Welcome to week 8 of the NFL/AFFL season. Just a bit of record keeping to start. I was reviewing my financial records and there are still two teams that have not paid their league fee. I won’t name them here but if you have not paid yet, please do so by this weekend.
It was yet another disappointing week for some and glorious week for others. And to make matters worse, the darn injury bug struck yet again. This time taking several key players out for the season and others for several weeks at one of the worst times in the year.
Lost for the season were:
DeShaun Watson (I know- none of us really care, but still. A starting QB).
Brandon Aiyuk – the start of the season was rough and now he is lost for the year!
Chris Godwin – lost for the season
Aiden O’Connell – I know, another one we care little about – but a QB on IR
Andy Dalton – Out this week and maybe a couple more
Mike Evans – out several weeks
Jayden Daniels – What’s up and for how long?
Deebo Samuel- Pneumonia – that’s not something you recover from in 2 weeks!
Smith-Schuster – Out.
This is nuts guy. Whether you have these players or not, it impacts you. Sean, how does it feel to lose the top targets for the best QB in the AFFL in 2024?
I know I lost Evans and Daniels in one game but some of these injuries are insurmountable and have had indirect impact to many others. Very frustrating and that’s why we need to make trades. The waiver wire does not have a replacement for Daniels/Samuel/Godwin, etc.
Enough crying. Still thinking about the draft and some of picks we made. What’s going on with Patrick Mahomes? On the opposite end, who thought Derrick Henry would be that good? Or, Lamar Jackson? Most consistent positions on our rosters this year may be the Kickers and Defense/ST’s?
Six teams scored more than 120 points this past week and 5 scored less than a hundred. Some advice for you all, don’t cut the grass on Sunday morning before you look at who will be active and who is benched. It would have made no difference in my game, but Goedert was out and I had no idea. That was two weeks in a row where three platers combined for less than 6 TOTAL points. I can’t believe I am only two games better than Air Italia.
It was nice to see Amari Cooper have an immediate impact. Will Hopkins have a similar bump in productivity this week for KC? I hope he tears his groin is 10 places and rips his Achilles to shreds.
On a lighter note, everyone with a Dolphins offensive player might be smiling again, now that Tua is back. Then again, we may all be sicked if he ends up on the turf posturing like a wounded animal – again.
I think Kenneth Walker will score a lot this week against the Bills.
In the worst head to head game of the season, we will see Air Italia face Brown Notes. Mark, Tua is healthy and you will not have Curtis Samuel this week – not that he has done a darn thing. Tim, better set a full lineup. You need to go on a seven game win streak!
Week 6 Highs:
High Team – Dark Horse with 157.70 points
High QB – Eli’s Successor, Jacksom with 45.44 points
High RB – Dark Horse, Gibbs with 32.00 points
High WR – Bones Crew, St. Brown, with 25.20 points.
High TE – Dead Pheasants, Andrews with 20.10 points
High K – Mean Machine, Seibert with 19.0 points
High D/ST – Dead Pheasants, Commanders with 33.0 points
My week 7 predictions were a drastic improvement over Week 6. I was 5-1 with only Tanks keeping me from a perfect 6-0! That said, it’s time to provide week 8 predictions:
• If Air Italia and Brown Notes were actually televised on Sunday Night football and the other options were 24 hours of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood on EVERY other channel, I think you would all pick Mr. Rogers to watch. The real question here is, will Italia score more than 70 points? Take the Notes for a first win and give Air Italia a leg up in the toilet bowl head to head!
• I am taking Dark Horse over Tanks. This is interesting though. Dan has Mahomes throwing to Hopkins now and Waddle gets Tua back. Stefon Diggs is not that good though and I like Alan’s backs.
• Bones Crew will try and do what seven other teams have not yet done, beat Eli. Crew is impacted by loss of Jayden Daniels and I don’t think Kupp is ready yet. Kittle will be the difference here. Robert stays undefeated – barely.
• Did Smeds need any more firepower. Yep, Mike benefits from the Hopkins trade. But he needs it because his WR room is suspect. Avs and Smeds have one of the longest AFFL rivalries and this is going to be pretty tight. Smeds by 6.
• Mean Machine enters the game vs/ End Game as the most questionable 5-2 team in the league. That said, Adams may be able to score big this week and as I already said, Walker will put up numbers on the Bills weak run defense. Both managers employ a 3 RB attack. Sean has AJ Brown though. Tak Sean in a mild upset 125-117
• Finally in a matchup of two 3-4 teams, the Blues travel to the Dead Pheasants. Pheasants and Blues each have WR’s that are hurt. Ridley may not play and Deebo is in the hospital. Blues have Evans out, Dionte Johns hurt, Goedert hurt and Daniels hurt. No better time for Eric to spank the Blues for a 3rd straight loss. Pheasants 129, Blues 103.