucks. No scraps. Waiver wire order is reverse order of points standing. Twelve through one round 1. Twelve through one round two. Weekly trade deadline is Fridays 9pm PT/midnight ET. Entry fee is 100 U.S. Dollars. You can Venmo me @Harold-Wenz. Look for the bearded guy wearing a Maybe Next Year t-shirt. Also, I accept PayPal and Zelle. And also, an old-fashioned check in the mail always works.

For The Record

Plecostomus - or pleco, is a type of suckermouth catfish native to South America, known for its ability to attach to surfaces and eat algae. Plecos are popular aquarium fish, usually purchased for their algae-eating and scavenging habits, often called "janitor fish," and they can grow to be quite large, depending on the specific species. They have a wide variety of sizes and appearances, and their diet consists of algae, detritus, and other organic matter. In the scope of fantasy football, more specifically the THFFL, the term Pleco is a symbolic monicker given to the “bottom feeder” teams of the league.

Pleco Pond – a fictional “pond” conjured from the Commish’s imagination referring to a symbolic location where the THFFL “bottom feeders” may reside during the regular season head-to-head matchups.

Plecoville – a fictional fantasy football “city” in which Pleco Pond exists. Also conjured from the Commish’s imagination and a symbolic location of where the THFFL “bottom feeders” Pleco Pond resides.

Pleco Bowl – the championship game for the “bottom feeder” teams that didn’t make the THFFL fantasy playoffs. This game features the last two remaining Pleco Teams that advance through the Pleco Playoff Tournament.

Trash or Treasure

Did we have Sam Darnold yet in this segment? Doesn’t matter he’s worth another mention. Most of the fantasy pundits were writing off Darnold’s incredible 2024 as a one-off “aberration”. But looks like Darnold has come a long way from seeing “ghosts.” See how I did that? Aberration? Ghost? That’s what we writers like to call metonymy. Often confused with an epithet, metonymy is a figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of another thing that is closely associated with it. But back to Darnold, other than that week one 8-point stinker, Darnold is averaging 18.8 points/game. Fool’s gold? Or treasure? Only time will tell. Rico Dowdle, overnight trash turned treasure. Dowdle, coming out of nowhere, dogfood turned caviar. First 4 weeks in single digit fantasy points. Last two weeks back-to-back 30-burgers and week six just 2 points shy of a 40-burger. Instant treasure. Sorry Day Spa, I gotta do it. Where in the world is TreyVeon Henderson? Trasher no trashing. A little Carmen San Diego joke for all you guys with toddlers or that had toddlers at some point. Only in Day Spa’s case it’s…the crap, the crap. Somebody will get that joke. And if not, that’s okay. That seems to be the trend with my writing anyways. Nobody gets the jokes. Cuz I’m a joker, I'm a smoker. I’m a midnight toker, I sure don't want to hurt no one. Toe Fungus I threw Rasheed to the trash for a reason. How’d that work out for ya’ this week?

Commish Confession

I apologize for the newsletter being late this week as I got carried away celebrating my second favorite holiday – Columbus Day. This day is a day that the Commish holds very sacred and is dear to his heart. One of the greatest explorers and humanitarians of his time and it’s a shame that we only have one day in October to remember his prominence. With Columbus though you need to look a little deeper into his contributions to get the full effect of his importance to the world as we know it. You know, like medications where the side effects are exceptionally more impactful than the actual intended indication. So, you could say that Columbus is the Viagra of navigators. The sildenafil citrate of seafarers. You see coincidentally enough, Columbus and his merrymen ravaged the New World and brought Europe a gift in the form of syphilis, which eventually led to the invention of condoms. You ever look closely at a Trojan condom wrapper. That’s Christopher Columbus’s silhouette wearing his conquistador helmet. Most people think it’s a Roman soldier. Nope. Christopher Columbus. A history lesson from the Moss Head Commish.

Around the NFL – Week 6

Revenge games go unnoticed many times in the NFL. Last week we had Stefon Diggs enacting vengeance on his old team, the Bills, to the tune of 10 receptions for 146 yards. This week Rico Dowdle reminding the Cowboy’s that it was a mistake letting him go as he rumbles for 239 total yards from scrimmage and a tuddy. Jacoby Briskett returned to Indianapolis and although he didn’t pick up the win, he ravished the Colts for 320 and 2 tuddies. Jets still the only winless team in the NFL after week 6. Not a “revenge” game per say, but the Dolphins with Tua, who was drafted one spot before Justin Herbert faced off against the Chargers. Perhaps, Justin reminding the Dolphins of what could have been. The Seahawks are considering playing the remainder of the season on the road. This week marked the 9^th consecutive road victory and Coach McDonald improves to 10-1 in fields not named Lumen. The Browns have now gone 11 consecutive games without scoring more than 17 points. Cameron Dicker scored 17 points on his own this week. Yikes. What’s going on in San Fran? Ever since they fired their team doctor, who shall remain nameless, players are dropping like flies. Hmm. Pittsburgh Steelers now with 4 wins a top the AFC North. The remaining 3 teams in the AFC North have a combined 4 wins. Tomlin countdown to 19 consecutive winning seasons is now 5 wins. The Steelers now with 22 consecutive regular season home wins vs the Browns. That’s dominance. Are Baker Mayfield and Daniel Jones the current leaders in the MVP race?

THFFL Week 6 Recap – The Year of the Rookie

Allegedly the THFFL has been billed as the toughest fantasy football league in the contiguous 48 states. Rumor has it that there is a league in Utqiagvik, Alaska that makes the THFFL look like a best ball, free scraps, yahoo cookie cutter league. But the THFFL 2025 rookies are making a mockery of the THFFL. Rookies making us all look like a bunch of Karen chumps. Leading the way is the Passing Scoobie Doobies at 5-1 and simply running away with the Sativa Division, 3 wins clear of the second place TWT. This week the Scoobs surpassed the struggling Saquon’s 126-115 behind 29 from Achane. It’s inevitable when your opponent has a blue-chip starter going against the Chargers all you can do is cringe and hope it doesn’t get too out of hand. But Saquon had Saquon in a revenge game against the Giants, right? Should easily be an equalizer. Womp, womp. A 5-point dud was the first of many disasters for Saquon. Three name guy fell back down to Earth in week 6 as he was no longer playing against the Chargers and 5-dollar donation Calvin Ridley did his best impression of tits on a bull. McConkey and Warren came to play, but the Doobies got another gem from Drake May with 26 and welcome to the NFL Tetairoa McMillan as he scored his first 2 TDs of his NFL career. The Scoobies held off the Saquon Monday Night charge with 15 smooth points from Penix. The THFFL’s other rookie, Uncle Rico, takes down the wily veteran Astral Cowboys with the weekly high 167. Rico came out guns a blazing on Thursday night with a double dose of Giant rookies, Dart and Skat to the tune of 54 combined. It was a steep uphill battle for Astral to climb and he made a valiant effort countering with 64 combined from Briskett and Dowdle but with 8 of 12 starters in single digits, it was not meant to be. It was Monday Night Moop for Astral as they could only helplessly watch their 3-point lead vanish as Rico’s Josh Allen and Swift put the finishing touches on the win. Uncle Rico keeping pace in the Indica at 4-2 and Astral despite the loss hanging steady at 3-3 in the Dabs. The week’s second highest point scorer Day Spa is making a little run of his own taking down the Grim Reefer in a blowout 152-83. Maybe this year Day Spa. Maybe this year. The WR corps for the Spa is legit. The 3 starters, Chase, JSN and London combined for 64 points which was 42 percent of their total score. A steady but unimpressive performance from the QB spot this week, but the back-to-back disappointments at RB1 and RB2 might be a little concerning. Greefer is just a mess with 9 starters in single digits and Tua is fading faster than a vibrators battery at a convent. Day Spa currently with the tiebreaker lead for the Dabs Division. Danger Russ improves to 5-1, currently battling Scoobie Doobie for that coveted one seed. Bijan carrying Danger thus far averaging 22.8 points/game and this week putting up a season best 32-burger. Danger Russ not a believer in the Daniel Jones resurgence though as he elected to go with the Goff/Lawrence combo but even with only 10 combined at WR, Danger manages to hold off Toe Cheese 126-105. Toe Cheese with a bagel trifecta barely breaking triple digits putting up a season low 105. Nothing to panic about. Jackson should be back in week 8. Yikes. And last but not least, in what may be a preview of the Pleco Bowl, Number 9 keeps MoroXcan winless for the 6^th consecutive week 121-85. I’m not sure if MoroXcan can crawl out of this hole with the disastrous desolation at RB but Prescott and Hurts are doing the best they can to get that first W for MoroXcan’t. Was that Cooper Kupp scoring a tuddy this week? I know he’s a devout Christian and probably has an adverse reaction to scoring in end-zones. Which may explain his lack of production this year. And don’t look now, with the win Number 9 improves to 2-4. I’ll give N9 credit with the Pickens pick. Looks like Pickens and Rodgers starting to show some chemistry. And Jayden is back. N9 might have a spurt left in him for the 2^nd half of the season. Half of the league is no better than .500. No, I'll stand my ground. Won't be turned around. And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down. Gonna stand my ground. And I won't back down.

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